A physiotherapist who works in the Valencian town of Torrent was arrested on May 3rd after being caught red-handed raping a two-year-old girl. The physiotherapist who worked in the local municipal centre was surprised by the girl’s father after he heard her cries. According to the police, he broke down the door, only to find the paedophile red-handed.
Boys who self-identify as girls are being placed in female-only dorms at a summer campstarted by former prime minister David Cameron. The National Citizen Service (NCS) was launched in 2011 as part of Mr Cameron's 'Big Society' plans and has received more than £1.3billion in taxpayer funding - including £75million in public money last year. May Day celebrations took over the UK today, a traditional festival which takes place over four days every May, culminating with a procession through Hasting...
The tensions between Spain ratcheted up a gear today April 27th as Algeria threatens Spain that it will cut the country’s gas supply if any is diverted to Morocco. That would see the recognition of its autonomy but under the control of Rabat. Algeria, who does not have diplomatic relations with Morocco, considers that the step taken by the central Executive favours its opponent in the region. The Rocafonda neighbourhood of Mataro, Maresme, Barcelona,;was the stage to a violent scene of social ...
Tyson Fury has come back to reality with a thud, going from the adrenaline rush of beating Dillian Whyte at a packed Wembley, to taking out the bins. A group of Just Stop Oil protesters are expected to be arrested today after breaching an injunction by standing in front of an oil terminal holding placards saying 'dangerous radicals' and 'if only they listened to petitions'. Britain could soon approve its first new coal mine in decades as it tries to reduce reliance on Russian imports. Levelling ...
The head of the World Health Organisation has blasted the world's focus on the horrificinvasion of Ukraine, saying it shows the lack of 'equal attention to black and white lives'.Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus claimed other crises such as in his home country of Ethiopia do not receive the same concern as Putin's war which has had major geopolitical consequences. Marine Le Pen was confronted by two women in hijabs during a fiery visit to a food market in the south of France today. Arthur Scargill mus...
Pandora Papers..........In February, a commentary from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change urged policymakers to seek, among other measures, higher taxes on land and homes................ Princess Anne, 71, was accompanied by just one member of office staff, stayed in budget hotels, and even packed her own suitcase during her whirlwind trip to Australia and Papua New Guinea. Édouard Manet's 1882 work A Bar at the Folies-Bergère is one of the paintings that received a new label at the Cour...
Eclair Surf has died after sustaining a traumatic head injury in Saturday's Grand National, becoming the fourth horse to pass away at this year's Festival. A woman who is struggling in her new job at a care home has sparked a discussion on what it's like to quit a job you've barely even started. One in five workers say they would struggle to cope financially if they were summoned for mandatory jury service, with a two-week trial potentially leaving the average juror £260 out of pocket. A Daily M...
Morocco has always chosen to put pressure on Spain. The Sahara was Spanish before Morocco existed. Ceuta, Melilla and the Canary Islands are not and have not been colonies but Spain and never Morocco. USA, UK, France have never openly supported Spain and Morocco.
Passenger demand has soared in recent weeks after all Covid restrictions - including testing and self-isolation requirements - were lifted in England. Budget airline EasyJet has cancelled more than 220 flights, blaming the disruption on high levels of staff sickness due to Covid. A British Gas lawyer has won a sex discrimination case after she was made redundant when her female bosses decided she had been 'less focused' since going part time after having triplets. Intellectual property specialis...
Inflation in Spain is estimated to have surged to a 37-year high in March, rising to almost 10% over the past year as consumer prices have soared worldwide. The fear of a shortage of products due to the strike of transporters causes customers to stock up on basic products. It has finally been announced that one of the world’s largest car manufacturers has decided to open a battery factory in Valencia. In the Valencian town of Sagunto, a massive Volkswagen plant will be built to produce electric ...
Whoopi Goldberg has joined the chorus of people calling on the royal family to apologize for their colonial past, insisting that the crown cannot 'ignore the fact that Britain ran roughshod over India for years' - just one month after she was suspended from her ABC talk show The View for saying that the 'Holocaust wasn't racist'.
An indefinite strike by some Spanish truck drivers over rising fuel prices has triggered supply chain problems across the country, leaving several sectors struggling to cope, business associations have said. Spain’s Guardia Civil have been called out to guarantee the transportation of essential services in some areas [see video in Tweet below]. The strike that was called by a minor truck driver union started on Monday, with protestors demanding action over the soaring cost of diesel which they s...
Gucci's creative director has claimed men are turning to 'flamboyant and feminine' outfits to express their 'freedom' and crush gender stereotypes. Alessandro Michele, 49, has been credited for bringing gender fluid fashion to the catwalk since he started spearheading Gucci's revamp in 2015. A pair of £960 trainers designed by luxury fashion brand Louis Vuitton has been compared to a £12.99 pair from budget supermarket Lidl with fashion fans saying the shoes look very similar. According to the l...
A Russian journalist who defied Vladimir Putin's crackdown on free speech to denounce his war on Ukraine on live TV has said she fears for her safety but does not plant to leave the country. Marina Ovsyannikova, 43, dubbed the 'bravest women on television', said she is 'extremely concerned' after being handed a £210 fine by a Russian court - a mere fraction of the retaliation expected, raising fears that more punishment awaits her.
FIRE crews dealt with a record 1,640 requests for help from obese Brits trapped in their homes last year. The number has tripled from 587 five years ago and equates to over 30 calls a week.he total was more than the 943 occasions emergency teams were called out in 2020/21 to save stranded pets. A dishonest doctor from East Yorkshire who mistakenly injected a patient with local anaesthetic and steroids in the wrong hip and then tried to cover it up with lies has been struck off. A tribunal found ...
A huge fire has broken out in a block of flats and offices near London's Algate East underground station - sending 'glass panels crashing hundreds of meters to the ground'. Around 125 firefighters in 20 vehicles are currently at the scene of the inferno on the 17th floor of a high rise building on Whitechapel High Street in Aldgate, east London. Calls are growing for people to boycott Coca-Cola as they have yet to pull operations out of Russia despite Putin's invasion of Ukraine entering its twe...
Headteachers at schools in Brighton have sparked anger from parents by cancelling the words 'mum' and 'dad' and replacing them with 'grown ups' - to avoid discriminating against 'non-traditional' families. .Anti-racism campaigners have criticised new Government guidance on political impartiality in the classroom as 'disturbing', while teachers' leaders have said it will stop pupils from engaging with challenging issues in the classroom. The Government released guidance on Thursday aimed at helpi...
A retired Spanish doctor who has been campaigning to maintain face-to-face customer services at banks, presented a petition in Madrid on Tuesday with more than 600,000 signatures to the secretary of state for the treasury, Carlos Cuerpo, at the Economy Ministry. He also presented his petition to the Bank of Spain. Carlos San Juan, aged 78 and from the Valencia Region, used the slogan of ‘SoyMayorNOidiota’ (‘I’m old, not an idiot’) for his campaign against the Spanish banks’ growing use of digita...
PARENTS have blasted a school's decision to go permanently "meat free". Students at Barrowford Primary School near Nelson, Lancashire, are only offered vegetarian dinners - and kids are also urged not to bring meat in their packed lunches. The new rule was brought in last year, but a letter informing parents of the change was only sent out on Thursday.
Spain will be a pioneer in the creation of the world’s first octopus farm. It is expected that in the summer of 2022 it will come true with the goal of being commercialized and sold as food in 2023, although many experts have already shown their outrage that they consider that these creatures are capable of feeling pain and emotions.
The Queen has used her Platinum Jubilee message to the nation to back the Duchess of Cornwall in a significant move to shape the future of the monarchy on her historic milestone. In a statement that ends years of uncertainty, Elizabeth II has expressed her 'sincere wish' that Camilla be given the title when Charles ascends to the throne, telling the public 'I know you will give them the same support you have given me'.
According to data from the European Active Population Survey, published this Tuesday, February 1, by Eurostat, Spain finished 2021 with the highest unemployment figure in the entire European Union. An unemployment level of 13 per cent was recorded in December, a figure that is only close to Greece at 12.7 per cent, and which, moreover, is double the European average of 6.4 per cent.December was the seventh consecutive month in which Spain leads with this statistic in Europe. ‘The data once again...
Cyclists are already asserting their new powers as they take to the middle of the road legally for the first time today after a major revamp of the Highway Code. Under the new rules, cyclistsare now advised to ride in the centre of lanes on quieter roads, in slower-moving traffic, and when approaching junctions, to make themselves as visible as possible. A teacher who was banned from working in schools after it was discovered he had been posting images of students onto a Russian website used by ...
The Ukraine crisis has entered Spanish domestic politics, showcasing division within the coalition government over Spain’s participation in a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)-led effort to deter Russia from escalating the conflict further. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of the Socialist Party (PSOE) has run into open objections from his governing partners in the leftist Unidas Podemos, and is instead finding support in the main opposition Popular Party (PP). A major initiative to promote ...
The president of the Association of School and College Leaders, Pepe Di'lasio, told The Times: 'This is a nationwide issue.' Research published last year found that one in five 11- year-olds at secondary school weren't able to read to the expected standard. The UK is 14th in international league tables for reading, according to Pisa tests which evaluates the reading of 15-year-olds in 70 countries. ........................................
Emmanuel Macron has blamed Britain for migrant deaths in the English Channel and called on Brussels to be 'tough' on fishing licences as the bitter row with London continued at the European Parliament today. As France took over the presidency of the EU, Macron took the opportunity to accuse Boris Johnson of putting lives at danger because of his migration policy, with record numbers making the perilous journey across the Channel in dinghies.
The Communist spy at the heart of an MI5 Whitehall security alert boasted about her plans to install Chinese MPs in the Commons as far back as 2007, it emerged yesterday. Barbara Stange-Alvarez destroyed wine, spirits and beer when she went on the rampage in Aldi, St Albans Magistrates' Court was told. The 36-year-old from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, walked along the aisle at the local store and used her arm to sweep hundreds of bottles off the shelves, a judge heard. Culture Secretary Nadine Dorr...
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Former King of Spain Juan Carlos wants to return home and does not care about possibly damaging the Royal Family's reputation by doing so, an expert has claimed. Juan Carlos, 83, who abdicated in 2014 in favour of his son Felipe VI, 53, has been living in Abu Dhabi since summer 2020 after becoming the target of several probes in Spain over his financial dealings. However, the elderly royal is reportedly hoping to see out his final years home, despite a majority of the Spanish public opposing his...
