News Archive for August 2015

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01 August
- Two face charges over Spain bungee jump death
- Spanish public workers to get pay rise
02 August
- Varoufakis warns Spain could 'become Greece'
- Reinventing Spain's 'ageless art' of flamenco
03 August
- Four migrants drown trying to swim into Spain
- Catalonia to call election in independence push
- Cilla Black died from a stroke while sunbathing
- Man hidden in suitcase dies en route to Spain
- Village celebrates rebirth as graffiti museum
- Block of flats collapses after huge cracks appear
- Baby 'Goku' is first in Spain named after anime
04 August
- Banking family's Picasso seized on Corsica boat
- Catalonia calls early poll for independence vote
- Bull gores 89-year-old man to death in Alicante
- Language of Cervantes? Not Spanish but Catalan
- Spanish celebrity chef sued for dumping Trump
- Cristiano Ronaldo pranks Madrid as homeless man
- King welcomes hoi polloi into his palace gardens
05 August
- Man held over brother's death inside suitcase
- PM calls for huge turnout in Catalonia elections
- No trace of free-diver missing off Formentera
- Costa resort to banish the drunk and disorderly
- Jihadist who fled Spain is arrested in Germany
- Poll gives PP strong lead but far short of a majority
- All aboard: Campaign for dogs on trains in Spain
06 August
- Mum jailed for throwing newborn out of window
- Spain's Basque's act to end decades of hurt
- Family wins 16-year fight against noisy bar
- Bull shot in the street at fiesta after goring man
- What recovery? Spanish reject economic 'spin'
- Spanish military to invest in spying megadrones
- Hottest July ever: Spain sizzled in record month
- Police break up Marbella luxury villa rental scam
07 August
- Spanish treasure goes under the hammer in NY
- Caught on camera: Brits behaving badly in Ibiza
- Spanish resort wages war on beach hoggers
- Wildfires force hundreds out of homes in Spain
- Couple hire hitman in bid to inherit funeral parlour
- 'Ibiza Shore' cancelled amid local opposition
- British police join patrols on island hotspots
- Spain tells France to control its farmers
- Spain's 'most hated man' gets holiday leave
08 August
- Spain wildfire forces more evacuations
- Spanish court paroles former ETA head
- Spanish police bust Colombian drug ring
10 August
- Man gored on bull run while filming on mobile
- Spain 'violates' Gibraltar territory in drug chase
- Michelin-starred Indian chef opens up new restaurant in Madrid
- Killer whales spotted in waters off Canary Islands
- Parents of missing US pilgrim appeal to Rajoy
- Dog dumped over fence sparks outrage in Spain
- Spanish skies to see best meteor shower in years
11 August
- Spain won't get Rwandan spy chief on war crimes
- Spain's 'Corrupt Mayor' app mocks political graft
- Dutch teenage girl dies during bungee jump
- Star matador in 'serious condition' after goring
- Fireman fired for using hose to fill his own pool
- Riot in resort after street seller dies in police raid
- Beach football ban amid health and safety fears
12 August
- Battle of the fizz: Cava takes on champagne
- France returns seized Picasso painting to Spain
- Spanish bus operators call for ban on BlaBlaCar
- Fears mounting for two women missing in Spain
- Spaniard held for selling jihad beheading T-shirts
- Bungee girl jumped on the 'no jump' command
- Mother 'sacrifices' baby on chapel altar in Spain
- Spanish train drivers call strikes for September
- Spanish bust Albanian people smuggling gang
13 August
- Case dropped against police who beat migrant
- Manhunt launched after two women found dead
- Do Spaniards understand the real Don Quixote?
- Adios Llanito! Gibraltar's dialect is under threat
- Beware: Why you might regret ordering the fish
- 'Gay pride parades are worse than bullfights'
- Serial killer musical to close San Sebastian
14 August
- Fugitive arrested for Cuenca double murder
- Corruption casts shadow over Spanish politics
- King cheers the return of San Sebastian bullfights
- Looking for a holiday romance? Come to Spain
- Organizers face charges over girl's bungee death
- Spanish growth outstrips stalled eurozone partners
- Another man dies after horrific goring at fiesta
- Bobbies on the beach won't change Magaluf
15 August
- Eurozone approves huge new Greek bailout
16 August
- The plight of Spain's hunting greyhounds
- Spanish champion served up fascist anthem
17 August
- Spain condemns latest 'barbaric' IS acts in Libya
- Gagged: Woman fined for photo of police car
- Three more fatally gored during weekend bull runs
- Sports club banned on Facebook for sexy name
- British 4-year-old drowns in Mijas holiday villa pool
- Taking the piss? Madrid slammed for lack of loos
18 August
- Police find hashish haul hidden inside wheelchair
- Spanish city to use DNA to trace dog poo culprits
- Ricky Gervais sides with bulls over fatal gorings
- Is Spain going back to the Stone Age?
- Spanish chef gets own crowdfund to beat Trump
- Could this Spanish fossil be the world's first flowering plant?
- Crowded Benidorm beach closed after boy bitten by mystery fish
- Spanish lawmakers overwhelmingly approve third bailout for Greece
19 August
- Gang that swindled drunk British tourists in Magaluf busted by police
- Spanish inquisition: Outcry after festival dumps Jewish musician
- It's not Jaws: Benidorm urges calm after child is bitten by mystery fish
- Festival overturns Jewish musician ban amid 'anti-Semitism' row
- Hypocrite? What's the truth about left wing mayor's 'luxury' holiday?
- Charity hails 'bravery' of an activist who comforted dying bull in ring
20 August
- Chile to try former secret police for 1976 murder of Spanish diplomat
- Treasure hunters find $4.5m of Spanish gold from sunken galleon
- Twisted firestarter: Woman held for starting seven fires on Costa del Sol
- Pensioner turns priceless fresco into 'Monkey Jesus': The Opera
- Barcelona police force fail to see the funny side of cardboard cutout cop
- Animal rights activist beaten with live duck at festival in Catalonia
21 August
- Secret files reveal British concern over Spanish Civil War Brigades
- Police discover hashish smuggled into Spain disguised as olives
- Airbnb overhauls security following 'sex assault' on teenager in Madrid
- Benidorm’s 'shark attack' becomes the butt of a million internet jokes
- Hack reveals Madrid as one of the most adulterous cities in the world
- Grape Escape: Discovering the art of winemaking in the vineyards of La Rioja
22 August
- First stage of Tour of Spain circuit deemed too dangerous to count
- Madrid electrical bike share system takes off despite lack of cycle lanes
- Jihadist gunman on French train was known to Spanish intelligence
23 August
- Political change is 'inevitable' in Cuba says Spanish foreign minister
24 August
- Tenth man killed at fiesta in deadly summer of bull running in Spain
- French couple arrested for looting archaeological site in Catalonia
- Spain's stock market index takes a plunge as Asia panic grips investors
- Wife crash lands aeroplane in south Spain after pilot husband collapses
- Italian champion kicked off Tour of Spain cycle race after hitching a lift
- Now Benidorm asks for bobbies on the beach in Brit crime crackdown
- ‘I should be so lucky’: The Syrian refugee chasing his dream in Spain
- Surgical needle found in woman 32 years after she went under the knife
- Police launch hunt for ear-biting train passenger in Barcelona
25 August
- Train gunman was 'good guy' who dealt hashish and played football
- Network of 14 suspected jihadists arrested in Morocco and Spain
- Spain on alert after first case of mosquito-borne virus detected
- Remains found of British hiker missing for eight years in Mallorca
- Spanish man fakes own kidnapping to get ransom money off his parents
- Drunk British tourist rescued after falling asleep atop bridge in Malaga
- La Tomatina: All you need to know about the world's biggest food fight
- Scorchio! Spain sizzles in hottest temperatures since records began
26 August
- Gibraltar outrage after Spanish customs fire shots at fishermen
- Squelch! Google doodle celebrates 70 years of La Tomatina festival
- Tanorexia: when getting a suntan becomes a dangerous addiction
- Fury as archaeological site ruined and replaced with picnic table
- Spain becomes nation of stoners as popularity of cannabis clubs soars
- In pics: Thousands get mushy in Spain's epic tomato throwing battle
- Too fat for Real Madrid: Promising player sacked for eating all the pies
- Rafael Nadal bares (almost) all in a steamy locker room striptease
27 August
- Spain scraps fine for posting a photo of police car on Facebook
- Spain retirees battle against 'unfair' back taxes on foreign pensions
- Why you should NOT drive through the world's biggest ever food fight
- Hermit wanted for remote hilltop shrine. The immoral need not apply
- Tourist spending in Spain sets new record, boosting economic recovery
28 August
- Spanish public radio removes show on Jews and Satanism amid outcry
- Barcelona draws up battle lines to curb Airbnb type tourism boom
- Madrid terrorist suspect ran Isis cell planning massacres in Spain
- Fake traffic police arrested for robbing tourists on Costa Blanca
- Emotional homecoming for granny jailed for refusal to demolish home
- Travel chaos threat as September strikes called at Spanish airports
- What's on in Spain: Sept 2015
- Catalan ruling party hit by graft probe ahead of September election
- Astronomers on Quixotic quest to immortalize Cervantes with a star
29 August
- Spanish police hunt for Moroccan hashish in the Strait of Gibraltar
30 August
- 15 arrested in Spain for smuggling migrants on jet skis from Morocco
31 August
- Twelfth man dies in bull run fiesta after being gored through the heart
- Wildfire rages in Galicia destroying more than 2,000 hectares of forest
- Message to Catalonia: ‘We are much better together,’ says ex-PM
- Outrage after breastfeeding mother expelled from Granada tourist spot
- Barcelona to London: Top tips from the world's most famous commuter
- Spain arrests trafficker on Sierra Leone 'blood diamond' charges
- Six people dead and six injured in explosion at fireworks factory
- Son arrested for starving 76-year-old mother to death in Tenerife