A charity fundraising evening for the charity SADS proved to be a huge success resulting in €1,611 raised. The event was held in memory of Michael Hurst who tragically lost his life to Sudden Arrhyt [ ... ]

The British Consul, Paul Rodwell, met with both the Director and the Comisionado for the Torrevieja Hospital today to explain how and when the Consulate can help British nationals who are hospitalised [ ... ]

The Costa Blanca’s very own Grand Designs house ‘Casa La Pedrera’ is asking local artists of all levels to put paint to canvas and come up with their very own ‘Grand Design’ for a brand new  [ ... ]

At the time of going to press, councillors and opposition were sitting down to an Extraordinary Plenary meeting to announce the 2012 budget for Orihuela – the outcome of which could have some consid [ ... ]

Torrevieja played host to the first International World Congress of Instagrammers recently. Instagram is the name of a small ‘app’ or application that initially was designed for the Apple iPhone a [ ... ]

Most people spend their two weeks leave from work on holiday or at the very least relaxing with friends and family but not Mark Stottor. For kind-hearted Mark is using his leave to cycle 600 miles fro [ ... ]

Once again Spain has done well in the annual listings of the top restaurants in the world. Ferran Ad [ ... ]

The Murcia town of Lorca is this week remembering the earthquake which hit the town a year ago on 11 [ ... ]

Ryanair had decided not to appeal over the air-bridge decision; the low cost carrier has said it wil [ ... ]

The Duke of Palma’s lawyers denied that they had been attempting to reach an agreement with prosec [ ... ]

Six tourists were trapped on the viewing platform at the top of the Columbus monument in Barcelona f [ ... ]

In a surprise move, Bolivian President Evo Morales last week announced the expropriation of the loca [ ... ]

Cambridge Manufacturing Company Ltd (part of Cambridge Nutritional Foods Ltd) has won The Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade. The Corby based business wins the UK’s most prestigio [ ... ]

While many of us would gladly strangle the energetic Eurovision duo, it seems that threats against the Irish twins Jedward have taken a serious turn.  Terrorists in Azerbaijan have threatened to  [ ... ]

This coming Sunday April 15th is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. There can be fewer sinkings that have remained so memorable and the subject of such debate. The Titanic was the la [ ... ]

Spotting a liar should be easier than ever thanks to new research by the University of British Columbia in Canada.  Researchers have found that liars can be easily given way by facial tics includ [ ... ]

Foreign Secretary William Hague has talked about the role of British consular services, and plans for the future in a speech at the Foreign Office recently. Most British citizens only turn to consular [ ... ]

El País has reported on the story covered by the BBC of 20 year old Jade Brooks, who until now did not officially exist. She could not go on holiday abroad with her friends, she could not take her dr [ ... ]