Costa Blanca News Archive

19-Aug-2006

British gangs and guns bring terror to Ibiza (Independent)
Authorities have voiced fears that a new and more dangerous breed of criminal is operating on the island of Ibiza after a week in which police launched a series of raids against British drug gangs.

Travel Intelligence Announces its New Deal to Provide Users with Affordable Holiday Accommodation (PR Web via Yahoo! News)
London, UK (PRWEB) August 12, 2006 -- Travel Intelligence - the ?best of the best? hotel & destination travel website, set up by AA Gill and featuring a hand picked collection of boutique hotels and hideaways - has selected three small boutique hotels for less than �100 per night all year round.

TRAVEL: LATE DEALS (Daily Record)
Departing August 18 from Edinburgh, seven nights in Tenerife, staying at the three star Laguna Park II Apartments in Playa de las Americas on a self-catering basis costs �219 per adult.

Back-to-school shopping season begins (Contra Costa Times)
Sallie Scanlon and her daughter Margaret were in Target recently arguing about whether to buy a set of black felt tip pens. "It's $1.99," Scanlon told her daughter, who enters sixth grade this fall. "I'm just going to buy it."

Cost Plus boxed in (Contra Costa Times)
On the way to the soup mix aisle at Cost Plus World Market in Walnut Creek, Denise Lesser tossed a microfiber duster into her shopping basket. It was an item she didn't realize she would need or buy before walking into the store.

Theater festival starts Sunday (El Paso Times)
A variety of troupes will stage a variety of plays Sunday through Sept. 2 at five venues in Ju�rez: the Teatro de la Naci�n, Benito Juarez Municipal Auditorium, INBA, ITESM, and Centro Cultural de la Ciudad.

Leeds extends Spanish lending (Mortgage Introducer)
More Britons than ever are looking to move abroad and Spain is one of the most popular destinations, according to a recent survey. Over half of people taking part in the survey said that they had considered emigrating and 13 per cent said they were looking to make the move in the near future.

Boy, three, dies in Spanish pool (BBC News)
A three-year-old boy from Birmingham is found dead in a swimming pool on Spain's Costa Blanca.

Theatre: Back to Benidorm (The Herald)
If the budget doesn't stretch to a Spanish holiday this year, fear not.

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