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After a Madrid Court threw out AIRBNB’s appeal, 65,000 listings for unlicensed holiday flats in Spain could be removed. In recent months, the Ministry of Consumer Affairs has sent three orders demanding that online advertisements be removed because accommodation violates tourist housing regulations. The Madrid High Court has backed the Ministry over its first submission, which results in a ban …

THE king and queen of Spain attended Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural mass at the Vatican on Sunday as the new pontiff declared that he wanted the Catholic church to be a ‘small leaven of unity’ in a time of ‘too much discord and too many wounds’. King Felipe, Queen Letizia and a number of other world leaders attended the ceremony …

A SHARK was spotted just a few hundred metres off the coast of Marbella this weekend – but there’s no need to panic, as this one doesn’t have any teeth. The basking shark glided peacefully across the surface, with its distinctive dorsal fen as it calmly swam near the shore. Video captured the shark in the act, just off Marbella’s …

A DRONE Pilot has gotten himself into some trouble after flying the unit over a Nuclear Power Plant in Valencia Province. Last Tuesday, the incident occurred. Flight detection equipment installed at Cofrentes’ plant detected the drone that had violated airspace. READ MORE COFRENTES PLANT The Guardia Civil received notification and the coordinates where the drone operated. Officers searched Jalance (south …

Kanye West is an American rapper and singer. Pueblo Español Museum in Mallorca for 6 weeks. West’s whereabouts are unclear, but reports indicate he’s combining work with holiday. He was spotted with Bianca Censori in Cala d’Or, last month.  West has been on Mallorca for a little over a week. Last week he appeared in Piers Morgan’s program, but he …

A BRITISH man was accused of running an illegal marijuana farm in a warehouse located in a town within the province of Alicante. The Guardia Civil has arrested the 37-year old expat for crimes against public safety. He was granted bail by a court in Orihuela for similar drug offenses. READ MORE BIG INDOOR RANCH Residents in Almoradi centre complained …

IT has ‘never been more important’ to teach children to cook. This is the view of the ‘Godfather of Spanish cuisine’, Pedro Subijana. The celebrated three Michelin star chef, from San Sebastian, told the Olive Press, Spain risks losing its cherished Mediterranean diet if youngsters aren’t taught to ‘eat healthier’. Subijana said that it was not only up to parents …

The property sales in Alicante province were at their highest level ever recorded. The National Institute of Statistics reported that 4664 purchases had been made in March, which is higher than the previous record of 4,541 set two years earlier. The number of homes sold in Spain in March 2007 was 4,400 plus, at the heights of the boom in …

THE average temperature in Barcelona could rise by up to 3.7 degrees Celsius by the end of the century unless greenhouse gas emissions are ‘substantially reduced’, a new study has warned. According to research carried out by the ICARIA initiative, a European Union-funded project designed to improve climate resilient, the Catalan city’s average temperature is expected to rise by between …

This Saturday, FUENGIROLA Melody will represent Spain at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Switzerland. The show will start at 9pm at Basel’s St. Jakobshalle, with coverage on La 1 and BBC 1 for the UK and Spain. The singer, who is 34 and lives on the Costa del Sol in Spain, first attempted to be Spain’s …