Castile and Leon News & Information

A DAM in the province of Salamanca which has already been on an Oscar-winning production is about to 'travel' to Hollywood again – this time, in a scene in Arnold Schwarznegger's Terminator 6.

A GUARDIA Civil officer described as 'Spain's handsomest policeman' has signed up with a modelling agency in a somewhat unique career combination.

A WOMAN who took her son on holiday to Spain and never returned has been ordered to give him back to his father in the UK.

BRITISH Royal baby Louis Arthur Charles will be looked after by a nanny with Tae Kwondo and high-speed stunt-driving skills, according to Palace sources quoted in Vanity Fair.

STORMS heading across Spain from the north-west have forced numerous towns and cities to put off or even cancel the traditional Good Friday parades, whilst others went ahead in the pouring rain.

A BAR in central Salamanca has been forced to take down a notice which warns customers that if children throw tantrums or cause a nuisance, they will be asked to leave the premises.

THE DUKE and Duchess of Cambridge's daughter Princess Charlotte has acquired a growing vocabulary in Spanish thanks to her nanny from Palencia (Castilla y León), according to the magazine People.

A 60-YEAR-OLD man has died after falling from his balcony whilst removing icicles so they did not land on passersby and cause injury, according to emergency services in the province of Ávila in Castilla y León.

THOUSANDS of drivers were stuck on the AP-6 motorway for over 18 hours in Madrid, Segovia and Ávila in a snowdrift until the Armed Forces emergency response unit finally cleared the carriageway at around 14.00 today...

A MAGICIAN from Extremadura has broken a world record by lying in a sarcophagus made from ice for three hours and 40 minutes.

SPAIN'S president Mariano Rajoy has had to apologise to the city of León for upholding the UK as an example for being 'the cradle of parliamentarism and the rule of law'.

A HOSPITAL in northern Spain has replaced risky amniocentesis tests on unborn babies with DNA analyses – a pioneering system which is less painful, less invasive and much safer for the foetus.