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Local towns on the Costa del Sol fail green-space test

PILAR R. QUIRÓS

...larger places in Malaga province have failed in their environmental duty. With the exception of Marbella, which has 29.7 square metres of green zone per local resident, Antequera, with 29.2 and Vélez-Malaga with 19.09, the other large towns do not meet ... addition to around 20 new green spaces created in the past decade which have increased the amount of space by 255,000 square metres. Antequera, with 29.24 square metres of green zones per inhabitant, can also boast of being one of the greenest

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Yellow warning issued ahead of more rain this weekend

Spain's meteorological agency, Aemet, has once again issued yellow weather warnings across the Costa del Sol, Axarquía, Guadalhorce and the Antequera areas, for today (Friday) and tomorrow. The warning follows forecasts of further rain and storms in

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Brutal murderer sentenced to 25 years

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A 43-year-old Brazilian man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for murdering an old friend in June 2017. The man and his daughter called in to see an old friend. Once in the house, he ordered his daughter to search for money in his friend's

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Gold watch stolen in Santander 18 years ago turns up in Antequera

A. J. GUERRERO

National Police on 1 February recovered, as a result of an inspection of a gold shop in Antequera, a gold women's watch which was among several items stolen from a home in Santander 18 years ago, in 2000. A man and a woman, aged 27 and 28,

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Classic cars comes together in Antequera

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More than 50 vintage cars and their owners met in Antequera last Saturday for the town's first ever Classic Vehicles of Antequera Meeting.

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Inland towns and villages around Antequera join together to complain about poor water supply in summer months

FERNANDO TORRES

The mayors of 14 towns and villages around Antequera and the north of Malaga province have signed a joint declaration calling for an "urgent" meeting to find a solution to the shortages of drinking water faced in their municipalities. The town ... halls of Humilladero, Alameda, Antequera, Archidona, Cuevas Bajas, Cuevas de San Marcos, Mollina, Fuente de Piedra, Villanueva de Algaidas, Villanueva del Rosario, Villanueva del Trabuco, Villanueva de la Concepción and Villanueva de Tapia have sent

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Pullmantur returns to Malaga's cruise port with autumn programme

Pilar Martínez

Marbella and Mijas, as well as inland places, such as Antequera. The company is the only one dedicated to Spanish-speaking customers . President and CEO of Pullmantur Cruceros, Richard J. Vogel, said, "We are delighted to return to Malaga, a port

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Summer nights in Antequera

ANTONIO J. GUERRERO

The dolmens, El Torcal, the Alcazaba and the Peña de los Enamorados will be open for many different activities and theatrical tours during the summer for this year's Luz de la Luna festival which began in Antequera last Friday and will run until 14 ... ancient Alcazaba a group of actors will recreate chapters from history such as the legendary lovers who leapt to their deaths from the Peña de los Enamorados. And on Thursdays in the old quarter of Antequera, the programme offers a route around the

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Antequera opens new tourism office four times bigger than the old one

A. J. GUERRERO.

Antequera town council has spent 120,000 euros on a new and improved tourist information office that opened its doors on Thursday last week, coinciding with World Tourism Day. The new premises are designed to absorb the increasing number of visitors

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Woman, 86, run over by a van in Antequera

A. J. GUERRERO

An 86-year-old woman was rushed to hospital on Wednesday morning after being run over by a van. She was attended to immediately by two health workers who happened to be closeby. The mayor of Antequera, Manuel Barón, witnessed the accident ... himself and called for an ambulance. The woman, who was waiting for a bus at the time of the accident, was taken to Antequera hospital with injuries to both her legs.