Alicante News & Information

A BRITISH pensioner who 'saved up for months' to go on holiday in Benidorm has complained to Thomas Cook that there were 'too many Spanish people' in her hotel and asked for a refund.

A YOUNG woman from Elche lured into a sect in Perú is on the plane home along with her father and two-month-old baby daughter.

Lifeguards and police officers joined forces yesterday (Sunday) to rescue a manta ray which had got caught in a net near the shore at Playa de la Mata in Torrevieja.

FORMER Spanish president Mariano Rajoy has moved back to Madrid after applying for a transfer from his job on the southern Costa Blanca.

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.