June 2023

‘She didn’t care’: House collapses in Mallorca with five people inside as landlord faces questions over negligence

FIVE tenants have miraculously survived after their two-storey house collapsed on top of them. All five people were at home when a balcony and then the building’s facade crumbled away in the El Terreno neighbourhood just before midnight on Tuesday. They were shocked by an awful rumbling sound and then sat astonished as their home […]

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New website showcases funding opportunities for businesses to help build the 1000-seat Gibraltar national theatre

A NEW website will give businesses and individuals an easy way to help fund Gibraltar’s 1000-seater national theatre. The digital platform showcases the latest plans for the theatre at the John Mackintosh Hall, which will get a substantial facelift in the process. Apart from the main multi-level theatre there will be a secondary studio theatre

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Scottish food charity helping needy children worldwide wins Spain’s Princess of Asturias award

A SCOTTISH charity has won a Princess of Asturias award for ‘its exemplary dedication to helping resolve some of the world’s most pressing problems’. The Asturias jury has given its Concord Prize to Mary’s Meals based in Dalmally, Argyll, for helping to feed schoolchildren in extreme poverty around the world. Previous winners of the Concord

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Three construction workers seriously injured after falling from a third-floor height in Mallorca 

THREE construction workers have been seriously injured after the lift they were in collapsed in Calvia (Mallorca).  They are believed to have fallen from a height equivalent to a second or third floor. One of them, a 54-year-old, has suffered severe trauma to both legs, while his 44-year-old workmate has an open fracture in his

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Unions concerned about low staffing to deal with postal votes for Spain’s general election in July

A PLAN to draft in 12,000 extra postal workers to cope with the July 23 snap general election will be insufficient according to Spain’s biggest labour unions, who say that 18,000 staff are needed to cope with the number of people who will vote by mail.  It emerged last week that the Spanish public postal

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Spain receives unenviable accolade of Madrid being crowned the most overworked city in the world

OF all the cities in all the world, Spaniards might not be surprised to find that it’s their capital that has been ranked the most overworked globally. For indeed Madrid, known for its fast-paced work culture, tops the list as the city where employees are most overworked, according to office space rental company Instant Offices.

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Single bullet caused the deaths of a policeman and an assailant in Spain’s Jaen on Sunday

A SINGLE bullet caused the deaths of a policeman and an assailant in the municipality of Andujar on Sunday, according to autopsies carried out on the two victims.  The tragic turn of events was sparked when local man Andres Moya started banging on the door of a neighbour in the town in Jaen province, armed

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