COSTA ALMERIA NEWS: Big name acts lined up for Adra cultural...
A SERIES of big name acts are lined up for performances in Adra over the coming months. First up is the Chinese Acrobatic Circus on...
COSTA ALMERIA NEWS: “Exciting” challenges for new Almanzora Valley tourist business...
THE Almanzora Valley tourist business association has a new president to lead the organisation in its bid to boost the region’s appeal as a...
Investors flock to Spain as 1,000 apartments are put on the...
SPAIN has enticed international property investors after 1,000 apartments across the country have made their way onto the market for a mere starting price of...
Deadly Dublin Shooting: Driver Shot Dead, Passenger Left In A Critical...
TWO men have been hospitalised following a shooting incident in Swords, north Dublin earlier today. As Euro Weekly News understands, the incident happened earlier this...
EU’s TOP BREXIT NEGOTIATOR: Brexit will be reversed: ‘It will happen’
GUY Verhofstadt has threatened to sabotage Brexit talks by issuing demands during the post-Brexit negotiations that even EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has...
Costa Almeria council Huercal-Overa common interests with Lorca
HUERCAL-OVERA and Lorca councils have been talking common interests. The Costa Almeria municipality mayor Francisca Lourdes Fernandez and Economic Promotion councillor Alfonso Provencio met this...
Costa del Sol News: Football frenzy to hit Fuengirola
FUENGIROLA will become the nerve centre of football in the province, next May 23 and 24 in the Palacio de la Paz, with the...
Costa del Sol News: Teaching ladies to love themselves in Fuengirola
THE registration period is now open to participate in the workshop “El secreto de valorarte como mujer” which will take place on January 30...
Almodóvar’s Feroz Award wins in Spain ready him for Malaga’s Goya...
PEDRO Almodóvar’s “Dolor y Gloria”, has swept a total of six awards in the seventh edition of the Feroz Awards, awarded by the Association...
UP IN SMOKE: Fuengirola firefighters demonstrate fire prevention on the Costa...
Firefighters in Fuengirola have got stuck into Fire Prevention Week. The event, organised by the Mapfre Foundation in collaboration with the Town Hall, is...
Spain News: Cyber scam at Plaza Mayor, Málaga
FOUR Valencian cyber-criminals have been arrested after hacking high-ranking employees of the luxury Plaza Mayor shopping outlet on the Costa del Sol and defrauding...
EuroWeekly News: British Consulate pop-up desk in Málaga and Coín, Spain
British Consulate pop-up desk at Language Schools Conference The British Consulate will have a Brexit pop-up desk at the ACEIA Malaga 6th Annual ELT Conference...
Off to a good start in Javea, Costa Blanca
JAVEA begins 2020 with fiestas honouring San Antonio, patron saint of animals, and the town’s own patron, San Sebastian. Next weekend sees the San Antonio...
Costa Blanca News: La Fossa tower project criticised in Calpe
THE PSOE opposition party on Calpe council is questioning plans for a 20-storey tower block facing the La Fossa beach. As previously reported in the...
Encouraging unemployment figures for Calpe and Marina Alta in Costa Blanca
THE number of jobless Marina Alta residents had fallen to 10,836 by the end of 2019. This was 227 below the official figures for December...
Costa Blanca News: Calpe arson could have ended in disaster
CALPE resident Juan Riaño was dumbfounded on learning at 1.20am that someone had set fire to his motorcycle. He was woken by Policia Local officers...
Costa Blanca News: Miles to go for Altea regatta
The 34th edition of 200 Millas A2 regatta will be held between February 28th and March 1st. Altea’s Club Nautica once again organises the Mediterranean’s...
Costa Blanca News: Calpe in no hurry for AP-7 access
Accessing the AP-7 motorway is no longer one of Calpe’s priorities. “For the moment, Calpe town hall has no plans for direct access even though...
Celebrating the Requiem by Verdi in Costa Blanca Spain
THE first performance by the Murcia Symphony Orchestra in February will take place at the Victor Villegas Auditorium in Murcia City at 8pm on...
Rockabilly band to give a live performance in Costa Blanca Spain
IT seems that the Spanish music scene includes a huge selection of different music, not just that which has developed on the Iberian Peninsula...
Cuban musical legend stops in Costa Blanca as part of Spanish...
THE 77-year-old Cuban singer, songwriter and poet Pablo Milanés is returning to Costa Blanca after three years as part of his Essence tour which...
The legendary Bonnie Tyler to perform in concert in Costa Blanca
THE legendary Bonnie Tyler will perform in concert at Costa Blanca’s Torrevieja in July. Bringing her distinctive vocal ability on stage, the Welsh born singer...
UPDATE ON COSTA BLANCA’S ALICANTE AIRPORT FIRE: Chaos for passengers as...
TRAVELLERS are faced with travel chaos as a result of the fire that broke out at Alicante-Elche airport yesterday (January 15). The latest reports that...
Pioneering campaign in Costa Blanca to curb bad habits of dog...
THE City Council of Torrevieja will launch an innovative new campaign to curb the growing problem of dog excrement and urine across the municipality....
Costa Almeria local authority set for live streaming of Cuevas del...
CUEVAS de Almanzora council meetings are set to be streamed live. The local council said the streaming plenary sessions was part of a series of...
COSTA ALMERIA NEWS: Mojacar council full support for Andalucia laido martial...
MOJACAR council has given its full support to the Andalucian Iaido martial arts team, which last weekend staged a training session in the municipal...
Adra police campaign to check on Costa Almeria vehicle maintenance
ADRA Local Police will be running a week-long campaign focusing on vehicle maintenance. Under an initiative promoted by the Directorate General of Traffic, and with...
COSTA ALMERIA NEWS: Local Police report rubbish dumpers trashing Vera street
VERA Local Police have reported three local residents for dumping piles of rubbish on the street next to skips and outside regulation waste disposal...
COSTA ALMERIA NEWS: Deputies call on government of Spain for more...
ALMERIA Partido Popular national deputies have called on the government to take action on what they claim is a wave of robberies in the...
Surprise trip down memory lane for Costa Almeria line dancing leader
MEMBERS of the Carrie’s Dusty Boots line dance group treated their leader and trainer Carrie Ann Earl to a fantastic surprise with an afternoon...
AXARQUIA NEWS: Beautiful trails planned for hikers in Almuñecar
Almuñecar is getting the year off to an active start, as the municipal department of sport announces 14 hiking excursions in Southern Spain. The...
Chef with Down Syndrome steals the show on Spanish television
A chef with Down Syndrome from Torre del Mar was left stunned after he got the opportunity of a lifetime. The young man was...
COSTA DEL SOL NEWS: Special deals in Fuengirola for Valentine’s
Businesses, restaurants and hotels in Fuengirola are offering promotional packages as part of the first edition of ‘Vive Fuengirola con Amor’. The event that...
BIRD’S-EYE VIEW: Stunning aqueduct in la Axarquia
The Puente del Águila (Eagle Bridge) is jewel of Spanish architecture. The functioning aqueduct was built in the nineteenth century and is located to...
AXARQUIA NEWS: Nerja residents left stunned after wild boars ‘tour’ the...
Wild boards invaded the Balcón de Europa in Nerja, as the drought in Southern Spain keeps forcing animals into town centres. The presence of...
LOST HERITAGE: New exhibit commemorates the sugar cane industry on the...
For more than five centuries, the Costa del Sol was home to a plenitude of sugar cane. Dozens of sugar cane factories were dotted...
Sexual exploitation of vulnerable minors uncovered in Spain’s Mallorca
THE Consell de Mallorca have released a statement to reveal that they have evidence of 16 cases of children who have been sexually exploited...
Mallorca News Top Story: Boost for Brexit in Calvià, Mallorca
THE City Council of Calvià in Mallorca, Spain, have revealed that they will allocate 167% more money for the promotion of tourism in the...
Mallorca News Top Story: Mallorca joins the Madrid Fusion International Summit
A DOZEN companies from Mallorca took part in this year’s Madrid Fusion International Summit, one of the most important gastronomical fairs in Spain. Established in...
Mallorca News Top Story: Man arrested for gender violence after threatening...
A MAN has been arrested for gender-violence after threatening his wife at a public swimming pool in Manacor in Mallorca, Spain. As reported by officers...
Mallorca News Top Story: Palma City Council launch new campaign for...
THE Mayor of Palma has announced that a new campaign will be launched by the City Council to coincide with the start of the...
Mallorca News Top Story: Traffic restrictions set to be enforced on...
THE General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) has announced that they are studying the possibility of reintroducing the prohibition of cars on the Formentor road from the Port de...
Identical twins arrested in Spain after one sat driving test exam...
TWO identical twins have been arrested after one of them took the place of his brother for a driving licence examination in Spain. The investigation...
Colombian cocaine smuggling ring that got €3 million into debt broken...
A COCAINE smuggling ring that was bringing large quantities of the drug to the Canary Islands has been broken up. After 12 months of investigation,...
Sunbathers help migrants washed up on beach in Gran Canaria, Spain
SUNBATHERS in Gran Canaria, Spain, have joined forces with emergency workers to give water, food and clothes to a group of migrants who arrived...
Young woman’s death in Tenerife suspected gender-based violence
THE death of a 26-year old woman in Tenerife in the early hours of Monday could turn out to be gender-based violence, ironically coinciding...
Upper Rock Picnic sites refurbished in Gibraltar
VISITORS to Gibraltar may be interested to know that two picnic sites on the Upper Rock have been prepared in time for the spring. The...
Sea Gulls poisoned on the Rock of Gibraltar
THE Department of Environment in Gibraltar has seen a surprising number of dying Yellow-legged Gulls displaying unusual symptoms over the last few months. Veterinary analyses...
Gibraltar denies lack of cooperation with Spain over tobacco smuggling
THE Gibraltar Government has taken exception to statements made by former head of the Guardia Civil in the Campo de Gibraltar Commander Jesus Nuñez...
Making children’s operations in Gibraltar a little less scary
GIBRALTAR based Gedime Motors have presented two child-sized cars to Rainbow Ward at St Bernard's Hospital on the Rock so that young patients can...
INVESTMENT GAME: Hotel investments in Spain drop by 51 per cent
Hotel investment in Spain dropped in 2019, following two years of record-breaking figures. The numbers are in, and they reveal that investment in the...
PROPERTY IN SPAIN: The ins and outs of gifting real estate
Donation in the Spanish legal system is recognised as an act whereby a person freely gives one thing to another, who accepts it. This...
PROPERTY: New Spanish government cracks down on rental prices
Renting in Spain is a complicated process that is acerbated by the sky-high prices of recent times. The new Spanish government has proven its...
PROPERTY: Spain prepares to face climate change with ambitious real estate...
The fight against climate change has demanded the world’s attention in recent years and there is already a global plan to address it. The...
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"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." - Thomas Jefferson
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Famous Spanish landmark portrays the star-crossed lovers of Teruel
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More than half of electricty used on Spanish Canary Island of...
THE Spanish Canary Island of El Hierro has been claiming to be a leading exponent of sustainable energy for years. And it is backing up...
The mysterious Treasure Cave nestled in the cliffs of la Axarquia
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HEALTH NEWS: Britons are giving up alcohol and Spaniards are taking...
Britain wants to stop drinking, and health authorities aspire to help the country achieve it. According to a recent survey, two thirds of regular...
WEIGHED DOWN: Study fuels concern for school children carrying heavy backpacks
The weight of a regular A4 sized notebook is around half a kilo or 1.1 pounds. If textbooks weigh the same and eight-year-olds have...
Caring for the elderly: A booming business
Life expectancy continues to grow exponentially in Spain, as it nears 83 years on average. Not coincidentally, Spain is among the first countries with...
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PEOPLE often ask what they might expect from HouseSit Match when joining as pet and homeowners looking for house-sitters. From what our members tell...
COSTA WOMEN 2019 REVIEW
Happy 2020, a big new year with 366 days to start a new decade and celebrate the 10th anniversary year of Costa Women. Before we...
Snow peas star ingredient in Costa Almeria gourmet brand promotional event
SNOW peas will be the star ingredient at an upcoming ‘Sabores Almeria’ provincial gourmet brand promotional event in Dalias. What will be the third edition...
Five Ways Technology Will Transform Experience and Engagement for Sports Fans...
It seems technology is colliding with every conceivable aspect of life more and more each year. This is especially true with sports, where tech advances...
Travel Experts Guide To A Budget-Friendly Vacation
Taking a break from the monotonous routine of your daily activities is essential to preserve and maintain a healthy state of mind and body. This...
The Best Online Casino Games for a Spanish Vacation
Sun, sand, and so much fun, Spain is one of the ultimate destinations in all of Europe that is a must-visit for everyone. What...
2020 DAKAR WINNER: Spain’s Carlos Sainz wins his third Dakar at...
THE Spaniard, leader from the third stage onwards, finishes an impeccable race mastered as only Sainz can, with commanding skill, blistering speed and faultless...
Costa Almeria football club C.D. Adra Milenaria aiming for professional level
COSTA Almeria football club C.D. Adra Milenaria has set its sights on the senior team rising to professional level. Adra council explained the club has...
COSTA ALMERIA NEWS: Different mindset for Aguilon Golf Members’ Club monthly...
A DIFFERENT mindset was needed for the Aguilon Golf Members’ Club monthly medal competition, on a course with hazards around every corner. Playing in the...
Liverpool ‘Preparing to Spend record £107 Million’ On Bayer Leverkusen Star...
Liverpool are preparing to break their transfer record and spend £107 million on Bayer Leverkusen star Kai Havertz, according to reports in Spain. But according...
UK company invests in mega solar projects in Spain
UK-based solar energy company, Solarcentury, has secured new financing to build two of the largest solar plants in Spain. UK Export Finance (UKEF), the UK’s...
Expat Money: Do Comparison Sites Really Offer the Best Deals?
As an expat, you'll probably be used to shopping around online for virtually everything. Flights, currencies, entertainment, insurance, and everyday items all feature heavily...
Solar power deal as electricity company Endesa looks to go 100%...
ELECTRICITY company Endesa has taken another step to decarbonising its energy generation mix by 20250. Through its renewables subsidiary Enel Green Power España, it has...
Can British expats still access UK online casino bonuses?
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Different Types of Volatility
The term ‘volatility’ is thrown around the financial markets commentary by the professionals and press in the field. However, the average investor does not...
Thinking Of Starting An Online Business? Find Out The Three Key...
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