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cardenas University Hospital of Almería at eight minutes past midnight on January 1. She is the fourth daughter of the family, and her parents, Estefanía and Miguel. She measured 48 centimetres and weighed
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María and Riduan with daughter Nora.
was also a girl, Sara, daughter of Natalia and Ismael, she weighed 3.34 kilos and measured 51 centimetres. In Andalucia, the first baby born of 2025 was also a girl, Lola, who came into the world at the Torre-
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“New Year, New Arrival”
PARENTS, Riduan and María were not able to toast the arrival of 2025 with Champagne this New Year, although they did start the new year with the best of gifts. At 1.09am on January 1, their daughter, the first baby of 2025 in Costa del Sol, entered the world - a girl they have called Nora. This was the first birth in the province of Malaga in 2025, which happened at the Costa del Sol University Hospital, according to the Junta de Andalucia in a statement. Nora weighed three kilos 440 grams and measured 54 centimetres. Her parents, Riduan and María, arrived at the hospital from El Coto, in Las Lagunas de Mijas. The first baby of the year at the Maternity Hospital of Malaga, born at 1.53am,
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precisely three kilos. In Spain, the first two children born in 2025 both came just a split second after midnight. Lucia in Madrid, and Nayeli in Sabadell, Catalonia who both had their times of birth noted as 00.00.
THE ‘Extra de Navidad 2025’ prize in the nationwide Organisation for the Blind (ONCE) lottery brought €200,000 to Algarrobo. One of the ONCE volunteers Jose Antonio Paez, who has been selling ONCE lottery tickets since 2022, sold 10 third-prize tickets in Algarrobo which were each worth €20,000. He said afterwards that he found it hard to believe that he had sold a winner on January 1 when he got the news from organisation’s Costa del Sol sector. “I feel very emotional about it,” Jose Antonio admitted. “I’ve been longing to give a prize and I’m really happy. It’s marvellous, I don’t know who I sold the coupons to, but it’s marvellous.” The same number that Jose Antonio sold in Algarrobo brought a total of €700,000 to Andalucia, with €200,000 shared out in Granada and Huelva as well as Algarrobo. There was another €60,000 for Sevilla, with €20,000 for Roquetas de Mar (Almeria) and Jerez de la Frontera (Cadiz). ONCE has dispersed €31.2 million, between Andalucia and six other autonomous communities. Photo credit: ONCE
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Toys for joy
VELEZ-MALAGA Town Hall, Jose Santacruz Football School and Juventud Veleño Football Club joined forces to ensure that every child could start 2025 with a new toy. With input from the Fundacion Olivares, which assists children with cancer, they organised the ¡Juguetes para una ilusion! (Toys for Joy) initiative, a charity match played on January 4 between the football school instructors and ‘old boys’ from the Juventud team. “It is very important do our bit for such an important task,” Sports councillor Alicia Ramirez said before the match.
“Turning goals into gifts”
Photo credit: Velez-Malaga town hall
CHARITY MATCH: Making sure that every child had a toy over the holidays
She was accompanied by the football school’s president, Isaac Lopez Doncel, and Juventud Veleño president, Oliver Postigo, as she called on the local popula-
tion to attend the match en masse, bringing a new toy as an admittance fee. All three had already done everything possible to collect as many toys as they
could for children who had to see Christmas go by without receiving a present, Ramirez added. The morning began with a match with the very youngest members of both the school and the team, who are aged between five and seven, together with raffles, games and fun activities before the main event began at mid-day.
LUCKY NUMBER: ONCE seller Jose Antonio Paez has brought €200,000 to Algarrobo on January 1.
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