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
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silvia rodríguez. adg
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
Great Siege and for the raising of the forerunners of the Royal Engineers. The plot was purchased by the Admiralty in 1797. The residence was reconstructed in 1846 and the stables after a fire in 1859. It has traditionally been occupied by senior naval
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FERNANDO TORRES / JUAN CANO
...that run alongside the motorway Fire crews were called to help funeral services remove the body from the difficult-to-reach position at the base of the cliff. Meanwhile a Guardia Civil diving team and patrol boat scoured the water by the rocks looking
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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
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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 ... 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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álvaro frías / juan cano
A large plume of black smoke, visible from across the city of Malaga, is the result of a fire that started on Tuesday afternoon in an area of wasteland occupied by caravans and other vehicles on the Guadalhorce industrial estate, according to SUR ... sources. The alarm was first raised at around 3.15 pm when several people reported a fire on Carretera Azucarera Intelhorce to the 112 emergency hotline. One caller claimed that the fire had originated in a caravan and was spreading. The industrial ... estate is next to the city's airport.SUR The Local and National Police were immediately alerted, as well as ambulance staff and the fire brigade who are working to extinguish the flames. Malaga Airport has also been placed on alert with the smoke
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HECTOR BARBOTTA / I.M.
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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J. R. / P. G. T.
Foreign residents were among the five families who had to be evacuated from their houses on Sunday 6 October, after fire broke out in the Barranco de la Golondrina area, which is shared between Almuñécar and Ítrabo in Granada province. The fire ... drivers, who could see the smoke from the Tamaray tunnel area of the A-7 motorway. Police and fire fighters responded to the calls and planes and helicopters were also deployed to put out the fire. One home owner, Mercedes Puertas, told Granada newspaper, ... Ideal, "The neighbour phoned to tell me at 10am. The fire was far away and I didn't worry about it too much. A few hours later our houses were surrounded by flames." Puertas added, "my children and I went out to dampen down our land and then the fire
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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