Nerja (1983). Eugenio studied Journalism at Malaga University and has been a SUR correspondent on the Costa del Sol since 2006.
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One of the most anticipated and popular events on the Costa del Sol will make a return to the skies this weekend, after it was cancelled last year because of the Covid-19 crisis. On 10, 11 and 12 the Air Festival will return to the skies above the
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A man, in his 30s, has been arrested by Local Police officers in Vélez-Málaga after allegedly defecating at the door of their headquarters in the Costa del Sol town. The incident was reported at 10am on Tuesday, 31 August, when the man stopped on
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The strong sea swells that hit the Axarquia coast at the weekend forced lifeguards to raise the red flags on many beaches. Despite the bathing ban, many people turned a blind eye and still entered the sea. In Torrox, lifeguards and Civil Protection
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A disorientated wild goose caused a stir when it landed on a packed beach in the Axarquia town of Torrox-Costa at the weekend. Bathers on the stretch of shore, near the Laguna Beach residential development, got into a flap after the bird landed on
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Although it has been a very quiet summer in terms of the presence of jellyfish on the Costa del Sol, in recent days bathers from various towns in Malaga province have spotted the presence of some giant specimens. One was found on Wednesday, 28 July
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...maro. Environmental organisation, GENA Ecologistas en Acción, have written to the Andalusian government to call for a limit on the amount of tourists using the beaches in the protected Maro cliffs area. The organisation highlighted the "negative im
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The Guardia Civil has dealt another blow to drug trafficking in Malaga province. More than 100 officers were involved in early-morning raids in Nerja this Wednesday (21 July), which resulted in the arrest of a least a dozen people. Members of the f
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Specialist firefighters are working this Monday (19 July) on the control and extinction of three wildfires in Malaga province. Two are in the Axarquía region and one in Estepona, on the Costa del Sol. The first fire was declared, this morning, in
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Police on the south coast of Spain have dealt another blow to large-scale drug-trafficking on the Costa del Sol. The Guardia Civil in Nerja intercepted a large lorry - registered in Poland - in which they found more than one hundred kilos of hashis
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Torrox lighthouse visitor centre is offering free guided tours of the town's historic sites in English and German in July and August. The tours will be given on 22 July and 5 and 19 August at 9pm. As spaces are limited those interested should rese
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A 36-year man, with Spina bifida, was rushed to hospital after an accident on Nerja's La Torrecilla beach on Sunday, 11 July. The man, from Cantabria, was with his family on the shore, when for unknown reasons, his wheelchair tipped over and he fel
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A 36-year man, with Spina bifida, was rushed to hospital after an accident on Nerja's La Torrecilla beach on Sunday, 11 July. The man, from Cantabria, was with his family on the shore, when for unknown reasons, his wheelchair tipped over and he fel
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A Local Police officer in Torre del Mal was injured after an 18-year-old moped rider refused to stop and smashed into the policeman. Officers had spotted the moped travelling fast and without lights but when the foot patrol tried to pull the rider
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Residents in La Cala del Moral were startled in the middle of the night after the appearance of a herd of twelve wild boar - a mix of adults and their offspring - on the streets of the Calaflores residential development, next to the promenade. Afte
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The council in Comares, in the Axarquía district, has signed an agreement with the University of Malaga to continue the archaeological dig of the Mazmúllar Mozarabic settlement, which is located about one kilometre from the village itself. So far o
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Vélez-Málaga town hall approved on Tuesday a motion to approach the regional government about repairs to the town's sixteenth century San Francisco monastery and church, for which the Junta de Andalucía is responsible. The community of Franciscan m
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Andalucía's regional government approved on Tuesday a decree allowing the Axarquía's subtropical fruit sector to use treated water from both Vélez-Málaga and Algarrobo's waste water treatment plants. The move comes as the Junta signed its first dro
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Nerja town hall has announced a series of measures to ensure safety and avoid overcrowding on Maro's beach this summer. The proposals include a bus service from the Plaza de la Iglesia in the village down to the beach. In addition, numbers of p
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The first section of the Carabineros footpath reopened last week on Nerja's Calahonda beach, after almost 20 years. The new section includes two miradors, which mayor José Alberto Armijo said "give a new perspective on the Balcón de Europa, Calahon
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Despite the fact that the pandemic has seen a considerable reduction in traffic on the roads, Malaga province has the dubious honour of seeing two of its speed cameras in the top five for collecting fines in the entire country. In fact, the one tha
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A 78-year-old man died this Wednesday, 9 June, in Torre del Mar. The incident happened near Varela bar on the Levante beach. Just after midday the 112 emergency services control room was alerted after several eyewitnesses noticed the elderly man in
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The parents of a two-year-old girl with Rett syndrome have launched an appeal and started an online petition to bring back a specially adapted classroom at Frigiliana's public primary school, after being told that their daughter will have to go to sc
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The suspension of the new urban planning law for Andalucía has dashed the expectations of mayors in the Axarquía area who were hoping to be able to resolve the problem of the more than 20,000 homes built illegally on rustic land in the past 30 years.
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Local Police officers in Torre del Mar have arrested a 56-year-old man in the centre of the town after he allegedly threatened to kill a young child with a beer bottle. The child, under 10 years of age and in the company of the mother, was accosted
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Almost 2,000 tonnes of white sand has been transported from the beaches of Cadiz to the sports facilities set up on Torrox's Ferrara beach. Visiting the facilities on Tuesday, mayor of Torrox, Óscar Medina, said, "The Ferrara sports zone is going
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The Andalucía government has started work to clean up and seal the Río de la Miel illegal tip in Nerja, which saw 800,000 tonnes of construction and demolition waste dumped from 1998 to 2016. Speaking last week about the work, which is expected to
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A bell has been installed in the outpatients wing of the Axarquía hospital as a symbol of hope and celebration for cancer survivors. The idea was first started in 1996 when Admiral Irve Le Moyne gave the bell from his ship to the MD Anderson centr
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Residents living close to the Leoni Benabu airfield near Vélez-Málaga have formed a group and started a petition on Change.org against the noise, nuisance and danger they claim is caused by planes using the site. The group have written to Spain's a
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Officers from the Seprona nature protection branch Guardia Civil have made two arrests and seized hunting trophies, shotguns and ammunition after investigating the poaching of mountain goats and wild boar from a private hunting reserve in the Axarqui
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The National Police, maritime rescue services and the Red Cross in the Axarquia have treated 14 immigrants of Northwest African origin who arrived in a inflatable boat on the beach at Torre del Mar on Sunday, 16 May. It was the occupants of the bo
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Vélez-Málaga town hall has completed work to clean up and repair the Los Toscanos Phoenician settlement, which is situated by the Río Vélez. Signposting and information placards have also been updated. The work follows complaints from local reside
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Delia Gallardo, 86, has few memories of her father, Celedonio. Before she turned five, just after the Spanish Civil War, he left for France "because he was told that he would earn a lot of money; he was a poor coalman who worked in Rincón de la Victo
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A massive fight broke out on a football pitch this Sunday, 9 May, after an incident during a youth game between Vélez CF and CD La Unidad Nueva Málaga. Four National Police sqauds, two from the Local Police and an ambulance were despatched to the
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Vélez-Málaga town hall has signed an agreement with Malaga university and the Karma Guen Buddhist centre to work more closely together to promote the centre and its work nationally and internationally. The agreement, which was signed on Tuesday, wi
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A new footpath that links Frigiliana to the Sierra Tejeda, Almijara and Alhama mountains was opened recently by Nuria Rodríguez, the regional government's delegate for Tourism. The 610-metre-long path runs along the left-hand side of the Frigilian
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Around 200 people demonstrated in Maro, near Nerja, on Sunday (25 April) to protest against the plans of Sociedad Azucarera Larios to build a golf course, 680 homes, luxury hotels and commercial areas on an area of 250 hectares of agricultural and pr
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Nerja town hall has put a contract out to tender for the construction and management of a new chiringuito (beach restaurant) on Calahonda beach, next to the Balcón de Europa. Work has already started to prepare the plot of land, which the town hall
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With the economically important olive harvest now closed for this growing season, local producers have been taking stock of the amount of olive oil that they have been able to produce in Malaga province. At the start of the season, expectations wer
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Local environmentalists have warned of the appearance of the Rugulopteryx okamurae algae in the Maro-Cerro Gordo protected cliff area. Divers investigating the arrival of the species, which has invasive behaviour, say that it could have "disastrou
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Green campaigners and residents' associations have pointed the finger of blame at Nerja town hall and local landowners for damage caused to flora and fauna during last week's fire near the Maro watchtower and cliffs. GENA-Ecologistas en Acción cri
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The around 3,000 residents of Periana, especially those in the village centre, are concerned following an "alarming" increase in gastroenteritis cases, with symptoms of fever, vomiting, diarrhoea and dizziness. Although most of them are mild cases
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The Seprona nature protection branch of the Guardia Civil has arrested a Swedish woman for allegedly being responsible for the wildfire near the Maro watchtower and cliffs, near Nerja last Thursday (1 April). More than 60 specialist Infoca forest f
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More than 60 forest firefighters have been working throughout the night to extinguish a wildfire that started in the Maro cliffs area of Nerja on Thursday (1 April). The alarm was raised at around 7pm when a spectacular column of smoke could be see
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Emergency services have reported that a 43-year-old Ukranian man has died after drowning in the sea in Torrox. The man, who it is reported had been eating and drinking on the Sillón beach near the lighthouse, had got into difficulties and was pulle
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A number of associations in the Axarquía, including women entrepreneurs in Torrox, La Noria centre for social innovation and 'together a feminine future' have launched a project with the hashtag #HechoEn (MadeIn) in an attempt to combat the problem o
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The main beaches in Vélez-Málaga will, from today, again be marked out by two metre by two metre squares to ensure social distancing. Like last summer, a tractor will mark out the squares on Torre del Mar, Caleta and Benajarafe beaches. Councill
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A crane driver has been seriously injured this Tuesday afternoon (23 March) after his vehicle crashed down a 20-metre slope and into a ravine in a rural area near Torrox. SUR The driver, a 53-year-old man, suffered multiple serious injuries as he
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Nerja mayor José Alberto Armijo and Urban Planning councillor Nieves Atencia are to appear before judges accused of crimes against the environment and natural resources for their involvement in the illegal Río de la Miel rubbish dump scandal. If fo
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A 74-year-old British man has died after falling into a two-metre deep hole when he was walking home with his wife in Nerja. His wife also fell and lay unconscious for nine hours, until she woke and called the 112 emergency services. The tragic inc
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Mariló V. Oyonarte, a piano teacher currently taking a period of unpaid leave, was born in Granada. As a child she was a girl scout and spent many years hiking in the Sierra Nevada. About ten years ago, encouraged by two hiking friends, Carlos Luengo
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A 59-year-old worker from Vélez-Málaga died this Wednesday (10 March) after scaffolding fell on him while working on a construction site in Torre del Mar. The accident happened at around 9.50am at a construction site on Calle Mar Cantabrico, in the
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Filming for the second series of the Netflix hit Toy Boy has started on Spain's Costa del Sol. The historic Pósito de Vélez-Málaga building was transformed this Tuesday (3 March) into a National Police station before filming moved on to other loca
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A group of young people taking part in surfing camp in Torre de Benagalbón, on the border with Vélez-Málaga, raised the alarm this Thursday (25 February) after spotting a body tied to a buoy floating just four metres away from the shore. The manage
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Torre del Mar's indoor swimming pool, which is located in the Cerro del Águila area of the town and opened in 2014, has officially been named after the Olympic swimming referee and Torre del Mar resident, Eduardo Hernández. Hernández was also the tow
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Nerja town hall has revealed that the central government has requested seven million euros to be paid back over a period of 25 years for the hand-over of the long-anticipated sewage treatment plant. Nerja mayor José Alberto Armijo described the ann
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The American University of Stanford has included five horticultural researchers from the eastern Costa del Sol on a list of the best scientists in the world in their fields. The five scientists based at the Mediterranean institute for subtropical h
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The Nerja cave foundation has revealed that it has applied for three loans since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, totalling 1.3 million euros. Much of the money will cover salaries for the approximately 30 members of staff employed at the histo
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Rincón de la Victoria town hall announced on Monday plans to reactivate a project to build a new park in Torre de Benagalbón. The 80,000 square-metre park would be developed on land next to La Marina school. Plans include a reptile and amphibia
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A group of young explorers from Rincón de la Victoria's mountaineering club (CMR) recently found a critically endangered species of mushroom growing in the countryside around the town. The Myriostoma Coliforme is on the International Union for Con
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Torrox town hall, along with the town's civil protection officers, have distributed 20,000 FFP2 masks to people over the age of 65. Around 1,300 households have received packs containing five masks. "You deserve the best," said mayor Óscar Medin
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As of this week, council-related customer services for people living in Torre del Mar will be dealt with in the coastal town only. Torre residents will no longer be served in the main council building in inland Vélez-Málaga. The move has reopen
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The accident and emergency and intensive care units at the Axarquía hospital in Vélez-Málaga have won third prize in a national competition run by the Fundación Hospital Optimista (optimistic hospital foundation). The organisation seeks to promote
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Nerja town hall has said it is hoping to reactivate plans to develop the El Playazo beach area which lies to the west of the town, between the Chíllar and Seco rivers. The plan has been included in Nerja's PGOU (general urban development plan) for
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The Axarquia district hospital in Vélez-Málaga is already experiencing the exponential growth in coronavirus cases after the Christmas holidays and to avoid reaching saturation, the health facility has set up 15 beds for patients with other illnesses
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The regional Infrastructure minister, Marifrán Carazo, visited Riogordo on recently as work to a 22-kilometre section of the A-7204 road in the upper Axarquía was completed. The section, from the junction with the A-402 in Venta Baja, was one of t
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A four-year-old boy has been reunited with his family after he became separated from his parents at a supermarket and was found walking at the side of a busy main road in Algarrobo. It was Saturday afternoon and it was getting dark. A family from C
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The lifeless body of the young German man, Stefan Zablotny, whose disappearance was reported last Monday in Rincón de la Victoria, was found on Sunday in a rural area of the town. The SOS Desaparecidos missing persons association published a messag
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A British man has died after a wooden house he was sleeping in was totally destroyed in a blaze in Comares on Wednesday night. He has been named by authorities in the 1,300-population town as Brian Patrick Mcsorley who was 65 years old and had live
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A public appeal has been made for information about sightings of a man who has been reported missing from Rincón de la Victoria. He is 32-year-old Stefan Zablotny, of German nationality and 1.73 metres tall. Stefan is described as of an athletic
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Police have struck another blow to drug trafficking in Malaga province. National Police officers have dismantled two large marijuana plantations in Vélez-Málaga after regular power cuts in the area led an investigation to them. Two men aged 41 an
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The number of town halls in Malaga province that are taking stricter measures to stop the third wave of the coronavirus is growing. The Axarquía villages of Benamocarra, Alcaucín and Comares, after adding 32, nine and six positive cases, respective
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Environmental group GENA Ecologistas en Acción has denounced paragliders that were filmed flying on Christmas Eve over the Maro-Cerro Gordo cliffs, a protected beauty area on the eastern Costa del Sol. The group claims that such activity is "clearl
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Nerja is the only town in Malaga province to have been included in an Andalusian-wide programme designed to boost tourism following the coronavirus pandemic. The initiative, which has been designed by the regional government, the Junta de Andalucía
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In a new blow to large-scale drug trafficking in the Malaga province the Guardia Civil have arrested eight people and seized 1,535 kilogrammes of hashish. The operation began after a semi-rigid boat of the type often used to transport hashish in th
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The Paediatric unit at the Axarquía hospital in Torre del Mar has introduced some new members of staff to the team in the form of therapy dogs, thanks to a pioneering animal-assisted therapy programme. Every Tuesday morning from 10am to 12pm child
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The town hall in Torrox announced earlier this week plans to convert the former teachers' residences next to the Colina del Sol primary school in the old town into a boutique hotel. Mayor Óscar Medina said that town hall staff are working on a tech
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A group of investors from Madrid are hoping to get the go-ahead for a sustainable 'glamping' (glamorous camping) site near the village of Benagalbón. Through their company, Collective Bliss S. L., the group is currently in talks with regional, prov
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El Ingenio shopping centre in Vélez-Málaga celebrated the twentieth anniversary of its opening at the end of November. Colombian singer Shakira performed at the grand opening of the Axarquía's biggest shopping centre back in November 2000. However
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A 26-year-old Polish man was rescued from the sea and later arrested after trying to evade police following an alleged sex attack on El Hornillo beach in Almayate last Sunday. According to eye witnesses, the alleged attacker came out of the sea nak
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Representatives of residents' organisations met with Nerja mayor, José Alberto Armijo, on Tuesday to discuss concerns over a potential rise in burglaries and squatters since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. During the meeting, Janette Wadding
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The family of the fisherman whose body has not been found since he went missing out at sea in July are hoping to raise funds for a private company to carry out the recovery operation. They are hoping to raise the 105,127 euros needed to pay Almeria
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An animal and environmental organisation in the Axarquía has warned of a spike in the number of abandoned horses, donkeys and mules in the area since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. APISMAM, which investigates and monitors ill treatment of a
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A livestock farmer from Caleta de Vélez died on Monday after sustaining numerous injuries to his thorax when one of his young bulls charged him. The tragedy happened at around 4.30pm as Salvador Lanza, 59, was closing a deal to sell six bull calves
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Although the Greeks invented the first money more than 2,800 years ago, the concept of bartering has never really gone out of fashion, especially in times of financial crisis and difficulty. While exchanges once took place in public places, now th
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Following the death of a 56-year-old woman on the newly opened El Saltillo walk in the Axarquía on Tuesday, opposition political groups at Canillas de Aceituno town hall and Malaga's provincial authority (Diputación) have demanded to see safety plans
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Nerja's wastewater station officially entered its testing phase on Tuesday, following a five-year delay. Mayor of Nerja, José Alberto Armijo said, "Today, 27 October 2020, is a historic day. Nerja starting treating sewage water." The testing phase
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Nerja's new sewage treatment plant is still waiting to be connected to the electricity supply so that it can go into testing phase. The latest date set by mayor José Alberto Armijo was mid-October. The town hall has recently awarded a contract wo
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After 13 months described as "a real nightmare", Norwegian siblings Lisbeth and Jørn Hokholt have regained entry to their property in Caleta de Vélez, which had been occupied by squatters since September 2019 until they left voluntarily a few weeks a
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Nerja town hall has unveiled plans to construct a 2.6-kilometre bike lane between Nerja's Burriana beach and Maro. The project, which has been in the pipeline since the last term of office (2011-15), will cost 900,000 euros, 80 per cent of which wi
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Vélez-Málaga town hall launched a campaign on Tuesday to encourage dog owners to clean up after their pets. Some 2,000 kits, including reusable bottles and bags, will be available in town halls and offices in the various towns and villages that bel
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Rincón de la Victoria town hall announced on Wednesday that it would replant 30 of the 83 trees that are due to be felled as part of a remodelling plan in La Cala del Moral, following protests by residents. The town hall claims that the trees, mos
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Lisbeth and Jørn Hokholt are siblings from Norway whose parents built a house in Caleta de Vélez at the end of the 1960s. They have spent their holidays in the house since they were children and as adults they have continued to come with their own ch
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Nerja businessman, Jonathan Méndez, has approached a company in Catalonia with the idea of constructing the world's longest zip wire along the town's Chíllar river. Méndez, who owns a firm called Meynber, has asked Zip-trans Systems S.L. to provid
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Two local sports clubs will be helping a 12-year-old boy with cerebral palsy to reach the top of La Maroma mountain on Sunday. Being able to enjoy the views and nature at the top of Malaga province's highest mountain (2,066 metres) is the dream of
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National Police have uncovered an arms sales point in a brothel in Vélez-Málaga and have arrested two people, the head of the establishment and a client, for their alleged involvement in the crimes of arms and drug trafficking. Searches carried out
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Vélez-Málaga town hall has agreed to provide the necessary financial support for the family of four-year-old Carlota García Lara, who is awaiting surgery after all her four limbs were affected by necrosis brought on by septicaemia. Carlota's parent
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Jairo García, 29, and Marina Lara, 23, are the parents of Carlota, a four-year-old girl from Vélez-Málaga who spent her birthday in August in Malaga's Hospital Materno after contracting septicaemia from a streptococcus bacteria. The nightmare star
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Ice cream parlours in Torrox and El Morche are running a ruta del helado (ice cream route) until 27 September. Participants can sample flavours including 'Gold' in Heladería Los Cordobeses, cookies and custard at Heladería Feroche Beach, cheesecake
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Environmentalist group GENA - Ecologistas en Acción has reported to both the Junta de Andalucía regional government and Nerja town hall what they claimed was the presence of raw sewage at the mouth of the Chillar river in Nerja. They said that the
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Would-be beach-goers have had to wait in long queues to access Nerja's most popular beaches, waiting in some cases for over an hour to get a spot during the busiest parts of the summer. Waits have been especially long at the iconic Calahonda beach,
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Baldomera the donkey has become a social media celebrity after his owner, Ismael Fernández, posted an emotional video that showed the moment the two were reunited after two months in lockdown. The famous footage was shot at the family's farm in the
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Bernardo, Salvador, Pepe, Francisco and Paco form one of the teams of grape-pickers who, between now and October, will be harvesting the 110,000 kilos of grapes which are expected this year for the A. Muñoz Cabrera (Dimobe) winery in Moclinejo, a com
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A house in Calle Carabeo in Nerja, where the celebrated Granada poet Federico García Lorca spent his summers during the 1920s and 30s, is up for sale. Three of his nieces who inherited the property from their mother have put it on the market for th
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Forest fires have hit Malaga province hard in recent days, with five major blazes taking place in the last week alone. However the good news is that the rapid interventions of Infoca Plan staff, along with other bodies such as the provincial consorti
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The owners of La Casa de las Titas apartments in Vélez-Málaga have applied for a licence to extend the existing building to incorporate two further properties. La Casa de las Titas first opened in 2008 with eight holiday apartments and in 2010 the
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An area of sand dunes known as La Carraca in El Morche, Torrox, is under threat due to the large numbers of people crossing them to get to the beach, an environmentalist organisation reported last week. GENA-Ecologistas en Acción has said that the
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Vélez-Málaga town hall has reactivated plans to build a 550-seat theatre in Torre del Mar. Councillors approved the plans in July and said last week that once they get the "green light" from technical staff, the work will be able to go out to tend
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A court in the Axarquía has confirmed that it will summon the mayor of Nerja and one of his councillors to stand trial over the illegal tipping of rubbish by a local river bed. The investigation involves seven people from the building trade as well
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For the last few days patients with appointments at the Doctor Marcos ophthalmologist's in Torre del Mar have been greeted by two humanoid robots, Cr-1 and NAO. The two androids are capable of taking patients' temperatures and asking them general m
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A man was arrested in a bank in Vélez-Málaga after refusing to wear a mask on Wednesday. He had already received a warning from officers around 30 minutes before his arrest when they saw him in the town without appropriate protection. The same
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The Mancomunidad de la Axarquia, an umbrella authority for the 31 towns and villages that make up the area, has published an illustrated guide to the history of sugar cane. The interactive book includes QR codes that allow the reader to watch video
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Catalan energy company Conecta2 has announced plans to build a solar farm in Nerja. The Nerja site forms part of a wider project to extend the production of photovoltaic energy across Spain, with a further four farms being built in Palamós (Girona)
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has signed an agreement with the University of Malaga to write a technical report which will look into the vulnerability and resilience of the grape variety grown in the Axarquía. Th
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Local Police in Torrox arrested a 36-year-old man in the early hours of Saturday morning in connection with a fire at a Chinese bazaar on Calle Baja. The local man is alleged to have returned to the establishment to start the fire after being deni
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A Cordoba-based company that makes bow ties from cork and wood has teamed up with Moclinejo town hall in an effort to help boost tourism in the village. The company, Pajarita de Corcho (cork bow tie), has named one of its latest creations, a bow ti
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Torrox town hall said that it has intensified its annual control of beachgoers reserving space by leaving belongings such as chairs and umbrellas. Torrox's 'beach hoggers' first hit the Spanish and international headlines in 2015 when the town hall
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The coronavirus pandemic has led to the cancellation of hundreds of events throughout Malaga province in the last four months. However, one of the annual events to still go ahead, albeit by video conference, was the Independence Day celebrations in t
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Nerja's sewage treatment plant is to go into testing phase in the first half of July, according to secretary of state for the Environment Hugo Morán. During last week's video conference, the secretary of state said that the remaining work should b
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The Junta de Andalucía regional government has opened an inquiry into La Viñuela's tip after a complaint was made by a private individual. A report written by officers following a visit to the site at the end of May says that the tip has no infrast
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June 22nd marks the first anniversary of the disappearance of 31-year-old Romanian woman, Dana Leonte, whose case has remained a mystery since she went missing from her home in Arenas. Although DNA tests have linked bones located in land around th
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Nerja has had a boost this week as its tourism industry attempts to climb out of the coronavirus crisis. The organisation European Best Destinations has included the Costa del Sol town second on its list of 102 best beaches in Europe. The only oth
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UK supermarket chain Poundland, operating in Spain under the name Dealz, opened a store in Nerja yesterday, taking the total number of shops in Malaga province to three. A spokesperson for the store, which is on Calle San Miguel in the centre of t
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After advice not to visit the popular Chillar river nature hotspot went unheeded, Nerja town hall has now banned access altogether due to the risk of coronavirus contagion. The council has banned bathing in the area popular with young people and fa
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Torrox councillor Paola Moreno (PP) has said she will return the 85 euros she was paid for attending a council meeting via Zoom while on a sun lounger on the beach last Monday. Moreno also apologised and said that it "wouldn't happen again" after
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The Nerja cave reopened to the public on Monday, with restrictions including a 70 per cent reduction in ticket sales and temperature controls for visitors. Hand sanitizer and gloves have been placed around the site and a distance of five metres mu
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Nerja town hall announced on Monday that it has signed an agreement with the local bus company allowing people over the age of 65 and under 12 to travel free on the town's buses, to start with immediate effect. The agreement forms part of a series
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The Guardia Civil in Sayalonga announced on Tuesday that they have arrested a man in relation to the robbery of 116 metres of crash barriers just days after they had been installed in the small hamlet of Corumbela, which belongs to the Axarquía villa
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More than 20 local police and Guardia Civil officers were involved in an operation to dismantle 15 illegal campsites on Monday in different locations along Maro's beach and three foreigners were denounced for camping illegally in the area, according
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Despite initial fears that the current state of alarm would further delay work on Nerja's long-awaited sewage treatment plant, it is now thought that the project will be able to go into test phase this summer, as planned. Work has been able to contin
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Nerja town hall will debate the construction of a new library at its next full council meeting. The land for the new project currently belongs to the town's José del Peso Blanco foundation and is located next to the Salvador church on Calle Iglesia
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A spokesperson for the opposition Adelante Andalucía and Izquierda Unida (IU) parties, Guzmán Ahumada, has accused Nerja town hall of "taking advantage" of the state of alarm to push through plans for a golf course, hotel and housing development on l
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A 60-year-old Austrian man was arrested at his home in Torrox Costa on Wednesday of last week after allegedly insulting and threatening staff at the El Morche health centre. According to Local Police sources, staff at the health centre first called
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Town halls along the Axarquía coast have intensified controls on vehicles during Holy Week after a number of residents in towns including Torrox and Nerja reported seeing neighbours in their holiday homes. Anyone caught failing to comply with the
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A platform set up to oppose plans to build a golf course, luxury homes and hotels on land near Maro has collected 1,200 signatures since Nerja Town Hall announced it was reinitiating the project at the end of March. More than 2,300 people have now
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Nerja's Nazareno Holy Week brotherhood (cofradía), which would normally process through the town's streets on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, has donated 3,000 euros to the local branch of the Catholic charity Cáritas, to buy food for vulnerable fam
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A 39-year-old French woman who was arrested on Saturday evening in Torre del Mar after running over her partner has been released on bail after admitting to her actions, SUR has learned. The incident happened in the garage of a block of flats on Ca
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Torrox town hall announced last week that owners who do not clean up after their dogs could be subject to a fine of between 120 and 700 euros. Mayor of Torrox Óscar Medina said that the law is already in place but that there will be a "few weeks' gra
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Rincón de la Victoria town hall, along with the town's water supplier, Hidralia, has launched a new information campaign aimed at informing citizens of the importance of saving water. Through a series of videos and demonstrations, they aim to raise
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The managing director of TROPS tropical fruit company in El Trapiche, Enrique Colilles, on Wednesday reacted to the announcement that water supplies to growers in the Axarquía is to be further restricted. "The situation is critical and tragic at the
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Rincón de la Victoria town hall has set up a special service, run by EMVIRIA, which the public can contact for the removal of processionary caterpillars. The cycle of processionary caterpillars normally culminates in spring, when they leave their n
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Vélez-Málaga's long-awaited new National Police headquarters could be open by the end of February, SUR has learned. The building in the Cuesta del Visillo area of Torre del Mar, near the A-7 motorway, was initially scheduled to open almost a year a
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During a visit to the Axarquía, Andalucía's regional minister of Agriculture, Farming, Fishing and Sustainable Development, Carmen Crespo, said that work to connect the La Viñuela and La Concepción reservoirs would begin before the start of summer.
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Nerja museum has become the first museum in Andalucía and only the fifth in Spain to be presented with the Institute for Spanish Tourism Quality (ICTE)'s 'Q for Quality' award. The stamp of approval is given to places that meet strict criteria incl
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Vélez-Málaga runner Christyan de la Cruz completed a 170-kilometre ultramarathon in India at the end of January to raise money for villages in the south of the country. The 35-year-old sports fan was among 250 people to take part in the event organ
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Spanish beer company Cruzcampo has launched a limited-edition IPA using mangoes from the Axarquía. The Cruzcampo 'Session IPA con Mangos de Málaga' can only be tried at the company's micro brewery in Malaga until stocks run out. The new recipe has
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A new skate park in the Huerta Julián park in Rincón de la Victoria, which was officially opened last Saturday, has been named after Ignacio Echeverría, the 39-year-old Spanish man who lost his life during the London Bridge terrorist attack on 3 June
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Nerja town hall signed a contract with Eiffage Energía energy company earlier this week to install a new air conditioning system in the Villa de Nerja cultural centre. The 106,511 euro investment is being paid for by the Junta de Andalucía regional
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The Junta de Andalucía last week gave the go ahead to allow the installation of 827 metres of high tension underground electricity cables to connect Nerja's waste water station to the network. This is the latest development in the project, which th
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The Amalia beach bar on Torre de Benagalbón's promenade was completely burned out after a fire broke out in the building in the early hours of last Saturday morning. Despite the rainfall and firefighters' attempts to put out the flames, the bar was
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Nerja's Ermita de Nuestra Señora de las Angustias celebrated its 300th birthday last week. The building was officially blessed on 20 January 1720 and since 1730 it has been home to a series of valuable religious paintings. Last Sunday the town's
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Vélez-Málaga town hall approved a plan to install 60 new defibrillators in public buildings in the area last week. An investment of 170,755 euros will include training courses and awareness events. The machines will be fitted in public buildings
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Mayor of Nerja José Alberto Armijo announced plans to build a new library near the town's iconic Balcón de Europa last week. Armijo went on to say that the new building would be located at number 1, Calle de la Iglesia, on land which currently belo
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Mayor of Torrox Óscar Medina and councillor for culture and heritage María de los Ángeles Ruiz met last week with the president and director of Malaga's port authority to request permission to allow visitors into the town's 19th-century lighthouse.
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In a joint Spanish and Lithuanian police operation, 15 people have been arrested in connection with a network of sexual slavery and exploitation in Lithuania that saw 25 women freed there. Police said last week that the two leaders were living in
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Only 500 residents compared with more than 50,000. The Axarquía village Macharaviaya has 100 times fewer inhabitants than Galveston, but it has a major claim to fame. It can boast of being the birthplace of the founder of this American city, situa
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The jury in the trial of José O. T., the man accused of stabbing his partner and La Viñuela resident María "Adela" Fortes Molina more than 30 times on 13 February 2018, delivered its verdict on Friday. The woman's former partner, something he denie
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President Philip Smalley and spokesperson Mario Blancke of SOHA (Save Our Homes Axarquía) have expressed their concern that that the new decree passed in September by the Junta de Andalucía "leaves out people who had their building licences annulled"
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A project to build 1,900 homes in Torrox has been reinitiated a decade after it was pulled due to Spain's financial crisis. Puerto Narixa is located near the historic centre of Torrox and on the border with neighbouring Nerja. The project was pre
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Following years of complaints about hard water from residents in Vélez-Málaga, the town hall has invested 150,000 euros in machinery which is designed soften the town's drinking water. Residents have long complained of damage to pipes and electrica
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Around a dozen graffitied messages saying 'Franco Vive' (Franco Lives) appeared on buildings around Nerja on Wednesday morning, including one near the Balcón de Europa. The vandalism coincides with the 44th anniversary of the former dictator's death.
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Shop owners in Vélez-Málaga are considering protesting over the pedestrianisation of the town centre after suffering up to 35 per cent fall in sales since the work started, according to spokesperson, Luís García. However, town hall sources have res
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Police are investigating an alleged sexual assault on an 11-year-old girl on Halloween in the Capistrano area of Nerja. According to police, the girl said her attacker was a tall, blond youth who was wearing a cap and scarf around his face and was
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Two men from Granada province were caught stealing avocados from a farm in El Morche on Monday night. Police seized 150 kilos of the Hass variety of the fruit from the suspects who are believed to be part of a bigger group. Officers said that they
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A man has been arrested over at least four late-night attempted robberies in central Nerja within a few minutes of each other. The 30-year-old was let out of prison just six months ago and was found in a town square in a drunken state. Officers w
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Malaga's provincial authority has agreed to fund a project to build a parking area for up to 22 caravans and motor homes in the Axarquía village of Canillas de Albaida. The town hall wants to increase tourism to the village, which is situated in t
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With the Real Feria de San Miguel fair in full swing in Vélez-Málaga, the town hall and emergency services have put together a comprehensive safety, self protection and evacuation plan. Information is being given about safe areas, evacuation points
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Mayors of five villages in the upper Axarquía have criticised Malaga's Diputación for the lack of fire fighters in the area. Following a number of recent fires which Nerja and Vélez-Málaga crews have taken up to 45 minutes to get to, the mayors ha
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Police are continuing their search for three of five north African migrants who arrived at Torrox's Peñoncilla beach in a small boat at around midday on Tuesday. Two of the men were caught and detained. A number of beach-goers witnessed the incide
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The central government's representative in Malaga province, María Gámez, announced via her Twitter account last Friday, that the modification to Nerja's long-awaited sewage treatment plant project has been approved. She tweeted (in Spanish): Good new
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Organisers of the Weekend Beach music festival revealed at a press conference in Torre del Mar on Tuesday that the 2020 event will take place from 1 to 4 July. They also announced that the first tickets are set to go on sale in October and that th
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A contract to build Rincón de la Victoria's first open air auditorium is expected to go out to tender before the end of this month. The new space, which is designed for theatre, music and dance, will be located in the Huerta Julián park area of the
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Malaga-based animal welfare federation, Tidus, has reported the "irregular burial" of animals along the A-356 road to Vélez-Málaga's National Police. The federation claims that it has spoken to the company that is responsible for maintaining the A3
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Alcaucín town hall announced plans earlier this week to open a visitors' centre to promote the discovery of Neanderthal remains discovered in the area in the 1970s and 1980s. Professor and archaeologist, Cecilio Barroso, came across the remains in
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A Torre del Mar resident was arrested last Friday night for driving a quad bike while drunk in the town. After a police chase, the suspect; a middle-aged man, was caught and tested positive for alcohol. He was arrested for drink driving and endang
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Nerja town hall gave the go ahead last Friday to improvements to Calle María de Waard, situated near Burriana beach. The project comes after years of complaints by residents who have regularly protested about the state of their road. The improv
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A van carrying ice for distribution to shops and bars careered down 13 steps in Calle Puerta del Molino in Frigiliana last Friday after the driver failed to put the hand brake on properly. The van, which was parked in Calle Rosarico La Joaquín, wh
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Residents of the villages of Chilches and Benajarafe took to the streets on Monday evening to continue to protest over what they believe is a "lack of interest" from Vélez-Málaga town hall to provide basic services in the two villages. Approximatel
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The fourteenth Festival de las Tres Culturas, celebrating Jewish, Muslim and Christian cultures, started in Frigiliana last Thursday with a vibrant street procession. The event continued over the weekend and attracted over 40,000 people. The four-day
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Vélez-Málaga town hall announced on Wednesday that this year's day feria will take place in the Paseo de Andalucía, instead of the area around La Carmelitas square and the town hall, due to the ongoing pedestrianisation works. The night feria will
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Vélez-Málaga's councillor responsible for the Brick Beach project, María José Roberto, accompanied technicians from Malaga's Aula del Mar on a site visit to Mezquitilla, the beach where the project will be carried out, earlier this week. Spokespers
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Staff at the Axarquía hospital in Torre del Mar staged a protest last week following another incident in which a patient verbally abused a doctor, the latest in a growing number of attacks on medical professionals across the province. The woman tri
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The Bishop of Malaga has agreed to move Father Jesús Ramesh Babu Gudapati from the parishes of Benajarafe, Chilches and Cajiz to Monda and Guaro. This follows the torrent of threats, insults and xenophobic abuse he has suffered at the hands of a gr
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Vélez-Málaga town hall met with neighbours' groups and local businesses last week to find an alternative venue for the town's feria, which will take place from 25 to 29 September. The day fair, which is normally held in the town centre, will need t
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Two months after the disappearance of Dana Leonte from the home she shares with her partner, Sergio Ruiz, in the village of Arenas in the Axarquía, a police investigation has failed to lead to information as to her whereabouts. Leonte, 31, who move
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A number of town halls in the Axarquía have asked the Junta de Andalucía's coastal department for a "definitive solution" to the erosion on beaches which has been caused by bad weather in recent years. Rincón de la Victoria, Vélez-Málaga, Torrox a
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An estimated 250,000 people flocked to the beaches of Torre del Mar on Sunday to watch the town's fourth annual international air show. S. SALAS More than 20 planes and formation teams from several countries provided the spectacle, from classic
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A three-year-old boy was saved from drowning in a private pool on Wednesday thanks to fast-acting lifeguard, a health centre worker and an off-duty police officer. The boy was said to be unconscious and unresponsive when the lifeguard pulled him o
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Residents of the Arco Iris building in Puente don Manuel have complained to Alcaucín town hall over the proximity of dodgem cars to their properties for a second year running. Residents say that the dodgems, which have been installed ahead of the v
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A 43-year-old British man has been arrested in connection with the forest fire that broke out on Monday lunchtime in the area known as the Cerro de San Isidro, just behind Nerja. It appears that the local resident admitted that he lit a small fire
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Vélez-Málaga mayor Antonio Ferrer along with councillor María Santana, signed a contract with the company Axarquía Aviation Park on Tuesday which paves the way for a flight school in the Axarquía. The town hall sold a plot of land at the Parque Tec
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A 28-year-old local man was arrested in the early hours of Saturday morning after being found with a lighter near a burning container in Vélez-Málaga. The arrest comes after a new wave of arson attacks on bins, cars and wasteland in the town. Th
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Speaking to SUR last week, twelve hours after she, along with her daughters and nieces were rescued from the Río Chíllar, Daniela Cárdenas spoke of her "impotence and desperation" as night fell and the group were unable to make their way back to the
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Last Sunday's rescue of a 34-year-old woman, along with her three daughters and two nieces, from the Río Chíllar in Nerja has once again brought to the fore the lack of control or safety measures at the popular beauty spot. Swedish tourist, Daniela
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A 40-year-old was arrested on 26 April after a high-speed chase through Torrox during which he reached speeds of up to 130 km/h in areas with restrictions set at 20 or 30 km/h. The man, who was approached for being illegally parked close to the sea
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A 20-year-old woman was rescued from a fire in her home in the village of Canillas de Albaida last Sunday. Neighbours noticed flames coming from the first floor of the building where the woman was asleep. The other three homes in the building were
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Residents of the Cantal neighbourhood in Rincón de la Victoria are blaming a recent spate of burglaries on the lack of police presence in the area. At least 12 break-ins have occurred in the last two weeks and one neighbour, Juan Martín, told SUR
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Around 50 volunteers participated in a clean-up of Nerja's beaches last Saturday. Those taking part used motorboats and kayaks to remove half a tonne of waste from the cliffs and beaches of Nerja during the event. Plastics from local greenhouses,
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During its last plenary session in April, Frigiliana town hall voted to start judicial proceedings against the two mobile phone operators that use a mast situated in the historic centre of the village. The structure is situated in the grounds of th
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Malaga's provincial government, Diputación, has announced that it is to fund a major renovation to Riogordo's El Paso (Passion Play) ground, to the tune of 270,000 euros. The money is coming from Diputación's cofinancing investment plan, meaning R
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The main bus station in Vélez-Málaga reopened last Friday following two years of work to reform the building which was, until the 1960s, the town's train station. The Malaga provincial government, Diputación, financed the entire project, which cost
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Residents in the Cerro y Mar and Chorreras housing developments, which are situated between Lagos and Mezquitilla in the Axarquía, have gone back to court to seek a solution to an ongoing legal battle with Vélez-Málaga town hall over incomplete work
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Mayor of Vélez-Málaga, Antonio Ferrer, has told SUR that two companies have shown interest in the project to repair the town's tram system infrastructure, since the work was put out to tender for a second time in January this year. A previous call ha
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As part of the plans to pedestrianise Vélez-Málaga town centre, from next Tuesday some roads will be closed off to traffic while in others the traffic will change direction. Some of the work has already started, including creating new roundabouts
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The Nerja caves provided the stage for Malaga's main event to mark World Autism Day on Tuesday. The caves' discoverers were joined by the Nerja Caves Foundation director, Chema Domínguez, Malaga's autism association president, José Reyes and repres
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The body of a middle-aged man was pulled from the sea just 50 metres from Nerja's Balcón de Europa on Monday afternoon. Police have confirmed that the man, who was fully clothed, is not local and haven't ruled out the body belonging to a migrant.
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Guardia Civil officers are looking for the people responsible for a suspected arson attack on the Aquí Mismo beach bar in Torre de Benagalbón. The fire took hold late last Thursday evening. A resident who spotted flames coming from the promenade a
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Emergency services were called to two separate fires in the Torrox area last weekend. The first broke out in a field of stubble by the Torrox to Cómpeta road, while the second started in greenhouses in the Pecho la Torre area of El Morche. Both ar
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A proposal to reactivate plans to build a harbour between Torrox and Nerja was one of the main items on the agenda during a visit to the Axarquía on Tuesday by Patricia Navarro from the regional government, the Junta de Andalucía. The idea has been o
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A man, in his 70s and of Finnish origin, has been arrested and given a restraining order after what appears to be another case of gender violence. The man apparently tried to strangle his wife with a belt after beating her with it and kicking and p
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Frigiliana features in the latest Spanish Coca-Cola advert which was first televised and shown on the internet on Monday. Viewers get a brief glimpse of people having lunch at a restaurant which was especially created for the promotional video, on
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Torrox town hall has revealed plans to turn the existing market on its Plaza de la Constitución into a gourmet market, with a central bar where visitors will be able to sample local food. The announcement was made last Friday by mayor, Óscar Medina
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Rincón de la Victoria town hall has announced plans to extend its cycling to school project, 'STARS' to include a further seven schools. The European Union initiative, which was started in the town two years ago, was the first of its kind in Andal
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Although motorhomes are frequently spotted in coastal areas during the winter months, the influx this year at El Playazo beach in Nerja has attracted numerous complaints from both residents and business owners. Last week, around 50 were counted on
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Torrox has been named gastronomy capital of Malaga following a competition held by the Diputación provincial government to promote the Sabor a Málaga (taste of Malaga) brand. Mayor of Torrox, Óscar Medina, along with Tourism councillor, Sandra Extr
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Mayor of Totalán, Miguel Ángel Escaño, has said that the council is hoping to get the go ahead for a project to revitalise the Cerro de la Corona dolmen; a 6,000-year-old megalithic burial site, just 200 metres from where two-year-old Julen fell into
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Juan Carlos Aparacio Nieto, 56, was officially made new chief of National Police for Vélez-Málaga during an official event at the town's Centro del Exilio on Tuesday. María Gámez, the central government representative in Malaga, attended the cerem
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Residents of the small village of El Trapiche, which belongs to Vélez-Málaga, have been assessing the damage caused to their properties and cars, as well as the local church, after a burst mains pipe connected to La Viñuela reservoir spilled around 1
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The organisations and entities involved in the so-called 'Brick Beach' project to regenerate Mezquitilla beach in Vélez-Málaga met with residents last Tuesday to discuss the project and to answer their concerns. The project involves regenerating pa
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An entrepreneur from Seville has introduced a new service to Benalmádena collecting rubbish from people's homes to avoid them having to go to communal bins or recycling points. Francisco José Novalío has signed a deal with a local housing estate w
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More than 100 Benajarafe residents, as well as members of the opposition IU and PP political parties, took to the streets last Saturday to protest against Vélez-Málaga town hall's decision to sell a piece of land which is currently used for the annua
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Residents of Torre de Benagalbón have voted for the most environmentally friendly of the two options presented to them for a new promenade. Mayor of Rincón de la Victoria, Francisco Salado, unveiled the results of the vote last week. Of 2,700 votes
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Thieves have stolen two safes containing around 50,000 euros from the offices of the Nerja Caves. The robbers broke into the offices in the early hours of Sunday morning and made off with the safes, which also contained 80 lottery tickets featuring t
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Vélez-Málaga town hall has awarded the contract to construct a section of Malaga's coastal pathway in Chilches to the Asturias-based company, Mediamadera Ingenieros Consultores SL. It will form part of the provincial government's plan to connect t
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Nerja painter, Juan Antonio Ortega Montesinar, has donated 413 euros to the children's oncology volunteer association (AVOI) in Malaga. The painter, who is known for his charity work and images of Holy Week, sold over 100 calendars with his painti
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Work has started again after a break over the Christmas period to complete Nerja's waste water station, which will enter into a testing phase before this summer. Spain's Environment ministry has said that it wants to make sure that work is not furt
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The vice secretary of Malaga's Partido Popular (PP) political party, Natacha Rivas, announced last week that Macharaviaya town hall has been accused of hiding information relating to expenses for trips made to the city of Pensacola in the USA over a
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Vélez-Málaga town hall has put out to tender a project to repair the damaged sections of the town's tram infrastructure, which stopped running over six years go. Mayor, Antonio Moreno Ferrer, announced last Friday that interested companies had unt
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The A-7205 in Puente Don Manuel will be closed to traffic until 27 February for the installation of a new pedestrian crossing. The road closure is on the section of road from the A-402 towards Vélez-Málaga between the intersection on the Moraleda
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The good temperatures registered throughout December and the almost complete lack of rain have brought forward the almond blossom in a number of areas of Malaga province, especially those exposed to the sun and closest to the coast. The phenomenon,
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Nerja town hall has installed four containers specifically designed for residents and tourists to deposit plastic bottle tops around the town centre. Under the title 'Corazones Solidarios', the aim is to encourage people to donate their unwanted b
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The Giner de los Ríos centre on Calle Diputación in Nerja, just 200 metres from the Balcón de Europa, is to be pulled down later this month, once the Christmas period has ended. Work to demolish the centre is expected to take around 30 days. The b
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Two entrepreneurs, Daniel Stocker, 33, from Switzerland, and 39-year-old Rakel Domínguez, from Malaga, are hoping to open the first community eco-school in Spain. They have identified an area in the village of Almayate, which belongs to Vélez-Málaga,
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Of the nearly 30,000 vehicles registered in the province in the first ten months of this year (29,826), only 53 were electric. If the statistics provided by the dealers' federation Faconauto, from data from the Traffic Department, were to include oth
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The Nerja Cave Foundation last Tuesday confirmed its 2019 budget, which includes a 10.7 per cent increase in spending. The foundation has announced a series of reductions in admission prices for the over-65s, under-12s, large families and people w
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Malaga's provincial government, Diputación, has installed a series of informative panels at 14 points along the province's Senda Litoral, the coastal path that links the towns along the Costa del Sol. Of these five are in the Axarquía: the Cantal c
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Nerja town hall has said that the reason the Christmas lights had not been switched on until today is that no company had come forward for the two-year contract to decorate the town. Last Friday, a Cordoba-based company, Pogesa S. A, finally signe
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The strike planned by cleaning operatives to coincide with the Día de las Migas in Torrox on Sunday has been officially called off. A deal was confirmed in writing between the cleaning company's union and the town hall. This will lead to a six per
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The car industry is fuming. Successive announcements from the Spanish government about a rise in the price of diesel in 2019 and a ban on the sale of combustion engines from 2040 as part of the fight against climate change, have sounded the alarm in
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The United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organisation, Unesco, has added the Axarquía's dry stone walls onto its list of the world's intangible heritage of humanity, under the title, "Art of dry stone walling, knowledge and techniques". A
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Vélez-Málaga town hall has announced plans to auction 31 plots of land in the town. Earlier this year it sold off two of the original 33 plots. The land in question can be used for residential or industrial purposes. Values are between 13,000 and
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The strike planned by Torrox's street cleaning company, to coincide with the annual Día de las Migas celebrations on 16 December, looks likely to be cancelled, thanks to an agreement between the town hall and unions representing the company. The in
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Local police, hunters and other officers spent almost two hours on Wednesday morning trying to capture a young wild boar in Torrox town centre. The animal, which according to sources was around three years old, was first spotted by residents in th
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The section of the N-340 coastal road which was closed two weeks ago, following a landslide, reopened on Wednesday. Emergency work to secure the rockface and install a safety fence in the area started immediately after the landslide, which resulte
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Torrox's annual Día de las Migas, which is held on the last Sunday before Christmas every year, has been plagued with political controversy ahead of this year's event. The town's cleaning company has threatened to strike over salary and working ho
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Residents of the Calaceite housing development in Torrox Costa were told that the building was safe to return to on Monday afternoon, a day after a landslide caused serious damage to a door, several windows, railings and a wall in one of the blocks.
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Torrox town hall started work last week to resurface the six kilometres of the M-5105 road to Frigiliana that fall inside its municipal boundary. The other stretch of the road, which is roughly 10 kilometres in total, was redone a few years ago by
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The old N-340 coast road between Nerja and Torrox will be closed to traffic for the next month after a large rock broke away from the hillside alongside and fell onto the carriageway below on Tuesday afternoon. No one was hurt in the incident which
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A couple from Madrid, who spent many years living and working in London, have just opened what they say is Andalucía's first eco-friendly boutique hotel. Mayte González and Javier Martín, who worked in the banking sector in London for a number of y
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The old N-340 coast road between Nerja and Torrox was closed to traffic on Tuesday afternoon after a large rock broke away from the mountainside above and fell onto the carriageway. No one was hurt in the incident which occurred in the municipalit
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Valle Niza beach, which belongs to Vélez-Málaga, is the seventh in the district to receive the internationally recognised 'EcoPlayas' flag. The award was picked up in Mallorca earlier this week and is given to beaches which meet sustainable and en
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Lacaliza restaurant, next to the Cueva del Tesoro in Rincón de la Victoria, opened last week, a decade after the previous restaurant closed. Local residents, Óscar Delgado and Conchi García, are the new owners of the eatery, which they say is one
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The latest migrant tragedy to hit Malaga province this year occurred on Chilches beach last Saturday afternoon, when a dinghy with 15 north and sub-Saharan Africans arrived, two of whom had died before reaching shore. Eleven of the migrants managed
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Unicaja bank has said that it will pay for work needed to be done to the Nuestra Señora de Gracia convent in Vélez-Málaga, which is commonly known as Las Claras. The bank, which currently holds the deeds to the building, has applied to the town hal
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Residents of the Generación del 27 neighbourhood, situated between El Morche and Torrox Costa, celebrated the news that a telephone mast, which they say has caused "high numbers" of cancer-related deaths, is to be taken down in early November. Mayo
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Nerja Town Hall has signed a contract with a company based in Asturias to build footbridges over the mouths of the Chíllar and Seco rivers in the town. The bridges form part of a project being run by the provincial government, Diputación de Malaga
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Three of five youths recently arrested for a series of violent crimes in the Algarrobo area were given prison sentences earlier this week after a witnesses came forward at the end of August this year, leading to the arrest of all five. According to
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The Nerja caves and museum foundation has initiated plans to build a 4,000 square metre outdoor auditorium in the gardens of the popular tourist attraction. The project is to coincide with both the 60th anniversary of the discovery of the caves an
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A five-year-old British boy died after drowning in the swimming pool at a holiday apartment where his family were staying in Nerja. Reports say that the boy had been playing in the pool with his siblings when the accident happened. Emergency ser
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The Paseo del los Carabineros, a walkway which links the Calahonda and Carabeíllo beaches in Nerja, remains closed to the public 16 years after it was shut due to the risk of falling rocks. However, there appears to be no solution in sight for the ar
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A French fugitive was caught by Local Police in Rincón de la Victoria in the early hours of Monday morning when officers stopped the man while he was seen driving recklessly through the town. Results of a breath test showed he was twice over the l
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The town hall in Rincón de la Victoria has announced that it has set aside 30,000 euros to clean up the town's Casa Bezmiliana fort. The money will also be used to install four surveillance cameras in a bid to stop vandalism. The 18th-century milit
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Vélez-Málaga is to regenerate part of its coast with construction waste. The town hall will use part of the four million euros of European Union funding it has been awarded to carry out the 'Brick Beach' project to Mezquitilla beach between now an
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Building work to the new national police headquarters in Torre del Mar is nearing completion and is set to be finished in early November, according to Vélez-Málaga town hall. Work started in March 2017 and it looks as though builders will meet the
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Two entrepreneurs from Nerja have designed a mobile phone and tablet application which they say will allow both foreigners and people with visual or hearing impairments to enjoy live theatre. Fernando de la Rubia, a 48-year-old economist from the t
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Following the brutal murder of his partner, Manoli C. S (44), in El Morche last Thursday, a judge in Torrox has ordered that her suspected murderer, Juan Antonio M. L. (46), be remanded in custody without bail. Sources in the court said that the a
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Vélez-Málaga town hall has announced that it is planning a major overhaul of its special protection and reform plan for the town's historic centre. The plan, known in Spanish as the 'Plan Especial de Protección y Reforma Interior' (Pepri), has been
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The Añoreta neighbourhood which forms part of Torre de Benagalbón and belongs to Rincón de la Victoria, was one of the first modern housing developments to be built in the area, around 30 years ago. The area is now best-known for its golf course, whi
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The opposition Partido Popular (PP) party at Nerja town hall has criticised the current Socialist administration for the "dangerous state" of the railings around the town's famous Balcón de Europa. PP councillor, José Miguel García, was speaking a
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Chief of Torrox Local Police, José Manuel Ruiz Ortega, has reported a 75 per cent reduction in beach-goers reserving the best spots near to the shoreline this year, compared with 2015, when the local bylaw was implemented and in 2016 and 2017. The
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Worten, the electronics shop at El Ingenio shopping centre in Vélez-Málaga, was broken into for the second time in less than a month on Monday. A gang of "hoodies" entered the store at around 7am and stole a number of electrical appliances. A similar
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A border dispute between Vélez-Málaga and Arenas has been opened up as a result of complaints from residents in the Cerro Beas area about the Refugio de Leo dog kennels which opened up next to their homes a year ago. Complaints have been filed to b
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Torre del Mar's long-awaited theatre has hit another setback after plans were unveiled last month to build 2,800 homes on land previously earmarked for the cultural centre. Speaking to SUR earlier this week, councillor for Torre del Mar, Jesús Pére
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Rincón de la Victoria councillors agreed during a plenary session last Monday that they would ask the regional government, the Junta de Andalucía, for 438,000 euros towards pedestrianising three roads in the town centre. Calle Frigiliana, Calle Ron
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The Local Police force in Rincón de la Victoria has received 368 applications from prospective candidates hoping to be offered one of three posts currently being advertised. The next phase of the selection process, which includes a theory test, wil
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The only battle in which King Ferdinand of Spain was involved during the Conquista del Reino de Granada (taking of the Kingdom of Granada), happened in Vélez-Málaga. It took place in April 1487, days before the surrender of the mayor, Abul Kasim Vene
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A well-known chiringuito restaurant and bar on the beach in Torre del Mar went up in flames early on Thursday morning. Three fire engines were called to the Bere Bere chiringuito, which is on the western side of the resort next to the annual Weeken
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A sad ending to the story of the young diver from Vélez-Málaga who went missing off the coast of Cadiz. A British-registered leisure boat spotted the body floating in the ocean on Monday, ten kilometres from where he went missing. Sea Rescue and the
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The Junta de Andalucía has approved a 1.2m-euro plan to improve safety on a 22-kilometre stretch of the A-7204 between Venta Baja in Alcaucín district and Riogordo. Jesús Huertas from the Junta de Andalucía said that the work, which includes improv
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Local business organisations in Vélez-Málaga and Torre del Mar have overwhelmingly opposed plans to extend the El Ingenio shopping centre, situated between the two towns. Both ACET and ACEV, which represent independent shops in Torre del Mar and Vé
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Vélez-Málaga town hall has announced that the first stage of work to pedestrianise the town centre has been awarded to Soluciones Integrales de Ingeniería y Obras, S. L., for 111,860 euros. This is the first stage of four to complete the project an
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Twenty people originally believed to be involved in the Río de la Miel illegal rubbish dump scandal in Nerja have been freed from further investigation in a letter from Malaga's provincial court to the judge presiding over the case at Torrox court.
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A new dog beach in Torrox Costa officially opened last week, with around 200 canines and their owners making use of the facility on the same day. The area covers a 300-metre stretch of beach near the mouth of the River Torrox and is the seventh bea
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Phenomena such as the collaborative economy, which includes multinationals in the transport sector such as Uber and Cabify, or logistics, like Deliveroo and Glovo, are coming under scrutiny from tax inspectors because they often hide a number of irre
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A 53-year-old Spanish man was detained on Tuesday when police officers responded to a 112 call in Torre del Mar which alerted them to a possible case of domestic violence. According to the alleged victim, a 38-year-old woman originally from Paragua
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Torrox town hall has added more than 100 extra free parking spaces to its blue zones along the coast. The spaces may be used for a maximum of two hours using a cardboard disc which can be bought for one euro from the town hall and other locations.
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The population of Rincón de la Victoria has doubled in size in the last 20 years, from 23,000 according to the 2000 census, to 46,000 people according to the latest figures. However, it wasn't until the arrival of the Malaga to Zafarraya train in 190
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Frigiliana is one of Andalucía's most distinctive tourist destinations, attracting thousands of visitors every year. Now it has been recognised by the regional ministry for Tourism as an official Tourist Municipality. Home to under 5,000 residents, F
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Members of the Plataforma Lirios de Mar group which formed in protest against the construction of a promenade in Torre de Benagalbón met with local mayor, Francisco Salado, on Tuesday to start designing the prom. Technical reports which highlight t
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A funeral urn dating back to the end of the Neolithic period and beginning of the Bronze Age has been discovered just seven metres from the public areas of the Nerja Caves; in the Sala de Cataclismo. Although the urn was discovered in March the Ner
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Mayor of Nerja, Rosa Arrabal, met with the president of Malaga port authority on Monday with a view to attracting more people to Nerja who arrive in Malaga via the many cruise ships that stop in the city. Arrabal hopes to bring more tourists to Ner
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Som Cerezo, a shop on Calle Cruz in Nerja's town centre, which has sold everything from electrical appliances to postcards since it first opened in 1950, is to close its doors. Current manager, Antonio Som Cerezo, who took over the shop from his fa
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The battle is heating up between the hotels, who claim that holiday lets are creating unfair competition, and owners of properties which are rented for tourism, who say their business helps to create wealth and employment in the province. Some act
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The life of Cristina Gil López changed completely on 18 July 2014 when she gave birth to her second child, Kevin. Early during the pregnancy she contracted chicken pox, resulting in the boy being born with serious physical issues. His level of dis
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Work to finish Nerja's waste water treatment plant is well under way after the project was restarted on 19 February this year, following a nine-month stoppage. Drains in the town centre, including Antonio Ferrandis 'Chanquete', Prolongación de Anto
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Nerja town hall reopened the car park at Burriana beach last Friday ahead of the summer season. The opening of the car park, which has a total of 240 places, had been subject to considerable delay, according to opposition parties. The council also co
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Nerja and Cómpeta town halls are both seeking investors to purchase and take on the management of holiday accommodation which they each own in the Tejeda, Almijara and Alhama mountains. Cómpeta owns La Casa La Mina, which has been closed since 2014
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Nerja's Chíllar river, which has become one of Malaga province's most popular alternatives to crowded beaches during the summer months, still has no management plan or controls in place, despite its increasing popularity which has brought a growing a
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Town halls across the Costa del Sol and Malaga province are in limbo over 'plusvalía', the land-value tax they charge to property sellers, while they wait for a change in law to clarify how this tax can be levied in the future. The uncertainty come
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Nerja town hall has published the draft version of a new bylaw on its website which will require residents who have been on the town hall census (Padrón) for more than four years to pay up to 150 euros for a civil wedding. Currently only couples wh
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A 42-year-old mountaineer, who had gone missing from his group, was rescued from the Axarquía's La Maroma mountain on Monday morning after the group alerted emergency services at around 8.40pm on Sunday. Once located, the man, who had disappeared a