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Judges okay brothels after mosque veto
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Judges okay brothels after mosque veto

A judge in the Catalonian town of Lleida (Lérida) has ordered the city's town hall to hand over a licence to a brothel just two streets away from where Catalonia's supreme court banned the building of a mosque a year ago.
'Spanish bureaucracy moves very slowly'
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'Spanish bureaucracy moves very slowly'

Some years back, Liverpudlian Simon Grant felt like an adventure and was all set to leave Europe. Instead he and his business partner Tony Bruno ended up running a successful language school in a small town near Seville.
Six of the best: Brilliant blogs about Spain

Six of the best: Brilliant blogs about Spain

Need some quality bedside reading? These six English-language blogs about Spain are just the thing. You'll find everything from a Canadian guerilla gardener in Tarifa to an English actor who fights bulls on the side. And that's just for starters.
Should King Juan Carlos abdicate?
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Should King Juan Carlos abdicate?

In the wake of Pope Benedict XVI's dramatic decision to abdicate and Queen Beatrix of Holland's decision in late January to bow out of public life, The Local asks whether now might be the right moment for Spain's King Juan Carlos to take his own curtain call.