October 2021

Erling Haaland can’t seem to get enough of Marbella as star striker is spotted in Costa del Sol resort for third time this year

Sought after striker Erling Haaland  has once more been spotted in Marbella. The Borussia Dortmund player, who is the subject of intense transfer speculation to Real Madrid or Barcelona, took some time out on the terrace of celebrity favourite La Sala in Puerto Banus. He was also happy to chat to fans as he walked […]

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Politicians in Spain could get pay rise under new proposals – but where does all the money come from? 

MPs in Spain could receive a pay rise of just 0.9%  a year from next April under new proposals included in the General State Budgets for 2022.  The draft law, which was sent to the Congress of Deputies at the start of October, revealed the predicted salaries of the Prime Minister and other high-ranking officials

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Spain joins EU-funded taskforce to tackle fraud and help protect €800 billion Covid-relief fund

OPERATION SENTINEL was launched this week, October 15, by Europol in a bid to combat an anticipated wave of fraud as almost 807 billion euros of Covid-19 relief funds are distributed. And Spain is one of the key contributors in the multinational task force of 19 countries. Launched at Europol in The Hague, Holland, the

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Free surfing and canoeing lessons start at beaches popular with expats on Spain’s Costa Blanca

THE MILD out of season climate on Orihuela Costa means the region popular with expats and Spanish alike can enjoy a ‘Winter Beach’ programme. Starting today, October 16, a new schedule starts over weekends at Cala Cerrada (La Zenia) and La Caleta (Cabo Roig) beaches. Orihuela Costa also includes the popular expat areas of Playa

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‘Onion days’: Spain has a perfect way to describe this typical autumn weather

IN Spain, discussing the weather is as much a national pastime as it is in northern European climes, although across most of central and southern Spain during the summer months there isn’t much more to say than “¡Que calor!”. But as Spain moves into autumn and the weather becomes more unpredictable, ways of describing the

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From shanty town to supermarket shelf: The shocking truth behind Spain’s vegetable growing industry

JUST kilometres away from some of Andalucia’s trendiest beaches, Europe’s vegetable garden is cultivating shanty towns. On route 3108 in the Almeria district of Nijar, Ayoub, a 20-year-old Moroccan working illegally in the region’s ubiquitous greenhouses emerges from the jumble of shacks and saunters towards me. “Nobody is going to talk to you here,” he

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Torrevieja Hospital on Spain’s Costa Blanca is back in public management

TORREVIEJA Hospital, which serves 180,000 people, returned to public management at midnight this Saturday morning. The southern Costa Blanca facility had been managed privately since 2006 by contractor Ribera Salud. The Valencian Health Ministry said that reverting management to public control would improve ‘efficiency’. They also argue that money will be saved with an annual

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