News in Calpe

LOCAL COSTA BLANCA CALPE

• Spain dishes out fresh travel advice for those visiting the UK as major visa overhaul comes into effect next year
  SPAIN’S foreign office has published fresh advice for those wanting to visit the UK from next year – with big changes to how visas work looming on the horizon. From
  Ben Pawlowski
• Malaga police now tell British residents living in Spain they should NOT join the EES queue at the airport – and doing so by mistake could have nasty consequences
  POLICE at Malaga Airport have issued new instructions telling British residents in Spain that they must not use the EES queues or automatic gates when entering or leaving the country.
  Walter Finch
• The McGrail Report – The unlikely role that British TV cop classics played in Gibraltar’s inquiry into the police and the politicians, by F Oliva
  Ex-Chronicle news editor Franciso Oliva muses on what can be divined from the pop culture references that cropped up sporadically during the hearings for the McGrail inquiry.       
  Walter Finch
• WATCH: Hilarious moment white-haired man resembling Richard Gere is mobbed at hospital in Spain by people wanting selfie with surprised ‘Hollywood legend’
  YOU would think being a lookalike of Hollywood legend Richard Gere would be a cause for celebration. After all, the dashing Pretty Woman star, now aged 76, was once named
  Ben Pawlowski
• Spain is ghettoising: New data shows how immigrant groups are hiving off into parallel societies
  NON-EUROPEAN residents in Spain are gravitating towards some of the country’s poorest districts, new data has shown, amid concerns that the trend could lead to modern-day ghettos in major Spanish
  Alessio Ghirlanda
• New ‘low noise’ zone setback as court says bars and restaurants can return to longer late-nights in Alicante’s Old Town
  A COURT has suspended Alicante’s Old Town new low-noise zone after hospitality businesses said they were being unfairly penalised. The ZAS started in October after residents complained for years about
  Alex Trelinski
• Benidorm ‘best in Europe’ coffee shop and a bar are busted for selling drugs in city’s tourist zone
  A BENIDORM coffee shop and a bar have been raided for selling drugs in the tourist area of the city. Six people have been arrested in two separate operations executed
  Alex Trelinski
• Earthquake shakes Costa del Sol awake at dawn with 3.2 magnitude registered just off coast of Estepona
  EARLY risers across the Costa del Sol got an unexpected wake-up call this morning when a 3.2 magnitude earthquake struck just off the coast of Estepona. The tremor hit at
  Walter Finch
• Spain hit by first swine fever outbreak in 30 years as ‘high percentage of GDP’ at risk in multi-billion pork export sector
  SPAIN has been hit by its first outbreak of African swine fever in more than 30 years, triggering fears for the country’s multi-billion euro pork export market. The virus was
  Walter Finch
• WATCH: Endangered gorilla gives birth in front of stunned visitors at Bioparc Fuengirola – the only birth in Spain this year
  VISITORS to a Spanish zoo got to witness an early Christmas miracle when a gorilla gave birth before their very eyes. This heartwarming arrival marks a major milestone: it’s the
  Dilip Kuner