Corvera Airport, celebrates its first anniversary tomorrow and managing to exceed its target of one million passengers also introducing new national destinations with year round flights to the Canary Islands as well as Barcelona, ??Asturias, Bilbao and Palma. Although the airport is now paying back a small portion of it’s […]
Pedro Almodóvar is back in contention at the Oscars for the first time in 16 years after his latest movie Pain and Glory was nominated for Best International Feature Film. It marks the Spanish filmmaker’s first return to the Academy Awards since Talk To Her earned a statuette for best […]
Work has begun to dismantle the toll booths on the road between Alicante and Tarragona after it became toll free at the start of the year. Lane diversions have already begun to be laid out to enable workers to dismantle the pay stations on the AP-7 motorway. The change in […]
The four deputy prime ministers and 18 cabinet members in Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s new government were sworn in yesterday before King Felipe VI at the Zarzuela Palace. The monarch congratulated the MPs and wished them luck, their first meeting is due to take place today. The new government is […]
The EU’s trade commissioner has suggested there could be a last-minute trade-off with Brussels offering the City of London access to European markets in return for European fleets retaining their fishing rights in British waters. The UK’s financial services sector will lose its automatic right to serve Europe-based clients at the end […]
Emily Thornberry has narrowly made it through to the next round of the Labour leadership contest, as Clive Lewis pulled out of the race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn. Announcing his decision, the Norwich South MP said it was “clear that I won’t get on the ballot” and he was pulling […]
A think tank has cast doubt on whether the Northern Ireland part of the Brexit deal can be implemented by the end of 2020. The Northern Ireland protocol covers new regulatory and customs arrangements between NI and Great Britain. It is to be operational at the end of the one-year […]
Tourism figures for November saw a sharp increase here in Spain, the first month of growth since June. 4.7 million international tourists visited in November, 2.8% more than in the same month of 2018. The although still the largest individual group, the number of tourists from the UK continued to […]
The Mossos d’Esquadra police force have confirmed that a serial sex offender who preyed on women in Spain has been detained in police custody. The 24-year-old man has been accused of committing multiple sexual assaults on women since the end of 2018 across the municipality of Lleida. The predator had […]
In a blow to the Spanish separatist movement jailed Catalan leader Oriol Junqueras’ mandate as a European Union (EU) lawmaker is over. European Parliament president David Sassoli said decisions this month by Spain’s electoral board and Supreme Court blocking Junqueras from taking up his seat meant he had effectively ceased […]
French police have thwarted an alleged plot to raid Fontainebleau palace near Paris. Five Spaniards and a man thought to be Chinese are in custody. They deny any involvement in the post-Christmas raid. Police believe the six were targeting Napoleon III’s treasures from Empress Eugenie’s Chinese Museum and are probing […]
Gareth Bale will not be leaving Real Madrid in this month and is “unlikely” to leave this summer, according to his agent Jonathan Barnett. Bale’s contract at the Bernabeu runs until 2022 and despite being close to a move to China at the start of the season, he is now […]
