A SPANISH doctor is among the dead in the horrific earthquake in México – the second in a fortnight – which has killed 21 school children after their classrooms collapsed. Leopoldo Nieto Cisneros, 66, was born in...
A DERAILED train on the high-speed AVE network in Ciudad Real left around 400 passengers stranded this morning, but the transport board has confirmed that they were all able to continue on their journey by around...
SEVILLA'S Good Friday parade was not the only one that ended in disaster – a statue of the Virgin Mary caught fire in the Castilla-La Mancha village of Bolaños de Calatrava, causing widespread panic. The...
AN EARTHQUAKE reaching 3.3 on the Richter scale shook the central provinces of Ciudad Real and Albacete at 09.15 this morning, the National Geographical Institute has just confirmed. The epicentre of the tremor was in...
CERVANTES' fourth centenary celebrations did not stop on April 23, but are still happening throughout the country and even on popular TV – the ratings-grabber dedicated an entire episode to the legendary author of...
AN OUTBREAK of Legionnaire's disease in the central-Spain province of Ciudad Real has been traced to an ornamental fountain in a coach station. So far, 228 residents in the town of Manzanares (pictured) have been...
ONLY one bidder has come forward with a view to buying the never-used airport in Ciudad Real, in the southern part of the central region of Castilla-La Mancha - and has offered just €10,000. A company set up in Madrid...
A WORLD record for the longest pizza held by Spain for the past four years has been broken by Italy. A total of 80 chefs at the Expo '15 fair in Milan worked solidly for 14 hours on baking a pizza of literally a...
CHINA'S fourth-largest carrier has expressed an interest in buying the doomed Ciudad Real airport, which has lain dormant for years and even failed to attract a buyer when put out to auction at the end of last year....
AN UNUSED airport which has provoked heavy criticism of Spain's spending on 'white elephants' is up for sale after going into receivership. The terminal in Ciudad Real, in the province just south of Madrid,...
A GERMAN lorry-driver was stuck in a narrow side-street in a village in Ciudad Real, central Spain after his satellite navigator sent him down there. According to Antonio Herance, mayor of Arroba de los Montes, in the...
A SMALL village in inland Spain wants to redefine regional borders and move further south, potentially re-writing the map of the country. Residents of Solana del Pino (pictured), which is in the province of Ciudad Real...
