June 2024

A NEW report has warned that urgent action needs to be taken in Spain to prevent the country’s historic city centres from suffering damage due to soaring numbers of tourists visiting the country.  The new study was focussed on the city of Valencia, and was put together with the help of architects, engineers and experts […]

TWO brothers were part of a gang of five who have been arrested for the brutal stabbings of two men multiple times on a night out on the Costa del Sol. The victims, aged 19 and 26, sustained stab wounds to their torsos, buttocks, and legs during a brawl that broke out between two groups

A TEENAGER died in a motorway car crash- a day before he was going to be tried over the May 2022 killing of an 80-year-old British woman at her Elche villa. The accident happened on June 9 on the AP-7 at Campoamor on the Orihuela Costa. The 18-year-old’s Mercedes convertible was discovered overturned off the

LANDO Norris was left to rue a botched start after the British F1 driver finished second behind Max Verstappen at Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix. The McLaren driver started the race on pole after a thrilling qualifying session, but a poor getaway saw Norris drop to third by the opening corner behind the Mercedes of George

AIRBNB landlords have blasted Barcelona City Council’s plans to revoke the licences of the 10,000-plus tourist apartments that operate in the city as a ‘populist decision’ that is ‘accompanied by a lot of ignorance’.  On Friday, Barcelona’s mayor Jaume Collboni put the city at the forefront of a nationwide backlash against mass tourism by announcing

THE San Juan festivities turned into a night of mayhem in Catalunya as a man had his throat slit in the street in Barcelona. A 26-year-old Colombian man was killed in the seaside neighbourhood of Barceloneta – where the San Juan celebrations are most raucous – at 4am in the morning. A nearby Guardia Urbana

COSTA del Sol locals have burnt an effigy of the long-awaited coastal train to celebrate San Juan.  A PAGAN festival designed to mark the start of Summer, San Juan is about saying goodbye to the past and moving forward towards the future.  Despite the various rituals intended to ‘purify’ you of the past: jumping over

THE 27-year-old man who fell to his death from a clifftop in the Costa del Sol resort of Nerja has been named as Turkish national Berkehan Gundogan. Gundogan fell to his death around 7.15pm on Wednesday, June 19. He and a group of friends had been scaling a clifftop between the beaches of Carabeo and

Do you know where Ryan is or have you seen him? Contact [email protected] THE family of a US tourist have launched an appeal after not hearing from him for two weeks. Kayli Anthony Willis says her brother Ryan was last heard from during his holiday to Barcelona. In a desperate appeal on social media, she

THOUSANDS of Malaga CF fans descended on Costa del Airport in the early hours of Sunday morning to welcome home their players hours after the side dramatically secured promotion to Spain’s second tier, known as Segunda. Videos shared on social media showed supporters chanting throughout the night as the Malaga CF squad returned from Tarragona