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Shameful behaviour of councillor pictured buying online wine during debate on Valencia flood disaster relief

A VALENCIA councillor has apologised after a camera caught him doing online shopping during a council debate on flood relief funding. Partido Popular(PP) representative Jose

31 Jan, 2025 @ 11:26

Lead·Valencia

Valencia City sizzles with January temperature record-breaker

VALENCIA City clocked up its hottest January temperature in more than 150 years on Monday. Thermometers reached 26.9C beating the previous best of 26.6C recorded

28 Jan, 2025 @ 12:00

Lead·Valencia·Weather

Revealed: Forbes magazine’s choice as the world’s best retirement city is in Spain

AMERICA’S Forbes magazine has picked Valencia as the world’s best city to retire to. It’s the second-such recommendation for Valencia after the ‘Live and Invest

15 Jan, 2025 @ 15:30

Lead·National News·Valencia

Property prices hit the roof as housing stock dries up in Spain’s Valencia region

HOUSE prices have soared to a record high in the Valencian Community according to the property portal idealista due to supply being unable to match

3 Jan, 2025 @ 14:00

Lead·Property·Valencia

Bollywood comes to Spain: Film crews and actors take over the streets of Valencia and Costa Blanca

IT HAS been ‘lights, camera, and action’ for a major Bollywood movie that has been shooting in the last few days in Valencia City and

4 Oct, 2024 @ 15:00

Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencia

This city in Spain welcomes British tourists ‘with open arms’ thanks to its ‘sustainable model’ – according to The Independent

VALENCIA has been given a big thumbs-up as a sustainable tourism city that is welcoming to UK tourists according to a British travel writer. The

16 Aug, 2024 @ 11:37

Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Valencia to splash €3.5million on Christmas and other festival lights

VALENCIA will spend €3.5 million on Christmas, Three Kings, and Fallas festival lights over the next three years. The City Council has awarded a new

1 Aug, 2024 @ 14:00

Lead·Valencia

Crackdown on tourist apartments in Spain: Valencia suspends 160 holiday lets for failing to have correct licences

VALENCIA City Council has closed down 160 unlicensed tourist apartments in a bid to curb their uncontrolled rise. The Valencia Residents Federation recently held a

1 May, 2024 @ 15:00

Lead·Valencia

Thieves steal from foreign tourists visiting popular sight-seeing area in Spain's Valencia

Female gang of pickpockets are arrested after targeting tourists in Spain’s Valencia

A GANG of street thieves have been arrested in Valencia City after robbing a group of Chinese tourists. The four women operated in a popular

15 Apr, 2024 @ 12:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

Farmer protests cause chaos in Spain: Roads are completely blocked by tractors in Valencia

HUNDREDS of Valencia farmers took to their tractors on Tuesday morning to travel along main roads around the city to call for a better deal

6 Feb, 2024 @ 10:10

Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Rapper Daddy Yankee will receive €1m in compensation from a hotel in Spain’s Valencia over a 2018 robbery

A VALENCIA hotel has been ordered to pay almost one million US dollars in compensation to the rapper Daddy Yankee after he was robbed of

21 Jan, 2024 @ 15:00

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

State of the art environmentally friendly water fountains to fill up water bottles are being rolled out across Spain's Valencia City|

State of the art fountains for filling up water bottles are being rolled out across Spain’s Valencia

WATER fountains to fill up plastic drinking bottles have been appearing around Valencia City in recent weeks, with more to come as part of a

17 Jan, 2024 @ 12:00

Valencia·Valencian Community

This city in eastern Spain is among the best holiday destinations in the WORLD – according to the New York Times

VALENCIA has been included in the prestigious New York Times 52 Places to Go in 2024 list. It’s the only Spanish destination included and the

10 Jan, 2024 @ 11:29

Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Cava taste buds to be tickled with some of Spain’s best sparking wines at the Valencian Cava Festival

THE Valencian Cava Fair returns to Valencia City’s Colon Market building on Carrer de Jorge Juan between this Friday and Saturday. Seven wineries will offer

14 Nov, 2023 @ 14:39

Food & Drink·Valencia·Valencian Community

Benidorm-based British paedophile given 133 year prison term by court in Spain

Russian mafia trial on Spain’s Costa Blanca will see five face charges of money laundering – including powerful ‘lobbyist’ connected to the conservative PP party

A BENIDORM judge is to prosecute five members of a Costa Blanca-based Russian money laundering gang- almost three years after they were arrested. The judge’s

24 Oct, 2023 @ 12:28

Alicante·Balearic Islands·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Ibiza·Lead·Madrid·Valencia·Valencian Community

Elderly British Expat Rescued By Firefighters In Spain's Costa Blanca After Apartment Fall

Firefighters SHOCKED to find stabbed man clinging to life in burning flat in Spain’s city of Valencia

FIREFIGHTERS were shocked to discover a man clinging to life with a knife stabbed into his chest as they went to put out a house

8 Oct, 2023 @ 08:48

Valencia·Valencian Community

Airbnb crackdown latest in Spain: Major holiday region warns illegal tourist flat owners of €600,000 fines

British tourists help secure record-breaking August in Valencia after filling up hotels in Benidorm and along the Costa Blanca

HOTEL OCCUPANCY topped 90% in the Valencian Community in August, according to the Benidorm-based Hosbec hoteliers association. The figures though were not a record which

5 Sep, 2023 @ 18:00

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

Opinion polls: Conservative Popular Party expected to win elections in Madrid, Valencia and Aragon regions

OPINION POLLS released at 8pm today, as the polls closed in the 2023 local and regional elections, suggest that tonight will see the conservative Popular

28 May, 2023 @ 20:21

Lead·Politics

Sick day: 44 people left with food poisoning after eating dishes prepared during Spanish version of MasterChef

A TOTAL of 44 people were left with food poisoning in Valencia after sampling dishes that had been prepared during an edition of the Spanish

12 Apr, 2023 @ 09:15

Entertainment·Lead

Shop Robber Arrested Over 100 Times Finally Gets Jailed In Spain's Valencia

Shop robber arrested on over 100 occasions finally gets jailed in Spain’s Valencia

A serial shop robber operating in Valencia City has finally been jailed after notching up over 100 arrests. The 45-year-old Spaniard at one stage racked

1 Mar, 2023 @ 14:30

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Unforgettable meat lovers experience at Vera Restaurante in Spain's Valencia

A special unforgettable experience for meat lovers at Vera Restaurante in Spain’s Valencia

If you love dining out and fancy a wide range of meat dishes cooked to perfection, then you must give Vera Restaurante in Valencia a

18 Feb, 2023 @ 08:15

Food & Drink·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Man in Spain’s Valencia threatens to blow up flat with female house-mate inside

A man threatened to blow up his flat after police were called about a domestic assault in the Barrio de la Torre area of Valencia.

4 Jan, 2023 @ 14:25

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Experienced expat accountant: How to navigate Spanish pensions, social security

A big tourist welcome this winter in Benidorm and Valencia areas of Spain

AFTER two ‘pandemic’ winters, around 88% of tourist accommodation will remain open in the Valencian Community during the next few months according to the regional

13 Oct, 2022 @ 14:58

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