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SPAIN’S secretary of state for tourism says the government was maximising efforts to ensure a ‘decent’ summer for the vital sector. Fernando Valdes hopes the country will recover from a health and tourist point of view with a “gradual recovery” by the summer season – pain took a huge hit in 2020, the its national institute of statistics saying the holiday industry took a 70% hit. There have been mixed […]

A FLYING instructor and a trainee pilot were killed on Sunday afternoon when their light aircraft crashed into fields outside Toledo. The 66-year-old instructor and the student, 23, died instantly in the accident, the stricken plane coming down in farmland near the Algador airfield, and aerodrome with a 450-metre runway, making it a popular weekend base for training flights. The cause of the crash is not known; weather conditions were […]

THE scheming leader of an international swindle presented herself as a millionaire and illegitimate daughter of King Carlos I to run a €4 million property racket, say police. Cut price luxury Spanish property was marketed and sold to unsuspecting clients in Madrid, Barcelona, Tarragona and Alicante – and across Europe, particularly in the Czech Republic and Sweden. And the ‘princess’ running the illicit operation based in the Alicante town of […]

A cocaine baron on the run from Italian police was tracked down to a small town in Toledo after his partner reported an incident of domestic violence. The 45-year-old Columbian was believed to have gone to earth in the Costa del Sol but was outfoxed by the woman when she reported she was a victim of gender violence – although the ‘narco’ forced her to withdraw the complaint, it was […]

SPANISH police arrested a former colonel of Uruguay’s brutal military dictatorship in the Castellón town of Peñíscola – one of the Latin American nation’s ‘most wanted’ fugitive. Eduardo Augusto Ferro is accused of illegally imprisonment, torture, and making political activists ‘disappear’ in the seventies and early eighties and is wanted by Uruguay’s justice system. Arrested by officers of the National Police under an international arrest warrant, Ferro faces extradition on […]

A series of 10 earthquakes struck the city of Granada and its suburbs overnight measuring between 2.9 to 4.3 on the Richter scale, the National Geographic Institute estimated this morning (Wednesday). The area is home to about half a million people and in the city itself, many fled their homes to seek shelter outdoors – despite the Covid-19 curfew. Granada city Mayor Luis Salvador said: “There’s no major damage, but […]

Heartless gangsters stabbed a pet dog in the neck to pressurise a young father to hand over the cash - and settle a long-standing and ‘high-value’ debt. The Albacete family had been plagued with threatening telephone and social media calls from the gang prior to their home in the town of Caudete, according to the police; all concerning money ‘alleged’ to be owed. The Guardia Civil released details of the […]

Four people died, including a newly ordained priest, in the explosion which destroyed a seven-storey building in the centre of Madrid. Another 10 people were injured in Wednesday’s blast at the parish centre of the Church of Virgen de la Paloma in Calle de Toledo – the street about 1,000m from the iconic Plaza Major and a 15-minute walk from Puerta del Sol. Early indications show a gas explosion caused […]

FOUR floors of a Madrid building were destroyed by an explosion and at least four people have died in the blast. Emergency services have set up a field hospital to treat the wounded following the incident in Calle de Toledo in the city centre. It is believed a gas leak caused the explosion which is being treated as a major incident with the area sealed off by police. Residents from […]