The leader of Spain’s conservative Partido Popular has been criticised for attending a church service in memory of the dictator General Franco. Pablo Casado attended mass on Saturday in Granada a day earlier than normal because he was going to the closing day of his party’s Andalucia Congress in the city. The Granada Cathedral service […]
SURPRISE visits to Murcia hospitality businesses last weekend discovered that 85% of them were breaking COVID health guidelines. The region’s Health Ministry is using a nine-strong team of inspectors to check that rules are being followed. Out of 28 places visited over the weekend, sanctions will be imposed on 24 of them for flouting health
PLANS to use COVID-19 passports in Basque Country nightlife businesses and larger restaurants have been squashed by the region’s Supreme Court. The judges, on two-one split decision, ruled that the Basque government request restricted basic rights. The region has a coronavirus infection rate of 300 per 100,000 people but the figure was half that when
PROPERTY buying in parts of Spain will become easier for British purchasers after the scrapping of an old Francoist law. Non-EU home buyers in areas like the Costa Blanca and Murcia have been frustrated with delays over the need to get ‘military authorisation’. News of the change was sent in a notification from the Defence
A HUMAN skull has been found in the Alpujarras region of Granada, the Olive Press can reveal. The head – believed to be that of a female – was found by a dog, near Orgiva, on Friday morning. According to an Olive Press source, it is now being studied by a forensic team in Granada
A British fugitive wanted for drug trafficking has been arrested on the Costa Blanca. The Policia Nacional detained the man, 26, who fled the UK over ‘international level’ drug dealings. He was part of a gang that distributed cocaine and heroin. The unnamed fugitive was transferred to the National Court in Madrid for his extradition
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AN elderly motorist died after driving five kilometres down the wrong side of a Murcia dual-carriageway. He collided head-on with a car with two people suffering injuries. The accident happened on Sunday at around 9.30 am on the A-30 in Cartagena, close to the Cabezo Beaza industrial estate. The driver, 84, got onto the wrong
USING an EU COVID-19 certificate to enter some businesses will start ‘in the next few days’ in the Valencian Community. Speaking on Sunday, Valencian president, Ximo Puig, repeated previous statements that the region will adopt the certificate to reduce rising COVID-19 infection rates. But he has yet to elaborate where it would be a mandatory
PEST controllers in Spain have issued a stark warning – the nation’s black rat population is booming across urban centres. Rattus Rattus is on the rise, according to the National Association of Environmental Health Companies (ANECPLA) which held a meeting in Madrid of pest professionals from across Spain to discuss the problem. They warned that
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