Javier Fernández wants an Andalusian plan with funded incentives to bring professionals and businesses to rural municipalities. Seville’s provincial council is also backing nearly 1,200 affordable homes across 32 towns.
A 16-year-old with reduced mobility can spend up to 1 hour 35 minutes travelling from Lebrija to his school in Utrera, his mother says. The route carries seven pupils and takes about 40 minutes by car.
Six priests have joined Seville Cathedral’s chapter after swearing to uphold its doctrine and statutes. The ceremony also installed members as archpriest and scholastic, with another named treasurer.
Spain’s high-speed network recorded 207 accident precursors between 2017 and 2024. Around 80% of signal overruns occurred within a kilometre of a station or railway installation, while track deformations repeatedly clustered in short stretches.
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office has opened a second investigation into possible EU-fund fraud linked to Madrid–Seville high-speed rail works. The probe follows the Urda crash that killed 69 people and is being conducted with Spain’s UCO.
Semaf has called strikes for 10 and 12 November after the Urda crash killed 69 people. Other unions have announced a 17 November stoppage. Workers want faster maintenance agreements and more staff; Adif has approved a €20bn funding framework for 2026–30.
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office has opened an inquiry into suspected misuse of EU funds on the Madrid-Seville line. The UCO sought records from ADIF and AESF, as well as Spain’s Court of Auditors, after the Urda crash killed 69 people.
Seven venues will each offer two tapas priced at €3 for Peñaflor’s 11th route. The programme also revives Tapaportes and adds an online public vote. The supplied announcement gives 13-15 November as the dates but does not specify a year.
Meteored cites European model scenarios of more than 100 l/m² in western Andalusia and local totals above 150 l/m². The supplied report has no publication date, so its Sunday timing cannot be treated as a live forecast.
The Guardia Civil’s UCO has arrested Andrea de la Torre and former Sánchez driver Cristian Corvillo in a sealed National Court inquiry into suspected public-works contract rigging. Six people are detained.
The Guardia Civil’s UCO has arrested six people in a secret Koldo case investigation, including Andrea de la Torre, partner of former minister José Luis Ábalos. Officers searched his Valencia home and requested procurement records from Adif.
The Guardia Civil's UCO is searching in Madrid, Córdoba, Valencia and Seville and has requested information from Adif. Agents have also visited José Luis Ábalos's Valencia home and detained former Sánchez driver Cristian Corvillo for questioning.
Kiko Rivera’s chalet in La Juliana, Bollullos de la Mitación, was valued at €500,000. Lecturas reports a €376,000 mortgage, with monthly payments of €1,615 over 360 instalments at 3.15% interest.
The European Union Agency for Railways will provide technical assistance requested by Spanish investigators after the Urda crash, but Spain will retain control of the inquiry. The accident killed 69 people.
Andrea Burdalo told a court she changed her account of her daughter’s fatal bath because she feared losing custody. She and her former partner have both been investigated over the child’s death.
Diario de Sevilla has released the first of four video podcast episodes revisiting Marta del Castillo’s murder. The programme looks at the early investigation and questions left open by the failure to find her body.
Bishop José Ignacio Munilla shared a video of Carlos Ortiz speaking to young people after the CEU director was killed in the Urda rail crash. Ortiz’s message centred on Christian faith and the rejection of fear, even in the face of death.
Four members of a family died after their car left a straight stretch of road near Malva in Zamora and struck a culvert. The victims were a man aged 59 and a woman aged 29, alongside two children aged three and two.
The 42-year-old National Police officer from Alcalá de Guadaíra had recently become a father. A provisional count cited after the 28 October collision put the death toll at 69, including 16 victims from Andalusia.
Semaf has asked the AESF to urgently revise rules governing LZB and ERTMS failures. It wants trains barred from normal running when an outage could leave two trains in the same signalling section.
The Telecinco presenters opened Friday’s ¡De viernes! with a tribute to Raúl Triguero after his death in the Urda rail crash. He was travelling to Seville on a work assignment.
The Madrid to Málaga and Madrid to Seville services are due to start on 6 November. Wizz Air plans two flights a day on each route, with fares ranging from €45.99 to €99.99 after the Urda rail accident.
Tamara González Costa was travelling in carriage 8 of the Renfe train when it crashed in Urda. Her family has confirmed the 31-year-old scientist’s death; researcher Marta Shahbazi was also reported missing.
At Fátima Báñez’s funeral, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría recalled her commitment to helping others. CEOE president Antonio Garamendi praised her generosity and described her as a person of dialogue.
Seventy missing-person complaints were filed after the 28 October collision near Urda, which killed 69 people. The Guardia Civil says some reports may concern victims awaiting identification; Efe cited 62 people counted missing.
The Guardia Civil arrested a man in Picanya described by investigators as Blocus’s alleged founder. The case followed unrest in Barcelona that left 130 people detained and 14 officers injured.
The Madrid-Seville line’s ageing LZB system has suffered repeated transmission failures, forcing trains to switch to manual operation. A safety upgrade awarded in 2021 was still awaiting implementation in the supplied account.
Juan Manuel Parra, an emergency doctor at Hospital de Alcorcón, was travelling on the AVE that collided with an Iryo near Urda. He used a belt as a tourniquet on a passenger with an amputated arm before emergency teams arrived.
Antonio Vázquez was found dead on Thursday afternoon after hours missing following the Urda rail crash. His family had been told he was at Toledo’s university hospital, but his name was absent from its official records.
Audio from the Urda crash indicates that Atocha control gave the AVE an LZB4 instruction instead of LZB3. Experts say the reported partial failure called for visual running at no more than 40 km/h while the Iryo occupied the block.
Vázquez was found after Curro Vázquez and Fran spent 24 hours searching near the Urda crash site. He had been travelling to Seville to assess bulls for matador Pablo Aguado.
The singer has called the Toledo crash an «Injusticia» and urged thorough checks of modern infrastructure. Investigators have yet to establish the cause of the collision.
Renfe has halted high-speed ticket sales between Madrid and Andalusia through 13 December as rail services remain suspended. Iberia is adding three flights on Thursday and coach firms say some have quintupled available seats.
At least 68 bodies had been found after the train disaster in Urda, Toledo, but only two victims were identified on Wednesday. Families travelled to the area and contacted hospitals as they searched for missing passengers.
Fátima Báñez, Spain’s employment minister from 2011 to 2018, died aged 59 in the Toledo rail crash. She was in the last carriage of an Iryo train travelling to Seville for a business event.
