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A rather austere Laporta offers 50M for Valencia’s David Villa
Barcelona’s Joan laporta should really take lessons in life and not resort to austerity.He should forget what Real Madrid does and rid himself of his nasty little inferiority complex that is leaving both himself and the great club that employs him in a ridiculed state.
15Jun2009 | Catalonia | 1 comment | Continued
Girl in coma sacked by her bosses in Barcelona
This is quite unbelievable. I’m reading a story today in the local newspaper and it’s quite shocking to say the least. A young girl who works in a fishmonger’s in Palau Solità de Plegamans which is just outside Barcelona has been given her marching orders despite being in a coma!
The girl, Sandra suffered an accident [...]
A funny ole two weeks
It certainly has been a funny ole two weeks – Alonso won the Singapur grand prix in his Seat ibiza – sorry Flavio! Both Real madrid and Barcelona got off to a reasonable start in The Champions League – yeah footy’s back on the TV in case you forgot!
I’m going to give a thumbs down [...]
Another Noche de San Juan over in Barcelona
It looks like people are still suffering the after effects of another Noche de San Juan from where I’m looking out! Didn’t see too many people on the trains and public transport – all suffering from hangovers I expect.
I just read in the newspaper that there were around 85,000 people celebrating the “Verbena” on Barcelona’s [...]
Spanish lorry drivers strike is over – for the moment.
It looks like the Spanish lorry drivers have decided to stop striking at the moment in order to ease the economy. The strike started a week ago over the increasing price of fuel has left supermarkets without supplies and caused traffic jams all over the country.
The strike was instigated by three of the biggest transport [...]
More than half a million Catalan workers are over qualified
According to a recent report by the CCOO trade union, almost 550,000 employees in the Cataluña region are over-qualified for the jobs they are being paid to do. Almost half of them have degrees or postgraduate qualifications.
As a result of these findings, CCOO regional socio-economic secretary, Dolores Llobet, insists that improvements in professional training “should [...]
Recent rains in Catalonia allow water restrictions to be lifted
Water levels in the Ter-Llobregat reservoir system that supplies Barcelona have been swollen by twenty cubic hectometres to 28.9% of total capacity as a result of the recent heavy rain, meaning that the exceptional drought alert can be downgraded from a level two to a level one.
In turn, this means that domestic water usage restriction [...]
Catalonia’s president’s son fined for vandalism
Arnau Montilla, one of regional president Jose Montilla’s five children, has been fined €300 euros for damaging two telephone boxes in Barcelona city centre.
The incident occurred at around 3:15 a.m as thousands of alcohol-fuelled fans were celebrating Montilla admitted kicking in the glass of one cabin and breaking the receiver, but denied vandalising the second.
The [...]
Barcelona to eliminate more than 4,300 Franco plaques
Barcelona is to eliminate over 4,300 plaques and remnants from buildings and façades from the General Franco era. They will also be taking away statues and fascist monuments such as those dedicated to “Primo de Rivera“.Horta-Guinardó, Nou Barris and Sarrià-Sant Gervasì are where most of these Franco relics are to be found.
Most of these plaques [...]
Max Mosley really should get his coat and leave
I really do think Max Mosley should get his coat and leave…..forever! To think that this guy cost McLaren 100 million dollars for the same thing that Renault did and is still sitting pretty in his connolly leather FIA president’s chair is beyond me.
I’m glad that the rest of the F1 fraternity are turning [...]
fines of up to €3,000 euros for parents of kids who play truant
Badalona town council is following the example of El Prat, where a similar scheme was first introduced two years ago, and will be fining the parents of children who persistently miss school up to €3,000 euros.
Ten sets of parents in the Sant Roc districts have been targeted initially after a number of alternative options failed [...]
Badalona gets rid of half of its “pisos patera”
I suppose I’d better explain what a “piso patera” is first. It’s usually a flat in a rundown area of a city which is “over occupied” usually with immigrants who have no official documents or who are in the middle of getting them processed by the good old Spanish government.
Badalona, which is just on the [...]
Gemma Mengual gets 4 gold medals
Congratulations to Gemma Mengual and her team that triumphed at the European synchronized swimming championships in Eindhoven, Holland.Gemma, from Barcelona, Catalonia won 4 gold medals at the event in the Dutch city. In the morning she took the gold medal in the doubles category with her partner Andrea Fuentes and in the afternoon triumphed with [...]
18Mar2008 | Catalonia | 0 comments | Continued
Expat voters give PP an extra seat
Although still pending official confirmation, it seems that Mariano Rajoy’s Partido Popular has wrested a seat from the CiU in Barcelona by just 238 votes.
After the initial count last Sunday gave the seat to the moderate nationalist party by a slim margin of 71, the expatriate result – 3,927 votes for PP vs 3,689 for [...]
Young pedestrian dies after being hit by police car
A 7 year old boy died in Barcelona’s Sant Joan de Déu Hospital last night just hours after being knocked down by an unmarked police car in Terrassa.
The driver, who was not responding to an emergency, later tested negative for alcohol.
An official inquiry has been launched though eye-witnesses report that there were roadworks in the [...]
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