November 2021

Free nursery places announced in education budget  

VICENT MARZA, the Minister of Education, Culture and Sports, announced on Tuesday that all children aged 2-3 would receive free nursery places in both public and private nurseries in Valencia, Alicante and Castellon from next year.  This measure will assist around 24,000 children, and has been made possible thanks to an increase in the budget […]

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EUTHANASIA DEBATE: Woman ‘ignored’ after asking to be painlessly killed in Spain’s Zaragoza takes own life

AN elderly woman crippled by a painful hip condition that left her bedridden in constant pain, has killed herself after her pleas for euthanasia were ignored. She had spent four months ‘desperately’ asking to be painlessly killed under Spain’s recently passed euthanasia law. According to the Association for the Right to a Dignified Death (Association

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Chef Jose Andres tells rival politicians to join forces to stop pollution in the Mar Menor in Spain

INTERNATIONAL chef and philanthropist, Jose Andres, has told rival Spanish political leaders to come together to stop pollution in the Mar Menor. Asturias-born Andres won this year’s Princess of Asturias Award for Concord in recognition for his World Central Kitchen project that provides food to people hit by natural disasters. He donated all of the

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Bankia and CaixaBanks will be unable to transfer cash through Bizum for several days

CUSTOMERS will be unable to make cash transfers through Bizum for several days ahead of a scheduled cut in services.  The hault in services – set for November 11 to 14 – will only impact Bankia and CaixaBank clients.  It comes as two of Spain’s high street banks complete their merger to become Spain’s largest

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Jail for 12 Moroccans who forced the landing in Palma

A JUDGE in Palma has issued a provisional prison sentence to 12 young Moroccans who fled onto the runway at Palma de Mallorca airport on Friday night, causing the closure of the airport for several hours. The Air Arabia Maroc flight from Casablanca to Istanbul made an emergency landing at Palma de Mallorca airport after reports of an ill passenger on Friday

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DRAW: Teams for European Cricket League finals at Spain’s Cartama Oval

ALL eyes of European cricket lovers will turn to Cartama near Spain’s Malaga next February. The 2022 Bet2Ball European Cricket League draw has been made based on the latest ICC T20 country rankings. ECL22 will take place over six weeks at the Cartama Oval, Malaga, Spain starting on February 7 next year with Group A

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Star buys: Man charged with sending meteorite prices into orbit

AN out of this world meteorite has been sold – and it’s value is astronomical. The fragment –  that spent 4,500 of years passing through the Solar System before plummeting to earth – crashed into the small Leonese town of Reliegos in 1947.  Locals initially believed the sound of the colossal crash could be attributed

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Guardia Civil in Spain gets protective over uniform replicas

FILM, television, and theatre companies in Spain will have to get Guardia Civil permission to use exact replicas of their uniforms. A Royal Decree published this Tuesday strengthens rules that were introduced in 2014 that prohibited the use of genuine uniforms in ‘artistic representations’ unless prior permission was granted. A Guardia spokesman said that the

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Gold coins plus Nazi and Francoist treasures owned by deceased German are discovered on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A collection of Nazi and Francoist medals as well as valuable gold coins owned by a deceased German Costa Blanca resident are set to be auctioned off by the Valencian government. Gertrudis Sommer Ficher died in Denia in 2005 with no will and no remaining family. She had three properties in Denia including two apartments

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Family in Spain family share heartbreaking letter to child, 6, killed in Madrid car crash

THE parents of the girl who died in a car accident outside her school in Madrid have shared an emotional letter penned to their darling daughter.  In the heartbreaking note, parents Maria and Alex expressed their love for their little girl and told the woman involved in the crash she is ‘not to blame’. Mariquilla,

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