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May 18th, 2010
Catalan police have arrested the mother of two British children that were found dead today at the Miramar hotel in Lloret de Mar, La Selva, for her alleged connection with the circumstances in which the deaths have occurred. According to initial reports, the two children,
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May 5th, 2010
A government spokesperson in Extremadura, Carmen Pereira, said today that a man arrested yesterday by the Guardia Civil driving at 248 km/h, has been charged with a crime of reckless driving for endangering the lives of two children. Pereira said that, on Tuesday, a vehicle was stopped travelling
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May 4th, 2010
The 'Global Status Report for Mothers 2010' has been published by 'Save the Children', the report ranks the best and worst places in the world to be a mother on the basis of ten factors related to education, health, economic and political development, as well as the basic welfare of ...
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April 20th, 2010
About 250 British tourists who have been stuck for several days in Spain, many of them children, have now been given their return ticket home aboard a Royal Navy ship, the HMS Albion. They will share a 36-hour journey to Portsmouth with soldiers returning home from Afghanistan. The HMS Albion had ...
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April 17th, 2010
In a new initiative that could be replicated throughout Spain, Andalusia and Catalonia want the public to reflect on the cost of the health services they receive, and will present patients with 'shadow receipts' that detail the cost of care provided. "The Spanish health system is not free", pointed out José ...
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April 13th, 2010
According to a study by market research company IPSOS, Spain ranks seventh among countries where the public have claimed to have witnessed violent behaviour during sporting events between fathers, coaches or players in front of their children. The findings of the survey,
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April 8th, 2010
In a study, titled 'Marriage and social change in Spain', Professor of Sociology at the National University of Distance Education (UNED), Juan Ignacio Martinez Pastor, has revealed that the number of Spanish people who have opted to remain single is growing. To produce the study, recently published
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March 29th, 2010
The Easter processions began yesterday and many famous Spanish celebrities participated in the streets of Spain. In Andalucia, the Hollywood actor Antonio Banderas travelled to Malaga while Isabel Pantoja enjoyed the processions in Seville with her children Chabelita and Kiko. Antonio Banderas is a faithful
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March 19th, 2010
According to a study by the Institute of Youth (INJUVE), released to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination that takes place on Sunday, 91 percent of young Spanish people consider that immigration is positive and defends the right of everyone to live and work in any ...
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February 26th, 2010
Teresa Dosaigües, considered the oldest woman in Spain, died early yesterday morning at the age of 112 years at her residential home in Monterols, Reus. Born in 1898 in La Morera de Montsant, Teresa Dosaigües had lived through three different centuries and had just recently celebrated her 112th birthday on February ...
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