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COVID-19: US investment giant cancels event in Spain’s Madrid but HUGE cannabis conference going ahead in Barcelona amid coronavirus fears

MADRID has seen its first event cancellation over coronavirus fears. US investment giant Blackrock has announced it will be postponing its Iberia Investment Day 2020,

2 Mar, 2020 @ 17:24

Barcelona·Health·Madrid

Cosmetics firm in Spain launches vegan lipstick in violet for International Women’s Day

The 100% vegan lipstick has been designed for the traditional demonstrations of International Women’s Day on March 8

2 Mar, 2020 @ 13:54

Barcelona·Environment·Lead

1.65 million doses of doping substances seized in Spain after 100 boxes of growth hormone sent to wrong address

Seven were arrested, including five Spaniards, one Pakistani and one Moroccan

28 Feb, 2020 @ 16:05

Barcelona·Crime & Law·Lead

Child pornography gang operating across NINE Spanish provinces arrested – one with sexually explicit images of babies

NATIONAL POLICE have detained 15 people across Spain who owned and distributed child pornography through social media. One of the gang is said to have

28 Feb, 2020 @ 15:16

Barcelona·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

IN PICS: Spectacular 15,000-year-old carvings uncovered in Spanish cave

They are said to be extremely fragile and can be damaged by merely being touched

22 Feb, 2020 @ 13:00

Barcelona·La Cultura·Lead

PAPER TRAIL: Clumsy office clerk drops box of ‘A4 sheets’ full of cocaine, leading police in Spain to 1.5-tonne haul of the drug

The boxes had originally come from Brazil

11 Feb, 2020 @ 14:54

Barcelona·Crime & Law·Lead

Renfe launches new high-speed rail route in Spain connecting Madrid with Alicante and Murcia

Launch of low cost €5 AVLO tickets collapses RENFE website

A second batch of low fare tickets will be launched today at 8pm

28 Jan, 2020 @ 14:52

Barcelona·Lead·Madrid·Travel News

Barcelona protesters burn containers in response to leaders loss of voting rights

Tensions rose yesterday as protesters reacted to the decision to strip the President of the Generalitat of his rights as a lawmaker

28 Jan, 2020 @ 13:22

Barcelona·Politics

Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia named Europe’s top tourist attraction

The Sagrada Familia in Barcelona has been named as Europe’s top must-visit attraction.

17 Jan, 2020 @ 11:46

Barcelona·Lead·Travel News

REVEALED: Spain’s three best-selling Christmas caganers, and no it’s not Boris Johnson or Greta Thunberg!

A typical caganer figurine these days features a celebrity hunched over to do their business

15 Jan, 2020 @ 19:15

Barcelona·La Cultura·Lead

Barcelona drivers to be penalised with new dirty car fines

Owners of banned vehicles who earn less than €8,000 a year will be exempt, as well as delivery vehicles

12 Jan, 2020 @ 10:00

Barcelona·Environment·Lead

Boris Johnson is up to his butt in a scatological Catalan nativity tradition, writes Belinda Beckett

This year Boris is among 40 new famous faces along with climate activist Greta Thunberg, PP President Pablo Casado and tennis ace Novak ?jokovic

23 Dec, 2019 @ 10:03

Barcelona·Belinda Beckett: Mistress of Sizzle·Politics

EL CLASICO: 3,000 troops to police Spain’s most important football fixture as HUGE Catalan protests planned for Camp Nou

Fears of civil unrest caused the fixture, which was due to be played in October, to be rescheduled for this week

16 Dec, 2019 @ 09:05

Barcelona·Lead

WATCH: Gota fria wreaks havoc in eastern Spain as one person killed while another four missing

Sempre que plou fort al Raval, el mateix panorama. L’any passat dos cops. Causa pèrdues i perjudicis a veïns i comerciants. Fins quan? @bcn_ajuntament #Barcelona

23 Oct, 2019 @ 15:09

Barcelona·Environment·Lead

British government issues alert for tourists travelling to Spain’s Barcelona after days of violent protests

THE UK government has updated its travel advice for Barcelona following more than a week of unruly protests. Clashes between violent and organised protesters have

23 Oct, 2019 @ 08:16

Barcelona·Lead·Travel News

WATCH: All the footage of Policia Nacional officers during Barcelona protests Spain ‘DOES NOT want you to see’

https://twitter.com/AlbanoDante76/status/1185588967066001409 THESE are some of the scenes of alleged unprovoked police violence during protests over the Catalunya issue from the past week. In the widely

21 Oct, 2019 @ 11:14

Barcelona·Costa Blanca·Lead·Mallorca·Politics

WATCH: Olive Press TV live in Barcelona on 6th day of protests

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19 Oct, 2019 @ 23:52

Barcelona·Lead

Catalan president reacts as carnage in Barcelona continues into the fourth day, with 33 more arrests made and 80 people receiving treatment

Groups of hooded faced off against riot police by the Mossos d'Esquadra in Barcelona, the fight taking place against a backdrop of fire, burning cars,

17 Oct, 2019 @ 09:49

Barcelona·Lead