Community/Public Services news & information for Barcelona

BARCELONA'S Vall d'Hebron hospital has carried out a triple transplant on a child who is now 'living a normal life' – making it the first centre in the world to to so on a non-adult patient.

A GIANT lit-up reindeer in the Barcelona-province town of Viladecans programmed to wish everyone felices fiestas ('Happy holidays') has been 'hacked' and now gives out 'patriotic' anti...

PRINCESS Leonor earned a standing ovation for her speech last night at the second round of awards named after her – the Princess of Girona prizegiving ceremony in, not Girona, but Barcelona.

THE LINES between life and work sometimes become blurred, but rarely to such an extent as at Barcelona's Vall d'Hebron hospital: seven nurses in the neo-natal unit are all pregnant.

A SPANISH pensioner has just recovered a photograph of herself as a child which was confiscated from her father when he was captured by the Nazis and placed in the Mauthausen concentration camp.

FC BARCELONA'S Lionel 'Leo' Messi has teamed up with internationally-famous tenor José ('Josep') Carreras to fund a huge research project into a rare strain of childhood leukaemia.

A JUDGE in Barcelona has upheld a nursery school's decision not to enrol a child whose parents opted not to vaccinate him in line with a dangerous new trend sweeping the USA and gradually creeping into Spain and the...

A CHARITY-RUN migrant boat denied permission to dock in Italy and whose crew narrowly escaped being charged with human trafficking and aiding illegal immigration has been given licence to drop anchor in Barcelona.

AT LEAST 50 pairs of women staged a 'kiss-a-thon' in Barcelona city centre yesterday (Thursday) to mark International Lesbian Visibility Day before marching through the streets carrying rainbow-coloured flags.

A GROUP of around 30 'paperless' immigrants have barricaded themselves into a Barcelona council-owned building to denounce 'institutional racism' that prevents them from getting on with their lives.

EUROPE'S oldest woman and the third-oldest person, and woman, in the world has died at her residential home in Terrassa (Barcelona province).

FOOTAGE of a mosque leader sobbing in the arms of a grieving dad whose child was killed in the Barcelona terror attacks has gone viral, and proven once again that Spain is above racism and stereotypes and is pulling...