Massive cuts to follow merger
Valencia-based Caixabank told unions on Tuesday that it plans to shed 8,291 workers and close 1,534 branches, following its merger with Bankia.
Full report in...
New centres for the elderly
Families will benefit from the ‘respite care’ to be offered by two new day centres to be built at Calpe – a place for...
Small rise in Covid cases – but incidence remains low
Active cases of Covid-19 are slowly creeping up in Valencia – but the region made up of the provinces of Alicante, Valencia and Castellón...
Guardia outfox seller
A fox cub that was being advertised on a buy-and-sell website has been seized by the Guardia Civil in Alicante.
More in Friday’s Costa Blanca...
Green light for Janssen vaccine
The single-dose Janssen vaccine is being sent out to regional health departments today after the European Medicines Agency (EMA) gave it the thumbs up.
The...
Battle lines drawn over mosquitoes
Orihuela town hall has announced it is stepping up treatments against mosquitoes all over the municipality.
In Torrevieja the Green party stated that the mosquito...
Buried worker dug out of earth tomb
Fire fighters had to use heavy machinery to dig a passageway to a workman who was buried after an earth wall collapsed at a...
Walker dies on cliff path
A 47-year-old man walking with his family collapsed and died on a popular cliff path in Jávea on Saturday morning despite being treated by...
Cycle the length of La Manga
Work has started on a continuous cycle route that will stretch the length of La Manga del Mar Menor.
The regional government is investing €836,000...
Valencia remains the best in Spain
Valencia continues to buck the national trend and remains the region with the lowest instance of coronavirus in the country.
While cases rocket in a...
Not English to the end
April 7
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Dear Editor,
What a shame that the apparently quintessential Englishman John le Carré (née David Cornwell) felt the need to die an Irishman. I...
Deportation of UK expats
April 10
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Dear Editor,
Why is the British press giving support to those expats who are threatened with deportation from Spain? The Spanish government is perfectly...
The European Union, the Labour Party and the Liberal Left
April 12
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Contributor Robert Smith generously replied to my letter of a couple of weeks ago in which I criticised the current British Labour Party,...
Vaccinations
April 13
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Thank you for your article in the Costa Blanca News regarding all over 80s being given their first vaccine by last weekend. This...
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After three full days of competition, up to midnight on...
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