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Local wins National Tennis Masters in Villena

LUCIA LLINARES from La Nucia, Alicante, recently won the Female TTK National Tennis Masters in Villena.
Her win classifies her for the European Masters TTK to be held in November in Italy, where she...Read More

Kids fancy dress safety precautions!

Halloween pumpkin  on fire FANCY dress costumes are being thoroughly checked after Strictly Come Dancing’s co-host Claudia Winkleman’s daughter, who was eight years old at the time, suffered serious burns last Halloween....Read More

Legendary singer Julio Iglesias to release final album

Julio Iglesias  releases last ever album	ICONIC Spanish singer Julio Iglesias announced on his 72nd birthday on Wednesday September 23 that his new album ‘Mexico’ will be his last.
Iglesias, whose son Enrique also found success...Read More

Montgo regeneration problems

The Montgo wild  fire threatened numerous homes and took a number of days for fire fighters to get under control A year after a wild fire destroyed 444 hectares of forest area on the iconic Montgo Mountain in Denia, Alicante, there has been little regeneration. The plague of the pine beetle, that bores its way through...Read More

Public building closures

TORREVIEJA Councillor Fanny Serrano has met with her counterparts in Valencia to discuss the recent closures of public buildings in the city.
The director general of the Agency for Security and Emergency...Read More

San Javier airport recorded 155,978 passengers in August

VAST majority of  visitors are from the British Isles OVER 90 per cent of all passengers going through Murcia's San Javier airport in August were from the UK and Ireland.
The month registered a total of 155,978 passengers, a fall of 3.7 per cent compared...Read More

Unlicensed tourist rentals targeted

VALENCIA: Illegal  holiday lets must now be licenced and regulated. THE Valencian Agency of Tourism (AVT) carried out inspections of 739 tourist properties in the region in a clamp down on illegal rentals.
The AVT and the Tax and Security agencies launched the initiative...Read More

Teenager rescued after roof fall

A TEENAGER was rescued in Elche after falling from the roof of a building on to an adjoining factory.
The Vinalopo Baix fire rescue department attended the scene and helped get him down after he fell...Read More

Telitec sponsor caring bikers

THANKS to excellent press coverage in the local media in recent months, the fundraising efforts of the membership of the Costa Blanca Espana Harley Davidson biker group came to the attention of Telitec...Read More

Breakthrough in Colombia as new peace deal with Farc promised in next six months

COLOMBIA looks forward to brighter times as President Juan Manuel Santos has reached an agreement with the Farc rebels on Wednesday to sign a peace deal by March 23, 2016.
Cuba was the setting for the...Read More

Another FIFA official to be extradited to America

Jack Warner former  vice-president of FIFA also due for extradition SWISS authorities approved on September 23 the extradition to the United States of Venezuelan football official Rafael Esquivel who has 30 days to appeal against the extradition decision.
This is part...Read More

Prime Minister Rajoy in Cadiz to open La Pepa Bridge

Photo Credit,  TCadizwiki, Wikipedia Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was in Cadiz today, Thursday September 24 to inaugurate the new 5km long bridge. It is now the tallest of its kind in Europe and is longer and higher than the Golden Gate...Read More

Church property, sign here, please!

THE municipally-owned Los Molinos community centre in Almeria City is listed as Church property. The anomaly was pointed out last year by former councillor Deborah Seron.
Los Molinos was built as a school...Read More

Safety comes first plan for next summer in Nijar

GENOVESES: Beauty  spot but has strong currents. THE season is over but Nijar is making plans for summer 2016.
Nijar’s mayor Esperanza Perez and the regional government’s delegate to Almeria Province Sonia Ferrer are studying how best to...Read More

Thousands of kilos of waste collected in Motril

DEPUTY Major and Head of the municipal cleaning company LIMDECO, Francisco Sanchez-Cantalejo announced that cleaning works across the town’s beaches have already concluded.
“Since the heavy...Read More

Ham cutters break a Guinness Record in Sierra de Yeguas

HAM cutters from all over Spain and further afield gathered on Sunday (September 20) in Sierra de Yeguas and managed to break a Guinness Record by all cutting at least five perfect slices between 0.5mm...Read More

Iron mine provides golden opportunity in Granada Province

A GRANADA Province mine could mean jobs for Almeria. Four years after plans to reopen Alquife mine in Granada’s Marquesado del Zenete area were first discussed, iron ore could be extracted by the...Read More

Minister attends legion celebrations

FIGHTING MEN:  Soldiers of the Spanish Legion based in Viator. THE Spanish Legion celebrated its 95th anniversary at the Alvarez de Sotomayor base in Viator.
A military parade was presided over by Spain’s Defence Minister Pedro Morenes and attended by more...Read More

Bar owners on trial for drug sales

THE owners and two employees of a bar in Magaluf are on trial in Palma Provincial Court for allegedly selling cocaine there last summer.
One of the suspects, a British PR, allegedly drew in clients from...Read More

Another lot of European rubbish

THE first ship carrying waste since the new Regional Government took office, the Bouga, arrived in Alcudia Port last week.
It was carrying 3,500 tonnes of rubbish from Ireland to be burned at the Son...Read More

Estepona council to take over maintenance costs

RESIDENTS on urbanisations on the outskirts of Estepona have reason to celebrate as the council has finally approved a longstanding project aimed to gradually take over maintenance costs.
Initially,...Read More

Petition demands end to donkey cruelty

A VIDEO doing the rounds on social media showing a Mijas ‘burro taxi’ driver beating one of the donkeys is horrifying viewers, who are rushing to sign a petition on change.org for something...Read More

Second Mijas shooting in one week

Mijas A THIRTY-year-old man was killed at 11.30am this Thursday morning (September 24), the second shot dead in the area in a week.
The body was found on the Angel de Miraflores urbanisation with at least...Read More

Costa Blanca ready for the refugees

THE Costa Blanca based company Balearia has made available to the Valencian Generalitat a boat with capacity for 1,100 people, to bring Syrian refugees from the Greek island of Lesbos to Valencia.
This...Read More

El Dia de la Hispanidad celebrates favourite son

TRIBUTE: Colomares  Castle Benalmadena, Malaga, is dedicated to Christopher Columbus. OCTOBER 12 is said to be the day that Christopher Columbus first set foot in the Americas and the Day of the Hispanics is a public holiday which celebrates his fantastic achievement.
A special parade...Read More

Respect for the victims of domestic violence

REPRESENTATIVES of the town hall in Benidorm, headed by the Mayor, Toni Perez, and the mayor of Equality, Angela Llorca, and Neighbourhood Council members have observed a minute of silence for the latest...Read More

Art exhibitions in and around Mallorca

GLOWING CORE:  Exhibition. UNTIL October 1, the exhibition Glowing Core by German artist Rebecca Horn remains in Plaça de Sa Lontja in Palma.
Rebecca Horn, presents a site-specific work that invites us to meditate on the tranquility,...Read More

Banks may face property stock fines in Mallorca

THE President of the Balearic Government, Francina Armengol, has said that banks which have empty apartments available may face tax fines.
She said this may be included in a future housing law, but maintained...Read More

BBC's DIY SOS team joined by Royal Brothers

PRINCES William and Harry joined BBC DIY SOS team to help builders and hundreds of volunteers transform properties into liveable homes for ex-servicemen and women in Newton Heath, Manchester.
The ambitious...Read More

Bumpy weekend for local police in Motril

SEVERAL incidents resulting arrests were reported last weekend in Motril.
On Friday (September 18), authorities were called to an incident of domestic violence in the east end of the town, where a man...Read More

 
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