SPAIN'S second-most popular festive lottery after the pre-Christmas El Gordo has dished out over €700 million in prize money, with the jackpot worth €2m.

SALES have started in earnest all over Spain and the ministry for consumer affairs has once again reminded customers of their rights and what they should expect from retailers.

A 'HOMEMADE' vaccine against Covid-19 is getting closer to being launched, and is effective against all known current strains of the Coronavirus, according to an update on the eagerly-awaited formula this week.

THAT British nationals have long been making a beeline for Menorca is nothing newsworthy. The easternmost of the Balearic Islands is a magnet for expatriates, retired and of working age, and holidaymakers of all types, especially those seeking a quie...

DESPITE the vast majority of the public owning a mobile phone, Spain still has nearly 15,000 telephone boxes in the streets – but their days are numbered.

A NATIONWIDE snack-bar favourite has now changed its name, with revamped signs set to go up on existing premises and already in place for recently-opened branches.

SPAIN'S first babies born in 2022 came into the world at exactly midnight – a boy and a girl, both on the east coast.

Public celebrations of the New Year are being cancelled left, right and centre in the face of the ever-increasing number of people infected with the latest variant of the Covid-19 virus - the highly contagious Omicron. 

Every year, the Fundación del Español Urgente (FundéuRAE) - Foundation for Urgent Spanish - with the support of the Real Academia Española, votes for its 'word of the year', and the winning word for 2021 is 'vaccine' (vacuna in Spanish) - one of ...

Every year, to celebrate Epiphany, people in Spain consume somewhere in the region of 30 million Roscones de Reyes - traditional brioche-style, ring-shaped cakes often baked with a citrus peel and/or orange blossom water, and topped with sugar, almon...

ANOTHER year passes at breakneck speed, grape sales in Spanish supermarkets rocket – tradition dictates that you eat one at each of the 12 'bongs' at midnight – and everyone on earth tries to remember a time when celebrations of any nature didn't...

OVER 9,000 letters have been sent in barely a week from members of the public to elderly residents in nursing homes as part of the nationwide 'Adopt a Grandparent' scheme.

KING Felipe VI's traditional Christmas Eve night speech called for 'public institutions' to 'show responsibility' and be 'an example of moral integrity', as well as urging society 'not to take backwards steps' in the battle against the Coronavirus pa...

THIS year's presidential message to troops spending Christmas on overseas missions focused in particular on the Forces' heroic efforts in evacuating over 2,300 Afghans plus numerous Spanish nationals via Kabul airport (pictured) after the Taliban reg...

WET-WIPES wrongly flushed down the toilet are an expensive environmental headache, causing fatbergs and backflowing from drains, ending up in rivers, the sea, and coating beaches – but a team of researchers at Málaga University has found a way to ...