Rich foreigners rule works for Britons wanting to live in Spain
Real estate chiefs have highlighted how Britons can beat Brexit rules by buying a property in Spain worth more than €500,000.
Legislation was introduced by...
Cheaper tests for travellers to the UK
Eligible fully vaccinated passengers and ‘most under 18s arriving from non red-list countries’ can use a lateral flow test on or before day two...
British travellers hit by UK vaccination policy
Following last week’s front page article – ‘travel risk to the UK’ – a number of readers have contacted Costa Blanca News to report...
Travel ‘risk’ to the UK – travellers could be told to...
Britons in Spain have highlighted potentially ‘unpleasant’ consequences of travel to the UK due the British government’s policy on Covid-19 vaccines.
The British Embassy confirmed...
Vaccines produce strong immune response
A regional government study has found that 99.6% of residents in care homes created antibodies to Covid-19 after receiving two jabs of a coronavirus...
Call for vaccination certificate use for nightlife and festivals
Regional president Ximo Puig has called on the national government to ‘take a decision over the introduction of a vaccination certificate in the whole...
Move towards ‘new normality’
Yesterday evening regional president Ximo Puig announced the end to ‘most’ remaining measures in the Valencia region designed to halt the spread of Covid-19.
The...
Booster shot for pensioners approved
Residents aged 70 and over will receive booster jabs to further protect them from Covid-19, starting at the end of October.
The government announced that...
Subsidising renewable energy systems
From the end of this month, regional government subsidies can be applied for to install systems that use energy from renewable sources.
These are available...
Crackdown on economic corruption announced
In the week of the Pandora papers bombshell in which some of the world’s rich and powerful have been implicated in tax avoidance and...
Drones save lives on the coast this summer
Drones deployed in 10 coastal municipalities of the Valencia region for the first time this summer ‘saved six lives’, according to councillor for the...
Using empty homes to address housing crisis
A decree enabling uninhabited housing to be rented out has been approved by the regional government.
“Housing is one of people’s basic rights and not...
Saving Europe’s largest newt
The release of 629 Spanish ribbed newts (Pleurodeles waltl) into protected areas in the Valencia region has been declared a success by the regional...
The shape of things to come
A computer program that visualises the impact that climate change will have on the coast of the Valencia region has been presented by the...
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Deal struck to improve conditions for firefighters
Following warnings that the Valencia region was not prepared to face what could be one of the worst ever summers for forest fires, president...
