Huge queues and travel chaos at Spain’s busiest airport as strike action hits holidaymakers

TRAVELLERS are facing massive delays and travel chaos at Madrid-Barajas Airport today as an indefinite security strike continues to cause huge queues and flight disruptions

15 Sep, 2025 @ 11:22

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WATCH: Shocking scenes as explosion rips through bar in Madrid suburb injuring dozens

A MASSIVE gas explosion has ripped through a bar in Madrid’s Vallecas district, leaving 25 people injured and forcing residents to flee their homes as

13 Sep, 2025 @ 20:04

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Radiohead return to Spain with four concerts in Madrid

BRITISH rock band Radiohead have announced they will perform in Spain for the first time in 22 years. Their first live show anywhere for seven

9 Sep, 2025 @ 14:22

Entertainment·Lead·Madrid·Other News

Masked assault on Madrid immigrant centre blamed on mysterious new neo-Nazi group with links to the Kremlin – and a British fascist magazine

THREE young immigrants who were beaten up in a vicious assault were targeted by masked attackers thought to be linked to a neo-Nazi group with

8 Sep, 2025 @ 17:30

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Retired police chief-turned-security boss for top Spanish company ‘attacks three cops in Madrid restaurant while heavily intoxicated’

A RETIRED police chief inspector in charge of security for a top Spanish Ibex 35-listed company has been arrested for assault at a Madrid restaurant.

5 Sep, 2025 @ 17:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

Three injured in brawl in Madrid’s Puente de Vallecas

THREE young men have been injured following a brawl on Wednesday in Madrid’s Puente de Vallecas. The brawl took place in a bar in Avenida

5 Sep, 2025 @ 13:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid·Other News

Spain’s racial tensions simmer again as thugs assault migrant children in Madrid after reports of sex attack on girl, 14, by Moroccan asylum seeker

SPAIN’S racial tensions have been brought to the boil once again after thugs targeted a Madrid centre housing young migrants following reports one of its

3 Sep, 2025 @ 10:30

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

Spain’s housing market sees single biggest price surge in history – average Madrid home jumps from €464,000 to €572,300 in just 12 months

SPAIN is witnessing the most dramatic property price explosion in its recorded history, in great news for homeowners – but devastating for first time buyers.

3 Sep, 2025 @ 07:00

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Transgender woman arrested in Madrid for allegedly groping teenage boy while ‘offering to perform a sex act on him’

A TRANSGENDER woman has been arrested in the Madrid area after an alleged sexual assault on a boy, 15, and offering to perform oral sex

29 Aug, 2025 @ 08:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

Police arrest 83-year-old man in Madrid for ploughing into group of cyclists and driving away as they lay seriously injured

AN 83-year-old man has been arrested for running over four cyclists in Colmenar de Oreja and fleeing the scene, over two weeks ago. The incident

18 Aug, 2025 @ 14:35

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

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

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

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

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

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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Huge queues and travel chaos at Spain’s busiest airport as strike action hits holidaymakers

WATCH: Shocking scenes as explosion rips through bar in Madrid suburb injuring dozens

Radiohead return to Spain with four concerts in Madrid

Masked assault on Madrid immigrant centre blamed on mysterious new neo-Nazi group with links to the Kremlin – and a British fascist magazine

Retired police chief-turned-security boss for top Spanish company ‘attacks three cops in Madrid restaurant while heavily intoxicated’

Three injured in brawl in Madrid’s Puente de Vallecas

Spain’s racial tensions simmer again as thugs assault migrant children in Madrid after reports of sex attack on girl, 14, by Moroccan asylum seeker

Spain’s housing market sees single biggest price surge in history – average Madrid home jumps from €464,000 to €572,300 in just 12 months

Transgender woman arrested in Madrid for allegedly groping teenage boy while ‘offering to perform a sex act on him’

Police arrest 83-year-old man in Madrid for ploughing into group of cyclists and driving away as they lay seriously injured

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Malaga rallies around evicted pensioner sleeping in doorways with an oxygen mask as stranger buys her furniture for new council home

Kinahan ‘hitman’ arrested in Marbella amid claims he is linked to disappearance of Premier League footballer’s brother

More than 200 artworks from legendary Spanish painter Joaquin Sorolla to return home to Valencia after a century in New York

Umbrellas on the Costa del Sol today as Andalucia braces for heavy autumn storm lined up for next week

Valencia slashes size of tourist bike tours to 10 people following resident complaints they clog up streets

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