Archive for: May 19, 2012

The wrangling over the America’s Cup continues.Representitives of the Alinghi and BMW Oracle teams have met in Valencia to try and esolve the various problems associated with staging the 33rd America’s Cup.The biggest problem is the sheer size of the …

Western Sahara used to be a Spanish colony and when the Spanish withdrew in 1975 it was annexed by Morocco.Morocco is now offering Western Sahara autonomy rather than the independence which was proposed by the UN in 1991.

Recently diplomatic tensions …

The Spanish government has joined six other countries in blocking a EU law which was defining the rights of patients to receive treatment in other European countries.This law would have given patients the right to receive treatment in a country …

The Benidorm town council and commerce sector have launched a new initiative within the town to promote sales.Retail outlets in Benidorm that have joined the Benidorm promotion scheme,launched a new style debit card.It is designed to promote more …

David Ferrer was welcomed by over 500 people when he returned to his hometown of Javea recently.The Spanish Davis Cup hero was welcomed to the Town Hall by the Mayor .He arrived with a replica of the Davis …

The Roman villa site at Alfaz del Pi has been given the full treatment by the environment councillor and she has given all of her energies into making the dig a success.The archaeological team which is headed by someone from …

Expats living in Spain were given some good advice in Moraira last week about the writing of their wills.The talk was organised by Caja Murcia and speakers gave advice to expats about the legalities of their will here in Spain …