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Provincial pride knows no borders

Antonio M. Romero

Spaniard to achieve it. The Malaga gold medal with which he was presented on Thursday is the latest in a number of awards he has received in recognition of his skill and talent at his chosen sport. Every year gold medals and other distinctions are ... of the coveted gold Malaga medals. This year the recipients of the awards were the Hermanitas de los Pobres, the newspaper El Sol de Antequera, Olympic bronze medallist Regino Hernández and businessman Federico Beltrán, all of whom were presented

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Three Malaga olive oils win prizes in a global competition held in New York

Eugenio Cabezas

If it is below 85, it is a silver”, he explained. This is the first time the cooperative in Periana has achieved international recognition for its new oil 'Única' although it was mentioned in the latest edition of awards granted by the provincial ... council. However, Finca la Torre can add this success to a long list of awards it has won over the past few years. Since 2012, the Bobadilla oil mill has won 'Best Extra Virgin Olive Oil' in five editions of Food Awards Spain, organised by the Agriculture ... Alcántara. To produce just one litre of 'Único', eight kilos of olives are needed when for other extra virgin oils, five kilos is sufficient. Perfecto Mata, head of Hacienda de Colchado SL, was also very satisfied with the awards it received for the third

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Marbella villa among world's ten best holiday properties

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Just one property in Spain has made it into the top 10 of TripAdvisor's Traveller's Choice Awards 2018. Located in the Bello Horizonte region of Marbella, near the Carlos Cabezas sports centre, 'VillaCasa Marbella' boasts eight bedrooms and six

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Sting, Jamiroquai and Pet Shop Boys sign up for Starlite

Ivan Gelibter

Sting (19 July), who returns to the Costa del Sol after playing at Fuengirola's Mare Nostrum Festival in 2017. Composer, performer, actor and activist, Sting has 16 Grammy awards and a Golden Globe. Jamiroquai (22 July) is another of the groups that ... albums sold, four Grammy awards, four Billboard awards and one Emmy, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith will also take to the stage on 2 August. To add, James Blunt will perform on 3 August and crowds can expect to hear his world-famous single, 'You're Beautiful'.

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Torremolinos awards contract for next stage of town-centre pedestrianisation plan

ALBERTO GÓMEZ

Last week Torremolinos council announced that it has awarded the contract for the second phase of its flagship project to landscape and pedestrianise the resort's central Plaza Costa del Sol and part of Avenida Palma de Mallorca. The company Sorigué

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A coach with an Olympic pedigree

Mari Carmen Barea (Malaga, 1966) is one of the athletes from Malaga who has received the highest number of awards in history. She and Theresa Zabell are the only 'Malagueñas' who can say that they have won an Olympic gold medal. Against all ... Spain. She has received several medals and awards, but never from Malaga council. She wasn't even included in the list of award-winning local athletes which has been installed on the Paseo del Deporte, beside the Ciudad de Malaga stadium. Maybe now is the

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Costa Press Club launches annual awards with new sponsor

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The journalism prizes awarded annually by the Costa Press Club are to be sponsored this year by Unicaja Banco, becoming The Unicaja Communicator Awards. For the first time they are also being opened up to entries in any of the languages used by ... members of this club representing foreign-resident journalists on the Costa del Sol, which in addition to English means German, Spanish, French, Danish, Dutch, Swedish and Finnish. Announcing Unicaja’s sponsorship of the Communicator awards, a spokesman ... they speak”. The awards, which include cash prizes, will be for work published in 2017. There are two categories: Current Affairs, Comment and Opinion; and Leisure and Lifestyle and other genres. Entries are invited from any media professionals with

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Kenny Garrett and Claire Martin top the billing at Atarfe jazz festival

Jennie Rhodes

Granada mountains. Kenny Garrett has a career spanning three decades and has played with some of the biggest names in jazz, including Duke Ellington and Miles Davis. Claire Martin has won the British Jazz Awards seven times and is also copresenter of

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The Único de Mondrón olive oil wins a gold medal at Terraolivo

AGUSTÍN PELÁEZ

The San José Artesano Olive cooperative in the village of Mondrón in Periana is to be congratulated. In just three months it has won two international awards. In April of this year, the AOVE (Extra Virgin Olive Oil) Único de Mondrón won gold at the ... World Olive Oil Competition in New York (NYIOOC), the equivalent of the Oscars of liquid gold in the world, awarded by the prestigious publication Olive Oil Times. It also won an honorable mention in the latest edition of the awards given by the ... product, but these awards give us a boost and show that our hard work has paid off. It is not easy to get a prize of this importance and we are convinced that it will help us to promote the product commercially," said Alcántara. Increase in sales "It

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Adiós to the woman behind the Superman suit

DANIEL ROLDÁN

"I'm an expert in packages." That's how Yvonne Blake (Manchester, 1940) got a smile out of comedian and actor Dani Rovira and the then minister for Culture, Íñigo Méndez de Vigo, at last year's Goya film awards ceremony. Rovira was wearing a