Esteemed flamenco performers put on a show to remember in Torremolinos as they honoured the life of famous dancer, ‘El Carrete’, Jose Losada. The dancers came together on Sunday night to pay tribute to the flamenco performer who had an extraordinary 70-year career. The show at the Principe de Asturias municipal auditorium was sold out […]
SPAIN’S government says that €54 million of European money allocated in 2019 to fight pollution in the Mar Menor lagoon was switched elsewhere. The admission came in a statement from the Ministry for Ecological Transition after Murcia’s president, Fernando Lopez Miras, said the money had been ‘lost’ and ‘diverted’. Lopez Miras observed that it was
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Vidreres, Girona 6 beds 2 baths € 269,000 House with pool, independent apartment and sea views in Urbanization. The house is divided into 2 independent floors, the upper one has a hall, living-dining room with fireplace and access to the balcony, separate kitchen, 3 double bedrooms and a bathroom with a bathtub. The
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SPAIN’S biggest oil company, Repsol, recorded a record-breaking net annual profit of €4.2 billion last year- up by 70% on 2021 which had been the firm’s most profitable year for a decade. With crude oil prices rising to the highest level in 14 years- mainly due to the Ukraine war- 64% of Repsol’s profits came
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ORANGE skies return to the Costa del Sol as airborne dust from the Sahara blankets Malaga. Fortunately, this time the haze— due to a squall which has pushed African winds towards the Peninsula— is be much milder than the episode that occurred in March 2022. The calima last March, which saw the highest concentration of
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REPOPULATING the Iberian Peninsula with 47 million Apis mellifera iberiensis, better known as the Iberian bee, is the aim of a project that has been recently launched in Spain. To reverse the “disappearing trend” and help the demographic recovery of the Spanish bee population, which is so necessary for the preservation of ecosystems, hives are
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FROM today, vulnerable families in Spain can apply for a one-off €200 cheque introduced by the government in a bid to help them with the ongoing cost-of-living crisis. According to information published today on the Spanish Tax Agency (Agencia Tributaria) website, households with income of less than €27,000 can request the benefit until March 31.
People who have previously been infected with Covid-19 could stand at increased risk for diabetes, according to a new study. Doctors at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles analysed the medical records of 23,709 adult patients who had at least one documented Covid-19 infection between 2020-2022. They found that the combined risk of someone developing
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THE DECLINING trend for Spain’s birth rate has been confirmed once more by the latest figures from the National Statistics Institute (INE). According to an estimate released on Wednesday, there were 329,812 babies born in the country in 2022, 7,011 fewer than the year before. The falling numbers have been registered since 2016, when there
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Turkish expat Refik Agri waited in quiet dread for five hours as he got nothing but radio silence from his family after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake ripped through his home country. Agri, who now calls Torremolinos home on the coast of Malaga, watched helplessly as videos quickly emerged on social media from survivors of the
