Galicia News & Information

MOBILE phone giant Movístar has agreed to waive a €3,900 bill it slapped on a customer for roaming charges in Serbia – a country she has never been to in her life.

A DRIVER left €10,000 in cash on the roof of his car and forgot about it until he set off – by which time nearly €4,000 had blown away and been pocketed by passersby.

SPANISH survivors of the London tower-block fire say they have lost '41 years of memories' as well as their home.

BORDER crossings between Spain and Portugal will be restricted between Wednesday and Saturday this week inclusive due to the Pope's visit to the Sanctuary of Fátima.

A TOWN in the far north-western region of Galicia holds the national record for the most Roman ruins per household with practically every inhabitant owning at least one.

A RIDER drunk in charge of his horse on a public road in Galicia is facing two major fines and was ordered to dismount immediately.

THE judge handling the case of missing sixth-former Diana Quer has temporarily shelved his files and has lifted the legal 'secrecy order', which he feels is 'excessive and unnecessary'.

THREE-TIMES canoeing world champion Óscar Graña has saved a woman from drowning in the river Lérez in Pontevedra (Galicia) – for the second time.

THE Galicia town of Betanzos is flying its flag at half-mast today (Friday) in an official day of mourning for its descendant Aysha Ahmet Caldelas Frade, 43, who lost her life in the terror attack on Westminster Bridge...

THE woman known to have been killed on Westminster Bridge in yesterday's terrorist attack has been named as 43-year-old Aysha Frade, a Spaniard working at a college in London.

THE MOTHER and convicted killer of Galicia schoolgirl Asunta Yong Fang Basterra Porto has been found unconscious in her prison cell after taking an overdose.

FIVE former managers of the north-western bank Novacaixagalicia have been sent to prison for two years for giving themselves multi-million 'golden handshakes' before leaving the high-street entity.