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Chiara Luna: the first baby born in Andalucía in 2021

FRANCISCO JIMÉNEZ

Chiara Luna was the first bouncing baby born in Malaga province and also the first born in Andalucía in 2021. The little girl came into the world while the New Year bells were still ringing, just after midnight at the Malaga’s Hospital Materno ... Infantil. Chiara weighed in at 3.5 kilogrammes, (7.5 lbs) and was born by natural childbirth. The girl is the second daughter of a Czech-Italian couple from Prague who have been living in Malaga for ten months. “We are very happy parents. Thank you very ... third was at 6.46am, when Lara was born in the Antequera district. The little girl weighed 3,055 grammes. There were no births recorded in the hospitals of Ronda and Axarquía. Across the rest of Andalucía, Oliver was the first to arrive in Almería,

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Urban art brings warmth to Soho

JUAN SOTO

However, when Estrella and her daughter began, they had no idea that yarn bombing was so popular. "We decided to do it after a girl from a photography college showed us some photos, and we thought how nice it would be to do something like that," they say.

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The glamour of the revolutionaries

Isabel Ibáñez

Continuing with the trends, rock and roll triumphed in the 50s and the 'teddy girls' emerged and they evolved into girl 'rockers'. The former, the author explains, “made their own jackets and wore shirts and scarves tied around their necks, stole their

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Girl held in Malaga for hitting mum over internet ban

JUAN CANO

...that she had imposed a midnight curfew on use of the small screen. The woman said that the teenage girl had objected and broken one of the bedroom doors in disgust before going out. The girl returned to be calmed by officers, telling them that she ... couldn't be told what to do. The police left only to be called again at 4.30am by the mother who said this time she had been physically assaulted. After forcing the girl out of her room, police arrested her.

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Street hawkers help in rescue of girl at risk of drowning off Marbella beach

FERNANDO TORRES / JUAN CANO

...on La Venus beach in Marbella at 9pm after the lifeguard service had ended. Two Senegalese street hawkers jumped into the water to help save a girl from drowning after her boyfriend unsuccessfully tried to rescue her, as well as several other people ... on the beach at the time. José Lacalle, a federated waterpolo player and youth champion in sea rescue, was one of those who answered the call for help. He swam out to where the girl was, around 200 metres from the shore, and was able to stabilise ... compressions, the girl quickly started to recover. Torremolinos tragedy A 50-year-old man in Torremolinos wasn't so lucky. He was rescued from the water on Carihuela beach at around 2pm but despite carrying out CPR, he was pronounced dead at the scene.

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19 June 1980: The death of the girl 'born out of science'

Daryl Finch

girl) wrote her name into the history books when she became the first baby in Andalucía to be born alive after her mother died, and only the fourth in Europe. Gynaecologist Dr José Gálvez Ginachero, medical specialist to Maria Christina of Austria, the ... mother of King Alfonso XIII, who was queen regent at the time, gained global fame for performing the procedure. His path crossed with that of the girl's mother just two days earlier when she was admitted to the San Juan de Dios Provincial Civil Hospital,

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Young girl discovers 18-kilo bundle of hashish on first day back outside

JUAN CANO / ÁLVARO FRÍAS

The first outing since the start of the lockdown was an adventure for most children, but it was especially eventful for one girl in Malaga city who discovered an 18-kilo package of hashish on her walk with her father. Her father, 47, called the ... Local Police at around 1pm on Sunday after the girl spotted a wet box on the rocks close to the Baños del Carmen (suggesting it had washed up) while walking on the beach. They inspected the box, suspecting it contained clothes, only to find a number of

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Tales from the old days

Rachel Haynes

...leaders, and order all men, women and children to cover their faces. The girl looks up from her history book. Without checking the date, she assumes she's been reading about the 17th or 18th century, even earlier. She reminds herself how times change,

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Girl in Estepona pool rescue drama

Firefighters in Estepona recently carried out the spectacular rescue of a girl in a swimming pool. The six-year-old had trapped her arm in the tube of the pool's filter system at her home in Villas de Santa María. The pool edge had to be ... broken to release the girl who was still stuck with the tube around her arm. The tube was taken off afterwards with a radial saw.

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Trainer of support dog promised to local disabled girl is arrested over faked kidnapping

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When news broke last week that a black labrador dog that was being trained for a disabled girl from Estepona had been stolen, many people took to social media to try and track down the thieves and the animal, called Pocahontas. As reported in SUR