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Colourised images illustrate how doctors and nurses fought to save Spanish Flu sufferers in 1918

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Colourised images showing how doctors and nurses fought to save Spanish Flu sufferers in 1918 have been revealed for the first time a century later. They show community centres and sports halls in the US converted into makeshift hospitals for the sick, while cinemas were closed and people wore face masks when they went to … Read more

Spanish police use megaphones to tell people to stay indoors or face £25,000 fines

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Spanish police stepped up their operation to force people to stay indoors today, with officers driving up and down beaches with megaphones, warning of prison time and massive £25,000 fines for those breaking the lockdown. Footage shared on Twitter captures officers as they tell residents and tourists to ‘stay safely at your accommodation or home … Read more

Tourists to Spanish resorts are told to stay inside

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Tourists in the Spanish Costas have been warned not to ‘act as if you’re on holiday’ as the country remains gripped by a coronavirus health crisis. Politicians in some of Spain’s top resorts are demanding new arrivals show responsibility to slow the spread of the deadly disease – which has infected more than 4,000 people … Read more

Analysis of ancient Spanish bone reveals ‘elite’ diets 4,000 years ago 

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Food poverty is at least 4,000 years old, suggests a new study of ancient diets in the south-east coast of Spain.  Scientists found differences between the food consumption habits of the rich and poor in the Iberian Peninsula, dating back to the Bronze Age.  The team studied the Spanish El Algar community, one of the … Read more

Britons face holiday uncertainty as Spanish coronavirus cases surge to 1,622 infections

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Brits are facing holiday uncertainty as Spanish coronavirus cases surge ahead of the country’s fast approaching tourism season. Spain has the world’s fifth highest total of cases – with more than 1,622 infections and 35 deaths. The capital Madrid is taking drastic measures to prevent it from spreading by closing all schools and universities and … Read more

World’s oldest man, 111, insists coronavirus is not a patch on 1918 Spanish flu 

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The recently-crowned world’s oldest man today admitted he is ‘worried’ about the coronavirus – but insists it’s not a patch on the 1918 Spanish flu.   Bob Weighton remembers seeing the crisis start in his youth, after soldiers fighting in World War One returned home and brought the disease with them. Around a third of the global … Read more

Spanish border police catch boat of up to 113 sub-Saharan migrants near Malaga

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A boat carrying up to 113 migrants from Africa to Europe has been intercepted off the coast of Spain as it attempted to cross the Mediterranean Sea.  The sub-Saharan migrants disembarked late last night at a port in Malaga, southern Spain after they were picked up as they attempted to cross the Mediterranean in a … Read more

Head to this action-packed new Spanish resort and the whole family will be fizzing with vitality 

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We’ve always dragged our children across Europe on holiday, staying in a rented house and stopping off at a supermarket en route. In the months before departure, my husband Guy would painstakingly plan the Eurostar journey, the overnight stopovers, and even the toll payments. For my part, I would simply look forward to the freedom … Read more

Have Spanish secret agents been bugging ex-lover of King Juan Carlos on British soil?

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Princess Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein’s lawyers, Kobre & Kim, have written to Home Secretary Priti Patel and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to warn them of a potential diplomatic row It was strange enough that, in the small hours of June 2017, an unknown intruder found his way across the many dark acres of the Chyknell Hall Estate … Read more