A drugs gang that cultivated and exported marijuana across Europe from plantations in Alicante Province has been arrested by the Guardia Civil. One of the ring-leaders was a British man, 30, from the Orihuela Costa. Acting on information from UK authorities, the Guardia discovered that the Brit, along with others, ran five marijuana farms in […]
SPAIN’S governing Socialist Party is planning to file 16 amendments to the draft “Trans Law”, despite having supported the new legislation since its inception nearly a year ago. The planned bill has caused controversy in Spain, not least because it would allow people to change their name and sex at the Civil Registry without the
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CONCERNS over a possible return of polio has prompted Spain’s emergency centre(CCAES)- led by the familiar ‘pandemic’ figure of epidemiologist Fernando Simon- to call for improved monitoring in the country. The CCAES says there’s a ‘considerable probability’ that polio will circulate again in Spain but stressed that health risks were ‘very low’ due to high
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A POLICE officer from Catalonia’s Mossos d’Esquadra regional force is facing an eight-year ban from duty after being found to have invented an assault by a protestor. A video of the events has helped the former defendant to corroborate his story, in which he claimed to have not even touched the riot police officer. Now,
THE Public Prosecutor has dropped corruption and fraud charges on Friday against football star Neymar and others concerning the Brazilian’s 2013 move from Santos to Barcelona. In a surprise move during the trial in Barcelona, which started on October 17, the prosecutor announced the ‘withdrawal of the charges against all the accused and for all
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A girl was doped on drugs and then forced to perform a sex act on a man in Valencia. She escaped from his car after it ran out of fuel on October 19 while travelling on Avenida Doctor Peset Aleixandre in the city. A passing motorist took her to the area where she lived after
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THE observant amongst you will have seen that we are now in our 19th year, having started Survey Spain on September 1, 2003. When I bought my apartment around that time, an operations director in one of the biggest agencies on the coast then, advised that we should make sure we bought a place we
SPAIN’S annual inflation rate has fallen to 7.3% in October according to preliminary figures issued on Friday by the National Statistics Institute(INE). That’s a 1.6% drop on the September figure and is the lowest rate since January, before the war in Ukraine. It’s the third consecutive month where inflation has fallen, something that has not
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A BRUTAL dog attack has left a Granada woman in critical condition. A heroic mother has been critically injured in a devastating dog attack whilst saving the life of her young daughter who had been set upon by two vicious dogs. The incident occurred last Friday, October 21, in the town of Armilla in Granada
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