October 2023

Malaga to New York flights will begin a month earlier next year and take off daily

UNITED Airlines will operate daily flights from the Costa del Sol to New York from next year.  Malaga will now become the only Spanish destination with daily non-stop flights to the US tourism hotspot.  The flights to New York Newark Airport are due to start from May 2 2024, a month earlier than expected.  It […]

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Spanish aristocrat, 33, is told to come up with something shorter after he tried to baptise his daughter with a tongue-twister 11 individual names 

A SPANISH aristocrat has been ordered to shorten the name of his baby daughter after he tried to register her with a name that comprised a mammoth 11 different individual names. Spanish aristocrat Fernando Fitz-James Stuart, the 17th Duke of Huéscar and heir apparent to the dukedom of Alba found his daughter’s name fell foul

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WATCH: Driver in Spain is caught on camera eating his dinner with a spoon while travelling at 130km/hr – while another is caught brushing their teeth

THIS is the moment a driver in Spain was caught on camera eating his dinner while travelling at 130km/hr. The shocking footage shared by the country’s traffic authority (DGT), shows the individual using a spoon to tuck into his meal while bombing down a road in Valencia. The DGT shared a number of clips of

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Renting costs soar in Spain: Tenants in Andalucia are spending 30% of their salaries on rent

ANYONE who has been living in Spain in recent years cannot have failed to notice the spiralling cost of living, in particular since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. But it’s not just groceries, fuel and leisure that have seen prices jump, but also rents.  Residents of the Andalucia region are now spending

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Spain’s labour market sets new record as number of people in work breaks 21.3 million barrier for first time ever

SPAIN’S labour market has set a new record, as the number of people in work broke the 21.3-million barrier for the first time ever in the third quarter of 2023. That’s according to the latest figures from the Active Population Survey, which is compiled by the country’s National Statistics Institute (INE).  Compared to the second

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Financial services gurus line up for final Gibraltar Day events in UK capital with expert minister

A BREAKFAST and lunch in London for financial services gurus in Pall Mall gave new minister Nigel Feetham the final chance to showcase Gibraltar’s potential to UK investors. The three day series of events for Gibraltar Day ended with the breakfast and lunch at the prestigious Royal Automobile Club on October 25. Feetham opened most

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Female baker filmed on secret camera peeing into kitchen bowls and putting them back on the shelves wins €25k in compensation

A BAKERY employee who was fired for urinating into containers and placing them back into the kitchen drawers has won an unfair dismissal tribunal. The female staff member pocketed €25,336.08 in compensation after the court in Barcelona ordered the company to either hand over the sum or rehire her. The Catalan court ruled that her

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Caught red-footed: Man in Spain’s Almeria province arrested by police after using camera in shoe to repeatedly record up store manager’s skirt

A MAN in Spain’s Almeria province has been arrested by the National Police after he was caught using a camera installed in his shoe to record up the skirt of a copy shop manager.  According to the authorities, the ‘upskirting’ suspect would only carry out the surreptitious taping when the victim was wearing a skirt,

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Hotel prices soar in Spain’s Andalucia: Marbella and Granada see the biggest jump

HOTEL prices have soared in Spain’s southern Andalusia region, with the highest rises in the whole of Spain to be found in Marbella and Granada.  According to the latest report from hotel data company STR and real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield on the Spanish hotel sector, the average price for a nightly stay

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Hospitals WILL return to public management in two areas of Spain’s Costa Blanca and Valencia

THE VALENCIAN government has rejected calls to overturn plans to remove the private management of two health departments. The Denia and Manises areas will return to public management in 2024 after 15 years of contracts held by Ribera Salud and Sanitas respectively. Denia mayor, Vicent Grimalt, said he welcomed the news and that an audit

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