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Land ahoy! New ferry for British holidaymakers arrives into Portsmouth for first time

BRITTANY Ferries’ new vessel Galicia arrived into Portsmouth International Port yesterday morning, ready for berthing trials before she begins ferrying British sun seekers to Spain

14 Oct, 2020 @ 11:12

Navy sailing boat damaged in tense stand off with killer whales in Spain

The whales circled the boat for a number of minutes, passing close to the catamaran's hulls and swimming underneath the sailors

2 Sep, 2020 @ 12:47

Lead·National News

Spain to lock down 70,000 people in Galicia – country’s second COVID-19 confinement in 24 hours

SOME 70,000 people have been ordered to lock down in Galicia tonight after a local COVID-19 spike. The Regional Government will seal the borders of

5 Jul, 2020 @ 15:40

Lead·National News

Three women end up in hospital after fight broke out in Zara fitting room in Spain

THREE women have ended up in hospital, after a fight took place in a Zara fitting room in Galicia.

29 Jun, 2020 @ 15:22

Crime & Law·Lead

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Experts call for calm after hornet death in northern Spain causes panic

A 54-YEAR-OLD beekeeper has been killed after he was stung in the face by an Asian Hornet yesterday in Santiago de Compostela, northern Galicia. Emergency

11 May, 2020 @ 09:49

Lead

WATCH: Spanish national park has first visit from a brown bear in 150 years

A SPANISH national park has had its first reported visit by a brown bear for 150 years. Cameras shooting a documentary recorded footage of the

4 May, 2020 @ 12:43

Lead·National News

Woman in Spain tells police she’s going to her mother’s funeral, even though her mother died before the state of emergency was declared

A WOMAN in Galicia that was stopped by the police told them she was going to her mother’s funeral, even though her mother had passed

27 Apr, 2020 @ 18:03

Lead

THEY DID: Spanish couple defy coronavirus to get married from an upstairs window

A SPANISH couple held their ‘wedding’ half hanging out of their apartment window with the whole street as witnesses – as the coronavirus pandemic struck.

21 Mar, 2020 @ 20:42

Lead·National News

MADRE MIA: Man asks to be arrested as he is fed up of being stuck at home with mum

He was outraged at having to remain at home and ‘tired of being at home with his mother'

18 Mar, 2020 @ 17:43

Lead·Other News

WATCH: Hilarious video of Spanish football match turning into a mud bath

A FOOTBALL game in Spain has been played in extreme weather conditions.

11 Feb, 2020 @ 14:50

Lead·Sport

Andalucia is lazy, Madrid is full of clowns and Valencia full of drug addicts according to this hilarious new map of Spain

ANDALUCIANS are lazy, Madrileños are clowns and Valencianos are drug addicts.

9 Jan, 2020 @ 13:03

Lead

All you need to know about historic trans-Atlantic cocaine submarine seized by police in Spain as experts believe much of €100 million haul was heading to UK

The first vessel of its kind to be caught in European waters, it was carrying 152 packages containing more than three tonnes of cocaine

29 Nov, 2019 @ 13:19

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

Two arrested and one man on the run after police in Spain discover world’s first transatlantic drugs submarine

The boat was stopped on Sunday night in Galicia following its 4,778 mile journey from Columbia

27 Nov, 2019 @ 15:45

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

How you can buy your own pueblo in Spain

Would you like to own your own village? Spain has a few to spare. They are the forgotten pueblos – once thriving rural communities, now

24 Feb, 2019 @ 18:02

Lead·Property

REVEALED: Over half Spain’s 66 most dangerous bridges in Andalucia government says

OVER half of Spain’s 66 bridges with ‘serious safety problems’ are in Andalucia, government data has revealed. The 66 bridges represent 0.29% of the 23,000

10 Dec, 2018 @ 15:03

Business & Finance·Lead·Travel News

Spain rocked by earthquake as 2 million feel houses ‘shaking’

The 'strong' 3.7 magnitude quake affected mostly residents in Galicia

19 Nov, 2018 @ 12:53

Environment·Lead·National News

PURE EVIL: Meet Spain’s most notorious serial killers

Spain has had its fair share of sadistic killers

31 Oct, 2018 @ 13:45

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

WATCH: Hundreds left injured after wooden walkway collapses into sea at festival in Spain

Revellers dropped 30 metres into the sea below

13 Aug, 2018 @ 13:52

Lead·National News

Huge firework explosion kills two people and destroys town in Spain

Around 28 others have been seriously injured after the blast devastated a town in Galicia yesterday

24 May, 2018 @ 11:35

Lead·National News

Spanish father claims Madeleine McCann suspect tried to kidnap his 5-year-old daughter

It was six years before McCann disappeared from Praia da Luz in May 2007

27 Apr, 2018 @ 13:44

Crime & Law·Lead

Spanish woman dubbed Donald Trump’s doppelganger is the funniest thing you’ll see today

Social media users went into a frenzy after noticing the uncanny similarities

24 Apr, 2018 @ 19:42

Lead·Other News

Wine Time: Three must-have flavours for Spring

Olive Press wine expert Aleesha Hansel rounds up the delicious whites you should be sipping this spring

17 Mar, 2018 @ 15:00

Aleesha Hansel: Wine Time·Food & Drink·Lead

Flooding and injuries as ‘worst storm of the year’ wreaks havoc in Spain

Serious flooding and wind alerts in place for Sunday

11 Mar, 2018 @ 12:18

Environment·Lead

Doctor called in to help podgy population lose weight in a Spanish town

A SPANISH town is full of so many fat people that a doctor has been drafted in to help them shed the weight. Naron near

25 Feb, 2018 @ 12:30

Health·Lead

Romanian pimp brothers in Spain ‘cut off prostitute’s arm with samurai sword’ and ‘put metal balls in penises to make their rapes more painful’

A COURT has heard how Romanian brothers in Spain allegedly cut off one of their prostitute’s arms and forced them to eat money. The Sandulache

8 Feb, 2018 @ 13:27

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

Driver in Spain tests positive for ‘every drug possible’, but is still allowed to drive

A DRIVER has tested positive for ‘every possible kind of drug’ after being pulled over by police. The reckless 42-year-old had cocaine, opiates, amphetamines, methamphetamines

8 Feb, 2018 @ 11:30

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

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