Last Thursday near Alfaz del Pi the residents of four houses between the El Romerol urbanisation and Forum Mare had to be evacuated from their homes because of a woodland fire.Also the Nostrum complex had to be eevacuated from their properties. About 5000 square metres of pine forest was destroyed but ...

Spanish resorts come in third on a recent survey about favourite places to visit in the world. One of the favourite places for tourists to visit is France and it tops the list after a survey done by Skyscanner which is a flight search engine. In second place comes the United States ...

The Guardia Civil have arrested a 26 year old man in Benitachell on the Costa Blanca on suspicion of being linked to Al-Queda,an Islamic terrorist group. The man,a Moroccan,was renting a house in the town.The police spent a long time in the house searching for evidence.The man was quickly transferred from ...

A project which has been promoted by the Valencia government in Torrevieja will see the town acquire a new fairground. The beginning of August was the final day for those interested in placing tenders to construct the fairground.It will include a concert area,carparks and a market. The work is part of the ...

Benidorm on the Costa Blanca is going to have its first night time half marathon in November.In fact it will be the first such marathon to take place in Spain.It takes place on November 27 at 8.30pm. If you live in the Jalon Valley area of the Costa Blanca then from ...

As Mayor of Benidorm,Augustin Navarro conducted his first gay marriage last week.As councillor in opposition he actually conducted 12 such marriages. Gay marriages have been legal in Spain since 2005 after a parliamentary ruling approved the modification of the Civil Code.This followed the Socialist governments campaign which was led by President ...

A spokesperson for the PSOE ( Socialist) party in Javea has spoken out about a litany of complaints concerning the state of the town and the summer season. He has quoted traffic chaos,cliffs that are about to fall into the road,road works that ought not to be there at the height ...

The Guardia Civil in Alicante province are not only seeking drug traffickers and the like.They also deal with sorting out illegal trafficking of animals,particularly endangered species. The police took a tiger cub from a circus in San Juan Playa last week as first and foremost it is an endangered species but ...

A child from Alicante who in 2007 developed odd marks on her skin,gave rise to suspicions of abuse by the mother. In 2008 after a series of meetings with Social services,the child was taken into care and the mother was arrested and kept in custody for 24 hours on suspicion of ...

The National Police in Alicante have arrested seven men in connection with their having fraudulent work contracts.Four of these men did not even have the paperwork to actually be in Spain at all. They are thought to have claimed at least 15,000 euros in benefit claims at the time that they ...