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EXCLUSIVE: Why two Jet2 employees are happy with how the airline has handled the coronavirus crisis and why they’re quietly confident things will go back to normal in June

THE COVID-19 crisis has hit every part of society hard with the darkest cloud hanging over the airline industry.

12 Apr, 2020 @ 14:11

Lead·Travel News

Medics reunite elderly couple who spent weeks apart in intensive care battling coronavirus in Spain’s Mallorca

Josefa and Toni were admitted into intensive care at Son Espases Hospital as doctors battled to save their lives

12 Apr, 2020 @ 09:00

Lead·Mallorca

COVID-19: Over 50% of hotels in Spain’s Balearic Islands will NOT open this year as owners accept 2020 will be tourist-free

More than half of hotels in Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera have made the decision to remain closed this year

11 Apr, 2020 @ 20:06

Business & Finance·Lead·Mallorca·Travel News

EASTER MESSAGE: Chief Minister appeals to Gibraltar fighting spirit

The year 2020 will be 'the year of reckoning for Gibraltar' to overcome the challenges of today and tomorrow, according to the Chief Minister.

11 Apr, 2020 @ 18:08

Coronavirus·Gibraltar·Lead

CHEERS: Whisky distillery switches production to anti-coronavirus alcohol disinfectants

A COMPANY in Granada has become the first booze distillery in Spain to start producing alcohol-based disinfectant sprays. Liber SL, in the municipality of Padul, has now received

11 Apr, 2020 @ 13:22

Granada·Lead

France to tighten border controls between Spain and other neighbours over ‘terrorism fears’ and ‘illegal immigration’

Government extends controls at land borders with both France and Portugal until April 25, due to coronavirus

THE Government has extended the controls at the land borders with both France and Portugal for another two weeks.

11 Apr, 2020 @ 13:07

Lead

BREAKING: Spain sees lowest coronavirus death toll in 19 days while thousands more recover

SPAIN’S death toll from the coronavirus has dropped for the third consecutive day. According to the Health Ministry, 510 COVID-19 deaths were recorded on Saturday

11 Apr, 2020 @ 11:56

Lead·National News

Gibraltar lockdown has stopped nearly 1,700 COVID-19 cases, says minister

The pandemic could have spread to 1,800 people rather the 127 it has infected in Gibraltar so far, said the Minister for Public Health John

10 Apr, 2020 @ 20:18

Coronavirus·Gibraltar·Lead

Off duty security guards hailed as heroes after citizen’s arrest on ‘extremely violent’ man who beat wife in Spain’s Mallorca

The pair had gone above and beyond to save their neighbour from the clutches of her allegedly abusive husband

10 Apr, 2020 @ 20:12

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Greece shows solidarity with Spain in coronavirus fight by flying Spanish flag above Parliament and Ministry of Foreign Affairs

GREECE has shown its solidarity with Spain, by flying the Spanish flag above its Parliament and its Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Athens

10 Apr, 2020 @ 19:54

Lead

Study suggests 3 million people in Spain (7% of pop.) have developed short-term immunity to COVID-19

THE question has been plaguing minds since the outbreak of COVID-19: how many people are actually infected? Knowledge of the number is needed to grasp

10 Apr, 2020 @ 18:21

Lead·National News