THE WORLD'S best olive oil is produced in Spain – it's official. As well as being the largest producer of olive oil on earth, even beating Italy, Spain is also well-known globally for the exceptional quality...
A WOMAN aged 45 who was 'stolen' as a newborn has met her real mother for the first time – and discovered they were only living a province apart since her alleged 'death' at a few hours' old. Ana...
A DIVER from the central Spanish province of Ciudad Real is in Thailand helping rescue the children trapped in a cave with their football instructor. Fernando Raigal, 33, currently works as a professional scuba-diver...
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....
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