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‘Damien Hirst stole Banksy from me’ claims maverick British artist

A MAVERICK Andalucia-based British artist claims to be the ‘real Banksy’.  Londoner Michael Shurman claims he created the globally-known graffiti persona over a decade ago,...

Expat publishes book about baking bread with Fidel Castro

A Granada expat author has published a book about doing business with Fidel Castro in Cuba

Four more people gored in running of the bulls in Pamplona

Day five was the bloodiest day of this year’s festival

UPDATE: Two more gored in Pamplona on Monday

Day 7’s victims bring the festival’s goring tally to 10

Pamplona’s Running of the Bulls ends with quickest (and most uneventful) run yet

This year’s festival saw 10 gored, most of them foreigners

Poet Lorca named one of seven most important Spaniards in contemporary history

Fuentes Vaqueros receives award for Lorca's selection to list of seven top Spaniards

Spain raises age of marriage and consent

The changes come after pressure from children’s rights organisations

Madrid plaza renamed after late gay rights activist

The plaza Vasquez de Mella will be renamed as a tribute to Pedro Zerolo

Titanic relic resurfaces in Granada after nearly 100 years

A plaque presented by the Royal Mail Steamship Union, the day before HMS Titanic began its fateful voyage has miraculously turned up in Granada

Surprise acts set for Gibraltar Music Festival

Top Spanish acts could join Kings of León, Madness and Duran Duran

New Lorca centre in Granada opens without manuscripts

The architects of the Federico Garcia Lorca Centro de Granada are fighting with the Garcia Lorca Foundation to prove that the conditions of the library are suitable to house the manuscripts

Miss Universe Spain 2015 crowned at Marbella’s Starlite festival

Miss Spain, a Canary Islands native, works as a doctor and speaks three languages

Picasso painting seized by French police in illegal exportation attempt in Corsica

With an estimated worth of €26.2 million, the painting was deemed a Spanish cultural treasure and prohibited from leaving the country

Seven of the most important women in Spanish history

As macho Spain votes in a Magnificent Seven of influential Spaniards, every one of them male, Nina Chausow asks: where are all the women?

Matador attacks protester in Marbella’s bullring

The protester jumped into the ring after the third bull’s death

Beard transplants trending in Spain

This pricey procedure can give men the beards of their wildest hipster dreams

Film adaptation of British musical to close San Sebastian film festival

The adaptation of London Road will star Tom Hardy and Olivia Colman

Singer Diego El Cigala performs at LA Hollywood Bowl following wife’s death

The world-famous flamenco singer performed in front of a sold-out crowd following the death of his wife to cancer

Spain slaughters and abandons 100,000 hunting dogs every year

When they’re no longer useful to their owners, these dogs meet a tragic fate

Google doodle celebrates La Tomatina’s 70th birthday

Spanish Google has today transformed itself in honour of La Tomatina

World-famous ‘jackal’ literary agent heads to Spain

The Wylie Agency will open an office in Spain in an attempt to reach the growing Spanish-speaking market

Spanish entrepreneur cracks historic WWII decryption

Didac Sanchez has used his decryption of the message as the basis for a new security software package

‘Driving Over Lemons’ author Chris Stewart takes a sabbatical year

The farmer, author and former Genesis drummer has announced he is taking a year off from writing

Found in Translation

Need a soundtrack to Spanish life? The Olive Press selects a mix of the best contemporary, and more established bands… and gives some clues as to what their nearest English equivalents are. The similarities are often uncanny, discovers Caitlin Quinn

Goya portrait causes controversy at London’s National Gallery

Controversy at the National Gallery as scholars suspect Goya portrait is a fake

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