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Michael Angelis, one of the stars of the feature film 'Fated' was present for its screening on Friday. The film is one of the contenders for an award at this year's Marbella International Film Festival.

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Michael Angelis the famous face of many films, whose role as Chrissie Todd in the award winning series "Boys from the Black Stuff" brought him fame and recognition is to attend the opening of his latest film "Fated" to be screened at Marbella International Film Festival.

Michael, whose list of credits in films and TV includes “ Casualty, The Bill, Lovejoy, The Professionals, Bergerac, , A Touch of Frost, The Liver Birds" and many more, will be at the opening ceremony of the Marbella International film festival on Friday 5th October.

Cudeca Hospice join International World Hospice/Palliative Care Day.

Voices for Hospices is the largest simultaneous musical event where more than 500 different performances take place in more than 80 countries worldwide over a 24 hr period.

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Location, location, location, experts insist nothing else matters when purchasing overseas or at home. Investing in a top class locality almost always guarantees quality, a better class of neighbour and a greater return on your investment. It’s all commonsense really, buy on the Golden Mile and you’re quids-in, whereas purchasing in a run-of-the-mill development, set back from the coast without access to infrastructure and you’re at the mercy of buying trends, global slowdowns and some apathetic estate agents.

The Town Hall of Casares will be giving out cheques for the buying of school books, uniforms and sports clothes.

The object of this assistance is to reduce the cost per child for this years school term, the Town Hall of Casares invested 586,274 euros on education in 2006. Cheques became available as of the 3rd of September and are to be used for text books, uniforms and sports wear. Casares is a pioneer in this area and has been financing free text books since the year 2000 at an average cost of 36,000€ per school course. This expense has been reduced to 16,942€ as books are now only required for those students in 1st and 2nd  ESO (those not covered by the Junta de Andalucia).

These savings have been re-invested by buying school materials, uniforms and sports wear for all students at the CEIP Blas Infante school, a cost to the Town Hall of 11.186 euros.

Enrolment for the municipal football schools opened earlier this month, while most other sporting activities will start to accept applications as from the 17th of September.

There are 22 sporting activities available this term, including: aerobics, chess, athletics, basketball, handball, football, rhythmic gymnastics, fitness, golf, judo, karate, kung-fu, sailing, padel and tennis amongst others.

Applications must be made at the El Carmen sports centre. Those living in Cancelada and Isdabe can do so at their respective Town Hall office, those living in Cancelada and wanting to do padel should apply at the El Carmen sports centre and those wishing to take up sailing must go to the Club Nautico or call 952 80 05 49.

Sports classes in Estepona, Cancelada and Isdabe will begin on the 1st of October. For more information call 952 80 24 44, Cancelada call 952 88 37 85 and Isdabe call 952 88 80 59

Negotiations conducted by the Mayoress of Manilva, Antonia Muñoz, and the Town Council’s legal department has made possible the payment of 1,541,191 towards the continuance of works on the Sabinillas sports complex that had been suspended.

Here are the main dates for the forthcoming school year.

Monday, 17th September - Schools start back
Friday, 12th October - Spain Day (national holiday)
Thursday, 1st November - All Saints Day (national holiday - expect Friday to be a holiday too)
Thursday, 6th December - Constitution Day (national holiday)
Friday, 7th December - (Provincial holiday)
Saturday, 8th December - Immaculate Conception (national holiday)
Friday, 21st December - Last day of school before Christmas
Tuesday, 8th January - Back to school
Saturday 23rd February to Sunday 2nd March - Semana Blanca (includes Andalucia Day on the 28th a regional holiday)
Saturday 15th to Sunday, 23rd March inclusive - Semana Santa (Easter week)
Thursday, 1st May - Mayday (national holiday)
Last day around the 24th June

Watch out for local holidays in your particular town or village.

Radio hams from San Roque's Museo CB, made contact with more than 100 enthusiasts, both in Spain and abroad, from a temporary station established on San Roque's Sierra Carbonera from 11 am to 11 pm on Saturday, 8th of September.