June 2023

Pet owner faces charges after American Staffordshire dog hangs itself in Spain’s Murcia region

A MAN is being investigated for alleged animal abandonment and abuse crimes after his dog was found hanged outside a Fuente Alamo house in the Murcia region. The Policia Local found the American Staffordshire breed dog weighing between 35 and 40 kilos hanging by its neck via its chain on a stone wall near to […]

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Swedish stoppage: H&M workers bring shutters down on Spanish stores over pay and conditions

THE SALES MAY BE ON, but the stores are closed. That was what potential customers of Swedish clothing chain H&M found on Tuesday, as industrial action by staff prompted the shutters to stay down at shops across Spain.  Spain’s biggest labour unions, CCOO and UGT, organised the work stoppage, the first day of which took

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New perimeter wall plan to stop floods at major Costa Blanca hospital in Spain

€2.5 MILLION has been allocated to the Valencian Government to protect Orihuela’s Vega Baja Hospital against flooding after services came close to collapsing during the September 2019 storms, A 1.25 metre-high perimeter wall is viewed as a solution along with a water storage area close to the hospital, which embarked on a €70 million expansion

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Man and woman locked up children for at least two years in horrific conditions in Spain’s Valencia

A SPANISH man and woman aged 51 and 57 have been arrested and charged with family mistreatment in the Valencia area after four children were kept locked up at home in unsanitary conditions for over two years. The father was also subject to five judicial fraud indictments- with two demanding his arrest and imprisonment. The

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As general elections approach, conservative Popular Party struggles with uneasy bedfellow Vox

THE LATEST POLLS ahead of the July 23 snap election in Spain suggest that the conservative Popular Party (PP) and far-right Vox party will win enough seats to form a government in the Congress of Deputies. But as the fallout from the local and regional elections is showing, making a deal could still be a

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‘I am going to cut your head off!’, man says before he cuts the neck of bar owner’s father in Spain’s Andalucia

A MAN who police convinced to leave a bar in Spain’s Andalucia, returned a few minutes to allegedly cut the neck of the owner’s father. The violent unprovoked attack occurred last weekend in the popular holiday destination of Torremolinos on the Costa del Sol. It all started when the suspect started to have an argument

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British man arrested on suspicion of assaulting partner on flight to Spain’s Malaga

A 61-YEAR-OLD British man has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting his partner on a holiday flight from the UK to Malaga. The incident occurred on board Jet2 flight LS265, which touched down at Malaga Airport last Monday evening. Spanish air traffic controllers said in a tweet: “The crew of a plane arriving at Malaga

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High-speed underwater tunnel between Spain and Morocco back on the cards as Madrid orders new feasibility report

THE Spanish government has pledged €2.3 million towards a new feasibility study for a high-speed rail network to Morocco through an underwater tunnel.  The longstanding proposal, known as the ‘Europe-Africa Gibraltar Strait fixed link’, has now been revived after it was put on hold in 2009.  A joint Spanish-Moroccan commission reconvened for the first time

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