The illness known as 'Spanish flu' took the lives of 50 million people all over the world; in the summer of 1918 it hit Malaga especially hard
FUENGIROLA
The Fuengirola and Mijas branch is appealing for good quality second-hand clothing to boost stocks in its Los Boliches shop
Carolina Herrera's new range of bags, scarves and brooches carry the jasmine 'biznaga' design
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Earlier that year Alonso had already become the youngest driver to start in pole position, when he was still only 21
Mel began his musical career at the age of 14, when he formed a skiffle group with his brother. During the 1960s, he began performing with countless named artists, including Bill Haley, Little Richard, Gene Vincent and The Rolling Stones
The building will be taken back to the sixties for the third Netflix series on the British royals, which will also be shot in the provinces of Seville and Cadiz
Drought hardy Spanish thrift forms a rounded cushion of foliage studded with clusters of pink or white flowers
The event coincided with the International Day of Homeless Animals
The attacks were the deadliest in Spain since the March 2004 Madrid train bombings, with 16 people of ten nationalities killed and over 130 people from over 34 nations injured
A device which transmits electrical impulses to the spinal cord is helping patients who have suffered nerve injury. They are starting to enjoy life again, when even morphine had failed to ease their suffering. "It was unbearable," they say
This weekend the Perseids meteor shower should be clearly visible in the night sky over southern Spain
GARDENING
Adaptable and drought resistant, Craspedia forms a clump of silvery-green foliage topped by yellow, drum-stick blooms
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Despite still being governed by a dictatorship, that did not stop some law changes to bring Spain slowly into a world of equal opportunities
The guitarist and composer, who is performing in Fuengirola on 9 August, wants his music to bring "light" in dark times; "Trump represents the vortex of fear," he says
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The 1966 law came into force when Fraga became Minister of Information and Tourism and began to slowly implement some changes to the restrictive Franco regime