KING Felipe will reunite with his father, Emeritus King Juan Carlos at their second royal funeral service in five months. Felipe and Juan Carlos were last seen together in public at Westminster Abbey in September for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. The Emeritus King, who recently turned 85, will fly to Athens from his […]
DOCTORS are claiming that hospital emergency units are ‘saturated’, with patient demand up by over 40% in some parts of the country. The Spanish Society of Emergency Medicine(SEMES) has warned about a ‘difficult and unsustainable’ that ER services are experiencing so far in 2023 with ‘no solutions being provided by the national government and the
A LEGENDARY cat burglar responsible for a string of jewellery thefts across Mallorca has finally been arrested at the age of 74. He is thought to be the architect of at least five recent break-ins at homes in Palma and the Part Forana de Mallorca. The career criminal, with numerous prior arrests and stints in
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WHEN news broke of the custody arrangement, and definitive split, between Shakira and Gerard Pique back in November, the Colombian singing superstar released a song, Monotony, whose lyrics and video conveyed heartbreak. But barely two months later, how things have changed. Yesterday saw the release of a track called Session 53, the latest in a
A Mallorcan man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for blackmailing six teenage girls into sending him naked pictures. The 22-year-old approached a series of girls aged between 12 and 17 via Whatsapp and Instagram at the end of 2020 and asked them to send him naked or revealing pictures. Having got one
The case of the woman whose headless and handless body washed up next to a group of Sunday diners in Marbella has been solved after her ex-boyfriend confessed to the gruesome crime. A Colombian national, 45, and an accomplice friend after the former confessed to police after being presented with the overwhelming evidence against him.
SPAIN’S Supreme Court has dropped a sedition charge against the exiled former Catalunya president Carles Puigdemont, but a new move will be made to extradite him from Belgium. The sedition charge was brought after the region held an illegal independence referendum in 2017 and declared unilateral independence from Spain. The court waived that charge against
Mallorca is set for a radical change in the weather next week with a sharp drop in temperatures, and wind, rain and snow forecast. The Balearic island has been soaking in sun all-week long, with temperatures around 20 degrees. But it will plummet to a chilly 14 degrees on Monday. A spokesperson for the State
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A 16-year-old boy has been arrested after pointing a fake gun at a Guardia Civil officer in Alcudia. The incident happened on Monday when an off-duty officer was driving on Calle Pollentia. His progress was being impeded by a teenager on a scooter travelling in the middle of the road. As the officer overtook him,
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IN SPAIN, just 5% of goods are moved by freight train, compared to the European average of 20%. But that is set to change from the first quarter of next year, as a rail superhighway between Algeciras and Zaragoza is put into action. The public-private project will see a 1,074-kilometre route operating between the city
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