Experts and commentators predominantly look at the impact of Brexit on future trade relations with the EU and the rest of the world, the Irish border and the free movement of people. However, it is important not to lose sight of the fact that Brexit also poses new challenges, as […]
THE MEMORY of Valencia residents who fought against fascism has been upheld by regional president Ximo Puig. Sr Puig accompanied justice councillor Gabriela Bravo to commemorate the 73rdanniversary of the liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp where many Spaniards were interned.
A COSTA BLANCA town’s bid to ban animals from shows on public land – including bullfights – have been dealt a severe blow. The Superior Court of the Valencian Community (TSJCV) has overturned the Orihuela town hall’s decision that was made after a motion debated by the council in October […]
BRITISH-BORN Spanish Film Academy chairwoman Yvonne Blake will not return to her role following her stroke in January, and the job is likely to go to her current second-in-command. Celebrated costume designer Ms Blake, 77, is expected to be out of action for some time as she recovers, meaning her […]
Online initiative enables female users to flag up places where they felt uncomfortable or threatened in a bid to make the city a safer place. On Doctor Esquerdo street, in the Madrid neighborhood of Pacífico, a young woman was accosted by a man who wanted to take her for a […]
Two women have been sentcenced to twenty years in prison after being found guilty of murdering an elderly woman in Castro Urdiales in Cantabria. The victim, an eighty-year-old woman, was attacked by the two in a bungled robbery attempt in Spetember 2014. They are understood to have restrained the woman […]
Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu says he met Antoine Griezmann’s agent this season but does not want to add to “speculation” over a move for the Atletico Madrid striker. In January, Barca “strongly denied” claims they had agreed a deal to sign Griezmann, 27, this summer. Atletico reported Barcelona to Fifa over an […]
Spain’s A-list cinema couple, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, will open this year’s Cannes film festival together on Tuesday. The Oscar-winning actors both star in Iranian master Asghar Farhadi’s Spanish psychological thriller Everybody Knows, which will kick off the festival and is up for the top Palme d’Or prize. The fiercely private couple’s […]
FACEBOOK has opened an operations centre in Barcelona dedicated exclusively to combating ‘fake news’. Based in the Glòries Tower, the Silicon Valley outpost in the Catalunya capital is the result of a deal with the company Competence Call Centre (CCC), which has just signed a rental contract for eight storeys […]
THREE men have been arrested in Tenerife on suspicion of sending a terrorist recruit to Syria to fight with the Jihad organisation Al-Nusra. National Police say the recruit, a 35-year-old Moroccan, was ‘radicalised’ in an internet café in San Isidro run by his three compatriots aged 27, 35 and 37, and also […]
A court on the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday freed three Spaniards who appeared on charges of migrant trafficking. Two Danes were also released. The three firefighters, from the Spanish city of Seville, were detained in 2016 while working for an NGO called Proem-Aid. They had been carrying out […]
DUP leader Arlene Foster has said she she would like the European Union to take a more sensible approach to the Brexit negotiations. Mrs Foster said she would like to see less rhetoric and more engagement from the EU on the way forward. The EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, was […]
