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CHARO MÁRQUEZ
A forest fire broke out on Tuesday evening in the Sierra Crestellina near the town of Casares, forcing the closure of the MA-8300 and the evacuation of around twenty homes. A team including 120 firefighters, six specialist advisers and four environme
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LUCÍA PALACIOS
ENTREPRENEURS 800 self-employed workers a day on average left the system in July. 13,000 shops are likely to disappear by the end of this year, according to Uatae forecasts. The statistics show that in the past four years an average of 22 shops have closed ... 11,537 shops have closed in the past year. There is no sign of this improving, because Uatae predicts that by the end of December this year around 13,000 businesses will have gone, so the trend is expected to continue. This is of particular concern ... reduction of 5.6 per cent. The second most affected region is Galicia, with 3,587 fewer traders, and then Castilla y León, which lost 3,455. At the other end of the scale, fewer shops have closed in the Canary Islands, Murcia and La Rioja, where the
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F. GRIÑÁN.
Malaga city's Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) remains closed to the public as firms dispute the awarding of the contract to run the gallery for the next four years. Three firms whose bids were rejected have formally appealed the city hall's
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SUR
National and Local Police have closed down a smokers' club in the Fuengirola area, which had allegedly been facilitating the dealing of marijuana and hash. A 19-year-old Irish-born man, who had been in charge of the premises, has been arrested.
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MATEO BALÍN
...between Friday 18 and Tuesday 22, according to government sources, following a long legal battle with the former dictator's grandchildren. From tomorrow, Saturday, the complex belonging to National Heritage will be closed to the public for security
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IGNACIO LILLO
It may have been a badly closed valve in the fuel tanks on a ferry that caused the spillage of 8,000 litres of fuel into the waters of Malaga's port early on Friday morning last week (15 August). The spillage happened while refuelling was taking
Opinion
IGNACIO LILLO
...to be; we just want what we have already to be used fully. One train an hour through the night would be enough, even just at weekends when more people are out at night. The image of tourists with their cases outside a closed airport station is
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JUAN CANO
...inquest said she had probably been hit by the first train of the morning of 27 July and the inquiry was closed. Lucía's parents continue legal moves to find more information. In a report, the Guardia Civil has defended its actions the night of the
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Agustín peláez
The regional government, the Junta de Andalucía, has closed off an area between Malaga and the Río Vélez to the west of Torre del Mar to certain local clam catches (coquina, concha fina and chirla) after "unusually high levels" of E. coli were found ... to be present in tests carried out on 3 July. Further tests were done on Wednesday to confirm the results. The area, known as And 308, remains closed until further notice.
Opinion
Peter Edgerton
...day off." "Goodnight, chaps - by the way, what exactly is a gri..." The door had, alas, already closed.
Gibraltar
DEBBIE BARTLETT
On 8 June 1969 the Spanish authorities closed the border with Gibraltar, beginning years of hardship and separated families which finally came to an end when the frontier was reopened to pedestrians at the end of 1982, and fully in 1985, as a
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Nerja town hall has started work to stabilise the cliffs near the town's famous Burriana beach, with a view to reopening part of the coastal path which connects the beach to the town centre and has been closed since 2002 due to a rock fall. The
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Charo Márquez
Estepona town hall has closed its new urban slide less than 24 hours after it was opened to the public. The move comes after several users reported suffering scratches and bruising while using the novel short cut joining two of the town's streets. ... authority said it had closed the slide as a "precautionary" measure and ordered a further safety assessment. The town hall pointed out that signs advised users of how to use the slide safely; lying down was not allowed, they said, and the slide could only
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Malaga suburban line in 2018, compared with the year before Plane and train connections The frustration of finding a railway station closed doesn't only affect those who want to enjoy the nightlife on the Costa del Sol. The last AVE high-speed ... 74,000 more places available. At that time the stations are closed for less than two hours a day, between 3.30 and 5.20am in Malaga and from 4.20 and 6.10am in Fuengirola. However, the Cercanías line is not exclusively for suburban trains, unlike the ... metro lines which are only used for that type of transport. Different types of trains travel along the Cercanía lines, including long-distance and those carrying cargo. The hours when the service is closed are also used for maintenance and clearning of
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Charo MÁRQUEZ.
Mayor of Manilva, Mario Jiménez, and councillors have said this week that the Sunday street market in Sabinillas will go ahead as usual on 3 March. The market had been suspended last week after serious cleaning and hygiene issues attracted complai
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...people employed at the course. As well as the redundancies, the management also announced that the golf course would only be open from Monday to Friday and closed at weekends with immediate effect and until further notice. The news comes two years
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IGNACIO LILLO
...site which put paid to the Banderas project and once the demolition is complete, the site will remain closed while archaeological teams survey the area. One possible use of the land, pending the results, is a project drawn up by a Cordoba company for
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FRANCISCO GRIÑÁN
Filming for the third season of Netflix's most expensive production to date, The Crown, will take place in Malaga this weekend. SUR can confirm that scenes will be shot around the cathedral on Sunday, with streets closed off to the public as a
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Pilar Martínez
...invest 30 million euros to revamp these seven hotels, although full details are as-yet unknown The hotel, visited by Princess Diana, has been closed since 2010 and has exchanged hands several times, including to Alan Sugar and again as recently as
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Some may have crossed it rushing to the main station from the city centre, others might have attached a lovers' padlock. However you know it, the bridge by the CAC modern art centre in Malaga city is to go. The bridge was closed in May due to
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Eugenio Cabezas
The A-7205 in Puente Don Manuel will be closed to traffic until 27 February for the installation of a new pedestrian crossing. The road closure is on the section of road from the A-402 towards Vélez-Málaga between the intersection on the Moraleda
Opinion
ANDREW J. LINN
...parents would have been of him. Five months later it closed its doors, never to re-open. According to what Stannich told friends and customers, he considered the award the worst thing that had ever happened to him. A hamburger joint which served the ... best in the county - but thanks to some [unprintable adjective] journalist, it closed."
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Eugenio Cabezas
The old N-340 coast road between Nerja and Torrox will be closed to traffic for the next month after a large rock broke away from the hillside alongside and fell onto the carriageway below on Tuesday afternoon. No one was hurt in the incident ... consulted the engineering company which designed the road 40 years ago, decided to prolong the closure to deal with the "complicated nature" of the landscape. The road will remain closed between km 287.1 and 288.7, with road users advised to take the A-7
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Eugenio Cabezas
The old N-340 coast road between Nerja and Torrox was closed to traffic on Tuesday afternoon after a large rock broke away from the mountainside above and fell onto the carriageway. No one was hurt in the incident which occurred in the
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SUR
...his annual speech to the United Nations on Tuesday, acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez referred to the Supreme Court verdict. "We have symbolically closed the democratic circle," he said.
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Eugenio Cabezas
The section of the N-340 coastal road which was closed two weeks ago, following a landslide, reopened on Wednesday. Emergency work to secure the rockface and install a safety fence in the area started immediately after the landslide, which
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Closed for three years because of safety problems, the auditorium in Parque La Concepción, the biggest in Marbella, is finally ready to open its doors once again. The space has seating for 700 people and is going to be inaugurated in May with ... events planned throughout the summer. It was originally closed because the crumbling façade posed a safety risk to the public but now, after renovations costing 325,000 euros, which included a new electric supply, new lighting and modernised toilets
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Eugenio Cabezas
Lacaliza restaurant, next to the Cueva del Tesoro in Rincón de la Victoria, opened last week, a decade after the previous restaurant closed. Local residents, Óscar Delgado and Conchi García, are the new owners of the eatery, which they say is one
Gibraltar
Debbie Bartlett
Several schools closed and parents were asked to keep their children at home if possible earlier this week when the Rock was hit by gale force winds which brought down scaffolding and tree branches. An investigation is being launched into ... scaffolding which became detached from Ocean Spa Plaza. Some roads had to be closed to traffic, and the Upper Rock Nature Reserve and Gorham's Cave viewing point were closed as a precautionary measure.
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V. MELGAR.
A controversial new scheme to partly close Ronda's Puente Nuevo to traffic came into force this week. Cars are banned from this, the main bridge across the gorge, every day from 10am to 1.30pm and 5 to 8pm, unless their drivers live in the oldest p
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...tourism to the region. The president of the Hotel Owners Association of the Costa del Sol (AEHCOS), Luis Callejón Suñé, announced this week that 46 hotels in the province will be closed from November, five of them to carry out modernisation works which ... overnight stays. Average income per available room increased by seven per cent. The figures for January were close, but slightly lower. Last winter 63 hotels in the province closed during the winter months, meaning that 25,500 beds were no longer
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Eugenio Cabezas
...four-day festival included a tapas route, medieval market, workshops, story telling, fireworks and live music, including Cuban singer-songwriter, Pablo Milanés, whose performance closed the festival on Sunday evening.
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SUR
Streets around Malaga's cathedral will be closed off from Saturday morning, 20 October, as part of a ceremony to beatify a famous local priest. In all, 9,000 seats will be laid out along the streets where the ceremony will be watched on large
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The project consists of the creation of an exhibition classroom, allowing visitors to interactively learn about orchids and the rest of the botanical gardens. The reception will also be remodelled to make it more functional and appealing to visito
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Storm makes his entrance The ARCH Rescue Centre in Alhaurín el Grande suffered extensive damage from last Saturday's storm and was closed to visitors over the weekend while volunteers cleared the mud and debris. Fortunately all the horses and donkeys
Gibraltar
Debbie Bartlett
Devil's Tower Road is still closed after last week's rock fall, but the damaged area is now being inspected by specialist geo technical engineers and it is hoped that the road will be open again by early next week. Meanwhile, a fence has been
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Agustín Peláez
Vélez-Málaga's old San Francisco market is to reopen on Friday 14 September. The indoor market, which has been closed for reforms for four years, will open as a gastronomic and artisan space. Installations include a kitchen where cookery
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IGNACIO LILLO / FERNANDO TORRES
...damage. The Fuengirola road was closed after La Tejá stream broke its banks. Alhaurín was visited on Sunday by the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, who announced that on Tuesday emergency funds would be released to help the 133 ... closed for around an hour due to flooding. In Malaga city a hundred-year-old tree was struck by lightning and part of the trunk crushed parked cars. Weddings were held in the main Cathedral for the first time in 30 years, after damage was caused to
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Eugenio Cabezas
The Paseo del los Carabineros, a walkway which links the Calahonda and Carabeíllo beaches in Nerja, remains closed to the public 16 years after it was shut due to the risk of falling rocks. However, there appears to be no solution in sight for the ... rockfall at the Carabeíllo end of the closed pathway caused damage to a sewage pipe, which lead to the temporary closure of Burriana beach. The town hall and Junta de Andalucía have looked into projects to stabilise the rocks, but say that carrying out such
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Mónica Pérez
The famous Incosol health resort on the east side of town, which closed five years ago when the group which owned it went into liquidation, may open again as a hotel if plans currently being considered by the council go ahead. The Hotel Value