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Need a job in Spain? Hotel chain is offering 25 positions in the Balearics paying €1,800 per month – with food and living costs covered

HOTEL chain Zafiro is on the lookout for 25 cheerful people to join their team in the Balearic Islands for the upcoming season. They offer

25 Jan, 2024 @ 07:00

Balearic Islands·Lead·Mallorca

Major Spanish hotel chain blasts Brexit for ‘forcing it to raise salaries’ as it struggles to find workers for its UK businesses

BREXIT might finally be seeing some green shoots as one of Mallorca’s flagship companies has had to raise wages for their workers in the UK.

24 Jan, 2024 @ 15:30

Balearic Islands·Business & Finance·Lead·Mallorca·Other News·Travel News

Drunk driver blames Google Maps after being caught travelling down a flight of STAIRS in Spain’s Mallorca

A DRUNK motorist got stuck driving down some stairs in Palma’s Plaza Mayor area and blamed the transgression on his Google Maps navigating system. The

24 Jan, 2024 @ 14:00

Balearic Islands·Lead·Mallorca

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

How much of my salary do I need to put aside for rent or mortgage costs in Spain? Figures reveal HUGE differences between the British expat hotspots

OWNING or renting a property is getting more expensive in Spain- especially in tourist areas popular with British expats. A survey conducted by online portal

24 Jan, 2024 @ 10:15

Andalucia·Balearic Islands·Barcelona·Canary Islands·Catalunya·Costa Blanca·Lead·Malaga·Other News·Property

‘On my way to blow up the plane’: British tourist faces a €22k fine after joking to his mates via Snapchat that he had a bomb on his flight to Spain

A BRITISH teenager whose private joke accidentally provoked a bomb scare on a flight from London to Spain is set to be hit with a

22 Jan, 2024 @ 09:59

Balearic Islands·Lead·Menorca

These two cities in Spain’s Andalucia saw record-high costs of buying and renting property in 2023

LIKE much of Europe, Spain’s real estate market ended 2023 with record-high prices throughout the country, with the Andalucian cities of Malaga and Cadiz registering

21 Jan, 2024 @ 13:02

Andalucia·Balearic Islands·Basque Country·Cadiz·Lead·Malaga·Other News·Property

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

Thief caught with €10,000 timepiece on his wrist preparing to board flight after pinching it from security scanner tray at Spain’s Ibiza airport

A TRAVELLER at Ibiza airport underwent an ordeal when he found that his luxury watch had vanished from his belongings tray after going through the

15 Jan, 2024 @ 15:00

Ibiza·Lead

Last chance to enjoy 50% off the Olive Press’s online subscriptions as New Year deal ends TOMORROW

Dear Olive Press readers online, You only have until tomorrow to take advantage of our special New Year sale with an incredible 50% off the

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

Calum Best, 42, flies into Spain for sexual assault trial: British woman claims reality star ‘forced her to touch his genitals’ at a beach club

CALUM Best is beginning his sexual assault trial this week after a British woman claimed he ‘forced her to touch his genitals’ at an Ibiza

10 Jan, 2024 @ 12:16

Balearic Islands·Lead

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

Lead·Mallorca

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