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Edition - 1165

Algarve
	European Tourism Forum in Algarve STRATEGIES to make EU tourism destinations competitive by embracing sustainability were the focal point of discussions at the 6th European Tourism Forum, which took place last week in Portimão, Algarve. Ministers of Tourism from Member States as well as Portuguese and European tourism authorities ha.....
- Morinho among the 2006 Allgarve stars
- Foreign investment up
- Murdoch interested in Portuguese TV
- Sampaio defends need for referendum
- Ban on paedophiles working with children
- Tourists tagged
- Tragedy at sea
- Government supporting Algarve sheep farmers
- European Tourism Forum in Algarve
- National day of Austria commemorated in Albufeira
- Artist Stella Auchinlec Personal responses
- Strikes called off

Costa del Sol
	Panda arrivals TWO BABY red pandas have been born at Selwo Aventura, Estepona and their names are Laura and Amador. At birth, they weighed only a kilo and a half although their thick, fluffy, reddish-brown fur made them look bigger. These two new additions to the red panda exhibit – previously made up of only a ma .....
- Panda arrivals
- Murderer acquitted
- Guadalhorce rail death
- Killer faces 27 years
- Ivory sold illegally
- Gang caught supplying anabolic steroids to gyms
- Exhibition of city’s history
- Police nab robber
- Earthquake felt along coast
- International drug traffickers disbanded in Madrid and Malaga
- More witnesses called in Judge Urquia’s case
- Harbour anticipates busy time
- Building starts on solar station
- Town Hall will compensate couple for noise pollution suffered in Benalmadena
- Fight between skippers of two boats after long extreme conflict
- Tourism Board promotes Costa del Sol
- Excavator injury
- Benalmadena gives land for the creation of a recycling point
- 7,000 seats for AVE Malaga-Madrid
- Airline Air Europa flights to Moscow
- 'November mourning'
- Work started on health centre in San Pedro
- Bible school in Calahonda
- Benalmadena will have a National Police station in 2010
- Ikea plans further investment in Andalucia
- Unhappy with the judicial system
- Guadalmar golf on the move
- Fuengirola youths can text for activities

Costa Blanca
	Pilar blood fiesta EVERY year the town of Pilar de Horadada holds a fiesta of blood donations to coincide with the National Fiestas. This year the occasion was attended by the Mayor of the municipality, Ignacio Ramos García, the Councilor of Health, Trini Escarabajal Sáez, the local delegate from the Centre of Transfusion of Alicante, Carmen Samper Campillo, the developer of the Transfusion Centre, Francisco Sepulcro Sabuco and the famous Pilar poet, Esperanza Carrasco Jiménez. In turn they thanked the donors for the donation, saying that the lives of many people depended on the blood.Carmen Campillo encouraged donors to continue the good work in the years to come. Esperanza Carrasco Jiménez once again gave a poetry reading for all of the participants. All of those who donated blood received a plaque that displayed the shield of Pilar de Horadada, a gift and a glass of wine. .....
- Building cordoned off
- Vicar attacks Islam
- Historical find suspends construction
- Burglar sues potential victim
- Exceedingly drunk driver
- Knife murder
- Elche estate agent shooting
- La Nucia trip to Elche
- School progresses
- Serial child abuser found in Torrevieja
- Human Computer lectures La Nucia students
- Alfaz retirees’ courses now available
- La Nucia Mountain Trials
- Pilar blood fiesta
- "November Mourning"
- International Day in Alfaz
- Denia revel in the rain
- Torry defeats Cartagena

Costa de Almería
	Fire brigade protest march FIREMEN in Almeria staged a protest march that took them past the city hall, demonstrating against their current working conditions. The march took them through the busiest streets of Almeria before reaching the building. Once they arrived, representatives of the firefighters then held an emergency .....
- Polop Mayor dies
- Drugs raid
- Rifle shooting in Roquetas
- Councillors get higher wages
- Warning for pepper farmers using pesticides
- Seven month decision
- Ines dies
- Boss arrested
- Austriane exchange
- Fire brigade protest march
- Health centre attacks
- Local poet published
- Underage Nijar prostitute
- El Ejido illegal greenhouse risk
- Donate sweets for Asprodalba
- Beethoven on show in Almeria
- Sierra Nevada commission
- November Mourning
- Comics – What they've become and why they're not just for kids
- Bishop conducts Mass in refurbished church

Mallorca
	Intense storm strikes Mallorca and kills one A DANISH national was washed away by a torrent of water as she tried to get out of her vehicle in Mallorca. Up to six waterspouts were seen from the coast but none of them reached land. The waterspout that fell over Mallorca hit the city of Palma, caused at least a dozen floods and took the life of .....
- Intense storm strikes Mallorca and kills one
- People-smuggler given three years
- Mother of balcony-fall girl is dead
- One dies in fatal car accident in Campos
- Man tries to burn ex alive
- Mallorca gang arrested
- Tax returns
- Dog shot to death
- Hero policeman saves two lives in Puigpunyent
- 2,000 cases of strokes every year in the Islands
- Report identifies 170,000 islanders below poverty line
- Two new operating theatres for Manacor

Heart of Andalucía
	"New composting plant" THE NEW composting plant to be built in Valsequilo environmental complex in Antequera will be fully financed by the EU and will, according to the Provincial Environmental representative, create between 80 and 100 jobs. West Costa del Sol, Casares and Mijas are the only other areas in the province wi .....
- Alcazaba excavations result in historic discoveries
- Ronda hospital ready for 2011
- Children’s book clubs
- Ladies bowls contest
- New schools
- Mountain climbers rescued
- Farm rats targeted
- Schizophrenic man detained
- Train needs approval
- Public information online
- Male gigolos conned
- Inland Health Department’s breast cancer screening programme
- Civil War victims monument
- Palm weevil in Alhaurin de la Torre
- Andalucians unhappy with judicial system
- Slow progress of street works
- "All Saints Day"
- Classes for small businesses
- "New composting plant"

Sport
	Coarse license restrictions CAPTAIN MEL out on his Villaricos-based boat last week caught various Bream and Rock Perch and his trip this week produced a few more Rock Perch and some very edible Red Snappers. ‘Matt The Hat’ from of Marina caught a four-five foot Ribbon Fish and some Big Mackerel and Scorpion Fish one day last w....
- Max Mosley unconvinced
- Poyet moves to White Hart Lane
- Fittipaldi out of retirement to test Ferrari-powered A1GP contender
- World champion comments
- Cortijo Grande Golf News
- Berja fighters get silver
- Coarse license restrictions
- Berja soccer contract
- Karate, Pilates

Boadicea

Stroke away your cares
IF you’re stressed, stroke a dog, preferably a long-haired spaniel, advises leading psychologist Dr David Lewis. I won’t disp....

Health & Beauty

Vitamins: Are we getting enough?
They are our lifeblood. Literally. Essential for nearly all bodily functions, they instigate, regulate and maintain. Amazingl....

Sidelines

Inseparable Polish twins parted by election
UNTIL last week, twin brothers Lech and Jaroslav Kaczynski were as inseparable as Siamese twins at the pinnacle of Polish pol....

Food

CHOCOLATE – SAVOURY OR SWEET
CHOCOLATE is made from the seeds of the tree Theobroma cacao. Theobroma is Greek for ‘food of the gods’ but the ancient Aztec....

Leapy Lee

Work well done
What a remarkable job the Mallorcan authorities have done in the light of the recent tragedy that occurred in Mallorca involv....

Mrs. Ed

IF I may resurrect the correspondence regarding barking dogs and Alison Reast’s advice in Edition 1160 that a formal “denunci....

Special Feature

personally speaking
SORRY, but I just don’t seem to see what 70 per cent of Spanish television viewers saw when they watched the recent heart-wre....

Astrology
		Star - Taurus Sometimes, when we are making a journey, it is not the usual route that is best. Something has changed in your sphere and the ....

Happened This Day
	1615 - French King Louis XIII marries Ann of Austria. They are both 14 years old. 1859 - Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, publishes "On the Origin of Species." 1871 - The National Rifle Association is incorporated in the US. ....

Birthdays
	Katherine Heigl - 29 - American actress/model, John McVie - 62 - British bass player (Fleetwood Mac), Jamie Lee Curtis - 49 - American actress,
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