A LAWMAKER from the conservative Popular Party has been accused by his Socialist colleagues of making a death threat against Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez during a session in the Congress of Deputies today. Politician Jose Ignacio Echaniz is alleged to have said ‘you are dead’ and gestured with his thumb facing downward after a question […]
NEARLY 22% of women in Spain say they have suffered some kind of sexual assault during their lives. That’s a total of 3.5 million female adults. The statistic is one of many included in a poll published today by the CIS state research institute, titled ‘Sexual violence against women’. The survey also reveals that 35%
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A MALIGNED transport company has vowed to increase the number of buses along the coast if it sees enough demand for it. It comes as an Olive Press survey found that there is huge dissatisfaction with the service provided by Avanza between the towns of the western Costa del Sol. The online poll of residents
CYBERCRIME is now accounting for 20% of reported offences in Spain according to Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska. Speaking in Madrid on Wednesday, Grande-Marlaska said there were over 375,000 cybercrimes last year- up by 72% on 2019 and a 352% increase on the 2015 total. He announced a media awareness campaign with the first phase featuring
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A woman was locked up by her family for 22 days in Linares because they wanted evil spirits exorcised from her body after she split from her husband in London. Her father-in-law flew over from the UK to take charge of the exorcism. The man, along with the woman’s parents, have been arrested by the
GIBRALTAR’S youth service is planning meetings with the wider public ‘to get informed, discuss and identify the needs of young people’, it said in a statement. This week, the Youth Service held an art exhibition at the GEMA gallery to mark Children’s Mental Health week. The planned meetings with stakeholders in the community will share
A Colombian man has been charged with attempted murder after stabbing his partner multiple times in Valencia. A 53-year-old man was arrested at 4am in a house in the city after another person who lived there heard screams and called the police. Officers raced to the scene to avert yet another case of murder by
THE BRITISH embassy in Spain has posted an update on driving licence negotiations, claiming that the agreement that will let UK licence holders legally get back on the roads will be put before the Spanish Cabinet ‘very soon’. Since May 1 of last year, anyone who is a resident of the country and either did
TWO people who ordered 31 new trains for the Asturias to Cantabria commuter rail line have been sacked after the rolling stock were too high to get through the tunnels. National rail operator Renfe said its rolling stock manager had been dismissed while track infrastructure company, Adif, said its technology inspectorate head had gone. Adif
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VOLUNTEERS from the Nautilus Project collected 80kg of rubbish during a clean-up of the fenced-off beach on the eastern end of Gibraltar’s runway recently. The Ministry of Defence invited the NGO so that it could carry out an environmental analysis and clean-up on that normally off-limits stretch of coastline bordering the airport. Student volunteers collected
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