December 2022

Spain’s traffic authority predicts 13.5 million car journeys in next week thanks to December national holidays

A WHOPPING 13.5 million car journeys are expected to be made over the next week, as much of Spain will grind to a halt thanks to a public holiday on Tuesday December 6 and another on Thursday December 8. Weeks like this, with either one or two holidays interspersed with working days, are known in […]

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Armed police in Spain cordon off Ukraine embassy in Madrid after it gets ‘bloody’ package of animal remains

ARMED Policia Nacional officers cordoned off the area surrounding the Ukraine embassy in Madrid on Friday afternoon following the delivery of a ‘bloody package’. It was similar to ones sent to other Ukraine embassies and consulates across Europe which contained animal eyes. The Madrid envelope contained traces of bloody and animal remains. An Interior Ministry

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Spain sends specialist police team to investigate war crimes in Ukraine

AN 11-strong Spanish police team has arrived in Ukraine to investigate possible war crimes and crimes against humanity, the Interior Ministry said on Friday. Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska saw off the team at dawn on Thursday from Madrid airport. The team consists of Policia Nacional and Guardia Civil specialist officers, who have also been joined

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New anti-corruption authority could deliver ‘more transparency’ in Gibraltar, government says

GIBRALTAR government looks to create a new independent anti-corruption authority that will be able to investigate fraud, bribery or misconduct in public office. Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said he wanted to ‘deliver more transparency and more accountability than ever before’ by publishing the new Bill. The new anti-corruption authority will be able to investigate any

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Man threatens to shoot police officer in nightclub toilet on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A 47-year-old Spaniard assaulted a Policia Nacional officer in an Elche nightclub and threatened to shoot him dead. He’s been charged with attempted murder, assault, the illegal possession of weapons and drug dealing. A dawn police patrol spotted him behaving suspiciously in a street close to the Elche football stadium as he was potentially selling

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‘Bird man’ of Andalucia soars under the famous arched bridge of Spain’s Ronda in incredible death-defying stunt

Andalucia’s very own ‘bird man’ pulled off an astonishing feat today as he flew under the famous arch bridge of Ronda at 300km per hour. Daredevil Daniel Roman leapt out of a paramotor in the cool December sky in a wingsuit from several thousand metres up and prepared to take aim at the narrow gap

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EXCLUSIVE: Mother of missing X-Factor star Levi Davis ‘in shock’ at grim twist in five-week search

The mother of missing X-Factor star Levi Davis who went missing in Barcelona is ‘in shock’ after police investigating her son’s disappearance found a body, although it did not belong to the 24-year-old. Julie Davis heard the grim news via Levi’s friend Richard Squire, who Levi had travelled to Ibiza to see before then boarding

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Twelve-year Operation Shovel fizzles out with ‘Dapper Don’ Christy Kinahan Sr facing just four years in jail over passport fraud

Christy Kinahan Sr, the alleged head of a drug trafficking empire, is facing a return to Spain to stand trial and a potential four-year jail sentence in charges brought against him from the long-running Operation Shovel investigation into the notorious Kinahan crime family. Prosecutors on the Costa del Sol are hitting the man known as

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Spain’s November jobless total is lowest for the month since 2007

SPAIN’S unemployment total of 2.88 million for November is the lowest seen for the month since 2007. Figures from the Labour Ministry showed it was the second-lowest total this year and a 33,512 improvement on the October rate. The biggest falls by region were 15,330 in the Valencian Community and 11,169 in Andalucia. A Ministry

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