Torrevieja’s council has definitively approved its 2025 general accounts at an extraordinary plenary meeting. The accounts include the council and its two autonomous bodies, the Municipal Habaneras Board and the Joaquín Chapaprieta Municipal Institute of Culture. They show an adjusted budget result of €10.15 million and total treasury funds of €45.36 million, including about €19.6 million available for general spending. Economy and Finance Councillor Domingo Paredes said the figures demonstrate financial stability, liquidity and stronger controls. The consolidated balance sheet […]

Gran Alacant, in Santa Pola, has produced one of the winning Euromillions tickets from the draw held on Tuesday 8 September. A ticket validated at Reception Office number 32,700, in the Gran Alacant Shopping Centre on Finlandia Street, has won a second-category prize of €194,608.68 for matching five numbers and one star. Three tickets won in this category, with two validated in Spain. The other Spanish ticket was sold in Carbajosa de la Sagrada, Salamanca. The winning numbers were 13, […]

A judge in Benidorm has ordered a man to remain in provisional custody without bail while he is investigated over alleged repeated sexual assaults against his partner. The woman has also reported alleged abuse, threats, harassment and breaches of a restraining order preventing him from approaching her. The alleged offences took place during July and August. The complaint includes allegations of vaginal, anal and oral sexual assaults, as well as an incident in which the man allegedly hit the woman […]

Four men have been arrested in Orihuela Costa after a man was allegedly held and assaulted inside a premises. Police were alerted at about 8pm on Monday that a man was being kept inside and threatened. The caller also warned that those involved might be carrying firearms. Local Police and Civil Guard officers attended the scene. Some officers secured the area while others entered the premises because of the risk to the man’s safety. They found the victim with visible […]

The homeless encampment outside Cartagena’s Cartagonova Stadium has ended after Cartagena City Council intervened last week to clear the site. During an appearance by Jesús Giménez Gallo, spokesperson and secretary general of MC, a man who said he was one of those affected by the council operation went to the city council’s administrative offices in San Miguel Street. He went there intending to file a complaint.

Torrevieja Council’s governing team has approved the environmental and strategic report for a proposed 11-storey, 36-metre hotel in La Veleta. The decision rejects all 15 objections submitted by residents, interested parties and property owners. The site is at the junction of Mar del Coral and Mar del Norte, a few metres from the coast. Developer Grupo Insara wants to change the land use from residential to hotel, with a minimum three-star classification. Before final approval, the promoter must submit a […]

Torrevieja Town Council has formally abandoned the process to update its General Urban Development Plan, known as the PGOU. Approved in 1986 and brought into force in 1987, it is now 40 years old and the oldest such plan in Spain for a city of more than 80,000 residents. The review process began in 2018. After seven bids were submitted, officials proposed awarding the drafting contract in 2020, but an adverse report from the municipal auditor, requests for clarification and […]

A 41-year-old man has been arrested in Elche after allegedly pretending to have been kidnapped for two days while he was voluntarily staying in a hotel. The National Police said he has been released while facing a charge of falsely reporting a crime, after appearing before an investigating judge. The man went to a police station and reported that several people had confronted him as he returned home after buying building materials. He said they forced him into a vehicle, […]

The president of the Generalitat, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, has visited Almoradí to mark the opening of the municipality’s fourth school, the El Gabato infant and primary school. The project has involved an investment of more than €8.5 million and has been designed to meet the town’s growing educational needs. The new centre covers 6,007 square metres and has capacity for 735 pupils across 30 classrooms for infant and primary education. Its facilities include modern classrooms, a library, music and computer […]