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Sting to re-open Bataclan club in Paris next week

POSSIBLY tempting fate although security at the venue is likely to be incredibly tight, singer and bass player Sting has announced that he will perform at the re-opening of the Bataclan club in Paris...Read More

Galician granny sentenced for driving without licence since the 1960s

A ROUTINE traffic stop proved the final chapter in a Spanish granny’s half century of driving sin licence.
The 74-year-old from Galicia was arrested after admitting to officers who wanted to...Read More

Yacht containing hashish seized in Estepona waters

TWO men who sailed a yacht from Morocco into Spanish waters and were heading for Estepona were arrested in a cooperative investigation run by the National Police and the Spanish Tax Agency.
The operation...Read More

Mariano Rajoy parts company with former Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation

WHEN the new ministers in the Spanish Government were formally sworn in before King Felipe VI, there was one significant absentee, José Manuel García-Margallo who has been replaced as Minister for Foreign...Read More

Ken Clarke makes his position on Article 50 very clear

THE good thing about clichés is that every so often they are appropriate for a particular situation and in the case of Mrs May, the so called ‘Chinese Curse’, “may you live in interesting...Read More

Catalan politicians face sanctions from Madrid after court ruling

BRITAIN isn’t the only country plunged into constitutional crisis through the judgement of its highest court.
On the same day that judges ruled that only the UK parliament can approve Brexit, Spain’s...Read More

Your pound will buy more euros following the High Court decision

ONE immediate and attractive result of the High Court ruling that the Royal Prerogative could not be relied on in order to trigger the decision to apply Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty was that the pound...Read More

Not so clean hands as Manos Limpias files for bankruptcy

ACCORDING to breaking news from the Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation the Spanish Union Manos Limpias - which was involved in bringing Princess Cristina to trial as part of the Noos Case –...Read More

There may be a possible softening in Spain’s position on Gibraltar

UPDATE: Unconfirmed reports suggest that following his meeting with the King, Mariano Rajoy has dropped both Jose Margallo and Jorge Fernandez Diaz from his cabinet. More details will be known on the...Read More

Where there’s blame there may be a claim

UPDATE: Sir Philip Green has been spurred into action and on the afternoon of November 3 it was revealed that he had offered £250 million (€280 million) to the BHS pension fund but it is believed...Read More