News from throughout Spain including the Costa Blanca, Costa del Sol, Barcelona, Madrid, Almeria, Murcia
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Iberia Express 'Spanish Adventure': Autumn flights at 35% off: |
August 22nd, 2019
IBERIA Express has launched an autumn travel campaign with discounts of up to 35% on internal flights, including the Balearic and Canary Islands.
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FACUA and police warn of hoax calls and messages: |
August 22nd, 2019
CONSUMER organisations and police have warned of another round of phone scams and hoaxes, including calls with a Chile country prefix and ...
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Civil Protection issues advice for 'storm season': |
August 21st, 2019
SPAIN'S Civil Protection squad has issues a series of recommendations in light of forecast storms and flash floods across the country.
The volunteer rescue and emergency service recalls that the northern parts of ...
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Podemos offers to replace Catalunya referendum demand with 'round table for dialogue': |
August 21st, 2019
LEFT-WING Podemos has offered to relax its demands for a legal referendum in Catalunya on independence in a bid to reach a consensus with acting president Pedro Sánchez.
Whilst the socialists have ruled out a coalition ...
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Spanish military boat accompanies Open Arms to Lampedusa: |
August 21st, 2019
A SPANISH Armed Forces boat is accompanying the migrant rescue craft Open Arms to the Italian island of Lampedusa where the 90 refugees who remain on board are due to disembark.
Defence minister Margarita Robles has ...
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Iker Casillas' December tests to decide his future in football: |
August 20th, 2019
FORMER Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas has announced he will be undergoing tests in December to see whether he is fit to return to the game.
Since his
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Video rental shops survive digital age: 300 still trading in Spain: |
August 20th, 2019
AROUND 300 video rental shops continue to trade in Spain, even now in the era of HBO and Netflix - although the owners of many of them say they do not make a living from them.
As recently as 2005, Spain had 7,000 of what ...
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Benidorm, Barcelona, Ibiza and Marbella among top 2019 hen and stag destinations: |
August 19th, 2019
BENIDORM has reportedly hit number one for stag party destinations in Europe for 2019, according to at least two sources, pinching Prague's crown - although the exact order of cities recommended for men's pre-wedding parties ...
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Carlos, 80, crowns 7,100-metre peak…with replacement knee: |
August 19th, 2019
AN 80-YEAR-OLD mountaineer with a knee replacement has just come back from crowning the Lenin peak in Kyrgyzstan as 'practice' for the only two of the world's 8,000 metre-plus summits he has yet to scale.
Carlos ...
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What do Spaniards miss most on holiday abroad?: |
August 18th, 2019
THOSE of you stuck in rainy Britain or Ireland with only the memory of your sun-drenched summer trip to Spain to brighten up your day might be taken aback by this bizarre fact: Spanish people go on holiday, too. Why, you might ask? With ...
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Zaragoza's Origami Museum: A world one-off seeking to spread its wings: |
August 17th, 2019
IF YOU WERE asked to guess where the biggest Origami museum in the world was based, you'd probably say Japan.
But of course, now you've read the question on here, you know it must be in Spain.
In fact, ...
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Spain to take some of Open Arms migrants; Richard Gere persuades Sanchez: |
August 16th, 2019
SPAIN and five other countries in Europe have offered to take in the 147 migrants who remain on board the charity rescue boat Open Arms now that Italy has temporarily lifted its ban on undocumented migrants seeking ...
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Spain's longest-running worker to retire after 64 years: |
August 16th, 2019
THE WOMAN who has paid into Spain's State pension pot the longest has finally announced her decision to retire.
Dolores Agra Rodríguez, 78, or 'Loli' to friends and family, started work aged 14, meaning she ...
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Over 8,500 part-timers' pensions reviewed and 2,200 set to rise: |
August 16th, 2019
SPAIN'S government is in the process of reviewing 8,500 State pensions after the Constitutional Court scrapped calculation methods for part-time workers on the grounds that this discriminated against women.
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