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alekk m. saanders
February and March are usually quite wet months on the Costa del Sol. The best way to survive the rainfall and flooding is by wearing rubber boots. Every British person upon seeing rubber boots exclaims 'Wellingtons,' or rather 'wellies.'
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IGNACIO LILLO
...because it is the conventional service, not the high-speed one, and therefore fares are cheaper. The problems began back in October 2018, when a railway bridge and the conventional Iberian-width lines were swept away by flooding. An alternative stretch
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Eugenio Cabezas
A 74-year-old British man has died after falling into a two-metre deep hole when he was walking home with his wife in Nerja. His wife also fell and lay unconscious for nine hours, until she woke and called the 112 emergency services. The tragic inc
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Ivan Gelibter
...euros and is expected to take a little under two years to complete. "This has needed a huge amount of work because there were numerous difficulties to overcome, especially to prevent flooding in the area and to preserve the archaeological remains that
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Tony Bryant
...clean-up operations of premises badly damaged by torrential rain and gale-force winds. There were also appeals for blankets, medication, food, mops and brooms. Spanish equine association SEARCH was one of the organisations that suffered from flooding ... around 20 people to help with getting the shelter back in operation. The Last Chance dog shelter, also in Mijas, was preparing to evacuate animals due to severe flooding, but quick-thinking volunteers managed to pump the water out before the kennels
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IGNACIO LILLO
...and woman drown in swollen river in Mijas Of the initial 168 claims received so far, Mijas was the most affected municipality with 94, followed by Alhaurín de la Torre (47). Half of them relate to flooding in homes and residential developments,
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IGNACIO LILLO, ANDREA JIMÉNEZ, VANESSA MELGAR, JOSÉ MARÍA MARTÍN
...by firefighters who used a crane on a breakdown vehicle to reach him. Flooded garage in Alhaurín de la Torre.SALVADOR SALAS Flooding after a heavy downpour in the centre of Alhaurín de la Torre dragged several parked motorcycles and street ... for storm Filomena after the Junta de Andalucía’s Malaga delegate, Patricia Navarro, activated the emergency risk of flooding plan at 11.46am. Snow Most of the incidents dealt with by the 112 emergecny services in the province were due to flooding ... of basements and homes, flooding on the roads and falling trees due to the force of winds with maximum gusts of 70 km/h. At the airport, three services on the Ceuta-Malaga helicopter route were cancelled. On the railways, Renfe reported that the
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La Voz de Cádiz
The mayor of San Roque, Juan Carlos Ruiz Boix, has urgently appealed to the public for "great caution" as storm Filomena rolls across the Campo de Gibraltar area raising major flooding fears in the town. He has warned of rising water levels in the
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La Voz de Cádiz
The mayor of San Roque, Juan Carlos Ruiz Boix, has urgently appealed to the public for "great caution" as storm Filomena rolls across the Campo de Gibraltar area raising major flooding fears in the town. He has warned of rising water levels in the
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i. lILLO
Across the province traffic flow was reduced on a number of roads because of flooding (the MA-6404 in Teba, the MA-6406 in Almargen and the A-7 in La Cala del Moral and Rincón de la Victoria). In Marbella, the municipal emergency plan was put into ... effect. There was light flooding at the Las Albarizas roundabout, near the famous arch and at the entrance to the El Ángel and La Dama de Noche developments. Firefighters also had to respond to reports of fallen walls and branches in various parts of