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SPONTANEOUS street demonstrations against domestic violence have taken place across Spain over the weekend after the discovery of little Olivia Gimeno’s body on the sea bottom off Tenerife. The protests began on the island after the six-year-old’s body was found in a sport’s bag, weighed down with an anchor. Olivia and sister Anna, aged one, have been missing since April and are believed to have been killed by their father […]

Tragic turn in kidnap story SEARCH teams combing the seabed off Tenerife have located the body of one of two sisters kidnapped by their father Tomás Gimeno – the girls missing since April 27. The body of six-year-old Olivia Gimeno Zimmermann was found in a sports bag, weighed down by the anchor of their father’s boat. The Guardia Civil and the Canary Island’s high court confirmed the body was of […]

Woman arrested for refusing to hang up POLICE removed a passenger from a plane at Palma airport after she ignored cabin crew instructions to stop talking on her mobile ahead of departure. The aircraft was ready to leave Son Sant Joan airport bound for Alicante but the 43-year-old woman refused to end her call despite the repeated requests to do so and follow safety requirements. The Guardia Civil were called […]

MULTINATIONAL Amazon is creating 3,000 new permanent jobs in Spain –doubling its workforce to more than 15,000 by the end of the year. New logistical centres are being opened across the years to improve its service; one of the five new stations set to be built in Alicante. The commerce giant employed 7,000 people in 2019; by the end of 2021 it will have over 15,000 on its books. Since […]

THE ongoing political crisis between Morocco and Spain continues with Madrid accused of trying to turn it into an EU problem over migration. The African state’s foreign minister said Spain was attempting to divert attention away from the ‘deep causes’ at the root of the division. The row began in April when Spain allowed the leader of the Western Sahara independence movement, Brahim Ghali, into the country for medical treatment […]