IRELAND–BASED pilots for low-cost airline Ryanair have suspended their one-day pre-Christmas strike action on Wednesday.

A policeman in Catalonia is charged with sabotage against trucks. The sabotage took place on the 1st and 5th of December . The detainee placed a kind of plate with spikes on the AP-7 highway and caused some fifty trucks to change the wheels, according to the Catalan police.

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has rejected Spain's appeal against the fine of 19 million euros imposed by the European Commission (EC) in July 2015 for falsifying the figures of debt and public deficit of the Community Valenciana Brussels considered that the Generalitat had misrepresented and falsified health expenditure figures
between 1988 and 2011 without paying attention to the warnings from the
Valencia Audit Office, which it considers a "serious negligence" on the part
of Spain.

ANDALUCIA and the Canary Islands have the worst quality of life indicators in Spain according to a new study......capita income, long-term unemployment, inequality, poverty, life expectancy, the percentage of the
population that enjoys good health, obesity, smoking, the population that has passed at least upper secondary education, the years of waiting for
schooling and early school leaving.

Both Andalucia and the Canary Island obtain a total score of 17 out of a minimum of 12 points and a maximum of 48. The average of all the Spanish communities is 31 points.Valencia scores 27 points and Murcia 22 points. La Rioja and the Basque Country (43 points), which are the territories with the highest welfare index.

DRAMATIC scenes continue to emerge from an ‘unopened’ prison in
Archidona, where the Spanish government have been holding hundreds of migrants since mid-November...Amid accusations of the use of tear gas, rubber bullets, batons and riot police on prisoners protesting against a lack of food last week

In the UK, Brexit has been dealt a fresh blow after the majority of Britons want now to remain in the European Union, a new poll by BMG Research has revealed......even as an average of 200 cases come before the courts every year, typically costing the taxpayer £4.5 million in compensation
payouts and making a mockery of Home Office pledges to deport foreign nationals who commit serious crimes....... most of these compensation claims have their roots in the highly controversial 1998 Human Rights Act which has fuelled an apparently never-ending merry-go-round of ‘unlawful detention’ claims, often pursued by no-win, no-fee solicitors on behalf of
immigrants and refugees with criminal records.

Scotland Yard will review hundreds of rape, child abuse and sexual assault cases after a second prosecution collapsed because police again sat on texts that proved a suspect's innocence.

Specialist counter terrorism police officers arrested three men, aged 22, 36 and 41, at addresses in Sheffield and a 31-year-old man at an address in
Chesterfield.

Arthur Collins, 25, has been jailed for 20 years. He had hurled corrosive liquid across a club in east London during a tit-for-tat gang war and later branded the crime 'a silly little mistake'.

An investigation has found that growing numbers of doctors earn six-figure sums for working overtime on top of their annual salaries. At least 126 received £100,000 last year for extra work.

According to a group of Santas...not only are we tarnishing Christmas, but
we are seriously damaging our children in the process. The report states the obvious. Children-s demands are now far too excessive....

Soap actor Joe McFadden won Strictly Come Dancing on Saturday night, lifting the Glitterball trophy with his professional partner, Katya Jones......and
Sir Mo Farah has been named BBC Sports Personality of the Year for 2017