Travel

The Russian visa - a travel obstacle

Andrew Forbes

...your intended departure, travel and health insurance and two passport photos), you also need an official 'invitation' to visit Russia. These visa support letters can be provided by an approved travel agency, or the hotel where you have booked your ... requires a personal visit in Madrid or Barcelona. The alternative is to use a specialist agency like IberRusia in Barcelona (which offers a five-day service for British citizens living in Spain for 260 euros). Expect to be asked a lot of questions on

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Passengers affected by Boeing 737 cancellations will not be eligible for compensation

E. P.

Passengers affected by cancellations due to the grounding of Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft are not entitled to financial compensation, according to sources at the State Aviation Safety Agency (AESA). They say that passengers are entitled to assistance

National

Six in every ten vehicles on Spanish roads are over ten years old

SUR

...control agency, Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT), also says there are six million vehicles in Spain that are over 20 years old and the average age of a vehicle is over 12 years. Sales slump Also this week, the automobile sector reported its worst

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Ryanair could receive government fines of up to 4.5 million euros

agency is investigating the case to determine the seriousness of the suspensions and will pass the appropriate sanctions.

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Marbella attracting the interest of Marriott for new high-end holiday rentals

P. MARTÍNEZ / EFE

The Marriott International group has its eyes on Marbella as a potential destination for its new venture into high-end holiday rental properties. The group's vice-president in Europe, Jenni Benzaquen, told the Efe news agency that "the company is

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Green homework for the Costa del Sol

MATÍAS STUBER

...in Malaga, José María Sánchez-Laulhé, improvements are needed in the meteorological agency's early warning systems. "The vast majority of natural disasters are caused by high impact weather phenomena. Climate change is going to generate even more

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Casares forest fire damage limited by sudden wind change

CHARO MÁRQUEZ

...environment agency workers, equipped with six helicopters and seven fire trucks, battled the flames throughout the evening and the next day. The first emergency calls reached the authorities at 7.05pm, with callers reporting a forest fire in a pine forest

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From the US to find their roots in Alhaurín

FERNANDO TORRES

Louisiana which was founded by people from Malaga 240 years ago. What they did was take a trip organised by the Sites Travel agency in America, Alhaurín de la Torre council and Juan Manuel de Molina, a local historian and researcher. It was a chance to ... more. The Sites travel agency is organising more and more journeys of this type and the links between these two twinned towns have strengthened even further as a result of this visit, because she has now had the opportunity to see Alhaurín de la Torre ... of tourists in generalDifferent reasons The visitors are Suzanne Mocery, James Villatoro and Daren Romero, accompanied by Cinthya Breaux Sites, who owns the Sites Travel agency which specialises in genealogical tourism. She is of French descent and

Opinion

García & associates

ANDREW J. LINN

agency, La Madre de Los Beatles. An essential part of the Dani García publicity plan is to tell everyone how difficult it was getting to the top. He had a tough time and once had to sell his car (wow! really?) As it happens, Dani, a highly talented

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From bunker boss to 'Spiderman'

JUAN CANO / ÁLVARO FRÍAS

...worth another 2.3 million. The young Brit was serving his sentence at the Hatfield Lakes open prison in South Yorkshire. On 2 November 2018 he failed to return from temporary leave. In March last year the UK's National Crime Agency released his