August 2022

easyJet pilots strike in Spain causes 38 flight cancellations in three days

SPANISH airports see 38 flight cancellations in three days due to easyJet pilots strike. The easyJet pilots’ strike in Spain, which this Friday began its second period of three-day work stoppage, has caused disrupt and chaos at several Spanish airports. Specifically 16 flights were cancellations last Friday, August 19, 10 on Saturday and an additional […]

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6,613 Ukrainians have registered in Spain’s Andalucia since start of Russia’s invasion

MORE than 6,600 people who have fled the war in Ukraine since March 2022 have been registered ‘empadronado’ in Andalucia. According to data collected by the National Statistics Institute (INE), a total of 6,613 citizens of Ukrainian origin have registered with a local municipality in Andalucia between March and June, coinciding with the Russian attack

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2 killed, 7 injured after wrong-way driver causes head-on car crash in Spain’s Andalucia

WRONG-way driver causes two deaths and seven injuries, including four minors, after a head-on car crash on the A-4 motorway in Jerez. According to the 112 emergency number, two women have died and up to seven people have been injured to varying degrees in a dramatic traffic accident on the A-4 motorway, at kilometre 631,

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WATCH: Drought reveals Spain’s own Stonehenge hidden below water level in Extremadura reservoir

A SOUTHERN European severe summer drought has allowed the Spanish Stonehenge to reappear from a dried up reservoir in the western province of Caceres. The 5,000-year-old Dolmen de Guadalperal is made up of a 26 metre diameter circle of prehistoric stones that stand up to two metres tall inside the Valdecañas reservoir. #Stonehenge español La

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Be prepared: It makes life in Spain so much easier if you know what to do in a crisis

IT can not be overstated how important it is to read and understand the documents that come with your insurance policies. Very few people seem to be aware of the importance of first checking if your policy documents are totally correct with all the right information. This is especially important for car policies where it

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Splashing out: Record levels of investment as property sector in Spain booms

NEARLY €10 billion has been invested in Spanish property in the first half of the year – a new record. Real estate investment reached €9.87 billion, some 80% more than the same period of 2021. According to the CBRE consultancy, the retail sector led the way with €2.9 billion invested, eight times higher than that

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WATCH: Police from Spain find 400 kilos of cocaine after dramatic mid-Atlantic raid

SPANISH police seized 400 kilos of cocaine hidden in the false hull of a sailing boat raided 500 miles from the Azores Islands, authorities said. National Police agents, working with the Spanish coastguard as well as British and French police forces, arrested the crew of two Bulgarians that are suspected to have brought the illegal

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Spain’s Malaga has five times fewer Covid hospital admissions than a year ago

COVID hospital admissions in Malaga province have dropped dramatically in the last year. According to the latest data from the Regional Ministry of Health, there are currently 84 Covid-19 patients admitted to hospitals in the province which is the lowest figure since the end of November last year, and also five times less than a

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