September 2022

CAUGHT REDHANDED: Thief TWICE walks out of a Gibraltar shop with stolen clothes to find the cops waiting

A man who twice walked out of a Main Street shop with a total of over £1,500 of designer clothing has been jailed for 16 weeks. Romanian national Chirez Memet, 20, pleaded guilty to theft and attempted theft after he was caught out on CCTV footage. On the first occasion, Memet took the clothing to

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Spain is home to 11 types of snakes, three of them venomous vipers—but how dangerous are they?

THERE are 11 types of snakes in Spain, but only three of these are venomous, the last of which causes between 2,000 and 5,000 bites and one or two deaths a year. According to the president of the environmental association Iberozoa, Antonio Martín Higuera, there are only three species of vipers found on the Peninsula

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Over two million passengers used Spain’s Malaga Airport in August—just 7% shy than 2019 figures

MALAGA-Costa del Sol Airport was used by over two million passengers in August and saw over fifteen thousand flights landing and taking off. These figures provided by airport operator Aena are only 7% less than in the same month the year before the pandemic began and highlight that tourism on the Costa del Sol is

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Forest fire in Spain’s Granada jumps dangerously close to the villages of Izbor and Acebuches

IN a dramatic turn of events, the forest fire that has been blazing near Granada since Thursday 8 September has jumped to a new location, above the village of Ízbor, where it quickly developed a large perimeter area in barely accessible ravines. Ízbor and Acebuches residents have been evacuated and are being offered shelter by

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BREAKING: Queen Elizabeth funeral date on September 19 will be a bank holiday

GIBRALTARIANS will be able to enjoy a long weekend with the October 19 being made into a bank holiday that allows them to watch the funeral. “This day will enable Gibraltarians, residents of Gibraltar and those who work in Gibraltar to follow Her Late Majesty’s funeral,” Gibraltar’s Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said in a statement.

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Some 150,000 people take to streets of Barcelona to support Catalan independence

Around 150,000 people took to the streets of Barcelona on Sunday September 11, to celebrate “la Diada”, often described as Catalonia’s National Day, and to protest for independence for the northeastern region from Spain. Unlike in previous years, however, the chants among the crowd were openly hostile to the Catalan regional government, which is run

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One journalist’s quest to explain to Spain’s media just why Queen Elizabeth meant so much

On the day that Liz Truss became the United Kingdom’s new prime minister, I was expecting a call from Spanish TV channel La Sexta. Their evening current affairs show, Más Vale Tarde, has recently been coming to me for some live insights every time something crazy happens in my home country. I have been joking

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Police rescued a disorientated vulture in Marbella’s Puerto Banus

NATIONAL police officers captured a 2.5 metre VULTURE after it was spotted by several tourists in Marbella’s luxury marina Puerto Banus. The two officers were advised by specialists to use their patrol car to take the carrion bird into the nearby Sierra de las Nieves natural park. So they grabbed the vulture and put it

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