AN ELCHE sex exploitation gang has been busted by the Policia Nacional with 10 female victims rescued. The women had vulnerable backgrounds and travelled from South America, only to be treated as slaves in ‘deplorable conditions’, according to the police. They had to be available to clients at all times in 24-hour shifts and could […]
A MOTORIST sought after a boy was run over on a Valencia pedestrian crossing, has handed himself into the police four days after the incident. The boy, 8, is an induced coma at Valencia’s Clinical Hospital after suffering a brain injury and broken bones, including femur fractures in both legs. The car owner, 22, went
THE Policia Nacional has recovered the fourth of five paintings by Irish-born painter Francis Bacon that were stolen in a mass heist from a Madrid apartment in 2015. Authorities said the 1989 painting of a man’s head, titled on the back as ‘Study for Portrait of Jose Capelo’ is valued at €5 million. They were
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THE King and Queen of Spain are leading separate lives and just ‘keeping up appearances’ in public, according to a journalist insider. It is yet more shocking rumours facing Queen Letizia, 51, and King Felipe VI, 56, who marked their 20th wedding anniversary just on Wednesday this week. The same journalist, Jaime Peñafiel, 91, alleged
A JUDGE in Spain has shelved a case that had been brought against three riot police officers in Barcelona, after they fired projectiles during disturbances that caused a young woman to lose an eye. The victim must ‘bear the consequences’ for having ‘placed herself in danger’, the magistrate ruled. The incident took place on February
A MAN in Estepona has reportedly taken his own life a week after he ran over and killed an elderly lady on a zebra crossing. The man later tested positive when given a breathalyser test, albeit not exceeding the maximum legal limit, but apparently felt so guilty that he ended up killing himself. The Policia
BIKE tour companies in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia have denounced the fact that their two-wheeled transports are being targeted by anti-tourism protesters. The firms are increasingly finding their bicycles have had their tyres punctured with drawing pins, along with little notes that say: “Tourist go home”. The incidents are the latest in an
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MALAGA province should ready itself for a summer of record breaking temperatures and no rains until September. The tourist season could even surpass the scorching temperatures of 2023, which broke all records for the past 30 years. This is the warning from the director of the State Meteorological Agency in Malaga, Jesus Riesco, who pointed
CHIEF Minister Fabian Picardo has blasted right-wing Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg after the Tory veteran accused Gibraltar’s leader of wanting the Rock ‘to be Spanish’ in a social media spat. The war of words began after Brexiteer Rees-Mogg, 54, tweeted a link to a Daily Mail article describing the development of the EU-UK Gibraltar post-Brexit
