MARBELLA’S traditional glitz and glamour is about to get a splashing of blood and brutality when Conor McGregor comes to town in the autumn. UFC legend McGregor, who is currently holidaying in Mallorca with his family, is the mastermind behind a headline-grabbing bare-knuckle boxing spectacle. It will be the first time Spain hosts such an […]
SPAIN’S far-right Vox party last night dropped a political bombshell, as it announced it would be walking away from its coalition governments with the conservative Partido Popular (PP) in Aragon, Valencia, Murcia, Extremadura and Castilla y Leon. What’s more, it will withdraw its support for the PP in the Balearic Islands, where it had signed
BEACH go-ers on the Costa del Sol can swim a little easier after a new study deemed the sea water quality to be ‘excellent’. The report, by the University of Malaga (UMA), states that the coastal waters meet all European Union standards for beach hygiene. Scientists conducted a microbiological analysis of seawater samples taken from
A BRITISH man has died in hospital after he and his wife were hit by a drunk driver outside their Mar Menor hotel on Tuesday evening The husband, 50, passed away in the ICU of Murcia City’s Virgen de la Arrixaca Hospital, according to the regional health ministry. His wife, 48, remains in a serious
BENIDORM is taking measures to ensure that everybody enjoys watching Sunday’s Euro 2024 final between England and Spain in local bars without any trouble. The council will implement extra security focusing on the busy Rincon de Loix area. Some streets will be closed off, drinks will not be sold in glass containers from 6pm, and
HOME property purchases in Spain went up by 3% in May compared to a year earlier with prices rising by 1.3%, according to figures from the General Council of Notaries. Despite high interest rates, the notaries said there was an increase of almost 10% in the number of new mortgages granted. The figure continue the
THE far-right Vox party is set to scrap its regional government coalition deals with the conservative Partido Popular(PP) in a dispute over young migrants. Vox leader, Santiago Abascal, said on Thursday that he expected his party’s National Executive Committee to end the agreements this evening and blamed the PP leader, Alberto Nuñez Feijoo. The PP
SPAIN’S Tourism Minister has slammed protestors who sprayed visitors to Barcelona with water pistols last weekend, saying that they did not represent the country’s culture of hospitality. Activists protesting against the effects of mass tourism on the Catalan capital marched through the city centre on Saturday chanting slogans such as ‘tourists go home’. Some surrounded
OFFICERS from Spain’s Policia Nacional searched for information about politicians from Podemos some 6,903 times as part of a so-called ‘dirty war’ against the new leftist party back in 2016 and 2017. That’s according to a report in Spanish daily El Pais, which has had access to documentation sent by the force to the national
SPAIN’S Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has called on members of NATO to apply international law equally in both Ukraine and Gaza, warning that ‘double standards’ would be counterproductive and weaken popular support for Ukraine in their fight against Russia. Sanchez made the comments at the NATO summit in Washington D.C., attended by all 32 member
