The EU was in turmoil as Donald Trump’s election victory delivered another huge blow to the ailing Brussels project. .......AN international criminal gang has stolen millions of pounds in an unprecedented cyber-attack on Tesco Bank.........Spain’s main political parties are divided over King Felipe’s upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia.....A GANG of drug traffickers were killed after their boat collided with an Agencia Tributaria patrol boat. Spain’s richest 100 worth almost 20% of country’s GDP, new...
Nov 10, 2016
Mariano Rajoy, Spain's acting prime minister and leader of its conservative Popular Party (PP), was re-elected on Saturday after winning a parliamentary vote. Throughout Spain’s long economic crisis, international tourism has been a rare highlight, and the summer of 2016 was no exception...... the total figure for international visitors for the three months in question was up from 25.2 million in 2015 to 27.6 million this year. Spain’s official unemployment rate has fallen below 20% for the firs...
Nov 03, 2016
Mariano Rajoy to head new government in Spain. Two Imans arrested in Ibiza. One of Britain's most wanted criminals is arrested on Tenerife and we look at some of Spain's regional dishes. Italy has been rocked by more terrible earthquakes. In France the Calais Jungle has been demolished. Teresa May announces ontroversial new plans for Heathrow. UKIP criticised by Jeremby Paxman for saying what many are thinking about the immigrants and refugees.A yob has attacked two people speaking Spanish in Po...
Oct 26, 2016
400 or so migrants have marched in protest from Belgrade in Serbia to the Hungarian border holding signs pleading the government to open their borders to allow them access to the EU Spain's largest corruption case focuses on huge kickbacks-for-contracts ring allegedly headed up by businessman Francisco Correa. Whilst this threatens the PP the PSOE needs to bring an end to the current crisis and its internal conflicts. Meanwhile The economy will expand 3.1% this year and 2.2% in 2017, says the IM...
Oct 06, 2016
Felipe González, who is Spain’s longest-serving prime minister, has stepped into the debate over what the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) should do to break the prolonged impasse that is keeping the country without a fully functional government. González, 74, says he feels betrayed by PSOE Secretary General Pedro Sánchez, who allegedly told him that the party would abstain at the second round of an investiture vote in Congress. This follows Spain's Socialist leader facing mounting pressure Monday...
Sep 29, 2016
Spain's King Felipe VI told General Assembly in New York that Spaniards will overcome this difficult moment in finding a government as Foreign ministry notes that political stalemate is keeping Madrid on the sidelines of world gatherings Dismembered victims found in central Spain were caught up in a dispute over drugs, say police. The murdered family of four were killed by professional hitmen. One person died and 17 people were injured in an explosion in a block of flats in a Spanish seaside res...
Sep 22, 2016
The Popular Party’s (PP) ability to wage a successful campaign ahead of regional elections to be held on September 25 in Galicia and the Basque Country is being hampered by the numerous corruption investigations affecting the Spanish conservative group. Thousands of Catalan separatists rallied across their province on Sunday to show their support for a break away from Spain, which would leave the country without one of its richest regions. Excessive speed caused train crash in Galicia that kille...
Sep 15, 2016
Fury in Spain as ex-minister named in Panama leaks is nominated for World Bank chairman role. Teenagers arrested for starting dreadful fires in Javea. Spain's economy forges aheas without a government. Dildo vending machine shocks British family and a new Spanish Nationality course has been created for Brexpats. Ridiculous plans to build a wall near Calais and funded by Anglo-French money. UK ministers are powerless over joke jail-term for hate- preacher Choudary. As one muslim on Good Morning B...
Sep 08, 2016
#spain is still trying to find its next government with mr #rajoy nearing his target majority. #calais is a major problem for #france and the #uk. Britain's #nhs has more problems
Sep 01, 2016
Our first thoughts are with the victims of the terrible earthquake in Italy. Spain's government is still in the making although the PP has agreed to the Ciudadanos 6 point transparency plan. This makes us wonder who has authorised the drones to continue looking for illegal constructions. Despite Brexit the Brits are still flocking to Spain and an Italian mafia fugitive has been found in Benidorm. A British man has been killed by a hit and run driver near Alicante and a dad lost his life trying t...
Aug 25, 2016
It does appear that we will soon have a new Government in Spain as acting PM Rajoy seems ready to accept the 6 point Ciudadanos demands. Spain's medal tally is already ahead of London 2012.One of the five men arrested foa gang rape during the San Fermines fiestas in Pamplona on July 7th sent text messages to friends. The swimming in Burquinis is now under scrutiny in several Eu countries although Barcelona will not impose a ban.An Irishman has been shot dead in a suspected gangland killing in Ma...
Aug 18, 2016
The weather is still hot and the Iberian Peninsular is very dry. Dreadful fires rage in Portugal and Galicia and the police seem to be hinting that these fires are the work of arsonists. The politicians are still trying to form a government in Spain and there is a slight chance that Señor Rajoy might have the support he needs to form a government via the Ciudadanos party. . There are conditions as you'd expect but maybe we'll get a government soon. statistics show a quarter of Spain's unemployed...
Aug 13, 2016
As British jets join in the bombing campaign against Syria.......Hilary Benn recalls how British trade unions joined in the Spanish Civil War. Here4 in Spain, the political shenanigans continue in Catalonia......a suicidal woman falls from a flat, kills a man below yet survives and incest is still legal in Spain. Sean Connery's wife is to stand trial over fraud allegations and a Spanish farmworker has been gored at a farm ... In the UK...the fallout is expected after the voting on the issue of b...
Dec 03, 2015
Now a Russian plane has been shot down by Turkish fighters and Russia accuses Russia of slander for saying they buy oil from Iis and Erdogan refuses to apologise for downing the plane. According to El Pais PM Rajoy appears to be isolating himeself from his allies and turning a blind eye to the jihadist threat as King Felipe asks for EU members to stand united against those who would take away our freedom. ......There's fury in Spain over tributes to Franco on the anniversary of his death...........
Nov 26, 2015
As 132 innocent people were being killed in Paris by Muslim extremists an event in Bradford where radical panellists reportedly told of a duty to establish an Islamic state in Britain. The ringleader of the Paris attacks was seen drinking beer and smoking cannabis the day after the massacres, a witness has exclusively told Sky News. England played their football match against France whilst Germany v Holland and Spain v Belgium were cancelled. Turkey fans booed during the minute's silence for the...
Nov 19, 2015
Whilst Artur Mas is preparing to take Catalonia away from Spain, Benidorm and Alfaz are enjoying their fiestas and Deliberries is tryng to help one particular sector of the employment market. ANGELA Merkel’s government has admitted it is paying the pensions of 41 Spaniards injured while fighting for the Nazis. The men were part of General Franco’s Blue Division who fought for Adolf Hitler on the eastern front during World War Two. A letter from Angela Merkel’s government in response to a parliam...
Nov 11, 2015
The British Government have asked for the cancellation of all flights from Sharm El Sheikh after the Russian plane crashed in Egypt. A Spanish firm has won a huge compensation payout after being falsely accused of involvement in an E. Coli outbreak...............25% of brand new houses in Spain have been branded as unsellable........A Spanish toy chain has produced a non-sexist Christmas calender.....and child matadors have been filmed killing the bulls in front of their cheering school mates......
Nov 05, 2015
In Spain, the battle for Catalonia carries on with allegations of a Madrid witch hunt by Artur Mass. There are kidnap fears for the crew of a Spanish Air Force helicopter after a crash near the Canary Islands. There is a mystery over disappearance of three crew members who were earlier said to have been rescued by Moroccan authorities after their craft ditched in the sea. A Briton has been found dead in a Benidorm police cell. Spanish police say Antony Abbott's partner Catherine Corless had cont...
Oct 28, 2015
Whilst there has been a decrease in the unemployment numbers there is speculation that more austere years lie ahead for Spain. Seville fans were attacked after the Man City game and there is a question mark hanging ove rthe Barcelona v Real Madrid match. A waiter has been stabbed by his boss for being too slow. Nine women have been freed from an illegal brothel in Marbella In the UK the week has been dominated by the state visit of the Chinese premier and David Cameron is accused of kowtowing to...
Oct 22, 2015
In Spain... Is Spain an alcoholic society? Catalan officials deny November independence vote was criminal act. Education secretary and former deputy president testify before Barcelona judge two days before Artur Mas will answer same accusations of disobedience, abuse of office, misuse of public funds and usurping authority...... .Benidorm, which was once a place where families and young adults could go without feeling threatened has now turned into a place where there are many no-go areas..........
Oct 15, 2015
Unemployment in Spain: Unemployment increases by 26,087 claims in September ......Chairman of supermarket chain Mercadona, Juan Roig, has been crowned top dog for ‘corporate reputation’.......Zara owners’ profits surge by over 25% as Spanish jobs boosted .. The company recorded net profits of €1.17bn between February and July, up 26% on the same period last year....... Spain has now promised to take 17,000 refugees by the end of 2015..... The bodies of the two women from Birmingham, aged 33 and ...
Oct 06, 2015
Many Catalans are fighting hard for the right to decide on whether to split from the rest of Spain. But what would an independent Catalonia actually look like? Volkswagen scandal: Seat admits manufacturing 700,000 cars with VW’s rigged engines......A cement mixer ploughed into a car in Madrid and police believe that the mixer’s handbrake was either released or was faulty. The 37-year-old victim was killed instantly”.......Gibraltar's priest Mark Miles is excelling as Pope's translator..... Richa...
Oct 01, 2015
Castellón airport, an emblem of Spain’s reckless boom-era infrastructure spending, received its first commercial passenger flight on Tuesday morning”......“ Battle of Biblical proportions as Marbella restaurant and brotherhood lock horns over late-night noise”..................Politicians call for British gunships to be permanently stationed in Gibraltar during defiant National Day speeches”.....Spanish police have recovered a bicycle stolen during the Vuelta a España after spotting it in a seco...
Sep 17, 2015
Whilst EU leaders seem hell-bent on allowing all and sundry...Denmark has blocked the road and rail links between itself and Germany. The Autumn rains return to Spain with a vengeance including flamingos killed in Albacete. Who is the man behind Spain's national police twitter account? Spain is overwhelmed by immigrant requests. Interior Minister warn of immigrants escalating terrorist threats.A Spanish pensioner offers 5.000 euros reward for a job for his son. In the UK ....as migrants pour in ...
Sep 10, 2015
The Ibex 35, based in Madrid, closed August with a drop of 8.24% on JulySpain’s stock exchange suffers worst month in three years.........Dream Costa del Sol villa sale falls through after Natwest suspects British couple of money-laundering 151 people drowned in Spain over the summer and 271 have drowned since the start of the year .....a shortage of spaces and threat of fines make parking by the beach 'mission impossible' . In the uK the migrant problems rumble on .....Chaotic scenes and 16 hou...
Sep 03, 2015
Something will have to change in Spain as seven people have now been killed in the running season this year. Four were killed this weekend. 14 Jihadist recruiters have been arrested in Madrid and various Moroccan cities. Fewer Russians and more Americans are visiting Spain. Gibraltar is furious as Guardia Civil allegedly shot across the bows of Gibraltarian's boat. British police sent to Magaluff to stop drunken behaviour is telling friends she was sozzled herself! In the UK Investigators have b...
Aug 27, 2015
Unfortunately, Spain is home to all of the EU’s top five employment blackspots ...and another two Spanish regions are in the top 10. Elsewhere, Spanish policemen are facing long prison sentences for ‘torturing’ two Brits in custody in Mallorca. A captain and three police officers stand charged with intimidating and viciously attacking the two Brits, who had been arrested after a pub brawl. In the UK news David Cameron has not only been stung by a jellyfish whilst on holdiay but A Tory crony of D...
Apr 20, 2014
Here in Spain......Well-organized Romanian gangs make up to €100 a day for each person they force out on to Spain s streets.......A hard-hitting study claims poverty is trapping thousands of pensioners on the Costa del Sol.......Spanish police are hunting the killer of wealthy jeweller Andrew Bush from Bristol who it is believed was ambushed by an ex-girlfriend.......Spanish olive oil giant Deoleo lands in British hands In the Uk papers we read that sex harassment is rife in the House of Common ...
Apr 13, 2014
Esperanza Aguirre, former president of Madrid and an influential figure in Spain's ruling Popular Party(PP), has got herself into a spot of trouble. At 4pm on Thursday she allegedly illegally parked her car on a bus lane on the capital’s busy Gran Via, to quickly withdraw money from a cash machine. Traffic police apprehended her moments after, but the tough-talking Aguirre refused to pull her Toyota Verso to one side after they had issued the fine. Once the officers had handed over her ID and dr...
Apr 05, 2014
Spanish news first.....The homeless in Spain is growing as the number of court-ordered expulsions reached 67,189 in 2013, according to judicial figures and street demonstrations against government’s education cuts have been infiltrated by far-left groups. There was a major alert when a message sent via Twitter by the 112 emergency service in the Canaries raised the alarm, with a report that a passenger plane had landed in the sea two miles off the coast of Gran Canaria. Just like the Spanish eco...
Mar 29, 2014
