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News, November 2010November 30th, recent news round-upSpanish bonds double price of German, IBEX market index suffers worst fall since October 2008 - over month it has fallen 14%; 35 provinces affected by snow - up to 20cm expected in some areas (more in mountains), some schools closed; inflation (Advance HCPI) steady at 2.2% - if confirmed this will mean extra payments for pensioners; porter at old people's home confesses to killing 11 inmates; 29th: Centre-right nationalist party Convergència i Unió win Catalan elections - Telegraph; British Airways merger with Iberia completed - the airline will have its head office in Madrid - BBC, Guardian; half os Spain under snow cover - ski resorts opened over weekend; hoard of unknown Picasso works discovered in S. France - BBC. Other recent news includes: 26th: Catalan election campaign comes to close; GM workers' bus accident in Zaragoza - 38 injured; The Economist claims president Zapatero is only one who can save the Euro : Article, leader; SOS rice taken over by Ebro Foods; BBVA bank rights issue covered 4 times; 24th: Ana María Matute wins Cervantes literature prize; trail in Paris of two ETA leaders shows targets planned up to 2012; icy weather brings snow to many parts - next two weeks to continue miserable; Catalonia enforces local breakfast on 5* hotels; Mastercard reports 35% rise in Spanish credit card use with payment postponement; 23rd: Catalan election TV debate prohibited by Barcelona electoral committee; Treasury bonds successfully sell, but at almost double price after Irish rescue and stock market falls - BBC; fears grow that Spanish rescue could crash Europe - Guardian, central bank chief concerned - Telegraph; state deficit falls 47% to October, with 47% VAT rise; finance minister refuses refinancing of Madrid's €7 billion debt - Guardian; Miró exhibition now on at Tate in London before Barcelona and Washington - Guardian; MariLuz murder case cannot go to jury trial due to aspects of case - MariLuz was daughter of evangelical gypsy pastor Juan José Cortés. 16th: Government continues to fail to condemn Moroccan repression in El Aaiun (former Spanish Sahara); proposal to link Civil Servant pay to productivity to be discussed with Unions; Spain shudders as Irish and Portuguese economies show need for bail out - bond auction gets less at higher rates; September saw services receipt less than last year - after rises over summer; parents with severely ill children could get support if they cannot work; Bye, bye, Mr Marshall - film director Berlanga dies - Guardian; several Spanish cultural expressions, such as human castles and flamenco dance among aspirants for declaration as Universal Cultural Heritage title - plus the Mediterranean diet - Guardian. 13th: Former foreign minister Moratinos visits Morocco after death of Spaniard in Saharui camp at El Aaiun - BBC; priest arrested over child porn images - BBC; 8th anniversary of sinking of Prestige off Galicia - Spain's worst oil slick disaster - sea floor still affected; 12th: Family Policy Institute publishes divorce rate at one every 4 minutes: 67.365 in first six months - 40% end up in conflict - very similar to abortion rate; New Labour Minister restarts talks with Unions - first time since general strike and cabinet reshuffle; ambassador to Morocco visits El Aaiun to assess situation with Saharaui people - and arrested Spanish journalists; several Spaniards among Latin Grammy winners, but evangelical Juan Luís Guerra got 3; this week's storm caused record wind power generation; Madrid legionnaire's disease sees 5th victim; CPI inflation confirmed at 2.3%; IBEX market index affected by Irish jitters; National Statistics Institute shows double dip likely - INE pdf, BBC; 11th: Basque nationalist leader Otegi on trial for 2004 meeting exalting ETA; Catalan election campaign to start at midnight; Zapatero at G20 meetings calls for a million new jobs to be created over next 10 years in Green economy; British paper space plane photos Spain - Telegraph; 9th: One dead as storm brings 9m waves to north coast; on 30th anniversary of Moroccan 'Green March', former Spanish Sahara 'closer than ever' to war according to Polisario representative - Spanish correspondents refused access to former capital El Aaiun; 86 year-old man kills separated wife in Mallorca; on time: survey shows AVE high speed rail service has fastest average speed, (222kmh) and second highest reliability, at 98.5% (Eurostar gets 91.6%) - from 18th December it will have the longest network in Europe; house prices fell 4.6% in year to October, home sales fell 4% in September over previous year; olive oil robbers arrested - Guardian; 8th: Pope consecrates Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona and reaffirms stand against abortion and gay 'marriage' - Telegraph, BBC, Guardian photo; new foreign secretary makes 'first' overseas trip to visit Bolivia and Ecuador - a political statement if ever.. (last week she attended the Kirchner funeral and this weekend she was in Afghanistan with the president); rise in bankrupcies in 3rd quarter - up 5% for firms, 17% for families over q3/2009 INE pdf; stormy wather spreads from NW to most regions; former president Felipe González reveals he had the chance to order bombing murder of ETA's leaders, but refused. 6th: Pope visits Santiago, Galicia - BBC, opinion poll published today shows only 14% regularly attend Mass; Zapatero visits troops in Afghanistan; 5th: Chaos ahead of Pope's visit to Santiago tomorrow and Barcelona on Sunday - security documents on Barcelona visit found dropped in street; rumours of run on BBVA bank, which turned out to be a marathon - Telegraph; survey shows government support falls after general strike; 3rd quarter growth (GNP) nil, being just 0.2% over year after 7 quarters of falls; bad weather forecast for coming days; double surnames could end - Telegraph; 3rd: Excitement rises ahead of Pope's visit to Santiago and Barcelona - BBC video report; October unemployment up 68,000 to almost 4.1 million; 1/4 million signatures handed in by actor Javier Bardem at Moncloa palace asking king Juan Carlos to mediate with Moroccan king over Western Sahara Polisario camp crisis; Spanish banking Armada finally makes it?: Banco Santander's UK boss transfers to Lloyds, while heiress Patricia Botín takes over at Santander UK - Guardian, BBC, Robert Peston; meanwhile, builder ACS continues attempts to take over German Hochtief, together with its Australian 55% ownership of Leighton The Economist; 2nd: Government recognises poor 3rd quarter for economy - or fall back into recession; October car sales down 37%; 26 deaths over long weekend confirm road toll is not improving; 10 year-old Romanian gypsy girl gives birth in Jerez, Andalusia - father is also child, probably still in Romania, as she only came to give birth - Guardian. 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