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 A new study has revealed the Spanish city with the best quality of life according to its inhabitants. With its well-preserved old town and spectacular wild coastline, we can certainly understand why.   https://www.thelocal.es/20210430/this-spanish-city-has-been-voted-the-best-place-to-live-by-its-inhabitants Fri, 30 Apr 2021 13:08:21 +0200 this-spanish-city-has-been-voted-the-best-place-to-live-by-its-inhabitants Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has expressed his solidarity with the more than 300 people injured when a boardwalk collapsed at a festival in Vigo. https://www.thelocal.es/20180813/the-floor-gave-way-as-if-we-were-in-an-elevator-spectators-and-pm-sanchez-react-to-vigo-accident Mon, 13 Aug 2018 16:10:56 +0200 the-floor-gave-way-as-if-we-were-in-an-elevator-spectators-and-pm-sanchez-react-to-vigo-accident More than 370 people were injured during a festival in Spanish coastal city Vigo after a boardwalk with hundreds of spectators on it collapsed. https://www.thelocal.es/20180813/266-injured-after-boardwalk-collapses-at-vigo-festival Mon, 13 Aug 2018 12:12:01 +0200 266-injured-after-boardwalk-collapses-at-vigo-festival Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has blamed arsonists for deadly wildfires in Galicia which have claimed the lives of four people. https://www.thelocal.es/20171017/this-was-provoked-spanish-pm-rajoy-blames-arsonists-for-deadly-wildfires Tue, 17 Oct 2017 10:32:17 +0200 this-was-provoked-spanish-pm-rajoy-blames-arsonists-for-deadly-wildfires Update: The number of people dead in relation to wildfires raging through Spain's Galicia region has risen to four. https://www.thelocal.es/20171016/at-least-three-dead-as-wildfires-ravage-galicia Mon, 16 Oct 2017 10:11:33 +0200 at-least-three-dead-as-wildfires-ravage-galicia Police in the Spanish city of Vigo have been ordered to maintain an around-the-clock watch over a collection of empty Christmas presents, a task officers say is "humiliating". https://www.thelocal.es/20131213/police-keep-24-hour-watch-over-empty-xmas-presents Fri, 13 Dec 2013 14:25:00 +0100 police-keep-24-hour-watch-over-empty-xmas-presents This cancer sufferer is on a hunger strike to draw attention to the plight of Spain's poor. Meet Beatriz Martínez Figueroa, The Local's latest Spanish Face of the Week. https://www.thelocal.es/20130531/the-unemployed-are-not-just-numbers Fri, 31 May 2013 14:21:00 +0200 the-unemployed-are-not-just-numbers A group of Spanish women have followed the example of Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie by showing off their post-mastectomy bodies during a fashion catwalk organized in the Galician city of Vigo. https://www.thelocal.es/20130531/a-woman-is-not-just-a-pair-of-boobs Fri, 31 May 2013 14:10:00 +0200 a-woman-is-not-just-a-pair-of-boobs