TIE appointment shortfall angers residents
British residents who are still trying to obtain the foreigner identity card (TIE) in Alicante province have been finding it virtually impossible to get...
Get ready for the EU’s new Entry Exit System, says Embassy
The British Embassy is urging all Britons who live in Spain and are still in possession of a ‘green certificate’ to apply for the...
Plan to cut smoking to just 5% of the population by...
The government has given a detailed analysis of their ‘integral plan’ to reduce smoking – but has still not yet revealed which additional public...
Homage to Spanish victims of Nazi camps
Two Spanish government ministers travelled to the former Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen in Austria to pay tribute to the 9,300 Spanish victims who...
More suspects nabbed for motorway service station vehicle burglaries
More suspects nabbed for motorway service station vehicle burglaries
By Alex Watkins
GUARDIA Civil have arrested two people accused of burgling vehicles at rest areas and...
Three days of ‘heat’
State weather agency AEMET has updated its alerts for hot weather – and the south of Alicante province has been placed on a yellow...
Long queues for flyers at Birmingham airport
International travellers – some of them flying to Alicante – were caught up in an enormous queue snaking out of the doors of Birmingham...
Spain to treat Gazan children diagnosed with cancer and trauma
PM Pedro Sánchez and health minister Mónica García held a meeting in Madrid this week with Hans Kluge, regional director of the World Health...
Newspapers on the street
Costa Blanca News group's free newspaper The Weekly Post has hit the streets this morning as usual (every Wednesday at supermarkets and other outlets)....
Bank proposes merger to create ‘one of Europe’s largest financial entities’
The BBVA bank has proposed a merger with Banco Sabadell, offering almost €11.5 billion in the form of an exchange of shares to take...
Precious rain returns to south-east Spain
Healthy amounts of rain have finally fallen in the south-east of Spain, giving a lifeline to trees and plants in the countryside which have...
Sabadell rebuffs BBVA merger
The administrative board of Banco Sabadell has rejected the offer of a merger from the BBVA bank.
After meeting on Monday to analyse the proposal,...
Huge investment to transform social care
The government has approved a nationwide strategy to change the model of care for dependent people.
Minister for social rights, Pablo Bustinduy said: “The future...
Bringing back the bearded vulture
Three young bearded vultures (Gypaetus barbatus) – also known as the lammergeyer – have been released as part of a reintroduction programme at the...
