Spain’s labour policy reforms have led to a significant increase in the number of young workers with permanent contracts, new stats show. Youth unemployment rates fell to 31% in the third quarter of 2022 – down from 37% in 2021, although this number would be negatively inflated by the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic. Reforms […]
A British expat is pleading for help after waiting nearly six years to get his Spanish pension. The Marbella-based 70-year-old faces bankruptcy and potential homelessness in the new year if the authorities don’t step in and help. It comes after Jerry Wayne was turned down by Spain’s Social Security department despite paying tax for 35
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Far-right thug Stephen Yaxley-Lennon has boasted of attending a football match in Spain, despite being banned from attending ‘all regulated football matches, home and abroad’ until 2023. The 40-year-old anti-Islam activist, better known by the alias Tommy Robinson, posted a video to his Telegram channel brazenly admitting he was attending a game in Spain because
DEATHS in Spain fell by 8.7% in 2021 according to figures compiled by the National Institute of Statistics(INE). 450,744 died last year- a drop of 43,032 on the 2020 total when the Covid pandemic was in full flow with no vaccinations. The 2021 mortality rate stood at 952.3 deaths per 100,000 people. By sex, 231,410
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An American college student who had been missing for two weeks was found in Spain after ‘seeing himself on the news’. The family of Kenny DeLand Jr. reported the 22-year-old as missing at the end of November and had been trying to reach him the past two weeks. But on Friday the New York college
POLICE in Malaga have arrested four gang-members who violently held-up a truck that rival drug-traffickers were using to move hashish hidden in its cargo of potatoes. Guardia Civil agents started the operation after a truck-driver reported that various cars forced him to stop on the A-7 motorway in Andalucia and stormed the vehicle. The gang
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A MAN has been arrested accused of setting 19 forest fires in Spain’s Caceres over a period of two years. One of the blazes burned 1,000 hectares and led to 800 people being evacuated as Spain suffered two of its worst years for forest fires in 2021 and 2022. The 54-year-old man is accused of
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SPAIN’S OCU consumer watchdog says that nearly half of the country’s main-branded chocolate turrons are not up to scratch. With the festive turron-eating season upon us, the OCU analysed 17 chocolate turrons from different brands, and found that eight of them are unhealthy. The key ingredient to a good chocolate turron is that the chocolate
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POLICE are searching for the driver of a BMW who fatally ran over a 28-year-old at the entrance to Cartama and then fled the scene. Seberal witnesses reported seeing the car ram the Cartama resident who was crossing the A-75057 entrance to the town at 6am on Sunday. The driver who carried out the hit-and-run
A HUNTING dog that had been trapped in a cave for five days has been resued unharmed after a massive Guardia Civil operation. Bomb squad officers were called in to help blast a way to the frightened pooch with a series of 20 ‘micro explosions’. Once the narrow cave opening was widened enough, a mountain
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