Tensions between the Local Police and the Government of Miranda de Ebro | EDATV NEWS PSOE's 'Indifference' in Miranda de Ebro Causes Fines to ExpireThe Local Police can't address all violations due to an unfilled vacancy07/03/2025 14:52:00h by Jose Andres Jorge Barceló Residents of the area have contacted EDATV to criticize the management of the current socialist government of Miranda de Ebro. In fact, it has been residents of the area who criticize the mayor's "indifference." The long and tense confrontation between the Local Police force of Miranda and the municipal Government team is not new. It has been ongoing for several months and doesn't seem to have a solution. There are more and more open fronts in this conflict, and recently a new problem has arisen. The vacant position of an administrative officer in the police service has resulted in fines imposed in recent months not being processed. The matter is even more serious, as the most serious infractions recorded during the months of July and August 2024 are also beginning to expire. According to ELCORREO, the Job Position List of the City Council is clear and precise. It is necessary to have an administrative officer. Also, an assistant in the Local Police department. However, the administrative position became vacant several months ago. Therefore, the administrative assistant was temporarily assigned to take on those tasks. However, the assistant ended up returning to her original position. Mayor of Miranda de Ebro | Redes socialesThis happened after some disagreements with the Government team. Which led her to refuse to perform the duties of an administrative officer, including the processing of fines. In this situation, the Government team decided to transfer another professional from another municipal service to fill the vacancy. But this person only remained in the position for a month before being transferred again. Thus, a new vacancy arose for the administrative position in the police service in July. Since July, serious infractions committed in Miranda have not been processed. Many of them are about to lose their validity. Serious infractions expire after six months without being processed. Therefore, those corresponding to July and August are about to become void. Serious infractions include illegal parking such as double parking. In a driveway or on the sidewalk, as well as other traffic-related issues. Although it is not yet known how many complaints are expiring or how much money the City Council would lose for this reason. The aforementioned media indicates that police sources warn that this situation could lead to a crime of administrative malfeasance by the Corporation. Renfe was awarded the contract to operate this high-speed line in 2019, given its experience both in Spain (which has the second most extensive high-speed network in the world behind China) and in other countries such as Saudi Arabia. "The capital cost of the project is now estimated to exceed 40 billion dollars (over 35 billion euros), making construction unrealistic and a risky undertaking for the taxpayer," the US office said. The project, promoted by the private company Texas Central, planned the construction of a high-speed line connecting the two major Texan cities in less than 90 minutes, inspired by the Japanese model of the Shinkansen. "The Texas Central railway project was proposed as a private venture. If the private sector believes this project is feasible, they should carry out the pre-construction work, rather than relying on Amtrak (the US national railway system) and the American taxpayers to bail them out. My department will continue to look for every opportunity to save federal dollars and prioritise efficiency," said Sean P. Duffy, US transportation secretary. Comentar es una ventaja exclusiva para registrados Registered office Málaga, Avda. Dr. Marañón, 48. Reporting by Ana Cantero in Madrid and Mireia Merino and Marta Serafinko in Gdansk; Editing by Kirsten Donovan Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab , opens new tab Browse an unrivalled portfolio of real-time and historical market data and insights from worldwide sources and experts. , opens new tabScreen for heightened risk individual and entities globally to help uncover hidden risks in business relationships and human networks. © 2025 Reuters. All rights reserved A new socialist promise results in a harsh reality. This time it concerns Miranda de Ebro, governed by PSOE, which has left a critical situation in the streets. The City Council took the initiative to place surveillance cameras on Ronda del Ferrocarril street, the roundabout of Sagrados Corazones school, and Carlos III bridge. However, it also decided to install this type of surveillance in one of the most problematic areas of Miranda, Juan Ramón Jiménez street, known as 'vice street'. The municipal administration announced on November 14, 2024, that the socialist mayor, Aitana Hernando, signed the contract to carry out the project. Aitana Hernando had already signed the contract for this project with an execution period of 30 days. | Redes socialesThe truth is that after two and a half months, that installation is not operational. In fact, it was last Wednesday, January 29, when workers began the installation. This delay has had disastrous consequences for residents who have seen violent acts continue to grow. As if that weren't enough, the socialist city council did spend money on traffic cameras that barely make sense. The area where the traffic cameras are located hasn't had a single accident in the last two years. Meanwhile, violent and criminal incidents have increased over that period. According to the 112 registry, in 2023, a dozen fights and twenty assaults were already recorded on 'vice street'. During the following year, the total number of such incidents grew by up to 30%. The socialist mayor of Miranda de Ebro doesn't fulfill her promise | Redes socialesThat is, the number rose to a total of 42 cases, with 19 brawls and up to 23 assaults added. Alarming figures that required maximum priority for this troubled area. The truth is that the surveillance camera project, approved in November, is valued at about 11,000 euros. And its execution period was set at 30 days. However, it has been delayed by a month and a half during which violent incidents have continued to occur. The data on incidents recorded by Emergencies in the Juan Ramón Jiménez street area over the past year is alarming. They represent practically a third of the total that occurred in the city during that same period. Specifically, across all the streets of the city of Ebro, just over 140 alerts for fights or assaults were recorded in 2024. Meanwhile, the 2023 data shows that 138 emergency calls were made for this type of incident. This means that already in that period, 'vice street' accounted for 23% of violent incidents. Reporting by Inti Landauro and Ana Cantero The Caja de Burgos Cultural Center will be the venue on Friday of a conference organized by the Association Scherzi Musicali named ‘Passion for the music’ which will have as main guest the composer Fernando Velázquez This event will open the ‘Encuentros’ cycle of La Barraca pedagogical project which this season focuses on film and theater musical director of the Gregorio Solabarrieta Chamber Orchestra (OCGS) will be the moderator of the event talking with Fernando Velázquez about his career When: Friday 15th of December 2017 at 8:15 p.m Where: Centro Cultural Caja de Burgos (Miranda de Ebro Tickets: 2,5 € – Ticket office of venue More information: http://bit.ly/2jtEKXj Discover a way to enjoy that music live in SoundTrackFest Here you will find all the information you need to live your favorite Soundtracks and meet the Composers a three-day fiesta after Holy Week and its strategic location as highway stopover - on the way to somewhere else But now the city has a new distinction: cocaine capital of Europe The United Nations World Drug Report this year ranks Miranda de Ebro as the city with the highest incidence of cocaine use in Europe and second in the world after New York with a rate nearly five times as high as in St Moritz mostly factory workers and small shopkeepers They can not understand how the UN study of waste water could have found a consumption rate of 97 lines a day for every 1,000 people in a city whose big event is the traditional Sunday evening stroll "It's absolutely absurd," the mayor What the people like to do is have a little glass of wine with their tapas With no large discos and few other clubs to attract a party crowd Miranda de Ebro had little in common with the wild atmosphere of Ibiza He suggested the findings were an error possibly caused by a nearby chemical plant City waste is purified before reaching the river but nobody in Spain disputes the rest of the UN report which ranks Spaniards as the most avid cocaine users in the world compared with 2.4% in England and 2.8% in the US The percentage of youths aged 14 to 18 using the drug has roughly quadrupled in the past decade The UN report blames Spain's avid use of cocaine partly on cultural and linguistic ties to cocaine-producing countries of Latin America especially the dangerous and hard-to-patrol coves of northern Galicia The UN report dubs Spain a drug-trafficker's "gateway to Europe" The number of police seizures of the drug far surpasses any other Mediterranean country feel-good youth culture that blossomed since the end of the Franco dictatorship - now coupled with historically high purchasing power that keeps suburban mega-discos and chic city bars doing a lucrative business until dawn Parents who came of age under the repressive Franco years are also generally wary of imposing too many restrictions on their teenagers and young adults who live at home allowing generous budgets for once unthinkable luxuries such as a breast implants or trips to Ibiza announced this week a €7m (£5m) campaign to take the glamour out of cocaine so young people no longer associated sniffing with success The ministry is also trying to persuade hotel owners to fight against drug use in their establishments The mayor has sent a letter to the UN asking for an explanation of the findings Police are investigating to see if the river could be used by smugglers passing through "I laughed when I heard about," said a youth hostel worker You can run through the town in 10 minutes 'Who's the person sniffing the 97 lines each day'." Receive our weekly Newsletterand set tailored daily news alerts €11.5 will come from the Spanish Ministry of Industry to produce polyacrylonitrile (PAN) precursor for conversion to carbon fibre with semi-aerospace quality Transport/​Aerospace Montefibre Carbon is investing €16.2 million in its plant in Miranda de Ebro €11.5 million of which will come from the Spanish Ministry of Industry to produce polyacrylonitrile (PAN) precursor for conversion to carbon fibre with semi-aerospace quality and to build a flexible carbonization line.   The new PAN precursor fibre will have a tensile strength of 700 ksi and will be marketed as M700 The new carbonization line will be one of the most advanced lines in the industry to serve as a development and demonstration of Montefibre’s carbon fibre and will be able to work with fibre from 80K to 480K up to a capacity of 100 tons per year.  The carbonization line will be operational by the end of 2021 and will serve as a key hub prior to commercial production scale and will generate market-development volumes of carbon fibre as part of a project to transform part of Miranda facilities into a collaborative research centre Montefibre’s carbonization line will be the first owned by a Spanish company and the second to be installed in Spain – the first being the line built by Hexel in Illescas in 2008) The company will also become the third leading European producer of carbon fibre after SGL in Germany and Solvay in Belgium)#  “The support of the Spanish Public Administration is essential to achieve the success of a project of the magnitude of Montefibre Carbon which will be key to the industrial competitiveness of Spain Castilla y León and Miranda de Ebro,” said Alfonso Cirera Santasusana The company is currently adapting four of its seven spinning lines to bring to market some 17,000 metric tons per year of its large-tow PAN precursor for conversion to carbon fibre The first precursor to reach the market is an 80K tow in two industrial qualities M500 (with a tensile strength of 500 ksi) and M600 (with a tensile strength of 600 ksi) The M700 aerospace-grade 80K precursor will follow The experience of more than 40 years as world-leader in the development of textile acrylic fibre and speciality acrylic fibres has allowed Montefibre Carbon to develop a proprietary technology for the production of polyacrylonitrile (PAN) carbon fiber precursors Montefibre also has the support of the Spanish technology centre Leitat and has cooperative research and development agreement with the U.S Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States the company is a member of the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation the US-based national advanced composites consortium with over 150 members The Miranda de Ebro plant employs currently 112 people who have been producing samples and industrial tests of precursor fibres that have been tested in carbon fibre development centres around the world www.montefibrecarbon.com Spanish government backs Montefibre with EUR 5.6m Montefibre unveils its first carbon fibre PAN precursor The chain has 435 locations across the country and seeks to consolidate its presence in the Canary Islands Aldi is looking to open 50 new stores in Spain by 2024 consolidating its presence in the Canary Islands and reaching new markets The chain is looking to expand in the northern region of the country with openings planned in the Basque Country it will strengthen its presence in Andalusia with more than half of the expansion planned for this year Aldi will reaffirm its growth in other regions such as Extremadura "We maintain Aldi's commitment to growth in Spain and to offering families a quality simple shopping option at the best possible price Years ago we activated an ambitious expansion plan that we are maintaining and that is allowing us to increase our presence in Spain in a continuous and sustained manner," said Valentín Lumbreras These new stores will be accompanied by the inauguration of a new distribution center in Miranda de Ebro (Burgos) The new warehouse will have more than 40,000 m2 and will support the supply of stores in the northern part of the country Aldi's new distribution center in Sagunt (Valencia) will be fully operational during the month of February Get Ahead of Flow Rate Issues Detect and Fix Anomalies Fast with Fuel Analytics. 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Use of this website signifies your agreement to the Privacy policy Sie haben erfolgreich Ihre Einwilligung in die Nutzung von Transfermarkt mit Tracking und Cookies widerrufen Sie können sich jetzt zwischen dem Contentpass-Abo und der Nutzung mit personalisierter Werbung Plasteurope.com is a business information platform for the European plastics industry It is part of KI Kunststoff Information and PIE Plastics Information Europe one of the leading content providers for the European plastics industry We offer daily updated business news and reports polymer prices and other services for the international plastics industry News | Polymer Prices | Suppliers Guide | Jobs | Register | Advertising Lauren Van Gerven remembers going to her grandparents’ house for dinner every Sunday evening would tell stories from his life during World War II when he traveled from Belgium to England through Portugal at age 18 to escape the German occupation I remember I used to like looking through his picture albums — he had albums from almost every year dating back to the late 1890s all the way to present time,” Van Gerven said “I was automatically drawn to those World War II years and it was natural that I would ask questions about that there’s a lot of people who don’t like talking about those type of experiences but my grandfather actually did enjoy talking about it because I think it was a bit of an adventure for him.” who earned a degree in communications and an MBA from Lamar University used the stories she heard as a child and wrote ‘The Evader,’ a self-published first-person account of her grandfather’s life during WWII traveled from occupied Belgium through France before he was captured at the Spanish border and imprisoned in a Spanish concentration camp for a year He was released and traveled through Portugal to England where he joined the Free Belgian Forces and was given an opportunity to become a Special Operations Executive agent who parachuted into Belgium and participated in sabotage missions against the Germans Van Gerven said she knew she wanted to write the book for a while and after receiving a journalism degree from Lamar she felt that she had the skills to pursue the idea “I knew that it wouldn’t be easy without my grandfather around anymore,” she said “But I was very lucky that I had a lot of documents that he left behind He was a very good record keeper.”  Van Gerven said her grandfather had books of stories from friends who were in the Miranda de Ebro concentration camp in Spain with him He had highlighted everything that applied to him and his journey helping her to piece together his life during that time “I can’t remember exactly when I decided to write a book about but I know it’s been something that was on my mind for quite a while before I eventually started working on it,” she said it took me a little while because it was so much research “It wasn’t just the research about the story My grandfather’s not around anymore (Leo died in 2006) so it was very difficult to try to be as accurate as possible.” Van Gerven said she struggled with the book at first because she was trying to stay as close to the facts as possible it’s impossible for it to be 100 percent accurate it won’t read very well,” she said so I decided to at least color it in a little bit more it started writing a lot more easily for me.”  The book took approximately a year-and-a-half for Van Gerven to finish After leaving her job in Texas in early 2020 Van Gerven decided to visit her parents in Portugal during the pandemic “There were definitely times between where I didn’t work as intensely on it,” she said four months was whenever I spent the most amount of time working on it because I had the luxury of being here (in Portugal) and having the time to focus on it.”  Van Gerven said her family has been supportive of her ambition to write her grandfather’s story Her mother — Leo’s daughter — helped Van Gerven by telling her stories that she had heard throughout her life “Anytime I couldn’t remember something that my grandfather had said because my dad was there as well for those Sunday dinners,” she said.  Van Gerven said that while writing her book she learned a lot about her grandfather and felt closer to him I wrote to the British government to get his army records unsealed,” she said “They will only unseal them if the person has already passed away and you can prove that the person is deceased or if it’s been more than 100 years past their end of service “It took a little while to send in the documentation — probably six weeks or so But then getting that report was really neat because it was about whenever my grandfather was in training to be a special agent It gave very detailed descriptions about his personality so it was really neat to read this account written by somebody else about my grandfather back in 1942.” Van Gerven had wanted to recreate her grandfather’s journey from Belgium through France but was unable to go to every location due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic “I was only able to go to the places in Spain and Portugal that he had been to but the most important for me was I wanted to visit the place where he was in the concentration camp,” she said but it was a bit of a disappointment to be honest because there’s not really a big memorial — there’s not a whole lot left of the actual camp there’s about two broken down buildings and they didn’t really preserve it very well “Even though I got to stand there and really be at the same spot I kind of hoped that I would have a bigger emotional feeling where my grandfather spent a year in prison.’” Van Gerven said she hopes to complete the entire journey once the pandemic is over where she has the exact addresses where her grandfather stayed ‘The Evader’ is a self-published book through Amazon Van Gerven said she decided to self-publish it because she didn’t want to go through the process of finding a literary agent I was just ready to get it out there,” she said “I looked into my options and decided that was the way I wanted to go.” but one day she might do another edition of it Leonard Sonck passed away when Van Gerven was 15 She said she hopes her grandfather would be proud of the book As more people who lived through World War II die Van Gerven said it’s important to tell those stories.  “There’s still so many good books being published about World War II stories and I think there’s still a very big interest in that time period,” she said “There’s not that many people left who lived through those days and it’s very hard to write about something you didn’t experience firsthand “This is the type of story that’s not talked about a lot I think you usually have stories about people who have a more traditional story in World War II whereas this is a story that’s not really talked about I think it’s worth reading just for that reason alone just to learn a little bit more about history and see a different side of it because there’s so many sides PAY HERE Contact: editor@lamaruniversitypress.com Emma Pinedo and David Latona; Editing by Andrei Khalip Spain is preparing to roll out its new unified health cards which could soon be in people's wallets and even on their mobile phones in digital form including the final approval on characteristics that will make the card accessible to people with disabilities as well as technical characteristics such as the magnetic strip and the QR code Minister for health Mónica García pointed out the new format "will speed up the development of digital services between the health services of the regions" to avoid incompatibilities such as the cards working with a chip in one region and with a magnetic strip in another Doctors and health professionals will be able to access patient data from another region with the new format Going to primary care (or to a pharmacy) when you are not in your own region is not the easiest experience in the world for patients or health care providers at the moment If the computer systems of the regions concerned are not compatible if the regional governments do not have bilateral health agreements or even if the doctors do not show an interest that goes far beyond what is required by mere professionalism the patient may leave the consultation frustrated decide to delay their visit to the doctor until they return home All Spanish regions must issue their new cards within 18 months which allows the holder to have their identification in physical and digital format or only in digital format The ministry of health also pointed out the new digital format similar to transport passes or bank cards that already work on smartphones "will avoid the need to carry the physical card to access healthcare at any public health system centre and will reduce the costs associated with printing and distributing physical cards" The card will incorporate "basic common data" such as the data all cards will have: the region in which it has been issued public health system and health card labels a unique personal identification code of the and an identification code of the issuing health administration The regions will also be able to decide whether the cards also include the holder's DNI national identity number health emergency telephone number and a photograph of the user The change in card also aims to increase accessibility for people with disabilities In the lower right-hand corner of all physical health cards the Braille characters of the initials of the individual health card for people with visual impairment will be included "the classic health card already identifies the patient in any device of the public health system and in any pharmacy in Spain" emergency care is offered without problems where doctors need to know the patient's history and do not always have access to it "The single card is a demand that has taken too long to arrive It makes no sense that there are 17 different cards and not one that serves for the entire national system," said José Polo president of the Spanish society of primary care doctors (Semergen) "The health card should allow all doctors to access patients' medical records," he added The area of ​​influence of the factory Toro (Zamora) is the one with the greatest area of ​​9,203 hectares planted with expectations of receiving 955,000 tonnes in La Bañeza (León) they have planted 6,281 hectares and is expected to receive 605,000 tons of root in Miranda de Ebro (Burgos) have been planted 5,061 hectares of beet and the estimate would be 485,000 Azucarera beet receives around 3,700 individual farmers and associated production units distributed in Castilla and Leon supply and R & D located in Zamora (Benavente and Toro) Valladolid (Penafiel) and Burgos (Miranda de Ebro) Azucarera has a center in Jerez de la Frontera in extracting sugar from beet and refining raw sugar and energy by cogeneration processes the UK and six other countries in Africa and China We may request cookies to be 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presented Minister of Foreign Affairs Zbigniew Rau granted prizes and honourable mentions in the sixth edition of the History Competition It should be noted that despite temporarily limited access to Polish and foreign archives and libraries historians published many valuable studies and source publications last year which were then submitted to this year’s competition At the request of the Historical Diplomacy Council Minister Zbigniew Rau decided to award the following prizes and honourable mentions for 2021: For best Polish-language publication on the history of Polish diplomacy: The prize – Piotr Długołęcki for the source publication W obliczu Zagłady Rząd RP na uchodźstwie wobec Żydów 1939–1945 Warszawa 2021 (published in English as Confronting the Holocaust Documents on the Polish Government-in-Exile's Policy Concerning Jews 1939–1945 The first honourable mention – Jan Stanisław Ciechanowski for the monograph Czarna legenda Mirandy Polacy w hiszpańskim obozie internowania w Miranda de Ebro 1940–1945 [The black legend of Miranda Poles in the Spanish internment camp at Miranda de Ebro Wydział "Artes Liberales" Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego The second honourable mention – Jarema Słowiak for the monograph Wielka improwizacja Delegacja polska w Międzynarodowej Komisji Nadzoru i Kontroli w Wietnamie w latach 1954–1973 [Great improvisation Polish delegation to the International Commission for Control and Supervision in Vietnam in 1954–1973] Instytut Pamięci Narodowej – Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu For best foreign-language publication promoting Poland’s history: The prize – Hacer Topaktaş Üstüner (Turkey) for the book Polonezköy: 180 Yıllık Mazi [180 years of the history of Polonezköy] Beykoz Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları The first honourable mention – Patrice M Dabrowski (United States) for the book The Carpathians Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine The second honourable mention – Jane Rogoyska (United Kingdom) for the book Surviving Katyń Stalin’s Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth a certificate of recognition was awarded to Lidia Michalska-Bracha for her book Józef Kajetan Janowski (1832–1914) lwowianin z wyboru [Józef Kajetan Janowski (1832–1914) The author and researcher was recognised for successfully taking up the subject of the January Uprising the 160th anniversary of which will be marked in 2023 The ceremony to present the prizes and honourable mentions will be held in 2023 The next year will also see the announcement of a new edition of the competition Sport | Football the first of which next week - February 11 or 12 - and the second on March 3 or 4 The Copa del Rey final will be hosted at Estadio de La Cartuja for this season and every season up to 2023 Real Sociedad ended Real Madrid's 21-game unbeaten run by winning 4-3 at the Santiago Bernabeu on Thursday to reach the semi-finals for the first time in six years the game had two strikes ruled out and even had time for a red card as Andoni Gorosabel was handed his marching orders Zidane defends team selection as Real Madrid crash out of Copa del Rey Messi row not to blame for Barca's Copa del Rey exit Athletic pile misery on Barcelona with last-gasp Copa del Rey winner Odegaard stars as Real Madrid knocked out of Copa del Rey Small second-division club Mirandes - who have never played in LaLiga - pulled off another upset to eliminate Villarreal scoring four times to run out deserved winners a city of about 35,000 people in northern Spain had stunned two other first-division clubs in previous rounds — five-time champion Sevilla in the last 16 and Celta Vigo in the round of 32 Granada reached the semi-finals thanks to Roberto Soldado's stoppage-time penalty The former Tottenham man also opened the scoring in the third minute Inaki Williams' stoppage-time header gave Athletic Bilbao a 1-0 win over Barcelona on Thursday evening for the final shock of the round Barcelona bossed possession at San Mames but wasted a host of chances before the 93rd-minute header Can’t see the Copa del Rey draw LIVE: Semi-final fixtures blog? Click here to access our desktop page Any team can face any other (there is no seeding) The draw will take place in 20 minutes (midday GMT or 1pm local time) Inaki Williams' stoppage-time header gave Athletic Bilbao a 1-0 win over Barcelona in the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey Barcelona had reached the final of the competition in each of the last six years but were dumped out this year after some late drama at San Mames It did not take long for Lionel Messi - whose row with director Eric Abidal had overshadowed the build-up to the match - to carve open the home defence as he set Ansu Fati clear but the 17-year-old forward sliced his shot wide whose last of 23 Copa del Rey triumphs came in 1984 thought they had opened the scoring after 10 minutes when Williams knocked the ball in from a corner There was a let-off for Ter Stegen when his stray pass fell to Raul Garcia but the midfielder shot wide from the edge of the penalty area Barcelona were awarded a free-kick in a central position 25 yards out It was a low tempo opening following the restart before Messi sent Frenkie De Jong clear into the penalty area where the Dutchman went to ground - and was shown a yellow card for simulation Barcelona boss Quique Setien sent on Griezmann to replace Fati for the final 30 minutes - and the French forward was soon in the action as he sent a shot over the crossbar this time under close guard from Bilbao midfielder Ander Capa but the referee was not interested and waved play on Roberto got away down the right and cut the ball back to the penalty spot where Griezmann's low shot was saved by Unai Simon Bilbao almost snatched the lead when Williams' early shot flew over Real Sociedad ended Real Madrid's 21-game unbeaten run by winning 4-3 at the Santiago Bernabeu on Thursday to reach the Copa del Rey semi-finals for the first time in six years The result halted Madrid's eight-game winning streak and handed the club its first loss in all competitions since October The visitors looked in control for most of the match but Madrid came close to pulling off the comeback after scoring late goals in the second half playing for Sociedad on a loan from Madrid didn't celebrate after opening the scoring in the 22nd minute off the rebound of a save by Madrid goalkeeper Alphonse Areola Alexander Isak added to the lead with goals two minutes apart early in the second half — a volley in the 54th and a shot into the top corner in the 56th The 20-year-old Isak had already had a goal disallowed for offside after video review just minutes after the break Marcelo pulled Madrid closer with a low shot from inside the area in the 59th but Mikel Merino increased the visitors' lead again from close range in the 69th Rodrygo netted Madrid's second in the 81st two minutes after Vinicius Junior had a goal disallowed by video review The third came through a header by Nacho Ramos three minutes into stoppage time Sociedad defender Andoni Gorosabel was sent off just before the final whistle Small second-division club Mirandes pulled off another upset in the Copa del Rey on Wednesday The club has never played in Spain's first division It is in 11th place in the 22-team second-tier standings Matheus Aias opened the scoring for Mirandes in the 17th minute after getting past a defender outside the area and another inside the box The visitors equalized less than 15 minutes later with a well-struck free kick by Javier Ontiveros Mirandes retook the lead with Martin Merquelanz converting a penalty awarded by video review in first-half stoppage time and Santi Cazorla evened the match with another penalty in the 56th The hosts went ahead again two minutes later whose handball prompted the penalty for Villarreal scored with a close-range touch after the visitors failed to clear a cross by the far post Antonio Sanchez sealed the victory after a breakaway in stoppage time Mirandes was the only lower-division club still alive entering the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey Roberto Soldado scored a stoppage-time penalty to send Granada into the Copa del Rey semi-finals with a 2-1 win over holders Valencia Soldado struck after three minutes to send the Andalusians ahead but his former club levelled through Rodrigo Moreno Valencia goalkeeper Jaume Domenech made some excellent saves to keep the hosts at bay but with extra-time beckoning Jaume Costa handled in the area and Soldado completed his brace You would have made good money on one or two of our semi-finalists making the final four four dramatic games and four surprise winners Welcome to the Evening Standard’s live coverage of the Copa del Rey semi-final draw Prince Louis steals the show at VE Day parade as he keeps dad William looking sharp and mimics brother George Prince Louis steals show with sweet antics at VE parade Ukraine 'launches stunning Kursk offensive' in major blow for Putin ahead of Victory Day celebrations Ukraine 'launches stunning Kursk offensive' in blow for Putin VE Day 2025 fashion: best looks from the day VE Day 2025 fashion: Princess of Wales to Lady Victoria Starmer New visa crackdown as Home Office plans to restrict applications from nationalities most likely to overstay New visa crackdown as Home Office plans to restrict applications Stacey Solomon 'regrets doing reality show with Joe Swash' for tough reason Stacey Solomon 'regrets reality show with Joe Swash' for tough reason An abandoned village in the province of Burgos in northern Spain has been sold in its entirety to buyers from the Netherlands which belongs to the municipality of Abajas has had no residents for more than 50 years; now aim to breathe new life into the streets and the surrounding area by turning it into an eco-village For less than 340,000 euros they have acquired 62 buildings a church and half a dozen farms covering some six hectares Bárcena de Bureba was the largest village in Spain that was up for sale a real estate agency specialising in this type of asset that closed the deal The sale of Bárcena de Bureba "has been quick" "You have to bear in mind that for this type of transaction you have to see if the village fits with the project and objective that the buyers have the village has water and electricity supply and these Dutch investors were clear about what they were looking for," explained Fafian considering the time at which it was put on the market is was sold for a sum significantly below the original asking price and this was knocked down to the final figure of 339,000 euros The buyers are Dutch investors whose plan is to revamp the 62 houses in Bárcena de Bureba and cultivate the adjoining land they seek to breathe new life into the village - uninhabited since the 1970s - and Their idea is to optimise the natural and economic resources of the area and create an eco-village for residential and tourism purposes "An ambitious project for this village in the so-called 'empty Spain'," said the real estate company referring to the expression 'España vaciada' used to describe to effects of decades of rural populations moving to larger towns and cities to live and work This rural environment offers possibilities for those thinking of settling there there is growing interest from tourism companies and people able to work remotely who prefer the peace and quiet of the countryside to the hustle and bustle of the city fields of crops and streams follow one after the other forming a beautiful natural enclave not far from the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage path Aldeas Abandonadas has villages and hamlets for sale on its website in a dozen regions of Spain This route kicks off with the dazzling food and art of the Basque country before traversing Navarre and Aragon and heading south to Spain’s paella capital• More Spain road trips: Málaga-Jerez and Madrid-Santiago de Compostela The San Sebastián area also boasts some of the best surf in Europe and you can hire everything you need along the seafront or at the resort town of Zarautz about 10km west of the city offers adventurous fare such as a tataki of red tuna or monkfish with wild rice which has a one-star Michelin restaurant if you’re feeling flush pintxos here are just as good as in San Sebastián Pamplona specialities are smoky piquillo peppers sold in jars or tins and patxaran a mansion built in imitation mudéjar style which is just out of town and en route to your next destination Albarracín Photograph: Emma Lee/Getty ImagesAlbarracín stands high on a hill above a meander of the Guadalaviar and is so inaccessible it would have been easy to defend back in medieval times narrow streets of this extraordinary town perched amid rocky The journey ends on the shores of the Mediterranean in Valencia, Spain’s third city, and the capital of paella. Visit the aquarium (€22) and Santiago Calatrava’s Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències Like several domestic competitions the Copa del Rey has been struggling with crowd interest dwindling clubs not taking it very seriously and players concentrating on league performances This prompted Spanish football officials to introduce a host of new regulations at the beginning of the season and as the competition goes into the quarterfinals this week it is abundantly clear that the changes have brought a new lease of life The number of lower league teams was drastically increased and they were guaranteed home fixtures against higher-based teams going all the way to the semi-finals Thus the story of the competition this year is not only about Real Madrid and Barcelona it is about the big boys of the La Liga traveling to small villages towns and islands all over Spain and it is about Mirendes After already knocking out Celta Vigo in the fourth round the small club will on Wednesday get a chance to advance to the round of the last four A capacity crowd of 5,800 will be in the Estadio Municipal de Anduva on Wednesday to see the Los Rojillos take on El Submarino Amarillo But while most of the non-Villarreal football fans in Spain will be holding thumbs for the small club from the autonomous community of Castile and León be on the big boys – Real Madrid and Barcelona Having survived a scare in the third round with a late come-back win at UD Ibiza Barcelona will not take their quarter-final opponents’ the two clubs have won the competition more often than anybody else Barcelona are away in the San Mamés and despite sitting in second position in the table – three points behind their big rivals Real and having secured a 2-1 victory against Levante on the weekend with both goals being scored by Wunderkind Ansu Fati Barca will have their work cut out for them They take on Real Sociedad in the quarter-finals on the back of a morale-boosting 1-0 victory against Atlético in the Madrid derby on the weekend Granada get proceedings underway with their home game against the cup holders Valencia Football fans throughout Africa will be able to watch the games live and HD on the StarTimes football channels Peter Auf der Heyde is an award-winning football journalist and author he is particularly interested in the African connection within European football and has covered 12 consecutive Africa Cup of Nations tournaments live Formerly head of sport at the English service of the German Press Association he is one of the leading Bundesliga experts Auf der Heyde played professionally for Bosmont Chelsea in the South African top flight and now spends his time migrating between South Africa