May 2024

EXCLUSIVE: Vandals attack cat shelter and kill ‘dearly loved’ moggy recovering from emergency operation on Spain’s Costa Blanca

VOLUNTEERS at a Mil Palmeras cat shelter are in shock after intruders broke into the facility on Saturday and killed a cat that was recuperating after emergency surgery. Police have been notified but security camera images were not very clear due to the break-in happening at night. Volunteers arrived on Sunday morning at the shelter […]

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Squatter fears in southern Spain see ‘for sale’ and ‘for rent’ signs taken down outside empty homes

MURCIA region property sellers are not putting up sales boards to prevent their houses becoming a target for squatters. The bulk of adverts have shifted to online real estate sites with an increasing number of property listings being exclusive to the internet as house displays are cut. The Murcia region real estate agents association spokesperson,

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British teenager ‘is raped in the street in Spain’s Mallorca while the attacker’s two friends watched’

A MALLORCA bar manager has been arrested for the alleged rape of a British teenage tourist on Friday. Two of the suspect’s friends are being sought by the Guardia Civil for witnessing the assault and doing nothing to stop it. The incident happened at around 4.00am on Friday at a nightclub in s’Illot, Sant Llorenc.

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Weather warning for Spain: New DANA system will bring heavy rainfall this week – these are the affected areas

HEAVY rain and storms winds are predicted for parts of Spain over the next two days- caused by a trough of low pressure above the British Isles bringing colder air to the Iberian Peninsula. The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) says that cloudy weather along with rain is affecting the northern half of the country on

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A star is reborn: Princess Diana’s favourite Costa del Sol hotel the Byblos has made a glittering comeback as La Zambra

THE iconic Byblos hotel has been welcoming a new A-list crowd as it approaches its second summer reborn as La Zambra Resort. The erstwhile holiday hideaway of royalty and rock gods had been closed for years until reopening after a massive multi-million euro refurbishment. The iconic blue and white tiled palace, which attracted the world’s

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Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez calls for public apology from Argentina President Javier Milei after insulting his wife

SPAIN’S Socialist Party Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has called on Argentina’s President Javier Milei to make a public apology after the latter insulted the former’s wife while on a visit to Spain this weekend.  Milei was in Madrid to appear as the star guest at a conference of far-right leaders, along with Marine Le Pen

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Swiss airlines must pay a passenger €600 compensation after bringing their flight forward by more than an hour, court in Malaga rules

IF you’ve ever suffered a severe delay to a flight, you will no doubt have been encouraged to seek compensation for your troubles. But as one Swiss Airlines passenger has just found out, there is also money to be recovered if your flight is earlier than you expected.  A court in Malaga has just ordered

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Granada horror latest: President of Andalucia gives statement on ‘terrible’ double murder of children aged 10 and 12 at the hands of their grandfather – as more details emerge

JUANMA Moreno has given a statement on the ‘terrible’ double murder of two children in Granada at the hands of their grandfather as a motive comes to light. In a statement posted on Twitter, the Andalucian president expressed his ‘horror’ at the ‘terrible’ deaths of two children, aged 10 and 12, in Huetor Tajar.  The

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British and Irish expats who ran a cannabis club on Spain’s Costa Blanca are arrested for ‘selling drugs disguised as food’

SEVEN people including British and Irish expats have been arrested for running a Denia cannabis club that sold drugs packaged up as food. The Policia Nacional said the club sold narcotics like it was a supermarket. An Irish national, 48, and his partner, a 31-year-old Dutch woman, were president and secretary of the registered cannabis

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