January 2022

FLIGHTS at Malaga – Costa del Sol airport suffered extreme delays yesterday morning due to thick sea mist which surrounded the airport causing chaos and two-hour delays. Known as taro, the weather phenomenon caused the Airport operations company, Aena, to place the airport on a level red alert. Planes were unable to leave or arrive […]

POLICE are warning people to make sure they are wearing the right gear after they had to rescue  a British family from the snowy Sierra Nevada with the mother clad in a pair of shorts. The family of five – a 57-year-old man, his wife aged 53 and their three children aged between 11 and

SPAIN created 782,232 new jobs in 2021 in the biggest annual fall in registered jobless since 1995. December’s figures from the Labour Ministry saw 76,782 people find work, to produce the lowest December unemployment total in 14 years. There are now 3.1 million people out of work in Spain, after ten consecutive months of falling

GOOD luck is the reason why millions of Spaniards eat their 12 grapes on New Year’s Eve – but a stroke of bad luck has seen one Spanish town refuse to celebrate New Year’s at all in 25 years. It was the last night of 1994 when a power cut brought New Year’s Eve celebrations

A SPANIARD who murdered his mother and her pet cats has been sentenced.  The 41-year-old from Fuengirola was found guilty of stabbing his mother to death with a kitchen knife and sentenced to 22 years and six months in a psychiatric centre.  He was also found guilty of animal cruelty and sentenced to a further

A MEDICAL union has told how staff had their cars vandalised by a manic and ‘unsatisfied’ patient.  Three members of staff had finished long shifts at Las Albarizas health centre when they were devastated to find that their vehicles had been targeted.  Spain’s UGT trade union has denounced the attacks and said ‘enough is enough’

A MAN who kicked Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s car and hurled insults during a protest in Spain’s African enclave of Ceuta faces up to four years in prison. The Public Prosecutor’s Office is demanding the jail term after charging the man – whose identity has not been revealed by the courts –  with two crimes

SPAIN’S central government has agreed along with regional presidents to restart the school term next Monday, January 10, with regular classes despite record-breaking COVID-19 infection rates. Health minister Carolina Darias said consensus was ‘not easy’ with the sixth wave of the pandemic causing 372,000 new COVID-19 infections over the New Year long weekend. The capital

SPANISH police have been handed €1million by Europol to continue its fight against international organised crime until 2025. The European police organisation’s EMPACT unit is focused on tackling criminal gangs involved in fields as diverse as cannabis, heroin and cocaine smuggling, human trafficking and illegal immigration, as well as guns smuggling and terrorism. In 2021

SOARING coronavirus infections are not forcing any imminent new restrictions in the Valencian Community 22,800 new COVID-19 cases were reported on Monday, taking in the New Year Holiday weekend- the biggest weekend infection total since the pandemic started in March 2019. Hospital admissions have broken the thousand-mark but are almost half compared to a year