Victims named as Uma Ramalingam and Barathi Ruvikumar, after two children and a third woman rescued at Playa Paraiso Two British women have drowned while trying to rescue their children after they were swept away by a wave at a holiday resort in Tenerife. The pair got into difficulties in the water at Playa Paraiso, to the south-west of the island, on Sunday evening. Hotel workers and tourists managed...
Maduro government says Spain lacks 'moral authority' after minister called for dialogue following weeks of unrest The Venezuelan government has questioned the "moral authority" of the Spanish government after Madrid suspended exports of anti-riot and police gear to its former colony. Following weeks of unrest and violence in Venezuela, Spain's Conservative government quietly decided to suspend...
Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo is thought to be first foreign nanny appointed to look after a royal heir His parents had initially indicated they would do without a nanny, taking on the bulk of the childcare themselves with a little help from grandmother Carole Middleton. But when Prince George landed in New Zealand on Monday he was accompanied not only by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, a "foreign...
Businessman Andrew Bush, from Bristol, reportedly shot in the head on Saturday morning at his villa near Estepona, Málaga A British businessman has been shot dead at his home on the Costa del Sol. Local reports have named the man as Andrew Bush, 48, from Bristol, who ran a number of jewellery businesses, including Andrew Davids. Continue reading... ...
Ministers were naive to swallow the self-serving bluster from 'long-term' investors who turned out to be nothing of the sort Get ready for the government's next sale of Royal Mail shares. Nothing has been announced, it should be said, but consider the facts. The government is free to sell all or part of the state's remaining 30% stake from 13 April when the six-month lock-up agreed at privatisation...
Francis Brennan from Liverpool fled the UK ahead of a sentencing date last October for an assault committed in 2012 The body of a Briton who was thought to have been kidnapped has been found on a beach in Spain. Francis Brennan, 25, from Anfield, Liverpool, was last seen in Alicante on 24 January when he was stopped in a friend's car by several men who posed as police officers. His body was found in...
Readers explain why austerity and unemployment are no longer driving young people on to the streets in protest This week, we published an article by Costas Lapavitsas and Alex Politaki which asked why Europe's young people don't riot any more . The article provoked a long and thoughtful discussion about the reaction to austerity and unemployment, with more than 800 comments. Here we highlight some...
Undercover watchdogs to stalk streets of Colmenar Viejo with cameras, to catch owners who don't clean up after their dogs A town in Spain has hired a private detective to roam its streets and public spaces to crack down on dog owners who don't clean up after their pets. For the next year, a detective will wander incognito through Colmenar Viejo, a historical town just north of Madrid, armed with a...
Up to 25 migrants remain on top of fences hours after police thwart efforts to cross border from Morocco Spanish and Moroccan police have thwarted a fresh attempt by dozens of African migrants to try to scale border fences and enter the Spanish enclave of Melilla. Some 25 migrants remained on top of the fences hours after the attempted crossing began at 9am local time (0700 GMT) on Thursday while Spanish...
Envoy called in for fourth time in row over artificial reef, with minister describing latest incident as a 'provocative incursion' Britain has summoned the Spanish ambassador following the "provocative incursion" by a ship into Gibraltan waters on Tuesday. David Lidington, the Europe minister, said he was extremely concerned that a Spanish research vessel conducted a survey in UK territorial...
Denied their dreams of education and jobs, young people have been sapped of rebellious energy. But their anger is growing In December 2008, in Athens, a "special security officer" shot dead a young student , igniting demonstrations, strikes and riots. Young people were at the forefront of the protests, in a country with a long tradition of youth participation in social and political movements....
M&S commits to stores in major French cities, plus Brussels and Amsterdam, and seeks sites in Italy and Spain Marks & Spencer is having a second go at exporting its uniquely British mix of clothing and crumpets to mainland Europe, pressing the button on expansion in France and scouting for sites in the big Italian and Spanish cities. The British retailer made a humiliating exit from the continent...
Growth for French and Spanish manufacturers tempered by weaker-than-expected UK data and slowdowns in Germany, the Netherlands and Austria There are renewed hopes that the eurozone economy picked up steam as it entered 2014 after a return to growth for France's manufacturers and a surge in activity at Spanish and Italian factories. The news from a batch of closely watched manufacturing surveys by data...
New mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, and French prime minister, Manuel Valls, born to Spanish parents who migrated to France Confidence in their own politicians sits at its lowest level in a decade, but Spaniards are nevertheless celebrating the fact that two of their own are now at the forefront of French politics. Paris's first female mayor and the new French prime minister are both from Spanish families...
Spain's big-spending capital has struggled to draw visitors as tourists prefer the attractions of Barcelona, Ibiza and Bilbao The people of Madrid are feeling dejected. Gloom has soured their once irrepressible vitality. It has been like this for more than five years, ever since the property bubble burst. The conservative city council, which has been in power for 25 years, lavishly invested public...
New book claims precious goblet in León's San Isidro basilica is mythical chalice from which Christ sipped at last supper Curators were forced to remove a precious cup from display in a Spanish church when crowds swarmed there after historians claimed it was the holy grail, staff said. Visitors flocked to the San Isidro basilica in the north-western city of León after two historians published...
Falling birth rate means Fuenlabrada hospital's only ward with spare beds is maternity, and so it is used for severely-ill patients Nurses are warning of the risks to mothers and newborns at a hospital in Madrid where patients with cancer and respiratory infections are regularly moved to the maternity ward because there are usually empty beds there due to Spain's falling birth rate. SATSE, the union...
Two Spanish journalists, freelance photographer Ricardo García Vilanova and El Mundo correspondent Javier Espinosa, have been freed after being held for more than six months in Syria by a rogue al-Qaida group. The pair were reunited with friends and family on their arrival in Madrid on Sunday ...
Ricardo García Vilanova and Javier Espinosa greeted with hugs and kisses from family members on arrival at Madrid airport It was late afternoon yesterday when the families of Ricardo García Vilanova and Javier Espinosa got the reunion they had waited 194 days for. As the pair, tired and visibly skinnier, stepped off the plane at the Torrejón air base in Madrid, they were greeted with...
Warm temperatures, which reached more than 20C in parts of Britain, are expected to remain for much of the week Parts of Britain basked in weather warmer than mainland Spain and Ibiza as temperatures reached over 20Con Sunday. London was the hottest part of the country, with temperatures reaching a maximum of 20.4C (68.7F) at St James's Park at 1pm, according to the Met Office. This made the capital...