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Civil protection investigation A COURT in Torrox is investigating why certain members of Civil Protection reportedly carried out tasks initially allocated to Local Police officers. According to the court, this could lead to a possible case of perverting the course of justice.
Demo threat FARMERS from the Costa Tropical have announced that they will take to the streets to demonstrate if their requests are not met. They have asked the regional government for compensation for crop losses and better access to irrigation water.
Goat exhibition THE Paseo Larios in Torre del Mar is hosting a peculiar kind of art exhibition, to honour the Axarquia goat. Forty-two goat sculptures made by different Malaga artists can be seen until January 6.
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Costas are top draw for most visitors to Malaga
FORTY per cent of tourists who come to Andalucia visit the Malaga coast. According to the Malaga Tourism Board, 9.1 million tourists visited the province in 2012, which was 42.33 per cent of all those who visited Andalucia. Their average daily expenditure
is €61.20, slightly above the average for the region, which is €60.40. President of the Tourism Board Elias Bendodo explained how important Malaga-Costa del Sol Airport was for these positive figures, as 65.6 per cent of all passengers who come to
Andalucia use the airport. He also pointed out that the port and the high-speed trains connecting with the Malaga Maria Zambrano station in the city had gained importance within the past year and given the area an advantage over other Andalucian provinces. Meanwhile, the Junta de
Wine harvest photo contest winner ‘LA VENDIMIA’ by Francisco Orozco Saenz was the winner of the First Wine Harvest in the Axarquia photographic contest. A panel of judges chose the picture because it portrayed the ‘extreme difficulty’ of the wine harvest in the Axarquia area. ‘La llegada del arriero’ (The Arrival of the Mule Driver) by Jose Alfonso Torres Garrido, and ‘Dulces uvas’ (Sweet Grapes) by Juan Quesada Galdon won second and third prize respectively. A total of 103 pictures were entered in the contest, which was organised by Jorge Ordoñez Winery, the University of Malaga and Malaga Provincial Government.
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Andalucia Councillor for Tourism and Commerce, Rafael Rodriguez, announced that between January and November this year, there have been 4.3 per cent more overnight stays in hotels in Andalucia than over the same period last year, amounting to 41.3 million. The number of visitors amounted to 14.2 million, 3.1 per cent more than in the first 11 months of 2012.
LA VENDIMIA: Wine Harvest in the Axarquia photo winner.
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Twenty of them will be exhibited Velez-Malaga, Nerja and
Almachar, but dates for the shows have yet to be announced.