News Archive for January 2017

Here you can find articles published in January 2017. Return to full archive here

01 January
- Europe parties ring in New Year despite terror jitters
- 1,100 migrants storm border fence at Spain's Ceuta enclave
02 January
- Spain’s public holidays in 2017: Official list
03 January
- Archers to the rescue in Madrid as boars invade urban areas
- Man attempts to cross into Spain smuggled inside suitcase
- El Corte Inglés has hidden gold ingots inside traditional Roscón cakes
04 January
- Spain's banks recover but toxic assets remain
- Madrid to hold major Picasso exhibit for 'Guernica' anniversary
- A trip to the land of endangered ancient olive trees
- Spain tightens security to keep crowds safe at Epiphany
05 January
- Witchcraft and prostitution: The plight of Nigerian girls seeking new life in Spain
- Spain's jobless queue shrinks in 2016 (but most new jobs are precarious)
- Queso mistaken identity: Cordoba police find cocaine stashed in cheese
- Drug traffickers dump hashish worth €4.7m into Bay of Gibraltar during high-speed boat chase
06 January
- Real Madrid to keep Ronaldo fresh by not playing him
08 January
- Ronaldo celebrates Ballon d'Or as record-equalling Madrid cruise
09 January
- Twelve epic festivals in Spain to attend in 2017
- IN IMAGES: How one Spanish village welcomes the new year with an eerie pagan carnival
- U2 announce Barcelona gig for Joshua Tree album tour
- Probe into Germanwings crash finds suicidal pilot solely responsible
- Spain proves it is more popular than ever with record number of tourists in 2016
10 January
- Spanish king to make delayed visit to Saudi Arabia to promote warship sale
- Animal shelter head on Costa del Sol jailed over 'slow and agonizing death' of hundreds of cats and dogs
- Extraordinary underwater museum opens off Lanzarote
- Ronaldo lambasts media campaign against him
- Children report Three Kings to council over toy delivery failure
11 January
- 'Fraudster' parents of sick girl now face child porn charges
- Yak-42: Spanish government FINALLY accepts responsibility for 2003 military plane crash
12 January
- Spanish firms' stocks drop after Trump says pharma 'getting away with murder'
- Red, white, but not blue: Spain bans wine because it’s the wrong colour
- Man detained in supermarket shootout was ‘not jihadist’
- Moving to Spain: a guide for beginners
- Snow, wind and high seas: Weather warning issued across Spain
13 January
- Unlucky for some: Ten of the strangest Spanish superstitions
- Spain hopes to broker lucrative warship sale to Saudi Arabia
- Real Madrid set Spanish record with 40-game unbeaten streak
- Two people arrested in Ceuta over connections to Islamic State group
- 'There was no Brexit effect in 2016': British tourists still love Spain
- Hello Cutie! Madrid Zoo names its first female panda cub
- Rafa Nadal talks politics: And guess what? He doesn't like Trump
14 January
- Police seize two more Islamic State jihadists in Figueres
15 January
- Spain's King Felipe in Saudi as warship sale mooted
- Thousands rally in Spain for ETA prisoner amnesty
- Spain's Podemos struggles with bitter internal divisions
- Pet dogs dress up for St Anthony blessing in Madrid church
16 January
- Catalan separatists launch new independence campaign
- Spain to extradite alleged Mexican drug trafficker 'The Monkey' to US
- Boxing coach arrested in San Sebastián on suspicion of running Isis recruitment cell
- Abducted Spanish Red Cross worker freed in Afghanistan
- Spain prepares for the BIG FREEZE as Siberian winter approaches
17 January
- Spain ruling party's ex-treasurer tells court of slush fund
- Portugal protests against Spain stockpiling nuclear waste near border
- GALLERY: Holy Smoke! Horsemen gallop through flames at Spanish fiesta
- VIDEO: Topless feminist grabs new Trump effigy 'by the balls' in Madrid
- Spanish bankers sent to jail in landmark ruling
18 January
- Catalan and Basque leaders refuse to join regional talks in Spain
- Spain's car industry is back on track (but could be derailed by Brexit)
- GALLERY Amazing images of Spain's beaches in snow
- Spain 'broadly' passes budget test, EU says, but could do better
- British expats in Spain tell Brexit committee 'You must act now to protect us'
19 January
- British sprinters 'truly blessed' to be alive after motorbike crash on Tenerife
- Why Madrid will march against Trump this weekend
- IN PICS: Historic town of Ronda cut off as cold front reaches Costa del Sol
20 January
- Russian 'hacker' wanted by the US is arrested in Spain
- How one Spanish village pelts the 'devil' with turnips
- What the Donald Trump presidency could mean for Spain
- Hundreds trapped in vehicles overnight on Spanish roads as snow brings chaos
- Angry at Trump? Here's how to become Spanish
- Spain passes law to help clients claim back abusive mortgages from banks
21 January
- Terror videos are 'montage made by informant': Spanish police
- Syrian tripped by camerawoman thinking of leaving Spain
22 January
- Pope warns against populism and 'saviours' like Hitler
- Spain seeks new ways to lure high-spending gay tourists
23 January
- Spaniard attempting winter climb without oxygen evacuated from Everest
- Hunter kills two forest rangers when asked for gun licence in Catalonia
- Spanish police recover priceless cultural treasures in mega bust of international art thieves
- White House deletes Spanish version of its website and Spain isn't happy about it
24 January
- Ditch the lycra: Spanish study warning over sports clothing
- Brexit: Supreme Court rules Theresa May can't trigger EU divorce alone
- Households across Spain braced for mammoth fuel bills
- Spanish PM warns Brexit poses 'serious threat' to economy
25 January
- IN PICS: Exquisite images of bygone Barcelona discovered by American tourist at flea market
- Spain is still one of Europe's most corrupt countries
- Brexit bashes Spanish banking giant's British earnings
- Spain frees terror suspects after judge finds police informant set them up
26 January
- Celta Vigo destroy Real Madrid's treble dream with cup upset
- Good news: Spain's jobless rate just fell to a seven-year low
- Trump's wall: Spain shows why US president is heading for trouble
- Marine Le Pen will destroy Europe if she wins in France, says Spain's PM
- Donald Trump’s slogan makes Magaluf great again
- Why Brexit is 'a matter of life or death' for some Brits in Europe
- Brexit: Gibraltar says it won't cede sovereignty to 'predator' Spain
27 January
- Denis Suarez strikes twice as Barcelona storm into cup semis
- Much of Spain on alert for snow, heavy rain and strong winds
- Barcelona approves new tourist accomodation cap
- Alternative facts? Catalan senator says tax data piracy claims were a 'metaphor'
30 January
- Body of small 'migrant' boy washes up on Spanish shore
- Spanish parents and daughter killed in their sleep by falling clothes
- The road to recovery: Spanish growth outstrips most of Europe
- Bailed-out Bankia sees profits slump after Florida sale
31 January
- So bad, they're good: Madrid celebrates trash film festival
- Pedro Almodóvar will be jury president at Cannes this year
- Madrid's mayor compared Trump to Hitler over travel ban
- Vrrrroooooom! Tickets go on sale for Ferrari Land and the fastest rollercoaster in Europe
- Art thieves suspected of Francis Bacon heist arrested in Madrid