December 2022

GIBRALTAR’S national museum will host a one-day seminar focusing on its Unesco World Heritage Site and similar natural parks in the nearby area. Culture minister John Cortes will open the sessions on December 10 at the University of Gibraltar, which will feature talks on the Rock’s flora and fauna. Special guest speakers of the event […]

CONSTITUTION Day is a bank holiday across Spain every December 6 and marks the anniversary of the referendum which approved a new constitution for the country. On December 6, 1978 voters went to the polls to back a crucial step in Spain’s transition to democracy following the death of dictator General Francisco Franco in 1975.

THE STREISAND effect is the name given to the phenomenon where an attempt to hide or censor something has the opposite result, instead drawing more attention to that thing. It would appear that a bid in Spain to ban a commemorative stamp for the centenary of the Spanish Communist Party (PCE) has done just that. 

SEVILLA has been announced as the headquarters of the new Spanish Space Agency. It beat off 20 rivals to get the government nod which was announced after Monday’s meeting of the Council of Ministers. Government spokesperson, Isabel Rodriguez, said: “The priority in the award was to do with social and territorial cohesion.” The Sevilla bid

A mini tornado has swept through Marbella with shocking footage showing uprooted trees moving through the air.  Fierce storms started in the Campo de Gibraltar and moved east on Monday afternoon where it unleashed on Marbella about 4.30pm. An uprooted tree being carried through the air in Marbella. It brought heavy rainfall and a small

A British man, 69, has been arrested by the Guardia Civil in the Murcia region for allegedly killing his wife. The British couple lived on the popular expat Camposol urbanisation in the Mazarron municipality. The victim, 52, filed six domestic violence complaints against her partner between 2007 and 2015. On each occasion authorities offered protection

ARTICHOKE producers from the Vega Baja region of Alicante Province have hired a superhero in the form of AlcasilMan- a character created by local comedian Trino. AlcasilMan is dressed as an artichoke and has been drafted in by the Vega Baja del Segura Artichoke Association to defend the quality of the locally-grown vegetable and to

TWO arrests have been made in Barcelona after a headless torso was discovered last week in a suitcase that had been left in a rubbish container. The detained men allegedly lived with the victim in an apartment next to where the grisly discovery was made.  The body was found at 9am last Tuesday by a

The dramatic moment an international team of police officers storm a French home where vulnerable women were being exploited for sex slavery was captured on video. Eleven women were freed after the cruel transnational sex trafficking gang, which operated a call centre in Spain, was dismantled. The video shows officers from Spain, France and Colombia

SPANISH police are reportedly on alert ahead of possible altercations tomorrow related to the World Cup last-16 match between Spain and Morocco. Disturbances were seen in Belgium last week after the North African team was victorious against that country.  The Interior Ministry is observing the situation with caution, according to a report in Spanish online