News in Spain

• A million Euro cut from Costa Blanca promotion
  

  The news has been attacked by hoteliers in the region

• Body of immigrant found in burnt out lorry on A-7 motorway
  

  The illegal immigrant had hidden next to the engine in Tangiers

• Court orders compensation for Yak-42 families
  

  62 Spanish military died when the Yak-42 transport plane crashed in Turkey in 2002

• ETA terrorist arrested in Lisbon when heading to Venezuela
  

  Another wanted ETA terrorist has been found in the morgue in Toulouse

• Spain Weather - Friday March 12 2010
  

  A general improvement in the weather continues

• Partido Popular on Tenerife campaigning for David Cameron
  

  The PP on the Canaries will try and get the British to use their postal votes in the U.K. election

• Andalucía counts the cost of four months rain
  

  23 percent of agricultural land in the region has been damaged by the rain and flooding

• New search for body of Marta del Castillo ends without success
  

  The Provincial Court ordered the search on the wishes of the family

• Prison in Spain for Mauritanian father and mother of girl forced to marry at 13
  

  Sentences have been confirmed in the Supreme Court

• More than 100 intoxications as the big freeze continues in Cataluña
  

  105 cases have been treated in hospitals and health centres in Girona and one person has died

• It's panto time in Cómpeta
  

  Money is being raised for the Cancer hospice, Cudeca

• Sixth anniversary of the Madrid Train Bombings
  

  192 died on this day six years ago in the attacks carried out by Islamic radicals

• Ex Mayor of Cártama found not guilty
  

  Leonor García Agua had been accused of granting two illegal building licences

• Spain Papers Review - Thursday March 11 2010
  

  The release of one of the three Catalan aid workers from Mali dominates the papers today

• Spain Weather - Thursday March 11 2010
  

  More fronts are crossing the country with more unstable conditions

• Alicia Gámez back in Barcelona
  

  The kidnapped aid worker was released on Wednesday and arrived back in the city in the evening

• Air Berlin steps up flights to Málaga
  

  It comes as the Junta de Andalucía has stepped up promotion in Germany

• Workers evicted from the Las Dunas Hotel in Estepona
  

  The new owners, Banco Pastor, want to reopen the hotel at the end of May

• Spanish health service taking 500 days to pay suppliers in some regions
  

  There is a 12 billion € shortfall in funding of the system

• Mark Knopfler tops the bill at the Córdoba Guitar Festival
  

  Deep Purple and Paco de Lucia also headline in the 30th edition of the festival