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After a 10-hour Commons debate, approval given to bomb Syrian targets

DECEMBER 2 saw all eyes on the House of Commons where a debate concerning the use of RAF bombers to attack ISIS targets in Syria took place, with some surprising and moving speeches as well as some ill-timed...Read More

Man pushed in front of train in London

UPDATE: According to British Transport police, a 29-year-old man from Colindale in London surrendered himself at a London Police station on December 2, and has been arrested on suspicion of attempted...Read More

Fifth fatal accident in 10 days in Malaga Province

A NATIONAL Police officer assisting a driver who had had an accident on Malaga City’s Ronda Oeste ringroad on Sunday evening (November 30) was hit and killed by another car, emergency services have...Read More

La Linea hospital nearing completion

LA LINEA’S new hospital is almost a reality, regional Health department head Aquilino Alonso has declared, although as of yet no opening date has been given.
Alonso explained that all work down...Read More

Her Majesty the Queen politely declines request to visit Gibraltar

FOLLOWING the circulation of a petition, which gathered 10,000 signatures, requesting Her Majesty to visit Gibraltar, during the summer the Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia forwarded it to Buckingham...Read More

Oscar Pistorius found guilty of murder

AFTER a long review of the prosecution appeal against the ‘manslaughter’ (culpable homicide) conviction of Oscar Pistorius, Judge Leach in the Bloemfontein court of appeal declared on December...Read More

Gary Neville appointed head coach at Valencia

FORMER England and Manchester United defender Gary Neville has taken over as Valencia head coach following the resignation of Nuno Espirito, while his brother Phil was named interim coach.
Neville...Read More

Bizarre death of pensioner in Alicante

AN elderly couple was sitting on a bench in Plaza Manila in Alicante with a friend on Wednesday December 2 when a 48-year-old woman fell from the seventh floor on top of the 81-year-old man, identified...Read More

Forbearer of Giraffe found in Spain

SCIENTIFIC online journal Plos One published details on December 2 of the findings of a group of researchers from the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC in Madrid which was led by Israel M Sanchez.
The...Read More

Boy's balloon shuts down Madrid Metro

The busiest section of Metro Line 2 in Madrid was shut down on the morning of December 2 after a child’s aluminium foil balloon touched high voltage electricity cables above the track and caught...Read More