https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A tornadic waterspout surprised residents of the southern city of Marbella on Wednesday, as heavy rain began to flood the province of Málaga. https://www.thelocal.es/20241113/video-tornado-shocks-marbella-as-torrential-rain-falls Wed, 13 Nov 2024 15:26:05 +0100 video-tornado-shocks-marbella-as-torrential-rain-falls Whether it be millionaire Latinos turning parts of Madrid into a new 'Miami' or Russian oligarchs buying up mansions in Marbella, Spain's golden visa scheme has sped up the gentrification process in some cities around the country. https://www.thelocal.es/20240410/how-golden-visas-helped-turn-spanish-cities-into-hubs-for-the-super-rich Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:59:01 +0200 how-golden-visas-helped-turn-spanish-cities-into-hubs-for-the-super-rich After Spain's Transport Minister argued against a direct Málaga-Marbella train line, plans for an underground connection pushed by the local council could join the long list of aborted projects over the last 162 years. https://www.thelocal.es/20240404/162-years-and-counting-will-spains-malaga-marbella-train-ever-happen Thu, 04 Apr 2024 11:35:29 +0200 162-years-and-counting-will-spains-malaga-marbella-train-ever-happen Spanish police said Wednesday they had detained a criminal gang of Eastern Europeans with military training who specialised in breaking into luxury homes in Marbella, Málaga and other locations on the Costa del Sol. https://www.thelocal.es/20240125/ex-military-gang-arrested-for-71-burglaries-on-spains-costa-del-sol Thu, 25 Jan 2024 11:19:02 +0100 ex-military-gang-arrested-for-71-burglaries-on-spains-costa-del-sol The owner of Marbella football club was one of 11 Russians arrested in connection with laundering more than €30 million ($35 million), Spanish police said Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20170927/police-arrest-11-russians-in-marbella-for-money-laundering Wed, 27 Sep 2017 17:51:43 +0200 police-arrest-11-russians-in-marbella-for-money-laundering Police have broken up a Bulgarian gang that sought the "total control" of prostitution in the upscale beach resort of Marbella on southern Spain's Costa del Sol, Spanish police said Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20170704/costa-del-sol-prostitution-ring-busted-13-sex-slaves-freed Tue, 04 Jul 2017 17:59:45 +0200 costa-del-sol-prostitution-ring-busted-13-sex-slaves-freed Police in southern Spain on Tuesday staged raids targeting assets of the family of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, a judicial source said. https://www.thelocal.es/20170404/spanish-police-raid-luxury-costa-del-sol-properties-linked-to-syrias-assad Tue, 04 Apr 2017 14:35:51 +0200 spanish-police-raid-luxury-costa-del-sol-properties-linked-to-syrias-assad Spanish police on Saturday announced they had smashed a high-end prostitution ring whose catalogue of services included offering the sale of an teenage girl's virginity. https://www.thelocal.es/20170311/spanish-pimps-offered-girls-virginity-up-for-5000 Sat, 11 Mar 2017 15:33:58 +0100 spanish-pimps-offered-girls-virginity-up-for-5000 Police swooped in on properties in Marbella to arrest five men and one woman allegedly involved in a gang feud in greater Manchester. https://www.thelocal.es/20160219/six-arrested-on-costa-del-sol-over-salford-gang Fri, 19 Feb 2016 13:42:58 +0100 six-arrested-on-costa-del-sol-over-salford-gang The former mayor of Marbella Julián Muñoz has pleaded guity for planning regulations and tax fraud relating to the sale and development of a property once owned by Sir Sean Connery. https://www.thelocal.es/20160112/ex-marbella-mayor-pleads-guilty-over-sean-connery-villa-fraud Tue, 12 Jan 2016 13:39:20 +0100 ex-marbella-mayor-pleads-guilty-over-sean-connery-villa-fraud Police have busted a gang that swindled dozens of holidaymakers by advertising luxury villas on the internet that did not actually belong to them. https://www.thelocal.es/20150806/police-bust-marbella-luxury-villa-rental-scam Thu, 06 Aug 2015 18:10:42 +0200 police-bust-marbella-luxury-villa-rental-scam Lifeguards in Marbella have called on the city council to employ them all year round, after a recent tragedy saw three people drown off one of the cities beaches. https://www.thelocal.es/20150415/drownings-fuel-calls-for-year-round-life-guards Wed, 15 Apr 2015 14:29:27 +0200 drownings-fuel-calls-for-year-round-life-guards The Turkish teacher who drowned trying to save the lives of his deaf students off a Marbella beach on Monday was due to marry later this year, it has emerged. https://www.thelocal.es/20150413/tragedy-in-marbella-three-tourists-drown Mon, 13 Apr 2015 20:53:47 +0200 tragedy-in-marbella-three-tourists-drown Two masked gunmen stormed into a quiet shopping centre near Marbella on Saturday evening and shot Gerard 'Hatchet' Kavanagh, nine times in the back and head in what is believed to be a drugs-gang related incident. https://www.thelocal.es/20140908/irish-mob-enforcer-shot-dead-in-spanish-bar Mon, 08 Sep 2014 16:26:00 +0200 irish-mob-enforcer-shot-dead-in-spanish-bar A Spanish court on Tuesday shelved a case against Scottish actor Sean Connery in a Marbella property scandal dubbed the 'Goldfinger case' but his wife remains under investigation. https://www.thelocal.es/20140219/sean-connery-cleared-of-corruption-charges Wed, 19 Feb 2014 12:15:00 +0100 sean-connery-cleared-of-corruption-charges Welshman Nigel Hadley has been ordered to sell his home in the southern Spanish city of Marbella to repay nearly £26,000(€31,500/$42,750) in welfare benefits he falsely claimed from his local UK council. https://www.thelocal.es/20140120/uk-benefit-fraudster-forced-to-sell-marbella-home Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:38:00 +0100 uk-benefit-fraudster-forced-to-sell-marbella-home Around one in eight people in Spain were born overseas. That's nearly six million people. So where do all these people live? Here The Local looks at some of Spain's biggest expat hotspots. https://www.thelocal.es/20140110/where-are-spains-biggest-expat-colonies Fri, 10 Jan 2014 22:59:00 +0100 where-are-spains-biggest-expat-colonies A famous duchess could be key in deciding whether Spain's luxury resort of Marbella is to become home to several skyscrapers as high as 150 metres. The town's mayor says the project is dead and buried but opponents want proof. https://www.thelocal.es/20140110/marbella-skyscraper-dreams Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:45:00 +0100 marbella-skyscraper-dreams A Spanish court Friday handed down jail sentences and large fines to some 50 city officials and business executives over a vast system of property-related corruption in the glitzy southern beach resort of Marbella. https://www.thelocal.es/20131005/spain-sentences-50-in-marbella-property-scandal Sat, 05 Oct 2013 12:31:00 +0200 spain-sentences-50-in-marbella-property-scandal Spanish police have detained three British expats for distributing nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, at a bar in the glamorous tourist resort of Marbella on the Costa del Sol. https://www.thelocal.es/20130910/spain-detains-three-britons-for-selling-laughing-gas Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:40:00 +0200 spain-detains-three-britons-for-selling-laughing-gas