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Juan SOTO
...used. Bars and restaurants in these areas will have to keep their doors and restaurants closed after 11 pm and are responsible for ensuring their clients do not disturb the neighbours. The rules affecting these Acoustically Saturated Areas will
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closed. Several incidents due to flooding in Cártama Estación were reported. Calle Larios.ÑITO SALAS The amber weather warning issued by the state meteorological agency Aemet for heavy rain was in place for the Costa del Sol area until midnight on
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MARINA MARTÍNEZ
As he promised when his Marbella restaurant was given its third Michelin star this time last year, chef Dani García served his last customers at his haute cuisine venue last week. Less than 48 hours after celebrating an emotional "last supper" with f
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San Pedro's Centro de Transeuntes, a centre where rough sleepers can shower, rest and eat, is to reopen next month after being closed for four years. The facility is to be managed by the Cruz Roja (Spanish Red Cross), which already runs a social
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Ivan Gelibter
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 ... the other day and a large amount of sewage emptied out of the pipe, which is why the beach had to be closed again. Although at present only Los Cordobeses beach is still affected, the authorities initially had to close all the beaches from El Bombo
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Ivan Gelibter
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
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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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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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Antonio Javier López
For many years now, they have been escaping to that island at Christmas. It is a remote corner halfway between civilisation and wilderness, with fabulous beaches and no electric light at night. It is called Eleuthera, a small island in the Bahamas, w
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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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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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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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Last-minute Christmas shoppers were met with 'closed' signs in Malaga last Friday when around 30 shops in streets adjoining Calle Larios joined a protest against the festive light show. These businesses are calling for the 6.30pm show to be
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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
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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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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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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.
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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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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
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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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Tony Bryant
...seasoned athletes or fun runners, participate in fancy dress. Runners of all ages took part in the race, which officially closed the town's calendar of sporting events for 2019. One party from Valladolid who were spending Christmas in Torremolinos took
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Eugenio Cabezas
According to Medina, visitors frequently ask about access to the tower. However, it is currently closed for safety reasons. The old lighthouse keeper's house beneath is open and used as a visitors' centre for the Roman settlement which is on the same site.
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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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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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Daryl Finch
...behind-closed-doors training session which was led by assistant coach David Dóniga, accompanied by the rest of the coaching staff, minus Víctor. Whether Dóniga will remain in charge for Malaga's next match at home to Ponferradina next Tuesday remains to be seen.
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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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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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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
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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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...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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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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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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Antonio Javier López
...logistical obstacles to come to fruition. THE EXHIBITION Title. 'Almogávares', by Miguel Ortiz Berrocal (1933-2006). Where. Museo de Málaga, Palacio de la Aduana. Opening hours. Tuesdays to Saturdays 9am to 9pm; Sundays and holidays 9am to 3pm. Closed ... Mondays (unless the next day is a holiday). Closed 24, 25 and 31 December and 1 and 6 January. Christmas activities. Educational workshops for children 21 and 28 December and 4 January; guided tours 22 and 29 December, and talks about the links between
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JEREMY BLATCH
...balance sheets for very long. Investors wishing to invest in real estate in the capital markets should consider investing in a closed end fund. Whilst the investor is unable to redeem shares, he avoids the risk of the manager mismanaging liquidity and