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Algarve
	Plant powers up ONE of the world’s largest solar energy plants in southern Portugal has just started delivering electricity to about 8,000 homes. Due to constant sunshine and high technology, the power plant in the town of Serpa, 50km north of the Algarve, is expected to produce more than 20 gigawatts per hour. .....
- Police officer killed in explosion
- Strange accident leads to sand death
- EU funding for the Algarve fishing industry
- Official teams for the Dakar announced
- Robbery and assault on taxi driver
- Blair attends Quartet meeting in Portugal
- Mosquito facts - not fiction - Letter from the Algarve by Frances Ruddick
- New dog regulations
- Plant powers up
- Marie Eléonore Lu’s: From the Ritz in Paris to Vila Sol
- WHAT’S IN A WORD?
- Arte Viva at Sao Bras

Costa del Sol
	Locals ´help Suzanne´ with fun-filled charity weekend MORE than 250 people visited Shakers Bar, Arroyo de la Miel, Benalmadena, at the weekend to raise funds for the ´Help Suzanne´ charity campaign. Friends, family, residents, locals and holiday-makers all joined forces to raise an amazing estimated total of 10,000€. Events over the weekend includ .....
- Benalmadena Ice Rink faces negligence claims
- International arrest warrant issued for local suspect
- Bogus gas inspector caught
- Bee smoker causes blaze
- Irish tourist arrested
- news in brief
- Detainee dies in police custody
- Couple terrorised in their own home by armed men
- Axe attacker gets three years jail
- Drowning in Marbella
- New terminal inaugurated at Malaga Airport
- Man stabbed by colleague
- Plans to extend railway line
- Just fancy that…
- Your weekly newspaper
- Polly-gone: Reward for return of stolen parrot
- Malaga province suffers five fires
- Women trick escort candidates
- Violent petrol station robber apprehended
- New centre for disabled people
- Casa goes to Brazil
- Blaze at Mijas Costa
- Fatal routine operation leads to malpractice suit
- Cudeca walkathon 2007
- Locals ´help Suzanne´ with fun-filled charity weekend
- Fish consumption damaging ecosystem
- Day centres for seniors
- Marine nature reserve proposal
- Pet Shop Boys performance
- Cheap petrol
- Mobiles blamed for poor memory
- Lionel Richie performs live in Marbella

Costa Blanca
	Book now for La Piscina summer cabaret TICKETS are going fast for the Harlequins summer cabaret at La Piscina in Parcent on Saturday, August 25. Make sure you are not disappointed by booking soon. Songs and dance from all your favourite shows plus La Piscina’s excellent cuisine, what more could you ask for? Lunch will be available from .....
- Suitcase full of hashish
- Knifed cabbie may quit job
- Pensioner faces prison sentence
- Father tries to kill schizophrenic son
- Attempted murder
- Customer service leaves a lot to be desired
- Gameshow contestants set to represent La Nucia
- 10,000 people attend contest in Torrevieja
- Health Department to pay compensation
- Latest Guardamar unemployment statistics
- Police team for tourists
- Pilar Olympic success
- Shelter for the homeless
- Busy month for William
- Global warming threatens tourism at Spanish beach resorts
- Sport for Campoverde kids
- Calpe twinned with Oppenheim
- Charity on front-line of AIDS pandemic
- Rise in cancer in two banks
- Dancing horses return to San Fulgencia

Costa de Almería
	Aguadulce children's show AS part of the Pie de Calle festivities, Aguadulce saw a performance by the band Drac. The children's group had the young audience waving their hands in the air, as Drac told the musical story of them being ordered to play a performance for Aburrido II, and the foolish leader of the group .....
- Police forces forge closer ties
- Boy drowns in Albox pool
- More beach space for sunbathers
- Drug smuggling operation uncovered
- Marine mammal expires
- Four arrested after assault and robbery
- Mosquito plague claim 'simply not true’
- Dramatic sea rescue in Mojácar
- Town hall criticised for unsafe beaches
- Campaign to tackle jellyfish problem
- Almería invests in water
- Drowned boy remembered
- Shelter for homeless
- Cash boost aimed at improving facilities on local beaches
- Saints Day Cuevas celebrations
- Documentary in legal tangle
- Widow’s home saved by AUAN
- Aliens invade Roquetas
- Aguadulce children's show
- Entertaining education
- British Legion raise Poppy cash
- National contest in Villaricos
- Residents day trip
- Dover attract crowds
- Regain your Northern Soul
- Landscape artist first solo show

Mallorca
	Three sentenced over accident THE PALMA Court has sentenced a builder, a surveyor and a crane driver for the death of a workman in 2003. The 27-year-old man had been working on the construction site in the city centre for two days when a crane transporting 900 kilogrammes of planks dropped its load on him from a height of four .....
- Drunk driver causes fatal accident
- Man jailed
- Long sentence requested
- Three sentenced over accident
- Beaches get flag
- Weever fish cause further headaches for swimmers
- Sneak thieves finally nabbed
- Noisy nightclub
- Mother and son receive jail sentences
- Images of children found
- Goat takes a dive
- Police find embolism victim
- "Shelter for the homeless"
- Cheap fuel
- Accident waiting to happen for cyclists
- Further revelations in corruption scandal
- Tango classes in Palma
- Spanish satellites
- Foreign licence plates
- Safe haven

Heart of Andalucía
	Prison inmate on hunger strike THE President of the Association Against Injustice and Corruption (Ainco), Alberto Perez, has been on hunger strike at Alhaurin de la Torre prison for more than 50 days and has lost 20 kilos. Fifty-six-year-old Perez, who now weighs just 58 kilogrammes, is protesting against what he says is the .....
- Prison inmate on hunger strike
- Bee smoker causes brush fire
- Los Merinos gets go-ahead
- Climate change putting Spanish Fir at risk
- Lion kept in back of van for three months
- Minibus for Alora’s disabled children
- Summer concerts in Alhaurin
- Intelligent speed bumps
- Dependency on mobile phones causes memory loss
- Less citrus fruit
- Med diet promoted
- Busy street to be pedestrianised

Sport
	Fishing fundraiser reels in the money THE Vishakha charity fishing match, held last Saturday at the Laguna Carp Pond in Cartama, managed to raise a staggering 569 euros to build a playground and refurbish the kitchen at a girls’ orphanage in Sri Lanka. Lots of common carp and mirror carp were caught at the fund-raiser as well as some u....
- Rainy race
- Step back on the calendar
- Fishing fundraiser reels in the money
- World record attempt at charity golf day
- Administrative error
- Ozzie rules
- Master role

Boadicea

No change here
TELEVISION and the Internet are making children “disruptive, disrespectful and greedy” says an official study by the National....

Health & Beauty

Dehydration prevention
WITH the recent hot weather, which is expected to get worse in the upcoming month of August, it is important to take preventa....

Sidelines

London and Moscow play tit-for-tat
AS expected, Moscow refused to deliver up Andrei Lugovoy so that the ex-KGB agent could stand trial for the murder in London ....

Leapy Lee

Twenty-five hour record for party people
THERE we were, me and ‘er indoors; all done up to the nines, babysitter ensconced and more than ready for a great evening, at....

Food

Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it’s celebrity superfood
FORGET champagne and canapés. Believe it or not, the hottest new items on the menu for today’s celebrities include seaweed, c....

Astrology
		Star - Leo Someone you have been holding at arm's length recently is insisting on getting closer. Charm and tact alone may not save the ....

Happened This Day
	1699 - A treaty is signed by Denmark, Russia, Saxony and Poland for the partitioning of the Swedish Empire. 1718 - English pirate Edward Teach (a.k.a. "Blackbeard") is killed during a battle off the coast of North Carolina. 1899 - The Marconi Wireless Company of America is incorporated in New Jersey. ....

Birthdays
	Jamie Lee Curtis - 49 - American actress, Bruce Hornsby - 53 - American singer, Maxwell Caulfield - 46 - Scottish American actor,
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