New law will mean company debt does not affect personal assets

Sat, 25 May 2013 15:45:30 +0200

BUSINESS-OWNERS and self-employed persons may no longer have to risk their main homes to pay back debts relating to their commercial activity if a new law under discussion goes ahead. ...

Three dead and one critical in light aircraft crash

Sat, 25 May 2013 14:46:05 +0200

TWO men and a woman have died in a light aircraft crash and the pilot is in a critical condition in hospital. The plane, a ...

Terra Mitica directors face jail over massive fraud racket

Sat, 25 May 2013 03:55:48 +0200

FOUR members of the board of directors of Benidorm-based theme park Terra Mitica are facing between seven and 10 years in jail for alleged fraud.

easyJet makes emergency diversion due to cracked window

Sat, 25 May 2013 03:52:11 +0200

AN easyJet airline travelling to Berlin from Barcelona had to make an emergency landing in Milan's Malpensa airport after finding a crack in a window.

Top Spanish names are Maria and Jose

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:48:23 +0200

MARiA and Jose continue to be the most popular names in Spain, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE) which reveals that seven million women are named after the Virgin ...

Petrol and diesel go up in price

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:42:51 +0200

PETROL has just gone up by 0.5 per cent and diesel by 0.38 per cent this week. Now at an average cost of 1.412 euros per litre for 95 ...

Tax fraud means ordinary residents' bills inflated by 2,000 euros annually

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:22:06 +0200

TAX evasion is costing the average Spanish resident around 2,000 euros a year out of their pay-packets, figures show. According to ...

British twin brothers found dead in Fuengirola flat

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:24:57 +0200

POLICE in Fuengirola (Malaga) have opened an inquiry into the deaths of elderly British twin brothers in their home. The two men, aged 83, ...

Amnesty International slams 'police violence', forced evictions and no healthcare for immigrants

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:15:08 +0200

AMNESTY International has condemned the 'unnecessary violence' used by riot police during public demonstrations in Spain and the 'lack of guarantees' for people whose ...

Mother fakes robbery after gambling takings of son's bar

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:50:37 +0200

A WOMAN who spent the entire day's takings of her son's bar in a fruit machine and tried to cover it up by reporting a break-in has been arrested.

Happy anniversary, Felipe and Letizia

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:10:30 +0200

PRINCE Felipe and Princess Letizia tied the knot today nine years ago at the Almudena Cathedral in Madrid in front of millions of television viewers.

Aznar slams Rajoy's policies and says he 'may go back into politics'

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:58:44 +0200

FORMER Spanish president Jose Maria Aznar (PP) has heavily criticised Mariano Rajoy's policies and says he has 'not ruled out' returning to top-level politics.

Greenpeace members park fishing boat outside ministry of agriculture and anchor themselves to it

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:21:55 +0200

TWELVE Greenpeace activists have been arrested after parking a fishing boat outside the ministry of agriculture and chaining themselves to it. ...

Spanish holidaymakers kidnapped in Colombia

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:10:56 +0200

TWO Spanish tourists - a man and a woman - have been kidnapped in Colombia whilst on their way to visit a popular tourist attraction. The hostages, who have not been named, were ...

Gurtel racket 'paid for wedding reception' of Jose Maria Aznar and Ana Botella's daughter

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:50:54 +0200

THE wedding of Ana Aznar, daughter of former Spanish president Jose Maria Aznar and mayoress of Madrid Ana Botella, was paid for in part through the Gurtel case companies.

Soldiers killed in Army base blast

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:33:57 +0200

THREE members of the Spanish Royal Legion have been killed in an explosion at the alvarez de Sotomayor base in Viator (Almeria province).

Investors from abroad who offer jobs in Spain will get automatic residence rights

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:22:58 +0200

FOREIGN investors who could potentially create jobs in Spain may be given automatic residence rights and visas in a new move by the central government to encourage multi-national firms to set up ...

Melilla border fence stampede sees African migrants slip through the net

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:20:23 +0200

A HUMAN 'avalanche' of over 100 sub-Saharan Africans attempted to scale the border fence between Morocco and Spain at around 04.00hrs yesterday ...

Madrid police catch 59 people siphoning water off the mains without paying

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:42:17 +0200

GUARDIA Civil officers in Madrid have detected 67 illegal connections to the mains water network allowing those who set them up to have on-tap water without paying.

Eurovision vote-rigging and plagiarism accusations rife, but Spain would still have been near the bottom

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:40:54 +0200

POSSIBLE cheating at the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday night would not put Spain in the top 10, but if proven to be true would lift El Sueno de Morfeo from 25th position ...

Expat teen dragged by Valencia bus after catching his arm in the door

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:15:42 +0200

A TEENAGE boy was rushed to hospital in Valencia yesterday (Sunday) after being dragged by a bus when his arm became caught in the door.

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