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From top to bottom and left to right; Davidovich, Marta López, Merche and Sole, Benítez with the Taekwondo team and Torrontegui with the ex-Malaguista Ochoa.
From top to bottom and left to right; Davidovich, Marta López, Merche and Sole, Benítez with the Taekwondo team and Torrontegui with the ex-Malaguista Ochoa. SUR

The first Malaga competitors arrive in Tokyo's Olympic village

MARINA RIVAS

The group of sportsmen and women is already settling into the modern facilities in Japan

Gas bottle prices go up again in Spain

EUROPA PRESS

The government's official maximum price of the 12.5 kilo butane cylinder is set at 15.37 euros, its highest price in six years

The ubiquitous bottled gas cylinders in Spain.
The ubiquitous bottled gas cylinders in Spain. SUR

Globe-trotting CNN journalist visits the Costa

Richard Quest in Marbella with Prince  Hubertus von Hohenlohe.
Richard Quest in Marbella with Prince Hubertus von Hohenlohe. cnn

SUR IN ENGLISH

Richard Quest. The ever-curious presenter arrived in Malaga to record an episode of Quest’s World of Wonder

THE MUSIC MAKER

Hotter than July

Peter Edgerton

Peter Edgerton

I thought I might offer readers a handy cut-out-and-keep guide to surviving the unforgiving Andalusian summer. Here goes

THE EURO ZONE

Found guilty

Mark Nayler

Mark Nayler

The retrospective enormity of this week's ruling by Spain's Constitutional Court - that last spring's government-enforced lockdown was illegal - takes a few minutes to absorb

Shampanskoye

ANDREW J. LINN

A new law rules that only home-produced sparkling wine can be referred to as champagne. This presents the hordes of champagne-loving Russians with a dilemma

THE BOTTOM LINE

Oasis of taste to taste

ALEKK M. SAANDERS

We can congratulate ourselves on having an oasis on the Costa del Sol of taste and flavour, as well as health and quality

THE MUSIC MAKER

It shouldn't happen to a bet

Peter Edgerton

Peter Edgerton

Even if you could earn your crust guessing which horse/business/invisible coin was going to succeed next, why would you want to?

ANDALUSIAN BIRD WATCH

The fading colours of summer

PETER JONES

The Andalucía Bird Society recommends looking out for the hawfinch and common crossbill