Removals to Spain – the hard way
Jon Clarke discovers the joys of Harvesters and truckers on a mammoth and costly self hire van trip back to the UK
The day the H-bombs came to Andalucía
Forty one years ago last week, a mid air collision between two US Air Force planes during refueling led to four nuclear bombs – each 100 times more powerful than that which flattened Hiroshima - falling on the fishing village of Palomares in Almería
The search for Lorca’s Grave
WHEN the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, Gerald Brenan was living with his wife Gamel Woolsey in Churriana, a village west of...
Don’t cry for Isabel Perón
Two arrest warrants in one week for the former Argentina president
The day the H-Bombs came to Andalucía
by Bob Maddox Forty one years ago today, a mid air collision between two US Air Force planes during refueling led to...
Ex-pats sued for green views
Trio of Ronda residents – including writer Alastair Boyd – face a 22 million euros lawsuit in a campaign of “mafia-style harassment” by developers
Eta: Freedom fighters to terrorists? How the oppressed became the oppressors
INCENSED by the oppression suffered by those of Basque ethnicity under General Franco’s dictatorship (1939-1975), a group of students mobilised to form Eta (Euskadi...
Spanish Living – Botellón: Something like a Phenomenon
The language of botellón. Exercise books at the ready!
Adiós to the Little Red Man
While the street signs are feminised in Madrid province, Granada towns are tackling gender violence in society
Annual walk for the children of Tibet
THIS year's walk - the twelfth - started, as ever, at the hermitage of Padre Eterno, between Orgiva and Pampaneira. The day was a...
The camera never lies
By Jason Heppenstall I have to admit that I wasn't prepared for it. I had barely lurched out of the car, roadmap still in hand,...
Seventy years on – an International Brigadier returns to Spain
By Theresa Hogue. Additional reporting by Mark Roulston "VIVA Rusia," the women shouted from their balconies as a group of mainly French and German soldiers...
The Orionid Meteors
By Paul Downing There's an important and exciting astronomy event going on in the skies during late October - the annual Orionid meteor shower. ...
Your right to vote in Spain
ON the 27th May 2007 municipal elections will be contested throughout Spain. This is an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in the running of their...
Domestic violence fatalities grow
THE number of fatalities in cases of domestic violence in Spain this year continues to grow after three women died in as many days...
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FISHERMEN at Valencia port made the strangest catch of their lives yesterday (Monday March 1). A team of workers...
