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The Malaga actor City hall moves to chats with hopeful cast members at the bring order to school of performing arts. :: ÑITO SALAS scooter invasion in time for Easter

New regulations have seen rental firms’ electric scooters being removed from Malaga’s streets P14

DOING JUST WHAT HE WANTS TO DO :: SALVADOR SALAS

Antonio Banderas selects the cast of A Chorus Line, the first show in his new Soho theatre P28 Work on Costa del Sol hospital extension free to resume after Junta pays 12 million euros to get out of old contract P11

Councils rake in 65 million euros The arrest of a man who helped his terminally ill wife to die has reopened thanks to property inspections the euthanasia debate in Spain P36&37

Over the last four years the tax authority Local councils in the province of swimming pools should be regis- General election Malaga are set to rake in an extra 65 tered at the local Catastro office to campaign kicks off with has had its drones out to detect changes million euros in total thanks to the update the properties’ cadastral val- detection of construction work that ues. Owners whose building works first party rallies and polls to properties that affect IBI charges should have increased the owners’ were detected in the inspection face showing a surge in votes IBI bill. Building projects from brand an average charge of 150 euros plus for the Socialist party P18 new properties to extensions and 600 for arrears. P6

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The Scorpions guitarrist speaks of his 50-year career ahead of the band’s June Costa visit P24 Rudolf Schenker. :: R. ARVESEN 22222222 April 12th to 18th 2019 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH A lasting legacy for Soundproofing works at the Santa Marta centre :: JOSELE- ’s elderly LANZA

Day centres in the town are being modernised after an Austrian lady left a million euros specifically for the care of old people in her will

lion euros to modernise and equip “We are delighted. We never the new Active Participation Cen- thought anything like this would tres in Marbella. happen. We’re getting everything This is the money that the coun- now,” says a longstanding user, En- MÓNICA cil obtained from the sale of a carna Cantero, after whom one of PÉREZ house in the prestigious Los Mon- the centres has been named. teros area, which had belonged to “We’re very happy about all this.  [email protected] Margit Selzer, an Austrian lady who It has changed everything. We The Margit Selzer had no was born in 1929 in Reichenberg even have more light now. One of kitchens and lived for several years in Mar- our companions here says people have been children so left a bella. She left the property to the can see all our wrinkles now that equipped property to the council, local council in her will. She there is more light,” jokes María with new with strict instructions wanted the money raised from its Romero, of the Plaza de Toros cen- deep fryers sale to be spent on improving the tre. “This woman has done some- :: JOSELE- on how the money was day centres for the elderly. thing wonderful for elderly peo- LANZA to be spent In recent weeks the users of ple in Marbella, and we should all these centres have been watching be grateful to her.” the arrival of deliveries of all types At the Santa Marta centre, very MARBELLA. Few people will re- of domestic appliances, sound sys- little remains to be done now. member her (she used to go tothe tems, air conditioning units, deep “Everything is different. It really Encarna Cantero centre, but that fryers and a long list of other equip- needed this, and we are over the was years ago), but many are now ment, and minor works being car- moon,” says Ana Naranjo. grateful to her for a gesture which ried out on soundproofing and Before drawing up the list of has provided no less than one mil- modernising kitchens. what was needed, a team from the April 12th to 18th 2019 3 SUR IN ENGLISH NEWS

council arranged meetings with users of each centre to learn what Years ago, Margit used their priorities were, and then or- ganised an equal allocation of to attend the Encarna funds. Cantero centre in The lists were sent to Andrew Marbella González, the executor of Margit Selzer’s estate, who approved the council’s plans and has been keep- ing a close eye on everything. He Paisajes, Miraflores, Nueva Anda- New kitchen at agreed that a reputable company lucía, Plaza de Toros, San Pedro San Pedro such as El Corte Inglés would be Alcántara I and II, and Santa Alcántara. :: SUR ideal for providing what was Marta). Altogether it has cost about wanted. one million euros. Now that the works are about “The idea was, as she stated in to come to an end, the centres are her will, that everything had to be visibly improved. They all have de- spent on improving the centres filibrators, wall clocks, comfort- for the elderly. We provided the able and practical new furniture, executor with the list of needs. audiovisual and sound equipment Once everything is done and he with the facility for screenings, has seen the accounts, he will air conditioning, new kitchens, know whether there is anything professional cooking equipment left to spend or not. If there is, we and LED lighting. will buy more items for the cen- In addition to the general equip- tres,” says the councillor for Social ment, each centre has requested Rights, Isabel Cintado. The mayor, its own improvements, which She is also very grateful to Mar- Ángeles range from a billiards table to static git. “She has enabled us to carry Muñoz, with bicycles and treadmills, and IT fa- out major improvements at all the representatives cilities including computers. centres for the elderly, with a sum of the centres of money which would have been and the Courses very difficult for the council to executor, The council will provide the staff have obtained otherwise, all at Andrew to teach the courses once all the once and immediately,” she says. González. equipment has been installed. “What is important is that we com- :: SUR Sinks, tables, chairs, curtains, book- ply with this lady’s wishes, and shelves, freezers, fridges, ceiling she wanted a major improvement fans, armchairs, coat stands, sew- of the facilities. It was wonderful ing machines, parquet flooring, news for us when we returned to mirrors... the list is very long for government in 2017. That’s when the nine Active Participation Cen- we discovered that the file about tres for Elderly People in Marbella this inheritance had been kept in (Encarna Cantero, Las Chapas, Los a drawer since 2015,” she says. 4 April 12th to 18th 2019 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH Malaga city bus careers out of control into parked cars as driver suffers heart attack

The driver was revived by emergency services and is in a serious but stable condition. No one else was injured :: ÁLVARO FRÍAS / JUAN CANO MALAGA. An out-of-control city bus crashed into several parked cars early on Friday morning when the driver suffered a heart attack at the wheel. The accident, in which “miraculously” - according to onlookers - no one else was in- jured, occurred at 8.15am on Calle Héroe de Sostoa in Malaga. Out of control, the bus left its lane and ploughed into twelve The bus pushed a total of 12 vehicles along for several metres. :: SALVADOR SALAS parked cars, pulling up trees and scattering refuse containers as it went. When the emergency services ar- rived on the scene the only person who needed treatment was the 49- year-old driver, who responded to re- suscitation attempts and was rushed to hospital in a serious but stable con- dition. He had recently passed a com- pany medical checkup. The 13 passengers on the bus at the time were all able to leave the vehicle unhurt, according to the Emergency services arrived quickly. :: S. SALAS One of the affected vehicles. :: S. SALAS Firefighters on the scene. :: S. SALAS city’s bus company, EMT. April 12th to 18th 2019 5 SUR IN ENGLISH NEWS 50,000 euros in compensation granted to family whose baby was dropped during birth

:: J. C. / Á. F. MALAGA. “I heard the bang. Since then, I haven’t been able to sleep for six years.” These are the words Francisco Guzmán, a paediatrician, helped to save the driver. :: SUR of Ana García whose daughter fell to the floor during childbirth at the Hospital Clínico in Malaga in Janu- ary 2013. Now, after six years, the The new ‘heroes of Sostoa’ Andalusian Health Service (SAS) has acknowledged the damage suf- fered by the minor as a result. The Patients Ombudsman has :: J. CANO / Á. FRÍAS born in Uruguay, Antonio is also from announced that the SAS has agreed MALAGA. Calle Héroe de Sostoa is the other side of the pond. This 39- to pay compensation of 46,942 one of the main arteries into the city year-old from the Dominican Repub- euros to the parents of the minor from the western side and has pro- lic, said: “After the first impact I saw after it was acknowledged that the voked a lot of debate among locals that the driver was convulsing and fall was the cause of the girl’s slow over the years: who is the ‘hero of then the cars started piling up. The development. Future neurological Ana García with her daughter, now six. :: SUR Sostoa’? Was there just one or sev- screams of the people and the panic damage also cannot be ruled out. eral? From which battle was it? will stay with me forever.” The ombudsman says that, For its part, the SAS say that the satisfactorily cover the extra care The truth is there was one, called Francisco Luis Guzmán always “while the midwife was exerting fall was unfortunate. A report states that she requires. Tomás, and he was known for his goes to work by car but he had a din- pressure on the tummy, the gynae- that “the withdrawal of the forceps Her mother Ana says, “She’s im- bravery in the face of Napoleonic ner with friends and didn’t want to cologist deemed the use of forceps coincided with a contraction that proved a lot but she’s the worst in troops. However now, we must add drive. “My wife offered to take me to be necessary. While she was tak- caused the unexpected expulsion her class and she suffers terrible four more: Antonio, Francisco, Clara but I told her I didn’t mind taking ing out the girl, specifically when of the foetus”. vertigo when she’s in a car or a bus.” and an anonymous passenger on the the bus.” Francisco, from Malaga, was she had taken out half of the body, But the battle isn’t over yet. The She added: “She’s suffered so number 1 bus which crashed into 12 sat in the seat closest to the driver the gynaecologist turned, ignoring lawyer for the Patient Ombuds- much. Every time she sees a white vehicles, mostly cars, after the driver doing a sudoku on his phone when the situation, so the newborn fell man, Francisco Damián Vázquez, coat she starts to tremble. I lost my suffered a heart attack. he heard “a loud crash”. After find- to the ground from a great height has said that the legal battle is not job because I have to take her to so These heroes, not known to one ing a way, with the help of another with great force”. over as the compensation does not many appointments.” another, came together like a well- man, to get him out of his seat, he drilled rescue team, removing the made it known he was a doctor. As driver’s foot from the pedal, calling did Clara. The pair of them carried 112 REPORTS Man with amputated Third arrest made over on the radio to find out how to switch out cardiopulmonary resuscitation off the engine, opening the doors to manoeuvres and his pulse returned. Girl, 2, dies after falling penis is identified torture and kidnapping evacuate the passengers, and per- However, it went once more at which forming lifesaving cardiopulmonary point the emergency services took in swimming pool MALAGA MARBELLA resuscitation manoeuvres to bring over. “I was very dejected because :: Á. F. / J. C. The mystery over the :: C. MÁRQUEZ. The investigation him back to life. he had suffered a massive heart at- ALHAURÍN EL GRANDE man found disorientated and won- into the alleged kidnapping and tor- At the Carlos Haya hospital, where tack,” said the paediatrician. :: J. C. / F. T. A 22-month-old dering the streets of Torremuelle ture of a man who turned up at Mar- he is recovering from heart failure,ilure, WWhile this was all going on, An- girl died on Monday at the Hos- in Benalmádena with a head bella police station last week has the driver was told that his pas-pas- tonio wwas looking out for the pital Materno in Malaga, where wound and a partially-amputated yielded another arrest. sengers had saved his life. safesafetyty of the passengers on she had been admitted on Sun- penis continues. The man, who still had bits of tape boboard,a on the radio try- day after falling into a swim- After being unable to identify stuck to his face and hands, was able Fate iningg to work out how ming pool in a family home in him since his admission to the Hos- to provide information, including the Antonio Guzmánmán to shut down the Alhaurín el Grande. pital Clínico in Malaga on Satur- number plate of the car that they shouldn’t haveave engengine and open The events took place around day (the man referred to himself transported him in, and this led to been on that bus,us, the doors. 5.50pm. According to 112 sources, as Sergio, Rafael and Naomí), SUR the immediate arrest of two men. “although nowow WWith every- the parents of the minor, who sources have confirmed that a posi- This week, however, a third man I’m glad I was onone finally off live in Cortijo Alto area of Malaga, tive identification was made on was also arrested, but the victim there, becausee I the bus, atten- had gone to spend the day at the Tuesday and that he is a 32-year- alleges that there were seven in- was able to help,”p,” tiotion turned back grandparents’ home, just on the old Spanish national. volved in total. he says. He nor-or- to thet driver. The border with neighboring . The origin of his injuries, how- The three arrested, 27, 34 and 41 mally took the ear-ar- ananxious wait con- It seems that they lost sight of ever, still remain unknown but in- and of French or Belgian national- lier one but on Fri- ttinued until from her for a few moments and, when vestigations point towards a mental ity, have been charged with false im- day he just missed the ambulance they began to look for her, found disorder and that he inflicted the in- prisonment, causing injury, drug it. Antonio Guzmán turned off came a thumbs up. her inside the swimming pool, juries on himself, though other hy- trafficking and belonging to a crimi- Just like Tomás the engine and alerted the “That made us all apparently in cardiac arrest. potheses have not been ruled out. nal organisation. de Sostoa, who was bus company. :: SUR smile,” he said. 6 April 12th to 18th 2019 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH Town halls are 65 million euros better off thanks to undeclared changes to properties

88,919 of them (about five per cent Buildings added in Malaga properties to be paid when a property is sold, of the total). Among the list of un- inherited or gifted, and also in declared works are brand new con- Municipality Total Regula- Municipality Total Regulari- some regional taxes, and state ones buildings rised buildings sed such as wealth and income tax. FRANCISCO struction projects, extensions and JIMÉNEZ swimming pools which, although Many of the undeclared changes they may have had a works licence, Alameda 5,982 886 7,377 1,170 detected concerned brand new con-  [email protected] had not been declared at the town Alcaucín 6,779 969 79,513 814 struction work, such as a new house hall’s Catastro office where the ca- 2,379 168 4,709 460 or storage facility. These amounted The tax authority has dastral values should have been up- 1,561 126 Gaucín 3,187 493 to 34.2 per cent of the detected fraud. finished its inspections and dated; their owners, therefore, had Algarrobo 9,568 461 2,363 163 However, there were also nu- not been charged the extra IBI tax merous house extensions and re- Algatocín 2,270 314 Guaro 5,218 407 discovered 89,000 they should have been paying. building work in of buildings that properties whose owners Now things are changing, and Alh. de la Torre 25,659 1,168 3,387 539 were already registered. These rep- will have to pay an extra after paying the Catastro a fee of Alh. el Grande 26,607 1,363 1,959 280 resented 38.4 per cent of the in- Almáchar 4,697 618 150 euros on their IBI bill 60 euros to correct their records, Istán 4,145 335 fractions. Another 21.5 per cent people will find that their IBI bills 3,465 1,067 1,915 197 were renovation work and changes have also been updated accordingly. of use (such as enclosing terraces on average, and a further Almogía 13,257 936 Jimera De Libar 1,536 131 600 euros for arrears Not everyone will be affected Álora 19,241 2,144 with windows, or restoring an old equally, because the amount var- 2,855 427 house). The remaining 5.9 per cent 4,604 467 ies according to the type of con- Júzcar 889 104 of properties had swimming pools MALAGA. Town halls have found struction and the square metres Alpandeire 1,099 125 1,179 90 that did not figure on the authori- themselves with considerable ex- which have been added, but the 44,690 3,931 Malaga 410,510 13,050 ties’ database. tra income from IBI property tax average increase is 150 euros and Árchez 1,647 302 29,130 472 thanks to the inspections under the town halls are demanding a Place to place 15,778 1,748 Marbella 175,268 1,039 way in the province since 2014. further 600 euros for late payments 4,902 685 By municipality, Malaga city stands The authorities have been for the past four tax years, which 95,226 4,357 out with 13,050 properties being Arenas 5,645 496 searching for cases of new con- is the longest period the authori- 4,550 218 regularised, of which half were ex- 3,199 808 struction, extensions, renovation ties can claim for. 6,811 846 tensions or rehabilitation. Never- 922 69 work or change of use of buildings Altogether, this regularisation 6,671 879 theless, in relative terms, it is strik- 1,222 123 that had gone under the IBI radar. plan will enable the 103 munici- 1,171 192 ing that the inspectors detected This is mainly because neither the palities in the province to collect Benahavís 15,489 433 irregularities in one in every ten Montejaque 1,710 152 owners nor the relevant town hall over 65 million euros. This is Benalauría 1,708 130 buildings in Álora (2,144 out of a 26,498 2,015 had added the work to the official around ten per cent of the total col- Benalmádena 78,350 1,509 total of 19,241), with an almost Catastro property records, whether lected every year through the IBI Ojen 7,393 354 equal amount of new construc- 4,524 291 or not they had a building licence tax, which is the main, but not the 906 58 tions and extensions. 2,224 412 or certificate of habitability. only, contribution to be affected 7,803 911 In the list of municipalities, it After four years of work on this by the updating of cadastral values. Benaoján 1,803 415 can also be seen that three of every 8,148 809 “regularisation plan”, the authori- The figures held by the Catastro Benarrabá 1,929 130 four infractions in Vélez were for 1,065 134 ties have now finished checking the are also applied to decide the 2,944 433 new buildings, most of them on Rincón de la Victoria 44,635 1,854 1.8 million buildings in Malaga prov- amount payable of another mu- 3,548 415 rustic land between the numerous ince, and found irregularities in nicipal tax, ‘plusvalía’, which has 5,765 478 hamlets in its vast terrain. In 11,014 1,124 33,469 3,851 Benalmádena and new 10,642 583 1,650 84 swimming pools predominated, TYPES OF IRREGULARITY DETECTED 2,867 191 accounting for one in every four Cañete la Real 4,400 584 5,143 720 infractions detected. Total in Swimming 1,783 182 5,209 343 Although this is officially tax pools 765 116 fraud, no fines are being imposed. province 5.9% 1,003 136 Cartama 26,166 1,865 4,224 156 Hacienda says the 60 euros it 88,919 5,913 1,235 charges are to cover the cost of the 10,289 820 inspection services, which included 6,371 575 5,491 828 personal visits, orthophotos and Renovation and Casares 15,116 982 71,250 1,524 drones. The Cadastral Law obliges New changes of use Coín 31,262 1,967 41,774 1,305 people to declare fully and cor- constructions 21.45% Totalán 2,074 115 rectly any new constructions or 34.2% Colmenar 6,289 218 6,046 500 Valle de Abdalajís 2,463 347 modifications carried out to exist- ing ones, whether they are eco- Cómpeta 6,665 802 Vélez 85,079 2,616 nomic, physical or a change to Vva. de Algaidas 9,593 456 4,330 852 ownership, or be fined between 2,914 295 Vva. de la Concepcion 6,109 806 60 and 6,000 euros. 2,435 482 Vva. del Rosario 5,936 281 Despite this type of amnesty Extensions and 8,578 471 Vva. de Tapia 2,669 158 by the tax authority, the town halls rehabilitations Cútar 3,721 213 Vva. del Trabuco 7,414 328 are still able to issue fines for ille- 38.4% gal works, and in this case they can 82,155 2,884 Viñuela 6,373 470 include those which have been car- Faraján 705 174 6,625 710 ried out in the past six years. Source: Dirección General del Catastro

THE CADASTRAL REGULARISATION PLAN

tificate. The registered description cover the inspection costs. What is it? It is an initiative must be completely accurate. from the Ministry of Finance and The effects. The increase in the Taxation to detect fiscal fraud. The How is it done? The Catastro cadastral value of a property af- aim is to ensure that all new con- compares the orthophotos al- fects local, regional and State structions or alterations to exist- ready in its possession with aer- taxes which are set in accordance ing buildings are notified to the ial photos taken recently to spot with this variable. Councils can Catastro, whether or not they had any alternations. It costs 60 demand back payments for the a works licence or habitability cer- euros to regularise a property, to past four years. April 12th to 18th 2019 SUR IN ENGLISH 7 8 April 12th to 18th 2019 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH

non-financial terms need to be HERE AND THERE cleared by the town hall as well. Refuse collection strike threat The dispute goes back to summer British candidate in 2017 after Urbaser had taken over the contract for all street refuse col- mayor’s reelection bid for next month in Fuengirola lection and part of the street sweep- ing in the municipality in 2016. MARBELLA The company stopped a new em- :: N. CASTRO. The mayor of Mar- ployment deal for workers in 2017 bella has included a British man Workers for the council’s promising that it would be brought on her party’s list of candidates service operator, Urbaser, in in 2018. When this didn’t happen, in the forthcoming municipal elec- workers went on strike for 10 days tion. Ángeles Muñoz of the con- believe the company has last summer when only minimum servative Partido Popular is bid- still not kept a collective- legal refuse-collection cover was ding to be reelected and an- bargaining promise given.. nounced her potential team last The granting of the contract to weekend. Darren Sands is cur- Urbaser has been mired in contro- rently president of the El Rosario versy. The former licence holder, residents community. In the 2015 :: IVÁN GELIBTER FCC, launched legal action claiming election, the PP won 13 council- FUENGIROLA. The industrial un- it had made a better offer than Ur- lors, taken from the first 13 names rest affecting refuse collection work- baser that was ignored, and a court on the voting list. Muñoz will ers in Fuengirola that has been on- upheld the FCC complaint although hope to increase that amount. going for two years is set to escalate the council then appealed once again in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, Urbaser asked to San Pedro party asks Employees at the refuse collec- break the contract with the town tion operator, Urbaser, that holds a hall, claiming the council wasn’t for more autonomy contract from the council, have said File photo of Fuengirola during the last strike. :: I.G. meeting its side of the deal in terms they will start direct action again af- of support and resources, but the MARBELLA ter, what they claim is, the refusal place committee have put forward have been tricked by the company town hall refused to cancel it. :: M. PÉREZ. The OSP San Pedro of the company to improve their a series of actions that includes a that claims it cannot improve finan- The council also owes Urbaser sev- party, who are the PP’s coalition working conditions as promised strike in May, which will be the third cial conditions while the current eral million euros in a dispute involv- partners on Marbella council, have when Urbaser took over the contract. since summer last year. contract terms are in force. Urbaser ing interest payouts on an old 2012 said that a precondition for a pact According to sources, the work- The committee say they feel they has also said that improvements to contract held prior to FCC. with any party after the May elec- tions is for San Pedro to be given Entidad Local Autónoma (ELA) status, a form of semi-independ- SUR TALK ence from Marbella town hall. OSP have recently been kingmak- CONTRIBUTES TO ers on the council, helping the PP MARBELLA to power two years ago by with- ‘PADRÓN’ DRIVE drawing support for the PSOE. Dean Tyler to stand for Marbella council continues its CM after leaving IU campaign to boost its munici- pal population census, the Pa- MANILVA drón. In a talk on Thursday, :: C. MÁRQUEZ. Dean Tyler, cur- held in collaboration with SUR rent Foreign Residents council- in English, tax practitioner Pe- lor in Manilva, is to stand with dro Fernández of Garrigues law the current mayor’s Compromiso firm explained how the munici- Manilva (CM) party in the elec- pal register was separate from tions on 26 May. Tyler was with any other residency paperwork the IU, CM’s coalition partner, obligations for tax purposes. In but he left after a recent falling the photo, Pedro Fernández, out. Mayor of Manilva, Mario Mayor of Marbella Ángeles Jiménez, said that Tyler was well Muñoz, SUR in English editor known and respected by the for- Rachel Haynes and SUR in Rus- eign population, which makes sian editor Elena Khakimova. :: JOSELE-LANZA up 43 per cent of local residents.

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HERE AND THERE Spelling gaffe spotted on Works almost complete Works on improvements pected to be operational by the end new Malaga drain covers at San Bernabé cemetery of May. to PTA access begin The project will see the creation MALAGA MARBELLA of a reversible lane on the A-7056 :: J. SOTO. The new drain covers :: N. CASTRO. The rooms under con- MALAGA entrance road into the PTA, as well installed on the Alameda Princi- struction at the new central funeral :: I. LILLO. Works to improve access as the expansion of the roundabout pal in Malaga city centre have parlour (tanatorio) at San Bernabé to the Andalucía Technology Park at its crossing with the A-7054. caused a stir this week after a spell- cemetery, the oldest in Marbella, (PTA) got under way on Monday, a The so-called ‘metrobus’, which ing mistake was spotted. Instead will be ready for use by May. week after regional president will connect the park with the fi- of ‘Ayuntamiento de Málaga’, the The 726,308-euro project to de- Juanma Moreno announced it at a nal station on the Malaga Metro line word for city hall was instead spelt molish and construct the new 376- SUR forum. (Andalucía Tech), will also be op- ‘ajuntamiento’. square-metre facilities inside the The 486,974-euro project will last erational after Easter Week, it has The offending drain covers have complex are 80 per cent complete, no more than two months and is ex- been announced. since been removed and replaced. The covers were removed. :: S. S. the constructors have said.

Measurements being taking in Pinos de Alhaurín. :: SUR Study into relocation of Alhaurín de la Torre power lines to take place before summer

Residents have been power lines moved away from their homes. calling for the pylons to Their efforts over the years re- be moved away from sulted in a study in 2018 which con- residential areas for years firmed that the electric and electro- magnetic field levels were above those recommended by the World :: FERNANDO TORRES Health Organization. ALHAURÍN DE LA TORRE. Resi- As a result, the town hall this week dents in the Pinos de Alhaurín area has committed to carrying out and of Alhaurín de la Torre have moved funding fifty per cent of a study which one step closer to getting their wish will, before the summer, look into of having the area’s high voltage alternative locations for the lines.

:: SUR GARDEN BRIDGES CONTRACT AWARDED

The contract for the project to install vertical gardens on over- passes in some of Marbella’s busiest spots has been signed off. With a budget of 150,000 euros, the works to replace advertising hoardings with self-watering plants are expected to take six weeks to complete. April 12th to 18th 2019 11 SUR IN ENGLISH NEWS

HERE AND THERE Costa del Sol hospital extension project to Ikos begins work on luxury hotel complex resume after Junta pays 12 million euros in Estepona

ESTEPONA The regional government PSOE still running the Junta, it was :: P. MARTÍNEZ. The first all-in- has approved this announced that the concession could clusive luxury hotel complex in be annulled with the payment of 12 Spain created by Greek chain Ikos payment which will rip up million euros, a figure set by the is starting to take shape. the contract with the mercantile court in Malaga. How- Works have got under way to current concession holder ever, it wasn’t until after the elec- transform the current Hotel tion that this was approved. Princess in Estepona into a and resume the expansion The works, which have been at beachfront complex with 411 which stopped in 2010 a standstill since 2010, began two rooms and 11 swimming pools. years previously with a budget of The contract has been :: HÉCTOR BARBOTTA 48.5 million euros. But due to the awarded to Acciona Contruccio- MARBELLA. Ministers at the Junta time that has elapsed, a new pro- nes y Sando. Construction is ex- de Andalucía regional government ject, which will add a total of pected to last 15 months at a cost this week approved the payment 88,000 square metres, will need to of 55 million euros, taking the to- of 12 million euros that will allow be drawn up. tal investment up to around 75 the project to expand the Costa del The new managing director of million. Sol hospital in Marbella to resume. the Costa del Sol Health Agency, Lu- These funds will allow the Costa isa Lorenzo, acknowledged last week del Sol Health Agency to terminate in an interview granted to SUR that the contract with the concession the hospital is at the limit of its ca- holder, giving free rein to the An- pacity and that it is a priority to re- dalusian government to resume the Expansion work ground to a halt in 2010. :: JOSELE-LANZA sume the expansion. works. This brings an end to a nine-year standstill, which began when the contractors, Concesionaria Costa del Sol SA, decided to halt works af- ter a disagreement with Marbella town hall. This dispute was over the underground car park. The Junta had decided, as part of the financing of the project, to allow the company to take over its operation for a pe- riod of 40 years. Marbella town hall, however, disagreed with charging The dredging boat. :: J-L users to park every time they came to the hospital and denied permis- sions to install barriers. Dredging under way to From that moment on, the works improve boat access to were halted and the matter became held up in the courts. In August 2014 La Bajadilla port an agreement was announced oblig- ing the three parties (the health MARBELLA agency, Marbella town hall and the :: M. PÉREZ. After months had concession holder) to withdraw the passed without some larger fish- lawsuits filed in court, but no agree- ing boats being able to enter La ment could be reached between the Bajadilla port, dredging of the Junta and the concession holder on built-up sand got under way on the amount it should receive for Tuesday. profits lost from the car park. The dredging, which will con- In November last year, with the tinue for up to a month, will re- move up to 60,000 cubic metres of sand which will then be used to replenish the beaches in cen- tral Marbella ahead of Easter Marbella updates Week and the high season. These actions will restore a entire bus fleet and depth of 4.5 metres Villa Padierna Palace introduces new routes to be managed by international chain

:: MÓNICA PÉREZ Fi and USB charging points and MARBELLA MARBELLA. The Pablo Ráez boule- CCTV cameras. :: H. B. International chain Mi- vard in Marbella was the setting on The number of the buses in op- nor Hotels and NH Hotel Group Tuesday for the launch of the town’s eration remains the same, but a have announced a deal to man- new and improved bus service. number of improvements have age the Villa Padierna Palace in Avanza-Portillo, who won the been implemented to step up the Benahavís. contract, has overseen the com- service. These include the creation The establishment, which be- plete renewal of the town’s fleet of new routes, alterations to exist- The new buses were presented on Tuesday. :: JOSELE-LANZA longs to the Villa Padierna group, of buses. The 19 new vehicles, all ing ones and the possibility of call- will be relaunched as part of Mi- Mercedes, were put into operation ing upon “reserve” vehicles at times San Pedro and two nighttime routes with the delivery of free bus passes nor Hotels’ luxury brand, Anan- throughout the day on Wednesday. of high demand. (La Cañada-San Pedro and Cabop- for those registered on the ‘padrón’ tara Hotels, Resorts & Spas. They are fully adapted for passen- One new route will now see Ca- ino-Marbella) will operate with the in the town. It will be the first Anantara in gers with mobility issues. They are bopino served by buses for the first option for solo female passengers Some 1,200 people collected their Spain and only the second in also equipped with GPS technol- time, while there are new routes to alight where you like. passes, valid from 1 May, on the Europe. It will be renamed An- ogy so passengers can see their ex- between La Cañada and El Ángel first day, with a total of around antara Villa Padierna Palace Be- act location on the 68 screens in- and Puerto Banús-San Pedro-El Salto. Free travel for residents 31,000 expected to follow before nahavís Marbella Resort. stalled at bus stops, as well as Wi- There is also a new circular route in The launch coincided this week the end of the month. 12 April 12th to 18th 2019 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH

Residents take Vélez HERE AND THERE Vélez-Málaga bus rer, thanked the Diputación at the council to court over opening and said, “We have been station reopened able to restore a very symbolic and infrastructure shortfalls emblematic building for Vélez- VÉLEZ-MÁLAGA Málaga.” :: E. C. The main bus station in Vé- Old photographs showing the lez-Málaga reopened last Friday fol- original train, known as ‘La Around 30 homes near their neighbourhood. lowing two years of work to reform Cochinita’ have been hung on the Lagos and Mezquitilla They claim that despite the ap- the building which was, until the walls of the building. Ferrer added, proximately 30 houses appearing 1960s, the town’s train station. “Many of us have fond memories can only be accessed by in the town’s PGOU, the council has The Malaga provincial govern- of catching the train.” dirt tracks failed to carry out work it is obliged, ment, Diputación, financed the en- A waiting room along with time- under the general plan, to do. Part of the exhibition. :: V. B. tire project, which cost 241,000 table information is already avail- :: EUGENIO CABEZAS “The houses feature in the plans euros and has kept as many of the able and there are plans to open a VÉLEZ-MÁLAGA. Residents in and we pay IBI, but we don’t get the Rincón school’s features of the original, early 19th- café in the building in the near fu- the Cerro y Mar and Chorreras hous- services we’re paying for,” commu- century building, as possible. Vélez- ture. The bus station is open from ing developments, which are situ- nity president, Juan Ramón Holy Week Málaga mayor, Antonio Moreno Fer- 7.45am to 10.15pm. ated between Lagos and Mezquitilla Ibargüengoitia, told SUR on Tues- exhibition open in the Axarquía, have gone back to day. Summer tourist train Diputación to fund El court to seek a solution to an ongo- He said that the roads, most of to everyone ing legal battle with Vélez-Málaga which are still dirt tracks, suffer sub- back in operation Paso ground uplift town hall over incomplete work to sidence when it rains and that there the roads and electricity supply to is a lack of street lighting. :: VICTORIA BUSTAMANTE VÉLEZ-MÁLAGA RIOGORDO RINCÓN DE LA VICTORIA. :: E. C. / J. R. A tourist and cultural :: E. C. Malaga’s provincial gov- For the fifth year running, La train running between Torre del ernment, Diputación, has an- Marina school in Torre de Bena- Mar and Vélez-Málaga will operate nounced that it is to fund a ma- galbón will be offering visitors every Tuesday morning as of next jor renovation to Riogordo’s El the chance to see its Holy Week week and throughout the summer Paso (Passion Play) ground, to the exhibition. months. The train will depart from tune of 270,000 euros. The money The collection of images, post- the Azucarera (sugar cane factory) is coming from Diputación’s cofi- ers and statues representing 17 of in Torre del Mar at 10am and take nancing investment plan, mean- the ‘tronos’ that take part in in the town’s lighthouses and Casa ing Riogordo town hall will also Malaga’s Holy Week processions Larios, before making its way to Vé- contribute 30,000 euros. Work is was started by Sister Mercedes lez-Málaga where it will take visi- due to start after this year’s Pas- Fernández and has grown over the tors to the MUVEL, CAC, Casa Cer- sion Play and Holy Week is over years with teachers and pupils add- vantes and San Francisco market. and is expected to take 10 ing their own contributions. There will be free time for eating months. Once complete, the work Guided tours are available to and shopping. Visit: www.apta.ax- will allow visitors to access the anyone who goes along to the arquiacostadelsol.org. ground all year round. The dirt tracks suffer from subsidence when it rains. :: E. C. school during Holy Week. April 12th to 18th 2019 SUR IN ENGLISH 13 14 April 12th to 18th 2019 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH

Electric scooters rounded up in Junta to cap GPs’ daily Malaga as new regulations appointments to give controlling their use come into force more time with patients

The regional minister for only forecasting seven minutes. As of Tuesday it is throughout the city centre, on the cided to provide spaces but it has Health has said that The regional minister went on seafront and in areas of frequent use not given us a lot of time to adapt to say that the new plan meets forbidden to park these such as Teatinos and Huelin) has re- to the new rules,” she said. primary care should be many of healthcare staff’s other vehicles in pedestrian ceived the support of the compa- Gerard Sellarés, of Wind España, at the heart of the care demands and hoped it was enough areas, with fines of 200 nies renting out the scooters, though supports the initiative but admits system and promised to halt their planned action in May. the speed with which it was pushed that 29 spaces “falls short” of the He asked for more time for the new euros being issued through took many by surprise. demand, given that 2,000 scooters more resources Junta de Andalucía government to Clara Vallvé, director of Bird in are rented out every day. take action. :: IGNACIO LILLO Spain, applauded Malaga’s “innova- Niether company would confirm The new primary-healthcare ac- MALAGA. The Local Police, in col- tive and progressive” attitude but whether the fines would be passed :: SUR tion plan, currently being pre- laboration with the traffic enforce- called for better communication. on to the users who are now also CORDOBA. The Andalusian re- sented to trade unions, will focus ment authorities, removed 27 elec- “We are happy that Malaga has de- limited to 10km/h on pavements. gional minister for Health, Jesús on three main areas; cutting red tric scooters belonging to four dif- Aguirre, said on Thursday that the tape, improving diary manage- ferent companies from the streets public health service will take steps ment, and triage (categorising pa- of Malaga’s historic centre on to improve access to GP visits and tients before they are seen). Wednesday morning. This came a primary healthcare with “a real re- Aguirre criticised central gov- day after a municipal edict from form” of service levels. The aim ernment for rushing the regions mayor Francisco de la Torre prohib- will be to limit how many patients into preparing an action plan, but ited parking these vehicles in pe- a GP sees to 30 a day. The move recognised that “it could serve as destrian areas, with fines of 200 comes in reply to doctors’ and pa- a starting point” for the “debate” euros being issued to those who fail tients’ groups who say that med- about putting the primary care area to comply. ics don’t have enough time to see of the health service at the centre This came in response to a num- to patients. of the operation. ber of complaints filed by residents Aguirre said that he was “com- As part of the diary measures, in the city, arguing that many of pletely in agreement with the in- GP appointments will be limited these scooters were being left on dustrial action” that doctors in to 30 a day, up to half the current pavements, blocking entrances to health centres in Andalucía had amount. Primary care would also buildings, crossings and making ac- announced for May as he himself be given a higher share of total cess difficult for those with limited wanted, “more time per appoint- healthcare budgets and linked more mobility. ment, getting to ten minutes [with closely to social services, so more This new edict (as well as the pro- each patient]”, although he admit- people could be taken care of at vision of 29 official parking spaces Users watch as other scooters are taken away. :: SALVADOR SALAS ted that the new action plan is home. April 12th to 18th 2019 SUR IN ENGLISH 15 16 April 12th to 18th 2019 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH

Semana Santa brotherhoods put finishing Good weather is forecast touches to their annual week of processions for next few days as Easter celebrations take on a grand scale from tourist industry Palm Sunday and gets ready thousands will flock to town and village centres to witness this cultural :: P. MARTÍNEZ / I. LILLO and religious tradition MALAGA. It wasn’t just the thousands due to take part in :: NEIL HESKETH the religious processions that MALAGA. All eyes in the last few have been watching the skies days have been on the weather ahead of next week. Bosses in forecast for next week ahead of Se- the tourism sector were hoping mana Santa celebrations. The most for a dry start to the peak sea- important period in Spain’s cul- son this year with high occu- tural calendar starts this weekend pancies expected in hotels and with processions, run by the Con- apartments and busy restaurant fradías (or brotherhoods), on Palm terraces. Sunday (14 April). The association of Costa hot- In larger towns in Malaga prov- leiers, Aehcos, said this week ince there are religious processions that its members were expecti- throughout much of next week, nig an average occupancy of 80 especially in Malaga city, Marbella per cent in the coming week, and Vélez-Málaga on the Costa. with a peak next weekend. More places join in as the week The first detailed weather goes on and by next weekend, Images have been moved into place this week. :: E.N. The temporary ramp at Malaga Cathedral. :: F. S. forecast for the Semana Santa Easter itself, towns and villages week issued on Thursday by Ae- will be taking part on Good Friday Malaga city As usual, it is relatively easy for doors and to take into account the met, the Spanish met office, and Easter Sunday, with a rest day The centrepiece of the Costa del spectators to get a good view what- new route. brought good news, at least for on Saturday. Sol’s Holy Week events is as usual ever town or village they are in as Outside Malaga city, Marbella’s the first half of next week. With so much effort going into Malaga city centre. From Palm Sun- the processional routes cover rela- old town is venue to several pro- From today (Friday 12th) to preparations for the tronos (ornate day through to Good Friday, over tively long routes. In Malaga the cessions throughout the week and Palm Sunday (Sunday 14th), set- platforms carrying images of Jesus 50 different processions spread central stretch of the procession, it also has its own Pollinica this tled weather and rising term- and Mary and often other figures over six days will wind their way around the Calle Larios area has Sunday starting at 6pm. peratures were forecast, reach- from the story of the crucifixion through the streets, staggered from been radically altered this year to In the Axarquía, Vélez-Málaga ing 25 degrees on the coast with of Christ), any rain would cause mid-afternoon to the early hours make it longer and will now fin- is known particularly for its 20 pro- a light westerly wind. huge disappointment. Penitents’ of the next morning. ish near the Cathedral. Brother- cessions over the week. The Palm From Monday to Wednesday clothes have been spring-cleaned This Sunday the processions start hoods have been rehearsing new Sunday procession starts at 5pm. of next week’s Semana Santa, and band music polished as thou- a bit earlier at 10.15am with the routes to get to the centre and a Elsewhere in Malaga province partly cloudy skies are expected sands get ready to take part. Each Pollinica, a representation of Jesus special metal ramp has been built Ronda and Antequera also have with the possibility of a light year more tourists flock to the or- entering Jerusalem on a donkey at the Cathedral for those ‘tronos’ spectacular historic processions shower in inland Malaga prov- nate and moving spectacles. and a favourite of local children. small enough to fit through the that attract many visitors. ince but not on the Costa. Temperatures should also rise inland on Maundy Thursday. From Good Friday, a lot more instability is expected with a front crossing the country.

HOLY WEEK INFO. FOR LARGER TOWNS

Malaga. www.diariosur.es/ semana-santa/itinerarios/

Marbella. www.semanasan- tamarbella.com/semanasanta/

Mijas. www.mijas.es/por- tal/es/festividades

Torremolinos. turismotorre- molinos.es/en/discover/great- events/holy-week/

Estepona. este- pona.com/eventos/semana- santa-estepona-programa- 2019/.

Vélez-Málaga. www.agrupa- cioncofradiasvelez- malaga.es/noticias/files/ho- rarios_itinerarios_2019.pdf

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Election campaign kicks off with first party Government- funded opinion poll rallies and poll showing likely Socialist surge sparks controversy over “political bias” The survey also suggests a big vote for far-right ElCIS reparto opinion de poll escaños según el CIS :: SUR MADRID. Parties on the right Vox and that 40 per cent TheLos socialistas Socailist podrían party sumar could mayoría reach cona majority Ciudadanos with o con Ciudadanos Unidas Podemos or Podemos. questioned the veracity of the 1-2 of voters have still to Estimación de diputados MayoríaAbsolute absoluta majority Compromís CIS official-government opin- make up their mind Estimate of MPs 176 ERC 17-18 ion poll published this week. CIS EH-Bildu 3-5 (Centro de Investigaciones So- Pacma 0-2 ciológicas) is a research agency :: SUR of the government and its direc- JxCat 4-5 MADRID. The campaign to win vot- 350 tor is appointed with the ap- 6 ers’ support in the Spanish general escaños seats PNV proval of the prime minister. Tra- election officially started at midnight CC 0-1 ditionally it monitors public last night and today, Friday 12th, is Navarra Suma 1-2* opinion. the first full day of campaigning. The current director, José Fé- Ahead are two weeks of wall-to- lix Tezanos, is a senior member of wall coverage of the campaign that 33-41 29-37 the ruling PSOE party and has will end on Friday 26 April. Saturday faced criticism since the party 27th is a day of reflection under Span- came into power last summer over ish electoral law, with no campaign- * 42-51 a change in methodology used in ing, and Sunday 28th is polling day. the poll, as rival parties have ques- A survey published this week by tioned his independence. the government-run CIS polling Cs A senior PP politician said the agency was heavily commented on UP 32 CIS data was “an electoral ob- 85 in the media. It showed the PSOE 123138 PP scenity” and had been used by Socialist party as biggest party ac- 137 the PSOE “on party lines”, in re- cording to voting intention, esti- PSOE 66-76 action to the apparent collapse mated to win 123-138 seats in the 85 Escaños2016 in the PP vote in the poll. 350-seat Congreso, the lower house, result26J Even Tezanos, the poll’s pub- but short of the 176 majority needed. lisher, said he was surprised. “I This would be significantly up on *ERC 9 CDC 8 EH Bildu 2 PNV 5 CC 1 don’t think the PP will fall so the seats won last time in 2016. much. And I have the impres- The other main headline from Vox wouldn’t have enough to form tween 66-76 this year. The survey For last night’s launch meetings, sion that [hard-right] Vox could the CIS survey was that the three a majority. The PP, according to the also showed that 40 per cent of all the main parties chose rallies in do better than the survey says,” right-of-centre parties, Ciuda- CIS data, would see a significant voters were still to make up their Madrid, except the PSOE that organ- he commented. danos, Partido Popular (PP) and fall in seats from 137 in 2016 to be- minds. ised a meeting near Seville. April 12th to 18th 2019 19 SUR IN ENGLISH SPAIN NEWS

Numbers of UK residents in Spain rose in 2018 despite Brexit

New national population more people registering for the first data for 1 January this time ahead of Brexit this year. There are now officially 249,015 UK na- year shows Spain now tionals “empadronados” at Span- has a total population of ish town halls, by January’s data. 47 million again, and Of the total population in Spain, 10.7 per cent are foreign. There was almost 250,000 are a big rise in the Venezuelan popu- British, a yearly increase lation last year, some 44 per cent, of 2.5 per cent because of the economic unrest there, increasing to 137,589. The three biggest foreign na- :: SUR tional groups are, in order of size, MADRID. The population of Spain Moroccans, Romanians and Brit- has reached 47 million again for ish. Ecuadorians, who were once :: EFE the first time since 2013. Accord- the biggest group in Spain, have ing to the national statistics insti- now fallen into eighth place. SPANISH PM BACKS TIME EXTENSION tute’s advance figures for l Janu- By region, the most populated ary this year, Spain had 47,007,367 parts of the country are the same The Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, was in Brussels this people. This represents a 0.6 per More entered in 2018. :: SUR as at the start of 2018, with Anda- week for the emergency meeting of EU leaders to decide upon cent year-on-year growth and a lucía home to the most, followed an extension for the UK’s departure. Sánchez supported the third consecutive year of increases. tionals dropped 6,186. by Catalonia then the Madrid re- move to give Britain until 31 October, saying the ball was now New immigration was the main The British community in- gion. The autonomous regions with in the UK’s court. “Nobody wants a hard Brexit but nobody is reason, with 290,573 arrivals, creased 2.5 per cent in the twelve the smallest populations are La ruling it out,” he added. while the number of Spanish na- months to 1 January, helped by Rioja, Cantabria and Navarra. 20 April 12th to 18th 2019 NEWS BUSINESS AND FINANCE SUR IN ENGLISH

THE EURO ZONE A fifth of jobs in Malaga province MARK NAYLER are in the tourism sector PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER 1? The number in work in this key part of the area’s economy grew by six per cent last year but only 46% of workers have ccording to Popular administration has proved a real Party (PP) leader Pa- barrier to progress (the PSOE permanent contracts blo Casado, Spain’s holds just 84 seats in the 350- A prime minister Pedro seat congress). The govern- :: PILAR MARTÍNEZ Sánchez represents a “public ment’s inability to pass its pro- MALAGA. A study released by a danger” to his country. Ciuda- posed 2019 budget was, after all, Costa del Sol planning body has re- danos’ Albert Rivera is in agree- the failure that triggered the up- ported that 20 per cent of jobs in ment, saying this week that it coming election. Despite that, Malaga province, including the Costa has become a “national emer- the Socialist leader managed to del Sol, are in tourism. The percent- gency” that Sánchez be re- increase Spain’s minimum wage age is a long way above the national moved from office. Ahead of by a substantial 22% as of Janu- average of 13.7 per cent and the An- what is going to be a general ary this year, from €736 to dalusian regional average of 13.5 per election of incredibly fine mar- €900 - a raise that will make an cent. gins on April 28th, such hyper- enormous difference to many The study by Turismo y Planifi- bole is to be expected. But Spanish households. cación Costa del Sol, part of the Di- Casado’s and Rivera’s rhetoric The same could be said of a putación provincial authority, says Jobs in tourism grew by six per cent last year. :: MIGUE FERNÁNDEZ paints a misleading picture of a decree for which Sánchez se- that in 2018 there were 6.2 per cent prime minister who has cured the approval of a parlia- more jobs in tourism than a year ployed in leisure, cultural or sport- creation last year, with the tour op- achieved a lot during during his mentary panel two weeks ago, earlier. ing activities related to tourism. erators and car rental sector record- stint in the top job. and which aims to protect ten- Just over 70 per cent of people in Almost eight in ten workers in ing the highest growth, 10 per cent, On the day that the UK’s sec- ants from mercurial and profit- the tourism sector work for compa- tourism have Spanish nationality. and reaching 9,138 employees pay- ond attempt to leave the EU was hungry landlords. Such legisla- nies and the rest are self-employed. Just over 80 per cent of all workers ing social security. supposed to succeed, it’s apt to tion goes a long way towards Within the tourism sector, hotels, in the sector are on full time However, on the downside, only remember that Sánchez’s gov- showing that, when the Social- restaurants and bars employ 82,674 contracts. 46.6 per cent of workers in the whole ernment has worked hard to se- ist leader says that his priority is workers, according to social security All the subsectors within tourism tourist sector have permanent, sta- cure the rights of Britons in the lot of average Spaniards, it’s registration data, and 11,680 are em- showed a strong trend towards job ble contracts. Spain and Spaniards in Britain not just political posturing (or after Brexit. Sánchez passed a not entirely, anyway). royal decree early in March that What Casado and Rivera enshrined in law his plans to really have in mind when they regions with the lowest regional preserve British expatriates’ ac- brand Sánchez “Public Enemy Junta: 618,000 taxpayers locally taxation. cess to healthcare and voting Number 1”, though, is Catalo- Patricia Navarro also gave more rights in the case of a no-deal nia. Both the PP and Ciudadanos should see bills fall after reform details this week of the effects of departure from the EU. Amid all leaders are ramping up their the regional government’s decision the hysteria, Spain thus criticism of his attempt to start to virtually eliminate the need for emerges as the most progressive a dialogue with the region’s :: ALBERTO GÓMEZ will have the Junta’s own part ap- direct family to pay tax on inheri- country in Europe when it separatists, saying that it under- MALAGA. Almost 618,000 taxpay- plied, and the starting rate will fall tance, which in Spain is levied on comes to preparing for a worst mines Spanish unity; yet they ers in Malaga province, including from 10 to 9.5 per cent. the beneficiary and not the dead case scenario - namely, one in seem to forget - or choose to ig- the Costa del Sol, should see their The move, said the head of the person’s estate. Inheritance tax on which the UK divorces Brussels nore - that the PSOE leader is as taxes fall, the Junta de Andalucía Junta’s provincial delegation in amounts up to one million euros without any kind of plan in fundamentally opposed to Cata- has claimed after carrying out a re- Malaga, Patricia Navarro, is designed will be reduced by 99 per cent. place (although the latest ex- lan secession as they are. Far form to the part of income tax con- to make it more attractive for com- Gifts between family members tension granted by the EU, to from being a “public danger” to trolled by regional government. panies to relocate to Andalucía, as will also see the tax level brought October 31st, is designed to en- his country, then, Sánchez will The reduction in the income tax the taxes paid by companies on their down by the same amount. For ex- sure that that doesn’t happen). prove a hard act to follow if levied regionally on tax bills will be employees’ salaries will fall. Anda- ample, a gift of 10,000 euros will When it comes to economics, someone new moves into Mon- applied gradually up to 2023. From lucía is now only behind Madrid and now have just a 7.82-euro tax as op- the minority status of Sánchez’s cloa after April 28th. now on only incomes over 20,200 Castilla y León in terms of Spanish posed to 782 euros previously. April 12th to 18th 2019 SUR IN ENGLISH 21 22 April 12th to 18th 2019 NEWS GIBRALTAR SUR IN ENGLISH

Ambitious garden city project Full Spring Festival planned inside Gibraltar’s port programme now available :: D. BARTLETT artists will be exhibiting their GIBRALTAR. The programme of works and local dancers are being The 100,000-square- events for the Spring Festival, invited to participate. metre residential which runs from 1 May to 20 June, On 8 and 9 May at 8pm at the has now been announced. A full John Mackintosh Hall there will development, which will run-down can be obtained from be a Zarzuela, ‘La del Manojo de also have leisure and the Cultural Department, but in Rosas’, and tickets - which cost £5 retail facilities, is to be the meantime these are a few of - can be purchased from the John the many highlights coming up Mackintosh Hall from Tuesday 23 called Victoria Keys soon. April between 9am and 4pm. The busy schedule of events On Saturday 11 May from 10am :: DEBBIE BARTLETT kicks off on May Day with music to 3pm there will be a public dis- GIBRALTAR. Plans were announced and dance performances in Case- play of Field Gun Crew in Case- this week for an ambitious new de- mates Square between 11am and mates Square, and on 15 May the velopment within Gibraltar harbour, 7pm, and ‘Art Dance 2019’ will be Arts Society Gibraltar will be host- west of Coaling Island and in Port taking place on Saturday 4th in ing a talk on The Great Velázquez waters, which will be called Victo- John Mackintosh Square from 8.30 at Court in Madrid at the Garrison ria Keys. The project will involve to 10.30 pm, where international Library. creating 60,000 square metres of new land, using material from the unsightly ‘rubble mountain’ on the East side of the Rock for the recla- Annual skin cancer tre. Anyone interested in having mation, and it will provide 100,000 A model of the proposed Victoria Keys development. :: SUR moles or growths on their skin square metres of residential build- screening day is checked is asked to use the en- ings with leisure, community, com- Gibraltar government insists that it the Government-owned company trance via the front of the ICC mercial and retail use. will cost taxpayers virtually nothing. will be repaid, with interest, and will on Saturday at building. Users should also re- According to the plans, Victoria A press release from the govern- also receive a prime site (50% of the the Primary member that these checks are Keys will be mainly pedestrianised, ment says the works will be carried southernmost side of the reclaimed only to detect possible skin can- with parking and traffic movements out by Harbour Developments Lim- plot) with a guaranteed value of £25 Care Centre cer and not for advice on other underground. There will be an exten- ited, a consortium of locally-based million. The government will also re- skin problems such as psoriasis sive landscaped promenade, solely developers. The reclamation costs ceive a 20% share in the equity of the or eczema. for pedestrians and cyclists, along the will be financed by a Government developer. :: D. B. The GHA says these screening entire waterfront perimeter, and wide owned company on a fully secured It will be a while before Victoria GIBRALTAR. The Gibraltar days are important as they serve tree-lined avenues running east to basis using funds raised from the Keys becomes reality, however, as it Health Authority is holding its as a reminder of the importance west with views across the bay. £300 million institutional invest- has yet to go through all the town annual skin cancer screening day of sun protection and they en- If this major project sounds ex- ment in Gibraltar. planning regulation and environ- on Saturday (13 April), from 9am able diagnoses to be made early, pensive, well, yes it is. However the Once the reclamation is complete, mental impact procedures. to 1pm at the Primary Care Cen- thereby saving people’s lives. April 12th to 18th 2019 23 SUR IN ENGLISH COMMENT LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Everybody’s talkin’ Catalonia PETER EDGERTON MUSIC MAKER WWW.E-PETER.COM Thank you very much for your migrants from other typically letter [by N. Barker] about poorer regions of Spain such Catalonia and Brexit published as or Extremadura. in the 5 April edition of SUR Are you trying to tell us that in English. in that context it is still in eve- he Cultural Centre in cessantly no matter the context tunate, since the cause of the hul- I found the letter to be very ryday use in Catalonia? I think Malaga used to put on meant that the a constant burble laballoo was somebody having educational, as a result of your not, I believe that it’s only used regular free concerts in of chit chat considerably lessened slipped and fallen, resulting in words of wisdom I’ve come to by a handful of extremists. T their small but rather the effect of my little time out. minor injuries. Imagine the em- realise that despite having My comment about compa- charming theatre quite a few One small group of women barrassment of intervening. lived here for 37 years I know nies having to relocate their years ago. The trouble was that, from the UK seemed to think “Excuse me. Would you mind little about this country. registered offices is completely especially if it was cold, groups they were in Blackpool munici- piping down, please? Some of us I didn’t know that Catalonia accurate. A total of 3,023 com- of older people from the area used pal baths such was their behav- are here to contemplate the is partly to blame for Brexit, panies moved their registered to attend just to be able to have iour. I half expected one of them deeper questions in life and all and I doubt whether many offices out of Catalonia between a good old natter with their to indulge in a bit of pool bomb- this yelling is simply not condu- Catalans know that either. October 2nd and December chums somewhere warm. So, ing à la Peter Kay. Mercifully we cive. I say! Didn’t you hear me? Another ‘fact’ that I didn’t 13th 2017, according to the data then the people in charge began were spared. You! Yes, you with the stetho- know is that the buoyant econ- gathered by the Spanish Asso- to put a nominal price on the door Then, about an hour in, there scope! Turn that ambulance siren omy that Catalonia enjoys is ciation of Registrars. (one or two euros, I think) which was an almighty kerfuffle with peo- down before I throw you in the all thanks to Franco, appar- The idea came from Rajoy immediately put paid to the prob- ple yelling in Spanish at the top of thermal pool.” ently because of investments and was designed to cut down lem of the real life chat groups. their voices. At first I thought our Things subsequently became made by the INI in his time. I the income of the Catalan gov- Today, I visited the Arabic baths UK women friends must have un- much calmer and I had a marvel- think the least you could do is ernment. It did not occur to in Malaga city centre in order to dertaken the most intensive one- lous time in the end but the fact to inform the government of him that damaging the Cata- disengage from the hustle and hour language course ever, but no remains - we’ve become very lim- Catalonia of that ‘fact’. lan economy was in reality bustle of city life for an hour or it was a group from Malaga ur- ited in our ability to adapt our so- I have to admit that in my damaging the economy of two. The atmosphere engendered gently calling their friends over. cial behaviour to our surroundings. many visits to Catalonia I have Spain. It is my belief that Cata- by the decor and ambient light- For a split second, it crossed my It’s a basic human need to con- never noticed that in the Cata- lonia was and is part of Spain ing was just as you might expect mind to say something but no one verse and socialise with others lan social structure “deep but apparently Rajoy didn’t - tranquil and relaxing. wants to be the whinging old but there’s a time and a place - rooted and extremely painful know. Seemingly a year after Unfortunately, our deep-seated bloke so I put a sock in it. This about nine thirty in the local pub, damage has been done”. No- the measure came into force need to jabber at each other in- turned out to be extremely for- in my experience. one has ever mentioned it to it was reversed. Common me and I go out of my way to sense prevailed. enter into conversation with Well, to end, I’d like to the locals when I’m there. thank you once more for keep- SANSÓN Your mention of ‘charnego’ ing me so well informed about is interesting. Charnego in Catalan affairs. Your informa- Spanish is a pejorative or de- tion is invaluable. Your mother says that when you‛ve finished scriptive term used primarily in the 1950s–70s in Catalonia ED WILCOX playing that video game you‛re to tidy your (Spain) to refer to economic BY EMAIL room, do your homework, graduate, get a job and leave home

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aced with a new situation that sometimes never even meet. to work, apart from as an alibi. that could have conse- The perfect market of free com- Therefore it is certainly hard to quences for the economy petition simply does not exist. It explain why the Andalusian gov- F - from the crisis to Brexit, New has never existed. Behaviour de- ernment has made the abolition from election results to a board of rived from considering that the of inheritance tax one of the high- directors at a bank - we, as journal- scenario is real must be perma- lights of its first months in charge, ists, often find we need to call up image nently checked with another tool when the measure only benefits an economist twice. The first time resorted to by economists who are families in which each one of the is so they can predict what might less affected by traditionalism, the children inherit a million euros or happen; the second, so they can empirical test. more. Unless this forms part of a analyse what really has happened Well, there is no empirical study campaign to put an end to the im- and explain what went wrong in HÉCTOR BARBOTTA that proves that reducing taxes for age of an Andalucía plagued by the their forecast. those who contribute most will ac- problem of unemployment, low Perhaps the cause of so many tivate the economy or have any salaries and temporary contracts, shots off target can be found among beneficial effect apart from on the to draw a new picture of a region myths and beliefs that have settled from Smith to present day, estab- is, where the human factor inter- pockets of those directly concerned. in which the vast majority of its down as unquestionable truths in lished their theories based on a sce- venes with all its complexities. The overflow theory, that main- inhabitants were seriously con- economic science, which were born nario that only exists in theory, What’s more, economic activ- tains that when the cup of the most cerned about the taxes they would by chance out of logical reasoning the perfect competition market. ity itself generates inequalities wealthy fills up that wealth starts have to pay when they inherited but rarely go from theory to reality. Economics, however is not mathe- that alter the framework so that to spread among the rest of the ac- a fortune. And now, they are all The fathers of economic science, matical but a social science, that theory and practice follow paths tors in society, has never managed breathing a sigh of relief. 24 April 12th to 18th 2019 LIFESTYLE SUR IN ENGLISH “Meditation helped me create great songs”

Rudolf Schenker Guitarist, songwriter and founder member of the Scorpions

these old fans were joined in front HIS WORDS of the stage by a new generation the band hadn’t been fully aware of. “In “The ballads are like a 2010 we had over one million on rose with a thorn; they are Facebook,” he says. Of them, “80 per cent were between 16 and 28 REGINA RACHEL very great, but also fearful” years old. Unbelievable.” SOTORRÍO HAYNES So they didn’t stop, and five years “We get our energy from after announcing their departure being on stage; if you they were on their 50th anniver- After 54 years on the give energy you sary tour with a new recruit. road, the Scorpions “We got [ex-Motör- get energy back” head] in the band and we realised founder and guitarist how much fun we still have, so this speaks to SUR ahead of “What we’ve done - is why we changed our minds,” says the band’s gig in travelling around, bringing the guitarist. “The friendship is still people together.... it’s there, the chemistry is right, we Fuengirola in June have everything we need to give the unbelievable” people the optimum.” MALAGA. “It’s all about timing,” Many of the classic songs the Scor- says Rudolf Schenker, “You have “The friendship is still pions produced over the years are to wait for the magic moment.” Be- there, the chemistry is the result of a different side to Ru- fore explaining how the Scorpions’ right, we have everything dolf Schenker that he admits does story is all about doing the right not fit much with the image of a thing at the right time, the 70-year- we need to give people heavy metal guitarist. old founder of the band proves that the optimum” he applies this theory to his daily Songwriting agenda. How long is the interview “Meditation helped me create great going to be?” he asks when this ROCK THE COAST songs like , like Lady newspaper calls him up at the allot- Starlight, like Rocking Like a Hur- ted time, “Can you call back in 45 ricane,” he says, describing his daily minutes? Then we’ll have more time When. 14 and 15 June from routine back in the seventies as to talk.” 1.30pm “meditate, compose, meditate, com- Whatever the commitment that pose, meditate, compose, with lunch would have limited the original call, Where. Fuengirola. Marenos- and dinner in between”. it was just as well we agreed to wait, trum Music Castle Park “If you do meditation you find because Rudolf Schenker likes to yourself, and then you are what you talk. His band, his music, his fam- Bands. Scorpions, Europe, UFO, are. Everybody is somebody special, ily, his career that already spans Rainbow, The Darkness.... plus but most people don’t see it. Most more than half a century, and above many more. people want to be somebody else,” all the energy that holds them all the guitarist explains with frustra- together, spill out in a conversation More information. tion in his voice. with this German rock star who has www.rockthecoastfestival.es Schenker explains that he has al- found all the answers, and finds it Rudolf Schenker, on stage with his “yin and yang” guitar. :: RALPH ARVESEN ways been able to “find my way back frustrating that others fail to do the home” when others lost their way same. memories are those that count. - a loan, he hastens to add, that he “We had parties like crazy; that during the party years of the 80s. The interview comes ahead of the When he had his own family they paid back in full. This was probably was a fantastic time but you can’t “My guitar is black and white - yin Scorpions’ trip to Fuengirola in June also holidayed in Spain. Why? “In about the time when people were turn time back,” says Schenker when and yang. I’m always the kind of guy when they headline the Rock the Germany half the people went to telling him to “find a proper job”, as asked whether he misses those years. that goes from one extreme to an- Coast festival. Schenker, in his un- Italy and the other half to Spain,” they said the music wouldn’t last. In the nineties the band’s fame other,” he says, “My good point is mistakable German accent, explains he explains, as if his was just an or- Now he is a father and grandfather in Asia came as the ideal antidote to that I always find my way back to that now, after 54 years on the road, dinary German family who came himself; “Of course they like the mu- the damage grunge and alternative the centre.” the Scorpions only play what they on holiday and found, as he says, sic,” he says of his two teenage grand- music were doing to heavy metal. Schenker’s meditation is respon- consider to be “fun” gigs and festi- “nice oranges and nice people”. children, before proudly talking about “We were lucky. We could play in sible for some of the ballads that, due vals. It’s not hard to see why the His visits to the Costa continued, his granddaughter’s athletics and ice Asia and Russia so we didn’t have to to their popularity, perhaps eclipse Costa event fits the criteria - Schen- especially after his father retired to skating success. “They are a gift,” he suffer,” he explains. the band’s purer heavy metal tracks. ker’s relationship with Spain goes a motor home and lived for more adds. And his life gained a new gift in It was a project with the Berlin The classic Still Loving You had its back to when he was a child. than ten years on a campsite near 2015 when his girlfriend gave birth Philharmonic Orchestra, says Schen- right moment to be recorded in 1983, Algeciras. “It’s like coming home,” to their son, who, now nearly four, ker, that made them realise just seven years after Schenker wrote it, Memories of Spain he says. also finds his father’s veteran rocker how good their songs were. “We and became the most sold record ever “My father was a big Spain fan, es- Unlike his father though, Schen- lifestyle fun. said, ‘we have to go back to where in France, recalls the musician. pecially Malaga, and the streets of ker has no plans to disappear in his So where does Rudolf Schenker we came from’. Then we did our “I’m always asked why the bal- Granada and of course the Rock of own retirement caravan. When his get his energy from to keep going next albums in 2004 and 2005. lads are so successful played by a rock Gibraltar,” he explains. He remem- age - he was 70 last August - is brought on stage? “From the audience, from which were successful, because rock band. I say that when a rocker shows bers when his family first went to up in the conversation, he laughs out the music,” he says. “We get our en- music was in again. It’s all about his feelings, that feeling in music is Barcelona when he was nine or ten loud: “54 years playing , ergy from being on stage, seeing our timing,” he repeats. stronger - that’s the edge. It’s like a and how “the next vacation was to it’s amazing!” he exclaims. fans smiling, full of emotion. If you rose with a thorn,” continues Schen- Valencia, Tarragona, and then we When he realised interviewers had give energy you always get energy False alarm farewell ker. “The ballads are somehow very, ended up in Malaga”. started asking more about the past back. We want to create a feeling, The Scorpions guitarist claims that very great, and also fearful.” As Schenker reminisces about than the future, he looked back and an atmosphere, where people be- announcing their farewell tour in Now the Scorpions have promised Spain, it’s easy to forget that at the took stock. “I see what we’ve done - come one.” 2010 was also done at “the right mo- a new album and they’ll be going into other end of the telephone is the travelling around, bringing people As Schenker looks back at the 54- ment”, despite them realising later the studio this spring. No dates have heavy metal hero who has toured together, having friends in China, year history of his band it’s clear that saying goodbye was the last been given though. “We don’t want the world several times over, made Spain, Africa - it’s unbelievable.” what he means about things hap- thing they wanted to do. any pressure; we have to be inspired. 18 studio albums and sold millions The weight of 50 years hit home pening when the time was right. The idea that this would be their So are we likely to hear new songs of records. Of course, he mentions when Schenker came across an old In the heyday of heavy rock in last chance to see the band live at the Fuengirola concert? “Every- touring in Spain and this country’s accounts book from 1965 that his the 1980s the Scorpions shared the brought old fans out of the wood- thing is possible,” says Schenker. “fantastic crowds” at their concerts, mother kept to keep track of the limelight with bands like Def Lep- work. “It was an alarm clock mo- “Wait for the magic moment - that’s but it’s clear that his family holiday money he’d borrowed from his father pard, Bon Jovi and Iron Maiden. ment,” says Schenker, adding that the important point.” April 12th to 18th 2019 SUR IN ENGLISH 25 26 April 12th to 18th 2019 LIFESTYLE SUR IN ENGLISH “I always thought it would be ace if I could perform in Malaga and visit my father”

Tony Vino Stand-up comedian COMEDY SHOWS Where. Salon Varietés Theatre, ite choice for corporate functions Fuengirola. and high profile events for chari- ties like Oxfam, Christian Aid and When. Friday 12 and Saturday TearFund. He has also worked with 13 April. 7.30 pm. TONY BRYANT celebrity acts like Jimmy Cricket and Tim Vine, and was once com- Tickets. 18 Euros.  [email protected] missioned to warm the audience www.salonvarietes.com for the BBC’s Songs of Praise, an The Malaga-born stand- event he describes as a “low point up comedian, Tony Vino, in my career”. SUR in English caught up with stage persona is affable and friendly will fulfil his dream when the comedian prior to his arrival (to mask my true self, which is full he performs on the Costa on the Costa and he explained how of anger and judgement). del Sol for the first time excited he is to be able to perform How do you feel about perform- in Malaga for the first time; espe- ing in Malaga for the first time? this weekend cially seeing as his father will be in This is genuinely one of my dreams the audience, along with several come true. It was on my bucket list. FUENGIROLA. The Salon Varietés of his Scottish relatives. My dad lives in Malaga and for years Theatre in Fuengirola is to host the Is Vino your birth name? now I always thought it would be third consecutive season of stand- I’ve slightly shortened my real ace if I could get to perform in up comedy nights this weekend. name for the stage. My full name Malaga and have chance to visit my The two shows will take place on is Anthony Triviño. Although my Tony Vino gave up a career in law to become a comedian. :: SUR father. Friday (today) and Saturday and dad is from Malaga and lives most Will any Spanish relatives come will again be compered by Dave of the year there, I grew up in Pre- well. In fact, I met my wife that come from intentional thought. I to see you perform? Thompson, the madcap comedian ston. Even though I’m half Span- night. We clicked instantly and have a discipline where I just write Apart from my dad, none of my who found fame as Tinky Winky ish, I sound as northern English as made each other laugh on and off without worrying whether the Spanish relatives can speak Eng- in the BBC’s Teletubbies children’s is possible and my ginger hair and stage. Fourteen years later we are ideas are funny or not. lish, so I don’t think it would work series. Dave will be supported by freckly skin are due to my mother still together, so who’s laughing How do you practise your new for them. Ironically though, I have Matthew Baylis (former story-liner being from Glasgow. now? jokes? a load of Scottish relatives coming on EastEnders) and Tony Vino, two How did you make a living before What is the most bizarre place Every time before going on (stage) as they happen to be in Malaga this British stand-ups popular on the becoming a stand-up? you have ever performed in? I practise. I suppose it’s like a mu- week. UK comedy circuit. I gave up a lucrative career in law I reckon it must be performing from sician playing an instrument - there What can the audience expect at Tony Vino was born in Malaga; to do this. I studied law and then the middle of a boxing ring. The or- is always a level of practice needed the Salon Varietés in Fuengirola? his father is Spanish and his mother did a masters in something called ganiser of the boxing competition to stay sharp. I then sandwich new Expect the unexpected. There will was born in Scotland, but since Jurisprudence, which is legal phi- thought it was a good idea to have jokes into a performance to try be jokes, banter, audience interac- childhood, he has lived in the north losophy. I worked for a few years a comedian on before the fights. It things out. tion, stories, some poignant mo- of England. The former solicitor be- and decided that life as a solicitor wasn’t a good idea. Let’s say that I Are you superstitious? ments and a good sprinkle of fun. gan working on the comedy circuit wasn’t for me - much to the ap- lasted the full 12 rounds but the I wouldn’t say I’m superstitious, Your friend Dave Thompson de- in 2005, performing across the UK proval of my clients. audience won on points. but before going on stage I have scribes you as ‘a sharp-witted co- and internationally. He has worked What made you decide to make a Where do you get your ideas for various little rituals that I always median with a sublime sense of as a stand-up comedian and com- career out of comedy? material from? need to do or I feel off centre. the ridiculous’: how would you pere and is well known for the way Back in 2005, a friend in Leeds Sometimes it is random and funny Your act has been described as ‘so- describe Dave? he seamlessly mixes well thought- started an amateur comedy night ideas crop up that I jot down as cially aware inoffensive fun’: how A fine judge of comics. Seriously out observational humour with and asked me if I would MC it as I quickly as possible. Other times it would you describe your sense of though, Dave is a seasoned veteran audience interaction. had done a lot of acting and liked is in conversations when people humour? of the comedy scene. You know any His non-offensive style of hu- making people laugh, most impor- laugh and we’ve hit a golden seam A lot of my humour is derived from night he is on that you are in safe mour mixes social and political is- tantly; I said I would do it for free. of comedy that I then think I can wordplay. I like to be silly, and sim- hands. He is hilarious, likeable, sur- sues, which has made him a favour- The first night went amazingly work on. Mainly though, ideas ply for everyone to have fun. My real and quick. April 12th to 18th 2019 SUR IN ENGLISH 27 28 April 12th to 18th 2019 LIFESTYLE SUR IN ENGLISH

HIS WORDS Banderas: “I changed my life and am “I don’t want to die asking myself why I hadn’t done something. When I saw now doing what I really want to do” death close up, that is what I realised” The actor is selecting the “The idea is to create a cast of A Chorus Line, production centre of which will open the new performing arts which has Soho theatre in October. muscle and adds value to “It’s giving me a fantastic the city” problem, because there is so much talent,” he says wood and is now tired of living :: REGINA SOTORRÍO abroad. “I want to do things in my MALAGA. Antonio Banderas takes own city, live in my home and only a short break from the auditions, leave when they need me for work but he doesn’t leave through the somewhere else,” he explains. back door or look for a quiet cor- When he isn’t filming, he’ll be ner in which to relax. He goes into found backstage, on stage or teach- the corridor where, nervous and ing a masterclass because, he in- concentrating hard, the next hope- sists, Soho won’t just be a theatre: fuls are waiting to take their turn. it’ll be a cultural and production He encourages them, wishes them centre. luck, makes them laugh, just as if “Our slogan is ‘for Malaga from he were one of them. He always Malaga’. Local people will be the looks directly into the eyes of the Antonio Banderas at the ESAEM, where he is holding auditions for ‘A chorus line’. :: ÑITO SALAS first to enjoy the shows we pro- person he is talking to. “Now I’m duce, but we will also have to take doing what I really want to do,” he originally applied to accompany In order to go ahead with this why I hadn’t done something. them to Barcelona, Madrid, New says firmly to me. Banderas in the inaugural musical local project, he has already turned When I saw death close up, I York, wherever. The idea is to have After more than two weeks of at the 931-seat Caixabank Soho down two films this year, but he thought: I have to do something I a stage arts production centre auditions in Malaga, Madrid and Theatre in October. doesn’t care. The heart attack he really want to do. I started my ca- which gives value to the city,” he Barcelona, the final cast of A Cho- “I’m finding I have a fantastic suffered a couple of years ago was reer in theatre and got into cinema says. “We want people to come, rus Line is being decided this week problem. There is so much talent a warning that made him decide almost by accident, although it has and find out what theatre is all at ESAEM, the Senior School of and it’s going to be sad, because we’re to change his life. brought me some very good about. Sometime in October we Performing Arts in Malaga. About going to have to turn down some “People live as if they are never things,” he says. will be here, waiting for them, 500 applicants have come here to very good people and that is a pain- going to die, but we all will. And I The Malaga-born actor has made keen to perform for them on their audition, of the nearly 2,000 who ful thing to do,” says Banderas. don’t want to die asking myself 112 films, spent 26 years in Holly- doorstep, in Soho”. April 12th to 18th 2019 29 SUR IN ENGLISH LIFESTYLE

SOCIETY SCENE Spring walking holiday for the Field Club

Aracena was the base for Lions Club, Margaret Bobowicz, the Costa walkers; the recently presented a cheque for 2,002 euros for AECC (Asociación Española Lions donate funds for Contra el Cancer) Pink Ladies to Knitted Knockers; and Maria Bailey, president of the Knitted walking footballers plan a Knockers charity. The money will be used to help Field Club members visited La Minilla reservoir on their trip to the Picos de Aroche park, Aracena. :: SUR new event fund the knitting breast prosthet- ics for women who have had to :: SUR IN ENGLISH have a mastectomy as a result of will be competing with Chorley (UK) cancer and to help with the rest of participating with Over 50s and Over

The Field Club the services they provide. Hospi- 60s teams, also Manchester City Fans Walking in Huelva tal Costa del Sol and Hospital and Bristol Over 60s teams. There Forty-nine members of the Field Clínico in Malaga have collabo- will also be two teams from “Smiles” Club went on a three-night walking rated with this project. La Cala de (Fuengirola) and three teams from holiday earlier this month, staying Mijas Lions have been donating to Walking Football Spain. at Hotel Los Castaños in Aracena Knitted Knockers since the asso- All proceeds from the festival will (Huelva). They stopped off on the ciation was started, over three years be donated to the Somos Tu Ola fund way to visit La Minilla reservoir and ago. To see or request the finished to raise money to pay for bionic went for walks each day in the article call into the Lions La Cala prostheses for Sarah Almagro Val- Parque Natural Picos de Aroche. de Mijas shop. lejo after she had her arms and legs The group have a holiday every amputated as a result of sepsis. spring and autumn and in between Walking Football Spain walk twice a week from January to Future festival the end of May and September until Walking Football Spain has Christmas. More information: confirmed that Benalmádena What are you up to? www.thefieldclub.org Polideportivo (next to the bullring) If you are involved in a club or associa- will be the venue for their May tion and planning events, trips or activi- La Cala de Mijas Lions Club ties that would be of interest to other Festival of Walking Football. The readers of SUR in English, we would love Donation to knitters event will take place on Friday 17 to hear from you: The president of the La Cala de Mijas May from 11am to 4pm. Ten teams Email: [email protected] Members of AECC, La Cala Lions and Knitted Knockers. :: SUR 30 April 12th to 18th 2019 LIFESTYLE SUR IN ENGLISH

DENISE BUSH GARDENING READER’S PHOTO The cast iron plant

A favourite in Victorian times, the aspidistra is undergoing a ‘facelift’ with new varieties available

A familiar sight in towns and vil- It remained a ‘forgotten’ plant ing ‘shield’) grows in dry shade, un- lages during showery weather is at until the 1980s when the genus As- der trees and shrubs. Although con- least one pot of a large, leafy plant, pidistra started to be studied closely sidered a house plant, it can with- stood outside the owner’s front door and the number of recognised spe- stand drought, draughts, below :: MARIA HILLEN getting a rinse in the rain. Once ex- cies rose from 7 to 10 in the 70s, to freezing temperatures and neglect. tremely popular in Victorian Brit- nearly a hundred today. It needs minimum light and a free- ain, the Aspidistra has never really Native to China, Vietnam and Ja- draining soil; water logging will rot THE POWDER PUFF TREE gone out of favour in Spain. pan, the Aspidistra (named by John the rhizomous roots. In Britain, it was about the only Ker in 1822 after the Greek ‘as- The paddle-shaped, dark-green, Reader Maria Hillen sent in this photo of a Calliandra, possibly plant that would grow inside the pidion’ mean- leathery leaves, 50-70cm long, form C. emarginata, which she says has taken a few years to ‘get go- dark, gloomy Victorian houses and on short stems and grow very ing’ but is now doing really well. Calliandra are popular plants the only plant that could survive slowly. This is one of the rea- for bonsai and are suitable for growing in containers. It is not the fumes from gas lighting, hence sons that Aspidistras are drought resistant and performs best with regular watering. the common name ‘cast iron plant’. sometimes hard to find However with the advent of elec- in garden centres; it tric lights, the Aspidistra fell out grows so slowly that of fashion. production is expen- GARDENING IN APRIL sive, plus they are still not fully appre- ciated by many cus- Transplanting shrubs tomers. However, nowadays there are lovely variegated spe- cies available, striped Generally speaking, autumn soil around the root ball as with creamy-white or is the best time to move es- possible and avoid breakages, butter-yellow or a spot- tablished shrubs, but with although some damage to ted-leaved Aspidistra ‘Milky this lovely spring rain the soil the root system is inevitable. Way’ which is stunning al- is soft and if you need to Make sure that the hole you though not quite as hardy as the move any, now couldn’t be a have dug to put the shrub in original Victorian favourite. better time to do it. A plant is large enough for it to be at Aspidistras will survive under a that is already established is exactly the same level as it thick layer of dust for a very long going to suffer some shock if was before. Back fill carefully time, some families passing them you have to uproot it but to and firm the soil down well. on from generation to generation. minimise this as much as pos- Water in copiously and you What they do not put up with is too sible, do it while the weather may need to keep watering it much water or sunlight and root is cold and damp. Make sure at intervals, especially in hot disturbance. you dig it out with as much dry weather. Aspidistras rarely flower, but sometimes a small violet-brown flower appears, resting on the soil PHOTOS although it is often hidden by leaves. It produces one berry which, if the Calling all Email your photos to eng- flower has not been pollinated (this [email protected] or send is done by slugs and snails in the gardeners them to SUR in English, wild) will be sterile. The only way Avda Dr Marañón 48, 29009 to successfully propagate Aspidis- We know that many of our Malaga, with a caption and a tra is by very carefully dividing it, readers have lovely gardens, few words of explanation. avoiding any damage to the white or enjoy growing plants on Alternatively, you can send stringy roots. This is best done when their terraces or balconies, them to us via Facebook repotting which is only advisable so why not share them with (surenglish) or Twitter Aspidistra elatior and a close-up of the flower :: WIKIMEDIA / FLICKR once every three to four years. others? (@SUR_English) April 12th to 18th 2019 31 SUR IN ENGLISH LIFESTYLE DEBBIE BARTLETT

WHAT HAPPENED TODAY? LANGUAGE FOOTNOTE E12 APRIL 1931

República Republic Elecciones Elections Local elections led to the Second Republic Escaños Seats Concejal/a Councillor Votación Voting A landslide victory for republican and left- Gobierno Government Exilio Exile wing parties resulted in the king leaving Abdicar To abdicate the country and the Republic being Presidente del declared two days later gobierno Prime Minister Presidente President Leyes Laws n 12 April 1931 local celona they won 75 per cent of Libertad Freedom elections were held in the seats. Divorcio Divorce Spain for the first Out of a total of 80,472 possi- Sufragio Suffrage O time in years, and the ble seats on local councils, the Estatus Status result - a landslide victory for re- republicans won 34,368, social- Inovaciones Innovations publicans and left-wing parties ists 4,813, communists 67, and Suffrage Sufragio - changed the course of history. monarchists 19,035, with their The number of seats on each best results being in the Balearic council was determinedetermined byby the Islands and the regionsreg of Anda- number of inhabitants.nhabitants. lucía and Extremadura.Ex began in 1936. Voting was compul-ompul- Two ddays later the Under the new government, sory, but onlyy men king, Alfonso XIII, many things changed rapidly in were allowedd to who had come to A queue outside a polling station in Malaga on 12 April 1931. :: SUR Spain. vote as suffrageage powerpow in 1902 It introduced new rights such for women hadad anand had become After travelling to Austria, April 1931 were from several as freedom of speech, freedom not yet been in-n- exextremely un- Switzerland, England and Egypt, small parties, and the prime min- of association and votes for troduced. popopular, left the he finally settled in Rome, but ister of the new regime was Ni- women, legalised divorce and re- The republi-bli- coucountry, saying he only absented himself from ceto Alcalá Zamora. However, he moved the special legal status of cans won byy a thattha he no longer Spain: he did not abdicate the resigned in October after dis- the nobility and the Church. large margin inn the had the support of throne. On the same day that he agreeing with some of the arti- However, when civil war broke regions of Asturias,rias, the people. He went into exile, 14 April, the Sec- cles in the new Constitution. He out in 1936, the history of the King Alfonso XIII. :: SUR Aragón and Cata-ata- had been advised ond Republic was proclaimed. was also selected to be the Presi- country once again took a very lonia, with a majoritymajority in most that this would avoid violence The politicians who took over dent of the new Republic, a post different turn and many of those provincial capitaliii cities. In Bar- breakingbi out. the government of Spain on 14 he retained until the Civil War innovations were reversed. April 12th to 18th 2019 32 SUR IN ENGLISH April 12th to 18th 2019 SUR IN ENGLISH 33 34 April 12th to 18th 2019 LIFESTYLE SUR IN ENGLISH

LEGAL ADVICE International Lawyers answers readers’ queries We speak English, German, French, Spanish and Russian

guarantor. My parents’ house any case, the most advisable Please send your questions or is already paid for, and when I solution in the event of your contact us directly to arrange a personal appointment on: told them my father was re- father’s death is for the heirs to luctant because it is a risk, accept the inheritance for the Anette Skou and Katja Thirion of the Mijas Foreigners’ Department Ilagoson International since they would lose the benefit of the inventory, that is with Jesper Sander Pedersen and the three speakers. :: KARL SMALLMAN house if I do not manage to to say, they accept the inheri-

Lawyers pay the mortgage. On the tance, but have no personal re- Mijas town hall hosts Press Avda. Playas Andaluzas 38 other hand, he wondered sponsibility for the debts that (Exit ‘El Rosario’) what would happen if he dies might exist when they receive 29604 Marbella (the house is in his name), it, since in any case the debts Club journalism debate Tel: 952 77 12 13 since he has always said that would be settled with the in- Fax: 952 82 68 61 this house is what he will herited property. [email protected] leave my brothers and me as A round table talk about investiga- is essential and must be fostered, to www.ilagoson.com inheritance. When the guar- tive journalism, entitled “Is inves- avoid political censorship or the Offices in Málaga, Marbella REF. A. L. B. and Cádiz antor dies, is his obligation tigative journalism a dying dino- pressure of big businesses. with respect to the mortgage Last week a policeman fined saur?” was the format for the April Mats Björkman spoke of the re- cancelled? me for checking my whatsapp meeting of the Costa Press Club. At cent trend in Spain towards more No, unless the document that messages while I was stopped a time when anyone with a smart- independent media, funded by sub- REF. R. E. Z. is signed expressly stipulates at traffic lights. I was not driv- phone can instantly publish their scribers or systems like crowdfund- otherwise. In this case, moreo- ing at the time. Is that legal? version of “news” to the world, ing rather than advertising. I have lived with my parents ver, if the heirs accept the in- Traffic regulations state that the what is the future for profession- Dutch journalist Elsa Beckman in Spain for many years, and heritance, they will be respon- use of mobile devices or any als trained to sift information and also spoke from the floor about the taking advantage of the fact sible for the guarantee with other communication system is contrast sources? danger of public opinion being po- that two years ago I got a sta- their present assets and those prohibited, unless you do not This was the topic discussed by larised by uncontrasted opinions ble job, I began to think about they may have in the future. have to use your hands or head- local journalists Agustín Rivero, and “reports” on social media. The buying my own home, so that Therefore, it is a decision that phones. This also extends to Malaga correspondent for El Con- consensus was that there will al- I could become independent. should be taken very seriously, when stopped at a traffic light or fidencial; Damián Ruíz Fájula, free- ways be a role for the professional I saved some money, and ap- since, in the event of death, traffic signal, as momentary lance journalist (former correspon- media as an impartial watchdog, plied for a mortgage, but the the rest of your siblings will be stop is part of the traffic and re- dent for El Mundo); and Mats Björk- and to ensure the accountability of bank requires me to provide a affected by this decision. In quires the driver’s full attention. man, chief editor of Sydkusten, in decision-makers. a discussion led by the Costa Press The event, which was hosted by First Assessment Consultation FREE of Charge Club president, Jesper Sander Ped- the Mijas Foreigners’ Department ersen. The panellists agreed that pro- in La Cala, was followed by dinner fessional investigative journalism at the Restaurante El Torreón. April 12th to 18th 2019 35 SUR IN ENGLISH HEALTH&BEAUTY

The campaign for hope in the fight against cancer

The Clínico hospital now Miriam Segura was an AECC vo- viously, I care very much about has three bells which are lunteer and the face of ‘La Niña de our patients so I am delighted that la Perla’ which the association used we have this bell in our hospital. rung by oncology on its poster for the II Andalusian The AECC deserves our gratitude patients to celebrate the Congress of Cancer Patients. She for this initiative,” he said. end of their treatment had the idea for the ‘bells of Yolanda Lupiáñez pointed out dreams’ in hospitals after seeing that,once patients have finished one in a hospital in Toronto, Can- their treatment, the bells are a sign :: ÁNGEL ESCALERA ada, where she had part of her of hope for the future. MALAGA. Miriam Segura Nava- treatment. Oncologist Begoña Jiménez paid rro used to dream of the oncology The first of these bells, which tribute to Miriam Segura, saying departments of hospitals having was bronze and had once belonged that she had learned from Miriam bells for patients to ring, to cele- to a ship, was installed in the MD that seemingly small details can brate the end of their treatment. Anderson centre in Houston, USA. lead to a better world. “She taught Miriam died in 2017, aged 32, from It was donated by admiral Irve Le us that if we try hard enough, cervical cancer, and never saw her Moyne when the treatment for his dreams can come true. Thank you, wish come true. But now, thanks cancer was completed. Miriam, for showing us that,” she to the provincial board of the Spa- At the launch there were per- said. nish Association against Cancer formances by the Crescendo mu- Pedro González, of the AECC in (AECC), in collaboration with the sic group before and after the Malaga, described these bells in Clínico Universitario hospital, inauguration ceremony. the hospitals as transmitting an three ‘bells of dreams’ have been After Concha Navarro had rung invisible strength to patients who installed (in the medical oncology the bell in memory of her daugh- are undergoing treatment, and said day unit, radiotherapy oncology ter, the group went down to the they symbolise the end of a diffi- and the phase one clinical testing radiotherapeutic oncology depart- cult time when the patients are department). ment where Virginia and Antonia, able to ring them. The Clínico is the second hospi- patients who had just finished their While she was in Toronto, Mi- tal in the province of Malaga to courses of treatment, rang the bell riam Segura wrote in her blog ‘Psi- have these bells, following the on their own and then with Mir- cocina de Ideas’: “The ringing of example of the Costa del Sol hos- Concha Navarro, between Virginia and Antonia, patients who have iam’s mother, Concha. It was an the bell is very significant and sym- pital in Marbella, which incorpo- finished their treatment in the Clínico hospital. :: PEDRO J. QUERO emotional moment. bolic. The first time I saw it I be- rated them last December. came very emotional and cried a “Through this campaign, my they received good news. The rin- is for you, Miriam, forever,” said Beating the illness lot, too. Next week it will be my daughter wanted patients to be ging of the bell signifies hope,” said Concha, her voice filled with emo- José Antonio Medina said that for turn to ring it, and I’ll make sure able to share their joy when their Miriam’s mother, Concha Nava- tion as she rang one of the bells at him, an oncologist by profession, it can be heard on all 23 floors of treatment was completed or when rro. “That was her great dream. This the official launch of the project. this was a very special day. “Ob- the hospital.” 36 April 12th to 18th 2019 HEALTH&BEAUTY SUR IN ENGLISH

Madrid arrest reopens euthanasia debate

Ángel Hernández recorded how he helped his terminally ill wife die last week to relieve her suffering

More than 80% of that if she didn’t ask me, I couldn’t people in Spain approve do it,” he explained. That day, however, the couple went of assisted suicide, while ahead with their plan. politicians and the “Well, María José, the moment Church adopt their you’ve been wishing for has come,” he says on the video and she nods. positions with regard to “I’m going to lend you my hands... death with dignity only because you can’t [do it].” “We had to do it in a way that peo- :: D. CHIAPPE / D. ROLDÁN ple could see it,” said Hernández. “It MADRID. For the last three decades had to be documented to show that María José, 61, had suffered multi- people suffer, really suffer.” ple sclerosis. She no longer had According to the results of a sur- strength to move by herself and de- vey revealed at the end of last week pended entirely on her husband, by the CSIC (Spain’s Council for Sci- Ángel Hernández, 69, who retired entific Research), between 72 and 88 eight years ago to care for her. They per cent of the population of Spain is had decided that he would help her in favour of active voluntary eutha- to die and that they would film their nasia and assisted suicide. final moment together. The day before the date chosen for “My wife has needed a lot of care María José’s death they recorded an- over the last years and it has been other video in which she explicitly worse in recent months,” said Hernán- gives her consent. dez, who was arrested after María The video continues: “First we’re José’s death for aiding suicide and going to try with a little water.” He later released on unconditional bail. offers her a cup with a drinking straw. “[The last few months] have been “Because I don’t know if you can swal- terrible, she was very unsettled, she low, you know? If we see that you suffered a great deal. There was no can’t we’ll stop,” we hear Ángel say. way of helping and she was terrified “I seem calm, but inside I was like of asking me to [help her die]. I said Ángel Hernández during an interview in his home last Friday. :: CARLOS PÉREZ / EFE jelly,” said Hernández in a TV inter- April 12th to 18th 2019 37 SUR IN ENGLISH HEALTH&BEAUTY

Andalusian government announces improvements to palliative care

:: ADRIÁN GONZÁLEZ and strengthen” palliative care, mak- case of Ángel Hernández, who was SEVILLE. The president of the Junta ing sure it is available in all corners arrested for helping his terminally de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno (PP), of the Andalusian health service and ill wife to die in Madrid. said that euthanasia in cases of ter- to all ages. In 2010 Andalucía became the first minally ill patients signified a “fail- “We’re going to work seriously Spanish region to introduce a death ure” of the palliative care services on this,” he said, “There is room for with dignity law, which enables peo- offered by the public health service. significant improvement.” ple to leave a “living will” to request During this term of office, he said, His words came in response to not to be kept alive by artificial his government plans to “expand the debate sparked last week by the means in terminal cases.

Hernández, with his wife, María José Carrasco, in the video. :: MEDIASET view. “I knew that once she passed death with dignity law; Pablo Casado away, I would no longer feel her, see (PP) has kept out of it, not wanting her, listen to her or talk to her, but the issue to creep into an election for me her suffering was stronger campaign. than that.” No party spokesperson, however, She puts out her lips in search of called for a prison sentence for the end of the straw, sucks up the liq- Hernández, who was arrested for uid and swallows. Ángel picks up a manslaughter by aiding suicide when similar cup and holds it for her. This National Police officers turned up at time it contains pentobarbital, the the couple’s apartment in the Mon- drug used to help people to die in cloa-Aravaca district of Madrid on countries where euthanasia is legal. Wednesday last week. “It was my wife who found out On Thursday after he admitted the about it and prepared everything so charges in front of a judge, he was re- that, if the time came, she could do leased on unconditional bail. it,” said Hernández. “She got the medi- “This has to serve to help the regu- cation on internet.” larisation of euthanasia,” said Hernán- With the lethal formula in his dez, aware that he has reopened a de- hands the video shows Hernández bate in which the Church is on the say: “It’s not much but it might not other side. taste nice. Are you sure?” “Provoked death is never a solu- “Yes,” she replies in a soft voice. tion to conflicts, not in the case of abortion or euthanasia or in any other No relief from medicine situation,” said the secretary general “The medication did nothing for her,” of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, Hernández explained. “I used to give Luis Argüello. “We must defend life, her drops of concentrated morphine, palliative care and oppose therapeu- every two hours. I was scared of giv- tic harm.” ing her an overdose, if you can be- The video shows how María José lieve it. I didn’t want her to die from drinks the liquid; the astringent morphine, because doctors had pre- changes her face and she retches. The scribed it and I didn’t want to involve image skips to the point when her them,” he said. husband says: “Give me your hand, I After María José’s death hit the want to feel the absence of your suf- headlines doctors released a state- fering,” as he takes her right hand be- ment defending their palliative care tween his and holds it to his chest. and political parties stuck to the same “Don’t worry, you’ll soon fall asleep,” positions they adopted months ago, he says, just before she dies. when a euthanasia law was debated with no consequence.

Pedro Sánchez (PSOE) has prom- What do you think? If you have an opinion about this or any ised to “regulate” euthanasia if he other topic in SUR in English, we want to is elected in the coming general elec- hear from you. Your comments could be tion; Albert Rivera (Cs) and Pablo published as a Letter to the Editor. Iglesias (Podemos) have called for a Email: [email protected] 38 April 12th to 18th 2019 HEALTH&BEAUTY SUR IN ENGLISH

PARKINSON’S AWARENESS IN ESTEPONA

Estepona Town Hall and the Parkinson Sol association or- ganised a programme of events to mark Parkinson’s Awareness Week. An art exhi- bition can be viewed in the Casa de las Tejerinas until to- :: SUR day Friday. Padel player wins a match point against diabetes

Álex Ruiz talks of his personal experience with the illness

He started the of the fact that it has not held him behaving responsibly you can com- #Soydiabético hashtag back in his career and to demonstrate pete at top level with no problem. to children with diabetes that they “For me, diabetes has helped me on Twitter to encourage can lead a totally normal life and not to mature, to know my body better, and inspire children who be restricted in terms of sport, as long and to know what my needs are at also suffer from the as they eat properly and keep the dia- certain times when I’m competing betes under control. or training,” he says. chronic illness “The idea came from a friend of Álex, who plays for the Adidas mine, Álvaro López, who helps me Padel Team, admits that he is amazed :: ENRIQUE MIRANDA with social media. His partner’s by the response he has received since MALAGA. Álex Ruiz is 24 years old daughter is diabetic, and he suggested his videos were posted online. and for several seasons he has repre- that it would be a good idea for me “I never imagined they would be sented Malaga in the elite section of to tell my story,” says Álex, speaking so well received, honestly. Reading world padel. Like many of those who from Madrid where he is training for some of the messages brought tears play racquet sports, Álex, from Al- the World Padel Tour in Logroño. to my eyes, for example when par- haurín, started playing tennis before “I have had diabetes since I was ents have said my story will be such taking up this alternative sport. He ten, so I have had it for most of my a help to their child. It makes me feel is currently in 27th place in the World life and I wasn’t sure how I could help. very emotional. I’m going to try to Padel Tour classification and has many I have never talked about it before, help the people who have written active years ahead of him. but they said it would be a way of to me as much as I can,” he says. Now, however, he has taken a dif- helping other people who are in the For the moment he is planning ferent step to talk about an aspect of same situation,” he explains. to post a series of videos with anec- his personal life of which most peo- dotes and advice about how he man- ple are unaware, and he wants to use Social media ages his diabetes. his position as an athlete to help other Using the hashtag #Soydiabético, When asked whether his illness people. He has revealed that he is dia- Álex (@11alexruiz)has started to post has never affected his performance, betic and has suffered from this videos about his personal experience Álex is sincere. “I have to control my- chronic illness since he was ten years on Twitter. “There are families with self much more than other colleagues. old. He has learned to control it, in diabetic children who have doubts It’s true that if my sugar level drops order to be an elite athlete. about whether they should do sport my performance is not the same, but He has decided to talk about his or whether there is any risk of it af- that’s something I have to live with. experience with Type One diabetes fecting their sugar levels. My expe- It isn’t going to hold me back. It’s just for the first time to raise awareness rience is that with good control and a case of dealing with it,” he says.

Ruiz has been part of the World Padel Tour for several years. :: M . RIVAS April 12th to 18th 2019 SUR IN ENGLISH 39

INNOVATION Interview with Dr Jorge Contreras, specialist in radiation oncology, president-elect of the Spanish Radiation Oncology Society (SEOR) and medical coordinator of GenesisCare Málaga “Radiotherapy helps cure 40% of patients with cancer”

MÁLAGA to provide the most beneficial Leading international company oncology assistance for patients “We want to be a in cancer treatments GenesisCa- with cancer. re has recently opened Andalu- Which treatments does the centre benchmark centre sia’s largest private oncology offer? for our patients centre in Málaga. What is this We apply the latest treatments for and, within the new centre’s vocation? each condition, always seeking the We’re very ambitious with this patient’s well-being and comfort. difficult nature of project. As you mentioned, this To this respect it’s worth mention- the situation, make private oncology centre belongs ing that our priority is to provide to international company Gene- the oncology patient with integral the patient’s sisCare, which is present in many attention. This covers everything experience as Spanish provinces with a total of from the moment of diagnosis 21 centres spread across the to treatment with the therapy that pleasant as country. In Málaga, however, best suits their needs (radiother- possible” where there was no previous apy, chemotherapy, brachyther- presence, they have made an apy or surgical interventions with enormous effort to create a cen- professional collaborators) and, ing. This is apparent in the loca- tre of excellence to provide on- of course, the follow up and moni- tion itself, in an area that provides cological attention with a differ- toring. We want to follow up in a privacy and peace. It also has an ence. way that makes the patient feel open-plan design and lots of light, Why is the attention offered at the they have someone they can de- with public transport that brings centre different? pend on, not only to discover the you right to the door and plenty We can say that the differentiat- result of their treatment, but also of private parking to ensure pa- ing profile of this centre is based tients and their relatives can park on three pillars. First of all, a model easily. All of this already starts to of attention that focuses on the “We apply the mark the difference. Once inside, patient’s needs: accessibility, prox- the waiting room is spacious and imity, extensive timetables, etc. latest treatments has different areas to give patients Moreover, it stands out for the for each condition, privacy. The consultation rooms multidisciplinarity and comple- are very airy and have an area for mentary services, which are now always seeking the meetings with patients and fami- believed to help obtain the best re- patient’s well-being lies to give often complex infor- sults in oncology. At this cen- mation in a friendly manner with- tre, every patient with cancer is and comfort” out a computer getting in the way. evaluated by an oncologist, a We want to be a benchmark cen- nurse, a psychologist and a nu- Dr Jorge Contreras, medical coordinator of GenesisCare Málaga.:: SUR tre for our patients and, within the tritionist. Every case is consulted to ask about any doubts they may difficult nature of the situation, individually with different spe- have after it ends. make the patient’s experience as cialists, who provide their opin- How important is technology for pleasant as possible. Therefore, ions on the best therapeutic op- GenesisCare? laboration of the rest of the nurs- sion, especially those in the cen- we organise information sessions tion. I must start by underlining the ing, technical and physician staff tral nervous system, and with an on nutrition and other aspects and Another of the pillars of the fact that, when it comes to ra- to manage and ensure what is efficiency rate similar to that of will soon also have a specialised centre is the innovative, avant- diotherapy, the technology in prescribed is correct and brings conventional surgery. gymnasium for oncology patients. garde technology. For example, Spain has in the past been a bit the results we want. All, of course, For other types such as pros- In essence, integral attention that we have a latest generation Sie- behind compared to other coun- with patient attention the prior- tate, breast, bladder or larynx tu- focuses on the patient. mens scanner and radiotherapy tries in the area. Due to the fact ity as we said earlier. mours, among others, we can em- treatments with image-guided that we do now have access to What are the benefits of radiothe- ploy stereotactic body radiation linear accelerators, which as well the latest technology, like what rapy for oncology patients? therapy (SBRT) which is image- as being very precise, it allows we have at our centre (for ex- Although for a while radiother- guided and concentrated in very us to provide more efficient treat- ample the Elekta Versa HD ac- apy had a bad reputation among few sessions. This makes it an al- ments (that is, with lower toxic- celerator), we can now provide patients, it is currently the most ternative to surgery with the same ity and in fewer sessions.) much more precise treatment. efficient treatment for this con- guarantees, avoiding many of the CONTACT: And finally, the third pillar of Yet we mustn’t forget that the dition. The figures confirm this usual after-effects. This allows GenesisCare Málaga the centre is most definitely the machines don’t work by them- as 40% of patients with cancer us to have a much wider range of Calle Meridiana, 20, Cerrado de professional team of renowned selves. They need to be handled overcome it with radiotherapy. possibilities to guarantee the most Calderón, 29018 Málaga prestige. In fact, my mission is by professionals with the correct It’s a very effective therapy when suitable treatment for each patient. Mail: [email protected] to attract the best professionals instructions, who know the tech- used correctly and for the condi- Regarding the facilities, what ma- Telephone: +34 921 21 00 28 to collaborate with us and, from nology they are employing. And tions that require it. Thanks to ra- kes this centre stand out? the multidisciplinary point of for that, an experienced team is diotherapy we can treat very lo- The centre is integral and focused view I spoke of before, allow us needed that can count on the col- calised tumours in a single ses- on the oncology patient’s well-be- ADVERTORIAL 40 April 12th to 18th 2019 FOOD&DRINK SUR IN ENGLISH

ANDREW J. LINN The taste of Malaga in Madrid REALLY COOL Nearly fifty companies in the local agri-food and beverage sector here are fewer more bu- we have to ignore aesthetics and took their most colic images than those just get the damned thing cold innovative produce to of fisherman relaxing enough to drink. In-glass cooling T on a riverbank, enjoying is fast and practical but deprives Salón Gourmets Madrid the beers they had left in the wa- the senses of the joy of seeing the ter to cool earlier. However, un- liquid poured out. Nevertheless, a :: AGUSTÍN PELÁEZ less it is a mountain stream flow- full glass put in a fridge will take MADRID. Extra virgin olive oils of ing down from cooler altitudes, it minutes to cool, and if you use a incomparable quality, table olives is unlikely the temperature will plastic bag, faster still. Plastic is a marinated the way you only find in be low enough for the discerning better conductor than glass. If we Malaga province, premium goat drinker. So what do we do when have a competition the winner cheeses, exceptional wines, pure we want to drink the contents would be the wine transferred to craft beers, flavourful sausages and but the bottle needs cooling a plastic bag and cooled in the meat products, spices, nuts, sub- down before we open it? A crisp freezer. But we aren’t going to do tropical fruits, sweets made with white wine or cava at room tem- that, are we? From personal expe- local ingredients, preserves, liqueurs perature is ghastly to taste. rience the neatest and least com- and gins, Moringa tree products, in- The expert will get an ice plicated solution is to use those fusions with natural stevia, artisan bucket and half fill it with ice plastic gel-filled jackets that slide breads and juices as typical of Malaga cubes, top up with water, and onto the bottle. as sugar cane. This is just a sample throw in a couple of handfuls of of the wide range of products that salt. Guaranteed to bring any liq- WINE OF THE WEEK the agri-food and beverage sectors Malaga companies at the Salón Gourmets. :: SUR uid down to single centigrade fig- of Malaga presented at the 23rd Feria ures in a very short time – provid- Encina Blanca de Internacional de Alimentación y Be- and distributors, many of the firms made from an infusion of orange ing we have all that equipment to Alburquerque bidas de Calidad, Salón Gourmets took the opportunity to present their blossom grown in the Guadalhorce hand – but remember to put the which took place at the Madrid latest innovations. Javier Mesa de la valley (one of the largest citrus pro- bottle in up to its neck or the first Of all Spanish wine regions, the Ifema centre from 9 to 11 April. Torre, director of the family- run In- ducing areas in Andalucía) by com- glasses will not be cold enough. provinces of Extremadura must genio de Nuestra Señora del Carmen, pany Coín para Comérselo, and There are those who swear by be the least attractive scenically. Sixth year attending in Frigiliana, which has been manu- which goes well with Malaga goat wrapping the bottle in a damp Dry and mostly flat, it is notable The event was attended by 49 com- facturing sugar cane molasses since cheese as well as pate and toast. cloth and putting it in the for its cold winters and steamy panies from Malaga, 36 of them un- 1728 with the same recipe, com- Puente Nuevo, the Ronda brew- freezer, but unsurprisingly the summers, and definitely not the der the umbrella of the provincial mented, “We only know how to ery, were among the first to present cloth acts as insulation, so cool- source of great wines. Neverthe- government’s promotional brand, make molasses, but that doesn’t their new lines at the show. “We are ing actually takes longer. It is also less this very unique white wine ‘Sabor a Málaga’, (taste of Malaga). mean that we are stuck in the past. the only brewery that ferments our worth bearing in mind that a bot- is unusual to the This is the sixth consecutive year it We have brought new products to beers underwater, off the coast of tle cooled in a horizontal position point of being has attended the fair with its own the fair such as sweets made from Estepona,” explained project leader takes half the time of one that is unmissable, not stand, aiming to give companies in- cane molasses, and single-dose pack- Jenny Heredía. The beer is unique standing up. least for using as cluded under this seal of quality the aging, with which we expect to con- and is made on demand costing be- It is really much quicker to cool many as nine lo- opportunity to find a new niche in tinue winning markets”. tween three and six euros a bottle. wine in the glass, so best to keep a cal grape varie- the market. Another of the novelties pre- “We are hoping to make contact tray of ice cubes made from white ties. All of a new In an attempt to capture the at- sented on the first day of the Salón with distributors that specialise in wine in the fridge, or frozen experience at tention of restaurateurs, companies Gourmets was a gelatinous sweet high quality products,” she added. grapes. In emergency situations around ten euros. April 12th to 18th 2019 41 SUR IN ENGLISH FOOD&DRINK The long (and wobbly) story of gelatine

Moulds and multicoloured gelatine featured in various recipes from the 19th century

Gelatine was once the of the simple gelatine - the former height of sophistication queen of the dinner table - is hea- ding downhill fast with no brakes, and demonstrated the relegated to hospital food or an in- status of the host substantial dessert for children. through the food they Ironically, the defenestration of poor gelatine is a consequence of served to guests its own overwhelming success. The obession for textures between mu- :: ANA VEGA PÉREZ DE cilaginous and plasticised was a ARLUCEA gastronomic fashion at a certain MALAGA. If I were to tell you that time, but it was also the result of strawberry jelly was today’s a desire which was largely cher- dessert, you probably wouldn’t ished by any cook with preten- think that was interesting. Howe- tions, whether domestic or pro- ver, if in an upmarket restaurant fessional: the - final! - democra- they suggested that you try the tisation of gelatine. The food in- spherification of coulis of red fruit, dustry had managed to make one or the spring dessert with a gel tex- of the most difficult and expen- ture and aroma of trifle, that would sive creations in the history of be different. That is totally normal gastronomy available to all, and because although the main ingre- Spain went crazy for it, adored dient is the same and the three op- it, praised it, spent money on it tions all use a gelling agent to give and, in the end, fell out of love them texture, these days the word with it through overuse. gelatine sounds more off-putting But you must understand, dear than a small touch of ‘guatiné’, readers, that before all this occurred while ‘agar-agar’ or ‘alginato’ still gelatine was not only the height of give the idea of something inno- sophistication but also demonstrated vative and therefore desirable. the status of a host through the food Haute cuisine is increasingly they served. It was also the defini- finding new ways to jellify, thicken tive proof of the skill of a chef, and and coagulate, but the reputation one of the most arduous and costly prepara- and set. Gelatine tions possible in was also used as a preservati- a medieval kitchen. Laboriously ex- From ‘gelea’ to ‘jieladina’, but ve, as a thick isolating layer to leng- tracted from bones, tissues and other also gelata, jelabea, giladea and ge- then the useful life of foods such parts of animals, gelatine first needed ladía, these are the names that ap- as fresh fish or roasted meats. enormous amounts of ingredients pear in some ancient recipe books Without a doubt the jewel of such as cows’ feet, deer antlers and such as the ‘Llibre de Sent Sovi’ our gelatinous gastronomy used sturgeon bladders. (14th century), the ‘Llibre del Coch’ to be different, less practical and and ‘Libro de guisados’ by Ruperto infinitely more lavish, the supre- Iced substance de Nola (published in Catalan in me demonstration of the shaky Then came a lengthy and tedious 1520 and in Castilian in 1525) and and wobbly culture that reigned process of cooking, clarifying, strain- the Vergel de Señores, which before instant powders, agars and ing and filtering to achieve a trans- showed how to make all types of alginates came into existence. parent and miraculous liquid which preserves (15th century). In the Vergel de Señores book set as it cooled, or ‘froze’ as they Reading their instructions for (kept in the National Library and used to say centuries ago. In fact, making gelatine helps us to un- still not completely transcripted) the words freeze, jelly and gelatine derstand why it became an aristo- there is a recipe for ‘gelea de ma- have the same origins in Latin: ‘ge- cratic technique, used in wealthy nos de ternera y de carnero’, a je- latus’, meaning cold. Long before households with enough raw ma- lly made with cow and sheep’s feet. the Royal Academy defined gelatine terials and staff to prepare it. It is a multicoloured fantasy of ge- as an “iced substance and available De Nola’s ‘giladea’ was made latine dyed in different tones in the form of jelly”, used frequently with chickens, cow and sheep’s which must have adorned many by foreigners and introduced by feet, white wine, ginger, aniseed, noble tables in the 15th century them, it was already very well- cinnamon, pepper, nutmeg, mace and was the predecessor to the ra- known in the kingdoms of the Ibe- flowers and saffron, and the gela- inbow-coloured moulds we make rian peninsula. What happened is tinous liquid was poured over the nowadays. And also the spherifi- that they called it something else. cooked meat and left to cool down cations, it goes without saying. 42 April 12th to 18th 2019 WHAT TO DO SUR IN ENGLISH “Malaga proves that culture in Spain is not limited to Barcelona and Madrid”

Marina Loshak Head of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow

which wants to expand interna- sented, but he is such a versatile art- Part of the exhibition in the Picasso birth house. :: SALVADOR SALAS tionally through museums in cit- ist, there are endless possibilities. ies such as Malaga. This isn’t a In Paris, the Picasso Museum is my favourite . It is one of the most vis- ANTONIO strategy you have taken for the JAVIER LÓPEZ Pushkin museum. What do you ited places in the city and it is a mu- think about this strategy that seum that solely focuses on Picasso. @ajavierlopez many international art institu- There are few painters in history tions implement? who offer so many possibilities and The head of the Pushkin - It is a wonderful strategy and cer- who leave a work so open to inter- Museum discusses the tainly does not only happen in pretation as he does. That’s why I Malaga. It has its merits, of course, think it is impossible to abuse two Picasso exhibitions because art and culture are what Picasso, because there’s never too that are in Malaga over unite us. However, we will not open much of him. the next few months and branches of the museum in any city - There are now two exhibitions outside of Russia. We use projects in Malaga on Picasso. Do you have confirms future projects to take our pieces to where people any new projects on the agenda Picasso and Iliazd, photographed in A poster designed in will find them interesting, where for the city? 1970 by Lee Miller. :: SUR June 1922. :: SUR MALAGA. Marina Loshak is the they will be well received. - We are always working on many head of the Pushkin Museum, one - Do you think there are too many projects. We have plans for lots of of the most important art galleries museums in Malaga? cities that want to see our pieces Casa Natal hosts Iliazd and in the world, with a collection that - I think Malaga is a unique place, and exhibitions, and Malaga is one exceeds 700,000 works of art. In the without any doubt. When I visited of those places. People who visit Picasso works in exhibition next few months, the museum will the city a few months ago, I was the Pompidou Centre, the Russian participate in two simultaneous ex- very surprised by everything that museum, the Thyssen, the CAC, hibitions in Malaga with Picasso at has been achieved in such a short all in Malaga, are an audience that the forefront. time. In Spain, there are wonderful, would be interested in our other :: ANTONIO JAVIER LÓPEZ and Iliá Zdanévich (Iliazd) and the - How many exhibitions around historical places, and Malaga is no projects. But it is important for MALAGA. Picasso’s birth house friendship that formed between the world does the museum have different. I believe that the muse- people to remember that Spain is (Casa Natal de Picasso, Plaza de la the two. Iliazd was a French-Geor- at the moment? ums in Malaga are an example of not only Madrid and Barcelona. Merced, 15) is now host to an exhi- gian writer and artist, who was an - I could not say the exact number, the importance of culture for tour- Malaga shows that the culture in bition in collaboration with the active participant in Russian Fu- but we are in many countries at the ism and the economy of a city. Spain is much more than just these Pushkin Museum in Moscow. Un- turism and Dada. Entrance to the moment. Currently, we have an ex- - The claim that Malaga uses Picasso two cities. It has become a unique til 23 June, the exhibition ‘Iliazd house and the temporary exhibi- hibition in Mexico, we just returned excessively as a promotional fig- place for culture, so for us it is a and Picasso’ is open between 9.30am tion is four euros, and for either the from Taiwan, and we have also been ure arises often. What do you pleasure to be able to think about and 8pm, including in the holidays. house or the temporary exhibition to the National Museum of To- think? future projects, perhaps not re- The show explores works by Picasso only it is three euros. kyo...There have been lots of trips. - There is never too much Picasso. lated to Picasso, but related to Our works are always moving from I guess it depends on how he is pre- Malaga. one place to another. - What brought the museum to Malaga for these two exhibitions on Olga Khokhlova in the Picasso Museum and the project around Iliazd and Picasso in the Casa Na- tal? - We know the two museums very well. We have a great friendship with Bernard Picasso and know the director of the museums (José Le- brero) very well. What’s more, it was very important to us to make this exhibition in the Casa Natal, as for us it is something like a sacred place; where Picasso was born. Casa Natal preserves the aura of Picasso, so this project, as well as being in- formative, also gives a very personal glimpse into the friendship between Iliazd (Iliá Zdanévich) and Picasso. It is well known that Picasso was not the most open or friendly per- son, that he could be selfish at times and that he was very picky when choosing the people around him. He was however a great friend to those he cared about, and this is shown in the exhibition. That’s why we wanted to start this project in Malaga, and hope that other muse- ums will host it in the future. For example, we hope that the Pompi- dou Centre in Paris will hold it at some point. - You mention the Pompidou, Marina Loshak with Picassso in Plaza de la Merced. :: SALVADOR SALAS April 12th to 18th 2019 43 SUR IN ENGLISH WHAT TO DO

EXHIBITIONS We Are Here Malaga. Until 27 April. Sala de Ex- posiciones, Sociedad Económica Johan Wahlstrom Cellist Steven Isserlis and Amigos del Pais. San Pedro. Until 30 April. Es.Arte Young artists Rebeca Huerta, Silvia Gallery, Avd del Mediterráneo. Lermo, Darko, María Dávila, The exhibition ‘Hidden Figures 2’ is pianist Connie Shih in concert Paloma de la Cruz, Javier Artero, by Swedish artist Johan Wahl- María Vera, Julio Anaya strom, a former musician whose art has been displayed alongside Happy Artists Andy Warhol in New York. GIBRALTAR. The Gibraltar DETAILS ices to music, the Schumann and La Cala de Mijas. Until 30 April. Philharmonic Society wel- the Piatigorsky Prize. BocArte Restaurant, C/Cómpeta. comes cellist Steven Isserlis When. 18 April, 8pm. He gives most of his concerts Jane Gomis and Astrid Frida Ze- and pianist Connie Shih for a on the Marquis de Corberon hetner from the Happy Artists recital on 18 April at the Con- Where. Convent Ballroom (Nelsova) Stradivarius of 1726, group are exhibiting a collection vent Ballroom at 8pm. The kindly loaned to him by the of paintings. concert is sponsored by the What. A recital of cello and Royal Academy of Music. Parasol Foundation. piano including works by Bee- The Canadian pianist, Connie Matisse Worldwide acclaimed musi- thoven, Schumann, Fauré and Shih, is considered to be one of Malaga. Until 9 June. Centro Pom- cian, British cellist Steven Isser- Brahms. Canada’s most outstanding art- pidou, Muelle Uno. lis has had a varied career as a ists. In 1993 she was awarded the A selection of 50 works by the soloist, chamber musician, edu- Tickets. £20 are available Sylva Gelber Award for most out- French artist Henri Matisse are on cator, author and broadcaster. from Sacarello’s coffee shop standing classical artist under age display at the centre. He has appeared with the and The Silver Shop. 30. At the age of nine, she made Johan Wahlstrom, Marbella world’s leading orchestras and www.buytickets.gi her orchestral debut with Men- Clara Isabel Pastor conductors, including the Leip- delssohn’s first Piano Concerto Fuengirola. Until 18 April. Homes zig, Berlin, Vienna, London, Information . + 35020072134 with the Seattle Symphony Or- Estate & Art , Avda Los Boliches Yusto Giner and Los Angeles Philharmonic or www.philharmonic.gi chestra. At the age of 12, she was An exhibition of paintings and Marbella. Until 30 April. Galería orchestras. He works with the youngest ever protégé of Gy- sculpture by Clara Isabel Pastor. Yusto Giner, C/Madera. many period instrument or- orgy Sebok at Indiana University An exhibition entitled Hotel Os- chestras and gives recitals with and then continued her studies at tende by Ángel Mateo Charris and harpsichord and forte piano. He the Curtis Institute in Philadel- Gonzalo Sicre. is also a keen exponent of con- phia with Claude Frank, himself temporary music and has pre- a protégé of Arthur Schnabel. ‘30 X 30’ miered many new works, in- The programme will feature Torremolinos. Until 30 April. The cluding John Tavener’s The Pro- compositions for cello and pi- café in the Centro Cultural Pablo tecting Veil, Thomas Adès’s ano by Beethoven, Schumann, Ruiz Picasso. Free. Lieux retrouvés, and Gyorgy Fauré and Brahms. Students at the Universidad Kurtag’s ‘For Steven’. A limited number of tickets Popular will be displaying a The recipient of many awards, at £10 are available to senior selection of their works created in Steven Isserlis’s honours include citizens and students from the pastel, oils, acrylics etc. all in a a CBE in recognition of his serv- Connie Shih. :: SUR. John Mackintosh Hall. 30cm by 30cm format. Charris, Yusto-Giner, Marbella 44 April 12th to 18th 2019 WHAT TO DO SUR IN ENGLISH

CHARITY

OFM charity performance Estepona. 13 April, 8pm. Auditorio Felipe VI. 10€ The Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga will be playingMozart’s Requiem in D minor with soprano Berna Perles and mezzosoprano Carol García, tenor Juan Antonio Rosa Ruiz, Wall Bar Sanabria and baritone José Antonio López. The concert will raise funds for the Plataforma del Voluntariado RBL St George’s Day for associations that work volun- Nerja. 20 April, from 3pm. The tarily for the people of Estepona. Chapel Bar, C/Jaén. Tickets: the Centro Entre Todos, There will be a tombola stall, bur- Caixa, Cocolone and Via Via andthe ger eating competition, tug of war Sur restaurant in Plazoleta Ortíz. tournament, raffle and much Clem Fandangos. :: more. Proceeds to the Royal British ADANA Dog Show Legion Nerja Poppy Appeal. Estepona. 14 April, from 10am. Palacio de Congresos. ARCH Spring Festival acoustic music Cups and rosettes for each cate- Coín. 20 April, Haciendo Moreno. gory, ADANA dogs for adoption, To celebrate its tenth birthday. the stalls selling pet related items and Andalucian Rescue Centre for night for Alzheimer’s charity refreshments. [email protected] or Horses and Donkeys is holding a [email protected] Spring Festival on Easter Saturday. There will be a fun dog show, live music, many stalls, and an Easter ESTEPONA. The Clem Fandan- INFORMATION (lead guitar) and KIm de Ram (per- Egg Hunt. For more information gos are a recently formed In- cussion) is a melody driven, indie and directions see www.horseres- die/Rock band on the Costa del  When. 26 April, 8pm. rock band with many influences cuespain.org, Facebook Centro An- Sol and they will be playing on from the world of funk, folk, hip dalusi de Rescate de Caballos or 26 April at the Estepona Cultural  Where. centro Cultural Padre hop, heavy rock, punk, and reggae. ring 699808910. Centre in a charity concert to Manuel At the concert Sami James will be support ADSI (Alzheimer and presenting his new single ‘Alone’. TAPAS St George’s Day Garden Dementia Support Interna-  Tickets. 5€. Call: 659772448 Also performing will be Colm Party tional). or email: info@pinkpurplepro- Fitzpatrick, a multi award-win- Cártama Estación. 27 April, from The band, made up of Sami James ductions.com ning singer and songwriter and 2pm. Casa Olivia. 5€ members, 6€ (singer, songwriter); Bryan Wells an accomplished and versatile guests. (bass, rapper); Jofre Lomez Prego classical guitarist. Members and guests are invited to Reflections, Calahonda a traditional English afternoon tea, April 12th to 18th 2019 45 SUR IN ENGLISH WHAT TO DO with cakes from Betty’s Salon de in advance, 15€ on door. Cabaret, Avd de los Guindos. 10€. are between 12 and 15 euros from Té. There will be music and enter- 19 April, midnight. Schizophrenic Kane, Javi and Gonzo of The Buzz www.entradium.com. The tainment. Book at TAPAS box of- Spacers and Full Colour Panda. Lovers will be playing Nirvana’s following evening, Apache will be fice, call: 678932284 or www.ta- 10€. greatest hits. in concert. Tickets 14€ from passociety.com www.ticketea.com Violin and piano duet Nancy Ruth MUSIC & DANCE Nerja. 12 April, 9pm. Centro Cul- Malaga. 12 April, 9.30pm. La Nave, The Tragic Company tural Villa de Nerja. 10€. C/Cerrajeros.8€, (La Nave club Malaga. 14 April, 9.30pm. The Hall, Violinis Francesca Bonaita and pi- members, 4€). C/Héroe de Sostoa, 65. Spring concert anist Gloria Ciancheta will play Nancy Ruth, singer, composer and The band The Calahonda. 16 April, 10.45am. pieces by Beethoven and C. Franck. pianist, combines jazz, flamenco Tragic Company are heavily Calahonda International baptist and Latin rhythms influenced by the British and Church. Mediterranean Chamber .www.nancyruth.com American rock scene of the 90s. Reflections, the four part close har- Orchestra The Tragic Company, Malaga mony group, will be performing for Almuñécar. 21 April, 8pm. Casa de la Classical music concert Keith James Age Care. Free cake and coffee on Cultura. Nerja. 13 April, 9pm. Centro Cul- and the chamber orchestra of the Cómpeta. 14 April, 5pm. Luz de la arrival. Dress code pink or yellow. The Orquesta de Cámera Medi- tural Villa de Nerja. 12€. Conservatorio Superior de Música Vida Art Gallery, C/Laberinto 15. terránea will be performing pieces Soprano María Ángeles Delsors, de Málaga. A concert by English singer- Louie Louie Live by composers Handel and Vivaldi. mezzosoprano Julia Sánchez, tenor songwriter Keith James Estepona. Louie Louie Bar. Daniel Romero de la Rocha and Hip Hop weekend featuring songs by Leonard 13 April, midnight. David Bowie The Buzz Lovers bass Francisco Javier Moreno will Malaga. 13, 14 April, 10pm, 9pm. Cohen, Nick Drake, Joni Night with I’m An Alligator. 13€ Malaga. 12 April, 10pm. La Cochera perform some of Mozart’s Req- Sala París 15, C/La Orotova. Mitchell, John Martyn and Cat uiem. They will be accompanied by Today, Friday, Ambkor will be Stevens together with Keith’s the Alminares (Nerja) and Santa performing tracks from their own songs. Bookings: María de la Victoria (Malaga) choirs latest album Lobonegro 2. Tickets [email protected]

A view of the Mijas water park. :: SUR. Start the new season with a splash at Mijas water park

MIJAS. AquaMijas will be There is also a wave pool with opening its doors on 15 April, in artificial waves a metre high, time for Easter. It is one of the four soft slides and a labyrinth oldest water parks in Spain but slide or you can relax in blue has maintained the high qual- lake. ity of its aquatic attractions The park has a large, free, with continual updates, reno- parking area for visitors and a vations and improvements. bus service runs from Fuengi- The new season starts with a rola to the gates of the water super-offer on the first day: the park. price for everyone will be just 13 The park is open until the euros. end of September depending The newest attraction is the on the weather, and offers a Crazy Loop, a slide which was wide range of activities such as unveiled last season, and for aquatic aerobics, children’s those looking for something shows, dance and interactive more relaxing there’s a jacuzzi games. The park also has a se- zone. lection of bars and restaurants, The other attractions such as gardens, secure lockers, sun- Kamikaze, Rio Bravo and Aven- beds, showers, changing rooms tura, in which you make a fasci- and shops. nating descent onboard a giant For more information call: float, are guaranteed to keep 952460404 or visit: www.aq- adults and children entertained. uamijas.com 46 April 12th to 18th 2019 WHAT TO DO SUR IN ENGLISH

MUSIC & DANCE Picasso de Málaga. LECTURES O. V. FILM (Sat-Wed); 11.45 (Sun); 15.45 A piano duet by brothers José (Tue). Enrique and Juan Fernando The Arts Society de la Frontera SUR in English advises calling How To Train Your Dragon: Magnum Mysterium choir Moreno Gistaín. San Roque. 17 April, 11am. San cinemas to check for any last The Hidden World: 11.45 (Sun). Estepona 15 April, 8.30pm. Iglesia Roque Golf and Country Club. minute time changes. Lun- del Carmen. Katiuska, La Mujer Rusa Visitors 12€ chtime and late night screenings Yelmo Cines, Plaza Mayor The choir will be performing a rep- Malaga. 13 April, 8pm. Teatro Cer- ‘The Rivalry between Leonardo weekends only. Centro de Ocio Plaza Mayor, ertoire of sacred music after mass. vantes. 10-25€. and Michelangelo’ Avda. Alfonso Ponce de León. including Ave María,Nolo mortem The Spanish operetta, Katiuska, La Illustrated talk by James Lindow. Cine Albéniz Tel: 902 902 103 or visit peccatoris, Hosanna filio David and Mujer Rusa by Pablo Sorozábal by Includes a complimentary glass of C/Alcazabilla 4, Malaga. Tel: 902 www. yelmocines.es Jubilate Deo among many others. the Teatro Lírico Andaluz. wine after the lecture. For 36 02 95 www.cinealbeniz.com Escape Room: 21.45 (Tues). information: 620415705 or Green Book: 16.30 (everyday) Boy Erased: 20.45 (Tues) Primavera Trompetera www.nadfas-delafrontera.org Mule: 16.50 (Tues). Jerez de la Frontera. Until 13 April. Cinesur El Ingenio Us: 22.10 (Tues). Circuito del Jerez. EVENTS Avda. Juan Carlos 1, Vélez-Málaga. Shazam!: 21.35 (Tues) A huge line up which includes Tel. 667 77 31 87. After: 12.30 (Sat, Sun); 21.25 Alborosie & Shengen Clan, Apollo Dumbo: 12.20(everyday). (Tues). 440, Mala Rodríguez, among others Tapas Barn Dance Pet Cemetery: 22.50 (Tues). Coín. 12 April, 7pm. El Portón de Cinesur Miramar Dumbo: 12.30 Sat, Sun); 21.40 Sacred music Piedra. 5€ members, 6€ non Avda. de la Encarnación, Fuengi- (Tues). Arroyo de la Miel. 14 April, 8.30pm. members. rola. Tel. 952 19 86 00. Aftermath: 12.50 (Sat, Sun); Inmaculada Concepción church. A traditional barn dance to support Shazam!: 20.00, 22.30. 15.55 (Fri-Wed). The Coral Ciudad de Benalmádena, local charities. Food and drink Dumbo: 12.05, 15.45, 18.00. Wonder Park: 14.55 (Sat, Sun). and Coral Andrés Segovia from available from the bar. Boy Erased: 11.50, 15.45. Linares (Jaén) will perform sacred Yelmo Cines, Rincón de la Katiuska, operetta, Malaga. music. Conductors: María del Prado Foreign residents’ day Cines Teatro Goya Victoria. Calle Arroyo Totalán Márquez and Óscar Luis Sánchez. Torremolinos. 12-13 April, (can- For tickets and information call Tel: 902 220 922 or visit Orquesta Academía Galamian celled last weekend due to the 951196665. www.cinesteatro- www. yelmocines.es Malaga. 12 April, 8pm. Sala Uni- Flamenco guitar festival rain) from midday. Plaza de la goya.com Shazam!: 18.45 (Tues). caja María Cristina. Almuñécar. 12 April, 8pm. Nogalera. After: 18.00, 20.15 (Fri-Wed); After: 21.15 (Tues). The orchestra will be performing Auditorio Casa de la Cultura. Many of the different cultures in 15.50 (Sat-Wed). Dumbo: 20.30 (Tues). Arriaga’s Overture The Happy Manuel de la Luz will be the town are represented, as well Wonder Park: 17.50 (Fri); 15.50, Wonder Park: 20.05 (Tues). Slaves, Symphony nº4 Italiana by performing. as their customs and gastronomy. 17.00 (Sat-Wed); 12.00 (Sun); Mule: 21.40 (Tues). Mendelssohn and Symphony nº1 16.00, 18.00 (Tues). Us: 21.20 (Tues). by Prokofiev. David Martín anniversary Beer festival Mia and the White Lion: 18.15 Malaga. 12 April, 9pm. Escuela La Cala de Mijas. 13, 14 April, noon. (Fri); 16.00, 18.00 (Sat-Wed). Yelmo Cines, Vialia. Centro The Wall Bar Artes Escénicas David Martín, Avda The main boulevard in Mijas is the The Aftermath: 22.45 (Fri); Comercial Vialia. Tel: 902 220 Malaga. Hotel Vincci Posada del Ortega y Gassett. location for this beer festival where 20.00, 22.45 (Sat, Sun); 20.00, 922 or visit www. yelmocines.es Patio, 11pm, entry free. Flamenco dance with Marcelo around 40 different types of beers 22.30 (Mon-Wed); 20.00 (Tues). Shazam!: 21.15 (Tues). 12 April. Rosa Ruiz & Foky. Rodríguez and Noelia Ruiz. can be sampled, many produced in Shazam!: 20.10, 22.30 (Fri); After: 22.30 (Tues). Fabiola Santiago vocals and Malaga province. There will also be 19.50, 22.15 (Sat-Wed); 22.15 Mule: 21.40 (Wed). Moreno Gistaín Duo Francis Cerdán guitar. other products from the region and (Tue). Us: 21.55 (Tues). Gibraltar. 12 April, 8pm. Museo Reservations: 618 556 088. music with DJ Galiano. Dumbo: 18.10 (Fri); 15.45, 18.10 April 12th to 18th 2019 SUR IN ENGLISH 47

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Procession in Lucena. :: TURISMO SUBBÉTICA

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What to visit in the Subbética Castillo del Moral. Medieval fortress which now houses the Archaeological and Enthological Museum of Lucena. Pasaje Cristo del Amor, A view of Priego de Córdoba. :: TURISMO ANDALUZ s/n - Castillo del Moral 14900 Lucena.

El Cerro district. An Easter in the Subbética region emblematic area of Cabra which dates back to the 11th century. Barriada El Cerro, s/n. ew areas of Anda- competing to attract the able for a trip to discover the 14940 Cabra. lucía immerse attention of visitors who Subbética Cordobesa, but at JAVIER themselves so are hoping to see some the moment, with relatively ALMELLONES F wholeheartedly truly emotional religious mild temperatures and Birthplace of Alcalá in the traditions of Holy and popular traditions. countryside which is espe- Zamora. 19th century Week as the Subbética in Villages such as Car- cially green after the winter bulding in which the pre- Cordoba. cabuey, Almedinilla, rainfall, this area in the sident of the Second In this area, situated be- Cabra, Lucena, Doña south of the province of Cor- Republic was born. A week in the tween the Guadalquivir Mencía, Rute, Priego de doba is looking at its best. Calle Río, 33. 14800 Subbética river and the north of Córdoba and Iznájar are Spring is therefore an  Priego de Córdoba. Car + Walking. Malaga province, every among those in this area, ideal time to enjoy the land- Journey time: one of the towns and vil- which is partly protected scapes and, for those who 1 hour from Malaga to lages organises some by the Sierra Subbética are able to visit in Holy Lucena. unique events over the ten natural park and sur- Week, traditions which date Processions 10 hours. days of Easter, and more rounded by an immense back hundreds of years. Visits to monuments than a dozen places in the sea of olive trees. One good example is and museums: 7 hours. Subbética area will be Any time of year is suit- Priego de Córdoba, which is situated in the Sierra Subbé- tica natural park and rises like an iceberg from an ocean of olives. Together with Lucena and Cabra, its Holy Week is one of those Cordoba Jaén on the Caminos de Pasión tourism route. The proces- Subbética Cordobesa sions start on Palm Sunday, Granada Almeria and the most popular is on Good Friday, which ends Malaga when the image of Christ ‘the Nazarene’ is carried up the Calvario hill. Cabra can also boast that Anís museum. Informa- its Easter processions are tion centre about Rute’s among the best in the re- famous anís drink. gion, as it is home to 28 relig- Paseo del Fresno, 2. ious brotherhoods that still 14960 Rute. maintain many of the cus- toms from the 15th century. Easter week in Lucena is History museum. also famous for its historical Museum about the his- traditions and processions. tory of Carcabuey, situa- Every place has its own ted in the old Escuelas name for those who carry del Pilarejo building in the heavy ‘tronos’, or the centre of the village. floats, and here they are Calle Pilarejo, s/n. 14810 A Holy Week procession in Cabra. :: SUR known as ‘santeros’. Carcabuey. 4848484848484848 April 12th to 18th 2019 SPORT SUR IN ENGLISH 123

Results Next match day Tenerife - Sporting 0-1 Sporting - Granada Deportivo-Majadahonda 0-2 MALAGA - Extremadura Extremadura - Almería 1-0 Almería - Gimnástic Granada - MALAGA 1-0 Osasuna - Deportivo Oviedo - Las Palmas 1-1 Majadahonda - Tenerife Alcorcón - Albacete 0-1 Albacete - Elche Mallorca - Reus 1-0 Reus - Oviedo Lugo - Osasuna 2-2 Numancia - Mallorca Gimnástic - Numancia 2-0 Córdoba - Lugo Elche - Córdoba 1-0 Las Palmas - Cádiz Cádiz - Zaragoza 3-3 Zaragoza - Alcorcón

Table TEAM PT P W D L GF GA

1.Osasuna 64 33 19 7 7 46 31 2.Granada 61 33 17 10 6 40 21  3.Albacete 60 33 16 12 5 43 25 4.MALAGA 55 33 15 10 8 33 24  5.Deportivo 54 33 13 15 5 41 25  6.Mallorca 54 33 15 9 9 44 31 7.Cádiz 53 33 14 11 8 44 29 8.Sporting 49 33 13 10 10 36 29 9.Oviedo 49 33 13 10 10 36 35 10. Almería 46 33 11 13 9 35 29 11. Elche 45 33 11 12 10 35 36 12. Alcorcón 44 33 12 8 13 31 32 13. Las Palmas 43 33 9 16 8 36 35 14. R. Majadahonda 40 33 11 7 15 35 43 15. Numancia 39 33 9 12 12 37 43 16. Zaragoza 38 33 9 11 13 37 42 17. Tenerife 37 33 7 16 10 30 38 18. Lugo 34 33 7 13 13 31 42 19. Extremadura 33 33 8 9 16 35 42 20. Gimnástic 27 33 7 6 20 20 48 21. Córdoba 26 33 5 11 17 38 60 Ontiveros shows his frustration during Saturday’s defeat in Granada. :: RAMÓN L. PÉREZ  22. Reus 0 33 5 6 22 16 39 Derby defeat spells disaster for Malaga

Antonio Puertas gave Granada an early lead and the ten-man visitors were unable to recover

The Blue and Whites are became focused on the middle third vantage of his side’s numerical supe- of the park with defences on top. In riority just moments later when a now six points off the fact, after the goal, neither side had slide rule pass found him free on the automatic promotion a shot on target for the remainder of left-hand side of the area to tuck past places with just nine DARYL the first half. the exposed Munir. The linesman, FINCH games left to play however, came to Malaga’s rescue 1-0 The calm before the storm and ruled the goal offside. GRANADA-MALAGA  [email protected] This proved to be the calm before the Still chasing the game, Muñiz had MALAGA. Malaga’s hopes of return- Granada: Rui Silva; Víctor Díaz, Germán, Mar- storm, however, as everything few other options available than to ing to the big time via the automatic ahead goal as early as the fifth min- tínez, Quini; Puertas, Fede, Montoro (Azeez, changed after half time. move the recently-introduced Mula promotion spots received a major set- ute. Right-back Iván was too slow to 67’), Ojeda (Vadillo, 63’); , Adrián Malaga coach Juan Ramón Muñiz into an unfamiliar central role and to Ramos (Rodri, 77’). Unused subsitutes: Aarón, back as Andalusian rivals Granada get out to Fede Vico who had moved Bernardo, Alberto, Pozo. decided to shake up his attacking op- use his final change to bring in Cifu marched six points clear of their visi- into space on the left flank and had tions with a double half-time switch, in a wing-back role to cover the en- Malaga: Munir; Iván (Cifu, 59’), Luis Hernán- tors after an incident-packed 1-0 vic- time to size up a delicious cross to the dez, Pau Torres, Ricca; Keidi (Mula, 46’), bringing on both Álex Mula and tirety of the right flank. tory at Los Cármenes on Saturday. back post where had N’Diaye; Iván Alejo (Seleznov, 46’), Adrián, Yevhen Seleznov for the in effective This left the visitors exposed and It was a dismal day on and off the both the speed and the power to beat Ontiveros; Blanco Leschuk. Unused substi- Keidi Bare and Iván Alejo. Fede Vico, left in acres of space, was field for Malaga who failed to adjust Federico Ricca to the header and give tutes: Kieszek, Lombán, Lacen, Renato. However, this new strategy was able to line up a stinging long-range to the wet conditions and seemed to his side the lead. Goals: 1-0 Puertas (5’). thrown up in the air just two min- strike which Munir was only able to be literally caught cold in the open- The goal seemed to have a settling Referee: Trujillo Suárez. Dismissal for two utes later when midfield anchorman gather on the second attempt with ing exchanges. effect on both sides, with Granada yellows for N’Diaye (47’). Yellow cards for Alfred N’Diaye received his second Puertas following in on the rebound. The hosts were clearly in control contented with their lead and Malaga Luis Hernández, Iván Alejo, Ricca (misses the yellow card when his loose and high In stark contrast to the first half, from the outset and spurned two finally getting to grips with the oc- next match), Germán, Fede, Montoro, Quini. foot caught Fede on the thigh. the game opened up completely. This openings even before getting the go- casion. As a result, much of the play Ground: Los Cármenes (15,211 spectators). Puertas thought he had taken ad- suited Malaga who, playing a man April 12th to 18th 2019 MALAGA-EXTREMADURA 49 SUR IN ENGLISH SATURDAY 4PM SPORT Up next Rampant Marbella EXTREMADURA (H) sweep away Talavera After suffering their third defeat of 2019, Malaga must dust them- selves off quickly and ready to secure safety themselves for tomorrow’s visit of relegation-battling Extre- madura (kick-off 4pm). Cubillo’s side are still had a golden chance to equalise in Coach Juan Ramón Muñiz will unbeaten in the second the 22nd minute but Cristian have to do without the suspended Fernández, completely unmarked duo of Alfred N’Diaye and half of the season, at the far post, inexplicably man- Federico Ricca, with Erik Morán extending their run to 13 aged to miss the target, letting Mar- expected to replace the former bella off the hook. and a toss-up between Diego games unbeaten The game’s second goal came just González and Rajko Brežančić after the half-hour mark when (who is yet to feature this season) TALAVERA 0 MARBELLA 3 Añón’s high press forced an error in to replace the latter. defence. The midfielder then laid off The visitors have greater prob- the ball to Juanma on the right who lems, however. They currently :: OPTA cut in and bagged his first of the occupy the last relegation spot, TALAVERA DE LA REINA game. but still remain optimistic of (TOLEDO). Marbella’s surge shows The forward, one of the stand-out staying up, sitting just one point no sign of abating. The visitors to Ta- performers on the day, then rounded from safety. valera have still not suffered defeat off a faultless first half by scoring the Gianni can’t react to prevent Juanma getting his second. :: OPTA Having won their last game (1- in the second half of the season af- goal which effectively ended the tie. 0) at home to Almeria, they will ter securing a resounding 3-0 win A freekick from range was lofted into tively dull affair with Talavera seem- passed up opportunities to bag the come to La Rosaleda with confi- on Sunday. the penalty area where neither ingly throwing in the towel, main- fourth. dence high, but still lacking in David Cubillo’s side took the lead keeper Gianni nor his defenders took taining possession, albeit without As it was, the game ended 3-0 and goal threat after the sale of top early on when centre-back Lolo control of the situation, leaving committing too many men forward. sealed safety for the visitors who scorer Enric Gallego to Huesca in Pavón rose highest to head home Juanma free to shin the ball over the Marbella, on the other hand, re- will continue to look up and set their the January window. Añón’s corner in the third minute. line. mained a threat a threat on the coun- sights on qualifying for next year’s The hosts, chasing promotion, The second half was a compari- terattack and both Isma and Añón Copa del Rey. down and without the weight of ex- IN BRIEF pectation, started to create more MALAGUEÑO OFF chances. Payment for Academy Seleznov, whose miserable run in BOTTOM WITH signed off at a notary front of goal continues, as well as Gus- tavo Blanco Leschuk and even Cifu IMPRESSIVE 3-0 had chances to level the game but the VICTORY MALAGA lack of conviction displayed in front :: A. GÓNGORA. The end to the of goal cost Malaga, who now face deadlock over the new Malaga eight crucial games (they will receive Malaga reserve team, Atlé- CF Academy in Arraijanal drew all three points from their scheduled tico Malagueño, rose off the one step closer on Wednesday as encounter with Reus) which will de- foot of Segunda B group club president Sheikh Abdullah termine their promotion fate. four with a 3-0 win over Al-Thani signed off the outstand- Despite popular opinion that de- Seville counterparts Sevilla ing 4.5-million-euro payment feat has cost them their shot at auto- Atlético at the Malaga Foot- before a notary. matic promotion, Muñiz said follow- ball Federation ground on This money, which had been ing the game that “losing isn’t a dis- Sunday afternoon. All three tied up in land owned by the club aster [for us]”. goals came in the second in El Viso (due to be sold to the “There are lots of points still to play half courtesy of Hicham, University of Malaga), has seen for and we’re not going to throw in Deco and David Grande. contruction work come to a com- the towel,” he said. “This is a blow Malagueño sit 11 points from plete standstill on the site with [losing to a direct rival] but we’ll keep safety with just 18 left to constructors Bilba removing all working to eradicate the little errors :: MIGUE FERNÁNDEZ play for. machinery. which cost us the game.” 50 April 12th to 18th 2019 SPORT SUR IN ENGLISH

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unruffled, suit uncreased. He’s got Messi, say the detrac- The Valverde Appreciation Society tors. This is true but Manchester United have Paul Pogba, Real have Gareth Bale and Paris Saint Germain have Neymar. None of celona is easy. They used to say those players have been bossed. The Barça coach has that about Manchester United Messi runs the show on the pitch, dealt with every issue and Real Madrid and look at the but Valverde runs the circus. he’s faced with mess they’re in after appointing This week alone Barcelona the wrong men in recent years. have seen off their nearest rivals calmness and Valverde took over at a time Atlético Madrid and dominated distinction, yet still when Gerard Piqué was declar- Manchester United. The English doesn’t get much ing that he felt the club was be- club didn’t register a single shot coming inferior to Real Madrid. on goal. That doesn’t come down recognition He lost one of the world’s great to Messi’s magnificence, it comes talents in Neymar and had to down to organisation of outstand- The Ernesto Valverde Apprecia- handle the furore that sur- ing players and their egos. tion Society is an exclusive club, rounded the saga. He’s overseen Remarkably some fans still but membership should be grow- the end of the Andrés Iniesta era. criticise Valverde and the news- ing rapidly. He’s controlled all of these issues papers yearn someone who will The problem is that he looks with calmness and distinction. give them more meat to chew on. more like a bank manager than In short, he has micro man- For them, Valverde is too con- a football manager; he’s careful aged testing situations and trolled and organised. and considered rather than con- emerged with great success. Last He’s not the charming Johan troversial and dramatic. season they walked La Liga and Cruyff or the darling who departed Actually, after my dealings claimed the Copa. This season to Munich and then Manchester with some of the charlatans who the title is just about tied up, the (see I avoided mentioning him head up the banks here in Spain, Valverde (r) with Luis Suárez (l) and Lionel Messi (c). :: AFP club are in the cup final again and again). It could be that he needs forget the comparison to a bank have one foot in the Champions to win the Champions League to manager; unlike them I’d trust dary Fred Pentland used to sport Nou are chronically unchroni- League semi-final. receive true recognition. Valverde with my last peseta. a bowler hat. Maybe that’s what cled. Every single article you re- This week he became the first He’s sensible, measured, con- He’s what used to be called a the Barcelona manager needs to search on him mentions Pep Barcelona manager to celebrate sidered and his work pays divi- “Míster” in Spanish football af- give him some individuality and Guardiola. Damn, even I’ve done a victory at Old Trafford. Not one dends. If he ever leaves Barce- ter gentlemen coaches were im- recognition? it! headline has been about Valverde. lona, he can take over my sham- ported from England. The legen- His achievements at the Camp Many say that managing Bar- He remains in the background bolic local bank branch!

IN BRIEF Real estate sector Davidovich reaches main tournament raises draw of an ATP 250 24,500 euros for charity event for the first time PADEL :: SUR. Last weekend saw the First TENNIS Charity Padel Tournament for the :: P. L. ALONSO. Local tennis star Real Estate Sector, organised by Alejandro Davidovich’s career NVOGA, take place at the Los Mon- reached a new high this week as teros racket club. Despite the bad the 19-year-old qualified for the weather, a total of 100 people partici- main draw of an ATP 250 event for pated in the tournament and approxi- the first time. mately 200 came and took part in the Davidovich, from Rincón de la various events being held to bring to- Victoria, cruised through qualifi- Davidovich (right). :: SUR gether industry professionals and :: SUR ers for the Grand Prix Hassan II in raise funds for charity. A total of Casablanca (Morocco) but the ex- went one step further, beating Fer- 24,500 euros was raised and will be ESTEPONA OPENS ATHLETICS STADIUM perience of veteran Philipp nando Verdasco 5-7 6-2 6-2, also given to the Building the Future as- Kohlschreiber told in the round of on Tuesday. sociation to help the schoolchildren The brand-new athletics stadium in Estepona is officially open to 32 and the German ran out win- However, the more experienced in Uganda and the Centro de Aten- the public. Though there was no official launch ceremony as we ner on Tuesday, 7-6 7-5. player from Marbella eventually came ción a la Diversidad Infantil (CADI) are during election period, around a thousand people took part in There was better luck for his unstuck on Wednesday, losing to Ja- in Marbella principally for its equine its inauguration for the town’s fun run for which it served as both compatriot Adrián Menéndez, who pan’s Taro Daniel, 6-2 1-6 6-1. therapy programme. the start and finish line. April 12th to 18th 2019 51 SUR IN ENGLISH SPORT

THE WEEKEND IN PICTURES Pounding the pavements for diverse causes

A walk, a half marathon and a prelude to a 101km trail all coincided on a rainy weekend in the province

 Tribute to the Legion. Ronda once again paid tribute to the legionnaires of the town on Saturday as 5,000 people took part in the fourth edition of HOLE (Homenaje a la Legión), the prelude to the 101km challenge which takes place in May. Despite the muddy conditions, new re- cords were set in the mountain bike, trail and ultratrail cate- The heavy rain turned much of the route into mud. :: V. M. gories. :: V. MELGAR

Runners leave the start line. :: ÑITO SALAS Walking tour of Carrera Holi- Coín. Some 5,000 peo- day World. The half ple took to the streets of marathon organised by Coín on Sunday to take Holiday World in part in the 50th anniver- Benalmádena on Sunday sary edition of the Vuelta raised more than 20,000 Pedestre a Coín, started euros for Proyecto Hom- by local school teacher bre, an association which Juan Jiménez Frías. Local helps to treat addictions. charity for the disabled, Around a thousand peo- Prodicco, received the ple took part. :: S. CORTÉS Participants enjoying the race. :: Ñ. SALAS proceeds. :: F. TORRES People of all ages participated. :: F. TORRES 52 April 12th to 18th 2019 SPORT SUR IN ENGLISH Jongeneel’s Hawaiian challenge

The swimmer from swimming to train for September. Malaga plans to cross “My way of preparing is just to swim a lot and try to find as much from the island of Oahu time to do so. Until now I have been to Molokai to raise swimming in the pool, but now I’ll funds for water start to swim in the sea in the mor- nings and evenings. Every two treatment equipment weeks I do a five-hour long session. in schools in India I don’t know how many kilometres I’ll do. I know people use those wat- ches that tell you everything but :: JUAN CALDERÓN I’m very old-fashioned and I’m gui- MALAGA. Christian Jongeneel, ded by the buildings along Rincón who was born in Rincón de La Vic- de la Victoria seafront, the Merca- toria in 1974, refers to kilometres dona tower in Chilches and so on. way out to sea as if he were going I don’t count the metres. I know to take a walk through his local sometimes people love to use tra- district. He is unique even in Span- ining apps, and publicise their spe- ish swimming, which has accus- ed and distance, but I wear the chea- tomed us to so many epic pest watch you can buy from De- physical and sporting feats that cathlon...I’ve never been any good they almost seem normal. at that sort of thing. My way is un- One day Christian crossed the doubtedly not the best, but it suits Strait of Gibraltar and, as it didn’t me,” he explains. seem very far, he swam back again. Last August Jorge Crivillés took He has also crossed the Channel 18 hours to complete this same cha- from Britain to France, the Cook llenge, also for charity, and he gave Strait (New Zealand), did the Al- Jongeneel the idea. “He told me Assad crossing of Syria, swam the Hawaii was fantastic. The nature shark-infested Santa Catalina is almost virgin and the water is Channel (California), the Gateway crystal clear. That also poses a risk, of India (Mumbai), gone twice because the marine fauna is dan- round Manhattan Island in New gerous. There are a lot of sharks and York (93 kilometres) and even they come close to swimmers,” he swum from Tenerife to Gran Ca- says. To minimise the risks, he is naria, 70 kilometres in 16 hours. thinking of wearing a wristband Best of all, he has done all this for that repels sharks and equipping charity, swimming for the Braza- Jongeneel points to the islands of Oahu and Molokai on the screen. :: ÑITO SALAS the support boat with a similar, das Solidarias association to raise more powerful system, although funds for the Vicente Ferrer Foun- surprising after the challenges he major handicap for the swimmer most dangerous in existence, could he hasn’t decided yet because he dation, which is doing great work has faced in recent years. from Malaga, and so will be the be the biggest problem. fears it might have the opposite with the underprivileged in India. “You never know what your lim- wind, but the large population of Mentally, he sees these risks as effect and attract them. He now wants to raise money its are. When I went to New York tiger sharks and white sharks, the relative. “I have been very lucky in Jongeneel has already begun the to install water treatment equip- I had never swum 93 kilometres the past not to come across masses campaign to raise funds for the wa- ment in schools in one of the poor- before and I didn’t know whether of jellyfish, because if that happens ter treatment plants that the Vi- est areas of the country, where the I would be able to do it. You can’t you are forced to give up. Once the cente Ferrer Foundation wants to children have no drinking water. wonder about things, though. You He plans to swim 55 boat which was accompanying me install in schools in India. Busi- They contract all types of illness, just have to try. When I was about lost sight of me during the night, nesses and institutions in Malaga and some die, as a result. To raise to swim twice around Manhatten kilometres through a and because of that we increased have already shown an interest, as much money as possible, he is Island, the contact I had there stretch of water with our security measures and in Ha- but he is also hoping for small in- going to do one of the most dan- shook my hand and said “See you the biggest waves in waii I will carry a radio beacon in dividual donations before and du- gerous crossings so far. In Septem- tomorrow”. That’s when it hit me case I get lost,” he says. ring his Oahu-Molokai attempt. ber, he plans to swim between the that I was going to be in the water the world “I’m so grateful that people I don’t Hawaiian islands of Oahu and Mo- for a whole day. It’s often better How to train? know take part in these projects, lokai, about 55 kilometres in one not to think about things, because Jongeneel has already begun to pre- and now they can follow them in of the most unpredictable seas on if you do it puts you off”. “It’s often better not to pare physically for the forthcoming real time. When you’re swimming the world because of its huge waves The Hawaiian islands, halfway challenge, although he is doing it and you are vomiting and dizzy, and marine fauna. It has a long tra- in the Pacific, are famous for ha- think about things, in his own way. At a time when the fact that it is for charity makes dition in Hawaii, but the partici- ving the biggest and most power- because if you do it puts most amateurs and professionals sense of what you’re doing, but so pants normally row across and very ful waves in the world. They are a use advanced techniques and te- also do these people who collabo- rarely attempt to swim. paradise for surfers and other aqua- you off,” he says about chnology for training, his answer rate with this campaign. We need Jongeneel analyses this chal- tic sports, but not for swimming his challenges is surprisingly normal when asked lots of people to support challen- lenge with a cool head, which is out in the open sea. This will be a how many kilometres he will be ges of this type.” April 12th to 18th 2019 53 SUR IN ENGLISH

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THE STARS THE SEVEN DIFFERENCES QUIZ LOS 7 ERRORES Foxwhelps and the May Aquarius Queen are species of what? January 21 - February 19 Although you would like something new 1. Orchid 2. Butterfly 3. Plum and exciting to happen you don’t want 4. Apple to lose what you have. No need for that if you are willing to be flexible. What is the common name Pisces for the spice ‘pimento’? February 20th – March 20th Think carefully what you want to say 1. pepper 2. nutmeg and don’t be distracted. Your vision is 3. allspice 4. paprika clearer than others’ and so you need to guide them. Avoid ruffling any feathers by being too noisy about an idea. CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Nº 11352 Aries Across Down March 21st – April 20th Today you wonder at your selflessness but at the weekend you will wonder at the difference it has made. Enthusiasm really seems to be your friend.

Taurus April 21st – May 21st There are many irritated people around at the moment and any attempt at humour could make matters worse. Instead look on the bright side. Be realistic though.

Gemini May 22nd – June 21st Being able to see further ahead is a gift. Add to that your knack of talking yourself into anything and you begin to believe. What do you believe in that will bring you nearer your goal?

Cancer June 22nd – July 23rd Someone close has a new way of looking at life that somehow passed you by. When showing enthusiasm, just see how others are carried along with you. Leo SUDOKU BY HANZO THE WORDPUZZLER July 24th – August 23rd This week could see others more Instructions receptive to permanent solutions. Complete the 67 1 43 Don’t forget, though, that in all of this square making sure activity romance should play a part. that every row of 42 7 nine numbers Virgo includes all digits 369 August 24th – September 23rd from 1 to 9, every Take advantage of any chances to column includes all 57 increase your cash flow. This can also digits from 1 to 9 mean cutting back on spending. and every 3 by 3 45 1 Success in this or a windfall are likely. subsection includes all digits from 1 to

9 12496 Libra September 24th – October 23rd 971 5 Building up a little happiness for yourself has to come top of your list. 719 84 Reach out to someone who may be feeling a bit neglected of late. Pan to 24 see them for some quality time soon.

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cloves. Chlorine, Fluorine, all all Fluorine, Chlorine,

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who thought it combined the the combined it thought who The letter represented by the the by represented letter The

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America. The name “allspice” was was “allspice” name The America.

southern Mexico, and Central Central and Mexico, southern Wordpuzzler solution Sudoku solution Battleships

a tree native to the Greater Antilles, Antilles, Greater the to native tree a

dried unripe fruit of Pimenta dioica, dioica, Pimenta of fruit unripe dried

pimento, Jamaica pimento, is the the is pimento, Jamaica pimento,

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Answer: Answer: Allspice Allspice

raised in Worcester in the UK. UK. the in Worcester in raised

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apple originating from the West West the from originating apple

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Of interest: interest: Of The foxwhelp is one of of one is foxwhelp The

Answer: Answer: Apple Apple

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INFORMATION A passion for getting involved What. El Paso (Passion Play) Recreation of the life and death of Jesus Christ.

Where. Riogordo. Spanish lessons and the boys at- tend the local primary school, al- When. Friday 19 and Saturday though Raaland confesses that he 20 April, 5pm. JENNIE RHODES doesn’t think they ready for speak- ing parts yet. This is probably a good Further information. Face-  [email protected] thing, though, as the bigger parts book: El Paso de Riogordo / are said to be highly coveted by Ri- www.elpasoderiogordo.es British and German ogordo residents. www.malagaentradas.com residents Raaland and Other newcomers to the village are Heather Fish, 69, and Sammi Claudia Burke and their Dennard, 44, who are both ballet two young boys have teachers and originally from Lon- Other Passion plays parts in this year’s Passion don. They have been in Riogordo in the province since last November and, like the play that involves the Burke family, are keen to embrace entire village of Riogordo the events that take place through- The towns and villages of Istán, out the year in what they have Benalmádena, Alhaurín el found to be a “friendly” village. Grande, Igualeja, Casarabonela RIOGORDO. Hundreds of local Their role this year, however, will and Carratraca also hold their people and actors will be taking part be to photograph the impressive own Passion plays. In Istán, the in Riogordo’s giant Passion play, El event as they run their own film story is split into three acts, per- Paso, on Good Friday and Easter Sat- and photography company. formed over three days: Maundy urday. The Easter story has been El Paso tells the story of the life Thursday, Good Friday and Easter performed in the village in this way and crucifixion of Jesus Christ in Saturday at the municipal sports since 1951; in recent years however around 17 scenes and has been de- centre. The village of Igualeja will the cast has included a a handful The Burke family at a dress rehearsal last Saturday. :: LEILA LAWSON clared a festival of national tourist be recreating its El Paso on Plaza of foreign residents who are keen interest. de Andalucía, starting at 12pm on to get involved. ing spectators this year”. However, ily to participate in village activi- Tickets are 10 euros for adults Saturday 20 April. The Pasión of This year, the British-German having spoken to long-term Rio- ties and they made sure they were and 7 euros for children and can be Casarabonela takes place in the Burke family, who moved to the gordo resident, Leila Lawson, who at the recent olive oil tour and talk. bought on the day outside the church of Santiago on Palm Sun- village in January, have got parts as is heavily involved in El Paso and Leila herself always participates ground or in advance from: Rural- day, Monday and Tuesday at 9pm. “woman, man and children of the other village activities, the whole in El Paso and describes her role as Andalus, Tienda Cofrade Nazareno, See town hall websites for further village”. Raaland, his wife Claudia family decided to get involved. “Woman of Jerusalem, third from Cerería Zalo in Malaga. In Torre del information and timings of all of and their two boys, aged nine and Raaland says that from day one the left”. Mar from the Pasatiempos book- the Passion plays. six, had “originally thought of be- it has been important for the fam- Raaland and Claudia are taking shop of from Riogordo town hall.