Cartagena, Spain News

This summer music lovers should head for a quiet region on Spain's Mediterranean coast.

It's now more than a week since 10 staff from the Zinsa zinc company in Cartagena started their sit-in at Murcia Cathedral in support of finding a solution for their employment situation.

The ten staff from the Zinsa zinc company in Cartagena are demanding a solution to their precarious situation 10 members of staff from the Zinsa company in Cartagena have started a sit-in at Murcia Cathedral and say they will not leave until their demands are met.

Bartolome Ros, Zoco del trigo, tetuan, Marruecos. Circa 1928. Archivo Familia Ros Amador.

The book seemed to be everywhere in the early 1970s -- a oethe worlda s first truly a globala novel,a writes Gerald Martin on the first page of a oe Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life .a The biography shows that what many read as richly imaginative drew heavily from the authora s life.

A BUSINESSMAN has died in a diving accident in Spain. Wayne Morgan, of Eastwood Park Drive, Eastwood, was diving off the coast of Cartagena near Alicante.

Ask Gill: tourists have had their fill of US forms Getting into the United States is still a bureaucratic nightmare and the Department of Homeland Security is only making things worse, says Gill Charlton.

A PENSIONER died in Spain after trying to overtake on a busy road in a right-hand drive car.

The difference, a tour guide informed me on a recent trip to Cartagena, between a pirate and a buccaneer is that latter is officially sanctioned by a state.

The Spanish Meterological Agency, AEMET, says the storm which brought cold and poor weather to the end of Holy Week in the north and east of the country is now moving away.

A hailstorm which hit the north of the Cartagena district on Monday afternoon has, for some farmers, completely wiped out their crops.

If the great Gabo has indeed given up writing, perhaps we'll start to notice the other great South American writers ) Farewell to the chief ... Gabriel Garcia Marquez makes his first visit for 25 years to his home town Aracataca with his wife, Mercedes Barcha.

Announcement of new collaborative model for Manifesta 8. The Region of Murcia is selected as Host Region for Manifesta 8 in dialogue with Northern Africa Manifesta aims to constantly reinvent its own curatorial methodology and exhibition model.

A 24 year old man has admitted to the murder of his uncle, 42 year old Emilio D.S., who was killed in countryside near NA jar two weeks ago after a shotgun attack on his vehicle.

The huge guns still sit menacingly staring out to sea on the high cliff tops of Cabo Tioso overlooking Cartagena port.

The 35 year old man named with the initials M.M.H. who had confessed, at a frontier post in Cueta, to killing three Moroccans in Jumilla in Murcia four years ago, told the court number two in Jumilla on Wednesday that he did so because he would have been expelled to Morocco.

La Mirada Film Festival [Tue 17/03/2009 04:58:50] Thanks to La Mirada Film Festival.

National Police have found the body of a 70 year old man in the boot of a car parked on the forecourt of Potasas, a closed company at the entrance to Cartagena.

The Holy Father appointed Bishop Guire Poulard of Jacmel, Haiti, as bishop of Les Cayes , Haiti.

An overview of Puerta del Reloj, the main gateway that leads to the walled city of old town Cartagena, Colombia.