Castile and Leon News & Information

A GROUP of eight hikers, five of whom are children, were airlifted to safety from a mountain range in Castilla y León yesterday after suffering 'snow-blindness', the Guardia Civil reveals.

“EIGHT years old is the best age to start learning programming, because it means you can acquire knowledge of the most difficult aspects at a time in life when you’re most likely to absorb them,” advises robotics...

A FORMER pilot of the aircraft which crashed in the Channel killing Cardiff FC player Emiliano Sala says he does not believe the tragedy was caused by a mechanical fault.

TRAFFIC on the AP-1 motorway has rocketed by 58% since the government scrapped the tolls on December 1, giving an idea of what is yet to come when the next batch of pay-per-use highway franchises come up for renewal.

A SPANISH medic has been named the World's Best GP in the prestigious WONCA Global Family Doctor awards.

A REGIONAL government in centre-northern Spain has proposed making fashion retailers charge a fee for customers to try clothes on in a bid to stamp out the unethical 'shoppers' hack' of checking items out...

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD boy probably saved his mother's life – and certainly impressed paramedics – after calling the 112 emergency hotline and giving enough detail to allow the ambulance to arrive swiftly and prepared.

The Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (ARMH) has discovered the remains of four men allegedly shot by Franco's forces during the Civil War between August 12th and 13th 1936 in Boadilla (Salamanca).

A COMPANY based in León has launched the world's first-ever shampoo for bald people.

WITHIN days of now-ex president of Spain Mariano Rajoy's having given up his leadership and even Parliamentary seat on the PP, football fans in Valladolid were reporting he already had a new job – as security...

KING Felipe's brother-in-law Iñaki Urdangarín is now in prison, having arrived at the Brieva complex in Ávila this morning (Monday) directly from Geneva, Switzerland, where his family now lives.

STEPHEN Hawking's 'message of peace' launched into space on the day of his funeral at Westminster Abbey was sent up by the station in Cebreros, Ávila province – one of just three deep-space stations in...