Tag: Valencia
Airport strikes in Spain: Workers at major travel hub to walk out over Easter
AIRPORT staff unions have announced daily two-hour strikes over the busy Easter holiday period at Valencia.
The stoppages will run between 11.00am and 1.00pm from...
One killed while others remain trapped in 40-car pile-up on the AP-7 motorway in Spain
A PILE-UP involving 40 cars in foggy conditions on the AP-7 motorway has left one dead, two people trapped, and five seriously injured.
The incident...
Sinkholes pose a growing risk to life in Spain: First global map of phenomenon shows Andalucia and Valencia are...
THE world's first map to show countries most prone to soil subsidence has Spain as one of those most affected in Europe.
Sinkholes are becoming...
Senate votes to end ‘unique’ coastal homes being classified as being on public domain land in Spain BUT decision...
SPAIN'S upper house of parliament, the Senate, has passed an amendment to the Coastal Law to protect the 'unique homes' on the coast.
The measure...
This is the most popular festival in Spain according to Google searches – so have YOU been yet?
VALENCIA'S Fallas celebrations were the most-searched Spanish fiesta on Google worldwide last year, with 1.3 million searches.
It's the second successive year that the March...
Faulty kitchen appliance is identified as cause of deadly Valencia fire in Spain that killed 10 people
A FAULTY kitchen appliance caused last month's Valencia apartment block fire that killed 10 people.
A secrecy order on the court investigation into the blaze...
Massive fire that killed 10 people in Spain’s Valencia was not down to a criminal act, say police
THE Policia Nacional has ruled there was no 'criminality' behind the tragic Valencia apartment block fire that claimed 10 lives on February 29.
Among those...
Thieves loot building destroyed by tragic Valencia fire: Police make multiple arrests
TWO men have been arrested for looting the building complex destroyed by fire in Valencia on February 28.
The Algerian nationals, aged 23 and 51,...
Tourist seriously injured when part of a building ledge falls onto his head in Spain’s Valencia
AN ITALIAN tourist was taken to Valencia's La Fe Hospital on Sunday after strong winds dislodged part of a building ledge that fell onto...
Three Colombian men are found shot dead inside a car in Valencia after being ‘ambushed’
THREE Columbian men have been shot dead in the El Saler district of Valencia- one of them a major player in setting up a...
King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain meet victims of the deadly Valencia fire
THE King and Queen of Spain have met families displaced by Thursday's fire in Valencia that killed 10 people.
Felipe and Letizia attended a special...
Are there buildings on the Costa del Sol with the same flammable cladding as the Valencia fire tower block?...
AS authorities search for answers in the aftermath of the tragic Valencia apartment fire that left 10 dead and at least 15 injured, dean...
Traditional start to Fallas celebrations suspended in Spain’s Valencia due to tragic apartment block blaze
THE traditional curtain-raiser to Valencia's historic Fallas celebrations has been suspended due to Thursday's apartment block fire in the city.
The annual festival normally starts...
Valencia fire: Death toll of ‘Spain’s Grenfell’ reaches 10 – including a mother and her children
THE death toll from Thursday's fire at a housing complex in the Campanar area of Valencia City has gone up to 10 people but...
Valencia fire: Drones search for the victims as child and baby remain among the missing – while sources say...
A TWO-WEEK old baby is one of 15 victims that remain unaccounted for as authorities continue to search for survivors following a Valencia fire...
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to visit scene of devastating apartment block fire in Spain’s Valencia as up to 15...
SPAIN'S Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is travelling to Valencia to see for himself the devastation caused by the apartment complex fire in the Campanar...
Valencia fire latest: Four dead and many more missing after ‘Spain’s Grenfell’ gutters high-rise apartment block – as city...
AT least four people have been confirmed dead following Valencia's 'worst ever' fire that has already been dubbed 'Spain's Grenfell'.
Emergency services fear many...
WATCH: Dramatic footage shows how the ‘historic’ fire in Valencia began inside one flat before spreading within minutes to...
A SERIES of videos shows how the fire raging in Valencia quickly spread from the interior of one flat and engulfed the entire 14-storey...
Valencia fire latest: At least 14 people are injured in ‘historic’ inferno dubbed ‘Spain’s Grenfell’ – as expert blames...
A 'HIGHLY flammable' cladding has been blamed for a huge fire currently engulfing an apartment block in eastern Spain.
At least 14 people have...
WATCH: ‘Father and daughter’ are rescued from apartment block inferno in Spain after enduring more than an hour of...
THIS is the moment a man and a woman were dramatically rescued from an apartment complex engulfed in flames in Valencia tonight.
Footage recorded...
Huge fire engulfs an apartment block in Spain’s Valencia with residents still trapped inside – as authorities declare a...
A MAJOR fire has engulfed an apartment building in Valencia, with an unknown amount of people trapped inside.
Dozens of firefighters are working to...
School children who ‘created AI porn images of teenagers’ are quizzed by police in eastern Spain
FIVE Valencia teenagers are being investigated for posting images of naked females created by Artificial Intelligence.
17 females had their photos manipulated by AI- 13...
Guardia Civil officer who ‘brutally assaulted his wife when she said she wanted to leave him’ is arrested in...
A GUARDIA Civil officer has been arrested in Valencia after brutally beating up his wife who told him she wanted a separation.
The victim, 50,...
Revealed: How Britain’s MI6 tried to steal the ‘Holy Grail of Valencia’ during Spain’s Civil War – according to...
AS anyone who has seen the third (and arguably best) instalment of the Indian Jones trilogy will remember, the Holy Chalice, or Holy Grail,...
This city in eastern Spain is the first in Europe to approve a Google parking app for disabled drivers
VALENCIA will be the first European city to utilise a phone app that helps people with reduced mobility locate car parking spaces.
The pilot project...
Arson is behind yet another devastating forest fire in eastern Spain, say investigators – following string of similar attacks...
THE Guardia Civil are investigating whether a suspected arsonist has struck once again in the Devesa del Saler area of Valencia's Albufera natural park.
A...