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Spain appoint first ever female Davis Cup captain

Tom Powell - 23 Sep, 2014 @ 10:42

Gala Leon Garcia becomes just the fifth female captain in the tennis tournament’s 114-year history, but Rafael Nadal's coach has criticised the decision

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Spain progress to last 16 of FIBA basketball World Cup

Rob Horgan - 2 Sep, 2014 @ 10:31

Spain beat Brazil in Granada to reach the knock-out stages of the FIBA basketball World Cup

Andalucia

Spain face tough test against Brazil in basketball World Cup

Rob Horgan - 1 Sep, 2014 @ 15:00

After back-to-back victories hosts Spain face group rivals Brazil in Granada

Belinda Beckett: Mistress of Sizzle

Fantasy football

Belinda Beckett (Columnist) - 10 Jul, 2014 @ 17:59

Belinda Beckett, aka the Mistress of Sizzle, celebrates the World Cup in her own way

Sport

Olive Press readers wildy miss with World Cup predictions

Tom Powell - 4 Jul, 2014 @ 15:35

A quarter of OP readers predicted Spain would win... but they didn't even make it out of their group

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Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Loud and Clear: Spain shattered

Giles Brown - 29 Jun, 2014 @ 08:30

Columnist Giles Brown on Spain's World Cup heartbreak and judging a book by its cover

Lead

Chile too hot for Spain in World Cup 2014

Karl Smallman - 18 Jun, 2014 @ 23:09

It's all over for Spain's title defence as they lose 2-0 to Chile in the 2014 FIFA Word Cup Group B match at the Estádio Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil

Columnists

Soccer season softens market

Mark Rickard (Columnist) - 15 Jun, 2014 @ 08:30

Columnist Mark Rickard explains how World Cup fever will hit the economy

Columnists

Loud and Clear

Giles Brown - 13 Jun, 2014 @ 08:30

Columnist Giles Brown gets frenzied about football and the legacy of liberty

Sport

German scientists predict Spain will win World Cup, what about you?

Tom Powell - 12 Jun, 2014 @ 11:08

Have your say on who will win this summer's World Cup...

Sport

Spain just fourth favourites to win World Cup

Tom Powell - 9 May, 2014 @ 09:00

Despite winning their three last major tournaments, Spain are behind Brazil, Argentina and Germany in the World Cup odds

Sport

Barcelona stars turned into Simpsons characters

Tom Powell - 20 Mar, 2014 @ 10:00

Lionel Messi, Neymar and Xavi have gone yellow in preparation for a special world cup episode of The Simpsons

National News

Spanish fashion chain Zara accused of slave labour in Brazil

Wendy Williams - 18 Aug, 2011 @ 18:19

The world's biggest clothes retailer reacts with zero tolerance policy

Crime & Law

Spain arrest human trafficking gang

Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor) - 31 Aug, 2010 @ 13:50

For the first time Spanish police have broken up a human-trafficking gang that brought men - and not women - to the country to work as prostitutes

Andalucia

‘Godfather’ arrested in huge Spain raid

Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor) - 25 May, 2010 @ 19:29

Record police operation sees more than 30 criminals arrested across Europe

National News

Spain still team to beat

Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor) - 3 Mar, 2010 @ 19:41

The Furia Roja remain top of world rankings

National News

Don’t let ‘Pepsi’ die

Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor) - 11 Nov, 2009 @ 15:15

How a worldwide movement is trying to resurrect Spain’s most famous ‘poetic’ lesbian couple Pepa and Silvia, nicknamed ‘Pepsi’

National News

Madrid suffers Olympic heartbreak

Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor) - 2 Oct, 2009 @ 19:11

Madrid pipped at the post by Rio de Janeiro

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Burkini swimsuits get big ‘thumbs up’ for public swimming pools in Costa Blanca city in Spain

Alex Trelinski - 24 May, 2022 @ 19:45

BURKINI swimsuits have been backed as legal bathing attire for Elche's public swimming pools in updated regulations that start on June 18. New rules over...

Ex-Catalunya president Carles Puigdemont wins fresh battle to stop extradition to Spain

Ex-Catalunya president Carles Puigdemont wins latest battle to stop extradition to Spain

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British teenager may never walk again after smashing head-first into shallow end of Magaluf beach club swimming pool on Spain's Mallorca

British teenager may be paralysed after diving head-first into shallow end of Magaluf swimming pool on Spain’s Mallorca

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