Hold the front page

EURO WEEKLY NEWS is thrilled to announce that our newspaper and website will feature in a TV programme to be filmed in Benidorm.

Hold the Front Page is a programme following two of the UK’s favourite comedians, Josh Widdicombe and Nish Kumar, as they embark on a journey as trainee local journalists attempting to get a story on the front page. Now they are coming to Spain for their training.

Josh and Nick are coming to Benidorm to receive editorial tasks from managing director Michel Euesden, who is the driving force behind Spain's biggest free English language newspaper group. They will then be accompanied on a sales drive to see what they can achieve in the world of fastpaced journalism.

Exploring some incredible regions through their local papers, the series is a warm celebration of the world of local journalism besides the people and communities the papers serve.

Being a people’s paper, Euro Weekly News is looking for a charity or commu­ nity group who would like to be featured in the programme. Please contact us to tell us about your needs.

The series is broadcast on Sky Max, a flagship channel in the UK and Ireland, and can be enjoyed on demand on Now TV too.

Series one of the Sky Original show was watched nearly two million times.

Josh and Nish also have a strong and engaged social following of their own on Instagram and Twitter, through which they promote the programme to their combined audience of

Coffee morning Tourist boom

ADANA coffee mornings are back on the first Friday of every month at O'Callaghans in Sabinillas subject to the weather. There is always ADANA merchandise available as well as a selection of homemade cakes and a raffle with some top prizes.

Also, always welcome will be a number of dogs who have been adopted from ADANA and all guests will be able to browse details of the many dogs who are just waiting for a new caring home.

THE tourist industry on the Costa del Sol has experienced a very positive first six months of the year with the number of visitors exceeding those who visited in the same period last year.

It’s not just the usual tourist hot spots along the coast that have benefitted but also rural tourism has received a real shot in the arm, this year reaching 70 per cent of the 2019 figure.

Although national visitors are still very important, there has been a marked increase in passengers arriving at Malaga Airport from much of Europe and the UK.

Travellers staying in hotels are 10 per cent up on last year but stays by foreigners are up by 21 per cent at 1,756,474 out of a total of 2,835,000 which means in turn that hotel and associated employment is up 9 per cent.

Overnight stays have increased not just in hotels but also in self­catering accommodation and camping but despite the restrictions of Brexit, the UK still supplies the largest number

1.6 million.

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STORIES IN THIS WEEK’S EDITION

Asses up

SELWO’s big family is continuing to grow with births and new inhabitants. Under the commitment of their participation in the European Endangered Species Programmes, Selwo has taken in two new specimens of Somali ass (Equus Africanus Somalicus).

The ass is an African herbivore characterised by its grated feet that is in critical danger of extinction due to the decrease of its wild populations.

The main threat to this African wild ass is limited access to drinking water, food and forage, with breeding females and foals less than three months old being most at risk.

Visitor numbers exceeding those of the same time last year of holidaymakers to the area.

In the first six months of 2023 there have been 15.3 per cent more Britons arriving via Malaga Airport than the same time last year and following the UK, the next biggest influx of tourists come from Germany and Holland although the highest jump in the number of travellers at more than double last year’s figures are those from Poland.

In addition to the two ass, the Lakes Reserve, Selwo Aventura's habitat populated by large African herbivores such as hippos and rhinos has welcomed new members, the family has increased with the birth of several calves of white­tailed wildebeest .

THE youth department of Marbella Council, has launched a campaign to increase the number of volunteers who are prepared to help guard the loggerhead turtle nest in Puerto Banus, next to the beach of the Guadalpín hotel.