A twelve-year-old boy has lost his life following a fall at a rocky area in Cotolino, Castro Urdiales. The unfortunate incident occurred while he was playing with a friend. Emergency services received the alert at approximately twenty-one forty-five on Tuesday evening, indicating that a child had fallen from a cliff. Local police, along with Castro firefighters and civil guards, quickly mobilised to the scene. The boy suffered a severe chest […]

A significant wildfire still remains active in Tarifa, Cádiz, having forced the evacuation of over one thousand individuals from hotels and campsites. This situation has been described as highly complex and dangerous by Antonio Sanz, the President of the Junta of Andalucía. He praised the emergency services for their swift organisation of the evacuation, which involved the clearance of more than five thousand vehicles from the area. Firefighters are currently […]

The Police Nacional have discovered the body of a thirty-four-year-old woman in Don Benito, a town in Badajoz. They have arrested her forty-one-year-old partner, who is suspected of murder in what is being investigated as a case of domestic violence. The Government Delegation in Extremadura has confirmed that this incident could bring the total number of women killed due to gender-based violence in Spain to twenty-four this year. The victim, […]

A fifty-seven-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly confining his girlfriend in his home for twelve days in Llíria, Valencia. According to the Civil Guard, he kept her locked away, restricting her access to the internet and mobile phones, and forced her to engage in sexual activities that he recorded without her consent. The situation came to light when the woman managed to contact her ex-partner, who reported her predicament […]

The General Union of Workers, known as UGT, has announced a state-wide strike at Azul Handling, part of the Ryanair group, in response to ongoing issues of precariousness and continuous breaches of labour rights. Azul Handling is responsible for providing ground handling services to Ryanair airlines at numerous airports across Spain. Strikes will commence on the fifteenth of August and will see work stoppages at all of the company’s operational […]

Extremadura is currently facing its second heatwave of the summer, with Badajoz experiencing temperatures soaring to forty-two degrees Celsius. This severe weather has resulted in the tragic death of an eighty-five-year-old man from Torremayor, who succumbed to heat complications in hospital. This incident marks the second heat-related death in the region this summer, following the passing of a sixty-seven-year-old man in Plasencia last month. The heatwave commenced on Sunday, 3 […]

The Spanish government has recently approved a Royal Decree-Law that extends the parental leave period by three weeks, increasing it to nineteen weeks of paid leave for each parent, and thirty-two weeks for single-parent families. One of the additional weeks, along with two for single-parent families, can be taken during the first year of the child's life or within the first twelve months following adoption or family custody. Importantly, the […]

The Ministry of Equality, through the Government Delegation against Gender Violence, has unveiled its summer campaign titled 'Digital Violence is Violence'. This initiative seeks to highlight the different manifestations of misogynistic violence that occur online and particularly on social media. The campaign's objective is to raise awareness about the severity of this issue, promote prevention efforts, and encourage effective reporting of such incidents. Recent studies indicate that more than seventy-three […]

The State Meteorological Agency, known as AEMET, has issued a special weather warning for an intense heatwave poised to impact nearly all of the Spanish mainland, excluding the Cantabrian region and the Canary Islands. Forecasts indicate that this heatwave will begin on Sunday, the third of August, and may persist until at least Sunday, the tenth of August. Earlier predictions had suggested some improvement by Thursday, the seventh of August. […]