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Friday, Sept 30, 2022 is a Local Fiesta holiday in Torrox. Many shops will be closed as the Torrox Fiesta weekend celebration proceeds.
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Halloween Party: Fundraising event at the farm around nature and loving rescued animals. Suitable for all ages. We are also open again for daily visits, details are on our FB.
LDeducationFarm GranjaEducativa- farm rescue.
This year we are making it all about fun & games + Art & crafts.
Tea + coffee + drinks + cupcakes & my grandad’s famous home made sausage rolls will be available too.
Along with music + dancing & dress up contest at the end.
Sweets and small prizes given all along the day throughout the fun & games.
To book you can send us a message via our page or WhatsApp Loren on (+34) 675222383. Alhaurín el Grande. Booking is essential.
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Feria de Torrox 2022: Now thru Oct 2nd.
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Performances of theater, dance, comedy and music in the province from the Andalusian Agency for Cultural Institutions:
– October 1, Talycual Productions will stage its latest production, ‘The Alibi’, Teatro Municipal Vicente Espinel in Ronda at 20,30.
– October 22, Alhaurín de la Torre will have an opera ‘Un atípico quarteto lírico’, 8pm, atl Centro Cultura Vicente Alexaindre
– October 29, Iberian Dance represent ‘Carmen vs Carmen’ 7pm at Municipal Theater of Torrox
– October 29, Humor will arrive in Coín on October 29 with ‘Gag movie’ by Producciones Yllana. 8pm at La Casa de la Cultura de Blas Infante
More info (Spanish) at http://www.redandaluzadeteatrospublicos.es/
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Exhibition in Archez: Exhibition in Edificio Culturar in Archez. Watercolor. The opening is on the Friday 30.9 at 7 pm. Refreshments. Welcome. There will also be paintings from Krisse’s art group.
The exhibition is open Saturday and Sunday between 11 am and 3 pm. Krisse, krissesulonen@gmail.com
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Two Concerts: Two events not to be missed!
– Los Alquimistas trio Saturday 1 October at 10.30 pm at The Circles, Calle Chaparil 5 Nerja. (Dana Andrews vocals, Gianni Piras acoustic guitar, Uwe Muhlhäuse vocals, guitar, harmonica, flute, percussion)
info booking: +34 611 73 64 84/ +33 6 67 60 95 32
– Dana & Gianni on Sunday 2 October at 2.00 pm at the Ziggy bar Puente don Manuel
info booking: +34 642 51 90 17
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Featured item for sale:
– Indian teak column capital circa 1800 converted into a wall bracket with a lift up lid and compartment below. In excellent condition.
120 cm high x 40 cm wide x25 cm deep.
125 euros.
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For Sale: 11 x 15kg bags of pellets for pellet burner
€35 the lot. Collection only. Susan, Venta Baja
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Garden Work: I would like to recommend Youssef who lives and works in the Cómpeta area he has just completed some garden work for me in a very professional manner, he has a good understanding of Mediterranean plant life and has a friendly attitude he also carries out pool maintenance and General DIY to a good standard. A gem of a find. His Tel / What’s App 69 5348 953.
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News & Articles
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SPAIN
Spanish government plans to charge tolls on every motorway in the country from 2024: The measure is partly to encourage people to use other, more sustainable, forms of transport and is also considered fairer as the burden of maintaining the roads will not fall on all taxpayers. Full article: https://www.surinenglish.com/spain/spanish-government-plans-20220927175517-nt.html
(This is all part of the digital revolution in Spain. These tool booths will collect and monitor all travel data of every vehicle. The gov’t will log everywhere you drive to, and when you did so. They will also monitor the time it takes you to travel between toll booths, and if you have been speeding, a fine will be automatically sent to you. If you have outstanding unpaid fines/taxes you could be blocked from passing the toll booth. All this data will be stored on “cloud” servers, which are not secure. The data may as well be public. You will start receiving internet ads based on your driving habits! Digital tyranny on the march! -Ed.)
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Díaz rebukes the PSOE for its anti-squatting amendment and says that squatting is not a problem: {Translation}
– The second vice-president of the government, Yolanda Díaz, has criticised the PSOE’s amendment to encourage the eviction of squatters within 48 hours, considering that this “is not a national problem” when tackling rising rents and mortgages is.
– Moreover, she warned her coalition partner to be careful with this type of approach, given that taking on the “right-wing agenda” from the progressive sphere leads to cases such as the Italian elections, with the victory of the leader of the Brothers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni.
– In this way, she joins the reproaches of Unidas Podemos, which, through its deputy Rafa Mayoral, has lashed out against the anti-occupation amendment in the draft organic law on organisational efficiency of the public service of justice, defended by the socialist spokesman in Congress, Patxi López.
– In an interview on TVE, the Minister of Employment regretted that the PSOE now has an “urgency” in wanting to tackle this phenomenon “summarily” in 48 hours, comparing, for example, that trials for dismissal claims, which deal with something essential for a worker such as income, take, with luck, around two years.
– “The squatting that (Patxi López) talks about is not a problem for the country (…) Believe me, it is not a problem”, Díaz said, stressing that it is necessary to govern with “rigour” and to analyse the data to see how many legal actions in Spain are derived from this matter.
– In this way, she criticised the fact that this is what is being talked about and not the new housing law that should be passed, given that this is a real problem due to the current difficulties in paying rent and mortgages for workers. Moreover, he argued that this legislation is relevant because it “changes lives”, given that paying rent in large cities is “mission impossible”.
– “Beware of getting into right-wing frameworks. In Italy we see abstention…”, Díaz stressed, insisting that this amendment “is not compatible” with the position of Unidas Podemos, while at the same time expressing her disagreement with her partner’s approach to this proposal. Source, Spanish: https://andaluciainformacion.es/andalucia/1083832/diaz-reprende-al-psoe-por-su-enmienda-antiokupas-y-dice-que-la-okupacion-no-es-un-problema/
MALAGA
Recorded an earthquake of magnitude 2.8, with its epicentre in Alhaurín el Grande, the third in Malaga since Monday:
{Translation} Sept 28, 2022 10:31h
– The National Geographic Institute (IGN) recorded a 2.8 magnitude earthquake on Wednesday morning with an epicentre to the southwest of the municipality of Alhaurín el Grande. This is the third earthquake recorded in the province since Monday. The earthquake was recorded at 7:52 with its epicentre in the town, at a depth of 48 kilometres.
– The IGN recorded two other earthquakes, the first of magnitude 4.1 in the early hours of Monday morning with its epicentre in Malaga, and the second of 3.9 with its epicentre in Benalmádena. In neither case was there any damage. Source, Spanish: https://www.malagahoy.es/provincia/Registrado-terremoto-epicentro-Alhaurin-Grande_0_1724527857.html
EUROPE
Record methane leak flows from damaged Baltic Sea pipelines:
– Methane leaking from the damaged Nord Stream pipelines is likely to be the biggest burst of the potent greenhouse gas on record, by far. The Nord Stream pipeline leaks that were pumping huge volumes of methane into the Baltic Sea and atmosphere could discharge as much as five times as much of the potent greenhouse as was released by the Aliso Canyon disaster, the largest known terrestrial release of methane in U.S. history. It is also the equivalent of one third of Denmark’s total annual greenhouse gas emissions, a Danish official warned Wednesday. (No mention of harm to the sea creatures in the area. -Ed.) Full article: https://apnews.com/article/denmark-baltic-sea-climate-and-environment-90c59e947fc55d465bdac274bbda1128 & VIDEO LINK
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Russian annexation of Ukraine territory expected within days:
– Moscow was poised on Wednesday to annex a swath of Ukraine, releasing what it called vote tallies showing support in four partially occupied provinces to join Russia, after what Kyiv and the West denounced as illegal sham referendums held at gunpoint.
– On Moscow’s Red Square, a tribune with giant video screens has been set up, with billboards proclaiming “Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson – Russia!”. “The results are clear. Welcome home, to Russia!,” Dmitry Medvedev, a former president who serves as deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said on Telegram.
– President Vladimir Putin could proclaim the annexation in a speech within days, just over a week since he endorsed the referendums, ordered a military mobilisation at home and threatened to defend Russia with nuclear weapons if necessary.
– The Russian-installed administrations of the four Ukrainian provinces on Wednesday officially asked Putin to incorporate them into Russia, which Russian officials have suggested is a formality.
Full article: https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-annexation-votes-end-amid-russian-mobilisation-exodus-2022-09-26/
USA
Hurricane Ian makes landfall in southwest Florida as Category 4 storm:
– Hurricane Ian made landfall Wednesday in southwest Florida as one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the U.S., swamping streets with water and smashing trees along the coast while moving at a crawl that threatened catastrophic flooding across a wide area.
– Barely an hour after the massive storm trudged ashore, a coastal sheriff’s office reported that it was already getting a significant number of calls from people trapped in homes. The hurricane’s center struck near Cayo Costa, a protected barrier island just west of heavily populated Fort Myers.
– The Category 4 storm slammed the coast with 150 mph (241 kph) winds and pushed a wall of storm surge accumulated during its slow march over the Gulf of Mexico. More than 1 million Florida homes and businesses were without electricity. The storm previously tore into Cuba, killing two people and bringing down the country’s entire electrical grid.
– About 2.5 million people were ordered to evacuate southwest Florida before Ian hit, but by law no one could be forced to flee. Though expected to weaken to a tropical storm as it marched inland at about 9 mph (14 kph), Ian’s hurricane force winds were likely to be felt well into central Florida. Photo1: NOAA; Photo2(Cuba): ThingsToDoInNorfolk. Full article: https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-ian-live-updates-6302894797cae989ff855030cf332a97
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TASS- Russian diplomat warns Biden over pipeline incidents:
“US President Joe Biden must answer the question of whether the United States carried out its threat on September 25 and 26 when an emergency was reported at three lines of Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2, which has been preliminarily recognized as ruptures, whereas he suggested those were blown up,” the Russian diplomat said on her Telegram channel. On it, she posted a video in which the US leader delivers the speech in question. (Biden said in a speech before the invasion of Ukraine, that if Russia attacked, that would be “the end” of the Nord pipelines. See in video. Has he carried out his threat? -Ed.)
“His statement of intent was backed up with a promise. One must be responsible for one’s words. Failure to understand what one says does not absolve anyone of responsibility. Europe must know the truth!” Zakharova emphasized. Full article: https://tass.com/politics/1514731 & VIDEO LINK
ENERGY CRISIS
EU vows to protect energy network after ‘sabotage’ of Russian gas pipeline- some sources now reporting there are 4 leaks:
– The European Union on Wednesday promised a “robust” response to any intentional disruption of its energy infrastructure after saying it suspected sabotage was behind gas leaks discovered this week on subsea Russian pipelines to Europe.
– As gas spewed out under the Baltic Sea for a third day after first being detected, it remained far from clear who might be responsible for any sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines that Russia and European partners spent billions of dollars building. Full article: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/mystery-gas-leaks-hit-major-russian-undersea-gas-pipelines-europe-2022-09-27/
Fourth leak info, Swedish: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/gaslackorna-i-ostersjon
PIC Gas bubbles from the Nord Stream 2 leak reaching surface of the Baltic Sea in the area shows disturbance of well over one kilometre diameter near Bornholm, Denmark, September 27, 2022. Danish Defence Command/Handout via REUTERS
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EU tells countries gas price cap would come with risks:
– The European Commission has warned EU countries that a broad cap on gas prices could be complex to launch and pose risks to energy security, amid calls from countries for Brussels to step in to tame high fuel prices.
– The Commission shared a document with countries on Wednesday, analysing various options the EU could consider to curb high gas prices, after 15 of the bloc’s 27 member states this week urged the EU to propose a cap on gas prices.
– The document, seen by Reuters, said a wholesale price cap for exchange transactions – covering both liquefied natural gas and pipeline supplies – could disrupt flows of fuel between EU countries.
– That’s because price signals would no longer help drive flows to regions where demand is high or supply scarce, the Commission said. It suggested such a price cap could only work if a new entity was launched to allocate and ship scarce fuel supplies between states. Full article: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/eu-tells-countries-gas-price-cap-would-come-with-risks-2022-09-28/
TRAVEL NEWS
Flights for 24.99 euros from Seville on sale until Friday: {Translation, summary}
– Ryanair has presented this Wednesday its winter calendar from its base in Seville. In total, fifty routes will connect different destinations of tourist interest with Seville.
– To celebrate this new change of season, the airline has launched a seat offer with flights from 24.99 euros each way to travel from September until March 2023. This promotion will be available until 30 September 2022, on Ryanair’s website. Source, Spanish: https://sevilla.abc.es/sevilla/vuelos-2499-euros-sevilla-oferta-ryanair-recibe-20220928193039-nts.html
TECH
More WhatsApp Hacks! – Critical WhatsApp Bugs Could Have Let Attackers Hack Devices Remotely- Update Now: WhatsApp has released security updates to address two flaws in its messaging app for Android and iOS that could lead to remote access by hackers on vulnerable devices.
The issue impacts the WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business for Android and iOS prior to versions 2.22.16.12. Vulnerabilities on WhatsApp can be a lucrative attack vector for threat actors looking to plant malicious software on compromised devices. Full article: https://thehackernews.com/2022/09/critical-whatsapp-bugs-could-have-let.html
SCIENCE
See a spiral galaxy’s haunting ‘skeleton’ in a chilly new space telescope image: Some skeletons are more sparkly than scary. A new image of a far-off galaxy shows us that what lurks underneath a spiral galaxy can be just as spectacular as what our eyes can see. The new images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) show IC 5332, a spiral galaxy about 29,000 light years away from the Earth in the constellation Sculptor. It has a diameter of roughly 66,000 light years, making it slightly larger than our Milky Way galaxy. Photo: NASA. Full article: https://www.popsci.com/science/skeleton-galaxy-james-webb-space-telescope/
FINANCIAL
Porsche shares to debut amid market tumult in historic IPO: Porsche AG shares will list on the stock market on Thursday after Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) priced shares at the top end of the announced range, a sign the luxury brand has lured buyers despite market turmoil. Books closed on Wednesday with a final price of 82.50 euros, the carmaker said, at the top end of the 76.50-82.50 euro range it announced earlier this month. Shares are expected to begin trading at around 9:15 a.m. local time (0715 GMT) Thursday. Full article: https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/porsche-debut-amid-market-tumult-historic-ipo-2022-09-28/
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Useful Links, Info & Numbers
Petrol Prices – Updated daily: These are the fuel stations in Malaga province with the lowest prices. The price data for 95 and 98-octane petrol and diesel fuel is updated every day. See it here:
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Weekly Markets
Monday: Torrox Costa
Tuesday: Nerja, Salobrena
Wednesday: Rincon de la Victoria, Algarrobo Costa
Thursday: Velez Malaga, Torre del Mar, Frigiliana
Friday: Almunecar, Salobrena, La Herradura- Summers only
Saturday: Competa, Mezquitilla@Algarrobo behind the Sala Ottowa
Sunday: Velez Malaga, Nerja Car Boot
Taxi
Nerja 952 524 519
Torrox: 952 531 030
Frigiliana: 952 533 231
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Emergency Svcs.: 112
National Police: 091
Guardia Civil: 062
Ambulance: 061
Fire Station (Bomberos): 080
Emergency English Help Line: 902 102 112
Local Police
Torrox: 952 539 828
Nerja: 952 521 545
Frigiliana: 952 533 126
Torre del Mar: 952 549 238
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