https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The number of drunk mostly British and Irish tourists ending up in hospital in Spain's Balearic Islands after jumping from balconies has spiked this year, a surgeon who has studied the dangerous craze warned Friday. https://www.thelocal.es/20180723/dangerous-craze-surgeon-warns-on-balcony-jumping-trauma-in-balearic-islands Mon, 23 Jul 2018 12:12:58 +0200 dangerous-craze-surgeon-warns-on-balcony-jumping-trauma-in-balearic-islands A 14-year-old boy from Ireland died in hospital in Mallorca after falling from a second-floor hotel balcony during a family holiday, becoming the seventh balcony fall fatality in the island this year. https://www.thelocal.es/20180720/irish-teen-becomes-seventh-fatality-from-mallorca-balcony-fall Fri, 20 Jul 2018 14:23:19 +0200 irish-teen-becomes-seventh-fatality-from-mallorca-balcony-fall A 41-year-old man fell to his death during an attempt to reach his window from the roof after being locked out of his apartment in Palma de Mallorca. https://www.thelocal.es/20180131/man-plummets-to-death-when-abseiling-into-6floor-apartment-from-roof-because-he-forgot-his-keys Wed, 31 Jan 2018 11:07:12 +0100 man-plummets-to-death-when-abseiling-into-6floor-apartment-from-roof-because-he-forgot-his-keys A woman in the northwestern region of Galicia had a lucky escape when she was forced to jump out of her third-floor flat and was caught by neighbours holding a sheet below. https://www.thelocal.es/20160418/woman-saved-by-sheet-after-terrifying-plunge Mon, 18 Apr 2016 13:17:44 +0200 woman-saved-by-sheet-after-terrifying-plunge Spanish police are investigating the death of a woman and her two daughters who plunged from the 13th floor of a building in the northeastern city of Girona in a suspected murder suicide. https://www.thelocal.es/20151211/mother-and-two-daughters-plunge-to-their-death-from-13th-floor-in-suspected-murder-suicide Fri, 11 Dec 2015 10:03:48 +0100 mother-and-two-daughters-plunge-to-their-death-from-13th-floor-in-suspected-murder-suicide A man died on Thursday after part of a balcony above the terrace of the Madrid bar where he was drinking with a friend collapsed. https://www.thelocal.es/20140821/madrid-man-dies-in-horror-balcony-collapse Thu, 21 Aug 2014 15:12:00 +0200 madrid-man-dies-in-horror-balcony-collapse The capital of the Spanish holiday island of Majorca is likely to pass a new bylaw which will see tourists slapped with a €600 ($800) fine for walking around shirtless when they've left the beach. https://www.thelocal.es/20140502/majorca-fines-to-ban-bikinis Fri, 02 May 2014 13:00:00 +0200 majorca-fines-to-ban-bikinis A young British tourist is in a serious condition after he tried to leap from the window of his seventh floor hotel room to a neighbouring balcony in the Majorcan resort town of Magaluf. https://www.thelocal.es/20130607/uk-tourist-injured-in-majorca-balcony-jump Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:47:00 +0200 uk-tourist-injured-in-majorca-balcony-jump