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Alicante is harder to rent a home than Barcelona or Madrid, according to the Idealist Property Portal The affordability was calculated based on the average household income. Although properties are more costly elsewhere, Alicante has a lower purchasing power due to lower salaries. It is important to reach conclusions. Idealista’s The research service took into consideration that the average Spanish …

Arturo Torro’s body was discovered in his car Wednesday night. A MURDER investigation has been launched. When Xeresa Policia Local, Guardia Civil and Xeresa Police Local arrived on scene around 11pm the 62-yearold man was found with a bullet wound in his chest. The vehicle’s engine was still running on the N-332 at Xeresa when it was found. ARTURO TORRO …

A MADRID choose will pursue hate crime fees in opposition to a comic who joked about blowing up the Franco-built ‘Valley of the Fallen’ mausoleum cross and stoning paedophile monks. Hector de Miguel- referred to as Queque- made the remarks on the radio station Cadena Sur in June final yr. The case has been introduced in opposition to him by …

A SO-CALLED ‘narcolancha’ has been intercepted while transporting 200 cans of fuel along the Guadalquivir River. After being tracked secretly by the Guardia Civil, a semi-rigid vessel, commonly used by drug traffickers was stopped at Lebrija in Sevilla. The vessel had first been spotted in the sea off Chipiona in Cadiz, where it entered the mouth of the Guadalquivir River …

An Irish national who beat a Costa Blanca resident to death with a knuckleduster in a fit or jealous rage accepted a six-year prison sentence via a plea agreement. Wayne Walsh, 37 from Kilkenny, Ireland, will serve his sentence for the murder of Carl Carr in September 2018. The crime took place at an apartment on Torrevieja’s La Siesta residential …

THOUSANDS will be expected to descend on the streets of Malaga in what could turn out to be the biggest protest against housing the city has yet seen. Pressure group Malaga Para Vivir (Malaga For Living) has announced its third major demonstration for April 5, joining simultaneous protests planned across several Spanish cities under the banner ‘Let’s end the housing …

AN EARTHQUAKE expert says Monday’s tremor in Portugal which was felt in large parts of southern Spain was the ‘most significant incident’ of its kind so far this year. National Geographic Institute (IGN) classified the quake initially as a magnitude of 5.0 on the Richter Scale, but downgraded it later to 4.4. It meant the tremor was on the border …

A THIRTY-YEAR OLD boy drowned on Tuesday in a pool at a Marbella home. At 3.40pm emergency services were notified that a child unconscious had been removed from the pool. The property was located at Calle Eagle, in the Santa Glora Golf area. READ MORE The youngster’s nationality was not disclosed. Paramedics were called to the scene and unsuccessfully tried …

A RUSSIAN mafia group that laundered millions of euros for years in Spain for international criminal gangs, boasted of its contacts with ‘well-known Spanish politicians’ to help its activities. Clients included big criminal organizations operating in Spain, as well other countries, such as the Mocro Maffia (Serbian and Albanian cartels), the Colombian cartels (Cartel de Colombia), the Armenian mafia clans, …

The new radar traps are being installed along Andalucian highways to catch motorists who violate speed limits, the primary cause of accidents. In six regions, the trailer radars and radar cars are temporarily located in temporary locations. They are easily disassembled, and they can be deployed at any time. This means that the radars will change location frequently, making it …