December 2022

Parents in Spain’s Barcelona province file police report after sex video of underage daughter goes viral

A COUPLE in Barcelona province has filed a police report after a video of their underage daughter performing a sex act in a nightclub went viral.  The images, which were shared via the social media site TIkTok and on Twitter, show the youngster fellating a young man in the middle of a packed dance floor […]

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€4.7 million to be spent in 2023 removing biomass from polluted Mar Menor in Murcia

THE Murcia regional government has authorised €4.7 million to be allocated next year to continue the process of removing biomass from the Mar Menor lagoon. The budget will be spent on eliminating accumulations of decomposing organic matter on the Mar Menor shores and shallow waters which negatively impact the ecological and appearance of the lagoon.

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Police dog sniffs out hash in tyres of luxury Merc going from Spain’s Ceuta to Algeciras

A POLICE dog foiled an attempt to smuggle over 28 kilos of hashish hidden inside the tyres of a luxury car in Spain’s Ceuta driven by two men as they tried to catch the ferry to Algeciras. The dog alerted Guardia Civil officers who then searched the car arrested the two men from Ceuta for

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BUSTED: Police arrest gang who allegedly sent drugs to UK from Spain’s Andalucia hidden in containers

POLICE arrested six members of a gang that allegedly sent drugs to Britain in specially prepared secret compartments inside maritime containers. Guardia Civil agents raided a farm in Alhaurin de la Torre where they prepared the containers with false floors to hide the drugs. Officers found many materials and machinery to make the secret compartments

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Supermarkets in Spain in last minute rush to change tills and price labels ahead of lower food taxes

FOOD retailers in Spain have welcomed Tuesday’s government decision to cut IVA rates on basic products from January 1, but have warned of frantic last-minute work to get everything ready. IVA will be exempted from basic foods while tax will go down from 10% to 5% on oil and pasta. The Asedas association represents distributors,

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Cadiz politician calls for ‘courage’ to clinch EU treaty ‘utopia’ on Gibraltar as Spain digs in on demands

A LEADING politician from Andalucia has called for ‘more courage’ from Spain, the UK and the EU to reach agreement on Gibraltar’s post-Brexit future. Juan Carlos Ruiz Boix, secretary general of the PSOE in Cadiz and mayor of neighbouring town San Roque, said he wanted to see ‘the utopia’ of the end of the frontier

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Nephew of Spain’s King Felipe denies press reports of involvement in nightclub brawl

KING FELIPE’S nephew has made a statement to categorically deny a series of news stories that have emerged in recent days.  According to online daily El Confidencial, the police have implicated Felipe Juan Froilán Marichalar y Borbón in a fight outside a Madrid nightclub in late November involving knives, and are investigating his involvement.  The

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SWEET MUSIC: the village of Cáñar, in Spain’s Andalucia, has an annual fiesta where men serenade the women overnight

THE small mountain village of Cáñar, in the Alpujarra of Granada, has an unusual festive tradition that takes place on the morning of 28 December every year. Called ‘Música de Las Mozuelas‘ (the nearest translation would be “youth” or “stripling”), it’s an event where the men parade through the streets, serenading the ladies, who listen

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