SPAIN’S King Felipe VI on Monday began a new round of meetings with Spain’s political leaders, ahead of the nomination of a new candidate for prime minister. The talks come after the Popular Party (PP) leader Alberto Nuñez Feijoo failed to find the support from lawmakers in the Congress of Deputies to take power at […]
A BRITISH man, 43, has been arrested in Javea and charged with setting fire to several municipal rubbish collection bins and parked cars. The Guardia Civil says the Brit, who lives in the Costa Blanca municipality, has a criminal record for similar offences. The man went on a rampage in the early hours of August
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POLICE have confirmed that 13 people died in a nightclub fire in Murcia City on Sunday morning with 14 guests still unaccounted for. It was Spain’s deadliest nightclub fire since 1990 when 43 people lost their lives in a Zaragoza venue. In December 1983. 81 people were killed in a nightclub blaze in Madrid, with
THE NUMBER of abortions carried out in Spain during 2022 came in at 98,136, which represents a 9% increase on the year before. That’s according to the latest data published by the central Health Ministry, and reported by news agency EFE. The figures also show that there were 11.68 abortions for every 1,000 women aged
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A DRONE that was being flown by a foreign tourist crashed this week into the Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba. Fortunately there was no damage to the world-famous temple, which is a Unesco World Heritage Site. Sources from the cathedral told Spanish news agency EFE that the incident took place at around 10am on Thursday, when a
A 30-YEAR-OLD HGV driver from Warrington was scalped and left with other serious injuries as the result of a horrific car crash on the Balearic Island of Ibiza. The accident happened on September 8 when the hire car in which Vincent Brodie was travelling crashed and turned over three times. Brodie was sitting in the
THE LOCAL council in the town of Motril has taken the first steps toward stripping disgraced former football chief Luis Rubiales of the ‘gold medal’ that it awarded him as a former resident of the Granada locality. Councillors unanimously voted in favour this week of beginning an investigation led by its Honours and Distinctions Commission
FIREFIGHTERS have discovered the bodies of seven people killed when fire ripped through a disco in Murcia in southern Spain this morning during a birthday celebration. And as the emergency services carry out the grim task of sifting through the charred wreckage of the Teatro nightclub in the Atalayas district they are fearful of finding
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THE unexpected surge in loggerhead turtles nesting along the beaches of Andalucia which has so delighted turtle enthusiasts is driven by climate change, conservationists believe. This summer, an astonishing 27 nests were recorded, marking the highest number since the first loggerhead turtle nest was documented on the Spanish coast back in 2001. This unusual nesting
A ‘GROUNDBREAKING’ new book charting the lives of 25 women who lived in Gibraltar hopes to reshape traditional views on the gender divide. Caretaker Minister for Equality Samantha Sacramento said Women of Gibraltar, Forgotten Narratives would ‘lift women from Gibraltar’s past from obscurity’. Chief Executive of the Gibraltar Heritage Trust Claire Montado wrote the book
