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Flood-ravaged city on Spain’s Costa Blanca produces 1300 page report on gota fria weighing over 4 kilos

ORIHUELA City Council has produced a two-volume book, packed with reports and recommendations following the devastating gota fria and floods of 2019. The city’s mayor,

12 Feb, 2021 @ 13:00

Costa Blanca·Lead

Train operator joins forces with Vega Baja city to promote popular expat area on Spain’s Costa Blanca

ORIHUELA council, who cover expat areas like Campoamor, the Orihuela Costa, and Mil Palmeras, has joined forces with state rail operator RENFE to promote the

11 Feb, 2021 @ 17:00

Costa Blanca·Lead

Costa Blanca city to be the only Spanish representation at international trade show in Shanghai

ORIHUELA will be the only city representing Spain when it attends the 10th Shanghai International Flower Expo The city’s mayor, Emilio Bascuñana, announced their attendance

9 Feb, 2021 @ 21:30

Costa Blanca·La Cultura·Lead

British motorcyclist killed in head-on crash with fellow expat on Spain's Costa Blanca

Roadblocks moved to minor roads to catch checkpoint dodgers as 27 fined in first five hours of weekend lockdown on Spain’s Costa Blanca

THE SECOND weekend lockdown of Orihuela (Alicante) saw 27 fines for various offences in its first five hours. Checkpoints set-up at points in and out

7 Feb, 2021 @ 11:11

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Lead

Annual “riot of colour” on Spain’s Costa Blanca replaced by virtual tour of wall museum due to Covid

THE highlight of Orihuela’s fiesta season, the annual medieval market, has been replaced by a virtual tour of the city’s Museum of the Wall –

5 Feb, 2021 @ 10:00

Costa Blanca·La Cultura·Lead

City on Spain’s Costa Blanca runs on 100% renewable energy sources for entire year

ORIHUELA, in the Vega Baja region of Spain’s Costa Blanca South, has just announced that all of the Iberdrola electricity used throughout 2019 came from

3 Feb, 2021 @ 10:45

Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead

President Sanchez visits Costa Blanca as local mayor brands Madrid rail link a “historic milestone” for the region

THE MAYOR of Orihuela and other dignitaries welcomed Spain’s President Sanchez, as the new AVE rail link to Madrid officially opened. A direct link to

2 Feb, 2021 @ 13:30

Costa Blanca·Lead·Madrid

More officers needed as local police in Spain’s Costa Blanca set up 53 perimeter checkpoints over one weekend

ORIHUELA Police carried out 53 regional checkpoints over the weekend to ensure perimeter closures were adhered to. With Orihuela having well over 50,000 inhabitants, people

1 Feb, 2021 @ 12:30

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Lead

Spain’s President Sanchez to visit Costa Blanca on Monday to test out new AVE service into Orihuela

PEDRO SANCHEZ himself is to visit Costa Blanca South on Monday, February 1, in part to celebrate the first AVE from Madrid to Orihuela. He

29 Jan, 2021 @ 11:00

Costa Blanca·Lead

Volunteers sought to help with cactus clearance on Spain’s Costa Blanca

THE ARIZONA cactus is alive and all-too-well in the mountains above Orihuela, and volunteers are being sought to help remove them. The city’s Environment Department

25 Jan, 2021 @ 15:00

Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead

Drug traffickers with marijuana stash equal to weight of a small child caught at border controls on Spain’s Costa Blanca

TORREVIEJA Guardia Civil stopped and arrested the drivers of cars on the A7 with two huge bags of Marijuana, weighing in total the same as

23 Jan, 2021 @ 14:00

Costa Blanca·Lead

Virtual tours provide Covid-safe visits to museums on Spain’s Costa Blanca

MUCH of Costa Blanca’s culture will now be accessible to stay-at-home citizens, thanks to virtual tours. Mar Ezcurra, Orihuela’s Councillor for Culture (pictured below), announced

21 Jan, 2021 @ 17:00

Costa Blanca·La Cultura

Jabbing Jumper As Another Politician On Spain S Costa Blanca Breaks Vaccination Rules

JAB-BUSTER as yet another politician queue-jumps on Spain’s Costa Blanca to get COVID vaccination

THE list of Costa Blanca politicians getting COVID-19 vaccines ahead of priority categories has grown to include Orihuela’s Health Councillor, Jose Galliano. The PSOE socialist

19 Jan, 2021 @ 14:15

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Lead

Costa Blanca city becomes the greenest in Spain’s Valencian Community with over 50 charging stations for electric cars

ORIHUELA and its surrounding areas now have over 50 charging stations for electric vehicles, more than anywhere else in the Valencian Community. The Environment Councillor,

18 Jan, 2021 @ 17:00

Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead

Salt sent to Spain’s snowy centre in storm solution and show of ‘solidarity’ by Costa Blanca cities

TORREVIEJA Council has joined up with an Orihuela company to send road salt to central Spain, in light of the deadly snow conditions. A fleet

11 Jan, 2021 @ 15:00

Costa Blanca·Lead·Madrid·National News

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Three Kings Day celebrated in style as first vaccines administered in major city on Spain’s Costa Blanca

ONE OF Costa Blanca’s major cities celebrated Spain’s Three Kings Day in style, this morning. Orihuela saw the first of the Pfizer vaccines administered to

6 Jan, 2021 @ 17:00

Alicante·Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Valencian Community

EU expected to help fund eco-friendly underground highway between Spanish coast and inland Costa Blanca

A MULTI-MILLION euro underground highway linking Torrevieja and Orihuela is to be discussed this week, with important funding from the EU. Speedy transport links have

28 Dec, 2020 @ 12:45

Costa Blanca·Environment

Unlicensed brothel to close following complaints on Spain’s Costa Blanca

ORIHUELA Council is fast-tracking the forced closure of a notorious unlicensed brothel following a slew of complaints. Although officially licensed as a hostel, Policia Nacional

16 Dec, 2020 @ 21:30

Costa Blanca

Row over ‘needless’ 200 kilometre hospital trips from Orihuela to Villajoyosa on Spain’s Costa Blanca

ORIHUELA area patients are allegedly having to do 200 kilometre round-trips to Villajoyosa in spite of Torrevieja Hospital being on their doorstep. The claim involves

12 Nov, 2020 @ 20:00

Costa Blanca·Lead

Costa Blanca mayors praised for their ‘leadership locomotive’ promoting €227m direct rail link into Spain’s Orihuela Costa

BOTH Orihuela and Torrevieja mayors have come together to promote a rail link project direct into the coastal part of the region. Emilio Bascuñana and

11 Nov, 2020 @ 09:15

Costa Blanca·Lead·Travel News

Suicidal British expat saved from tragedy by local police on Spain’s Costa Blanca

ORIHUELA Police talked down an English national who was threatening to jump from a bridge on Saturday afternoon, November 7. Agents had been alerted by

9 Nov, 2020 @ 10:30

Costa Blanca·Lead

Court values a man’s lost testicle after hospital delay in Spain’s Costa Blanca

AN ORIHUELA man will get a €60,000 payout after a delay at the Vega Baja Hospital led to him losing one of his testicles. The

6 Nov, 2020 @ 10:30

Costa Blanca·Lead

City’s local police awarded for work done during floods and pandemic in Spain’s Costa Blanca

ORIHUELA Local Police have been awarded the “Lápiz Escuela Pública” (Public School Pencil) for the work done during both last year’s floods and the Coronavirus

5 Nov, 2020 @ 12:45

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Lead

Police on alert as ‘non-peaceful protest’ organised anonymously via social media on Spain’s Costa Blanca

ORIHUELA Local Police have been alerted to an Instagram account that is actively encouraging a ‘non-peaceful protest’ on Saturday, November 7. Worryingly, the instigators are

3 Nov, 2020 @ 09:15

Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Lead

Halloween parties in one town result in 80 fines for non-compliance on Spain’s Costa Blanca

BREACHES of new social-distancing rules throughout the Orihuela area led to 80 fines at the weekend. Local police sanctioned party-goers at numerous Halloween parties on

2 Nov, 2020 @ 20:00

Alicante·Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Lead

Bodies of executed Franco opponents to be exhumed from common grave on Spain’s Costa Blanca

THE BODIES of 17 people executed because they opposed dictator General Franco, will be exhumed from a common grave and given individual resting places. The

24 Oct, 2020 @ 10:00

Costa Blanca·La Cultura

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