The educational community at CEIP Playas de Orihuela, made up of families and teaching staff, has started a daily, peaceful protest to draw attention to the ongoing lack of gas and heating at the school. The problem has continued for 118 consecutive days, leaving pupils attending classes in inadequate thermal conditions during the coldest months of the year. The initiative involves taking a daily photograph with families and teachers, publicly marking each day the school remains without heating. The aim […]

The Guardia Civil in the Region of Murcia has dismantled a criminal group involved in the large-scale illegal cultivation of cannabis in the municipality of Torre Pacheco. The operation, known as Grumbu, focused on a property in the Roldán district that had been converted into a fully equipped indoor marijuana farm. During a search of the house and its outbuildings, officers seized more than 1,500 marijuana plants at various stages of growth and drying, as well as around 500 grams […]

Catral Local Police have carried out two significant interventions, resulting in the arrest of two men for separate offences. The first incident followed the activation of an alarm at a local business, alerting officers to a possible intrusion at the premises. Security cameras showed an individual inside the site, prompting officers to set up surveillance around possible exits. A short time later, the suspect was seen leaving the property and attempting to flee, abandoning several stolen items. Police recovered the […]

Three men have been arrested following a police chase after electric scooters were stolen from Zenia Boulevard shopping centre in Orihuela Costa. The incident began when on-site security staff spotted the theft and immediately alerted the Local Police, providing descriptions of the suspects and their vehicle. Officers quickly located the car as it left the La Zenia area and gave chase along the N-332. The vehicle was eventually intercepted in Campoamor. One of the occupants attempted to escape on foot, […]

A campaign group in Torrevieja has appealed to the public to back a protest over what it says is the progressive deterioration of public healthcare and the collapse of Torrevieja Hospital. The Plataforma por la Sanidad Cien por Cien Pública y de Calidad says delays in the emergency department have reached up to sixty hours before patients are admitted to hospital. The platform, supported by the nurses’ union SATSE, says these waits are up to eight times higher than the […]

Local Police in Orihuela have rescued two occupants from a vehicle that overturned following a serious road traffic collision in Punta Prima, on the Costa Blanca. The crash happened on Cala Dorada street, close to the N-332, in a busy area with shops, restaurants and a pedestrian footbridge. Police said the forty-six-year-old driver lost control of the car on a straight section of road after becoming distracted. He later tested positive in a breathalyser test, recording 0.31 milligrams of alcohol […]

Four Cuvier’s beaked whales have been found dead after stranding on beaches in south-east Spain. Two of the large cetaceans were discovered on the beaches of Mazarrón and Águilas, in the Region of Murcia, with two more reported along the Almería coast at Carboneras and Pulpí. The conservation group ANSE, the Association of Naturalists of the South East, says the species is difficult to study because it spends most of its life diving at great depths. The organisation has linked […]

Torrevieja’s local government has granted permission to demolish buildings at numbers 4 and 5 on Paseo de la Libertad, clearing the way for the construction of a four-star superior hotel in the future port area. The project has the required urban planning compatibility certificate and is expected to significantly increase hotel capacity in the town centre. The buildings stand opposite ongoing port redevelopment works and include two ageing properties of three storeys with long-vacant commercial units, although two homes remain […]

A seventy-one-year-old man has been left with minor injuries after being hit by a car on Urbano Arregui Street in Torrevieja on Friday afternoon. The emergency services were called to the scene at 15:50, according to the Valencian Community’s Emergency Coordination Centre. Local Police sources said the man, a Spanish national, was walking with a dog on a harness close to a pedestrian crossing when the collision occurred. It is believed the dog may have pulled towards the road, while […]