News Archive for October 2014
Here you can find articles published in October 2014. Return to full archive here-
01 October
- Catalans take to streets to back vote on self-rule
- Public debt to top 100 percent of GDP in 2015
- Mystery bomb rocks town hall in Galicia
- Finally: Caver rescued after 12-day nightmare
- Five Spanish soldiers hit with torture charges
- Spain's 'oil-stained' MEP 'won't be dumped'
- China's richest man eyes Madrid mega-complex
- Ticket to ride: Barcelona lets pooches on metro
- Spain rules out aerial strikes on Isis in Iraq
- Spain to grow around 2% in 2015: Central bank
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02 October
- I will not back down on vote: Catalan leader
- Coastguard find two dead migrants off Spain
- 20,000 more unemployed in Spain in September
- EU delays confirmation of Spanish commissioner
- Only one Spanish uni makes world's top 200
- Woman dies after falling into wine vat
- 'Naughty' Spain comes up short on EU laws
- Found: Spain's earliest ever image of Jesus
- Former IMF chief named in credit card scandal
- Guatemala's Spanish embassy 'killer' on trial
- Ten ways Catalonia will change if independent
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03 October
- Canary Islands call vote against oil drilling
- Madrid to appeal Catalan electoral team
- Catalonia passes divisive anti-homophobia law
- Brit who sold fake Viagra busted in Marbella
- Alhambra ticket conmen face nine years jail
- Business leader shocks with anti-mum comments
- Red-faced officials quit over fraud claims
- Catalan leaders stick to independence guns
- The great Spanish food and drinks quiz
- 04 October
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06 October
- Only 2 in 10 Catalans back 'illegal' vote: poll
- Real's Ronaldo hits 3rd hat-trick in five games
- Father kills teen son and daughter in Cádiz
- Madrid starts fining users of Uber 'taxi' app
- Mobsters who ate man go on trial in Spain
- Catalan vote watchdog quits over bias claims
- Iberia robs Barcelona of transfer hub reign
- Spain ranked world's 7th best expat destination
- In Pictures: Catalonia's amazing human towers
- Spain plans €1 billion rescue for hard-up towns
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08 October
- Activists fight to save dog of nurse with Ebola
- Spain to top EU growth tables in 2015: IMF
- Rogue church shocks with 'Saint Franco' statue
- Spain admits weak points in Ebola protocols
- 54 paedophiles busted over hidden cam porn
- Third Spanish nurse isolated over Ebola fears
- 'Pirate' bankers face court in freebies row
- 'I touched my face with gloves': nurse with Ebola
- Patriotic song sparks Basque wedding brawl
- Bulls to balconies: 10 travel warnings for Spain
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09 October
- Three new patients isolated over Ebola fears
- Anger as dog of nurse with Ebola put down
- 'Oil-stained' Cañete gets EU climate action job
- Europe blasts Spain over torture record
- Bronze Age 'town hall' in Spain Europe's oldest
- Spanish nationalist strips to back 'silent majority'
- Spanish house prices notch up slight rise
- 16.8 million Spaniards breathe polluted air
- Slovakia down Spain 2-1 in famous victory
- Nurse with Ebola to receive ZMab
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13 October
- Thousands march to halt Catalan independence
- Nurse with Ebola in 'very serious' condition
- Film explores Spanish exile of UK punk legend
- 13,429 Spaniards ask to be 'forgotten' by Google
- Costa finally scores as Spain crush Luxembourg
- French driver ran over cyclist 'on purpose'
- Mum who killed baby 'thought it was tumour'
- Heavy rains flood Madrid Metro system
- 'Spain Ebola-free in two weeks if no new cases'
- Penélope Cruz named world's sexiest woman
- Catalan leader scraps independence vote
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14 October
- Gibraltar eyes voting rights for 16-year-olds
- Catalan leader should call plebiscite poll: aid
- Madrid taxi drivers strike to protest Uber app
- Catalan leader calls independence vote 'lite'
- Revealed: the cost of expat food in Spain
- Hopes rise for Spanish nurse with Ebola
- Madrid slams Catalonia's 'phoney' vote plans
- 'Poor' Spain sees 24% surge in millionaires
- 'Noise terrorist' gets 16 months jail
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15 October
- US eyes Spanish bases in war on Ebola
- Health boss 'sorry' for saying Ebola nurse lied
- Monster storm set to bash Spanish coasts
- Freezing ravers stranded after illegal party
- Calm Spanish PM cool on 'new' Catalonia vote
- 'Please help us get dad's body home from Spain'
- Airport authority fined for 'anti-mum' hiring policy
- EU tells Spain: Take back company tax breaks
- Where's the best place to live in Spain?
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16 October
- 'Violent' migrants storm Spain's African border
- Expats given vote in poll on Catalan self-rule
- Spaniards 'work longer hours than Germans'
- Spanish drug mule dies as coke bags burst
- Nurse with Ebola 'beating infection': doctor
- Spanish scientists dance for cancer awareness
- 'Failed' Spanish bond sale scares markets
- Air France passenger tests negative for Ebola
- Ex-IMF boss to be grilled in credit card scandal
- Ebola crisis: Patient with fever tests negative
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20 October
- Bank chauffeurs had 'black' Visa cards: report
- 'We will pay off debt': Spain’s 'indignant' party
- Flash floods: woman dies in Canary Islands
- Exposed: student conman who fooled king
- Spain's Ferrovial bids for Australian Transfield
- Six police charged over drug addict's murder
- Real Madrid star Bale in doubt for Barça clash
- UN slams Spain over assault on migrant
- What's on in Spain: November 2014
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21 October
- Spain vows to crush 'still alive' terror group Eta
- Morocco oil find shakes up Canary Islands vote
- Calatrava to 'rebuild' Ground Zero church
- Family-friendly official 'sorry' he sacked mum
- Madrid museum honours Hepburn's style guru
- Spain swelters in autumn 'heatwave'
- Big vocabulary could help fight Alzheimer's
- Gallery: Hits and misses of Antonio Banderas
- Spain can't use force to stop migrants: EU
- Spanish nurse with Ebola beats virus
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22 October
- Two Uber vehicles torched in Barcelona
- One in eight working Spaniards live in poverty
- Spain's legal system only fit for 'chicken thieves'
- Summer love: Spain sees tourism record
- Spain's thalidomide victims lose damages bid
- Gay teens pelted with stones outside school
- Top ten: things your Spanish 'mamá' says
- Freak winter wave 'was Spain's biggest ever'
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23 October
- Going down: jobless rate dips below 24 percent
- Game of Thrones gets Spanish tapas treatment
- Finally: Spain's leaders face up to corruption fury
- Viral border photo shows two worlds collide
- Canary telescope hunts for Earth-like planets
- Almodóvar sorry over 'illiterate' Galicians gaffe
- Ebola crisis: five patients given all-clear
- Cricketer fined €1,125 for playing in public square
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24 October
- Angry students blast education funding cuts
- Bale absence may boost Real's Clásico hopes
- Drug mule left to die in airport over Ebola fears
- Excited about new words? You're not alone
- Struggling Spain to get EU 'Christmas present'
- Spain's public holidays in 2015: Official list
- Guggenheim guru gives critics finger in Spain
- Bailed-out Bankia sees profits soar
- Take The Local's Spanish history quiz
- 25 October
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27 October
- Spain's 'indignant' party runners-up in new poll
- They treated us as scum: husband of Ebola nurse
- Spain's cinemas slash prices for film fiesta
- Most Spanish Eurofighter jets can't fly: report
- Barcelona to beef up free Wi-Fi network
- Ebola crisis: ten patients go home after all-clear
- Queen Letizia flies solo for Austrian art affair
- Vodafone examines Ono tax fraud claims
- No stress: Spain's banks pass ECB tests
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28 October
- Madrid aims to block new poll on Catalan self-rule
- Real Madrid to appeal Zidane coaching ban
- Ruling party kicks out scandal-hit ex-IMF boss
- N. Korea bans Spanish man over Ebola fears
- Backward step: Spain's gender gap grows
- Mr Biceps: Spanish cop heats up Instagram
- UN warns Spain over migrant deportations
- 'Sorry': Spanish PM apologizes for corruption
- Top ten: brilliant Barcelona restaurants
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29 October
- One in four Spaniards live in poverty: report
- 'Health minister must quit over Excalibur death'
- Doing business in Spain now easier: World Bank
- Dodgy boom-year loans cost Spain €2.6 billion
- 'Swindler' Gypsies slam Spain's new dictionary
- Dad told to pay child support to daughter, 29
- Spanish bank BBVA says quarterly profits triple
- 'Corruption virus is in the guts of the system'
- Spaniards 'ignorant' on impact of immigration
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30 October
- Top drug lord 'hid cocaine inside bananas'
- 'Scary clown' craze hits Spanish city
- Isis wants to spread Ebola: security chief
- Spain grows by 0.5 percent in third quarter
- €2m price tag for 'ghost village' spooks buyers
- Military drops torture case against soliders
- Spain approves hotly disputed 'Google tax'
- Ten shocking corruption cases hurting Spain
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31 October
- Spanish judge accuses 26 in graft scandal
- Police smash major heroin ring in Catalonia
- Ex-bullfighter threatens lawyer with hoe
- UK-style 'pound shops' launch in crisis-hit Spain
- Aznar admits to multi-million Gaddafi deal
- Cabinet moves to block new Catalan ballot
- Spanish cemetery launches online funerals
- Halloween tragedy jail terms an ‘insult’: mum
- Spain's 'mini-summer' set for snowy finale
- Airport authority AENA sell-off hits delay