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Police in Spain ramp up spot checks to catch drink and drug drivers during...
SPAIN’S DGT traffic authority is ramping up spot checks in a bid to nab drink and drug drivers during the Christmas period. The plan, which will be presented by the DGT on Tuesday, will include an...
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Protestors in Madrid tie themselves to trees to stop workers chopping them...
AROUND 100 protestors gathered in central Madrid on Monday morning as controversial work to extend the Metro system restarted. Workers with chainsaws started felling trees in the Madrid Rio park area,...
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Spain’s Civil Guard arrests man who sexually assaulted a German woman on the...
THE CIVIL Guard has arrested a man after he allegedly held a 24-year-old German national against her will and sexually assaulted her. The victim was making the pilgrimage along Spain’s world-famous...
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Spain’s controversial amnesty law for Catalan separatists passes first hurdle...
THE CONTROVERSIAL plan to grant amnesty to anyone involved in the Catalan independence drive passed its first hurdle on Tuesday, after it was approved by lawmakers in Spain’s Congress of Deputies. The...
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December temperatures in Spain break new record highs, putting ski season at...
FOR THE THIRD time this year, Spain has seen a monthly temperature record smashed, after the mercury reached 29.9ºC on Tuesday in the southern city of Malaga. The unseasonably high temperatures are...
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Fresh airport strikes in Spain: Baggage handlers to walk out on these dates...
SPAIN’S two biggest labour unions, UGT and CCOO, have called eight days of strike action for Spanish airline Iberia’s ground service staff over the Christmas holidays, threatening travel chaos for...
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Police in Spain’s Barcelona seek thieves who stole watch worth €500,000 from...
POLICE in Barcelona are seeking a pair of thieves who made off with a watch worth €500,000 on Friday. One of the duo ripped the expensive timepiece off the wrist of a tourist, passing it off to their...
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British boy Alex Batty tells his grandmother ‘I want to come home’ some SIX...
THE BRITISH teenager Alex Batty, who went missing in Spain in 2017 but was found this week near Toulouse in France, has told his grandmother “I want to come home”. The youngster vanished from Marbella...
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Spanish cops who smashed down a British expat’s door to break up an ‘illegal’...
A JURY in Spain has absolved two National Police officers in Madrid of any wrongdoing after they smashed down a door in March 2021 to break up a party that was in violation of Covid-19 restrictions....
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Hotel founded by British expat in Spain’s Andalucia is named among the best...
A HOTEL in Spain’s Andalucia region has been named among the best in the world by the respected Traveler magazine. The Hacienda San Rafael in Sevilla province is rubbing shoulders with some of the...
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Woman in Spain’s Basque Country killed in home by stray bullet from boar...
A 75-YEAR-OLD woman died in hospital in Spain’s Basque Country region this weekend after apparently being accidentally shot in the head by a hunter while she was in her home. The tragic accident took...
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Spain’s main opposition leader snubs invite to meet from Prime Minister Pedro...
THE LEADER of Spain’s main opposition Partido Popular (PP), Alberto Nuñez Feijoo, has snubbed an invite for a meeting extended by the prime minister, Pedro Sanchez of the Socialist Party (PSOE). It...
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Emergency exits in nightclub where 13 died in Spain’s Murcia were closed with...
THE EMERGENCY exits at the Teatre and Fonda Milagros nightclubs in the Spanish city of Murcia were closed with padlocks on the night that a deadly blaze broke out there, leaving 13 people dead. That’s...
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Spain’s government to BAN bank charges for over-65s who withdraw cash from...
SPAIN’S Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Nadia Calviño has announced that the government is to ban charges for over-65s and the disabled who withdraw cash from tellers at bank branches....
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Spain sets new record for vacation apartments, with more than 340,000 across...
THE NUMBER of vacation apartments available across Spain has set a new record, with 340,424 now in existence for a total of 1.7 million beds. That’s according to the latest data from the country’s...
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Police in Spain’s Toledo launch investigation after brothers found gunned...
SPAIN’S Civil Guard has launched an investigation after two brothers were found shot dead in a remote country road in Toledo province. The victims, aged 49 and 45 and named as Antonio and Jose Y, were...
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“We are OK, but I’ve been shot.” The terrifying messages sent by a Spanish...
MESSAGES sent by a Spaniard who was killed during the October 7 Hamas attacks against Israel have been published by online daily El Confidencial. In them, Ivan Illarramendi Saizar, who lived in a...
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Airport strikes in Spain latest: Iberia workers delay the start date of their...
AIR TRAVELLERS in Spain this Christmas can breathe a sigh of relief – for now, anyway. Strikes that were due to be called over the holiday season by Spanish airline Iberia’s ground staff have been...
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Spain pledges to increase paternity leave even further: This is how many...
NEW PARENTS in Spain have been promised an even longer time off from work by the government, with paid leave for mothers and fathers due to go up from the current 16 weeks to 20. That’s according to...
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Don’t trust anyone with your ticket and claim your prize straight away: Here...
FOR MANY Spaniards, Christmas doesn’t really begin until the sound of the children from Madrid’s San Ildefonso school can be heard singing the winning numbers and prizes at the ‘El Gordo lottery draw....
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