25 h. ago Small sport stirs up controversy in Spain as Basque Country makes its international debut

A small sport popular in Spain’s northern Basque Country has stirred up a political controversy that triggered court action and fanned the region’s long-held feelings of nationalism

Politics

2 w. ago ‘Football is not complicated’: Andoni Iraola on Bournemouth, birdsong and playing better

The travel-loving manager is staying put for now on the south coast after a record-breaking season – ‘I’m going to enjoy the years ahead of me’At Bournemouth’s uber-cool Canford Magna training base, a 57-acre site on a former golf course, Andoni Iraola is surrounded by bells and whistles. There is a hydrotherapy pool and an altitude chamber. “For me, those are like the extras,” says a manager used to getting his hands dirty from his days at AEK Larnaca in Cyprus and Mirandés in northern Spain.“I come from clubs where everybody has to do their job – and something else. I’ve needed to cut videos, make things, set up; we didn’t have goals with wheels so four of us would move them.” At Rayo Vallecano, even after promotion to La Liga, he explains how they happily made do with “training on one pitch and a third”. Continue reading...

Politics

2 w. ago Football Daily | It’s Bilbao or bust for Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!With more than 80,000 English football fans expected to descend on Bilbao for the Bigger Vase final, it’s safe to assume that approximately half of them will return home in despair, while almost all of them will be seriously out of pocket. But despite its status as a fine location with a proud football heritage, Bilbao doesn’t have the infrastructure to cope with the myriad demands that come with hosting a game between the 16th and 17th best teams in England. With “budget” flights costing well north of a grand and even the most low-rent accommodation priced up at £500-plus a night, one can but hope for the sake of those Spurs and Manchester United fans who use plane, train, automobile or boat to arrive in northern Spain for this season-defining match that Bilbao has no shortage of doorways and park benches. Expect plenty to be occupied on Tuesday evening by green-around-the-gills landlubbers who set off on Sunday evening’s Portsmout...

Sport

2 w. ago Football fans face paying thousands of pounds for Europa League final trips

Direct return flights from the UK to Bilbao in northern Spain cost from more than £1,000, while hotel rooms are at least £1,200.

Sport

3 w. ago Who were the murderous couple behind the Gloucester's 'House of Horrors'? How sick Fred West grew up raping his sister before going on to marry his partner

A new Netflix true crime series is set to stream on the platform tomorrow, titled Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story. But who were the infamous serial killing couple?

Events

3 w. ago British couple, 78 and 58, killed after Ferrari plunges into river during rally through Spanish mountains

The pair were tragically discovered on Saturday afternoon by rescuers in the northwestern province of León

Events

3 w. ago British couple killed in Ferrari supercar crash in northern Spain

A British couple have died in a horrific car crash in northern Spain after veering off the road during a Ferrari rally.

Events

3 w. ago Brit couple die as 205mph Ferrari skids and plunges into river in horror Spain crash

A married British couple, 78 and 58, have been killed after their Ferrari 488 careered off the road into a river during a rally through a Spanish mountain highway

Events

3 w. ago 'British couple', 78 and 58, are killed when Ferrari 488 careers off road into a river during rally through Spanish mountain highway

The pair - who were driving with a UK number plate - were found on Saturday by rescuers in Boca de Huergano, northern Spain, in their £300,000 super car.

Events

3 w. ago Brit couple die as £300k Ferrari plunges from Spanish mountain road into river

A Brit couple died after their £300,000 Ferrari car careered off a mountain road in Boca de Huergano, northern Spain and plummeted into a river

Economics

4 w. ago The nosy neighbour who turned detective to uncover sickening truth about Spain's House of Horrors where German man and his 22

Little did Christian Steffen, 53, and his American wife Melissa Ann, 48, suspect their concerned neighbour Silvia Gomez Anson spent months keeping tabs on the couple in Toleo, northern Spain.

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