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Restaurant boss defies COVID-19 closure order and gets fined €60,000 in Spain’s Catalunya region
A RESTAURANT owner in Catalunya is defying new COVID-19 restrictions by keeping his business open in spite of being fined €60,000.
European court raps Spain over police attack on peaceful protestors in 2014
SPAIN has been found guilty of flouting the right to protest during a violent police intervention at an anti-austerity demonstration in Valladolid...
Spain’s Policia Nacional arrest four youngsters for sharing child sex abuse videos on Portugal-based site
A DOZEN people, including four children, have been arrested in Spain for being part of a paedophile internet ring that shared child...
Spain’s Supreme Court confirms 18-month removal of Catalunya’s president
SPAIN'S Supreme Court judges have unanimously ruled that Catalunya president, Quim Torra, should be removed from his position. They...
Drunk trucker phones police to get arrested in Spain’s La Rioja because he wanted the sack to claim state...
A DRUNK lorry driver rang the Guardia Civil to say that he was intoxicated and asked to be arrested.
Decomposing woman’s body found in a car boot in Spain’s Valencia City
THE BODY of a 33-year-old woman was discovered in the boot of her car in Valencia City, a week after she was...
Students call for a three-day school strike across Spain over classroom concerns
STUDENT leaders in Spain have announced a three-day strike to voice their concern over problems for teachers and pupils alike, ahead of...
Pedro Sanchez rejects any new national lockdown as COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Spain
SPAIN'S Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, has today(August 25) dismissed any notion of a national return to lockdown restrictions implemented under the State...
Social media conmen use American identity to fleece love-seeking woman out of €226,000 on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A COSTA BLANCA woman lost at least €226,000 when she was fooled into believing that she had met a romantic American soulmate...
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