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After more flooding in Valencia, storm eases but puts Balearics on orange alert

News Desk30th September 20251st October 2025

30th September 20251st October 2025412

The remnants of Hurricane Gabrielle were moving toward the Balearic Islands on Tuesday, keeping the islands of Ibiza, Formentera and Mallorca on orange alert after causing

British woman, 64, held in Benidorm on suspicion of ‘strangling friend with vacuum-cord’

News Desk19th September 202523rd September 2025

19th September 202523rd September 20251609

A 64-year-old British woman has been taken into custody in Benidorm, in the province of Alicante (Valencia region), after allegedly killing her 66-year-old friend by

Spain to honour victims of Valencia floods in state memorial service

News Desk9th September 202515th September 2025

9th September 202515th September 20252728

Spain will honour the victims of last year’s devastating ‘DANA’ floods in Valencia with a state memorial service to coincide with the anniversary of what

Guardia Civil bust illegal trafficking ring of protected species in Valencia

News Desk27th August 20252nd September 2025

27th August 20252nd September 20253226

Spain’s Guardia Civil said on Tuesday that it had broken up an illegal network involved in trading wild animals, among them species that are endangered

Swimming at beaches in Alicante province prohibited due to rare ‘blue dragon’ sea slug

News Desk21st August 202525th August 2025

21st August 202525th August 20254337

Swimming at beaches along Guardamar del Segura in the Alicante province (Valencia region) was prohibited on Wednesday and Thursday morning after two examples of a

Guardia Civil bust hallucinogenic drug ‘spiritual retreat’ in Alicante province

News Desk12th August 202520th August 2025

12th August 202520th August 20253447

Spain’s Guardia Civil police said on Monday that they had dismantled a network accused of running a so-called ‘spiritual retreat’ where hallucinogenic drugs were offered

20 arrests, as police bust Benidorm gangs that used QR codes to sell drugs to tourists

News Desk4th July 20258th July 2025

4th July 20258th July 20254080

Spain’s National Police have taken down two criminal networks engaged in the sale of drugs to tourists in Benidorm. The groups had covered various public

Telefónica’s ‘upgrade works’ leave Spanish regions without 112 emergency line

News Desk20th May 202526th May 2025

20th May 202526th May 202511910

A partial disruption in the fixed telephone and internet services of Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica caused outages in emergency service numbers for several hours on

EU president Von der Leyen meets with Valencia flood victims’ associations in Brussels

News Desk14th May 202519th May 2025

14th May 202519th May 20252001

Three associations representing victims of last October’s devastating floods in Valencia travelled to Brussels on Tuesday for meetings with key figures in the European institutions,

Woman in Alicante throws two dogs out of 8th-floor window as she was ‘fed up’ taking them out

News Desk25th March 202531st March 2025

25th March 202531st March 20252355

A woman in Alicante has been arrested after throwing her two pet dogs from the eighth floor of her apartment, allegedly because she was ‘fed

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