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Russian MP’s suggests making hooligan violence a spectator sport

A RUSSIAN politician has proposed a solution to the country’s football hooliganism problem which involves turning it into a televised sport.
Igor Lebedev drew up rules for what he calls...Read More

Tired and disorientated hikers rescued by helicopter

AFTER receiving reports that a group of 12 hikers (including four minors) had become lost on the Peñalara peak in the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park (Madrid) a helicopter, part of the Guardia Civil...Read More

Watchdog fines Spanish rail freight companies €75.6m

SPAIN’S Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) has fined rail freight carriers belonging to Renfe and Deutsch Bahn groups almost €80m for anti-competition practises.
CNMC...Read More

WATCH: Car crashes into petrol station in Alicante

CCTV footage captured in Alicante shows the dramatic moment a car crashes into a petrol station.
In the video a Guardia Civil patrol car is seen refuelling, when a speeding car veers off the...Read More

Watch out that teddy might be a spy

THE National Police have announced that one of their officers has arrested two women aged 29 and 34 in Valencia for placing a recording device into the plush toy of one their children who was visiting...Read More

Good intentions cause more embarrassment for Jeremy Corbyn

IT appears that the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is at best ‘accident prone’ or at worst badly advised as after suggesting that politicians should publish their tax returns and doing so himself,...Read More

Hundreds of flights cancelled as French air traffic control strikes

A FRENCH air traffic control union has gone on a four-day strike, starting Monday (6 March) causing hundreds of flight cancellations.
The strike, called by the UNSA union, will affect an estimated...Read More

One quarter of One Direction arrested at Los Angeles airport

SOCIAL MEDIA has been buzzing after the news was released that Louis Tomlinson, one of the singers with the very popular boy band One Direction, had been arrested at Los Angeles airport following scuffles...Read More

Breezy start to week in prospect with wind alerts in 11 Spanish provinces

THE week is due to begin with dangerously strong winds of up to 100 km/h in 11 Spanish provinces.
A yellow weather alert has been announced in Alicante, Mallorca, Teruel, Barcelona, Zaragoza,...Read More

Human tower member dies in training accident in Spain

A 51-year-old man died and two others were injured when they were crushed by a metal structure at a human tower team's training room in Tarragona, Spain.
Investigating police said the accident...Read More