DISCUSSIONS are said to be an ‘advanced stage’ for Elon Musk’s electric car manufacturer Tesla to open a factory in the Valencia area. Both the Reuters news agency and business newspaper Cinco Dias have named Tesla as the company the Valencian government is negotiating with, but both parties have refused to comment. Reports suggest that […]
HORROR writer Montegriffo is the overall winner from nearly 450 entries at this year’s Spring Festival short story competition. The event, organised by Gibraltar Cultural Services (GCS) for the Ministry of Culture, had English, Spanish and Llanito language categories. Minister for Culture John Cortes expressed his glee about how literature had become ‘a cultural pivot’
FIREFIGHTERS have rescued a young tourist, apparently British, who plummeted into an underground rubbish bin on the Costa del Sol. The incident took place after midnight yesterday, Thursday June 8, in one of the three containers for organic waste that Malaga City Council has installed in the Plaza Uncibay. For reasons that are still being
STORM OSCAR, which hit mainland Spain last Wednesday, June 7, bringing driving rain and gale-force winds will finally give way to a summery weekend starting today, Friday June 9. Following an atypical wet three-week spell for this time of the year in Malaga, the sun and highs of 30ºC will once again return to the
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Environmentalists have exposed Spain as the European country with the largest number of dolphins in captivity. NGO World Animal Protection slams the Mediterranean country for keeping 93 dolphins captive, which accounts for 30% of the individuals of the species in this situation in Europe. The majority of these specimens (20) are at Valencia’s Oceanografic. Spain
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THE government’s summer sports programme for children will start early in Gibraltar after three local schools announced they would close their doors sooner than normal. Pupils from Governor’s Meadow, St Mary’s and Bishop Fitzgerald School will now be able to attend the sports sessions when their terms finish up. The Gibraltar Sports and Leisure Authority
SPAIN’S state train operator Renfe and energy company Cepsa have teamed up with freight transporter Maersk to power up a large freight train with renewable diesel produced from used cooking oil. Tests will run for three months on the Algeciras to Madrid rail line which in effect will become a decarbonised route. Renewable diesel will
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THE FIRST-EVER MADRID edition of the Primavera Sound festival was plunged into chaos on Wednesday, as organisers had to cancel concerts scheduled for tonight due to adverse weather conditions in the region. Blur and New Order were among the 60 or so artists due to play to thousands of festival-goers on Thursday night. The organisers
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A PROBE has been opened in the Basque Country after it emerged that a chief inspector from the National Police offered his officers days off work according to the number of immigrants they could arrest. The alleged incident took place in Irun, in the Guipuzcoa province. The police order was in place for ‘several hours’,
LEFTIST POLITICAL party Podemos (We Can) is going to make a last-minute consultation of its grassroots members before deciding whether or not to join forces with a new left-wing bloc called Sumar (Unite) ahead of the upcoming general election. Many of the parties from Spain’s fragmented left wing have already signed up to Sumar, which
