 Spain's population grew by 700,000 per annum between 2002 and 2007. With the financial crisis, net inward migration fell to 400,000 in 2008, and even further to only 47,000 in 2009 and 62,000 in 2010. |  The province of Malaga live on tourism, but can not offer residents and visitors treated wastewater. Half of the province's 101 municipalities did not purify wastewater |
Last weekend, I got myself out of bed and went along to see what Mets Dog Training Classes is all about (writes Kym Wickham). |  After the Cordoba-based savings bank CajaSur failed to reach an agreement on a merger ... | |
 The religious order has been running care homes across Spain for almost 50 years.. | 60 friends of Lux Mundi meet up for lunch.. | |
 Why dogs chase cats | It is the second reduction applied to the cabinet.... | |
 The press last week met a calf called Got, which means "glass" in Valencian, the first ever clone of a fighting bull. | The prosecution has asked for a four-and-a-half year jail sentence .. | |
 Muriel Pilkington
The Local
Voice |  Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba confirmed the DNA identification on Monday... | |
 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says reforms of Spain’s "dysfunctional" labour market, and its banking sector must be stepped up because cuts announced last week did not go far enough to ensure the country's recovery. |  Martin Delfín
Memo
from Madrid | |
The purpose of the Foundation of Friends is to extend a friendly helping hand... |  The judges' association in Andalucia wants to eliminate minor cases that end in small fines of €70 or €80 – such as quarrels between neighbours – but which cost the authorities anything up €7,200. | |
The Life Before Us portrays a sordid human landscape... |  “I wanted to die and to do some damage before killing myself” | |
Businesses have donated items for an auction and raffle... |  Loony Toonz play well with several new songs every gig... | |
Another full week of events at JK's in Coin.. | You will need to get there early to make sure of a seat as these are very popular events.
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 Well, the canal actually, through the middle of London.
Written by Jane Newman |  Education Minister Ángel Gabilondo said on Monday that he was very impressed ... | |
Automatic shared custody | Satan increasingly popular | |
Spain-Portugal union survey | Guardia Civil rescues up | |
Priest steals church windows | ONCE man arrested | |
Old style families decline | Europol comes
to Costa | |
 With the arrival of the warmer weather.... | Crimes, from drug trafficking and weapons are alleged | |
 Registration starts for the classes at 10.00am |  As of June 1st, Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero will take a salary cut.. | |
This year the garden party features live music from Bandana.. | The exhibition is open now and runs until Saturday June 26th.. | |
The final THESPA evening of the season will take place tonight, Wednesday, at the Masonic Hall, Edificio Bouganvilleas in Los Boliches.
|  summer dining at El Brujo | |
 Now that they are no longer raking in income from building licences and getting less money from the State, town councils throughout Andalucia are planning a 25% increase in fines and taxes this year to make up some of the short fall. |  To help animal welfare and the Diabetic Support Group | |
 A fun night arranged by the young peoples' department.. |  Carsick Dogs | |
One of the pedestrians was seriously injured.. | The scam was meant to save money on people's electricity bills | |
For those of you who are totally confused by the new rules for re-registering for your electricity, | Kieran is going from strength to strength in the sport.. | |
The government has denied a rumour that it intends to renew peace talks.. | Ever thought of joining a club? | |
Hundreds of men from all over Spain flocked to Huelva last week, to apply for a dream job in Dubai. |  Just days after being suspended from his post by the General Council of the Judiciary, judge Baltasar Garzon travelled to Paris to receive an award from the School of Political Science. | |
 He said he respected individual beliefs but “hiding a woman behind a garment.... | The fee will have to be paid out for seven translators.. | |
 Bolivian President Evo Morales, in Madrid to attend the EU-Latin American and Caribbean Summit, once again accused the Partido Popular and a “foundation close to it” of being behind an attempt to overthrow his government two years ago. |  Morocco's prime minister, Abbas el Fassi (pictured below), has called on Spain to start talks to put an the end to the “occupation” of the Moroccan cities, Ceuta and Melilla, and nearby islands”. | |
Forthcoming events for the month of May.. | Millions of bald tyres out there | |
Spain on Human Rights Council | Guardia to impound bicycles
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No documents in Catalan please | Cop cars
all out | |
Eight million visit Ikea | Ways round anti-smoking law | |
PP would win Sevilla |  A group of bikers are hoping to raise £5,000 to help five-year-old Tomas Leighton see again by riding in convoy to Spain. | |
 Live music from 10.30pm |  Crown Prince Felipe will carry out his father's duties until the doctors allow him back to work. | |
Is this just another fine collecting ploy!! | Good news for allergy sufferers.. | |
 The second part of Gary Deardon’s walk in the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura and las Villas National Park. The first part of the walk can be found in issue number 071 from May 5th
Written by Gary Dearden (Part 2) |  Martin Delfín
Memo
from Madrid | |
 Muriel Pilkington
The Local
Voice | Following the sell-out successes of Lux Mundi's recent trips.. | |
 Addressing rumours about outside pressures on Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to make the spending cuts .. |  Why not pop along for a great evening of fun... | |
 The pamphlet is still in circulation for tourism... |  A Marbella judge has summoned Sir Sean Connery, his wife, and members of a law firm to give evidence later this month about an alleged money-laundering scam. | |
 Pogs The Old Irish Rock Pub |  Where can everybody get something they like to eat?
Plus “Steak Special”?
... at El Mojito! | |
Walkers had the choice of which walk they would like to attempt.. | Come along and enjoy a musical evening and support your local Hospice! | |
One of Britain's “Most Wanted” men, 45-year-old Martin Anthony Smith was arrested in Barcelona on Friday
| Ryanair said that they had not cancelled any flights.. | |
Black Coffee was Agatha Christie’s first and only play featuring Hercule Poirot. The others were all adaptations from her novels.
| During his brief visit to Spain at the end of last week, Vice President Joe Biden thanked King Juan Carlos for the despatch of Spanish troops to Afghanistan. | |
A cheque for €535 was presented to Cudeca .. | The Catholic Church received more than €253 million of tax payers' contributions last year... | |
 Why dogs bark part 4 |  Writer Antonio Gala (above) warned that there could be some truth in a popular joke in Andalucia that the current Moroccan immigrants are the vanguard of an eventual invasion. | |
 Deputy Prime Minister María Teresa Fernandez de la Vega visited the old Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria... |  Muriel Pilkington
The Local
Voice | |
 Mike Brackenridge was on hand to present the trophies.. | Closing the 2009/ 2010 Season at the Salon Varietes Theatre is.. | |
The Good Companions Club recently held a Spring Fashion Show |  Martin Delfín Memo from Madrid
Writes for the English language version
of El Pais | |
 The Union Jack was proudly paraded by The Lions in Fuengirola on the Saturday during the Days of the Pueblos.
| Treatment requested by two ETA prisoners who are currently serving time in Alcolea jail.. | |
 Kieran Taylor, the 15-year- old red belt Taekwondo star.. |  King Juan Carlos was allowed to go home on Tuesday, after having a small nodule removed from his lung last Saturday at the Hospital Clinic in Barcelona. | |
The group arranges monthly trips to Gibraltar ... | MADRID: House prices up again | |
BARCELONA.
Steps to save wheelchairs | MADRID. Support for early election call
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MALLORCA. Tropical fish love the Med | Weather discourages visitors | |
Fined for 'sheriff' insult | Cigarette smuggling up | |
Chinese population increases |  With the special warehouses used to store confiscated drugs full to overflowing.. | |
 By 2013, all the provincial capitals in Andalucia will be connected by the AVE high speed train service. |  The normally very serious 'de Cospedal' did a bit of stand-up comedy
at the PP's Convention in Burgos | |
 The post was created for the Former Junta de Andalucia premier in April last year.. |  Andalucian men and women over 45 are the most conscientious about recycling.. | |
to “give greater transparency to public affairs”. |  Tombola, bottle stall, handicrafts and home produce. | |
 T.O.P.S. (The Occasional Production Society) held a very successful Murder Mystery Dinner.. |  Tickets for this great event are selling like hot cakes and with only 21 days to go before the event why not see if you can raise a party to go along on the day?
Written by Kym Wickham & Alfredo Bloy | |
A local council employee will be calling on the worst offenders with a wake up call. |  | |
 This Saturday 8th May sees the welcome return of Johnny G back at El Potro Bar and Restaurant |  Another year on, and the time has come to celebrate the Cudeca Walkathon 2010. | |
Sponsor forms are available at the CHAIN charity shop at La Trocha, Coin | Many local companies will be manning stalls to sell their merchandise.. | |
 Prosecutors are asking for 300-year jail sentences for each of the three suspected ETA terrorists accused of carrying out the 2006 Madrid airport bombing which killed two people. |  a celebration of 20 years of singing.. | |
What A Farce!! |  8yr old Mercedes is just one of the older dogs who needs a home. | |
 Lib Dem leader Nick Cleggs' surge into the limelight as a result of the televised election debates in the UK... | The proposal is to extract 1.6 million m3 of sand from the seabed.. | |
This is the new date for the cancelled event in May.. | Why dogs bark part 3 | |
 José Ignacio de Juana Chaos, who served more than 21 years in jail for his part in an ETA campaign of murders, has jumped bail in Belfast. |  Martin Delfín
Memo
from Madrid | |
Some 40 departmental heads will lose their jobs ... | First call will be at 6pm... | |
The latest opinion poll shows that more and more people are losing faith. | Customers old and new, all are welcome to pop along for a drink and tapa.. | |
This time, some very special videos have been chosen for the meeting |  Over twenty five walkers took part.. | |
 A law prohibiting showing pornographic scenes and gratuitous violence on free TV stations came into effect on May 1st. | Police stop girl’s auction | |
Headscarf si, burka no | Aznar plaque removed
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Road deaths down | Jobless figures bad | |
Golf courses flourishing |  Muriel Pilkington
The Local
Voice | |
 Live Music in Fuengirola | A CEA spokesman said politicians were usually at the bottom of people’s lists of worries | |
 A walk in the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y las Villas national park
Written by Gary Dearden - PART ONE | It will include R&D laboratories as well as an advanced animal studies department. | |
 It´s really nice to have young people prepared to give up their free time to volunteer for a good cause." | Mrs. Joan Robertson has retired as Church Warden.... | |
 For the fourth time in as many years, Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero arranged... | | |
An 18-year old who described himself as 'anti-fascist' told police that he attacked another 18-year-old at Delicias metro station in Madrid because “when I see a fascist I beat him”. |  This year will see the fourth “Open Studio Weekend” on Saturday May 22nd and Sunday May 23rd when art lovers can browse, admire and purchase from 11am until 8pm on both days. | |
 Takings are down in Andalucia.. |  He is the most important member of the US government to visit Spain ... | |
 Muriel Pilkington The Local Voice | a serious waste of police time... | |
Other Lions Club and Marbella Voluntaria have also shown their support for the young Leos... |  28 more cruise ships than last year are expected.. | |
Why dogs bark part 2 |  Don't forget to take some carrots for the donkeys! | |
his popular event takes place on Sunday May 2nd from 11am at Posh Pets near Venta Los Chavos in Alhaurin el grande. | MADRID. | |
Both walks will start at Laguna Beach, Estepona.. |  The Red Cross immediately took them to hospital for a check-up. | |
 The photographs were taken at last year’s International Festival.. |  The trial of former Manilva mayor Pedro Tirado began on Tuesday with prosecutors seeking a two-year jail term for charges of accepting bribes. | |
The information came from the Working Population Survey... |  Alicia Sánchez-Camacho, apologised on Tuesday for a pamphlet ... | |
 Antonio Izquierdo who, together with his brother Emilio, killed nine people in Puerto Hurraco 20 years ago, hanged himself in Badajoz jail on Sunday. He was 72. | The T.O.P.S group held a fundraising evening for Cudeca.. | |
 The twosome appeared in Madrid last week and will head to Alicante and Barcelona after their Malaga concerts. |  Well known actress Natalie Robb was in Coin last week, visiting her mother – local artist Juliette Robb who has some of her paintings on display at The News Office in Coin. | |
 A delightfully frantic farce written by Alan Ayckbourn.. | NIJAR, ALMERIA. Setting an example | |
 NERJA.11th Foreigners Day |  TORROX. Lady Luck visits Axarquia town | |
SEVILLE. Huge backlog in courts |  It is well worth the trip inland for the day.
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 The measures are to be brought in due to the cronic shortage of rental properties. |  The event was bathed in welcome spring sunshine.. | |
MADRID. | The man had been spotted attacking a Guardia Civil barracks.. | |
Races, prize raffle, book sale plus a hot supper is available for €5.
|  Memo
from Madrid Martin Delfín
Writes for the English language version
of El Pais | |
Less than 18% of those eligible to vote actually did so... |  They come in equal 5th with the UK and Greece | |
The new look Fair will have many more stalls, | MADRID. | |
 She has finally decided to make good her promise to give up dancing long enough to have a baby. | VALLADOLID. | |
 It is hoped that the course required will be made available in English.. |  A fabulous experience for all with plenty of nice restaurants for lunch in the old town... | |
Basque Parliament Speaker Arantza Quiroga has called on Judge Baltasar Garzon's supporters....
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 According to the ABC newspaper, the Basque terrorist group wanted Aznar dead... |  There are two legends that surround the celebration and commemoration of the May Crosses Festival, the Cruces de Mayo, celebrated in many parts of the world, and especially here in Andalucia.
Written by Andrea MacLean | |
Entertainment at the Bayside Diner, | Like many other travellers it is looking like they will have to make their way to France and Eurostar.. | |
 Why dogs bark |  A 17-metre-high sculpture of a donkey has been erected on top of a hill near the small town of El Carpio in Cordoba province, and is clearly visible from the A-4 highway. | |
Maybe the answer is more accessable car parks, which again is a problem in most towns in the Province.. |  The five were arrested during raids on homes in the Basque country last week. | |
 All the models are from the Good Companions.. | The next film in English at the La Trocha cinema in Coín is “Brothers”.
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 at Shenanigan’s & The Far Isle |  As of May 1st, the Guardia Civil and the National Police.. | |
Malaga has accused the Junta de Andalucia (Socialist) of throwing its weight behind Cordoba.. |  He had been sailing down the Congo river during a two-month vacation.. | |
Neither the factories nor the scrapyards questioned the provenance... |  National Statistics Institute figures show that divorces among people over 60 have doubled ... | |
 It had nothing to do with her religion. |  King Juan Carlos awarded the Cross for Naval Merit to the four crew members of a Navy helicopter which crashed on a mountainside in Haiti last Friday. | |
MADRID. Anti-depressants sales up
| HUELVA. Air force plane 'attacks' boat | |
MARBELLA. Unsolved murder confession | ANDALUCIA. More pharmacies to be opened | |
MALAGA. House prices down |  This is one of the great charity events of the year and not to be missed.
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Under the current law, they receive nothing but a fine.. |  It’s a busy week for Pógs in Fuengirola this week... | |
 Partido Popular leader Mariano Rajoy and Madrid regional premier Esperanza Aguirre kicked off in Madrid on Sunday their “civic rebellion” to convince the government not to raise the IVA tax by 2% as of July 1st. | ||
 Thousands of people went to the gateway of the Real de la Feria fairground to watch the lighting of its 370,000 light bulbs at midnight on Monday. |  It's an awesome tale of courage against overwhelming odds.. | |
 Memo from Madrid Martin Delfín
Writes for the English language version
of El Pais | Make the most of your extra time in Spain and have a night out at
the Salon | |
JK's in Coin is the inland place to be this Friday.. | The play before dinner is “Field Full” by Alan Bates by kind permission of Samuel French Ltd, | |
 Muriel Pilkington, The Local Voice | Enjoy a foot-tapping charity evening | |
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 A year ago, an ounce of gold was worth €648, it is now worth €862 and still rising.. | Five Spaniards, a Frenchman and an Italian have been arrested so far. | |
 Television viewers all over the country could hardly believe their eyes last Friday when they saw scenes of policemen wearing riot gear brutally attacking unarmed people sitting on the ground. | MADRID. Health Ministry sources have said a tougher anti-smoking law may be delayed... | |
 Martin Delfín
Writes for the English language version
of El Pais
Memo
from Madrid | MADRID. The money collected by the capital's churches next Sunday.. | |
Previously known as “Jeff The Happy Hooker”. |  At press time, the Supreme Court's investigating magistrate Luciano Varela.... | |
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Consultations with david in your home 610 868 748 |  caña € 1 - everyone is welcome and the music is good, live and above all spontaneous. Have fun! | |
 This is a fine show in two parts with something for everyone | NERJA. The number of visitors to the famous cave has dropped by 10% | |
 Jaime Martinez-Bordiú, 45, faced arrest again last week.. | VALENCIA. After firemen put out a blaze, apparently caused by a gas leak.. | |
 The Aborigine local knowledge made it all possible.. | The man was French and was ignoring the police order to stop... | |
It was still daylight when witnesses saw the car mount the pavement at about 130 kph |  Videos of classic jazz performances will be shown.. | |
 A Seville court on Monday charged Miguel Carcaño, his brother Javier Delgado, the latter's girlfriend María García, and a friend of theirs, Samuel Benítez |  The News last week alerted art lovers to the news that British artists Ian Hunter and Lavinia Croft .. | |
 The 57-year-old doctor had worked in Africa on and off for the past 20 years.. | Admission is free, the sunshine is free and the singing from TIMS is also free. | |
The presentation will cover all matters relating to pensions and benefits |  The man was arrested with a hammer in his hand after following his partner into the emergency room | |
A 30-year-old man who went missing last Friday night.. |  Letters have been sent to more than 1,000 known blood donors | |
The market is going from strength to strength.. |  Some 1,600 intellectuals are backing a proposal that this year's Principe de Asturias Concord Award | |
BARCELONA.The City Council has opened the bidding.. |  Muriel Pilkington
The Local
Voice | |
 Muriel Pilkington
The Local
Voice | Popular dog show has to be postponed.. | |
 He put the value of most of the works “at what people would be prepared to pay.. |  The relentless rain seems to be behind us, the countryside is awash with vibrant colours,
Written by Andrea MacLean | |
 Woody shows his creative side.. | MALAGA. A Malaga court has sentenced a 29-year-old man to five years in jail | |
AXARQUIA. Police have a arrested a self-styled maquis .. | Spain will drop to 12th place in 2014... | |
Charity shop is offering a good selection of clothes ready for the warmer weather | The International Music Society (T.I.M.S.) Choir & Orchestra .. | |
 The Three Pianists will be in concert at the Salon Varietes, Fuengirola. | Join Cindy Jones and a group of friends on Sunday May 2nd | |
Marbella. Mayor Angeles Muñoz announced on Monday that work on a 3.5kmlong promenade.. | Six women have been killed by their partners or ex-partners so far this month.. | |
The play tells the story of his childhood, | MALAGA. The Local Police arrested four youths.. | |
The Casa de Cultura in Alhaurin el Grande is the venue for an Art Exhibition | The regional governments of Huelva, Sevilla, Jaén and Cádiz .. | |
 One result of the recent construction crash is that many local councils are heavily in debt after losing one of their main sources of income. | The investigation began last July after traffic police pulled over a driver | |
 When to get to the Vet - Fast!
|  Police in Seville said that the man who killed two women just after they got out of a taxi in the city .. | |
Vilches, Jaen. An earthquake registering 3.3 on the Richter scale.. |  La Risa Bar & Bistro at Lauro Golf had a wonderful Easter menu.. | |
A Charity Buffet Dinner Dance with a Motown n' Soul theme . | Ye who have little faith!! | |
 On September 29th 2009, THOR was stolen during the night, |  Memo
from Madrid
Martin Delfín
Writes for the English language version
of El Pais | |
 The director of the Fuente de Piedra lagoon, Manuel Rendón, is expecting a record number of flamingo chicks this year, probably the most registered since records began at the lagoon in 1983. | MADRID. | |
ESTEPONA. Two of the houses in the Forrest Hills urbanisation | The International Club of Estepona is a club for English speaking people of all nationalities. | |
PORT-AU-PRINCE. | New move for Aid Charity.. | |
Unemployment continued to rise in March, by 35,988 | A Family Court judge in Seville has said false domestic violence complaints are causing what he called a “genocide” among men. | |
Films in English at La Trocha.. | MALAGA. With the unemployment rate of 27% well above the national average, | |
 A 14-year-old girl has confessed to the murder of 13-year-old Cristina Martin | Two Moslems from Austria were arrested last week when they tried to pray in the Cordoba Mosque, which was converted into a cathedral when the city was won back from the Moors in 1236. | |
Meetings of NADFAS to be heldat the Salon Varietes.. |  Muriel Pilkington
The Local
Voice | |
Why not pop along to a local U3A coffee morning... |  The government plans to reform the law governing lighthouses.. | |
MADRID. |  A total of 44 people died on the roads this Easter Week, only two less than last year. | |
 King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia unveiled a commemorative model on Monday to mark the 100th anniversary of Madrid's most famous street – the Gran Via. |  The organisers of this year's Andalucian Thoroughbred Horse Fair, SACAB, in Cóin expect more than 15,000 visitors.
Written by Wendy Thorby | |
New Band debuts at JK's | The TAPAS Easter Extravaganza Spring Fayre.. | |
 A gaggle of planets | TAPAS is staging their very own “Stars in Your Eyes” | |
 A Red Cross study has debunked some of the myths about the immigrants who reach in Spain in cayucos, principally that their level of education is poor and that they undertake these dangerous journeys out of desperation. |  The Topcats team are holding a fun-packed evening to raise some much needed money for Cudeca.. | |
 CHAIN´s Neutering under the Sun (NUTS) project kicked off last week.. | MADRID. | |
A man was admitted with stab wounds to the Costa del Sol hospital on Maundy Thursday, | | |
 The next film in English at the La Trocha cinema in Coín is “A Single Man. |  The Public Prosecutor’s Office has said former Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar did not commit any kind of “irresponsible accounting” | |
 Banderas is a keen participator in Malaga’s Easter Week religious processions | ANDALUCIA. | |
The car a Renault Laguna belonged to a Coin man.. | For all of those of you who were a bit confused by the article... | |
 The inn is to be restored and opened to the public this summer. |  The Guardia Civil have arrested a Polish builder in Buitrago de Lozoya, Madrid, who was forcing five of his fellow countrymen to work 16 hours a day without pay. | |
 The judge in the Palma Arena corruption case, José Castro, has ordered former Balearic Islands premier Jaume Matas to pay a €3 million bail if he wants to stay out of jail until his trial starts. | According to provincial government figures, the crime rate in Malaga province dropped.. | |
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Saint George’s Anglican Church in Malaga is holding a number of services over the Easter period. |  Easter time in Spain is a very big event on the year’s calendar. | |
The Meteorological Agency, Aemet, is advising holidaymakers to seek the sun along the country’s Mediterranean coastline... |  El Brujo is a large restaurant and bar on Urbanization El Coto.. | |
 Flamenco is as much a part of the fabric of Andalucia as its Moorish heritage and "white pueblos".
Written by Andrea MacLean |  Gay couples offer an “excellent” family atmosphere for bringing up children because they foment values such as tolerance, with both parents being equally involved in their children’s education. | |
 After all the political parties refused to attend a meeting on Monday.. | The operators want the public to know they are just obeying police orders.. | |
 Memo
from Madrid
Martin Delfín
Writes for the English language version
of El Pais |  A life-size statue of Federico Garcia Lorca, who was executed by Falangists in August 1936, | |
 BUDDY |  M.A.P.S. are delighted to announce the details of The M.A.P.S. Charity Golf Circuit for 2010.
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The bridge joins the promenades of Marbella and Puerto Banus. | On Friday 9 April in St Andrew's Church Los Boliches. | |
 There was an uncharacteristic light-hearted moment in Parliament last week during an otherwise heated discussion of the Sustainable Economy Law. |  The A-387 will be closed as of Monday, April 5th, | |
FUENGIROLA. | MALAGA. | |
 The document was signed by 19 others, including four Nobel Peace Prize winners: |  A huge crew of 80 are aboard the Galleon | |
www.sos-animals.org or telephone 620 782 484 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 620 782 484 end_of_the_skype_highlighting. |  Juan Cotino, a former director general of the Police and the Guardia .. | |
Three Spanish women died at the hands of their partners over the weekend, bringing the number of deaths from gender violence to 31 so far this year. |  The Vet in a Van scheme has now been launched, in a bid to help control the population of stray animals along this stretch of the costa and inland. | |
 Muriel Pilkington
The Local
Voice | | |
 Amnesty International told the European Parliament's Sub-Committee on Human Rights last week that several EU member states – including Spain - had authorised the export of weapons and restraints to countries where it had documented the use of such equipment in torture. | MALAGA. The Local Police seized 70 bales of hashish.. | |
 Two Alhaurin el Grande women, Katrina Smith and Margo Dalby, are setting off on the trip of a lifetime later this year in a bid to raise money for charity. |  Throughout Andalucia a number of young men will now be scanning the skies and monitoring the weather reports, hoping that the news will be good and that Semana Santa will be spared. | |
There is a change of venue and time for their ‘drop-in’ centres.. |  €500 was raised for a new wing to Marbella's Costa Del Sol Hospital.. | |
Participate and save a pet at the P.A.D. Golf and Fun Day at La Cala resort’s Campo America on Sunday April 12th.
| The government has managed to get the regions to accept spending cuts of €10,000 million over the next four years in an attempt to refill depleted public coffers. | |
 Actress Pilar Bardem has signed the petition launched in Spain two weeks ago demanding the “immediate and unconditional release of all the political prisoners in Cuban prisons” and “respect for the exercise, promotion and defence of human rights in any part of the world”. | There will be a coffee morning on Friday March 26th from 10.30 to 12.30 .. | |
 The victims and their families have waited a long long time for compensation to be agreed |  A spokesman said consumers will feel the increase in their pockets. | |
 Muriel Pilkington
The Local
Voice |  The exhibition can be viewed through to October.. | |
 Walk and talk | The Junta de Andalucia has approved the Law of Rights and Guarantees of the Dignity of a Person in the Process of Dying... | |
There is an interesting programme planned for the evening which includes a play for 6 ladies.. |  Apart from a whole host of other things going on at JK’s this week - more on these later - | |
 The cutting of the tape was performed by the Mayor of Alhaurin el Grande D. Juan Martin Seron.. | MALAGA. The arrest of nine Mafia capos on the Costa del Sol last year .. | |
It is about the reflections of an unemployed man on the passing of time.... | HUELVA. The Junta de Andalucia has taken charge of a 17-year-old Senegalese youth.. | |
 Martin Delfín
Writes for the English language version
of El Pais
Memo
from Madrid |  Malaga has already studied the facilities in London... | |
SEVILLE. A new law approved by the Junta de Andalucia in February.. |  Mayor Esperanza Oña said that she will not be raising taxes or other charges made by the Town Hall to fight the economic crisis, even though central government is doing just the opposite. | |
 President Obama launched an initiative in a speech in Prague last year, | The big St Patrick’s Day party at Pógs last Wednesday certainly lived up to all expectations | |
 A request by Arnaldo Otegi, the jailed leader of the banned Batasuna party, to be allowed to go home provisionally while his daughter receives psychiatric treatment, has been described as an insult by the deputy president of the Association of Victims of Terrorism (AVT). | Age Concern are organising a sponsored walk on Sunday May 2nd. | |
Animals In Distress (A.I.D.) invite you to “Play Your Cards Right” on Friday March 26th. | ||
 Muriel Pilkington
The Local
Voice | The Arroyo Welfare & Social Club, Arroyo de la Miel, presented a cheque for €1,000 raised by its members to help with the work of the Age Care Association. | |
...because Spain is an ally of NATO and the United States |  The initiative – called “Orland Zapata Tamayo: | |
Auditions will be held at the Salon Varietes Theatre on Saturday March 20th from 12 noon to 3pm | Given that more than half of all traffic accidents in Spain happen in cities, the Traffic Authority has proposed a series of measures to reduce the figures. | |
 Navarre's regional parliament approved on Monday an institutional declaration that recognises the region's traditional bull running |  IVA is meant to be increasing on July 1st | |
 The families argued that Spain's Defence Ministry should not have charted the Yak-42 because of its poor safety record. |  | |
Puppy contracts | ||
 Malaga´s drive to be selected as European Capital of Culture continues as the city builds on its cultural diversity designed to spark debate and provide entertainment that embraces all art forms. | ||
 The Portuguese police arrested a suspected member of the Basque terrorist group ETA as he was trying to board a flight to Venezuela last Thursday. | Including the drying up of the aquifer.. | |
Expats in Coín, Alhaurin el Grande, Alhaurin de la Torre, Cartama, Alora, Torremolinos and several other towns are in the process of forming a political party for foreigners to run in the local elections in May 2011. | ALHAURIN EL GRANDE. The Local Police have said that some 5,700 metres of copper electricity cables ... | |
 This week’s film in English at the La Trocha Commercial Centre cinema in Coin is Invictus. |  The Salon Varieté's Theatre is proud to present Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. | |
 King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia inaugurated Malaga airport's new terminal – T3 – on Monday which started functioning on Tuesday without any hitches. | Inland at JK's in Coin, the place to be for entertainment | |
 The PP also wants harsher sentences for cases like Mari | ||
 Civil Protection agents located some 40 jellyfish | The next meeting will be on April 8. Full details of membership and events can be found on www.costapressclub.com | |
Government's environment department shows that past building in the country has seriously polluted the rivers | Now well into rehearsals, the forthcoming performance by I.T.S. will be “One for the Road” by Willy Russell. | |
 Spain's National police helped in raids against major msfis gsng |  Five Spanish fishing boats have repelled attacks by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean since the beginning of the month – three of them on March 5th. | |
 Set in the ballroom of the dilapidated Swan Hotel, a group of local members of the Pendon community | Several pharmacies in Malaga have been broken into in recent weeks... | |
 Miguel Delibes, considered the greatest Spanish writer of the 20th century, died last Friday at his home in Valladolid. He was 89. |  A group from U3A learned about the history of the beautiful Andalucian horse on a recent trip to Yeguada de la Cartuja. | |
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from Madrid | An amazing €34,000 has been raised, they have neutered over 1000 cats and dogs | |
 A woman was stabbed twice in the leg and in the back and drenched in petrol at 8.15 am on Tuesday morning outside Sunset Beach apartments in Benalmadena. | | |
 Muriel Pilkington
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 That was the question asked by Judit Alberich, the mayoress of Cunit, |  With the horrible weather we’ve been having thoughts of holidays come to the fore and, if you don’t want to be stuck in a hotel in one place, what better way to spend your holiday than touring in a caravan.
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 More than 220,000 were left without electricity, 174 roads were closed and some 1,500 people had to be rescued from their cars as Barcelona was buried by unusual sea-level snow storms. |  The run will start at the Taberna del Urbaneja just outside Monda.. | |
The La Trocha Thursday market / rastrillo is growing fast |  Thousands of demonstrators have marched through most of the country's major cities last Sunday to protest against a bill that will make it easier for women to seek an abortion. | |
 Washing your pet |  The new season’s programme begins on Tuesday, April 20th... | |
 An alleged member of the Basque terrorist group ETA gave himself up last Saturday at a police post in Biarrtiz airport. | At the Age Care Charity Shop, Las Jarales, Calahonda, | |
 STOP PRESS.. |  The town councils of Jaén and Cordoba have announced their intention to demolish houses that were built in areas known to be prone to flooding. | |
FUENGIROLA. | The town's councillor in charge of the Foreign Residents and New Technologies departments... | |
 “Drums 2010 for Cudeca” |  This year the Irish Association's St.Patrick's Day celebrations on Wednesday March 17th... | |
The government's decision to pay three million public officials €500 just before the 2012 general election has been condemned by all the opposition parties. | Club Charity and Pleasure is a social, non-profit organisation based in El Paraiso | |
Reader Alan Ellis, who has an official Met Office rain guage, has sent in the following information:-
|  last year's crime statistics were the lowest for a decade... | |
 Saucy! |  In anticipation of a new law on compensation for victims of terrorism, the Interior Ministry has drawn up the most complete list ever produced so far.
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 The alternative transport for official events will be “public transport or taxis”, the mayor said. | ALHAURIN. | |
 Sr Corbacho started a huge debate about pension reform in February... |  Union Progress and Democracy (UpyD) leader Rosa Díez announced last Friday that she intended to intensify her party's efforts in Catalonia with a view to capturing votes in next year's regional election. | |
The Catholic Church and the government are both happy and disappointed .. |  Only five people were killed on the roads last week, | |
 If Sr Bono's plan is accepted, the session would begin in January instead of February... | To be held in the Parque de la Paloma, Arroyo de la Miel on Wednesday March 17th | |
 Golfers can get in a round and raise money for charity | ||
 A spokesman for the Andalucian Federation of Beach Businesses has said he fears that there will not be enough time to make good the damage done done by the bad weather to hundreds of miles of beaches in time for Easter week. |  The British government has stepped into the debate over Spain’s planning laws which have blighted the retirement homes of many Britons. | |
One of the less visible effects of the current economic situations is the headache it is causing for the so-called Communities of residents throughout the province. | ||
Anybody who is a resident and empadronada in Spain is allowed to vote in local and European elections. | MARBELLA. | |
 The town of Plan, which nestles against the Pyrenees in Aragon province, has been celebrating the 25th anniversary of the famous Caravan of Women, an idea the local men came up with to find wives and stop the village from dying. | Heart F.M. opening in new premises on the Poligono La Rosa.. | |
 Especially if it’s Irish, | | |
 At the other end of the scale, in Alhaurin de la Torre, only 9% of the townspeople are over the age of 65. |  The Age Care Association will be holding its AGM at the Tamisa Golf Hotel on Friday March 12th at 10.00 for 10.30 am. | |
 The next meeting of the Jazz Appreciation Society is to be held at the Benavista Country Club | ||
 A judicial investigation has revealed that the Venezuelan Government might have helped ETA and FARC rebels in a plot to kill the Colombian president. |  The Socialist Deputy Mayor of Paradas in Sevilla province resigned last Thursday, the day after the reformed Abortion Law scraped through the Upper House in Madrid with 132 votes in favour, 126 against and one abstention. | |
The Spanish couple who owned the store were charged with simulation and fraud |  The Salon Varieties in Fuengirola | |
A chance for expats to to get up to date with their entitlements in Spain | Volunteers are always needed for the shop so if you are at a loose end... | |
 When police arrested Ciro Figaro, an alleged capo of the Napolitan Camorra, in San Pedro Alcántara, they discovered he was holding the daughter of another Don, who owed him money from a drug deal. |  For the past 14 years the town has been holding this event | |
 As a Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama said he abhorred all ill treatment of animals. |  Why does my dog wag his tail? | |
There is a desperate shortage of beds in the area hospitals | Sallie, who lived in Iran for many years, covered the Safavid Dynasty in particular (1502 to 1736 | |
FUENGIROLA. |  The next film in English at the La Trocha cinema in Coín is Up In The Air | |
 You can join with other eyes and ears to gather useful information on suspicious activities. | The greater part of the Church's income still comes from church collections | |
As of March 1st, Spain's MPs will have to list their paid and unpaid outside activities.. | The Great God Mission is a Christian Mission that can be found near Malaga airport, not far from PC World in Calle Suiza, Nave 4, Parque Empresarial Velasquez.
For more information call 952 411 586, 628 163 479 or 649 827 984. | |
 Anybody who has ever served on a committee will recognise many of the characters |  High winds kill 3 | |
 Spanish oil company to drill near Falklands |  A Belfast judge has ordered the extradition of José Ignacio de Juana Chaos, rejecting his claim he would not get a fair trial in Spain and may face harsher punishment for his political beliefs. | |
NERJA. |  The World Rare Disease Day conference held in Madrid on Sunday ended with an agreement to promote the creation of more specialist centres, services and reference units. | |
 During her visit to the flooded areas of Cordoba on Saturday, Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega vowed that even the owners of illegal houses would receive financial help from the government. |  The next meeting of The Andalucian Gardening Club is on Tuesday March 9th | |
 Run by Antonio Cabrera and family who pride themselves on service and quality, | Suicides have taken over from road deaths as the main cause of “unnatural” deaths, | |
 Health Minister Trinidad Jimenez offered Spain's surplus swine flu vaccines to her Latin American counterparts. |  The teenagers ran through Los Boliches on Friday evening waving posters | |
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from Madrid |  Many ‘News’ readers will probably have passed Carratraca, which is not far from its better-known neighbour Ardales, having considered it too close to be worth stopping en route to or from the ‘lakes’.
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 Muriel Pilkington
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Voice |  The latest Eurostat survey shows that Spain's young people leave home long after the other EU youths have fled the nest. | |
She said Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was “incapable”.. |  Torrential rains have claimed the lives of a British couple after the roof of a farmhouse they were staying in collapsed on Monday. | |
The so-called Gurtel corruption case started in April last year.. | St Patrick´s Day celebrations at the CHAIN charity shop in La Trocha, Coin, | |
P.A.D. animal charity based in Fuengirola, Mijas Costa, is in desperate need of funding due to a flooding at the shelter. |  The government will formally recognise one of the country's best-known poets, Miguel Hernandez, a victim of the Franco dictatorship who died in jail in 1942. | |
 Come Laughing Home is a very moving and funny family drama set in the north of England in the 1960s.
|  Why dogs bury bones | |
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Voice | If you are interested in joining the branch just go along for a looksee. | |
 Following on from the popularity of the traditional Sunday open Carvery, where customers get to pick and choose the food they fancy, El Potro will soon introduce a series of sensibly priced Friday theme nights. | The head of the National Intelligence Centre (CNI) has revealed ... | |
Spain's exports rose by 4% in December for the first time in 15 months. |  Martin Delfín
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 A photo of former Prime Minister José María Aznar giving the finger to a group of students who booed him as he left the Economics Faculty at the University of Oviedo appeared on the front pages of all the national papers and many foreign ones on Friday. |  One thing is sure - after the rain will come the weeds so be ready to get gardening! | |
 120 people turned up to help owners Annie and Ian Leslie celebrate |  Andalucia Day on February 28th | |
 Throughout Andalucia towns and villages are now counting the cost of days of torrential rainfall, and some councils are seeking emergency government financial support to rebuild roads and damaged walls and buildings. | The incident occurred during a set-to between two gangs of youths. | |
The government of Mali, which is acting as an intermediary with the Al Qaeda North African group... | The Spanish Airports Authority (AENA) has withdrawn data... | |
 A 27-year-old man threw his shoe at Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Seville on Monday evening, shouting "Viva Kurdistan". He missed his target and hit Mr Erdogan's bodyguard instead. |  The flood water was rising as Jordan waded in to rescue the terrfied animal. Well done Jordan! | |
 The residents of Mojácar are so desperate to find out who is the lucky winner of the €64.8 million Euromillions prize two weeks ago that they are talking about setting the police after him or her. |  The Costa del Sol Decorative & Fine Arts Society was founded in November 1988 to further the enjoyment, knowledge and awareness of the Arts internationally and to stimulate interest in the preservation of our local heritage in Spain. | |
 Two more ETA arrests |  “Up In The Air”
Starring George Clooney | |
Don’t forget that Thursday night is Ceroc night too from 8pm. |  Daisy | |
Animal charity Proteccion de Animalias Domesticos (PAD) have arranged a golf day at La Cala on Friday April 12th. |  | |
One court official delivered 49 summonses by taxi in Seville last Friday. | Despite an overall drop of 8%, Britons were still the most numerous (528,306) . | |
The Junta de Andalucia has received the sum of €3 million for the conservation of the lynx colony in Doñana National Park. | The governor of the Bank of Spain told a conference on the reform of the financial system on Monday that the economic reforms proposed by the Government in recent weeks are “steps in the right direction”. | |
The AGM for the animal charity PAD is to take place.. | Estepona Floral Art Club will be holding their Annual General Meeting | |
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Voice | A mistake was made in the contact number for the new book “The Second Twelve Shortcuts to Spanish”. It should have been 952 450 747.
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Over 40 members and guests enjoyed a themed evening ... |  Spain is a country of fiestas - everything stops for fun and hardly a month seems to go by without falling across some procession or other.
By Andrea MacLean | |
Club Charity and Pleasure is a social, non-profit organisation.. | Manageress Beverley Morland and shop volunteers were distressed to discover a break-in at the Calahonda Age Care Shop recently. | |
St Andrew’s Chaplaincy has organised services for the Lent period and also various courses for the coming weeks. |  Following the overwhelming success of the Autumn Concert for Cudeca last October | |
They used to make enough money selling their famous sweets and pastries
but times are hard now for local business.... | The Club, holds monthly meetings at venues along the Coast | |
Treats and your pet | They said that for the moment they had not discovered the motive for the deaths. | |
You only have to take a drive anywhere to see the reckless way Spaniards drive, not just the young either, rules of the road mean nothing so long as they can get past the car in front... | Santiesteban del Puerto. | |
 Amistad hotshot Andrew Richards is enjoying a good run at number one .. |  The Local Police in Estepona have acquired three sniffer dogs to help them keep local schools drug free. | |
 Luis Otero, a co-founder of the Democratic Military Union (UMD) who was jailed for eight years for military rebellion in 1976, received the Military Merit Cross from Defence Minister Carme Chacón on Tuesday. |  The Spanish government has long accused Gibraltar of being a haven for money launderers.. | |
 The Wax Museum in Madrid has lost no time in removing all traces of the Infanta Elena's ex-husband, Jaime de Marichalar, after their divorce was officially confirmed last week. | Chef Ian produces high quality meals every time. | |
 A highly entertaining movie.. |  A delegation from the Malaga provincial government's public works department visited Alhaurin el Grande last week to check on the progress of the work on the roads that connect the Guadalhorce Valley with the coast. | |
Age Concern has arranged a venta lunch at a restaurant in Estepona .. |  The non stop rain didn't stop the indoor portrait shoot | |
A speed limit of 20 kph is to be imposed in the historical centre |  Vanity Fair gets royal cover | |
 COSTA DEL SOL. |  Lily is a female cream labrador puppy with big brown eyes.. | |
The National Police have arrested what they described as the most active trafficker of “speed” - amphetamine sulphate... |  The arrest on Tuesday brings the total number of detentions of alleged ETA terrorist to 17 so far this year. | |
The spokesman apologised for offending their religious convictions. | Traffic Authority organisation plans to install between 150 and 200 radar speed camera's... | |
 Missing dog Rony turns up safe.. |  Spain was put on orange alert earlier this week as bad weather swept the country – and Andalucia was one of the worst hit regions.
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from Madrid |  Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said on Monday that Spain is willing to take in five inmates from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Spain had previously agreed to take in two detainees - a Yemeni and a Palestinian. | |
 Spanish fisherman Benito Estevez has finally traced the owner of a digital camera which he hauled from the Atlantic.. |  The dream has come true for a couple from Gloucestershire and a lucky person from Mojacar in Almeria who each won £56 million after scooping the EuroMillions lottery at the weekend. | |
Thespa have an interesting programme for Wednesday February 24th.. | Bar and restaurant owners have said they will be driven out of business if the proposal passes into law. | |
Toyota España has said it will check out 100,000 vehicles within 60 working days for a possible defect in their accelerators.
|  Fifty years after her death, the family of Begoña Urroz Ibarola attended a ceremony in Lasarte-Oria, Guipúzcoa province, on Tuesday to pay tribute to her for the first time. | |
 Franco had closed the border on June 8, 1969, trapping many Spanish workers on the Rock. |  A 60th wedding anniversary is quite an achievement and certainly good cause for celebration | |
 New owners Tony and Tim are building on the standards set by previous owners and friends Natalie and Allen. | Sian Kirby from Ireland and Enrique Linaza from Spain are two new artist members .. | |
 It is widely known that the Prime Minister is a big fan of Barca |  Filled with the good old songs and fun which symbolises the very heart of British entertainment | |
 Muriel Pilkington
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Voice |  Five soldiers, believed to belong to the Welsh Guards, are awaiting a court hearing in Lanzarote, after going on a rampage last Saturday night. | |
For having allowed a case opened against a resident for building on non-urbanisable land to lapse. |  For over a year now, cocaine shipments from Colombia to Galicia in north west Spain have been tailing off until they are almost negligible today. | |
 A judge in Almeria has ordered the Vera Town Council to pay the rent on a property for Leonard and Helen Prior similar to their home, which was demolished by its order in January 2008. |  Body language Vulnerable or Helpless
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 St. Valentine’s Day is the most romantic day of the year - and woe betide anyone who forgets to buy a card or a gift for that very special someone - so be prepared for Sunday. But how did it all start - just who was Saint Valentine? |  The discovery of a huge stash of explosives by Portuguese police last Friday has confirmed the Spanish authorities’ suspicion that the Basque terrorist group ETA was setting up bases there. | |
It was the first case to be tried under a decree passed last year | Most of the new judges will be sent to Malaga.. | |
 He told his host, President Michel Suleiman, that the troops’ presence... |  A male Iberian lynx called Caribu was recaptured last week after having gone walkabout from the Coto Doñana to Portugal. | |
Researchers from the region’s nine universities spent five years.. |  Martin Delfín
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Now you can learn to dance Modern Jive at JK’s. |  The Commission said the judge had not abused his authority as the lawyer claimed. | |
Public opinion is rapidly changing on this issue.. |  Royal divorce finalized | |
 Evie |  The government has committed itself to finding another €511 million at a time when Spain’s economy is under heavy scrutiny from abroad.
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 Good value from Pógs, three bands on one night | The cost of the asphalt, steel and curb stones amounted to nearly €98,000. | |
 Since being set up in October 29th last year, Movimiento140.com has collected more than 100,000 signatures online supporting its demand for a speed limit of 140 kph on highways and dual carriageways. |  Six people died and another 10 were injured when a fire broke out at an old people’s residence in Seville on Monday night. | |
Despite their having more advanced social policies...
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 at the Centro Comercial La Trocha in Coin is Avatar. |  The next U3A lecture at the Ark Christian Fellowship, Las Rampas | |
 Rony escaped from his home on Monday around 6pm near the Sol Andalusi complex. | The Congress of Young Farmers held in Seville said... | |
It is believed that the person who catches the turkey .. | | |
 Muriel Pilkington
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A spokesperson from the foreigners department will be giving a talk.. | Tragedy after a fight in a bar man returns, only to be run over by a car at 3.00am.. | |
The ship is now docked in Algeciras and its owners have been asked for a $200,000 guarantee |  Parrots and cockatiels have been disappearing from their homes in the Coin and Monda areas over the last month and only one of the birds has been recovered so far. | |
 For decades, the Marbella authorities have used the climate, the town’s beauty and hospitable locals to attract the tourists. | Reduced class sizes to solve overcrowding.. | |
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Annual dinner and dance for RBL |  The smell and warmth of the large log burner at El Brujo Restaurant certainly adds something to the ambience and enjoyment of an evening meal, especially in these still chilly nippy nights. | |
 The president of the National Time Rationalising Commission, Ignacio Buqueras, wants Spain to go back to Greenwich Meantime to bring the country into line with Portugal, as it was until 1940, and to adopt working and school hours common in the rest of Europe. |  Being a locksmith in Malaga certainly pays.. | |
 Agustín Torralbo is a designer we will hear much of in the years to come. He is already one of Spain's most famous haute couture designers | After refusing to consider taking such a step for months, the government announced last Friday that it would reduce public spending by €50 billion to help bring its budget deficit down to 3% of gross domestic product by 2013. | |
 Chateau Mona Lisa was the venue and guests arrived in their droves to support the people of Haiti |  Canary Islands hit by widespread floods and mudslides | |
Children will soon have their own hotline to call to discuss their problems, ask for protection or report an emergency. | Missing dates for St George's and St Andrew's Day's | |
 Rob Davey | Apart from enjoying themselves they raise money for local charities, mainly Aprona, | |
The trial of the former leader of the banned Batasuna party, Arnalso Otegi, | Andalucia hotels listed in luxery guide to the top 50 in Spain | |
 why not try a special Valentine's evening in a local Restaurant La Romana |  Morocco's Foreign Minister, Taib Fasi Fihri, has asked the Spanish government to compensate the Moroccan soldiers who fought on Franco's side in the civil war. | |
Run by Valerie Jeffrey, who writes the bi-weekly Poco a Poco guide in this newspaper, | On the lookout for speed hogs and drunks | |
 The US State Department confirmed on Monday that President Barack Obama will not attend the summit ... |  CALA | |
The violence erupted when the police warned the protesters to stop throwing nails and fireworks outside the Town Council building. | Another 124,890 people lost theirs jobs in January, | |
More road closures are about to hit drivers in Coin and Alhaurin - without warning. |  Last Saturday, my husband and I decided that a bit of cheering up was in order. La Crisis has been getting on everybody’s nerves and, once in a while, a treat does you good. | |
The National Police arrested a 43-year-old Swiss financier in Benahavis on Tuesday.. |  Taylor Wimpey announced on Tuesday that it plans to invest €8.5 million in a second residential project on the Costa del Sol. | |
 Prosecutors asked on Monday for a 12-year jail sentence for a former intelligence agent accused of treason. | All of the local councils involved cite economic reasons for jumping onto the nuclear bandwagon: | |
 Defence minister Carme Chacón arrived at the Spanish military base in Heart in Afghanistan on Tuesday following the Taliban attack on a Spanish convoy in the province of Badghia on Monday in which one soldier was killed and six were injured. | | |
 To help achieve these goals CHAIN needs your help. | Entertainment will be provided by Lee Jay and Pat of Heart fm and Pete Carter. | |
The bodies of the pilot and co-pilot of the helicopter which crashed into the sea five miles off the Almeria coast last Thursday were retrieved by rescuers on Sunday. | The search had been called off at 9 pm Wednesday night.. | |
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Consultations with david in your home 610 868 748 / 952 883 388 | They breathalysed her and found she was three times over the limit. | |
 This week's film in English at La Trocha in Coin is Sherlock Holmes with showings starting tonight Wednesday February 27th | These dedicated people from business and the professions all share a common interest in helping others. | |
 According to police sources, the people arrested belong to a so-called legal ETA group... | A National Police spokesman said they were either repeat offenders, terrorists or had been found guilty of violent crimes.. | |
Free Soul Band, founded in 1999 as an alternative to the funk-rock group Duty Free, |  The news that the Vic town council was refusing to allow illegal immigrants to register (empadronar) has sparked a national debate about immigration in general. | |
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Established in 2006, this group has gone from strength to strength. The original members first got together for a charity performance in aid of the Cuedeca foundation on a beach, |  Meanwhile, the Junta de Andalucia’s financing plan for the councils amounts to only €3,144 million.. | |
A witness said the opening tray snapped shut on him as he tried to get through it. |  For decades it was rumoured that most of the victims were thrown alive down the mine shaft which was then set on fire. | |
 In fact, there’s so much going on at JK’s this week, there’s no time to spare at all! |  Muriel Pilkington
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Last week The News reviewed a book entitled “A Diver In The Dark” by Sydney Knowles.. | The Triple A animal charity are holding a flea market / open day on Sunday February 14th | |
 The Italian newspaper Il Giornale – owned by the Berlusconi family – has accused Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero of abandoning his secular principles to gain political favour with President Barack Obama by attending a prayer meeting during his next visit to the US. |  He said he found the photo quite by accident on the Internet and saw that it was ideal for his tutorial. | |
 On the first anniversary of the murder of 17-year-old Seville girl Marta del Castillo, the Partido Popular's leader in Andalucia, Javier Arenas, called for a national debate on life imprisonment. | A spokesman for the service said this was probably because people now want value for their money.. | |
The good news is that 200 acuiferos throughout the province now contain five times more water... |  Full of history and interest with beautiful buildings and a great little museum and art gallery | |
 Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero faces a rough ride in Europe over Spain's harshly applied planning laws which have seen Britons lose their retirement homes. | Lindy will be missed by many in Spain and across the world with whom she came into contact | |
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 His wife Sonsoles and two daughters are said to be against him running for a third term.. |  The council now plans to install recycling containers that are double the size of the current ones. | |
 The people of Ascó defied the Catalan regional government to vote in favour of becoming a so-called nuclear graveyard. | Funeral services will be held at the cemetery and weddings and baptisms at the local hotel.
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 And don’t forget that the price includes a sexy bottle of pink cava! | | |
 The mayor was waiting for the bailiffs to arrive to embargo all his worldly goods... |  The Mijas foreigners department in conjunction with VIA Reisen travel agents ... | |
 There is talk of making crop coverage obligatory, and not voluntary as it is now |  The Alhambra was the most visited monument in Spain last year, ahead of Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona and the Prado Museum in Madrid | |
 The worst province was Sevilla where more than 68,000 drivers lost points in 2009 |  On average, some 13,000 people a year paid fines amounting to more than €2 million... | |
Auditions will be held for Joseph And The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat on Saturday January 23rd |  Martin Delfín Memo from Madrid
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 JK’s Matchroom in Coin hold a charity market every Saturday with set up happening at 10am |  Old or unwanted mobiles? have a look through those drawers and you could help out Age Concern.. | |
 This year, only Malaga city, Torremolinos, Antequera and Nerja will have their own stands at Madrid’s International Tourism Fair (Fitur), which is being held in the capital this week. | The Casa de Cultura is the place to visit for this year´s painting competition “Cuidad de Alora”. | |
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The first Mass will take place on Saturday January 30th at 6.30pm in Santo Cristo in the Old Town |  KopyKatz is just one of their four shows, the other three being; Nightlife, non-stop top ten hits from the last 50 years, | |
The association’s president accused the council of turning a blind eye to the problem. |  This week is your last chance to see an exhibition of the works of artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp | |
 MALAGA AVE | Until the construction bubble burst, the economic growth of Malaga province was much higher than the average of the rest of the country. | |
 MALAGA province. The Junta de Andalucia is giving subsidies amounting to €4.2 million to 28 councils i |  A Government study has linked the morning after pill to a risk of thrombosis and ectopic pregnancies... | |
 A Malaga mother has accepted a one-year jail sentence for hitting her son’s teacher |  There was a splendid attendance of 56 members and a new Council for 2010 was agreed.. | |
 Meléndez's Picasso style paintings are vibrant coloured still lifes and portraits. | So far 36 of the Socialist mayors and 80% of their councillors in Malaga province have provided the necessary details | |
 They arrested three Chinese nationals who ran the Spanish end of the operation.. |  An opinion poll carried out for the Junta de Andalucia indicates that the main opposition party, the Partido Popular, will win the next regional election, putting an end to 25 years of Socialist government. | |
 The P&O ferry service from Portsmouth to Bilbao is to be withdrawn due to "unsustainable" losses, putting 252 jobs at risk. | The average salary in Spain is €21,500 a year, just over half the EU average of €40,000, | |
Police in Fuengirola have advised the town's 50 or so street people to stick together, especially at night, to avoid further axe attacks. |  A spokesman for the Royal household said the couple would donate their share to charity. | |
The pilot scheme will be gradually extended to the 102 cabbies |  ...A Renaissance triumph
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 The fourth star of this concert is the Danish Church itself with its pleasant ambience | Bookings can be made on the THESPA noticeboard at the Salon Varietes | |
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Voice | He did not have all the necessary documents and was sent to sort it out with the Local Police | |
 A woman who spent eight days trapped in a lift at her three-storey house in Sitges, Barcelona, |  The spokesman said: "Connoisseurs will appreciate the melt-in-the-mouth texture of this truly amazing Spanish ham. | |
 A Spanish MP has been horrified to discover that his photograph has been used by the FBI to help produce a photo-fit showing how Osama Bin Laden might look now. | | |
The report stated that 120 passengers had refused to leave the airside boarding gate | A spokesman said they wanted to make people aware of the terrible conditions the animals lived in... | |
These are always fun mornings and very informative for all levels of flower arrangers |  All the politicians, a lot of businessmen and a smattering of cultural and sports personalities made up the 1,500 guests invited by the government to attend the official presentation of Spain’s presidency of the EU last Thursday. | |
 Sr Duran wrote in his blog: “When he stops being chairman of Barca, Laporta can do what he wants, | Club Charity and Pleasure is a social, non-profit organisation based in El Paraiso, Estepona. | |
 Popular since day one, they have always stuck to what works best |  Art works by the surrealist Oscar Dominguez are being exhibited at the Fundacion Pablo Ruiz Picasso-Museo Casa Natal | |
 Hundreds of Air Comet passengers were stranded at Madrid-Barajas airport just before Christmas | Figures from the Guardia Civil and police forces show that crime dropped... | |
 Campaigner Juan Lopez de Uralde was met by hundreds of admirers when he arrived at Madrid's Barajas airport last week after being released from jail in Copenhagen. |  Body language part 1 | |
 The audience will be able to revisit the dreams and adventures of Snow White, Cinderella, | A suspected member of the Basque terrorist group ETA was detained at the Portuguese border early on Saturday morning after escaping in a Guardia Civil patrol car when the van he was driving was stopped in Bermillo, Zamora province. | |
 They denied having set the fire intentionally, but were breaking the law that forbids lighting fires in open countryside. |  So here is just a sample of what’s on to enjoy in Coin...
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 Recent heavy rains meant the normally dry river beds became fast flowing streams and rivers over night.
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On St.Valentine´s Day, Sunday 14th February, Stephen Lloyd-Morgan... |  Unesco’s Centre in Andalucia is promoting Granada as World Capital of Poetry. | |
A Frenchman and a Moroccan where spotted the previous evening... |  A local businessman has helped to spark a storm of protest targetting Spanish councils who unleash plans which involve unjustly demolishing homes. | |
The victim’s teenage sons said the fight began inside a discotheque ... |  Martin Delfín
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 She was born in Madras but moved with her family to Paris as a child. |  The poll also showed that Socialist voters were in favour but Partido Popular voters tended to be against it | |
 Solar panels on the move | If the report proves true, the government will have some very difficult questions to answer, | |
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Voice | The judge handling the case has already ruled that the pair will be tried by a people’s jury | |
The National Police have dismantled two sex rings in raids on several so-called hostess clubs in Malaga, Almeria and Cordoba, after receiving complaints from several employed in them. | Some 130 priests belonging to the progressive Madrid Priests' Forum issued a statement last week to the effect that while abortion cannot be a right, the government is entitled to legislate in this matter. | |
A spokesman for the local council said last week that relief is on the way... | There will also be stricter police controls at the airport, | |
The fine seems wholly disproportionate compared to the so called crime |  The exhibition opens on January 15th and runs until January 30th each day between 11am - 2pm and 5pm - 8pm. | |
The body found last week, of a 51-year-old Portuguese man known in the neighbourhood ... |  Eleven Spanish destinations are in the top 50 - five in the top 10 | |
 Following the Catalan Parliament's decision to debate a proposed ban on bullfighting in the region, the ABC newspaper published a report on the economic importance of the national fiesta, which generates €2,500 million a year – 1.5% of the Gross National Product. | | |
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 Thanks must go to everyone who donated something and to Club la Costa for making the whole thing possible... |  Just when members of this chaotic cast finally get their performances right - everything starts to go wrong... | |
 This vulture species, which is not in danger of extinction in Andalucia... | Regulars at JJ´s Bar in Arroyo de la Miel piled in for an end-of-year fun extravaganza... | |
The Supreme Court ruled on the last day of last year that the Basque regional government... |  Viewers in the Basque Country proved their regional television station’s claim that Basques were not interested in watching the King’s traditional Christmas speech was way off the mark. | |
 The government's Plan 2000E implemented last June to help people buy new cars.. |  Written by GARY DEARDEN
This linear walk starts and finishes in the village which, unusually, shows virtually no signs of any commercial tourism | |
What the Tarot cards failed to tell her was that she would end up facing a possible jail sentence | MIJAS PUEBLO. Residents at the western end of the town are living in fear of rockfalls.. | |
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 The first domestic violence death this year was in Seville on New Year’s Day, | Malaga. A woman has been fined €3.756 for feeding the pigeons around her building.. | |
The construction industry registered the biggest drop – nearly 50% |  Just 13,555 illegal immigrants arrived on Spanish beaches last year – 46% less than in 2008 and the lowest number in a decade. | |
A supervisor of the parking spaces in the blue zone of Sant Adrià de Besòs, Barcelona, was fired by the local council for not issuing enough fines in recent months.
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 Spain's EU presidency website collapsed on Monday after a hacker replaced the photo of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero with that of the bumbling comedy buffoon Mr Bean. |  Companies have traditionally given legs of ham in Christmas hampers for staff and favoured clients ... | |
ANDALUCIA . The region accounts for one in four of the youths aged 14 to 17 who were charged last year... | The International Club of Estepona are starting the new year with a variety of events both old and new. | |
Hang on to those lottery tickets that didn't win you anything and hand them on to your children and grandchildren because they will be worth something in 50 to 100 years time. |  The new website will also include a reservation system. | |
 This fabulous event was just one of the many and varied attractions at the Villa |  Former Marbella Mayor Julian Muñoz and José María del Nido, lawyer and chairman of Sevilla FC, | |
 The British Chamber of Commerce is a non-profit-making NGO which works closely with the British Exterior Minister... |  The sale starts on Tuesday January 12th at the store in Las Rampas, Fuengirola | |
 The Junta de Andalucia has denied newspaper reports last week that ... |  The al-Qaeda unit in the Maghreb claimed responsibility for the kidnapping in Mauritania... | |
 Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Tuesday met former European Commission president Jaques Delors, |  Will all members of the Royal Air Forces Association, Benalmadena branch | |
Under the law which came into effect on January 1st, owners can now take tenants to court when they are only two months behind with their rent, |  The number of deaths on Spanish roads has dropped for the sixth year running – down to 1,897, the first time the figure has dropped below 2,000 since 2003. | |
NERJA. The old national 340 coast road between Nerja and Torrox will remain closed |  Commuter chaos is set to continue for the whole of 2010 for motorists heading for Fuengirola from Alhaurin el Grande and Coín. | |
 A steet person suffered an axe attack in the early hours of Monday morning in the centre of Fuengirola, near the place where another street person was found dead with an axe in his head less than a month ago. |  Registration starts at 10am and the walk at 11am. It will start from the car park next to the beach at the Parador del Golf .. | |
 Revellers in the Puerta del Sol were treated to a different spectacle after they’d swallowed their 12 grapes and seen in the New Year. |  Health ministry figures show that 271 people died of swine flu in Spain last year, out of a total of 12,220 worldwide. | |
 Steve will be one of the guest soloists together with Siân Hopkins. |  With winter well and truly here but spring just around the corner, | |
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 Last month’s heavy rains made December 2009 the wettest one in 50 years – following the driest November for decades. |  Being a Friend means that, although you may not want to take an active role ... | |
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 The gourmet menu is rich in choice and well thought out, | Enjoy the dancing and singing of such memorable songs as Somewhere Over The Rainbow, | |
 They said the group will probably name its price for the captives very soon.. |  The El Mundo national newspaper reported on Sunday that the government is continuing its efforts to persuade Amnesty International to describe ETA as a “terrorist organization” and not as an “armed Basque group”, as it has done for years. | |
 No part of the country escaped the recent spate of bad weather. Temperatures fell to up to 15º below zero in some parts of the north, where snow closed major and secondary roads and made mountain passes impassable. |  The prosecutor in the Mari Luz Cortés case, Alfredo Flores Prada, will ask for a jail term of 25 years for her alleged killer, Santiago del Valle, when the trial starts in the New Year. | |
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(Sung to tune of Winter Wonderland) |  Andalucia’s Justice Minister Begoña Alvarez confirmed last Friday the rumours that had been circulating for days – the search for the remains of poet Federico Garcia Lorca had drawn a blank. | |
The volunteers from the Age Care Charity Shop enjoyed a great evening out in Calahonda when a 3-course dinner was followed by dancing with music and songs provided by Arran Harding. | They point out that anti-bullfight activists only managed to collect 180,000 signatures | |
The authorities said the quake was felt strongly in Huelva and Cadiz ... |  The AIAGroup was formed five years ago by professional and dedicated visual artists | |
 In addition to the church services listed in last week’s The News, there will also be a Christmas Communion service at the lovely Alhaurin el Grande Cemetery chapel starting at 10.30am. | Bag snatchers and pickpockets are the fastest-growing criminal groups, | |
A spokesman for the Young Farmers Association said they were worth more than 60,000 euros... | According to Moody’s Spain, Iceland and Ireland were riding the crest of the economic wave.. | |
There was another similar incident outside a local school a few days later. | Opposition leader Mariano Rajoy warned during a Partido Popular rally in Malaga | |
 The 32-day hunger strike by Western Saharan peace activist Aminatou Haidar at Lanzarote airport ended abruptly late last Thursday night when the Moroccan authorities allowed her to return home. | One of the men at the heart of the huge corruption case, Malaya, which has engulfed Marbella, has died before the case comes to trial. | |
 Christmas and New Year is looking to be the best ever at Pógs Irish Pub in Fuengirola. |  The Community of Madrid was the biggest winner in this year's El Gordo, with residents sharing some €800 million in the first, second, one third, one fourth and six fifth prizes. | |
This is the second Christmas for The News and what a difference a year makes. This time last year The News was in its infancy and the Christmas issue was only its second paper to be published. A real achievement for the whole team. | He cited one example – Dolores Vázquez.. | |
 Germany and France have said they will make no new commitments until a conference in London i | Why not start the New Year with a meal at La Risa.. | |
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Spanish police boarded a yacht 200 miles off the north coast of Spain... | They say that the controversial new abortion law, which originally would have allowed girls... | |
 A RACE spokesman said the worst secondary roads are in Granada.. |  He said two attempts had already been made to kidnap him back in Mali. | |
 More than 55% of Spaniards have little or no interest in news about the EU, |  The construction bust has sent many Spaniards back to the country, which they deserted in droves during the boom years... | |
 As true Viennese artistes, the Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra possesses a matchless warmth | They had finished handing out the goods but were still outside the supermarket when the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) arrived.. | |
Everyone is welcome to go along to either watch or sing to their hearts content |  Banderas left a successful career in Spain in the early 1990s | |
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Voice |  Visitors are advised to check before going there over Christmas and the New Year, | |
The Guardia Civil are questioning the friend responsible for the macabre joke.. | For full details of St Andrew’s Christmas services, visit the website at www.standrews-cofe-spain.com | |
 It seems like years ago that the team got together and decided that yes, we could do this. | By donating €10 or €15 for a couple will help to keep the volunteers... | |
 King Juan Carlos, Defence Minister Carme Chacon and Industry Minister Miguel Sebastian were in Seville last Friday to welcome the Airbus A400M military aircraft at the end of its inaugural flight. | They pointed out that six men recently jailed for robbing houses along the Costa del Sol | |
 U3A lectures about ancient Egypt | “Entertaining Mr Sloane” | |
“Come Laughing Home” | The attacks would have been devastating for Barcelona.. | |
Each year there seems to be more and more people coming to celebrate Christmas | CUDECA hospice benefits from feria hose and carriage ride around Fuengirola | |
Christmas Eve at 11.30pm: Midnight Mass in St Andrews, Los Boliches; |  Rob Stevens on Friday usually packs the place out so get their early | |
On display in Marbella's Museo del Grabado Español Contemporaneo... | €1263 raised at the annual Christmas Bazaar | |
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The bus will be running every 15 minutes and is a hop on hop off. |  Bullfighting is popular in southern France where the bulls are not killed | |
 King Juan Carlos attended the launching of a new grammar book at the Royal Language Academy (RAE) last week which sets out joint rules for a language spoken by some 500 million people in more than 20 nations. | Tensions continue between the two governments | |
A name still has not been decided on.. | Why are they never overhead when the idiot overtakes you on a white line!! | |
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To mark the United Nations' International Anti-corruption Day last week, police authorities revealed that most of their anti-corruption investigations have been carried out in Malaga, Seville, Madrid and the Balearic Islands. |  One of composer Tchaikovsky´s most important works | |
 An investigation by the Guardia Civil has revealed irregularities in a plan to build a new wind park in Santa Lucia Tirajana... |  Inland Areas inc Alhaurin el Grande | |
 FOUND! in Coin | The slightly lower population growth rate reflects the fact that because of the economic crisis... | |
 However, only 40,000 of the 350,000 bars and restaurants in the country... |  Spain's credit outlook has been cut from stable to negative due to the fact that the countries finances are weaker than previously expected | |
 It is not known as yet how long he had been their.. |  ADVERTISING FEATURE | |
It's a good job their are less tourists as the roads to inland towns are nearly all closed for improvements... | Scientists will also be able to consult them for medieval illnesses and cures. | |
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Voice |  The unseasonably mild weather ended suddenly over the weekend, with a brusque fall in temperatures and snow storms all over the north of the country. | |
This time of year is not only the season to be merry but also a time of giving. |  The only surefire way for not getting arrested for drink driving is..don't drink | |
And last, but by no means least is the New Year´s Eve Party starting at 7.30pm for 8.00pm |  The North African unit of the Arab terrorist group Al Qaeda, has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of the three Spanish aid workers in Mauritania on November 29th, as well as of a French citizen, Pierre Camatte, who was seized four days earlier in Menaka, in north east Mali. | |
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The woman who threw the acid told the trial judge in 2006 that she had not meant to throw the acid at the girl |  The group performed a series of popular Christmas songs and carols | |
 Visit Santa in his grotto and join in the festive fun with a live nativity and Christmas carols at the La Finca... |  The Foreigners Department of the Benalmadena Ayuntamiento have organised a Festival of Christmas Traditions | |
A survey released on Constitution Day (December 6th) shows that eight out of ten Spaniards would like to see it partially reformed. |  Christmas decorations were installed later than usual and will be switched off promptly on January 7th... | |
 Basics of Nutrition part 2 |  Entertainment will be provided by Heart FM 88.2 with D.J. Lee Jay. Dance and enjoy great music until 7 pm. | |
 To reserve a table or for more information, contact: Pat Coleman on 620 354 885 |  The law banning homosexuality was overturned in 1979. Sr Ruiz, who now heads an association for other former prisoners, | |
 The Spanish interior minister has apologised to Britain for an incident in which territorial waters were breached during a sea chase, leading to the detention of four civil guards on Gibraltar on Monday. |  Ms Haidar's protest has been given a high profile by the support of several prominent Spaniards, | |
 The men had set up a sharia court in Reus, Tarragona province | The usually extravagant people of Seville will spend the least, €53. | |
The steep rise in the number of foreigners eligible to vote is due to the fact that the government has signed agreements of reciprocity... | The City Council plans to build it on a vacant plot of land near the Glass Museum | |
 The NYPD lieutenant is helping them form specialised groups equipped with digital cameras and laptops |  Registration, which is free, opens on Friday, and can be done by fax on 952 842 908 | |
 Few foreign visitors have failed to be impressed by it, hence the decision to market it abroad. |  The pantomime, written by Jim Fenton, will be performed before the traditional Christmas dinner, | |
 If you are interested in Henry, please contact Pat Coleman on: 620 354 885.
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Check the Coinlife website for more details. | The Branch will re-open on Tuesday January 5th 2010 with a social meeting at 11am. | |
Andalucia has been a Socialist stronghold since the return of democracy after Francisco Franco’s death. |  Light a Light is a special tribute to a loved one when a light and candle is dedicated to them | |
A father in Valencia was shocked to discover last week that his 10-year-old straight-A daughter had failed an exam for answering the questions in Spanish, and not in Valencian, which is similar to Catalan. | Arno, a Spanish bomb dog who has been working with the Spanish peace-keeping force in the Lebanon, has been symbolically awarded a UN peace medal. | |
A spokesman said the figures for both types of flu could shoot up when the “real” winter finally arrives. | Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba chaired a ceremony last week to mark the 30th anniversary of women joining the National Police. | |
Directed by Peter Mitchell and choreographed by Peter Height with a fabulous cast |  The owners have two weeks to remove the vehicles after the list is published... | |
Wanted, drunk or sober! Good singers (must be "movers"), 4 young dancers/showgirls, jugglers, fire-eaters, ventriloquists, conjurors, lion tamers etc |  A former Guardia Civil who drove into the Calle Larios pedestrian mall in Malaga and knocked down five people faces a possible sentence of 40 years in jail. | |
 She criticised the government because the new abortion law “trivialises a very serious problem”.... |  The exhibition opens on Friday December 4th from 6.30 to 8.30 pm and will be on show daily from 11 am to 7 pm until Thursday January 7th. | |
 We have had reports in the past where householders have been told their boilers are unsafe and have been charged hundreds... |  Priests in his home town of Albacete later told reporters they would not refuse him communion.
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Representatives of the bullfight world have sent a letter to Alberto Oliart, the new president of Spanish Television (TVE) asking for a meeting to “analyse the criteria used by public television in its treatment of bullfighting.” | They discovered he was heading for the nearest Local Police station to unload four young drunks ... | |
 They had sent a letter calling for an end to the armed struggle and urging the Basque Left | Club Naranja in Calahonda is once again holding their very popular annual Christmas Bazaar on Saturday December 5th from 12 noon. | |
 Members and guests from prominent local businesses will be attending the event, which is being held in the club bar. | The first concert will take place on Sunday, December 13th 2009, at 20:00 in Fuengirola, | |
 Staff were all extremely impressed with their military efficiency and in just a few hours they had sorted out |  Basics of Nutrition | |
As a result of the alleged attack one Guardia officer was wounded in the arm. | The lawyer for the young man who was accused of beating and raping his 3-year-old stepdaughter has said he plans to sue the Canary Islands regional government. | |
 Bargains galore plus ideas for Christmas presents and stocking fillers will be at the events | The government's decision to allow the tuna boats fishing off Somalia to carry private armed security guards on board has already produced results. | |
When they stopped to buy petrol in Benalmadena, one of the three escaped from the car and headed to the nearest restaurant ... |  The Christmas Day carvery will be a festive hit with the terrific choice available, | |
 Coín mayor Gabriel Clavijo (pictured below) found out that someone was masquerading as him on Tuenti, a Spanish social network, when his secretary told him she'd seen his entry. | So far, the Junta has only paid the fees corresponding to the first quarter of this year, leaving €3 million still owing. | |
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 Mainar had told the judge hearing his case that he had confessed to the murder so that the Guardia Civil would... |  Although Spain is to send another 220 soldiers to Afghanistan to joint the 778 already there, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was not among the heads of government US President Barack Obama called to explain his new plans for the war there. | |
 Spaniard Javier Solana is retiring, after ten years of implementing the EU's foreign and security policies. |  This 4 years old female Rottweiler is in desperate need of a new home | |
 Taking advantage of the new Sustainable Economy Law, modifications have been introduced... |  November is normally the wettest winter month in Malaga province and the lack of rain so far this “rainy” season contradicts those weathermen... | |
 On the first attempt, a woman with the baby tried to steal a buggy but was stopped in her tracks. In the second.. |  In the second of our cut-out-and keep walks, Gary Dearden takes us into another part of Southern Spain. This time the trip definitely needs the day to be set aside...and it might be difficult to resist the temptation of an overnight stay.
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 Last weekend's snowfalls have increased the possibility of the ski resort being opened for the December 6-8th |  Sra Jimenez believes this could lead to an over-heavy patient load in some countries and poorer medical attention. | |
The union’s general secretary in Malaga, Antonio Herrera, said many students and agricultural workers had gone over to the construction sector... | It will be a fun packed evening filled with laughter, great songs, dancing, carols and even a nativity play performed by the Salon children. | |
so soon after the Royal navy incident with the Spanish flag did not improve relations between the two countries...
| This year, 8,000 more applicants will be taking a series of screening tests, which have already started. | |
 There are nearly €10,000 worth of prizes to be won including flights to the UK from Aer Lingus and Jet 2 .com, |  Both had had cubs earlier this year, making them valuable for the future of the lynx population. .. | |
 The British Institute of Professional Dog Trainers National Code, which was held at Coin Dog Training. The award was given to eleven succesful owners. | ||
 Thursday night has long been Chinese night after work at The News, but to make a change this week .. | Members are advised that, while the AGM is open to all, only paid-up members may vote. | |
The singers are under the musical directorship of Andy Ross who, before his retirement to Spain, |  The objective is to raise funds for their different charity activities and they have a great variety.. | |
She encounters rythms, dances and amazing costumes in the 7 regions of India that her quest takes |  Cadiz City Council has suspended filming on a Tom Cruise film after seven of the ten bulls to be used in the film escaped from the pen they were being kept in on Sunday. | |
BENALMADENA. After a bad year, small shopkeepers hope to make up for it this Christmas | The municipal padrón is the official record of all the people who live in a particular community.. | |
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A spokesman for the group said such actions should be accompanied by “the recognition of the injustice committed... | The government has agreed to foot 50% of the bill, half of which will come from the regional governments involved... | |
The arrests were made during raids on homes and businesses in Alhaurin el Grande, Fuengirola, Mijas and Malaga city. |  Man’s best friend | |
 The 16 Spanish crew members, from Galicia and the Basque Country, arrived back in Spain on Saturday. |  She said sexism had been part of the legal system since 1889 at least when the Civil Code ordered men... | |
 According to the Spanish press, since Foreign Minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos visited Gibraltar, the Royal Navy has been harassing the Guardia Civil patrol boats almost on a daily basis. |  Nowadays traditional Gospel is fused with musical styles like funk and blues, | |
 The cardinal said he believed the situation had worsened since then... | The prize was a voucher for 4 people with 2 buggies at Valderrama Golf which had been won by Phil Myburgh in a previous charity event. | |
 The couple announced a “temporary” separation” two years ago, after 12 years of marriage.
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 For true British style fish and chips you will not go wrong at La Parra in Los Boliches. | Father Christmas will be on parade from 12 noon to 1.30pm and 3pm to 4.30pm. All children are welcome. | |
A recent survey showed that just under 50% were against vaccination. | AXARQUIA. Mayors in the area have banded together to call for an urban planning amnesty. | |
He is collecting football shirts on his travels to create one huge shirt that will be flown as a flag during the 2010 World Cup |  Muriel Pilkington
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Animal charity A.I.D. has organised an Italian Night to be held on Saturday November 28th... |  A good home is urgently needed for a big male English Bull Terrier.
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The victims’ parents have asked the Spanish government to help them hire a boat to try to find the two bodies... |  Sr Conde-Pumpido said corruption in politics was not as extensive as it would seem... | |
 The prison authorities told the General Directorate that they cannot answer for their safety. |  The Guardia Civil and National Police have arrested at least 36 people as part of an operation against Segi, the banned Batasuna party’s youth movement. | |
The bar will be open for drinks and food will also be available if required. |  Lorca was executed in August 1936 shortly after Franco’s forces took Granada from the Republicans | |
The OCI has drawn up a series of measures that the Spanish government could adopt to tackle this “huge problem”. |  Competition for the award came from France's TF1, the BBC, ABC News, CBS, Fox, NBC and Italy's RAI. Lorenzo Milá, wh | |
Shakira and Scarlett Johansson are the women they most fancy... |  Cabin crews had gone on strike the previous week, forcing the airline to ground hundreds of flights. | |
The client called him Jaime instead of the Catalan version, Jaume. Jaume told reporters.. | ANDALUCIA. The Catholic Church charity Caritas has warned that the worst of the economic crisis is yet to come. | |
 The first wreath was laid by the British Consul Mr Steve Jones, and was followed by representatives.. | "Extremadura should be pleased with itself. It may have the most unemployed young people in Spain | |
 Take along your clothes in good condition and swop them for something else. | Unfortunately, although the letter came from a previously reliable source, “John Harrison’s” letter published last week, | |
David Anthony has been a resident of Estepona since June 2007 | Breaking The Code by Hugh Whitmore is a factual drama based on the book by Dr Andrew Hodges which sets out the life and death of Alan Turing, a mathematical and computer pioneer who broke the German Enigma code. | |
 A protected witness whose betrayal led to the arrest in January 2008 of 11 alleged members of an Islamist cell in Barcelona repeated his statement from behind a room divider in the National Court on Monday. | A mob of about 50 local residents threw stones at the building for no known reason, injuring two of the five Guardia | |
Lawyers representing the Spanish government told a Belfast court last week that Jose Ignacio de Juana Chaos was trying to "blackmail" it by warning he faces near-certain death if returned to Spain. |  He managed to tell them that the man who had stabbed him was “short, thin, wearing a white hood and looked like a Moroccan”. | |
A Nigerian rights group has called on traditional chiefs to apologise for the role they played in the slave trade. | There will be 4 top class acts to entertain you and a
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St Georges Anglican Church Malaga are holding their traditional Christmas | ARDALES. The old convent, which was closed down several years ago after being declared a ruin, | |
 Follow the X marked path to the right - take care on the loose surface. Visit the tiny ‘ermita’(chapel) |  Things we can learn from a dog | |
 Muriel Pilkington
The Local
Voice |  Electricity consumption has dropped 15% so far this month, over the same period last year. | |
The trial of the man accused of the murder of Fago Mayor Miguel Grima in January 2007 started on Monday in Huesca Provincial Court. |  Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero confirmed early Tuesday afternoon that Somali pirates have released a Spanish trawler and its 36 crew members after holding it for six weeks. | |
MALAGA CITY. Nearly 4% of the computers in the city have been taken by hackers, |  As BA’s problems with the deficit in one of its final-salary pension schemes pose a threat to the merger with Iberia, the two sides have agreed a get-out clause for the Spanish airline. | |
 Sr Sebastian joined the group in 1985 after the sinking of the Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior, | She will be joined by British saxophonist and keyboard player John Surman, hailed as the best | |
 The company has returned to the Spanish mainland for the first time since it scaled down | The Madrid City Council's director general of Emergencies and Civil Protection, Alfonso del Alamo, on Monday justified the noise made by the Fire Brigade's sirens, saying the firemen were “very attached” to their “traditions”. | |
A Malaga woman has been ordered to compensate her ex-boyfriend for throwing him out of the house they shared. | The English speaking Catholic Community on the Costa del Sol mourn the recent passing of Father Wim van der Hurk – known affectionately as ‘Father Bill’. | |
There were a large diversity of mediums and skills represented. | MALAGA. Taxi driver Monica Cabello has been fined twice by police | |
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