August 2022

Hotel cleaners on Spain’s Costa del Sol slam ‘disgusting tourists’ and share revolting footage of trashed rooms

A HOTEL cleaning association has slammed the ‘disgusting tourists’ who are back on the Costa del Sol in their droves. The head of Las Kellys housekeepers’ collective (‘Las Kellys’ is a word game with the sentence ‘Las que limpian’ –Those who clean) in Malaga revealed that young guests are the messiest, while older couples eat

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EXPLAINER: What Spain’s new ‘only yes means yes’ law means for rape victims in Spain

SPAIN’S Congress approved a ‘yes means yes’ law on Thursday, qualifying all non-consensual sex as rape. The legislation passed with 205 votes in favour, 141 against and 3 abstentions. Only MPs from the conservative Popular Party (PP) and the far-right Vox voted against it. The bill comes in the wake of the infamous ‘Wolf Pack’

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WATCH: Three arrested after officers in Spain discover 140 kilos of hashish hidden in car at Tarifa port

POLICE in Spain have arrested three people for allegedly trying to smuggle 140 kilos of hashish into Tarifa from Morocco. Policia Nacional officers backed up by EU Frontex officers discovered the illegal drugs hidden in the bottom of a car boot at a seaport checkpoint. Working as part of Operation Minerva, the combined forces found

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OPINION: Myth or fact? Why we all need to be alarmed at Spain’s needle-spiking craze

THE huge surge in supposed needle-spiking cases experienced in bars and nightclubs across Spain this summer is worrying on so many levels and is the latest in the long list of potential dangers facing women when they go out to have a good time.  Authorities appear to be taking it seriously but there is so

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Father and son rammed by crazed driver of stolen car in Spain’s Tarifa

A GROUP of youths who twice allegedly rammed a stolen car into a father and son outside a nightclub in Tarifa are being investigated by police. The violent incident occurred outside a popular nightclub in the Vega industrial estate on the outskirts of the popular tourist destination. According to witnesses, the incident was sparked off

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Hospital ICU Covid-19 cases in Spain hit lowest point since early days of pandemic

INTENSIVE care hospital admissions for Covid-19 have fallen to their lowest number since the Ministry of Health started publishing figures. 241 ICU cases were reported on Friday compared to 250 cases on August 1, 2020. Prior to that date, problems with data collection in the first few months of the pandemic did not allow reliable

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130,000 kilos of tomatoes ready for return of Spain’s world-famous La Tomatina festival in Valencia

THE world-famous La Tomatina festival returns to fill the streets of Buñol in a big tomato fight on Wednesday after a two-year enforced break due to the Covid pandemic. 130,000 kilos of pear tomatoes are being stored in a warehouse in the Castellon Province town of La Llosa. They’ve been grown in the fields of

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Coldplay return to Spain announcing three tour dates in Barcelona in May 2023

BRITISH band Coldplay have announced they will play three dates at the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona next spring after a seven year break from Spain. Three concerts have been announced on May 24, 25 and 27 in the Catalan capital. Tickets will be available from August 25 via Ticketmaster and Livenation websites costing from €50

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