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Mercadona breaks all-time record as profits soar past €1 BILLION following expansions in Spain, Portugal and online

SPAIN'S biggest supermarket chain, Mercadona, recorded a record net profit of just over €1 billion last year- up 40% on the 2022 total. Sales grew...

No dishes no baby: Spain’s shocking fertility rate linked to men’s reluctance to help out around the house –...

THE refusal by men in Spain to chip in with the housework has been linked to the country’s shockingly low birth rate - the...

Nurse in Spain is kicked so hard in the testicles he dies – as figures show attacks on doctors...

DOCTORS are continuing to endure a rising number of physical and verbal assaults in Spain according to figures from the Spanish Medical Association(OMC). The worrying...

Madrid train bombings: How the 2004 terror attack changed Spain – as country marks 20th anniversary of its deadliest...

SPAIN has been marking the 20th anniversary this Monday of the Madrid train bombings that killed 192 people and injured 2,000 others. The Al Qaeda...

Spain’s top court rejects bid to stop removal of medals awarded by dictator General Franco

SPAIN'S Supreme Court has backed the stripping of medals awarded to dictator General Francisco Franco by himself as well as his collaborators. It rejected an...

Home viewers of pirated La Liga soccer matches can now be fined individually in Spain

A LANDMARK ruling by a Barcelona judge means that home viewers of pirated feeds of La Liga football matches could be fined. The order of...

Heavy localised rain predicted for parts of Spain this weekend

AFTER mainly calm weather this week, forecasters a predicting a storm stretching over a large part of Spain over the weekend leaving 'widespread and...

Inside Amazon’s new pre-fabricated house that’s available in Spain for just €27,556 – but how safe is it?

A NEW high quality prefabricated home is being marketed for €27,556 by Amazon in Spain. Covering 70 m2, the Nyab is larger than other prefabs...

Police swoop on people uploading child pornography to the ‘cloud’ from Spain

SEVEN people have been arrested across Spain by the Policia Nacional for accessing and storing child pornography. Four other suspects are still being investigated. Details were...

Bars and restaurants in Spain see drink sales plummet after rising prices

BAR and restaurant customers are buying fewer drinks because of high prices according to a study by market analysts NielsenIQ. The firm says that beverage...

IPTV crackdown in Spain: First-ever sentence for pirate TV sees company fined €670,000 and its employees up to €7,000...

A PONTEVEDRA court has become the first in Spain to convict a company for proving pirate television services by selling decoders. Engel Systems S.L and...

Spain posts lowest February unemployment rate since 2008

SPAIN'S jobless total for February was the lowest for the second month of the year since 2008. The Ministry of Labour said on Monday that...

Police arrested 115 people last year for violent assaults against doctors and nurses in Spain

THE Policia Nacional were called out over 9,000 times last year to deal with health worker safety concerns and carried out 115 arrests. 6,100 of...

Reduced VAT on electricity bills to end this month in Spain

VAT on electricity bills will leap up from 10% to 21% in March due to big falls in the wholesale price of energy. Anti-inflation measures saw...

Police dismantle giant sports betting fraud that fixed results and ‘delayed’ live satellite tv pictures to fool bookmakers in...

75 members of a sports betting syndicate that duped bookmakers have been arrested by the Policia Nacional and the Tax Agency in association with...

Santander Bank computer error in Spain causes ‘double-charging’ of customers who are reassured that their balances have not been...

A COMPUTER glitch has been blamed for causing Banco Santander customers in Spain to be double charged for transactions on Friday morning. The bank confirmed...

Spain’s top court opens ‘terrorism probe’ into exiled Catalan ex-president Carles Puigdemont

SPAIN'S Supreme Court has started a terrorism investigation into former Catalunya President Carles Puigdemont over protests linked to the region’s failed and illegally-organised 2017...

Measles cases contracted aboard by unvaccinated people are rising in Spain

TWO measles outbreaks have been reported in Spain this year- in Alicante and Toledo provinces- with the virus originating from abroad. Aragon and Catalunya have...

Inflation falls below 3% mark in Spain due to lower electricity prices

LOWER energy prices played a big part in Spain's provisional inflation rate for February dropping to 2.8%. That's a fall of 0.6% from January's figure...

Brits account for 40% of non-resident mortgages in Spain: These are the most popular locations according to new figures

DESPITE fears of a post-Brexit slowdown and the negative effects of interest rate rises, UK buyers dominated mortgage application requests for home purchases in...

Spain returns to the cinema: Numbers are up at screenings across the country

BLOCKBUSTER movies Barbie and Oppenheimer helped to lift Spain's cinema attendance to 77.8 million last year- 26% more than in 2022. The figures are still...

These are the most valuable brands from Spain: Zara tops the list with a whopping €14.7billion

ZARA, the flagship fashion brand of the Inditex group, closed 2023 with a value of €14.7 billion and for the fourth successive time heads...

EXCLUSIVE: ‘We’re young expats from the USA and this is why we moved to Spain… and don’t plan on...

FLEEING increasingly unaffordable housing and political fatigue, a growing number of Americans are starting anew in Spain, where they’re drawn to abundant culture and access...

Farmer strikes return to Spain: Tractors plan to shut down Madrid today as the EU searches for a ‘quick...

PROTESTING farmers are taking to the streets of the Madrid on Monday to demand a better deal from the government and the European Union. Tractors...

Supermarkets in Spain to be probed for ‘not lowering prices for customers despite receiving tax cuts’

SPAIN'S supermarkets are to be investigated over whether they have been ripping off customers over VAT cuts on essential foods and basic goods. The reduction...

Chrome finishes are BANNED for cars and motorbikes in Spain from 2024 – this is why

EXCLUSIVE chrome-plated cars and motorbikes can no longer be made in the European Union after the end of a seven-year period for manufacturers to...

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