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Forgetful father faces homicide charge in Spain after 'his daughter, 2, dies in locked car in ordeal lasting for hours

Jealous ex-husband who placed a GPS tracker on the car of his ex-wife’s new lover is arrested in Spain

A JEALOUS ex-husband has been arrested for putting a GPS tracker on a car belonging to his former partner’s new boyfriend. The 44-year-old man from

6 Mar, 2024 @ 11:00

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

Court in Spain demands re-opening of legal probe into deadly Valencia fire that claimed 10 lives

Thieves loot building destroyed by tragic Valencia fire: Police make multiple arrests

TWO men have been arrested for looting the building complex destroyed by fire in Valencia on February 28. The Algerian nationals, aged 23 and 51,

5 Mar, 2024 @ 18:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencia·Valencian Community

Tourist seriously injured when part of a building ledge falls onto his head in Spain’s Valencia

AN ITALIAN tourist was taken to Valencia’s La Fe Hospital on Sunday after strong winds dislodged part of a building ledge that fell onto his

4 Mar, 2024 @ 16:15

Valencia·Valencian Community

British expat hotspot in Spain has seen the number of foreign residents soar by 800% since 1998

THE number of foreign residents in the Valencian Community has gone up eight-fold over 25 years. The National Institute of Statistics(INE) says there were 102,000

4 Mar, 2024 @ 15:45

Alicante·Benidorm·Castellon·Costa Blanca·Lead·Torrevieja·Valencia·Valencian Community

Thousands join protest against ‘senseless’ solar power plant being built on Spain’s Costa Blanca

AN ESTIMATED 3,000 people hit the streets of San Miguel de Salinas on Sunday to oppose controversial plans for a massive solar farm. The San

4 Mar, 2024 @ 14:00

Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead·Other News·Valencian Community

Italian gangster, 38, is arrested on Spain’s Costa Blanca: Fugitive hid among the expat community for years to avoid jail at home

AN Italian fugitive who faces 20 years in prison for drug trafficking charges has been arrested in a holiday apartment in Arenales del Sol. The

4 Mar, 2024 @ 12:45

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencian Community

Three family members are killed in a tower block fire on Spain’s Costa Blanca

THREE members of the same family died in an apartment block fire in the early hours of Monday morning in Villajoyosa. The blaze started in

4 Mar, 2024 @ 10:54

Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencian Community

Council has to pay ‘millions’ in compensation for illegally-granted building licence approved by law-breaking mayor in 2008 on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A COSTA Blanca council will have to pay the equivalent of a third of its annual budget as compensation for an illegally-approved building that was

2 Mar, 2024 @ 10:00

Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencian Community

Spanish priest is removed from his Costa Blanca parish for calling Pope Francis a ‘heretic’

THE bishop of the Orihuela-Alicante diocese has suspended San Isidro’s parish priest for branding Pope Francis a ‘heretic’. Bishop Jose Ignacio Munilla took the tough

29 Feb, 2024 @ 16:57

Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencian Community

Luxury rental villas costing €4k a month are converted into marijuana farms on Spain’s Costa Blanca

POLICE have arrested two members of a gang that set up indoor marijuana farms in luxury rental villas across Alicante province. One villa was located

29 Feb, 2024 @ 16:45

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

Plan for major new route moves forward to link motorway with popular expat city on Spain’s Costa Blanca

PLANS costing around €30 million for a third exit road between the AP-7 and the Marina Alta are set to move forward. The Ministry of

29 Feb, 2024 @ 15:15

Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencian Community

Popular urban park set for summer reopening after three-year closure after contractor walked away from project on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A POPULAR Javea park could reopen in time for the summer, after it was closed for renovation work- way back in September 2021. A contractor

29 Feb, 2024 @ 14:00

Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencian Community

Mortgage repayments are falling in Spain with another interest rate cut looming

Brits account for 40% of non-resident mortgages in Spain: These are the most popular locations according to new figures

DESPITE fears of a post-Brexit slowdown and the negative effects of interest rate rises, UK buyers dominated mortgage application requests for home purchases in Spain

28 Feb, 2024 @ 16:45

Andalucia·Catalunya·Lead·Madrid·National News·Other News·Property·Valencian Community

Three Colombian men are found shot dead inside a car in Valencia after being ‘ambushed’

THREE Columbian men have been shot dead in the El Saler district of Valencia- one of them a major player in setting up a drug-trafficking

28 Feb, 2024 @ 10:38

Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencia·Valencian Community

King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain meet victims of the deadly Valencia fire

THE King and Queen of Spain have met families displaced by Thursday’s fire in Valencia that killed 10 people. Felipe and Letizia attended a special

27 Feb, 2024 @ 10:35

Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Revealed: The most expensive areas to buy a property on Spain’s Costa Blanca

THE costliest area for properties on the Costa Blanca has been revealed to be on the Calpe coast. Buyers looking to purchase a home by

26 Feb, 2024 @ 09:52

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Lead·Other News·Property·Torrevieja·Valencian Community

Police bike rammed and officer injured during dramatic high-speed pursuit of motorist who didn’t pay for petrol on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A MOTORIST rammed two Guardia Civil motorbike riders at the end of a high-speed chase on the outskirts of Valencia City. The driver drove off

20 Feb, 2024 @ 13:38

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Other News·Valencia·Valencian Community

Spain-wide appeal to find kidnap gang boss who snatched Costa Blanca couple during summer

New born baby is found dead in a closet in eastern Spain – after mother ‘hid her birth’

THE body of a newborn baby has been found inside a closet with the Guardia Civil arresting its 22-year-old mother for murder. Reports suggested ‘signs

20 Feb, 2024 @ 11:53

Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencia·Valencian Community

School children who ‘created AI porn images of teenagers’ are quizzed by police in eastern Spain

FIVE Valencia teenagers are being investigated for posting images of naked females created by Artificial Intelligence. 17 females had their photos manipulated by AI- 13

19 Feb, 2024 @ 16:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencia·Valencian Community

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

Guardia Civil officer who ‘brutally assaulted his wife when she said she wanted to leave him’ is arrested in eastern Spain

A GUARDIA Civil officer has been arrested in Valencia after brutally beating up his wife who told him she wanted a separation. The victim, 50,

19 Feb, 2024 @ 11:06

Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencia·Valencian Community

Angry Benidorm residents to stage protest this weekend over big local tax rises

Polish fugitive, 34, is dramatically arrested in Spain’s Benidorm resort for ‘kidnapping, sexual assault, fraud’ and a list of other serious charges

A POLISH fugitive has been arrested in Benidorm after fleeing his home country where he had been serving a seven year jail term. The man,

19 Feb, 2024 @ 10:16

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencian Community

Benidorm will FINALLY have a funeral home and crematorium after almost 20 years of waiting

BENIDORM is set to get its first funeral home/crematorium after plans have been mired in red tape since 2005. Families have been going to Villajoyosa

17 Feb, 2024 @ 07:00

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencian Community

Sewage ‘is being dumped in the sea off Benidorm’: Ecologists in Spain demand action

COMPLAINTS about untreated wastewater being pumped into the sea off Benidorm have prompted two councils to demand urgent action. The El Xoriguer environmentalist group says

16 Feb, 2024 @ 16:00

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead·Other News·Valencian Community

Revealed: How Britain’s MI6 tried to steal the ‘Holy Grail of Valencia’ during Spain’s Civil War – according to new study

AS anyone who has seen the third (and arguably best) instalment of the Indian Jones trilogy will remember, the Holy Chalice, or Holy Grail, is

16 Feb, 2024 @ 12:16

Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

This city in eastern Spain is the first in Europe to approve a Google parking app for disabled drivers

VALENCIA will be the first European city to utilise a phone app that helps people with reduced mobility locate car parking spaces. The pilot project

15 Feb, 2024 @ 14:00

Lead·Other News·Technology·Valencia·Valencian Community

Spain will host the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024: Exact location still to be decided as regions put themselves forward

SPAIN’S national public broadcaster RTVE will host this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest for the very first time. The country won the second-ever competition in

15 Feb, 2024 @ 11:45

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