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Costa Blanca river less than a metre deep now being dredged, after flood sediment stopped navigation

GUARDAMAR authorities have started the second phase of the dredging of the Segura. The project is designed to extract sediments from the river at certain

19 Dec, 2019 @ 11:42

Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead

Costa Blanca city linked with multi-national cash counterfeiting operation – 11 arrested

EUROPOL and Policia Nacional have arrested 11 people involved in a huge fake money scam operating across Europe. Five of the arrests were in Spain,

19 Dec, 2019 @ 08:05

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·National News

Cannabis cops mixed up in Mar Menor marijuana mountain

A PAIR of Spanish policemen are among 26 accused of bringing over two tonnes of drugs onto the Costa Blanca. All are up before Murcia’s

18 Dec, 2019 @ 22:04

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law

Storm Elsa arriving to Spain’s Malaga as Ronda, Axarquia and Costa del Sol placed on ORANGE alerts

SPAIN’S weather agency AEMET has issued an orange-level warning for rainfall in Malaga as storm Elsa continues to batter the country. The second-most severe warning

18 Dec, 2019 @ 15:48

Lead·Malaga

America applies to increase US military presence in Spain by 50%

If plans are approved, the new vessels will start to be deployed in 2022

18 Dec, 2019 @ 15:48

Lead·Politics

Inside Marbella’s new €1.6 million state-of-the-art surveillance centre ready to crackdown on local criminals and troublemakers heading to Spain’s Costa del Sol next summer

MARBELLA is cracking down on would-be criminals thanks to its new state-of-the-art video surveillance technology. According to the town hall, its new control and command

18 Dec, 2019 @ 15:14

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

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

Drunk truck driver zig zags all over A-7 motorway in Spain’s Marbella after consuming SIX TIMES the legal limit of alcohol

A TRUCK driver pulled over in Marbella last month was found to have consumed six times the legal limit for alcohol, police have revealed. The

18 Dec, 2019 @ 14:50

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

WATCH: Police arrest 15 in prostitution and trafficking raids across Axarquia

Police received a tip off that women from the former Soviet republic were forced into prostitution

18 Dec, 2019 @ 14:37

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Aparecen Miles De Peces Muertos En Una Playa De Salobrena

Thousands of dead fish wash up on beach in Spain’s Andalucia in biblical-style plague

“The fish have open mouths and spots along their bodies"

18 Dec, 2019 @ 14:13

Environment·Granada·Lead

Alarmed parents demand investigation after children served maggots and rotten fruit at school on Spain’s Costa del Sol

The concerned parents have now organised monthly tasting sessions of the school menu in order to monitor the quality of the food being served

18 Dec, 2019 @ 13:14

Lead

How To Keep Growing As A Professional

Adulthood is much different than how we perceived it at a younger age. It isn’t exactly all money and luxury trips to Europe every year.

18 Dec, 2019 @ 13:12

Business & Finance

Worker killed by industrial drill in Marbella tunnel this morning

The circumstances of the man’s death has now been reported to the Junta de Andalucia’s Occupational Risk Prevention Center

18 Dec, 2019 @ 11:16

Lead·Malaga

Farmer arrested after dumping DEAD worker in hospital who’d had heart attack during his first day picking olives in Spain’s Andalucia

He is then reported to have left him and fled, after which a doctor realised that the man he had dropped off was dead

18 Dec, 2019 @ 08:32

Crime & Law·Jaen·Lead

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DO YOU KNOW HER? Search underway for ‘kind-hearted’ British woman whose bicycle was stolen while clearing plastic waste from Denia beach

DENIA residents are searching for the identity of a British woman who had her bicycle stolen while collecting polystyrene waste washed on the city’s jetty.

18 Dec, 2019 @ 08:31

Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead

British pensioner, 78, found dead at Costa Blanca home as police undertake ‘psychiatric test’ on Spanish wife, 51

A BRITISH pensioner, age 78, has been discovered dead at his home in Denia on Spain’s Costa Blanca. The man, name unknown, had been dead

17 Dec, 2019 @ 16:05

Costa Blanca·Lead

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Deadly caterpillars could hit forest floors and gardens NEXT MONTH warns expert entomologist on Spain’s Costa Blanca

AN ENTOMOLOGIST has warned that lethal caterpillars capable of injuring children and killing pets could hit forest floors as early as next month. The pine

17 Dec, 2019 @ 10:19

Costa Blanca·Environment·Lead

Features of a Franking Machine – and Why It Can Be Hugely Beneficial to a Business

In this age and day, it’s apparent that writing, which is one of the oldest forms of human communication, will never go out of style.

17 Dec, 2019 @ 10:13

Business & Finance

American man arrested at gunpoint while driving luxury car through Marbella’s Puerto Banus for ‘holding girlfriend against her will’ after ‘taking away her phone and credit cards’

AN American-Georgian man has been dramatically arrested at gunpoint while driving through Marbella’s Puerto Banus. The 33-year-old, who has dual nationality, was making laps of

17 Dec, 2019 @ 10:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

¿Cómo usar un calendario online para planificar y administrar un negocio?

Entre muchas aplicaciones para la planificación, un calendario online suele ser una herramienta subestimada porque los teléfonos móviles o la PC ya tienen ayudantes incorporados.

17 Dec, 2019 @ 09:40

Business & Finance

Town in Spain’s Andalucia issues yellow weather warning following tornado like conditions

20 incidents of falling trees and branches were reported in Jerez alone on Monday

17 Dec, 2019 @ 09:36

Lead

Budget bullet trains won’t reach Spain’s Andalucia until 2021 – one year after Madrid and Barcelona

he budget AVE that Renfe launches in April 2020 will offer people in Barcelona and Madrid tickets between the two cities for as little at

17 Dec, 2019 @ 09:06

Lead·Malaga·Sevilla

Girl, 14, launches frenzied stabbing attack on pal, 13, in Spain’s Madrid

A 14-YEAR-OLD girl has been arrested for allegedly stabbing her pal, 13, in a frenzied attack in Madrid. The shocking assault occurred in the La

17 Dec, 2019 @ 09:00

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

Mystery as bodies of old age pensioners found slashed to death in their home in Spain’s Madrid

AN old-age couple have been found stabbed to death inside their home in Madrid. Marcelina, 80, and Perfecto, 79, were found in their second-storey apartment

17 Dec, 2019 @ 08:00

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

Gibraltar ‘will not fall into the trap’ of signing an EU trade deal which gives Spain control over the Rock, says its Chief Minister

FABIAN Picardo has insisted Gibraltar can ‘walk away from any bad deal’ signed with Europe after it leaves the EU on January 31.

16 Dec, 2019 @ 21:36

Gibraltar·Lead

WATCH: Trees snap in half as winds of up to 90km/hr and rain wreak havoc in Spain’s Andalucia

#BorrascaDaniel #SevillahoyLluvias y viento fuerte (90 km/h máx)?CONSEJOS?Cierra puertas, ventanas y toldos?Retira objetos que puedan caer?Cuidado en zona de árboles?Precaución al conducir?Sigue fuentes oficiales #StopBulos#Gobernación

16 Dec, 2019 @ 21:23

Lead·Sevilla

Expat missing for a day in L’Alfàs del Pi on Spain’s Costa Blanca

GUARDIA CIVIL have warned of an elderly expat missing since yesterday on Spain’s Costa Blanca. Lygia Shirley Constance de Groot Ev Van Ommen went missing

16 Dec, 2019 @ 21:16

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