News Archive for August 2014
Here you can find articles published in August 2014. Return to full archive here-
01 August
- Irish 'Godfather' cleared of drugs charges in Spain
- Telefonica profits edge up despite forex crisis
- Barcelona taxis stage 'slow strike' against Uber
- 'I hate the black man in the White House'
- Spanish police attacked with grenades in Africa
- Made in Spain: ice cream that changes colour
- Dead beggar 'ignored' for hours at Majorca airport
- Summer love: PM sings praises of economy
- Men kidnap wrong woman, rob her anyway
- 02 August
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04 August
- Gaza crisis: Spain urges tougher EU stance
- Jobless queues shrink by 30,000 in July
- Pic of the day: Spain dazzles in Nasa photo
- Mega tortilla smashes way into record books
- Ebola outbreak: Spanish priest put in quarantine
- Gallery: The Local's Property of the Week
- Zoo staff steal €1 million in fake ticket scam
- Vikings invade Spanish village in 'bloody' festival
- Spanish girl, 14, arrested 'on way to join Isis'
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05 August
- Spanish hotel giant signs up to shark fin ban
- Spain pulls plug on weapons sales to Israel
- New party already Spain's 'third most popular': poll
- UK boxing champ shot in southern Spain
- 180,000 Germans say no to oil drilling off Majorca
- 'Two-week leave for dads not enough': Spanish MP
- Spain's Xavi announces international retirement
- Spain's 14-year-old jihadist girl locked up
- Cristiano Ronaldo hit with underwear lawsuit
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06 August
- Chinese fraudster stole $17 million: police
- Spanish priest with Ebola to be repatriated
- 127 kg of cocaine found on navy training ship
- US TV names Penelope Cruz 'idiot of the week'
- TV network airs sex romp in kids prime time
- Secondhand home prices fall 7.5 percent in 1 year
- Madrid gears up for arrival of Ebola patient
- 'Tax haven app' mocks corrupt Catalan leader
- Top 10: Spanish tourist traps you should avoid
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07 August
- Spanish industry hits its stride with growth spurt
- Ukraine crisis: Putin hits Spain with sanctions
- Dad who raped daughter for 16 years on the run
- Spanish cyclist lets fits fly in race rage incident
- Spain's Ebola patient 'in stable condition'
- Vomiting Brits in Spain sue giant tour operators
- 'Wine therapy' wins over tourists in Spain
- Swiss sex tourists slapped with seatbelt fine
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08 August
- 'Spain's hospitals aren't ready for Ebola'
- Madrid mayor's plans to evict 185 families halted
- Spanish scientists find distant 'dying planet'
- Spaniards join Ukraine's pro-Russian fighters
- Gibraltar's Neanderthals enjoyed BBQ pigeons
- Barcelona to bag €100m from global gay 'fiesta'
- Spanish Hitler? Mayor slammed for 'racist' talk
- 'Spain's repratriated nun clear of Ebola': doctors
- Taxman calls on scandal-hit Catalan ex-president
- 10 August
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11 August
- New leader wins fans for Spain's opposition: poll
- Exploding e-cigarette injures Spanish smoker
- In pictures: Summer supermoon wows Spain
- Spanish house sales climb 8.8 percent
- Road kill: Spain's wild cats face rising death toll
- Spain to probe Gibraltar cigarette smuggling
- Bus chaos as UK tourists stranded in Spain
- Ebola risk in Spain is 'almost zero': WHO
- Spain rescues over 200 African migrants
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12 August
- We will work with Spain on smuggling: Gibraltar
- Man flings €3.3M cocaine stash out of hotel window
- Majorca club slammed for sexist t-shirts
- School religion teacher fired for being gay
- Broke Spaniards lose taste for public transport
- Catalonia opens door to independence vote delay
- Gallery: The Local's Property of the Week
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13 August
- Ronaldo reigns supreme as Madrid win Super Cup
- Health minister slammed over 'Ebola holiday'
- Found: 1,000-year-old Islamic burial ground
- Falling prices fuel fears of deflation for Spain
- Spanish climber found dead in French Alps
- Spain ignores protests over Canaries oil deal
- Vueling jet catches fire after landing in Italy
- Catalan boss 'firm' on independence vote date
- Twelve things tourists do that annoy Spaniards
- Spain mourns death of priest with Ebola
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14 August
- Barcelona shuts down 49 cannabis clubs
- Judge demands study on 'Spain's worst semen'
- Meteor shower blazes across Spanish sky
- Spain helps Morocco break up ISIS terror cell
- 'Miracle baby' found in boat off Spanish coast
- Spanish public debt tops €1 trillion-mark
- Tobacco smuggling in Gibraltar 'cost EU €700M'
- Luis Suárez begins training with Barcelona
- 15 August
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18 August
- Patient tests negative in Spain Ebola scare
- Two Spaniards missing in shipwreck: reports
- Five arrested over Malaga fairground rape
- VIDEO: Ronaldo takes on ice bucket challenge
- Russians shun Spain as Ukraine crisis bites
- Found: Spain's first Black Death mass grave
- Injury-hit Rafa Nadal pulls out of US open
- Criminals carjack unmarked police vehicle
- 'Paedophiles should commit suicide': expert
- Merkel to walk Spain's Camino de Santiago
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19 August
- Spanish police beat migrants: rights group
- Real to show off new signings in Atletico clash
- Spain's anti-rape guide: 1) Close your curtains
- 'Madrid has a lot to offer to culture workers'
- French sunbather killed by falling rock in Spain
- Located: Mother of Spain's 'mystery baby'
- All clear: Spanish man tests negative for Ebola
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20 August
- Ronaldo injured as Atlético nab 1-1 draw
- Gays to blame for Spain's trillion euro debt: senator
- 'Dying' town flogs off land to woo new blood
- Gibraltar slams Spain over 'fanciful' tax claims
- Madrid airport staff to strike in late August
- What's on in Spain: September
- Judge shelves Malaga fairground rape case
- FC Barcelona to appeal tough Fifa transfer ban
- Brit seriously injured in Magaluf building fall
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21 August
- 'Insulting' anti-rape guidelines to be updated
- VIDEO: Man goes 'Full Monty' on Spanish tram
- 'Stop drilling plans or we'll cut ties with Spain'
- Photojournalists fined at Spain's African border
- Madrid: man dies in horror balcony collapse
- Spain's building sector fastest growing in EU
- Di María wants out of Real Madrid: Ancelotti
- Barcelona locals wage war on drunken tourists
- Woman fakes kidnapping to boost music career
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22 August
- 'Germany must apologize for Spain Civil War role'
- Miss Spain comes out of closet on Instagram
- Ferry firm LD Lines slashes UK-Spain routes
- Locals ramp up 'war' on low-cost tourism
- Two Spanish shipwreck victims still missing
- Sexist mayor shocks Spain with rape gaffe
- Spain welcomes record tourist numbers in July
- Chris Froome to take on hot Quintana in Spain
- 23 August
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25 August
- Protests clash with police in Merkel's Spain visit
- Spain 'would block Scotland from joining EU'
- Police mistake Morocco's king for people smuggler
- Merkel praises Spain on strong growth
- Up to 95 Spaniards are Syria Isis fighters
- Merkel backs Spanish MP for top EU finance job
- Police find 150m tunnel in botched bank heist
- Black cat Spain's first pitch invader of season
- 'This is a great time for entrepreneurs in Spain'
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26 August
- Ryanair investigated over Reus incident
- Vuelta cyclists 'set sail' from aircraft carrier
- Madrid lemurs feast on iced fruit to stay cool
- Man, 90, kills 86-year-old wife and takes own life
- Catalan boss 'may scrap independence vote'
- Mayor under fire from police after jihad tweet
- Bra demo: Spanish city fights sexist mayor
- Man hurt as friend swaps ice bucket for plane
- Is tourism destroying Barcelona?
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27 August
- Tomatina fest fights on despite corruption claims
- Brits arrested over bullring pot plantation
- Mafia kiss leads Ibiza police to Rolex thieves
- New mortgages shoot up 19 percent in June
- Zara pulls plug on 'Holocaust shirt' for kids
- I didn't want to leave Real Madrid: Ángel di María
- 'Ice bucket videos can distract from ALS cause'
- Tired man kills neighbour over barking dog
- In pictures: Spain's Tomatina festival 2014
- Barcelona mayor vows to close illegal holiday flats
- Xabi Alonso quits Spain international team
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28 August
- Barcelona: Man cleared in latest Ebola scare
- Confirmed: Spain grew 0.6 percent in 2nd quarter
- Jobless Spaniards face expulsion from Germany
- Dead man mocks tax minister on gravestone
- Consumer prices slide again in August
- Spain's Tour so hot cyclists lose 4.5kg a day
- Catalonia set to legalize medical marijuana
- Topless activists fling eggs in anti-rape demo
- Australia to welcome young Spanish workers
- Firemen charge mum €90 to free trapped boy
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29 August
- Tarifa: child migrants 'hid under camper van'
- Hosts Spain aim to upset under-manned Team USA
- 'Investors will quit Spain if Catalan vote is shelved'
- Spaniards still have €1.67 billion in old pesetas
- Spanish police steal Catalan separatist flag
- Real's Xabi Alonso moves to Bayern Munich
- High-tech hikers 'hijack' Spain's pilgrim way
- Smugglers caught with three tonnes of hash
- Spain back on top of EU youth jobless table
- Ten things you need to know about La Liga
- 30 August
- 31 August