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WATCH: Daredevil TikTok users climb atop disused factory in Spain forcing local police to ramp up security

SECURITY is set to be beefed up at an abandoned power station in Alcudia after daredevil TikTokkers scaled the decaying building, calling it ‘the best

24 Jan, 2024 @ 13:07

Balearic Islands·Lead·Mallorca

Calum Best is CLEARED of sexual assault charge in Spain: Reality star, 42, is found not guilty of attack at Lineker’s nightclub due to ‘lack of evidence’

CALUM Best has been acquitted of sexually assaulting a British holidaymaker at Wayne Lineker’s Ibiza beach club. The judges ruled that the prosecution failed to

17 Jan, 2024 @ 16:33

Balearic Islands·Ibiza·Lead·Mallorca

City council is hacked in major British expat hotspot in Spain: Cyber criminals are demanding a €10million ransom while the government is forced to suspend ALL administrative deadlines

A MALLORCA council computer network has been hacked since Saturday with the attackers demanding a €10 million ransom to get it back on line. The

16 Jan, 2024 @ 15:12

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

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15 Jan, 2024 @ 13:08

Andalucia·Costa Blanca·Gibraltar·Lead·Mallorca

British expat who lost her ‘young’ husband in Spain just before Christmas is raising €10k to fund research into the cancer that killed him

A BRITISH woman who has lived in Palma since 2016 has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise €10,000 for cancer research in memory of her

12 Jan, 2024 @ 11:33

Balearic Islands·Health·Lead·Mallorca

Girl, 4, dies after she and her mother are knocked off their bike by a drug driver in Spain’s Mallorca

Hostage crisis in Mallorca: Police SWAT team tackle man who had barricaded himself in his home and threatened to kill his own MOTHER

A TENSE hostage situation was resolved this morning with one police officer shot with a crossbow after a man took his own mother hostage. A

11 Jan, 2024 @ 12:45

Lead·Mallorca

Autistic boy, 11, who went missing on a school trip in Spain’s Mallorca is found just as hypothermia was setting in

THE authorities are breathing a sigh of relief after an enormous search for an 11-year-old autistic boy who went missing while on a school excursion

10 Jan, 2024 @ 16:00

Lead·Mallorca

Government official accused of ‘licking woman’s face and punching a policeman’ claims ‘alcoholic beverages impaired my decision-making abilities’ in Spain’s Mallorca

A BALEARICS government official who faces accusations he sexually abused a woman and attacked a policeman has blamed his actions on being ‘very drunk.’ Juan

10 Jan, 2024 @ 14:00

Balearic Islands·Lead·Mallorca

Jet2 suspends flights and holidays from UK to Spain until late June due to 'uncertainty' over British government travel proposals

Two British pensioners’ Mallorca holiday nightmare as they are put on the wrong plane despite FIVE ticket checks

TWO elderly Brits going on holiday to Mallorca suffered a nightmare when they were put on the wrong plane by Jet2 thanks to a ‘catalogue

9 Jan, 2024 @ 16:00

Lead·Mallorca

German and British tourists to Spain failed to match pre-pandemic figures despite a record-breaking year in 2023 – apart from this ONE region

SPAIN has disappointingly failed to return to its pre-pandemic visitor numbers from its key markets of the United Kingdom and Germany – apart from in

9 Jan, 2024 @ 08:00

Balearic Islands·Lead·Mallorca·Travel News

WATCH: British tourist claims he was savagely beaten by Guardia Civil officers in Spain who told him they ‘hate the English’

A BRITISH tourist has claimed he was placed in handcuffs and beaten by Guardia Civil officers during a holiday to Spain. TikTok user Chris Kingswood

2 Jan, 2024 @ 18:32

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Expat stabs himself with a knife to get his wife arrested for attempted murder at their home in Spain's Mallorca

Expat stabs himself to get wife arrested for attempted murder in Spain’s Mallorca

A 58-YEAR-OLD Dutchman has been arrested for trying to frame his wife on an attempted homicide charge at their Mallorca home. The man stabbed himself

29 Dec, 2023 @ 13:30

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Scabies surges in Spain: Health experts detect 44 outbreaks since early November - with 11 linked to schools

Scabies surges in tourist area of Spain: Health experts detect 44 outbreaks this year- with 11 linked to schools

THE Balearic Islands has reported 44 outbreaks of scabies this year up to early November with 19 affecting families or homes, 12 in social and

26 Dec, 2023 @ 17:30

Balearic Islands·Health·Ibiza·Lead·Mallorca·Menorca

Popular tourist resort in Spain offers tax break to restaurants and bars that ban smoking on terraces

BAR and restaurant owners in Mallorca’s capital have been given a financial incentive to ban smoking on their terraces. As rumours circulate that Spain’s Health

22 Dec, 2023 @ 19:00

Balearic Islands·Health·Lead·Mallorca

Serial fraudster Mark Acklom is living in Spain with his family following his early release from prison - as courts in the UK attempt to recover some of the money he swindled

British expat wife who abused and ‘humiliated’ her husband in Spain over a 12-YEAR period is jailed

A BRITISH woman has been handed down a 26-month prison term for regularly abusing her husband over 12 years in Arta, Mallorca. A Palma court

22 Dec, 2023 @ 18:00

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

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For €3.49 per month or just €8.75 for three months (quarterly package), readers can have full, advert-free access to our premium content – that’s the

22 Dec, 2023 @ 15:44

Andalucia·Costa Blanca·Gibraltar·Lead·Mallorca

Costa Blanca bar customers told to follow COVID health rules like no smoking and mask wearing to avoid new closures

New smoking ban in Spain ‘would spark fights between waiters and customers’, warns restaurant boss in Mallorca

A NEW proposal to ban smoking and vaping in terraces could provoke fights between smokers and bar staff, a Mallorca hospitality chief has warned. The

17 Dec, 2023 @ 08:00

Balearic Islands·Lead·Mallorca

Alleged ‘trusted member’ of Irish Kinahan cartel is extradited from Spain to Britain to face firearms charges

AN alleged ‘highly trusted’ member of the Kinahan cartel has been extradited to the UK to face a string of firearms charges. Liam Byrne, 42,

14 Dec, 2023 @ 14:13

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

This resort in Spain has BANNED horse drawn carriages for tourists in win for animal rights groups

A Mallorcan town will become the first council in Spain to ban horse drawn carriages in a ‘historic’ move. The measures will ‘put an end

13 Dec, 2023 @ 14:14

Lead·Mallorca

Irish tourist, 28, who flashed his genitals to three minors after a booze-fuelled night out in Spain avoids jail

Irish tourist, 28, who flashed his genitals to three minors after a booze-fuelled day out in Spain avoids jail

A DRUNK Irish tourist who exposed himself to three girls in a Mallorca street has escaped being jailed. A Palma court on Tuesday gave the

13 Dec, 2023 @ 11:11

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Man is fined €100 for shouting ‘viva España’ and ‘Sanchez is a traitor’ during anti-government protest in Spain’s Mallorca

A MALLORCA protestor who shouted slogans against Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, has been fined €100 for his outburst. Jesus Revuelta believes the penalty is a

12 Dec, 2023 @ 12:00

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca·Politics

Cosmetic surgeon being investigated over death of British patient in Spain dies suddenly

A SURGEON who performed a cosmetic surgery procedure on a British woman who died following ‘complications’ at a Palma clinic in September, has himself died.

11 Dec, 2023 @ 18:30

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Health·Lead·Mallorca

Barack Obama’s ambassador to Spain faces local bureaucracy headache after his ambitious renovation plans for a famous finca in Mallorca are blocked

BARACK Obama’s former ambassador to Spain has purchased a sprawling finca in Mallorca. But he will have to brush off his diplomacy skills if he

6 Dec, 2023 @ 15:03

Lead·Mallorca

Spain’s Rafael Nadal announces when he will return to the tennis court

MALLORCA’S Rafa Nadal will return to tennis at the Brisbane International in Australia in January, the 22-time Grand Slam champion said on Friday. The 37-year-old

1 Dec, 2023 @ 18:30

Lead·Mallorca·Sport