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CHARO MÁRQUEZ
The town hall in Estepona opened its new ring road on Friday. This new infrastructure, costing seven million euros, will help improve traffic flow around the town centre. The route connects the Parque Ferial and the north of Juan Benítez, and lin
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Forthcoming major events across the Costa and the rest of Spain started to be cancelled this week. This included the key Malaga Film Festival and the annual Fallas celebration in Valencia. The knock-on effect on tourism and hospitality businesses ... major international event celebrates the latest Spanish-language films and many attendees travel from Madrid, the area of Spain worst affected by coronavirus. Organisers said they would try for another date soon. Events called off The festival was ... not alone as major events have also been cancelled across Spain. Hours later, the final days of the annual Fallas celebrations of large colourful satirical statues in the streets of Valencia were called off, to the anger of groups putting the finishing
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AGUSTÍN PELÁEZ
"Fibre optic has marked a turning point for my business. With the ADSL it used to take ages to do anything," said Juan Jesús Arrebola, who owns Bar Belén in Alfarnate, where fibre optic was installed about a month ago. "I sell lottery tickets in my b
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...prestigious prizes for Spanish-language film will be handed out on Saturday night, (25 January). This is the 35th year of the gala ceremony, which is a major televised event for Spanish households - all eyes will be on Malaga. The venue is the transformed
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The regional government is planning to spend nearly four million euros on improving the A-367 between Ronda and the connection with the A-357 Campillos-Malaga highway at Ardales. This is a very busy road and its condition has been deteriorating in re
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JUAN SOTO
Even the great deals advertised by major chain stores have not been enough able to tempt shoppers into stores as the New Year sales kick-off to a slow start. The uncertainty caused by the coronavirus and the bad weather have combined to leave both
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Ivan Gelibter
She said afterwards that things are going well so far and described the new port, which has the full support of the Junta de Andalucía, as a "major tourism hub" for Fuengirola. This is the most ambitious project for the town so far, and the
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Malaga city hall's petition to have the European City of Sport distinction extended was accepted this week by ACES Europe, the body which awarded it. The city, which has seen numerous sporting events either cancelled or postponed because of the cor
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...director of the IKEA store in Bahía Azul, next to the Plaza Mayor shopping centre in Malaga, he has had to oversee major changes in a short period of time. Not only the way we make purchases has changed, but also where our priorities now lie. We asked him
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Aristea, is a genus of plants in the Iridaceae (Iris) family. The fifty five species in the genus are found distributed throughout Africa and Madagascar. Aristea major, synonym A. capitata, is native to South Africa. Its common name is Blue sceptre ... resulting plants may take between three and ten years to flower. Aristea can be divided but dislikes root disturbance and the rhizomes must not be left to dry out. However in ideal conditions it may self-seed. A smaller version of A. major is A. ecklonii