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Former PM, Mariano Rajoy, has kept his promise to leave politics and return to his previous job as a civil servant in the land registry in Santa Pola, Alicante. Rajoy was spotted out running in the Costa Blanca resort ahead of his first day at work
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SERGIO CORTÉS / ANTONIO GÓNGORA / DARYL FINCH
European market. In 2015, he was appointed Alcorcón boss, earning a move to Levante the following season with whom he gained promotion back to La Liga in his first season. Their return didn't go to plan, however, and Muñiz was relieved of his duties this ... May. However, it is his experience of twice earning promotion back to the big time, as well as his close ties with the club, which attracted Malaga. Even though fans were calling for his head at the end of his second spell in charge, his work in
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Sergio COrtés
...gained promotion back to La Liga in his first season. Their return didn’t go to plan, however, and Muñiz was relieved of his duties this May. However, it is his experience of twice earning promotion back to the big time, as well as his close ties with
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Mark Nayler
...it happens. It took Rajoy's minority government, which has 134 seats in parliament, almost six months to secure approval for 2018's budget. The PP was constantly stalled by smaller groups, such as the Basque Nationalist Party, who refused to back the ... prime minister. Instead of moving to give Spaniards a say in their new administration, this skilled career politician is busy sneaking members of his new cabinet in by the back door. Predictably drunk on his longed-for taste of power, Sánchez has
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FRANCISCO JIMÉNEZ
The arrival of 200 Uber cars on the Costa for the first time in the last week hasn't so far led to conflict with the area's taxi drivers, although some are not ruling out future industrial action. As news of an increase in the local fleet of Cabify
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POLLY RODGER BROWN
When my husband and I announced that we were leaving Spain to return to the UK a couple of years ago, everyone asked the same thing. Why? And, wailed our British friends in particular, after living happily in the peaceful sunny hills of the Axarquía,
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Ivan Gelibter
...studied. Although the final conclusions are yet to be made, it looks as if the oldest discoveries date back at least 2,400 years and are from different cultures. Future discoveries The director of the excavation project, Desiré Piñero, says the
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PEDRO LUIS ALONSO
...amazing. Naybet was a right winger, but during knockout rounds of the youth African Cup of Nations (held in Egypt) a centre-back got injured so I put him there. After that, WAC (now Wydad) of Casablanca kept him in that position. From then he played for the ... they're allowed to be angry, but I know these fans. I know that they'll still be with the team next season. It might be that there is even more support than when the team was in La Liga. I always say that when you fall, you get back up and do better next
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POLLY RODGER BROWN
"Good morning everyone and welcome," yells a ruddy-faced man in a suitably muddy anorak. “This is our twenty-second year, so no special landmark. How is it out there?” “Bloody freezing,” comes back the cheery response. On an icy day last weekend,
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Peter Edgerton
Playing mini golf in the rain was as near as I could get to a UK seaside day out experience this time around. Actually, we played in a park in London but it still counts, I think. The raindrops creeping slowly down the back of my neck during the