The Spanish authorities have made a dramatic intervention in the case of a British couple who fled to Spain to stop social services taking their son into care.
Jim and Carissa Smith had sought refuge amid the parched mountain scenery and tall palm trees of Alicante. But on Wednesday their worst fears were realised when Spanish [...]
Car hire experts are warning tourists travelling this Easter to book in advance as early signs show that there is an increased demand for rental vehicles across Europe. Some of the most popular destinations where car hire is already heavily booked include Tenerife, Faro, Rome, Murcia and Alicante.
It is believed that Easter will be a [...]
GUARDIA CIVIL have arrested 11 Lithuanians and one Russian as part of an operation codenamed Olivar, carried out in Almeria and Alicante. The detainees were part of an established criminal organization which stole luxury cars, changed their appearance and other details, and then sold them in Eastern Europe, as well as trafficking with cocaine and [...]
The SiMAP union, representing public health doctors in Spain, said non-Spanish EU nationals in Alicante, which has a large British expat community, account for 15-20 per cent of hospital admissions.
Criticism is not directed at those who register their residency status and pay taxes, but at expats in the black economy who expect to get treatment [...]
Nuria Pastor, a 25 year old engineer, was amongst 26 Spanish nationals to be evacuated from Haiti yesterday. Visibly tired and affected by the tragedy the party arrived back in the military base of Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, just after half past one, along with three Portuguese, a Pole and a Haiti national who is [...]
OF the 48 airports in Spain, only nine made a profit in 2009. Alicante is at the head with 30.58 million followed by: Palma de Mallorca (26.58 million); Girona (12.66 million); South Tenerife (13.9m); Malaga (12.8m); Gran Canaria (6.5m); Ibiza (3.9m); San Javier (Murcia) (1.5m) and Bilbao (0.11m). Lanzarote and Sevilla broke even.
All in all, [...]
The rains experienced throughout the Valencian region during the last 24 hours are being blamed by experts for a general decline in temperatures which have largely seen the temperatures plunge below zero, with a drop from yesterday of 7 degrees.
In Castellfort (Castellón) it fell to 6 degrees below zero. Many of the hilly areas saw [...]
A passenger was arrested and cautioned for using threatening behaviour after holidaymakers on an airliner diverted from Leeds Bradford Airport to Teesside were kept on board for more than two hours over concerns about ice on the ground.
The Thomson Airways flight from Alicante was diverted from Yeadon to Durham Tees Valley Airport on Tuesday. But [...]