Community/Public Services news & information for Madrid

AN INDEFINITE rubbish collection strike started today (Monday) at 07.00 in Madrid as unions battle for improvements in working conditions and pay.

A YOUNG man who disappeared from his home in Palermo, Sicily six years ago has been found in the Madrid satellite town of Torrejón de Ardoz.

THE latest 'March for Dignity' took over Madrid last night (Saturday) with several thousand protesters calling for 'bread, jobs, shelter and equality' and criticising lack of employment and of permanent,...

A GROUP of women who staged a hunger strike in Madrid's central Puerta del Sol square calling for better protection against domestic violence are now back on the street.

THE secret to still being married when you're both 100 years old is 'loving each other very much' and 'getting on well', say Ezequiela and Frutos, who have just celebrated 76 years of wedded bliss.

PARENTS in the Madrid region are about to get some much-needed help with nursery school costs thanks to a €36 million investment and a reduction of 5% in fees.

A CAMPAIGN bus belonging to a far-right pressure group bearing an anti-transsexual slogan has been impounded by police just hours after Madrid's regional president, Cristina Cifuentes, announced she had reported the...

SEVEN hunger-striking women in Madrid's Puerta del Sol square have been fined twice for setting up a tent to shelter from the rain as their protest runs into its 19th day.

RESIDENTS from over 30 towns and cities in Spain gathered in Madrid yesterday (Sunday) evening to join in a 'Europe-wide group hug' for refugees, calling for national governments across the continent to fulfil...

LEFT-WING independent party Podemos plans to open a debate on the 'right to die with dignity' in Parliament for the first time ever.