A judge today ordered the extradition of a British man wanted in Spain over the murder of his girlfriend.
Christopher Chittock, 36, of Ipswich, was detained on a European arrest warrant last month on suspicion of murdering Sarah Shields.
The 23-year-old was found in the sea off Gran Canaria on July 7.
British and Spanish police launched an [...]

The economic recession forced a total of 110,058 Spanish companies to go out of business, the ministry of labour and immigration has said.
Businesses which employed between six to 50 people have been hit hardest by the slump, with 47,835 such firms shutting down. Another 39,708 enterprises having between two and five workers had to be [...]

Spanish police officers who are issuing fewer speeding fines to protest a pay cut have heard the magic word from their boss: Please, cut it out.
Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba gave no figures, but says the number of fines is definitely down since Guardia Civil traffic officers had their wages cut 5 percent along with [...]

Spanish police have arrested a Russian man suspected of causing a fire that killed more than 150 people in a packed nightclub in the Russian city of Perm last December, police said today.
The businessman, who was identified as Konstantin Mrykhin, was detained near his Barcelona home on August 31.
The suspect was believed to have fled [...]

A row erupted today in Spain over a television film on one of the country´s worst air crashes, which killed 154 people at Madrid airport two years ago.
Television channel Telecinco refused to cancel the fictional movie Flight IL 8714, the first part of which was scheduled to be shown tonight. Victims´ families had collected 60,000 signatures against showing [...]

A woman, from Weston-super-Mare, who was seriously injured in a hotel explosion on Spain´s Costa del Sol has woken after being in a coma for a week.
Carol Gardener had to have brain surgery after the Hotel Globales Cortijo Blanco exploded as she walked past with her family on 23 August.
Her sister Julie Loud suffered leg [...]

Irish low-cost airline Ryanair said today it had overtaken Spanish flag carrier Iberia as the largest airline in Spain in terms of the number of passengers carried.
The company quoted official statistics from Spain´s airport authority AENA showing that Ryanair in July transported 2.98 million passengers to or from Spain, compared to 2.77 million for Iberia.
The [...]

Figures published today show new car sales have fallen dramatically in Spain for the second month running.
The figures, which are published by the associations of producers (Anfac) and salesmen (Ganvam) show the sale of new cars in August fell by 23.8 percent, compared with the same month in 2009.
This follows a 24 percent drop in [...]