Flyglobespan is set to conduct a review of its services departing from Durham Tees Valley Airport this month. The budget airline's lease at the airport is approaching its end, which is placing the future of services to Alicante, Benidorm and Tenerife at risk, The Northern Echo has reported. Continue reading:

New Year's Day - Calpe.I have to confess that after New Year's Eve, all I wanted to do on New Year's Day ... was nothing...I compromised by going to Calpe for a stroll around the Peñon. The resort is only about 20 minutes away - so not too bad. It's a lovely walk, but you have to turn around and come back the way you went in - no problem. The scenery is worth it.In the end, tired though I was, I was glad we went. Had a couple of drinks at one of the restaurants at the harbour then headed home fo

Giro d'Italia contenders Lance Armstrong and Ivan Basso spent New Years Eve away from home. USA's Armstrong is in Hawaii riding some of the island's climbs while Italy's Basso is visiting his friend and ex-professional Michele Bartoli in Pisa.

Turron is one of Spain’s favourite Christmas sweets and it comes in all forms but it is always full of almonds and sometimes honey . There are many stories about its origins and one of the most romantic is that a king of Jijona married a Scandinavian princess who missed the snow of her homeland . So he planted almond trees and when the spring came the white almond blossom reminded her of the snow and she was happy again . To use the almonds a sweetmeat was created and this is what we call tur

There are people along the Costa’s who are waiting to have their homes demolished because the fall foul of the Ley de Costa , a retrospective law which does not allow building less than 100 m from the shoreline . In Benidorm Edificaciones Calpe has built two tower blocks 60 m from the shoreline and if the Law is followed they should be demolished too . However the Government sub-delegate in Alicante said last week that it will probably be impossible for the government to expropriate the land