March 2023

Ricky Gervais to visit Spain on upcoming ‘Armageddon’ stand-up comedy tour

BRITISH comedian Ricky Gervais will be making a stop in Spain on his upcoming ‘Armageddon’ tour, thanks to a show in Barcelona on August 31.  Pre-sale tickets for the gig, to be held in the Auditori Forum, will be available from Thursday March 30 via livenation.es, while general sales will start the following day via […]

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Notorious Spanish fraudster ‘Little Nicolas’ collects fourth jail sentence

A NOTORIOUS Spanish fraudster known as ‘Little Nicolas’, due to the tender age at which his deceptions began, has been given his fourth jail term. This time around, the Madrid High Court has sentenced him to four years and three months for a ploy to access confidential information from police databases.  Francisco Nicolas Gomez Iglesias,

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Residents allowed back to their evacuated homes as fire continues in Spain’s Castellon

AROUND 200 people evacuated due to the fire raging in the Alto Mijares and Alto Palancia regions of Castellon province were allowed to return home on Wednesday. The blaze which started last Thursday has devastated 4,800 hectares of land but there has been no loss of life. Residents of Villanueva de Viver and La Puebla

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WATCH: King Felipe IV of Spain and Queen Leticia join in with public flamenco box playing performance in Cadiz

It’s an experience none of the 60-strong flamenco box playing group will forget – the King and Queen of Spain walked in among them, pulled up boxes of their own and joined in a rendition of the rumba classic ‘Ali Ali Oh’. [embedded content]

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Barcelona museum tour guide arrested for allegedly assaulting four schoolgirls

A 26-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting four schoolgirls in Badalona´s Roman Museum has been arrested.  The alleged criminal is believed to have inappropriately touched the minors, who attend a school in Barcelona´s town Arenys de Munt, during their school visit to the museum.  The alleged events were reported to the police by the pupils’

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Grammy-winning Black Eyed Peas to headline Costa Blanca music festival in Spain

SIX-TIME Grammy winners, the Black Eyed Peas, will be the stand-out act at this year’s Brilla Torrevieja festival. The hip-hop group featuring will.i.am will take to the stage at Torrevieja’s Antonio Soria Park on August 11. The band is famous for hits like ‘I Gotta Feeling’ and ‘The Time’, and have recorded eight studio albums.

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Catalan politician Clara Ponsati, wanted by justice system for role in independence drive, arrested on return to Spain

Catalan politician Clara Ponsati, who is wanted by the Spanish authorities for her involvement in the 2017 independence drive in the region, was arrested on Tuesday evening after she had returned to Spain for the first time in five years. She was released shortly after having been given a date to appear at the Supreme

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Gibraltar authorities do emergency trial run at airport tunnel which is set to open on Friday

GIBRALTAR authorities are completing the final checks on the new tunnel that will become the new entry point into the British territory from Spain from Friday. On Wednesday, emergency services ran a test to check the tunnel’s safety systems, simulating a fire using smoke machines and checking accident scenarios. The tunnel operators, trained to UK

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