May 2024

Sex exploitation gang enjoyed luxury lifestyle with high-end homes and cars while 10 victims were treated as slaves on Spain’s Costa Blanca

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 […]

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Hit and run suspect with extensive criminal record surrenders- four days after young boy is seriously injured on pedestrian crossing in Spain’s Valencia

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

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Police recover Francis Bacon painting worth €5 million stolen from Madrid home in 2015

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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Controversial Spanish journalist claims ‘the King and Queen of Spain are leading separate lives and no longer live under the same roof’ after previously accusing Letizia of having an affair

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

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Judge in Spain shelves case against riot police officers who fired projectile that caused a young woman to lose an eye: ‘She must bear the consequences,’ he rules

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

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Man takes his own life with a shotgun in Estepona just days after fatally hitting an elderly woman with his car following ‘a couple of beers’

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

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Anti-tourism tactics escalate in Spain: Bicycle wheels in a holiday hotspot are punctured with pins carrying ‘tourist go home’ message

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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Weather warning for southern Spain: Malaga province to have one of the hottest summers in history – with no rain expected until September

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

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Fabian Picardo blasts Jacob Rees Mogg for ‘not even starting to understand’ the impact of Brexit on Gibraltar

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

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