SPANISH health authorities last Friday said that the country was officially clear of Coronavirus cases after two patients tested negative after treatment. A German tourist visiting the Canary Islands was the first case followed by a British man who lives with his family on Mallorca. Both men had relatively mild cases of Coronavirus and were quarantined before being released, after getting treated and...
THE ANNUAL scourge of the poisonous processionary caterpillar that can kill small dogs and make children sick is starting to arrive across Spain and the Costa Blanca, boosted by the recent warmer weather. The dangerous caterpillars, which are usually about an inch long, have tiny barbed hairs containing a protein called thaumetopoeid, which can cause allergic reactions, foaming at the mouth and vomiting if...
THE British Embassy in Madrid has said that there will be no immediate change to a TIE(Foreigners´ Identity Card) for British nationals who have a residencia certificate or card, adding that no action is needed “for now”. Embassy officials said that they had received a number of queries about when the switch will happen, but they stated that the current residencia documents will remain valid, even...
FOUR Dutch nationals were arrested after the National Police raided a cannabis club in Alicante City. The four men are aged between 44 and 56, and live in Alfaz del Pi and Alicante. Police seized more than 100 kilograms of cannabis, 550 cannabis plants, a firearm and a large sum of money. The men have been charged with drug trafficking, membership of a criminal organization, fraud, and the illegal...
A TREASURE trove of 15 thousand-year-old carvings, depicting dozens of animals, has been found in a cave in Tarragona province in north-east Spain. Around 100 carvings of animals including horses, oxen and deer, as well as mysterious abstract symbols, were discovered in a cave in the village of L'Espluga de Francolí. The ancient artworks, said to be amongst the oldest in the Mediterranean region, were...
BUDGET airline Ryanair has fallen foul of the Spanish courts for the second time in four months over charging passengers for taking hand luggage on a flight. In October, the carrier was told by a judge that it could not charge for hand luggage in Spain, but Ryanair said that its policy would not be changed. The latest case goes back to before the company introduced a new series of rules, as an Elche court...
TORREVIEJA Hospital´s Internal Medicine Service has received a top award for the quality of care that it provides to patients. The Spanish Society of Internal Medicine(SEMI) has given its SEMI Excellence award to the facility, based on a whole series of measurements. Areas analysed included training, research and management, as well as acute patient care in the hospital. Dr. Julio César Blázquez, the...
A BRITISH man has thumbed his nose up at Spanish authorities by climbing six Benidorm buildings within a week, despite being arrested by the National Police after his first stunt. The unnamed 19-year-old, who brands himself as social media as “The Little Nuisance” took in the three highest structures in the city, namely the InTempo building, the Torre Lugano, and then went up the Gran Bali on Sunday,...
ONE of the best selling and most influential papers in the USA, the New York Times, has written a very favourable article about Valencian City in its most recent travel guide. The papers brief was to recommend six alternatives to crowded and expensive cities across Europe that are popular with American tourists. The Spanish city was Barcelona and Valencia was named as a different destination to the...
A school that is described as usually quiet and trouble free was put into lock-down after a teacher was stabbed by a 15 year old pupil on Tuesday last week. The incident happened at the Misericordia secondary school in the Fuensanta district of Valencia City after an argument had started about the child’s end of term assessment. He suddenly produced a knife, stabbing the 40 year old teacher in the...