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Clampdown on bar and restaurant terraces encroaching pedestrian areas in Costa Blanca resort

TORREVIEJA council is painting yellow lines to stop bar and restaurant terraces illegally encroaching public areas on the Juan Aparicio promenade. Lines will appear all

19 Mar, 2025 @ 15:00

Costa Blanca·Lead·Torrevieja

Iconic Benidorm promenade to finish replacing its lights and fittings by early 2026

BENIDORM will move to a second phase of replacing lights and fittings across the Levante promenade. The council has awarded an €854,000 contract for the

19 Mar, 2025 @ 14:00

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Lead

Ex-employees of Costa Blanca luxury real estate agency accused of ‘stealing’ confidential data and customers

TWO former Javea real estate company workers who set up their own firm have been accused of stealing confidential information to drum up their own

18 Mar, 2025 @ 17:00

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Burglar who scaled walls to rob dozens of homes in expat area of Costa Blanca is caught after year-long search

A 15-MONTH search for a burglar who robbed at least 33 homes in Javea on the Costa Blanca has ended with the arrest of a

18 Mar, 2025 @ 14:00

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Thief travelled by bus to steal from tourists staying at Costa Blanca hotel

AN ALICANTE thief took the bus to rob a hotel and other premises at a Costa Blanca resort. The offender aged 50 and an Algerian

17 Mar, 2025 @ 11:39

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Spanish police board TWO planes upon arrival in Alicante from Britain due to ‘disruptive’ passengers

TWO flights from the UK to Alicante-Elche airport were boarded by police on arrival in Spain due to disruptive passengers. The incidents happened within minutes

17 Mar, 2025 @ 11:01

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Lead

One of Europe's biggest St. Patrick's Day celebrations takes place day early on the Costa Blanca

One of Europe’s biggest St. Patrick’s Day celebrations takes place a day early on the Costa Blanca

MAINLAND Europe’s biggest St Patrick’s Day parade will once again be held in Spain this weekend. The event will be staged for the 12th time

14 Mar, 2025 @ 15:00

Costa Blanca·Lead

Costa Blanca airport scoops 'Best in Europe' award yet again after a record-breaking year for passengers

Costa Blanca airport scoops ‘Best in Europe’ award after record-breaking year for passenger numbers

ALICANTE-ELCHE airport has won a ‘Best in Europe’ award for the fifth time. The 2024 honour is handed down by the Airports Council International (ACI)

14 Mar, 2025 @ 14:00

Costa Blanca·Lead

Watch: Terrifying moment TORNADO in Alicante tears through expat couple’s home after toppling trees and power lines

A TORNADO has stunned residents in Alicante after tearing through multiple neighbourhoods during the height of Storm Konrad. The weather phenomenon struck the ‘barrios’ of

14 Mar, 2025 @ 12:28

Costa Blanca·Lead·Video·Weather

EXCLUSIVE: Brit fury in Spain after major funeral planner vanishes – hundreds of end-of-life plans at risk while crematoriums refuse to hand over ashes

BRITISH expats are demanding answers following the ‘disgraceful’ disappearing act of a major funeral planning company in Spain. Iberian Funeral Plans vanished overnight on March

12 Mar, 2025 @ 19:00

Costa Blanca·Costa del Sol·Lead

UK arrivals boost Costa Blanca airport to set all-time February passenger record

ALICANTE-ELCHE airport had its busiest-ever February with UK arrivals accounting for over a third of international passengers. After breaking the million mark in January for

12 Mar, 2025 @ 14:00

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Lead

Spain’s new ‘big brother’ law for tourists is ‘driving hotels mad’: Technology ‘does not work’ and ‘threatens success of high season

HOTELIERS in the Valencian Community say a new computerised system to register guests is driving them mad and will cause serious problems during the tourist

12 Mar, 2025 @ 11:06

Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencia

Family gets investigation reopened into Benidorm death of father-of-four who plunged off cliff

THE family of a Welsh tourist who died in a Benidorm cliff fall have convinced the city’s court to reopen an investigation- as they suspect

11 Mar, 2025 @ 18:30

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Lead

Off-duty policeman spots boxes full of marijuana being loaded up for long journey out of Spain

A DUTCHMAN has been jailed by an Alicante court after an off-duty policeman spotted him loading cardboard boxes full of marijuana into a rental van.

11 Mar, 2025 @ 17:00

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

'Cowboy mechanic' accused of swindling British expats out of thousands of euros flees Spain

‘Cowboy mechanic’ accused of swindling British expats out of thousands of euros quits Spain

AN alleged ‘cowboy mechanic’ accused of swindling dozens of British expats out of thousands of euros has left Spain for a new life in the

5 Mar, 2025 @ 16:15

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Irish expat in Spain says his mental health is ‘far better’ despite ‘much lower’ salary

AN IRISH man who set up a new life for himself on the Costa Blanca, says it has been great for his mental health and

5 Mar, 2025 @ 15:17

Costa Blanca·Lead·Torrevieja

Family demand answers over tragic death of British father-of-four who plunged off cliff in Benidorm

RELATIVES of a Welsh man who died after falling off a 200 metre cliff in Benidorm have arrived in Spain to get answers over what

3 Mar, 2025 @ 12:20

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Lead

Must visit: This Alicante town loved by Brits has beaches to rival Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro

CALPE on the northern Costa Blanca offers beautiful beaches and the stunning sight of the Peñon de Ifach which leads to comparisons with Rio de

28 Feb, 2025 @ 17:00

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Lead

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

27 Feb, 2025 @ 11:14

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Lead

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-

26 Feb, 2025 @ 12:32

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

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

26 Feb, 2025 @ 11:57

Costa Blanca·Lead

Expert sketch artist Hew Morrison has created an age-progressed facial composite of Chisholm, in the hopes that someone in Spain or beyond may recognise him (COPYRIGHT HEW MORRISON)

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

24 Feb, 2025 @ 16:11

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

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

24 Feb, 2025 @ 13:23

Costa Blanca·Lead

Sex exploitation gang conned over 1,000 women with bogus job offers on Spain's Costa Blanca

Watch: Spain makes 48 arrests as it busts huge human trafficking ring across Alicante and Murcia

POLICE have arrested 48 people for being involved in a sex exploitation gang that lured more than 1,000 women from South America to Spain in

24 Feb, 2025 @ 11:18

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Murderer gets just six years behind bars for brutal knuckle duster killing of fellow Irishman Carl Carr in Spain

Carl Carr killer is jailed: Irish thug beat pal to death with a knuckle duster in Spain before dumping his body near a motorway

AN IRISH national who pummelled a friend to death with a knuckle duster at a Costa Blanca flat during a fit of jealous rage has

19 Feb, 2025 @ 16:19

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Irish passenger flying from Spain to Liverpool is caught with 18kg of drugs in his suitcase

AN IRISH passenger planning to fly to Liverpool from Alicante-Elche airport was caught with 18 kilos of hashish in his suitcase. The 36-year-old was charged

18 Feb, 2025 @ 15:00

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead