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Month: December 2018


Charity News

We’ve got your back Millie

BayRadio | December 12, 2018 close
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Casas Espania are active in the community- offering support etc. to worth while charitable causes, youth sports teams, and individual, specific causes. One such cause the company and employees are behind is to help local girl, Millie Grundy. Millie is a lively 13 year old. With interests in dancing, sport […]

Spanish News

Brexit pushes more Britons to apply for Spanish citizenship

BayRadio | December 12, 2018 close
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The number of requests has tripled since 2015, the year before the UK voted to leave the EU An increasing number of British people have applied for Spanish nationality since the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in a process known as Brexit. According to data from Spain’s General […]

Spanish News

‘Humanitarian visas’ for refugees proposed by ...

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Europe should produce ‘humanitarian visas’ for potential refugees to keep them out of the hands of the mafia, says a Spanish MEP. Juan Fernando López Aguilar, from the PSOE (socialists) – the same party currently in government in Spain – says migrants who would normally put their lives and life’s […]

Spanish News

AVE trains, motorways and employment promised in 2019 budget

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Spanish president Pedro Sánchez has promised high-speed AVE rail links, motorways, greater employment, and social housing during his last six months of talks with regional governments in a bid to get the 2019 budget signed off. He pledged a helicopter service between the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on Morocco’s northernmost […]

Spanish News

Number of smokers in Spain reaches pre-smoking ban levels

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A new survey has revealed that 34% of Spaniards smoke cigarettes every day, compared to 32.8% when the anti-tobacco law was introduced The number of smokers in Spain has crept up to the levels recorded before the anti-tobacco law was introduced in 2005. According to the drug-consumption survey EDADES, carried out by […]

Spanish News

Valencia vs Manchester United preview: Paul Pogba set to start

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Man Utd face Liverpool on Sunday Paul Pogba will return to the starting line-up as Manchester United travel to Valencia, having already qualified for the last 16 of the Champions League. The midfielder has not started the last two games following a reported argument with manager Jose Mourinho after the […]

Preventorio de Gandia

Thank you Casas Espania!

BayRadio | December 10, 2018 close
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That’s the car loaded. Many thanks to everyone for your donations to this worthy cause! Next stop – Bay Radio Spain — at Casas Espania SL.   7 December at 13:41 · The team are starting to compile all the presents for the Bay Radio Spain preventorio appeal- we´ll be dropping the gifts off in time […]

Spanish News

Road structures with signs of damage

BayRadio | December 10, 2018 close
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A database held by the Spanish government suggests that there are 66 road structures in Spain, many of them bridges, with serious signs of damage that could compromise their safety. The figure represents just 0.29% of the nearly 23,000 bridges, viaducts, overpasses and underpasses built on roads that are managed […]

Spanish News

€15,000 forged banknotes confiscated

BayRadio | December 10, 2018 close
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National Police have arrested 18 people in connection with distributing forged euros that had been bought on the dark web. Over €15,000 worth of forged banknotes were confiscated in raids carried out across the country, including locally. The buyers had hoped that by purchasing using cryptocurrencies and also using the […]

Spanish News

Bicycle thieves arrested in Torrevieja

BayRadio | December 10, 2018 close
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Four men suspected of forming a gang of prolific bicycle thieves in Torrevieja have been arrested by the Guardia Civil. The force explained that during one night’s crime spree they took so many bikes that they had to leave the least expensive ones behind because they were unable to transport […]

Spanish News

New area code for Alicante

BayRadio | December 10, 2018 close
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Alicante will soon have a new telephone number prefix, after a review by the Ministry of Economy and Business. As well as the existing 965 prefix, a new 865 prefix will soon be activated, after demand for phone lines rose. There’ll also be new area codes for Badajoz, Burgos, Málaga […]

Spanish News

Minimum wage increase to be enshrined in law this month

BayRadio | December 10, 2018 close
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THE promised minimum wage rise will be enshrined in law later this month, the government has announced – and will see an increase in monthly pay for over 6.3 million residents in Spain. As at the beginning of this year, a total of 34.7% of employees in Spain were earning […]