May 2024

Manhunt for British and Irish ‘gangsters’ who ‘shot up restaurant in Marbella after arguing with staff the night before’: Pair abscond after being released on bail

A MANHUNT is underway for a Brit and an Irishman accused of shooting up a restaurant in Marbella after they were released from prison.  Alleged gangsters Darren H and Gerrard S are said to have fired 15 shots at an eatery in Puerto Banus on March 11.  The pair were arrested on March 25 following […]

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Madeleine McCann anniversary: How Brit toddler’s disappearance 17 years ago today shares striking similarities to that of German girl Inga Gehricke – including paedophile suspect Christian Brueckner

IT was May 2, 2015, when five-year-old Inga Gehricke went off to collect firewood for a family barbecue, never to be seen again. Just like British toddler Madeleine Mccann – who was abducted 17 years ago today – she vanished almost without a trace. While incredibly similar to her UK counterpart in looks, with blonde

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‘I’m a prisoner in my own body’: Man, 52, who will be euthanised in Spain today explains his reasons in final social media post

A SEVILLA province man has taken to social media to explain why is he is being euthanised this Friday. The Castilblanco de los Arroyos resident, 52, has had his request granted after a long campaign and used social networks to say goodbye. “I’ve been lying in a hospital bed for five years, tired of living

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Portugal is set to remove tolls on roads that enter Spain via Andalucia, Galicia and elsewhere

THE national parliament in Portugal on Thursday approved a draft law from the Socialist Party that will see tolls on a number of roads scrapped. Some of these routes connect the country with regions in Spain, such as Andalucia, Castilla y Leon and Galicia.  The plan from the leftist party will be applied to currently

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Spain cancels this year’s national bullfighting prize that sees a top matador win €30,000: Culture Ministry hopes to eliminate the award for good

SPAIN’S Culture Ministry has decided to cancel a national bullfighting prize and is to start the process of eliminating the award for good.  That’s according to ministry sources, who were speaking to online daily El Diario.  The National Bullfighting Prize was created back in 2011, and awards a prize of €30,000 to the winning matador. 

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‘Yes we want to f**k, but peacefully’: Organiser of a ‘mass orgy’ in a quiet village in Spain speaks out after thousands sign up

AN organiser of a ‘mass orgy’ in a quiet Spanish village speaks out after thousands sign up.  To the naked eye, the ViñaRock music festival is just like any concert taking place this weekend, May 2-4.  It has all the archetypes of any normal festival, a sea of tents, plenty of beer, multiple stages and…an

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President of Andalucia rules out ‘enforcing’ a tourist tax after left wing party said the region risks becoming a ‘beach club for the guiris’ without one

THE president of Andalucia, Juanma Moreno, has once again ruled out a tourist tax for the region.  Speaking on Thursday in the regional parliament, he argued that his conservative Partido Popular (PP) is not in favour of ‘imposition’, and added that ‘there is no social backing’ for such a levy.  Moreno was responding to a

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US tourists are left stranded in Spain’s Andalucia after their bus back to the cruise ship was delayed: Couple made crucial error that saw the boat leave without them

AN AMERICAN couple had a cruise stopover in Andalucia they won’t forget in a hurry, as their ship left without them after they returned late from an inland bus trip. Richard and Claudene Gordon were travelling on the Norwegian Viva when they disembarked with other passengers at Motril, having sailed there from Gibraltar. The elderly

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