January 2023

Spain’s Rafa Nadal crashes out of Australian Open at second round stage

DEFENDING champion Rafa Nadal crashed out of the Australian Open at the second round stage on Wednesday after suffering a hip injury during his 6-4 6-4 7-5 defeat by America’s Mackenzie McDonald. The Mallorcan player had an indifferent build up to the first Grand Slam of the year, but overcame Britain’s Jack Draper in the […]

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Spain battered by first winter storms of 2023 which are due to last until Friday

SWATHES of Spain have battened down the hatches as storms Fien and Gerard has swept the country bringing strong winds, heavy snow, rain and rough seas. One man is known to have died. The 80-year-old vanished during the storm on Monday night. His body was found in the port of Basque town Bermeo. A bus

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Birthday tears flow for Lisa Brown feared murdered in Spain, prime suspect still at large

Lisa Brown, feared murdered in Spain, would have celebrated her 40th birthday on Friday. Instead, tears flowed for the mother-of-one at the grave site of her mother in Alexandria, northwest of Glasgow, where her sister released balloons into the air and had just one wish; justice for her younger sibling. The prime suspect in the

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Spain’s Marbella exceeds official figure of 150,000 inhabitants for first time

GLITZY Marbella has exceeded the threshold of 150,000 inhabitants for the first time—new figures reveal. According to data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) recently published, as of December 31 2022, Marbella has an official population of 150,725 inhabitants. The swell of people moving and setting up camp in this tourist hotspot town of the

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‘DEVASTATING’: Cross frontier group slams politicians for not reaching a deal on Gibraltar’s EU treaty

GETTING no deal at the end of EU treaty talks would be ‘devastating’ for Gibraltar and surrounding towns, a group of business associations and trade unions has said. The Cross Frontier Group said in a statement that it would be ‘a huge political failure’ for those involved in the process for which they will have

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Crane barge starts to break up OS 35 bulk carrier shipwrecked in Gibraltar waters

A WRECK removal company has started to take away the cranes from the beached bulk carrier lying off the coast of Gibraltar since August. The crane barge that arrived from Suriname has started work on slowly dismantling the OS 35 shipwreck before removing the metal beams that make up its cargo. Salvage company Koole removed

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‘Big cat’ terrorising residents in Spain’s Cadiz is just that—a big cat

THE story of a ‘ferocious feline’ stalking the quiet Cadiz municipality of Los Barrios made headlines across the country several weeks ago, with images of the ‘big cat’ going viral. The wild cat chase for a ‘large feline,’ believed by many to have been an albino leopard or a ‘kingpin’s Siberian white tiger, has ended

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The first Kraken case in Andalucia is registered as the junta prepares for most contagious strain of Covid to take hold

Andalusia has registered its first case of the ‘kraken’ variant of the Covid-19 coronavirus that has been sweeping across the USA. The announcement was made by Catalina García, the Minister of Health and Families, who declined to provide further details about the state and whereabouts of the infected patient. However, the minister delivered a message

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