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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

11 Feb, 2021 @ 13:59

Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Spaniards in lockdown in Madrid take to their balconies to bang pots and pans in protest against King Juan Carlos and his Saudi funds

SPANIARDS in lockdown have taken to their balconies to bang pots and pans in protest against the former King.

18 Mar, 2020 @ 18:33

Lead·Madrid

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

9 Dec, 2019 @ 14:28

Environment

NEVER GONNA GIVE EU UP: Spain political group ‘wants UK back in EU’ even if Brexit happens on October 31

“We think Boris Johnson’s deal is a terrible deal and hope for a second referendum"

21 Oct, 2019 @ 11:07

Cadiz·Gibraltar·Lead·Politics

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”

19 Oct, 2019 @ 23:22

Cadiz·Gibraltar·Lead·Politics

Watch_ Local Mayors Protest Feature Image From La Verdad

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

18 Oct, 2019 @ 16:26

Environment·Lead

WATCH: Barcelona police throw old lady to ground and punch man in face, while another loses eye in violent protests after Spain jails Catalan leaders

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

15 Oct, 2019 @ 21:04

Barcelona·Lead·Politics

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

15 Oct, 2019 @ 08:14

Barcelona·Lead

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.

4 Sep, 2019 @ 16:50

Lead

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

5 Jun, 2019 @ 17:49

Lead·National News·Politics

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’

29 May, 2019 @ 12:04

Cadiz·Lead·Politics·Sport

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’

18 May, 2019 @ 10:00

Environment·Lead·Malaga

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

21 Apr, 2019 @ 10:00

Environment·Lead

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

1 Apr, 2019 @ 13:22

Environment·Lead·Politics

FIGHT THE POWER: Olive Press launches campaign to stop network of 352 pylons ‘destroying’ Andalucia’s Lecrin Valley and Alpujarras

Thousands of people are affected and the proposed route, which begins in Conchar in the west and ends at Benahadux in the east, was approved

23 Mar, 2019 @ 09:00

Almeria·Environment·Granada·Lead

Women across Spain protest on International Women’s Day as political parties clash over feminism

Last year the numbers of women protesting on March 8 in Spain reached 5.3 million, according to unions

8 Mar, 2019 @ 13:08

Lead·Malaga·National News

Protesters SLAM €1 million relaunch of bullfighting in Marbella as petition reaches 80,000

HUNDREDS are set to protest against the planned €1 million relaunch of bullfighting in Marbella next week. Campaigners will take the streets on January 12

8 Jan, 2019 @ 17:08

Environment·La Cultura·Lead·Malaga

Two members of Spain's notorious 'Wolf Pack' sex attackers have their sentences reduced

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

3 Jan, 2019 @ 11:34

Crime & Law·Lead·National News·Sevilla

STRIKE: 300 Madrid airport workers walk out until New Year after company refuses them warm clothes for winter

AROUND 300 Madrid airport workers have gone on strike because it is too cold, placing thousands of British holidaymakers in jeopardy. As New Year arrives,

29 Dec, 2018 @ 13:00

Business & Finance·Lead·Travel News

Fascist vandals paint Nazi swastikas on cultural centre in northern Spain

"We will continue to be profoundly antifascist and committed to the rights and freedoms"

26 Nov, 2018 @ 11:52

Barcelona·Crime & Law·La Cultura·Lead·National News·Other News·Politics

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

23 Nov, 2018 @ 16:36

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga·National News

WATCH: Topless female protestors in Madrid kicked and punched by Franco supporters

Bare-breasted Femen activists, who had the slogan 'Legal Fascism, National Shame' painted across their chests, stormed Franco remembrance rally

19 Nov, 2018 @ 19:03

Crime & Law·La Cultura·Lead·National News

WATCH: Man defaces General Franco’s tomb in Madrid with red paint and is dragged away by security guards

The protest was sparked by growing tension surrounding the planned exhumation of the remains of General Franco from the Valley of the Fallen

31 Oct, 2018 @ 14:17

Crime & Law·La Cultura·Lead·National News·Politics

BORDER BRAWL: British woman swings at Spanish protestor on Gibraltar border as tensions over police pay flare

A similar march is planned for Malaga on August 25

15 Aug, 2018 @ 14:42

Crime & Law·Gibraltar·Lead

Stormy seas! Protesters gather to oppose cruise ship arrival in Palma

PROTESTERS gathered as the largest cruise ship in the world, the Symphony of the Seas, arrived in Palma on its maiden voyage. The Royal Caribbean

12 Apr, 2018 @ 11:40

Entertainment·Lead·Mallorca·Politics·Travel News

EXCLUSIVE PICS: Thousands protest in Malaga demanding dignified pension payouts in Spain

Unions and action groups called on retirees to put pressure on the Spanish government to increase state pension payouts

18 Mar, 2018 @ 13:12