Costa del Sol 11 – 17 January 2024 Issue 2010

Costa del Sol • Issue No. 2010 • 11 - 17 January 2024

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David Hart IF you want to work hand in hand with Antonio Banderas, this year you have an opportunity. The CaixaBank Soho Theatre in Malaga is looking for new talent for the two upcoming productions directed by the actor from the city.

These will be the musicals ‘They’re Playing Our Song’ (Neil Simon, Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager) with its premiere in June this year, and Gypsy (Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim), with its premiere in October.

Versatile actresses, actors and singers are needed to cover different character profiles and

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dancers with very good jazz and tap skills. The deadline for applications is Sunday, January 14.

The auditions are aimed at those performers who have worked in a minimum of two professional musicals of medium or large format.

The auditions will take place in Madrid from Tuesday, February 27 to Tuesday, March 5 2024.

All the information for registration can be found on the theatre’s website through this link: https:// teatrodelsoho.com/teatro/audiciones-ok/

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Open more Sundays

THE Andalucian Regional Government has approved a common 2024 calendar for shops to open in the region, which in the case of Malaga Province will be more extensive than ever, due to the Declaration of Zones of Great Tourist Affluence (ZGAT).

In Andalucia, for 2024 individual shops and shopping centres are allowed to open a total of 16 Sundays and public holidays, as stipulated by the government in 2023. This is in addition to the authorisations granted to the municipalities included in the ZGAT, which allows shops to open every Sunday during summer from June until the end of September.

This means that shops will be allowed to open on a total of 26 Sundays (or exactly half the year) plus they can also open on public holidays in the summer and they have additional permission to open during the whole of Easter, as was the case last year.

This applies to shops and shopping centres in Marbella, Fuengirola, Estepona, Benalmadena, Torremolinos, Nerja, Rincon de la Victoria, Mijas, Manilva and Malaga City.

Affordable holidays TORREMOLINOS and Benalmadena are the most affordable locations for holiday rentals according to Holidu’s latest report, the highest prices on the Costa del Sol in 2024 will be in Estepona and Marbella.

With the arrival of 2024, the holiday home market is beginning to adjust to the preferences of local and international travellers visiting the Costa del Sol. The holiday rental and flat company Holidu has conducted an analysis of 2023 and the projections for 2024.

Over the course of 2023, Malaga saw a rise in the average price per night, with an increase of 9 per cent, from

an average of €128 in 2022 to €140 in 2023. Looking ahead to 2024, it is possible to rent a holiday home in the Costa del Sol capital for an average price of €136 per night (average cost for the months of January, February and March).

Analysing the first three months of the year that has just begun and Torremolinos stands out, with the lowest cost of €103. It is followed

by Benalmadena with €108, Fuengirola with €116 and Mijas with €125. Estepona presents a slightly higher cost of €152, and Marbella closes the list with €178, being the most expensive those studied.

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NIBS EXTRA Too sweet

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD girl who nearly choked to death on sweets at a Three Kings parade in Malaga was saved thanks to a Local Police officer and a nurse who were in the area. The little girl regained consciousness after Heimlich manoeuvres.

Alzheimer art

NUEVO ENFOQUE inaugurates an exhibition on Alzheimer’s disease on Friday, January 12, entitled ‘Visibilizar el alzheimer’ (Making Alzheimer’s visible). The exhibition will be open Monday to Thursday, 7.30pm to 9pm at the association’s headquarters in Residencial Los Olivos, Mijas.

Over the limit

A WOMAN was arrested in the early hours of New Year’s Eve after driving in the wrong direction on the MA-21 motorway in the direction of Torremolinos.

When stopped she was breathalysed and tested almost six times over the legal blood alcohol level.

Run for Moore

WITH the help of the town hall, ‘Run for Moore’, an event organised by local resident David Hewitt, in aid of the Bobby Moore Fund to tackle bowel cancer, has been staged in Manilva again this year for the 18th time.

More water

WORK has started to improve the water supply on the Costa del Sol. The works planned for the Rojas pumping station will enable the transfer of water resources from the La Concepción reservoir to the city of Malaga and the Costa del Sol.

Xmas funds

MARBELLA Town Hall spent nearly €900,000 on the 2023 Christmas programme. As usual, the largest amount of money was spent on musical performances, including opening day of the Christmas lights.

FUENGIROLA market has closed after nearly 40 years in business and work will start on the new Mercacentro on January 22, now the Christmas and New Year holidays are finished.

Mayor, Ana Mula, made the announcement and explained that the work will entail the partial demolition and replacement of the current market.

The work on the new market, the contract for which was awarded in November 2023, has an investment of €13 million and a completion period of around 18 months. The new market will have three large

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MERCACENTRO: Closed after nearly 40 years.

entrances, 39 stalls and a covered central hall; several gastrobars and a business incubator on

Calendar Girls

IN October 2023, the International Theatre Studio staged a production of ‘Calendar Girls’, directed by Peter Brooks, at the El Paraiso Hotel. It was very well attended with a full house every evening of the production. An extra night was added due to the demand for tckets, running in total to four nights.

Following on from the play’s success, ITS decided to offer a charity calendar featuring various female members of the theatre group with the proceeds going to a cancer-related charity. ITS members have been selling the calendars for the last few months at various ITS events, charity lunches and golf days and have raised an impressive €4,000!

All proceeds are being donated to the Elena Gaite Foundation, which was created with the purpose of promoting various solidarity actions in order to raise funds for different social organisations and NGOs, whose main purpose is to support relatives and patients with different diseases such as cancer or rare diseases.

the first floor; and a terrace open to the public on the second and top floor. The existing mar-

Best year 2023 has become the best year for tourism on the Costa del Sol with an improvement across all areas and one million more tourists than in 2019. This was announced by the president of the Provincial Council and Costa del Sol Tourism, Francisco Salado, at a press conference in which he presented the balance of the year.

The province of Malaga received 14 million tourists last year, generating nearly €20 million of economic impact. Salado highlighted the improvement in profitability, income and employment in 2023, However, he also notes the present uncertainties, especially the ongoing drought that is affecting the sector.

Salado therefore made an urgent appeal for, “far-reaching solutions to guarantee supply.” He said that, “we have to extend the cuts because summer is coming, it has not rained and I fear that we may go from having the best tourist year in the history of the Costa del Sol to having a very bad one with all that tourism represents for the economy of Malaga.”

Great graffiti

IF we take a stroll through any of the Andalucian provinces, we will witness some of the best examples of urban art in Spain. In fact, according to the Street Art Cities platform, one of them is right on our doorstep in Fuengirola.

Fabián Bravo Guerrero is an urban artist from Sevilla, better known as Kato.

He is a monitor at Kato Art, a company that is professionally dedicated to large-scale murals. Kato has more than 700 works all over Spain.

The one that can be admired in Fuengirola is in the neighbourhood of El Bo-

ket had deteriorated considerably, it didn’t provide adequate access for people with disabilities and its high energy consumption showed how inefficient the building was compared to modern standards. The Fuengirola food market will be completely transformed and converted into a ‘unique’ building.

That is the commitment made by the town hall, which has now taken the first step towards the construction of the new modern market.

quetillo.

In it we see the immense figure of a girl holding a shining star in her hands.

The artist himself defines the work as follows: “This captivating mural transports us to a magical world where a girl, wrapped in an almost nocturnal sunset, holds a starfish that illuminates with its radiance.”

The message that the mural seeks to convey can be summed up as, “even in the darkest moments, there is always a light that guides the way to our dreams.”

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Record rents RENTING a property in Malaga Province was practically mission impossible a year ago and the situation is only getting worse.

The supply continues to be scarce and the price continues to rise, which makes it practically unfeasible for a family with a normal salary to afford a property. This is reflected in the latest data from the real estate portal Idealista, which highlights that the average rental price at the end of 2023 in the province of Malaga is €13.8 per square metre, which represents an increase of 13.6 per cent over the previous year and a new all-time high.

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Moving forward together VIEWPOINT BILL ANDERSON

LIFE sometimes takes us in unexpected directions, and whilst I have been writing columns for the Euro Weekly News (EWN) for some time now, being appointed Editor was never on my radar. Having said that, I am both excited and enthusiastic about working with the team to take the brand forward.

I am delighted to have joined the Euro Weekly team.

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For some time now, the Euro Weekly News (EWN) has been in pole position amongst all of the independent Press in Spain in championing the excellent work done by charitable organisations and those who raise funds for good causes. This commitment will continue.

As we enter 2024, many parts of Spain still face challenges. Although we have had a sma-

PROVERB OF THE WEEK If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

This was originally an African proverb meaning don’t wait, go along so you are not held back by others.

ttering of rain, drought is still the order of the know that major improvements will not haday with many areas dealing with continued ppen overnight. water restrictions.

Politicians are often very good at making There have been many political debates life harder for us, but not so efficient at antiaround this matter but very little action. Wi- cipating future needs and acting before it bethout having expertise in the area of water comes a problem. 2024 could be a big year instorage and supply, I do understand that des- ternationally, as there are around 40 elections alination is one way forward, but not an ab- taking place. Let’s see if it is more of the same solute solution to the problem. Construction or all change for the better, or otherwise. Thearound the coasts escalates without a clear re have been some big shifts in voting prefesolution to the water supply problem. rences in recent times, so could it be exciting Transport also presents some challenges for times ahead? Who knows?

2024. With Low Emission Zones (LEZ) being I have been staggered by all of your good introduced in many of the larger municipali- wishes at my appointment and appreciate the ties, many people with older vehicles could constructive comments about going forward. find themselves in difficulty. The reality for I will be looking for your continued involvethose of us who live along the Spanish coast, ment in content and look forward to working with one or two exceptions, is that we live with you. We want to listen to your views and moderately rural lives with very limited public the EWN team hopes to provide you with the transport options or even availability. There news and content you are looking for in ‘The has been a lot of ‘jaw-jaw’ about this, but we People’s Paper’.

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Surfing success Kevin Fraser Park Photo: Facebo ok / Sarah Alm agro

A YOUNG woman from Marbella lost her limbs at the age of 18 due to meningitis. In a shining example of self-improvement, this is the story of Sarah Almagro.

She spent five months in hospital and two months after her admission, her hands and feet were amputated. “As soon as I arrived at the hospital, they told me that they had to amputate,” Sarah explained. At the time, she confessed that, “it was a shock. I was about to start university.”

This brought about a radical change in her life. Thanks to her prosthesis, she walked again and was able to take up the sport that had been part of her childhood: surfing.

Sarah explained how she got back in touch with the

sea, “a person who surfed on my beach got in touch with me and first I learned to swim again, and in the 10th lesson they told me I was ready to go to the sea.”

2023 proved to be the best year so far for her career as she was crowned European champion in adapted surfing, she is now world champion of adapted surfing in the Prone2 category and she has her sights set on the Olympic games.

In addition to competing and preparing for the Olympics, Sarah gives talks on motivation and self-esteem. “Surfing, I feel I am the same as everyone else. I feel free. Surfing has helped my self-esteem. To see that I can do what I did before. It’s just different because now I do it lying down.”

Marbella Marina

THE first step has been taken towards the renovation of the Marina in Marbella. The city council and the board of owners of the port company have agreed to contract an engineering consultancy to process the project, which will involve the extension of the concession until 2051 and the modernisation of the area.

The management rights expire in 2026 after 50 years, so the town hall, the concession holder, wants to extend them for a fur-

ther 25 years. The objective is to ensure that the port, created in 1977, adapts to the new demands of the Andalucian Public Ports Agency (APPA).

The Marbella councillor of Beaches and Ports, Diego López, said that in order to be able to obtain the renewal of the concession it is essential to undertake, in collaboration with the Junta de Andalucia, “an ambitious project of remodelling of the facility.”

Among the actions to be carried out, the councillor

highlighted the advances in terms of sustainability and the work to respond to the current needs of the nautical sector, especially in terms of the size of the boats.

“We want to modernise and adapt to the new times an area that has the blue flag as a guarantee of excellence in management, which is a jewel within the city and which, despite the fact that many improvements have been made in recent years, requires a comprehensive investment,” said López.

€100 million sports Brian Bamford MARBELLA hosted more than 100 sporting events in 2023, which generated a direct economic impact for the city of around €100 million.

This reported by councillor, Lisandro Vieytes, who has made an assessment of the year that has just ended, where the town hall gave more than 36,000 hours to local clubs and entities to rent courts, which meant a saving of more than €800,000, and has stressed, “the firm commitment of the government team in the improvement and creation of new facilities and support for local athletes in

various disciplines and competitions”.

In addition, he said that Marbella has a budget of more than €5.8 million for 2024, which represents an increase of 76 percent over 2023. The city council is currently building nine new sports facilities, with an investment of close to €23 million, and has already planned another four that will begin in 2024.

With regard to the 108 events held last year, the councillor explained that 19 were international, including the Solheim Cup, “the most watched in the history of the tournament, with nearly 90,000 visitors and an economic return for the city of nearly €30 million.”

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Pluto in Marbella

Brian Bamford at the legendary El Fuerte PLUTO, Mickey Mouse’s hotel, and later moved to a pet, was also the loyal com- private residence in what is panion of his creator, the now known as The Golden American cartoonist and Mile to continue his stay film producer Walt Disney. there.

Together they stayed at the Walt Disney has not been El Fuerte hotel in Marbella the only illustrious guest of and, a then young bellboy the iconic hotel, since dunow retired, Pedro Guerre- ring its more than six dero, told EFE that he used to cades of activity, take the dog for daily walks nuon the beach.

In the spring of 1958, barely a year after the establishment opened its doors for the first time, it was visited by the illustrious filmmaker, one of the fathers of the American animation industry. Pedro, who is now 83, was 16 years old at the time and, although almost 70 years have passed since then, he still vividly remembers the walks along the coast with Pluto and the great tips Disney gave him for his work.

The year that Walt Dis- Photo: Pxhere CC ney was in Marbella he A loyal companion. stayed for a long week

merous renowned figures such as Timothy Dalton and Peter Lorre have stayed there.

It was even the setting for the film ‘Holiday in Spain’, starring the actress Diana Dors, known as the British Marilyn Monroe, which caused a great stir, as some of the scenes took place on the beach, with the protagonist in a bikini, which at the time in Spain was not allowed and was considered unseemly.

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Boutique-style charity shop

GRAND OPENING: Of Collective Calling Tienda Solidaria in Sabinillas.

IN a heartwarming expansion of community outreach, Collective Calling has announced the grand opening of its second charity shop, ‘Collective Calling Tienda Solidaria’, nestled in the vibrant town of Sabinillas.

Following the success of their first shop in San Pedro de Alcantara, which opened its doors two years ago, this new venture is poised to bring quality and affordability to charitable giving.

What sets Collective Calling Tienda Solidaria apart is its unique approach to charity retail. The shop boasts a boutique-style layout, showcasing an array of excellent-quality clothing at fantastically low charity prices.

This distinctive touch creates a welcoming shopping experience, where customers can

discover hidden treasures while supporting a noble cause.

Collective Calling encourages the community to be a part of this initiative by donating gently used clothes, shoes, homeware, kids’ toys, jewellery, and furniture items. Your contributions will not only find new homes but will also contribute to the ongoing efforts to make a positive impact on the lives of those in need.

For those in Sabinillas, the shop’s opening hours are Monday to Saturday, 10am to 2pm. The address is Edf El Mero, Calle Octavia Paz, San Luis de Sabinillas. To arrange donations or inquire further, contact Carol via WhatsApp on 671 556 612 for Sabinillas or Gemma on 711 006 961 for San Pedro.

PARQUE LA BATERÍA in Torremolinos reopened the carousel that had been out of use since 2020 on Saturday, January 6 in time for the Three Kings’ celebrations.

The Carousel is back in operation following maintenance and restoration work carried out by the town hall, after it had been vandalised four years ago.

The carousel will be managed by the staff of the Special Employment Centre ‘Los Pinares’ and the ESTEPONA Town Hall reported that work on the extension of the northern ring road is in its final stages.

The asphalting of Calle Santiago de Compostela, which has been widened to be connected to the northern ring road and Camino Vereda de Los Frailes, is currently underway. This will improve the flow of traffic in the area, as it will join roads that were previously unconnected.

The works also include

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Carousel rides ticket price will be 50 cents per ride. It will be open to the public on Fridays from 4pm to 7pm, while Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays the opening hours will be from 11am to 2pm and from 4pm to 7pm.

The Venetian-style carousel has almost 50 figures of carriages, horses, giraffes and little houses, and is located next to the children’s area of the park.

Final stretch the refurbishment and enhancement of two green areas, which occupy an area of more than 400 square metres, and the creation of around 20 car parking places.

The northern ring road around the town was inaugurated at the beginning of

Among the repair and maintenance work that has been carried out, the exterior fencing and painting of the carousel has been repaired, the curtain has been replaced and the lights have been replaced, the trees around the perimeter of the carousel have been pruned, and all the maintenance of the machinery has been checked.

2020, one of the most important projects in the municipality in recent years. Its commissioning involved the construction of nine roads, totalling more than 42,000 square metres in surface area and more than 1.6 kilometres in length.

This has made it possible to connect the Fairgrounds, Sports and Leisure Park, the Felipe VI Auditorium and the new Athletics Stadium with the northern part of the town centre.

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Electric cars

Michael Carrington

LEZs: Sales expected to accelerate as more become operational.

THE sale of electric and hybrid cars is arousing more and more interest among the people of Malaga Province. So much so that almost half of the new registrations made in 2023 in the province, up to November (the last month for which data is available), correspond to vehicles of this type according to data prepared by the Interna-

tional Energy Agency (IEA).

This would seem to be in response to the introduction of the Low Emission Zone (LEZ) in the capital, with restrictions for older vehicles registered in other areas of the province.

Faconauto is the employers’ association that brings together the car dealerships in Spain and spokesman, Raúl Mo-

rales, said that, despite the good progress, there is still some way to go in terms of the transition to zero emissions. “It is insufficient. We are way behind schedule. Even more so if we take into account that after 2035 no more cars with combustion engines will be sold”. However, he expects sales to accelerate as more LEZs become operational.

THE auk (alca torda), a species of seabird native to the cold coasts of Iceland, has been spotted in the port of Malaga and many observers thought they had seen a penguin.

Although it is not unusual for it to arrive on the coast to spend the winter, it is an ‘increasingly rare’ marine species. They are physically similar to penguins, heavy, expert divers and have short wings, but unlike penguins they retain the ability to fly.

“It is a species related to the puffin and wintering on our coast. It is becoming rarer and rarer,” say experts talking to the local press. The ornithological information platform of the Malaga Provincial Council states on its website that this bird, halfway between seagulls and penguins, is rare in the province of Malaga. They can be seen from the coast in the port of Malaga and the coastal area from Marbella to Estepona and between Manilva and Casares.

This is not the first discovery of such a species in the province of Malaga. Last summer, bathers also saw a similar

‘Malaga penguin’ ‘penguin’ on the beach of La Carihuela in Torremolinos. In that case it was a specimen of the common Arao, an endangered bird popularly known as

the ‘Galician penguin’ because it nests on the coasts of A Coruña and is very similar to the Arctic penguins, although it is not related to them.

Panoramic lift

TORREMOLINOS Town Hall has reported that work on the new lift which will connect the Parque de La Batería with Avenida Carlota Alessandri is nearing completion and should be operational in time for the summer season.

Offering panoramic views of the Costa del Sol, work on the lift began earlier this year after years of complications. The project was halted in 2017 due to the loss of a grant to fund the lift and, more recently, because the current project had to be modified to meet current safety standards.

The lift will facilitate access from the park to the beaches of Montemar and La Carihuela. Pedestrians have complained for many years about the difficulty of accessing the beaches from the park, which currently involves a 45 minute walk from the main entrance to the park, which is next to the Montemar train station.

The lift, which has a budget of €900,000, is supported by an iron structure painted in the municipality’s corporate colours (turquoise and white), and has a 60-metre walkway that connects directly to the park. The project also includes a new parking area to alleviate parking problems on the coast during the high season.

The town’s mayor, Margarita del Cid, said: “This is a very important project for Torremolinos. It is a huge qualitative leap in terms of accessibility by connecting the park to the coast.”

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for cancer research and also to make people more aware of the disease. A group volunteered to pose for professional photos, and now the calendar is ready.

The plan was to do a topless black and white

photo shoot - all will be black and white - jeans to be worn and boobs will be covered with props or hands. They had the fantastic Melissa VB Photography on hand who offered a free photo shoot and then with the help of Jade Lawler and Costa Print, they put together the COSTA CALENDAR GIRLS 2024 calendar.

As Rosie May Taylor says, “All the women involved were just amazing and made the calendar

CHARITY CALENDAR: Available all year round.

ANNIVERSARY APPEAL ARCH - The Andalucian Rescue Centre for Horses (and ponies and donkeys) celebrates its 15th anniversary this month. Relying solely on volunteers and fundraising is becoming even more challenging and 2024 looks set to stretch ARCH to its limits. The rising cost of hay, straw, and cereal crops, which has more than doubled over the past year, means that many people cannot afford to keep their horses and ARCH has seen a worrying rise in the number of abandoned equines and starvation cases.

ARCH is now appealing for help to pay the costs of surgery on one of their many rescue horses. Caramelo first arrived at ARCH early in 2021 following a high-profile SEPRONA operation against an unscrupulous horse dealer. He was lame fo-

llowing a serious injury to his hoof. After months of veterinary treatment and recurrent slight lameness, he was rehome. Sadly, his condition worsened and it was decided it would be in his best interests to return to ARCH. He has since required surgery to hopefully cure his problem.

Costs such as this need to be covered and ARCH has recently launched an appeal to help do just that. Caramelo’s story has appeared on Facebook (on Centro Andalusi de Rescate de Caballos), on Donorbox (https://donorbox.org/ ca ramelo-s-operation) and on the ARCH website (www.horserescuespain.org).

Visitors can meet Caramelo at the Rescue Centre in Alhaurin el Grande on Sundays when ARCH opens to the public from 10am until 2pm.

Marbella’s environment

IN 2023 Marbella Town Hall carried out more than 30,200 actions to improve plant health. Carrying out essential works to keep Marbella green and lush.

Councillor for Parks and Gardens, Diego López, said that the town hall has been implementing an integrated management plan for several years against the different pests that affect the municipality’s trees. He also said that the municipality, “has an important number of trees that must be protected and cared for,” and added that Marbella, “is a benchmark in the use of control methods, with the use of biological treatment.”

“In addition, the municipality has increased inspections, pest monitoring, physical and mechanical measures, cultural measures and all kinds of alterna-

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Costa Calendar

what it is today! It really has brought us, as women, together! I plan to do this every year from now on. Even if this calendar just reminds one of us to check and potentially save a life then we have reached the most amazing outcome and couldn’t wish for anything else! The calendars at €20 will be available all year round and all profits will go to Breast Cancer research.”

The calendars cost 20€.

After covering the cost of printing, ALL proceeds go to the charity.

Photo: Rosie May Taylor

THE idea was simple: to raise some money for Breast Cancer Research but also to raise awareness with a monthly reminder to check your boobs.

Rosie May Taylor is currently having treatment for breast cancer and she had the idea to make a calendar to raise funds

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Keeping the area green and lush.

tives to the use of chemical products,” explained the councillor, who added that, “all of these are new techniques that are more respectful of the health of people, animals and the environment.”

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Alan Boardman is well-known for his Walking Tours in Mijas, quizzes and a range of other activities for charity. Now, he and his wife are in The Gambia laden with donations from local residents and charitable groups.

So what does The Gambia have to do with Spain? My wife, Jenny and I are on holiday there and have taken with us thousands of articles donated to what we called our EYEDROP campaign.

The Gambia, despite having a successful tourist industry, is among the poorest countries in the world, rating 174 out of 191 in the world wealth index. This means there is a major issue with eyesight, the treatment for which is desperately underfunded. Spectacles in The Gambia are very expensive and are simply out of reach for most people.

Before leaving our home in Mijas we launched the EYEDROP appeal, as a result of which, almost 400 pairs of new and used spectacles were donated by the general public. We received sterling support from several local charities and businesses who allowed their premises to be used as donation centres.

Earlier this week we visited Brikama District Hospital, one of the busiest in The Gambia. We were met there by Doctor Adam, Head of Ophthalmology, who then accepted from us around 200 pairs of the donated spectacles. She was thrilled.

She stressed just how important the donation will be in her department’s constant battle to provide free eye care. She asked us to pass on her heartfelt thanks to all the people of the Costa del Sol who made this possible. We’ll send another Gambian postcard next week.

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THE dreaded sunbed wars could be over after tourists won compensation from travel company TUI. German tourists have been awarded compensation by a court in Hanover, Germany after complaining about the morning sunbed race at a Greek hotel. Managers at the Atlantica Mikri Poli hotel in Rhodes instigated a ‘no reservation’ policy that meant guests who put down towels on their sunbeds had to use them or lose them.

However, the German holidaymakers told the court they’d been unable to find any available sun loungers on one occasion.

They reported that staff at the TUI hotel failed to implement the policy, which meant, they said, that on one morning they’d been unable to find any available sunbeds around any of the resort’s six pools.

Hanover District Court ordered the hotel to pay €300 as compensation for the part of the holiday the

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End of sunbed wars? Knickers replace trousers

Photo: Atlantica Mikri Poli Rhodes

RHODES HOTEL: Introduced a ‘no reservation’ policy.

family had been unable to enjoy. The verdict is still subject to an appeal and is not yet legally binding.

However, could this be the beginning of the end for the sunbed wars between holidaymakers that seem to have got out of control during the summer of 2023?

Reports in both British and Spanish press from August 2023 cited war had broken out in areas including the Costa del Sol, where some tourists told a news source that they waited up to two hours for

prime spots at the fourstar Hotel Estival in Torrequebrada.

A Spanish news source also reported on the daily morning sun lounger race at a Tenerife hotel to which readers reacted with incredulity on social media that holidaymakers would set their alarms for 6am to bag their favourite sunbeds.

It will be interesting to see if the decision by the German court is upheld and if so whether it will stop the escalation of the sunbed wars.

Watch this space!

NEW TREND: The Miu Miu Autumn/Winter 2023 catwalk.

SOME people feel that trends in fashion are just pants, but don’t knock the knickers because they are not just on trend but exciting the fashion world.

The Miu Miu Autumn/ Winter 2023 collection started (or perhaps resurrected) this trend and the idea has sparked excitement with many other designers following suit.

There’s an old saying ‘Little things please little minds but little pants don’t fit big behinds’ and perhaps not everyone wants to spend much of the winter parading around with a pair of skimpy pants co-

vering their lower halves.

So the offshoot of Prada has inspired designer labels such as Acne, Victoria Beckham, Gucci and Tom Ford to go all out with stand-alone pant collections whilst other designers have chosen to create dresses and skirts from sheer material in order to show the pants off but also save some blushes.

Others have taken the retro step of going for a selection of hot pants harking back to the 60s and the ‘Summer of Love’ as it is clear that there is only so much creativity possible and like the remakes of mo-

vies, fashion certainly has no problems with looking to the past in order to move forward.

If you are thinking of rushing to the Miu Miu online store just be warned that prices start at around €850 and can rise as high as €5,000 depending upon the material used.

Time will tell whether Britain’s favourite supplier of knickers, Marks and Spencer will introduce their own street wear and then you too can afford to be like Superman (not Supergirl who wore a skirt) wearing your pants over your tights.

INTERVIEW

Tariq from Austria THE unique climate, culture and cuisine of the Costa del Sol has attracted travellers from all over Europe for decades, with many deciding to move here after experiencing its magic.

At the end of 2023, there were out of this move, and living on 26,181 more inhabitants the Costa del Sol. He replied in the Malaga Province that his first goal was to than a year earlier. Of “learn Spanish, alongthese, 23,230 were side learning to live in born outside Spain. this relaxed lifestyle”.

One man deterHe also added that he mined to make 2024 is looking forward to the year he moves “living by the seasons, to the sunshine coast, buying fresh produce is Tariq Ali, an Austrian that will change as the native and successful busiseasons do.”

Wishing Tariq luck. nessman.

EWN then enquired as to Having only lived here for a couif he had noticed any distinct similariple of weeks, Euro Weekly News was cu- ties or differences between the Austrian rious to find out what Tariq thought of the and the Spanish people? “Both like good Spanish culture so far. “Well, the ‘mañana’ food, but Austrians are more structured, lifestyle is taking some getting used to. I not as relaxed, more regimented.” am a man that always arrives promptly, Speaking of good food, we had to find but I’m adjusting to Spanish timings,” he out Mr Ali’s favourite Spanish dish so far. laughed, adding that “I love the culture in He explained that: “I love to cook and eat general, the beautiful architecture, where paella, it’s a great dish, especially a seafood especially here in Andalucia, you can see one.” strong influences from the Moorish times, This interview was nothing but a pleasuamong many others.” re, and EWN wishes Tariq all the luck and We asked Tariq what he hoped to get love in his exciting new chapter.

FINANCE DAME EMMA WALMSLEY, chief executive of biopharma giant GlaxoSmithKline, said Britain was “uniquely placed” in the drug development market owing to its background of academic skill and high-profile companies. “I’m a great optimist about the UK,’ she told a BBC Radio 4 interviewer.

Planning ahead

THE time that unpaid interns spend with companies in Spain will be included in the calculations of years worked when they reach pensionable age. This new measure, which came into force on January 1, will affect 1.2 students currently acquiring work experience, the Social Security ministry said.

Cash needed

CAMBRIDGE PROPERTIES HOLDINGS LTD, created in 2021 for the Selfridges takeover by Thailand’s Central Group and Austrian company Signa, has asked the former for more cash following Signa’s collapse. Selfridges’ property arm also needs to repay a £27.3 million (€31.6 million) shareholder loan in May.

Early sales

WINTER sales in Spain normally begin on January 7 once the Christmas holiday is finally over but fashion chains H & M, Cortefiel and Bimba y Lola broke with tradition by starting theirs on December 28.

Smaller businesses warned that profit margins were so narrow, they could not afford to slash prices so early.

Shopping spree

FRIDAY December 22 was the UK’s most popular shopping day over the recent festive season, with 25 million trips made and £803 million (€929 million) spent in person, 85 per cent more than on an average Friday in 2023. Online spending remained steady at 11.6 per cent, data specialists Kantar said.

STAT OF WEEK

€2.7 billion

estimated value of Tendam if the owner of Cortefiel, Springfield, Women’s Secret and Hoss Intropia goes ahead with plans to float the company on the Madrid stock exchange.

M & S on top again

Linda Hall MARKS & SPENCER shares reached a five-year high when trading resumed on the London stock exchange after the Christmas break.

At one point on January 2, M & S shares shot up 2.5 per cent to increase the company’s value by more than £70 million (€80.8 million), while finishing the day 1.3 per cent higher.

BNP Paribas analysts singled out M&S stock as one of their first choices for 2024 and predicted that the company would turn out to be Christmas 2023’s “likely winner.”

Its market capitalisation

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Looking good

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M&S: Buoyant New Year start for high street stalwart.

has practically doubled to £5.5 billion (€6.3 billion) over the last 12 months, putting the company back into the FTSE 100 last August, four years after its 2019 relegation.

In 2007 M & S was worth £12 billion (€13.8 billion) but

between 2014 and 2019 the high street stalwart lost much of its sheen as well as 60 per cent of its market value amid criticism of “tired stores” and failing to cater for its core clientele.

The hoped-for revival plotted by M & S chairman

Archie Norman and chief executive Stuart Machin is paying off and its lacklustre clothing and homeware sections no longer lag behind the food departments.

By last November, profits rose by more than £100 million (€115.5 million), permitting the company’s first dividend payout since the pandemic.

Commentators have also pointed out that M & S is better-protected than many rival companies because a fair proportion of its most faithful clients are able to continue spending as normal, despite the costof-living crisis.

Iberdrola calls off US deal

IBERDROLA pulled out of its $8.3 billion (€7.5 billion) acquisition of New Mexico-based PNM Resources.

The deal, which would have made Iberdrola subsidiary Avangrid one of the largest utility companies in the US, was cancelled on January 2.

Avangrid explained that the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission vetoed the transaction in 2021 on “quality of service” grounds and a subsequent appeal was now enmired in the courts.

The New Mexico regulator had also cited the Villarejo scandal which named Iberdrola chairman Ignacio

Slowdown for factories MANUFACTURING in Spain slowed for the ninth consecutive month in December, the Hamburg Commercial Bank and S&P Global’s Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) revealed.

December earned 46.2 points compared with November’s 46.3, with both below the 50 cutoff separating contraction from growth.

Last month’s slowdown reflected a falling-off of new orders owing to reduced national and international demand, the PMI showed.

Instead, the country’s manufacturers cut back on production and used existing stocks, reducing reserves of raw materials and semi-finished goods for the ninth month running.

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IGNACIO GALAN: Chairman of Iberdrola and Avangrid.

Galan in the business and political intrigues of former policeman Jose Manuel Villarejo. The Spanish courts cleared Galan last June.

The PNM deal was approved by five US federal agencies and Texas’s public utility commission, but Avangrid explained on January 2 that with “no clear timing” on the New Mexico appeal, it was cancelling the deal in line with the terms of the PNM agreement.

Goldman Sachs analysts quoted by the Financial Times said Iberdrola’s decision was a “strategic positive” as interest rates had soared since the merger was announced. It also avoided a €9 billion hike in Iberdrola’s net debt, taking this it to approximately €55 billion.

Disappearing cash

THE UK’s farmers accused the government of reneging on its pledge to spend an annual £2.4 billion (€2.8 billion) on agriculture.

The government promised that by the end of the present parliament this £2.4 billion would be compensating for the disappearance of the EU’s common agricultural policy which paid farmers for each hectare of land they managed.

Instead, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) figures show that it underspent by £110 million (€127.5 million) between 2021 and 22 and £117 million (€135.6 million) between 2022 and 23.

In all, £227 million (€263 million) of the pledged cash has not reached them, the farmers said.

Gold rush SALES of gold, precious metals and coins rose 7 per cent last year compared with 2022.

As the number of people turning to gold overtakes the 2020 boom experienced during lockdown, the Royal Mint said this was the result of an increase in smaller investors looking for a “safe haven.”

Nevertheless, the Royal Mint’s payments to customers selling back their gold soared by almost 50 per cent as gold reached a record high last year.

It was also likely that gold would climb to new levels during 2024 if interest rates were to fall, Royal Mint analyst Stuart O’Reilly predicted.

Looking ahead Come clean Logical expansion

THE New Year is a time for predictions, and economist Roger Bootle foresaw that 2024 would be “unusually uncertain.”

But writing in the Telegraph Bootle also predicted “significant” cuts in interest rates before long, with the US leading the way.

The Fed might be able to cut interest rates as early as March, he said, followed by the eurozone and then the UK in the last few months of the year, if not before.

Britain’s key problem, Bootle stated, was the stubbornness of pay inflation, which would not be assisted by next April’s sizeable increase in the National Living Wage.

“Even so, by the end of the year, CPI inflation should be down to about 1.2 per cent, but with the core rate considerably higher, at about 2.5 per cent.”

UNILEVER should be more open regarding its tax situation in Russia, pro-Ukraine campaigners said.

After the Ukraine invasion, Unilever stopped all imports and exports to Russia but decided to continue producing “everyday essential food” including ice cream at its factories there.

Activists called on the company, which makes Persil, Hellman’s and Marmite, to disclose how much it has paid in taxes to the Kremlin in the past year.

The request followed the Russian government’s announcement last December that it would eliminate the need for “certain businesses” to publish trading details although it is not yet known whether this covers Unilever.

SPANISH logistics group has bought Belgium Parcels Service (BPS), a company that specialises in the urgent distribution of pharmaceuticals in Belgium and Luxembourg.

“This acquisition represents an important milestone in Logista’s expansion in Europe,” the company announced. “It also strengthens its position in pharmaceutical distribution and the courier segment.”

BPS provides 24-hour courier services in Belgium and Luxembourg, as well as 24- and 48-hour services in the Netherlands, France and Germany.

Logista paid approximately €8 million for BPS, as it continues its strategy of focusing on geographical and business diversification.

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Closing Prices 8 January

Company

Price(p)

Change(p)

% Chg.

Net

Company

Price(p)

Change(p)

% Chg.

Net

3I Group.....................................2.281,00............. -56,00............-2,40%.......... 286,76K

InterContinental..........................7.032,0............... -96,0.............-1,35%........... 60,75K

Abrdn.......................................... 169,18................ -4,10.............-2,36%.......... 615,33K

Intermediate Capital...................1.578,50............. -38,00............-2,35%........... 53,70K

Admiral Group.............................2.669,0............... -31,0.............-1,15%........... 29,44K

Intertek........................................4.209,0............... -67,0.............-1,57%........... 32,23K

Anglo American...........................1.846,0............... -26,6.............-1,42%.......... 458,05K

ITV............................................... 62,88................. -0,62.............-0,98%.......... 785,18K

Antofagasta................................1.595,00.............. -9,50.............-0,59%........... 79,33K

J Sainsbury................................. 304,50................ -3,70.............-1,20%............1,88M

Ashtead Group............................5.074,0.............. -170,0............-3,24%.......... 116,43K

Johnson Matthey........................1.605,5............... -44,0.............-2,67%........... 52,32K

Associated British Foods.............2.346,0............... -28,0.............-1,18%.......... 234,06K

Land Securities........................... 686,40............... -10,00............-1,44%.......... 116,55K

AstraZeneca...............................10.802,0.............. -62,0.............-0,57%.......... 108,69K

Legal & General.......................... 241,86................ -4,30.............-1,75%............2,47M

Auto Trader Group Plc................ 686,60................ -8,80.............-1,26%.......... 198,66K

Lloyds Banking............................ 46,92................. -0,63.............-1,32%...........18,53M

Aviva........................................... 426,60................ -6,50.............-1,50%.......... 637,18K

London Stock Exchange..............8.960,0............... -50,0.............-0,56%.......... 311,42K

B&M European Value Retail SA... 544,80................ -8,20.............-1,48%.......... 339,70K

Melrose Industries...................... 548,20................ -8,00.............-1,44%.......... 543,65K

BAE Systems..............................1.149,00.............. -6,50.............-0,56%.......... 787,03K

Mondi.........................................1.490,00............. -47,50............-3,09%.......... 340,61K

Barclays...................................... 153,50................ -2,08.............-1,34%............6,13M Barratt Developments................. 540,80............... -10,00............-1,82%.......... 803,87K Berkeley......................................4.722,0............... -53,0.............-1,11%........... 16,76K BHP Group Ltd...........................2.572,00............. -54,50............-2,08%.......... 241,63K BP............................................... 471,70................ -1,75.............-0,37%............3,43M British American Tobacco...........2.355,5............... -11,0.............-0,47%.......... 425,72K British Land Company................. 392,10................ -3,70.............-0,94%.......... 685,07K BT Group.................................... 120,45................ -1,15.............-0,95%............2,49M Bunzl...........................................3.139,0............... -45,0.............-1,41%........... 48,12K Burberry Group...........................1.364,0................+4,5............. +0,33%......... 318,27K Carnival.......................................1.184,5............... -19,0.............-1,58%........... 57,56K Centrica....................................... 147,65................+0,30............ +0,20%...........1,58M Coca Cola HBC AG......................2.290,0............... -19,0.............-0,82%........... 59,92K Compass....................................2.126,00.............. -8,00.............-0,38%.......... 229,48K CRH............................................5.184,0............... -66,0.............-1,26%........... 53,69K Croda Intl....................................4.597,9............... -69,0.............-1,48%.......... 137,69K DCC.............................................5.638,8............... -76,0.............-1,33%........... 28,44K Diageo.........................................2.742,0............... -66,5.............-2,37%............3,75M DS Smith.................................... 296,40................ -6,70.............-2,21%.......... 327,07K EasyJet........................................ 490,00................ -7,10.............-1,43%.......... 430,80K Experian......................................3.034,0............... -17,0.............-0,56%.......... 261,57K Ferguson....................................14.565,0............. -145,0............-0,99%............ 7,45K Flutter Entertainment..................13.200,0............. -165,0............-1,24%.......... 106,48K Fresnillo...................................... 535,80................ -7,20.............-1,33%.......... 232,12K Glencore...................................... 459,55................+0,30............ +0,07%...........2,14M GSK plc......................................1.535,00.............. -4,40.............-0,29%............2,24M Halma..........................................2.113,0............... -32,0.............-1,49%........... 94,21K Hargreaves Lansdown................. 717,30................ -9,60.............-1,32%.......... 304,37K Hikma Pharma...........................1.831,00............. -19,50............-1,05%........... 55,58K HSBC.......................................... 629,70................ -2,80.............-0,44%............2,73M IAG.............................................. 150,80................ -2,50.............-1,63%............1,91M Imperial Brands..........................1.845,00............. -15,00............-0,81%.......... 127,86K Informa....................................... 762,60............... -12,40............-1,60%.......... 266,61K

National Grid..............................1.068,00............. -10,50............-0,97%.......... 510,26K NatWest Group........................... 218,80................ -1,30.............-0,59%............2,15M Next............................................8.371,5.............. -178,0............-2,08%.......... 334,12K

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DOW JONES

Tui............................................... 582,50............... -21,00............-3,48%............1,25M

Closing Prices 8 January 3M.............................................. 108,20................+0,41............ +0,38%...........1,98M American Express....................... 187,10................+1,38............ +0,75%...........2,66M Amgen........................................ 303,17................+2,48............ +0,82%...........2,72M Apple........................................... 181,91................ -2,34.............-1,27%...........56,64M Boeing......................................... 245,00................+1,09............ +0,45%...........4,25M Caterpillar.................................... 286,14................+1,84............ +0,65%...........2,67M Chevron...................................... 150,72................ -1,61.............-1,06%............6,33M Cisco............................................ 50,08................. -0,43.............-0,85%...........12,65M Coca-Cola..................................... 59,77................. -0,19.............-0,31%...........11,18M Dow............................................. 54,19................. -0,44.............-0,81%............3,83M Goldman Sachs........................... 383,12................+1,33............ +0,35%...........1,03M Home Depot................................ 338,67................+0,41............ +0,12%...........2,64M Honeywell................................... 204,90................+0,37............ +0,18%...........2,18M IBM............................................. 160,86................+0,76............ +0,47%...........2,33M Intel.............................................. 46,87................. -0,18.............-0,38%...........46,78M J&J............................................. 160,63................ -0,34.............-0,21%............6,00M JPMorgan................................... 171,50................+1,22............ +0,72%..........10,18M McDonald’s................................. 291,84................ -2,55.............-0,87%............4,20M Merck&Co................................... 117,09................+2,32............ +2,02%...........8,90M Microsoft.................................... 367,94................ -2,66.............-0,72%...........16,06M Nike............................................. 102,35................ -1,69.............-1,62%............7,66M Procter&Gamble......................... 148,67................+0,83............ +0,56%...........4,24M Salesforce Inc............................. 251,24................ -0,60.............-0,24%............3,91M The Travelers.............................. 192,54................+1,24............ +0,65%...........1,82M UnitedHealth............................... 545,71................+3,68............ +0,68%...........2,13M Verizon......................................... 39,38.................+0,22............ +0,57%..........22,38M Visa A.......................................... 259,76................+1,78............ +0,69%...........2,56M Walgreens Boots.......................... 24,26................. -1,31.............-5,12%...........60,12M Walmart...................................... 157,76................ -1,54.............-0,97%............5,73M Walt Disney.................................. 90,58................. -1,07.............-1,17%............9,59M

Unilever.......................................3.824,0............... -18,5.............-0,48%.......... 337,03K

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Ocado.......................................... 708,60............... -25,60............-3,49%.......... 138,71K Persimmon.................................1.375,5............... -11,5.............-0,83%.......... 215,42K Phoenix....................................... 514,07............... -10,00............-1,91%.......... 302,68K Prudential.................................... 819,30............... -16,20............-1,94%............1,03M Reckitt Benckiser........................5.506,0............... -12,0.............-0,22%.......... 119,36K Relx............................................3.082,00............. -25,00............-0,81%.......... 686,87K Rentokil....................................... 411,40................ -2,60.............-0,63%.......... 567,16K Rightmove.................................. 549,98................ -9,00.............-1,61%.......... 170,69K Rio Tinto PLC..............................5.658,0............... -96,0.............-1,67%.......... 392,44K Rolls-Royce Holdings................. 293,10................ -4,80.............-1,61%............2,45M Sage...........................................1.129,00............. -19,00............-1,66%.......... 281,58K Samsung Electronics DRC.........1.441,00............. -15,00............-1,03%............ 2,23K Schroders.................................... 423,0.................. -8,7..............-2,02%.......... 159,20K Scottish Mortgage....................... 753,20................ -9,00.............-1,18%.......... 445,33K Segro.......................................... 856,60................ -7,60.............-0,88%.......... 204,15K Severn Trent...............................2.558,8............... -23,0.............-0,89%........... 57,20K Shell............................................2.575,8............... -18,5.............-0,71%.......... 932,61K Smith & Nephew........................1.042,00.............. -9,00.............-0,86%.......... 107,08K Smiths Group.............................1.693,50............. -26,50............-1,54%........... 39,91K Spirax-Sarco Engineering...........9.680,0.............. -182,0............-1,85%............ 5,29K SSE............................................1.841,00.............. -5,00.............-0,27%.......... 157,55K St. James’s Place........................ 642,00............... -12,40............-1,90%.......... 301,81K Standard Chartered..................... 641,80................ -9,60.............-1,47%............2,80M Taylor Wimpey............................ 142,70................ -1,55.............-1,07%............2,54M Tesco.......................................... 299,10................ -3,30.............-1,09%............2,89M

United Utilities............................1.049,50............. -14,00............-1,32%.......... 122,10K Vodafone Group PLC.................. 70,010............... -0,440............-0,62%............4,27M Whitbread...................................3.548,0............... -33,0.............-0,92%........... 68,76K WPP............................................ 762,40...............+20,20........... +2,72%...........1,32M

NASDAQ

Closing Prices 8 January

Company

Change Net / %

Volume

Most Advanced QuantumScape Corporation............................... +2.80.......................... +43.08% Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc......................... +1.42.......................... +14.65% Peloton Interactive, Inc...................................... +0.75.......................... +13.94% Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc........................... +2.84.......................... +12.10% Select Medical Holdings Corporation................. +2.65.......................... +11.28% MINISO Group Holding Limited......................... +1.97........................... +9.89% Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals, Inc........................ +2.56........................... +8.01% The Simply Good Foods Company..................... +3.10........................... +7.83% Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.................................. +5.90........................... +7.75% Rocket Lab USA, Inc.......................................... +0.37........................... +7.25% M - Million Dollars

Most Declined Mobileye Global Inc............................................-9.75...........................-24.55% Endeavour Mining plc.........................................-2.20...........................-10.14% Nextracker Inc.....................................................-4.29............................-9.24% Evotec SE............................................................-0.91............................-8.66% Livent Corporation..............................................-1.54............................-8.53% Sunrun Inc..........................................................-1.38............................-7.48% APA Corporation.................................................-2.70............................-7.35% Array Technologies, Inc......................................-1.19............................-7.16% Allegro MicroSystems, Inc..................................-1.84............................-6.36% Organon & Co.....................................................-0.85............................-5.81% EchoStar Corporation..........................................-0.82............................-5.73% M - Million Dollars

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BUSINESS EXTRA Win and lose

REVENUES from David Beckham’s business interests, which included deals with Netflix and the Qatar World Cup, doubled last year to £72.6 million (€84.2 million) compared with £34.3 million (€39.7 million) in 2022.

Meanwhile wife Victoria’s fashion firm will continue to require shareholder support after reporting pretax losses of £3.1 million (€3.6 million) in 2023.

Rome contract

SPANISH rolling stock manufacturer CAF secured a €130 million contract to build 40 trams for Rome city hall and maintain and repair these for five years.

The company, which is based in Beasain (Guipuzcoa), revealed that the initial order from ATAC, Rome’s publicly-owned transport company, could be extended to €400 million and 121 trains.

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Festive spending spree

Linda Hall GROCERY price inflation slowed to 6.7 per cent in December compared with November’s 7.7 per cent, British Retail Consortium figures revealed.

Food inflation dropped to its lowest since April 2022, and although sweets, eggs and frozen potato products rose, dairy items, including butter, milk and cream, were cheaper.

Meanwhile, supermarket chains had their bu-

Photo credit: Aldi/Richard Grange United National Photographers

ALDI: Discount chain’s sales grew by 9.9 per cent

siest Christmas since 2019, data specialists Kantar an-

nounced.

“The inflation rate is co-

Very fair shares

SPAIN’S Ibex 35, equivalent to the UK’s FTSE 100, had a record year and a return to pre-pandemic levels.

Its 23 per cent improvement was principally due to the textile giant Inditex as well as the Santander and BBVA banks, although analysts described Inditex as the Spanish stock exchange’s “principal mainstay.”

The company founded and still con-

trolled by Amancio Ortega closed the year with a 59.9 per cent upsurge in its share price, surpassed only by pharmaceutical company Rovi’s 65.5 per cent increase.

On November 21, Inditex shares beat their own record, overtaking the €36.7 of June 2017 but continued their climb to end 2023 with a price just a little shy of €40.

ming down at the fastest pace we have ever recorded,” Fraser McKevitt, head of Kantar’s Retail and Consumer division, said.

Promotions were central to retailers’ strategy over the holiday season, McKevitt added. “Nearly one third of all spending in the month up to Christmas Eve was on items with some kind of offer, the highest level since December 2020, and £823 million (€951.9 million) more than 2022.”

A record £13.7 billion (€15.8 billion) passed through supermarket tills last month with an average household outlay of the highest-ever £477 (€551.8).

Biggest share of the Christmas supermarket shop went to Aldi and Lidl, with Lidl’s sales up 13.8 per cent up on the 12 weeks ending on December 24.

Aldi’s sales grew by 9.9 per cent, giving them a combined market share of 17 per cent.

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Red card FC BARCELONA will sue Libero Football Finance AG for defaulting on its €40 million payment for a 10 per cent holding in the Barça Vision online media company.

This payment was fundamental to Barcelona’s plans to float its content subsidiary Barça Media on Nasdaq, the New York stock exchange, which was originally planned for the end of 2023.

Daily fine BRITISH telecoms company BT missed the December 31 deadline imposed by the government on security grounds to remove all equipment made by Chinese company Huawei from its core network.

The cut-off date had been extended on two occasions and missing it again could expose BT to a daily fine of £100,000 (€115,959) for every day over the deadline.

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LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT I FIND it difficult to contemplate why the Western general public and indeed the politicians, can’t, or simply refuse to admit, that Hamas are exploiting the beleaguered citizens of Palestine as victims solely to gain supportive propaganda for a conflict they have been involved in for years? Israel has not, as the disinformation instigators continue to spout, ‘declared war on Palestine’s innocent citizens’.

If Hamas were to discontinue their policies of hiding behind, or literally underneath the populace and repositioned themselves in more unpopulated areas, or indeed were prepared to sit around the negotiating table, the horrendous death toll that is befalling the inhabitants of the country would probably be terminated in days. But they won’t will they? The more Palestinians that are sacrificed, the more they can blame the atrocities on the Israelis, whose generals, rest assured, would be only too relieved to continue

or end the conflict without the horrific slaughter of so many civilians. The Hamas warren of tunnels and war rooms have been purposely constructed under hospitals, schools and religious establishments, primarily to avoid attack or if it should subsequently take place, be able to blame the enemy for the horror and killing of their innocent nationals. It is an obvious, cold blooded and utterly disgraceful method of misinformation.

Those partaking in the demonstrations all over the West in support of these bloodthirsty undertakings should also be ashamed and condemned for patronage of a group that began this latest conflict by slaughtering the young, elderly and babies of a peaceful Israeli community. To also witness the anti-sematic attitude and actions of a vast number of mid-East immigrants is also completely unacceptable.

It is important for these refugees and their kin to remember they were expected to leave their difficulties and hatred behind them, not revive them in countries who have offered them succour and the chance to live a peaceful and harmonious future with their

neighbours. When the Jewish people fled the ravages of Hitler and the holocaust, they entered Britain with jubilation and thanks. They then proceeded to blend into the British way of life.

They diversified into business and the astute among them employed many of the local populace, who were always treated with respect love and not a little humour. The areas they created were not ‘no go’ communities riddled with hate and religious fervour.

All manner of faiths and different beliefs were welcomed into their homes and schools of teaching.

If the majority of Mid-East immigrants don’t learn to live and respect the laws of the countries that have welcomed them, it can only end in one way. The Far Right will grow in stature and subsequently the great cities of the West will soon begin to resemble the ravages of Gaza and Beirut.

In the words of John Lennon. ‘Give peace a Chance’. If you don’t, the future of us all looks very bleak indeed.

Keep the Faith.

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THE Museo Picasso Malaga has seen a record number of visitors walk through its doors during the year 2023.

2023 saw the 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death, and the museum marked this event by advertising a special exposition in honour of the Malaga born artist’s passing.

The record number of visitors was a massive 779,279 people that came to the museum, around 8 per cent more than in 2019, which was the best year to date in the 20 years that the attraction has been open.

It is also 21 per cent more visitors than the year prior, 2022.

The museum made their proud announcement on Friday December 29, and another piece of exciting news was to follow.

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The future looks bleak

Record visitors for Picasso Museum in 2023

The museum entrance.

It was then publicised that artist Miguel Lopez-Remiro will be the new director of the Picasso Museum in 2024.

Miguel is originally from Pamplona and is aged 46 years old. He has previously worked as deputy curatorial director of the Guggenheim Bilbao and director of the University of Navarra Museum.

It looks like even more great things are in store for this cultural landmark in the south of Spain.

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IRELAND Flu season THE National Clinical Lead for Health Protection Surveillance said at the beginning of January that more than 10,000 flu cases had been recorded since the middle of December. Nevertheless, the outbreak is not expected to peak until mid-January, when up to 800 people could need hospitalisation each week.

Old bangers APPROXIMATELY half of the 1.5 million vehicles given full roadworthiness tests last year did not pass, the National Car Testing (NCT) service said. Vehicles taken to the Cavan centre had a higher failure than those tested at any other NCT centre, with 59 per cent of vehicles getting the thumbsdown.

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EUROPRESS ITALY Sunday outing ITALY’S Domenica al Museo (Museums on Sunday) initiative continues throughout 2024, giving free entrance to state-owned monuments, museums and archaeological sites on the first Sunday of each month. The scheme, introduced in 2014 was suspended during the pandemic but resumed in 2022.

Breezing along BELGIUM’S offshore windfarms in the North Sea produced record amounts of electricity in 2023, generating eight terawatt-hours of electricity, enough for two million households during a year. A total of 689 offshore and land-based wind turbines now covers almost one-10th of Belgium’s electricity consumption.

Going up

COLOSSEUM: Free entrance on first Sunday of the month.

SWEDEN

BELGIUM

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FRANCE

GERMANY

A WEEKLY grocery shop last December cost 29 per cent more than the previous year, said consumer association TestAankoop which monitors 3,000 products in Belgium’s seven biggest supermarket chains. Test-Aankoop also found that last December’s prices rose 8.1 per cent compared with December 2022.

DENMARK

Pink stink

Not alone

Kitted out

Law-abiding

WASTE management company Think Pink, famous for its pink rubbish bags, was accused of burying and dumping tens of thousands of tons of rubbish at 21 illicit sites in 15 Swedish municipalities. Eleven people linked to the company now face charges for committing Swedens’s “worever environmental crime.”

FEDERAL CRIMINAL POLICE figures show that many women feel uneasy when walking alone in the dark. Anybody, male or female, who feels anxious walking at night can now call the free “Way-home” hotline, answered by a volunteer will talk to them until they reach their destination.

EDUCATION Minister Gabriel Attal issued a guide intended to help local authorities implement his plan to introduce uniforms in state schools throughout the country.

Although the initiative has backing from some right-wing politicians, most teachers and parents said they opposed Attal’s proposals.

ONLY 660 burglaries were reported in Denmark between December 19 and January 1, 2024. This was slightly above the 559 recorded during the same period in the previous year but well below 2019’s 1,343, a reduction the authorities attributed the success to the Nabohjaelp neighbourhood watch app.

Airbus probe

Distaff side

FORENSIC experts from Toulouse-based Airbus and France’s BAE state agency flew to Japan on January 3 to assist an investigation into the runway accident involving an A350 and a coastguards’ plane. Five coastguards died but none of the Airbus’s 367 passengers and 12 crew were injured in the resulting blaze.

IT was agreed at a board meeting of Superliga club Copenhagen FC that the club would take over FC Damso’s first team, currently ranked in Denmark’s third tier of women’s football. This has replaced wealthy Copenhagen’s plans to create a women’s team and place it directly in the top division.

Read about it GOTHENBURG UNIVERSITY researchers found last year that the young “are getting better at understanding academic English, but worse at understanding academic Swedish.” They now read much more in English, prompting publishers to predict that fewer books will be translated into Swedish in future.

NORWAY

I spy THE authorities are allegedly concerned about the state-controlled China Scholarship Council (CSC) which sends thousands of students to Germany each year, Der Spiegel newspaper said. It claimed security officials have warned that they could be used for “spying on, and influencing, Chinese expatriates.”

FINLAND

THE NETHERLANDS

PORTUGAL

Not going

Namesakes

Tree plan

Horse sense

FOLLOWING Queen Margrethe of Denmark’s unexpected abdication, royal watchers are asking if Norway’s King Harald, who is 86, will follow suit. Despite bouts of ill-health, including cancer in 2003, Harald has always said that he would occupy the throne “to the bitter end”, according to royal expert Caroline Vagle.

JULIA and Noah were the most popular children’s names in 2023, according to Holland’s SVB national insurance schemes. In all, 681 baby girls received the name of Julia, and 888 boys were registered as Noah while the gender-neutral name of Riley was given to 84 girls and 82 boys.

THE Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority (HSY) is once again collecting tens of thousands of Christmas trees for recycling now the holiday season is over. Trees left at Helsinki residents’ nearest waste collection or recycling points are then chipped and used as a bulking agent when composting bio-waste.

STRONG, stocky Garrano horses, first domesticated 16,000 years ago, could disappear now that they are no longer needed in agriculture. Eighty years ago there were 60,000 Garranos in Portugal but this has shrunk to between 1,500 and 3,000, the Association of Garrano Horse Breeders (Acerg) warned.

Try again

Law-abiding

US oil

Bullfight fans

AN Appeals Court confirmed that the naval officer in charge of the frigate Helge Ingstad when it was involved in a collision in November 2018 was guilty of negligence. His lawyer said that the officer, who remains in the Navy, believes he is being made a scapegoat and could now appeal to the Supreme Court.

MURDERS during 2023 in Amsterdam fell to a low of 11, two of them involving women, the Parool newspaper reported. Firearms were used in four of the killings but only two were gang-related and several of the crimes were committed by men who were diagnosed with psychiatric problems, police said.

A CUSTOMS service revealed the US as Finland’s third-largest export destination and also the country’s fifth-largest source of imports for Finland during the first nine months of 2023. The increase in crude oil imports from the US reflected a change of strategy following the veto on trade with Russia.

THE 176 bullfights that were held in Portugal last year attracted 400,700 aficionados, a 7 per cent increase on 2022, the Portuguese Bullfighting Federation (ProToiro) revealed. This was the second-best figure since 2016, outstripped only by 2019 when a record 428,000 people went to watch bullfights.

Helping others THE owner of Bridges bar in Mijas, Liz Doody, together with her customers have once again shown their generosity in raising €700 over the Christmas period, enabling La Cala de Mijas Lions to buy much needed food for 33 families.

They also provided gifts for the children of the families. The food and gifts were delivered to Caritas in La Cala who arranged for the 33 families to collect them in time for the Three King’s celebrations.

La Cala Lions are now holding another Charity Event at Legends Show Bar in La Cala de Mijas on Saturday, January 27 from 8pm featuring two performances: The Soul Brothers and Boogie Wonderland. Tickets are €15 or €20 for a VIP package they are available from the Lions charity shop in Calle Torremolinos in Mijas, by calling 637 185 533 or paying at the door on the night.

Help them continue their great work of helping others.

For further details about the Lions, visit their website at www.lacala lions.org or their Charity Shop in Calle Torremolinos, La Cala de Mijas.

Photo: Lions

Donating food and gifts.

COSTA DEL SOL

Obama’s Burger

FIVE GUYS is opening a restaurant in Puerto Banus which will create 50 jobs.

Work on the refurbishment of the premises will begin shortly with a view to opening before the summer.

The American hamburger chain Five Guys, which became famous after the then US president Barack Obama went to one of its establishments in 2009 and declared it his favourite burger, will open an establishment in Puerto Banus in 2024.

The premises will be located in Avenida Julio Iglesias with 330 square metres inside space plus another 120 square metres of terrace. They have secuJohn Smith IN 1979, a blind clergyman created the Blind Cow, a restaurant in Zurich, Switzerland where diners were required to spend the entire time eating and drinking in the dark whilst serving staff were blind.

Thus, the concept of Dining in the Dark encouraged the sighted to see how their senses might change as they spend the entire time from entrance to exit without any light and guests are not allowed to bring phones or even luminous watches into the dining area.

Although the idea appealed to many, particularly in the USA, it is still something of a rarity in much of Europe but those who live near Malaga City can have the chance to try this novel way of eating on January 24, with two sittings at 8pm and 10pm.

There are three tasting menus at the Bendito Res-

Photo: Flickr CC / Embajada de Estados Unidos en Bolivia and Jerry

BARACK OBAMA: Visited one of their establishments.

red a corner site overlooking the sea and the beach at one of the entrances to the marina.

Five Guys was born in 1986 in Arlington, Virginia,

when Janie and Jerry Murrrell gave the following advice to their sons: “Start a business, or go to college.”

The brand was named after the five brothers: Matt and

Jim oversee operations by visiting shops around the US, Chad is in charge of training, Ben selects the franchisees, and Tyler controls the bread production.

For the first 15 years, the Murrells opened and operated five restaurants.

In 2002 they opened the door to franchisees, becoming the fastest growing restaurant chain in the United States. Today there are Five Guys restaurants around the world: in Canada, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the United Kingdom, where it is also the fastest growing restaurant chain.

Now it is coming to Marbella.

Dining in the Dark taurant situated in the Hotel Malaga Premium, each costing €45 per person and the choices are; Green Menu which brings a taste of the garden to the plate, Blue Menu with a selection of fresh fish for those who don’t eat meat and Red Menu for

the carnivores which will be guaranteed to satisfy the most demanding of palates.

Included in the price is a mask and guests are requested not to peek but to enter fully into the spirit of the evening.

To make your reserva-

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Let your senses of taste and smell take over

tion visit https://feverup. com/m/135964.

Win a roast

HERE’S your chance to win two delicious roast carverys at Los Arcos Bar & Restaurant in Benavista, Estepona.

Enjoy two of Los Arcos’ traditional roast carverys served between 1pm to 5pm every Sunday. Choose from Beef, Turkey, or Gammon, accompanied by mashed potatoes, roast potatoes, parsnips, stuffing, Yorkshire pudding, carrot and Swede mash, and seasonal vegetables. And don’t forget their irresistible desserts!

Los Arcos restaurant in Benavista, Estepona is giving two lucky people the chance to win. To enter: Follow either their Facebook or Instagram page @losarcosestepona Find the post, like it and share it. Tag a friend in the comments below!

Enter multiple times every tag counts as an entry, so tag as many friends as you’d like.

The lucky winner will be announced on Friday, January 19.

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Jay-Jay returns Michael Carrington THE magnetic and subtle electronica of Jay-Jay Johanson returns to Malaga as part of his tour of Spain on which the Swedish singer-songwriter, labelled as the ‘Frank Sinatra of the digital era’, is showingcasing his new album, ‘Fetish’ on Tuesday, February 20 at 8pm in the Teatro Cervantes in Malaga. Tickets are €20 from the theatre’s website.

After a trilogy leaning towards introspection, ‘Fetish’, released in June 2023, opened a new chapter. Aerial, melancholic and with a cinematographic atmosphere on the one hand, and dance and hypnotic happiness on the other, the new album alternates the usual influences of trip-hop with lyrical and ambient passages.

Jay-Jay Johanson conquered the indie community with his debut, Whiskey in 1996, an album in

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JAY-JAYA JOHANSON: Returns to Malaga as part of tour.

which he takes influences from Portishead and Massive Attack to inject them with generous doses of romanticism and digital avant-garde.

Trip-hop and electronic lyricism by an introspective, extremely sensitive author with an amazing capacity for melody, a singer who told emotional stories with style. After a change of image to that of an androgynous artist whose hairstyle caused a

sensation, Jay-Jay Johanson has returned every two or three years to that experimental downtempo, to those jazzy atmospheres wrapped in synthetic arrangements.

Two of these works, Self-portrait (2009 album) and Opium (2015), have already been heard at the Teatro Echegaray in Malaga, a stage that has always been ready to listen to this voice that softly caresses the audience.

(The White Rabbit Tales) which have been adapted by its director Eva Martínez.

Escape down the rabbit hole to Estepona on February 25 for a great family show.

Alice in Wonderland

A VERSION of the classic tale full of moments of fun and laughter starring cheerful and crazy characters. A perfect play for the whole family. Don’t miss it at TAF Estepona - Teatro Auditorio Felipe VI de Estepona-Costa del Sol on Sunday, February 25 at midday. Tickets are €13.50 from the TAF Estepona website.

The show features the adventures of Alice, a little girl who will learn the value of friendship surrounded by a multitude of friends who will accompany her on this crazy journey in search of her home. An amusing tale of the White Rabbit that the whole family can enjoy.

The show is performed

by Jabetín Teatro, a theatre company dedicated to the production of children’s shows. It is currently immersed in the production of a series of classic tales, under the name of ‘Los cuentos del Conejo Blanco’

Get creative ARE you searching for something exciting to do?

Don’t miss out on the fun! Join the Artful Creative Club and let the good times roll.

What is the Artful Creative Club? A one-of-a-kind initiative designed for all of you who seek a haven of creativity and self-discovery. The club’s essence lies in embracing the journey of creativity itself, rather than fixating on the end result. With a focus on holistic personal growth, the art classes provide a unique space where you can immerse yourself in learning, artistry, and mindful exploration.

Meet new people, enjoy friendly company, fuel your creativity, and dive into playful art experiments.

Whether you’re a seasoned artist, a beginner, or someone who just loves to have fun, all are welcome.

The club’s creative shenanigans resume for 2024 on Tuesday, January 16 in Gibraltar, Wednesday, January 17 in Alcaidesa, Thursday, January 18, and Saturday, January 20 in Sotogrande.

Join the Club, be part of something uniquely special and make some artful memories. Book your space now https://kakeart.com/pages/artful-crea tive-club.

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Great Straits

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GREAT STRAITS: A spectacular cast of nine musicians.

fler’ and acclaimed by dIRE sTRAITS fans internationally as one of the best interpreters of the famous guitarist, Óscar Rosende has been able to internalise Mark Knopfler’s essence and technique like no other, as well as his voice and his stage presence and gestures, even confusing Knopfler himself and his musicians during a sound check in Atarfe (Granada, Spain) in

2008, when Knopfler thought he was hearing a recording of his own band!

Relive the look and the sound of the concerts of Mark Knopfler’s legendary band: Sultans of Swing, Romeo and Juliet, Money for Nothing, Telegraph Road, Brothers in Arms, Tunnel of love, So Far Away... All their greatest hits in a unique show.

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AFTER more than 260 concerts in Germany, Luxembourg, France, Portugal and Spain playing Mark Knopfler with his previous project (he was the creator, founder and leader of ‘Brothers in Band’ until 2019), Óscar Rosende presents his new band, gREAT sTRAITS, a spectacular cast of nine renowned musicians with whom he reviews the wonderful musical work of dIRE sTRAITS. And they’ll be appearing at the Teatro Auditorio Felipe VI in Estepona on Saturday, March 16 at 9pm. Tickets are on sale from the TAF Estepona website.

‘The great songs of dIRE sTRAITS’ is born as the biggest tribute production to the British band in Europe, with a careful staging and an unmistakable sound quality: the most authentic recreation of the universe of the greatest hits of the band dIRE sTRAITS. Known by the media as ‘the Galician Mark Knop-

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Leisurely Lunch at Cipriani Marbella Classic moments, with a taste of la dolce vita Experience the classic glamour and unparalleled service of Marbella’s coveted lunch spot, Cipriani Marbella, at Puente Romano Beach Resort.

Sip a famous Bellini on the elegant, shaded terrace, and savour traditional Italian signature dishes from the celebrated Harry’s Bar in Venice.

The name is legendary worldwide. Now the Bellini cocktail and Carpaccio ‘alla Cipriani’ that were first invented and named by Giuseppe Cipriani Sr at Harry’s Bar in Venice have arrived in Marbella.

Bringing authentic Italian gastronomic glamour to Puente Romano Beach Resort’s exciting worldclass restaurant collection, this latest addition offers a tempting menu for lunch (and dinner) that reflects Cipriani’s Venetian origins.

As one review said: “There is an indisputable sense of sprezzatura that permeates each one of the Cipriani venues. They carry within them the type of movie star confidence that is only achieved after becoming a global icon and beating all the odds.”

Cipriani Marbella’s à la carte menu is built on the concept of simple Italian food made to perfection. It features signature dishes from the legendary Harry’s Bar in Venice, including Calf’s Liver ‘alla Veneziana’ with Fried Polenta, Baked Tagliolini with Ham, and Risotto ‘alla Primavera’ appealing to a variety of tastes. These Italian favourites use seasonal, premium ingredients and produce, many sourced from Italian farms, adding authenticity to the menu.

The stylish, timeless restaurant, featuring an intimate bar and restaurant decorated in Cipriani’s iconic nautical colours, with Murano glass chandeliers, blue and white terrazzo patterned floor, high gloss wood and contemporary black and white fashion photography adorning the walls. Cipriani Marbella also has a large garden terrace, perfect for long, leisurely lunches.

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30 EWN 11 - 17 January 2024 WE’VE just finished Christmas and New Year… and Three Kings so, now it’s time to think ahead and how about booking early for Mother’s Day and celebrate in style at Olivia’s La Cala with an unforgettable show starring James Argent and Martín Joseph.

The date is Sunday, March 10 and the time is 8pm for this tribute To Las Vegas. Experience the Vegas glamour of a tribute with James ‘Arg’ Argent & Martin Joseph (as Frank Sinatra) at Olivia’s La Cala.

Martin Joseph is the ultimate Frank Sinatra & Rat Pack Performer. Martin’s performance shines with

La Cala de ‘Vegas’ pure polished elegance and a vocal delivery that has to be heard to be believed. He is rated as one of Europe’s top Rat Pack singers. His unique Frank Sinatra Tribute Show encompasses all of ‘Old Blue Eyes’ favourite tunes in a vibrant performance from start to finish. Hearing is truly believing, as Martin has Sinatra’s voice and moves down to a tee.

Media personality and reality television star, James Argent, is best known for his appearance on ‘The Only Way is Essex’ (TOWIE).

A natural in front of the camera, and a well loved cheeky-chappy, James Argent has

found himself presenting, on numerous television shows, singing and as a brand ambassador.

A versatile celebrity, James Argent is also extremely talented as a singer, and has performed with his band ‘The Arg Band’ on This Morning and at many events.

Both these wonderful performers will bring some Vegas glitz and glam to a great night out for Mother’s Day. Book your table now, For reservations: email reserva tions@oliviaslacala. com or call 608 784 367 and for more information about packages and prices visit: www.oliviaslacala.com.

Magical City Photo: San Roque Town Hall

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CITY OF MAGIC: Providing lots of entertainment for local children.

SAN ROQUE Town Hall has launched the second edition of the City of Magic,

with magic workshops and performances, which will be held throughout the

municipality.

Councillor, Ana Ruiz, said out that “from January 15 to 28, San Roque will become the City of Magic. This second edition has been designed to celebrate and immerse our neighbours and visitors in the world of magic that will provide entertainment for our children.”

The magician from San Roque, Antonio, known in the region for his thematic shows and his skill in the world of balloons, will bring magic to the area where he will perform in the Civic Centre of Puente Mayorga, in the Renfe building in the Station and in the Concepción Collado building in Pueblo Nuevo.

“The highlight of this second festival of Magic in San Roque,” revealed the councillor, “will be two magic and illusion shows at the Juan Luis Galiardo Theatre which are not to be missed.”

On Saturday, January 27 there will be a show by the hypnotist and illusionist ‘Jeff Toussaint’, at 8pm, who will amaze the audience with the power of the mind with a comical and mysterious show of authentic mass hypnosis that will not leave anyone unmoved. And on Sunday, January 28 at midday, the magician ‘Chan-Tun’ will take to the stage for a family show that combines oriental magic with laughter.

Tickets are available in advance at giglon.com or from the theatre box office and start at just €3.

The Wasps

THE Wasps are a Powerpop/Punk band first formed in East London in February 1976 with original lead singer/ songwriter Jesse Lynn-Dean. They will be performing live at Louie Louie in Estepona on Saturday, February 10 at 10pm.

They were there at the start of the UK Punk rock movement, along with the likes of The Clash, Sex Pistols, The Damned, Buzzcocks, UK Subs, Sham 69, Stiff Little Fingers, Subway Sect and many more.

During the ‘76-’77 period They performed extensively at venues across London and the UK such as The Roxy, The Vortex, The Bridge House, Music Machine, The Marquee, etc and performed live twice on Radio 1’s John Peel show.

Their singles ‘Teenage Treats’ (a favourite of Peel’s) and ‘Can’t Wait ‘Til ‘78’, are considered Punk classics from that period. Their first single with RCA, ‘Rubber Cars’, was RCA’s fastest selling single the week it was released and would have been a massive hit had RCA not reluctantly pulled the record for legal reasons. The band with the line up at that time split in 1979 during its release due to unresolvable managerial disputes.

Jumping forward to 2023, The Wasps are back featuring original frontman Jesse Lynn-Dean who has reinvented the band with creative and talented musicians with a pedigree in Punk and afficionados of the UK Punk ‘76-’79 era. They are all currently based on the Costa del Sol and in 2022 released their brand new album, ‘Punk Prayer’ which is available now on Vinyl and CD. The Wasps’ style of music is as fresh and exciting as ever, with high energy, punchy, catchy and melodic power pop / punk songs!

Kevin Fraser Park THE countdown begins for one of the most anticipated shows of 2024!

The family-friendly Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live Glow Party will be back in Spain in 2024 after its runaway success last March at the WiZink Centre in Madrid. Fans of all ages will once again be able to enjoy the thrill of seeing their favourite Hot Wheels Monster Trucks. A unique show that will make a stop on March 9 and 10 at the Martín Carpena sports centre in Malaga.

Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live is produced by Family Entertainment Live, and brings fans’ favourite Hot Wheels Monster Trucks to life including Mega Wrex™, Tiger Shark™, Boneshaker™, Bigfoot®, and the all-new Gunkster™, to name just a few. The Glow Party production features a laser light show, spectacular theatrical effects, dance parties, and lots of Hot Wheels toy giveaways. Fans can also witness a special appearance from the car-eating,

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Monster trucks

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UNIQUE SHOW: Experience the Glow Party on an even grander scale.

fire-breathing, transforming robot MEGASAURUS™, plus the high-flyers of Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live Freestyle Motocross.

“We’re thrilled that Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live Glow Party is expanding next year and that more families than ever before can experience this exhilarating show,” said Julie Freeland,

Senior Director of Global Location Based Entertainment at Mattel. “The response from fans and the tour’s success has proven that Hot Wheels has the potential to entertain on various verticals and we’re excited to give fans around the world more of what they love.

“The momentum and expansion of Hot Whee-

ls Monster Trucks Live not only across the United States but globally, has been incredible,” said Ken Hudgens, CEO of Family Entertainment Live. “We’re proud to be able to tour the iconic Hot Wheels brand in so many countries and provide families the opportunity to experience the Glow Party on an even grander scale.”

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Photo: Facebook CC / María Jesús

THE Palacio de la Paz in Fuengirola will host a charity concert by the well-known musician, María Jesús and her accordion to benefit Afesol on Saturday, January 13.

Tickets are priced at just €10 and can be purchased on the website www.afesol. org or at the box office of the Palacio de la Paz from one hour before the start of the event.

“On January 13 we will be lucky enough to have María Jesús and her accordion, who will start her national tour in Fuengirola with this concert for the benefit of Afesol,” said the councillor for Families, Equality and Social Welfare, Cristina Bornao, adding

that, “the town hall of Fuengirola maintains a close collaboration with different social groups of our town to support their initiatives, Afesol carries out very important work with people who have mental health problems and their families.”

For his part, Cristian González, Vice President of the Association of Families and People with Mental Illness of the Costa del Sol, thanked Fuengirola Town Hall for their collaboration and explained that, “this year we are celebrating our 25th anniversary and we are starting with a concert by María Jesús and her accordion, the proceeds of which will go to all the activities carried out in the field of mental health.”

María Jesús Grados Ventura, better known as María Jesús y su Acordeón and known worldwide for her hit song ‘Los Pajaritos’. She has been a semi-finalist in the reality show ‘La Granja De Los Famosos’ and has participated in countless television programmes since her beginnings as an artist in the early 60s when María Jesús began travelling with her father on foot, in a cart or on a donkey to play every night in a village.

MARÍA JESÚS: Raising funds for charity with her accordion.

Love the 90s Photo: Facebook / Oasisss Marbella Fest

Charity concert

THE world’s biggest 90s festival returns to Marbella next year at the Recinto Ferial in San Pedro Alcantara.

The Love The 90s festival will be back in Marbella this summer after the success of 2023. It will take place as part of the Oasisss Marbella Fest at the Finca de la Caridad in San Pedro Alcantara. The national tour will also pass through Valencia, Madrid and Alicante with a show of more than six hours of live music.

The show, dedicated to reviving the music of the 90s, already made a stop in Marbella last August with an audience of 12,000 people.

Now it will repeat this year, on Saturday, July 27. The music promoter Sharemusic has also announced other dates in Valencia (June 1), Madrid (June 22) and Alicante (August 24).

In total last year around Spain, more than 130,000 spectators enjoyed the world’s biggest show dedicated to reliving the decade of the 90s and all the shows sold out. Tickets are already on sale for this year so you had better be quick.

MUSIC REVIVAL: A new opportunity for nostalgia.

With Love The 90s it is possible to travel back to the 90s for a day and Marbella will be able to experience this for the second year running. The line-up includes 2 Unlimited, Jenny from Ace of Base. Corona, DJ Sashi, Whigfield, OBK, Playahitty, Rozalla, Capella, Spanic, Just Luis, Jerry Daley and Sensity World.

The show will be entertained by DJs Jumper Brothers and presented by Fernandisco. There will be more than

six hours of live music with tickets from €35 for general admission.

The largest concert venue on the Costa del Sol, the Oasisss Marbella Fest offers a new opportunity for nostalgia and memories to be experienced intensely through music during the more than six hours of Love the 90s show.

More information and tickets on sale: lovethe90sma rbella.sharemusic.es.

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by David Hart THE magic of Christmas isn’t quite over yet for children of all ages. After its run on the Gran Vía in Madrid, ‘The Wonderful Lamp’, by the Onbeat Company, is coming to San Roque. Through the Delegation of Culture headed

by Ana Ruiz, on Saturday, January 13, you can enjoy it at the Teatro Juan Luis Galiardo, at 5.30pm.

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp is one of the most famous folk tales in existence and takes us to the mystery of the exotic Orient. It has been the subject of books, films, famous songs and even one of the most successful musicals on Broadway and London.

Now the Onbeat Company tells it like no one before with ‘La Lampara Maravillosa’ (The Wonderful Lamp). The San Roque councillor for Culture, Ana Ruiz, presented the event, saying that it will be a wonderful opportunity for children to enjoy this popu-

ALADDIN: A wonderful chance to enjoy this classic tale.

lar classic tale in a different and fun way. Tickets can be purchased at http://www.tic ketentradas.com with prices ranging from just €9 to €14. Ágrabah is the land where everything is possible, including the love of a princess with a humble villager, breaking established norms and overcoming social barriers.

That is the background of The Marvellous Lamp, although the main character is undoubtedly the Genie who

emerges from the Lamp to help Aladdin achieve his goal of following true love.

The Onbeat Company tells the story in the form of a tribute, as it has never been done before, through the Genie and with Broadway musical themes.

The well-known songs are joined by other melodies that will transport you to the magic of a story with an excellent staging and incredible live voices.

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GENERALLY speaking, one of the best bargains in terms of value for money in Spain is the understandably very popular Menu del Dia offered at lunchtime by literally of thousands of restaurants around the country.

It’s a great concept whereby you can enjoy either a set lunch or a choice of starter, main course and dessert invariably with a drink or a cup of coffee for a relatively low price.

We all know that the Spanish enjoy taking their time over a meal and unlike many of those living in the North of Europe aren’t satisfied with a quick sandwich at their desks.

Manual workers make the most of their lunch breaks and it’s not unusual to see ambulance crews and other ‘emergency’ workers taking advantage of a break in their busy routine.

Franco is credited with the concept of creating the famed Menu del Dia as a way of showcasing Spanish regional cooking and in 1965, he passed a law requiring certain restaurants, especially those in the newly emerging tourist areas, to offer a reasonably priced lunch.

The concept was taken up across Spain and by the 1970s most towns

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The very popular Bar Paco in Javea.

had at least one or two restaurants offering this three-course meal at an economic price.

Now, more than ever, with many finding it hard to have a great deal of spare cash, the availability of the Menu del Dia is really important and even some restaurants that are normally quite ‘expensive’ have seen the advantage, especially off season, of making a more affordable

menu available.

In November of this year, we at Euro Weekly News invited readers to nominate their favourite restaurant or bar offering a tasty, great value for money Menu del Dia and just to encourage participation, offered €100 to the person whose favourite was chosen so that they could enjoy a few more meals on us.

There were plenty of recommendations although sadly, some people, especially those entering on Facebook forgot to leave any contact details, so they were unfortunately not in the running.

There were all sorts of restaurant types, mainly Spanish but with some strong Chinese and Indian contenders and in the end, the heartfelt plea from ‘senior’ reader Margaret Conner was chosen and her winning entry can be viewed on the EWN website under the heading ‘Menu del Dia Winning Restaurant’.

She recommended Bar Paco in Javea who offer a three-course option with bread and a drink for €13, so if you are in the area visit their Facebook page and drop in for lunch.

Photo: Facebook / Admiral

Menu del Dia Winner Valentine’s tribute ENTERTAINMENT: Will also be included on the night.

TREAT your loved on for Valentine’s Day at Admiral Arena, Admiral Casino, San Roque for a Robbie Williams Tribute and 80s Show. On Saturday, February 17 you can enjoy a welcome Cava, a great menu with a drink included plus a spectacular show all for €59 per person.

Celebrate love in style this Valentine’s Day at the Admiral Arena. An unforgettable evening that begins with a welcoming glass of cava, followed by an exquisite gala menu featuring five individual courses.

Enjoy the company of your loved one as drinks flow, creating special moments that will last a lifetime. Furthermore, after dinner, relive the magic of the 80s with an electrifying tribute to Robbie Williams and a show that will transport you to the golden era.

Make this Valentine’s Day a unique experience at Casino Admiral San Roque. Reserve now and gift your partner a night filled with love, music, and sophistication.

Tickets can be booked here: www.eventbrite.es.

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Swinging Sixties

T  HE FILMS SHOWING IN ENGLISH ARE FROM 11/01/24 TO 17/01/24

English Photo: Flickr CC / Steve Shook

PLAZA MAYOR CINEMA MALAGA GODZILLA: MINUS ONE THU: 20:05 FRI, SAT: 19:50, 22:20 SUN: 12:45, 19:50, 22:20 MON, TUE, WED: 21:05

WONKA SUN: 13:10

MEAN GIRLS SUN: 13:15 TUE: 20:25

THE HOLDOVERS TUE: 19:55

THE BEEKEEPER TUE: 18:05, 20:15, 22:35

RED DOG CINEMA PUERTO BANUS NAPOLEON FRI, SAT, SUN: 18:20 MON, TUE, WED, THU: 18:50 THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES THU, FRI, SAT, SUN, MON, TUE, WED: 21:45 TROLLS BAND TOGETHER SAT, SUN: 12:30 WISH MON, TUE, WED, THU, FRI: 17:15 SAT, SUN: 12:00, 15:00 WONKA MON, TUE, WED THU, FRI: 17:00, 19:10, 21:20 SAT, SUN: 12:00, 15:00, 17:15. 19:30, 21:45 AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM THU, FRI, SAT, SUN,

MON, TUE, WED: 17:15, 19:30 SAT, SUN: 12:00, 15:00 MON, TUE, WED: 17:00, 19:15 MEAN GIRLS MON, TUE, WED, THU, FRI: 21:30 SAT, SUN: 15:15, 19:40 MIGRATION MON, TUE; WED, THU, FRI: 17:15 SAT, SUN: 12:00, 15:00, 16:40 MON, TUE, WED: 17:15 THE BEEKEEPER MON, TUE, WED, THU, FRI: 17:30, 19:30 SAT, SUN: 15:30, 19:30 THE HOLDOVERS MON, TUE, WED, THU, FRI: 21:40 SAT, SUN: 21:15

A journey back in time.

Brian Bamford JOIN the Arts Society de la Frontera for a captivating journey back in time at the upcoming lecture: ‘The Swinging Sixties’ presented by Steve King.

It’s at the San Roque Club on Wednesday, January 17 from 11am to 1pm. Details and information on how to attend is on the Society’s website: theartssocietydelafronte ra.com, entry is €15 per person payable on the door. €10 for members of other societies.

This lecture promises to be a nostalgic and enlightening experience, delving into the creativity and innovation that marked one of the most influential periods in the history of music.

The Arts Society de la Frontera is a very friendly and sociable group, so if you are interested in The Arts - in its broadest sense and would like to make new friends with similar interests then The Arts Society de la Frontera is for you.

In the meantime, don’t miss this opportunity to immerse yourself in the magic of the 60s, come together to celebrate the timeless sounds and cultural impact of this remarkable era. See you there!

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Sharing Platter LA SALA, Puerto Banus is introducing their new Sunday Roast Sharing Platter! Join them every Sunday for a Starter and Sunday Roast Sharing Platter with all the trimmings and even a glass of Champagne for just €28 per person ... and of course we’ll have Live Entertainment from 2pm until late.

Since its inauguration in 2010, La Sala has become renowned for its vivacious ambiance, exquisite gastronomy and excellent value for money. Described as “the happening place in Marbella” by eminent online blog, thetraveleditor.com; La Sala Restaurant has truly become, ‘The ultimate social and dining experience,’ and is renowned as one of the busiest restaurants on the Costa del Sol. Contact La Sala to book your table: reserva tions@lasalabanus.com

Photo: Facebook / La Sala

SUNDAY ROAST: Served with all the trimmings.

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Jethro Tull John Smith BRITISH rock bands are always welcome visitors to the Costa del Sol and the next big name to arrive will be Jethro Tull who play the Cervantes Theatre in Malaga Capital on Wednesday February 21.

Tickets €80 plus booking fee are as expected selling very quickly so if you want to get a chance to listen to one of the most creative bands to emerge from the 1960s who are still playing live, you should act quickly.

In 2023, the band led

by Ian Anderson, released their 23rd studio album, entitled RökFlöte which is based on the lives and loves of the Pagan Norse Gods.

This followed swiftly on the heels of their critically-acclaimed 2022 album The Zealot Gene, their first album in two

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The current line-up of Jethro Tull.

decades. It is very difficult to describe the work of the band which had many names before settling on Jethro Tull as they have moved from blues, to rock to progressive and even folk but with Ian Anderson always the front man, they have amassed sales of around 60 million albums worldwide. This version of the band was formed to tour

in 2019 but the tour was postponed due to the pandemic and they are now on the road which will take up most of the first half of 2024 and then see then spend time playing Germany in the autumn.

The Malaga gig is one of only three taking place in Spain, the other two being in Granada and Palma de Mallorca.

A Night to Remember AGE CONCERN are holding their Gala Dinner on Friday, February 16 from 7pm at The Green Label, Chaparral Golf in Mijas. Last year’s dinner was a sell out success and they hope for the same this year.

Reservations for the event are now being taken, to book contact Michelle on 619 792 738 or at a local drop in centre. Tickets will also be in their Los Boliches Charity Shop.

Tickets for the event are €50 per person for a three-course dinner, a cava and canape reception, wine, beer, water and other drinks throughout the meal and live entertainment from Tony Whitehouse, Jai Northover, Abee Willfly and special guest, Magic Al. Age Concern are also looking for auction and raffle prizes, if you have anything you would like to donate to help them raise vital funds, they would love to hear from you.

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ON January 25, the birthday of Scottish poet Robert ‘Rabbie’ Burns, societies, clubs and groups of friends hold Burns Suppers across the world, to celebrate the life and times of Scotland’s national poet. “Over 1,000 Burns clubs and societies exist around the world,” said John McCheyne, brand ambassador for the Scotch Malt Whisky Society. “No other poet is celebrated in this way.”

The first Burns Night supper was held in 1801 when nine of Robert ‘Rabbie’ Burns’ close friends gathered to mark the fifth anniversary of their friend’s death in 1796. The night was deemed such a success, it was decided the occasion would be held again, this time in honour of Rabbie’s birthday, and so the tradition we enjoy to this day was born.

The organiser of this commemorative dinner, Reverend Hamilton Paul, kept notes of the occasion, proof that today’s celebration which includes recitations and rituals has barely changed in 200 years. Including the menu!

The centrepiece of any Burns Supper is always the haggis: a savoury pudding containing sheep’s heart, liver and lungs, which is minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, stock and a selection of spices and then cooked in the animal’s stomach lining, served with a side of mashed turnip (neeps) and potatoes (tatties), accompanied by the finest Scotch Whisky.

The haggis is piped in on a silver platter and one chosen speaker, usually somebody Scottish or simply brave enough, will perform the Address to a Haggis followed by the piercing of the haggis with

a ceremonial knife.

The tradition of honouring Burns didn’t stay in Scotland for long. As Scots travelled the world as part of the British Empire, they brought their idiosyncrasies with them. Gradually the event became a celebration of the trappings of Scottish culture, namely a role in the ceremony for the bagpipes, kilted dress and of course, plenty of whisky.

Every year, Scottish expats ‘exiled’ on the Costa del Sol will be eagerly anticipating a traditional Burns Night supper much like the original over 200 years ago. Many bars and restaurants, especially those with a Scottish connection, will be holding Burns Night celebrations including.

The Rose and Thistle in Duquesa has a three-course meal from 5.30pm to 9pm for €55.95 which inclu-

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Burns Night

BURNS SUPPER: The centrepiece is always the haggis.

des a bottle of wine (and of course a wee dram).

The Beach House in Marbella celebrates Burns Night every year and for 2024 is proposing a

five-course meal with live entertainment. It will be a great dining experience with guest chef Gregg Hudson of Dunfermline, Fife back to assist head chef Jeff Mynott with a fabulous selection of Scottish delights.

The Haggis will be ad-

dressed by Mike and Diane Ross, accompanied by a live piper, Tarik El-Yabani, formerly of the Royal Gibraltar Regiment. Then Mark Connor will head up the rest of the night’s live entertainment including of course a few well-known Scottish songs.

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ROCK AND ROLL: The biggest and best festival in Spain.

FROM February 1 to 4 the Rockin’Race Jamboree will celebrate its 30th anniversary in Torremolinos becoming the biggest and best festival in Spain and the only one in Andalucia, dedicated to rock and roll from the 50s and 60s.

This first major music festival of the year in Spain has been attended by 211,500 people in its first 29 editions and, for 2024, attendance has already been confirmed for people from many European countries, as well as from Japan, Mexico, Australia and Canada.

Eighty per cent of the audience is from abroad and the remaining 20 per cent from Spain.

The Rockin’Race Jamboree is already more than just a music festival. After 29 editions held in Torremolinos, this event

has become one of the oldest and most important international events on the Costa del Sol. Over the years, the festival has added more activities to the attractions of the Costa del Sol in February, such as an exhibition and demonstration of classic cars, with more than 50 arriving from different parts of Europe.

In 2024, for example, it will be possible to see a unique car made from the fuselage of an aeroplane from Sweden.

Live bands in the street during the day and food trucks are other attractions that transform Torremolinos into the world capital of the Rock&Roll of the 50s and 60s.

For more information check out the website - https://rockinrace.com.

The Woman in Black David Hart

SUSAN HILL’S acclaimed ghost story comes dramatically alive in an ingenious stage adaptation at Salon Varietes Theatre from Wednesday, January 24 to Sunday January 28. A brilliantly successful study in atmosphere, illusion and controlled horror will be performed nightly at 7.30pm (Sunday at 7pm).

A Ghost Play, directed by Lynn Halliday with Dylan Perez Gale and Owain Griffiths. Adapted by Stephen Mallatratt from the Book by Susan Hill which deals with the story of Arthur Kipps, a lawyer, who has hired the Actor to help him tell the story about an experience from his youth.

The storytelling begins as Kipps is sent to handle the estate of the deceased Mrs. Drablow. He makes the trip to her funeral in a bleak and lonely part of England, the small village of Crythin Gifford where all of his enquiries into the details of the Drablow estate and the fami-

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Rockin’Race Jamboree

GHOST STORY: An ingenious stage adaptation.

ly are met with silence.

At the funeral, Kipps alone observes a strange young, ghastly-looking woman dressed in black. Mr Jerome, the colleague accompanying Kipps to the funeral, did not see the woman in black and reacts powerfully when Kipps mentions her.

The next morning, Mr. Keckwick takes Kipps to Mrs. Drablow’s eerie Eel Marsh house. The house is reached by way of a narrow causeway that is passable only during low tide. As Kipps investigates the house and the su-

rrounding property, he again sees the woman in black, but is unable to follow her. His apprehension and fear grow.

As he cautiously explores the inside of the house, he uncovers a large number of documents and information he must sift through in order to settle Mrs. Drablow’s affairs.

His efforts reveal secrets and unexplainable events. As Kipps and the Actor struggle to tell the story and exorcise both their demons, we learn the chilling answer to these questions and more at Salon Varietes in Fuengirola.

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Perimenopause and your hair

AS women navigate the perimenopausal phase, characterised by hormonal fluctuations leading up to menopause, they may notice changes in their hair.

Hormonal shifts, particularly a decline in estrogen levels, can influence the hair’s texture and volume. Some women experience thinning, while others may notice increased dryness or frizziness.

The decrease in estrogen impacts hair growth cycles, potentially leading to a reduction in hair thickness. Additionally, declining estrogen can contribute to a decrease in oil production, leaving hair drier and more prone to breakage.

While these changes are common, maintaining a healthy lifestyle,

HORMONAL SHIFTS: Can influence the texture of hair.

a balanced diet, and proper hair care can minimise the impact. Regular trims, hydrating treatments, and using gentle hair products can help women embrace their evolving hair texture du-

ring perimenopause.

Consulting with a healthcare professional or a dermatologist can provide personalised insights and recommendations for managing perimenopausal hair changes.

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4am Wake-up call WAKING up consistently at 4am can be disruptive to sleep patterns and overall well-being. Several factors may contribute, such as stress, anxiety, or an irregular sleep schedule. To break this habit, establish a consistent bedtime routine, ensuring you go to bed at a reasonable hour. Crea-

te a calming environment in your bedroom and limit exposure to screens before bedtime.

Evaluate and manage stressors in your life, incorporating relaxation techniques like deep breathing or meditation. Avoid stimulants like caffeine or heavy meals close to bedtime. If

the issue persists, consult with a healthcare professional to rule out underlying sleep disorders.

By prioritising a healthy sleep routine and addressing potential triggers, you can regain control over your sleep patterns and wake up feeling more rested and refreshed.

HEALTH & BEAUTY II euroweeklynews.com ORAL HYGIENE: Look after your teeth.

No brushing MAINTAINING good oral hygiene is essential, but there are specific instances when brushing your teeth may do more harm than good. Here are three scenarios to approach with caution: 1. After Breakfast: While it might seem counterintuitive, brushing immediately after consuming acidic breakfast items like citrus fruits or juices can erode softened enamel. Experts

recommend waiting at least 30 minutes to allow saliva to neutralise acids before brushing.

2. After Vomiting: Stomach acid is highly corrosive, and brushing immediately after vomiting can exacerbate enamel erosion. Instead, rinse your mouth with water or a fluoride mouthwash and wait before brushing to protect your teeth from further damage.

3. After Eating Sweets: Contrary to instinct, brushing immediately after indulging in sugary treats can be harmful. The enamel temporarily softens due to sugar exposure, and immediate brushing may contribute to enamel wear.

Instead, rinse your mouth and wait before brushing to strike a balance between maintaining oral health and preventing unnecessary enamel erosion.

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Bullseye for brainpower ENGAGING in a game of darts may do more than improve your aim; it could potentially enhance your cognitive abilities. The strategic thinking, focus, and handeye coordination required in darts stimulate various regions of the brain, fostering mental agility.

The precision demanded by the game sharpens concentration and decision-making skills, as players strategically plan their throws.

Additionally, the repeated aiming and targeting involved contribute to the development of fine motor skills and spatial awareness.

Research suggests that activities which challenge the brain, like playing darts, can positively impact cognitive function and may even help prevent cognitive decline.

So, the next time you step up to the dartboard, know that you’re not just playing a game - you’re giving your brain a workout, potentially sharpening your mental acuity one bullseye at a time.

Navigating Dry January AS the new year dawns, many individuals embark on the popular tradition of Dry January, a commitment to abstain from alcohol for the entire month.

If you’re considering reducing your alcohol intake, here are some tips to navigate this alcohol-free journey successfully.

Firstly, set clear and realistic goals. Define your reasons for participating in Dry January, whether it’s for health, clarity, or a reset.

Find alternative beverages to replace alcoholic drinks. Experiment with mocktails, herbal teas, or infused water to discover enjoyable non-alcoholic options.

Engage in activities that don’t revolve around drinking. Pursue hobbies, exercise, or socialise in environments where alcohol is not the primary focus.

Enlist support from friends or join online communities participating in Dry January. Having a su-

DRY JANUARY: Opportunity to embrace a healthier lifestyle.

pport system can make the journey more enjoyable and successful.

Remember, Dry January

is not just about abstaining from alcohol; it’s an opportunity to embrace a healthier lifestyle.

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Staying true to your new routine EMBARKING on a new fitness routine or diet is a commendable endeavour, but the real challenge lies in maintaining consistency.

Begin by setting realistic, achievable goals, and break them into smaller milestones for a sense of accomplishment. Find a workout or eating plan that aligns with your preferences to enhance enjoyment and adherence. Establish a routine, scheduling workouts or meal prep like any other essential commitment.

Hold yourself accountable by tracking progress and celebrating achievements along the way. Incorporate variety to prevent monotony and keep things interesting. Surround yourself with a supportive community, whether it’s friends, family, or fitness buddies. Lastly, be kind to yourself; if setbacks occur, view them as learning opportunities rather than obstacles.

By implementing these strategies, you can foster the consistency needed to turn your new fitness routine or diet into a sustainable and successful lifestyle change.

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Essence of Scandinavia SCANDINAVIAN beauty is an embodiment of simplicity, purity, and a deep connection to the pristine landscapes that define the region. Drawing inspiration from the breathtaking natural surroundings, Scandinavian beauty emphasises a clean and minimalist aesthetic.

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The minimalistic approach extends to make-up, where the emphasis is on enhancing one’s natural features rather than masking them. Soft, neutral tones mirror the serene colours of the Nordic environment, creating a harmonious and effortlessly elegant look.

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Compact exercises, big impact IN the world of fitness, the effectiveness of exercise is often associated with intensity and duration.

However, emerging trends like slow running and micro workouts are challenging this notion, proving that smaller efforts can yield significant results.

Slow running, characterised by a deliberately reduced pace, emphasises endurance, strength, and injury prevention.

It allows for a gentler yet sustained engagement of muscles, making it a valuable addition to diverse fitness routines.

Micro workouts, compri-

sing short bursts of exercise throughout the day, offer a practical solution for busy schedules.

These bite-sized sessions not only enhance metabolism but also contribute to overall daily activity levels.

Both slow running and micro workouts align with the principle that consistency and accessibility are key to a

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IN 2018, the International Federation of Pharmacists (FIP) endorsed the Astana Declaration by WHO, aiming for universal health coverage by 2030.

This includes integrating pharmacists into vaccination campaigns, allowing them to administer vaccines in community pharmacies. This service is being adopted in many European countries. However, it is not yet available in Spain.

Pharmacists are pivotal in primary care globally, offering accessible healthcare. The Official College of Pharmacists of Madrid (COFM) acknowledges

their contribution to the health system.

These professionals provide comprehensive advice on vaccines, including dosing, side effects, and interactions. They also promote disease prevention, manage chronic conditions, encourage healthy living, and refer patients when necessary.

Pharmacy vaccination services are a reality in several European countries, as per FIP data. In Portugal, the flu vaccine was first administered in pharmacies in 2008. Now, 17 vaccines are available in 77 per cent of Portuguese pharmacies.

France introduced pharmacy vaccinations during the 2017-2018 flu season.

By 2020, approximately 3.3 million vaccines were administered in French pharmacies, including for Covid-19.

In Italy, a 2022 decree law officially included pharmacists in flu and Covid-19 vaccination efforts.

These services are now offered in 13 European Union countries. The FIP stresses the need for regulatory frameworks to support pharmacist-led vaccinations.

In contrast, Spain faces legal hurdles in implemen-

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FASHION is a strange creature and understandably with so many designers launching new collections every three months, it is incredibly difficult to come up with something new.

On the odd occasion that there is a radically new trend, no matter how bizarre it may be, fashion writers praise it and other designers jump on the band wagon.

The latest craze is for women to wear their pants either under sheer skirts so they can be seen or without any covering on their lower limbs.

In the early 1900s, £1 was referred to as a ‘knicker’ but these ones cost a hell of a lot more and our readers passed their generally negative verdict on the trend;

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Yess - Boxers n vest.

Lois G Clark

Well considering my knickers go down to my knees and my top goes up to my ears….yes!

Emma Monks

Reminds me when we used to wear minis Hazel Moorman Bloomers !!

Lynda Woodin

Why should this fashion be limited to ladies? Men can wear the dresses or even see through pants so let’s see them parade round in small briefs which draw our attention to their ‘assets’. I’m sure they’d love dressing like that.

Sheree Ruiz

The Geordie lasses do cause they are tough.

Steve Mcgann

Heck noooo!

Not on your life!!!

Carol Hurst

Too draughty

Shirley Morris

No change there then. No class whatsoever!

Tricia Harrington

What in my baggy grey full size M&S knickers? I think not!!

Eivissa Lyn

I would not subject the public to that!

Heath Savage

To cold ..lol

Julie Hitchin

Is that a serious question?

Julia Margaret Clarke

Sophia Loren always said “Leave a lot to imagination “.Don’t think she would class the knickers as such.

Tim McMahon

Mapuchi Moda

By the length of some dresses, you see the wearer has already forgotten to put on their pants and you can see their underwear, glittery or not if you are not careful. But you’d also have to ask what’s the difference between a bikini and a see-through beach over and the see-through dresses.?

Sheree Ruiz

The Emperor’s New Clothes syndrome perhaps..?? !!

Sandra Harbut

Don’t think it will catch on but who knows some of the hot pants were very brief back in the day. I never liked hotpants just very short minis for me but other girls looked great. And remember Kylie’s little gold ones?

Leah Kerr

Sheree Ruiz Maybe the weather?

Susan Spelman

I’d scare the horses and frighten the children!!

Susan Lea

Thought many females already did this

Helen Burn

Leah Kerr Hotpants were proper dress not knickers. Trousers suits were stylish too.

Tim McMahon

Ridiculous

Jaqui Silcox

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Strict new laws

AS of December 31, strict regulations demand that XL Bully dogs be kept on a leash and muzzled when in public in the UK. This measure is a response to an alarming increase in dangerous incidents involving these dogs, including 23 fatal attacks in the last three years, with XL Bullies often involved.

The government has enacted a comprehensive ban on the breeding, selling, advertising, gifting, exchanging, abandoning, or letting XL Bully dogs stray.

Environment Secretary Steve Barclay said, “The Prime Minister pledged to take quick and decisive action to protect the public from devastating dog attacks with measures in place by the end of 2023.

“We have met that pledge - it is now a legal requirement for XL Bully

dogs to be muzzled and on a lead in public. It is also now illegal to breed, sell, advertise, gift, exchange, abandon or let XL Bully dogs stray.’”

Owners must now register their existing XL Bullies before February 1, with the failure to do so resulting in criminal charges and an unlimited fine.

Registration involves securing public liability insurance, microchipping the dog, and an application fee. By June 30, 2024, most dogs must be neutered, with an extended deadline to the end of 2024 for dogs under a year old as of 31 January 2024.

The government’s approach is staggered, aiming to manage the existing population of XL Bully dogs.

The upcoming deadline of February 1 marks the next stage in this process.

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Cat allergies

CONSIDERING the joy of adding a cat to your family but concerned about potential allergies? Fear not, as managing cat allergies is indeed possible with some practical tips. While cat dander is a common culprit, different breeds produce varying amounts of it.

Spend quality time with various cats before making a decision to gauge your sensitivity. Even if a friend or family member already has a feline friend, there are ways to navigate potential allergic reactions.

Take steps like restricting the cat’s access to certain rooms, especially your bedroom.

Post-interaction, wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water before touching your face or eyes.

Employing air purifiers can effectively combat cat allergens as well as other airborne irritants like dust mites.

Consistent cat baths, while ensuring a clean and sleek pet, also help in reducing dander.

Your pharmacist can identify suitable antihistamines.

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9am until 2pm. Working closely with the Spanish authorities, we rescue, rehabilitate and rehome abused and abandoned horses and donkeys. Come and meet our current rescues, learn about our work and how you may be able to help. Run solely by a small team of dedicated volunteers, the Centre is located between Alhaurin el Grande and Coin in Comm. de Viña Borrego behind Venta Miralmonte.

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FALSE IDENTITIES: Driving licence fraudster arrested.

was completed successfully clients then paid the total cost for the service which ranged between €1,500 and €2,000.

The impersonators who competently possessed knowledge of driving regulations, successfully passed theoretical exams, sometimes in as little as six minutes. Remarkably, some took two or three exams within a single week.

The operation spanned several Spanish provinces, with impersonators travelling to sit exams. Searches were conducted in three residences, two in Madrid and one in El Ferrol, A Co-

ruña.

In Madrid, a driving school and two hospitality venues were raided, where document forgery occurred. Seized items included computers and mobile phones used in the identity fraud.

The operation remains active, as authorities analyse seized materials to identify more fraudulent licence holders. This extensive operation involved the GIAT of the Guardia Civil’s Traffic Group and the Police Stations of the Puente de Vallecas district and the Judicial Traffic Police of the Madrid Municipal Police.

DGT radars report IS it possible for traffic radars to impose fines for vehicles without insurance? This pivotal question is at the heart of the latest developments in road safety enforcement in Spain.

It was recently reported that the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) has introduced a significant upgrade to its radar system, extending its capabilities far beyond mere speed monitoring.

The DGT’s primary goal has always been to regulate speed and reduce traffic accidents across Spain’s extensive road network.

However, the evolution of radar technology has led to a broader scope for detecting various driving offences, including the verification of compulsory insurance and the Technical Vehicle Inspection (ITV) status.

It’s crucial to note that only fixed radars possess the capability to execute these additional checks. They are equipped with real-time licence plate recognition systems, enabling the DGT, led by Pere Navarro, to ensure compliance with ITV, car insurance, and even to aid in car theft prevention.

The need for such measures is underscored by the DGT’s findings. The organisation’s data indicates a worrying trend. statistics show that a significant number of

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SPANISH authorities have dismantled a group that falsified their identities and fraudulently obtained driving licences.

In a significant crackdown named Operation CARSHINOVEL, 18 individuals have been detained across various provinces in Spain, including Madrid, A Coruña, Sevilla, Pontevedra, and Murcia.

The criminal activities of the group involved impersonating candidates who lacked the necessary knowledge to pass the class ‘B’ driving test and the Certificate of Professional Competence (CAP).

In some cases, they also helped individuals regain lost driving points. The fraudsters altered identity documents, replacing photos to match their impersonators, who then sat the exams.

Potential clients were lured through social networks or personal contacts, initially paying between €400 to €500. Once the exam

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vehicles are operating without the mandatory insurance.

This not only poses a risk to the drivers themselves but also to other road users, escalating the potential for accidents and legal complications.

Recent studies by the DGT reveal a startling fact that more than 10 per cent of vehicles in Spain either lack insurance or have not passed their ITV. This equates to nearly two million cars, a figure the DGT aims to reduce drastically.

Driving without insurance can lead to vehicle impoundment and fines ranging from €601 to €3,005.

Meanwhile, failure to undergo the ITV can result in a €200 penalty, which increases to €500 if the vehicle continues to be driven after failing as inspection test.

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By Mark Slack WE‘RE used to seeing badges on cars, and know the desirable ones, the ones we like, the ones we don’t like, but how much do you know about the history behind the badge? They all have a history and some are more interesting than others and Audi is an especially involving story.

August Horch took his first job in the industry courtesy of Karl Benz, who hired him to manage his factory in Mannheim. After three years of learning under Benz, Horch decided the time was right to strike out on his own and founded Horch & Cie Motorwagenwerke in 1899.

Initially making two-cylinder and later four-cylinder cars, Horch left the company in 1909 after a difference of opinion with the company’s board and founded a new car company in the same the year. He couldn’t use the Horch name so translated his name into Latin,

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‘Audi’. Between 1912-14 Horch’s cars gained three consecutive victories at the International Austrian Alpine rally. One of the most challenging of the time.

Wanderer originated as a bicycle repair shop then

started building bicycles and then motorcycles.

Their first car in 1913 was known as Puppchen - English Moppet.

DKW was one of the largest motorcycle makers of the time. Danish founder

Jorgen Skafte Rassmussen began experimenting with a steam powered automobile in 1916.

It wasn’t a success so he started working on twostroke engines. DKW became one of the most im-

portant motorcycle makers of the pre first world war period and started building cars in 1928.

They were the first company to bring cars with front wheel drive.

Global recession meant

that demand began to plummet from 1929 and companies began to experience financial problems.

The recession led to union of the four brands mentioned above, which was initiated by the State Bank of Saxony, and Auto Union AG became the second largest car maker in Germany by number of vehicles produced.

The four former companies, now merged into Auto Union, maintained their own distinct areas of expertise. DKW made motorcycles and small cars, Wanderer produced mid-size cars while Audi concentrated on deluxe mid-size cars, and Horch was the luxury car arm of the enterprise.

When Auto Union was formed in 1930 the four rings were seen as a badge for the first time.

The name Auto Union was across the four rings and later the four rings symbolised the brand we know today as Audi.

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AT only 16 years old, Luke Littler has become an overnight sensation following his astonishing performance at the World Darts Championship final.

In recent weeks, Littler’s meteoric rise has captivated the darts world. His journey to the World Darts Championship final, which culminated in December at Alexandra Palace, has drawn comparisons to legends such as Phil Taylor and Michael van Gerwen, making him a new icon in the sport.

Despite securing a runner-up prize of £200,000, Littler faces significant tax obligations. Investment firm Saxo estimates that he will owe £76,203 in taxes and £7,330 in national insurance.

As a result, his net earnings will be approximately £116,467. Andrew Mangion from Saxo advised that such a large sum for a teenager is uncommon and professional financial guidance would be beneficial.

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OVERNIGHT SENSATION: Luke Littler with signed shirt.

In an intriguing turn, Anthony Joshua’s SBX Studios has expressed interest in Li-

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the record-breaking viewership of the championship’s final on Sky Sports, emphasising Littler’s wide-reaching appeal.

Following his remarkable performance, Littler received an invitation to join this year’s Premier League tour. He accepted, and acknowledged the rarity of such opportunities.

Littler expressed on Sky Sports his awareness of the fleeting nature of sporting success and his eagerness to seize every chance presented: “Let’s do it, it might not happen again,” he said.

Littler’s rise to fame has also caught the attention of celebrities like Rio Ferdinand and Gary Lineker as well as other popular YouTubers.

Some of whom have extended invitations to feature him on their podcasts.

Additionally, football stars like Luke Shaw and Jesse Lingard, and even David Beckham, have shown their support.

Catherine McGeer IN a devastating loss to the world of football, Franz Beckenbauer, affectionately known as ‘Der Kaiser’ (The Emperor), has passed away at the age of 77. The iconic figure, revered as one of the greatest footballers in German history, breathed his last after a valiant battle against a prolonged illness that had kept him away from the public eye in recent months.

Hailing from Munich, Beckenbauer revolutionised the role of the libero or the modern sweeper, reshaping it into an art form that defined his legacy. His genius on the field elevated both the national team and Bayern Munich to unprecedented heights.

Beckenbauer’s crowning glory came in 1974 when he captained the West German national team, affectionately known as ‘Die Mannschaft,’ to clinch the World Cup. However, his contributions extended far beyond that triumph. He later secured another World Cup victory in 1990, this time as the coach of a unified German team.

His stellar career also boasts the Euro Cup victory in 1972 and an astonishing three consecutive European Cup titles with Bayern Munich between 1974 and 1977.

Beyond his unparalleled success with both club and country, Beckenbauer embodied elegance on the pitch coupled with an innate winning mentality that mesmerised fans worldwide. His exceptional leadership skills made him one of the most admired footballers of his era and cemented his place among the sport’s all-time greats. His individual brilliance was recognised with two Ballon d’Or awards in 1972 and 1976.

The footballing world mourns the loss of a true legend whose impact transcended generations. Tributes poured in from fans, players, and football dignitaries.

Emma Raducanu

ALTHOUGH Spain’s Rafa Nadal has had to pull out of the Australian Open this year due to a muscle tear, Emma Raducanu returns to play her first Grand Slam for a year.

After busting onto the tennis scene and winning the US Open as a teenager, she suffered an apparent loss of form and then was sidelined for much of 2023 due to wrist and ankle injuries.

For much of her career she seems to have had a struggle holding onto coaches but it now appears that she and Nick Cavaday who worked with her before she turned professional are working together in Melbourne.

If all goes well in her two exhibition matches prior to the start of the Grand Slam and then she does well in that tournament then looks as if the two of them will carry on during 2024.

Bookies overwhelming favourite is Noval Djokovic for the men’s title although Spanish fans will be shouting out for their latest star Carlos

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As far as the women are concerned it looks like Polish sensation Iga Swiatek is odds on to add to her collection of titles from 2023.

Now ranked at 299 in the

world, Emma Raducanu will have quite a job to re-establish herself but if she does well in this tournament then it could be her year now she is fully recovered, provided her head is in the right place.