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Luxury Plaza Mayor shopping outlet on Spain’s Costa del Sol scammed out of €120,000 by Valencia-based scammers posing as high ranking employee

SEVERAL cyber-scammers have been arrested after hacking high-ranking employees of a luxury shopping outlet and defrauding them of €120,000. The four arrested in Valencia helped

17 Jan, 2020 @ 13:14

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Andalucia is lazy, Madrid is full of clowns and Valencia full of drug addicts according to this hilarious new map of Spain

ANDALUCIANS are lazy, Madrileños are clowns and Valencianos are drug addicts.

9 Jan, 2020 @ 13:03

Lead

Brussels gives Spain an ultimatum over its toll roads

REVEALED: The toll roads which will be FREE in 2020 across Spain’s Andalucia and Alicante

TWO toll roads in southern and eastern Spain will be free in 2020. It comes after private toll company Abertis signed a severance package (ERE)

13 Dec, 2019 @ 15:29

Costa Blanca·Lead·Travel News

Mystery as Chinese trio – including pensioner – caught smuggling €1 MILLION in CASH into Spain’s Valencia

A TRIO of travellers have been arrested at a Valencia airport after trying to smuggle almost €1 million into the country. The three passengers, from

20 Nov, 2019 @ 08:06

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

SHOESHANK REDEMPTION: Valencia prisoner escapes jail using his shoelace to undo latch on cell door

A PRISON inmate has escaped from the City of Justice in Valencia by using nothing more than his shoelace. Pablo Antonio, 48, was already serving

14 Oct, 2019 @ 13:09

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

It’s World Paella Day, and we’re still arguing about chorizo!

TODAY is World Paella Day, where food fans around the globe celebrate the most universal dish of Spain’s Valencia. It’s a day when passionate Valencianos

20 Sep, 2019 @ 15:47

Barcelona·Costa Blanca·Food & Drink·Lead·National News

Spain’s first ‘robo restaurant’ set to open with robot waiters

Chinese-Spanish fusion restaurant Crensa will however still employ human waiters too

24 Aug, 2019 @ 09:34

Food & Drink·Lead

WATCH: Passengers use evacuation slides after British Airways plane fills with smoke and lands in Valencia

A BRITISH Airways plane has made an emergency landing in Valencia after smoke engulfed the entire cabin. Videos posted to social media show passengers using the evacuation slide

7 Aug, 2019 @ 11:11

Costa Blanca·Lead

SIMPLY THE REST: Driving through Spain this summer? Here are the best boutique hotels to stop at en route

Depending on your route, you will pass some of Spain’s most emblematic cities and towns

20 Jul, 2019 @ 09:05

Cordoba·Costa Blanca·Granada·Lead·Malaga·Sevilla·Travel News

Javea’s Cova Tallada to become first beach in Valencian Community with restricted visitor access due to tourism pressure

A CAVE in Javea will be the first beach in the Valencian Community to have its access restricted this summer. Cova Tallada, in the Montgo

13 Jun, 2019 @ 15:43

Costa Blanca·Lead·Travel News

Van Gogh Alive to visit Valencia from July to October

THE world’s most visited multimedia exhibition will arrive in Valencia in July. Van Gogh Alive, which has broken visitor records in over 50 cities across

10 Jun, 2019 @ 14:58

Costa Blanca·La Cultura

Inside Spain’s new high-tech cop cars being rolled out across Malaga, Valencia and Mallorca

The new Toyota Prius + cars have been specially equipped with three state-of-the-art cameras, capable of checking 400 license plates against the stolen database per

5 Jun, 2019 @ 15:38

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga·Mallorca·Sevilla

Alicante Airport pandemonium was just about worth it for an English bowl of jellied eels, writes Loraine Gostling

Oh well, it was only 55 minutes, so we could browse the Toblerone and smell the latest designer aromas at leisure in Duty Free

25 May, 2019 @ 10:30

Columnists·Costa Blanca·Loraine Gostling: Getting Connected·Travel News

Naked effigies of Trump, Hitler, Stalin and Franco torched in Valencia’s Las Fallas festival

A WEEK-long festival in Valencia celebrating Saint Joseph has seen the burning of a naked Donald Trump standing next to Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin and

22 Mar, 2019 @ 15:27

Costa Blanca·Lead

HOUSE OF HORRORS: Expat squatter couple caged and interrogated after dead baby and child, 3, found buried near luxury urbanisations in Spain

The mother was found just after 11am today in an oil drum in the vicinity of the house

15 Mar, 2019 @ 14:23

Crime & Law·Lead

Woman in Spain dies and 18 others sick after eating mushrooms at Michelin-starred restaurant

Ingredients from the kitchen are now being tested by Spain’s National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Science

22 Feb, 2019 @ 11:48

Crime & Law·Food & Drink·Lead·National News

WATCH: Police in Spain ‘fire rubber bullets’ at Scottish football fans after Benidorm bar ‘torched’ and man arrested for crystal meth

It also emerged on Wednesday that there would not be a fan zone for the roughly 10,000 football fans journeying from Scotland to Spain

21 Feb, 2019 @ 17:08

Crime & Law·Lead·Sport

After Lavapies was crowned Spain’s coolest neighbourhood here are the top 10 other hip hoods worth a visit

EVERY city in Spain has its colourful neighbourhoods whose rhythms move according to the culture and customs of their inhabitants. Lavapies in Madrid – recently

29 Dec, 2018 @ 10:00

Almeria·Barcelona·Cadiz·Cordoba·Entertainment·Food & Drink·La Cultura·Lead·Malaga·Mallorca·Opinion·Sevilla·Travel News

Spanish city to banish 5,000 pigeons for ‘driving away’ tourists

AN Andalucian city has pledged to banish 5,000 pigeons amid complaints from restaurant and hotel owners that they are driving away tourists. Cadiz is set

15 Dec, 2018 @ 10:00

Cadiz·Environment·Food & Drink·Health·Lead·Nature·Other News

Surgeon in Spain performs pioneering 10-year sex change surgery in 17 HOURS

The pioneering 17-hour op involved constructing a penis (phalloplasty) and removing the patient’s internal female organs and breasts

1 Dec, 2018 @ 12:28

Health·Lead·Malaga·National News

ON FIRE: British buyers lead the way as foreign market in Spain zooms up

AN avalanche of foreign buyers is setting Spain’s property market on fire! A total of 53,359 homes were acquired by foreigners in the first half

15 Nov, 2018 @ 16:20

Business & Finance·Lead·Property

RED RISK: Spain and Balearic Islands face extreme torrential rain just one week after 13 tragically died in Mallorca flooding

THE Eastern coast and the Balearic Islands have been battered by a bout of flooding, just a week after 13 people tragically lost their lives

19 Oct, 2018 @ 15:03

Lead·Mallorca

WATCH: Elephants playing in the rain in Spain will be the cutest thing you see today

AS many take shelter to escape the storms and heavy rain engulfing Spain today, this herd of elephants has a different idea. Instead of ducking

18 Oct, 2018 @ 18:38

Lead·Nature

Explicit Antoni Miro sculptures ‘endangering children’, say community leaders in Spain

COMMUNITY leaders in Valencia are demanding the withdrawal of Antoni Miro’s latest explicit art exhibition in a bid to ‘protect children’ in the city. The

22 Sep, 2018 @ 13:37

La Cultura·Lead

IN PICTURES: Tomatoes flying at La Tomatina festival today

La Tomatina is a food fight festival held on the last Wednesday of August each year in the town of Bunol near to Valencia in

29 Aug, 2018 @ 13:31

Entertainment·La Cultura·Lead

Woman threatened with €600,000 fine for offering tours of her village in Spain

A TOUR guide app has called in lawyers after a woman was threatened with a €600,000 fine for offering guided tours of her Spanish village.

25 Aug, 2018 @ 15:58

Business & Finance·Lead

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