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A FRENCH FUGITIVE wanted by the police for murder stole a boat and fled to his native France. However, he was caught on an autoroute in Costa Blanca after the GPS tracking device revealed where it was. Two men took the €120,000 vessel from the marina at Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer and put it on a trailer that they stole a year earlier. …

MARBELLA’S top private hospital has thrown its weight behind one of Europe’s biggest fitness festivals – promising to keep the athletes in tip-top shape. Quirónsalud Marbella has signed up as a sponsor of the Marbella Championship 2025, a high-octane CrossFit spectacular running from October 3–5. More than 1,200 athletes from 48 countries will descend on the Costa del Sol, battling …

SPANISH police are searching for a British seaman who went missing off the coasts of Gran Canaria while on a solo trip around the world. They have revealed a brand new line of investigation. A desperate search for James ‘Jesmie’ Nunan, 34, from Reading, was launched in late August after the Brit adventurer’s yacht, Kehaar, was found by coastguards 50 …

The Junta admitted that up to 2000 women in Andalucia could have been delayed in receiving a diagnosis of breast cancer due to failures in a public screening program. In the wake of a wave of complaints from women personally affected, regional health officials have finally acknowledged that flaws in communication and protocol left many unaware they required follow-up tests …

Former mayor Jose Mas of Lliber has been found guilty of fraud in relation to building permits granted for 290 illegal villas. The properties were marketed at between €300,000 to €500,000 to United Kingdom and European buyers. Construction took place in the Marina Alta region town between 1999 and 2003 on land which was classified as ‘non-developable’. READ MORE JOSE …

The violent altercation between two homeless people in a Valencia entrance doorway escalated from a squabble to a fatal stabbing of one of them by a part of an parasol. A judge remanded an Algerian citizen, 31, into custody on Wednesday after the death of a Moroccan victim aged 37. The accused killer exercised his right to not testify. READ …

A SPANISH woman from Lepe (Huelva) has been left fighting for her life after being mauled by two dogs in the UK – suffering head injuries so severe she needed 196 stitches. Marisa Masiaestre, 36, was in Fairfield Park with her son, aged three, when they were attacked by dogs. The youngster suffered less serious injuries, but his mother jumped …

A cocaine trafficker who was Europe’s most sought-after has been arrested in Morocco. The arrest goes against the trend of Morocco being a safe haven to gangsters. Younes El-Ballouti (also known as El Magico) was arrested by police on 29 September in a shisha bar in Tangier and brought to Casablanca’s Ain Sebaa Prison.  Since years, he’s been the fugitive …

A GROUP Of Malaga Area Squatters Called Police to Say the Property They Were Occupying Illegally Was Being Robbed. Details of the break-in were released only this week. Police Nacional officers were called to the house in Antequera around 1am. The complaints admitted that the squatters had been living there. READ MORE ANTEQUERA Three people, aged 53, 54, and 33, …

Do you feel secure in Spain? The answer you give will probably depend on where you live – and fresh crime data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) has shone a light on a startling disparity between the country’s cities. Taking the unwanted crown for most dangerous city is – perhaps unsurprisingly – Barcelona, a thriving metropolis known as much …