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Jennie Rhodes
...coordinator at Red Cross Vélez-Málaga said that the courses would provide a good opportunity to meet other English-speaking people in the Axarquía area. The sessions will be held every Wednesday morning from 11am to 12.30pm at the Red Cross Centre, just off
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In this second instalment, Jennie Rhodes and Gabriela Berner speak to some of the foreign residents standing for election on the in the Axarquía and on the eastern Costa del Sol. "Being number four shows a commitment to foreigners" Ria O'Brien
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EUGENIO CABEZAS
Malaga's provincial government, Diputación, gave the green light last Friday to two new sections of the Gran Senda, or the Great Trail, in the Axarquía. The two separate projects, which will receive a total investment of 244,000 euros, are due to ... typical Axarquía landscape with olive groves, vineyards, almond trees and subtropical fruit plantations. Both routes will provide signs, information posters, directions and markers and will be constructed using wood, paving and stones.
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An eight-year-old girl is recovering well at the Axarquía hospital after falling off a bouncy castle during the San José celebrations in Periana last Sunday. Strong winds caused the ropes tying the inflatable castle to give way. The girl, who is
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A. PELÁEZ / H. BARBOTTA
Tuesday's decree came as good news for many, but there are still some who believe that the Junta de Andalucía's measures don't quite go far enough. While the group Save Our Homes Axarquía (SOHA) and a collective representing owners of illegal homes
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álvaro frías
A 54-year-old man has been given a seven-year prison sentence for a series of sexual assaults carried out in 2013 in a village in the Axarquía to a 14-year-old with learning difficulties. The events came to light after the victim approached her ... Axarquía, where he sexually abused her. Due to her learning difficulties the victim was unaware that the man's behaviour was inappropriate, the court heard. The accused denied all allegations. However, judges said that the girl's testimony was "entirely
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EUROPA PRESS
The Diputación de Málaga provincial government has awarded a number of town halls in the Axarquía funds to roll out a number of projects. Cómpeta town hall has been awarded 250,000 euros to set up an olive oil museum. The town's old olive oil ... Moclinejo for an Axarquía Muscatel raisin research centre, which the council has said will attract tourists to the village as well as being of significant interest to the agro-food industry in the local area. Other funds have gone to the villages of Arenas
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AGUSTÍN PELÁEZ
Malaga's young farmers association, ASAJA Málaga, have called on Local Police forces across the Axarquía to tighten up controls on street markets and greengrocers in light of recent robberies of unripened avocados. Sources from the association
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Agustín Peláez
Servimar Axarquía, the company responsible for cleaning the sea along the Axarquía coast, has reported that 38.1 tonnes of non-organic refuse, including plastics and cans, were collected over the summer period from waters around Vélez-Málaga, ... and involved 10 boats which operated up and down the coast from Monday to Friday, with a budget of 286,088 euros. Responding to the figures supplied by Servimar Axarquía, Gregorio Campos, president of the group of Axarquía town halls (Mancomunidad ... plastic into the sea when it would be so easy "to place them in any of the many rubbish bins placed on the beaches along the Axarquía coast".
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Jennie Rhodes
While the summer may be drawing to a close, there is still plenty to look forward to next month for lovers of art in the Axarquía. In the area east of Malaga, October is punctuated by two stand-out dates: first up in the inland village of