June 2023

AIR Europa and Iryo have announced the launch of combined plane and train tickets in Spain from September.  The agreement will include flights connecting Spain with 33 destinations in Europe, Latin America and the USA.  Flights arriving and departing from Madrid will have a high-speed train connection to 11 Spanish cities.  These include Barcelona, Tarragona, […]

THE BEGINNING of the summer on Wednesday, June 21 was marked by a situation of drought in nearly 40% of the country. That’s according to the latest report from the Ecological Transition Ministry. The data shows that 33% of Spain is in a ‘prolonged drought’, with a particularly dry year so far in Catalonia and

THE SPOKESPERSON for the conservative Popular Party (PP) has had to make a statement distancing his group from Vox, after the far-right group placed a huge advert in the centre of Madrid in which feminism, the LGBTQ+ flag and the Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals are seen being thrown into a bin.  Other symbols that

A UKRAINIAN media outlet tracked down a number of properties in Spain belonging – or supposedly belonging – to sanctioned Russians who support their country’s invasion of Ukraine. Journalists from Ukrainska Pravda travelled the country – armed with a drone – locating and filming these villas, for the world to see. The roll call of

FOUR out of 10 workers in Spain receive no compensation for their overtime work.  A study carried out by Infojobs and Adecco exposed businesses in Spain for not complying with the regulations placed by the Spanish Government in 2019.  The latest royal decree states that full-time employees can only work up to 80 hours of

VISITORS to O’Hara’s Battery at the top of the Rock of Gibraltar will be greeted with a more interesting and interactive experience after it reopened on June 21. The Ministry of Heritage said it had commissioned ‘restoration and maintenance works to enhance aesthetics and visitor experience’ of the historical gun and site. The Upper Rock

AUTHORITIES in Valencia have blocked plans for a 12,000 panel solar farm on land between Los Montesinos and Torrevieja because of its proximity to a natural park. The veto comes from the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the project would have been developed on eight hectares close to the Los Montesinos roundabout on the CV-95.

A VAN crammed with 600 kilos of stolen oranges refused to stop for the police in the Orihuela area of Alicante province and led officers on a high-speed chase. Policia Nacional officers were operating a routine checkpoint on the CV-868 in the La Matanza district of Orihuela on June 6 when they tried to stop

CHILDREN will be better protected from domestic abuse in Gibraltar after its Ministry of Justice ran further multi-agency training for Operation Encompass recently. The unified system of child protection already in place throughout the UK is part of the National Domestic Abuse Strategy on the Rock. It allows teachers, care workers and police officers to

AS many as 39 people, including four women and a baby, are feared to have died en route to the Canary Islands after their dinghy sank yesterday. The boat, which was reported to be carrying a total of 59 people, was issuing SOS distress calls for 12 hours in Spanish waters, according to a pair