News Archive for August 2018

Here you can find articles published in August 2018. Return to full archive here

01 August
- 15 books to read in Spain this summer
- IN PICS: Spain's taxi strike stretches into eighth day
- Heatwave warnings issued across Spain as mercury tips 42C
- What's on in Spain: 13 brilliant things to do this August
- EU to grant Spain emergency aid to cope with migrants
- Manos Limpias anti-corruption crusader to stand trial for extortion
02 August
- Finally! Spanish taxi drivers call off strike
- La Manada: Police arrest 'Wolf Pack' sexual abuser over theft
- Firefighters battle wildfire threatening natural park in southern Spain
- Madrid begins talks with Catalan separatist leaders
- Digging up Franco: why Spain still can't decide what to do with the dictator's body
- Spain's ruling Socialists tops new poll and would win early election
03 August
- Firefighters bring wildfire near natural park near Tarifa under control
- Durex recalls Real Feel condoms in Spain over fears they could split
- Two dead in southern Spain as heatwave takes its toll
04 August
- Meltdown: Spain and Europe wilt in 45C heatwave
05 August
- ETA's supermarket bomber leaves Spanish prison after 30 years
- Spain's Marín first woman in history to win three badminton world titles
06 August
- Spanish hiker falls to his death in French Pyrenees
- Spain announces plans for migrant command centre
- Anti-independence protest sees Spanish flags fly on Catalan beach
- Spanish paedophile jailed in Freiburg for 'buying' boy online
07 August
- Images show terror cell preparing for 2017 Barcelona attack
- Parts of Spain and Portugal are more than 46℃ – here's what is going on
- Surprising Ways Spain’s Historic Little Villages Are More Modern Than Madrid
- Heatwave: Death toll in Spain rises to nine
- Pablo Casado: Spain's new PP leader hit by degree scandal
08 August
- Spanish jet accidentally fires missile above Estonia
- Hyperloop to build $500 million research centre in Spain
- Barcelona mayor faces calls to quit over street safety concerns
- Wildfire rages in Gandia: 3,000 evacuated from homes
- Germany reaches agreement with Spain over returning migrants
09 August
- Spanish police arrest notorious drug baron 'abuelo' in Galicia
- Police hunt vandal who daubed cat face on Santiago statue
- Migrant rescue ship docks in Spain again after Italy refusal
- Teen electrocuted taking selfie on train roof in Madrid
10 August
- No evidence Barcelona attackers had international links: police
- This is how a Basque border town is coping with migrant influx en route to France
- Daddy Yankee impersonator steals bling from star's Valencia hotel room
- Ryanair strike: 400 flights grounded across Europe
- Spanish taxman knocks €2milliom off Ronaldo tax settlement:
11 August
- Spanish priest murdered at school in Peruvian Amazon
- Pay up or else: Spanish police warns of online 'sextorsion'
12 August
- Spain's Pique announces international retirement
- Spain and Germany seek EU aid for Morocco over migrants
13 August
- Barcelona recover to win Spanish Supercup as Sevilla waste late penalty
- Ronaldo hospitalized with flu in Ibiza
- More than 370 injured after boardwalk collapses at Vigo festival
- New Spanish show accused of being 'cheap copy' of Peaky Blinders
- 'The floor gave way as if we were in an elevator': Spectators and PM Sanchez react to Vigo accident
- Spanish police officer swims 100 metres to rescue migrant from Mediterranean
14 August
- Spain legend Silva retires from international duty
- Questions remain as anniversary of Catalonia attacks approaches
- A year on, suspicion and silence in Spain jihadists' hometown
- Facebook to broadcast La Liga games for free in Indian subcontinent
- 'Germany treated me well even when I was behind bars': Puigdemont
- Former Real Madrid striker Ronaldo leaves Ibiza clinic after pneumonia treatment
- Spain to take in 60 of the 141 Aquarius migrants: PM Sanchez
15 August
- British expats in EU launch Brexit legal dispute
- Godin says he's going nowhere despite reports of English interest
16 August
- Six reasons why Benidorm is so much better than you think
- Moroccan woman footballer uses Spain tour to abscond
- Six new signings to watch in La Liga
- Schumacher family denies rumours of move to Mallorca
17 August
- One year on, Spain remembers victims of Barcelona attacks
- Anti-king banner unveiled in Barcelona ahead of attacks ceremony
- The Crown: Extras needed in Andalusia as Netflix series films on location in Spain
- Catalan rift clouds Spain's homage to attack victims
19 August
- Rush to visit Franco's tomb before his remains are moved
20 August
- Meet the Swedish feminist bringing ethical porn to Spain and the world
- The ten commandments for expats living in Spain
- Knifeman killed in 'terrorist attack' on police station in Barcelona
- Danny DeVito to get lifetime achievement award at San Sebasitián film festival
- Three Swedes arrested in Spain for murder of countryman
- Spain records more pigs than people for first time ever
- La Liga reveals plans to take Spanish soccer to United States
21 August
- Anonymous hackers target Spain sites in Catalonia protest
- Police station knife attacker was 'gay and suicidal', claims his wife
22 August
- Digital Nomad? Here's Why Remote Workers Are Flocking To Spain
- La Manada sex attackers chased away from Seville public pool
- Madrid to open first public retirement home for gay people
- Spanish police smash Europe's 'biggest' illegal turtle farm
- Migrants storm Morocco-Spain border fence, seven police injured
23 August
- Spain's footballers union threaten strike over US match
- Off the beaten track: Ten of the best secrets to discover in Barcelona
- No-deal Brexit could see Brits in EU lose access to UK bank accounts
24 August
- Migrants who stormed Morocco-Spain border sent back
- Spain just passed a decree allowing exhumation of Franco
25 August
- Franco's family to 'take care' of remains after exhumation
- Madrid coach: No one player can replace Ronaldo
27 August
- Suspect in 1998 murder of Dutch boy arrested in Spain
- Spanish homes half price on one condition: old owners live there until they die
- Man crushed by 250kg globe in Spain's running of the balls festival
- A third of Spain's Airbnb 'landlords' own 5 or more homes
- Stinking rich: Spanish Cabrales cheese fetches €14,000
28 August
- Wolf beheaded in Spain amid row over sheep killings
- Spanish police seize cocaine-stuffed pineapples
- Spain wipes out fake diarrhoea claims by British tourists
- Why The Local Spain will soon be asking you to become paying Members
- Spanish woman arrested for forcing sister to sleep on staircase landing
- Dame Judi Dench to get Spain's prestigious Donostia Award
- Spain arrests 10 ringleaders who planned huge fence jump at Morocco border
29 August
- Majorca fights for full noise control over party boats and all its coastline
- Video: Spanish swimmer arrested after refusing to leave red flag waters
- British taxpayers in Spain: September 30 deadline to declare offshore earnings
- 12th tier English football club wins hearts with 'Spanish Republic' kit
- Franco's mausoleum cannot be place of reconciliation: Spanish PM
30 August
- Tensions rise in Catalonia over pro-independence yellow ribbons
- Ghost homes: 200 buyers lose €3million in Majorca's biggest real estate scam
- Spain receives a million fewer tourists than expected in July
- Spain confronts Ryanair over 'illegal' hand luggage charges
- Spanish NGO quits Libya migrant rescues over 'criminalisation' of aid work
31 August
- Spain's anti-prostitution PM riled as ministry green-lights sex workers' union
- Plot thickens in Barça's illegal liver transplant scandal
- If you're thinking of buying a car in Spain, you need to read this
- Should they stay or should they go: Spain struggles to set migrant policy
- EU aims to scrap turning the clocks back for winter
- Top ten Madrid bars serving free tapas, one for each barrio