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Chartered Financial Planner Jonathan Holdaway recalls the crash of 87 and why you SHOULD be planning your finances during...

Article by Jonathan Holdaway WRITTEN by Susan Jeffers, Feel the fear and do it anyway is the title of one of the first ‘motivational’ books...

MARKETS: Bulls, bears or unicorns? Chorus Financial looks at the havoc COVID-19 could wreak compared to previous epidemics

Article by Tracey Storer WHAT a crazy couple of months we have all experienced, one that I am very sure won’t happen in our lifetimes...

PARTY PRINCE: Joachim of Belgium tests positive for COVID-19 after jetting into Spain for 27-person bash in Andalucia

PRINCE Joachim of Belgium has tested positive for COVID-19 after he attended a house party in Andalucia. The 28-year-old aristocrat nephew of King Philippe was...

COVID-19: Real estate agent Amanda Butler is leading Mallorca’s Phase 2 celebrations and is looking ahead to a property...

WITH coronavirus figures plummeting around Spain and only two new cases reported with no deaths over the weekend in the Balearic Islands things are...

OPINION: COVID-19 has placed an easy target on the Spanish Government’s back, and opposition is in full attack mode...

Article by Lenox Napier. Photos by Allan Binderup IT’S all getting a little bit tense in Spain.  Large numbers of cars, driven (presumably) by right wing...

COVID-19: Spain’s lifeguards will NOT give kiss of life this summer as coronavirus Phase 2 beach plans emerge

SPAIN’S lifeguards will not administer the kiss of life this summer, it has emerged. Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation has been banned by the Royal Spanish Salvage and...

COVID-19: Costa del Sol to get 900 ‘beach agents’ while one town to clean sand ‘nightly’ in Phase...

MALAGA will deploy 902 ‘beach agents’, while one Costa del Sol town is to conduct nightly sand ‘cleaning’, it has been announced. The measures come...

Spain and Europe’s COVID-19 response hampered by insufficient testing and lack of PPE, reveal minutes of EU coronavirus meetings

INSUFFICIENT testing hampered Spain and the EU’s COVID-19 response, newly-released documents have revealed. Minutes from the meetings of the European Centre for Disease Control and...

‘DISASTROUS’: Phase 3 restrictions on nightclubs such as markers on dancefloors blasted by business owners in Spain’s Mallorca and...

Clubbers will be forced to wear face masks and marks will be painted on the dance floor to aid social distancing

Travelplan offers seven-night stays in Spain’s Balearic Islands from €299 to boost national tourism post COVID-19

Aptly named 'Phase T,' the tour operator will offer 'once in a lifetime deals never seen before in its history'

Spain reports 132 new COVID-19 cases – lowest daily count since March 4, while only 50 new coronavirus-related deaths

SPAIN has reported 132 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, while the Government has re-calculated its overall death toll. This is the lowest...

REVEALED: How beaches in Palma de Mallorca will operate as island enters Phase 2 of Spain’s COVID-19 de-escalation plan

Phase 2 will abandon exercise time-slots, meaning that one will be free to go to the beach as and when they choose as long as they adhere to set rules

IN PICS: Thousands shut down Spain’s Palma de Mallorca in mass protest organised by VOX against government’s management of...

Citizens demonstrated in their cars to protest against the government's management of the coronavirus crisis, calling for Pedro Sanchez's resignation

Spain’s Ministry of Health warns of possible link between COVID-19 and minks

A RECENT case in the Netherlands has shed new light on the possible source of coronavirus as minks have been confirmed as hosting the...

Controversy as Spain’s Balearic Islands grants €8.2 MILLION to entrepreneurs with offshore companies in Panama and Malta to purchase...

In the wake of the revelations, opposition parties have demanded an explanation from President Francina Armengol

Ryanair slams rival airline handouts as it records €1 billion profit pre-COVID-19

LEADING budget airline Ryanair has recorded profits of €1 billion during the 2019 financial year. This marks an increase of €117 million on 2018, according...

Tensions boil over as residents confront group of 25 people who ‘ignored social distancing’ at packed bar in Spain’s...

Residents had become enraged after watching a group of 25 people huddled together at a popular bar on Calle Sant Magi in Santa Catalina

COVID-19: The wrong camera angle on your Zoom call could leave you looking like Jabba the Hutt and don’t...

THERE seem to be several ways of dealing with the current coronavirus crisis. One option – sadly is no longer open to me – is...

COVID-19: Donkeys in Costa del Sol’s Mijas are being well cared for, exercised and fed during Spain’s coronavirus crisis,...

The town hall added that their ‘burro taxi’ owners are also being given sizeable tax breaks this year to make up for the huge loss in earnings

Public warned to keep social distance or face new COVID-19 wave in Gibraltar

The virus is still out there and a new wave of infections could paralyse Gibraltar again if people do not respect the new normal, said the health minister.

COVID-19: We don’t all support the Spanish Government and don’t dare tell me ‘if you’re not happy go home’,...

I WAS surprised to read in an Spanish newspaper last week that Brits in Spain support the measures taken by President Sanchez regarding the ...

COVID-19: The Carrefour carers saved Belinda Beckett’s bacon when she was down to limp lettuce and her last drop...

EVERYONE else may be box set bingeing, social notworking or writing their novels. I wish.  We spent the first week of lockdown watching a matchstick...

COVID-19: As Spain’s Ministry of Labour uncovers fraudulent redundancy schemes, Lawbird’s Antonio Flores explains ERTE

SPANISH ERTE schemes, following the trend of most European countries, allow employers to lay off or temporarily suspend workers in crisis situations. This can be...

Romantic getaways for residents and 80% discounts on rooms – Crisis-hit hoteliers in Spain’s Mallorca get inventive in the...

It is fair to say that a hotel, or any business for that matter, would be unable to survive without a steady stream of revenue

‘People need to get their lives back’, says minister about Gibraltar lockdown release

A return to normality and the 'need for the economy to get back on-track' are reasons for Gibraltar allowing free movement before other countries.

Restaurants, bars and cafes in Spain’s Mallorca warned of ‘serious repercussions’ if terrace safety measures not respected as multiple...

Crowds of people, tables seated less than two meters away and a failure by staff to wear masks are just seen at terraces this week

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