Tag: pamplona
Police swoop on far-right football hooligans for assault on rival group in Spain’s Navarra area
THE POLICIA NACIONAL have arrested 13 members of the ultra-right Boixos Nois group who attacked a rival faction in a mass assault inside a...
‘Newsweek’ magazine includes six Spanish hospitals on its list of the world’s 100 best
PRESTIGIOUS US magazine Newsweek has just published its fifth annual list of the world’s best hospitals, and six Spanish healthcare centres are featured among...
Four sexual assault cases reported at Spain’s Running of the Bulls fiestas
A TOTAL of four police reports for sexual assault had been filed by Saturday at the world-famous Running of the Bulls fiestas in Pamplona.
According...
Four injured after San Fermin second bull run today
FOUR people have been injured during San Fermin's second bull run in Pamplona (Navarra) today.
The second day of the internationally famous Spanish fiesta resulted...
World-famous Pamplona bull-runs start this Friday in Spain
PAMPLONA'S famous bull-running festival starts on Friday(July 7) and continues until July 14 in the streets of the northern city which is the capital...
Why Pamplona’s running of the bulls is still promoted as a cultural event – despite the dangers
THE San Fermin ‘running of the bulls’ is a famous – and controversial – festival in Pamplona, Navarra region, where men and beasts run...
Online journalist convicted in Spain’s Murcia for violating rights of Wolf Pack rape victim
A journalist on a far-right Murcia region website- La Tribuna de Cartagena- has been given a three-year jail term for publishing photos of a...
EU money seals deal for Spain’s first electric car battery factory in Valencia
CAR maker SEAT has confirmed that it will site Spain's first electric car battery plant in the Valencia area.
SEAT President, Wayne Griffiths reaffirmed the...
Benidorm and Pamplona romance scammers in Spain conned money out of women looking for love
TWO romance scammers have been arrested by the Policia Nacional and charged with defrauding victims across Europe of over €20,000.
The men, of Nigerian nationality,...
Three gored in bull runs in Spain’s Pamplona
THREE people have been gored in the fifth bull run of Pamplona’s San Fermin fiesta on July 11.
It marks the first gorings of the...
Four men arrested for sexual assaults in San Fermines
POLICE in Pamplona revealed 4 men have been arrested for sex crimes in since the start of San Fermines, one of Spain’s biggest festivals.
Two...
Six injured in Running of the Bulls in Spain’s Pamplona
THE second run of the San Fermin Festival commenced this morning in Pamplona.
The Red Cross say six people were taken to hospital to be...
IN PICTURES: San Fermines is back in Northern Spain after a two year hiatus
PAMPLONA in Northern Spain hosts the famous San Fermines from Wednesday, July 6 to Thursday, July 14.
The ‘Chupinazo’ started at 12am on Wednesday with...
Floods claim second victim in northern Spain as body pulled from van swept away when river burst its banks
A SECOND person has died during flooding across northern Spain as rivers burst their banks in the wake of Storm Barra.
As floodwaters receded on...
WATCH: People kayak through the streets of Pamplona after city in northern Spain hit by ‘flood of the century’
SPAIN’S northern city of Pamplona was hit by the ‘flood of the century’ when rivers burst their banks on Friday following torrential rain as...
Hemingway, my dad and running the bulls of Pamplona
In a moving tribute to her legendary father, American Deirdre Carney explains why she sorely misses running the bulls at July’s postponed San Fermin festival.
Benidorm mother abandons teenage son at northern Spain bar and drives 150 kilometres to Bilbao
A MOTHER has been charged with child abandonment after leaving her teenage son in a Pamplona bar, while she travelled 150 kilometres to Bilbao.
The...
Spain’s notorious Pamplona Wolfpack rape gang ‘let off’ after court verdict on second attack
THE convicted rape gang known as 'La Manada' or 'Wolfpack' has seen four of its members convicted for a second attack just two months...
PICTURED: Grisly fate of Pamplona bulls during Spain’s famous San Fermin festival
THE grisly fate of the bulls at this year’s San Fermin festival in Pamplona have been revealed.
Each day of the iconic fiesta sees the...
American football star caught jumping over bulls at Spain’s San Fermin as veterans SLAM festival as ‘TOO SAFE’
This year’s week-long San Fermin festival in Pamplona, has actually been criticised for ‘not being dangerous enough’
US tourist was taking ‘selfie’ when hospitalised by bull in Pamplona
A US tourist has revealed he was taking a 'selfie' when a bull gored him in the neck at Pamplona's San Fermin festival.
Jaime Alvarez,...
WATCH: American gored in neck and teen bruises spine as annual San Fermin bull run begins in Spain’s Pamplona
Each day six bulls and accompanying steers are released, before the animals take on matadors in public fights in the afternoon
BREAKING: ‘Wolfpack’ group DID rape teenager at bull-running festival, Spain’s Supreme Court rules
In the sickening attack, the so-called 'Wolfpack' took turns committing anal, vaginal and oral rape on the young tourist
Judges in Spain let ‘Wolf Pack rapists’ roam free after delaying 9-year sentence for brutal sex attack
THE infamous gang behind the sex attack that rocked Spain has been spared prison.
Three of Spain's top judges made the ruling after the five...
OUTRAGE as uncle and nephew cleared of rape after drugging woman in back alley sex attack in Spain
An uncle and nephew were only cleared of the more serious offence of sexual assault - Spain's equivalent to rape
Pintxo hopping in Spain’s San Sebastian may be ‘World’s Best Culinary Experience’ but don’t bail on Bilbao
THE world’s best culinary experience has officially been awarded to an old Spanish tradition. Well, Basque that is.
Choosing from 500 different food experiences...
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