News from Spain

It comes as the Junta de Andalucía has stepped up promotion in Germany

The new owners, Banco Pastor, want to reopen the hotel at the end of May

Recent cases of Britons finding their homes illegal don't appear to have had much effect back in the U.K.

MALAGA - THREE crew-members off the Boudicca cruise ship which stopped off in Malaga Port last week had to be rushed to Carlos Haya Hospital after suffering severe burns from a water leak in the ship’s boiler-room. The ship left Southampton on March 3 with 831 passengers and 331 crew members aboard.

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MALAGA - BUILDERS who are carrying out repairs in the Dos Hermanas district of Malaga are having to be escorted by National Police after they were insulted, coerced and shaken by 20 unemployed residents in the area who had been paid to carry out the work on previous occasions.

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CALA MILLOR - PLANNING has gone ahead to create a bicycle path to connect the beaches of Cala Millor and Sa Coma for this coming summer. The mayor of Sant Llorenç, Mateu Puigros, has pushed for this idea with much enthusiasm as he believes it will not only be attractive to neighbours and tourists but will also create three months of work for 20 labourers.

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MALLORCA - A young German couple were found in the early hours of Monday morning after being missing in the Tramuntana Mountains for 24 hours. The hikers were due to arrive at Can Boi Refuge on Sunday evening, however they became disorientated in the Es Teix region and had to spend the night out in the freezing temperatures. A search party was sent out immediately, only to have success at dusk on Monday evening. The couple were sent straight to PAC in Soller where they are being treated for hypothermia symptoms.

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LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles coroner’s office has confirmed that actor Corey Haim has died aged 38. A spokeswoman said he passed away in the early hours of Wednesday morning at St Joseph Medical Centre in California.

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Minister for Tax and the Economy, Elena Salgado, has no private pension plan

There is a 12 billion € shortfall in funding of the system

Readers who were wondering what progress was being made to put in place the power supply to the new desalination plant on the outskirts of Torrevieja need wonder no longer because, according to reports in regional Spanish newspaper Información last week, tenders are being issued for the construction of a power plant which will be located in the grounds...

A new campaign to boost Spanish tourism has been launched. The “I need Spain” campaign was launched by the Tourist Board and it is hoped, will bring more visitors to Spain this year.
The new campaign features Spanish celebrity chef Ferrán Adriá who is seen an a poster, juggling fruit with the caption “Art here is not...

In a groundbreaking move to combat fiscal fraud, Spain’s Hacienda and Social Security departments are to establish a sharing of information system. The tax office and social security are set to join forces as fiscal fraud is at an all time high.
The move, announced by government this week, was described as ambitious as it aims...

The amount of counterfeit euro notes in circulation has risen by 18% say experts. Last year alone, 27 large scale operations by security forces tracked down a significant quantity of dummy money but despite this, the number of false notes in circulation is on the rise.
The Bank of Spain’s investigators, part of the Judicial Police, made a record...

Catalan aid worker, Alicia Gámez arrived safely at Barcelona airport this afternoon as her ordeal finally came to an end, and her first words were for her two colleagues, who remain in captivity:  "My happiness will complete when...

The Spanish aid worker Alicia Gámez has been released today after being held hostage by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI) since November 29th. Just a few moments ago, Deputy Prime Minister, María Teresa Fernández de la Vega gave...

Three days after the historic snowfall that brought Catalunya to a standstill, some 20,000 homes are still without power, most of them in the Girona area. Depite the fact that over 50,000 homes were still without electricity this morning,...

Chef Martin Berasategui today launched a bottle that prevents the sediment from falling into the wine glass, which he described as a "total revolution for wine merchants". Besides the "completely new system" that this bottle offers,...

Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega, has stressed today that the Executive's commitment to the public pension system is "total and irrevocable" after acknowledging that she has a private pension plan, adding that it...