Don’t tax the rich?
With Spain in the grip of a debate over the removal of taxes for wealthy residents, Valencia’s president Ximo Puig stated that ‘taxes cannot...
Lobbying Europe to help protect elderly banking customers
A plan to provide elderly people with better access to financial services – by installing cash machines in neighbourhoods of towns and cities –...
Advice to halt drownings this summer
Bathers are being urged to take care in the water after it was revealed that 67 people lost their lives by drowning in Valencia...
A new location
A MASSIVE and popular indie festival will move to Gandia's Alcodar industrial estate now the Wonderwall Music Resort has shut down for good.
The SanSan...
Voting legislation back in Commons
THE long-awaited legislation giving British expats across the globe a 'lifelong' right to vote in parliamentary elections returns to the House of Commons in...
Tourism trade demands ‘respect’ in Benidorm
Sunday morning saw somewhere in the region of 1,000 people turn out for the peaceful “Respect for all in the tourism sector” march in...
Clampdown on property tax evaders
The Valencia regional government has caught 600 people in Alicante province who failed to pay tax on property purchases, donations and inheritances.
This first clampdown...
Valencia region will enter phase two on Monday
TWENTY-FOUR hours earlier than expected, the ministry of health has announced that the whole Valencia Region (Alicante, Valencia and Castellón provinces) will enter phase...
Spain’s three requirements to allow the entry of citizens of non-EU...
The opening of borders to non-Schengen countries from July 1 will be conditioned to three basic requirments by Spain: 1) the state of the...
Covid restrictions return
The Valencia government’s requests to limit gatherings of people to 10, and reintroduce a curfew in the municipalities worst affected by Covid-19, has been...
Fighting poverty
OVER €920,000 were paid out in emergency benefits to Gandia's most hard-pressed families in 2015.
The town council is in charge of handing out urgent...
PM investiture fails
The first vote for the investiture of a new PM in Parliament at yesterday (Wednesday) failed as the PP-Ciudadanos-CC agreement only had 170 votes...
International pirate TV service smashed
NEW arrests have been made in Spain over a Europe-wide pirate TV network which was first exposed after an official complaint was made by...
Drug mule dies after Valencia-Tenerife flight accident
NATIONAL Police officers arrested the two companions of a man who died after two packets containing cocaine exploded inside his body.
The deceased had swallowed...
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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...
