A new appeal has been launched to trace and bring to justice 12 of the UK’s most wanted fugitives believed to be hiding in Spain. The offenders, all men, are wanted for crimes including murder, large scale drugs trafficking and supplying firearms and ammunition. The NCA’s Most Wanted campaign is run in conjunction with independent charity CrimeStoppers, Spanish law enforcement, …

The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, has reported the agreement reached to limit the maximum price of the COVID-19 self-diagnostic antigen tests to 2.94 euro after the completion of the meeting of the Interministerial Commission on Drug Prices . The Interministerial Drug Price Commission is the competent body for setting the prices of drugs that are financed in the National …

The Ministry of Consumer Affairs has recalled that the rights of consumers in this period are also applicable to purchases made over the Internet. The department headed by Minister Alberto Garzón makes this warning after decreeing the new measures related to capacity and indoor establishments as a result of the pandemic caused by Covid-19 and due to the foreseeable increase …

The Government of Spain and the autonomous communities and cities are committed to maximum attendance at the return of the classrooms on the 10th when the school year is resumed. This was agreed at the extraordinary meeting of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System (CISNS) together with the Education Sector Conference and the General Conference on University Policy, …

Students of all educational stages will return to class in person from Monday 10 January throughout Spain, as agreed on Tuesday by the Government and autonomous communities. The meeting was held in Moncloa eight months after the last meeting in which changes were agreed for the 2021-22 academic year: face-to-face at all levels and the possibility of reducing interpersonal distance …

The Guardia Civil, within the framework of the Operation Chrimata, has dismantled in Alicante a network dedicated to committing bank scams at an international level and on a massive scale through the method of phishing, in its form of smishing. They invested the money stolen from the accounts of the injured in cryptocurrencies, in order to be able to launder …

Despite having about 90% of the population vaccinated, masks will be mandatory again from tomorrow, 24 December. The only exceptions to this decree will be when playing sports or in natural areas. The move comes six months after the last change where masks were no longer required outdoors so long as a distance of 1.5 metres could be maintained between …

The mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, accompanied by the president of the Alicante Provincial Council, Carlos Mazón, announced this morning at the Madrid International Tourism Fair (FITUR) that the Regional Government has declared the Torrevieja Carnival a FIESTA OF AUTONOMOUS TOURIST INTEREST. The mayor has shown his satisfaction and thanked the heads of tourism of the region and congratulated the …

The National Police is warning of a new method practised by thieves to detect if a property is vacant before breaking in. The thieves are placing glue strings between the frame and the door to locate possible empty houses. If several days pass and they have not been broken, it means that no one has opened the door and the …

Regular shoppers at one of Spain´s biggest grocery stores, the French owned Carrefour, are in for a treat this year, as the company has announced that saving cheques will be paid out six times this year, instead of the normal four. What that means is that shoppers who have been accumulating points since the last payout can now collect what …

A consumer watchdog has confirmed that super-sized supermarket chain Carrefour double charged consumers for card purchases due to a computer error. The problem occurred across their chain of store in Spain on August 6, 2018, and the company has said that the error was spotted and rectified a few days later. However, if you did purchase anything on August 6, …

Calls not to panic have been issued after nine people are reported to have been killed across Europe by contaminated frozen vegetables. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has issued an alert over the products, stating that the outbreak, which has been traced to a factory in Hungary, has affected products sold in countries such as Austria, Denmark, Finland, Sweden …