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Fuengirola man arrested for allegedly kicking and injuring a dog that had to be put down as a result

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A man has been arrested by the National Police in Fuengirola after he allegedly kicked and seriously injured a dog – that later had to be put to sleep – following a small fight between two dogs in the Costa del Sol town. The incident took place on ... 30 March when the woman said that she was walking her water dog, on a lead, through an open field in the town. A small Yorkshire Terrier that was running loose - approached and a small fight started. Police said it was the owner of the water dog

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Andalucía says safe corridors with the UK are needed to 'save summer'

RAQUEL MERINO

The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, has accused Spain's PM Pedro Sánchez of "not yet understanding that tourism is one of the largest industries we have." He said, "We have to care for and protect the entire service sector ... which generates many jobs," in Andalucía and the whole of Spain. In an interview on Telecinco's AR programme, the Junta’s head stressed that the possible "loss" of this summer, "the second summer after having already lost Easter, the spring festivities ... the United Kingdom, which already has an important proportion of the population vaccinated, so that there are safe corridors that guarantee the arrival of visitors from that country to Spain." Moreno said, "I see the tourism sector as being

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The Junta warns that the Covid-19 situation in Andalucía is 'high risk'

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The Junta de Andalucía's Minister of Health, Jesús Aguirre, has warned this Monday (12 April) that the region is in a "high risk" situation, with a cumulative incidence rate of almost 250 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, which is why he has called on ... the public for "great caution". Speaking to Canal Sur Televisión, Aguirre said that he believes there are two "very complicated" months ahead and that "they are crucial to reduce infections to try to save as many Andalusians as possible." "The ... incidence rate in Andalucía is almost 250 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, which means high risk," according to Aguirre, who added that there is a higher proportion of intensive care admissions compared to general hospital admissions, and the average age of

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Spain smashes its weekend vaccination record with 553,172 jabs

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Spain has broken another record in the coronavirus vaccination campaign when, over the weekend of 10 and 11 April, more than 553,172 doses of Covid-19 vaccines were administered. This is the second time since the jabs began on 27 December that the ... to the regions, reported that there are already 3,108,437 people - some 6.6 per cent of the population - who have received both doses of the Pfizer, Moderna or AstraZeneca vaccines. To date 16.2 per cent of the population (7,676,560 people) have

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Key Moderna vaccine manufacturing role for an Andalusian company

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Laboratorios Farmacéuticos Rovi has announced that it will manufacture the main active ingredient of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine in Granada. The company will carry out a new investment in its facilities in Andalucía that will allow more than 100 ... are very happy with the collaboration with Moderna, whose vaccine against Covid-19 is one of the best positioned in the race to solve this health crisis." "We are extremely excited that Rovi is participating in the manufacture of the active ... "has being fundamental". The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, celebrated the news on his Twitter account saying: “Magnificent news that the main active ingredient of one of the vaccines against Covid-19 is manufactured by Rovi in

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Cruzcampo launches a beer that looks and tastes like red wine

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The master brewers at La Fábrica de Cruzcampo in Malaga have launched a new Cruzcampo Grape Beer, an original beer that has emerged from the talent and know-how of Juan Jiménez and Jorge Varela The brewery says the beer is reminiscent of red wine ... both in its colour and taste and that the new recipe, in the characteristic grape ale style of Italy, becomes part of the family of craft beers that have emerged from this creative laboratory. The beer can be tasted, while supplies last, in the

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Video | Police smash a network in the south of Spain that distributed drugs throughout Europe

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The Guardia Civil has dismantled a network in the south of Spain that allegedly trafficked hashish and marijuana and also supplied other criminal gangs with fuel, food and crews for drug-running boats. More than 100 people have been arrested in ... documentation have been seized. The investigation began when it was discovered that a criminal organisation was launching boats on the Guadalquivir river. Officers found the gang were launching the boats between the Seville province towns of Isla Mayor and ... was allegedly dedicated to supplying fuel to the powerful, semi-rigid drug-running craft - that often have three or four engines and guzzle a lot of fuel - off the south coast of Andalucía. This section of the gang used small recreational boats that

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An artist seduced by dark themes and dark ideas that help him to paint

Antonio Javier López

...existence, at the Galería JM in Malaga. “From 2019 until now, I think my work has followed a conceptual logic. I have always referred to the genres of painting to somehow pervert them or transform them into something else that is mine,” explains José Luis. ... If the grandfather was an ‘amateur’ painter in addition to a mason, it seems that his grandson has professionalised the former and recovered his fondness for tombstones... “But, above all, for what may be under there, a whole world of possibilities ... that in the hands of the artist is made of oil paint and has an ironic aftertaste of disturbed earth, for the forgotten breath of the inhabitants of a dark and fertile mud, anticipating the moment the bugs start to feast,” says the text that accompanies

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The dolphin that was rescued by bathers on a Malaga beach dies

IGNACIO LILLO

Members of the public helped rescue a dolphin that was stranded at La Misericordia beach, in front of the Vincci hotel in Malaga, this Wednesday morning. People who were walking and playing on the beach found the dolphin struggling to swim out to ... sea because of the strong swell from the east that was hitting the Malaga coastline. First they tried to push it into the water, but it was exhausted and time after time it returned to shore, even hitting the rocks. Finally, it was rescued from the ... transferred to a marine species recovery centre. The centre's director José Luis Mons said that it was a male dolphin - aged between 12 and 14 years old - but very thin and possibly sick. It measured 2.03 metres long and weighed 90 kilogrammes - about 15

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Police arrest the man who allegedly fired the shot that killed the DJ at an illegal party in Marbella

The National Police have arrested the man who alleged fired the shot that killed a DJ during an illegal party in a Marbella villa. Police say the man who was arrested in Malaga city this Tuesday morning (30 March) is a 30-year-old German. ... at a luxury residential area of Marbella. DJ dies after being shot in the neck during an illegal party in Marbella Initial reports suggest that the victim's death was caused by a stray bullet after an argument broke out in an adjacent room