FOUR Andalucian towns feature in a Top 10 list of Spain’s poorest municipalities with populations of 50,000 and over. The study though is somewhat reflective as it reviews tax returns from 2017 and 2018. The most impoverished town in the country was El Ejido in Almeria province with an annual average income of €13,066 some […]
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SPENDING in shopping centres and retail parks rose by 7.9% in the first quarter of 2024, compared to a year earlier, with figures up 19.4% on the pre-pandemic year of 2019. The statistics have been produced by PwC for the Association of Owners (Apresco). The survey shows that record sales figures were recorded in 2023-
A BRITISH couple who were arrested for allegedly running a UK prostitution ring will be extradited from Spain by the National Court. They were previously convicted for an identical crime in Britain in 2009. Neil Lock, 43, from Griñon in the Madrid region agreed to the order on Tuesday, after his wife Natalie- also 43-
SPAIN’S Guardia Civil has not found any evidence of wrongdoing by Begoña Gomez, the wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, as part of a court investigation begun by a judge after a lawsuit was filed against her by a labour union with links to the far right. Madrid magistrate Juan Carlos Peinado opened the
A GUNMAN was stopped just moments before carrying out a hit in Marbella, police have revealed. According to Policia Nacional, the suspect, who was armed with a deadly weapon, was stopped on his way to take out a target. A source told La Opinion de Malaga: “An imminent murder that was going to be carried
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THE Spanish Society of Nephrology (SEN) estimates that 10% of the population suffers from some degree of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). Kidney failure occurs when the kidneys, responsible for removing impurities from the blood, do not perform this function well. It is a highly prevalent condition in the population that often goes unnoticed in the
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THE Government of Gibraltar has come out swinging after a Spanish politician called the Rock a ‘haven for drug traffickers and money launderers’. It slammed the comments of Partido Popular (PP) spokesman Esteban González Pons as ‘dehumanising’ and an ‘incitement to hatred’, adding that the Rock is ‘an economic benefit to Spain and not a
THE ongoing diplomatic spat between Spain and Argentina deepened on Tuesday, after the Spanish government recalled its ambassador in Buenos Aires to Madrid definitively. The drastic move came after the Argentine president, Javier Milei, refused to apologise for calling the wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez ‘corrupt’ while on a visit to Madrid at
TWO hooded men stormed an Alicante area finca and threatened to kill the farmer if he didn’t hand over all of his money. The Spanish intruders escaped with just 15 bottles of extra virgin olive oil and €120 in cash plus some bank cards. Four people have been arrested by the Policia Nacional in Alicante
THE Times has named these some of Spain’s ‘five coolest coastal hotels’. ‘Everyone thinks they know Spain’, writes Annabelle Thorpe for The Times, but ‘rarely stray beyond the Catalonian coast, Andalucia or the Balearic and Canary Islands’. The writer’s 25 strong guide to the ‘coolest’ hotels along the Spanish coast takes readers on a tour
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