Torrevieja News & Information

SEEING the world through the proverbial rose-tinted spectacles is fairly typical when you're on holiday, and for newly-settled expats once they get the practical hurdles of a move abroad out of the way. Of course,...

THE LONGEST day north of the tropics has now passed, and summer is officially here, exams are over, schools and colleges in Spain have broken up for the next three months, and fiesta season is ready to kick off.

EUROPEAN expats have handed over literally millions of euros to local charities over the years – in fact, barely a month goes by without an association, club, society or bric-à-brac shop organising a cheque...

TAKE your pooch for a stroll and raise money for guide dogs – or if you don't have a woofster of your own, get hiking and just pretend there's an imaginary friend on a leash next to you.

TEENS at a Torrevieja high school have staged a peaceful protest over centre rules banning them from wearing shorts.

Lifeguards and police officers joined forces yesterday (Sunday) to rescue a manta ray which had got caught in a net near the shore at Playa de la Mata in Torrevieja.

A BRITISH mother whose three-year-old son went missing on a southern Costa Blanca seafront went out drinking and then to bed before reporting his disappearance 14 hours later.

A MOTHER on the run from Swiss authorities who stabbed her infant son in the toilets at Torrevieja hospital has been jailed for 11 years.

NINE members of the motorcycle gang known as the Hell's Angels have been sentenced to a total of 67 years in jail for aggravated robbery, possession of arms and the murder of a notary in Torrevieja (Alicante...

The Guardia Civil in Torrevieja have arrested a gang of four individuals, one of whom is a serving soldier, for carrying out an assault on a local businesswoman.

Feeling peckish and looking for a lively night out for one, I decided to head south - to Andalucía’s culinary outpost in Torrevieja. Fantastic food at silly prices and guitar-playing gitanos can all be found in El...

This week’s takes us to La Pedrera, the reservoir at Torremendo, 10 kilometres from Torrevieja and 5 kilometres outside the village of San Miguel.Surrounded by orange and lemon groves, the lake is clearly visible on...