June 2024

Outrage over waitress job offer in Ibiza: Woman is told she will work 77 hours per week but ‘will have access to the beach’

A WAITRESS job offer has sparked outrage in Ibiza after a woman is told she will need to work 77 hours a week in exchange for ‘beach days.’ As spring leads into summer, the coastal areas of Spain are preparing for the influx of tourists.  That includes local businesses filling their ranks with extra waiters, […]

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This region in Spain wants to turn graveyards into solar farm

VALENCIA is using city graveyards to help it reach climate neutrality by 2030. Finding suitable sites for solar farms in urban areas isn’t easy, so Valencia has come up with ‘Requiem in Power’- shortened appropriately to RIP- where panels will be placed in cemeteries. The RIP plan aims to install 6,658 photovoltaic panels across the

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Huge US military ship is spotted docking in port on Spain’s Costa del Sol 

A BIG United States warship is spending a few days docked in Malaga and has a freighter-style look about it- different from regular navy vessels seen in the area. The ship is called USS Hershel ‘Woody’ Williams- named after a decorated U.S. Marine Corps officer who died in 2022. He received the military’s highest decoration-

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2 bedroom Townhouse for sale in Los Balcones with pool – € 240,000

Townhouse Los Balcones, Alicante   2 beds   2 baths € 240,000 NEW BUILD RESIDENTIAL IN ORIHUELA COSTA New Build Residential complex of bungalow apartments and townhouses in Orihuela Costa. Modern bungalows on the top floor with private solarium and on the ground floor with beautiful terrace. New Build bungalows with 2 bedrooms and 2

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Spain’s jobless total falls to lowest May figure since 2008 as tourist sector gears up for record-breaking summer

SPAIN has recorded its lowest registered unemployed total for May since 2008, with 2.6 million people out of work. The total is a 59,000 reduction on April, as seasonal jobs become available related to the tourist sector. The monthly fall is higher than a year ago when it dropped by over 49,000 but is much

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Begoña Gomez in court: Judge calls Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s wife to testify as official suspect in influence peddling case

A MADRID judge has given the Spanish prime minister’s wife, Begoña Gomez, a court date at which she will have to testify as an official suspect in a highly controversial case filed against her for alleged influence peddling.  Gomez, who is married to Socialist Party (PSOE) leader Pedro Sanchez, will have to appear before Judge

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Revealed: The provinces with the fastest growing economies in Spain’s Andalucia – partly thanks to tourism

NEW figures from Andalucia’s Institute of Statistics and Cartography show that three of the region’s provinces have been growing faster than the average, thanks in part to tourism.  According to first estimates, in 2023 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Andalucia grew by 2.55%. The province of Malaga, however, saw GDP growth of 3.6%, which can

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Tragic weekend sees four people drown in 72 hours on Spain’s Costa Blanca

THE start of the peak seaside bathing season has sadly brought four drownings in less than 72 hours on the Costa Blanca. The first death was on Saturday at Benissa’s Cala de la Fustera when two swimmers got into difficulty. Two people were spotted floating in the water, including a 48-year-old Moldovan tourist who was

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Captured: Mehdi the ‘drug thief’ and enemy of infamous kingpin ‘The Fly’ is arrested in Sevilla after surviving ordered assassination in Marbella

IN July of last year, a video went viral of what appeared to be an assassination attempt in Marbella, close to a shopping mall in Puerto Banus. In it, a man was seen brandishing an automatic weapon and firing toward a target who was out of the frame.  It later transpired that the objective was

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