Spain to honour victims of Valencia floods in state memorial service
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...
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Guardia Civil bust illegal trafficking ring of protected species in Valencia
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Tens of thousands rally against leader of flood-hit Valencia – the 5th major protest
Tens of thousands of people gathered in Valencia on Saturday, demanding the resignation of regional leader Carlos Mazón of the right-wing People’s Party (PP), over his...
Spain’s central government to cover €1.7bn cost to rebuild all ‘municipal infrastructure’ in flood-hit Valencia
The Spanish government will cover the full cost of rebuilding schools, libraries and other municipal buildings damaged in last year’s deadly floods in Valencia, the...
