The Spanish Law of Historic Memory is in place to give Spaniards the opportunity to eliminate those memories of the Spanish Civil War which they would prefer to forget.Now the family of a man who had a street named after him because of his bravery are fighting to prevent the street being renamed.Lieutenant Colonel Jesus Teijero Perez was regarded as a hero and he has a street in La Coruna named after him.Monuments to the Franco regime have been removed throughout Spain.There are very few remaining.

El Gordo lottery sales are down by 3% which is lowere than expected.The average Spaniard purchases sic decimos per family.The Valencia community is the largest spender on these lottery tickets with Galicia the least keen to buy them.

China it seems is not too keen on the serrano ham from Spain.Only just over 14,000 euros was spent on it between January and August this year.Whereas offal from Spain raised 17 million euros from the Chinese during the same period.

Could water in the Madrid area be disappearing?The company Globalizate says that the area is at its driest for 55 years and as there is less and less mountain snow then the water reserves of Madrid could be drying up.