hardworking people', should see our value and ditch their nonsensical immigration targets It is almost inevitable, as a young person from southern Europe living in London, to find yourself regularly having conversations with someone your age, from your country, who works at the local coffee chain. Or, to call it what it actually is, who serves me coffee on my way to the office as I was lucky enough...
British police working with Spanish counterparts say they have smashed gangs that scammed victims out of £15m ...
s most celebrated flamenco guitarists The fame and influence of the guitarist Paco de Lucía, who has died aged 66 from a suspected heart attack, reached far beyond the intense and sometimes enclosed world of Spanish flamenco. His musical role in Carlos Saura's Carmen (1983) was as arresting in its way as the first glimpse of Laura del Sol, the film's luminous lead. The director-choreographer Saura...
s 'Sistine Chapel of paleolithic art', the regional government has said For 12 years, visitors wanting to see Spain's prized prehistoric Altamira cave paintings have had to settle for a replica in a museum a few hundred feet away. But from Thursday, small groups of visitors will again be allowed in the cave, which has been described as the Sistine Chapel of paleolithic art, as part of an experiment...
s trucks The owner and co-founder of a Spanish Dakar Rally team is in custody in Madrid after French authorities discovered about 1.4 tonnes of cocaine hidden in a truck belonging to the team on its return from South America. David Oliveras is the director of the Barcelona-based Epsilon Team, which provides technical assistance and preparation for trucks competing in the Dakar Rally. Authorities said...
Facebook's founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg says WhatsApp, which he bought last week, was worth more than the $19bn (£11.4bn) he paid for it ...
s colourful past – before also being expelled – say it's only fair that the same right of return be extended to them. Shortly after banishing the country's Jewish population, Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand turned their attention to Spain's Muslims, forcing them to covert to Christianity or face expulsion. The Muslims who converted, known as Moriscos, often did so in name only, holding on tightly...
s surface some 40 metres wide in what is thought to be the largest lunar impact ever recorded. The rock, which was about a metre in diameter, ploughed into an ancient lava-filled basin called the Mare Nubium, producing a flash almost as intense as the Pole Star that took more than eight seconds to fade. The impact energy was equivalent to 15 tonnes of TNT – at least three times as great as that from...
Dolce & Gabanna present a fairytale collection set in a magical forest at Milan fashion week ...
s Valencian region have banded together to fight what they call the increasing "prostitution" of one of the country's most emblematic dishes. Wikipaella aims to help "police" paella around the world, said co-founder Guillermo Navarro. "It's a dish that's really trendy these days. And there's lots of people taking advantage of it and selling what they call authentic, traditional or Spanish paella."...
buy' one for €1,000 The hundreds of thousands of empty homes across Madrid has spawned a black market for cheap housing in which groups illegally break into, and then let, repossessed properties. Almost all the cases involving the properties, most of which now belong to Spanish banks, are identical, said Vicente Pérez, from a residents group, the Federación Regional de Asociaciones de Vecinos de Madrid:...
shocking waste' of homes lying empty while millions cry out for shelter More than 11m homes lie empty across Europe – enough to house all of the continent's homeless twice over – according to figures collated by the Guardian from across the EU. In Spain more than 3.4m homes lie vacant, in excess of 2m homes are empty in each of France and Italy, 1.8m in Germany and more than 700,000 in the UK. There...
US manufacturing has biggest rise for six months Vodafone agrees to buy Spanish cable company Ono Banks still too big to fail, BoE deputy governor warns Help to Buy extension fuels housebuilder share rises 2.54pm GMT Thats it for today. Thanks for your comments. 2.16pm GMT US manufacturing output had its biggest increase in six months in February, increasing hopes that the worlds biggest economy is...
Jeremy Treglown has written an elegant but deeply flawed book about the fraught battles over Spain's dark past The Franco's crypt of Jeremy Treglown's title is Spain's Valley of the Fallen : a huge basilica-mausoleum, topped by a gigantic cross, which rises out of the mountain range outside Madrid. It was built by forced labour on the dictator's orders, to commemorate his Hitler and Mussolini-backed...
Tom Rob Smith heads for Sweden with his latest crime novel, while Marc Pastor investigates a killer in early 20th century Barcelona...
Manuel Barriopedro won the World Press Photo award for this dramatic image of the storming of Spanish parliament in Madrid during an attempted military coup on 23rd February 1981. The photographer had the presence of mind to take a few frames and hide the roll of film his shoe before being discovered. The threatened revolt, known in Spain as 23-F, fizzled out after King Juan Carlos appeared on national...
s Spanish-language website on Friday. The weaponry shown in the film coincided with an inventory supplied by the mediators from the International Verification Commission, who made the announcement in the Basque city of Bilbao. "The commission is confident that this step is significant and credible," said the IVC leader, Ram Manikkalingam. "We believe it will lead to the putting beyond operational use...
defeat' declaration as independence group ends 40 years of militancy The Basque separatist group Eta is expected on Friday to take a historic step towards handing over weapons and bomb-making equipment used in its terror campaign for independence that has claimed more than 800 victims over decades. Sources in the northern Basque region of Spain and elsewhere said mediators would declare that Eta had...
s three main political parties that they would rule out a currency union with an independent Scotland has "backfired" as a new poll shows that only slightly more than a third of voters believe Westminster, according to a leading psephologist. As David Cameron tries to win over wavering voters by holding the first meeting of his cabinet in Scotland next week, John Curtice said that the gamble on a currency...
s patrol boat, HMS Sabre, shadowed the Spanish navy ship. Warnings were issued to the Spanish vessel, which is said to have used a fake name and call sign, but it left only after radioing back that it was in Spanish waters, the Gibraltar Chronicle reported. According to the newspaper, special forces personnel from the Royal Navy's Submarine Parachute Assistance Group were carrying out training jumps...