Toledo News & Information

SOME spend their whole lives trying to break that elusive world record, and a tiny minority achieve it, giving them bragging rights for all eternity.

SPAIN'S world-famous 'Recordman' has surpassed even his own expectations – not content with having more entries in the Guinness Book of Records than anyone else in the country, Dr Christian López has just...

SPAIN has proven itself almost unbeatable in karate this year – female world number one Sandra Sánchez has clinched a triple crown, and two of her compatriots are now world champion and reserve champion respectively.

ALMOST anyone not heading for Spain this summer would be a lot happier if they were in it, and the town in question is probably academic – and although those who already live here year-round are entitled to be...

WE OFTEN talk about beaches on here. If much of northern Europe was asked to name a country they would head for on a short-haul flight on the very next warm day to be able to lie on a beach, Spain would probably be...

ENTERING the Guinness Book of Records always sounds more glamorous than it is. We imagine those who have achieved it being the fastest person to run X distance in X nanoseconds, to have climbed the highest mountain or...

SPANISH tennis star Feliciano López has paid tribute to his mother – a nurse who caught the SARS-CoV-2 virus on the job but who, thankfully, has now recovered.

HANDMADE ceramic pottery from two Toledo province villages have been declared UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, along with those from the Mexican utowns of Puebla and Txalaca.

A neighbourhood association in Toledo has offered climate activist Greta Thunberg a donkey to make her journey from Lisbon to Madrid to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP25.

THE State officially took over running the AP-41 Madrid-Toledo motorway at midnight tonight (Thursday), which joins the AP-7 Alicante ringroad and Cartagena (Murcia) to Vera (Almería), plus the M-12 Madrid airport link...

AN ANIMAL charity is urging the public to help it find two retired police dogs who have been stolen.

AN ARSONIST who set fire to a used tyre plant and caused a health and environmental emergency in the province of Toledo has been arrested, but released with charges pending trial.