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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010El Altet and San Javier are two of only nine airports Spanish airports to post profits.
Trading figures produced last Tuesday show that El Altet airport closed 2009 with an operating profit of 43.5 million euros, making it the most profitable provincial airfield in Spain, well ahead of the second placed, Palma de Mallorca (37.8 million) [...]
Who is responsible for the property bubble?
Sunday, March 1st, 2009As recession takes hold, European citizens are starting to ask questions about how they were led into this, the deepest downturn in three-quarters of a century. The leading Spanish daily El Pais published a very thoughtful article today asking how things had unravelled so quickly and so spectacularly in Spain, previously one of the fastest [...]
Fatal storms hit Spain and France
Saturday, January 24th, 2009Three children have been killed in northern Spain when the roof of a sports hall collapsed amid high winds, local officials say.
Two adults were also reported to have died in other storm-related incidents.
Torrential rains and winds of up to 172km/h (107mph) have been battering northern Spain and south-west France.
At least one million homes in France [...]
Internet paedophile ring suspects arrested
Monday, January 19th, 2009Spanish private detectives investigating the 2007 disappearance of a British girl from a resort in Portugal uncovered an Internet paedophile ring, El Mundo reported in its online edition Monday.
Police arrested 13 suspects as a result of an investigation done by Barcelona-based Metodo-3, an investigation agency hired by Gerry and Kate McCann to trace their daughter Madeleine, the report said.
Madeleine [...]
Demonstrations against the war in Gaza
Sunday, January 18th, 2009The streets in numerous cities of Spain were filled with demonstrators on Saturday night as protestors demanded a cease fire in Gaza, just hours before one was announced by the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert.
Thousands took to the centre of Madrid to make their protest heard, under the banner ‘We will stop the massacre of [...]
Police Arrest Most Wanted Criminals In Spain
Sunday, November 9th, 2008Kearney and McCafferty were arrested in Spain
Donna McCafferty and Anthony Kearney were at a cafe in the resort of Javea, a town an hour’s drive north of Alicante, when they were spotted.
They were recognised by a British couple sitting on a table next to them on Thursday.
The couple called police who then arrested the two [...]
Electricity prices set to rise in Spain
Monday, May 12th, 2008The National Energy Commission has recommended increases of between 19 and 30 percent.
The Government has confirmed that electricity prices are set to rise, but the Minister for Industry Tourism and Trade, Miguel Sebastián, has said that the domestic power bill increase will be ‘reasonable’. There had been claims in part of the Spanish press that [...]
24% Fall in house sales in February
Monday, April 28th, 2008The resale of homes in Spain during February was 24.4% lower than in February a year ago, according to numbers released this morning by the National Statistics Institute INE. The fall in sales was particularly of note in resale properties reaching as much as 33.8%. There were 55,462 homes bought and sold across the country [...]
Eroski fights slowdown with house-brand products
Monday, April 21st, 2008If consumer spending goes down, lower your prices. Using a time-honoured technique, Eroski, a leader in the Spanish food distribution sector, incorporated a new range of house-brand products to its recently acquired Caprabo supermarket chain in April to fight the nationwide economic slowdown.
Eroski, which bought Caprabo in 2007, has this month decided to accelerate the [...]
Spain’s “White Coast†Ranks Most Popular
Saturday, March 29th, 2008According to Kyero.com, the award winning Spanish property portal, the Costa Blanca region, in the province of Alicante, is the most popular Spanish Costa with potential foreign property buyers receiving 26.6% of all coastal property enquiries.
This area boasts a relatively large number of English-speaking residents, making it easier for relocating Brits to fit into everyday [...]