A hotter summer – Spain restricts use of air conditioning and heating
Spaniards and holidaymakers sweltering in the summer heat might not be too impressed, but desperate times — and a deep recession — call for desperate measures. The Spanish Cabinet agreed yesterday to reduce More...
Saharan hunger-striker refuses Spanish passport
A West Saharan activist on hunger strike at a Spanish airport has rejected the country´s offer of a Spanish passport in a bid to help her return home, the activist´s lawyer said Sunday. Aminatou Haidar has been More...
84 Year old woman knocked down and killed by Guardia Civil
An 84 year old woman was been killed on Saturday, after she was hit by a patrol of the Guardia Civil in Madrid. The victim, María Carmen Moreno, was run over on the sidewalk in one of the busiest streets of the More...
Guardia Civil officer killed at accident scene
A Guardia Civil Guard officer was killed when he was run over by a vehicle, whilst attending a victim of a previous crash. The accident occurred in the town of Palacios de Goda, in Avila. The deceased and another More...
Spain says trawler attacked by pirates
Pirates attacked a Spanish fishing vessel Sunday in the Indian Ocean with small arms and a rocket-propelled grenade but private security guards aboard the ship drove them off with gunfire, officials said. The attempted More...
MARBELLA PROPERTY IMPASSE: PROGRESS AT LAST?
The moment desperately awaited by 48,000 property owners in Marbella may have arrived. After years of delay, it looks like they will be allowed to regard their “paralysed” homes as truly their own. It More...
Visa Electron cards to be phased out
A card payment service commonly used by customers to avoid high transaction charges when booking flights is being phased out by two major providers. Customers who pay by Visa Electron are not charged transaction More...
Spanish bank still won’t free my deceased mum’s account
I should have seen the warning signs when I walked into a branch of the Caja de Ahorros del Mediterraneo bank the day after my mother's funeral in Spain. I asked the manager to settle the €4,000 bill More...
Euromillions Results – 27th November 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 will follow shortly. More...
Bullrings, Theme Park Can’t Stop 20% Spanish Jobless
Bullrings and fake Eiffel Towers may not be enough to hold back the tide of surging unemployment in Spain, Europe’s one-time engine of job growth. As an 8 billion-euro ($12 billion) stimulus program runs out, More...
Man seduced women and tricked them out of their savings
He is alleged to have charmed at least half a dozen women with his cut-glass English accent, convincing them that he was from a well-known titled family and the heir to a vast fortune. After starting affairs with More...
‘Ticking time bomb’ for struggling travel firms
The rate of travel company insolvencies was 13% higher in the first nine months of this year than the same period in 2008. This is despite the collapse of XL last year. The figure comes from accountants PrecewaterhouseCoopers, More...
Spain abortion bill clears parliamentary hurdle
In its first major test in parliament, the Socialist government's bill to make it easier to get an abortion in Spain won enough backing Thursday to defeat amendments that would have totally blocked the More...
81-year old boss for Spain’s RTVE
Who says that broadcasting is a young person's game? Certainly not in Spain where the new head of public broadcaster RTVE is a youthful 81-year-old. Spain's Parliament has chosen Alberto Oliart More...
Telefonica Buys Digital+ Stake To Strengthen Pay TV
Telefonica SA (TEF) said Wednesday it has agreed to buy a 21% stake in Spanish media group Promotora de Informaciones SA's (PRS.MC) pay TV unit Digital+, as Spain's biggest telecom company moves More...
Michelin Promotes Brothers’ Restaurant to Three Stars in Spain – Bloomberg.com
Michelin & Cie. creates a new three- star restaurant and elevates four establishments to two stars in the new guide to Spain & Portugal, which goes on sale today. El Celler de Can Roca, the Girona venue More...
More easyJet routes take off
BUDGET airline easyJet is to start flights from Manchester to the Finnish capital Helsinki and is to increase capacity on services to Alicante, Athens, Tenerife and Cyprus. The carrier will operate four flights More...
Spain and Portugal strengthen their commitment to the AVE-high speed rail linking Madrid and Lisbon
The Ministry of Public Works will be inviting tenders this year and in 2010 for all the remaining sections of the Talayuela-Cáceres line for contracts worth close to 900 million euro The Spanish Minister of Public More...
Social services open day in Alicante
The British Consulate in Alicante held an open day for Spanish social services and local English speaking residency groups on Thursday, 19th of November. The event, called ConeXiones, was jointly organised by The More...
Spain’s bank restructuring fund adequate
A fund which can make up to 99 billion euros ($148 billion) available to help Spanish banks merge and restructure is more than enough, the country´s economy minister said on Monday. “The restructuring of More...
