EVERY year on a Sunday in late October the streets of central Madrid are transformed from a busy cosmopolitan metropolis to a pastoral scene from days gone by with crook wielding shepherds herding their flocks over the cobblestones. Among the sheep are giant oxen and shaggy mastiffs, more used to guarding the flocks from the […]
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YET another unfortunate casualty of Brexit is free roaming. Despite promising not to, many UK networks have announced that they will reintroduce roaming charges and fair usage limits for EU travelers outside of periodic travel. What does this mean for expats? The return of roaming charges will force UK expats living abroad to pay a
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LEADING Spanish energy provider Iberdrola says it will help industrial customers if the government scraps plans for a windfall tax. Domestic electricity bills have been subsidised by the government with reduced taxes since August after steep rises in wholesale prices. Losses to national coffers are planned to be offset by a windfall tax on energy
SHOCKED social media users couldn’t believe their eyes as they watched a teen cling to the roof of the car as it sped through the streets of Malaga. Footage shot on a phone and shared on Instagram showed the mystery driver racing recklessly through the city’s streets with the minor on top of his car.
FOOTBALL fans now have the option of watching El Clásico with English commentary when the match kicks off between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid this Sunday at 4:15 pm. Wikimedia Commons – Jan S0L0 El Clásico is the name given to any match between rival clubs FC Barcelona and Real Madrid and is one of
THE rampant sex drive of former King of Spain was considered such a state liability that he was injected with female hormones by the secret service. This is the sensational claim made by an ex-police chief during a hearing in Madrid on Thursday. Jose Manuel Villarejo, a former police commissioner at the centre of far
CHRISTMAS is just around the corner and many of us look forward to taking advantage of the great discounts in the famous Black Friday sales. Despite its origin in the United States, Black Friday has become one of Spain’s biggest sales bonanzas on the calendar, with Christmas shoppers desperate to snap up coveted bargains. When is Black
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A Denia judge has summoned the mayors of El Verger and Els Poblets, Ximo Coll and Carolina Vives, to give evidence over COVID-19 vaccine queue-jumping in January. The married Costa Blanca mayoral couple got their first shots of the vaccine on January 8 in breach of age and priority rules. The transgression was prompted by
UNEMPLOYED people in Spain will no longer have to wait a year to access benefits. On Monday (October 18) the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration revealed a series of improvements in the Minimum Living Income that they hoped would no longer leave people without work in ‘no man’s land’. It is a welcome
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THEY say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but what makes someone beautiful? Is it just a genetic lottery or can something as simple as your birthplace play a part? A study by money.co.uk delved into data to find out where the most ‘beautiful’ people in the world are born according to
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