Alicante News & Information

AN ELCHE teen lured into joining a fake cult in Perú has been reunited with her father at a shelter for abused women in Lima, and is expected to be able to return to Spain soon with her two-month-old baby daughter.

PATRICIA Aguilar's parents say they will apply for custody of their granddaughter if medical and psychological reports show she is not capable of looking after her – even if they are only awarded temporary foster...

DISTRESSING information about a young Elche woman's ordeal in a sect based in the Peruvian Amazon has come to light now that she has been rescued along with her month-old daughter.

A YOUNG woman who disappeared in Elche (southern Alicante province) a year and a half ago has been found – in the Peruvian rainforest.

A GROUP of teenagers on board the Aquarius refugee boat which docked in Valencia on Sunday have run away from the shelter they were placed in and remain on the missing list.

A FORMER councillor on the PP in Valencia has been found dead after falling off a balcony in what may have been a case of suicide.

A TELEVISION documentary on the BBC is planned covering the death of Scottish newlywed Kirsty Maxwell in a fall from a 9th-floor Benidorm hotel.

ANOTHER Costa Blanca beach has been shut to bathers after a Portuguese Man O'War sighting – this time that of El Campello.

AT LEAST one beach on the Costa Blanca has been shut after a Portuguese Man O'War was found on the shores.

POLICE in Jávea (Alicante province) have launched a probe after a video of two young women dancing on top of a moving car went viral on Facebook.

A CONFIRMED total of 39 holidaymakers went down with food poisoning after eating mussels at a hotel on the Arenal beach in Jávea (Alicante province), reports have just revealed.

DUKE and Duchess of Cambridge William and Kate are huge fans of the TV comedy series Benidorm, which is shot on location at a hotel in the Costa Blanca tourism capital.