FIVE ladies in Spain have been given L'Oréal awards for their research and discoveries to mark International Women and Girls in Science Day.

IF YOU'RE in the eastern coastal provinces of Spain at the moment, you may have stepped outside on Saturday and found the landscape had turned orange – a film of clay-coloured dust that looked as though they'd been cutting terracotta tiles in heave...

OFFERING privacy, shade in the summer heat, greenery and colour, and of course, oxygen – whilst drinking up carbon dioxide – trees are a must in any garden or ground-floor terrace that has the space, especially if you live near an area of heavy t...

SHOWN a map of Spain and asked to name the most popular town or village in each province for day-trippers or weekends away, most of us would already have several candidates in our heads for the parts of the country we know reasonably well.

A COUPLE admitted to a Madrid hospital with Covid-19 have been married on their ward, with nurses helping to organise the ceremony.

A CLINIC in Valencia is researching a possible link between blood groups and likelihood of Covid-19 contagion, or its level of severity if caught. 

WITH the sharp rise in online shopping in 2020 due to lockdown and restrictions on high-street retail, a leading consumer organisation has recently researched which companies use the most environmentally-friendly packaging methods.

SOME regions in Spain have relaxed restrictions on movement as their Covid case numbers are starting to decline or at least level off.

NOW that just over 1% of Spain's population has had both doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19, health authorities have revealed who will be next to be immunised.

A BRAND-NEW doctors' surgery is on the cards very shortly for Fuengirola, and two existing ones will be extended and refurbished – part of a raft of measures aimed at upgrading primary health care in the province of Málaga.

A MEDICATION made in Spain has been found to reduce the viral load in Covid-19 patients by almost 100% by inhibiting a protein known as eEF1A.

AN EXTRA payment into State pensions for parents per child will mostly benefit women, but not exclusively, the government has revealed this week.

A PENSIONER'S dog saved his life in Madrid soon after he had been discharged from hospital, emergency services report – proving once again that the canine species really is man's best friend, or certainly turned out to be in the case of a lone-dwel...

HYDROGEN-POWERED cars are cheaper to run and kinder to the planet, but have so far failed to catch on in Spain – as there has never been anywhere to recharge them. 

GAINING a foothold on the Forbes list usually means being a billionaire, although another method is becoming one of the most influential Spaniards of the year.