March 2024

Stomach bugs surge across Malaga: Change in temperature sees cases of intestinal viruses climb – here’s how to avoid them

STOMACH bugs have been doing the rounds across Malaga province over the past few weeks, health experts have confirmed. According to pediatrician Pedro J. Navarro, the rise in such cases is typical for this time of year due to the change in temperature. Dr Navarro said the number of people suffering with bugs is experiencing

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How much does it cost to build a luxury villa from scratch in Marbella? Property company creates a step-by-step guide – but you’ll need at least €5 million

FOR some people, to merely buy a luxury villa it is not enough – they have to build one! Well, for those people cost is presumably not much of a problem, because the latest data indicates that the cost of building one in Marbella has exceeded €5 million. This is according to Pure Living Properties,

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Chocolate crisis: Cost of raw cocoa is soaring and threatening artisans in Spain and the world – this is why

CHOCOLATE manufacturers in Spain are having to hike prices to customers due to the escalating cost of cocoa. Cocoa now fetches over 10,000 US dollars per ton, compared to around 2,900 US dollars a year ago. The Costa Blanca-based company, Valor, has been forced to increase prices across its range at a time of year

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Quirónsalud Marbella opens new Clinical Analysis and Nursing consultations in Singlehome

Quirónsalud Marbella Hospital has opened new clinics dedicated to Clinical Analysis and Nursing with the intention of improving the quality of care for patients. The recently inaugurated facilities are located in Singlehome, an independent building located just a few metres from the hospital on the same street, Avenida Severo Ochoa, number 28 in Marbella. The

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Do you fall from heights in your dreams or turn up to places naked? This is what it could mean, according to experts in Spain

WE’VE all had it – or something like it – that feeling of falling, tumbling to one’s doom, and then, just as the ground threatens to splat us, a physical jolt wakes us in our beds. The interpretation of dreams has long baffled psychologists, and while each person’s dream world is uniquely their own, certain

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IN PICTURES: Antonio Banderas consoles devastated nazarenos as rains wreak havoc on Malaga’s Semana Santa processions 

MALAGA’S Semana Santa (Holy Week) is one of the highlights of the calendar, which transforms the city into a saintly explosion of religious processions and pageantry.  So the recent unseasonal rains have wreaked havoc in a week that many in the cofradias (brotherhoods) spend all year waiting for. Malaga’s most famous son, Antonio Banderas, was

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What punishment is Luis Ruibales facing if convicted of sexual assault over ‘forced kiss’ against Jenni Hermoso?

PROSECUTORS want former Spanish FA president, Luis Rubiales, to get a one-year jail term for sexual assault after his infamous non-consensual kiss given to footballer Jenni Hermoso. Rubiales kissed the player after last August’s World Cup final victory over England in Sydney. In addition, the prosecution wants Rubiales to receive an 18 month sentence for

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Benidorm approves huge construction plan: 20 hotels, 2,300 homes and three shopping malls will be built in the Costa Blanca city

BENIDORM council has approved its largest-ever urban plan which will see up to 20 hotels, over 2,300 homes, and three shopping centres built. The development will cover over 570,000 m2 in the last significant pocket of undeveloped land in the city under the Ensanche Levante urban plan. DEVELOPMENT AREA “This is the most important urban

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Inflation in Spain increases in March following rise in VAT charges for electricity

A RISE in VAT rates on electricity bills is behind a rise in Spain’s inflation rate to 3.2% in March. The provisional figure from the National Institute of Statistics issued on Wednesday shows a 0.4% increase on the February rate. A year ago, the inflation rate stood at 7.5%. Core inflation, which excludes energy and

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