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Court investigates death of Benidorm man who suffered severe blood loss after getting ten dental implants in Spain

GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es A VALENCIA court is investigating the death of a Benidorm man who died after getting ten dental implants

8 Aug, 2023 @ 14:45

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Health·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Home alone little girl shouts from balcony that mother was out partying all night on Spain's Costa Blanca

Home alone little girl shouts from balcony that mother is out partying all night on Spain’s Costa Blanca

GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es A FOUR-YEAR-OLD girl shopped her mother for going out all night with her boyfriend by shouting for help

8 Aug, 2023 @ 12:45

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencian Community

Man performs Lazarus act to rise from the dead on coroner's autopsy table in Spain's Valencia

Man performs Lazarus act to wake up on coroner’s autopsy table in Spain’s Valencia

GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es A VALENCIA man literally rose from the dead on Friday as he lay on a coroner’s table just

8 Aug, 2023 @ 12:00

Health·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Neo-Nazi skinheads burst into mosque during prayers and make threats in Spain's Castellon province

Neo-Nazi skinheads in Spain burst into mosque to interrupt prayers and threaten to blow it up

GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es THE POLICIA NACIONAL have arrested three men who burst into a Villareal mosque and threatened the congregation. The

7 Aug, 2023 @ 19:30

Castellon·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencian Community

Lucky escape for historic Roman site on Spain’s Costa Blanca after stray firework causes blaze

GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es A STRAY firework from Calpe’s ‘Castell de la mar’ display on Sunday morning caused a fire at part

7 Aug, 2023 @ 18:00

Costa Blanca·La Cultura·Lead·Valencian Community

Women beaten up and exploited by prostitution gang in Spain's Valencia

Trafficking gang arrested on Spain’s Costa Blanca for sexually exploiting women flown in from Columbia

POLICE have freed 11 sexually exploited women and arrested ten people for their part in the racket in Benidorm, Denia, and Gata de Gorgos. The

7 Aug, 2023 @ 14:30

Alicante·Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencian Community

British expat is bludgeoned to death with a gardening hoe ‘for walking his dog near neighbour’s home’ in southern Spain

British man seriously injured during fatal house brawl with knives and hammer on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A BRITISH man suffered serious injuries in a brawl at a Torrevieja house early on Saturday morning which saw a Dutch national die from stab

7 Aug, 2023 @ 12:45

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Torrevieja·Valencian Community

Bogus shipment company sold off customers items in Spain's Valencia

Bogus shipment company sold off customer items in Spain’s Valencia

A 33-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested in Valencia province for pretending to have a logistics firm that despatched items internationally but kept the goods to

7 Aug, 2023 @ 12:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Baby gazelle gets bottle fed after rejecting mother’s breast-feeding in Spain’s Valencia

A Thomson’s gazelle born at BIOPARC Valencia in late July is doing well after rejecting her mother’s attempts to breastfeed her. In the first hours

5 Aug, 2023 @ 15:00

Animals·Lead·Nature·Valencia·Valencian Community

Plans to turn a former US military base in Spain into a refugee camp are abandoned following outcry

Former US military base will become migrant reception centre at highest point of Spain’s Alicante area

AN OLD American base at the highest point of Alicante province will be converted into a migrant reception centre. The facility at Aitana is over

5 Aug, 2023 @ 14:18

Alicante·Lead·Valencian Community

126 years on since discovery of jewel of Iberian art on farmland in Spain’s Costa Blanca

ON August 4, 1897, a teenager accidentally discovered what has been regarded as the jewel of Iberian art ever found in Spain- The Lady of

5 Aug, 2023 @ 11:15

Costa Blanca·La Cultura·Lead·Madrid·Valencian Community

Police intercept thief boarding ferry on Spain's Costa Blanca with big stash of stolen loot

Thief caught boarding ferry on Spain’s Costa Blanca with big stash of stolen loot

AN ALGERIAN national was intercepted in Alicante as he was about to board a ferry for his home country with a big stash of stolen

4 Aug, 2023 @ 16:30

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencian Community

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New summer heatwave with temperatures of 47? to hit Spain next week

A NEW heatwave with temperatures of up to 47? will hit Spain next week, according to the Spanish State Meteorological Agency (Aemet). Meteorologists have announced

4 Aug, 2023 @ 15:45

Alicante·Andalucia·Castellon·Cordoba·Costa Blanca·Lead·Malaga·Mallorca·Murcia·Sevilla·Valencia·Weather

Extradited son of Irish criminal John Gilligan jailed by Costa Blanca court in Spain

THE SON of Irish mobster John Gilligan has been jailed following his extradition from Ireland in July. Darren Gilligan, 47, and his 71-year-old father were

4 Aug, 2023 @ 10:30

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Torrevieja·Valencian Community

PSpanish police officer is arrested 'for groping a young woman's buttocks' at the Malaga feria

Seven-year-old boy dies in Spain’s Castellon province after falling out of window

A BOY aged seven died on Wednesday after falling out of a fourth-floor apartment in Benicarlo in Castellon province. The Civil Guard told the Spanish

3 Aug, 2023 @ 18:00

Castellon·Lead

New express car park opens in arrivals area of busy Costa Blanca airport in Spain

GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es A NEW express car park has opened in the arrivals area of Alicante-Elche airport allowing passengers to be

3 Aug, 2023 @ 15:00

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencian Community

International drugs gang used luxury villas to grow marijuana on Spain's Costa Blanca

International gang used luxury villas to grow marijuana on Spain’s Costa Blanca

GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es A SIX MONTH operation to bring down an Albanian-led drugs gang that used luxury Costa Blanca villas as

3 Aug, 2023 @ 12:45

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencian Community

First vertical solar energy park tests in Spain taking place in Valencia

GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es THE PORT of Valencia could become the home of Spain’s first large-scale vertical solar energy park. Tests are

3 Aug, 2023 @ 10:30

Environment·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Elderly woman struggles to breathe due to vapours from big drugs stash at her home in Spain

Elderly woman almost chokes to death from drugs stash vapours in Spain

GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es AN ELDERLY resident in Vall d’Uixo(Castellon province) kept so many illegal drugs at her home that she could

2 Aug, 2023 @ 17:15

Castellon·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencian Community

Terrace smoking ban scrapped after three years in Spain’s Costa Blanca and Valencia areas

GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es SMOKERS can light up again on bar and restaurant terraces in the Valencian Community after regional president Carlos

2 Aug, 2023 @ 16:30

Castellon·Costa Blanca·Health·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Three of Europe’s ‘Most Wanted’ arrested on Spain’s Costa Blanca

GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es THREE of Europe’s ‘Most Wanted’ criminals have been arrested by the Guardia Civil in Calpe on the Costa

2 Aug, 2023 @ 14:15

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencian Community