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Births drop
made up nearly 16 per cent of the island’s total population at the time.
The number of islanders has grown from 862,426 to 947,315 during this period.
In addition, 162,248 people over the age of 65 live on the island , accounting for 17 per cent of the total population.
Ten years ago there were only 131,361 and their share was 15 per cent.
Pere Salvà, emeritus professor of human geography at the Balearic University (UIB), points out there has been a significant decline in the number of births on the islands in recent years.
One of the many highlights of the collaboration with Paavo Järvi has been their Beethoven Project, on which conductor and orchestra concentrated for 10 years.
Their Beethoven interpretations have been acclaimed worldwide by audiences and critics alike as benchmark performances. Following the Beethoven Project, The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
The latest project of the orchestra and its conductor is the German composer Johannes Brahms. With Symphonies No. 3 and No. 4 released in March 2019, the symphony cycle came to completion. The project’s highlight was the internationally acclaimed performance of A German Requiem on April 10, 2018, at Bremen Cathedral 150 years after the first performance.
They will be in concert on Sunday, August 27.
Tickets are from €24 and can be purchased from https://festival pollenca.com.
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 if 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.
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Nibs Extra
Weather alert
MIDSUMMER continues in Mallorca. At the start of the week, the Spanish weather service Aemet issued daily heat warnings. Towards the end of the week, the island is tending towards the 40degree mark again.
Helicopter hell
PEACE was shattered in Colònia de Sant Jordi in the south of Mallorca on Thursday, August 10, when four helicopters landed at a private property. Angry residents said the helicopters flew close to power cables, endangering pedestrians.
Restaurant fire
A FIRE broke out at the Golden Beach Pearl restaurant on the promenade of Playa de Palma in the early hours of Sunday, August 13. The Mallorca fire brigade confirmed the thatched roof and several tables and chairs were damaged in the fire.
