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Anti-drugs police chief faces 15 years in prison for being part of massive cocaine gang on Spain’s Costa Blanca

PROSECUTORS want the former head of the Policia Nacional’s anti-drug unit in Alicante jailed for 15 years for his role in the biggest-ever cocaine distribution

2 Feb, 2024 @ 11:02

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

Hospital in Spain’s Benidorm area will get extra beds in change to €47m project that started construction last year

CHANGES will be made in the current expansion project at Villajoyosa’s Marina Baixa Hospital to create more spaces for beds. Work started last year to

1 Feb, 2024 @ 16:42

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Health·Other News·Valencian Community

Rail users get great news with €85m of improvements coming to busy commuter route in Spain’s Valencia

A BUSY commuter rail line in Valencia province is to get an major upgrade, costing €85 million. Valencian politicians and business groups have long called

1 Feb, 2024 @ 16:14

Valencia·Valencian Community

Council spends over €4m of public money to solve problem with illegal car park on Spain’s Costa Blanca

AN ALICANTE area council is having to spend €4.3 million after a green area was not created above a new underground car park two decades

1 Feb, 2024 @ 15:35

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Valencian Community

Popular shopping centre reports record footfall and unveils changes on Spain's Costa Blanca|

Popular shopping centre on Spain’s Costa Blanca reports record visitors and announces improvements

A REVAMPED cinema and three new restaurants are some of the improvements promised this year for Elche’s L’Aljub Shopping Centre. Around seven million people visited

31 Jan, 2024 @ 11:42

Costa Blanca·Valencian Community

Grave robber strikes at cemetery several times and rifles through skeletal remains on Spain's Costa Blanca

Grave robber rummages through skeletons to search for valuable metal items on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A GRAVE robber who plundered an Alicante province cemetery several times has been arrested by the Guardia Civil. The 43-year-old man struck at his local

30 Jan, 2024 @ 16:40

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

Warning for dog owners: Killer caterpillars are on the move in these areas along Spain’s Costa Blanca

PROCESSIONARY caterpillars- lethal to dogs if they come into contact with them- have been spotted in parts of Alicante province. Sightings have been reported in

30 Jan, 2024 @ 16:15

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

Face masks are no longer mandatory in this region of Spain from tomorrow

COMPULSORY mask wearing in Valencian Community medical centres and hospitals will end after it was imposed regionally on January 5 in a response to rises

30 Jan, 2024 @ 15:45

Castellon·Costa Blanca·Health·Lead·Other News·Valencia·Valencian Community

Air pollution spikes on Spain’s Costa Blanca due to warmest January on record

A RECORD warm January has worsened air quality rates in Alicante province due to the ever-present anticyclone over Spain resulting in fewer winds. The month

30 Jan, 2024 @ 11:24

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

New illegal rave in Spain: 1,000 revellers party for FOUR days on the Costa Blanca – as music is heard more than 20km away

AN ILLEGAL rave was staged in Novelda last weekend with music levels so high that the noise was heard 20 kilometres away. The event started

30 Jan, 2024 @ 10:29

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

Racket which ‘sold bodies of dead foreigners’ and ‘people with no family’ for €1,200 each is busted in Spain’s Valencia

POLICE have busted a Valencia body-snatching gang that removed corpses from hospitals like La Fe and nursing homes to sell them for up to €1,200

29 Jan, 2024 @ 12:15

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

Wanted US fugitive who ‘hired a hitman to kill his three brothers’ but ended up killing his teenage sister is arrested at major airport in eastern Spain

AN AMERICAN fugitive who hired a teenage hitman to kill his three brothers has been arrested at Valencia Airport. The Policia Nacional and FBI cooperated

26 Jan, 2024 @ 13:23

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

Illegal cigarette factory busted in Spain's Costa Blanca

Illegal cigarette factory making 12,000 ‘branded’ fags per hour is busted on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A ROBBERY alert led to the discovery of an illegal cigarette factory featuring two sophisticated machines inside a Costa Blanca house. The Guardia Civil visited

25 Jan, 2024 @ 12:30

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

Young expat is accused of killing priest found dead in his home: ‘Vulnerable’ suspect had sexual relations with the elderly clergyman after he ‘brought him in off the street’|

Expat is accused of killing priest found dead in his home: ‘Vulnerable’ suspect had sexual relations with the elderly clergyman after he ‘brought him in off the street’

THE Policia Nacional have arrested a South American man, 40, in connection with the murder of a Valencia priest who was found dead on Tuesday.

25 Jan, 2024 @ 10:56

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

Spain’s largest ever ecstacy factory is raided after making more than €100m worth of the drug

THE Policia Nacional has dismantled Spain’s biggest-ever ecstasy laboratory and seized 1,900 litres of MDMA with a street value of €105 million. 12 men of

24 Jan, 2024 @ 16:15

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

Wanted Irish ‘drug trafficker’ is arrested on Spain’s Costa Blanca after showing police a ‘manipulated’ photo of his ID

AN IRISH fugitive wanted for drug trafficking and the illegal possession of weapons has been arrested on the Costa Blanca after an anonymous tip off.

24 Jan, 2024 @ 14:45

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

Murder probe is launched after a PRIEST is found dead in his home in eastern Spain ‘with signs of violence’

A CATHOLIC priest has been found dead in his Valencia home bed on Tuesday with police suspecting foul play, citing asphyxiation as a possible cause

23 Jan, 2024 @ 16:15

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

Wild boars are terrorising Spain’s Costa Blanca: How a ‘plague of 6,000 pigs’ is destroying land and keeping residents ‘locked in their houses’ at night out of fear

A PLAGUE of wild boars has prompted a group of Alicante province mayors to demand an urgent meeting with the regional Environment Ministry. A meeting

23 Jan, 2024 @ 14:00

Animals·Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencian Community

Revealed: The costliest and cheapest winter holiday rentals on Spain's Costa Blanca

Revealed: Where you will earn the most and the least renting out your holiday home on Spain’s Costa Blanca

IF you are looking for a bargain holiday home rental for the rest of winter on the Costa Blanca, then you should focus on the

23 Jan, 2024 @ 11:45

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

Popular Costa Blanca tourist area in Spain is getting its first five-star hotel

CALPE is set to get its first five-star hotel on the site of a half-built hotel in the Los Pinos seafront area. A building licence

22 Jan, 2024 @ 12:15

Costa Blanca·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

Violent gang members who robbed dozens of homes on Spain’s Costa Blanca are finally arrested

A HOME robbery gang has been arrested in two Alicante province towns and charged with 21 burglaries as well as drug trafficking. The Guardia Civil

21 Jan, 2024 @ 12:00

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

Cockfighting ring with seats for 200 spectators is raided on Spain’s Costa Blanca: Police make 19 arrests

AN ILLEGAL cockfighting tournament staged in a purpose-built arena at an Alicante province bar has been busted by the Policia Nacional. 19 men involved in

20 Jan, 2024 @ 16:15

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

Luxury €135m development is coming to Benidorm: New homes hope to attract British buyers with estimated prices of up to €1.5m

A DEVELOPER has unveiled a €135 million plan to build 250 bungalows and villas close to Benidorm’s Terra Mitica theme park and the Hotel Melia

19 Jan, 2024 @ 10:43

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Lead·Other News·Property

How a Polish gang ‘flew into Spain to rob homes in British expat hotspots before returning home with their spoils’

A POLISH gang that specially flew to Spain to carry out home robberies has been arrested by the Guardia Civil. After two men were detained

18 Jan, 2024 @ 17:30

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

RIP: Legendary Benidorm bar owner who appeared on Bargain Loving Brits In The Sun dies

ONE of Benidorm’s larger than life British characters, Graham Boland, who became a well-known face on a UK television show has died. Graham appeared for

18 Jan, 2024 @ 14:23

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencian Community

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