The Socialist leader Jos Luis Rodr guez Zapatero yesterday demanded that the government in Madrid and also in the Basque Country better guarantee the security of all the Socialist councillors in Euskadi. Zapatero said that his party was not rich enough to finance private security companies. His comments come after the murder of the Socialist Mayor of Lasarte earlier this week. A fire in the control tower of Barajas airport in Madrid has left the installation inoperative. The building has been evacuated and services transferred to the old control tower.
Some delays are inevitable to flights.
The Spanish Stock Market moved into the red yesterday after its largest fall this year. A judge in Madrid has ordered the Iberia airlines company to pay 250,000 in compensation to a family who were delayed by 6 hours on a flight from Asturias to Paris. The court made the order under the concept of moral damage. Spaniards sleep an average of 40 minutes less than the European average according to a new Europe-wide survey. The older son of the murdered Socialist mayor of Lasarte is shown on the front page of many of today s papers on the balcony of the town hall thanking the crowds who turned out for his father s funeral yesterday.