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The fifth wave of Covid-19 is closer to being history every day in the south of Spain, after the Junta de Andalucía announced this Wednesday, 8 September, that five of the six health districts in Malaga province now sit in the health alert Level 1 br
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Despite the fact that the Covid-19 situation has considerably improved, caution has won the day in Fuengirola. On Monday, 7 September, the town council announced the cancellation - for the second consecutive year - of the Fiestas del Rosario, the loc
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Increased safety for cyclists. That is the main demand of residents, cycle groups and opposition political parties in Fuengirola, who have called a demonstration for 12 September. The protest plan was sparked after the death of a cyclist on the prome
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The fifth wave of the coronavirus in Malaga is one step closer to being history, despite the fact that some of the data this Friday, 27 August is not all good news. The incidence rate in the province has fallen to 246 cases per 100,000 inhabitants
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More than a million people in Malaga have already received their complete Covid-19 vaccination schedule - that is almost 60 per cent of the province's population. Specifically, some 1,004,786 have already received the full number of doses of one of
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There is no specific date for its opening, but the vision of what the future third hospital in Malaga will look like is already a reality. Juanma Moreno, the president of the Junta de Andalucía, has unveiled the provisional design for the new facil
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The vaccination of the last age range to be coronavirus jabbed in Andalucía - the very youngest - is about to become a reality. Some health centres in Malaga province are already calling the parents of twelve-year-old children - the minimum age allow
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The cumulative incidence rate of Covid-19 in the Costa del Sol holiday hotspots of Estepona and Marbella has dropped below the 1,000 figure and, consequently their night mobility restrictions will be removed from dawn on Saturday. If a large town
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We've seen it coming for that last few days but that doesn't make it any less outrageous. The Junta de Andalucía has jumped on the nonsense bandwagon and has proposed - as other regions governed by other parties have done - that they take away our fr
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The number of attacks against members of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual) community rose by more than 20 per cent over the last year and is the highest since the establishment of the Andalusian Observatory against LGBTphobia in 2017.
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Bathers are starting to brave the Costa del Sol waters as summer approaches, but one group of youngsters from Benalmádena have been swimming in the sea for months. Since the sudden closure of the Club de Hielo ice rink and pool complex in Arroyo d
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The Holiday World hotel complex in Benalmádena has this week announced that its Village Hotel will reopen on 18 June, in addition to the Polynesia Hotel and Beach Club which will do so a week earlier on 10 June. With these reopenings, the company i
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The possible permanent closure of Tivoli World continues to occupy a good part of the political agenda on the Costa del Sol. After the demonstration last Friday, in which unions, affected groups and the public demanded the reopening of the attracti
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Slowly, but surely. That has been the strategy that the regional government's Employment ministry has pursued in trying to find a new use for the CIOMijas building, which has been closed for the past five years, and which has been steadily deteriorat
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In response to a fast-growing population and the consequent shortage of school places in the Mijas area, the council has approved the transfer of 10,000 square metres of land next to IES La Cala de Mijas for the regional government to carry out expan
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The economic situation of Mijas town hall - one the healthiest in Malaga province - will allow it to waive some key municipal business taxes for the second consecutive year to help alleviate the financial impact of the pandemic on local businesses.
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Mijas council has confirmed thats plans are under way for three new underground car parks in the Las Lagunas area: in Parque Fernán Caballero, Parque Andalucía and Los Santos. Councillor José Carlos Martín said that the three new car parks, with 1,
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Tivoli World workers protested this Monday, 3 May, at the gates of the Costa del Sol amusement park to demand that its owners reopen the attraction and not close it down. The demonstration followed the announcement of the Benalmádena town council t
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Benalmádena has found a way of protecting the land at Tivoli so its use cannot be changed in the future in order for housing to be built on it. The solution is to adapt the Urban Plan for the municipality to prevent the land being used for speculatio
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The future of Tívoli World in Benalmádena on Spain's Costa del Sol could be viable, although this would require taking on a high debt and making major investments. That is the main conclusion that the bankruptcy administrator of the park, Juan Carl
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The opposition PP on Benalmádena council has called for mayor Víctor Navas to resign after it was announced this week that Navas would have to go to court over an election protocol beach. The PSOE politician shared messages on social media (which w
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In addition to the 12 million euros paid out last year, Mijas council has announced a further 10-million-euro package - of at least 3,500 euros per beneficiary - for the town's hospitality sector. The so-called Cometha Plan, announced on Tuesday, w
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With movement around the country still limited, Mijas town hall has set up an initiative to promote local tourism and try to bring activity back to the town. The council's Tourism and Foreigners departments, coordinated by José Carlos Martín and A
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Dog owners in Torremolinos are now obliged to dilute their pets' urine in the streets, or face fines of between 75 and 500 euros. "With this measure we are responding to an important demand from residents that will result in the improvement of com
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The Union flag was flying at half-mast when we visited Gibraltar because, like the UK, people in this British Overseas Territory were mourning the death of the Duke of Edinburgh. But in contrast with London, their tears were not being caught by the t
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Mijas council has started up its 2021 plan for maintenance of the roads in the municipality that fall under its control. The budget for the repairs to be carried out this year is 350,000 euros. Initially 16 streets will be resurfaced at a cost of
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The company that owns the building in Torremolinos rented out to the high-profile Hotel Ritual has put it up for sale. However this will not affect the current business, multiple sources have confirmed. Hotel Ritual has become known in recent yea
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For years, the parents' association of the Indira Gandhi primary school battled to get rid of the prefabricated classrooms in which their children had to be taught and they finally succeeded. The only memory of those classrooms now is the road that t
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Business leaders and the town hall in Mijas have come together this week in order to work through the logistics of implementing the new 'Marketing Plan for Golf in Mijas', developed by the University of Malaga. Councillor for Tourism José Carlos Ma
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Mijas council is already preparing for the long-awaited return of tourists and this week reopened the newly refurbished square in front of the town's tourist office in Mijas Pueblo. The works, which covered a 2,500-square-metre area, cost 470,000
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Fuengirola has been the fourth most populated town in the province for the last year, but when the municipal census for 2021 is drawn up there will be a significant drop in the number of inhabitants. The reason for this is that for the last few weeks
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Selwo Aventura, a firm-favourite visitor attraction on the Costa del Sol since 1999, will open its doors again this Friday (26 March) after being closed for several months due to the coronavirus control measures. Not even the pandemic could stop na
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A complete coastal footpath between Fuengirola and Marbella has moved one stop closer with Mijas councillor for Infrastructures and Works José Carlos Martín confirming to SUR that the section that runs from La Cala to Fuengirola, valued at 4.3 millio
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The iconic Byblos hotel on Mijas Golf is set to reopen its doors in 2022, as major refurbishment and rebuilding works started on Wednesday after the hotel lay abandoned for more than a decade. The milestone event was marked by a presentation attend
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If I'd been born in England, I would be one of those who wave the British flag with great conviction at each and every one of the Queen's jubilees. I say this in jest, but I have to admit that this lady inspires a certain admiration in me. It's n
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With less than a month to go before the first anniversary of the state of alarm coming into force in Spain, the picture of what has happened in Malaga province, in terms of construction, seems clear. Although the sector has not plummeted there has
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Five years. That is the amount of time that has passed between the initial proposal of a large public park in the municipality of Mijas and the inclusion of the project in the council budget. The delay has been due to the technical complexity of t
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In order to avoid any further delay, the Junta de Andalucía has this week agreed to fast-track the Golf Valley initiative in Mijas. The project, which will be referred to the Junta's Project Accelerator Unit (which helps to speed up all administrat
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The regional ministry for Employment this week sent out a call to tourism industry professionals to give their views on the future of the CioMijas hospitality school and hotel in La Cala de Mijas. It has been abandoned since 2015. The Junta de Anda
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The Junta de Andalucía's regional health service has announced two new health centres for under-served neighbourhoods of the Costa del Sol. After years of calls for better local healthcare provision, the first steps to planning the building of a me
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A total of 160 new businesses opened their doors in Mijas in 2020 despite the pandemic, councillor for Industry Andrés Ruiz announced. Ruiz insisted that the council was doing all it could to speed up all procedures in order to boost the economy a
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Higueron Developments on Wednesday announced the launch of its scholarship scheme, in collaboration with the San Francisco de Asís school, to help children in Benalmádena, Fuengirola and Mijas study the art branch of the bachillerato. Various aspec
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The project for a new Olympic-sized swimming pool in La Cala de Mijas is a step nearer reality now, as the mayor of Mijas, Josele González, councillor for Infrastructure José Carlos Martín and Town Planning councillor Andrés Ruiz laid the first stone
Opinion
So much has happened since 23 June 2016 that it is hard to believe that more than four and a half years have passed. The Brexit referendum has affected not only the United Kingdom but also the whole of the European Union and especially regions or pro
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The province of Malaga has recorded at least 220,000 police reports from June to December for people not wearing a face mask - or not wearing it properly- breaking the order of 14 July in which the use of masks was made mandatory with a penalty of 10
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Now that five official requests to secure the building have gone unanswered, the mayor of Torremolinos, José Ortiz, this week announced that the town hall has initiated proceedings to declare the two buildings that make up the former Hotel Califa in
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The mayor of Benalmádena, Víctor Navas, has said he wants the Junta de Andalucía to give extra planning protection to the land currently occupied by the popular Tivoli World amusement park to prevent any housing development speculation in the future.
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Mijas saw 600 additional British people sign onto the town's padrón - the municipal register - in 2020. Figures show a registered population of 89,005 - an increase of 3.2 per cent compared to the year before - making it the third largest town by p
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Club La Costa World, whose headquarters are in Mijas on Spain's Costa del Sol, has announced that it has been placed into liquidation. The bankruptcy administrator, Juan Carlos Robles, has told SUR that the liquidation affects seven companies in S
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Despite a lack of space remaining for development, Fuengirola has seen its population grow again this year. Passing the 80,000 mark for the first time, (with 82,000 people on the population census), Fuengirola is now the fourth largest municipality i
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The increase in the Covid-19 contagion rate in the province of Malaga - which already exceeds 300 per 100,000 inhabitants - has accelerated the rate of mass screening carried out by Junta de Andalucía. On Monday mobile screening units were in Gaucí
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Benalmádena's famous Club de Hielo ice skating rink is unlikely to open its doors again for at least six months - unless the Covid-19 restrictions are suddenly eased - according to officials at the town hall. On 5 December, the doors at the council
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Mijas council handed out subsidies of between 3,000 and 6,000 euros to more than 3,500 self-employed workers in the municipality in 2020. The aid, aimed at relieving the effects of the pandemic crisis, amounts to around 12 million euros, the larges
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The ice rink in Benalmádena took its users by surprise last weekend, informing them that the activities due to take place had been cancelled as the complex was closing. Given the surprise caused by the closure, mayor Víctor Navas offered his "suppo
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It's understandable that they're demanding a test. It's good, that way we're all safer." This was the opinion of the majority of passengers who got off the Ryanair flight from Brussels at Malaga Airport on Monday morning, the first required to comply
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The Three Kings will still bring gifts to children in Spain in the early hours of 6 January, but for the first time there will be no parades in the 103 municipalities of Malaga province during the evening before. The Covid-19 restrictions mean that t
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The situation of Mijas racecourse, which closed nearly ten years ago, has become a little closer to being resolved. The council has ratified the decision by Unicaja Banco to donate its shares in the Recursos Turísticos de Mijas S.A. company which man
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Residents in Calle La Unión in Mijas and Fuengirola have been unable to cross their own street since Tuesday, at least according to the new restrictions brought in by the Junta de Andalucía which involve prohibiting movement between municipalities to
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Residents in Calle La Unión in Mijas and Fuengirola are unable to cross their own street from today, at least according to the new restrictions brought in by the Junta de Andalucía which involve prohibiting movement between municipalities to help cur
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The some 14,000 British residents in Mijas and Fuengirola now have a selection of Tesco products available on their doorstep. The Food Co, a firm with an exclusive licence to sell goods from Tesco in Spain, opened only its second store in Spain on
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Fuengirola town hall's policy to give all residents free bus travel was approved without a single vote against in a council session last week. The council will now look into creating a new Municipal Mobility Card which can be acquired by anyone who
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The Tuesday after the first Monday in November in a leap year is a day like any other in Spain, but in the US it means election day, when the people choose their president thanks to an usual voting system which is unique in the world. The unusual
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Work to build the new water deposit in Mijas Pueblo - which has been made possible thanks to a special charge on municipal water bills for infrastructure projects - began this week. The project is being carried out jointly by the council and the A
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This summer alone Benalmádena town hall issued almost 500 fines for non-compliance with municipal bylaws, most of which were related to public cleanliness. As the councillor for Public Safety, Javier Marín, explained at a press conference on Wednes
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The 180-kilometre Senda Litoral coastal pathway which connects the entirety of Malaga province could be about to get much longer. The Cadiz provincial authority (Diputación) has expressed its interest in extending the path beyond Manilva, having seen
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Benalmádena town hall has been ordered to pay 435,600 euros for an engineering study that was requested in a "verbal and direct" way by then mayor Paloma García Gálvez (PP) in 2012, without putting the project out to tender. Not only did the projec
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Fuengirola town hall has given the green light to the detailed study of three plots in El Higuerón (in the upper part of Carvajal) which will enable 300 new properties to be built over the next few years. As explained by the Town Planning councill
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After several years in the pipeline, the Junta de Andalucía regional government has finally given its approval to the future park in Las Lagunas, Mijas. This will be the largest in the province of Malaga when construction is completed - with initial
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With the slump in visitors due to the pandemic, Mijas has seized the opportunity to rewrite its tourism guide in a bid to reach more people. The new 14-page document has been produced iin Spanish, English, French and German. It now includes four
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The future Marymar Plaza commercial development on the seafront in Benalmádena took a major step forward on Tuesday with the awarding of the contract to build a new car park. Promoter Jardines de las Cigarreras will be responsible for both the con
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Eighty-one phone calls are written in the diary of a GP in Malaga on a normal working day, and although that may seem a great many, most others who work in the health service deal with a similar number. Nor is this all they do. They also see patie
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The number of coronavirus patients admitted to hospital in the province of Malaga has doubled in the past week, rising to 42 people as of Monday. Three of them are in intensive care. Three more patients were admitted to Malaga hospitals between Sun
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Malaga province announced more than 100 new daily cases of Covid-19 - 113 - for the second consecutive 24-hour period on Friday. This is the highest increase recorded in the province since the height of the coronavirus lockdown, back in April. T
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The Boa nightclub (formerly Kiu) has been closed down by Benalmádena town hall for at least two weeks for failing to comply with Covid-19 health and safety regulations. The events that led to the decision to close the popular club in Plaza Solymar
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The more than 40,000 British nationals registered as resident in the province of Malaga have been expressing their indignation this week at the UK government's decision to order all travellers arriving from Spain to self-isolate for two weeks. Many
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So far this summer only just over 50% of community swimming pools have opened to residents, due to the extra costs involved in complying with new Covid-19 prevention regulations. According to Luis Camuña of the association of property administrator
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Details of the long-awaited project to create a new marina in Fuengirola have been announced. This infrastructure, which mayor Ana Mula says is "vital" for the town, is to be built on the same level as the seafront promenade and will therefore be ope
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Julieta is thought to be about 50 years old, although it is difficult to tell her exact age. What is known about this female chimpanzee, who has lived in the Bioparc in Fuengirola since it first opened in 2001, is that she was born in a circus and ta
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In response to growing demand from residents, Mijas mayor, Josele González, and councillor for Town Planning, Andrés Ruiz, announced on Wednesday that an 8,100-square-metre plot of land in Riviera del Sol had been designated for the construction of a
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Benalmádena town hall has awarded a one-million-euro contract which will see 14.5 kilometres of the municipality's roads resurfaced. This measure comes as part of the council's 50-million-euro investment in public infrastructure, announced last wee
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Just a week after the launch of its 'Plan Mijas', the town hall has already received more than 1,200 applications from self-employed and SMEs for grants of between 3,000 and 6,000 euros. After having listened to suggestions from local businesses, m
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Fuengirola is one of the Spanish towns with the most nationalities among its residents, but in Los Pacos you only hear Spanish (and not much) or Finnish spoken. This district is home to the biggest expat community of Finns in the world, even taking i
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Asmara, a Sumatran tiger that has lived in Fuengirola Bioparc since it opened in mid-2001, has died at the age of 19. She was the longest living tigress in the European conservation programme and the third oldest in the international Sumatran tiger
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After more than forty days indoors, neither fear of contagion nor the restrictions imposed by the government could prevent thousands of parents across Malaga province taking their children to their local parks, beaches and squares on Sunday. After
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The town hall in Mijas is to throw a lifeline to potentially thousands of local self-employed and small firms, with payouts of between 3,000 to 6,000 euros for those worst hit by coronavirus. Mayor Josele González said this week that the council w
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Almost 200 temporary hospital beds for Malaga and the Costa del Sol, ready to be used in record time. The regional Health ministry unveiled its extra Carranque I hospital facility this week, put together in a matter of days in part thanks to support
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Mijas council approved a raft of new financial measures in response to the pandemic during its first ever virtual meeting on Tuesday morning. Among the measures approved were financial support for SMEs and self-employed and low-income families, the
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The province of Malaga still has the most cases of coronavirus patients in Andalucía however the rate of growth has slowed slightly in the last few days. According to figures released on Monday afternoon by the regional Health authority, confirmed
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The mayor of Fuengirola, Ana Mula, has announced a cycling plan that will make bikes a priority on the town's roads. The plan will establish a network of bicycle-friendly streets, known as 'ciclocalles'. While these will still be open to motorised
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Residential developments in Mijas will now benefit from council-funded cleaning services, it has been announced. Though the majority of these developments have not yet been adopted by the town hall, mayor Josele González is keen to speed up the pro
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After eight years of delay, the promenade in Torrequebrada finally opened to the public this week. The final phase, which consisted of installing benches, lighting and access, has now been finished, drawing an end to a very "costly" project, as des
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We might find it hard to admit, but when Olivia Colman opens the envelope containing the winner of the Oscar for the best actor in a leading role she won't be shouting out "Antonioooo", emulating Penélope Cruz's cry of "Pedroooo!" at the ceremony sev
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Doing some structural improvements or a bit of building work at home should be less complicated from now on in Fuengirola. The final council meeting of 2019 approved a change to a planning bylaw that will allow people to start their building work
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After two decades with the idea on hold, Fuengirola has at last taken the first step towards a key new piece of infrastructure in a town which can't grow in size but can get better in terms of available services. Last week Fuengirola council annou
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Mijas town hall is expecting a marked increase in enquiries regarding Brexit in the wake of the Conservative victory in the UK general election last Thursday. According to the head of the Foreign Residents department, Arancha López, in October alon
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All change in the contract to collect rubbish throughout Fuengirola and clean some of its streets. The council has voted to swap Urbaser as the provider of a big part of its waste management services and replace it with FCC. The change will take pl
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Since closing in 2011, the building which housed the Unicaja Marymar old people's home on the seafront in Benalmádena Costa has fallen into a state of disrepair, so much so that in 2018 a part of the promenade had to be closed off to the public for f
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Fuengirola. The future of the old Mercacentro building in central Fuengirola is now known. The winning project for the renewal of the town's most emblematic place of commerce was revealed on Wednesday by mayor Ana Mula. The design phase of the proj
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Motorways should be free of charge for people with low incomes to use, but those with more money should have to pay the tolls, Alberto Garzón said this week. At an event in Malaga Port to present part of his manifesto for the General Election on 1
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A beach in La Cala de Mijas had to be closed to the public again this week due to a break in a sewage pipe. This was the second time in two weeks that Los Cordobeses beach had to be closed for the same reason. Sources at Mijas town hall say the pi
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More than three years after voters in the United Kingdom decided to leave the European Union, British residents in the province of Malaga are increasing in number, at least according to the official figures. This is the first time that the number of
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Whether Britain leaves the EU with or without a deal, British residents will have to apply for residency papers during a certain period of time after Brexit. With their padrón certificate from their town hall and their green EU residency paper or c
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Having brought an end to the recurring flooding in Las Lagunas, Mijas town hall has now turned its focus to the municipality's rural roads. The council has promised 100,000 euros as part of its Annual Plan for the Improvement of Rural Roads. The ma
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Mijas will have yet another new place for to visitors to stay after, according to sources, a Dutch company (Zorrito Leisure) purchased a building which will be made into 145-apartment tourist lodgings. The building, which is half-built, is located
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Following a year in the pipeline, approval has finally been given to a detail study for the construction of a hotel in the centre of La Cala de Mijas. Councillor for Urban Planning Andrés Ruiz announced that the council had given the green light fo
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After a rise in breaches of regulation of private-hire Uber-style vehicles in Mijas over the summer, mayor Josele González met with representatives of the Local Police, the taxi service and municipal technicians last week to discuss ways to improve t
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Mijas council is planning to take action to stop people acting as unofficial tourist guides in the municipality, and is training local police officers on how to identify and deal with them. Tourism councillor José Carlos Martín says the local authori
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Works will begin to complete the second phase of the promenade at Torrequebrada in the next few weeks, even though the local authority will have to finance the rest of this costly project itself because the grant from the Malaga provincial government
Opinion
If I had been born in the UK I am convinced I would be one of those people who enthusiastically wave the British flag at the Queen's jubilees. I don't even need to specify which queen, because Elizabeth II is the only one who honours an institution i
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The mayor of Malaga, Francisco de la Torre, proposed in the recent election campaign one of the most ambitious megaprojects in the city in recent years: hiding the main, west-east road alongside the city's port in a tunnel. The project would see 2.2
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Patching up roads, renovations, a quick lick of paint, with grandiose plans on hold for the long term. That's how the mayors of the bigger councils on the Costa have started off their new terms in office following the local elections at the end of Ma
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It may only have been going for three years but the Mijas Open has already become one of the highlights of the World Padel Tour. Until Sunday, the fairground in La Cala de Mijas plays host to the world's top padel players as the tour reaches its half
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There will be a special council session in Mijas town hall starting at 7pm on Monday, 29 July, to decide on the dates for this year's feria in Mijas Pueblo. The meeting is open to the public and attendees will be encouraged to take part in a debat
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Josele González is the first born-and-bred Mijas boy to be mayor of the municipality in modern times. Born in 1982, he has worked as a lifeguard, administrator and taxi driver. Socialist Josele González is Mayor of Mijas after eleventh-h
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What could happen today (5 July) in the council chamber of Mijas town hall, in Mijas Pueblo, was still unclear last night, as councillors gather to choose the municipality's mayor for the next four years. What will happen? Scenario One. The loca
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The refuse collection strike in Mijas was set to come to an end on Monday afternoon after the firm Urbaser agreed to renegotiate conditions with the workforce. An initial agreement was reached between employers and workforce on Sunday after Mijas t
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Mijas is one of the few town halls in Spain where there is still no mayor sworn in following May's local elections. Now it is looking more likely that the centre-right Ciudadanos party (Cs) will do a deal with the conservative Partido Popular (PP) af
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Mijas council has awarded the construction contract for an underground car park in the La Candelaria area of Las Lagunas, the largest of the new parking facilities being built in the area. The work will cost 7.8 million euros and will be carried out
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Satín Greco, one of the most well-known drag queens in Torremolinos, was attacked outside a nightclub by a group of young people, early last Saturday morning. She claimed, backed by witnesses, that the group attacked and tried to rob her as she left
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In the past few months, and especially with the general elections coming up, the debate has resumed again on 'empty Spain', the depopulation problem that affects rural areas all over the country, and Malaga is no exception. With this in mind, the '
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The council in Mijas was coming to terms this week with the possibility of having to pay compensation to some 100 homeowners for wrongfully taking possession and auctioning off their properties. The Andalusian High Court has ruled against the town
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The industrial unrest affecting refuse collection workers in Fuengirola that has been ongoing for two years is set to escalate once again in the coming weeks. Employees at the refuse collection operator, Urbaser, that holds a contract from the coun
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An accusation of phone-tapping of Mijas councillors and the mayor revealed last week was strange enough. But the story took a stranger turn this week with the news that the technical auditor who first discovered the reported tapping while checking st
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Just months from municipal elections, Mijas council has been rocked by a potential spying scandal and all political parties have expressed their shock at the revelation. Recently an independent audit began on a blocked management email account at
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The mayor of Fuengiola has been in touch with Renfe over the possibility of reducing the fare on the Cercaniás rail line for the four stations that run through the municipality. The idea, which came from the Ciudadanos group on the council, is to h
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After several years' hiatus, the World Padel Tour began last Saturday, 16 March in Marbella. To celebrate 70 years of the sport, ex-tennis player and Wimbledon champion, Manolo Santana, served as the patron of the event. Players this year included th
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The former long-standing mayor of Torremolinos has announced that he is leaving the conservative Partido Popular (PP) and looks set to lend his support to the independent political group, Por Mi Pueblo. Pedro Fernández Montes was mayor of Torremoli
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Within a few weeks Mijas will have the first Brexit information office in Malaga province. Mijas has more British residents than any other municipality in the province; they account for 25 per cent of the population. The mayor of Mijas, Juan Carlo
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A six-year project is to be started in the shadow of Fuengirola's Sohail castle to discover a lost ancient town. The Roman settlement of Suel was at the mouth of the Fuengirola river and now a team of archaeologists and anthropologists, supervised
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Urbanisation work has now started to prepare for a development with 700 properties to be built in La Cala de Mijas by the firm Quabit. The mayor of Mijas, Juan Carlos Maldonado, and the Planning councillor, Andrés Ruiz, announced the start of the w
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The new access route that will help people living to the north of Fuengirola to reach the coast road quicker at Carvajal is expected to be finished in April. The new road will start at the so-called Lions roundabout on the N-340 and stretch 450 met
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The Ciudadanos party (Cs) has threatened to end its pact running the western Costa Mancomunidad. The public authority provides pooled services es, such as water supply, to 11 municipalities on the western Costa and Cs, with representatives on its
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In a bid to promote year-round tourism, Mijas town hall is increasing its focus on other sectors to reduce the burden on sun and sand tourism. One such way has been to make the Alcornocal de la Roza del Aguado cork oak forest on the edge of La Cala d
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After years of complaints, Mijas town hall on Monday announced a 7,000-square-metre plot of land in Las Lagunas, next to the Instituto La Vega secondary school, was to be set aside for the town's new fire station. The new station will be located ne
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It used to be copper cabling that was stolen from local streets, but now daring thieves have turned their attention to taking manhole covers, drain covers and grids in a bid to get extra cash. Town halls on the western Costa, including Mijas, Fueng
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The mayor of Benalmádena, Víctor Navas, has said that he will put a motion before the next council meeting that, if successful, will pledge the town hall's support for the British community in the resort after Brexit. Britons are the biggest group
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A possible new railway station on the local Cercanías line at Nueva Torrequebrada took a step forward recently at a meeting in Madrid. Locals have been campaigning for the extra stop for years, and for the first time a mayor of Benalmádena has take
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The international World Padel Tour (WPT) announced its official calendar for 2019 on Monday with both Marbella and Mijas set to host events. In the case of the former, the tournament will be in Masters format and kicks off the new season, taking pl
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The local branch of the PSOE Socialist party in Mijas has broken the local government coalition pact with Ciudadanos, the party of the mayor, Juan Carlos Maldonado. The split comes after a week of friction and quarreling between the two parties, wh
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The councillor for Infrastructure in Mijas, José Carlos Martín, has said that joint roadworks being carried out with Fuengirola on a street on the municipal border are "now halfway through" and are expected to be finished before Easter. Both counci
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The mayor of Fuengirola, Ana Mula, has announced that the council is setting aside two million euros to buy up homes to use as social housing. She said that the initiative was to "help the people of Fuengirola who are going through a difficult time,
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Parts of Mijas municipality, especially Mijas Pueblo, look set to see some improvements to their water supply network shortly. The local council has said that work will start in two months to spend just over seven million euros that has been collec
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The mayor of Mijas, Juan Carlos Maldonado, announced on Wednesday that the work on the new dog park in Las Lagunas has been completed and would open on Thursday. "We are happy to announce the opening of this park for all the residents of the town
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Following the conclusion of the first phase of infrastructure improvements in the Torreblanca area of Fuengirola before Christmas, the second, more complex phase has been put out to tender. Residents in this area have been demanding these improveme
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With just five months left of the legislature, Mijas town hall is to set in motion some 30 new infrastructure projects at a cost of 700,000 euros. According to SUR sources, half of these projects will be put out to tender in the coming weeks, and t
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A local branch of La Caixa bank in Calahonda was held up by a "heavily-built" man with his face covered on Thursday, according to eyewitnesses and sources close to the investigation. According to these sources, the man entered the office, which had
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Every Christmas, the public library in Arroyo de la Miel announces a selection of new books and audiovisual material available to the public. This year there are over 650 new titles in 13 different languages for adults, teenagers and children. In
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Letting your dog urinate in the street without cleaning it up in Benalmádena is likely to come at a price from now on. The local council announced on Tuesday that it will change local bylaws relating to pets and will force owners or walkers to clean
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The athletics track and the football pitch at the Arroyo de la Miel municipal sports centre will reopen to the public at the start of 2019. This is according to Benalmádena mayor Víctor Navas who on Monday visited the site alongside Sports councillor
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Although these are the times of speed dating and Tinder, it is still possible to find love with the help of a matchmaker and arranged marriage. That, at least, is what is happening to one of the most famous inhabitants of Bioparc, a gorilla called Ec
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The new section of the Senda Litoral (coastal path) in Mijas opened between the beach bars El Capricho and El Juncal on Monday. The works, costing 900,000 euros, were paid for by the town hall. The funding for the remaining 5.3 kilometre stretch b
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Legal proceedings against the mayor of Mijas, Juan Carlos Maldonado, and two councillors have been halted by a judge in Fuengirola after doubts arose over whether a person who had supposedly lodged a complaint about them actually exists. This bega
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Since the announcement just over a year ago that the historical Hotel Byblos in Mijas was to reopen, the municipality has continued to attract large new investment projects. The latest news is that the Logarma SL company plans to spend around 60 mill
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Repair work to the stretches of the coastal walkway damaged by the recent bad weather spell in Mijas have begun. Almost 36,000 euros are being spent to repair the paths with special security measures being implemented to guard against a repeat of t
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Not for the first time, the IES Las Lagunas secondary school has received recognition from a major organisation. Last year its headteacher received the National Education Prize, while this year it has been chosen by the European Parliament Liaison Of
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The excessive use of shisha pipes in bars in Benalmádena has provoked a campaign by the town's Health department to inform people of the dangers associated with them. According to Alicia Laddaga, Health councillor, one hour using one of these 'hub
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Spokesperson for Ciudanandos in Fuengirola, Javier Toro, on Tuesday presented a motion to make it easier for foreign residents to vote in the European and municipal elections in May 2019. He proposed launching an informative campaign in Spanish, as
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Residents and tourists in La Cala de Mijas will be getting 24-hour cover at the local health centre at last, as well as a seven-day emergency ambulance service. The announcement comes after years of campaigning by locals. Currently once the daytime
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The common porpoise, a species that experts believed had disappeared from this part of the Mediterranean, has made a comeback with seven sightings recorded in a recent report. Scientists at OceanSea, in collaboration with Costasol Cruceros, have r
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Mijas town hall's announcement of new regulations to control the conditions of the animals providing Mijas Pueblo's traditional Burro-Taxi service has, far from being praised, revived calls from animal rights activists for an end to the tourist rides
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An event that started as a way to promote the huge variety and quality of the gastronomy available in Fuengirola has now been running for ten years. This year the Ruta de la Tapa Erótica (Erotic Tapa Route), will begin on 1 November and continue unti
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The Plaza Virgen de la Peña in Mijas will be the venue for Mijas' first wine and cheese festival from today, 26 October until Sunday 28 October. There will be twenty-two stalls open from 1pm until midnight selling a huge variety of both wines and
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Animal-rights campaigners, Pacma, have reacted angrily to plans by Mijas council to improve the conditions of the famous donkey-taxis for tourists in Mijas Pueblo. On Monday, the mayor of Mijas, Juan Carlos Maldonado, announced details of a hoped-f
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An agreement between Mijas and Fuengirola councils means that work on 300 metres of Calle Unión, on the border between the two municipalities, can start. The street is the dividing line between Las Lagunas, Mijas, and Fuengirola. The work, which
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A council has offered to use some of its own money to put in breakwaters to stop sand being eroded from popular tourist beaches, despite it not being its responsibility to build them. The mayor of Benalmádena, Víctor Navas, wants to find a permanen
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...benalmádena. Enrique Bolín, former mayor of Benalmádena at different times since 1966, died on Wednesday night, aged 78. The current mayor, Víctor Navas, made the announcement on Thursday. Bolín had been a colourful personality in Benalmádena sinc
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Mijas council is to spend 868,000 euros on the construction of a bridge to provide improved access from residential estates to the A-387 Fuengirola-Mijas Pueblo road. The improved road link will give better access from the around 700 homes in the
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The political life of Mijas took another turn last week after Costa del Sol Sí Puede (CSSP) councillor Francisco Martínez made a surprise announcement that he was breaking the pact with PSOE and Ciudadanos and accused the two parties of failing to co
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The finishing date for the long-awaited new A-7 motorway exit in Arroyo de la Miel has been brought forward by more than two years. Public Works minister, José Luis Ábalos, said, following a meeting in Madrid on Wednesday with the mayor, Víctor Nav
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Water leaks in 81 premises within Fuengirola port are to be repaired by the town hall. More than 300,000 euros will be spent to complete the work but the council insists that, besides these works, the area needs to undergo a facelift. The port au
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Pets are now allowed back onto the beaches in Mijas, the Beaches department has confirmed, after the end of the high season. This falls in line with the bylaw approved in 2014 which allows beach users to take their pets outside of high season, prov
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Mijas celebrated its traditional Tourist Day on Wednesday, and as usual large numbers of people gathered in the Plaza Virgen de la Peña in Mijas Pueblo where most of the activities took place. The mayor, Juan Carlos Maldonado, and Tourism councillor
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CLC World Resorts & Hotels has announced that it has sold 90 per cent of its new development, Santa Barbara Heights. The news comes as the Mijas Costa area in general is enjoying a period of growth and new development, which is also helping to boos
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Benalmádena council is to build a new food market in the Arroyo de la Miel area. Councillors have announced that the contracts to design, build and operate the new market will be put out to tender soon. The planned 1,000-square-metre building will
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With the aim of showing families the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, the 'Caravana de la Salud' (Health Caravan) parked up in Mijas on Tuesday. The project is the initiative of international chef Ferrán Adrià, Carrefour and Disney and was present
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Mijas council's most ambitious project for this legislatative period has taken an important step forward. Last week it was announced that about 70 per cent of the more than 200 apartment and house developments that do not currently get road maintenan
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The mayor of Mijas, Juan Carlos Maldonado, and the councillor for Operational Services, José Carlos Martín, on Monday visited the area known as 'El Llano' in La Cala where work to turn the area into a car park had just been completed . More than 50
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Former mayor of Mijas, and current PP candidate for the upcoming mayoral elections, Ángel Nozal, was in court this week accused of planning irregularities. Nozal was called in after a court in Fuengirola initiated proceedings following a complaint
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Manuel Valls, French prime minister between 2014 and 2016, was the invited speaker at a symposium organised by SUR at the Hotel Barceló in Malaga last week. The politician, who was born in Barcelona in 1962, has been linked with a return to frontli
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Mijas town hall has issued a 2.4-million-euro fine to Urbaser, the contractor responsible for refuse collection and street cleaning in the town. According to SUR sources, the fine has been issued for not "respecting the contract". According to th
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The Malaga tattoo convention celebrated its fifth anniversary last weekend, once more attracting thousands of people from far and wide. Whilemany came to get a tattoo themselves, the skill of the tattoo artists, alongside shows, performances and live
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The CLC World Foundation has recently handed over five computers and other office material to the Mijas and Fuengirola branch of the Spanish cancer association AECC. The donation is part of the wider collaboration plans that the cancer charity and
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A small aparthotel is to be opened in the centre of Mijas Pueblo. According to planning councillor, Andrés Ruiz, a house dating from 1840 on the Plaza de la Constitución, in the heart of the village, will be redeveloped at a cost of 354,000 euros.
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Residents' associations and neighbourhood Facebook groups have been reporting a surge in sightings of rats in river areas of Mijas Costa and Fuengirola in the last weeks of the summer. One of the areas affected is the stream bed crossing La Cala de
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The town hall in Torremolinos has said that it has started the much-anticipated archeological and structural study of a historic tower that gave its name to the resort. Councillors want to fully conserve the structure of Torre Pimentel and tidy up
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An 82-year-old man of Basque origin was pronounced dead at a beach in Fuengirola on Tuesday afternoon after lifeguards unsuccessfully attempted to resuscitate him. The man was seen floating face down on the water by bathers at around 2pm close to t
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Owners of shops, bars and restaurants in La Cala de Mijas are calling for the World Padel Tour to be staged in their village again next year. The most important world tournament series in this locally very popular racquet sport held one if its stages
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A strike by refuse workers in Fuengirola is due to start today, Friday 10 August. Employees at Urbaser, the contract holder for refuse collection and part of the street cleaning services in the resort, are to start a partial stoppage over pay and con
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A new local rural police service, tasked with patrolling country areas of the Mijas municipality, was launched by the town's mayor, Juan Carlos Maldonado, last week. The department's objective is to "improve the services we offer to the people in t
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The local council in Fuengirola has spent much of the last week trying to calm locals' fears that the proposed new set of bylaws designed to stamp out antisocial behaviour was going to restrict some of their favourite pastimes. The mayor, Ana Mula,
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The Junta de Andalucía regional government announced emergency measures on Tuesday to eradicate or reduce the wild boar and pig population in over 100 municipalities across the region, including Mijas. The move comes after a surge in numbers of the
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Councillors in Mijas have announced plans to build into planned modifications to the PGOU master town plan changes which allow them to build 1,100 more units of social housing. The new homes will be on land in the Torreblanca del Sol area in the mu
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A stretch of beach alongside a derelict seafront retirement home has had to be closed off because the local council says the structure is in danger of falling down on beachgoers. Ever since it shut in 2011, Benalmádena council has been trying to ge
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Following complaints from local businesses about illegal street vendors on Benalmádena Costa, the town hall has organised a police operation that seized 1,367 items which were being sold unlawfully. Earlier this month, the Benalmádena business and
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Residents in the seafront district of Carvajal, in Fuengirola, have had enough of the motorhomes and mobile caravans "camped out" on their paseo marítimo. They are calling for the local authorities to do more about the supposed problem, claiming that
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There will be a new connection between Benalmádena and Torremolinos before too long. The mayors of the two municipalities signed an agreement at a press conference earlier this week to build a bridge which will link the adjoining areas of La Leala No
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Mijas town hall has announced that both the M122 bus which connects Fuengirola and Mijas, as well as the M220 between Fuengirola and Marbella, will run more services during the summer months. "This is a tourist municipality and when the summer come
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The second phase of the transformation of central Torremolinos is well under way and during a visit to the works on Wednesday, the town's mayor, José Ortiz, announced that the new Plaza Costa del Sol would be complete by December. Ortiz described t
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The council in Fuengirola has announced that works to improve the last stretch of Avenida Alcalde Clemente Díaz will begin on 5 September and are likely to last for 72 days. With financial support from the provincial government, almost 1.6 million
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Neighbours of Fuengirola have demanded that local authorities find a solution to the current situation in Bernabé Tierno park. A group of people, mostly from northern Europe, regularly meet in the park to take part in unsafe and unsanitary activities
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More than 200 'urbanizaciones' of houses and flats in Mijas have a great deal of work ahead and money to spend to complete the process of being adopted by the council. The mayor of Mijas, Juan Carlos Maldonado, met with the presidents of the reside
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A group of archaeologists contracted by Mijas council have just discovered a perfectly-preserved square oven which could be one of the most important findings in Malaga province. The soundings and excavations are being carried out at Finca de Acebedo
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Rainbow flags were once again paraded through the centre of Torremolinos as the town became the centre of LGBT Pride over the course of the weekend. More than 50,000 people gathered in the Plaza La Nogalera across the three-day event to defend freedo
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The busy Coín road through the Las Lagunas area of Mijas Costa is set to be improved in the coming months after Mijas council took over its maintenance from the Junta de Andalucía regional government. All 5.7km of the road from the junction with the
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Mijas councillor for beaches, Josele González, announced that the town will also increase its lifeguard service, for the second year in a row, by offering a team of 76 lifeguards. This will be the highest number in the province, ensuring Mijas' beach
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Fuengirola town council announced last Saturday that plans are under way for a new structure on San Francisco beach which will improve accessibility. The objective is to help elderly and disabled people to enjoy the sea with reduced difficulty. Fac
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Mijas town hall has announced that it has provisionally reserved land in the El Ensanche de la Cala area for a hypothetical coastal train. The councillor for Urban Development, Andrés Ruiz, explained that the objective is for an extended Cercanías
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The more than 200 unadopted housing developments in Mijas, which currently don't receive many council services, will soon find out under what conditions the town hall will be prepared to take over upkeep of their streets and offer full services. So
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The mayor of Fuengirola has given an update on ongoing works to build a new link road from Carvajal to Torreblanca. Work on the complicated link, which has to run under the railway line, started in February and is expected to go on until April nex
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Local residents are well-used to their journey along the A-7 coastal motorway from Marbella and Fuengirola being disrupted by an accident between kilometres 200 and 202 at La Cala de Mijas. This week a local politician highlighted just how dangerous
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The books of Mijas have found a new place to lock themselves away, so to speak. A new project from the local government hopes to establish a new public library in a building which was part of the former Guardia Civil headquarters in Mijas Pueblo. T
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The relationship between the mayor of Mijas, Juan Carlos Maldonado, and the mayor of Fuengirola, Ana Mula, is not going through its best period. Despite the geographic closeness of the two municipalities, especially where the Mijas area of Las Laguna
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The company which manages the Costa del Sol racecourse, Recursos Turísticos de Mijas, has filed for bankruptcy. This has come as no surprise to Mijas council, as it had been on the cards for several months. The decision puts an end to the joint v
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The first open meeting took place in La Cala de Mijas on Tuesday to keep local residents informed about progress on the participatory budgets which are to be introduced in the municipality for the first time next year. At the meeting, which was hel
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At one time there were doubts about whether the Marbella music festival would take place this year. However, the organisation has been name-dropping its 2018 lineup on an almost weekly basis. The list is characterised by its size (with 33 more DJ set
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La Cala Resort announced last week that a new manager had taken over the leisure and golf resort. Sean Corte Real, a former professional golf player of Portuguese and British origin, has taken on the role with the aim of bringing an international dim
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A 38-year-old Bulgarian man was arrested on Sunday afternoon in connection with the death of his mother who died as a result of 13 stab wounds. It is not yet known whether she died at the scene or was taken to hospital first. The incident occurred
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In 2018 Malaga province has gained one more blue flag for its beaches than last year, reaching a grand total of 25. The award, granted by the Environmental and Consumer Association (Adeac), recognises beaches and marinas which meet a series of enviro
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The disused building next to Fuengirola's port that was once used my McDonald's is to be turned into a tourist information and visitor centre. The council has voted on a plan to restore the building, which has been empty for several years. Local pe
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La Cala Resort has announced the appointment of a new director, Sean Corte Real. With extensive experience in resort management around the world, he aims to give the resort a greater international dimension and to "continue the path of excellence tha
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The mayor of Mijas, Juan Carlos Maldonado, has written to the national government asking that Mijas municipality isn't forgotten in any new rail project for the western Costa del Sol. While the debate centres on whether a slower Cercanías line or
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The mayor of Mijas, Juan Carlos Maldonado, has made the surprise announcement that he has set aside four million euros in the council budget to go towards funding a new hospital for the Mijas area, to be built on a proposed site in Las Lagunas. Mij
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Although the Ministry of Finance does plan to ease restrictions further on municipalities which have a surplus, some town halls which are in this situation but also have no debt and money in the bank are asking for more concessions now. These range f
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The legal situation with the Costa del Sol racecourse in Mijas, which has not hosted any horse races for some years, is complicated and still ongoing. However, Mijas councillors José Carlos Martín and Nuria Rodríguez hope to bring new life to the f
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After at least five weeks out of action, the lift up to the platform at Los Boliches train station, in Fuengirola, is working again. The busy stop on the Cercanías line to Malaga, which is used by 600,000 passengers a year, has been without a lift
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The mayor of Mijas, Juan Carlos Maldonado, has said that the work to stop street flooding in the area around the Coín exit of the A-7 motorway in Las Lagunas has been completed. Improvements have been made to storm drains and surfaces in the busy are
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Shop and business owners in the Las Palmeras development on Fuengirola seafront have reported "substandard improvement works" carried out on their buildings by the local council. The town hall asked for almost 1.5 million euros to spruce up the area
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Councillors in Mijas are urging the central government to set up a National Police station in the municipality to help improve services for residents. Currently Mijas does not have coverage by National Police and residents have to go to neighbouring
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Two weeks after the two ruling parties on Mijas council, Ciudadanos and PSOE, added the all-important support of the one Podemos councillor to gain a majority, the municipal budgets were approved on Monday. The budget for this year has risen once m
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The Jardines de la Veguilla area in Fuengirola is undergoing a complete makeover as the town hall invests 700,000 euros to create more green space. The area between Plaza de la Hispanidad and Avenida Jesús Santos Rein, near the fairground, will be
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A 42-year-old man has been arrested over a string of thefts from hotel rooms in Fuengirola. Police started investigating after reports of a man seen climbing out of a hotel via balconies. It is believed he pretended to be a guest before breaking into
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The council in Fuengirola has unanimously approved a detailed study of a plot of land in Carvajal where developers Aedas Homes hope to build up to 150 new homes on land whose boundary lies within 50 metres of the Cercanías train track. The presenta
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The two ruling parties on Mijas council have added the all-important support of the one councillor belonging to the Podemos party to secure a pact to bring stability to the town hall until the end of the current legislature in May next year. The so
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The renovation of Calle Romería del Rocío, near the Fuengirola showground, began this week. The works on this busy residential street include a complete revamp of the street and all of its infrastructure, including drainage, sewers, services, drink
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"At risk of collapse." That is how a Mijas councillor has described the state of a footbridge over the A-7 motorway by the Fuengirola welcome sign, near the old Hotel Beatriz Palace and the BP petrol station. The southern end of the bridge is in Fuen
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A taxi specially adapted for pets has taken to the streets of Mijas. The vehicle that is driven by taxi driver Concha Cano has a special area with a harness for pets, which means owners can use it without bringing the animals' customary carrying case
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There was good news for residents of the Pueblo Don Silverio estate in Mijas last week. The Mijas councillor for Urban Planning, Andrés Ruiz, has told residents of 47 houses in the area between Mijas village and Fuengirola centre that they are finall
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To local people it's often called Calle del Hambre (hunger street) but to many tourists and foreign residents alike who are in search of a restaurant in Fuengirola, the area is more frequently known as Fish Alley. The name refers to the concentrati
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The joint venture between British constructor Taylor Wimpey and the La Cala Resort group is proving an enormous success, according to representatives of the two firms. They say properties are selling well, and they have now just announced that a n
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The complex plan to incorporate some 200 independent housing estates and residential complexes into the street services provided by Mijas council reaches one if its critical points this month. According to sources, Mijas town hall has finished the au
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Since snowboarder Regino Hernández became Spain's first medal winner in 26 years at the Winter Olympics two weeks ago, he has received one recognition after another. Earlier this week it was the turn of his neighbours and friends in Mijas to pay trib
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The town hall in Mijas has said that some 8,000 residents in historic Mijas Pueblo will be able to modify their homes and businesses faster in future. Applications will now be dealt with by new council rules and not have to pass through the regiona
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Mijas council has been told it has to pay 360,000 euros in compensation to staff for irregularities in employment contracts and conditions. According to sources, the amounts relate to decisions under the previous PP administration and include 233,0
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Mijas council is to debate in next month's full council session the planning application for a shopping park on the well-known Camping Fuengirola site, near the A-7 and Sohail castle. The campsite sits across the boundary of Mijas and Fuengirola and
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In a special meeting convened to discuss controversy over who runs the district's public sport facilities, Mijas's ruling councillors have said that they will aim for the fees for using the different installations and services to be cut by half for r
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Supermarket giant Lidl is to open a large new store in the Las Lagunas area of Mijas. With a projected cost of 12 million euros, the shop will be built on land in Calle Roble next to the district's social security office and near Avenida de Mijas.
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Tax collectors are to auction 14,000 square metres of land, part of Mijas's horseracing complex, to recover the debts of the failed public-private company that ran it and collapsed with losses of four million euros. The land was once a karting trac
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The area of Torreblanca in Fuengirola is set to see significantly improved links with the rest of the municipality and the Costa under new plans explained by local mayor, Ana Mula, this week. Work has already started on a new link road inland from
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Fuengirola council passed its 2018 budget on Tuesday, with votes from the ruling Partido Popular councillors. Mayor Ana Mula explained that the budget allowed for investment of nine million euros, three million euros more than last year. Sums hav
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Earlier this week Andalucía became a pioneer in Europe by introducing a law to guarantee the rights, equal treatment and non-discrimination against gays, lesbians, transsexuals, bisexuals and intersexuals. Under this new law fines of between 6,000
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Mijas town hall has moved to clear one of the buildings on Calle Clavel in Las Lagunas of squatters who had been causing "mayhem" for nearby residents. Local Police officers alongside staff from Social Services and mayor Juan Carlos Maldonado enter
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Fuengirola's indoor market, Mercacentro, has 99 stalls, of which only 30 are currently open. In the last month three have closed down due to lack of trade, despite the market's prime location in the town centre. Stallholders have blamed the lack of b
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Fuengirola town hall has said that the collapse of part of a wall on the Termas de Torreblanca Roman baths archaeological site has been caused by the roots of a large bougainvillea plant. It was first suggested that the damage to the remains of the
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The Andalusian high court, TSJA, has annulled an infrastructure plan involving part of the Torreblanca area of Fuengirola, in a response to an appeal filed by home owners in a case that dates back to 2011. The ruling, published last Friday, means t
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An opinion poll, conducted by SW Demoscopia and to which SUR has been granted exclusive access, shows that support for Ciudadanos (C's) in Mijas has grown since the last elections in 2015. C's mayor, Juan Carlos Maldonado, who was first installed a
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The Spanish men's hockey team have won both of their matches so far in the 5 Nations hockey tournament, which is hosted between Malaga's Carranque sports complex and the Retamar hockey centre in Benalmádena. The other participants are Canada, Irela
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The mayor of Fuengirola, Ana Mula, told a council meeting this week that the current owner of the concession to collect rubbish and carry out some street cleansing in the municipality will see out the full four years of its contract after all. Mula
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An international women's organisation has launched a guide to assist foreign residents on the Costa del Sol and Malaga province faced with experiences of domestic violence. Presenting the new guide by the local branch of Soroptimist International
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Mijas council approved its 2018 budget at last on Monday against the odds. The town hall, which is run by a minority coalition of Ciudadanos and Socialist councillors, was facing a difficult challenge ahead of the council session as the opposition
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Rural areas of Mijas (which account for almost a quarter of the population after Mijas Pueblo, Las Lagunas and La Cala) should begin to receive more services in the next few years. Town Planning councillor Andrés Ruiz met recently with representati
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Opposition politicians are asking for the cleaning services in Fuengirola to be carried out by council workers, now that the Urbaser company has announced that it will no longer be continuing with the concession. They say the present model is not w
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The town hall in Mijas plans to double the amount it spends in 2018 on flood prevention measures for the streets of Las Lagunas. This comes on top of a renewed effort in the last financial year to put an end to repeated flooding in this low-lying a
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Mayor of Mijas, Juan Carlos Maldonado, of the Ciudadanos party, has started the year with two key financial decisions pending approval by councillors and still has some negotiating to do to ensure his plans win a majority vote in the chamber. Desp
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The councillor for Social Services in Fuengirola, Francisco José Martín, has been explaining improvements made to social services coverage in the municipality since last July. Saying that the aim of the changes is "to get closer" to residents, he a
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An off-duty Guardia Civil officer intervened in an alleged incident of domestic violence earlier this month, a released report has said. The officer, in his own car, saw "a man assaulting a woman in the presence of two small children" in his rear-v
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Calle Antequera, one of La Cala de Mijas' busiest roads, was reopened to the public on Tuesday. The road, close to the coast has now "improved its tourist appeal", said Mijas mayor, Juan Carlos Maldonado, at the opening, which was attended by many
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Mijas council has carried out a feasibility study into swapping the pedestrian bridge that runs over the A-7 linking the two sides of Las Lagunas for a road bridge. It says that the increasing population in the area means driving around the Las Lag
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Over 80 rubbish containers on the streets of Fuengirola are to be put inside 23 specially built underground units. Fuengirola council says it is to spend a million euros, taken from an underspend on its 2016 budget, "with the aim of improving the l
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After years of complaints from local residents, Mijas council has announced that it has finished putting up 20 street-lighting columns along the previously unlit Camino de Campanales, between the Fuengirola-Mijas road and Avenida de Mijas in Las Lagu
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The Malaga provincial court has sentenced a man to seven years in prison for trying to kill a woman due to an "unrequited love that had become an obsession", according to prosecutors. The attack occurred in September 2015 when the man approached the
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The company behind the planned huge leisure park development in Torremolinos has announced that it expects some 2,500 construction jobs to be created once building gets under way. British-owned Intu says that contracts will last up to three years
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Mijas council has approved a building licence for the construction of 50 new holiday properties on the Club la Costa resort in Mijas Costa. The owners are expected to spend six million euros expanding their holiday ownership complex and have agreed
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Fuengirola council has bought a private plot of land in Torreblanca which contains important Roman ruins dating from the first century BC. The ruins alongside the N-340 were once a bathhouse and were declared of special historical interest in 2005
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Mijas town hall has designated a plot of land for the construction of a long-awaited residence for the elderly in Las Lagunas. This step in turn gives the green light to the drawing up of the plans and the tender process. The mayor, Juan Carlos Maldo
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Developers Urbania International launched the first phase of the Higuerón West 217 project in Fuengirola on Monday. The 250-million-euro scheme involves the construction of a luxury apartment complex in the Higuerón Capellanía area in Fuengirola ne
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The mayor of Mijas, Juan Carlos Maldonado, has said that the council is looking for ways to fund the planned new local hospital for Fuengirola and Mijas. Faced with what it says is the urgent need to improve healthcare in the area, the council is
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The planned local hospital for Fuengirola and Mijas will be built on the Avenida de Andalucía in Las Lagunas, near Parque Miramar. The building will cover a plot of 150,000 square metres, of which 60,000 will be dedicated to the health facility. P
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Road improvements to Calle de La Unión are to cost nearly a million euros and are to be carried out by the local town halls, in plural. This street runs along the boundary line between the municipalities of Mijas and Fuengirola and so residents on
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Opposition politicians in Fuengirola have criticised the council for "neglect" of the town's historical legacy by shutting down parts of the local museum. The Museo de la Ciudad, near Bioparc, has just one exhibition room currently open, despite a
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Road improvements to Calle La Unión are to cost nearly a million euros and are to be carried out by the local town halls, in plural. This street runs along the boundary line between the municipalities of Mijas and Fuengirola and so residents on one
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So far in 2017 Mijas council has granted licences to 237 businesses for new premises, expansion or name changes. This figure is more than double the figure in 2016. Councillor for Town Planning, Andrés Ruiz, expressed how pleased he was with these
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The historic Camping Fuengirola which is found on the stretch of land between Mijas and Fuengirola, will undergo a massive transformation in the next few months in order to be converted into a large-scale shopping centre. The project has required a p
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Ricardo Criado can't catch the train at his nearest station, which is Carvajal, a district in Fuengirola. There are 119 steps up to the platform and Ricardo, who uses an electric wheelchair, can't get up them. Nor is he the only person affected. You
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One of the most characteristic images of the years prior to the economic crisis was the cranes. From 2008 onwards these structures disappeared from the skyline of municipalities in Malaga; a sign that the construction industry was at a standstill, wi
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José Carlos Martín, the councillor for Operational Services in Mijas, announced this week that roadsigns and markings are to be replaced throughout the municipality, as part of a project to improve safety in the area. The total cost is expected to be
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Plans have now been drawn up for a new road to link the east and west sides of Las Lagunas, in Mijas Costa, and the council has agreed to reserve funds from next year's budget to pay for the works. The road will run east to west between the Avenida d
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In recent months, several foreign investors have been looking at Mijas as a possible business opportunity. It is an attractive location, especially because of the large numbers of foreign citizens who live or have a second home in the municipality. A
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A new tourist office is to open at the end of this year near the town hall building in La Cala de Mijas. More than 20,000 euros are being spent on preparing the area where the new office will be located in the main boulevard. The next phase of th
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Fuengirola town hall unfurled a giant Spanish flag on the fairground on Thursday to mark the Día de Hispanidad or Spain's national day. The flag measured 50 metres in length and, according to municipal sources, is the longest in the world of its ki
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Residents of La Cala de Mijas are growing increasingly concerned by the inaction of the local government in addressing the lack of public health services available in the town. The coastal resort, which has seen a considerable rise in tourist numbe
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One of the biggest projects proposed by the Ciudadanos party in Mijas is one step further towards becoming a reality, as the council has now contracted the Cemosa and Ingenia companies to carry out a detailed study of all the residential developments
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It is difficult to know exactly how many people in Malaga province live in an 'urbanización', the Spanish word used for residential developments that can range from a simple apartment complex to vast estates covering various hectares. In recent ye
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Despite the horrible series of events that Negri has had to endure, her nightmare tale has finally reached a happy conclusion. On 12 June at around 5.45pm, police in Fuengirola received a call alerting them that a man (Negri's previous owner) was all
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Fuengirola has announced that measures to prevent terror attacks were to be stepped up following a meeting between the town hall and the central government representative, Miguel Briones. Similar meetings, with the presence of the National Police,
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Just a few days after announcing the arrival of a Sumatran tiger, Bioparc Fuengirola has welcomed a special new resident, the first ever golden-cheeked gibbon to be born in Spain. Gibbons are born blond so that young can blend into the fur of thei
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Mijas town hall has given the green light to the project to renovate the Hotel Byblos in Mijas, one of the Costa's most iconic hotels once frequented by famous faces including Princess Diana. It is expected that work will get under way either at t
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Harau, a two-year-old Sumatran tiger, has a new home. From now on he will live in Fuengirola's Bioparc as part of a Europe-wide conservation programme designed to encourage reproduction outside the species' natural habitat. It is hoped that Harau,
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The ex-mayor of Mijas, Ángel Nozal, and leader of the PP group on the council is to be quizzed by an investigating judge. The formal interview will take place on 5 October and is in connection with the supposed offer of a job at Club la Costa resor
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Curro orders people about a great deal on El Palo beach, near the legendary Casa Pedro restaurant. He has no official authority or position, but is the self-appointed 'parking attendant' in that area: the person who officiously organises the few and
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Workers at a hotel and catering college that has been shut for three years could soon be getting their outstanding pay checks. The CIOMijas college, in La Cala de Mijas, closed when the consortium running it, a joint venture of the Junta de Andalu