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Beer sales skyrocket 78% and bleach sales fall as Spanish supermarkets enter week two of coronavirus lockdown

BEER sales have skyrocketed 78% as people across Spain settle into week two of a coronavirus lockdown. Bleach sales have dropped -8%, alongside staple products

24 Mar, 2020 @ 20:42

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81,000 fines issued as citizens sanctioned under Spain’s Covid-19 confinement hits DOUBLE number of patients

A WHOPPING 81,000 people have been fined under emergency confinement rules to contain the Covid-19 pandemic in Spain. The number, sanctioned since Spain announced a

24 Mar, 2020 @ 20:09

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Man arrested in Spain’s Catalunya for robbing three supermarkets and a petrol station wearing a coronavirus face mask

A MAN who was wearing a face mask has been arrested for robbing three supermarkets and a petrol station in Catalunya.

24 Mar, 2020 @ 20:01

Crime & Law·Lead

Ryanair offer all their aircrafts to EU governments to combat coronavirus

RYANAIR have offered all their aircrafts to EU governments in the fight against Covid-19.

24 Mar, 2020 @ 19:24

Lead·Travel News

JOG ON: Policia Local fine their own agent for going jogging in northern Spain

POLICE in northern Spain have fined their own agent for going jogging last Sunday. A Tweet from the Policia Local in Ponferrada, Leon, revealed a

24 Mar, 2020 @ 18:45

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Pensioner, 77, fined for being out ‘catching Pokemon’ during Spain’s coronavirus lockdown

A PENSIONER has been fined for being out ‘catching Pokemon’ during Spain’s coronavirus lockdown. As the country enters its second week in a state of

24 Mar, 2020 @ 18:21

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Julen Lopetegui Announced As New Real Madrid Manager

Real Madrid make very large donation to Spain in the fight against coronavirus

REAL Madrid has made a very large donation to help in the fight against coronavirus.

24 Mar, 2020 @ 18:00

Football·Lead·Madrid·Sport

Spain’s top policeman slams ‘irresponsible’ coronavirus patients fleeing hospital while infected

SPAIN’S top policeman has slammed ‘irresponsible’ coronavirus patients fleeing hospital while still infected. José Ángel González, deputy chief operating officer of Spain’s Policia Nacional, said

24 Mar, 2020 @ 17:50

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Brits stranded in Spain as NO Ryanair, Jet2 and EasyJet flights available, despite UK Government warning to ‘return immediately’

“Where scheduled services have been withdrawn, it should leave no stone unturned to get these people on flights home”

24 Mar, 2020 @ 17:30

Lead·Travel News

Spanish government call on Congress to extend state of alarm by 15 days WITHOUT further restrictions

The debate and vote on the extension will take place on Wednesday March 25

24 Mar, 2020 @ 17:17

Lead·Politics

Spain’s Andalucia and the Catch-22 situation of its agricultural workers and social distancing

THE Junta de Andalucia is working hard to create solutions to the growing issue of keeping the agricultural industry functioning during the coronavirus quarantine. By

24 Mar, 2020 @ 17:02

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Inmates in six prisons in Spain start making masks to help in the fight against coronavirus

INMATES from six prisons throughout Spain have started manufacturing masks.

24 Mar, 2020 @ 16:59

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CORONAVIRUS: Leading anis distillery in Spain’s Andalucia offers its premises to Government to make hand sanitiser

AN Andalucian spirit-makers has told the Government it will start producing hand sanitisers and give them to those in need. The Rute-based Machaquito Distillery is

24 Mar, 2020 @ 16:54

Coronavirus·Lead

Support for gender-based violence can be activated from farmacias in Valencia

The person will only have to apply for a ‘mascarilla-19’ to request support from the pharmacist who assists them

24 Mar, 2020 @ 16:35

Lead·Other News

SPECIAL DISPATCH: Soldiers from Spain’s crack Foreign Legion sent out to close roads around inland Andalucia as coronavirus takes an alarming hold

“The authorities have so far been keeping things quiet so as not to alarm the local population, but the truth needs to get out,” revealed

24 Mar, 2020 @ 16:34

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Lack of protective gear partly to blame as 5,400 health workers in Spain infected with coronavirus

A LACK of protective gear has helped cause a surge in the number of health workers infected with COVID-19, the government has said. Director of

24 Mar, 2020 @ 16:15

Lead·Madrid·National News

Sex workers and women being trafficked at HUGE risk of violence and catching coronavirus as demand spikes in Spain’s Mallorca

Despite the Spanish Government enforcing a complete lockdown, clients continue to seek sexual services

24 Mar, 2020 @ 15:50

Lead·Mallorca

Melia Hotel becomes first in Mallorca to be converted into hospital by army as coronavirus cases continue to soar in Spain

The hotel will treat patients with mild symptoms or those that live with someone who is considered vulnerable

24 Mar, 2020 @ 15:21

Lead·Mallorca

Police discover ’nightclub’ flat in Madrid with four women and two naked men

People in the house had been partying for several days with music at full volume

24 Mar, 2020 @ 15:18

Lead·Madrid

The Spanish Foreign Office is working to repatriate the 170 cruise ship passengers trapped in Italy after the ship wasn’t allowed to disembark in Spain

THE Foreign Office is working to repatriate 170 cruise ship passengers that weren’t allowed to disembark in Spain and had to go to Italy instead.

24 Mar, 2020 @ 14:52

Lead·Travel News

Lonely, elderly British expats at risk of coronavirus on Spain’s Costa del Sol tracked down and offered medicine refills and phone time with psychologist

ESTEPONA has activated a special plan to track down elderly people who are living alone to help them get through the coroanvirus lockdown. Local councillor

24 Mar, 2020 @ 14:08

Lead·Malaga

BINGE your way through isolation with the return of La Casa De Papel and more from the cast…

The hit series, known as Money Heist in England will hit screens on April 3

24 Mar, 2020 @ 13:55

Celebrity·Entertainment

BREAKING: Tokyo Olympic Games postponed until next year over coronavirus

THE Tokyo Olympic Games will not be held in 2020 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. They will instead take place in the summer of

24 Mar, 2020 @ 13:38

Lead·Sport

Price of weed doubles or in some cases triples in Spain due to coronavirus lockdown

THE price of weed in Spain has skyrocketed due to the coronavirus lockdown.

24 Mar, 2020 @ 13:35

Business & Finance·Crime & Law·Lead

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More than 1,200 Spaniards stranded abroad return to Spain over the weekend with the help of the Foreign Office

MORE than 1,200 Spaniards stranded aboard have returned back to Spain over the weekend, according to El Pais.

24 Mar, 2020 @ 12:42

Lead·Travel News

The Palacios de Congresos of Malaga and Sevilla to be used as ‘big hospitals’ if necessary

In total, there are plans for an extra 26,000 hospital beds

24 Mar, 2020 @ 12:07

Lead·Malaga·Sevilla

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