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Man Tipped A Cupboard Onto His Dead Mother After Killing Her With A Baseball Bat At Her Costa Blanca Home In Spain

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Two men in Spain’s Valladolid arrested after argument over queue for children’s swings turns violent

Simon Hunter - 3 Aug, 2023 @ 18:30

THE POLICE had to be called to a park in the northern Spanish city of Valladolid on Wednesday night, after two fathers got into...

A Mysterious High Pitch Noise Is Driving British Resident Crazy On Spain's Costa Blanca

Crime & Law

Woman from Spain’s Salamanca ordered to pay €10,000 after discussing neighbour’s noisy sex on TV program

Simon Hunter - 2 Aug, 2023 @ 12:00

GOSSIPING about a neighbour’s sex life has proved to be costly for a woman from the Spanish city of Salamanca, after it landed her...

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Gas explosion leaves one dead, 14 injured in Spain’s northwestern city of Valladolid

Simon Hunter - 2 Aug, 2023 @ 10:30

A SUSPECTED gas explosion in the northwestern Spanish city of Valladolid left one woman dead and 14 people injured on Tuesday night. The body...

Crowdfunding used to pay for repairs to old traditional village church in Spain

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Crowdfunding used to pay for repairs to historic village church in Spain

Alex Trelinski - 17 Jul, 2023 @ 12:02

CROWDFUNDING with a €55,000 target is being used to pay for renovations to a historic church in Burgos province. As of mid-July, €26,000 had been...

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Locals in over 10 Castilla y Leon municipalities are drinking non-potable water

Alberto Lejarraga - 8 Jun, 2023 @ 16:30

Residents of Valladolid (Castilla y Leon) and 10 towns within its province are consuming non-drinkable water. The water in these municipalities has nitrate levels over...

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‘Love Hug’ robber with eight year trail of crime is arrested yet again on Spain’s Costa Blanca

Alex Trelinski - 5 Jun, 2023 @ 13:30

A 30-YEAR-OLD Romanian woman who has arrest warrants dating back to 2015 for committing 'love hug' robberies has been arrested in the Alicante area. A...

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Opinion polls: Conservative Popular Party expected to win elections in Madrid, Valencia and Aragon regions

Simon Hunter - 28 May, 2023 @ 20:21

OPINION POLLS released at 8pm today, as the polls closed in the 2023 local and regional elections, suggest that tonight will see the conservative...

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New exhibition tells the lives of Roman gladiators, with help from their tombstones

Simon Hunter - 10 May, 2023 @ 20:30

SLAVES, prisoners of war, condemned criminals or even free men who voluntarily chose the job… There was no one route to becoming a gladiator...

Health

Raw or undercooked meat causes trichinosis health scare in Spain’s Castilla y Leon region

Alex Trelinski - 10 May, 2023 @ 18:00

AN OUTBREAK of Trichinella has affected at least 16 people in the Castilla y Leon region of Spain. Trichinosis is a notifiable disease in Spain...

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Politician from Spain’s Popular Party caught driving at 215km/h in official car

Simon Hunter - 27 Apr, 2023 @ 12:00

A POLITICIAN from the conservative Popular Party is facing prosecution after the Spanish Civil Guard caught him driving an official car at 215km/h on...

Child pornography and drugs gang busted in Spain's Costa Blanca

Crime & Law

Suspended Policia Nacional officer steals gun and is shot dead in petrol station showdown in northern Spain

Alex Trelinski - 19 Apr, 2023 @ 10:23

A POLICE officer was shot dead by armed Guardia Civil and Policia Nacional agents at a petrol station in northern Spain on Wednesday morning. The...

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Regional premier of Spain’s Castilla y Leon region in hot water after alleged obscene gesture in parliament

Simon Hunter - 23 Mar, 2023 @ 19:30

THE REGIONAL premier of the Castilla y Leon region, Alfonso Fernandez Mañueco, found himself in hot water today after images emerged of him allegedly...

Business & Finance

REVEALED: Where UK businesses are investing the most in Spain

Alex Trelinski - 9 Mar, 2023 @ 11:15

THE Madrid region was the most popular part of Spain for British investment during the first nine months of 2022 according to figures produced...

Crime & Law

Court in Spain gives man one-year jail term for slapping wife during live TikTok stream

Simon Hunter - 27 Feb, 2023 @ 20:30

A MAN who assaulted his wife during a live broadcast via the social network TikTok has been sentenced to a year in prison by...

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Elderly ‘lone wolf’ arrested for sending letter bombs in Spain

Alex Trelinski - 25 Jan, 2023 @ 11:55

THE Policia Nacional have arrested a former Vitoria City Council official for sending six letter bombs late last year. The 74-year-old Spaniard was detained on...

Pedro Sanchez tells NATO that training base in Spain for Ukraine army will open next week

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Speaking at Davos, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez issues warning about far-right parties

Simon Hunter - 18 Jan, 2023 @ 18:00

SPANISH Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez used his platform at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday to warn against allowing far-right political parties...

Health

Spain’s central government takes action after region promises anti-abortion measures

Simon Hunter - 17 Jan, 2023 @ 17:42

A BIZARRE row over abortion measures has sparked a crisis in the Castilla y Leon regional government, and has also dragged in the central...

Health

Far-right Vox party announces new abortion measures for Spain’s Castilla y Leon region

Simon Hunter - 15 Jan, 2023 @ 15:45

THE FAR-RIGHT Vox party wants to restrict abortion rights in the Castilla y Leon region by putting in new optional measures for women such...

Empty Village On Spain Portugal Border Is Sold For €300,000 And Will Be Used For Tourism

Property

Empty village on Spain-Portugal border to get tourist lifeline after €300,000 sale

Alex Trelinski - 22 Nov, 2022 @ 10:45

SALTO DE CRISTO, a deserted village on the Spain-Portugal border, has been sold for €300,000. The new owner is a Toledo businessman who intends to...

National News

Hero of summer Zamora wildfire in Spain dies in hospital from his injuries

Alex Trelinski - 25 Oct, 2022 @ 14:49

A man branded as a hero in July for digging a trench to stop his town being engulfed by a wildfire, has died in...

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Taxi driver spots brown bear wandering the streets of Ponferrada in Castilla y León

Simon Hunter - 11 Oct, 2022 @ 16:23

A taxi driver in the city of Ponferrada managed to capture an unusual sight in the early hours of Tuesday morning: an adult brown...

Business & Finance

Alcampo supermarket chain buys 235 stores and warehouse from struggling DIA in Spain

Alex Trelinski - 3 Aug, 2022 @ 13:23

FRENCH retailer Auchan says its Spanish subsidiary Alcampo will buy 235 supermarkets and a warehouse from the struggling DIA group Subject to clearances from competition...

National News

Police praise ‘noble’ young man for returning bag full of cash found in street in Spain’s Valladolid

Jorge Hinojosa - 15 May, 2022 @ 15:00

THE temptation must have been enormous. But after finding a bag containing close to €14,000 in a bag in the street, one young man...

Crime & Law

Man, 86, battered hospital room-mate, 80, to death with mobile phone in central Spain

Alex Trelinski - 12 May, 2022 @ 17:34

AN octogenarian has been charged with battering a man, 80, to death with a mobile phone in a shared hospital room. The 86-year-old aggressor has...

Far-right Vox party to get first taste of regional government power in Spain

Politics

Far-right Vox party gets first taste of regional government power in Spain

Alex Trelinski - 10 Mar, 2022 @ 18:45

THE far-right Vox party has achieved its first foothold in running a regional government in Spain after it secured a coalition deal on Thursday...

Galicia's Alberto Nuñez Feijoo Wants To Become Leader Of Spain's Partido Popular

Politics

Galicia’s Alberto Nuñez Feijoo announces Partido Popular leadership bid in Spain

Alex Trelinski - 2 Mar, 2022 @ 14:23

GALICIA president, Alberto Nuñez Feijoo, has officially put himself forward as the next leader of Spain's conservative Partido Popular. The Galician leader has been the...

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Spain sees convictions for homophobic hate crimes spike in 2022

Simon Hunter - 21 Sep, 2023 @ 16:30

CONVICTIONS in Spain for homophobic hate crimes rose 25% in 2022 compared to the year before. That’s according to a yearly report from the...

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Spain’s Congress takes historic step to allow use of other languages in parliamentary debates

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