FORMER UN supremo Kofi Annan is coming to Marbella to talk about wine. The Nobel Prize winner will be a guest speaker at the Third World Conference on Climate Change and Wine, which is being held in Marbella for the first time. The former secretary general for the United Nations is the key note speaker [...]

THE EU is set to investigate Gibraltar’s plans to expand into the sea. In a further rift between the two neighbouring countries, the investigation follows a complaint from the town hall in Spanish border town La Linea. Last October, the town’s Mayor, Alejandro Sánchez, and Andalucía PP president Javier Arenas presented their complaint in Brussels. [...]

SPAIN is to be taken to court over its refusal to give expat pensioners free medicine. The European Commission is bringing the case to the European Court of Justice insisting that the country is discriminating against pensioners from northern Europe. Under EU law, pensioners residing here should be allowed to use their European Health Insurance [...]

ALMOST 85 per cent of Spanish women do not want a third child because of the difficulties of balancing work and family responsibilities. A study by the Fundacion Accion Familiar found nearly half of Spain’s working women have no children, while a quarter have only one child. Only 20 per cent have two children and [...]

A GREEN revolution has been introduced in a bid to cut back on the country’s crippling energy bill. A raft of 20 energy-saving measures are hoped to save the country a total of 2.3bn euros in fuel bills. The measures announced by the government mark the strongest response in Europe to the increase in oil [...]

IT has long been hailed as one of the world’s healthiest food regimes. But the Mediterranean diet is dying out in Spain at least, according to a new report. The Spanish Food and Nutrition Safety Agency (AESAN) has found that Spaniards are swapping olive oil, fresh salads and vegetables in favour of fast food, sweets [...]

A DESPERATE battle is being waged in the high court to stop a developer from building a macroproject next to the Trafalgar lighthouse. Environmentalists insist that the plans to build the huge hotel complex next to one of Spain’s last virgin beaches on the Costa de la Luz have been passed illegally. They claim that [...]

IT is every trainspotter’s dream. The government has announced it is going ahead with its 400 million euro plan to build a trio of high-speed train testing tracks in Antequera. The project, which the government claims will create more than 7,000 jobs, will be the largest and most advanced in Europe. Announcing the scheme, Science [...]

AS the strawberry season gets into full swing, Wendy Williams picks out 10 fruity facts about the industry in Huelva. – The strawberry season can start as early as December and run until June but the peak is from February until April - Last year nearly 65,000 women – mainly immigrants from Romania, Poland and Morocco – [...]