Community/Public Services news & information for Valencia

VALENCIA'S city hall square will become permanently pedestrianised from the day after its massive Fallas festival next year, mayor Joan Ribó has announced.

FAMILY and friends of missing 32-year-old Mark Palmer say they are 'getting desperate' after several trips to the Ontinyent (Valencia province) area and are continuing to crowdfund expenses so as many as them as...

VOLUNTEERS on the Aquarius have told heart-wrenching tales of the migrants they helped rescue who docked today (Sunday) in Valencia and embarked on a new life filled with hope.

THE migrant rescue ship Aquarius has docked in Valencia after an arduous nine-day voyage in which volunteers and the 629 asylum-seekers on board were fast running out of food.

SPAIN will take in the 629 migrants on board the Aquarius 'for humanitarian reasons' after Italy's right-wing government refused to let them dock in the country.

A 54-YEAR-OLD man 'stolen' from his parents at birth by nuns has been reunited with his biological mothe and four siblings – who believed until the day they met him that he had been stillborn.

SPAIN'S first-ever transsexual councillor has been sworn in at Paiporta town hall (Valencia province) and says his appointment 'marks a before and after' in national politics.

UNDERAGE drinkers who stage bring-your-own-bottle street parties will be made to carry out community service in Valencia to teach them the error of their ways.