The number of passengers travelling Alicante-Elche Airport grew by 9.7% to over 1.3 million people in April, coinciding with the Easter holidays, while the regional´s capital, Valencia Airport registered an increase of 12.9%, with 752,055 passengers. During the first 4 months of the year, 3.9 million passengers travelled through Alicante airport compared to 2.4 million at the Valencia hub. In …

The Valencia region welcomed 8,278,401 foreign tourists between January and October, 2.5% more than in the same period of the previous year, with the United Kingdom and the Nordic countries as the main origin of those tourists. The figures are recorded by the National Institute of Statistics in their latest report, released today, which also shows that in October alone …

Following a tragic summer on the roads of Spain, another disappointing buck to the trend of reducing fatalities, it is becoming increasingly clear to the DGT that a lack or responsible action by drivers can only be combated through further enforcement. The Director General of Traffic, Pere Navarro, is making it very clear, that the …

Over 430 thousand foreign tourists visited the Valencia region in February, a rise of 24 percent over a year, according to figures from the National Institute of Statistics. Seventy-five percent of the visitors based themselves on the Costa Blanca, with 150 thousand tourists coming from the United Kingdom, a yearly increase of nearly 13 percent. The

The number of foreign citizens registered with the Spanish Social Security system stood at 1,607,883 in April, an increase of 2.85% - or 44,540 National Insurance contributors - compared with the previous month. The increase in contributor numbers to t...

Officers from the National Police have arrested 80 people this week, all linked to a network of illegal trafficking of citizens of Chinese origin. The operation was conducted in collaboration with the British Embassy and Immigration Officials from the British Read More ...

The number of foreign citizens registered with the Spanish Social Security system stood at 1,563,343 in March, an increase of 2.29% - or 34,974 National Insurance contributors - on the previous month. When compared with 2014, the number of foreign wor...

According to the Statistics on Foreign Residents in Spain at 31 December 2014 drawn up by the Permanent Watchdog on Immigration (Spanish acronym: OPI) of the Secretariat-General of Immigration and Emigration, the number of foreign citizens with a valid...

Merseyside Police are appealing for help to trace a 30-year-old man who is wanted on a European Arrest Warrant for the murder of PC Neil Doyle. Timmy Donovan, who is also known as Timmy O'Sullivan, is originally from the Huyton area and has connectio...

WE REMEMBER Remembrance day we think much more, of heroes of the 1st World war. We Remember 100 years on, the veterans though they're now gone. Into the trenches men were hurled, to fight for freedom for this World. They fought bravely. Millions...

Spain Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, announced the following assessment on the referendum held last Thursday in Scotland:

"I would like to congratulate the Scottish people on deciding - clearly and unequivocally - to remain part of the United Kingdom and, by extension, the European Union.

They have done so by a wide margin, peacefully and with meticulous respect for the law in their country.

We celebrate Scotland remaining part of the United Kingdom. We celebrate its ongoing contribution to the greatness, cohesion and development of the United Kingdom.

As citizens of Europe, we are also glad that the citizens of Scotland are staying with us; collaborating and participating as important partners in the great political project that is the European Union.

With their decision, the people of Scotland have avoided the serious economic, social, institutional and political consequences that would have stemmed from leaving the United Kingdom and Europe.

On Thursday, they chose between segregation and integration, between isolation and opening up, between stability and uncertainty, between security and certain risk. And they have chosen the most favourable option for all: for them, for the rest of the British people and for Europe as a whole.

I strongly believe in the integration of the European Union, I believe that this is the path which has led us to overcome the tragedies of our past and enables us to successfully tackle the challenges of the future. In order to succeed in that endeavour, we need everyone; and that is why we are very happy that Scotland has decided to stay with us".

According to FRONTUR - The Inbound Tourism Survey, drafted by the General Sub-directorate of Tourism Information and Studies of the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, this increase translates into three million more non-resident travellers visi...