FREE COPY THE NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHERN SPAIN. Official market leader Audited by PGD/OJD. February 9th to 15th 2018

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1 in English FREE COPY THE NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHERN SPAIN Official market leader Audited by PGD/OJD February 9th to 15th News 2 Comment 24 Lifestyle 26 Health & Beauty 40 What To Do 46 Food & Drink 51 My Home 53 Sport 57 Classified 63 Pastimes 70 Colourful plans for a cool weekend The ongoing carnival celebrations are among the events taking place around the region P45-50 King Felipe and Queen Letizia with authorities at the arts awards ceremony in Malaga on Tuesday. :: FERNANDO GONZÁLEZ Eastern Costa del Sol mayors say they want a train too The Axarquía raises its voice amid the debate about the future railway line to Marbella P2 Campaigners for the rights of Britons in Spain after Brexit praise a Dutch court s decision to refer case to the ECJ P22 CULTURAL MALAGA GETS ROYAL APPROVAL P16&17 Hooded gang storms into hospital to free drug suspect A cardigan from Canillas de Aceituno fit for a princess. Britain s royal tots wear clothes made in the Axarquía P39 Unknown in the UK - a star in Finland. Unlikely rock star Paul Oxley will perform in Los Boliches next week P28 More than 700 turn out to protest against the stalled treatment plant in Nerja; a third of protesters were foreign residents P5 Incidents in La Línea have led to safety concerns over increasing drug crime in the Campo de Gibraltar area Health workers expressed safety fears this week after a gang of around 20 hooded individuals stormed into La Línea hospital to free a suspected drug gang leader who was waiting for treatment under police custody. Two Guardia Civil officers were later injured by a vehicle linked to drugs gangs while searching for the escapee. This is not a film; it happened, said former Andalusian ombudsman, José Chamizo, on Thursday. P4 Foreign retirees demand justice from failed bank over lost money SPORT Chris Froome to make his competitive comeback in Mijas as the Vuelta a Andalucía starts on Wednesday P60 A group of almost 200 has launched legal action against Icelandic Landsbanki P3 Pensioners protest in Marbella on Wednesday. :: JOSELE-LANZA A new hero is born in Marbella. Cameron Norrie s Davis Cup heroics made it a difficult ride for Spain P62

2 2 NEWS 2 February 9th to 15th 2018 The Axarquía doesn t want to be left without a rail service of its own VÉLEZ-MÁLAGA Mayors of the principal municipalities in the area insist that the eastern Costa del Sol should not be forgotten and also needs to be connected to Malaga by train government and the Junta should start to think seriously about extending the railway from Malaga to Nerja, he said. He also pointed out that Benamocarra may only have a population of 3,500 but it is still prosperous, thanks to its tropical agriculture which also needs better infrastructure. We have a serious problem with a lack of water here, but nothing is being done to guarantee that our agricultural sector has enough water for irrigation, he said. The mayor of Alcaucín, Mario Blancke, wants all the mayors in this area of the province to agree a common strategy to demand improvements from the public administrations. It is not right that all the major infrastructure projects are carried out on the western Costa del Sol, while here we are left without, said Blancke, pointing out that the Carretera del Arco has still not been completed, and some other projects are still at a standstill ten years on. If they re going to extend the railway to Estepona, it is only fair that they should bring it here as well. We need it just as much, said councillor Marcelino Méndez-Trelles from Vélez-Málaga. :: AGUSTÍN PELÁEZ. The recent news stories about the local railway being extended from Malaga to Marbella and Estepona at a cost of more than 3.8 billion euros, and the Junta de Andalucía s decision to include the AVE high-speed railway service to Marbella in the Territorial Organisation Plan (POT) for the western Costa del Sol, have prompted reactions from east of the city. Numerous mayors and officials from different political parties in the Axarquía region have expressed their concern about what they consider a discrimination against the eastern coast of the province. Without denying that there is a need for these projects on the western Costa del Sol, the president of the Mancomunidad de la Axarquía, Gregorio Campos, insists that any improvements to mobility on the western coast should also be applied in the Axarquía. We are not just talking about the railway, but also about mobility in rural villages. The mayor of Benamocarra, Abedeslam Lucena, agrees. We are a prosperous area, but we still need major support if the Axarquía is not to become the poor relative of the Costa del Sol. We have a tropical [fruit] sector which is creating wealth and jobs for the province as a whole, and places with enormous potential for tourism such as Nerja and Frigiliana, but while projects costing millions of euros are being planned for the western Costa del Sol, we are being abandoned. The Nerja, a flagship for tourism in the Axarquía, is the last municipality on the eastern Costa del Sol. :: E. CABEZAS Mayors in the area say they don t want the eastern Costa to be the poor relative There was a railway between Malaga and Vélez until 1968 A company called Ferrocarriles Suburbanos de Malaga was founded with Belgian capital in 1905 to build and run a suburban railway service in Malaga. The line to Torre del Mar opened on 23 January 1908 and was extended to Vélez six months later. There were also plans to link that line with another from Torre del Mar to Zurgena (Almeria), but that never materialised. In 1921 the train reached Periana, and the following year Ventas de Zafarraya (Granada). However, it stopped operating altogether on 22 April First, in 1960, the company suspended the line to Ventas de Zafarraya which, curiously, had been the most complex to build. In 1881 projects were drawn up to link Malaga and Vélez via a tram service. It was the first concession of this type to be granted in Malaga. The tram was supposed to start at Malaga port, cross the Cortina del Muelle, continue along the Malaga to Almeria road to Torre del Mar and run from there to Vélez. In the end, however, it only went as far as El Palo district of Malaga. Support from all parties The Costa del Sol doesn t just run from Malaga to Estepona. It is the stretch between El Palo and Nerja as well, and we need to demand that the railway be extended along the eastern coast too, said Francisco Delgado Bonilla, an MP for Malaga and opposition councillor in Vélez. We re always being left out. The government and the Junta de Andalucía shouldn t only plan for Malaga to Estepona. People from all political parties need to defend the interests of our area, he insisted. The mayor of Torrox, Óscar Medina, feels the same. This is nothing new. We have been saying for a long time that the Axarquía also needs a rail service to Nerja, he said. The mayor of Vélez-Malaga, Antonio Moreno Ferrer, said his party (PP) has been calling for the eastern Costa del Sol to be given equal treatment for a long time, so it is no longer the poor end of the Costa del Sol. The mayor of Nerja, Rosa Arrabal, is also concerned that all the major infrastructure projects are carried out on the western coast. She said she is not against them, but they mustn t forget us. We are the last municipality on the eastern Costa del Sol and it is essential that we have a rail connection with Malaga and the airport, she said. She believes the region needs to remind the Junta de Andalucía and the government that they always need to bear us in mind too.

3 February 9th to 15th 2018 NEWS 3 High speed or local? Experts debate the rail needs of Marbella :: I. LILLO MALAGA. The recent announcements from regional and central governments regarding rail infrastructure have sparked debate in numerous circles about what type of rail service the western Costa del Sol needs: a high speed connection with Malaga and the airport, or an extension of the local Cercanías train. The proposal announced by the central government in Marbella recently involved extending the existing local line from Malaga, which currently stops in Fuengirola, to Marbella and on to Estepona. This option will always have the problem of the bottleneck situation the existing line suffers and which is not easy to solve. Along the stretch of the line between Malaga airport and Fuengirola, only 53 per cent of the route has two sets of tracks. In other words, for half of the route only one train can travel between two stations in either direction at any one time and the proximity to building means that there is little space for the extra line that would improve the service. During his recent visit to Marbella the Public Works Minister, Ïñigo de la Serna, admitted that the existing line was already overcrowded. He said that the improvements to allow the line to take a greater volume of traffic could take the form of building partial duplications, or in other words passing points where space permitted. The minister said that the future line between Fuengirola and Marbella would include stretches underground which would allow for trains to travel at higher speeds. The results of a more detailed study will be announced this summer. British pensioners protest over bank scam that saw them lose all life savings Foreign residents who remortgaged their homes via failed Icelandic bank, Landsbanki, gathered in Marbella at the start of a class action :: SUR MARBELLA. A protest was held outside a Marbella court on Wednesday by a group of foreign pensioners, most of them British, who lost large amounts of money after a bank sold them a financial product that turned out to be toxic. Some 200 retirees, most of whom live on the Costa del Sol, have come together to coordinate legal action against Landsbanki, an Icelandic bank that used to have offices in Marbella and which collapsed in 2008 during the financial crisis. One affected couple are the Bowdens, a former carpenter and teacher, who had chosen to retire to the Vélez-Málaga area from the UK. Home repossession They sought a loan of 6,000 euros for urgent cancer treatment but instead were offered a complicated financial product that involved having their home remortgaged and most of the loan going into a supposedly high-earning investment fund. All the money was lost and with costs the couple now owe 300,000 euros and have also lost their home. Although the case of the Bowdens is the most extreme, many others across Spain were caught out by the product the bank was offering and the group of almost 200, making up most of those affected, have come together under local lawyer Ignacio Infante to organise joint legal action. So far the group have managed to stop around a dozen home foreclosures. The victims protest outside the court in Marbella on Wednesday. :: JOSELE-LANZA On Wednesday the victims of Landsbanki launched a class action counter claim in defence of one of their members in Marbella. Around 30 of them made a noisy protest at the doors of the court during the hearing. Some had travelled a long way and spent the night before in a hotel nearby. Placards in English Some had travelled a long way and spent the night in a hotel nearby and Spanish read, Victims of Landsbanki seek and demand justice. One of those affected, 71-yearold Lesley Milton, originally from London but now living in Alicante, couldn t hide her anger at a situation which has seen her also lose around 300,000 euros. The same feeling was expressed by fellow- Briton, John Kohli. We want to get our money back. We want justice, they said outside the court. Class action All of them have launched a class action against Landsbanki for making them mortgage their homes and using most of the money from the loans to invest in funds, going on to lose them all their money. The financial product that caused so much unhappiness was called Spria II or Sitra II and was sold in Spain by Lex Life via Landsbanki (or its subsidiary in Luxembourg). According to Ignacio Infante, the details of the product were very complicated and the bank didn t carry out any analysis or questionnaire to understand the profile of the person investing, nor did they provide any information on the product. Lawyers for the bank and its liquidators have argued that it was Lex Life that sold the product and that Landsbanki was an intermediary.

4 4 NEWS February 9th to 15th 2018 Staff fear as 20 hooded people raid hospital to free an arrested patient 112 REPORTS Health workers have protested amid an increased sense of insecurity in the La Línea area as drug gangs confidence grows Rescuers and volunteers coordinate the search. :: SUR :: L.G.-S. LA LÍNEA. Health workers in La Línea de la Concepción were in shock this week after a group of around 20 people wearing hoods and carrying sticks and knives stormed the accident and emergency department at the local hospital, removing a patient who was under arrest with a police guard. Unions have said that the level of police protection is inadequate, not just in the hospital but also in the town overall, after a surge in activity by drug gangs recently. The area, alongside Gibraltar, has traditionally been favoured by the gangs bringing ashore drugs from north Africa. The hooded assailants entered the hospital on Tuesday afternoon, assaulting two security guards and pushing their way through the casualty department until they found the patient. The youth was then bundled into a waiting car. Health workers protest at the hospital in La Línea on Wednesday. :: EFE Police said that the freed man is a known offender and had been admitted to the hospital under arrest after falling off his motorbike while fleeing a police checkpoint. They say that another man who was with him when he fell but who had managed to run away told the rest of the gang, who quickly arranged for the hospital to be raided. Two police who were guarding the prisoner were slightly wounded by the hooded gang but managed to detain one of them, while two Guardía Civil officers were also reported injured when a four-wheeldrive vehicle belonging to the gang hit them as the officers were searching the local area afterwards. The mayor of La Línea, Juan Franco, said on Wednesday that a special action plan was needed to reinforce security in the area and also to reduce the high level of local poverty and unemployment, which, he said, was the root cause of the rising levels of drug crime. Search for missing man stepped up after dog found in A-7 tunnel TORREMOLINOS :: A.G. The search is continuing for 32-year-old Antonio Ortega who disappeared in Torremolinos on 22 January while walking his dog. The pet, called Smuky, was found last Sunday running lose in the motorway tunnel near Leader of fake Vatican bank arrested MALAGA :: Á.F. / J. C. National Police have arrested four members of an organisation in Fuengirola that was posing as a financial institution based in the Vatican and belonging to the Catholic Church in order to allegedly obtain and steal funds. According to police sources, Operation Truffa has seen the arrest of three Spanish men and a Colombian who have been accused of fraud, unqualified practice, money laundering and running an illegal organisation. The investigations began as a result of a request for help from Vatican police, where they stated that there was a criminal gang that had been using their identity, image and symbols in order to pose as a bank. Police on the Costa discovered that the suspects had been driving luxury cars with the Vatican s official symbol printed on the side, and, in their Fuengirola offices, they were running several international businesses which claimed to have commercial relations with the Vatican. According to investigators, there were two types of fraud. The first consisted of convincing businesses to invest in projects that would never be carried out. The second involved offering loans at inflated interest rates. When the police arrested the 30-year-old Spanish man believed to be the leader, they found that he had several forged identity papers, including one that claimed he was Cuban ambassador. Churriana, behind Torremolinos, but there was no sign of Antonio. His family are especially worried as he needs to take regular medication. The dog showed signs of having tried to escape from a gully or hole, and the emergency services say this gives them hope that Antonio can still be found. Antonio is described as 180cm tall and weighting 72 kilos. He has short brown hair. Army sexual assault investigation ongoing MALAGA :: J. C. / Á. F. National Police are still investigating two alleged sexual assaults on a female soldier, one of which was carried out by a group with the use of drugs. The army has told police that the victim will undergo a hypnosis session to help her to remember what took place at the Bobadilla barracks, near Antequera in inland Malaga province, on the evening of December 10 and 11. According to the investigation, the victim currently only has vague flashbacks of the event, and remembers one of the two men holding her. When she woke up the following morning, she had a strange hangover which was out of proportion with the amount of alcohol that she had consumed, and therefore suspects she was drugged. Woman murdered by husband never contacted authorities GUADIX :: J. M. Pilar Cabrerizo had not previously made complaints against her husband to police in Guadix, Granada province, nor asked for help from social services. Their neighbours had not reported disturbances, in fact one of them said, they acted like young lovers. Pilar, 56, went to visit her mother on Saturday afternoon, but never returned home. The following morning her husband confessed to police that he had killed her with a hammer.

5 February 9th to 15th 2018 NEWS 5 HERE AND THERE Wyclef Jean latest name on Weekend Beach lineup TORRE DEL MAR :: JENNIE RHODES. Wyclef Jean, best known for being one of the three members of American hip hop group, The Fugees, is the latest confirmation for this year s Weekend Beach music festival in Torre del Mar. The group s biggest hits include, Ready or Not and a cover version of Killing Me Softly, both of which appeared in the UK charts in the mid 1990s, along with their number one album The Score. Jamaican reggae band, Inner Circle have also been added to the lineup. They are best known for their 1987 hit, Bad Boys which was the theme song for 80s American television programme, COPS. Wyclef Jean and Inner Circle join David Guetta on the growing list of internationally renowned artists appearing on the lineup for the festival, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year. Adrián recovering well after three operations VÉLEZ-MÁLAGA :: A. P. Adrián Martín, the Vélez- Málaga boy who rose to fame after a video of him singing with his sister appeared on YouTube, is recovering well from the three operations he had in January. Adrián has suffered from hydrocephalus (liquid on the brain) from birth. He was admitted to hospital on 21 January complaining of severe headaches, three days after his 13th birthday. Adrián Martín. :: SUR Balcón de Europa among Spain s top 10 miradors NERJA :: E. C. Travel website TripAdvisor has named Nerja s Balcón de Europa Spain s sixth best parador. The list, which TripAdvisor explained is based on travellers trips and comments, produced a top 10 list of miradors in Spain, with the number one spot going to Cangas de Onís in Asturias, followed by Alcalá de Henares in Madrid. Nerja is the only place in Andalucía to appear on the list. Foreign residents make up one third of sewage treatment plant protesters Supreme Court annuls former mayor s 8.5 year public office ban The demonstration was organised by the town hall to demand that work start again to complete the project :: EUGENIO CABEZAS NERJA. More than 700 people participated in last Saturday s protest through the streets of Nerja over the ongoing delays to the town s sewage treatment plant, according to local police sources. Around one third of those who turned out were foreign residents, which represents the percentage of non-spanish people living in the town. However, the Guardia Civil estimated that there were just 400 people involved in Saturday s demonstration. The protest was organised by Nerja town hall s governing tripartite coalition, formed by the socialist PSOE, left wing Izquierda Unida and EVA- Podemos political parties. Mayor of Nerja, Rosa Arrabal, was joined by socialist politicians from Malaga and the Junta de Andalucía at the demonstration. Vital for tourism Nerja s Ciudadanos councillor, Mari Carmen López, along with Manuel Carrillo, the party s local coordinator, gave the message that the government needs to listen to the people of Nerja who have turned out in huge numbers to demand an end to this fundamental project from the Saturday s protest started at Nerja town hall and ended at the sewage treatment plant. :: E. CABEZAS point of view of the environment and tourism. However, there was no representation from the opposition Partido Popular (PP), who claimed that the protest was politically opportunistic and inappropriate. A spokesperson for the party added that Spain s central government had shown its firm and decisive will to restart the work with a view to completing the project soon. Nerja is the only large town in Malaga province not to have its own sewage treatment plant and the project has remained at 76 per cent complete since July 2017, when the company overseeing the work, Isolux-Corsán-Corviam, was declared bankrupt. Bearing banners with the slogan Depuadora Ya (treatment plant now), the protesters convened outside Nerja town hall, before walking along Calle Carmen, Puerta del Mar, Pintada and Avenida de Pescia. The protest finished at the site of the unfinished plant, in the Fuente del Badén area of the town. :: SUR MADRID. Spain s supreme court annulled on Wednesday the eight-and-a-half-year ban on holding public office given to former mayor of Alcaucín, José Manuel Martín Alba, for his part in the granting of illegal licences to build homes on rural land belonging to the town hall. The supreme court in Madrid ruled that there was insufficient evidence against Martín Alba in the sentence given on 23 December 2016 by a court in Malaga which found him guilty him of perversion of justice in the granting of licences to build four homes on non-urbanisable, or rural land during the early 2000s. During the hearing it was suggested that an alternative hypothesis exists which suggests that the licences, as well as permission to connect the homes to mains water supply, were issued due to bureaucratic inertia, rather than tacit collusion between the town hall and housing companies. The supreme court highlighted the fact that the then mayor didn t give formal or official consent to any of the four licences, given that official documents were never signed. The court in Madrid concluded that there were a number of possible explanations as to why the licences were granted but said the idea that there were specific arbitrary objectives was unclear.

6 6 NEWS February 9th to 15th 2018 HERE AND THERE Damage caused to archaeological site FUENGIROLA :: I. G. Fuengirola town hall has said that the collapse of part of a wall on the Termas de Torreblanca Roman baths archaeological site has been caused by the roots of a large bougainvillea plant. It was first suggested that the damage to the remains of the Roman ruins, which were declared an asset of cultural interest (BIC) by the Junta de Andalucía in 2005, was due to the recent rainfall. Inspectors from the Culture department at the Junta visited the site last week to analyse the measures to be taken to properly preserve it. With authorisation from the Junta, work will be carried out to return the wall to its original position, said town hall sources. They also said that cleaning work was the first part of a wider project to better preserve and improve the ruins, which date back to the 1st century AD. The damaged wall of the Roman baths. :: I. G. Three million increase in local budget this year FUENGIROLA :: I. G. Fuengirola council passed its 2018 budget on Tuesday, with votes from the ruling Partido Popular councillors. Mayor Ana Mula explained that the budget allowed for investment of nine million euros, three million euros more than last year. Sums have been set aside for road improvements (1.5 million), as well as work on parks and beaches and a new cultural facility, among other projects. Fuengirola Mercacentro traders say council has abandoned market Stallholders in indoor market maintain that the town hall wants to get rid of them and is letting the stalls die by not renovating them More than 65% of the market stalls stand empty. :: I. G. :: IVÁN GELIBTER FUENGIROLA. Fuengirola s indoor market, Mercacentro, has 99 stalls, of which only 30 are currently open. In the last month three have closed down due to lack of trade, despite the market s prime location in the town centre. Stallholders have blamed the lack of business in the market on the local council, which, they say, is neglecting the building so that the traders give up their stalls and it can be used for new ventures. One of the traders, José Manuel Escalona, said that the problem dated back to the days of former mayor Esperanza Oña. They told us then that a private firm was going to pay for renovation work when it took over the building, but that promise came to nothing, he explained. Some days I only take 10 euros and I have to pay an employee, he added. They ve told us that they can t spend any more on Mercacentro because the people don t want them to. I think they want to let us die so that they can set something else up here, he said. Escalona added that the building is in a pitiful state and needs urgent work. He also said that they weren t allowed to rent the counters to anyone showing an interest, and that when a stall has been empty two months the lease is recovered by the council. Fishmonger Antonio Peinado is equally concerned. He has a 40-year lease with nine years left. As we paid in full in the first ten years, now they aren t making any money out of us and that s the issue, he said. Neither Escalona nor Peinado likes the idea of the traders paying a private firm to renovate the building themselves, but they say that not even that option has been possible. Why can t they do as in other places, like Malaga, where the council has invested in doing up the markets? they asked. Fuengirola town hall has said that the building has no problems that prevent commercial activity from taking place there. No interior improvement or remodelling project has been undertaken because the traders want to change the layout and all move to the ground floor. That is only possible by changing the conditions of the concession: a reduction in square metres and financial conditions, said the authority in a statement. So far, said the town hall, not all of the concession holders have individually accepted these new conditions. Proposals made by the Ciudadanos political group to include funds in the 2018 council budget to improve the Mercacentro building were rejected when the accounts were passed this week. Some Torreblanca owners have won their battle against charges. :: I. G. Andalusian high court rules that Torreblanca owners should not pay for works The TSJA has annulled an agreement that obliged residents in part of the area to pay for infrastructure improvements :: I. GELIBTER FUENGIROLA. The Andalusain high court, TSJA, has annulled an infrastructure plan involving part of the Torreblanca area of Fuengirola, in a response to an appeal filed by home owners in a case that dates back to The ruling, published last Friday, means that home owners in Lomas de Torreblanca (API-02) do not have to pay for the infrastructure improvements included in a special PEDI plan, which was agreed with the Junta s planning commission and the town hall to allow the approval of a modification of the town s PGOU. The town hall has said that it was expecting this outcome of the case and that it shared the demands of the owners who appealed. According to official sources the town hall had already, in March 2014, agreed on a rectification of the part of the PEDI that affected the contributions from property owners. The sources went on to say that the town hall had called for the suspension of the case as the error had been rectified. Almost a year ago, another group of Torreblanca residents (sector PMI-2) were relieved when the town hall temporarily suspended the charges it was going to make for road and utility improvements. These charges amounted to an average of 6,000 euros per household, depending on the property values.

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8 8 NEWS February 9th to 15th 2018 Improvement plan launched for La Paloma park after complaints New poll suggests rise in support for Ciudadanos in Mijas since last elections The town hall will invest 150,000 euros to improve one of Benalmádena s most popular spots :: ALBERTO GÓMEZ BENALMÁDENA. La Paloma park, one of Benalmádena s largest green areas, is to undergo a facelift in the coming months after continued complaints from residents led the town hall to take action. The council has approved a 155,000-euro plan to improve the park which receives thousands of visitors every day. The investment will pay for existing structures in a state of disrepair to be replaced; the installation of more benches, wastebins, kerbs and a new watering system for the cacti; updating measures to protect against legionella; and the acquisition of new types of plants and trees, including bamboos, succulents and palm trees. Furthermore, new informative plaques will be installed on sculptures and in areas of interest, while the growing hen population will see the creation of a specially-adapted area for them. The park will have a new area for its growing hen population. :: A. G. The town hall has also decided to replace the play park, which didn t meet safety regulations, as well as increase security at the weekends. An increasing number of complaints from residents have been directed at the town hall in recent months, complaining that the park, ranked in the top 25 in the world in 2014 according to TripAdvisor, was creating a bad image for the town. They complained that cuts to public spending on cleaning and maintenance of green areas has caused a deterioration in the area. The response has been this year to increase spending in these areas by 360,000 euros, with the opposition PP and Vecinos por Benalmádena also applying political pressure. :: IVÁN GELIBTER MIJAS. An opinion poll, conducted by SW Demoscopia and to which SUR has been granted exclusive access, shows that support for Ciudadanos (C s) in Mijas has grown since the last elections in C s mayor, Juan Carlos Maldonado, who was first installed as part of a coalition agreement with the PP and later the PSOE, was considered, according to the poll, the best leader, obtaining a score of He is ahead of the PSOE s Fuensanta Lima (5.28) and former PP mayor Ángel Nozal (5.16). Lima, however, will not be a candidate in the next elections as she was named a senator on Wednesday. The survey, which sampled 600 people across Mijas (Las Lagunas, Mijas Pueblo, La Cala and various urbanisations ) both in person and over the phone, found that if the next election were now, the C s would gain a 33.7 per cent share of the vote and between 9 and 10 THE FIGURES C S 9 CSSP 1 Projection PP 8 PSOE 7 C S 9 CSSP 1 PP PSOE councillors. It also showed that the PP s 11 councillors from 2015 would reduce to between 7 and 8 with a 27.8 per cent vote share. These figures come as a boost to the Ciudadanos party for whom Mijas is the largest municipality under their control. 7 Estimated Councillors Councillors vote share (%) Sample of 600 people taken in January 2018 with a margin of error of +/- 3.9% C s and PSOE councillors have been in power for over a year. :: I. G. HERE AND THERE Malaga issues first fines to dog owners who haven t registered DNA MALAGA :: F. JIMÉNEZ. Local Police in Malaga city have started issuing fines to dog owners whose pets have not been registered on the local DNA census. At the same time the local authorities have started collecting samples of dog excrement found in the streets in order to identify the owners using the DNA census. The new Torremolinos IBI refunds imminent TORREMOLINOS :: A. G. Residents of Torremolinos who have not yet received a refund on their local housing tax (IBI) should get their money back imminently. Town hall sources say that the process to return money paid by residents before they found out if they were eligible for a subsidyis in its final stages. The town hall also points out that the six-month period established by law to process payments has not yet expired. animal ownership bylaw came into force in May but the council gave owners a grace period to comply with the regulations. So far however there are only around 20,000 dogs on the census, of a population of around 98,000. Meanwhile the pet protection new law that came into force in Spain last week prohibits any form of surgery on pets that isn t for therapeutic or neutering purposes. This makes cosmetic operations such as tail-docking or ear-clipping illegal. The new law also prohibits giving away pets as prizes or rewards. Las Lagunas squatters removed after two years MIJAS :: I. G. Mijas town hall has moved to clear one of the buildings on Calle Clavel in Las Lagunas of squatters who had been causing mayhem for nearby residents. Local Police officers alongside staff from Social Services and mayor Juan Carlos Maldonado entered the building and asked the occupiers if they would leave voluntarily after causing two years of uncertainty in the area. After they left, the doors and windows were bricked up.

9 February 9th to 15th 2018 NEWS 9 More stretches of new coastal pathway to get under way In Estepona work has begun on a key section at Las Dunas hotel, while Marbella council has started a public consultation on a part passing through its area :: CHARO MÁRQUEZ / MÓNICA PÉREZ ESTEPONA / MARBELLA. Work has started in Estepona on a 130- metre stretch of seaside pathway by the Las Dunas hotel which is key to linking up existing sections of path in the municipality at Hacienda Beach and Cabo Bermejo. Once Building work starts alongside the Las Dunas hotel, Estepona. :: C.M. this short length is finished it will join up the other two sections to create almost three kilometres of new coastal walkway east of Estepona town. The path is part of the ambitious plan to have a coastal walkway the length of the entire Costa del Sol. Eventually all 22 kilometres of shoreline in Estepona will have a footpath. Meanwhile in neighbouring Marbella, to the east, the local town hall has reactivated its plans to build the stretches of path that will run along its coastline and connect into the main Costa project. There are still 12.5 kilometres to be laid out in Marbella and few new stretches have been put in in the last three years. Marbella council has announced that a public consultation has started on the stretch that will connect El Pinillo beach with the Río Real area, east of the town centre. The PP-led council blames the previous three-party coalition under the PSOE party for the failure to advance plans for the path since HERE AND THERE Museo del Grabado to regain state aid MARBELLA :: MÓNICA PÉREZ. The mayor of Marbella, Ángeles Muñoz, has said that the council-run art gallery dedicated to prints and sketches, the Museo del Grabado, is to be granted state aid again to expand its current premises. In total one million euros will be allocated from government budgets over two years. Madrid had originally allocated funds in its 2016 budget for the long-awaited extension, however work was never started by the town hall. The mayor says that she will carry out the extension as soon as possible. Council takes steps so that Starlite s quarry venue can be used for other events :: MÓNICA PÉREZ MARBELLA. Councillors in Marbella have drawn up a draft set of terms and conditions for the outdoor venue currently used only by the annual Starlite Festival to be rented out for other events during the year. The large open-air space, an old quarry on the hillside above the Nagüeles area of the resort, is the home of Starlite in July and August; now the council has published on its website a list of proposed guidelines for using the site for other events so members of the public can give comments prior to its approval. The old quarry is in an environmentally sensitive area and its owner, the Junta de Andalucía, leases it to the council which wants to see it used more often. Meanwhile the council has approved the designation of the Starlite Festival as of special interest, which means that normal licensing rules and opening times can be relaxed. The proposal, as previously reported by SUR in English, aims to keep the festival in the town after organisers claimed that current restrictions on the after-concert lounge area were making the series of concerts unviable. Despite Starlite s new status, the council has yet to decide officially what the opening timetable can be. Faced with criticism from opposition councillors over the granting of the special status, council spokesperson, Félix Romero, said, This isn t a declaration that s been made out of thin air. A full administrative report has been carried out using a study by town hall staff. MARBELLA TAKES DOWN OFFENDING A-7 BILLBOARDS :: SUR Workers have been busy dismantling 14 illegal advertising hoardings along the A-7 motorway in Marbella over the last two months. Another 15 are expected to be removed this month. The council says that many of the large billboards along the coastal road don t have planning permission and are harming the resort s image. New versus old. :: FIRMA Marbella buys 350 large new litter bins MARBELLA :: SUR. Councillor for Street Cleansing in Marbella, Diego López has unveiled the new, larger litter bins that the council has bought. In total 350 have been acquired and they will be installed in the busiest areas, including Puerto Banús and the Old Town. López said that the smaller, current bins, with a capacity of 30 litres of rubbish, have to be emptied up to four times a day and fill up quickly in high season, causing litter to build up on the street. In contrast, the new bins have a capacity of 120 litres. He explained that the new containers are more accessible, hygienic and easier to use. Council misses the boat on Cabopino port MARBELLA :: MÓNICA PÉREZ. Bureaucracy continues to blight the upkeep of Cabopino marina despite Marbella council s wish to take over running the port. Only basic upkeep is being done while the Junta de Andalucía, which owns the site, sets up a tender process for a new long-term licencee after the last concession expired two years ago. Now the Junta says that, due to delays, a temporary contract of four years was put out to tender last year but the council didn t apply. That concession is also being disputed by one of the applicants.

10 10 NEWS February 9th to 15th 2018 I have no experience, but I m willing to learn and need a chance A transsexual talks of the difficulty in finding work: There is a lot of discrimination The hotel has received more than 40 CVs since the agreement with ATA was announced They are stigmatised; people can t see beyond stereotypes, says the hotel director ALBERTO GÓMEZ TORREMOLINOS Sonia, who is 32, works as a cleaner at the Hotel Ritual, which has recently signed a pioneering agreement to give jobs to transsexuals She arrived for the interview in a state of nerves. She had been unemployed for a year, as a result of the prejudice which makes it difficult for transsexuals to find work. At every attempt, she came up against the same wall. The glances, the whispers, the disapproving or condescending gestures. Finding a job began to feel like mission impossible, and she responded to any hint of empathy like a shipwreck survivor pulled onto a liferaft. That is why, when Sonia thought she detected a sense of understanding from Chica, who runs Hotel Ritual in Torremolinos, she was absolutely honest. I have no experience as a cleaner, but I m willing to learn. I need a chance, she said. And they gave her one. The hotel owners had already told- Chica they were in favour of contracting transsexuals, a group which suffers double discrimination when they try to find work. I have been very lucky because my family have always supported me, but I know some people who feel very alone, says Sonia. Often bullied and criticised at school, the adult world can also be hellish for those who change gender. Just as you think everything is over, you start another battle, she explains. After the interview Chica asked Sonia to take a training course which the company would pay for and then took her on in August, at the height of the tourist season. She did so well Sonia with Chica, who gave her a job at the Hotel Ritual when she went for an interview. :: A. G. that we kept her on in the winter, she says. Sonia is employed as a cleaner in the first hotel in Spain to sign a contract guaranteeing training and jobs for transsexuals, but she knows that many others in her situation end up as prostitutes. The director of Ritual, David Taboas, has received more than 40 CVs since the agreement with the Association of Transsexuals of Andalucía (ATA) was announced recently. They are stigmatised. People can t see beyond stereotypes. Many transsexuals end up on the streets, but the situation is especially difficult when they are older, he says. Of course I have suffered discrimination, says Sonia who before joining the Hotel Ritual had worked in a hamburger restaurant. I never wanted to do night work, in bars or New LGTBI law comes into force in Andalucía :: IVÁN GELIBTER MALAGA Earlier this week Andalucía became a pioneer in Europe by introducing a law to guarantee the rights, equal treatment and non-discrimination against gays, lesbians, transsexuals, bisexuals and intersexuals. Under this new law fines of between 6,000 and 120,000 euros, depending on the severity of the case, can be imposed if LGTBI people are subjected to hatred or discrimination. This is one of the most controversial aspects in the process of drawing up a national law in this respect, because some political parties are against fines being issued. LGTBI associations, however, say people will not comply with the law if there is no penalty for breaking it. discos, but I understand how difficult it is to find anything else. She lives in Malaga city, but travels to Torremolinos every day because she hasn t been able to find a job nearer home. A report drawn up by Malaga University in 2010 showed that more than 70 per cent of transsexual people lack opportunities in finding a job, and the situation is worse for older people. The pioneering agreement between Ritual and the ATA also includes internal promotion. We want transsexuals to hold management posts, and we offer them training for that, says David Taboas. The Hotel Ritual opened last year as a gay friendly establishment. In peak season, more than 90 per cent of its clients are members of the LGTBI collective. The agreement with ATA has inadvertantly brought them even more business. We didn t expect such a response, we really didn t, says David. He points out that many businesses in Torremolinos are making major efforts for this to become an inclusive and dynamic destination again, so he is especially upset by recent comments by the former mayor and president of the local Partido Popular, Pedro Fernández Montes, describing gay tourism, and the promotion of the town, as low class. Our company has invested more than 22 million euros in remodelling this hotel. Now we have 70 employees, whereas before there were 30. The rooms have been revalued, with prices ranging from 50 euros to 300 a night. This is not low-class tourism at all. There used to be one grocery shop here and now there are two, and all the bars and restaurants have more clients, so we think it s a shame that the PP has not disassociated itself from those comments, says David. The president of ATA, Mar Cambrollé, says transsexuals face apartheid when trying to find work. The association wants the Junta de Andalucía to stop looking the other way and bring the Integral Law of Transsexuality, which was approved in 2014, into force to provide tax incentives to encourage companies to employ transsexuals. Hopefully one day all this will not be necessary, says Sonia, and we will have the same opportunities as everyone else.

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12 12 NEWS February 9th to 15th 2018 Cristóbal, the five-year-old boy who survived La Desbandá Now aged 86, he clearly remembers the week in which his life took an unexpected turn towards poverty and war FERNANDO TORRES MALAGA. That night, they were going to eat green beans and boiled egg. For him it was a treat, one of his favourite dishes, but something went wrong. At just five years old, he couldn t understand why his parents left the pot on the stove, grabbed him and started running. He soon realised that they were not the only ones. From his house in the Plaza de la Merced to the Carretera de Almería he was astonished to see that hundreds of people were running, just like them, leaving everything behind. There was shouting, fear and confusion, and the start of the seven hardest days ever for little Cristóbal Moya and the more than 150,000 people from Malaga who fled the city on 7 February 1937, the day of La Desbandá. For days the population had been hearing General Queipo de Llano broadcasting the imminent conquest of red Malaga, at the height of the Civil War. The republican militia had already abandoned the front and in the mountains the bonfires lit by nationalist troops could be seen. Now aged 86, Cristóbal Moya recalls those days with astonishing clarity. He has studied in depth what caused people to flee at that exact moment, but he only remembers hearing people shout: They re coming! and then panic broke out. On 7 February, the Sunday of carnival week, everything sparked off and people decided to set off for Almeria from where they could reach the Levante region, a republican zone. As they walked along the road between Malaga and Almeria, Spanish, German and Italian planes bombed them. Between 3,000 and 5,000 were killed. Cristóbal has relived those days many times during his life and has documented them in different books and paintings. One is called La huida que me tocó vivir, about fleeing Malaga. On the front page is a photograph of him with his parents just after they reached safety in Valencia, and inside there is a poem in which he recalls what that episode was like through the eyes of the children. Siete días (Seven days) reflects the anguish which he and many others witnessed. Those were the seven most terrible days, when we were trying to reach Almeria... they were bombing the road from planes and ships, we were very hungry, our feet were covered in sores, my mother s legs were bleeding. Nowadays, Cristóbal lives a peaceful life with his wife Antonia Muñoz in the Ciudad Jardín district of Malaga. He still becomes emotional when he thinks about La Desbandá. I saw people killing their children because of the shrapnel. One woman picked up two rocks and started to hit herself on the head with them because she didn t want to go on any more. They took me away so I couldn t see; it was terrible. At this point, he apologises: I always get upset when I talk about this, I can t help it, he says, as he dries his tears. Cristóbal remembers being so cold and hungry that his father carried him on his back to El Palo (about six kilometres) even though he was weak himself. There was a lot of noise. Some people were shouting, others crying, many of the older people couldn t walk, he recalls. There were Cristóbal Moya, with one of his books and a photo with his parents after La Desbandá. :: F. TORRES He and his family managed to reach Valencia, where they spent the rest of the war so many people. My mother and I lost sight of my father several times. He remembers an elderly man who was riding a donkey and suggested to Cristóbal s mother that he should do the same for a while, to rest. Despite the tragic circumstances, he was excited about this. I was happy, not be- CEREMONY TO PAY TRIBUTE TO THE THOUSANDS WHO DIED The 81st anniversary of La Desbandá was marked by a ceremony at El Peñon del Cuervo, attended by about 100 people including the mayor of Malaga, Francisco de la Torre. After speeches to pay tribute to the victims, there was a short musical concert and red carnations were thrown into the sea to remember those who lost their lives while fleeing from Malaga to Almeria. cause I wasn t walking any more but because I was riding a donkey, he says. As the road became more difficult, the ditches began to be filled with personal belongings and valuable items, because they had become too much to carry. When they reached Torre del Mar, they began to notice a far-off noise, loud and continual. Nobody knew what it was, until someone said: Those are engines! Planes had arrived to try to stop them going any further, and the subsequent bombardment killed hundreds. At that time, Cristóbal was walking with his maternal grandfather, who they had met on the road. He pulled me under a prickly pear bush and lay on top of me. When it was all over, I cried because of all the thorns, but he said: You re alive, you re alive! He had saved my life. One of his paintings shows bombs falling from the German planes and the bodies piled in the ditch. It s awful to remember. The machine guns tore people to pieces, he says. After reaching Almeria they went by train to Alicante, where they were treated as refugees. Against all expectations, they finally made it to Valencia, where they spent the rest of the war as survivors of La Desbandá. :: F. GONZÁLEZ

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14 14 NEWS February 9th to 15th 2018 Malaga is still one of Spain s best cities for culture, according to experts The Museo Picasso is the most valued Andalusian cultural institution, according to a report published by Fundación Contemporánea The Malaga Museo Picasso was the highest ranked Andalucían institution in :: SALVADOR SALAS :: ANTONIO J. LÓPEZ MALAGA. Malaga has maintained its position as the Spanish city with the fifth best cultural attractions in the latest study by Fundación Contemporánea. The report analyses the quality and innovation of the cultural centres and events offered by Spain s towns and cities. The three highest positions remain unchanged from the previous year (Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao), Valencia has climbed from sixth to fourth position and Malaga has maintained fifth place. The findings were compiled from a questionnaire submitted by over a thousand professionals working in the cultural sector, who were invited to write about the cities, organisations and projects which, in their opinion, are the most important nationally. This year one of their choices was the Museo Picasso Málaga, which this year is the highest ranked in Malaga, having gained 11 points, rising from 27th to 16th on a national level. Regarding institutions in Malaga, in the national ranking the Museo Picasso Málaga is followed by the Centre Pompidou Málaga (which gained seven positions to rise to number 24) and the Malaga Film Festival, which entered the list at 38. Those were the only entries from Malaga in the national table. On a regional level, the Picasso Museum rose two positions to claim the top spot. The Año Murillo, which celebrated the work of the Spanish Baroque painter in Seville, claimed second position and in third place was the Festival de Málaga. This bronze medal is shared with the Centre Pompidou Málaga (which climbed two places) and with the Carmen Thyssen museum, thanks to its excellent exhibition on Juan Gris and María Blanchard, which was frequently cited in the responses. The Colección del Museo Ruso rose two positions to gain sixth place, while CAC Málaga fell five places and is now in seventh position. The Museum of Malaga fell four places, and now shares ninth place with the Centre of Andalusian Contemporary Art in Seville. La Térmica cultural centre in Malaga is in tenth position in the regional listing, sharing its place with the Granada Music and Dance Festival, the Caixaforum exhibition centre and the Maestranza theatre in Seville, and the Alhambra and Generalife in Granada. A COFFEE: BITCOINS The Hermanos Madrid bar in the La Roca neighbourhood of Malaga now accepts Bitcoin as a form of payment. The owners, the Madrid brothers, are convinced that it will soon be commonly accepted, and that their bar will have been the first in the province to embrace the future. THE CITIES IN 2017 Position Change 1. Madrid = 2. Barcelona = 3. Bilbao = 4. Valencia Malaga = 6. Seville San Sebastián Santander Zaragoza Valladolid +4 THE INSTITUTIONS Position Change 1. Museo Reina Sofía Museo del Prado Museo Guggenheim Festival de San Sebastián Teatro Real Museo Thyssen Centro Botín (new) 8. Caixaforum PHotoEspaña +1 (...) 16. Museo Picasso Málaga +11 (...) 24. Centre Pompidou Málaga +7 (...) 38. Festival de Málaga (new) :: FERNANDO TORRES

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16 16 NEWS February 9th to 15th 2018 King Felipe praises modern Malaga on city visit for arts awards ANTONIO JAVIER The development of the city into a benchmark for culture was a recurring theme at the presentation of Gold Medals for Achievement in Fine Art MALAGA. Malaga represents an admirable paradox: that of being one of the oldest cities in Europe while at the same time one of the most modern. These were the words of King Felipe, barely three sentences into his speech during the presentation of Gold Medals for Achievements in Fine Art, which recognised the work of a score of creators and cultural institutions at The king, during his speech. :: F. G. a ceremony held in the city s Centre Pompidou gallery on Tuesday. It underlined not only the monarch s admiration for the city which he described as cherished by himself and Queen Letizia (who was also in attendance), but also the progress it has made to become a benchmark on Spain s cultural scene - in the words of actor José Coronado, who spoke on behalf of the award winners. Felipe VI also took the opportunity to give his backing to the Centre Pompidou s link to the city. He welcomed the news that the French cultural centre, whose president Serge Lasvignes was seated in the front row, had recently renewed its commitment to the city until 2020 but hoped that it wouldn t just be a modern utopia, as the new permanent exhibition is called, but rather a a reality for many more years to come. Winners of the Gold Medals for Achievements in Fine Art with the king Prize winners The prizes for 2016 were dished out to a broad spectrum of artists, performers and institutions. The list included fashion designer Lorenzo Caprile; actors José Coronado and Ricardo Darín; singer Gloria Estefan; guitarist José Fernández Tomatito ; the Fundación Duques de Soria de Ciencia y Cultura Hispánica; dancer Rafael Amargo; chef Pedro Subijana; singer José Iranzo Bielsa Pastor de Andorra (posthumous); bullfighter Julián López El Juli ; actress Magüi Mira; the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philippe de Montebello; the Orfeón Pamplonés choir; the director of the Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico, Helena Pimenta; tpianist María Martha Argerich; editor Manuel Borrás; harpist María Rosa Calvo; the director of the San Sebastián Jazz Festival Miguel Martín; industrial designer Miquel Milà i Sagnier; poet Julia Uceda; and the editor and cultural promoter Leopoldo Mugaza. Gloria Estefan, Ricardo Darín and Philippe de Montebello were unable to attend the ceremony because

17 February 9th to 15th 2018 NEWS 17 and queen at the centre, flanked by various authorities. :: FERNANDO GONZÁLEZ of various professional and personal reasons. A better society We are fortunate doing what we are doing, said Coronado, who stressed that what they all had in common was the values of humility, solidarity, responsibility, respect and love for the job. He insisted that these were necessary for a better, fairer, healthier, more united and more cultured society. This was a sentiment echoed by the minister for Education, Culture and Sport, Íñigo Méndez de Vigo, who said: Culture is the soul of the Spanish nation. The life. We have experienced how its force, its innovation, its history, its art, its music, its cinema, its books... make up Spain s identity. The Centre Pompidou was closed on Monday as preparations were made for the ceremony. As an introduction the night before, the award winners attended a special dinner at the Aduana palace, hosted by the minister. Tuesday s event began at 11.30am with the arrival of the king and queen, who were accompanied by the city s mayor, Francisco de la Torre; Méndez de Vigo; and the president of the Andalusian government, Susana Díaz. Díaz highlighted the three Andalusians among the medal winners: poet Julia Uceda, guitarist Tomatito and dancer Rafael Amargo. She said: Spain is a country rich in talent, and Andalucía a land filled with creativity, genius and skill. De la Torre used the painting of Peter Doig, 100 years ago (2001), which presided over the ceremony, as a metaphor for the city: Peter Doig is a painter of freedom and surprise. These are the two features which can sum up the city of today which welcomes you. The king stopped for selfies. :: F. GONZÁLEZ Queen Letizia attended the event. :: F. GONZÁLEZ Crowds formed despite the cold. :: F. GONZÁLEZ

18 18 NEWS February 9th to 15th 2018 THE WEEK IN PICTURES :: JOSELE-LANZA PROTEST TO PROTECT PALM TREES Around fifty people gathered on Paseo de las Palmeras in San Pedro to protest against plans to move the palm trees elsewhere. ::SUR ROCK IS AN ATTITUDE, NOT A COSTUME Thousands of people hit the streets and attended various venues across Torremolinos for the Rockin Race Jamboree. The 24th edition of the popular 50s rock n roll event ran from 1 to 4 February. Acts included Chris Montez, Wayne Hancock, James Intveld, Scotty Baker and Untamed Youth. ANIMAL RIGHTS PROTEST IN MALAGA :: FRANCIS SILVA Over 700 people gathered in the streets of Malaga to protest against the tradition of hunting with greyhounds. Thousands of the dogs are abandoned or killed at the end of every February, and protesters want their rights to be defended. CARNIVAL CROWNS ITS GODS :: FERNANDO GONZÁLEZ Amid incredible costumes, traditional folk songs and copious amounts of confetti, the new Dios Momo and Diosa del Carnaval were crowned in Malaga.

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20 20 NEWS February 9th to 15th 2018 IN BRIEF Generous donation for Taourarte charity GIBRALTAR :: D. B. The Taourarte Education Charitable Association has received a donation of 4,000 from Mark Randall, from the sale of his book On Ancient Trails which recounts his travels on his pilgrimage from Gibraltar to Jerusalem in The association says it is truly thankful to Mark for his generosity. He had already gifted the charity 7,000 raised from sponsorship of his epic 7,450-kilometre journey. HMS Queen Elizabeth in port this weekend Dr Joseph Garcia (left) and Fabian Picardo (right) with David Lidington. :: SUR Brexit talks between Gibraltar and the UK resume in London GIBRALTAR :: D. B. The Royal Navy s new aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, will visit Gibraltar this weekend during month-long sea trials. The ship, which cost over three billion pounds to build and equip, will anchor off the Western Arm of the port. A notice to mariners issued by the Gibraltar Port Authority says the aircraft carrier is expected to arrive on Friday and will leave on Monday. There will be a 150-metre exclusion zone around the ship while in port. Among other meetings, Picardo and Garcia brought David Lidington up to date on how the latest developments will affect Gibraltar :: DEBBIE BARTLETT GIBRALTAR. The chief minister and deputy chief minister of Gibraltar, Fabian Picardo and Dr Joseph Garcia, held further talks about Brexit in London this week. One of the meetings was with David Lidington MP, who was the longest-serving Minister for Europe with responsibility for Gibraltar and is now the Minister for the Cabinet Office. Picardo and Garcia were able to update Lidington on how the latest Brexit developments since he took up his post will affect Gibraltar. The Gibraltar delegation to London for these discussions included attorney general Michael Llamas, financial secretary Albert Mena and UK representative Dominique Searle, while the UK delegation included senior officials from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for Exiting the European Union. Meanwhile, as part of the Gibraltar government s wish to develop further links with Commonwealth countries prior to Brexit, Garcia also held separate meetings in London with the Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Baroness Scotland, and the UK Minister responsible for the Commonwealth, Lord Ahmad. The deputy chief minister explained Gibraltar s contribution to organisations such as the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, the Commonwealth Telecommunications Union and the Commonwealth Games, and he highlighted how the values, traditions and history of Commonwealth resonate in Gibraltar, where the people are proud of these connections with Commonwealth countries. Commenting after the meetings in London, Garcia said that Baroness Scotland was already well-informed about Gibraltar in general, particularly given her tenure as UK Minister of States for the Overseas Territories. He said he had also been pleased to meet Lord Ahmad, a former Minister for Aviation again, as his new role also includes responsibility for British Overseas Territories. The Government is keen to develop further our links with Commonwealth organisations and different Commonwealth countries at a time when we prepare to leave the European Union, he said. Bus drivers urged not to leave engines running GIBRALTAR :: D. B. Bus drivers in Gibraltar are being asked not to leave their engines running while they are at bus terminals, to improve the local air quality. No bus idling signs have been put up at terminals all over the Rock as a reminder. The move, which comes at the request of the Ministry of Planning and Infrastructure and the Department of the Environment, will also reduce fuel consumption and carbon emissions.

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22 22 NEWS February 9th to 15th 2018 Campaigners in Spain praise Dutch court s action on Britons rights in EU A group of British residents in Holland say they have rights that Brexit cannot touch and a top EU court will now give a definitive decision Briton Stephen Huyton has lived in Holland for 24 years. :: AFP :: / AFP MALAGA. Groups campaigning for the rights of Britons living in Spain after Brexit have praised a decision by a court in the Netherlands to refer a test case over those rights to the European Court of Justice (ECJ). The Luxembourg-based ECJ, the highest court in the European Union, will now be forced to rule on whether Britons in Europe have existing, guaranteed rights within the EU that cannot be taken away by Brexit negotiations. Sue Wilson, Chair of Bremain in Spain, said, The question regarding our EU citizenship rights has kept many Brits awake at night. The purpose of the case was to determine whether EU citizenship stands alone or is tied inextricably to EU membership. Would we automatically lose our EU citizenship rights if the UK was no longer a member state? Our hope was a referral to the ECJ, so this is a great result. The case was brought to the court in Amsterdam last month by five British nationals living in the Netherlands and two expatriate organisations, (Brexpats-Hear our Voice and the Commercial Anglo Dutch Society). It focuses in particular on Article 20 of the Treaty of Lisbon which states that, Every person holding the nationality of a Member State shall be a citizen of the Union. Citizenship of the Union shall be additional to and not replace national citizenship. The Dutch judges have now asked the ECJ to rule on two questions. Firstly, whether Brexit means that British nationals automatically lose their EU citizenship or will maintain their rights, and secondly, if they maintain those rights, under what conditions. Stephen Huyton, one of the Britons who backed the legal action, said that it was now up to the ECJ judges to rule and clarify what exactly it means to be a European citizen. He believes that, as EU citizens, Britons resident in Europe should still enjoy the right to free movement between EU member states after Britain leaves. Currently the rights of Britons in the EU are being negotiated as part of the UK s Brexit arrangements. Although a draft agreement states that many existing rights would be maintained after Brexit, Britons rights are currently being negotiated between London and Brussels some issues, such as whether Britons living in one EU country could freely move to live in another EU country, or if that right would be lost, have yet to be finalised. Impact on negotiations Observers say that if the ECJ rules in favour of the British nationals in the Netherlands and says that Britons living in the EU have individual rights as European citizens, this could have an important impact on the ongoing negotiations between London and Brussels and on all British people living in the EU, including Spain. Huyton added that he was delighted by the Dutch judges decision to involve the ECJ, however we have to realise that this is just the first step to clarifying what [British nationals] status is. At the Amsterdam session, lawyers were given a week to add any other questions to the list before it was sent to the ECJ in Luxembourg by the Dutch court for a clear ruling. THE EURO ZONE MARK NAYLER BOARD GAMES Spain s economy minister is going to be preoccupied over the next few months - but not with the Spanish economy. Or at least not principally with the Spanish economy. After months of elliptical statements and hints, Luis de Guindos finally announced on Wednesday that he is a candidate for the Vice- Presidency of the European Central Bank (ECB), a position that becomes vacant when Portugal s Vitor Costâncio steps down in May. De Guindos really needn t have been so coy about the possibility of taking over from Constâncio. It s widely known that Spain has been after top-level representation within the EU for years. More specifically, De Guindos himself has long been seeking a big job in Brussels, spurred on by never-forgotten rejections in 2012 and In 2012, Spaniard José Paramo was replaced by Luxembourgian Yves Mersche on the ECB s board, although Spain had nominated another Spanish candidate. De Guindos was furious - even though he hadn t put himself forward to replace Paramo - and said that the ECB had severed a gentleman s agreement. The board s perceived snub rendered Spain the biggest eurozone country without representation at the ECB. Three years later, in 2015, Jeroen Dijsselbloem s position as president of the Eurogroup - the collective name given to finance ministers of eurozone countries - came up for renewal. De Guindos was touted as a favourite to replace him, but his Dutch counterpart won another two-and-ahalf-year term. Dijsselbloem was replaced as Eurogroup president last month by Portugal s Mário Centeno, but Spain didn t even put forward a nominee for the position this year. In fact, the presidency wasn t contested at all, so caught up are EU countries with playing musical chairs at the ECB (president Mario Draghi is also due to be replaced late next year). So: a position that, just two years ago, was one of the hottest jobs in the EU was this year completely forgotten about. Why? Because the EU s top politicians are busy trying to sort out problems in their own countries? No. Because they re scrabbling about for an even more substantial EU job. We all know that politicians these days are more concerned about their CVs than serving the people that elected them. The clamour for a place on the board of the ECB just proves it again. In December 2016, De Guindos implied that it was time for him to start casting about for a new career-challenge as Spain was out of the political uncertainty spotlight. Not true. The minority conservative government to which he belongs is still mired in corruption scandals; so diluted is its power it is barely able to pass new legislation, nor budgets; and the Catalonia issue has exploded again, this time to an unprecedented extent. Yep - now definitely seems like the right time to move to the ECB, Luis.

23 February 9th to 15th 2018 SPAIN NEWS 23 Spain shivers under a blanket of snow as cold spell is expected to last until Sunday The winter freeze is harsher than usual, cutting off many mountain villages and, in Catalonia, forcing the rescue of some trapped tourists :: NEIL HESKETH MALAGA. Spain has been shivering in unseasonally low temperatures this week after a mass of cold air spread over southern Europe. Many parts of the country have also been hit by snow and ice, with schools closed and roads blocked. In central and mountainous areas temperatures have hardly got above zero all day, with some places reporting nighttime readings of minus 10 degrees or less. Snow fell in Madrid, and across the Castile region famous monuments ments normally photographed in warm sunshine, such as govia s Roman aqueduct, were being snapped under a white blanket by tourists. While low temperatures tures Se- are common this time of year in inland areas away from the coast, this winter is unusual for the length of time the very cold weather has remained and also the amount of snowfall in some eas, say forecasters. The city ar- of Roads being cleared near Santander. :: EFE Segovia s famous Roman aqueduct covered in snow this week. :: EFE Ávila, near Segovia, has used two years worth of gritting salt in the last month alone. Worst hit areas earlier in the week were in north-east- ern Spain, including Catalo- nia. Villages in the Pyrenees were cut off and tourists, including a school group who were trapped while staying in the mountains last weekend, had to be rescued from their holiday homes. The cold air has spread as far south as Africa (where parts of the Sahara are also under snow) and into the Canaries. Here heavy rain in coastal areas has brought muchneeded relief after recent low levels of rainfall, however some of the traditional large-scale carnival celebrations on the islands have been disrupted. Forecasters expect temperatures to start to return to normal in most of the country from Sunday. New low-cost AVE service to be launched ahead of open competition on train lines :: SUR BARCELONA. The central government minister for Transport, Íñigo de la Serna, announced in Barcelona this week that a new low-cost high-speed rail service will be launched next year between Catalonia and Madrid. The service will be known as EVA and will be run by the national rail operator, Renfe, which also runs the existing AVE highspeed trains. The move comes ahead of Spain s rail tracks being opened up to competition from 2020 under new EU rules. Observers say Renfe s decision to launch its low-cost service is designed to protect it from more companies entering the market. Tickets on the new EVA service will be 20 to 25 per cent less than the existing AVE and will only be available online. In addition, more seats are expected to be squeezed onto the trains. To keep costs down, the Barcelona- Madrid service will see services starting from El Prat de Llobregat station, on the outskirts of the city, with connections to local public transport. Renfe hopes to attract more cost-conscious customers, such as younger people and families. Eventually EVA trains could run on the rest of the country s highspeed network. Hopes still alive that Carles Puigdemont can be a symbolic Catalan leader from Belgium :: SUR BARCELONA. Catalan MPs were this week no closer to agreeing on who would be the next president of the regional government. After the MPs debate on a new Catalan president was postponed last week following a ruling by Spain s constitutional court that made it difficult for ex-president Carles Puigdemont to be reappointed, the majority separatist bloc has been putting forward different proposals. On going to press, Puigdemont was still the only candidate and the separatist political group he leads, Junts per Catalunya, was proposing that he head a parallel republican council in Brussels, where he is in self-imposed exile, while an operational regional government is sworn in in Barcelona. The controversial house is near the site of Napoleon s defeat. :: AFP Some members of rival separatist party, ERC, continue to call for a more sensible approach, with Puigdemont stepping aside to allow a less controversial regional government to be appointed that would mean Madrid fully restores Catalonia s suspended devolved status. Meanwhile there was extra controversy and debate this week when Belgian media reported that Puigdemont was considering renting a large house near Brussels for a longterm stay. Not only did the rent of a reported 4,400 euros a month raise eyebrows back in Catalonia, but also the choice of location, Waterloo, the village outside Brussels where Napoleon s rule ended in battle.

24 24 February 9th to 15th 2018 COMMENT LETTERS TO THE EDITOR We accept letters by post or fax, but they must include identification and a telephone number, and be exclusive to SUR in English. We do not publish anonymous letters. Opinions expressed by contributors to this and other pages of SUR in English do not necessarily reflect those of the publishers. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission from the publishers. Thanks to anonymous helpers THIS WEEK S WINNING LETTER I would like to relay a story which happened recently. My wife and I were on holiday at Los Boliches. We were coming home with two friends from a night out, about in the morning of 19 January. We, two men, were walking ahead, a few feet from our wives, when I heard a scuffle and my wife was wrestling with a young man who was trying to steal her handbag. He tugged at the bag and threw my wife to the floor, fleeing with the handbag. I gave chase but he was too fast to catch. Three Spanish men and two Spanish women stopped to give assistance; one was a nurse. The police came and took my wife and myself to Las Lagunas hospital, and as they didn t have an X-ray machine (my wife had Valentine s message for the world We live on a beautiful planet, full of wonders beyond compare We each have our own special blessings, with more than enough to share Let s start giving love to each other, wherever we can every day Let s share what we have, for in sharing we receive more in every way Please take the love I am sending here, for there s plenty for you to share Let our loving thoughts heal a hurting world and show everyone that we care TRICIA GABBITAS BY Loud cinemas Editor in Chief: MANUEL CASTILLO Publications Director: Pedro Luis Gómez Editor: Rachel Haynes hurt her stomach and breasts), they then took her to Marbella hospital. Fortunately nothing was broken - she was just badly bruised and shaken. We have since returned to Wales (UK). I would like via your paper to thank the Spanish people who were so caring and kind during this incident. Unfortunately I didn t have their names, but I m sure if they read this they will know who they are. The incident happened on the bridge by Ronda 2, at or thereabouts early on the Thursday morning. We come to Los Boliches four or five times every year as we own a property there. I hope you will be able to assist me in thanking these people. T. AND S. YOUNG UK THERE IS A PRIZE FOR THE BEST CONTRIBUTION TO THIS PAGE SO PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR ADDRESS I wonder if you could do something about the unbearable loudness in which the cinemas in the region show operas. Recently we saw Lohengrin in Cine Cinesa La Cañada/Marbella and even though we had once more called the cinema in the afternoon and asked them to turn down the loudspeakers, they didn t do so, as they haven t done before either in recent years. The decibel level exceeds what is allowed. It even hurts the ears. We have been forced to use earplugs to save our ears from damage. Some people have been forced to leave the performances, and others, who would like to attend them, don t come at all because of the loudness. The same problem we have experienced in Cine Yelmo at Plaza Mayor in Malaga. I am a physician, and at least in my home country, Finland, the health authorities would close cinemas in which the loudness excedes what is allowed according to the law. I would appreciate if you could find a strategy to do something about this problem, which probably concerns all cinemas, which show opera performances in the region. In Finland we don t encounter the same problem. ALEXANDER VAN ASSENDELFT BY Published by: PRENSA MALAGUEÑA S. A. Director General: JOSÉ LUIS ROMERO Advertising Manager: Emma Vera Commercial Director: Jorge Artero First class delivery Iordered something online a couple of weeks ago and it s just arrived today. I have to say the service has been impeccable from start to finish and I m delighted to be able to give fulsome praise where it s due. Sadly, this is far from the norm. One day I ll recount the story of how Vodafone overcharged me approximately seven hundred euros and took over four months to pay it back (in installments), which process involved me in over fifty hours of telephone correspondence and blood pressure readings in the high thousands. Yes, one day I ll recount that story - when I can find a little humour in it, which may take some time, to be fair. Anyway back to the brilliant service I ve just experienced. From the simple online ordering instructions for what, in principle, could have been a complex process, to the final delivery which arrived within half the estimated time, this was top class Like all dog owners in Malaga I ve recently had to register my pet s genetic profile so that if one day I forget to clean up his poo I ll be located and get into trouble. I don t agree with the regulation; it will be counterproductive and we still don t know whether the samples have legal validity. But I comply with regulations, because we live by the rule of law and that s what we do. The chance to change the law will come around. The Local Police in the city have started to ask people for their papers, and if they haven t got them they re giving them a fine. People are saying in animal activist forums PETER EDGERTON MUSIC MAKER stuff. My telephone rang. Señor Edgerton? Sí. This is DHL - we have a packet for you. I m outside your door. Aaaagh. I m in the café round the corner, I ll be two ticks. Don t worry, I ll bring it to you. Five minutes later, I m signing a telephone screen with my finger, producing an absurd squiggle which, of course, bears no resemblance to my actual signature, and - hey presto! - I m in full possession of my order, if not my faculties. The whole process took just two weeks and, during this time, I was informed every couple of days by text and about how it was all going. 1. We ve received your order. 2. All the information is correct and everything s going swimmingly. 3. Mrs Dawkins is processing your order at her desk as we speak. No, wait, she s been distracted by a WhatsApp photo of her grandson, A dog s DNA IGNACIO LILLO SANSÓN Oh well... - now with WhatsApp we know everything - that the first penalties have been dished out in the nice neighbourhood of Teatinos. There s no problem there to ask a lady with her chihuahua on a lead if she would kindly hand over her pet s papers. It s as if they are making an example out of her, so that the rest of us who live in decent middle-cass neighbourhoods see that they are checking up and rush out to comply with the law. Now, with my journalist s hat on, allow me to ask the city hall on what day and what time they are going to inspect certain other districts. I won t mention the areas that spring to mind by name so as Duncan. Awwww! Isn t he cute? Ahem, sorry, where were we? Ah yes, Mrs Dawkins has dispatched your order. 4. Your order is on its way. 5. Your order is still on its way but a damn sight nearer than it was yesterday. 6. Please expect a call any minute now from a bloke who ll meet you in a café, night club or wherever to hand over the goods. Ring, ring. And that s a brief synopsis of what happened, broadly speaking. So, if your passport is up for renewal and you re hesitating as to whether to do it online - don t. This is a first class service from the moment you first sit down at your computer and they take you through every step like Mrs Dawkins showing Duncan how to walk, to when you sign for it, quite possibly over a plate of paella and a glass of wine. Really, I can t recommend the online UK passport renewal service highly enough. Hats off. I think you could say that now we ve achieved total independence not to stigmatise anyone; but at the local animal shelter everyone knows where the most serious cases of animal cruelty are happening. They know where secret dog fights are organised and, what s worse, they know in what state these dogs are in when they arrive at the shelter - those that survive, that is. I ll spare you the details. It s also very well known in which districts, let s say rural areas, there are hunters with packs of podencos. Many of them with no microchip and not neutered, producing litter after litter. And these puppies, in the best of cases, end up piled up in cardboard boxes at the gates of the shelter. I assume that all of these ought to have their DNA registered along with all the other requirements for dog ownership. The bylaw says nothing about it only applying to middleclass owners who live in nice neighbourhoods and walk their dogs three times a day. So let me know when it s time to visit the others - you can find me through my dog s DNA.

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26 26 LIFESTYLE 26 February 9th to 15th 2018 Adelfa Calvo brings Goya back to Malaga This year s Goya awards were dominated by Giant, but The Bookshop and The Motive were also very well received :: FRANCISCO GRIÑÁN MALAGA. At five o clock on a rainy Sunday afternoon, actress Adelfa Calvo stepped off a train to be greeted by a large group of family and friends who were seemingly as overjoyed as she was that she had been recognised for her achievements. Calvo, who is from Malaga, won the Best Supporting Actress award at the Goyas, Spain s main national annual film awards, for her role in The Motive, a film centred around a writer trying to find inspiration for his novels amid a difficult divorce. The bookies had Summer 1993 as the clear favourite, but Isabel Coixet s The Bookshop won the Best Film category, and she also won Best Director and the award for Best Adapted Script. Coixet devoted her speech to encouraging women to participate fully in Spanish cinema, where just 26 per cent of senior roles are filled by women and only seven per cent of film directors in 2017 were female. Many attendees carried red fans in order to show their support for female empowerment in an industry that has been rocked by sexual harassment scandals. The hope is that Spanish actresses will follow Hollywood s example and speak out. Carla Simón, the director of the film that won big at the Malaga Spanish Film Festival, Summer 1993, said in her speech that there should be more women in cinema and praised my girls, Paula Robles and Laia Artigas. These actresses, with their natural and spontaneous performances, brought to Adelfa Calvo lifts her Goya award surrounded by friends and family. :: FERNANDO GONZÁLEZ Isabel Coixet. :: REUTERS Adelfa Calvo. :: REUTERS Marisa Paredes. :: REUTERS life a moving story about a family where both parents had died of AIDS. This story was a reality for the Catalan director when she was just a girl. The most successful film, however, was Giant, which won ten awards across all categories. The Basque-language film is about the experiences of a 19th-century man who suffered from gigantism. Marisa Paredes, whose career has spanned six decades, was awarded an Honorary Goya for her liftime achievement in Spanish cinema. LOS PREMIOS GOYA 2018 Best Film: The Bookshop. Best Director: Isabel Coixet, for The Bookshop. Best Actress in a Leading Role: Nathalie Poza, for No sé decir adiós. Best Actor in a Leading Role: Javier Gutiérrez, for The Motive. Best Supporting Actress: Adelfa Calvo, for The Motive. Best Supporting Actor: David Verdaguer, for Summer Best Female Debut: Bruna Cusí, for Summer Best Male Debut: Eneko Sagardoy, for Giant. Best Original Script: Giant. Best Adapted Script: Isabel Coixet, for The Bookshop. Best New Director: Carla Simón, for Summer Best Animated Film: Tadeo Jones 2: El secreto.... Best Documentary: Muchos hijos, un mono y un.... Best European Film: The Square (Sweden). Best Latin American Film: A Fantastic Woman (Chile). Best Photography: Javier Aguirre, for Giant. Best Original Music: Pascal Gaigne, for Giant.

27 February 9th to 15th 2018 LIFESTYLE 27 she will also promote Cudeca s work. On its own website, the foundation has included on its events page an area where people can make donations to the organisation founded by Joan Hunt, which for more than 20 years has been caring for cancer patients and their families. Although Julia has made Almuñécar her home when she is in Spain, Cudeca s work has really impressed her: I visited them in Arroyo de la Miel and they re fantastic. The atmosphere is peaceful and the people are lovely. I really like their slogan, give life to your days. I can identify with that, she says. The money she raises will be duplicated, once the trip is over, by a donation from the NGO run by Angela Margaret Rowland s family, the Espoire Foundation, also for Cudeca. Although she no longer competes, Julia still runs barefoot every morning. :: SUR Julia s cross-country charity run A British former athlete is to run barefoot across Spain to raise funds for Cudeca The runner chose the cancer care charity in memory of her mother, who died from the disease, and she will start the journey in March BENALMÁDENA. In a strong English accent, Julia Chi quotes from Antonio Machado s most popular poem: Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar (Traveller, there is no path, the path is made by walking). This professional runner, who was born in the UK and loves Spanish culture, has made those words a way of life. She describes herself as a nomad who travels around the world barefoot. She says it is a way of connecting with her childhood, ALBERTO GÓMEZ when she used to run around with no shoes on: I feel like a little girl again, it gives me freedom. I love it, she says. Her unusual schedule includes a very special stop in Spain between March and May this year. Julia, who combines meditation and sport, will be running from Suances, in Cantabria, to Almuñécar, in Granada province. She will do so barefoot to raise funds for the Cudeca Foundation for Cancer Care, whose work she discovered when she visited their headquarters in Benalmádena. Julia s mother died of cancer 42 years ago, a blow which makes her appreciate the work carried out every day by volunteers at Cudeca. I was only 16 when my mother died. She was the most important person in my life, she says. She sought comfort in zen philosophy and running. I love running, and my mother understood my passion for it. Going out barefoot to run is something as normal to me as walking to a shop to buy a newspaper, she explains. She will be running across Spain as part of a project called Soles Journey between 23 March and 12 May, which will be her 59th birthday. She plans to do the trip in 43 stages, with eight rest days. Julia will be relating her experiences through videos and texts on a blog (solesjourney.com), where I love running barefoot and my mother understood my passion for it Marathons Julia s passion for running barefoot began a long time ago. She took part in her first international race in 1979, in Manrensa. She has represented the UK in marathons all over the world and won the Dublin marathon in She also came seventh in the London marathon with her best ever time (two hours and 36 minutes). That enabled her to be selected for the Commonwealth Games, a smaller version of the Olympics in which athletes from countries in the Commonwealth of Nations take part. She stopped competing some years ago, but still runs every morning, always barefoot, searching for silence in every step and meditation. Why Spain? I love the language and the culture, and also the people. The energy here is very special for me, says Julia, who lives in England but travels every month. I have been in countries all over the world and I love running everywhere, exploring their cities, countryside and beaches, she says. Her most important journey, she explains, without losing her sense of humour, has been an interior one. I have got rid of all my possessions, including my shoes! In her forthcoming adventure, she hopes to raise 5,000 euros. The other day, despite there having been no promotion of the initiative yet, she received 170 euros in three anonymous donations of 100, 50 and 20 euros from people who wish her luck in her this charitable endeavour.

28 28 LIFESTYLE February 9th to 15th 2018 I had to go back to Finland because our record was number five in the charts Paul Oxley Musician and composer GIGS ON THE COAST Friday 23 February. Koppas Music Bar. Avenida de Los Boliches 15, Fuengirola. Show starts 9pm. Saturday 24 February. Restaurant Kukko. Avenida Los Boliches 4, Fuengirola. Tickets Show starts 8pm. TONY BRYANT tonysureng@gmail.com The Helsinki-based English musician, Paul Oxley, has sold over 100,000 albums and has achieved rock-star status in Finland FUENGIROLA. English recording artist Paul Oxley is well known in Finland as the lead singer in the top selling band, Paul Oxley s Unit, yet he is virtually unknown in the UK. The band s first album went platinum in Finland, spending a record 17 weeks at the number one spot, and they have had a stream of successful records since then. Paul is an active songwriter and works with top writers and producers in Scandinavia; some of his songs are included in the top 100 songs of all time in Finland. He has had three entries in the Eurovision Song Contest, as well as writing songs for UK artists such as dance legend Rozalla and X Factor finalist Sean Smith and penning a number one, platinum song in Japan. Paul Oxley s Unit have performed consistently since their enormous success in the early 80s, when apart from selling over 100,000 albums, they also broke a number of attendance records with their gigs. The last few years have seen a rising popularity for the band, who have performed to packed houses and festivals all over Finland, supporting bands such as Toto and The Scorpions. Paul first went to Finland in 1979 and instantly fell in love with the country. He was introduced to a local band in Helsinki and, after they heard Paul playing some of his own compositions during a rehearsal session, they asked him to front the group. They recorded a single, but Paul Oxley will perform jazz and flamenco-influenced pop next week in Los Boliches. :: SUR Paul returned to the UK shortly after in order to enrol on a course. A few weeks later, I received a phone call from the band, who said I must go back to Finland because the record had reached number five in the Finnish charts; so I returned and haven t really looked back since. Next was an album in 1980, which went straight to number one in Finland s album charts and stayed there for three months, Paul explains humbly. The Manchester-born musician, who is currently performing on the Costa del Sol with a renowned American jazz keyboard player and a Spanish flamenco guitarist, gained an interest in music at an early age, influenced by Frank Sinatra and The Beatles. My father was a northern club singer. His claim to fame was playing at Bernard Manning s Embassy Club when The Silver Beetles [an earlier name of The Beatles] played there. My father brought home a photograph signed by John, Paul, George and Pete Best, the group s original drummer. Unfortunately I don t have it now, Steve says regretfully. Paul first played in Spain during the 80s, performing in Ibiza, and has been visiting the area for the last five years to escape the cold winters of Finland. He was asked to perform on the Costa del Sol by the Finnish society in Fuengirola. He is set to play two gigs that promise to attract a large attendance from the local Finnish community, most of whom are familiar with the English musician s work. Paul has been on the coast since last December and has already played several gigs, but he is due to return to Finland in March. He is Manchester-born Paul Oxley, who first went to Finland in 1979, is currently performing on the Costa del Sol The musician has penned three entries in the Eurovision Song Contest, and has written for UK X Factor finalist Sean Smith The singer s first album went platinum in Finland and spent a record 17 weeks at number one now considered a national treasure on the Finnish music scene and he seems to have adapted well to life in Helsinki. I don t miss Manchester, I ve been away a long time, but it was a huge culture change. Originally it was very hard, but Finns are wonderful people once you get to know them and they all speak English very well, so that made it easier in the beginning, Paul explains. The new single, Any Way the Wind Blows, will be released in March, with a gig in Helsinki to promote the forthcoming album, All the Gods Were Happy, which is the band s fifth studio album and is sure to go straight into the Finnish charts. I have a few gigs to do on the coast and then I return to Helsinki in March to honour my commitments with the band, as we have to promote the new single and album, but I intend to come back in May to do some more gigs here, he says. For his two gigs in Fuengirola, Paul has teamed up with Jesús Gómez, a young flamenco guitar maestro from Cordoba, and virtuoso keyboard player, Rob Dominis. Paul will perform numerous songs from his huge repertoire and will also play acoustic versions of a selection of tracks from his new album. There may even be the occasional cover song. In Finland I just play my own songs because everybody knows them, but here I ll have to do some covers, which is something I never normally do, the musician points out. It is hard to believe that this politely spoken Englishman, who more resembles a university professor, is a celebrated rock star. There are none of the usual egoistic mannerisms normally associated with celebrities, but it is obvious that Paul s main passion in life is his music. Paul s show, billed as pop meets jazz and flamenco, can be caught in the Koppas Music Bar on Friday 23, and in the Kukko Restaurant, on Saturday 24 February.

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30 30 LIFESTYLE February 9th to 15th 2018 How to be Spanish article causes anger online The article in The Sunday Times has received a lot of criticism from online commenters MALAGA. An article published in the British newspaper The Sunday Times has attracted a lot of criticism for its unflattering portrayal of Spain and its customs. The satirical article by Chris Haslam, the paper s chief travel writer, titled How to be Spanish, used outdated and exaggerated stereotypes in an apparent attempt to poke fun at Spain. It has not been well received by many Spanish readers, who have deemed it offensive and disrespectful, and have in many cases demanded an apology. TRADING BLOWS The Sunday Times Chris Haslam Forget politeness, discretion and decorum Sneer at tables Utter disdain for punctuality BEN CLARKE english@diariosur.es The article insists that visitors hoping to integrate into Spanish life need to unlock that potty mouth, have an utter disdain for punctuality and that being Spanish involves walking into a bar, kissing and hugging complete strangers, shouting oiga at the waiter and chucking anything you can t eat or drink on the floor. This is not the first time that British comments about Spain have courted controversy. In October 2016 Jamie Oliver shared his own take on ABC Álvaro Martinez Forget about hygiene Exaggerate a lot, even reaching sensationalism Queue for everything even if you re the only one paella, the traditional dish from Valencia, which combined chicken thighs and chorizo. Criticism from Spaniards came in the form of comparison with the botched restoration of a religious painting in 2012 and their own deliberately awful versions of paella. In fact many British chefs, such as Gordon Ramsay, John Torode, and Marco Pierre White, have been criticised for improvising Spanish dishes and trying to create a Spanglish fusion. The Spanish newspaper ABC has published a response to the origional article, which again relies outdated stereotypes in order r to describe British behaviour. It advises its readers to carpet your whole house to avoid having to regularly clean, and to average under four showers per week. It also portrayed the British as unfashionable, with a love for socks and sandals. It was critical cal of the drinking culture with which young Britons have been en tarnished: Devote 20 hours a day to the immoderate intake of cohol and after a couple of street et al- fights you can try balconying in the hotel. Perhaps its most powerful riposte for Haslam was: Exaggerate a lot, even reaching sensationalism, yet another great British contribution to the world. This is not the first time that British comments about Spain have courted controversy A screenshot of the article on The SundayTimes website, illustrated by a matador in his traditional dress. :: SUR Spanish readers have deemed the article offensive and disrespectful IN BRIEF Spanish radio academy recognises career of Pedro Luis Gómez MALAGA :: SUR. The Fundación Mundo Ciudad, in collaboration with the Spanish Radio Academy, will be giving a special award to SUR s Director of Publications, Pedro Luis Gómez, at a gala to Pedro Luis Gómez celebrate World Radio Day next week. Gómez will receive recognition for his professional career which has included, as well as 40 years at SUR and 34 years at SUR in English, his own programmes on Canal Málaga TV, Punto Radio Málaga and Punto Radio Andalucía, and contributions on the national stations, Cope and Onda Cero. British authors attend seminar in Malaga MALAGA :: T. BRYANT. Expat writers and authors from Seville, Cordoba and Malaga came together for a literary seminar in the Bodegas El Pimpi in Malaga last Wednesday. Organised by members of the UK-based Society of Authors, the group intends to promote the work of Englishspeaking authors in Andalucía. The literary group intends to meet on a regular bases. :: T. BRYANT

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32 32 LIFESTYLE TONY BRYANT February 9th to 15th 2018 WHAT HAPPENED TODAY? E9 FEBRUARY 1927 Birth of celebrated flamenco singer, La Fernanda de Utrera Fernanda Jiménez Peña, known throughout the world as La Fernanda de Utrera, evolved from one of the most celebrated gypsy families in the history of flamenco. Born in the small town of Utrera, Seville, in 1927, La Fernanda was the granddaughter El Pinini, a legendary 19th century singer remembered for a particular style of singing that is still practised by his family today. La Fernanda was regarded as one of the greatest female singers of the last century, especially noted for her rough, bronze-tinted voice. She received the title of Queen of the Soleá, a sorrowful style of flamenco that would become synonymous with her name. Being born into such an illustrious flamenco family, it was inevitable that La Fernanda would embark on a career as a singer, although her father - a humble butcher - was not keen for his daughter to earn a living in this way. She started to sing at the age of twelve, during family celebrations, when the whole house would erupt in a frenzy of riotous song and dance. Her father was mystified by his daughter s knowledge of the old songs, and astounded by the torn and cracked voice that she possessed at such a young age. Fernanda, and her sister, La Bernarda de Utrera, also a singer of great importance, took the flamenco world by storm. The sisters, both spinsters, began appearing at local festivals and private parties and quickly became the most talkedabout singers on the circuit. However, La Fernanda s art was superior, because her voice was what best described the meaning of this predominantly gypsy art. Although the sisters travelled the world in order to promote their art, they both La Fernanda was famed for her duende-fuelled voice. :: SUR expressed a dislike of the commercial scene. They claimed to have only ever sung in the commercial flamenco tablaos in Madrid and Barcelona when they needed to earn extra money; when they did not, they preferred ed to be in Utrera surrounded unded by close family and familiar faces. However, La Fernanda s art was too important to be kept locked away in Utrera and she soon began receiving invites to per- form on some of the greatest stages in Spain. She was lured to the lucrative flamenco scene that was taking shape in Madrid in the 1970s and it was while in the capital that she caught the attention of the world. She produced a large catalogue of records and these offer some of the most orthodox styles of flamenco ever recorded on disc. LANGUAGE FOOTNOTE Gitano/a Gypsy Cantaor/Cantaora Flamenco singer Nieta Granddaughter Hermana Sister Carnicero Butcher Humilde Humble Soltera Spinster Escenario Stage Desenfrenado Riotous Frenesí Frenzy Grabación Recording Vertiginoso Dizzy Escultura Sculpture Bronce Bronze Desconcertado Mystified Nacimiento Birth Cantar To sing Edad Age The town of Utrera has numerous monuments dedicated to La Fernanda and her sister: these include a life-size bronze statue, a plaque in a small remembrance park and a street named in her honour. She became a legend in her own time and her name sits alongside great artists like La Niña de los Peines and La Paquera de Jerez. La Fernanda de Utrera died on 26 August Bilingual crossword inside back page LEGAL ADVICE International Lawyers answers readers queries We speak English, German, French, Spanish and Russian Please send your questions or contact us directly to arrange a personal appointment on: Ilagoson International Lawyers Avda. Playas Andaluzas 38 (Exit El Rosario ) Marbella Tel: Fax: ilagoson@ilagoson.com Offices in Málaga, Marbella and Cádiz REF. E. L. E. Last summer we were in Spain on holiday, visiting friends who live here. We had so much fun that my husband and I are considering the possibility of buying a property in a complex that is going to be built near to the place where our friends live. However, they have told us that when they bought their property, they had a bad experience, as the builder promised specific characteristics that they did not eventually receive. What kind of documents can we demand in order to avoid this happening to us? Obviously, prior to signing anything, you must ask for all the documents related to the characteristics and specifications of the property. On it, you must have all the details, such as the exact location, the price, payment methods, delivery dates, the materials to be used, the square metres, etc. As regards to specifications, there is usually a leaflet, which obviously would be advisable to keep. The builder would have to inform about any changes to the original plan. REF. E. T. T. I live in a rented property. Last week, I found out that the owner, without notice, had sold the property, as I received a letter from the new owner providing his bank account First Assessment Consultation FREE of Charge where I should pay in the rent from that moment on. The situation is quite disappointing, as I had a good relationship with the previous owner, and if he had told me that he was going to sell the property, I would have bought it from him. Nevertheless, I have been informed that I have a right of pre-emption and that the owner should have notified to me his intention of selling. Can I nullify the sale for the lack of notice? It is true that you, as tenant, have a right of pre-emption to buy the property in the same conditions and price as any other person. If the property has already been sold, you have 30 days to communicate your wish to buy the property in the same conditions, and therefore, reverse the sale. If you do not enforce your right of pre-emption, the lack of notice, by itself, does not imply the cancellation of the sale. Charmaine Arbouin in the Lux Mundi centre in Fuengirola. :: T. B. British consul offers advice during U3A informative talk :: TONY BRYANT FUENGIROLA. More than 60 retired expats attended an informative talk at the Lux Mundi ecumenical centre in Fuengirola last week. Organised by the Fuengirola branch of the U3A, the talk, which focused on the services offered by the British Consulate in Malaga, was chaired by Charmaine Arbouin, consul for Andalucía and the Canary Islands. The attaché offered advice concerning tax, wills, passports and residents permits, as well as explaining the benefits and importance of registering on the padrón (electoral register). She went on to explain that their services have been made much simpler because much of the unnecessary paperwork has been reduced. However, she pointed out that the consulate in Malaga, one of the three that exists in Spain, no longer conducts civil marriage services or the registration of births, although information concerning these topics can be found on the new Support in Spain website. Referring to the long stay visitors as swallows, the consul also offered advice about what measures can be taken to prepare for the eventual Brexit in March 2019.

33 February 9th to 15th 2018 LIFESTYLE 33 SOCIETY SCENE Burns Night, a boatyard and bowls An authentic Burns Night supper was held at the Tamisa Golf Hotel for the Cudeca Goldies to raise money for Cudeca Hospice :: Cudeca Goldies Burns Night supper The Tamisa Hotel in Mijas was the venue for the Cudeca Goldies night of tribute to the Scottish poet Robert Burns recently. Bagpipes greeted the guests as they arrived on what would have been Burns 259th birthday, and accompanied them to the dining room. The haggis was addressed in Scots Gaelic and Laura Elen sang as the guests danced. The Goldies thanked hotel manager and owner John Peach and his staff for organising the event which raised 1,895 euros for Cudeca Hospice. U3A Axarquía Boatyard visit The U3A Axarquia Spanish History group recently visited the Nereo Boatyard and Museum in Malaga. The owner, Alfonso, arranged for English-speaking guide, Antonio, to show the group around. The yard is currently building a replica of a Phoenician craft made of pine, held together by olive wood doweling, and a replica of SS Gálveztown, an 18thcentury brigantine in which Bernardo de Gálvez sailed to America. The group also admired a prize winning motor yacht built by Alfonso s father in the 70s, a child s crib in the shape of a boat, models of boats built by students and other marine items. They were also treated to a demonstration of the large wood saw, which is used in the construction of the Gálveztown and shown how rope was made. Some of the machinery at the boatyard is over 100 years old and still in use. Modern fishing boats and rowboats are still made here. The History group meets at 11am on the first Tuesday of each month at Calle La Gloria 105, Vélez-Málaga. Contact Andrew Henbest at lindahenbest@hotmail.com or phone for more details. Age Care Association Citizen s Advice Spain talk As part of the coffee morning at Calahonda which is held at The International Baptist Church every Tuesday between 11am and 1pm, clients and visitors were given an informative talk by Myra Azzopardi the founder of Citizens Advice in Spain. She talked about many interesting and important issues relevant to the expat community. Age Care thanked her for her knowledgeable advice and for giving up her time to speak to them. The Citizen s Advice Bureau Spain does not charge and depends on donations therefore Age Care donated 1,000 euros for the help they give Age Care clients. Age Care is a nonprofit organisation run by volunteers to help the elderly English-speaking community regardless of nationality. Miraflores Bowls Handicap singles report The penultimate major event in this Cudeca Goldies Burns Night supper at the Tamisa Gold Hotel. :: SUR U3A Axarquía Spanish history group visit the Nereo boatyard. :: SUR Citizen s Advice BureauSpain talk to Age Care. :: SUR season s calendar, the Handicap Singles took place recently. It is the only mixed-sex singles competition played at Miraflores during the year so is always popular with the participants. The semifinals were watched by a large group of spectators with Fred Stevenson against Bill McGurk and Tom Cordner playing Terry Stone. Fred won and Tom won The two Glaswegians played each other in the finals with Tom winning the championship Club President James Tyrer praised all the players for their efforts. Mijas Bowls Club Mijas Masters Mixed Triples The prestigious annual Mijas Masters Mixed Triples competition took place over four days, starting on 14 January. The final saw Peter and Val Allard and Geoff Collins versus Tony and Val Thornton and Dave Wilson, both from Mijas Bowls Club. The ventual winners were Tony and Val Thornton and Dave Wilson with a score of 18 points to 12 points. If you would like to join this club, call Dave Wilson on or What are you up to? If you are involved in a club or association and planning events, trips or activities that would be of interest to other readers of SUR in English, we would love to hear from you: surinenglish.su@diariosur.es

34 34 LIFESTYLE February 9th to 15th 2018 DENISE BUSH GARDENING READER S PHOTO The Jet Plane plant An interesting and unusual plant with no leaves, scented, white bell-shaped flowers and an armoury of vicious thorns that will keep unwanted visitors out of the garden Plants that are neither child, adult nor pet friendly do not usually get a mention on this page but this genus is so unusual and perfect for the Mediterranean climate that it would be a shame to omit it. Botanically it is known as Colletia paradoxa; common names include the Jet Plane plant, Crucifixion Thorn and Anchor Plant. Colletia belongs to the Rhamnaceae family and is a genus with between 15 and 17 species of spiny shrubs, all Colletia paradoxa and close up of blooms (inset). :: WIKIMEDIA non-legume nitrogen fixing. It is native to southern Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. It is sometimes described as the ultimate barrier ; grown as a hedge nothing will be able to squeeze through it because of its nasty spines. The Jet Plane plant has no leaves to speak of, a few small ones form on new shoots but don t last long. This plant photosynthesises through its flat, grey-green stems (called cladodes). The stems form in opposite pairs like a ship s anchor, and are flattened into a triangular shape resembling a jet plane, hence the common names. It is a slow-growing shrub that will eventually form a rounded crown up to three metres tall by five metres wide. Pruning will keep it more compact. The flowers form in the stem joints from late summer until late autumn. They are small, white and bell-shaped and smell of almonds and lilac. They attract butterflies and bees at the end of the season when other plants have exhausted themselves. The Jet Plane plant prefers some shade during the hottest part of the day and, although drought resistant once established, will benefit from regular watering. It can be grown in a container but keep in mind that it has very sharp thorns. Propagation is by semi-ripe or hardwood cuttings or by seed. Colletia is named after French botanist Philibert Collet ( ). DAZZLING FLAME VINE This photo of a flame vine (Pyrostegia venusta) was sent in by Antoinette Thunnissen who couldn t help but admire this dazzling plant at a car boot sale she was attending. It is native to South America and needs to be trimmed regularly to keep it under control. PHOTOS Calling all gardeners We know that many of our readers have lovely gardens, or enjoy growing plants on their terraces or balconies, so why not share them with others? :: ANTOINETTE THUNNISSEN GARDENING HINTS Fascinating facts about how plants access nitrogen Nitrogen is an essential element in plant development. The atmosphere consists of around 70 % nitrogen and yet plants cannot directly access it. The only way they can get nitrogen is through their roots in the form of ammonium, nitrites and nitrates. The decomposition of organic material provides most of the plant useable nitrogen in soil; the burning of fossil fuels produces nitrogen-enriched rainfall and lightning also generates nitrogen compounds. Plants in the legume family provide nitrogen fixing bacteria a place to live in a symbiotic relationship. Legumes feed the Rhizobium bacteria with carbohydrates which in return releases nitrogen for the plant to use. When the plant dies, the nodules containing the nitrogen break down and return to the soil. This is why peas and beans are regularly used in plant rotation to increase the nitrogen levels in the soil. Some other plants such as alder and Californian lilac can also fix nitrogen by harbouring Frankia bacteria on their roots. your photos to english@diariosur.es or send them to SUR in English, Avda Dr Marañón 48, Malaga, with a caption and a few words of explanation. Alternatively, you can send them to us via Facebook (surenglish) or Twitter (@SUR_English)

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39 February 9th to 15th 2018 Clothes made in Canillas de Aceituno are worn by Prince George and Princess Charlotte LIFESTYLE 39 Mi Lucero, based in the Axarquía, makes clothes which are sold in an exclusive children s clothes shop in London frequented by the royals :: EUGENIO CABEZAS CANILLAS DE ACEITUNO. Designers who dress members of royal families, football players or television presenters are often imitated by those aspiring to be like their idols and this tendency can boost the sales of small clothing outlets whose clothes are worn by celebrities. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Kate, are one of those couples who cause a ripple every time they appear in public and now even their children, Prince George, aged four and Princess Charlotte, two, appear to be fashion icons among parents of young children. The Cambridges children have often been photographed wearing Spanish-made clothes and among the brands favoured by the royal couple is Malaga company, Mi Lucena, which has been based in the village of Canillas de Aceituno in the Axarquía for nearly 50 years. Marine blue cardigan Both Prince George and Princess Charlotte have appeared in public on a number of occasions wearing clothes made by the company and in particular Charlotte has appeared in the press more than once wearing a marine blue knitted cardigan made by Mi Lucero. The company, which is situated in the Axarquía village in the foothills of Malaga province s highest mountain, La Maroma, is run by brothers José Manuel and Juan Daniel Martín. We sell to a client in London who has a shop in one of the most exclusive areas of the city and apparently one of the assistants to the royal family, who is Spanish, buys a lot of clothes for the children, explains 48-year-old José Manuel. The cardigan in question is made of wool and is seem-free, to avoid the edges rubbing on children s skin. We only use Spanish material and the most up-to-date technology and everything is made in Canillas de Aceituno, Martín confirms. He goes on to explain that the company was founded in the 1970s by his father, Juan and his uncle, José. The company currently makes around 120,000 items per year, of which 95 per cent are sold here in Spain. Mi Lucero employs 18 people and last year made a profit of 700,000 euros. Boost for Spanish textiles For Spanish textile companies it s really positive that such famous people as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge dress their children in our clothes, argues José Manuel, who is aware that other national companies such as Zamora-based Marae has also had its clothes worn by the Princess Charlotte wearing the cardigan made in Canillas de Aceituno. :: SUR Brothers José Manuel and Juan Daniel Martín. :: SUR royal children. We have been to a number of textile fairs together and have shared a stand and we always get people asking us about the designs that William and Kate s children have worn, he adds. According to newspapers such as El País and magazines like Hola, The José Martín: It would be fantastic if they dressed the new baby in our clothes as well Duchess of Cambridge s passion for dressing her children in Spanish clothes comes from their Spanish nanny, María Teresa Turrión, who is from Palencia in Castilla y León. She started working for the royal couple in 2014 after Prince George was born and went on to look after Princess Charlotte as well after her birth in Third baby due in April Turrión is said to be the first foreign person ever to be nanny to a member of the British royal family. She is expected to look after William and Kate s third child when he or she is born in April. It would be fantastic if they dress the new baby in our clothes as well, Martín concludes.

40 40 HEALTH&BEAUTY 40 February 9th to 15th 2018 Food and drinks are to contain ten per cent less sugar, fat and salt The plan to combat obesity includes healthier school meals and 15 per cent less sugar in coffee sold from vending machines :: ALFONSO TORICES MADRID. Under an agreement between the Ministry of Health, food and drink manufacturers and distributors, the restaurant sector, social caterers and vending machine businesses, within three years added sugars, saturated fats and salt in the most-consumed products will be reduced by an average of ten per cent. The Minister of Health, Dolors Montserrat, says this plan to improve the composition of food and drinks aims to reduce the high rate of excess weight and obesity among the Spanish population, especially children, and fight against the principal chronic illnesses which are affected by excess weight and excessive consumption of sugar or salt, such as diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular illnesses (strokes and heart attacks, for example) and various types of cancer. Manufacturers have promised that by 2020 they will have reduced the added sugars in soft drinks, sweetened fruit juices, dairy products and sauces by ten per cent, and by 18 per cent in mayonnaise. However, the reduction will only be five per cent for industrial bakery products, ice creams and biscuits. The biggest reduction - 21 per cent - will be in isotonic drinks., With regard to saturated fats, the producers will reduce these by ten per cent in ready meals and savoury snacks, but again there will only be a five per cent reduction in biscuits and industrial bakery The contents of vending machines are to become healthier. :: MITXEL ATRIO products, sausages and cured meats. On the other hand, the manufacturers of those products have agreed to reduce portion sizes as well. The biggest reductions in salt will be applied to meat derivatives (16 per cent), ready meals and savoury snacks (10 per cent), although it will be reduced by 13.8 per cent in crisps and just 6.7 per cent in vegetable purees and five per cent in sauces. Vegetables instead of crisps The fight against excessive sugar and salt is also being taken up by the bar and restaurant trade and companies which supply vending machines. The former have agreed to reduce the content of their sugar packets by 50 per cent and salt by 33 per cent, provide salt cellars with fewer holes and will not put sauces and dressings on tables unless clients specifically request them. In vending machines, the sugar content will be reduced by 15 per cent in all types of coffees and infusions. The agreement, to which the companies are adhering voluntarily, includes 180 measures in all; they will reduce the sugars, fats Catering and distribution businesses have joined the voluntary agreement The choice of healthy foods on offer in vending machines will increase by up to 50 per cent Restaurants will have salt cellars with fewer holes and these will only be provided if the customer asks for one

41 February 9th to 15th 2018 HEALTH&BEAUTY 41 and salt in 3,500 popular food products, which comprise up to 44.5 per cent of daily energy in the shopping baskets of consumers. Bars and restaurants are also committed to using sunflower and olive oils for frying, providing olive oil to dress salads, increasing the use of skimmed milk by 50 per cent, substituting vegetables and pulses for chips, providing tap water on demand, reducing portion sizes and offering more fruits for dessert. The vending machines will increase the choice of healthy foods on offer by up to 50 per cent and place them together with those which are low in sugar, fat and salt in preferential positions. They will also raise the presence of mineral waters in drinks machines from 30 per cent to 45 per cent. Another revolutionary measure, if everyone complies with the agreement, will be in the sector of social meals, in other words the companies which provide meals in schools, hospitals, companies and homes for the elderly. Sources in the sector say they provide one billion meals every year. They have agreed to offer a healthier menu, increase grilled and oven-baked dishes, lean meat and wholemeal bread, and use more pulses, fish, vegetables and fruit. They will also reduce the amount of precooked and fried foods. LINING UP AGAINST CANCER :: SUR Members and supporters of the Fuengirola branch of AECC, the Spanish Cancer Association, met outside the town hall on Sunday, World Cancer Day, in a defiant display against the disease. They held up cards to form a giant green droplet as a symbol of their current We are here for you campaign. The organisation was founded in 1953 and is active in all 52 provinces of Spain. Fuengirola shoppers have raised over 11,000 euros for the Spanish cancer association :: IVÁN GELIBTER FUENGIROLA. The fundraising efforts of the Christmas campaign that was launched in the Centro Comercial Miramar have raised over 11,300 euros this year, which have been donated to the Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer (AECC). To be precise, the total amount raised was 11, euros, which will help the organisation to continue its work in the community. The funds were presented to AECC representatives in the form of a cheque. Such a large sum was possible because fundraising began right at the start of the Christmas season at the shopping centre, taking advanatge of the festive spirit of goodwill, explained sources at the centre. Every year Miramar focuses its efforts on the Christmas campaign in order to support the Spanish Cancer Association. On this occasion, the centre explained, the collection period took place between 10 November and 15 January.

42 42 HEALTH&BEAUTY February 9th to 15th 2018 Getting the right jabs before travel Before visiting other countries, it is important to be aware of health requirements About 10,000 people a year visit the International Vaccination Centre in Malaga, which is currently undergoing works to make it more accessible Briones, Crespo, Plata and Hernando toured the vaccination centre works earlier this week. :: S. SALAS :: ÁNGEL ESCALERA MALAGA. In an increasingly globalised world it is common for people to travel to exotic or tropical countries, whether for work or leisure purposes. Before visiting these far-off places, however, it is essential to bear in mind certain health recommendations. Vaccination is the best way to prevent illnesses such as yellow fever, meningitis, typhoid, hepatitis, cholera, polio, rabies or diphtheria. The Spanish Ministry of Health has a number of international vaccination centres where travellers can obtain advice and be given vaccines on the spot, or they will be advised to ask their health centres for vaccinations against other illnesses before travelling to countries in Africa and southern or central America. About 10,000 people, most of them from Malaga province, who are planning to travel abroad visit the International Vaccination Centre in Malaga port every year. Of these, between 7,000 and 8,000 are given vaccinations, while the rest are referred to their local health centres. The most common vaccination is against yellow fever, followed by meningitis, rabies, polio and Central European encephalitis. Between 40 and 50 people are seen every day, and that number rises to between 60 and 65 in June and July. As well as administering vaccinations, the staff at thecentre give advice about the health situation in the country to which the traveller is going and about preventive measures (such as mosquito and insect repellents, and chemoprophylaxis to prevent malaria) as well as information about drinking water and foods. Vaccination against yellow fever is obligatory, so some countries demand an international vaccination IMPORTANT POINTS Yellow fever. Anyone travelling to exotic or tropical countries is obliged to be vaccinated against this acute infectious viral illness, which is transmitted to humans by the Aedes mosquito. In some countries, an international vaccination certificate is demanded by the authorities as a condition of entry. Recommendations. Travellers are advised to be vaccinated against tetanus, diphtheria, hepatitis A and B, typhoid fever, cholera, meningitis, rabies, Central European encephalitis and Japanes encephalitis. Vaccination centres. The Ministry of Health has international vaccination centres where people can obtain advice about the vaccines they will need and preventive measures they should take, before they travel to exotic or tropical countries. The centre in Malaga is at the maritime station in the port, and is the second most important in Spain. The phone number is certificate as a condition of entry. People are also advised to be vaccinated against tetanus, diphtheria, hepatitis A and B, typhoid fever, cholera, meningitis, polio, rabies, Central European encephalitis (a viral illness which is spread by tick bites) and Japanese encephalitis. In the case of malaria,

43 February 9th to 15th 2018 HEALTH&BEAUTY 43 which is widespread in tropical countries, there is no effective vaccine so people are advised to try to avoid mosquito bites, as these insects spread the disease, and to take chemoprophylactic medication (always prescribed by a doctor) before travelling, during their stay and after they have left the country. At present the International Vaccination Centre in Malaga is undergoing improvement works to make it accessible by people with reduced mobility and to improve the service in general, as the central government s delegate in Malaga, Miguel Briones, explained earlier this week when he toured the works in the company of the general manager of Peripheral Administration, Marta Crespo; the president of the Port Authority, Paulino Plata; and the deputy manager of Financial Activity, Belén Hernando. Briones explained that the centre in Malaga is the second most important in Spain after Madrid. In the past three years it has received ten per cent more visitors and 40 per cent more vaccines have been given. Marta Crespo said that the improvements, which are costing 350,000 euros, are progressing according to schedule so the new facilities will be ready by the end of February or beginning of March. There is a great demand for this essential service, because an increasing number of people are travelling abroad, said Plata. Doctors demand solutions as emergency departments are stretched to the limit They are calling on the health authorities to take immediate action to build Malaga s third hospital and to contract sufficient staff at busy times of year :: ÁNGEL ESCALERA MALAGA. Emergency departments at hospitals and health centres were busier than ever before between 1 December and 31 January. The provincial Health Department says there was an average increase of 15 per cent in the numbers of patients needing attention, mainly due to the flu epidemic and respiratory problems. The president of the College of Doctors of Malaga, Juan José Sánchez Luque, says the situation has become unsustainable and he is calling for the Andalusian Health Service to take action. We want the regional government s Minister of Health [Marina Álvarez Benito] to come to Malaga to see the situation for herself and to ensure that there is sufficient funding to build the third hospital and improve health services in Malaga in general, he said during a press conference held jointly with The joint press conference held earlier this week. :: SUR the SMM medical union earlier this week. The president of the SMM, Antonio Martín Noblejas, blamed the SAS (Andalusian Health Service) for a lack of foresight in not contracting enough extra staff for emergency departments during these two months, especially over the Christmas period. This situation occurs every year, but nothing is ever done to resolve it, he said. Figures from the medical union show that the number of patients needing emergency treatment at the hospital in Ronda between 22 December and 10 January rose by an average of 13 per cent. At the Materno Infantil in Malaga, the number of children seen by paediatricians in the emergency department rose by 110 per cent on Christmas Day alone. At the Carlos Haya hospital 20 per cent more patients attended the emergency department, while at the Clínico the number rose by 37 per cent. At the Axarquía hospital there was a 15 per cent increase, and nine per cent more went to the Costa del Sol hospital in Marbella. Antonio Martín Noblejas said the SAS had failed to take on enough staff to cover the Christmas period, and he rejected the health authority s response, that they had been unable to find doctors willing to take on the duties. If the contracts on offer had been good enough, they would have been taken up, he insisted. The union representative at the hospital in Benalmádena and the Costa del Sol hospital in Marbella, Juan Antonio Garrido, said that patients had suffered because the health authorities had done too little, too late. Juan José Sánchez Luque also said that in general terms Malaga is being left behind and he stressed that a new hospital is needed urgently. Although the location proposed by the group of experts for a new hospital behind the Materno Infantil isn t ideal, because there would be no room for later expansion, it is essential that it is built. We also need a CHARE specialist centre on the eastern side of the city, he explained.

44 44 HEALTH&BEAUTY February 9th to 15th 2018 Saint Valentine makes our hearts flutter Scientists from the University of Granada have studied the body s physical response to love :: COLPISA Researchers at the University of Granada (UGR) have proved that the sight of someone we love does really make our hearts beat faster. A report shows the results of studies to examine the physical response of the body to love. Researchers measured signals sent to the brain, as well as the response from the heart, the muscles and other vital organs. In what has been the most detailed investigation into this area to date, last year a team of scientists from the CIMCYC, Granada University s Mind, Brain and Behaviour Research Centre, identified a phenomenon known as emotional tachycardia. When a person is in love and they look at a photograph of their loved-one - although this can also happen with a close family member - their body undergoes a physical reaction known as emotional tachycardia. The heart suffers an initial deceleration but heart rate soon increases, said researchers to explain how love can rapidly change someone s heartbeat. On viewing a loved-one s face, sweat production and the electrical conductivity of the skin increase from the first second and a half, and it causes the activation of the zygomaticus major muscle, which is the one that facilitates smiling, said the study. This last effect is seen far more often in girls than in boys due to, probably, cultural reasons; women more openly express their emotions than men, the researchers added. The mental activity produced is much greater when we look at photos of people we love than when we look at people we don t know, added the scientists, who since 2010 have analysed a wide range of physical responses that are caused by positive emotions in their subjects. The study of love has revealed that this feeling can help to reduce stress. When given a shock, the participants who were looking at a photo of a loved one showed a far less noticeable response than those who were not viewing the photo. To produce their report, the scientists worked with a sample of Looking on a loved one s face can evoke a number of reactions from the body. :: SUR When given a shock, people looking at a photo of a loved one showed a far less noticeable response students from the Faculty of Psychology at UGR, young men and women between the ages of 20 and 29. They asked them to take in photographs of one of their parents and a partner they had been with for at least six months. The photos of their faces had to be neutral, showing neither expressions of happiness nor sadness that could alter the response of the participants, which was crucial, especially in the initial four seconds, which is when their body undergoes the strongest reaction, said Jaime Vila Castellar and Pedro Guerra Muñoz, researchers at the CIMCYC. All of the participants wore sensors on their faces, heads and hands to monitor the responses of their organs and their outside appearance. They were shown photos of five different faces: two photos of people they loved, two photos of people that they didn t know and one of a baby (for a group control). Xxx xxx xxx xxx

45 February 9th to 15th DISCOVER ANDALUCÍA Montefrío is one of the loveliest villages in Andalucía. :: TURISMO ANDALUZ Granada s little treasure One of the stone crosses. :: T.A. QUICK GUIDE TWO DAYS IN MONTEFRÍO Car + walking Journey time: An hour and a half from Malaga. Exploring the village and area: six hours Cordoba Montefrío Malaga Jaén Granada Almeria JAVIER ALMELLONES Afew years ago Montefrío, which nestles in the Poniente region of Granada, was described as one of the loveliest villages in the world by the prestigious National Geographic magazine. For anyone who knows Montefrío, that is not surprising. It is quite a remarkable place to visit, with a well-maintained historic centre and its castle and main church overlooking the village from their location perched on a large rock. Viewed from afar, it is easy to see that this village is picture-postcard pretty. The lower part of the village. :: T. A. Montefrío has numerous other interesting buildings and churches, and the surrounding area is like a sea of olive trees. It looks especially attractive when seen from the road which leads into the village. Historic-artistic site For these and other reasons, in 1982 Montefrío was officially classified as a Site of Historic and Artistic Interest and a stroll through its tiny streets is enough to see why. There is a lovely surprise around every corner, such as the old wheat store and the town hall building, among others. The historic centre of the village is well worth exploring, but so is the nearby area. Apart from the aforementioned olive groves, part of the scenery is rugged, thanks to its location near the Granada Depression, in the central sector of the Bética mountain ranges. For example, if you drive along the road from Montefrío to Íllora you come to what is known as the Peña de los Gitanos, unusual limestone rock formations which are not only important in terms of Nature but also for historic reasons. In fact, there are some valuable megalithic remains there, comprising hundreds of neolithic dolmens. Near the village there are also some unusual stone crosses, which are sometimes knownlocally as humilladeros. Also worth seeing, about a kilometre and a half outside Montefrío, is an old bridge which is thought to date back to Roman times. What to see in Montefrío The castle. Built in 1352 when Yusuf I ruled Granada. Calle de San Sebastián 62, Montefrío The main church. Built next to the castle at the top of the village in the 16th century. Calle de San Sebastián 40, Montefrío. Pósito de San Antonio. An old wheat store, built in neo-classical style. Plaza del Pósito s/n, Montefrío. Museo de la Navidad: A museum and information centre about Christmas in this area. Calle Manuel Ávila 1, Montefrío Peña de los Gitanos. A geological enclave, inhabited inprehistoric times Montefrío

46 46 February 9th to 15th 2018 WHAT TO DO EXHIBITIONS The Russian museum Malaga. Edificio Tabacalera, Avda Sor Teresa Prat. Tues-Sun 9.30am - 10pm. The seasonal exhibition La Mirada Viajera. Artistas Rusos Alrededor del Mundo consists of 105 pieces including works by Krachkovsky, Clement Redko, Konstantín Makovsky and Alexandr Deineka among others. Also included in the seasonal exhibit which is open until August this year are works by Mikhail Schwartzman. The permanent exhibition running until February 2019 is entitled Radiante Por Venir. El Realismo Soviético and consists of 132 works, many on loan from the museum in Saint petersburg. The collection covers the period between the 30s and the 50s in Russia, a time of great controversy. Roberto Matta Marbella. Until 26 May Museo Ralli, Urb Coral beach. Temporary exhibition of the Chilean artist Roberto Matta of surrealistic abstract art. His works represents his own vision of the world and art through the invisible, the psyche, the cosmos, without losing reference to his origins or nature / marbella@rallimuseums.org The Indaliano Movement Antequera. Until 16 March. Centro Unicaja de Cultura. This exhibition will display works by several influential artists from this mid-twentieth century movement, including José Gómez Abad, Antonio López Díaz, Miguel Cantón Checa and Jesús de Perceval. Picasso, Momentos Decisivos Malaga. Until 21 June Fundación Picasso, Casa Natal. These 18 paintings demonstrate three distinct stages of the artist s work. The first room displays eight sketches for Las señoritas de Aviñón, the second focuses on the artist s attitude to Franco, and the third offers an insight into the artist s blue and pink stages. Malaga s raisin industry Malaga. Until 11 February Museo del Patrimonio Municipal. Las pasas de Málaga y las artes decorativas exhibition celebrates the packaging and history surrounding the exportation of raisins ABBA Reunion hits Costa :: TONY BRYANT MALAGA. The ABBA Reunion Tribute Show is coming to the Costa del Sol this month. Created by director, producer and choreographer of the awardwinning ABBA Mania musical, this exciting disco extravaganza will star the original Frida from the London West End cast. The tribute show gives ABBA fans the opportunity to once again relive the addictive ABBA phenomenon that swept the airwaves and discos during the 1970s and 80s. The show will include hits like Waterloo, Dancing Queen, Take a Chance on Me and Mamma Mia, all of which are performed with unrivalled authenticity from both an audio and visual perspective. Outstandingly accurate harmony vocals, combined with stunning replica costumes and excellent choreography produce one of the most authentic tributes to the band whose career was directly launched into the spotlight following their success in the Eurovision Song Contest in The tribute concert has entertained and enthralled audiences throughout the world and it has received repeated recognition and acclaim from critics and music Raisin boxes, MUPAM. from Malaga during the 19th century and the start of the 20th. The raisins were exported all over the world to places such as New York, Boston, London, Paris, Saint Petesburgh, Stockholm, Berlin, Buenos Aires and Hamburg. The boxes they were packed in were decorated The ABBA tribute show will visit the Costa del Sol. :: SUR with authentic works of art. Museum Jorge Rando Malaga. Until 25 February. Cruz del Molinillo, 12 A temporary exhibition entitled Nacerán Nuevas Auroras (the Birth of Colour) is currently on display. The museum also holds poetry and musical events.kontakt@museojorgerando.org. Rafael Heredia Malaga. Until 27 February. Alfajar Sala, C/Cister An exhibition entitled Mediterráneo by Rafael Heredia. Axel Miret Paso Malaga. Until 2 March. El Retorno de Lilith, C/Cobertizo del Conde 6, behind Picasso s birthplace in Plaza de la Merced. lovers. The tour has been organised by Big M promotions and will take place in the Teatro Auditorio Felipe VI in Estepona on Wednesday 14 February. The following night, the show can be seen in the Salón del Mar, Torre del Mar, while on Friday, the Moonlight Lounge at Sunset Beach Club in Benalmádena Costa will host the show. Fans will have the opportunity to see the tribute act in the plush theatre of the luxury Sunborn Yacht Hotel in Gibraltar on Saturday 17 February. The final show will take place in the Avanto restaurant in La Cala de Mijas on Sunday 18 February. All performances start at 9pm and the show lasts for approximately three hours. Tickets for all performances, except Gibraltar, cost between 20 and 30 euros. Various options for the Gibraltar show, including VIP seats and dinner, cost between 20 and 135 euros. For more information, see Belgian artist Axel Miret will be exhibiting a selection of his works. Nature and Perception Malaga. Until 23 March. Ateneo de Malaga, C/Compañía Luis Bujalance started his career in the 90s and has shown regularly in US and Norway. Photographs of Malaga Malaga. Until 1 April. La Térmica, Avda de Los Guindos. The Photoespacio in the Térmica is housing an exhibition of 46 panoramic views of the city taken between 1854 and Stephan Balkenhol Malaga. Until 22 April. Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Calle Alemania. The exhibit consists of around thirty sculptures from the German artist s collection representing his most significant works in recent years. The Stones and The Beatles Malaga. Until 18 June. La Térmica, Avda de Los Guindos. Rival photographers Terry O Neill and Gered Mankowitz immortalised some of the most important bands in history including The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. An exhibition of some of their photos is on show in La Térmica until June. Malaga lighthouse Malaga. Until 30 June. Museo Alborania, Palmeral de las Sorpresas, Muelle 2. An exhibition detailing how important the lighthouse has been to malaga over the last two hundred years. How it faired during wars and earthquakes, what it meant to Rando Museum, Malaga sailors, vessels and the port of Malaga. Homes Real Estate and Art Fuengirola. Until 23 February. Avda Los Boliches, 86. Miguel Angel Barri, Swedish national of Mexican origin and Daniel Del Valle, Cuban, are holding a joint exhibition of colourful paintings and engravings. Posters Mijas. Until 12 February. Casa de la Cultura de Las Lagunas. An exhibition consisting solely of posters created by artist Antonio Suárez-Chamorro between 1997 and 2017 for the Instituto Superior de Economía Local. Ramón Nuñéz Mijas. Until 19 February, Centro Cultural de La Cala de Mijas. An exhibition entitled La Huella de Picasso. Salvador Madueño Mijas. Until 26 February. Casa

47 February 9th to 15th 2018 WHAT TO DO 47 Museo de Mijas. An exhibition of sculptures. ArtFest Calahonda. Until 30 March. Atlantis PMR, CC Los Olivos. The ArtFest is an art competition initiated by The Arts Society for all affiliated societies worldwide. Ten of the Costa del Sol branch members are participating. This exhibition is by appointment only. Call or More information Robert Hardy Mijas. Until 6 March. Centro de Arte Contemporáneo. Robert in Sepia is an exhibition of works by Robert Hardy. Alberto Tarsicio Torre del Mar. Until 12 February. Tr3s Puertas, Avda Andalucía The exhibition is entitled Una Revolución. Prisca Sinay Vélez-Málaga. Until 27 February. Sala El Pósito, Plaza de la Constitución. Dutch artist Prisca Sinay will be exhibiting a selection of her mixed media works. Picasso s Footprint Mijas. Until 19 February. Museo de los Gálvez. This exhibition by Ramón Núñez will open today at 8pm. D-Espacio Nerja. Until 4 March. Museo de Nerja. Paco Martín Cobos will be exhibiting a selection of his photographs. Joint exhibition Nerja. Until 17 February. Sala de Exposiciones Calle Cristo. Brendon Taylor and Maribel Martín are holding a joint exhibition of their works. ArtFest, Calahonda. Ester Alemany Macharaviaya. Until 19 March. Museo de los Gálvez. El Espejo de Los Sueños is the title of this exhibition by Ester Alemany. CHARITY Hair to Care 2018 Fuengirola/Benalmádena. 10 February. Petros in Los Boliches, The Salon in Benalmádena Pueblo and Cecilia Rossi in Arroyo de la Prisca Sinay, Vélez Málaga. Miel. The three hairdressers salons above will be donating their day s takings Cudeca Cancer Hospice. They will also be holding a charity raffle. For 4 (which will go to Cudeca), Baldos restaurant in Los Boliches will be offering paella. American Club table top sale Estepona. 25 February, From noon until 4pm. 69 C/San Roque. Free entry. Raising money for Cudeca Cancer Hospice. Table reservations 5. Information, or to reserve a table call MUSIC & DANCE The Wall Bar Malaga. Hotel Vincci Posada del Patio, 11pm, entry free. 10 February. Señor Blues. Jesús Aranda and Alberto Soler. Blues, country and rock n roll. Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra Malaga. Auditorio Edgar Neville 9 February, 8pm. The orchestra will be playing pieces by Guridi, Sarasate, Turina and Jiménez. With Jesús Reina on violin. Enrique Oliver Trio Nerja. 9 February, 8.30pm. Hotel Plaza Cavana. The Enrique Oliver jazz trio consisting of Victor Ross (double bass), Marius Rivier (drums) and Enrique Oliver (sax) will be in concert. Bookings and tickets from Ventana Abierta, C/Pintada 8. Tel: Joven Orquesta Mediterránea Almuñécar. 7pm. Auditorio Casa de la Cultura. 11 February. Beethoven s Concerto Nº1, 2 and February. Beethoven s Concerto Nº3 and 5. With pianists Noelia Rodiles and Alejandro Algarra. Tickets: the cultural centre or Viajes Ecuador. Piano Recital Gibraltar. 13 February, 8pm. Convent Ballroom. Pianist Gabriela Montero will be playing pieces by F. Schubert, R. Schumann and others. Tickets are available from Sacarello s coffee shop in Irish Town and The Silver Shop or online at A limited number of tickets 10 are available to senior citizens and students from the John Mackintosh Hall / FLAMENCO Flamenco in the Museum Malaga. Museo de Arte Flamenco Peña Juan Breva, C/Ramón Franquelo. 10 February, 8.30pm. Niko Jurado. 14 February, 8.30pm. Rocío Suárez. 15 February, 8.30pm. Bastían Soto. For information and bookings call or info@flamenka.com Pepe Flores Almuñécar. 9 February, 8pm. Auditorio Casa de la Cultura. Entre Amigos dance performance. Tickets: ticketea.com or bravoentradas.com or Viajes Ecuador / Casa de la Cultura. Flamenco recital Almuñécar. 10 February, 9pm. Auditorio Casa de la Cultura. In memory of the desbanda (the flight of people from Malaga during the Civil War) with paco Moyano vocals and Antonio de la Luz guitar. Noche Flamenca Nerja. 16 February, 9pm. Centro Cultural villa de Nerja. 12 Granada dancer, Agustín Barajas, presents a flamenco dance show with the different styles of flamenco. Accompanied by singers Fita Heredia, Manuel Heredia and Asunción Heredia; by dancer Kika Quesada and by guitarist Marcos Palometas.

48 48 WHAT TO DO February 9th to 15th 2018 FLAMENCO The Art of Flamenco Ubrique. Every Friday, 10.30pm. Peña Flamenca de Ubrique. Starting this Friday, the XXX Concurso Nacional de Arte Flamenco Ciudad de Ubrique takes place. Jonathan Santiago Mijas. 10 February, 9.30pm. Las Lagunas Theatre. The artist presents his new album, a tribute to Juan Gabriel LECTURES U3A Lectures Fuengirola. Lux Mundi reference Library, free to members, guests 5. u3afuengirola@gmail.com Treasures of the World India to Sri- Lanka. 9 February, 11am. Including the Giant Buddha, Cochin spices and the Taj Mahal. 16 February, 11am. Uzbekistan to Syria including the Tiles of Samarkand, the Fire Temple of Baku and Shiraz carpets. Lux Mundi Art Appreciation Torre del Mar. 19 February, 10.30am. Lux Mundi Ecumenical Centre, Avda Moscatel. 2. The Private Life of Masterpieces was a BBC arts documentary series which told the stories behind great Jonathon Santiago, Mijas. works of arts languages. The original narrations were done by the actor Samuel West and Tim Pigot Smith. There will be a short introduction about each artist followed by a showing of the episode. The next features The Great Wave by Hokasai. Lux Mundi talk Fuengirola. 21 February, 4pm. Lux Mundi Ecumenical Centre. 2. A Journey Through Dementia, introduced by Ian Phillips / luxmundif@gmail.com / ACEIA ELT conference Malaga. 28 February. Hotel Sercotel, Calle Héroe Sostoa, 17. The Asociación de Centros de Enseñanza de Idiomas de Andalucía is holding its annual conference offering the opportunity for English Language Teaching professionals from all over the region to get together and enjoy a morning of training workshops given by ELT professionals from all over Spain. More information: FESTIVALS Virgen de la Paz celebration Mijas 28 February. Parroquia San Manuel Gonzalez Mass at 12pm, followed by a procession around the town. Carnaval Arroyo de la Miel, Benalmádena, Cártama, Marbella, Nerja, Toremolinos, Vélez-Málaga. Many towns and villages are still celebrating Carnaval with fancy dress, parades, live music etc. EVENTS Craft market Torremolinos. Fridays and Saturdays, Plaza Unión Europea. Around 20 stalls will be selling a variety of handmade goods including wrought iron work, wool items, ceramics, leather, precious stones and fabrics etc. The Arts Society lectures The Extraordinary Life of Misia Sert: Celebrated Parisian Socialite The fascinating story of a talented and beautiful woman. Pupil of Faure, painted by Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and Vuillard, patron of Ravel, Stravinsky, Satie, Diaghilev and others, Misia Sert was also a close friend of Coco Chanel. Misia was at the very heart of modern art and music in Paris. An incredible life story. Lecturer Julian Halsby. Fuengirola. 12 February, 4.30pm. Salon Varietés. Members 8, guests Nerja. 13 February, 6pm. Cultural Centre, Calle Granada. Members 8, guests Valentine s Day dinner Mijas Costa. 14 February. Hotel Tamisa Golf. If you re single on the build up to Valentines Day, you don t have to dodge the cupid s arrow and stay home alone. Solo Sol will be hosting an event at Hotel Tamisa Golf. solosol@ .com / Misia Sert, Lectures. Rastro Cultural Malaga. 9 March, 7pm until midnight. La Térmica, Av de los Guindos. Stands selling all kinds of collectables as well as home decor, vintage clothing etc Also live music and a afashion show, skating rink and more. Bollywood Dance Classes Torremolinos. 10 February, 24 February, 10 March, 24 March. 6pm. Caseta Fitness. Indian dance classes. Sign up in the office of the Palacio San Miguel Sports Centre. Lovers Dinner Mijas. 10 February. Restaurante Valparaíso. 35. There will be live music and 4 different menus to choose from. Pancake Day Fuengirola. 13 February, 10am. Lux Mundi Ecumenical Centre A pancake with coffee / luxmundif@gmail.com / Coach excursion to Gibraltar Torre del Mar. 15 February. Various departure points. 12 Transport, travel insurance included. Passport necessary. Lux Mundi Torre del Mar / luxmundi@lux-mundi.org

49 February 9th to 15th 2018 WHAT TO DO 49 Holi life run, Malaga. Art trip Torre del Mar. 13 February. Various departure points. 5. Visiting La Galería at Villa Olivia in Periana by coach to see Martin Tatlock s paintings as well as those of other artists. luxmundi@luxmundi.org / Family fun run for Peace Torremolinos. 17 February, 11am. Crocodile Park, Pinares de Torremolinos. Register online at or at the Santa María del Mar church between 7 and 7.30pm. 10 includes race pack which can be collected from the church on 15th or 16th between 5 and 8pm. Holi Life run Malaga. 18 February, 11am from the carp park at the Martín Carpena sports centre. The 5km run is punctuated by colour at every 1,000 meters and as in other years there s will be tonnes of the coloured powder thrown for the Holi festival. Excursion to Quaryat Dílar and Lanjarón Torre del Mar. 22 February. Various departure points. 28 Visit olive oil factory and Lanjarón. Transport, travel insurance included. Lux Mundi Torre del Mar / luxmundi@lux-mundi.org Trip to Lisbon, Portugal Torre del Mar March. Various departure points. 429 pp double room, 499 single. Five nights in 4* hotel. Bed and Breakfast. Transport, travel insurance, guided tour of palace included. Lux Mundi Torre del Mar / luxmundi@lux-mundi.org O. V. FILM SUR in English advises calling Twenty years on, remembering the old Malaga Museum cinemas to check for any last minute time changes. Lunchtime and late night screenings weekends only. Cine Albéniz C/Alcazabilla 4, Malaga. Tel: or visit or Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: 20.20, Call Me By Your Name: 18.05, The Florida Project: 16.00, The Pentagon Papers: 16.00, Cinesur El Ingenio Avda. Juan Carlos 1, Vélez-Málaga. Tel Anaya painting the wife of Fernando Labrada. :: SUR INFORMATION Where. Casa Sostoa, C/Héroe de Sostoa, Malaga. What. Recreations of famous art works. When. Until 15 April. MALAGA. Pedro Alarcón has waited nearly twenty years for the Museum of Fine Arts to return to Malaga. The last time he visited it, he was accompanied by his mother and sister and it was housed in the Palacio de Buenavista, now the home of the Museo Picasso. Not long ago, it reopened in the Palacio de la Aduana, but it is not how Pedro, promoter and curator at Casa Sostoa remembers the museum. It is because of my disatisfaction with the new museum that the Casa Sostoa is having this exhibition. Walking through the Palacio de Aduanas, trying to find some semblance of the old museum, is a bittersweet sensation he explains. The exhibition in the Casa Sostoa includes ten of the works that used to stop him in his tracks when he was a child. The pieces are very recognisable and created by Julio Anaya Cabanding and Rafael Jiménez. The latter paints as if his hand had swept across the painting, distorting the image like the interference on an analogue television screen. Anaya recreates the great masters in detail, from the canvas to the frames. The Decapitation of Saint Paul (Simonet) is to scale and looks like a photo of the original painting, albeit painted onto a wall covered with graffitti. Lisbon trip, Lux Mundi The Pentagon Papers: 12.25, (every day). Darkest Hour: 12.15, (every day). Fifty Shades Freed: 12.15, Alarcón with The Decapitation of Saint Paul by Anaya. (every day). Blade Runner 2049: (Mon); (Thurs). Baby Driver: (Mon); (Wed). T2, Trainspotting: (Mon); (Wed). The Bookshop: (Tues); (Wed). Dunkirk: (Tues). Get Out: (Wed); (Thurs). La La Land: (Thurs). Cinesur Miramar Avda. de la Encarnación, Fuengirola. Tel Maze Runner: The Death Cure: (Mon, Tues, Thurs). Phantom Thread: 20.00, (Tues). Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: (Mon, Tues, Thurs). Darkest Hour: (every day). Fifty Shades Freed: 12.15, 16.30, 18.45, 21.00, (every day) Cines Teatro Goya Avda Julio Iglesias, Marbella. Tel Darkest Hour: (Fri-Sun); (Mon-Thurs). Maze Runner: The Death Cure: (Fri-Sun). Fifty Shades Freed: (Sun); 15.50, 18.10, 20.30, (Fri, Sat, Sun); 17.45, 19.15, 20.15, (Mon-Thurs). The Post: (Mon-Thurs); (Fri-Sun). The Greatest Showman: (Mon, Tues, Thurs), (Tues). Ferdinand: (Sun). Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: (Sun); 18.15, (Fri, Sat, Sun); 17.45, (Mon-Thurs). Early Man: (Sun); 16.00, (Fri, Sat, Sun); (Mon- Thurs). Yelmo Cines, Plaza Mayor Centro de Ocio Plaza Mayor, Avda. Alfonso Ponce de León. Tel: or visit www. yelmocines.es Early Man: (Sat, Sun). Fifty Shades Freed: 12.30, (Sat, Sun); 17.30, (every day); (Fri, Sat). Maze Runner: The Death Cure: (Tues). Phantom Thread: (Sat, Sun); (Mon). Marbella The Other Side of the Camera Instituto Río Verde Calle Notario Luis Oliver 20.00, and Centro Municipal de Música, Plaza de la Libertad, San Pedro, While We re Young: Marbella, 12 February, San Pedro 13 February. Cinesa La Cañada La Cañada commercial centre, Marbella ocumental David Hockney in the Royal Academy of Arts: 12, 13 February 8.15pm. A documentary of the artist s successful exhibitions in the Royal Academy in London. Murillo: 15 February. Goya: 22 February. Dalí: Date to be confirmed.

50 50 WHAT TO DO AROUND MALAGA JAVIER ALMELLONES A story of passion in Antequera and Archidona Seven centuries later, the romantic but tragic legend of Lovers Rock still lives on 1 day in Archidona and Antequera Car+ Walking. Journey time: 50 minutes from Malaga. Visits: 4 hours. Origin. This route begins with the romance between Tello and Tagzona in Archidona. Views. From Antequera and Archidona there are remarkable views of this rock formation. Literature. This impossible love was included in Washington Irving s book Tales of the Alhambra. Escape. The two lovers fled from Archidona and reached the Peña de los Enamorados rock. Location. Vega de Antequera View of Lovers Rock from the remains of the castle in Archidona. :: J. A. There are several legends which have been handed down from the time of Al-Ándalus to the present day, in which young people from two opposing sides, Moors and Christians, fall in love. One of the bestknown is said to have taken place between Archidona and Antequera: the romance between Tello and Tagzona. He, Tello, was a brave soldier who was being held in the cells of the fortress in Archidona, and she was the daughter of the walí Ibrahím, who ran the castle. They are the leading figures in a famous legend based around that remarkable rock on the Vega de Antequera plain, the Peña de los Enamorados. The name means Lovers Rock. Wonderful views over the Vega de Antequera, Moorish fortresses which resist the passage of time and the karst formation of Lovers Rock are just some of the things to be seen along this route, which was inspired by the legend of an impossible love during the Andalusian era. Tagzona s father, like most of society at that time, disapproved of relationships between people of opposing groups and radically different religious beliefs. Even so, she is said to have set Tello free and they fled from the castle towards Christian territory. However, their attempt to escape failed. The Moorish guards soon realised that Tello was missing and set off in pursuit of the couple. When Tagzona and Tello saw that the guards were on their trail, they were close to the huge rock and, in desperation, climbed up to the top. Once there, they decided to throw themselves off rather than be separated. There is now a walking route up to the top of the Peña de los Enamorados, and the castle in which Tello and Tagzona are said to have fallen in love still stands in Archidona. From there, despite the distance, Lovers Rock can clearly be seen. MORE EXCURSIONS St Valentine s Day Arriate Serranía de Ronda. Valentine s Day has a special significance in the village of Arriate, in Malaga province, because that is when local people commemorate their independence from Ronda. It was on 14 February 1661 that the Real Cédula de Venta de Jurisdicción was signed by the king of Spain, Felipe IV, to grant Arriate its emancipation from the municipality of Ronda. Day of Los Polvos Tolox Sierra de las Nieves. The village of Tolox is celebrating Carnival until Tuesday. There is a local tradition in which residents and visitors take part in a nocturnal talcum powder fight, and this will take place at midnight on Monday. This unusual tradition dates back centuries, to a time when young men would declare their feelings for a girl in this way. Carnival parades Humilladero Vega de Antequera. This weekend the village of Humilladero is celebrating its Carnival and one of the most important events is the highly colourful and imaginative fancy dress parade which takes place tomorrow (Saturday) from 4pm. Every year hundreds of local people take part, and it is now a major attraction for tourists. February 9th to 15th 2018 Since then St Valentine has been the patron saint of the village, and 14 February is always a local holiday. It is a good reason to explore Arriate, which maintains some interesting traditions. Wednesday 14 February, in the village of Arriate. It is a similar tradition to the one which will take place in Alozaina in a couple of weeks time, although that one is known as the Carnaval de la Harina, or Flour Carnival. Monday night from midnight, in the streets of Tolox. On Sunday there will be another parade, this time for children, who can also enjoy playing an unusual game called Carnaval del Chuchete. Saturday afternoon and Sunday in the village of Humilladero, in Malaga province.

51 February 9th to 15th 2018 FOOD&DRINK 51 Natural aphrodisiacs Appearance can do a lot for sexual desire but there are a few natural products that are known to have a beneficial effect on the sexual appetite :: PILAR MANZANARES MADRID. Popular belief and, above all, the appetite for certain foods (sometimes luxurious such as oysters and champagne) play an important factor when it comes to making them aphrodisiacs. However, science has not been able to prove with certainty that any of them hold any erotic benefits. The cooking method, the sensuality of the recipe, the ambience and above all, the person with whom the romantic Cho meal is being shared, do is found more for the li- around the bido than pills. Although somethe effects of what times useful, world and can grow in dry climate locations. It is known as one sees work bet- vegetable viagra ter than Viagra. The cocoa bean. :: PIXABAY and is sold in capsule There are some ral stimulants (say goodbye to natu- form from most chemnatu- ists. It is said to naturally boost the toys, the films, the music and the lingerie) that can also give a boost when necessary. Vegetable viagra Before taking any natural remedies it is best to consult a doctor, especially in this case. Bindii (Tribulus Terrestris), sexual desire. Chocolate strawberries :: SUR Maca root Maca (also known as Peruvian ginseng) helps fight tiredness but is also said to increase sexual appetite. This invigorating and revitalising root originates from the Peruvian Andes. The Arkopharma laboratories report that it helps stimulate vigour and physical and intellectual performance and helps stimulate sexual desire. Cocoa Cocoa is the aphrodisiac that is far from being a myth. This is one case that science can confirm. The phenylethylamine that it contains activates serotonin which in return stimulates the reward centre in the brain giving a feeling of pleasure. It is also popular to lift mild depression. Chocolate combined with strawberries, an aphrodisiac just by appearance, makes a perfect romantic treat. Joffrey s restaurant debuts on Channel 4 s A New Life in the Sun From March until September last year, a film crew recorded the struggles of opening a new business in Spain :: MIJAS. Channel 4 will be featuring Joffrey s new fine dining restaurant in La Cala de Mijas on Monday, 12 February at 4pm The seven-week series, A New Life in the Sun, broadcast in the UK, follows expats abroad who open new businesses in France and Spain. The programme shows the trials and tribulations of opening a new business in a foreign country; Joffrey s will feature in the first and subsequent episodes. The restaurant, co-owned by former TV3 stylist Lisa Burgess and Two of the crew during filming. :: SUR Lisa and Joffrey. :: SUR French chef Joffrey Charles, is located in La Cala de Mijas, close to El Bombo beach. Joffrey and Lisa bought an old Spanish cafe there last year and completely reformed it into a contemporary French fusion restaurant. Filming began in March 2017 and took place approximately twice a week until September.

52 52 FOOD&DRINK February 9th to 15th 2018 Málaga en la Mesa in search of the province s best pizza ANDREW J. LINN DO WE REALLY CARE? The second edition of the Tutti Pizza competition takes place in March to find the masters of pizza making in the area One of the pizzas entered in last year s competition. :: SUR :: AGUSTÍN PELÁEZ MALAGA. SUR s gastronomy publication, Málaga en la Mesa, is holding the second Tutti Pizza competition which is open for registrations until 25 February. Sponsored by La Contadina (importer of Italian products), the competition is open to restaurants that specialise or partially specialise, in Italian cuisine. The best pizza, judged by a special jury, will win 3,000 euros worth of advertising in Málaga en la Mesa and the makers of the pizza voted the best by the public will win 1,000 euros worth of advertising. Restaurants can register through the official website ( This year, two pizzas from each establishment are allowed to be entered in the competition, one in the obligatory general category which must use the basic ingredients such as flour and mozzarella from La Contadina, and the other can be for the new special category. In the new category, pizzas can be made with flours of turmeric, grano arso (burnt grain) or canapa (hemp) from the Polselli company which is also supporting the event along with Viander, Maestrella and Gastronews. The winning pizza in this gourmet flour category will win a hamper of products from La Contadina valued at 500 euros. A maximum of 100 restaurants can take part in the competition which will run between 19 and 25 March. During that week and besides the usual menu, they will be offering the pizzas that are entered in the competition priced at between 7 and 10 euros each. Over 18s can judge the pizzas on the official web page and vote for their favourite. The seven voted most popular by the public plus three chosen by the panel of judges will be entered in the final. For the final the judges will be checking the quality of the dough base, the cooking method, the harmony and combination of the toppings and the degree of difficulty in the production of the pizza. After tastings, should the judges decision coincide with that of the public, then the prize in the public category will go to the pizza voted second favourite in that category. Last month one of France s leading champagne houses, Louis Roederer, announced that from the 2017 vintage, all its wines would be biodynamic. To compound the confusion, the savvy Frenchmen excluded any reference to biodynamic production methods on labels, or the exploitation of this new policy as a promotional tool. So what is the point? Roederer s decision cannot have been taken lightly as there would be cost factors involved, so the only possible explanation has to be that the firm believes biodynamic methods make better wine. Biodynamic agriculture was developed around 1924 by Rudolf Steiner and predates organic cultivation. Both exclude pesticides and fertiliser, but biodynamic methods go much further by using astronomy to decide the dates for many vineyard tasks, and the phases of the moon are crucial. In its purest form biodynamic winemaking involves practices such as burying cows horns stuffed with organic fertiliser in the vineyards. At a moon-given moment these are dug up and the contents spread over the growing area. One of Spain s leading practitioners, Ricardo Pérez Palacios, considers the soil to be a living organism and looks upon this type of viticulture from a human and holistic standpoint: the earth, the animals, the plants, the cosmos, nature s natural cycles, etc. All well and good, but does all this influence the consumer in the choice of a wine? In tastings there is anecdotal evidence showing biodynamically-produced wines have a more intense taste, but we were told the same thing about organic varieties while the fact is that they have not really made much of a mark. Nor have so-called natural or sustainable wines. While in some countries, Germany for example, organic wines occupy a significant market sector, it has not been fully demonstrated that they are better or their consumption is more healthy. Is there any brand whose sales have increased by converting to natural, sustainable or organic? While there are many converts to organic food products, do we really care when it comes to choosing a wine off the shelf? WINE OF THE WEEK Monte Real de Familia This 2011 Rioja Reserva has to be one of the best bargains around. Made by the oldest Cenicero winery, Bodegas Riojanas (1890), and barrelaged for 28 months, the vintage has been classified as excellent by the region s regulatory body. Around 13 euros.

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57 February 9th to 15th 2018 SPORT 57 A LOOK AT LA LIGA ROB PALMER Commentator, Sky Out of the shadows The improbable Eibar fairytale could be Europa-League bound The story of Sociedad Deportivo Eibar is so different from anything else we ve ever witnessed; it s like a street busker going to representing Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest. In fact the way things stand; they will be one of Spain s representatives in the Europa League next season, though I m not sure their stadium will meet the criteria set by the UEFA suits. I tried to research how far down the list their municipally-owned stadium was in the listings but Google wouldn t recognise venues with a capacity with less than 10,000. The capacity of 7,083 wasn t reached when the tiny club from the Basque region celebrated their greatest 90 minutes of football last week by knee-capping one of the giants of Spanish, if not European football. I m sure there was a Manchester United spy among the 5,311 whose purpose was to detect any weaknesses in the Sevilla style of play. He ll be reporting back to Jose Mourinho with pages and pages of notes as Eibar blasted five goals. Dining at the top table of Spanish football is a guest that is happy to take the scraps from the plates of elite among them, throw them into a pan and come up with tasty tapas that nobody has ever experienced before. Eibar take the cast-offs from elsewhere, give them shelter, a sense of being and re-launch their footballing lives. Last week s hero was Fabián Orellana, a Chilean who was (professionally) destitute. His parent club Valencia had sent him out into the warmth of a football stadium just once since the summer. He headed north where they gave him a home. Orellana has repaid the kind folk by scoring on his debut, creating a goal against Alavés and then recreating memories of his happy days by hitting two past Sevilla. This is a happy place for footballers who had lost their way. Collectively they are creating a storm. There s Iván Ramis who was measured for a Wembley suit at Wigan; his swollen knee prevented him from changing out of it and he s floated around the football world like a lost soul since. The goalkeeper is a 26-year-old Serbian whose career peaked with five Championship games for Charlton Athletic. The leading scorer is a Brazillian called Charles, who was unwanted at Malaga and very few are unwanted at Malaga. International flavour is given by Takashi Inui, a Japan international who floated around Germany before settling in Eibar. I m not sure how Inui arrived in The Basque side recorded a historic 5-1 win over Sevilla. :: EFE Eibar; he could have used it as a pit stop on a train as the settlement is almost exactly half way between Bilbao and San Sebastián. Those cities have glorious, title-winning pasts yet they are overshadowed by this outpost. When Eibar installed floodlights back in 1970, it was felt that their players were not worthy enough to be the first to be illuminated so Athletic and Real Sociedad were invited to play an exhibition. Now they are in the shadows of a team who represent a population of 27,500. Eibar are the leading Basque team and likely to make the Europa League if their run of one defeat in eleven Liga matches can be maintained. The only danger is that the man from UEFA may not pass the municipal stadium as fit for purpose and they will have to ask a favour of their footballing cousins and borrow their homes for a few midweek soirées. Marbella edge their way closer to the top Añón, Ferrón and Juanfran scored in a comfortable win over Granada B in a game littered with injuries MARBELLA 3 GRANADA B 0 :: JULIO RODRÍGUEZ MARBELLA. Marbella moved to within a point of their Segunda B group leaders Cartagena (who lost to Villanovense) after a resounding 3-0 victory against Granada B on Sunday. Though there was not an abundance of chances to be had, Fernando Estévez s side controlled the tie with their fluidity and organisation. They opened the scoring after just a quarter of an hour when Indiano s freekick from range rebounded around Granada s penalty area before Añón could apply the finishing touch. Rioja and Corpas, so often Marbella s biggest threat down the wings this campaign, were not at their best - nor did they need to be. Granada were allowed to keep possession of the ball, but the hosts martialled them well and stopped them from being at all effective. Just before half time came the second goal. Corpas, surging down the Añón, Corpas and Rioja celebrate the opener. :: OPTA wing on the counterattack, then squared the ball across the face for Ferrón to tap in unmarked. The visitors made a double change at half time with Juancho and former Marbella man Casi entering the fray, but neither could change the course of a half punctuated by injuries which affected the flow of the game. The first, surprisingly, was suffered by referee Orellana Cid, for whom the game had to be delayed by five minutes. Without a fourth official at this level, he was forced to play on. More significantly for Marbella, key men Ferrón and Rioja limped off with knocks. However, with 15 minutes remaining, Marbella made their control count and Juanfran slotted past Lejarranga s left hand into the corner from the penalty spot to end the game as a contest. This was his second goal of the campaign and vindicated the club s decision to reject interest in him from other clubs. Five minutes later, Añón was also gifted a wonderful reception by the home fans as he was replaced by new signing Álex Bernal. Marbella s other significant action in the January window saw the recruitment of Peris; the full-back played the full ninety minutes. Next up for Los Blanquillos is a trip to the Canaries to face Las Palmas B.

58 58 SPORT MALAGA-ATLÉTICO SATURDAY 4.15PM February 9th to 15th 2018 LINE-UPS LAS PALMAS 1 MALAGA Ximo Navarro Chichizola Aguirregaray Gálvez Peñalba Míchel (Dani Castellano, 86 ) Nacho Gil (Halilovic, 62 ) Jonathan Viera Etebo Toledo (Tana, 72 ) Unused substitutes: Raúl (GK), David García, Aquilani, Erik Expósito. Calleri Ideye Keko (Juanpi, 86 ) Adrián Samuel (Success, 78) Iturra Recio (Bueno, 70 ) Rosales Hernández Ricca Miquel Unused substitutes: Prieto (GK), Diego González, Lacen, En-Nesyri. Roberto STATISTICS 63% LAS PALMAS BALL POSSESSION Goals Total shots On target Off target Corners Offsides Fouls committed Yellow cards Red cards Goal: 1-0 Halilovic (90 ). Referee: Ricardo De Burgos. 37% MALAGA Venue: Estadio Gran Canaria (17,424 spectators). TABLE & FIXTURES MATCHDAY 22 Results At. Madrid - Valencia 1-0 Girona - Athletic 2-0 Eibar - Sevilla 5-1 Getafe - Leganés 0-0 Espanyol - Barcelona 1-1 Alavés - Celta 2-1 Betis - Villarreal 2-1 Real Sociedad - Deportivo 5-0 Levante - Real Madrid 2-2 Las Palmas - MALAGA 1-0 Fixtures MALAGA - At. Madrid Athletic - Las Palmas Sevilla - Girona Leganés - Eibar Barcelona - Getafe Celta - Espanyol Villarreal - Alavés Deportivo - Betis Real Madrid - Real Sociedad Valencia - Levante LEAGUE TABLE Champions League Europa League Relegation TEAM PT. P W D L GF GA 1. Barcelona At. Madrid Valencia Real Madrid Villarreal Sevilla Eibar Celta Girona Betis Getafe Leganés Athletic Real Sociedad Espanyol Alavés Levante Deportivo Las Palmas MALAGA A cruel blow to Malaga s bid for survival DARYL FINCH dfinch@diariosur.es Las Palmas bagged a last-minute winner to cut the Blue and Whites adrift in their quest to beat the drop MALAGA. Malaga suffered an enormous blow to their chances of survival with a last-gasp defeat to relegation rivals Las Palmas on Monday night. Alen Halilovic scored the winner in the 90th minute, after Malaga continued to show signs of improvement with an impressive away display in Gran Canaria. Brown Ideye led the line well on his debut for the club, giving his side an outlet on the counterattack as they sat back and absorbed pressure from the home team who were comfortable in possession but found Malaga s two compact lines of four difficult to break Alen Halilovic celebrates scoring the winning goal in the 90th minute. :: EFE down. In fact, it wasn t until minutes before the break that Las Palmas created the first chance of the game. Míchel s half volley on the edge of the box was stopped well to his left by Roberto who pushed the ball out for a corner. Jonathan Calleri made the most of space on the edge of the box to test his range seconds later, but his effort flew narrowly over the bar. With both sides needing the three points, the game opened up more in the second half and this worked in Malaga s favour. However, a lack of sharpness on the part of Samuel García let the hosts off the hook when clean through on goal; his heavy touch ran straight through to the keeper. Keko then had the chance of the game, but could only poke his effort from the six-yard line at the goalkeeper s outstretched leg. Oghenekaro Etebo, who ran Las Palmas midfield with his energy, then tested Roberto s reflexes with a powerful strike from 25 yards which required tipping over the bar. In pursuit of the win, Malaga head coach José González brought on Juanpi, Alberto Bueno and debutant Isaac Success to stretch the Las Palmas backline and but for an incorrect offside flag, Success could have been in one-on-one with the keeper. González was furious on the touchline, but worse punishment was to come as the game entered stoppage time. Defender Ignasi Miquel s weak clearance under pressure from Calleri fell straight to Alen Halilovic on the end of the box and the Croatian volleyed the ball into the far corner. The relatively tame shot deceived Roberto, whose view was obstructed by Miquel picking himself up in front of him and who Malaga complained was fouled in the build-up. This was a cruel end to the game for the visitors who have seldom played better this campaign. This counts for nothing, however, and Malaga are now seven points from safety, four away from Las Palmas who remain in 19th spot despite victory.

59 February 9th to 15th 2018 SPORT 59 Husillos: Changing coach didn t alter any of our recruitment plans Academy project takes major step forward as Bilba is given contract to carry out works Malaga s sporting director has been shedding light on the club s movements in the transfer window on a shoestring budget of 1.6 million euros :: JUAN CALDERÓN MALAGA. With eight players coming in and seven going out, Malaga sporting director Mario Husillos estimates that the club had been negotiating a deal every 48 hours during the January transfer window. The Argentinian offered his reflections on a busy winter at a press conference at La Rosaleda last Friday where he accepted the responsibility for all of the signings made. He added: Of course some of the players are known to the coaches. Míchel worked with Alberto Bueno and he [José González] chose Isaac Success and Brown Ideye, but both were on our shortlist already. We knew where we needed to strengthen so at the end of the day, the change in coach didn t alter our recruitment plans. Husillos admitted that all sporting directors think about change when they arrive at a club, but denied that what was happening at Malaga could be described as a revolution. I still think that the base I inherited is good enough. Those who have arrived will help them. Problems attracting players Husillos acknowledged that with the club sitting bottom of the table, and a very modest budget of just 1.6 million euros, attracting Husillos taking questions from journalists. :: SALVADOR SALAS players was a difficult task: The idea was to take a step forward and be in a stronger position than we were before January. Only results will show us whether our squad is any better now. Asked about the link to former players Jérémy Toulalan and Sandro Ramírez, Husillos said: I spoke to him [Toulalan] and the answer was no. I spoke to Sandro an endless number of times but his club wouldn t let him leave so it was almost impossible. Despite these setbacks, the sporting director believes that the club have pulled off something of a coup by signing up Maxime Lestienne, 25: Just looking at his age, the teams he s played for and the money that s been spent on him, it s obvious that there s talent in there. We hope to be able to give Mehdi Lacen, a bonus piece in the transfer jigsaw :: SERGIO CORTÉS MALAGA. Just as we thought the signings of Brown Ideye, Isaac Success and Maxime Lestienne had brought a close to a record-breaking transfer window, Malaga secured yet another recruit: Mehdi Lacen is the eighth player through to the door at La Rosaleda this winter. After the club missed out on the signing of Turkish defender Ahmet Çalik from Galatasaray by minutes (and their appeal was unsuccessful), sporting director Mario Husillos turned his focus towards the freeagent market. With head coach José González him an opportunity and some stability so that his development can continue. Conditioning Despite the majority of the new recruits finding first-team football hard to come by, all of them had been training with their teams, Husillos insists. I wasn t at their medicals but I know that they are in shape. Some will play more than others and that is normal. What we want overall is for the level of quality in the group to be raised. Staying up We have hope and we ve made a big effort [in the window] because we believe we can get out [of relegation trouble]. A lot of people believe in us so we have to fight to the death, he concluded. Lacen trained with the team on Saturday. :: SALVADOR SALAS insisting upon a player who would adapt quickly, Husillos moved to wrap up a deal for veteran holding midfielder Lacen who was released by Getafe on deadline day after six and a half years at the club. Three days later, he was passing a medical and signing a five-month deal with Malaga with the possibility of an extension should he feature in a set number of fixtures between now and the end of the season. The Algerian, who has been to two World Cups, trained with the team on Saturday and was immediately included in the squad that travelled to Las Palmas for Monday s relegation six-pointer. A change in strategy While the lack of depth at the back :: ANTONIO GÓNGORA MALAGA. After seven years of hold-ups, building on Malaga s long-awaited Academy project is set to start. This comes after the club finally resolved issues with its foundation, the owners of the project, and signed a deal with a construction company. Bilba, with whom Hamyan Al- Thani signed the deal on Wednesday, will be responsible for the contruction of the buildings, but not the three pitches - these will be left to sporting specialists. The first phase of the project, of which there are three, is expected to get under way imminently, with the whole project expected to be completed by July. The new 4.5-million-euro complex will be built on land in the Arraijanal district of Malaga, close to the city s airport. has been left unaddressed, the availability of Lacen presented a different opportunity for Malaga - to strengthen in midfield. With Zdravko Kuzmanovic and Esteban Rolón below the required physical standard, José Recio and Manuel Iturra are seen as the only reliable options in central midfield (González sees Adrián as an attacker). What s more, this is also a marked change from the strategy in the summer when owner Sheikh Abdullah Al-Thani scuppered a move for Javi García based on his age (he turned 31 yesterday) in favour of the inexperienced youngsters, Emanuel Cecchini and Esteban Rolón. Cecchini has since left the club on loan, while Rolón is well down the pecking order. 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60 60 SPORT Chris Froome to resurface in Mijas after doping controversy February 9th to 15th 2018 The current Tour and Vuelta winner is under investigation for doping but is set to compete in the Vuelta a Andalucía which starts next week Runners at the start line of the kilometre-long course. :: SUR :: PEDRO LUIS ALONSO MALAGA. British road racing cyclist Chris Froome will make his first appearance following accusiations of doping came to light when he competes in the Vuelta a Andalucía which starts in Mijas on Wednesday. Despite being currently under investigation after testing positive for salbutamol during the Vuelta a España (which he won), Froome is still eligible to compete in the competition which runs until Sunday 18 February. This will be his first appearance this campaign and his first appearance in the Andalusian race since his victory in Froome has been preparing for the new season in his native South Africa and on Monday his team, Sky, announced that he would be competing in the Vuelta a Andalucía, four months after his last competition. It s a race I ve enjoyed in the past and so I m looking forward to going back there, said Froome in a statement published by Team Sky. He went on to speak about the ongoing investigation into his use of asthma drugs, saying: I m confident that we will be able to get to Froome in a recent training session with Sky. :: EFE the bottom of what has happened and I m working hard with the team to do that. No one is keener than me to move things forward as quickly as possible. The current Tour de France and Vuelta a España winner will be on the startline in Mijas on Wednesday ahead of the nearly 200-kilometre first stage to Granada. The starting point is on Avenida del Albero in Las Lagunas with racers setting off at 11.30am. The route then passes up to Mijas Pueblo and Alhaurín de la Torre, before joining the A-7 and passing through La Cala del Moral, Rincón de la Victoria, Chilches, Benajarafe, Torre del Mar, Vélez-Málaga and La Viñuela, before heading inland to Granada. The second phase runs between Otura and La Guardia de Jáen; the third Mancha Real to Herrera; and the fourth Seville to Alcalá de los Gazules. On Sunday, is the final 14.2-kilometre run in Barbate. The EIC winning team with their medals. :: SUR EIC victorious in cross country championship :: SUR CÁRTAMA. English International College ran out the winners last week as Novaschool Sunland hosted the largest ever Interschool Cross Country Championships, with 12 schools and some 565 competitors in attendance. Students took part in eight different categories across a one-kilometre course which comprised roads, compact soil and rocky areas around the school s grounds in Estación de Cártama. Having not won the competition for two years, EIC returned as victorious champions, with Millie Dobson (Year 6) setting a new course record. Overall, EIC topped the standings with 333, the hosts Novaschool came in second with 404, followed by Aloha College (460) and Sotogrande International School (652). The other participating schools were the British International School, Swans International School, The British School, Sunny View School, Laude International School, Sotogrande International School, St Anthony s College, Almuñécar International School and Queens British Grammar School. THREE WINS ON THE BOUNCE FOR THE FUENGIROLA LIONS :: SUR The Fuengirola Lions inline hockey team played three Liga Sur games in Águilas (Murcia) last weekend, beating Sancti Petri 10-0, Murcia Roller 7-3 and Tiburones de Cartagena The Lions now top Liga Sur, as well as the Liga Andaluza with sister team Barona. The next round of Liga Sur games will be in Fuengirola on 10 March.

61 February 9th to 15th 2018 SPORT 61 INFORMATION CARLOS J. MARTÍNEZ I don t have a fixed objective. My aim for now is just to keep improving and take part in bigger events, he says Daniel Jacare, committed to success The 32-year-old from Malaga competes in the third biggest MMA organisaton in Europe (Top) A promotional photo of Daniel Jacare Toledo; above, during a fight. :: SUR Jacare : Weighing 100 kilos and 1.90m tall, Daniel Toledo competes in the heavyweight category, although his fighting weight is 93 kilos. Success: The fighter from Malaga has a favourable record at present, having won nine fights out of 15. Forthcoming fights: He was asked to fight two weeks ago but couldn t because of his broken toes. His next fight will be in April. Training: In a month s time he will go to Thailand to train. MALAGA. The world of mixed martial arts (MMA) is becoming better known: it is shown on TV, there are specialist websites and some gyms offer different disciplines. Even so, in Malaga it is still relatively unknown, although it can boast some major fighters such as Irene La Niña Cabello and Daniel Jacare Toledo. Daniel is now forging a successful career for himself in this sport. The MMA competitions are organised by different organisations; the most famous is the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), but there are also Bellator and the Russian ACB (Absolute Championship Berkut), in which Jacare competes. I always did martial arts like taekwondo as a child. As you grow up you prefer one thing or another. MMA is the most complete and the best to compete in, says the 32-year-old, who began doing them when he was eight. He recognises that it is not easy to enter into the world of mixed martial arts in Malaga. It s difficult because there aren t many teachers. There are starting to be a few more now, but it is still complicated. Daniel combines his passion for martial arts with a night-time job. I work at night to pay the bills, although they re paying me well in Russia now, he says. Despite the difficulties, he appreciates the benefits. You have to travel for training so you see different places and meet new people, and you re always made welcome as a mixed martial arts fighter. How did Daniel start competing in Russia? They contacted my trainer, and he thought I would be suitable for those type of events and put my name forward. He sent them videos and information. It is a very different level: it s not the same as fighting in local events, or second or third division in England or Denmark, for example. There is no comparison. ACB is the world s third-largest promotor, he explains. Mixed martial arts require full dedication and exhaustive training: You have to train all the time. If there is an event and one of the fighters can t take part, they ring you all of a sudden. You always have to be on form, not because you re expecting to fight, but in case they ring you at the last minute. Daniel s training schedule is extremely strict: You have to train at least twice a day, minimum. My days and weeks are planned down to the last minute. I work, sleep, train and eat. I try to find time for personal matters as well, though, he says. Competing With regard to competitions, the organisers of the Absolute Championship Berkut set very specific terms. They give you four months rest between each fight. Depending on the event, they ll ring you or not. For example, if there is a fight in Russia, where the fighters are very heavy, they have a list of suitable people and choose from that. For them, this is a business. They choose the person they think will fight best. You re not given a schedule in January, May and December, for example. Sometimes you re not called for six or seven months, for different reasons. He sets himself no limits. I ll go wherever they want me. I don t have a fixed objective. Everyone wants to fight in the UFC, but it s difficult so we ll see how it goes. For now, my aim is just to keep improving and take part in bigger events, he says. With the peace of mind which comes from knowing that his own hard work will place him where he is meant to be, Daniel Jacare Toledo is an example of the consistency and commitment needed to reach success in the world of sport.

62 62 SPORT SPAIN-GREAT BRITAIN February 9th to 15th 2018 The Spain players celebrate going through to the next round. :: JOSELE-LANZA Cameron Norrie s stock has risen after the weekend s action. :: JOSELE-LANZA The Armada are through to Davis Cup quarter finals but it wasn t plain sailing The performances of star-in-the-making Cameron Norrie made sure it was wasn t an easy ride for Spain who were the strong favourites :: PEDRO LUIS ALONSO MARBELLA. Spain are through to the quarter finals of the Davis Cup, after winning the fourth game in their first round clash against Great Britain this weekend at the Puente Romano tennis club in Marbella on Sunday. An excellent Cameron Norrie made Albert Ramos fight harder for his victory than expected, however, taking him to four sets in three hours and 45 minutes 7-6, 2-6, 7-6, 6-2. Norrie, a Davis Cup debutant ranked 114th in the world, maintained the level he showed on Friday when he fought to win against world number 23 Roberto Bautista Agut. We ve had a lot of good moments in Davis Cup and this is one of them right now, said Great Britain captain Leon Smith after the match. This result levelled the scores in the round at 1-1 after world number 21 Albert Ramos-Vinolas saw off Liam Broady (8-6) in the day s early fixture. Despite this unexpected setback Spain went into the final day of the round with a 2-1 advantage after the victory of Feliciano López and Pablo Carreño in Saturday s doubles match. The Spanish pair beat GB s Jaime Murray and Dominic Inglot in straight sets - 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (4). Now Spain face Germany in the quarter finals in April. British fans at home in Marbella. :: JOSELE-LANZA The Manolo Santana centre court was close to capacity. :: J-L Making themselves at home One of the major features of the weekend was the vast support for the away team. Dressed in blue t- shirts, the Manolo Santana centre court at Puente Romano was awash with GB supporters, many of whom arrived early in the morning to decorate the stands with flags. Though outnumbered in the 8,000-capacity arena, the British fans, many residents on the Costa, made their voices heard. Despite the underdog status, the fans were buoyed especially by Norrie s showing for whom the only way is up, according to captain Smith. It s amazing to see Cam, as a rookie, a debutant, actually wear the opponent down.

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At jobfinder Spain we meet with you, identify your key strengths, build you profile, then guide you through the selection and interview process for that perfect job!.call EVENT organizer Advice Group Spain is looking for commercial talent with very good PC skills to promote the Home Fair Costa del Sol and Golf Expo Marbella fairs. Full time job, partly sales visiting potential exhibitors in Marbella, partly administrative follow up from Estepona based office. Must be team player and fluent English and Spanish absolute necesity. Send your CV to info@agspain.com LOOKINIG for a new start for the New Year? Would you like to earn more money in a proper job with a contract and nomina? We are looking for you, we need native English speaking telemarketers to work part time in Fuengirola, the hours are pm Monday to Thursday and 4-7pm on Friday. Please call after 11am RECRUITMENT!! Need work? or looking for the right people? We can help. info@recruitspain.com HOMESIT Timeshare claim appointment setters required, for busy, lively, successful office in Las Lagunas. Hours are flexible / part-time. Fantastic reward package. Happy office. Great Data! Experience essential. Call Nick LOOKING FOR AN ENGLISH TEACHER FOR FUENGIROLA. ALL LEVELS QUALIFIED. SEND CVS TO lynnefuengirola@gmail.com WANTED all cars, any registration, runners or non runners. Embargos & finance no problem. Call now, cash waiting / CARS & Vans any registration, instant cash. Finance/embargo UK or Spanish WANTED: Best prices paid for proper cars, same day collection WANTED Cars & vans. Free collection same day CARS WANTED, UK or Spanish best prices, also embargos/finance/ lost papers. Problems solved. Call ALL CARS/ Commercials wanted any age, any condition. Cash. Buyer collects. Transfer included SIMPLY The Best. Top prices paid for any second-hand cars. Jeff CLASSIC Cars Restoration 30 years' experience in simple repairs and upgrades to ground up restoration, bodywork, upholstery etc. Classic Cars Marbella. Tel WE BUY your car or motorhome. State and year no matter. Pay fair in cash R.Theiss Repairs TRANSMATIC Automatic gearbox specialists. All models including classic cars, serviced, repaired and reconditioned. Also 4x4 transfer boxes and power steering. Call/Fax: / / transmatic2005@yahoo.com UK MOT Car collected and delivered by transporter, GBP400. carsinspain@hotmail.com (0044) CARAVANS Buy / Sell BAILEY Ranger berth with fixed double bed, solar panel, awning. Cris registered. Excellent condition. 3,500 Euros ONO. Phone/ Whatsapp Storage PARKING, storage & sales.caravans, motorhomes, cars and boats etc. Short/ long term. Safe & secure. Excellent rates. 5 minutes from Fuengirola. info@eurodog.es / NAUTICAL WANTED JetSki's, Boats, Quads..etc working or not. 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67 February 9th to 15th 2018 CLASSIFIED 67 REAL ESTATE Agency located in Mijas Costa and operative on the entire Coast is looking for experienced sales agents and telemarketers. The candidates must speak English fluently and preferably one of the following languages: French, German, Nordic. Great conditions and high commission scheme for the right candidates. Please send CV and/or call WORLDWIDE Customer Care is recruiting for full and part tiem Reservations & Customer Service Officers. You should be able to communicate in written & spoken English, preference will be given to candidates fluent in any of the following additional languages: German, French, Finnish, Mandaron and/or with previous experience in a vacation club reservations/customer service department. We are offering contract with basic salary (15,500 PA) + achievable monthly bonuses. Please send your C V and a brief note to admin2@ww-cc.com ARE YOU up with building somebody else's dream? Do you want to earn 300/ 2,000+ Euros per month part/ full time and have fun? Successful Leadership Managers with Forever Living, Phil & Rosytha Cony are looking for individuals or couples to be part of a new dynamic team in Spain. Call Phil on for details EXPERIENCED Telemarketer Required for Busy Real Estate Office Based in Estepona working from 11-4pm Monday to Friday. Flexible working conditions, contract for the right person after a trial period.must be fluent in English and Spanish plus other languages a bonus. Please CV in the first instance to info@casafirst.es FULL time Hair stylist required and Beauty therapist. Minimum 5 years experience. Option for Autonomo. Must be established within the Mijas Costa area. Contact Marion MIJAS Real Estate Office requires sales person. Must have driving licence, fluent English and some Spanish. C.V to cvafs401@gmail.com JOIN the Coast's biggest Italian Leather Sofa company. Salespersons required for our 2000 m2 store in Mijas Costa. Prospective candidates need to be approachable, friendly, assertive, enjoy meeting people and passionate about the product. Be native English speaker. If you feel you have the attributes we are looking for then your CV + recent photo to italianleathersofas@hotmail.com The successful persons will receive a full contract with generous remuneration plus commission and good working conditions. Sales staff also required for Nueva Andalucía. Well what are you waiting for? DUTCH ofessional lady is looking for an office job. Years of experience as an Office Manager, P. A. with administration, PR and marketing skills.fluent Spanish and English. Reliable and hard working. References available. Tel PART- Time International Sales & Marketing personnelrequired in San Pedro. Must have good English and another language. A background in plant biology, green keeping or horticulture an advantage. Please send C V to info@precisionmicrobes.com Situations Wanted CARER experienced UK looking for clients needing companionship, disability and/ or elderly support. Can live in. Fluent Spanish. Contact Jo GERMAN Carpenter cabinets, kitchens, drywall, repairs, paints, Marbella area NURSING assistant offers to accompany/ take care of elderly people. Speak little English. Own car ENGLISH chauffeur, driver, handyman, building work, decorating. Own transport KIND friendly, elegant mature English lady, available to accompany you for lunch, dinner or a special event. Please call PERSONAL DRIVER. ATTRACTIVE AND BEAUTIFUL WOMAN! PUNC- TUALITY AND DECENCY GUARAN- TEE! SPEAK RUSSIAN, SPANISH, ENGLISH. TEL TATI- ANA NEEDING Help? A kind and caring German lady will assist you or your elderly parents with all your needs and errands. I am cheerful, patient, efficient and love pets. Marbella PERSONAL Meeting Point AN ASSOCIATION of physically impeded persons in the area of Benalmadena is required. 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68 68 CLASSIFIED February 9th to 15th 2018 VIDEO / TV Satellite Installation TV REPAIRS, Plasmas, LCDS, digiboxes, video, hi-fi, microwaves. Free estimates. Can collect. 35 years experience. John / BBC 1/2 uk full uk pack 80 cm dish no internet needed no contract. Wacht tv all rooms no cables. Sky full pack iptv internet from only 30 euros no contrat no dish. Satellite improuve reallignement bbc sky and all europeens tv. Pave as you go. José Sotto Since josesotto@ono.com TNT sat 50 chaines francaises sans abonement José Sotto depuis 1973, BEST sales repairs all tv and Iptv José Sotto MUSIC LIVE CELLO Music Cellist Gorka Onraita is performing beautiful smooth jazz and romantic classical music for night clubs, restaurants, hotels and exclusive private events info.bioyoga@gmail.com COMPUTERS / INTERNET / PHONES Buy / Sell DAYTONA Computer: Computers, mobile phones and accessories in your language. Sales and repairs. Agents Masmovil & TIEKOM. Established Los Boliches. info@daytona.es or call Repairs COMPUTER problems solved! Error messages fixed, viruses removed. Hardware/software upgrades available. Kindle, ipad & Android help. Laptops in English. Also one-to-one training. Experienced, reliable service, no callout charge. Paul, / CLASSES HOLA! Speak Spanish from first lesson. Experienced qualified native teacher. One-to-one, groups. Fuengirola teacher.cristina@outlook.com DRIVERS licence in English. Discount with this advert. Autoescuela Urbano. Calle Maestro Angeles Aspiazu, Fuengirola. Manual or automatic DRIVER licence in English with discounts. Also with AUTOMATIC car! Fuengirola/ Mijas The undisputed market leader and favourite read*, reaching more than 260,000 expats every week in Malaga alone (*IPSOS independent research) SPANISH in your home. Speak Spanish from the first lesson. Qualified Spanish teacher. Ideal method for beginners. Fast, easy and effective. All levels. Also tutoring for students MATHS and Science tuition. Experienced British teacher. All levels to GCSE PETS Buy / Sell PUPPIES German Shephards, Kennel Coroninas, excellent pedigrees, vaccinated, microchip, info or , wwwcoroninas.com CHIHUAHUA pedigree puppies with passport. All year available / Kennels / Cattery LAGUNA Kennels & cosy cattery. Your pets lovingly cared for by English mother & daughter. Coín. Tel / or lagunakennels@hotmail.com CAT & DOG World Kennels and Cattery / PETCARE Pet Hotel: Alhaurin El Grande. Holiday accommodation for dogs & cats. Individually heated/aircon kennels / Follow us on Facebook at Petcare Spain EURODOG, Boarding Kennels & Cattery, fully licensed & sanitary approved, safe, secure and loving environment. Large kennels & play areas. Fully refurbished, inspections welcome Pet Transport LOOK no further for your pet transport. We offer a service to travel with/ without your pets/ furniture. Pets from 295 pounds including vet checks. 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Tel. or WhatsApp (0034) info@pet-couriers.com USEFUL PHONE NUMBERS MALAGA PORT INFORMATION EMERGENCIES Emergency operator 112 National Police 091 Local (municipal) Police 092 Medical 061 Fire 080 Guardia Civil 062 Sea Rescue Crime report ENGLISH-SPEAKING HELP Samaritans in Spain Alcoholics Anonymous Age Care Age Concern (Estepona) ANDALUSIAN HEALTH SERVICE Salud Responde (doctors appointments & advice) ESTEPONA Bus Station Taxi Service Tourist Office Town Hall Foreign Residents Dept FUENGIROLA Bus Station Taxi Service Tourist Office Town Hall Foreign Residents Dept MALAGA Bus Station Railway Station Taxi Service Tourist Office MARBELLA Bus Station Taxi Service Tourist Office Town Hall Foreign Residents Dept MIJAS Town Hall Town Hall Las Lagunas Taxi Tourism Office Foreign Resident Dept NERJA Bus Station Taxi Service Tourist Information Town Hall Foreign Resident Dept TORREMOLINOS Bus Station Taxi Service Tourist Office Town Hall Foreign Residents Dept BENALMÁDENA Bus Station Taxi Service Tourist Office Town Hall Foreign Residents Dept VÉLEZ-MÁLAGA Bus Station Taxi Town Hall Tourist Office GIBRALTAR General emergency 199/112(mobiles) Fire/ambulance (emergency) 190 Tourist Office (00350) Taxi (00350) CRUISE SHIP MOVEMENTS (SOURCE: MALAGA PORT AUTHORITY) Ship Date From Next port Docks Sails Norwegian Spirit 11/02 Funchal Alicante Norwegian Spirit 21/02 Funchal Alicante Saga Sapphire 01/03 La Coruña Barcelona Norwegian Spirit 03/03 Funchal Alicante MSC Orchestra 03/03 Funchal Civitavecchia CONSULATES Great Britain C/. 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69 February 9th to 15th 2018 CLUBS CLUBS 69 ROYAL BRITISH LEGION Puerto de la Duquesa: / duquesaportrblspainsouth@gmail.com Mijas Costa: Fuengirola: Costa del Sol-Torre del Mar: Nerja: Los Romanes: Torremolinos: Welfare Coín: Marbella: branches/marbella Alhaurín el Grande: / Albox: etgoodey@yahoo.co.uk Benajarafe: Mollina: Riders branch: / BRITISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE andalucia@britchamber.com ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS English-speaking groups AL-ANON FAMILY GROUPS English meetings: POSITIVELY PINK ASSOCIATION Breast cancer. info@positively-pink.com DIABETIC SUPPORT GROUP Fuengirola. Anne Bowles: annediabetics@gmail.com MY WEIGH, WEIGHT LOSS / OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Estepona: Janet /Ben Bar Cristobel, Thurs 6pm. CUDECA SUPPORT GROUPS or susanhannam@cudeca.org Estepona: ACE Club 11.30am 1st Thurs. Nerja: Cáritas 11.30am 2nd Thurs. Cómpeta: 11.30am 3rd Thurs Axareducación. MABS CANCER SUPPORT GROUP Fourth Tuesday, Miraflores Club, Marbella, a.m / CANCER SUCKS SPAIN Cancer support group Facebook & cancersucksspain@outlook.com AGE CARE ASSOCIATION Coffee mornings: from 11am pm. Benalmádena: Mon, Bar Pitanza; Calahonda: Tues, Thurs, Calahonda Int. Baptist Church; Fuengirola: Wed, Bar Salon Varietés; Coín: Thurs, Pépe s Bar; Los Boliches: Frid, Hogar de Jubilados. Advice: info@agecarecosta.org AGE CONCERN Estepona and Manilva: Lifeline acesteponaymanilva@ageconcernespana.o rg / Fuengirola:Los Bolichos, Thurs 11am- 1pm. Pensionista building near station. Mijas: Mijas Pueblo, Thurs 11am-1pm. Oasis Bar. La Cala de Mijas, Fri 11am-1pm Bar Conrisa. Lifeline (Fuengirola and Mijas): ANREM - RESIDENTS & FOREIGNERS info@anrem.org anrem.org FOREIGN RESIDENTS ASS. ANDALUCIA thefraa@hotmail.com LUX MUNDI ECUMENICAL CENTRE Torre del Mar: luxmundi@lux-mundi.org Fuengirola: ROYAL AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION Costa del Sol, CONSERVATIVES ABROAD conservatives.costadelsol@gmail.com INTERNAT. LABOUR GROUP Fuengirola: Alf Brewer ASSOC. FRANCÓFONOS All French speakers welcome AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL CLUB Almuñécar to Torrox nerjaclub@yahoo.com or NEDERLANSE CLUB COSTA DEL SOL Tel: Various Costa locations AMERICAN CLUB OF COSTA DEL SOL President: R. E. Parmiter Fuengirola, Mijas, Benalmádena: David Kylen Malaga: Rosella Parmiter Marbella: Carol Lewis Estepona: Frazier Gardella ACE AMERICAN CLUB OF ESTEPONA Calle San Roque. Tel: ENGLISH-SPEAKING CLUB MALAGA English/Spanish conversation. englishspeakingclubofmalaga.blogspot.com.es WELSH SOCIETY Arroyo de la Miel. Debbie THE BRITISH SOCIETY Sandra Addison Benalmádena Pueblo. britsocietyspain@hotmail.com BRITISH ASSOCIATION MARBELLA Meets weekly. Jan/Joan ENGLISH PHOENIX CLUB Torre del Mar: Gael: INTERNAT. CLUB OF SALOBREÑA icsalobrena@hotmail.com ASOCIACIÓN IRLANDESA President Finola Sloyan: IRISH ASSOCIATION OF SPAIN Facebook. SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING Arroyo. Martin / INTERNATIONAL CLUB ESTEPONA OUT OF AFRICA CLUB Trish: U3A LEARNING FOR PLEASURE U3A Fuengirola, University of the Third Age, learning for pleasure. Joining fee of 30 euros. For more information: Also on Facebook U3ACostadelSol BRITISH SCOUTING MOVEMENT 1st Fuengirola Scout Group. Robert Troost THE ARTS SOCIETY Costa del Sol: Nerja: theartssocietynerja.com De la Frontera: San Roque Club. nadfasdelafrontera.org Gibraltar: theartssociety.org/gibraltar Benahavís: theartssocietybenahavis.com MARBELLA BUSINESS NETWORK Joe wednesdayjoe@gmail.com THE SENDERISTAS Multi national walking group. THE FIELD CLUB Walks. Fuengirola. COSTA CHORDBUSTERS Anne Bowles THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC SOCIETY Gilly: COLLEGIUM MUSICUM COSTA DEL SOL International choir/orchestra CANTOLIBRE CHOIR Amateur singers Estepona NEW SAYDO SINGERS Every Tuesday: Kate: jj2devine@yahoo.co.uk R.T. S LINE DANCE CLUB Calahonda / Fuengirola / Benalmádena. Bob or BOOGIE SHOES LINE DANCE CLUB Estepona, The Roadhouse Bar. Thurs MISSISSIPPI COASTERS Line dance.fuengirola.bob JIVE DANCE CLUB jivespain.com MODERN JIVE Benalmádena/Fuengirola.Howard JJ S COSTA DEL SOL DANCE CLUB Ballroom, Sequence & Latin FOTA, FRIENDS OF THE THEATRE Desk open Mon/Wed/Fri 11.30am-1.15pm. Salon Varietés, Fuengirola INTERNATIONAL THEATRE STUDIO San Pedro district. Tel THESPA-ENGLISH SPEAKING PLAYERS Dinner and Drama. Los Boliches NERJA HISTORY GROUP Talks/trips. Christina Sinclair nerjahistorygroup@yahoo.com ESTEPONA FLORAL ART CLUB esteponafloralartclub@hotmail.com FLOWER ARRANGING CLUB Venta Platero (Coín-Cartama road) THE ANDALUCIAN GARDEN GROUP Alh. el Grande / THE AXARQUÍA GARDEN CLUB ANDALUCIA BIRD SOCIETY COSTA PRESS CLUB COSTA WOMEN TANGENT CLUB & EX-LADIES CIRCLERS mbl63@hotmail.co.uk 41 CLUBS & EX-ROUND TABLERS Costa del Sol: / Nerja: / MIJAS ARTS CENTRE Classes , PATCHWORK AND QUILTING COSTA PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ASTRONOMY COSTA DEL SOL astronomycostadelsol.com LODGE EUROPEAN FRATERNITY 52 Tel: or NERJA CHICK-LIT BOOK CLUB New friends, great books! LIONS CLUBS Malaga Ilusion: May Ramirez ; Leos: Gonzalo ; University: Sara Marbella Costa del Sol: Jacqueline Dueñas ; Marbella Francófono: Rosalyn Bakker; ; Marbella German: T. Heyden ; Marbella Decano: M. Álvarez ; Mijas La Cala: Julie Barry ; Mijas: Jose Guasp Borreda ; Nerja: Elke Lange ; Puerto Banús Cosmopolitan: Egidia Ingels ; Rincón de la Victoria: Doris: TOASTMASTERS PUBLIC SPEAKING Al-Andalus Toastmasters Club #1788: Donna Rota, Cadiz. The Achievers Toastmasters Club #5183: Nueva Andalucía, Percy Gibraltar: Luis Malaga: PTA English / Spanish, Claudia FREEMASONS Fuengirola: Norman Hay Calahonda: Mike Williams Los Boliches: Paul Clueit Mijas Costa: David Mantle Coín: Ian Bushnell Alhaurín: Vic Dean ROTARY CLUB Benalmádena: Benahavís: Estepona: Fuengirola/Mijas: Marbella: San Pedro: Marbella - Guadalmina: OVER 40S SINGLES CLUB Estepona: El Limonero Tel: ARROYO SOCIAL & WELFARE CLUB Arroyo de la Miel. Jean TORREMOLINOS & DIST. SOCIAL CLUB Wed am. Rosaleda Bar. Mike ARROYO FRIENDLY CLUB Benalmádena SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL HASH HOUSE HARRIERS Mijas: Malaga: AMIGAS DE CASA Vva del Trabuco / CLUB CHARITY AND PLEASURE Estepona. President Mary COLMENAR DISTRICT SOCIAL CLUB Marjorie TENNIS CLUB EL CAPITAN INT Torre del Mar. Patrick THE GOOD COMPANIONS CLUB Los Boliches. Tel: Tony White CLUB DE BÉISBOL COSTA DEL SOL B.B.C / Mijas AIKIDO TOMIKI SHODOKAN Different levels. Tel: , Malaga TAEKWONDO CLUB Fighting Dragons Club Benalmádena. Mike CALAHONDA BRIDGE CLUB Club Naranja / ACE BRIDGE CLUB Fuengirola. Deanne Mutter: NERJA BRIDGE CLUB Joan or Trevor on LOS BOLICHES BRIDGE CLUB Dominiques. Mon & Fri C C MARBELLA BRIDGE Wed, Thurs, Sat, Sun. With Bridgemate. Tel: or CASTILLO BRIDGE CLUB Tel: ST ANDREW S BRIDGE CLUB Los Boliches / COSTA DEL SOL CRICKET CLUB League cricket. Previn: MARBELLA SURF CLUB Avda. 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70 70 PASTIMES 70 February 9th to 15th 2018 THE SEVEN DIFFERENCES CLOCKWORD THE STARS CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Nº Aquarius January 21 - February 19 Making some changes to your appearance, maybe a new hairdo? Make this a week for you and yours. Pisces February 20th March 20th Some sticky moments financially need quick but careful handling. Will a new love lead to overspending? THE WORDPUZZLER Aries March 21st April 20th A sharp mind and instincts are yours as this week begins. Changes of heart come frequently right now. Taurus April 21st May 21st In a romantic week things seem to be going slowly, which does not please you. Even so, it is important to be sure of what you want before you ask for it. Gemini May 22nd June 21st Forget planning just for this year, leap ahead to what you really want. How will you get there? Across Down Cancer June 22nd July 23rd Step back from things and people with whom you are not compatible.think of it as taking an inventory of your life Leo July 24th August 23rd When decisions are made, make them honest and what you really need. In a romantic week you could be building a close relationship or starting anew. Virgo August 24th - September 23rd Although your romantic life may be just what you need right now, there is a feeling of unease. Libra September 24th - October 23rd Rekindling your current love is very easy to do. Maybe a heart to heart is needed over that Valentine s dinner? Scorpio October 24th November 22nd The important thing this week is to take note of what you really need and stand your ground on that. Sagittarius November 23rd December 21st With everyday life sometimes getting in the way, time alone may be precious. Make plans for something special and private. Capricorn December 22nd January 20th Financial moves now will show their worth in early summer.don t panic but get things in order. SUDOKU BY HANZO Instructions Complete the square making sure that every row of nine numbers includes all digits from 1 to 9, every column includes all digits from 1 to 9 and every 3 by 3 subsection includes all digits from 1 to INTERNATIONAL RADIO Talk Radio Europe Axarquía 91.5 Costa del Sol East 91.9 Costa del Sol West 98.7 Gibraltar/Sotogrande News, interviews, lifestyle, sport and BBC World Service. Global (93.6 and 96.4FM) All week round the clock music and entertainment Radio Radio Network (96 and 98.3 FM). Music 24 hours. Central FM (98.6 FM, 103.8) All week, classic tracks and today s music broadcast to the Costa del Sol ACE FM (106.8 FM) Inland radio, news and music The Beat fm (106 FM) 24 hours, music and entertainment QUIZ QUESTION 1 Which author wrote about two men called Valentine and Proteus? 1. Homer 2. William Shakespeare 3. Charles Dickens 4. Alexandre Dumas Spectrum (105.5 FM, Costa Almeria/Mojácar 92.6 FM) 24 hour music and entertainment Radio Mijas (107.7 FM) 3 p.m. News, views and music Radio Sol Almijara (99.1 FM) Nerja radio in English and German and night time World Radio Network Heartfmspain (88.5 FM Costa, 96.1 FM inland) Music, entertainment, news Lick FM (103.6 FM Marbella) Urban music broadcast between Gibraltar and Calahonda Rtv Puebla (107.7 FM) Monday evenings, Rock music memories. 7-9pm. radiopuebla.musicmemories@yahoo.com Fb: Radiotelevision Peubla de Cazalla QUESTION 2 Who was Lady Jane Grey s husband? 1. Edward Fairfax 2. Thomas Wyatt 3. Fitzwilliam Darcy 4. Guidlford Dudley

71 February 9th to 15th 2018 PASTIMES 71 LANGUAGE CROSSWORD FILL IN THE SPANISH WORD Across Down ANSWERS Quiz answers Answer 1: WilliamShakespeare Of interest: From The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Proteus is Valentine s best friend but he falls for Valentine s girlfriend, stabs Valentine in the back and tries to rape the girl. He later makes up with Valentine and is forgiven. Answer 1: Guildford Dudley Of interest: Lord Guildford Dudley was the teenage husband of Lady Jane Grey. Although told to go home he stayed with her and they were imprisoned in the tower for high treason. They were executed on 12 February. Clockword solution Language Crossword Wordpuzzler solution Sudoku solution Cryptic Crossword BOOK OF THE WEEK My Documents Alejandro Zambra Alejandro Zambra is an award-winning Chilean writer whose first novel was heralded as the dawn of a new era in Chilean literature. Mt Documents is his first short story collection. It consists of eleven stories of liars and ghosts, armed bandits and young lovers brilliant portraits of life in Chile before and after Pinochet. The cumulative effect is that of a novel or of eleven brief novels, intimate and uncanny, archived until now in a desktop folder innocuously called My Documents. THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK Take risks in your life, if you win you can lead, if you lose you can guide ANON THE CORNER A treat for golfers next week There are many reasons to come to the Costa del Sol. The climate is one of them, for sure, but what would the area be without its golf courses? For the past few months, SUR in English has been bringing you the latest news, views and events from the golfing world through the specialist golf publication, Andalucía Costa del Golf, now in English. True to our motto Linking Communities, we like to hear from our readers as much as possible. So, if you play golf, or you belong to a club or association that does, please send us your news for possible inclusion in next week s edition of Andalucía Costa del Golf. There are a number of ways you can do this. Either us at surinenglish.su@diariosur.es, send them to us on Facebook (surenglish) or Twitter (@SUR_English), or use our Send Your News feature on our website, We look forward to hearing from you!

72 February 9th to 15th 2018 Nº 1749 FREE DISTRIBUTION / Reference price: 1.30 Published by Prensa Malagueña, S. A. MA Circulation controlled by PGD/OJD. Internet address: surinenglish.su@diariosur.es Head office: Avda. Dr. Marañón, 48, 29009, Málaga. Telephone: surinenglish.su@diariosur.es Advertising: Telephone evera@diariosur.es U.K. Representative: Global Media Sales Ltd PO Box 1126, Bromley, BR1 9TX Telephone: +44 (0) in English Painting, modelling and writing were among the skills to be admired and practised at the Art in Action event last weekend All about inspiration WINNERS Young Art Competition. Yasmina Motjar Mhani, 12, from Swans International school, won with her Pop Art painting. The picture will appear on the cover of next season s programme of lectures. :: HELEN O LEARY BENAHAVÍS. The Benahavís Arts Society s exhibition at the Gran Hotel has become an annual source of inspiration, especially to young artists. This year s was the best ever, according to one eager ten-year-old wielding a lump of clay at the Art Camp, set up within the wide terrace by artist and sculpture Paco Alarcón, the creator of some of Estepona s lively murals. Up in the gallery, a panel of judges pondered over impressive designs submitted by local schools for the Young Art Competition. You could see why, when he was already rich and famous, Picasso said he had to learn how to paint like a child. By breaking away from the constraints of classical painting he recaptured the freshness of a world seen through youthful eyes. What about the adults? There was a chance to paint, and art to buy from 30 talented local artists, not all of them professional but so talented it was hard to tell. And for anyone planning to write a book, here was the chance to get it off the ground. Liz Parry was on hand at the newly-introduced Writers Stand, to give advice and discuss her own projects now she has retired as editor of SUR in English. Visitors needed little encouragement to enter the Start a Novel, Win a Bottle competition. Entries included the beginnings of a family history, a confrontation with a giant chicken, the poignancy of old age and the harshness of training for the merchant navy. There was Brush and pen. Yasmina Motjar Mhani, 12, from Swans International school, with Betty Fooks, chairman of the Benahavís Arts Society, and Billy Dawson, trustee of the society s international headquarters in London. Right - Liz Parry and Helen O Leary at the Writers Stand. Hard at work. Paco Alarcón, artist and sculptor, creator of some of Estepona s lively murals, encourages some aspiring young artists in a corner of his activity tent. :: SUR sexual innuendo in Mexico, a visit from an alien, something scary in the attic, philosophy, humour and a half-heard, heart-stopping phone message. It takes a lot of hard work to set up a display just for a day but for the dedicated artists who, early on Sunday morning, carried their paintings, photos, cards, cushions, handsewn clothes and warm rugs into the exhibition through the rain showers, it was worth it. And for the 500 plus visitors it was a day to remember. Start a novel. Val Vassay s winning entry was based on her own experience of going to London from Edinburgh as a teenager. It is written with all the vigour and expectation of youth. We are left wondering whether her hopes will be dashed: I d never have believed it but I d escaped! I waved to my family as the overnight train to King s Cross pulled out of the Waverley. Thank God no more church on Sundays, no more wondering what to do with myself every TVless night. I was gonna go to every disco, pub, cinema, party I could get into. I was gonna do anything, as long as it was completely different from the first nineteen years of my life. More information : To find out more about the Benahavís Arts Society s programme and events, info@theartssocietybenahavis.c om or visit