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T. BRYANT
...and singer John O' Brien. Tickets for the event, which starts at 1pm, cost 30 euros - which includes a ten euro donation to Cudeca. For more information, call Suzy on 619444184.
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JOSÉ LUIS PIEDRA
Infoca, is now being put into effect to prevent and deal with forest fires, 50 per cent of which are started by humans, either through negligence or deliberately. This year 169.6 million euros are being invested in this plan, which is 2.1 million more ... a cost of four million euros. Each of the eight provinces of Andalucía has a logistics centre of this type. The Infoca plan also includes medical units to attend to fire-fighters on the ground, and this year for the first time a nocturnal drone
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SUR IN ENGLISH
The sponsored walk organised jointly by Our Bar in Calahonda and Walking Football Spain in collaboration with the Somos Tu Ola association on Sunday resulted in a massive collection of 1,746.30 euros for the fund set up for Marbella girl Sarah ... Almagro who lost her limbs to sepsis. The warm weather by the beach at Our Bar in Calahonda didn't deter walkers, paying five euros each and decked out in Sarah's favourite colours of blue and orange, who set off at a steady pace and arrived as planned ... euros.
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ASH BOLTON
...raising over 500,000 euros for Children with Cancer UK and more than 160,000 euros for the Costa del Sol-based charity Cudeca. As reported in SUR in English earlier this year, Sandro received Cudeca's Golden Pin Award at the charity's annual presentation
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ANTONIO M. ROMERO
...nfrastructure Malaga Metro: 29.8 million euros for work on lines 1 and 2 / 72.06 million euros for annual running costs. Antequera logistics hub: 6m euros. PTA access: 50,000 euros. Study of link to PTA from A-7: 20,000 euros. Improved A-367 from ... Ardales to Ronda: 50,000 euros. Arriate bypass: 4m euros. Vélez-Málaga tram 337,493 euros. Study of dualling A-357 from Casapalma-Zalea (future motorway to Ronda and Campillos): 20,000 euros. Health Construction, equipment and health ... infrastructure improvements: 4.7m euros. Within this, but not broken out, is work linked the Costa del Sol Hospital and a new Malaga hospital plan. Gamarra health centre: 200,000 euros. El Palo health centre improvements: 90,000 euros. Hospital Carlos
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EUROPA PRESS
Spain spends more than 3.6 billion euros a year treating illnesses related to air pollution from traffic. This is the second highest amount in Europe (Germany spends 13.38 billion), according to a report carried out by the European Public Health ... Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovenia and Spain. In total, atmospheric contamination caused by traffic is resulting in EU countries spending more than 72 billion euros a year in health costs, of which 52.86 billion are subsidised by the ... prohibition of diesel cars on highways and higher taxes on diesel, would save Spain around 2.83 billion euros, reducing its spending to about 770 million euros a year. In the EU as a whole, the saving would be about 58 billion euros a year. "93% of the
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SUR.
Walking Football Spain's May Festival raised a total of 250 euros to help fund new prostheses for Marbella youngster Sarah Almagro who lost her hands and feet as a result of sepsis. The tournament, held at the sports complex in Benalmádena
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A. JIMÉNEZ.
The vessel known as the 'millionaire's cruise ship', spent three days docked in Puerto Banús from Sunday to Tuesday. The cost of an apartment aboard The World varies between one and six million euros, not including travel and maintenance fees.
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...income of 25,957 euros, more than any other municipality in the country. Unemployment is also at its second lowest rate here, on 6.4%. The data is part of a recently released survey from the INE, the national statistics office, called Urban Indicators, ... Monte (19,702 euros a year per person) in second place and Las Rozas (19,340 euros) in third. Of the top ten places, seven are in the Madrid area. The three that aren't are Sant Cugat del Vallès, just outside Barcelona, (19,151 euros) and also two ... Basque places; Getxo, a coastal town near Bilbao, (18,599 euros); and the city of San Sebastián (17,203 euros). Andalusian unemployment At the other end of the scale, nine of the least wealthy towns are in Andalucía. Bottom of the list is Níjar, a
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C. MÁRQUEZ.
A budget of 477,562 euros has been set aside by the western Costa water authorities to remove 380 metres of drains and seven manhole covers from Ventura del Mar beach in San Pedro. This is part of a bid to improve the image of the area and to