The UK will regain full control over the country’s fishing waters for the first time in 40 years after December 2020, Michael Gove has insisted. The environment secretary said he shared the “disappointment” of fishing communities who hoped this would happen on Brexit day, 29 March 2019. But Mr Gove […]
The deal announced on Monday On Monday, the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier said the legal text of the agreement for the 21 months after Brexit marked a “decisive step” but added that it was “not the end of the road”. The key aspects of the agreement announced in Brussels […]
Online retail giant Amazon is facing its first possible strike in Spain and what will be the company’s largest in Europe to date. The store, which started out life as an internet-based book, record and video shop and has now branched out into clothing, cosmetics, electronics and even food, has […]
The Hawk aircraft crashed at the air base on Anglesey Island in north Wales. Photos purporting to be of the scene showed a large cloud of smoke exploding from the ground, reaching dozens of metres high. The pilot’s condition is not yet known. The Welsh Ambulance Service said it was […]
Lawyers want to stop exiled former Catalan president from justifying his ‘crimes’ abroad. A Spanish prosecutor on Tuesday asked a judge to invalidate Carles Puigdemont’s passport to stop the exiled former Catalan president from justifying his “crimes” to international audiences. Puigdemont and four members of his former Cabinet fled […]
Bottled butane gas goes down in price today (Tuesday) by 5%, dropping to €13.96 from the current €14.68 due to a fall in the cost of the raw material, cheaper transport and the strengthening of the euro. This first price fall of the year has come after many months of […]
James Walton, 23, a Sheffield Hallam University student who was on a placement year on the Spanish island, was killed virtually instantly after plunging from a friend’s flat. He suffered fatal injuries after falling head-first onto a pavement below the apartment block in the island capital Palma, it emerged yesterday. […]
A couple living in London interrogated their young French au-pair relentlessly for hours before murdering her and burning her body to cover up the crime, prosecutors told a court Tuesday. The charred remains of 21-year-old Sophie Lionnet were discovered by the fire brigade on September 20, in the back garden […]
The body of a Civil Guard corporal, named as Diego Díaz and missing since Saturday night, has been found, the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary and the Civil Guard confirmed. “Rescue teams have found the body of Diego, the Civil Guard officer who disappeared in Guillena”, said Mariano Rajoy on […]
A 70-year-old man was kicked off a flight after allegedly making racist comments to a flight attendant on a Binter Canarias flight, which was bound to La Palma, on Spain’s Canary Islands. The passenger was reportedly boarding a plane as witnesses said he “hurled racist abuse,” according to Spanish newspaper El Pais. “I don’t want blacks […]
The European Parliament on Thursday urged the United States to reverse its decision to slap import duties of up to 20 percent on Spanish olives, as a transatlantic trade row rumbles on. Washington imposed the duties in January to protect Californian growers, saying Spanish producers benefited from subsidies that let […]
