This weekend marks the climax of Las Fallas, the annual festivities in the Mediterranean city of Valencia made famous by the giant papier-mâché puppets of famous personalities which are paraded through the streets before being ... Read More
Spain's fiesta nacional is on the ropes. This week, the mayor of Valencia — Spain's third-largest city — floated that he might support a Portuguese-style of bullfighting that doesn't end with the matador killing el ... Read More
March 23, 20164Guardians2
Sharon Townsend, 41, formerly of Eardley Road, wants people across Bexley to create banners and send snaps of them being waved from March 8 onwards — in demonstration against the dangerous games. She is also ... Read More
March 10, 20164Guardians2
The little girl was sitting with her family, making her way through a bag of crisps. It was Sunday afternoon in Ajalvir. The planes from nearby Madrid airport flew above her in the clear skies ... Read More
March 2, 20164Guardians2
Lawmakers of the Balearic Islands, an autonomous division of Spain have voted in favour of a proposal to introduce a ban on bullfighting and animal fiestas. As reported by the Human Society International in a ... Read More
February 11, 20164Guardians2
A family business in Spain has reluctantly changed the name of its famous El Toro Vega biscuits after customers threatened to boycott the product named after a highly controversial bull lancing event. “Unfair” but the ... Read More
January 2, 20164Guardians2
The Suedehead singer is currently on tour in South America and took the opportunity to address the issue ahead of a scheduled concert in Peru's capital Lima. The outspoken animal rights campaigner branded the bloodsport ... Read More
January 2, 20164Guardians2
A Valencian town has voted “no” to festivities featuring bulls at the first local referendum to be held on the subject since the regional and local elections of May shifted power to the political left. ... Read More
November 28, 20154Guardians2
A video captured by Humane Society International (HSI) shows the brutal killing of a bull in Spain at controversial festival, the Toro de la Vega fiesta. The group condemned Tuesday's killing of the bull, named ... Read More
November 20, 20154Guardians2
Men on horseback have chased down a bull and speared it to death during the annual Toro de la Vega festival reviled by animal rights activists who turned out by the hundreds to protest the ... Read More
November 20, 20154Guardians2