Archives for February 2011
February 10th, 2011
Madrid and Spain's second-largest city Barcelona exceed the European Union's safe contamination limits by far, according to Paco Segura from the environmentalist group Ecologistas en Accion. In Madrid, nitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels as high as 380 micrograms per cubic metre have been measured in some places over the past week, while ...
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February 9th, 2011
Authorities have announced a fine of 145,000 euros on a restaurant in Marbella for refusing to comply with the law that bans smoking in non-open-air public establishments in Spain. The Andalusian administration said that Asador de Guadalmina had committed a very serious offense by repeatedly failing to fulfil a requirement by ...
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February 8th, 2011
The exploitation of tens of thousands of migrants used to grow salad vegetables for British supermarkets has been uncovered by a Guardian investigation into the €2bn-a-year hothouse industry in southern Spain. Charities working with illegal workers during this year's harvest claim the abuses meet the UN's official definition of modern-day slavery, ...
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February 8th, 2011
Rafael Nadal took the World Sportsman of the Year and the Spanish national soccer team took home the award for team of the year at last night's Laureus Awards in Abu Dhabi. Nadal won Wimbledon, the French Open and US Open in 2010 but missed out on the Australian Open last ...
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February 8th, 2011
Spain's Canary Islands could get 300,000 extra tourists this winter as northern European sun-seekers shun Egypt and Tunisia because of the political unrest in the two nations, officials said Monday. Both nations have emerged in recent years as cheaper alternatives to the Canaries for those seeking a winter break by the ...
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February 7th, 2011
Rock legend Gary Moore was found dead yesterday in a hotel room in Spain, where he had been vacationing. The Thin Lizzy guitarist was 58. The rocker was found laying unconscious in the lavish Kempinski hotel on Spain's Costa del Sol by his girlfriend and later pronounced dead, according to several ...
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February 7th, 2011
Spanish police removed 100 students after they "mutinied" over bag fees this weekend on a Ryanair flight in the Canary Islands. Anger erupted on the flight to Charleroi in Belgium after a passenger was stopped at the boarding gate and asked to pay extra for the over-sized luggage he was carrying. When ...
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February 4th, 2011
Spain’s economy gathered strength in the fourth quarter with gross domestic product increasing 0.2 percent on the third quarter and 0.6 percent from a year earlier, the Madrid-based Bank of Spain said today in its monthly bulletin. The National Statistics Institute, which said the economy stagnated in the third quarter, publishes ...
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February 4th, 2011
Traditionally it has been an all male domain but women have now earned equal rights to participate in Seville's famous Holy Week processions with a decree from the city's Archbishop. During Semana Santa – the week running up to Easter – the Andalusian capital grinds to a halt as the faithful ...
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February 3rd, 2011
A study led by the University of Zaragoza has studied rainfall trends in Spain over the 1946 to 2005 period. The results show an overall decline between the months of March and June, reducing the length of the rainy season. The rains are heavier in October in the north west of ...
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