A GROUP of young Spanish vets were treated to some horsemanship training in English as part of an EU-financed programme. The AgriNext project, led by trainer and ‘lifelong horse and donkey lover’ Paula Ledesma, saw 37 students from the Galileo Galilei Institute in Cordoba saddle up for the week-long course in natural horsemanship. They made […]
A STARTLING report by NASA has illustrated the drought enveloping Spain – and in particular the olive groves of Andalucia, the world’s leading olive oil producer. Two satellite images of the Iberian peninsula taken 12 months apart highlight the alarming browning of the landscape. NASA’s Terra satellite, equipped with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS),
THREE of Spain’s regional parties boycotted Wednesday’s opening of a new Congress session by King Felipe- nearly two weeks after Pedro Sanchez won the prime ministerial investiture vote. The king, who defended the country’s constitution in his speech, was accompanied by his wife Queen Letizia and one of their two daughters, Princess Leonor. Felipe congratulated
SPAIN’S inflation rate fell to 3.2% in November as a result of lower fuel prices and cheaper holiday packages, according to preliminary figures released on Wednesday by the National Statistics Institute (INE). The annual rate was 0.3% down on October’s figure- the biggest month-to-month fall since September 2022. One of the key factors was electricity
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THE SPANISH versions of big data, decarbonise, video arbitration(VAR) and supervillain are some of the words that have been added to the latest edition of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) dictionary- the institution revealed on Tuesday. The dictionary is consulted by millions of Spanish speakers and includes 4,381 updates, including new words and updates of
A NEW €4bn high speed train has been launched between Madrid and Asturias after a 13-year delay. Some 19 years after construction first began, the route connecting the capital and the northern city of Ovedo has finally been completed. King Felipe and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez today inaugurated the service, which will eventually cut travel
THIS WEEK’S arrival of two cruise ships at Alicante will see the end of the 2023 schedule and a record year for passengers using the Costa Blanca port. The last two vessels will see a joint capacity of 7,850 passengers on the Nieuw Statnedam from the Holland America company- which spent eight hours at the
A MARBELLA man has gone through hell at the hands of the French mafia after he refused to sell them his business, enduring beatings, kidnappings and torture . National police have detained seven men belonging to the ‘extremely violent’ gang. The victim, a 37-year-old business owner from Marbella, was first approached by the gang in
STREAMING giant Netflix has lost 1.6 million subscribers in Spain over recent months with Amazon Prime customers overtaking it, according to the latest Barlovento Comunicacion survey. The drop in the Netflix subscriber base comes on the heels of recent major decisions, including the controversial move to ban the sharing of passwords outside the same household.
SPAIN’S Foreign Minister said he was ‘very close’ to be able to sign a deal on Gibraltar’s post-Brexit future after meeting his UK counterpart at Tuesday’s NATO summit. Jose Manuel Albares had a phone call with Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Cameron before the pair met on the sidelines of the Brussels NATO summit. “Today we
