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Cops bust ‘holiday car jackers’ who stripped 50 motors from Madrid airport car park for black market in Morocco

BRAZEN thieves stole up to ten cars a week from airport and holiday parking spots – then stripped them in a secret rural chop shop

15 Aug, 2025 @ 11:45

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Prestigious British school under threat from deadly fires near Spain’s Madrid that have already claimed one life

FIREFIGHTERS have brought under control a wildfire in the Tres Cantos area of Madrid which killed one person and led to 180 people being evacuated.

12 Aug, 2025 @ 12:27

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Travel chaos in Spain: Fuming passengers are ‘trapped' on stifling hot AVE train outside a station in Madrid

Tunnel trouble as AVE fast-track train is being held up after major water leak and collapse between Malaga and Madrid

By Alfred Clarke THE recent fracturing of a series of inside slabs of a fast-track rail tunnel in Spain has led to a row between

8 Aug, 2025 @ 17:00

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Madrid brings forward second Metro Line 6 closure as works progress ahead of schedule

MADRID’S Metro Line 6 will face more disruption sooner than expected. The second phase of closures, between Legazpi and Moncloa, will now begin on 6 September

6 Aug, 2025 @ 10:24

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Bird strike forces Iberia plane to perform emergency landing just minutes after taking off from Madrid

AN Iberia flight from Madrid to Paris was forced to turn back and make an emergency landing on Sunday after a bird struck the front

4 Aug, 2025 @ 14:13

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Trump celebrates return of ex-marine in US prisoner swap – despite conviction for murdering three people in Spain

AN ex-US marine convicted of murdering three people in Spain in 2016 has been released to the US as part of a massive prisoner swap

25 Jul, 2025 @ 12:06

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid·Politics

Brit hit with €1,195 bill to top up electric car in Spain – and Shell won’t answer

A BRITISH holidaymaker was left fuming after being slapped with a jaw-dropping €1,195 bill to charge his electric car in Spain – and Shell has

23 Jul, 2025 @ 15:54

Environment·Lead·Madrid·Other News

VIDEO: One of Spain’s ‘Most Wanted’ criminals spent five years hiding in a shed without owners knowing he was there

ONE of Spain’s ‘Most Wanted’ criminals has been arrested- just days before the statute of limitations kicked in on July 31- after hiding in a

23 Jul, 2025 @ 11:23

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

EXPLAINER: The Montoro case has topped the charts in Spain’s corruption scandal top ten – but what is it about?

MOVE over Pedro Sanchez – there’s a new sheriff in Spain’s corruption town. The various scandals engulfing the prime minister have for the time being

22 Jul, 2025 @ 18:00

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Gang paid ‘mules’ €10k each to pick up cocaine-filled suitcases from Madrid airport

AUTHORITIES have smashed a drug-trafficking gang that hired ‘mules’ to collect cocaine shipments from Madrid airport. The criminals paid vulnerable people up €10,000 each and

21 Jul, 2025 @ 18:30

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Man quarantined in Spain over tick-borne disease from Africa’s Congo region – the second case in two months

By Brandon Cheevers A FATAL disease that causes multiple organ failure in sufferers and kills more than a third of its victims has struck again

19 Jul, 2025 @ 09:21

Health·Lead·Madrid·Other News

Wildfire near Spain’s Madrid burns 3,200 hectares as residents flee and farmers fight flames

A WIDFIRE that forced hundreds of residents to flee their homes has finally been brought under control after tearing through more than 3,200 hectares of

18 Jul, 2025 @ 14:12

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Spanish court gives ex-Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti one-year prison sentence for tax fraud

THE former Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti has been sentenced to one year in prison for tax fraud for not declaring income linked to image

9 Jul, 2025 @ 17:02

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

Wanting to move to Spain? How about being paid to live here

SEVERAL Spanish towns are offering living grants to people who choose to move there. The steady movement of locals from Spain’s rural towns to bigger

7 Jul, 2025 @ 16:16

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PSOE corruption probe: Former party secretary Cerdan detained by Spain’s Supreme Court over alleged corruption

SANTOS Cerdan, former secretary of organisation for Spain’s ruling PSOE party, has been sent to prison on charges of bribery, criminal organisation and influence peddling,

2 Jul, 2025 @ 11:59

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Legendary Spanish bullfighter arrested in Madrid after ‘fighting with police outside burger shop’

BULLFIGHTER Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez spent Monday night in a cell at the Madrid City Centre Police Station after he was arrested after an altercation at

1 Jul, 2025 @ 12:28

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Both Madrid and Barcelona have had a housing bubble ‘for the past two years’ – but what’s been driving it?

SPAIN’S two largest cities have been gripped by a dangerous housing bubble since 2023, according to a new academic study that warns of ‘overheating’ in

28 Jun, 2025 @ 13:00

Barcelona·Lead·Madrid·Property

Donald Trump slams Spain for not spending enough on defence- ahead of key NATO summit

Trump slams ‘terrible’ Spain and threatens to ‘make them pay double’ over NATO 5% of GDP snub

President Donald Trump lashed out against Spain over NATO contributions, after the Spanish government stood out as the only country against dedicating 5% of GDP

27 Jun, 2025 @ 12:33

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Row erupts in Spain over plans to build huge Jesus statue outside Madrid – seven metres taller than Rio’s Christ the Redeemer

CONTROVERSIAL plans to build the world’s tallest statue of Jesus Christ have split a small town outside Madrid after the local council approved plans for

26 Jun, 2025 @ 17:01

La Cultura·Lead·Madrid

Police appeal to help identify ‘five-day-old baby girl’ chopped up and dumped in a Madrid landfill

By Brandon Cheevers NEW information about the remains of a murdered baby found in a Madrid landfill last year has revealed she was just five

26 Jun, 2025 @ 13:50

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WATCH: Madrid policeman arrested over death of ‘phone thief’ in ‘Spain’s George Floyd’

AN off-duty police officer has been arrested after allegedly suffocating a man to death who he claimed had stolen his mobile phone. Shocking video shows

19 Jun, 2025 @ 17:00

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Madrid vs Barcelona: Two titanic cities being squeezed in the grip of Spain’s housing crisis

SPAIN’S two largest cities are being crushed under Spain’s unprecedented housing crisis. Both Madrid and Barcelona recorded their highest-ever property prices for sales and rentals

19 Jun, 2025 @ 12:33

Barcelona·Lead·Madrid·Property

Massive influx of billionaires is making Madrid ‘new home to the global super rich’, according to The Times.

DRAWING comparisons to cities such as London and Paris, Madrid is entering a new era of interest for overseas billionaires. It’s a development which is

18 Jun, 2025 @ 17:27

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Discover these two famous wine producing regions just a short hop from Madrid

JUST outside of Spain’s capital, you’ll find vast agricultural lands, rolling hills and history all to be enjoyed with some of the country’s best wine

14 Jun, 2025 @ 16:00

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WATCH: England football star Trent Alexander-Arnold wows fans with fluent Spanish skills at Real Madrid unveiling

ENGLAND star Trent Alexander-Arnold showed off his language skills by speaking fluent Spanish without notes at his Real Madrid unveiling on Thursday. British footballers have

13 Jun, 2025 @ 13:06

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‘You’re a black illegal immigrant and I’m Spanish’: Man jailed after abusing employee in Fuengirola hotel

A MAN has been sentenced to seven years in prison for the abuse, rape and sexual assault of his female domestic worker. The abuse started

12 Jun, 2025 @ 13:07

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