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The victorious partici pants had some time to recover with refresh ments and take a few group photos together be fore beginning the de scent to the beach of La Herradura, where they celebrated their achieve ments just as the clock struck noon.
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FESTIVITIES: A concert held as part of Almuñecar’s fair.
ALMUÑECAR enjoyed a week of activities and cele brations from Tuesday August 9 to 15 in honour of its patron saint, the Virgen de la Antigua, an invoca tion of the Virgin Mary, who is usually represented with the Child Jesus and a white rose. The festivities have changed a lot over the years, but they are an important tradition in Almuñecar and have been held since Activities1569.included parades, a children’s puppet show, a foam party on the beach, masterclasses in Sevillanas (a type of music and dance from Sevilla) and Zumba, fairground rides, a flamenco show, fire works, plenty of food and drink and musical enter tainment provided by a wide variety of artists. The celebrations were a great success in terms of participation and organisation, once again bringing together hundreds of residents, young and old alike, who filled the streets and squares.
Tamsin Brown NEARLY 100 cyclists took part in the fourth edition of the Peña Escrita Cycling Tourism Ascent on Sun day August 7. The noncompetitive event was or ganised by the La Herradura Cycling Club and had the support of the Almuñecar Depart ment of Sports and the Environment and the Civil Protection of Almuñecar. The climb to Peña Escri ta has been held since 2017. In this year’s edi tion, most of the partici pants were members of the La Herradura Cycling Club, but there were also several dozen cyclists from Nerja, Torrox and Salobreña.Theroute is tough, with a positive incline of 1,410 metres and a climb of 1,200 metres after almost 37 kilometres have been covered. Half an hour af ter the group left La Her radura, they were joined by other cyclists who had come from Almuñecar and other areas. With the support of the Civil Pro tection of Almuñecar, the group set off along the old access to Pago de Guerra Alto by way of the old shooting range. The climb continued up to the Camino Real del Carrizalejo and Rio Seco to the gates of the Peña Escrita rural complex, where the group gathered to begin the ascent, which ranges between 800 and 1,000 metres in altitude. When the cyclists reached the top, the councillor for Sports, Luis Aragón, was waiting for them.
THE deputy mayor of Torre del Mar and councillor for Tourism, Jesus Atencia, and the chef from the Torreño Sa bores Cooking School, Rober to Soler, have presented the fifth edition of Torre del Mar’s Tourist Day and have announced that there will be a cake giant enough for about 4,500 people. The event will take place on Thursday, August 25, at 7.30pm, on the Paseo Maríti mo next to the lighthouse. According to chef Roberto Soler, “the cake is more than eight metres long, with more than 4,500 portions, and it will be a basic sponge cake with vanilla, cream and spicedAtenciasyrup.”praised Roberto Soler for his creativity and use of local products before encouraging everyone to come along. “We invite ev eryone in Torre del Mar to come and participate in this activity and leave with a good memory of our town,” he said.
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THE architects who won the competition for the best ideas for the drafting of the project for Nerja’s new municipal library, José Morales, María de Lara and Sara de Giles, officially registered their detailed plan of execution for the project at the town hall on Thursday August 11. “The document will be reviewed by the municipal technical and legal services prior to its approval by the competent body, which will allow the project to go out to tender and the con tract for the works to be awarded,” said the mayor of TheNerja.project has a budget of €1,320,552, of which the Provincial Council of Mala ga is subsidising €1 million. The new municipal li brary will be located near the Balcón de Europa, in the tourist heart of the mu nicipality. It will be a spa cious, modern and func tional building, with two basements, three floors above ground and a rooftop terrace with sea views for the enjoyment of users.
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ON Sunday, August 21, El Sa lon beach in Nerja will once again be the scene of the White Party organised by the Department of Youth. Councillor Daniel Rivas said of the event “From nine at night, the beach will become a dance floor to the rhythm of the different guest DJs, the Priscila Due show and the go-go dancers who will liven up the party. The local DJ Elias Moreno will close the show.”Fans and merchandising will be distributed, and atten dees will be able to take pho tos at the photocall which will be installed in the new Chan quete viewpoint, located on the Senda Litoral. Rivas explained that to en sure the safety and enjoy ment of the attendees, the ca pacity will be limited, and as a requirement, they must wear white clothing. He said: “We will enjoy one of the most magical nights of the Nerja summer, dancing to the sound of good music in a unique enclave such as this beach surrounded by cliffs in the surroundings of the Bal cóon de ThereEuropa.”willalsobe beverage service at two bars: “Wrist bands will be distributed to those of legal age to ensure that alcohol is not sold to mi nors.”From the Department of Youth an invitation has been launched to all Nerjeños and visitors to come to Eo Salón beach and enjoy this White Party, declared in 2019 of Special Local Tourist Interest for its contribution to the good tourist image of Nerja.
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Tamsin Brown THE acting mayor of VelezMalaga, Jesús Pérez Atencia, and the deputy mayor of Caleta de Velez, José David Segura, publicly denounced the “state of total neglect” of the port of Caleta de Velez, on Friday August 12. They directed their com plaints to the president of the Junta de Andalucia, Juan Manuel Moreno, and the di rector of the Public Ports Agency of Andalucia, Rafael Merino.Atencia requested “the maintenance and cleaning of the different areas of the port of Caleta de Velez, as well as its outer perimeter and waters” as the solution to an “unsustainable” situa tion.“The lack of maintenance and the filth make it an un safe place for its users,” he added. Atencia went on to highlight the efforts made by the town hall and the lack of help from the Junta deSeguraAndalucia.added: “For some time now, we have been re ceiving numerous com plaints from the residents, who understand that a port such as ours cannot remain in this state. We need a definitive solution and we need it urgently.”
THE Nerja councillor for Safety and Transport, Francisco Arce, has announced that the mobile MOT unit (ITV in Spanish, from Inspección Téc nica de Vehículos) for mopeds will be at the end of Calle Cisne in Nerja on August 24 from 7.30am to 11.30am. All those interested in having their mopeds inspected should make an appointment through the website www.itvcita.com or by telephone on 959 999 999 . Payment can be made by bank card and the owner of the vehi cle must be in possession of a valid driving li cence, technical inspection card and proof of in surance.Mopeds are obliged to undergo their first MOT three years after the date of initial regis tration, and every two years thereafter. To im prove road safety, protect the environment and provide greater convenience for vehicle own ers, the Junta de Andalucia has mobile MOT units which visit different places and mean that people do not have to travel for inspections.
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THE sixth edition of the Rincon de la Victoria Chess Tournament, part of the Provincial Council of Malaga’s 18th Provin cial Chess Circuit, will be held on Saturday, September 3, and more than 100 people are ex pected to take part. The event is organised by the Provincial Council, the town hall, the Andalu cian Chess Federation and the local chess club Aje drezTheVictoria.councillor for Sports, Antonio José Martín, highlighted the success of previous edi tions and the important economic impact of host ing this type of event in the municipality. The mayor of Rincon, Francis co Salado, said: “This is an important event not only for the municipality but for the whole province and part of Andalucia, as participants come from other cities. This open tournament will bring to gether people of all ages, both professionals and nonprofessionals.”Thecompetition will follow the Swiss system of seven rounds. Anyone can participate and partic ipants are grouped into categories by age. Regis tration can be done until 8pm on September 2 at www.ajedrezmalaga.org
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Town Hall, through the Local Autonomous Organism of Integral Develop ment of the Municipality (OALDIM), is launching eight new free training courses aimed at helping 120 unemployed people to gain access to the job market. This is part of the FIVE Pro gramme (Inclusive Training of VelezMalaga) and is funded by the European Social Fund (ESF). The courses are related to the fields of aeronautics, office au tomation and public healthcare and correspond to different lev els. Level one courses require no previous studies, level two cours es require secondary qualifica tions, and level three courses re quire the Spanish Baccalaureate (comparable to ALevels). The training programmes will start at the beginning of Septem ber and there are 15 places avail able for each course. All of them are accredited and recognised by the Andalucian Employment Ser vice.To be eligible, the participants must be registered jobseekers, be registered in VelezMalaga and belong to a vulnerable group, such as the longterm unem ployed, the under30s or the over55s. More information can be obtained from sayempleo.velezmalaga.eswww.empre or via email at proyectofive@velez malaga.es.
ON Saturday August 13, the town hall of Nerja, through its Govern ing Board, gave the green light to a grant of €31,185 to be awarded to the Balcón de Europa Cultural Association in support of the work carried out by the Municipal Band of“WithNerja.this grant, the department of Culture of the town hall seeks to support the work carried out by the Municipal Band and its con certs in different locations, which promote and disseminate the cul ture of Nerja,” said the councillor for the area, Gema Laguna. The Municipal Band of Nerja par ticipates in all cultural and social events in Nerja and Maro. In the 33 years since it was formed, it has trained more than 500 young people and has found success both within Spain and abroad.Itwas declared an Entity of Cul tural Interest by the town hall in 2011 and Nerja’s Tourist Ambas sador in
THE Almuñecar Town Hall, through the Department of the Environment and Agricul ture, has been carrying out an intensive operation to clean up rural roads. A team of three workers has been carry ing out the work, which be gan in July and is scheduled to continue throughout August. presentation of Nerja’s summer activities for young people.
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Tamsin Brown THROUGHOUT the month of August, the Youth Information Centre in Nerja is hosting a series of free workshops and activities for young people that have been organised by the Youth Associa tion of Nerja with the collaboration of the department of Youth of the town hall.The first activity, a cosplay workshop dedicated to Japanese animation, took place on August 13 and was given by the Malaga cosplayers Martoscosplay, La_Holiiiwis, Iris_23_x and Porcosplay.
The next activity, a Great Treasure Hunt, will take place on Saturday August 20 at 6pm. The activity is aimed at the whole family, with questions and riddles to be solved in different places and com mercial establishments around Nerja. There will be prizes for the winners and runnersup.Finally,at 5pm on Friday August 26, the Youth Information Centre will host a workshop on safe sex, which will be giv en by professionals from the Nerja Health Centre. This activity is for over16s only and has limited places, so prior registration is Registrationrequired.canbedone via email at asociacionjuvenilnerja@gmail.com or via WhatsApp at 641 471 075.
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IN September, VelezMalaga will begin conservation work on the Nasrid Mihrab Arch. This follows similar work that has been carried out on places of historical and cultur al interest in the city, such as the Cruz del Cordero. The in vestment will be €9,000 and the completion period will be approximately three months.
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A NEW 1,000metre section of cycle lane will be construct ed as part of the Nerja Sus tainable Urban Mobility pro gramme, running along the southern side of the old N340 road between the round about leading to the Oasis de Capistrano housing develop ment and the intersection with the road leading to the Barranco de Maro ravine. Rural roads
A GROUP of friends of Lux Mundi, Torre del Mar, recently went on a day trip to Guadix, which is about 50 km away from Granada. It is a fascinating place where al most half its inhabitants live underground in a large troglodyte district. On arrival, the group met the guide and got on the tourist train that would take them to the cave houses. The train wound its way through the narrow streets whilst the passengers listened to a commentary about the history of the area. They visited the Ermita de Gracia cave church, which had a beautiful display of nativity scenes from around the world; the cave museum, a treasure trove of how life was in days gone by; the spectacular Mirador de la Magdalena viewpoint; two cave houses and the cathedral. They had plenty of free time before the return jour ney to Torre del Mar. A most enjoyable day was had by all and Lux Mundi would like to thank all who supported the excursion, which will en able them to continue their charitable work.
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THE musical duo Albertus & Deya will be giving two con certs at La Herradura Castle, on August 26 and September 2, with free admission. The concerts, which have been or ganised by the local govern ment of La Herradura and the Institute for the Promotion of the Guitar, will start at 9pm. Cycle lane
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Tamsin Brown ON Thursday August 11, the Department of Education of the Rincon de la Victoria Town Hall reported on the progress being made with the mainte nance and refurbishment work that is currently being carried out at various schools in the municipality in prepara tion for the new school year. The work began a few weeks ago and is scheduled to finish at the end of August, ac cording to the councillor for the area, María del Carmen Cañizares. The mayor of Rin con, Francisco Salado, high lighted the town hall’s com mitment to “guaranteeing that facilities are in optimal conditions through improve ment works such as these, which have the aim of offer ing quality
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THE department of Tourism of the Rincon de la Victoria Town Hall has an nounced a new edition of the ‘FoodTrucks Xperience’ in La Cala del Moral, to be held from today, Thursday August 18 to Sunday 21.
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The councillor for Tourism, Antonio José Martín, said that the selec tion of dishes on offer will include traditional ham burgers, Venezuelan arepas, fried chicken, Ar gentinian empanadas, sweet and savoury crepes, typical Mexican and Cuban food and more, “with something for all tastes, as well as vegetarian op tions.”Themayor of Rincon de la Victoria, Francisco Sala do, highlighted the huge amount of public interest in such events, “which add to the municipality’s sum mer agenda and are a com plement to our sun and beaches.”Thegastronomic event will also offer eight live mu sical performances, with two concerts each day (at 9pm and 11pm), as well as a children’s area that can be accessed from 7pm and an area with enough tables and chairs to accommo date 300 people.
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ON Tuesday August 9, Burriana beach in Nerja hosted an informative campaign titled ‘Con sume Fresh Andalucian Fish’, which was pro moted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Sustainable Development of the Junta de Andalucia and supported by Nerja Town Hall.
A NEW web application created by the telecom munications company Telefónica, in collabora tion with MyStreetBook and Arkikus, will open a window into the past and allow people to dis cover the heritage of the municipality of Canillas de Aceituno virtually. A virtual reconstruc tion tour will soon allow both locals and visitors to the area to observe the buildings and archi tecture of 16thcentury Canillas de Aceituno in an immersive experi ence using their own smartphone, tablet or computer.OnSunday August 14, Vicente Campos, the mayor, said: “This ad venture will place the municipality of Canillas de Aceituno at the fore front of historical recon struction and virtual re ality technologies applied to tourism.” Users will be able to access the innovative tool through an exclu sive web application for the project, via the MyS treetBook platform or on the town hall’s own tourism website. This virtual reconstruc tion is part of a project funded by a tourism grant awarded to Canil las de Aceituno last year for the implementation of information and com munication technologies in municipal tourism re sources (MUNITIC).
“The Nerja Town Hall is firmly committed to informing and raising awareness among the population about taking care of marine species and the importance of the fishing sector in An dalucia,” said López. Painting work at a local school.
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The councillor for Agriculture and Fisheries, Javier López, visited the stand with the councillor for Beaches, Maria del Carmen López, and the councillor for the Environment, Javier Rodríguez. Throughout the day, beachgoers were able to enjoy activities for all ages, including games, raf fles, competitions and even a mini cinema.
The aim of the campaign was to raise aware ness about the problems with the commerciali sation of immature fish and to promote the con sumption of products from smallscale coastal fishing and aquaculture.
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ON August 13, the Antigua Azucarera Cultural Centre in Torre del Mar ex tended its opening hours. It is now open uninterruptedly between 10am and 8pm from Monday to Friday and between 10am and 8pm on Saturdays, with no break at midday. The opening hours are the same on Sundays, from 11am to 2pm and from 5pm to 8pm. According to the acting mayor of VelezMalaga, Jesús Pérez Atencia, the measure has been taken to deal with the high demand for the study room as September exams approach. “The vol ume of students has remained constant throughout the summer despite the fact that there are no classes. We have a lot of exam candidates and university students who study all year round and with these new opening hours, we are offering them a better service,” he said. “These students are residents of the municipality, mostly young, who are training in order to have a professional career and contribute to the labour market. It is our obligation to provide them with as many facilities as possi ble,” he added.
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THE beaches of Nerja have acquired four new sets of amphibious chairs and crutches for people with reduced mobility and four new defibrilla tors for everyone’s safety. The purchase involved a municipal investment of €14,763.Theequipment was pre sented on Friday August 12 by the councillor for Beach es, María del Carmen López, in the area reserved for adapted bathing on Burriana beach. “Nerja is a quality tourist destination, and the town hall is making a great effort to provide optimal services for those with reduced mo bility who decide to spend their holidays in the town,” sheThesaid.new mobile defib rillators will be used by the lifeguarding service. “All the beaches on our coastline have this type of defibrillator and are cardioprotected, thereby guaranteeing rapid atten tion for beachgoers who suffer a cardiorespiratory arrest, which could save their lives,” added López. López concluded by highlighting the town hall’s ongoing commit ment to improving the ac cessibility and safety of the beaches in the munici pality.
THE councillor for Health of the Nerja Town Hall, Javier Rodríguez, has announced that the Transfusion, Tissue and Cell Centre of Malaga has organised a new day of blood collection in Nerja. It will take place in the Sala Mercado on August 23, from 10am to 2pm and from 5.30pm to 9.30pm.
The Transfusion, Tissue and Cell Centre of Malaga re minds those who have do nated blood before June 12 2022 that they can do so again, and that they must not have given blood more than three times in the last year if they are a woman, or four times if they are a man. The act of donating blood is simple, quick, practically painless and medically con trolled. The whole process, from the moment of regis tration of the donor until the moment he/she leaves after giving blood and recovering should not take more than half an hour. For more information about blood donation, as well as bone marrow dona tion, visit the website ga.orghttp://www.donantesmala
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A MAN has been arrested for robbing three Albacete bank branches at gunpoint. The de tainee is accused of four robberies in the Al bacete area of Spain, three completed and one attempted, in which he used a firearm. The arrest took place when he had just committed a robbery at a bank branch in Mi naya.The robber has been remanded in prison, according to the Guardia Civil on Saturday, August 13. The Guardia Civil, as part of operation ‘Acuapalo’, has arrested a man as the alleged perpetrator of four robberies with violence and intimidation, three of them completed and one attempted, committed in bank branches in the Albacete towns of Barrax, Madrigueras and Minaya. The investigation began last May after the first robbery was committed in the town of Barrax. The second robbery took place in July in an other bank in Madrigueras. From the second robbery, the investigators began a series of surveillance of the main sus pect. This is when this individual carried out the third robbery in the town of Minaya, where the day before he had tried to commit another robbery, and was later arrested by the officers.
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THE Guardia Civil is investigating two drivers for offences against road safety In both road safety cases, the alleged perpe trators recorded the events with their mobiles and uploaded them to a wellknown social me dia network. The first person under investiga tion is a man who was driving a car on the CV801 road, Ibi Banyeres de Mariola, in the province of Alicante, along a stretch where the famous rally ‘Les Revoltes de Ibi’ takes place, which counts towards the Spanish Mountain Championship. This person, wishing to emulate the participants, in a BMW 330 CD model car, drove recklessly at high speed, constantly driv ing in the wrong direction on a stretch of road with numerous hairpin bends and hardly enough visibility to see oncoming traffic, all of which took place at night. The driver was sentenced to a 14month ban on driving and given a fine. The second person under investigation drove on the roads of the Serra de Tra muntana, between the towns of Banyalbufar and Esporles, overtaking in a reckless manner and skidding when negotiating bends, invading the opposite direction where other vehicles were driving, with total disregard for his own life and that of other road users.
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A FIRE on August 13 in the Zaragoza municipality of Añon de Moncayo forced the evacuation of the town, along with a nearby urbani sation and the neighbouring town of Alcala de Moncayo. In total, more than 1,000 people had to leave their homes because of the flames, which spread to the neighbouring towns of Borja and Ambel. The fire also led to the evacuation of the nursing home in the Zaragoza municipality of Ve ra de TarazonaMoncayo.Council adapted the city’s sports centre to help shelter the evicted. Through its Instagram ac count, the council an nounced that this space was available for any townsfolk “who may need accommo dation.”Residents of Vera de Moncayo were voluntarily evicted, as well as the Veru ela Monastery. As reported by Zaragoza Provincial Coun cil, it was closed to the public at around 5:30pm due to the proximity of the flames.
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government.Twomore rounds of in dustrial action are sched uled by easyJet pilots in August. The next batch will begin on Friday, Au gust 19 and last until Sun day, August 21 inclusive. Then they will strike again from Saturday, Au gust 27 until Monday, Au gust 29.
“We launched 528 Ibiza with the ambition of it becoming Ibiza’s most important new enter tainment destination so to have one of the world’s most successful music artists choose our newly launched 528 Gardens for this outstand ing Ibiza debut was a dream come true,” said Andy McKay, CEO, 528 Ibiza & Ibiza Rocks Group.
ACCORDING to Teresa Ribera, the Spanish Minis ter for the Environment, a gas pipeline project to con nect Spain to France through the Catalan Pyre nees could become reality. The Minister stated on Fri day, August 12, that ac cording to calculations made by the government a pipeline could be opera tional in eight or nine months on the southern side of the border towards Spain.During an interview with a national media outlet, she said the government considered it “essential to go hand in hand” with the French government to ac celerate the project. She spoke of the comments made by German Chancel lor Olaf Scholz in which he spoke of such a pipeline from Portugal to the rest of Europe.MsRibera said she be lieved that his message is key “to generating that po litical conviction of Euro pean interest that has a project of these character istics.”
AS reported by the Sitcpla union in a statement on Sunday, August 14, on the final day of strike action in Spain by easyJet pilots, as of 1pm, just six flights had been cancelled. Malaga airport was not affected at all by the action, with no cancellations occurring.
Final day of strike REVELLERS at a top Ibiza nightspot in the Balearic islands had a massive surprise when British music superstar Robbie Williams made a surprise appearance. This amazing moment oc curred on Thursday, August 11, in the new 528 Ibiza amphitheatre venue as he took to the stage to join electronic outfit Lufthaus. Rumours had apparently been circulating for some weeks that somebody famous was going to make a surprise appearance on the island. The performance by singerwriterproducer tag team Lufthaus had been advertised for days, with a teaser that said a special guest artist would be joining them. The international pop star spent 90 minutes interacting with the crowd, along with Lufthaus, an innovative new act which includes worldrenowned master pro ducers Flynn Francis and Tim Metcalfe. Robbie sang a couple of songs and then took his place behind the DJ decks. He subsequently entertained the gobsmacked partygoers, playing music and getting everybody in the party mood.
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ON HOLIDAY: Princess Cristina and Iñaki Urdangarin put tensions aside. Struck by lightning.
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THE Balearic Islands’ For mentera lit up as a £20 million superyacht burst into flames. The brand new 43.7metre vessel Aria SF was destroyed in a fire off the coast of Cala Saona.Maritime Rescue of For mentera confirmed the news on Friday, August 12 in a Twit ter post that read, “Salvamar Acrux and Guardamar Con cepción Arenal, from our Co ordination Centre in Palma, have been mobilised in the area.”The Guardia Civil were con tacted when some smoke from the yacht appeared at around 5.00pm on Thursday, August 11. The smoke was visible from as far away as Ibiza, local press in Ibiza confirmed. A spokesman for the Span ish Coastguard Service con firmed that the seven crew and nine passengers were all safe and had been evacuated onto a police boat. Paolo Scuderi the 61yearold Ambassador for Monaco’s Tourism bought the yacht in 2019 but it only left the ship yard last month The cause of the fire is as yet unknown. £20 million superyacht bursts into flames.
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SPAIN has sent 25 40foot containers to trans port 600 tonnes of Ukrainian grain by train, in a new pilot project, as reported on Wednesday, AugustSpain’s10.latest Ukraini an grain transportation project has been organ ised by the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (Mitma) as an alternative or com plement to the maritime mode at a time marked by the invasion of Russia and the limitations in the Black Sea ports. Thus, Renfe Mer cancías has sent the con tainers to the border be tween Poland and Ukraine to transport the Ukrainian corn to Spain. This is a pilot test with which the Ministry seeks to demonstrate the tech nical and economic via bility of rail transport of cereal through the rail network that crosses Eu rope from Lodz (Poland) to Barcelona Can Tunis (Spain).Thefirst steps of this pilot project coincide with the reopening of the Black Sea ports and the maritime cereal routes supervised by Turkey.
The IGN specified that the largest magnitude earthquake of 1.7 mbLg was recorded at 2.48am, at a depth of 12km. Swarms of this type are nor mal within the post eruptive process in which this area of the island of La Palma finds it self, added the IGN. It contin ues to monitor the seismic ac tivity in the area. During the month of July, IGN specified that a total of 245 earthquakes were regis tered in the Canary Islands. A maximum magnitude of 3.6 mbLg was recorded at 7.26pm on July 16. It had its epicentre about 100km north of the island of Tenerife. There were three earth quakes felt by the population during July, according to the information collected through the electronic macroseismic questionnaires sent.
PRINCESS CRISTINA reunited with her husband Iñaki Urdangarin in Bidart, France, where the two en joyed a couple of days together en joying the beach alongside three of their four Despitechildren.separating back in Jan uary, Princess Cristina and her for mer partner appeared to have put aside some of the tension from their highprofile split in order to enjoy a holiday with their children. Urdangarin and the princess met in Bidart, with their children Pablo, Miguel and Irene who were already in the town spending the holidays with their father, the former Duke ofAlthoughPalma. missing Juan, their el dest son, the couple’s other chil dren were excited when their mother joined them in France. As reported in the media on Wednesday, August 4, when Princess Cristina, 57, spotted the children practising water sports with their father, she was greeted by Miguel and Pablo who both ran up and kissed her.
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A NINE-YEAR-OLD boy was struck by lightning on the beach of Vilarrube in Valdoviño, A Coruña, Gali cia it was reported by local media on Tuesday, August 9. The boy was allegedly struck by lightning on the beach in Galicia at around 12.10pm when he was walking along the beach. A medical helicopter based in Ourense and an ambulance were rushed to the Oncescene.onthe scene, the Emergency Services con firmed that, after resusci tation techniques were carried out, the child was transferred, stable and with a pulse, to the Hospi tal Arquitecto Marcide de Ferrol in A Coruña. Young boy struck lightningby teitloff/Shutterstock.comGarrettCredit: New tremors in La Palma zixia/Shutterstock.com
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THE National Geographic In stitute (IGN) has reported that between 11pm local time on Wednesday, August 10, and 4am on Thursday, August 11, a total of 63 earthquakes were recorded in the vicinity of the eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano , on the Canary island of La Palma , which they say corresponds to a lowmagnitude seismic swarm.
FESTIVAL goers returning from Castellon’s Arenal Sound were allegedly forced to stay on a bus in 40 degree heat with no air conditioning, as reported on Wednesday, August 10. One of the festival goers recounted the experience of the hellish bus ride on her Twitter account stating: The situation we experi enced yesterday was outra geous, while returning from the @ArenalSound on one of their official buses to Ali cante.”Shecontinued:“Thebusstarted and the air was still not working, reaching close to 40º. At this point many of us who were inside asked to get off… we could not stay for three more hours in that situation. “People got off the bus with many experiencing anxi ety attacks, crying, dizzy and very hot. Some people even had a fever and/or vomited. “The ambulances arrived and helped us and later we were relocated in several buses of the same company which had more than enough space, which could have been changed at the moment it was known that the air conditioning was not working.“Thehealth of many peo ple has been put at risk, it is shameful that we are being taken for a ride and it is more than clear that they have done it because we are a group of young people who were returning from party ing, but the truth is that no body can endure three hours in a bus at 37 degrees and without air conditioning.”
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BUS JOURNEY: For festival goers was totally unacceptable.
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THE British Embassy issued an explainer on UK voter rights for local elections in Spain following a recent Eu ropean Court of Justice rul ing, as reported on Wednes day, August Speaking10.on UK voter rights in Spain’s local elec tions, the British Embassy stated:“Lots of you have told us you are concerned about your continued right to vote in local elections here in Spain, following an ECJ rul ing a couple of months ago and subsequent press re ports, so we wanted to reit erate our earlier guidance.” “The ECJ judgement, which concerned a UK na tional resident in France, does not affect UK nationals’ right to vote and stand in lo cal elections in Spain. “These are provided by the bilateral agreement between the UK and Spain, which al lows UK nationals who have lived in Spain for more than three years to vote and stand in local elections. “UK nationals can vote and stand in local elections in Spain once they have been resident for three years. To do so, you must: • be registered on the municipal register where you live (padrón municipal) • confirm your registra tion on the electoral roll (censo electoral), within the dates set by the electoral au thorities before each elec tion.“Your town hall may not allow you to register on the electoral roll at other times, so don’t worry if you are not able to register at this point.”Youcan find more informa tion at guidance/livinginspainwww.gov.uk/
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ACCORDING to the Spanish National Police in the province of A Coruña, a man was arrested for his alleged in volvement in the crimes of il licit manufacture and posses sion of weapons. In two searches carried out, a practically finished AR9 sub machine gun, assembled with 3D printed parts was seized, together with other parts of small firearms that were also printed, a number of illegal weapons and a total of three printers. Due to the increasing number of these types of weapons seized in investiga tions carried out across Eu rope in recent years, officers are working hard to tackle this threat, which is why last May an International Congress on 3D Printed Firearms, organ ised by Europol and attended by members of the Spanish National Police, took place at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands). The event was the world’s largest informa tion exchange platform on the threat of 3D printed weapons and brought togeth er more than 120 participants from 20 countries.
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SHAKESPEAR E’S Globe Theatre is opening a pro duction of I, Joan on Thurs day August 25 depicting the historical icon Joan of Arc as nonbinary. The pronouns used in the production will be ‘they’ and ‘them’, a UK media source confirmed on Thurs day, August 11. Joan of Arc was a peasant in medieval France.Shebelieved that God had chosen her to lead France to victory in its longrunning war with England. Charles of Valois allowed her to lead a French army to the city of Orleans, where they achieved a stunning victory. Frank Furedi, an emeritus profes sor of sociology at the Uni versity of Kent, said: “Play wrights are allowed to have a bit of poetic licence but I think what is interest ing about the play is that it very much falls in with the idea of rewriting history. “Someone like Joan of Arc would not have any idea what nonbinary was. It is a recharacterisation of something that did not even exist at the time. “It completely violates the meaning of history, it’s the projecting of a fantasy backwards.“ForFrench patriots, Joan of Arc is someone very special. Her role was all the more heroic because she was a woman.”
The headmaster of Southend High School for Boys in Essex, Doctor Robin Bevan, said: “If a fourday week is not already being planned, it will certainly be being considered by some schools. “In the absence of long overdue aboveinfla tion investment in school funding, it’ll become a realistic prospect sooner rather than later.”
UK headteachers say they are struggling to deal with escalating energy costs and are con sidering all options to help their budgets.
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Rushdie wake-up call
EUROVISION Song Con test 2023 revealed its shortlist of seven host cities in the UK, as reported on Friday, August 12.
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AFTER going on several antivegan tirades on TV and social media, plantbased meat mav ericks, THIS™, erected a giant ice sculpture of Piers Morgan in Trafalgar Square. The Piers Morgan sculpture in Trafalgar Square, London was created to include ‘this special man’ in the brand’s frozen range launch celebrations, the company said on Fri day, August 12. “Piers is the man who thinks and talks about vegan food more than anyone he has continuously mocked plantbased food, fa mously spitting his vegan sausage roll into a bin on live TV,” the company said. The seven foot tall sculpture attracted large crowds in one of the highest footfall areas in London.
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HISTORICAL ICON: Joan of Arc depicted as non-binary.
Andy Shovel, CoFounder of THIS™ said: “We wanted to include this special man in the launch celebrations of our frozen food range. He is the man who thinks and talks about ve gan food even more than we do. We know how excited he’ll be to try these.”
The full list of the seven cities include Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Leeds,Birmingham,(EBU)peanSheffield.Manchester,NewcastleLiverpool,andEurovisionstated:“TheBBCandtheEuroBroadcastingUnionhaveannouncedthatGlasgow,Liverpool,Manch ester, Newcastle and Sheffield have all been ac cepted as Shortlisted Host Cities for the Eurovision Song Contest set to take place in the United King dom in May 2023. “The BBC had expres sions of interest from 20 cities, across all four na tions of the United King dom: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.”According to Eurovision Song Contest the seven cities were shortlisted based on "”their ability to meet a set of minimum re quirements that demon strate they have the capac ity, capability and experience to host an event of this scale and complexity.”Thefinaldecision on the winning host city will be determined by which city or region scores highest against an agreed evalua tion criteria, assessed by the BBC.
A chief executive of one of the leading academy trusts in the country said: “Shorter school days, fewer afterschool clubs and en richment opportunities and draconian restric tions on energy usage will become a reality for all trusts and the situation is particularly chal lenging for smaller trusts and standalone schools.”
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POTENTIAL future UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has demanded Iran be sanctioned after the brutal stabbing of Salman Rushdie. Sunak said the attack was a “wakeup call for the West” and warned the UK “can’t take the eye off the ball,” British press confirmed on Sunday, August 14. The 75yearold author, Salman Rushdie, was injured after being punched and stabbed on stage before the Chautauqua (CHQ) speech he was due to give near Buffalo, New York, US on Friday, August 12. Witnesses claimed that he managed to walk off stage with assistance and the attacker was restrained. On Saturday, August 13, Andrew Wylie, Salman Rushdie’s spokesper son, said: “The news is not good. Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed, and his liver was stabbed and damaged.”
A spokesman for the Department for Educa tion said: “We recognise that schools much like the wider economy are facing increased costs, including on energy and staff pay.”
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SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS ’ island of Skye bore wit ness to three related ma jor shooting incidents on Wednesday, August 10. A 39yearold man was arrested and is now in custody.Onepatient was airlift ed to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, while two oth ers were taken by heli copter to Raigmore Hos pital in Inverness, Scottish media reported. A fourth person is being treated at Broadford Hos pital on Skye. In a post on Twitter, Northern Police said: “We were made aware of a woman injured at a prop erty in the Tarskavaig area on Skye shortly be fore 9.00am on Wednes day, August 10. “Police are also attend ing two further incidents in Teangue on Skye and Dornie which are being linked.“A39yearold man has been arrested in connec tion with the incidents. At this stage, we believe the situation is contained and there is no risk to the wider community.
TWO track workers were almost struck by a freight train travelling at 61 mph (98 km/h) at around 00.06am on Monday July 11. The in cident occurred just south of Penkridge station in Staffordshire, England.Thetrack workers moved clear of the path of the train less than one second before it reached their posi tion, the UK government’s Rail Acci dent Investigation Branch (RAIB) confirmed on Thursday, August 11. Another train was passing the track workers on an adjacent line as the freight train approached them. At the time of the incident, the track workers involved were investi gating an ongoing fault with the overhead line equipment which was preventing trains with electric trac tion from using this section of the line, causing significant levels of dis ruption to train services in the area.
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A HORROR crash on Thursday, August 11, be tween two rollercoaster trains at a German Legoland amusement park reportedly result ed in at least 31 people being injured. One is believed to be in a serious condition. According to reports from the German me dia, a park spokesperson told them that the accident occurred at the station on the Fire Dragon attraction. The lead train apparently slammed on its brakes and the following train smashed straight into the back of it. A rescue operation ensued, involving the fire brigade, and medical teams, with three helicopters airlifting the injured people to a localLegolandhospital.Germany is located some 70 miles from Munich, in the town of Gunzburg. It opened in 2002 and is operated by the same company that runs Legoland in Windsor, Eng land.The cause of the accident at the park on the Moselle in RhinelandPalatinate has not yet been revealed.
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GERMAN chancellor, Olaf Scholz, during a twohour press conference on Thursday, Au gust 11, recalled a project from the past that he now regrets not having built. He spoke of a gas pipeline that had been proposed, that would pass through Portugal and Spain via France, before eventually reaching Germany. Speaking after his hiking break in the Bavarian region of Allgau, Scholz told the as sembled journalists: “I have been very busy thinking about a gas pipeline that unfortu nately we have let pass us by,” he explained. “The one that should have been built be tween Portugal, Spain, through France to central Europe. “It would now be a great contribution to alleviating the supply situation,” he contin ued. The chancellor is only too aware of the delicate situation that Germany faces in the coming months. He suggested that he needs to speak with his “colleagues in Spain and Portugal, with the French president, and the president of the European Commission, so that we tackle such a project.”
Another posted: “How can we thank our American mas ters enough for creating all these nonsensical narcissistic theories and sending them to us docile Europeans who unquestioningly obey and put our rational brains on the backburner?”
THE government of Italy is taking legal action against Slovenia in a dispute over its famous bal samic vinegar. Tensions between the two coun tries have been rising since last year, when Slove nia announced its intention to ‘standardise’ its production of vinegar, which would involve mar keting any type of vinegar mixed with concentrat ed fruit juice as ‘balsamic vinegar’. Since 2009, the term aceto balsamico di Mode na (balsamic vinegar of Modena) may only be used by producers in the Modena and the EmiliaRomagna region of Italy. “After months of waiting and worrying, we fi nally see a glimmer of light,” said Mariangela Grosoli, the president of the consortium for the protection of balsamic vinegar of Modena, on Tuesday August 9. However, Italy lost a legal battle of a similar na ture against a German company in 2019, when the European Court of Justice ruled that only ace to balsamico di Modena is a geographicallypro tected trademark, but the noun aceto and the ad jective balsamico can be used freely.
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Rollercoaster accident “GERMANY has been ac cused of ‘outlawing truth’ with trans people set to be allowed to change gender and name every year,” a UK news channel said on Twitter on Thursday, August 11. The German government confirmed in February 2021 that they had drafted a bill for a new ‘selfdetermina tion law’ (Selbstbestim mungsgesetz) after it was leaked on an ultraconserva tiveThewebsite.proposed law would allow transgender adults to change their gender and forename once every year. This would remove the ne cessity to provide a medical certificate or enter a court process which is currently re quired under German laws. One responded: “14yearolds need their parents’ sup port. Every adult can change their name, so it’s not a huge issue. IMO, if someone is changing their name once every year, it’s a good indica tion that they’re probably f***ed inthe head.”
Plague of midges
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RESIDENTS of the town of Or betello, Tuscany, have been asked to keep their windows closed and to avoid hanging washing outside while the local authorities deal with a persistent plague of midges.Restaurants and bar owners in the town have complained that business has suffered significantly due to customers preferring to spend their evenings indoors. “We are forced to close two hours ear ly,” said one restaurant owner to a local newspaper on Tuesday Au gustSome9. establishments have tried keeping the outside lights off and are closing early, but it has not done much to encourage book ings.“Takings are down by 60 per cent despite these measures,” said another restaurant owner. “Thousands of midges gather around the light bulbs and move like a disturbing wave between the outdoor tables,” he told Cor riere.Itis thought that the plague of midges is the result of there being fewer natural predators in the area due to the excessively high temperatures.
WITH Germany’s corona warning app, vaccination status will be recognisable by colour. Different colours will give different rights to people in the near future. This system already ex ists in Germany’sChina.
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Federal Min ister for Health, Karl Lauter bach, has defended his controversial corona plans for the autumn, according to local media on Wednes day, August 10. The main criticism is the plan to exempt only freshly vaccinated people from the mask requirement. This would also mean that people who are already triple or even quadruple vaccinated at the moment would be threepledoesHowever,exempt.Lauterbachnotbelievethatpeowillbevaccinatedeverymonthsfromau tumn onwards in order to be exempted from the maskLauterbackrequirement.posted on Twitter that the idea is “ab surd” and further: “No doc tor does that, no one wantsCriticsthat.”fear that it will be come difficult or impossible for restaurateurs, cinemas and other affected estab lishments to quickly and easily check how often a visitor has been vaccinated and whether he or she must therefore wear a mask or not. In China, the system with different colours al ready exists. Here, socalled ‘health code’ apps play a crucial role, the apps create movement profiles and show the state of health. Depending on the colour, users then have dif ferent rights.
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IN an exclusive interview with the Euro Weekly News, Down to Earth CEO Jonathan Patarkatsi spoke on his company’s humble beginnings, driven with a mission and a purpose from the onset, and his subse quent trademark lawsuit with Netflix’s TV series Down to Earth, starring Zac Efron.Founded in 2017, Down to Earth is a health focused, wellness lifestyle brand that includes an ice tea line, fruit and nut snacks, apparel merchandise, as well as a free wellness podcast that’s available on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Music and on their website.“Westarted very organi cally and with limited re sources, but we immediate ly filed for trademarks, the names we knew we would be using in commerce, the typical legal protocol in both the US and many other countries,” stated CEO Jonathan Patarkatsi. “This was done initially for our beverage, food and apparel line and then when we decided to launch our podcast in 2020, we applied for all of the necessary trademarks.”Onceagain Down to Earth successfully registered their trademarks in April 2020, when just at the end of July 2020, Netflix dropped a trailer for a new TV series al so named ‘Down to Earth’ starring Zac Efron, focusing on similar topics to Patarkatsi’s company. “This led to a lot of confu sion, a lot of customers reached out to us not know ing whether or not we were affiliated with the show, or if they had infringed on our trademark or vice versa,” stated Patarkatsi. His company attempted to clear up the confusion, sending Zac Efron, his team and everyone at Netflix a cease and desist letter, noti fying them of the trademark infringement.According to Patarkatsi the letter was rejected, and his company received a “very belittling response,” leaving them no choice but to file a lawsuit. “A company like Netflix has a huge legal team, so when you see companies with the resources to do things as they are supposed to be done and they choose not to, in my opinion, it is extremely disrespectful to the legal system and the world at large,” stated the Down to Earth CEO. “When corporations and public figures who have the resources and the means to follow legal protocol choose not to, this signifies a “rules for thee and not for me atti tude,” and ends up hurting hardworking en trepreneurs and small busi ness owners who do things the right way and make the necessary investments to follow legal protocol,” he continued.Inaddition Netflix’s TV se ries ‘Down to Earth’ did a collaboration with Nature Valley, an American compa ny renowned for its nut bars, which according to Jonathan Patarkatsi consti tutes a second infringement on his company’s trade mark. Patarkatsi said that these infringements have been incredibly damaging for his company, as they have led to a lot of confu sion among “Regardlessconsumers.ofhowlong it takes and how many chal lenges come up, we are go ing to see this through to the end, and we hope that by doing this, smaller com panies that might also be bullied by corporations or public figures will be in spired to stick to what they believe in and defend their companies,” concluded Patarkatsi.Tolearn more about Down to Earth and their mission to provide any and everyone access to healthy products and to listen to their wide selection of 68 completely free health and lifestyle podcasts visit: com/mission.https://drinkdowntoearth.
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BOTH contenders for the Tory Party Leadership have made it clear that they want to reform some of the EU financial regu lations imposed before Brexit. This would allow them to overrule regulator’s decisions if they thought it would help the economy. Released on August 12 was an open letter dated July 27 to the Treasury Select Committee from Andrew Bai ley, Governor of the Bank of England in which he cautioned against political interference in the independence of the City of London. It is possible he was preparing to defend the Bank of England which has been crit icised for being too indepen dent from government.
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DIFFERENT FACTORS: Most types of food have risen in price this July.
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The increases in the prices of meat and milk, cheese and eggs, com pared with the stability of the previ ous year of bread and cereals, high er this month than in 2021, and of pulses and vegetables, which fell in July last year, are particularly no ticeable. A RECENT report by the Euro pean Commission highlighted the importance of the fashion industry but it recognised that the amount of money being spent on clothes has dropped. According to the Institute of National Statistics (INE) annual expenditure by Spanish house holds on fashion stood at €1,156 in 2021 compared to €1,417 in 2019, even though there was a considerable boom in home shopping dur ing lockdown. With huge infla tion caused by rocketing raw material prices made worse by the invasion of Ukraine, 2022 may well see a growth in the purchase of secondhand clothes and ultra cheap prod uct from companies like Shein.
THE sale of access to different broadband frequencies to al low telecom companies to in crease G5 coverage has been a good earner for the Spanish government, but potential bidders have asked it to post pone the next auction until 2023 as there are no devices compatible with the frequen cy. Energy crisis EVEN with its access to natural gas and oil, Norway is facing its own potential energy crisis as the current dry weather has affected its hydroelectric pro duction which means that it may need to restrict the amount of electricity exported abroad.
THE Spanish government is due to meet in September to consider the viability of raising the minimum wage once more in 2023 and Secretary of State for Employment Jaoqúin Pérez Rey would like to see it set at 60 per cent of the average salary.
JOHNSON AND JOHNSON is to stop making talcum pow der from 2023 after with drawing its sale in the USA two years Generationsago. of babies (and many older people) were brought up using the powder to help keep skin dry and to reduce the chance of Despiterashes.thefact that the company claims that inde pendent tests show that tal cum powder is safe, sales have suffered dramatically due to a number of lawsuits (said to be worth billions of dollars) brought by Ameri can women who claim that the powder contains as bestos and caused them to develop ovarian cancer. A statement from the company said: “As part of a worldwide portfolio assessment, we have made the commercial decision to transition to an all cornstarchbased baby powder portfolio. As a re sult of this transition, talcbased JOHNSON’S® Baby Powder will be discontin ued globally in “Cornstarchbased2023.
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THE Consumer Price Index rate for Spain in July is six tenths of a per centage point higher than that recorded the previous month and the highest since September 1984. This was confirmed on Friday Au gust 12 by the Institute for National Statistics (INE) and is in accordance with the initial INE forecast. The groups that stand out for their influence on the increase in the an nual rate are: Housing, which in creased its variation by four points, to 23 per cent, due to electricity prices rising when compared with the drop recorded in July 2021. The rise in gas prices also had an influence, although to a lesser ex tent, but was also higher than last year.Clothing and footwear, whose an nual variation of 5 per cent, was more than two and a half points higher than that recorded in June, due to the fact that their prices fell less this July than in July last year. Food and nonalcoholic beverages, whose rate was 13.5 per cent, six tenths of a percentage point higher than June and the highest since these records began in January 1994.
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MADRIDbased natural gas supplier Madrilena Red de Gas (MRG) is reportedly being en couraged by its major share holders to reduce its €950 mil lion debt by sale of shares. In addition to clearing debt, the shareholders want to see the company also develop lowcarbon fuel opportunities and it is anticipated the sale of shares could raise as much as €2bn. With a possible investment from other Spanish gas suppli ers, the company is taking part in the government’s green pro gramme according to media. Green gas
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THE Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said that the forthcoming hike in Ofgem’s energy price cap will push in flation to new highs, leading to a significant economic downturn. Vulnerable busi nesses and households will be squeezed further so govern ment assistance for the most vulnerable is needed.
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A NEW niche business in the UK DrinkWell has raised £1 million for expansion to at tract those who enjoy a drink but don’t want to put on weight as it sources and sup plies reduced calorie wine, lower calorie beer, lower calo rie cider, and reduced calorie spirits.
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JOHN SON’S® Baby Powder is al ready sold in countries around the world. JOHN SON’S® is a flagship global brand of Johnson & John son Consumer Health and we remain fully committed to ensuring JOHNSON’S® products are loved by par ents and families for years to “Ourcome.position on the safe ty of our cosmetic talc re mains unchanged. We stand firmly behind the decades of independent sci entific analysis by medical experts around the world that confirms talcbased JOHNSON’S® Baby Powder is safe, does not contain as bestos, and does not cause cancer.”Johnson’s Baby Powder has been on the market for almost 130 years but those attacking its production claim that when talcum is mined, it is often found close to seams of asbestos, which is known to cause cancer.
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INDIAN travellers to Europe ob tain the fastest Schengen visas from Spain according to a report in the Indian press. Once considered to be riddled with bureaucracy, it appears that the Spanish authorities in India are much more reliable than their European Union counterparts as they are much quicker in offering appoint ments and also actually issue the visas in a much shorter peri od of time once approved. Technically, it is illegal to go ‘visa shopping’ but it is to the benefit of the Spanish economy to encourage Indians to travel via Spain even if Indian trav ellers only stop overnight in the country and then move on to other Schengen countries. After the pandemic situation eased and on March 27, 2022 In dia allowed international flights, a pentup demand for both busi ness and tourist travel to Europe exploded and according to re ports, it can take up to 10 weeks to obtain a Schengen visa for some countries whilst Spain (and also Greece) often take just a week.Currently one of the longest waits is for entry to Germany but this is because it is one of the most in demand countries that Indians want to visit and there seems to be insufficient staff to carry out initial inter views.It isn’t just Schengen countries causing the problems as with so many students taking up places in the UK and USA, many Indians have had to amend their holiday plans to the benefit of countries like the Maldive Islands and United Arab Emirates which are much closer and easier to enter.
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FORMER civil servant and now chair of John Lewis, Dame Sharon White has said that the British gov ernment needs to encour age the unemployed over 50 to return to work. According to her, around one million people aged between 50 and 70 effectively retired during the pandemic and haven’t bothered to return, which means that they have helped to cause the short age in the number of expe rienced and trained staff available.Thisinturns means that employers are having to of fer higher wages in order to attract and retain staff which in turn encourages wage inflation which results in higher prices all round.
“Thus, in a quarter marked by the uncertainties of the economic consequences of the war, the data reflects an excellent trend with signifi cant job creation,” said Minis ter of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Reyes Maroto. The growth occurred both among contracted employees (19.1 per cent) and the selfemployed (7.9 per cent) across all tourist activities, with a breakdown of hospital ity up 18.5 per cent, as well as accommodation services 54.4 per cent, travel agencies 12.6 per cent and passenger trans port 7.4 per Consequently,cent. the number of unemployed in this particu lar sector has been dropping significantly over the past five quarters and now stands at a much lower figure than in 2019 with employment up in the majority of autonomous provinces with the exception of La Rioja, Ceuta and Melilla, Asturias and Extremadura. There are considerably more permanent contracts with an increase of 19.5 per cent year on year, although there are still a significant number of people employed on temporary contracts due to the fact that tourism is cur rently so seasonal, although the Ministry of Tourism is en deavouring to attract visitors during the ‘quiet’ months.
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SPANISH energy company Iberdrola has begun operations of the Francisco Pizarro solar photovoltaic (solar power) project in Extremadura. According to the company, the plant is the largest in Europe and one of its largest operations worldwide. Costing a reported €300 million to install, and em ploying some 1,500 people to construct (more than half from the local area), it will produce sufficient power to serve 334,000 homes and will prevent the emission of 150,000 tonnes of CO2 into the atmo sphere each year. To guarantee its viability the company will supply 100 per cent re newable electricity from this plant to Danone, Bayer and PepsiCo to cover the energy needs of their centres in Spain.
TOURISM was responsible for half of new jobs created in second quarter 2022 with a total of 391,343 more em ployed than the same time lastThisyear.information was re vealed by Spanish Tourist Board, Turespaña on Monday August 8 which also con firmed that the hospitality in dustry had not only recovered the number of employees when compared to 2019 but it was slightly higher. “The labour market contin ues to indicate the strength with which the tourism sector is recovering, which drives the economy and the national labour market.
EXCELLENT TREND: Tourism Minister Reyes Maroto.
pipelineEuropean RETURNING from holi day, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has admit ted that in his opinion, rather than import gas from Russia, Germany should have participat ed in building a pipeline from Spain to obtain gas from North Africa, but fears that it is now too late.
No grazie A BRAVE attempt by Domi no’s Pizzas to storm Italy, the home of the pizza, has failed and after opening its first outlet in 2015, fran chise owner ePizza SpA fi nally filed for bankruptcy in August of this year, closing all of its stores blaming the pandemic. Big losses UKbased Deliveroo ex panded very quickly and attracted large amounts of investment, but pulled out of the Spanish mar ket last year and is set to close its Dutch opera tions after declaring a pretax loss of £147.3 million for the first six months of this year.
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AS recently as 2019, two friends, Jad An toun and Khalid Ashmawy who lived in Dubai couldn’t believe how overly compli cated and expensive it was to obtain a mortgage.Bothhad experience in the digital world and founded Huspy with the intention of offering a complete service from finding a property to financing the purchase. Hav ing raised $37 million they have grown from the pair of them working from home to a company with 250 employees in of fices in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Madrid, as they have chosen Spain as their European target market. With so few transactions being conducted digitally, they believe they are able to offer a unique transparent option which cuts out the red tape.
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INTERESTING to note, that despite the leftie media revelling in making the UK citizens feel shattered and de pressed and that energy rises and the cost of living are causing oppression and misery to just about everyone, you notice they are actually not mention ing a word on how their favourite Starmer led party would handle any of the(Althoughproblems.it probably won’t be long before they come up with some magi cal bunkum!). All these ordeals are not the fault of the present government; they are the responsibility of general world oppression. The shortages of gas and electricity are the indisputable lia bility of the Russians and its war with Ukraine.Thelack of rain and climate condi tions across Europe is nature control ling the tilt of planet earth as it has done for millions of years. What we al so need to remember is that we have also come through over two years of a worldwide pandemic, during which the UK government handed out bil lions to keep the people and the coun try running. Amazing to witness the present actions of many British work ers when you observe strikes from some who were paid thousands and granted furloughs to cover their in come, without actually having to work at Giveall. us a break. The attitude of liber als and lefties is a disgrace. An enor mous percentage of their supporters do of course include millions of immi grants, whose vast numbers have ru ined the NHS, created an impossible shortage of accommodation and bled the British economy dry. How wonderfully prosperous the UK would be if Labour had been prevent ed from its whole history of vote seek ing policies, including 1998 with their ‘fairer, faster and firmer immigration expansion centres and the inundated flood of benefits, introduced by Tony Blair and his crooked vote rigging cronies. If you’ve ever wondered which side of the fence you actually sit on, listen to these observations recent ly sent to me by a friend. If a Conservative doesn’t like guns he doesn’t buy one. If a liberal doesn’t like guns he wants all guns outlawed. If a Conservative is a vegetarian he doesn’t eat meat. If a liberal is a vegetarian he wants all meat products banned for everyone. If a Conservative is a down and out he thinks about how to better his situation. A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him. If a Conser vative doesn’t like a talk show host he switches channels, liberals demand those they don’t like be shut down. If a Conservative is a nonbeliever he does n’t go to church, a liberal wants any mention of God and Jesus silenced. If a Conservative decides he needs health care he goes shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it, liberals demand the rest of us pay for theirs! And on and on. I’ve always had a fairly right wing outlook, and always will. Be careful of the woke lefties. They’re out to crush us all. Keep the faith.Love
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GERRIE, a 33yearold artist, says stopping drinking was not the end of her world just the end of the blackness and misery. Here is her story:“There wasn’t a great deal of al cohol around when I was growing up we would have it at family parties, or celebrations but it was fun, and I never saw it being abused.Ican’t really pinpoint when it started being an issue. I think I have always known alcohol was a problem for me, we didn’t mix well. I drank alcoholically from the word go. The first time I got drunk at about 15/16 years old, I trashed my bedroom, ripping down my curtains in a drunken rage. At the time I thought that was just the way it was this is what people did to have fun. I copied how I thought I should behave when drinking and invariably I ended up in trouble. Being sick, being carted off by ambulance. I put myself in danger on more than one occasion because of my drink ing but at the time I didn’t under stand or know what I was doing. My drinking really came to a head because of the lockdown, the loneliness I felt; and all the time I had to dwell on the horrible feelings I had about myself and life. For the first time ever, I was living alone. I didn’t have anyone to tell me to stop drinking or to make me accountable in any way, so every night I would drink to ex cess.My rock bottom came one evening, I decided to see how many Xanex tablets I could take without overdosing. Whilst check ing the dosage online I didn’t think to take into consideration the amount of alcohol I had drunk! Eventually I fell asleep, and thankfully I woke up the next day. This is when I knew I had to stop, it really scared me. Even though I thought life wasn’t worth living, there was still some part of me that didn’t want to die. I just want ed life to be better. I first heard of Alcoholics Anony mous (AA) a few years previously. I had contacted someone because I knew she was sober, and I was thinking it was time to try a differ ent way. She told me straight away she would take me to an AA meeting. My immediate reaction was one of astonishment and shock, I’m not an alcoholic why would I want to go there. Fast forward a couple more years and my sister sent me the number of someone else, again knowing he was sober but not knowing how he had got there. I called him, we met, chatted and this time when he said AA, I didn’t feel so astonished or upset, I just thought honestly what have I got to lose. I was lucky, I know Covid has been horrendous and that facetoface meetings stopped completely for a while, which for some people was terrible. But I think, had I not had the zoom meetings to begin with, I might not be here today. I was super nervous at the first meeting; I wouldn’t show my face on camera. Thankfully I was told to listen for the similarities and not the differences, and I was amazed to find that whilst not everybody’s story was like mine, they had the same feelings as me. The loneli ness, the isolation, the fear. When I made it into the facetoface meetings, the love I was given is like nothing else I have experi enced before. It feels like coming home and the friends that I have made… well they are my support, my sisters, my brothers, my fami ly. My biological family are hugely supportive now, but my journey with AA is something they (cur rently) don’t understand; or see as a lifelong process. Life now is in some ways very much the same (just better), but in others it is markedly different. I am in a completely different frame of mind, I am learning to create boundaries, to let go, to have patience, faith, and love. I am still learning every day about myself. Where my strengths are and where my weaknesses can be. It’s a journey. But from 16 months ago. I am less angry, less stressed, and less depressed. I’m present for my family and my friends. And that really is a bless ing.To anyone struggling with alco hol I would say, stopping drinking is not the end of the world just the end of the blackness and mis ery. Your life isn’t over, it is just be ginning. Be brave and take the first step, reach out for help and step into the light of AA.” Feature
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Algeria of course is Spain’s largest supplier of natural gas and until the Morocco decision appeared to be quite happy to increase supply through existing direct pipelines to Spain, but for two months until the end of July it imposed trade restrictions on Spain due to its anger at the support for Morocco. So, we need gas for electricity, but we have to save electricity because things may not be as safe as we thought.
IN South Africa (SA), you can not hunt in the national re serves where photo tourists go. However, photo tourists want lots of animals, modern facilities, and pastimes. Their activities require huge investments in infrastructure and consume vast quantities of energy, carbon and water that deprive rural people and de stroy the environment, turning the natural bush into a glorified zoo. Even ‘nonhunted’ animals need culling but because of animal rights politics, it can’t be done.The Kruger Park has far too many elephants that it can safe ly carry, and is turning into a trashed elephant park at the cost of proper biodiversity. Quite separately, 40 million acres of remote, dry private farmland in SA is now used for hunting and raising 20 million wild animals in natural bush, because hunting, especially high value hunting brings in a slightly better farm income than cattle in a country where only 13 per cent is suitable for rainfed crops. These are not places where photo tourists go, and farmers could not recoup the investment needed in serv ing them. Those 40 million acres of bush support trillions of animals, birds and plants that are not hunted hence the con servationHowever,value.trophy hunting is very important a trophy hunter pays about 100 times more than an ecotourist, needs no infrastructure, and disrupts the general wildlife far less. Worse still, however, is that without trophy hunting, cattle would be more profitable the vast hunting grounds would be cleared of ALL wildlife and turned over to cattle or worse still, cleared of all vegeta tion as well and turned over to GM crops. Hunting animals might be abhorrent, but not hunting them might turn out worse.
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John Spot on HI Leapy your article ‘No thank you’ is spot on. In South Africa today there are more race based laws than ever under apartheid. But due to them being against white people it’s fine. The UK and Europe have no idea what they are welcoming into their countries. And by the time they realise what’s hap pening it will be too late. If they think that they will en joy the same freedoms etc un der black rule, good luck. Just see how they treat each other. PW
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ALL of the world’s authorities are demanding that we turn away from fossil fuel and rely on green energy. The internal combustion engine will be replaced by batteries in the majority of cars and in the not-too-distant fu ture, we will all have to plug our cars in to charge them, using even more electricity than now.
There is a certain irony in the fact that Spain has now decided that it can’t risk companies and employers using too much electricity to make their staff and customers more comfortable in times of extreme heat or cold weath er.Electricity prices have shot up in Spain and although the country doesn’t depend on Russian gas (it’s only Spain’s fourth largest supplier) which has hurt European neigh bours due to the invasion of Ukraine, it is still in a vulnera bleHavingposition.sat on the fence for decades over support for Mo rocco’s influence in the Sahara, it finally announced earlier this year that it was in favour of Morocco effectively gov erning what used to be a Spanish possession.
The government knew that Algeria has effectively bro ken off most relations with its neighbour and had closed the border as well as last year not renewing the gas pipe line agreement which supplied Morocco and Spain.
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IN the swimming pool at El Capis trano, children and teenagers are splashing around and whooping with delight. They are clearly hav ing fun, but are they really happy? Many of them have all the lat est technological devices, fashion able possessions and modern conveniences. Most of them are from northern Europe, enjoying once again their annual holiday abroad in a sunny environment. Back home, they will have ac cess to social media and all the lat est gadgets. For those not de prived by inflation and poverty there seems to be instant gratifi cation. Everything is so easy at the touch of a switch or a keypad. So, what are their hobbies and inter ests? They will be very different from ours in the 50s. We had no pocket calculators, let alone personal computers or mobile phones. We had never heard of Microsoft, emails or Google, let alone Facebook, YouTube and Instagram. We kept up with friends and news by meeting them rather than through social media. Aged seven, I recall the excite ment of my first glimpse of the sea and the beach at Bognor Reg is. By then I was collecting postage stamps and, together with an at las, learning about other countries all over the world. The stamps in my albums colourfully depicted their natural features and resources. Butterflies and rubber from Malaya, giraffes and coffee from Tanganyika, tigers and tea from Ceylon, tou cans from Brazil and zebras from Bechuanaland.Therewasso much pleasure in this simple, popular pursuit; sav ing stamps from mail from abroad, buying them from a philatelist or swapping duplicates with friends and mounting them in Then,albums. from childhood to teenage there was the weekly is sue of Enid Blyton’s ‘Sunny Sto ries’, graduating to ‘Dandy’ and ‘Champion’ comics, ‘Children’s Newspaper’, ‘Illustrated’ maga zine and ‘The Economist’. Penguin books, in distinctive or ange and white, published my favourite authors, including Or well, Hemingway, Camus, Moravia and others. There was al so the Saturday children’s mati nee at the local cinema and, later, the traditional jazz clubs. It seems inconceivable that young people today would regu larly spend a whole day on a draughty railway station, waiting for the arrival of each passenger or freight train in order to record the number of the locomotive. Further than that, I would cycle with a friend from Aylesbury to Oswestry or Doncaster, staying the nights at Youth Hostels, in or der to prowl the sheds where outofservice engines were stored. This was the pointless but thor oughly enjoyable pursuit of trainspotting. And it got us out and about. But would it be safe for 12yearolds to do that today? We had no television until I was 16. We met girls at the local dance not online and communicated with our friends facetoface whenever we met them. Most cars had no heaters; holi days abroad were an adventure for the privileged few. But life was exciting. And our future was not threatened by climate change.
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AS reported on Thursday, August 11, Frieze and BMW continue their longterm partnership with the major art initiative BMW Open Work by Frieze. Los Angelesbased artist Nikita Gale will present the immersive installa tion ‘63/22’ in the BMW Lounge at Frieze London in October 2022. Drawing inspiration from BMW engineering and curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini, this commission brings together art, technology, and design, in a pioneering multiplat formInvestigatingformat. the history and poli tics of sound and its surroundings, Nikita Gale’s practice questions themes of invisibility and audibility recasting the dynamic between per former and spectator. Within the work, notions of witnessing, visibility, and representation are subverted andThedestabilised.technologies of sound and speed have been closely associated since the 1960s. In fact, the Gibson Firebird, one of the most popular electric guitars, was designed by car designer Ray Dietrich and introduced to the general public in 1963. Gale’s project ‘63/22’ explores the relationship between these tech nologies and unfolds how they have culturally influenced one another through design. As part of the BMW Open Work 2022 commission, the artist will create a sculptural installa tion comprising a series of electric guitars imagined in collaboration with BMW i7 designers and activated by live performances in the space. In addition, the artist will invite the BMW i7 designers to sketch utopian, functional, and dysfunctional guitar bodies, these sketches would pro vide the starting point for the cre ation of sculptural guitars, a mixture between a functional object and a sculpture.
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AC Benahavis 50s and 60s whose ground is in the process of an upgrade, and have been very active in recruitment this closed season of both Spanish players and a woman called Carey, take on Malaga 50s and 60s in a double header this week at El Cañadon, Mijas Cos ta.It will be the first time that each club will have pitted their wits against each other in the new age group system. During this game a sug gestion by the referees committee to give a penal ty if a team runs five times, will be trialled. This is seen by them as a positive way to cut some of the running out of the sport. For all walking football news visit walkingfooty.com on Face book. Viñuela have their mojo back!
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WITH this exceptionally hot August edging towards its end, most clubs are now returning to presea son training, in what we all hope are cooler tempera tures. Many clubs haven’t stopped! Last week, Aston Viñuela league champions 2021, who are currently rebuilding their squad, took on league new boys, Malaga El Cañadon. In a tight game the Lake sides came out worthy winners in a 20 victory, with goals from recent signing from Malaga WFC, Jose and player manager SteveTheGeorge.walkingfooty.com leagues this year will be bigger than before, and contain new clubs. Most clubs now have players who are Spanish speakers, and this is en hancing both the clubs and the leagues. It also gives the Englishspeaking guys who may be new here, or simply want to improve their Spanish the opportu nity to do so.
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