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JAVIER ALMELLONES
...they throw flour; in Tolox they throw talc. This strange festival has its roots in an old custom: young men who wished to declare their love to a girl would lie in wait and cover her with flour. Many girls chose to stay indoors that day to avoid being
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FRANCISCO JIMÉNEZ
A bloody bite mark, scratches on different parts of his body and bumps on his leg after being kicked; that was the result of an attack last week on a Malaga bus driver by six girls. The driver had asked them to get off the bus after they had been ... bothering other passengers with abusive behaviour. The events took place last week when the girls, who were apparently on holiday, got on the number 3 bus after a visit to the fair. They sat at the back and began to hurl insults at a couple and their two ... children. Hearing shouts, the driver stopped the bus and moved to the back, suggesting the couple change seats, and asked the girls to calm down. However the girls continued bothering other passengers, so the driver asked them to get off. Meanwhile one
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Eugenio Cabezas
...to describe how the emergency services asked her if she was Daniela and then guided them back to the start of the walk, where emergency vehicles were waiting for them with blankets. Despite their ordeal, the girls were back in the swimming pool at
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Charo márquez
Four girls, aged 12 and 13, were taken to hospital with burns on Friday after an explosion in the chemistry laboratory at their school, Mayfair International Academy. The explosion happened at around 2pm, when, according to school sources, the ... students were conducting chemistry experiments under teacher supervision. These tests had already been carried out safely on other occasions. The four girls suffered second degree burns to their faces and were rushed by ambulance to the Costa del Sol
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Jennie Rhodes
Most people will remember the 1980s US sitcom, the Golden Girls, in which a group of older women lived together in a large house and shared the trials and tribulations of ageing together. Move on 30 years and the concept of shared living, or ... Golden Girls really were early pioneers of housing cooperatives, or the idea has been growing in Spain since the 1950s, such initiatives appear to be flourishing, particularly in Europe and North America and Almuñécar's Una Vida Buena could just be the
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Eugenio Cabezas
Daniela Cárdenas, and the five girls aged between 11 and 15, are the latest in a long list of people who have been rescued from the river in the last 10 years as Nerja town hall and Andalucia's regional government, the Junta de Andalucía, continually fail ... to put in place any kind of control. "We were very scared. I tried to keep the girls calm and hide my desperation" Cárdenas and her family, who were on holiday in Nerja, set out at around 6pm on Saturday evening last week, having been told about ... group managed to attract the attention of the search and rescue helicopter. They were guided back to the start of the river, where emergency vehicles were waiting for them. None of the group needed medical attention, although some of the girls had a
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All was well in the end, but it will take the 24 members of the Meyrin synchronised swimming club from Geneva a long time to forget their trip to Torremolinos. Nineteen of the girls suffered slight chlorine poisoning after inhaling the chemical when ... swimming pool began to bubble. “It was like a jacuzzi,” says Saskia Bossy, one of the trainers. “The girls were wearing goggles, and they said the bottom of the pool had gone yellow”. Then, the youngsters began to have breathing problems. “They couldn’t ... stop coughing, their throats were sore and some of them were vomiting,” she says. The girls were in the outside pool, and the trainers made them get out of the water quickly, while staff called for help. Within a few minutes the police and ambulances
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Two men have been arrested in Fuengirola over the sexual abuse of two girls, ages 10 and 12. One of the men is the girls' father who, it is believed, consented to a friend abusing his daughter and was even present while the alleged abuse occurred. ... The girls have been taken into care while the men have been released with charges and a restraining order placed on them.
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Peter Edgerton
...reps' (girls in miniskirts) would drag you into dingy rooms where a slightly too old bloke in a baseball cap would be playing records you'd forgotten were so terrible. A constant blur of cheap shots, strobe lighting and semi - and not always semi - naked
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JUAN CANO
Malaga. National Police officers have arrested a 64-year-old British man in connection with alleged sexual abuse against two seven-year-old girls. The man taught English at a private language school in Estepona where the two girls were pupils, SUR ... confirmed on Thursday. The investigation began when the girls' mothers reported the abuse to police, after their daughters told them that their English teacher had been touching them, said sources. Investigations were launched and the teacher was
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PATRICIA PINEDA
Their happy faces say it all. Despite having spent long hours travelling aboard an aeroplane, these two girls look around with amazement and their smiles never disappear. Alma and Alizar, aged four and 11, respectively, arrived in Malaga from Syria ... condition. The lives of both girls have so far been marked by trauma and hardship, but now they have an opportunity for something better. However, not every child is so lucky. "We will stay here all the time they need. Until they cure them," says Rafael
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Peter Edgerton
...telecommunications I'm still not sure. The girls were beautiful though and to improve matters even more, I was chosen for a slow lingering death close-up which meant my fee was increased quite considerably. Dying can be a lucrative business. Mostly, though, these
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...posing as an adolescent girl and offering the victims advice about boys. A police investigation, 'Operation Molling,' found that the accused had spoken with 1,000 different girls and had identified 41 separate victims. The first victim, from Antequera,
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A 64-year-old British man being investigated for alleged child abuse has been allowed free by an Estepona judge but must sign in at court twice a month. The man, who was an English teacher, was accused by parents of girls of inappropriate
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Daryl Finch
Aloha College U18 boys' and girls' football teams returned victorious from their international debut at the eighth International Schools Algarve (ISA) tournament, held in Vilamoura, Portugal. The girls' team won their final 2-1 against the
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Mónica Pérez
Their ages range from eight to 15, but their musical tastes are unlike those of most of their generation. They love immortal rock classics like AC/DC, Iron Maiden and the Rolling Stones, and those have been the inspiration for their first album, whic
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Georgina Oliver
...selling point - as in Selling Sunset. (What d'ya think folks? Isn't Netflix's docu-soap about LA girls who clinch million-dollar property deals, a surefire candidate for Guilty Pleasure of the Year?) My idea of luxury? Something that cannot be
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Jennie Rhodes
...charity. "It came from the idea of no child without a toy. I went to see what you could actually buy a child with say five euros and the answer was, very little, especially for girls," explained Janet. The initiative has grown over the years and
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Tony Bryant
...it took the doctors more than two years to diagnose the problem," Della explains to SUR in English. Della first realised that something was wrong in 2014, when she went on a girls' weekend to Mallorca in order to celebrate her 40th birthday. She
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FRANCISCO JIMÉNEZ
...taking a selfie of the two of them and starting work. David García's daughters were also taking part in the experience. "We're having a nice walk as a family and helping with this cause. The girls are learning how important it is not to throw rubbish
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SUSANA ZAMORA
...to segregate men and women in a male-dominated sport in which the girls are starting to make a name for themselves. For some it is an opportunity for female drivers to show their skill at the wheel, but others see it as an obstacle to real equality ... sport, and even encourage more girls to take up professions they had not considered before". Other Spanish drivers, like Laia Sanz (nine times Dakar champion in the women's category) believe there should be no segregation by gender in sports where men
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Peter Edgerton
...as both girls began to cry at a volume hitherto unbeknown to mankind. The only saving grace was that Kenny G was drowned out in the rumpus. To her credit, the girls' mother was pretty sanguine, and realised that no real harm had been done, telling
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Ángel Escalera
...and not 24 centimetres like Rocco Siffredi. And how does it affect the girls? It creates false expectations in them. Then, they post in their Whatsapp group for their girlfriends that Luis is a disaster in bed and also has a very small penis. And
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CHARO MÁRQUEZ
Quick thinking staff in one instance and knowledge of CPR in another were key to saving the lives of two small girls last week. Both had slipped into pools in different hotel establishments along the Costa del Sol. The first and more dramatic of
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INÉS GALLASTEGUI
...are trying to do is make the Behobia a platform which speeds up social change and therefore, she says, it is not so essential that in 2025 there are exactly 50 per cent of girls at the starting line, but to have made progress. At the time when ... some invisible barriers. Experts say girls tend to give up sport in their teenage years, either because they are less motivated or because they have been told from a young age that it's only boys who 'need' to do sport. Others stop when they become ... can go, as they started competing later and there are still fewer of them. What would happen if 90 per cent of girls played football? Would there be the occasional female Messi? There have been women champions in several ultra-marathons (races of over
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...nothing about it. The girls' mother, who is separated from her husband, went to the police after one daughter told her that she had been abused several times during a year when she was living with her father. The police say that in fact both girls
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MARÍA GONZÁLEZ
Almagro. He also tries to make sure that "the boys and girls who participate in the [golf] tour feel responsible and proud that they are collaborating and making a contribution", he explained. He has also been assisted by the Safamotor group, which
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MARÍA GONZÁLEZ
...to edit a photo or a video," she explains. Although the project has only been ongoing for a year, she says she would like to expand it and even include other women. "I want to collaborate with other girls who beat prejudices," she says.
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JENNIE RHODES
...each of the houses. She has created a series of fairy tales (each of the buildings is occupied by fairies) and explains that they are "big girls' dolls' houses where wands can do anything and there are no tax inspectors!" Some of the characters are
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CHARLOTTE WAY
...training, and the supportive relationship extends onto the battleground; despite healthy rivalry, even the male teams "all got together to cheer on the girls" in Italy. "It really makes you feel like you're part of something." Nevertheless, medieval combat ... promises to be a "huge event for Spain", and particularly for Samantha's women's team: "It is going to be amazing because there hasn't been a girls' team in two or three years." The women's intrepidity is impressive. "We've proved ourselves in Italy, so
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PETER EDGERTON
...tell you, absolutely horrible on every level. Admittedly, the target audience for this stuff is twelve year old girls and I don't suppose the baldy fifty-something bloke demographic is a market Mrs Pink would be terribly interested in, but even so it ... girls with their self esteem but this guff is surely going to have totally the opposite effect. Nobody's perfect - except Kenny Dalglish, obviously - and that's the whole point. In my experience, people who understand this fundamental truth are generally
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A. ESCALERA
...some studies show that on average girls have their first full sexual experience at the age of 16. The first time, the percentage of adolescents who use a condom is higher than on successive occasions. "Young people have a false sense of security in what
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The New Year's Day swim in aid of the 4 Paws animal charity, a tradition started 13 years ago by Stacey Lloyd, took place in front of Pirpas Bar 69 in Fuengirola. Twelve swimmers, some dressed as mermaids, Scotsmen and flower girls, took to the
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...the Carretera de Cadiz area and sexually assault them, threatening them and sometimes carrying a weapon to intimidate them. He later changed his modus operandi and the profile of his victims, choosing young foreign girls who were generally studying
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CLAUDIA SAN MARTÍN
...looking after the boys and girls, some of whom have come for the first time to discover another way of life. Andrei and Narcisa Andrei's foster mother Narcisa is Romanian, but has lived in Malaga for nearly 20 years. This 44-year-old spent half of her
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MARINA RIVAS
When she decided to take to the field at the age of 16, she had no idea what the future held. Malaga-born Bea Torres Corral was always one of those girls who played football with the boys during break at school. She never made it to competing as a
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MARINA RIVAS
...the top ten in the Spain under-18 championships, with a distance of 12.18 metres, she was champion in the Andalusian indoor championships and came third in Spain's under-18s. International ambitions These Malaga girls are already both competing
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ANDREA JIMÉNEZ
...soon as he steps on stage. "I want to fill stadiums with my band." The band Sergio belongs to a children's band, Devils in the Sky, made up of the young drummer and five girls, all pupils at Rock Factory. "They all passed their Trinity exams with
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Jennie Rhodes
...have Freddie’s teeth. We Will Rock You was followed by Another One Bites the Dust, Somebody to Love, Fat Bottomed Girls, Killer Queen, Under Pressure and Love of My Life. But it wasn’t until the first notes of Bohemian Rhapsody that people finally got
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Perspectives class. The aim of the two-month project was to raise awareness of the global impact of different illnesses as well as raise money for AVOI, their chosen charity. The girls said that they were "very pleased" with what they had learned through