December 2022

KING Felipe VI’s traditional Christmas Eve speech attracted a million fewer television viewers than the year before, and had the third-worst audience since he came to power in 2014. In total, 6,711,000 people watched the speech on television, according to figures reported by Spanish daily El Español. The speech actually had a bigger audience share […]

ONE of Spain’s top police dogs helped to bring an end to a 36-hour armed siege in Murcia on Saturday. Elko works for the Policia Nacional’s Special Operations Group(GEO) on assignments across the country and was brought in to help finish the stand-off. A man took his sister hostage after dumping her in a car

A HORROR Christmas Day smash has left three dead and three injured in Malaga province. Two cars collided head-on on the A-357 in Casarabonela, inland from the Costa del Sol. The 112 emergency service was alerted to a serious incident at 6.30pm and dispatched the fire brigade, Guardia Civil and medics to the scene. Police

EVERYONE in Spain will be watching their backs this December 28 for the annual Dia de Los Santos Inocentes (Day of the Innocent Saints) for this is the Spanish equivalent of April Fools’ Day. For hundreds of years churchgoers have held mass and sung villancicos (traditional carols) in memory of the innocent children of Bethlehem slaughtered

THE manager of Benidorm’s Terra Natura wildlife park and two employees have plead guilty to reckless homicide after a zookeeper was killed by a tiger in July 2016. A Benidorm court gave each of the defendants a six month prison term, which they will not have to serve as it was a first offence. The

THE EU is being asked for a whopping €2 billion to extend the Costa del Sol’s coastal railway as far as Algeciras in Cadiz. Calls have been made for decades to enlarge the line which at present runs from Malaga to Fuengirola, leaving major towns including Marbella and Estepona completely. And for decades – despite

A HOMELESS man who was paid by a vile stag party in Benidorm to have the groom’s name tattooed on his forehead is finally on his way to having it removed. Every two months for the past year, Tomek Matuszewki, 39, has undergone an excruciating four-minute procedure to have the Brit’s name removed. Now the

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SIX people died and two were injured after a coach travelling between Lugo and Vigo in northern Spain spun off a bridge and tumbled into the river Lerez. The accident happened on Saturday night at around 9.30 pm. There were two survivors- the 63-year-old coach driver and a 56-year-old woman, who were pulled out of

AT 12.33 p.m. on December 23, 2007, eight minutes ahead of schedule, the AVE arrived at a brand new María Zambrano Station, the first high-speed train to connect Malaga with Madrid. Last Friday, December 23, said rail service celebrated its 15 years of history. This milestone completely changed the connection between Malaga and the Spanish