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‘Disappointing’ turnout for International Workers’ Day on Gibraltar
UNION bosses have admitted their disappointment at the low turnout for International Workers’ Day in Gibraltar.
Unite the Union admitted it had hoped for a...
Farmers call tractor protest for May 10 in Alicante on Spain’s Costa Blanca
THE Association of Young Farmers of Alicante have called for a ‘tractorade’ protest in Alicante on May 10 in protest at rising costs in...
Climate change activists smear red paint on Spain’s Congress building in Madrid
CLIMATE change protestors daubed red paint on the steps leading to Spain's Congress building in Madrid on Wednesday.
Walls were also smeared as part of...
Spain’s Foreign Ministry seeks news of ‘arrested’ Valencia pensioner in occupied area of Ukraine
SPAIN'S Foreign Ministry is looking into the arrest of a Valencian pensioner by Russian troops during a protest in the occupied Ukrainian city of...
Solidarity for Ukraine during international protest in Costa Blanca city of Torrevieja in Spain
PROTESTORS gathered outside Torrevieja's Town Hall on Sunday to show their solidarity for Ukraine in the wake of last week's invasion by Russia.
The Plaza...
Farmers threatened by cheap imports use tractors to snarl up centre of Spain’s Valencia City
ANGRY farmers complaining about unfair competition caused by cheap non-EU imports took to the streets of Valencia City on Friday.
Over 220 tractors led the...
To the tractors! Malaga farmers plan protest to highlight problems in Spain’s agricultural sector
FARMERS are to take part in a tractor protest in Malaga to highlight issues that are blighting the agricultural sector, including a rise in...
Man faces 4 years jail for kicking Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s car
A MAN who kicked Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s car and hurled insults during a protest in Spain's African enclave of Ceuta faces up to...
Woman killed in domestic violence assault inside Torrevieja home on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A Torrevieja man has been arrested on suspicion of killing his girlfriend on Saturday.
The 39-year-old Spaniard has a history of domestic violence against previous...
EXPLAINER: Why victims of a cooking oil poisoning scandal staged a lock-in at Spain’s top museum
SURVIVORS of a cooking oil poisoning scandal locked themselves in for 90 minutes inside a room at Madrid's El Prado museum this Tuesday morning.
The...
Residents plan fiesta fundraiser in battle to stop unwanted solar parks in Andalucia valley
RESIDENTS are joining forces to raise money in a campaign to stop one of Andalucia’s most beautiful valleys from being destroyed by solar panel...
Not Backing Down: Activists gather in Spain’s Nerja tomorrow to protest destruction of Andalucian coastline
HUNDREDS of protesters are set to gather tomorrow morning in the centre of the Andalucian town of Nerja against the proposed development of the...
BREAKING: Hospitality workers and business owners protest outside regional government HQ in Valencia
AN estimated 200 employees and business owners within the hospitality sector are at this moment protesting outside the regional government headquarters in Valencia city.
Angry...
Spaniards in lockdown in Madrid take to their balconies to bang pots and pans in protest against King Juan...
SPANIARDS in lockdown have taken to their balconies to bang pots and pans in protest against the former King.
Inside the British-organised Extinction Rebellion protest outside Primark on Madrid’s Gran Via for COP25
Wham – we stopped the traffic, made a space and the flash mob hit the street, the samba band thumping
NEVER GONNA GIVE EU UP: Spain political group ‘wants UK back in EU’ even if Brexit happens on October...
“We think Boris Johnson’s deal is a terrible deal and hope for a second referendum"
Thousands of British expats and Spaniards join forces for anti-Brexit protest on Spain-Gibraltar border
“Brexit, it affects Spanish people as much as British people, I just think it's really sad”
WATCH: British expats and Spaniards protest after 3 million fish found dead in Spain’s Mar Menor catastrophe
Local fishermen also wore black, in memory of the fish that perished in the shallow waters
WATCH: Barcelona police throw old lady to ground and punch man in face, while another loses eye in violent...
Shocking footage posted online appears to show police ramming protesters with vehicles, an officer throwing an old woman to the ground, as well as a man already floored being punched in the face by an officer
WATCH: Protests at Barcelona’s airport turn violent cancelling 100 flights after Spain’s Supreme Court jails Catalunya leaders
In total 108 flights were cancelled as Barceclona’s main airport was taken over and at least 56 people were injured, with 10 hospitalised
Residents light fires in homophobic protest at gay cruisers on Spain’s Costa del Sol
The most common form of homophobic protests has been residents setting fires in the woodlands, with the fifth one occurring this week.
Spain’s Supreme Court blocks reburial of General Franco just days before body due to be dug up
The arguments of his family against removing him from the Valley of the Fallen rested on the ‘irreparable’ damage it would cause
Andalucian football players wear shirts printed with racist insults for protest in final game of season
Teammates have, in a tongue-in-cheek way, branded the five-year-old squad ‘the foreigners’
ANOTHER chiringuito in Spain’s Andalucia faces environmental protests just weeks after blue flag losses
Miguel Diaz, the group’s mayoral candidate for Marbella also claimed the blueprints for the beach bar are ‘suspicious’
Climate change activists in Spain joined by those in UK as hundreds arrested
In the UK capital, around 400 activists were arrested, following acts of civil disobedience
Thousands march in Madrid as depopulation rocks rural Spain
MADRID has seen large protests by rural Spaniards who fear their communities are withering away.
The movement, labelled the ‘revolt of an empty Spain,’ brought...
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