With just a few weeks to go before the end of the main olive harvest, cooperatives still have olive oil left over from the previous harvest. The difficulty of storing the surplus has meant that they have had to sell this olive oil at a low price to make space for the new product. With UK set to leave EU on Friday and Nicola Sturgeon ordering officials to fly the EU flags ..............Irish PM Leo Varadkar said the EU would have the 'upper hand' in post-Brexit trade talks, which formally begin after Britain leaves on Friday. Two months ago Andrew pledged to 'help any appropriate law enforcement agency with their investigations' into Epstein, the paedophile financier who killed himself last year.

In Spain, Vox's leader, Santiago Abascal, on Monday justified the parental veto – the prerogative of parents to censor content from complementary teachings taught during school hours............... Women who came to Spanish soccer's Super Cup matches alone were able to mix with the crowd during the matches at King Abdullah Stadium in Yeda, Saudi Arabia.....what's it really all about, Alfie? The regional government of Spain’s Balearic Islands on Friday approved a law that cracks down on so-called “booze tourism,” where visitors are encouraged to binge-drink alcohol.................... ... Nick Clegg has defended Facebook's decision not to fact-check politic al advertising, saying it would be 'an inappropriate power' for firms to decide the truth. Laurence Fox's Question Time slanging match with an ethnicity lecturer over Meghan Markle has sent Twitter into a melt down

A MAN has been arrested for gender-violence after threatening his wife at a public swimming pool in Manacor in Mallorca, Spain..................... The Department of Comprehensive Attention to Gender Violence also stated at the end of last year, the Balearic Islands led the ranking of women who were abused in Spain................................................................. plus loys more....

Santa Claus, also known as Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Kris Kringle, or simply Santa, is a fictional figure originating in Western Christian culture EMPLOYMENT figures published by the Ministry of Employment in Spain has revealed that the rate of employment in 2019 has increased by a welcome 2.02% The Valencian orchard is unique. Formed from the system of ditches that the Muslims bequeathed, it has been maintained over the centuries despite the pressure of the 1.2 million inhabitants of the city and its metropolitan area. . In the UK Thieves, fraudsters, robbers and violent criminals are being spared prison sent ences despite committing up to 60 previous offences, new data has revealed. British aid to the world's most corrupt countries has risen by more than a third in five years, figures reveal. The Duke of Cambridge has narrated a 60-second film featuring stars of British football which he hopes will encourage fans to 'Take A Minute' to start looking after their mental health

n Spain...... income tax for those earning more than €130,000 a year will rise by two percentage points, and by four percentage points for those who earn more than.......... An environmentalists’ idea of both heaven and hell can be found in a lake 10 kilometers to the south of Valencia in eastern Spain. La Albufera nature reserve is a freshwater lagoon and estuary that is highly valued for its expanse of land and biodiversity,........... Comfort Diya, 9, slipped in the pool and drifted towards the deep end of the pool, with a maximum depth of six-and-a-half at Club La Costa World near Fuengirola around 2pm on Christmas Eve. .......... BAFFLED Brits are booking holidays for the wrong dates in 2020 – as 30 million diaries and calendars show an incorrect early May Bank Holiday date. A suspected gun and drug smuggler was arrested as he sat down for his festive feast in ............the Netherlands. A grizzly catalogue of stabbings, assaults and killings greeted the readers of the UK daily papers highlighting the fact that many do not share the spirit of Christmas in the UK. How will the justice system cope? Allowing jailed defendants who refuse to go to court the option of Skyping judges would be an insult to victims, justice campaigners said last night. Fusilier Lee Rigby's killer is part of a deradicalisation programme in the jail where London Bridge attacker was an inmate, it was reported last night.

An incredible 109 new Tory MPs a descended on Parliament after the 'blue tsunami' of the election. Triumphant Conservatives reported for duty in Westminster after demolishing Labour's 'Red Wall' of Leave-backing strongholds in the North, Midlands and Wales

Greta Thunberg, the teenage environmental activist, arrived in Madrid on Friday morning to participate in a march in the Spanish capital, which is currently hosting the United Nations climate summit known as COP25. Spain will press ahead with the creation of a tax on certain digital services as soon as a government is formed, according to sources from the caretaker executive. This so-called “Google tax” could, however, raise the ire of the United States, which has already threatened France with reprisals over a similar levy.

A POLICE investigation into a robbery in Denia led to the bust of a crime gang operating all over the province. Police have linked the organisation to more than 30 cases of house break-ins and violent thefts in areas of Alicante Spanish Big Brother has come under fire after it emerged one of the show's contestants ........... With more migrants arriving on the beach in Gran Canaria............More than 27,000 migrants have arrived in Spain this year........ After the London Bridge terror attack........The Imam of the mosque where London Bridge attacker Usman Khan worshipped as a boy has condemned the killer and said his prayers are with the victims and their families. Jeremy Corbyn said that convicted terrorists should 'not necessarily' have to serve the entirety of their prison sentences. Mr Johnson said scrapping early release from prison for terrorists would have stopped the attack from happening. A former prison governor who wrote a major review on Islamic extremism in jails said he warned the government that inmates such as London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan were being treated with 'jaw-dropping naivety', Prince Andrew faced fresh humiliation last night as it was revealed he sent an email to Jeffrey Epstein's alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell at 5.50am to let her know he had 'specific questions' about Virginia Roberts in 2015 With a name like Mr Men, it was only a matter of time before the much-loved series of children’s books would be accused of sexism. When it comes to the essentials in life, no one does it better than the Danes. They might not have the museums of France, the cuisine of Italy, the beaches of Spain and Portugal, or the wine of Croatia, but the overall quality of life in this Scandinavian country is tops in the world.

n the UK .....Jeremy Corbyn defiantly dodged apologising over Labour's anti-Semitism crisis today after Britain's chief rabbi warned he is not fit to be PM. John McDonnell refused to rule out restoring the punishing secondary striking rights which crippled Britain's public services in the 1970s. In an interview that will send a chill up the spines of voters who endured the gruelling Winter of Discontent 40 years ago,....... I remember the 70s. The Marxist union leaders used ordinary workers for political ends to bring down a Tory Government through strikes..................

I’ve always voted for the PP, but Rajoy didn’t know anything,” he says, in reference to the conservative Popular Party (PP) and its former prime minister, Support for independence in Catalonia continues to fall, while the distance between those in favor and those against secession from Spain is growing. A team of 69 donkeys makes up the donkey-ride service in Mijas (Málaga), and it is one of the key tourist activities in the area. ............... POLICE have arrested a 30-year old Romanian woman for targeting a Gandia pensioner in a so-called friendly mugging. ...................... A leading Royal commentator has labelled Prince Andrew’s explanation of why he stayed with Jeffrey Epstein after his conviction for sex crimes as “ridiculous and galling” on LBC radio station. Leading businesses and charities are deserting Andrew in their droves over the Epstein scandal after accountancy firm KPMG was the first to admit it was protecting its reputation by ending its £100,000 a year sponsorship. For more than 20 years, he has displayed a banner proclaiming his Christian beliefs while preaching the Gospel at Speaker’s Corner. But last Sunday, at the nation’s historic home of free speech, two police officers told Roland Parsons he could no longer show his slogans and ordered him to remove them. Royal navy sailors were filmed passed out in their beds in their trashed training base following a 'drunken rampage'. The clip, filmed in the HMS Sultan training base, Portsmouth, shows a pile of clothes on the floor against one of the walls. A family doctor who was facing career ruin after he was caught trying to groom a 13-year-old girl over the internet has kept his job........ A mother blasted her daughter's school for casting her six-year-old as the 'Inn Keeper's Wife' in the Nativity, claiming it is 'sexist'. .........