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 British Embassy is there to help if you have a medical emergency, lose your passport or get in a spot of bother with the police. But thousands of people rang in last year in the hope that consular staff could help them with more mundane matters. https://www.thelocal.es/20160407/fco-consulate-reveals-weirdest-requests-made-by-brits-abroad Thu, 07 Apr 2016 10:26:43 +0200 fco-consulate-reveals-weirdest-requests-made-by-brits-abroad The UK's foreign office is soon changing the way that it registers the births and deaths of British citizens overseas with British expats in Spain being warned the procedure could now take a little longer. https://www.thelocal.es/20140602/uk-changes-birth-and-death-registration-rules Mon, 02 Jun 2014 12:29:00 +0200 uk-changes-birth-and-death-registration-rules The British Embassy in Madrid has unveiled a humorous new video designed to help UK visitors to Spain understand how to access health care in the southern European country. https://www.thelocal.es/20140513/uk-warns-visitors-to-spain-on-healthcare-access Tue, 13 May 2014 18:10:00 +0200 uk-warns-visitors-to-spain-on-healthcare-access British expats in Spain will pay a third less for new passports in the wake of what UK authorities are calling "efficiency savings" over the last three years. https://www.thelocal.es/20140317/uk-slashes-costs-of-new-passports Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:55:00 +0100 uk-slashes-costs-of-new-passports Spain has a higher number of UK benefit cheats than any other country in the world, new figures provided by the British Embassy reveal. More than 750 cases were investigated in Spain last year by the Department for Work and Pensions. https://www.thelocal.es/20140205/uk-benefit-cheats-push-spain-to-top-of-list-for-abroad-fraud Wed, 05 Feb 2014 15:26:00 +0100 uk-benefit-cheats-push-spain-to-top-of-list-for-abroad-fraud You can't always expect the British consulate will help you if you are in trouble: that was the key message for British expats given by Britain's Ambassador to Spain during a recent television interview. https://www.thelocal.es/20131007/brits-in-spain-should-learn-to-help-themselves Mon, 07 Oct 2013 15:37:33 +0200 brits-in-spain-should-learn-to-help-themselves The UK's Foreign Office is warning people not to venture blindly into the minefield that is Spain's complicated property market. https://www.thelocal.es/20130923/buyer-beware-uk-issues-spain-property-warning Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:58:00 +0200 buyer-beware-uk-issues-spain-property-warning Police in Majorca are investigating the death of a 35-year-old British man who died after falling from the tenth floor of a building in the popular resort area of Magaluf, local press reported on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20130709/brit-dies-after-fall-from-tenth-floor-in-majorca Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:12:00 +0200 brit-dies-after-fall-from-tenth-floor-in-majorca