Man throws his mother to her death from balcony in Aguadulce
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:25:38 GMT
The 28 year old from Lithuania is known to have had mental problems.
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Prosecutor will not appeal the Camps and Costa verdict
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:19:14 GMT
Francisco Camps and Ricardo Costa were found not guilty in the suits part of the Gürtel case
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British airlines threaten to reduce flights to the Canaries
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:23:20 GMT
Jet2 and Monarch say they will cut back services if the discount on airport taxes is removed as planned
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Judge archives case against ex Mayor of Estepona
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:14:01 GMT
The PP are to appeal against the ruling for David Valadez
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YAK 42 case - Military officers not to blame
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:06:21 GMT
The National Court has rejected the case against the Military saying that the crew were to blame for the crash.
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Spanair bankruptcy proves expensive for Baleares travellers
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:47:40 GMT
Prices have been described as abusive, although new services are on the way
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Spain Weather - Friday February 3 2012
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:35:49 GMT
The cold spell hitting Spain will see temperatures below zero in many areas over the weekend.
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Number of British fatalities from Calpe Legionnaire's outbreak rises to three
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:17:54 GMT
The authorities say they do not expect any further cases.
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One of the British tourists with Legionnaires disease has died in hospital
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:18:56 GMT
The name of the victim has not been given, and three other British tourists remain in the Clinica Benidorm.
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King Juan Carlos defends the right to legal defence
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:07:48 GMT
The Monarch is thought to have had the Duke of Palma in mind.
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UNESCO wants to see more information on the plan to build a lift to the Alhambra
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:58:27 GMT
The City Hall, who is promoting the lift project, claims most visitors to the Alhambra don't visit Granada
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Court Case resulting from Almuñecar A7 bridge collapse gets underway in Motril
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:34:21 GMT
Six workers lost their lives in the accident in November 2005
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Spain braces herself for a freezing weekend of polar weather
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:38:19 GMT
Forecasters say it be the coldest for 60 years this weekend
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New boss of the DGT trafic authority to be named tomorrow
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:24:13 GMT
She will be María Seguí, and she replaces the succesful Pere Navarro
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Let's get married at the Notary...
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:16:11 GMT
...and if doesn't work out we can get divorced there too!
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Spain Weather - Thursday February 2 2012
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:39:18 GMT
A total of 32 provinces are on yellow alert Thursday for low temperatures, wind and snow. There are orange alerts for snow and coastal winds the Cantabria mountains, Pyrenees, the Girona Coast, Mallorca and Menorca.
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Diplomatic Spat over Gibraltar
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:06:42 GMT
The Spanish Foreign Minister made sure he grabbed a word with the U Secretary of State for Europe in Madrid today.
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Barcelona Liceo to close for three months
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:57:51 GMT
The venue has run up a deficit of 3.7 million €
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New coordination centre opens to control the Strait
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:47:27 GMT
The centre is based at the Algeciras Guardia Civil
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Six British tourists contract Legionnaires Disease on the Costa Blanca
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:06:31 GMT
The six are now in the Clinica Benidorm. It's unclear where they contracted the disease
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Foreign currency update: Uncertainty weighs on Euro outlook
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:45:10 +0000
The outlook for the euro looks uncertain as the debt crisis continues to throw up all manner of different issues for the single currency to contend with. By Luke Trevail of TorFX The longer term picture is unclear, but throughout January the Merkel & Sarkozy ‘coalition’ cemented itself as the leading factor in deciding, influencing [...]
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Top class new homes in the Marina de Sotogrande
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:59:34 +0000
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Euribor heading down, new lending collapses, mortgage costs up
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:38:30 +0000
A summary of the Latest Euribor and Spanish mortgage news Euribor (12 months), the interest rate typically used to calculate mortgage repayments in Spain, fell to 1.837pc in January, a percentage change of -8.6pc on a monthly basis, but +18.5pc on an annualised basis. As a result, repayments for the average €150,000-mortgage resetting now will [...]
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Taylor Wimpey new release in Rojales on the Costa Blanca
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:05:43 +0000
Publicity With Taylor Wimpey’s trademark quality, Lagunas del Sol II offers 2 & 3 bedroom townhouses in Rojales, Alicante, next to Ciudad Quesada and walking distance to all ameneties, with prices starting at just €114,920 (less than £100,000). + More information
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Developers lobby Government for mortgage interest tax relief on holiday homes
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:19:00 +0000
The move would help mop up the glut of new holiday-homes on the coast, argue developers. The G-14 association of Spain’s leading developers says it will ask the Government to introduce mortgage interest tax relief on holiday-homes to stimulate demand and deal with Spain’s problematic over-supply of empty new holiday homes on the coast. The [...]
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Andalucia sneaks through a property sales tax increase
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:48:21 +0000
The tax increase was introduced without warning on Saturday 31 December, and went largely unnoticed until now. Whilst the central government in Madrid is making noises about reducing the sales tax (ITP) on resale properties to bring it more in line with VAT rates on new property (4pc), the regional government in Andalucia has introduced [...]
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More Spanish property price forecasts
Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:34:50 +0000
All agree that prices will continue falling, the question is how much, and can the data be trusted? Spanish house prices have fallen 18pc from the peak, according to the Government’s House Price Index. Is that enough? Not according to Isidre Fainé (pictured above), head of La Caixa, Spain’s biggest savings bank, who says house [...]
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Stock of unsold new homes still growing
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:15:12 +0000
More new homes are still being finished than sold according to research by Catalunyacaixa, a savings bank. There were 818,000 new homes on the market at the end of September 2011, 3pc more than a year earlier, as the completion of new homes started at the tail end of the boom still outnumbers sales. The [...]
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How do you value a property in Spain?
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:09:25 +0000
By Campbell D. Ferguson of Survey Spain Network January 2012 We all have an opinion about the value of a property, especially when it’s ours, and that’s the problem! It’s the value that a prudent, knowledgeable buyer will put on it that’s important. Homeowners, mixing emotion and ego (and sometime desperation) plus the money they [...]
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Spanish rental prices fall in 2011
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:55:35 +0000
The average cost of renting a home in Spain declined in 2011, as you would expect with property prices falling. Rental prices fell in 77pc of Spain’s primary rental markets (cities), according to a study by Spanish property portal Idealista.com and the Public Rental Company(SPA). Rents fell the most in Toledo (-8.7pc) and Oviedo (-6.8pc) [...]
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