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A powerful storm that was still affecting Catalonia yesterday after sweeping across northern and eastern Spain for four days has claimed another victim. A man was found dead in Jorba (Barcelona) after his car was dragged away by torrential rain, bringing the death toll from Storm Gloria to 11. A person has also been reported missing in Cabacés (Tarragona), where he was last seen driving his car. Five people still […]

National Police officers entered MALAGA football club’s offices yesterday morning to request financial documentation in an action that has been ordered by the courts. Details of the proceedings, which the Judge has ordered to be kept secret, are said to be linked to a complaint filed by an association of small shareholders in Malaga. Officers arrived at the La Rosaleda stadium, to collect the documentation requested to prove the economic […]

Tickets will be on sale for the new 'low-cost AVE' rail link from this Monday (January 27), even though the train will not start to run until April 6. The long-awaited 'AVLO' – a cheaper version of Spain's fastest rail service, but without buffet cars, 1st class, WiFi or any other frills – will, at first, only run between Madrid and Barcelona, with one of the three daily trains operating […]

ZARA has been snubbed in the latest list of the global top 100 strongest and most valuable brands. The annual report in 2019 saw Zara at 96, but the clothing giant, headed by Spain’s richest man Amancio Ortega, is now down to 128. Spanish bank, Santander also fell out of the top 100.

The death toll from the powerful storm that swept through parts of Spain earlier this week has risen to nine. Authorities have reported five more fatalities as a result of Storm Gloria, which began battering the north and east of the country on Sunday. Three of the victims died in the Valencia region and two in the Andalusian province of Almería. In the Valencia region, authorities reported that a homeless […]

ONLINE gambling has shot up by 78% and people are spending twice as much money as they did five years ago. In 2018, almost 1.5 million people enjoyed a flutter online, a figure that represents 3% of the population in Spain. Of these, 300,000 were new users, according to the online player profile reports produced by the General Directorate of Game Management. Image Credit: Urine Drug Test Urine Drug Test HQ

A DRIVERLESS mini-bus powered by electricity is about to be piloted as intra-campus student transport at Madrid Autonomous University (UAM). It has six seats and space for a further six standing passengers, and will travel a total circuit of 3.8 kilometres around the Cantoblanco campus.

MW it's been revealed the Spanish State has more people on it’s payroll than the number employed in the private sector. Including the employed, the unemployed and state pensioners, the government is responsible for salaries and social payments to 700,000 people more than all of those who are employed in private commerce and industry. This has gradually developed in the last ten years when the situation was just the opposite, […]

Spain’s coalition government have announced a plan to give civil servants a two percent pay raise backdated to Jan. 1. Regional Policy Minister Carolina Darias said the pay hike, which unions had requested prior to the announcement of PSOE Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s cabinet, will be introduced as soon as possible. The measure will benefit 2.5 million public sector workers.