GIBRALTAR celebrated Commonwealth Day on Monday to mark a year that saw it come closer to the community of former British nations after it left the European Union. The Commonwealth flag flew proudly from a new eight metre pole at its namesake Commonwealth Park as the British overseas territory marked the occasion. Deputy Chief Minister […]
Sooner or later, we will all need a funeral, and they can be a costly burden on the grieving family we leave behind if they are unprepared. Unplanned funerals can incur runaway costs that bring stress and aggravation exactly at the moment we are least prepared to deal with it. Here at Compare Funerals, it
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SPAIN’S market-leading supermarket Mercadona reported a 5% rise in profits last year as consumers had to deal with increased prices. The company made €718 million in 2022- up from €680 million the previous year. Presenting the retailer’s annual results on Tuesday, the president and main shareholder, Juan Roig, said that €161 million in dividends had
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A Fuengirola gelato shop now boasts Spain’s best chocolate ice cream. The Caramelo ice cream parlour won first prize in a contest organised by specialist magazine Helado Artesano, in which more than 150 professionals from all over Spain took part. The product, made and sold in Fuengirola, by the artisan Matias Kuyumdjian was crowned the
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JAVEA council has applied for €5.6 of EU Tourism Sustainability money to help reduce visitor saturation during the summer at popular seaside spots. Neighbouring areas like Benitatxell and Calpe already have some capacity restrictions at coves and Javea wants to follow suit over introducing controlled access to the Els Orguens and Llop Mari sea caves
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FOOD and non-alcoholic beverages rose in February by 16.6% over 12 months- 1.2% higher than in January. The food inflation rate, according to the National Institute of Statistics, is the highest figure since it started using the current measuring system in 1994. The peak in the current economic crisis was 15.7% in December with this
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BENALMADENA City Council has announced that it is going to close the Torrebermeja and Las Gaviotas beaches to the public starting next Monday, March 20. The closure, until July, is due to expansion works on the Malapesquera breakwater that will commence on Monday. The work consists of extending the existing breakwater between the beaches of
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MALAGA airport continues to exceed pre-pandemic passenger figures in what is forecast to be a record-breaking year for tourism on the Costa del Sol. For the second month in a row, Malaga has registered higher passenger rates compared with pre-pandemic numbers. The airport was used by 1,120,167 travellers in January—10.5% more than in 2019—and by
A DAZZLING fireball has hurtled across the sky of central Spain. The bolide, spotted over Spain on March 12, at 2:24 am local time (equivalent to 1:24 universal time), was observed by several witnesses who reported the phenomenon on social networks. According to astrophysicist Jose María Madiedo, from the Andalucian Astrophysics Institute (IAA-CSIC), the glittering
