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Charo márquez
Organisers for the annual Starlite Festival in Marbella are looking to fill 400 vacancies for the upcoming series of concerts this summer. A first round of interviews will take place from 21 to 23 May at the Palacio de Ferias y Congresos. Those ... interested must first register online. Some 1,400 people have already done so.
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Antonio Javier López
...sculptures, installations, videos and photos. The works are on loan from international private collections and are being shown in Spain for the first time. "Banksy never comes to exhibitions of his work because he insists on anonymity and wants to remain
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GEORGIE KENNY
A year-long campaign which started in 2004 resulted in the first official International Day Against Homophobia being celebrated on 17 May 2005. The date was specifically chosen to commemorate the World Health Organisation's decision in 1990 to
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Pilar Martínez
...passengers used Malaga Airport in the first four months of the year. Of these, 4.3 million were arriving or leaving on international flights. There were 29,514 international flights over the four-month period, 5.6 per cent up on a year ago. The number of ... Domestic flights also saw an uplift in the first four months. There were 8,897 take-offs and landings to or from Spanish airports, an increase of 8.5 per cent year-on-year with 885, 772 domestic passengers. The busiest day in the first four months of the
Sport
ENRIQUE MIRANDA
August, with a total of 13 races and a new competitor. The Benalmádena regatta makes a return this year while students from the provincial school will take to the water for the first time. This eighth edition was officially presented at the Diputación ... building in Malaga on Wednesday where it was announced that the first regatta, with four competing categories, will take place at El Candado (Malaga) on 25 May.
Sport
RODRIGO ERRASTI
For the first time in ten years, a woman has been awarded the Princess of Asturias Award for Sports. Lindsey Vonn is the skier with the highest number of victories (82) in the history of the Alpine Ski World Cup, four wins off the absolute record of ... before her came Steffi Graff in 1999, just one year after Arantxa Sánchez Vicario had won it. The first woman to open the list of winners was Martina Navratilova in 1994, 365 days before the Algerian athlete Hassiba Boulmerka.
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francisco jiménez
...plant. Funding. The Junta de Andalucía has paid for the works, with 80% from European funds and the rest from the water treatment fee collected on water bills. It's now two decades since the Junta de Andalucía first envisaged building the treatment ... plant to prevent untreated sewage ending up in the river Guadalhorce and 12 years since the construction contract was awarded. Additional funding confirmed to finish work on Nerja plant It was first thought that the plant would also include ... current sewage works. This project is still on the drawing board and is not expected to be in operation until 2022, ten years after the first plans were put on the table. The delay of the Malaga plant also took its toll on the Guadalhorce works. While
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Daryl Finch
...drop out of the play-off positions for the first time this season, with just five games to go. Despite Víctor Sánchez's charges dominating possession for long periods, they failed to build on an early lead and capitalise on their dominance. Malaga ... the division. If Malaga were to become only the second team to win there all year, they would have to prevent their on-form opponents from creating inroads as easily as they were able to in the first half. One such example was when Mario Barco was
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Héctor BARBOTTA/ Charo MÁRQUEZ
Collado Seidel brought to light Hoffman's past and revealed that he had in fact been an agent of the Gestapo and the SS. Hoffman acted as an interpreter, first in the Condor Legion, a unit sent by Hitler to assist in the Spanish Civil War, and then in
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FERNANDO TORRES
A historian from Alhaurín de la Torre has become the first Spaniard to be named a "Living Legend" for his research into the unique Cajun culture in the southern US state of Louisiana. Before José Manuel de Molina began his work, the influence of