The regional councillor for health Ana Barceló has announced that the VEGA Baja hospital in Orihuela is to be extended to house more services and improve the existing ones. During a visit to the area this week she said capacity at the hospital will grow by more than a third.
The first of Spain’s toll motorways to become free of charge will be the AP-1, starting on the 1st of December, according to minister of public works José Luis Ábalos. Once the toll franchise expires at the end of this month, the motorway between the cathedral city of Burgos in […]
An investigation by the Spanish High Court into the sale of defense equipment to Saudi Arabia has confirmed the payment of bribes and illegal commissions by the public company Defex in 11 contracts signed between 2005 and 2013 worth a combined €48 million. Eight of those deals were for different […]
The annual APASA BierFest will be held on 17th November at the APASA Shelter.
We are volunteers for the Little Pod Association and we are holding a Christmas Fair to raise some much needed funding for the charity. The Christmas Fair is being held on Saturday 24th November in two bars on the Entre Naranjos urbanisation. Little Pod Association (LPA) is a registered charity […]
Government approves legal changes that also ensure lenders will not be able to deduct the new cost The Spanish Cabinet on Thursday approved legal changes to make lenders, rather than borrowers, pay a controversial tax associated with home purchases, and to ensure that banks cannot deduct this cost on their tax […]
According to the results, Spain and other countries in the south of Europe are the most concerned about the effects of global warming A new survey has shone a light at concern in Spain about the effects of climate change ahead of next month’s United Nations climate change summit in Poland. The […]
Spain-based clothing retailer Zara will make its products available to online shoppers in an additional 106 countries, many of them in Africa, parent firm Inditex announced on Wednesday. Despite a 41 percent increase in 2017, online purchases account for only 10 percent of Inditex’s group net sales, lagging some of […]
Ruling sets a precedent recognising unfair dismissal of Deliveroo staffer Deliveroo riders should be treated as employees and not as self-employed, a Spanish court ruled, setting the first European precedent on the rights of the food courier group’s staffers. Valencian delivery man Victor Sanchez had appealed a decision by Deliveroo […]
Former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says he has not been approached by Real Madrid over their vacant managerial position. Real Madrid Castilla manager Santiago Solari has been installed as the interim boss at the Santiago Bernabeu following the sacking of Julen Lopetegui in October. But newspaper reports in Spain claim […]
It’s been revealed that a man said to own an “arsenal of weapons” was arrested in September for threatening to kill Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. Spanish daily Publico, which broke the story, said the 63 year old had apparently made the threats against Sanchez because he was furious at […]
Briton thought to have gone missing while swimming at remote Cala dels Testos Cove is found in the Marina Alta region between Alicante and Valencia in Spain The 51-year-old’s body was found on Wednesday after a friend raised the alarm One said: ‘The friend he was with told officials the dead man […]
