Benidorm

british

'Please help us get dad's body home from Spain'

A British family has launched a Facebook campaign to raise the £4,000 (€5,000) they need to bring home the body of father-of-six Thomas Owens who died while on holiday in the resort town of Benidorm.

theme park

Teen tourist killed on Benidorm rollercoaster

An 18-year-old from Iceland teen was killed on Monday afternoon while riding on a rollercoaster at Benidorm's Terra Mitica theme park with his father and brother, officials said.

ETA

Where are Spain's biggest expat enclaves?

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.

Alicante

Broke Spanish region switches off public TV

Financial problems forced Valencia in eastern Spain to shut down its highly popular public television and radio service on Tuesday, the latest casualty of crisis cuts in the country's heavily indebted regions.

Hotels

Busy Benidorm: Spain's 'anti-hipster' hotspot

It may not have the glamour of Barcelona or the cultural cache of Madrid, but "anti-hipster" Benidorm keeps pulling in the crowds.