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Rob Palmer
It's going to be like one of those furniture sales you see around Christmas time: "Billions of pounds' worth of stock must go!" Real Madrid need to ignite a fire sale; not one player can be assured of a locker at the Bernabéu next season. It's
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Since this interview, Marbella Fire Brigade has held its awards ceremony at La Cabane, in Los Monteros hotel, to pay tribute to different people and entities from the town, including Sarah Almagro. The Debra Piel de Mariposa association and Onda
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Ivan Gelibter
After years of complaints, Mijas town hall on Monday announced a 7,000-square-metre plot of land in Las Lagunas, next to the Instituto La Vega secondary school, was to be set aside for the town's new fire station. The new station will be located ... next to an old people's home which is already at the tender stage. Mayor Juan Carlos Maldonado said that the new site would see a "significant rise in quality" in the service provided by the fire department and would allow the force to acquire more ... fire engines such as the recently-purchased crane truck which cannot fit in the current fire station. The current 1,000-square-metre hub had been described as "obsolete" and "insufficient" for the force's needs.
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Mónica Pérez
...hospital my parents would tell me "oh, so-and-so has joined the campaign", trying to cheer me up, and I would say "Oh, good, OK". But then when I came out of hospital on December 1st, and went to an event the fire brigade had organised, when I saw how many ... situations? You've also been presented with an award by the Marbella Fire Brigade. I found it hard at first, so many people cheering me on, but not now. I'm really grateful. This will be the first time anyone has given me an award, but I'm feeling quite
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Tony Bryant
Torremolinos is hosting the Semana de la Prevención de Incendios, a fire prevention programme designed to help people to identify the risks of a fire in the home, schools and workplaces. The initiative, which is being held in the Torremolinos ... a special emphasis on smoke detectors and evacuation procedures. There will also be a focus on children: the organisers have invited pupils from several schools in Torremolinos to attend workshops and educational programmes about fire prevention. ... The workshops will offer guidelines concerning the awareness of fire hazards and how to avoid them. They will highlight the importance of exercising caution with bad electrical installations and overloaded sockets, which are among the leading causes of
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FERNANDO TORRES / NEIL HESKETH
...pioneers today. Welcomed by the fire crew The crew from the three small planes, sporting Spanish and French flags, were welcomed to Malaga Airport with an arch of water from two fire engines and friends and relatives applauding them on the apron. The ... airport. Fortunately the passengers had been forewarned, to avoid any shock on seeing fire engines waiting. Director of Malaga Airport, Salvador Merino, said, "A hundred years flies by. What stands out is how much has changed over that time.
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Three people were killed and many left homeless last weekend after a block of 20 flats burned down, it has now been confirmed. Firefighters have said they did all they could with the equipment available to rescue people trapped in the building in t
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FERNANDO TORRES
...the streets of the centre of Benalmádena. Then suddenly, with no warning, they heard a series of explosions. "Boom, boom, boom! And then everything was on fire," explains Ousmane. The couple ran out of the apartment barefoot, carrying the children ... in their arms to safety. When the fire brigade arrived the apartment was completely burned out and the flames had left the family homeless, without even a mobile phone to call anyone for help. It was at that moment that the people of Benalmádena ... "Everyone knew there had been a fire at their home, but they didn't realise how bad things were until they saw that poor Mohamed went to school wearing clothes with burn marks," she said. After that, most members of the school community became aware that
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ANTONIO GÓNGORA
Construction on Malaga's new Academy, in the Arraijanal part of the city close to the airport, has come to a complete standstill with constructors Bilba removing all machinery from the site. The stumbling block has been finance tied up in land owned
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A fire broke out at the Hotel Califa II in Torremolinos, left empty since 2013, on Wednesday. Its location, close to residential blocks, made its extinction difficult, with a helicopter required as part of the operation. Roads were shut off and