January 2023

MOTORISTS visiting the Sierra Nevada ski resort at Granada’s Pradollano, in Monachil, are experiencing lengthy diversions because of a dramatic rockfall on the A-395 that is continuing to block the main access road to the popular tourist destination. The rockfall happened on Sunday 29 January, injuring eight people, including a baby and a two-year-old. According […]

RESIDENTS of Spain could see their mortgage payments increase soon thanks to the ongoing rise of the 12-month Euribor. The rate is the most commonly used benchmark for the calculation of home loans in the country, and is currently at a level not seen since December 2008.  At the end of January, the 12-month Euribor

SPAIN HAS fallen for the second year running on the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), put together by an organisation called Transparency International (TI).  According to the latest report from TI, which was released on Tuesday, Spain has a score of 60 out of 100 on the corruption index. This puts it on a par with

A WAITRESS in Spain has denounced a potential employer for demanding that she send him photos of her, including her cleavage, before considering her for a job.  The young woman in question, named Génesis, drew attention to the unsavoury and sexist WhatsApp exchange via the Twitter account ‘Soy Camarero’ (I’m a waiter). In the screen

The stepson of Marbella mayor Angeles Muñoz was the leader of a money laundering ring, according to a National Court of Spain indictment.  Joakim Peter Broberg, 41, faces accusations of drug trafficking, money laundering and being involved in organised crime. Spanish media have reported that the Criminal Chamber of the National Court confirmed investigating judge

A COURT ruling published on Tuesday may mean that former Catalan premier Carles Puigdemont is a step closer to being extradited to Spain from Belgium, where he has been living since fleeing the country in 2017 to avoid arrest for his role in the independence drive.  The Belgian authorities have so far rejected European orders

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE technology at Madrid’s National Library has unearthed a previously unknown comedic play penned by one of Spain’s greatest writers, Felix Lope de Vega. AI was being used by researchers to transcribe 1,300 uncredited manuscripts and books at the library to save many years of human work. Another aim was to find out the

THREE youngsters aged between 20 and 21 were killed on Tuesday morning after a fire broke out in a student flat in Huelva.  The victims, two of whom were female and one male, were students who were celebrating the end of their exams, and became trapped in a room when the blaze took hold.  Around

Nutrients and phytochemicals in the Mediterranean diet drastically improves cardiovascular health, according to a new study.  The Food Research International study looked at elderly Mediterraneans and how certain microbial phenolic metabolites (MPM) in a diet involving a high intake of nuts, legumes, fruits, vegetables, extra virgin olive oil, and moderate quantities of wine was linked

AN Alicante woman in her eighties was defrauded of €5,485 by a female who lived with her, after using her bank details to go on a spending spree. The fraudster got hold of the home owner’s bank card and linked it up with a ‘contactless’ payment app on her mobile phone. The card never disappeared,