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Minister backs campaign to turn health area public

National health minister Mónica García is supporting residents who want their local health department to be taken out of private hands and placed back...

Fishing for nets to restore the seabed

A massive ‘haul’ of nets, ropes and discarded rubbish has been removed from the seabed in the marine protection zone of the Sierra Helada...

Cars destroyed in port fire

A fierce fire in the car park at Jávea’s port on Saturday left 17 cars incinerated and damaged another 14, according to the town...

Belgian baby rescued from locked car

Guardia Civil have rescued a six-month-old baby which was trapped inside a locked car in Torrevieja town centre, ‘with the street temperature rising’. A force...

British fugitive caught by National Police

An on-the-run British drug smuggler has been arrested in Torre Pacheco in Murcia region. National Police reported this morning that the man is wanted by...

Burglars caught on camera

National Police have arrested two men and a woman in Torrevieja and El Campello over a series of burglaries. A witness with a mobile phone...

Live wake in Calpe

Email In what is believed to be one of the first examples of this form of celebration in this region, a live wake was held...

New drone drops in

Benidorm local police have a new state-of-the-art drone, increasing operational capacity at sea, in the mountains and at large events, with night vision capabilities,...

Glucose monitors now available from GPs for type two diabetes

Continuous glucose monitors can now be prescribed to patients with type two diabetes by GPs in the Valencia region. The authorisation from the regional health...

Art forgeries seized before auction

A total of 22 forged paintings purporting to be by Salvador Dalí, Antonio Saura, Joan Miró and Mariano Benlliure have been seized by National...

Celebrating Norway Day

Tomorrow (May 17) is Norway’s Constitution Day and Alfaz del Pi, with the highest concentration of Norwegians registered outside of Norway, also embraces this...

Cannabis club closed for drug dealing

Complaints that drugs were being sold to tourists from a cannabis club in Torrevieja led to a British man and two Colombians being arrested. The...

Teddy to the rescue

Firefighters were called to break into a home after a young child got locked inside ‘with food cooking on the stove’, noted a spokesperson...

‘Water bus’ to beat the traffic

A new way of beating town-centre traffic has been launched in Denia – you can now get from one end of the port road...

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The 2024 Summer Olympics Simone Biles along with the American team with their gold medals Photo: @simonebiles After three full days of competition, up to midnight on...

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