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The Sis Pins hotel in Puerto Pollensa, which will re-open on 12 June following its closure after the collapse of Globespan, is under the own...

Who would be mayor of a local town hall? Especially Pollensa. There must have been a point, many years ago, when Joan Cerdà thought, if only...

More photos from the protest. Includes various restaurant owners/managers, Garry Bonsall getting the petition signed and the mayor getting s...

Here are some photos from today's protest. Delegate Francisca Ramon and Mayor Joan Cerdà under pressure. Protesters outside the town hal...

The local "austerity" and "adjustment" measures are taking shape. The regional government will raise income tax for high...

On Sunday, the press was reporting on issues with bar noise in Puerto Pollensa. The reports had to do primarily with one particular bar and ...

"The Times" is set to end its free online service. It's a gamble, but for readers in places like Mallorca, who might otherwis...

Well, that didn't last long. The latest version of the timeshare/holiday club/call it what you want outfit in Puerto Alcúdia has closed....

More on the protest thing - the Puerto Pollensa one. There is a "manifesto" for this "manifestación" (which is Spanish ...

The mobile rang three times. A four-figure number. Some sort of spam call, I thought. After the third time of calling and ignoring it, I tho...

"Mallorca vive una fantasía: el turismo no volverá a ser la gallina de los huevos de oro." I wouldn't normally reproduce a new...

The protest season goes from strength to strength. A general strike, some time or other; Puerto Alcúdia, a petition against all-inclusives, ...

So the IMF has issued another warning about Spain's economy. And called for reforms to the country's labour laws, making it, among o...

What time was it the night before last? 3am, 4am something like that. 3am eternal. I remember doing that last year, March time, when I was i...

So you arrive at your bar in the morning. Seems normal enough. Until, that is, you notice that something is not quite right. Mindless vandal...

Having mentioned Holiday Watchdog yesterday, time today to give Trip Advisor its place in the blog's sun. It is the most important of th...

Well, well, well. There we were thinking that the mid-season flight of the scratch-cardists last year was the last that Alcúdia had seen of ...

If you take the right turn by the traffic lights close to the auditorium in Alcúdia, the road heading past the cemetery and down to the hors...

It's grim up north. It's grim down south. No point beating about the bush, and there's little point in going over the reasons. W...

In the lead up to national no-smoking week in Spain, a survey - reported on in yesterday's "Diario" - finds that 70% of Spani...