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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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...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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JUAN CANO
During this campaign with the van in Malaga - the vehicles are used in different provinces of Andalucía at different times - the Guardia Civil officers have seen women putting their make-up on while driving down the motorway and even a girl who let go of
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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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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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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
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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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Eugenio Cabezas
Police are investigating an alleged sexual assault on an 11-year-old girl on Halloween in the Capistrano area of Nerja. According to police, the girl said her attacker was a tall, blond youth who was wearing a cap and scarf around his face and was ... riding a bike. The girl is said to have managed to get away from her aggressor with an injury to her arm.
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...operation. The girl's rescue revealed the horror of sexual exploitation scheme, operating in the Malaga province and organised by a gang of Nigerian citizens. All 11 members of the gang have since been arrested. Six women, including the 15-year-old girl
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ALBERTO GÓMEZ
...to carry out a caesarian birth to alleviate the pressure the baby was putting on her lungs. This also meant she no longer needed to use her oxygen for the baby girl, who was born 27 weeks and five days into the pregnancy, weighing 1.2 kilos. The ... she was immediately admitted; by then she had severe breathing difficulties. These led to pneumonia, and doctors decided they had no choice but to carry out the operation. The baby girl was tested for coronavirus when she was born, and when the