June 2024

A YOUNG boy is in hospital after coming into trouble at his hotel pool on the Costa del Sol. The 10-year-old was staying in the unnamed hotel on Avenida Sierra Morena, in Manilva, when an incident unfolded on Saturday. Details are scant but according to the 112 emergency service, quoted by EFE, a call was […]

A YOUNG man has died after jumping onto rocks at a popular beach on the Costa del Sol. The 32-year-old was enjoying a day out at the Peñon del Cuervo beach in Malaga on Saturday when tragedy struck. At around 7pm, a dozen calls were made to the 112 emergency number reporting that a man

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IN a video posted to her popular Youtube channel, 28-year-old Leonese nun Marta Gonzalez Cambronero explains that fixed salaries don’t exist for nuns performing religious duties.  Some teach or work elsewhere on their own time, but unless they have a separate job, they live off donations.  “A nun, if she doesn’t have a salary like

AROUND 3,000 villages in Spain have been abandoned in recent decades due to depopulation as younger people go to big cities for work. Accessibility and a community built around a defunct industry are other factors that have led to the abandonments. The La Razon newspaper has listed Belchite in Zaragoza, Granadilla in Caceres, and El

SPANISH bank Bankinter has changed its mind about house prices this year, saying they will go up by 3% compared to a previous forecast of a 2% fall. It has reported that ‘house prices will rise throughout this year at least in line with estimated inflation in Spain’, although it does not rule out a

MERCADONA, everyone’s favourite Spanish supermarket, has announced new summer hours that will expand access to visitors and locals alike.  The Spanish grocery giant now under the control of billionaire Juan Roig typically keeps rather conservative hours, closing relatively early in the evening and on Sundays and holidays.  But starting Monday, June 24th, all Mercadona locations

VOTERS across the European Union (EU) will head to the polls this Sunday to decide who will represent each member state in the tenth European Parliament. In Spain, all nationals and resident non-national European citizens above the age of 18 will be able to vote, electing the 61 MEPs (Members of European Parliament) who will

MILITARY weapons sent from the West to Ukraine are increasingly ending up in the hands of drug mafias in southern Spain, it has emerged.  It comes after Guardia Civil officers were unable to seize a shipment of rifles in the mouth of the Guadalquivir river in Andalucia on May 22 after being met with a

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