A Spanish Civil Guard dog received the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals gold medal – the animal equivalent of the UK’s George Cross – in a ceremony here in Mostoles near Madrid yesterday after it detected a hidden terrorist bomb on Mallorca in July 2009.
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Travel challenge: Easter in Mallorca
Saturday 29 January 2011
Every week we invite competing companies to give us their best deal for a specific holiday. Today: a week in Mallorca at Easter. Prices are per person, based on two people travelling together on 16 April for seven nights on the island...
Net Gains: Rafa's Real dilemma is which Spanish football team to support
Sunday 23 January 2011
Rafael Nadal is rarely in two minds about anything but today the Spaniard will have divided loyalties.
Higuain: I'll be back before end of season
Thursday 20 January 2011
Real Madrid striker Gonzalo Higuain is confident he will be back in action before the end of the season after back surgery.
Katy Holland: Christmas means Turkey ... and other summer destinations
Sunday 05 December 2010
Are we there yet? It can be more cost-effective to book early
Peter Stringfellow tries to return winter fuel allowance
Saturday 27 November 2010
Peter Stringfellow has written to the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith asking him to halt his "totally unnecessary" pensioner's winter fuel allowance.
Stringfellow wants to pay back winter fuel cash
Friday 26 November 2010
Peter Stringfellow has written to Work And Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith asking him to halt his "totally unnecessary" pensioner's winter fuel allowance.
My Life In Travel: Karl Pilkington
Saturday 30 October 2010
'I've done some luxury flying - it was brilliant'
Briton killed by car in Majorca
Tuesday 21 September 2010
A British man was run over and killed by his partner's ex-husband in an accident on the Spanish island of Majorca.
Phillips targets Midlands derby for return from thigh injury
Wednesday 08 September 2010
The Birmingham striker Kevin Phillips has targeted the local derby at West Bromwich Albion in just under two weeks' time for his return to action.
Phillips targets Birmingham return
Tuesday 07 September 2010
Birmingham striker Kevin Phillips has targeted the local derby at West Brom in just under two weeks time for his return to action.
Briton dies in hotel balcony fall
Tuesday 07 September 2010
A British holidaymaker died after falling from a hotel balcony.
Spain breaks up male-prostitute trafficking gang
Tuesday 31 August 2010
Spanish police say that for the first time they have broken up a human-trafficking gang that brought men to the country to work as prostitutes.
The other side of Mallorca, where nightingales sing and there's not a tattooed lobster in sight
Sunday 29 August 2010
On a walking trip to the Spanish island, well away from the tourist hordes, Jeremy Laurance discovered its hidden charms
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Vice pulls 'breathtakingly tasteless' fashion shoot glorifying the suicides of famous female authors from Sylvia Plath to Virginia Woolf
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Iran to send 4,000 troops to aid President Assad forces in Syria
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