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Algarve
	Swim for Shoes MORE than 200 people were on the Armação de Pera Beach to take part or see the Christmas Day "Swim for Shoes" which once again this year took place on the beach in front of the Hotel Garbe. The participants have helped to raise more than 800 euros to buy new shoes for children in an Algarve orphanag.....
- Personality of the Year
- Operation Christmas
- President grants the traditional reprieves of the Christmas season
- A festive gift for everyone
- Air miles for charity
- Supertanker adrift north of Algarve’s west coast
- Most Algarve restaurants stay smoke free
- Guitar concert at the Trajo Museum
- Earlier start for winter sales
- Epiphany in Ayamonte
- TAP Portugal to start in flight mobile phone use
- Singing in the Sahara - Letter from the Algarve by Frances Ruddick
- Swim for Shoes

Costa del Sol
	Pietsch permanent show THE Aztec Country Club in Riviera del Sol, Mijas Costa, will be displaying a permanent exhibition of paintings by creative and innovative Russian artist, Natalia Pietsch, from January 2008 onwards. Art lovers are sure to enjoy this large selection of unique high- quality paintings. Natalia will surp .....
- RENFE launches new website
- Man angry for being left out of party
- Children helping children
- Kidnapping victims finally released in Somalia
- Home owner restrains burglars
- Just fancy that... cds
- Crime Watch Costa del Sol
- Passengers on late AVE train will be reimbursed
- Traffic accident in city centre
- Ministry to take Cartama land
- Estepona floods cause chaos
- Airborne Kings will touch down in Fuengirola
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- Marbella and Ojen to share a digital TV station
- Rain makes wall collapse
- Banderas misses stage
- Feline AIDS devastates cat population worldwide
- Malaga shelters full at Christmas
- Healthy diet campaign
- Divers association wants to clean sea floor
- Toys donated to Malaga children’s home
- King calls for unity in his Christmas message
- U-18 golf squad at La Cala Resort
- Slippery pavement treatment in Estepona
- New park inaugurated in Alhaurin el Grande
- Agreement results in more theatres for the province
- Refresh your mind, body and soul this winter
- Spanish lessons
- A letter of thanks
- Students to raise money for teachers in Venezuela
- What’s on Costa del Sol
- La Palma of the Canaries
- Pietsch permanent show
- Business street to be restored
- Coin will have new nursing home

Costa Blanca
	"Spanish Congress extends digital surcharge" The hopes of many internet users were dashed when the Socialist government managed to get enough support in Congress to maintain and extend the digital surcharge on mobile phones and MP3 players. This means mobile phones, MP3 players and flash USB memory sticks will be more expensive as of January. .....
- Dangerous toys confiscated
- El Gordo win in Alfas del Pi
- Alicante most popular with foreign residents
- New leads point to Almeria-
- "Bishop blames abuse on children"
- "Spanish Congress extends digital surcharge"
- Surgeons operate on wrong knee
- Two murder suspects arrested
- Public transport workers threaten to strike
- Waterless toilets for flyers
- Investigation files metro tragedy
- Drug trafficking point uncovered

Costa de Almería
	Virus outbreak in El Ejido ACCORDING to the Director of the West El Ejido Health Department, Gracia Fernandez, waiting rooms in all municipal doctors’ offices are full of people suffering from a virus which affects the stomach and respiratory tracts. Doctors recommend that those suffering from the virus drink plenty of liquid .....
- Volunteers to help women and children in Madagascar
- Extra drink-driving checkpoints
- Somalian hostages
- Five tonne hashish haul
- Bishop blames abuse on children
- Arrested for two robberies
- Bank account reveals links to terrorist group ETA
- Christmas domestic violence
- Hundreds of calls after Maddie Christmas message
- Murder suspect apprehended
- Spanish Congress extends digital surcharge
- Wife saved from jealous husband
- Virus outbreak in El Ejido
- Phobias (Come on, what are you afraid of?)
- More resources for Alzheimer patients
- Firemen visit sick children
- Parents school to prevent drug abuse
- Rain damages roads in Adra
- Security officers honoured
- Tajo-Segura committee recommends water transfer
- Modified fake guns
- 2008 State budgets approved in parliament
- A guide to Gibraltar
- Alternative medicines
- RENFE launches new ticket website
- Classic recipes published
- Lack of doctors in West Almeria Hospital
- Puppet shows
- The Rose Singers in review
- Drug trafficking woman sentenced
- More foreigners
- Algeria’s Sonatrach to establish 340 million euro business centre
- New leads point to Almeria
- Heirs found in Almeria
- Christmas dips raise money for CUDECA
- It’s in your eyes

Mallorca
	'Spanish Congress extends digital surcharge' The hopes of many internet users were dashed when the Socialist government managed to get enough support in Congress to maintain and extend the digital surcharge on mobile phones and MP3 players. This means mobile phones, MP3 players and flash USB memory sticks will be more expensive as of January. .....
- HOLIDAY BEDS AXED
- Three kings celebrations to draw massive crowds
- RESIDENTS LEFT WITH NO WATER FOR THREE MONTHS
- CURTAIN UP AT THEATRE
- "RENFE launches new website"
- New Year’s Eve traffic accidents
- Hotel sales plan to boost business
- City boss in pledge to tackle teenage gangs
- Drunk driver’s tough penalty
- Flu hits island
- "King calls for unity in his Christmas message"
- New logo to boost the Balearics
- Tour bosses plan new direction
- Council leads pet campaign
- Animal centre closure bombshell
- 'Spanish Congress extends digital surcharge'
- Island to aid UK holiday plea
- Towns to get facelift
- Visitors’ mallorca spending spree
- Pirates set sail for charity
- Island is a film hit

Heart of Andalucía
	Foreigners in Spain maintain postal service ACCORDING to the chief of the postal service, 90 per cent of delivered post are bills, bank letters and publicity; between eight and 10 per cent are letters from friends and family of which more than half go to British and German people followed by South Americans. A postman who has worked in Cuevas .....
- Dolmens visitor centre
- New park inaugurated
- La Vega residents demand improvements
- Road to Coin to be repaired
- Tony King’s appeal against sentence rejected
- Purifying of residual waters approved
- Foreigners in Spain maintain postal service
- Climber rescued
- Gas prices to go up
- Plans for new school
- Spanish Congress extends digital surcharge-
- Bishop blames abuse on children-
- Chorus in Alhaurin
- Coin will have nursing home
- Montejaque repairs
- Open air auditorium will be ready by the end of the year
- Ecologically friendly greenhouse to be built
- Road safety campaign
- Wall collapses
- Missing man found dead

Sport
	Four teams in European football FOR the first time ever four Portuguese sides will be competing in European competitions in the New Year after Braga qualified for the UEFA Cup Round of 32 by beating Serbia’s Red Star Belgrade. Braga finished in second place in Group F behind Bayern Munich. They now join Lisbon’s Sporting and Benfi....
- Bridgestone is official F1 tyre supplier
- Serena Williams back in Australia
- Four teams in European football
- Porto loses for the first time
- Denia Rugby
- Alcalal’ Angling Club
- Mojacar Angling Club

Boadicea

Nose for trouble
I’m no scientist but aren’t the Japanese scientists who bred mice with a genetically modified sense of smell jumping to concl....

Leapy Lee

If you don’t eat your meat…
Yesterday, I actually witnessed first hand what the majority of people who really give a damn, have been complaining about. T....

Sidelines

Switzerland, cuckoo clocks and democracy
In The Third Man the film’s hero, Harry Lime, said that for 30 years in Italy under the Borgias “they had warfare, terror, m....

Mrs. Ed

Myself, husband and three children were enjoying a family day out in Torremolinos when, on approaching a zebra crossing, I no....

Food

Jewish Cuisine: Passover traditions
THE Jewish Passover celebrates the exodus from Egypt, to become free people in the Promised Land. Because they wanted to flee....

Health & Beauty

Make-up blunders fixed
SOME of the most common beauty blunders can be easily avoided. Here are a few tips to help you look your best for any occasio....

Astrology
		Star - Libra It becomes clear to you early in the week that some friends are drifting away. We all have to make changes as life itself is ....

Happened This Day
	1716 - The first lion to be exhibited in America goes on display in Boston, MA. 1731 - English poet William Cowper is born. He is best known for "The Poplar Trees" and "The Task." 1832 - Public streetcar service begins in New York City. ....

Birthdays
	Clem Burke - 52 - American drummer (Blondie), Katherine Heigl - 29 - American actress/model, Sean Young - 48 - American actress,
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