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WATCH: Last UK tour company still selling tickets to orca shows named and shamed during Mallorca travel conference

ANIMAL rights activists stormed the stage at a major UK travel industry convention in Mallorca to denounce Britain’s last big tour operator still selling tickets

8 Oct, 2025 @ 15:30

Green·Lead·Mallorca

Revealed: The most popular cultural leisure activities enjoyed by people in Spain

Revealed: The most popular cultural activities enjoyed by people in Spain

WATCHING audio-visual material(81%) and listening to music(79%) are the most popular cultural activities in Spain, according to a Ministry of Culture study. The survey carried

8 Oct, 2025 @ 15:00

Entertainment·La Cultura·Lead

Former employer confirms ex-Valencia floods tsar used fake university degree to get job promotion

VALENCIA Provincial Council says the former-Spanish government special commissioner for the October 29 flood reconstruction did supply a copy of a bogus university degree diploma

8 Oct, 2025 @ 14:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

Brussels bureaucrats set to shoot down Spain’s €179m fine against airlines over charging extra for hand luggage

THE European Commission has launched legal action against Spain over a €179 million penalty imposed on budget airlines for charging passengers extra for hand luggage

8 Oct, 2025 @ 13:30

Business & Finance·Lead·Travel News

Lifeline thrown: Illegal farms to be axed in bid to rescue Spain’s vital ecoreserve Doñana’s thirsty wetlands

SPAIN’S most important national park is finally getting the cash to tackle its depleted water resources. Doñana National Park – one of Europe’s last great

8 Oct, 2025 @ 12:59

Andalucia·Environment·Green·Lead·Other News

Ready for a change? The power of ‘Elements’ ignites Benidorm Palace

BENIDORM PALACE – the Costa Blanca’s legendary entertainment hotspot – is turning up the heat this season with ELEMENTS, a breathtaking new production that’s redefining

8 Oct, 2025 @ 12:29

Alicante·Benidorm·La Cultura·Lead·Sponsored

DANA Alice warnings of heavy localised rain expected in Eastern Spain and the Balearics

STATE weather forecaster Aemet is predicting very heavy localised and persistent rain in eastern Spain and the Balearic Islands from Wednesday evening until Sunday. The

8 Oct, 2025 @ 12:22

Lead·Weather

Warning for drivers as Spanish traffic police crack down on phone use and distractions this week – with some help from car crash survivors

DRIVERS across Spain face an intensive week of traffic checks as police launch a major crackdown on mobile phone use behind the wheel. Running until

8 Oct, 2025 @ 10:32

Lead·Other News

Desperate plea from girlfriend of Swede dragged to his death in botched Torrevieja robbery: ‘I need to raise money to repatriate his body and pay his employees’ salaries’

THE devastated girlfriend of a Swedish restaurant owner who was dragged to his death during a brutal robbery is now desperately trying to raise funds

8 Oct, 2025 @ 09:58

Crime & Law·Lead·Torrevieja

Urgent warning for parents in Spain: Predators are using popular video game to groom children and offer them ‘power-ups in exchange for naked photos’

CHILD sex predators are using popular online gaming platforms to pose target children in Spain for grooming – befriending them before tricking them into sending

8 Oct, 2025 @ 08:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Other News

Mystery in Formentera as tourism boss wakes up to find his Italian girlfriend, 45, dead in his apartment

AN Italian entrepreneur who awoke to find his girlfriend dead in his Formentera apartment has been cleared of suspicion – but the woman’s death remains

7 Oct, 2025 @ 17:46

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Lead

Scottish mafia shootings: Alleged hitman claims Spanish prison sentence would ‘infringe his human rights’

A BRITISH man alleged to have carried out the brazen Mafia-style assassination of two notorious Scottish underworld figures has claimed his human rights would be

7 Oct, 2025 @ 16:10

Costa del Sol·Crime & Law·Lead

Spain’s biggest bank hires former head of British Army to help target Europe’s booming arms suppliers

THE former head of the British Army is set to lead Santander’s bid to bolster its defence lending as the Spanish bank looks to cash

7 Oct, 2025 @ 15:31

Business & Finance·International Affairs·Lead

Fugitive Brit wanted for ‘repeatedly sexually assaulting a child’ is arrested on Spanish holiday island

A BRITISH man who fled the UK before a trial over alleged sexual offences has been arrested in the Canary Islands following a joint investigation

7 Oct, 2025 @ 14:01

Canary Islands·Crime & Law·Lead

Man ran residency fraud with his mother illegally getting free health treatment on Spain’s Costa Blanca

AN ALICANTE man has been accused of running a residency scam for his family which allowed his mother to get €9,000 of free public health

7 Oct, 2025 @ 12:03

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Warning of ‘abundant rainfall’ lasting for four days on Spain’s Costa Blanca

HEAVY rain is predicted to hit Alicante province from Thursday with the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) placing a yellow alert for the north of the

7 Oct, 2025 @ 11:18

Costa Blanca·Lead·Weather

‘Just need him blind and face melted’: UK ‘Lord of War’ arms trafficker told thug to ‘double dose’ in horrific acid plot before Costa del Sol arrest

A BRITISH arms dealer living in a luxury villa on the Costa del Sol plotted to ‘melt’ a rival’s face with acid before his arrest

6 Oct, 2025 @ 18:15

Costa del Sol·Crime & Law·Lead

Shock in Marbella as 84-year-old man repeatedly stabs his wife, 83, to death

AN 84-year-old Marbella man has been arrested for fatally stabbing his wife, 83, at their home. A court on Monday placed him into pre-trial detention

6 Oct, 2025 @ 17:18

Crime & Law·Lead·Marbella

Victory for campaigners as Malaga bans horse-drawn carriages – but what will happen to the animals?

MALAGA has finally moved to ban horse-drawn tourist carriages in the city with immediate effect – with the fate of the animals yet to be

6 Oct, 2025 @ 15:15

Green·Lead·Malaga

WATCH: Outrage as friends cruising on a leisure boat dive in and swim with a pod of whales passing through the Strait of Gibraltar

THREE friends who thought they were having the experience of a lifetime may find themselves staring at the wrong end of a five-figure fine after

6 Oct, 2025 @ 14:36

Andalucia·Cadiz·Gibraltar·Green·Lead

Brit living in Mallorca who 'shattered eye' of passerby finally arrested - after trying to 'lay low and blend back into daily life'

Brit living in Mallorca who ‘shattered eye’ of passerby is finally arrested – after trying to ‘lay low and blend back into daily life’

A BRITISH expat in Palma has been arrested over a brutal August assault that left the victim partially blinded. The Policia Nacional detained the suspect

6 Oct, 2025 @ 14:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Brit detained at Palma airport on drug trafficking warrant from South Korea

A BRITISH man was arrested at Palma de Mallorca airport after the Policia Nacional discovered he was wanted for drug offences in South Korea. The

6 Oct, 2025 @ 13:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

WATCH: Manhunt in Spain’s African enclave after migrant paraglides over 30ft border fences into Ceuta

A MIGRANT is on the run in Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta after soaring over its 30-foot (12-metre) border fences in a paraglider. The

6 Oct, 2025 @ 12:30

Lead·Other News

Why you should never take investing tips from the front page

By Peter Dougherty HAS anyone ever got good investment advice from the front page of a newspaper or magazine? Probably not. Still, the media churns

6 Oct, 2025 @ 12:08

Business & Finance·Other News

Police arrest man who stole €7k of jewellery from his aunt who was flying to UK from Costa Blanca airport

Police arrest man who stole €7k of jewellery from his aunt and was flying to UK from Costa Blanca airport

A MAN stole €7,000 of jewellery from his aunt and was arrested before he could board a UK-bound flight at Alicante-Elche airport. Authorities have not

6 Oct, 2025 @ 11:45

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Squatters get rent collector and 'large men' arrested for staging violent eviction in Spain

Woman in Malaga stabs partner multiple times while he is ‘fast asleep in the middle of the night’

A WOMAN has been arrested in Malaga after allegedly stabbing her partner as he slept in the middle of the night. The incident happened inside

6 Oct, 2025 @ 11:20

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga