Euromillions Results – 31st July 2009
This weeks Euromillions numbers are: If you´re luck enough to get 3 numbers or more then you´ve won something. The prize breakdown is below: More...
74 Year old dies of a heat stroke in Gran Canaria
An 74 year old man has died from heat stroke in Gran Canaria, where temperatures were recording 42 degrees at their height. According to the Ministry of Health of the Canary Islands Government, the death of this More...
Spanish people are outraged that British press refuse to call ETA terrorists
The Spanish Embassy calls constantly using the term “terrorist”. The BBC claim that the information gave good account of the terror experienced. Spanish people are outraged at the British press. Is More...
Words of the President after the terrorist blast during which two civil guards were killed in Calviá
the President of the Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, attended a press conference in La Moncloa to condemn the terrorist blast and to express his condolences to the families of both civil guards and also More...
Reward offered to catch killer of Liverpool mum Lucy Hargreaves
A REWARD to catch the killer of a Liverpool mum executed in one of the city’s most chilling recent murders was today upped to £25,000. Kevin Parle is one the run and wanted to speak to in connection with the More...
Police on the trail of two suspects for Mallorca attack
Spanish security forces have identified two suspected ETA members believed to have been involved in the attack on Thursday in Majorca, in which two Guardia Civil officers were killed. The Interior Ministry, meanwhile, More...
Smoking to be banned in all public places?
The Ministry of Health is proposing the expansion of the Anti-smoking Act to prohibit smoking in all public places, including bars and entertainment venues, as announced by the minister for health, Trinidad Jimenez. More...
Political leaders pay their respects to murdered officers
The President of the Spanish government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, along with the leader of the opposing PP party, Mariano Rajoy, both attended the chapel of rest in Mallorca this morning, to pay their respects More...
Six dead and 39 injured in a bus accident in Barcelona
Photo by Robin Townsend A tourist coach, carrying Dutch visitors, crashed last night near the town of San Pol de Mar, Barcelona, resulting in the death of six people and injuring other 39, five of which were flown More...
Learn Spanish Online – Cartoon 1
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Dead Denia Dutch man found hand-cuffed to bed
The National Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man of 69 years of age and of Dutch nationality, who was found dead on his bed, handcuffed and without apparent signs of violence, More...
Spain has successfully performed its first two kidney cross-transplants with a live donor
Two people from Andalusia and another two from Aragon were the central figures in this new form of transplant that is based on exchanging live kidney donors among two or more pairs. The four people (two donors More...
The number of employed hits 18.9 million in the second quarter of 2009
Employment fell by 0.76%, and the unemployment rate is at 17.9% The working population loses 19,100 employed over the first quarter, the first fall since 2001 The pace at which employment is falling and unemployment More...
Spain gave 20 specimens of Iberian lynx to Portugal following the Captivity Breeding Action Plan
Portugal undertook to implement and set forth – in three years at the latest – an in-detail programme with at least a potential area to reintroduce the Iberian lynx. Should these specimens breed, they could More...
Busy weekend on the roads expected
The DGT has warned us to expect a very busy weekend on the roads, during the first official holiday weekend of Spain. It is expected that there will be 4.675.000 trips for the first weekend of August, between 15:00 More...
2 Killed, serveral injured in car bomb explosion on Mallorca
Picture by El País Spanish newspaper El País are reporting that a vehicle exploded at around 13:50 today in the coastal town of Palmanova (Calvia), on the holiday island of Mallorca. The reasons for the attack More...
Ryanair launches Canary Island flights
Budget airline Ryanair has announced it is starting new routes from Nottingham East Midlands airport to the Canary Islands to take advantage of Spanish tax concessions. The firm said the expansion, which involves More...
Dozens injured in Spanish car bombing
A car bomb exploded outside a police barracks in northern Spain early Wednesday, leaving nearly 50 people slightly injured in an attack authorities blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA. The powerful bomb, which More...
British Consulate and Department of Work and Pensions to visit Calpe
The British Consulate in Alicante and the UK Department for Work and Pensions are holding an open event for British residents in Calpe on Wednesday 2nd September, presenting advice services on some of the issues More...
Launch of new Consul in Malaga
The British Ambassador to Spain, Dame Denise Holt was in Malaga on Monday 27th July to celebrate the launch of British Consul for Andalucia, Ceuta & Melilla, Steve Jones. The event was held on board HMS Ocean, More...
