January 2024

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SPAIN experienced a day of historic heat on Thursday as unseasonably high temperatures saw records broken across the country for the fourth consecutive month. Chelva in Valencia took the crown as the warmest place in Spain as temperatures reached 29.6C. Records were also broken in Albacete, Cadiz, Cordoba, Jaen, Granada, Huelva, Logroño, Malaga, Cadiz and

A €2.4 billion investment to expand Madrid’s Adolfo Suarez airport has been announced by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Friday. Sanchez revealed the massive plan during to a visit to the International Tourism Fair (FITUR) in Madrid. “This is the largest investment in port infrastructure that we are going to have during this decade,” said

A ‘HIGHLY dangerous hitman’ who escaped from prison in Madrid has finally been caught after spending weeks on the run. Yousef Mohamed Lehrech, 20, slipped out of the Alcala Meco prison during visting hours at around 6pm on December 23 last year. In a humiliating security lapse, a string of shocking prison errors permitted him

A FRENCH high court has rejected an amendment to its immigration law, effectively requiring British homeowners to leave the country after 90 days.  On Thursday France’s Constitutional Court blocked an amendment first passed in November that would have issued Britons with second homes in France a long-stay visa, allowing them to stay past the current

SHOPPERS in Spain spent €117 billion last year on basic foods and goods with more of them turning to supermarket ‘own’ brands. Mercadona, Lidl, and Consum were the main beneficiaries of the trend in 2023 as buyers look to fight rising food costs- prompting Carrefour to announce 500 ‘permanent’ price cuts. Last year’s shopping basket

THE body of 16-year old Ivailo ‘Ivo’ Petrov has been found by the Guardia Civil, 20 days after he disappeared whilst canoeing in Mar Menor. The Bulgarian boy’s body was discovered by authorities at a depth of five metres and at a distance of between 1,000 and 1,500 metres from the port of Los Alcazares,

A BRITISH teenager whose private joke to his mates via Snapchat to blow up their plane has been dramatically acquitted. Aditya Verma, who was 18 at the time of the hoax in July 2022, was facing a fine of €22,000 plus a further €95,000 to reimburse the costs of scrambling a Eurofighter to escort the

FACE masks ‘are no longer essential’ at Gibraltar’s health facilities, after numbers of Covid and flu cases dropped across the British territory. Director of Public Health Dr Helen Carter said she had made the decision with the Gibraltar Health Authority Executive Board. Effective immediately, wearing a mask at St Bernard’s Hospital, the Primary Care Centre