Opinion
ANDREW J. LINN
It wasn't the first time that Australian winemaker James Tilbrook had seen his future hanging by a thread, dependent on what would happen in the next few hours. WINE OF THE WEEK Monte Real Reserva Bodegas Riojanas was one of the very first wine
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A British man aged 79 died in a fire at his home in Torremolinos last Saturday morning. Neighbours raised the alarm at the ten-storey block of flats on the Avenida de Benálmadena in the resort. Emergency services found the Briton's body inside.
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M. SÁIZ-PARDO / C. REINO
...employee died in hospital on Wednesday. The explosion caused shock waves over a wide area and fire broke out at the plant. Initially local residents were told to stay indoors because of fear of toxic gas. However emergency services later said that it was
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FERNANDO TORRES
The Moliere Playa beach bar on the Torremolinos promenade was "completely destroyed", according to several witnesses, after a fire swept through the premises on Saturday afternoon. The flames, which were first noted around noon, quickly burned the ... bar's structure and were carried by the wind to several palm trees nearby. An investigation into the event, which fortunately did not result in any injuries, concluded that the fire was started by accident. Five teams from the Torremolinos fire ... waste from the area around the establishment. The Local Police's help was also required to cordon off the area and divert traffic onto alternative routes with the smoke impeding visibility. Imminent closure Prior to the fire, the beach bar's owners
Sport
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Malaga Femenino picked up three points from their visit to Levante B on Saturday, and could easily have returned to the Costa del Sol with a far better goal difference than their 2-1 victory gave them. Although the visitors were the superior team f
Gibraltar
Debbie Bartlett
...which exposed a series of eighteenth century fire steps hidden behind it along the northern defensive wall. These steps will be repaired and reconstructed where necessary as part of the present works. The Grand Battery is next to Casemates Square, and
LifeStyle
ESPERANZA PELÁEZ
Christopher Columbus did not return from his first trip to America in triumph. The 'West Indies' he had reached by sailing westwards lacked the valuable spices he had gone to look for. Therefore, in his audience with the Catholic Monarchs, he focused
Local
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 ... environment agency workers, equipped with six helicopters and seven fire trucks, battled the flames throughout the evening and the next day. The first emergency calls reached the authorities at 7.05pm, with callers reporting a forest fire in a pine forest ... during the fire; the owner, a Russian man, sheltered in his swimming pool until the emergency services arrived. The mayor of Casares, Pepe Carrasco, expressed his relief that more homes weren't affected, given how many there are in the area. George, a
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Last Saturday night the fear of forest fire near Marbella became real again with an outbreak in the Sierra Palmitera nature reserve, next to the La Zagaleta luxury development, in Benahavís municipality. More than 70 firefighters and coordinators ... worked to bring the blaze under control with other emergency services. The alarm was raised at around 11pm at night and it wasn't until 7am on Sunday morning that the fire was officially brought under control.
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SUSANA ZAMORA
...later in 'chiringuitos' (beach restaurants) alongside professionals that she says she really picked up the tricks of the trade. "The sardines are toasted in the heat from the flames, a kind of hot chamber that forms between the fire and the fish," she ... the fire. However the reason for this tradition being special to the Costa del Sol is clear: "The small sardine that lives in the Alboran Sea is exceptional, first for its small size (around 12 centimetres), its shiny skin and for being especially ... the sardines are at their best between May and August, but the espeteros don't stand with their arms folded for the rest of the year, when other types of fish are cooked in the same way. But spending the day in front of a fire in the heat of the