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A MAN has been hailed a hero after rescuing an elderly driver trapped during today’s devastating floods in Sevilla. The dramatic scene, filmed from a nearby balcony and shared widely on social media, shows floodwaters tearing through the city centre…
THE rape conviction of a Costa Blanca-based British charity worker for a crime dating back 30 years has prompted fears many more victims could come forward. Justice finally caught up with Steven Monk-Dalton, 56, this month after he was sentenced…
A DEEP disquiet is beginning to set in along Spain’s coastal regions after the release of the latest numbers from the Spanish General Council of Notaries. The shocking headline figure is that foreign buyers now outright outnumber Spanish ones in…
IT is in the heat of the summer, in mid July, when she finally makes an appearance. That is the Virgen del Carmen, the patron saint of fishermen in Spain. The beautiful wooden figurine is brought out from one of…
I’VE said it before: life in Spain takes a bit of getting used to. The rhythm, the mañana mindset, the endless forms and stamps – especially if you’re coming from an Anglo-Saxon world of efficiency and rigid timetables. But after…
SPAIN and Morocco have taken a fresh step toward a train line under the Strait of Gibraltar with engineers now drawing up the design for a 40km ‘test tunnel’. The tunnel would run coast-to-coast between southern Spain and northern Morocco,…
A LEADING expat charity boss has been accused of syphoning off her family’s inheritance and then cutting off all contact after the death of their mother. Marie Gleeson, who runs Age Concern Estepona and Manilva (ACE), was branded a ‘scoundrel’…
A SEVEN-STRONG gang stole over 1,100 chairs from bar and restaurant terraces in Spain to sell on the black market. The crew were arrested in early October by the Policia Nacional. The chairs were sold off domestically as well as…
TEMPERS flared in Valencia’s historic centre on Sunday when furious locals clashed a group of Dutch tourists on bicycles. Ugly scenes caught on camera showed a crowd screaming at the tourists to ‘get out’ as the two groups came close…
A CITY in northern Spain has temporarily banned the adoption of black cats from rescue shelters amid fears the felines could fall victim to ‘sinister’ Halloween rituals. Officials in Terrassa, Catalunya, have opted to prohibit the fostering of all black…
