This week the maximum speed permitted on motorways and dual carriageways has been reduced to 110 kilometres an hour from 120 kph. This is designed to be a temporary means of saving energy and is the first time such a measure has been adopted since the fuel crisis of 1973. In addition, the price of rail tickets on suburban... 

Barclays is poised to cut its Spanish retail banking network by a fifth in the first concrete sign of the rationalisation of the group’s operations announced last month by Bob Diamond, its new chief executive. According to people briefed on the exercise, the project is being driven by Jaime Echegoyen, the new head... 

Two mothers and their two children were killed in a head-on crash in Tarragona Four people have been killed in a head-on collision between a car and a lorry. It happened at 0920 on the N-340 in Tarragona and all the fatalities were travelling in the car. Reports from the Generalitat fire service said two mothers and... 

Changing lifestyles is taking its toll on the macho Spanish and their may be lead in the pencil but the the little swimmers are lacking life. The quality of Spanish semen has reached a record low because of a worsening lifestyle. Researchers say that sperm quality has been falling for the 30 years, caused by increase... 

New buildings must include internet access at a speed of 100 Megas per second Newly built buildings in Spain will have access to high speed internet with the Government demanding a speed of 100 megas per second in residential buildings. It’s far faster than what is currently offered by communications companies. The... 

The man started a fire after getting lost in the park A British man who caused a fire in the Sierra Nevada Nature Park on September 22 2005, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined 10.6 million €. The Penal Court 4 in Granada also found 65 year old Michael R.H. guilty of the crime of reckless fire starting... 

The visit of Angela Merkel to Spain takes over space from the events in Cairo on the Spanish front pages today. El Mundo is among the papers to have a photo of the German Chancellor, walking with Zapatero. The paper says she approved what Zapatero has done, but has given him more things to do by March. The paper says... 

The Spanish Economy shrank in 2010 by only 0.1% of G.D.P. The number is less than expected, as much as 0.2% lower than the Government’s own expectation. After showing no growth in the third quarter, the economy grew by 0.2% in the last three months of the year. The number comes from the Bank of Spain, which forecast... 

It’s now been a month since Spain’s extended smoking ban came into force, and it’s had a dramatic effect on sales of stop-smoking aids to those who are trying to kick the habit. FEDIFAR, the Federation of Pharmaceutics Distributors, say sales of electronic cigarettes were up by more than 800% in January, compared... 

The National Police have discovered an immigrant trying to get into Melilla from Morocco hidden in the dashboard of an adapted Volkswagen Golf. A spokesman for the border control point at Farhana, explained that the driver was acting suspiciously, which led them to inspect the vehicle. They found a 25 year old man... 

Minister for Development, José Blanco, was on the Costa Tropical on Wednesday, and promised that the A-7 motorway would be completed across Granada province in 2012, describing the road as priority. He visited sections of the construction with the President of the Junta de Andalucía, José Antonio Griñán. It’s... 

Spanish Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, has said it will take Spain five years to correct the structural imbalances in its economy. Speaking in Congress after the last meeting of the European Council in Brussels, Zapatero said that the assets which Spain has to face the new stage ‘are the merits...