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VALENCIAN president, Ximo Puig, has temporarily side-lined his own region’s suggestion that EU COVID-19 certificates could be used to get entry to leisure and hospitality businesses. Valencian tourism secretary, Francesc Colomer, promoted the idea a fortnight ago, which he claimed had ‘the support of the tourist sector’. Colomer stated the certificate would ‘encourage’ more vaccinations […]

THE son of a British millionaire who killed a woman in a drink driving incident and stood trial accused of kidnapping a model in Marbella has died. Westley Capper, who was facing prison over the disappearance of Latvian Agnese Klavina, 30, from Marbella, had a stroke, reportedly brought on by COVID-19. He died in the

ORIHUELA COSTA Local Police are using drone technology to maintain the control of people dumping pruned vegetation and other detritus throughout the municipality. The waste from trimming palm trees and the like is starting to block many roads and paths in the area, and police are using modern technology to combat the problem. WATCHING YOU:

A TRAFFICKING network that has dominated the drug trade in the Campo de Gibraltar for more than a decade has broken up by police for the fourth time. A joint investigation – Operation Blaki – between Policia Nacional and Guardia Civil forces resulted in the arrest of 77 people and the seizure of eight tonnes

PLANS to build a €30 million leisure area in Torrevieja’s port have been submitted to the Valencian Government. The proposal from local firm Inmuebles y Negocios del Sol is open to public scrutiny and comments until late August. The project involves an 80,000 square metre area which will keep facilities for fishing boats and maintain

NESTLE has ordered the urgent removal from shops throughout Spain of 46 types of ice cream found to be contaminated with a substance known as ethylene oxide (ETO). ETO, an inflammable gas that is sometimes used for sterilisation purposes at low doses, is known to cause cancer and has been detected in products by leading

A SIX-YEAR-OLD child died in a house fire in the Valencia area yesterday (Monday July 27) – and when the rescue team broke into the property, they discovered a large marihuana plantation in the basement. The victim’s father called the 112 emergency helpline when the blaze broke out in their home in San Cristobal urbanisation

A GANG operating between Gibraltar and Sevilla has been busted over an elaborate scheme to launder illicit drug money through investment projects including a solar park. Spain’s Guardia Civil arrested five people during an investigation that uncovered a plot to launder more than €120million in drug money. During an investigation dubbed Operation Jarco police discovered

ALICANTE firefighters rescue animals as part of their regular line of duty but got a very different call out on Monday afternoon(July 26) involving a parrot. The colourful Macaw bird flew out of its home and found a precarious roof perch on the edge of a building on Calle Bilbao. A Policia Local patrol got

SPAIN has more than its fair share of bizarre festivals, but the one that takes place on the first Sunday each August, in a town in Galicia, is most definitely one of a kind. Few may know that you don’t have to travel to northern European climates to find a rich history of Viking invasions,