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BREAKING: Spain’s coronavirus caseload surpasses 56,000 after more than 650 deaths in a DAY in new record

SPAIN has seen 655 new coronavirus deaths between Wednesday and Thursday. New figures released today reveal the new daily record brings the total death toll

26 Mar, 2020 @ 11:45

Costa Blanca·Lead·Madrid·Mallorca·National News

Two die from drinking antifreeze after running out of beer at private party in Spain’s Costa Blanca

POLICIA Nacional are investigating the death of a party-going pair, aged 40 and 44, that attended an illegal gathering on Saturday. A third man, 28,

26 Mar, 2020 @ 11:21

Costa Blanca·Lead

Three multiple car thieves caught red-handed and arrested in Murcia car park

OBSERVANT citizens of Murcia helped arrest three alleged car thieves as they witnessed them smashing into cars. The trio had allegedly been responsible for the

26 Mar, 2020 @ 10:38

Costa Blanca·Lead

SPECIAL DISPATCH: A life under coronavirus lockdown in Valencia – why Spain’s welcome has never been warmer

The locals in Valencia have shown a spirit and humour over coronavirus, not witnessed since the Civil War days, writes Barnaby Bouchard in this touching,

25 Mar, 2020 @ 18:54

Costa Blanca·Lead

REVEALED: The hotels staying open to house tourists unable to get home due to coronavirus on Spain’s Costa del Sol, Costa Blanca and Mallorca

SPAIN has announced that hotels across the country will remain open to house trapped tourists who are unable to get home. It comes after all

25 Mar, 2020 @ 14:14

Costa Blanca·Lead·Malaga·Mallorca

While crime decreases, professor talks of Spain’s lock-down enhancing psychopathic tendencies and domestic criminality

DESPITE urban and rural crimes being fewer in number due to lock-down restrictions, domestic crime is the main concern for Murcia University’s, Álvaro Pintado. The

25 Mar, 2020 @ 12:55

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Lead

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BLOOD BROTHERS: Roommate stabbed in the neck for telling his mate not to go out with sick girlfriend in Valencia

POLICIA Nacional have yesterday arrested a 31-year-old man in Valencia for allegedly stabbing his housemate over a coronavirus-related argument. The man was about to leave

25 Mar, 2020 @ 12:48

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

BREAKING: Spain surpasses China’s coronavirus death toll as caseload nears 48,000

SOME 3,434 people have died as a result of coronavirus in Spain. According to new statistics from the health ministry, COVID-19 has shown no sign

25 Mar, 2020 @ 11:47

Costa Blanca·Lead·Madrid·Malaga·Mallorca·National News

Public hospital surgery waiting times fall in Spain's Costa Blanca and Valencia areas

Spanish health manager talks of choosing between saving patients’ lives and saving resources for other victims

THE CRISIS in Spain’s healthcare system because of the Coronavirus is revealed in a telling interview with Dr. Rubén Jara, the ICU manager at Arraxica

25 Mar, 2020 @ 09:52

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Health·Lead

BREAKING: Record 514 killed by coronavirus in a day in Spain as caseload nears 40,000

SPAIN has witnessed its deadliest 24 hours after registering 514 deaths between Sunday and Monday. The number of infected has also increased by more than

24 Mar, 2020 @ 11:50

Costa Blanca·Lead·Malaga·Mallorca·National News

Flood warnings as Spain’s Mar Menor region looks ahead to full day of rain, wind and rough seas

COASTAL areas around the Mar Menor are preparing for more potentially devastating floods, after a night of torrential rain looks set to carry on through

24 Mar, 2020 @ 11:09

Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead

Flood warning in Spain’s Mar Menor region – roads closed, residents told to stay indoors and upstairs

OVERNIGHT rains have blocked off many roads in the Mar Menor area, still recovering from a series of storms going back to September’s gota fria.

24 Mar, 2020 @ 09:13

Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead

After deadly floods and VAT crackdowns from the government, the Easy Horse Care Rescue Centre goes back into state of alarm

SO MUCH has been thrown at us in the last year, from the devastating floods in September to the VAT crackdown from the government. The

23 Mar, 2020 @ 18:59

Columnists·Costa Blanca·Environment

How to manage your investments through Spain’s coronavirus crisis, writes financial columnist Sam Kelly

I’m sure as you all read this, you’ll be sat in the safety of your homes, the cleanest they’ve ever been, surrounded by toilet roll

23 Mar, 2020 @ 18:45

Business & Finance·Costa Blanca

Lawyers can salvage money sunken in off-plan house deposits lost after the financial crisis, write Sun Lawyers

IT was a common scenario… People would fall in love with an off-plan property (not built yet). Beautiful drawings. Maybe some good property scale models

23 Mar, 2020 @ 18:26

Business & Finance·Costa Blanca

DEAR JENNIFER: Will my travel insurance cover me for Coronavirus?

What a shock it was for all of us to read about the Coronavirus. We watched on our television screens a total disaster happening in

23 Mar, 2020 @ 18:23

Business & Finance·Costa Blanca

Stay at home – coronavirus tests can be done within 48 hours at Clinica Britannia on the Costa Blanca, writes Dr Vicente Mera

A CORONAVIRUS is a type of virus. As a group, coronaviruses are common across the world. Typical symptoms of coronavirus include fever and a cough

23 Mar, 2020 @ 17:34

Costa Blanca·Health·Sponsored

Growing support for sealing off regions in Spain to fight coronavirus

PARTIDO Popular leader Pablo Casado has backed the sealing off of different regions to fight coronavirus. The conservative boss said today that he believes it

23 Mar, 2020 @ 15:09

Costa Blanca·Lead·National News

Spain’s Green Beret commandos arrive in Costa Blanca to provide back-up during Covid-19 lock-down

OPERATION BALMIS began this morning, March 23, with the Special Operations (MOE) of Rabasa pulling up in Orihuela. Local Mayor, Emilio Bascuñana, welcomed them to

23 Mar, 2020 @ 14:48

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Lead

Costa Blanca neighbours give time and use traditional skills to make 3500 masks for Alicante hospitals

CARING citizens in the Alicante neighbourhoods of Elda and Petrer are using their spare time during lock-down to make hospitals’ surgical masks for free. With

23 Mar, 2020 @ 13:28

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Lead

BREAKING: Spain’s coronavirus caseload surpasses 33,000 as death toll surges past 2,100

THE number of coronavirus cases in Spain has reached 33,089 as of Monday. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Health, the death

23 Mar, 2020 @ 11:53

Costa Blanca·Health·Lead·Mallorca·National News

BASKETBALL: Former Real Madrid and Spanish national team superstar Sergio Rodriguez, drives from Milan to Alicante, as all flights are cancelled due to coronavirus

FORMER Spanish national team captain, Sergio Rodriguez and his family have driven all the way from Milan to Alicante, as there were no flights available

23 Mar, 2020 @ 11:45

Costa Blanca·Lead·Sport·Travel News

Nun second victim to die in Murcia region, as sisterhood makes vow to ‘serve the sick, even at the cost of our own lives’

FIGURES released last night, March 22, confirm that a nun in Totana became the second person to die from complications relating to Coronavirus pandemic. The

23 Mar, 2020 @ 10:01

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Lead

Mother and father-in-law of Spain’s PM Pedro Sanchez test positive for coronavirus

TWO further relatives of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez have tested positive for coronavirus. The PSOE leader’s mother and father-in-law were admitted to the Puerta

23 Mar, 2020 @ 09:56

Costa Blanca·Lead·Mallorca·National News

Local Police in Spain’s Costa Blanca tightening lock-down restrictions even further – fines DOUBLED

ALICANTE Policia Local are tightening the fixed and mobile checkpoints, with fines being DOUBLED for those that break the restrictions. The maximum fine is now

23 Mar, 2020 @ 09:31

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Lead

BREAKING: ALL airports and ports to close in Spain from midnight tonight to fight coronavirus – with these exceptions

SPANISH airports and ports will be closed from midnight tonight. All travellers will be barred from entering unless they are Spanish, have residency or are

22 Mar, 2020 @ 21:06

Costa Blanca·Lead·Mallorca·National News

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