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Cantabria News in Spain - Last Updated: May 9, 2008 - 1:11 PM

Spain Business
Spain Business Brief - Tuesday April 15 2008
Shares in Repsol YPF rally in Madrid after reports of new petrol find in Brazil
Apr 15, 2008 - 3:05 PM

History
Spain On This Day - April 9
Saint’s Day for Casilda, Acacio, Marcelo, Demetrio and Hilario.
Apr 9, 2008 - 7:24 AM

Profiles
Miguel Ángel Revilla, President of Cantabria
Miguel Ángel Revilla Rioz has been president of the Cantabria region since 2003
Apr 5, 2008 - 11:11 AM

History
Spain On This Day - March 25
Saint’s Day for Dimas, Quirino and Irineo.
Mar 25, 2008 - 7:33 AM

National
Wintery conditions complicate the way home for Spanish drivers
Most Spaniards go back to work on Monday after the Easter holiday
Mar 23, 2008 - 9:15 PM

National
Thirty dead on Spanish roads so far this Easter
It is a reduction of more than half on the fatalities for the same period last year
Mar 19, 2008 - 9:16 PM

Profiles
Gaspar Llamazares
Following what he described as the two party tsunami in March 2008, Gaspar Llamazares said he would not be standing for re-election as coordinator of left wing coalition Izquierda Unida
Mar 11, 2008 - 6:59 AM

Profiles
Duchess of Medina Sidonia
Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo, died on March 7 2008
Mar 11, 2008 - 6:54 AM

History
Spain On This Day - March 4
Saint’s Day for Basilio, Eugenio, Cirilo, Casimiro and Elpidio.
Mar 4, 2008 - 2:01 AM

National
Cantabria man arrested for killing his father this weekend killed his mother eleven years earlier
He was sentenced to five years for the 1997 murder which took place shortly after his release from a psychiatric hospital
Mar 3, 2008 - 9:28 PM

National
More electoral promises ahead of the national poll in Spain next month
Dentistry and surgical waiting times from the Partido Popular, and child benefit from the Prime Minister
Feb 12, 2008 - 10:39 PM

Spain Business
Spain Business Brief - Friday February 1 2008
General Electric withdraws its interest in Spanish real estate company, Colonial
Feb 1, 2008 - 1:09 PM

Fiestas
Carnival in Spain
Banned during the Franco years, Carnaval is now undergoing a new popularity in Spain
Jan 31, 2008 - 11:53 PM

History
Spain On This Day - February 1
Saint’s Day for Cecilio, Brígida, Meridiana, Severo, Pablo and Ignacio.
Jan 31, 2008 - 11:51 PM

History
Spain On This Day - January 11
Saint’s Day for Higino, Salvio, Martín de León and Anastasio.
Jan 11, 2008 - 7:39 AM

Spanish Oddities, National
Spain mourns its oldest Mayor
92 year old Gregorio García Antonio collapsed at a public ceremony on Wednesday
Jan 9, 2008 - 4:27 PM

Spanish Press Review
Spain Papers Review - Wednesday January 9 2007
A mixture of stories today, complicated by the timing of the New Hampshire primary in the United States
Jan 9, 2008 - 9:48 AM

History
Spain On This Day - December 28
Teófila and Castor. El Día de los Santos Inocentes, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, commemorating the slaughter by King Herod the Great of all male children under the of two. It is also the Spanish equivalent of April Fool’s Day, when it is customary to play jokes.
Dec 28, 2007 - 8:04 AM