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Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez held a public event yesterday as he marked the end of parliament’s summer recess with a speech given in the presence of the country’s top business leaders. His message was one of unity amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis and was aimed squarely at the main opposition Popular Party (PP). The mere presence of the business leaders was, in itself, a political statement. Major figures such as […]

Barcelona City Council has voted to withdraw the Gold Medal top honour that was awarded to Spain’s former king Juan Carlos I back in 1992. Juan Carlos left the country for Abu Dhabi in early August following on-going corruption allegations that include alleged payments from Saudi Arabia to a private bank account in Switzerland.

French supermarket retailer Carrefour has agreed to buy 172 stores under the Supersol banner in Spain, in a deal worth 78 million Euros which would strengthen Carrefour’s number two position here. Carrefour said that the stores and supermarkets being acquired were mainly in Andalusia and the Madrid region, and that they had posted net sales of around 450 million euros in 2019.

Spanish fishing boats are landing only a tenth of their normal summer catch of octopus, an unheard of drop. Since the 1st July they have caught 38 tonnes of octopus, compared with a normal average of 378 tonnes over the same period. Fishermen’s associations believe meteorological and environmental factors must be involved and that it can’t all be down to overfishing.

The Spanish government plans to build 32-foot cylindrical walls around its North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla to stop raids by migrants and individual attempts to enter the country. The new border structures should significantly increase the efficiency of the existing fencing around these two Spanish cities on the North African coast, which is only three, somewhere over four meters high and topped by barbed wire.

Two Belgians and one Frenchman have been arrested in Spain after they tried and failed to kidnap a local. The attempted kidnapping took place on Friday night in the Benitez district of Ceuta, a Spanish city on the African continent. The region is known for drug smuggling activities and it's understood the perpetrators were “hitmen” who were caught while trying to “settle” matters with a 27-year-old man who is thought […]

Readers of luxury magazine Condé Nast Traveler have selected Playa Norte in Peñíscola, Castellón, as the most beautiful beach in the Valencian Community. Peñíscola faced tough competition as Spain's Valencian Community this received the highest number of blue flags (134 of 589) among all the country's 17 autonomous communities. The beach is a tourist hotspot in the northern province of Castellón, famed for its Moorish-era castle still inhabited to this […]

A Costa Blanca orange grower needed hospital treament after he was attacked by a wild boar on his plantation in Denia....the second assualt on the farm by boars in 17 months. The 77 year old said he was thrown three metres into the air as the boar lunged at him, causing a serious leg injury as a result. In April last year, the man's 73 year old wife was charged […]

Arson is believed to be behind repeated fires that have broken out in a stretch of campo beside the CV-734 road between Gata de Gorgos and Javea. https://www.facebook.com/955933994440587/videos/353778178983733 The Rana de Gata has seen four fires in as many days on a site of immense historic importance – an irrigation system dating back to the Moors – and a 30m eucalyptus tree planted in 1915 by former mayor doctor Moratal. […]