Emergency services including helicopters and a plane have extinguished a number of fires in the Sierra Gelada Mountain range immediately behind the Aqualandia water park. Four engines from Alicante’s Consorcio Provincial de Bomberos and forest fire units , as well as four airborne units, worked to put the blaze out. A spokesperson from Alicante Consorcio […]

Article by The Daily Star In a tactic which has become known as a “friendly hug”, victims are often embraced by a thief who then snatches a watch and makes a run for it. Street gangs who sell clothes and accessories during the day are increasing attacking tourists. Party hotspot Magaluf, on the island of […]

Article by EuroWeeklyNews THREE Icelandic holidaymakers have been diagnosed with chikungunya fever after returning to their home country from the Costa Blanca, the first recorded case of someone contracting the disease in Spain. Officials with Spain’s Health Ministry in the Valencia Region have confirmed the tourists were diagnosed in a Reykjavik hospital. They had been […]