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SPEAKING exclusively to the Euro Weekly News at an event held by the British Chamber of Commerce in Spain on Tuesday, January 24, British Ambassador to Spain Hugh Elliott said that the next announcement from the em bassy on driving licences will be to set the date when a new agreement will come in to place. The British and Spanish governments have been in negotiations over whether UK nationals living in Spain can exchange their driving li cences after Brexit or have to take a test like other third par ty nationals since the of 2020. Hopes of reaching a swift agreement initially saw exten sions on an agreement to al low Britons to carry on using their UK licences in Spain while an agreement was hashed out. In 2022 though, these ex
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tensions came to an end and the two governments have been negotiating ever since; a source of much difficulty for many expats who been left
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without the ability to drive in the meantime. Now, Hugh Elliott has told the EWN that his most recent meetings with the Foreign Ministry took place on Tues day, January 24, and that a date from which UK nationals will be able to exchange their UK licences for a Spanish one will be announced in the fol lowing weeks. He told the EWN: “I’ve been talking only today to the Foreign Ministry about driving licences. The next announce ment will be the date. “Right now we are in the fi nal stages. “I can’t claim that I am as keen to get this through as those who have been unable to drive during negotiations because I haven’t been affect ed by this in the same way as them, but I am super keen to get over the line, in force, and to allow Brits to drive again.”
THE summer might still feel a way off, but Torre del Mar’s own Weekend Beach Festival is preparing for an all star lineup in July. The music festival which is one of the largest festivals of the year in the south of Spain announced new additions to its lineup on Thursday, January 19. Latin music phenomenon Maluma was one of the first toplevel performers who was already announced to be gracing the stage at the festival. Other world famous performers in this year’s lineup were announced on Thursday including Granada indiepop and urban fusion musician, Della fuente, house and deeptechno wizard, Nic Fanciulli, and housetechno DJ, Carl Craig.
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Lengthy line-up Award-winning Weekend Beach Festival brought more than 135,000 music lovers to Torre del Mar last summer.
This year’s ninth edition of the festi val is expected to be as popular, if not more popular than the last edition
which saw more than 135,000 people flock to the town in Axarquía for four dates of festival fun.
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Spain’s hottest chart radio station is bringing the action to Almuñecar with a free concert as part of the Summer Live series.
AXARQUIA’S summer music scene just got a whole lot better with the announcement that the Los40 Summer Live tour will make a stop in Almuñecar. Radio presenters made the announcement at a press conference in the town on Friday, January 20, with the concert date yet to be released. The Sum mer Live tour is one of the biggest annual events from the Los40 Principales hit radio station, which plays the hottest chart music. The radio station said that the final touches are being put on arrangements before a date is an nounced.