OVER 85 per cent of our more than half-a-million readers make sure they see Euro Weekly News every week. And 66 per cent of the newspaper’s readers spend from 30 minutes up to an hour scouring through the various sections, from News to Adverts, Business to Columns, Health to Motoring, not forgetting of course Sport, [...]
ALMOST one in ten cars on Costa del Sol roads is not insured, a Spanish Traffic Department report shows. With over 1 million vehicles registered in Malaga Province, 150,000 vehicles (14 per cent) are not insured. However, in at least 50 per cent of cases, the uninsured vehicles are not actually on the roads, experts [...]
TWELVE British nationals have been arrested in various towns in the province of Alicante. Five vehicles, a boat, precision scales, and 53,000 ecstasy pills have been seized, and a cannabis plantation has been dismantled in Crevillente (Alicante) The members of the group travelled regularly to the United Kingdom in order to smuggle the drugs hidden [...]
THURSDAY the 30 of September in the year of our lord 2010 will be remembered as the day Javea dusted off its secular cobwebs and stepped bravely into the sunlight of the 21st Century. At approximately 9.45pm, the Javea Council voted unanimously to adopt the EU Charter of Human Rights, giving all citizens of the [...]
JUST a few days after Spain’s general strike, Torrox Local Police officers appeared to call an unofficial one of their own. When almost the entire police force of 34 officers reported ‘sick’ over the weekend – coinciding with the Torrox Fair – the town hall had to hire a private security staff normally employed to [...]
TONS of drugs are intercepted arriving to Almeria from North Africa each year, but rarely does prawn dealing make headline news. Two Carboneras Guardia Civil officers have been found guilty for accepting two crates of prawns worth €600. They were on trial, charged with accepting the crates in exchange for turning a blind eye and [...]
AN 18-YEAR-OLD man accused of tying up an 84-year-old pensioner while robbing a Benalmadena home for the elderly was arrested. He is accused of stealing €590 in cash, mobile phones, watches, pliers, scissors, medicines and even a hearing aid from the Marymar Residential Home. The youth, wearing only swimming trunks, allegedly climbed from one balcony [...]
BENIDORM – WE have all seen it on TV. A box or table hastily assembled in the street. Three cups and a ball under one of them; but which one? Care to wager on it? It seems like gambling but in reality is a “short-con”. A quick fraud perpetrated on an unsuspecting person who thinks [...]
TORREMOLINOS – THE Junta de Andalucia has provisionally assumed custody of the four minors who were allegedly abandoned by their mother in Torremolinos (EWN Issue 1310, August 12). They have been sent to a centre for minors until it is decided whether any of their relatives can take care of them. Meanwhile the mother, who [...]
GIBRALTAR – LA LINEA council has demanded that the President of the Junta de Andalucia, Jose Antonio Griñan, make it clear whose side he is on, Gibraltar or La Linea. After the controversy over the mayor of La Linea, Alejandro Sanchez, proposing a toll for tourists coming through La Linea on their way to Gibraltar, [...]
