THE speed limit on Spanish motorways will return to 120kph from July 1 after the government decided not to maintain the reduced 110kph limit which had been in place since March. Reports had suggested the switch could cost 600,000 euros, but Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Interior Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba stated that ‘the [...]

JON CLARKE takes a trip along the Costa de la Luz, Andalucia’s most unspoilt, if sometimes rather breezy, coastline. OVERLOOKING rows of vines and a sea of undulating umbrella pines the restaurant high up in the hills above Tarifa is extremely hard to beat. With no signs, apart from a warning that you are entering a [...]

A PARASITE that can cause cirrhosis and anemia has infected 400 people in Spain. Unknown in Europe until recently, the fasciolasis infection is transmitted by eating wild vegetation infected by the parasite. Previously only thought to affect lifestock, cases of human fasciolasis have rocketed from 2,500 in 1990 to 17 million today, according to the [...]

SPANISH scientists have discovered that a heart attack could be worse in the morning than at any other time of day. Researchers at Madrid’s Carlos III University analysed data from 811 heart attack patients treated between 2003 and 2009. Interestingly they found that damage caused by heart attacks is likely to be worse if they [...]

WITH peak asparagus season well under way the experts have given us another good reason to eat this Spring green. Researchers in India have discovered that asparagus actually contains a powerful natural antibiotic that fights bacterial and fungal infections. The study tested extracts from the plants on microbes taken from the mouths of oral cancer [...]

IT already makes some of the world’s best cheeses. But now Spanish researchers have discovered that a daily glass of goat’s milk could be as good for you as mamma’s milk. The team at Granada University claim that goat’s milk has the same kind of properties and as many nutrients as human milk. The ‘superfood’, [...]

SPANISH farmers could see millions in compensation after it has been confirmed the cause of the deadly E.coli outbreak was most likely German bean sprouts and not Spanish cucumbers. The aggressive strain of the E coli bacterium – that has so far killed 22 people and left more than 2,200 ill – has been traced [...]

GOING organic can help you lose weight and live longer. In the latest of a long line of contradictory findings a study by the University of Newcastle claims that going organic could extend the average lifespan by 25 days for men and 17 days for women. A lucky few could even live for up to [...]