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Reality TV star among dozens of arrests as international cocaine trafficking gang is busted in Spain

THE Guardia Civil has dismantled a major international group of cocaine traffickers who created a network to send consignments to Mallorca. Operation Checkmate has seen

18 Mar, 2024 @ 13:40

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca·Other News·Valencia

Travel warning: Major airport in Spain could see lengthy delays for passengers this summer due to maintenance works

A MAJOR airport in Spain could see lengthy delays this summer due to maintenance works. Jet2 Holidays have issued a warning to passengers planning trips

18 Mar, 2024 @ 12:00

Balearic Islands·Lead·Mallorca·Travel News

Powerful winter storm brings snow, wind, and rain across Spain TODAY

WINTER storm Monica will have blanketed much of the peninsula with snowfall, rain and hail by the time it dissipates late Sunday, with weather advisories

9 Mar, 2024 @ 20:33

Almeria·Andalucia·Balearic Islands·Basque Country·Cadiz·Cantabria·Catalunya·Lead·Menorca

Kate Middleton’s uncle Gary Goldsmith has swapped his Ibiza villa for the Big Brother House

GARY Goldsmith, Kate Middleton’s uncle, has swapped his luxury Ibiza villa for the Big Brother House as he stars in the celebrity edition. The ‘black

7 Mar, 2024 @ 18:00

Balearic Islands·Ibiza·Lead

Major breakthrough in treating gout made by scientists in Spain

RESEARCHERS at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) have come up with an innovative way of easing gout. They’ve patented a treatment based on

7 Mar, 2024 @ 16:15

Balearic Islands·Health·Lead·Mallorca·Other News

Residents celebrate news that new speed cameras will catch out illegal high-speed motorbike racers on Spain’s Mallorca

MAYORS in the Serra de Tramuntana area of Mallorca have welcomed news that 38 speed cameras plus noise meters are to be installed along the

7 Mar, 2024 @ 14:00

Balearic Islands·Lead·Mallorca

Travel warning for ‘unruly’ British tourists in Spain: Mayor of popular resort vows to crackdown on ‘yobbish’ behaviour

TOUGHER penalties have been promised against drunken tourists and criminal behaviour in the Playa de Palma area of Mallorca. Palma mayor, Jaime Martinez, made the

7 Mar, 2024 @ 13:15

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca·Other News

German expat Matthias Kuhn wins almost €100m in compensation from the Balearic government in Spain – this is why

THE Balearic Islands government will have to pay €96 million in compensation over breaching an urban planning deal with a German-owed developer. The ruling from

7 Mar, 2024 @ 11:00

Balearic Islands·Lead·Mallorca

These are the best restaurants in Malaga, Valencia and Mallorca – according to Spain’s prestigious Repsol guide

OVER 100 chefs have been awarded a prestigious Guia Repsol ‘sol’. READ MORE: Masterchefs of the universe: Why Spain is THE food capital of the

5 Mar, 2024 @ 12:55

Andalucia·Balearic Islands·Food & Drink·Lead·Malaga·Mallorca·Other News·Valencia

Speaker of the house in Spain’s Congress defends her innocence after opposition accusations of corruption in ongoing Covid mask scandal

THE Socialist speaker of Spain’s Congress of Deputies, Francina Armengol, held a press conference on Tuesday in a bid to defend her actions while she

5 Mar, 2024 @ 12:47

Balearic Islands·Lead·Politics

Carlos Alcaraz defeats Rafael Nadal in highly-anticipated Netflix Slam in Las Vegas

RAFA Nadal said one good thing about nearing the end of his career is that he will not have to face Carlos Alcaraz too many

5 Mar, 2024 @ 10:30

Balearic Islands·Lead·Mallorca·Sport

Pressure grows on speaker in Spain’s Congress of Deputies to quit, after more details emerge about Covid mask scandal

PRESSURE was growing on Monday for the speaker in Spain’s lower house of parliament, the Congress of Deputies, to quit, as more details emerged of

4 Mar, 2024 @ 12:29

Balearic Islands·Canary Islands·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Politics

Two French nationals slapped with jail sentences for sexually abusing British tourist in Spain’s Ibiza

TWO French citizens have accepted two-year jail sentences for sexually abusing a British woman who was on holiday in Ibiza. The Balearic Islands’ Provincial Court

4 Mar, 2024 @ 11:23

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Ibiza·Lead·Other News

FOUND: British tourist, 61, who vanished during holiday to Spain’s Mallorca

A BRITISH tourist who vanished while holidaying in Mallorca has been found. The family of John Webster, 61, raised the alarm last week when he

4 Mar, 2024 @ 10:32

Balearic Islands·Lead·Mallorca

Four-year-old dies in Spain’s Mallorca after becoming trapped in tumble dryer

A FOUR-year-old boy has been found dead in his home in Mallorca after apparently climbing into a tumble dryer in the family home and becoming

1 Mar, 2024 @ 12:39

Balearic Islands·Lead·Mallorca

Doctors call for face masks to be made mandatory in hospitals across Spain amid surge in Covid and flu cases

Partido Popular spokesperson denies any involvement in Covid mask scandal engulfing Spanish politics, despite being mentioned by the two main suspects in wiretaps

PHONE taps carried out by the Spanish Guardia Civil while investigating an alleged corruption scandal involving the sale of face masks during the worst months

1 Mar, 2024 @ 11:29

Balearic Islands·Lead·Politics

EXCLUSIVE: The hunt is on to reunite mystery woman with the camera she lost on a beach in Spain’s Costa del Sol containing photos of epic ‘once-in-a-lifetime luxury trip through Europe’

A MISSION is underway to return a camera containing photos of a mystery woman’s once-in-a-lifetime European trip to its rightful owner. The thousand-plus photo gallery,

29 Feb, 2024 @ 16:00

Andalucia·Balearic Islands·Costa del Sol·EXCLUSIVE·Lead·Malaga·Mallorca·Must Read

Missing: British tourist, 61, who vanished from Spain’s Mallorca two days ago – as partner back home says she’s ‘worried sick’

THE family of a British tourist are growing concerned about his whereabouts after not hearing from him for two days. John Webster, 61, has not

28 Feb, 2024 @ 16:17

Balearic Islands·Lead·Mallorca·Must Read

Real Mallorca defy the odds to reach the Copa del Rey final in Spain for just the fourth time ever

REAL Mallorca have reached the final of the prestigious Copa del Rey for just the fourth time in their history after a dramatic penalty shootout

28 Feb, 2024 @ 11:52

Balearic Islands·Lead·Mallorca·Sport

Ibiza port suffers huge sewage spill: Emergency plan is launched to clean up the affected water

EMERGENCY plan put in place after Ibiza port suffers a huge sewage spill. The Balearic Port Authority (APB) has detected a spill of fecal matter

28 Feb, 2024 @ 10:13

Balearic Islands·Ibiza·Lead

German tourist is robbed of €50,000 Rolex in Spain’s Mallorca

A GERMAN tourist has been reunited with his €50,000 Rolex watch that was wrenched off his wrist in Mallorca’s Port d’Andratx on New Year’s Day.

27 Feb, 2024 @ 17:30

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca·Other News

Man, 46, arrested after swallowing 150 pellets of Moroccan hashish and trying to smuggle them into Spain’s Ibiza in his guts

A DRUG trafficker was caught smuggling drugs into Ibiza concealed in an unusual location. Police at Ibiza airport stopped a 46-year-old Moroccan man after his

27 Feb, 2024 @ 13:15

Balearic Islands·Ibiza·Lead·Mallorca

British tourist arrested over sex assault on UK holidaymaker at party-resort Magaluf hotel on Spain's Mallorca

British travel agent, 60, narrowly dodges jail in Spain’s Mallorca after repaying €325,000 she embezzled from Lufthansa, BA and other airlines

A BRITISH travel agent who fleeced customers of nearly €325,000 from her agency in Magaluf has been narrowly spared jail. Nicola Roberts, 60, was handed

20 Feb, 2024 @ 15:08

Balearic Islands·Lead·Mallorca