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THE Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sanchez, has announced a new plan to ready the country for future climate emergencies. Sanchez emphasized the severity of Spain’s climate crisis, stating: “If we don’t want to bequeath our children a Spain that’s…
A RECORD number of 2,177 people in Spain died from heat-related causes in August. That’s a 71.3% increase on the same month in 2024 according to the Daily Mortality Monitoring System (MoMo) from the Carlos III Health Institute. The August…
SPAIN’S traffic authority, the DGT, has unleashed a new weapon on drivers who can’t keep their distance – radars that don’t care how fast you’re going, only how close you’re tailgating. If the new cameras catch you cosying up to…
GIBRALTAR is facing the prospect of a hard border with Spain for a number of months while the agreement to remove the border awaits ratification. Sighs of relief were breathed when a wide-ranging political agreement on the future of the…
WHEN Cayetano Ordoñez (‘El Niño de la Palma’) hit the big time as a bullfighter, he bought himself a finca. Cayetano was a gypsy, and had been raised in poverty in Ronda. His father made a precarious living as a…
THINK WhatsApp is just for sharing holiday selfies and planning your next tapas crawl? Think again. It’s now the hottest spot for cyber tricksters looking to crash your digital fiesta and trust us, they’re way less fun than a proper…
KING Felipe and Queen Letizia will next week visit areas of Spain that were seriously affected by the recent spate of wildfires. The announcement came from the Zarzuela Palace on Friday, but it did not specify their schedule. In a…
18 LARGE fires remain active in the Asturias, Castilla y Leon, and Galicia regions in northern Spain plus Extremadura in the west. The figures were released on Thursday afternoon by the State Coordination Committee (CECOD). It said the number of…
SPAIN continued to battle against several major wildfires on Tuesday despite temperatures falling after a heatwave that lasted over a fortnight. Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, on a visit to one of the affected areas- Jarilla in Extremadura- said that next…
A WILDFIRE which forced the evacuation of dozens of homes and scorched 4,000 hectares was deliberately set to clear land for hunters, authorities allege. The blaze, which began earlier this week, at Aliseda, Caceres left a trail of destruction in…
