Waiting for Supermarket to open in Javea, Costa Blanca at 9am, already some shelves were empty including pasta, toilet rolls and wipes. Ambulance awaits outside and cars banging into each other in the car park.
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Revealed: Ryanair announces string of new routes from Alicante on the Costa Blanca
RYANAIR has announced three new routes for this year’s high season with three cities getting links to Alicante-Elche airport for the first time. The trio

Thieves buy cheap plane tickets just to steal tobacco and perfumes from duty free shops at Costa Blanca airport
A GANG specialising in stealing duty free goods from Alicante-Elche airport has been convicted of theft. Three men and two women- all of Romanian nationality-

Costa Blanca hotels record their best-ever start to a year boosted by foreign holidaymakers
THE number of visitors staying in Costa Blanca hotels set a new January record with 227,388 people according to the National Institute of Statistics(INE). Overnight

Have YOU seen him? Scottish expat ‘narco’ who escaped notorious Alicante prison 32 years ago – after daring €100m cocaine plot
Do you know more about this story? Email tips@theolivepress.es THIS is the Scottish expat gangster who remains on the run after escaping from an Alicante

Protestors fume over ‘obsolete’ controversial coastal law that threatens homes on Spain’s Costa Blanca
OVER 200 people protested in Denia on Saturday against proposed coastline boundary changes that threaten properties that have been around for decades. The move first