Simply the Best: Top 20 exciting and luxurious places in Spain
LOOKING for somewhere out of this world for the perfect escape in Spain? Want a place to really luxuriate and properly treat a loved one?
EXPLAINER: The areas of Spain that still use COVID-19 passports and where you have to show them
EIGHT areas of Spain are still running COVID-19 passport schemes while other regions have stopped the measure as ‘sixth wave’ coronavirus infections fall. Passport will
Fugitive known as ‘Galician Rambo’ nabbed by neighbours after almost a year hiding out in woods
A CONVICTED murderer, who escaped from prison and became known as Rambo because he survived in the woods using his army training, has finally been
Villagers join manhunt for ‘Galician Rambo’ an escaped prisoner with military training living in the woods in northwestern Spain
RESIDENTS of a town in Galicia in northwestern Spain have joined Guardia Civil patrols in an attempt to seek out an escaped prisoner who is
Earthquake measuring 4.4 on Richter scale shakes people awake in Galicia in northwestern Spain
AN earthquake with a magnitude registering 4.4 on the Richter scale shook people awake in Spain’s northwestern most corner on Friday morning. The epicentre was
Legal row brews over Franco’s flowery bathroom sink at dictator’s summer palace
A FLOWERY basin where General Francisco Franco carried out his daily ablutions when at his summer palace in Galicia is at the centre of a
Judge rules ‘no case to answer’ for those who secretly filmed women urinating in the street during fiesta in Spain and posted on porn sites
DOZENS of women who were secretly filmed urinating in the street during a fiesta in Galicia are demanding justice after the footage was posted on
Who are the happiest people in Spain? Survey finds those that use umbrellas tend to be under the weather
It comes as no surprise to those of us who moved here from the colder climes of northern Europe that the Spanish regions that experience
Electricity office windows smashed by man protesting against high prices in Galicia region of Spain
A man attacked an electricity office in the Galicia area of northern Spain after receiving a high bill. Wholesale electricity prices have reached record levels
Galician captain of fishing boat on way home to Spain after almost a year held in Yemen
THE captain of a fishing boat has been released after almost a year of detention in Yemen The release of Pablo Costas, 54, has been
Christmas arrives early in Spain as Vigo begins to install 11million LED lights and ‘biggest tree in the world’
SUMMER may still be in full swing, but in the north of Spain, Christmas has already arrived. The festivities have started early in Vigo in
Two teenagers arrested over brutal killing of gay man Samuel Luiz outside a nightclub in Spain
TWO underage teenagers have been arrested over the suspected homophobic killing of a 24-year-old man in A Coruña last Saturday(July 3). Samuel Luiz was beaten
Samuel Luiz Muñiz: Three men arrested over murder of young gay man in northwestern Spain
POLICE have confirmed the arrest of three men in connection with the killing of a young gay man whose death at the weekend is being
UPDATE: 43 LGBTI associations in Andalucia condemn suspected homophobic murder
FORTY THREE Andalusian LGTBI organisations have come together to condemn the death of Samuel Luiz Muñiz, a 24-year-old Spaniard beaten to death in Galicia in
Tired burglar grabs a nap on a sofa after stealing a TV set from a Vigo area home in Galicia, Spain
A Vigo resident found a burglar fast asleep on her living room sofa after she returned home from a night out. The property owner entered
Spain’s Galicia makes COVID-19 vaccine compulsory with fines of up to €60K for those who refuse it
GALICIA has announced that the COVID-19 vaccine is compulsory for all its 2.7 million inhabitants. The Xunta de Galicia published last Friday in its Official
Doctors in Spain already performing anal swabs to detect COVID-19 as health workers brand them ‘less invasive’ than nasal PCR tests
DOCTORS in Spain are carrying out anal swab tests to detect COVID-19, it has been revealed. It comes after China announced that it had made
Land ahoy! New ferry for British holidaymakers arrives into Portsmouth for first time
BRITTANY Ferries’ new vessel Galicia arrived into Portsmouth International Port yesterday morning, ready for berthing trials before she begins ferrying British sun seekers to Spain
Navy sailing boat damaged in tense stand off with killer whales in Spain
The whales circled the boat for a number of minutes, passing close to the catamaran's hulls and swimming underneath the sailors
Spain to lock down 70,000 people in Galicia – country’s second COVID-19 confinement in 24 hours
SOME 70,000 people have been ordered to lock down in Galicia tonight after a local COVID-19 spike. The Regional Government will seal the borders of
Three women end up in hospital after fight broke out in Zara fitting room in Spain
THREE women have ended up in hospital, after a fight took place in a Zara fitting room in Galicia.
Experts call for calm after hornet death in northern Spain causes panic
A 54-YEAR-OLD beekeeper has been killed after he was stung in the face by an Asian Hornet yesterday in Santiago de Compostela, northern Galicia. Emergency
WATCH: Spanish national park has first visit from a brown bear in 150 years
A SPANISH national park has had its first reported visit by a brown bear for 150 years. Cameras shooting a documentary recorded footage of the
Woman in Spain tells police she’s going to her mother’s funeral, even though her mother died before the state of emergency was declared
A WOMAN in Galicia that was stopped by the police told them she was going to her mother’s funeral, even though her mother had passed
THEY DID: Spanish couple defy coronavirus to get married from an upstairs window
A SPANISH couple held their ‘wedding’ half hanging out of their apartment window with the whole street as witnesses – as the coronavirus pandemic struck.
MADRE MIA: Man asks to be arrested as he is fed up of being stuck at home with mum
He was outraged at having to remain at home and ‘tired of being at home with his mother'