Date archive forAugust, 2010
Gibraltar easyjet
By spanishvida On Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
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Fly to Gibraltar but shop in Spain – says Easyjet

An airline is telling its passengers who are flying to Gibraltar to go shopping in Spain. A reader has brought us a copy of the easyJet Traveller which is given to passengers. This includes a destination guide. More...

cocaine
By spanishvida On Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
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Exeter woman accused of 4kg cocaine smuggling from Spain

A Devon woman has appeared in court charged with attempting to smuggle 4kg of cocaine into the UK. Sandra Angove was arrested at Heathrow Airport after she arrived on a flight from Madrid, Spain, on Sunday. The More...

organ transplant
By spanishvida On Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
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Spain leads the world in organ transplants

Spain is the world leader for the number of organ donations made each year according to a new report. The study, which will be released in early September, reveals that Spain has a rate of 34.4 donors per million More...

orange
By spanishvida On Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
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Orange Spain reveals phone numbers to visited websites

Orange in Spain reveals user mobile phone numbers to websites, according to a security researcher. The researcher, who uses the handle ´Xufi´, said in a blog post on Sunday that Orange uses phone numbers More...

western_sahara_walls_moroccan
By spanishvida On Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
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Spain accepts Morocco’s explanation of violence that left 2 Spaniards injured in Western Sahara

Spain said oday it accepts Morocco´s explanation of how two Spaniards were beaten up at a pro-independence rally in the disputed Western Sahara: they were set upon by everyday Moroccans and not by police as the More...

Igor Anton
By spanishvida On Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
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Anton wins fourth stage of Tour of Spain

Spanish rider Igor Anton won the fourth stage of the Tour of Spain today, a 183.8-kilometre ride from Malaga to here, while Belgium´s Philippe Gilbert retained the overall lead. Anton, who rides for Euskatel, More...

apple_store
By spanishvida On Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
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Apple to open two new Retail Stores in Spain

Apple is getting ready to open two new international Retail Stores. This time the new stores will open in Spain bringing the total number of countries with at least one Apple Retail Store to eleven. The first of More...

Fernando Moriente
By spanishvida On Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
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Former Madrid & Spain striker Morientes retires

Former Real Madrid and Spain striker Fernando Morientes has announced his retirement from football. Morientes told COPE radio on Monday he rejected a chance to play for Portuguese club Sporting Lisbon and offers More...

simon-cowell1
By spanishvida On Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
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Simon Cowell’s Villa Trashed By X Factor Contestants

Simon Cowell won´t be smiling today after it was reported that his X Factor contestants trashed his luxury villa in Spain during the judge´s houses portion of the show. Simon´s £1million home was damaged by More...

male escort
By spanishvida On Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
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Spanish police bust male prostitution ring

Police busted a male prostitution ring and arrested 14 pimps accused of offering sexual services and drugs to clients across Spain. The first gay prostitution network ever dismantled in Spain was made up of men More...

San Antonio
By spanishvida On Monday, August 30th, 2010
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Britons arrested during Ibiza drugs raids

The operation targeted the resort of San Antonio, where police believed a number of British drug traffickers had based themselves. Officers from the Civil Guard, Spain´s paramilitary police force, searched several More...

western_sahara_walls_moroccan
By spanishvida On Monday, August 30th, 2010
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Spain waiting for answers over Western Sahara arrests

Spain is awaiting details from Morocco after the weekend arrests by police of 11 Spanish pro-independence activists in the Western Sahara, Prime Minister Jose Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero said Monday. Speaking in a More...

By Costa Blanca News On Sunday, August 29th, 2010
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BIKINI BASH 2010

Where were you ladies? Once again the Costa Blanca has failed in its attempt to break not one, but two Guinness World Records at the Bikini Bash 2010 held on Saturday. Organised by Sol Productions and sponsored More...

By Costa del Sol News On Sunday, August 29th, 2010
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BRITS COME OUT ON TOP

Attracted by the climate, job opportunities and the peace and tranquility, foreign residents now represent 16.8% of the total population of Malaga. However within that number there would appear to be very little More...

By Costa de Almeria News On Sunday, August 29th, 2010
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GRI�N MEETS ZAPATERO AT LA MONCLOA

The President of the Junta de Andalucía, Jose Antonio Griñán met with Prime Minister Rodriguez Zapatero last week at La Moncloa where the pair discussed the economy with particular regard to More...

By Costa Blanca News On Sunday, August 29th, 2010
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HOTTEST AUGUST FOR 30 YEARS

As the region is sweltering in another summer heat wave and provinces across Spain remain on yellow alert, weather experts are saying that this month has been the hottest August in 30 years. The head of the State More...

Edurne Pasaban
By spanishvida On Sunday, August 29th, 2010
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Spanish climber hopes to be named record holder

Spain’s Edurne Pasaban said yesterday she hopes to be recognised as the first woman to have climbed the world’s 14 highest peaks, after official doubts were expressed over a claim by her South Korean rival. South More...

Madrid´s Barajas airport
By spanishvida On Sunday, August 29th, 2010
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Kazakh man severs penis

A Kazakh man cut off his penis at Madrid´s Barajas airport to avoid being extradited home and was taken to hospital in a serious condition, Spanish media reported. The 52-year-old man had finished serving a five-year More...

La Liga
By spanishvida On Sunday, August 29th, 2010
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Still a twohorse race in Spain between Barcelona and Real Madrid

The Spanish La Liga will kick off its season on Aug. 28th amid much fanfare, but unfortunately it seems it’s going to be a two-horse race as Real Madrid and Barcelona are likely to duel it out for top place again More...

prostitute
By spanishvida On Sunday, August 29th, 2010
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Spanish sex ring exposed

The Anti-Human Trafficking Division (AHTD) police have arrested a Thai man who is accused of luring seven Thai women into prostitution in Spain. Pol Lt Gen Thangai Prassajaksattru, the chief of the Central Investigation More...

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