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Fernando torres / juan cano
In what is being described locally as a 'miracle', a five-year-old boy survived a fall from a third-floor window in Malaga city on Monday. The boy, of Chinese origin, suffered several fractures in the lower limbs and in one shoulder and several
Gibraltar
Debbie Bartlett
Coronavirus has become a dreaded word for people all over the world but, as the saying goes, every cloud has a silver lining and some good has come out of the Covid-19 crisis in the shape of eight-year-old Jake Torres from Gibraltar, who has written ... (www.helpmelearnafrica.com) works to empower education in Africa. Thanks to Jake Torres, the remarkable eight-year-old from Gibraltar, their task has just become slightly easier.
What to do
Tony Bryant
...a panel of specialists, who will select six plays to be performed at the festival, which will be staged in the theatre later this year. The playwright must be a resident and the script must be in English. Organisers have stressed that staging
Sport
efe
Stages 15 and 16 of the Vuelta a España will not take place in Portugal as originally planned, organisers have said. Because of complications caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, these stages (around Porto and Viseu) will be moved to new locations in S
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SUR
...low or no income, has long been a policy of coalition partners Unidas Podemos and the government wants it to come into force in June. Estimates are that it will cost the State three billion euros a year, and initially reach100,000 households. There ... year to the Spanish Social Security system, although it could be over various shorter periods. The beneficiary would also have to have been a resident of Spain for at least a full year immediately before applying. The benefit, to be known in Spanish
Sport
Pedro Luis Alonso
Despite being in the same division, the contrast between CR Málaga and Marbella RC couldn't be greater. The latter, which start this season with the name Andalucía Bulls, has this year suffered two major setbacks. The first was the loss of income ... Marbella owns its own pitch, the Bahía de Marbella, beside the Costa del Sol hospital, but this has also been problematic as the club has to pay 30,000 euros a year in IBI tax. However, the club did reach a sponsorship agreement with Marbella town hall for
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Pilar Martínez
...have been waiting for this move before investing in Andalucía." The new system is not obligatory and there will be a five-year period in which to join it, although some hotel groups appear ready to make the necessary changes this year and next. There
Local
Héctor Barbotta
...brighter. Inland Malaga province alone has 41,000 beds available and last year was the best ever for this type of tourism, with an economic impact that is estimated by the Costa del Sol Tourist Board to be 935 million euros. Of course, things are very ... different this year. The crisis caused by the pandemic will have a major impact on foreign source markets, which provide around 55 per cent of clients during the whole year. They probably won't be coming to tourist destinations in this region now, unless ... Last year 134,014 travellers stayed in inland accommodation in Malaga province, of whom around 60,000 were Spanish, according to tourism data. The national market increased by over 30 per cent, while there was a reduction of around ten per cent in
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EUROPA PRESS
The Spanish government has decided in the end to exclude 14-year-olds from the coroanvirus lockdown rule modification that allows children to go for walks in the company of an adult from Sunday. previous story Children can go out for walks ... new rules applied to the under-14s. On the grounds that 14-year-olds and above do not need to be accompanied by adults when they go out, they are included in the general lockdown regulations that stipulate only essential outings, to the supermarket, ... "up to 14" and Health ministry sources aid earlier this week that 14-year-olds would be included. Finally however the wording of the regulations published in the official state gazette (BOE) on Saturday was "under-14s". The other conditions
Sport
EFE / COLPISA
The 75th edition of the Vuelta a España will have only eighteen stages, it has been announced, after organisers Unipublic reconfigured the event in light of the disruption caused by the pandemic. The starting point for La Vuelta, originally set to