December 2021

Spain’s Seat uses railway to link Barcelona factory with Volkswagen plant in Portugal in effort to cut CO2 emissions

CAR manufacturers are not noted for their green credentials, despite their move towards an electric future. But now  Spanish company Seat is taking a step forward in its ‘Move to Zerø’ strategy with a new rail service linking its Martorell (Spain) plant with the Volkswagen Autoeuropa factory in Palmela (Portugal). The new service is operating […]

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Champagne Charlie: Disgraced lawyer in Mallorca jailed after stealing 64 bottles of bubbly

A FORMER Palma lawyer has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for burglary after he stole 64 bottles of Champagne. In one burglary he broke a fridge lock at a beach club in Illetas and  made off with 51 bottles of champagne in June 2018. Then a few months later –

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Woman, 30, found stabbed to death in Spain’s Valencia hours after family reported her missing

TRIBUTES have been paid to a 30-year-old woman stabbed to death in Valencia.  The woman was found dead at a property on Calle del Conde Altea on Saturday at 12pm, just hours after her worried family reported her missing.  The victim’s mother discovered her lifeless body in the flat shortly after her concerned sister reported

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SPANISH AUTHOR CARLOS ZAFON: The pen is mightier than the camera…

CARLOS Ruiz Zafon needs no introduction. Arguably the most recognised contemporary writer in Spain, he has an equally successful international reputation.  Translated into over 50 languages, literary critics have often compared Zafon to none other than Miguel de Cervantes in style, popularity and literary impact. Carlos’s trilogy The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series, combined with

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A safe haven: As inflation rises and interest rates in Spain stay low, investors turn to new build property

HIGH inflation and low interest rates are pushing investors towards the real estate sector, which is once again becoming a safe haven asset. This is the main conclusion of a new study carried out by EAE Business School, which shows that the real estate sector is recovering rapidly and has already reached pre-pandemic levels. This

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Spain’s top road race, the Valencia Marathon, celebrates 40 years this Sunday

THE Valencia Marathon celebrates its 40th birthday this Sunday(December 5) after the pandemic forced the 2020 event to be restricted to elite runners only. First staged in 1981, Spain’s leading road race attracts a high class field in what are regarded as perfect marathon conditions. Temperatures average between 12 and 17 degrees and the course

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Costa Blanca mayor faces COVID-19 vaccine queue-jumping trial after judge in Spain throws out appeal

A Villajoyosa judge has rejected an appeal from a Costa Blanca mayor that there’s not enough evidence for him to be prosecuted for illegally getting a COVID-19 vaccination. La Nucia’s Bernabe Cano will be tried for bribery and administrative prevarication after receiving a first vaccine dose at a nursing home in January. The ruling can

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