Expat attackers face jail for Partaloa robbery
By Emma Randle
Two Partaloa residents originally from England and Ireland are facing a combined prison sentence of eight years after allegedly attacking a British...
Tortoise sanctuary rolls on
By David Jackson
Several homes, a dozen cortijos, two quarries, 500 hectares of farmland, greenhouses and more than 40,000 fruit trees are to be expropriated...
Expat developer and mayor of Sorbas cleared
By Richard Torné
A British developer along with the mayor of Sorbas and six other people have been cleared of planning offences by a court...
Mojacar’s oldest resident dies
Mojacar’s oldest resident Colonel Herbert Finch TD passed away this weekend after a short illness. Bertie, who had lived in Mojácar for the past...
Turre man killed in car crash
By Richard Torné
A 51-year-old Turre resident died at the weekend after his van plunged down a 15-metre ravine.
The accident happened on Sunday morning on...
Why do we bury the sardine after Carnival?
By David Jackson
It's a bit of a bizarre custom. The mad heady days of carnival are finished off by the solemn burial of the...
Seven injured in Los Gallardos petrol station brawl
NEWS Staff Reporter
A 29-year-old man from Mojacar has been arrested following a brawl at the Los Gallardos service station during which seven people were...
Nigel Goldman given suspended jail term
By David Jackson
Costa conman Nigel Goldman has been handed two suspended prison sentences after being found guilty on two counts of fraud at Reading...
Anger over missing Alzheimer’s sufferer
By Richard Torné
Relatives of a 67-year-old Níjar man who went missing last Thursday (May 18) have criticised the authorities for not launching a search...
Britons seriously hurt in Zurgena crash
By Richard Torné
Two British women in their 60s and a male van driver were badly injured last week in a head-on collision involving three...
Sorbas dogs saved from starvation
By Emma Randle
A dog owner in Sorbas has been charged with cruelty to animals after the Guardia Civil found seven dogs being kept in...
Whale autopsy in Mojacar
By Adéle Land
Las Ventanicas beach in Mojacar came under the spotlight this week after the body of a whale was washed up.
The animal, a...
Guardia seize firearms in Albox
NEWS Staff Reporter
Three people have been arrested in Albox on suspicion of possessing illegal weapons after one of the men allegedly threatened a neighbour...
Hundreds evacuated from apartment block
By David Jackson
Hundreds of residents of an apartment block in one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Almería city were evacuated last Friday (January 27)...
COSTA ALMERIA NEWS
R.I.P Jack Troughton – a journalist and a gentleman
Messages of condolence have been flooding in for Jack Troughton, who tragically passed away yesterday (Friday).
Jack was a campaigning journalist who made his name...
