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A WEBSITE has been launched in an attempt to find missing Sussex man Robert Gold. Robert Golden, 54, of Shoreham, flew to Sevilla on November 5, 2012, for a walking holiday and was due to return two weeks later. He had told friends he planned to trek through Granada, Cordoba,…
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Police have arrested a man in connection with allegedly attempting to abduct a three-year-old girl in the Canary Islands in January last year. The 62-year-old was arrested on suspicion of attempted kidnap in London, after a public appeal was launched by Thames Valley Police. Following the arrest, investigating officer Detective…
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BARCELONA-BASED Vueling has been named Value Airline of the Year. The accolade from Air Transport World (ATW) was confirmed at the magazine’s 39th awards ceremony in Washington last week. Vueling and all nominees for the Value Airline of the Year award were required to have low maintenance costs and low…
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DESPITE popular belief, Spain does not have longer holidays than other countries. That privilege goes to Russia, where workers average 40 rest days a year. Spain does, however, figure amongst the top 10, with an annual total of 34 days – six over the average – found a survey by…
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AS nearly six million Spanish residents are now unemployed, the Spanish property market continues to be saturated with unsold homes. The property sector is in need of domestic activity in order to increase and move distressed assets. While foreign investors are continuing to be active in Spain, they are increasingly…
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The General Traffic Department (DGT) have been carrying out a new campaign that will continue until Sunday April 14. The controls will mainly be carried out on conventional roads. Figures show that during 2012 a total of 1,022 people were killed in accidents on conventional roads, which account for 78…
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The Maritime Rescue Service intercepted 31 sub-Saharans yesterday, including three women and a baby, who were attempting to reach the Spanish coastline in small boats. Between 7am and 7.15am on Monday morning, the authorities began receiving calls from people on the boats. The boats were located about 11 miles west…
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Spanish Health and Social Affairs minister Ana Mato has announced that Spain will raise the minimum age for marriage to 16 from 14 as part of a wider reform to improve health and safety for children and adolescents. Spain has up to now been one of Europe’s most permissive countries…
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The son-in-law of the King of Spain, Iñaki Urdangarin, has informed the monarch of his intention to take up a job offer in Qatar. Urdangarin, gave up his Washington-based job with Telefónica, and is said to have accepted an unspecified position on the staff of Spanish handball coach Valero Rivera,…
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ONE of Spain's most important film actresses and the first to have crossed the Atlantic to also become a Hollywood star, Sara Montiel, has died. She was 85. She passed out at her home in Madrid today according to her biographer, Peter Villora. She was an acknowledged beauty and had…
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Baroness Thatcher has died at the age of 87. The longest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of the 20th century, and the only woman ever to have held the post, suffered a stroke. Her spokesman Lord Bell said, 'It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced…
Spain's double world champion Jorge Lorenzo took the podium in first place in the Qatar MotoGP floodlit season on Sunday at Qatar's Losail International Circuit as Italian Valentino Rossi took the second. Lorenzo finished 5.990 seconds ahead of his Italian team mate, who had started seventh on the grid. Rossi…
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Iberia pilots have threatened further strike action because they are not in agreement with the latest plans to reduce staff, according to Spanish press. The unions for most of the staff are in agreement with the proposals, which include voluntary redundancies and early retirement. Iberia has agreed with the unions…
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An earthquake measuring 4,3 on the Richter scale was registered at 4.27am this morning in the north east of Lorca and was felt in surrounding villages. The quake caused alarm amongst the residents but no injuries or damage to property were reported. The epicenter of the seismic activity was 11…
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A PROFESSOR at Valencia University reportedly said that “abused women shouldn’t leave their husbands because that is love.” Students at the CEU Cardenal Herrera report that she also said that “abortion following rape is not acceptable because although rape is terrible, something good comes from it, a child, which is…
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