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Pedro Sanchez’s brother is investigated for influence peddling and embezzlement – just weeks after similar probe against his wife

THE brother of Pedro Sanchez is being investigated over the alleged embezzlement of public funds and influence peddling just weeks after a similar case was

12 Jun, 2024 @ 10:53

Crime & Law·Lead·Politics

Security guard at Spain’s Olympic Committee arrested after CCTV exposes his nightly water bottle masturbation sessions: Female co-workers complained their drinks tasted funny

A SECURITY guard at the Spanish Olympic Committee in Madrid allegedly carried out a revenge campaign against two female colleagues by masturbating into their water

12 Jun, 2024 @ 08:00

Lead·Madrid·Other News

WATCH: Airport chaos in Spain as ALL flights are cancelled, delayed or diverted at major travel hub after runway is submerged under water amid freak storms

A MAJOR airport in Spain has been forced to stop all flights from landing or taking off amid severe weather conditions. The Sont Sant Joan

11 Jun, 2024 @ 18:27

Lead·Mallorca

Warning for pirate taxi drivers as police launch crackdown on Spain’s Costa Blanca

Agitated Brit threatens to stab taxi driver and then gets locked in on a Mallorca bus before police arrest him

A BRITISH man threatened a Palma taxi driver before trying to escape on a bus, but got locked in as police arrived to arrest him.

11 Jun, 2024 @ 18:10

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Who is Alvise Perez? The UK-educated, former LibDem supporter turned alt-right influencer whose party won 800,000 votes and 3 seats at the EU elections in Spain

HE went to university in Leeds, was once a member of the Liberal Democrats, and has been likened to both Javier Milei, the firebrand populist

11 Jun, 2024 @ 17:28

Andalucia·Lead·Politics·Sevilla

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Drunk German tourist destroys €350k digger after breaking into a quarry to take it for a drive on Spain’s Mallorca

A DRUNK German tourist stole a €350,000 digger from a Playa de Palma quarry and overturned it- with the unit written off as unrepairable. The

11 Jun, 2024 @ 17:24

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Revealed: The most popular locations for British property hunters on Spain’s Costa Blanca

ALICANTE province and especially the Costa Blanca continues to be one of the most popular areas of Spain for foreign house buyers. The Registrars report

11 Jun, 2024 @ 14:01

Costa Blanca·Lead·Property

‘Gibraltar will NEVER become a part of Spain’: Minister slams UN decolonisation committee in New York for failing to listen to Gibraltarians

HEALTH Minister Gemma Arias Vasquez slammed the UN Special Committee on Decolonisation for failing to remove Gibraltar from its list of countries that need to

11 Jun, 2024 @ 14:00

Gibraltar·Lead

Update on boy, 10, who almost drowned at his hotel pool on Spain’s Costa del Sol

A YOUNG boy who almost drowned in a Manilva hotel is said to be ‘recovering favourably’. The 10-year-old was staying at the Pierre et Vacances

11 Jun, 2024 @ 13:03

Costa del Sol·Lead

Riot police struggle with protestors in Sevilla University

Watch: Dramatic scenes in Spain’s Sevilla University as riot police forcibly remove students protesting against Israel’s war in Gaza

STUDENTS at Spain’s Sevilla University have denounced being physically assaulted by riot officers from the Policia Nacional, as they broke up a pro-Palestine protest in

11 Jun, 2024 @ 12:55

Lead·Sevilla

Former Kinahan mafia ‘financier’ Johnny ‘Cash’ Morrissey released from Spanish prison after paying €60,000 bail

A MANCHESTER-BORN expat considered to have been the money launderer for the international crime organisation led by Irish gangster Daniel Kinahan has been released from

11 Jun, 2024 @ 12:07

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Could Carles Puigdemont return as President of Catalunya? Pro-independence parties pave the way by uniting against Socialists in vote for parliamentary speaker – in blow for PM Pedro Sanchez

CARLES Puigdemont took another step towards returning as President of Catalunya six-and-a-half years since he was removed from office and fled overseas after pro-independence parties

11 Jun, 2024 @ 12:00

Catalunya·Lead·Politics

Mark Zuckerberg docks his €278m super yacht in a major tourist resort in Spain

FACEBOOK mogul Mark Zuckerburg has docked his €278m super yacht in a major Spanish tourist spot. Just a week after the Jenner sisters graced the

11 Jun, 2024 @ 11:59

Lead·Mallorca

Europe’s biggest-ever seizure of laughing gas cuts supply line to nightclubs and bars on Spain’s Costa del Sol

FIVE people have been arrested in Malaga province after the Guardia Civil seized 21,302 litres of nitrous oxide(laughing gas)- the biggest-such seizure in Europe. The

11 Jun, 2024 @ 11:58

Costa del Sol·Crime & Law·Lead

Ana Knezevich latest: Husband of missing US expat pleads not guilty to her kidnapping in Spain – after CCTV showed him buying duct tape in Madrid hardware store

THE estranged husband of Ana Knezevich, a Colombian native with US nationality who went missing in Madrid on February 2, pleaded not guilty on Monday

11 Jun, 2024 @ 11:28

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

‘Foreign’ man and woman die on a popular beach on Spain’s Costa Blanca: Pair were pulled from the water in a red flag zone

THE drowning death toll has risen to 12 people within just nine days on the Costa Blanca as two more bathers died on Monday. A

11 Jun, 2024 @ 11:11

Costa Blanca·Lead

Fresh weather warnings for Spain: Several regions are placed on alert for rain and storms

JUST as summer is finally getting into full swing, another stormfront comes along to leather parts of Spain. The Spanish weather agency Aemet has issued

10 Jun, 2024 @ 18:30

Lead·Weather

Tourist flat crackdown in Malaga: Airbnb-style properties must now have a separate entrance to the other homes in their building

THE first bandage is being applied to staunch the torrent of tourist rentals that have been flooding Malaga’s housing market. A new regulation means that

10 Jun, 2024 @ 17:50

Lead·Malaga·Travel News

Spain’s Deputy PM Yolanda Diaz resigns as leader of left-wing Sumar after disappointing EU election results

SPAIN’S Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Diaz has resigned as leader of the far-left Sumar platform she founded in 2023 after a disappointing round of results

10 Jun, 2024 @ 16:14

Lead·Politics

Tom Cruise’s tour of Spain: Mission Impossible star, 61, visits major city in southern Spain before returning to Mallorca on a plane he pilots himself

MISSION Impossible star, Tom Cruise, has visited a popular city in Southern Spain before returning to Mallorca on his self-piloted plane. Less than a month

10 Jun, 2024 @ 15:54

Lead·Mallorca·Sevilla

European elections: PP narrowly triumph over Pedro Sanchez’s socialists as far-right parties surge across Europe

ALBERTO Nuñez Feijoo hailed the arrival of a new ‘political cycle’ after his conservative Partido Popular (PP) won the most seats in Sunday’s crunch European

10 Jun, 2024 @ 15:33

Lead·Politics

Benidorm police use famous Shakespeare line to discourage Brit tourists from buying drinks from illegal beach sellers

BENIDORM’S Policia Local are using a variation on one of Shakespeare’s most famous lines to warn beach goers about buying drinks and ice creams from

10 Jun, 2024 @ 15:06

Benidorm·Crime & Law·Lead

Three Valencia supporters who shouted racist abuse at Real Madrid’s Vinicius apologise before a court in Spain

THREE Valencia football fans have been given eight-month prison sentences and a two-year football stadium ban for shouting racist insults at Real Madrid’s Vinicius Jr.

10 Jun, 2024 @ 14:02

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

Revealed: The huge rodent spotted roaming irrigation canals on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A LARGE rodent native to South America has been spotted in a Segura river irrigation canal in the Orihuela area. The coypu(Myocastor coypu)- also known

10 Jun, 2024 @ 12:22

Animals·Costa Blanca·Lead