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Jennie Rhodes
Weekend Beach festival organisers announced on Wednesday that the 12,000 tickets that went on sale on Tuesday for next year's July event sold out within hours of the launch. The tickets were sold at an early-bird price of 28 euros with no artist l
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M. DOLORES TORTOSA
The Junta de Andalucía has successfully sold 600 million euros of debt on the financial markets. It is the first time that the regional government has sold bonds to raise funds since the financial crisis a decade ago after receiving the go-head
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Ángel Escalera
The regional Health authority claimed this week that just 13% of primary healthcare workers (GPs and paediatricians) went on strike on Monday and Tuesday this week, the first two days of ongoing action called to express the professionals'
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Fernando TORRES
The sale of plots of land on a new industrial and logistics estate in the Guadalhorce valley is expected to start in the first half of next year. The estate is located next to the new Guadalhorce valley local hospital near Cártama and covers
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...caused to private property by last week's downpours in the province of Malaga was estimated as being worth some 16 million euros. This first figure, offered by the Consorcio de Compensación de Seguros - a central government insurance body which covers
Opinion
ANDREW J. LINN
For the first time since this incredibly successful star of the cheap and cheerful wine market arrived on the scene ten years ago, Prosecco sales have fallen. WINE OF THE WEEK Freixenet Cordon Negro Brut Reserva The long-running battle of the ... cava is justifiably at the top of the quality fizz tree. Available everywhere at around nine euros. Very few popular wines have shown such remarkable sales growth, 6,000 per cent in the first two decades, mainly thanks to its popularity in the ... the Glera grape, Prosecco put the village of the same name, together with the grape, on the world map. It is not the first time Italians have flooded the market with cheap fizz, and we still remember Asti Spumante for a variety of reasons, mainly
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marina rivas
They may only be small in number (around thirty), but Malaga's latest official supporters' club -and the first for the women's team- is growing fast. Named 'Coraje y corazón' after the club's anthem, this new group hopes to bring even greater ... support for Malaga Femenino by increasing the side's profile with a number of campaigns on social media and elsewhere. This 'peña', as they are called, is only the third in the women's first division.
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Tony Bryant what happened today?
Born in Terrasa, Catalonia, in 1910, Margot Moles Piña was a pioneer in women's athletics in Spain. Specialising in hammer throw, discus, hockey, swimming and skiing, in 1936, she became the first Spanish women's skiing champion in an official ... competition. Margot and her sister, Lucinda, were among the first Spanish women to practise professional athletics, and along with alpine skier, Ernestina Maenza, were the first Spanish women athletes to participate in the Garmisch-Partenkirche Winter Olympics ... track and field events, for which she went on to win numerous medals. During the first Spanish Athletics Championship, held in Madrid in 1931, Margot represented Castile (her family had moved to Madrid when she was seven) and won a gold medal in
Opinion
Rachel Haynes
...in loud voices is one of the first cultural differences that hits those of us brought up in quieter countries as soon as we step off the aeroplane. And, as the mayor said, the problem is that if one person speaks in a loud voice, the next person has
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Vélez-Málaga is to host the town's first ever puppet festival at the end of October, the town hall has said. With the aim of demonstrating the role that puppets can play in educating children in a variety of subjects and skills, the festival will