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A man has been murdered in a Marbella street after being fired on with an automatic rifle from a motorcycle. The National Police are investigating. The incident occurred just before two o'clock on Tuesday afternoon in calle Arturo Rubinstein, a
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Marbella town hall on Monday approved a budget amendment that will allow for works worth ten million euros to be undertaken as part of the council's Economic Reactivation Plan designed to tackle the crisis caused by the pandemic. This initiative
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With the coronavirus pandemic wiping out more usual streams of income, Puerto Banús is turning to nautical tourism as a way to boost activity in the absence of the usual influx of visitors this high season. Marinas de Andalucía, the association th
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The Marbella players returned to the Antonio Lorenzo municipal stadium earlier this week for training ahead of their participation in the play-off series for promotion to Segunda. Much like their professional counterparts, the Marbella players
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Marbella town hall has started carrying out coronavirus testing on workers whose activities were unaffected by the lockdown. Some 4,000 quick tests are being carried out on staff at pharmacies, veterinary and other clinics, opticians, funeral
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Héctor Barbotta
Eight purse seiner fishing boats, which have been confined to harbour since 1 March, have resumed fishing off the Marbella coast this week. The president of the Marbella fishermen's association (cofradía de pescadores), Manuel Haro, has called on
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The Hospital Costa del Sol in Marbella is going to participate, alongside 61 other Spanish hospitals, in the first clinical trial at a national level and one of the largest in Europe, aimed at preventing Covid-19 in health professionals. This
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Marbella town hall has started testing around 2,000 key municipal workers for coronavirus using fast test kits. "The idea is to find out who might be a symptom-free carrier and who might have already had the illness," said the mayor Ángeles
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Two weeks after an error in the interpretation of the lockdown rules saw Novak Djokovic and the Puente Romano Tennis Club in Marbella get in a spot of trouble, the world tennis number one returned on Monday, this time with the government's
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The council in Marbella has announced the largest public investment and tax reduction plan in its history in a bid to tackle the economic crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic. Mayor Ángeles Muñoz announced last Friday a battery of measures ... which, she said, would involve allocating 130 million euros to economic recovery. She also called on central government to lift the ban on local councils spending their accumulated surplus, which in the case of Marbella amounts to 70 million euros. ... million euros has been allocated. Construction Meanwhile, since the state of alarm was decreed on 14 March, Marbella council has received 616 urban development files, of which 386 are building licences. This is a similar number to those that were put
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A new petition has been launched by the Acción por el Clima Marbella association, asking Marbella town hall to create a new network of cycle lanes. This comes as a direct result of the council's initiative to ban cyclists from the promenade and ... Marbella without the usual dangers," says the text that heads the petition which by Thursday had almost 500 signatures. The association hopes to encourage the council to revisit a plan drawn up (and never implemented) for bicycle lanes in 2014 with the ... aim of integrating this means of sustainable transport into Marbella's urban mobility. According to the petitioners, resuming this project now would make sense, especially because temporary spaces have already now been created and are being widely
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The mayor of Marbella, Ángeles Muñoz, has registered as a volunteer with the Costa del Sol hospital. She is a qualified doctor but has not been practising since 1995, while following her political career. The mayor, who has not announced this ... circumstances the mayor has the power to confirm the motion alone. Marbella town hall currently has an accumulated surplus of 70 million euros, and according to the regulations 34 million is the maximum that can be withdrawn and used.
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A local association working to conserve Marbella's remaining sand dunes has published a guide in three languages. Areas of delicate dunes are dotted along the coastline to the east of the town and the ProDunas group aims to protect them. The
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CHARO MÁRQUEZ
A 27-year-old British man was arrested on Sunday after Local Police and firefighters responding to a house fire in Estepona discovered an apparent indoor marijuana plantation. The officers found that a marijuana grow house was apparently being asse
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Residents were evacuated after an explosion in an apartment in the Marbella neighbourhood of Divina Pastora during the early hours of Monday morning. It is thought that a gas leak was to blame. "The explosion could have killed me," said a
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A Belgian man has recovered his 200,000-euro watch which was swiped from his wrist by a 28-year-old Spanish national in Puerto Banús. He chased after the thief and, during a struggle, the thief fell to the ground, knocking himself unconscious. Th
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Marbella council will charge 157,343 euros for the Starlite festival to use the Nagüeles quarry this year. Following its approval, the festival organisers now need sign off from the town planning and construction departments, as well as from Civil ... back in 2012. Councillors, however, have expressed concern that Marbella's name no longer appears. One said, "I am not hiding the fact that we would like Marbella to appear in the [festival's] advertising," while also stressing that the two names are
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Mayor of Marbella, Ángeles Muñoz, marked the beginning of an 18-month construction project to give new life to the former La Fonda restaurant (and latterly catering school) by laying the foundation stone for a new hotel-restaurant on Monday. ... history in Marbella, when La Fonda was an international gastronomic landmark". Lauren Gilbert, the developer for the project, stressed that the building "has always been an important part of Marbella's history". "We don't want to take that away. On the
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A Briton who allegedly led a cocaine trafficking group that, say sources, expected to bank more than 1.15 million euros a month, has been arrested in Marbella after more than six years on the run. Dominic McInally, 29, from Formby, Merseyside, was ... arrested when officers from the National Police raided the Casa Masa strip club, near Marbella, early on 28 February. McInally was a subject of Operation Captura, which targets fugitive suspects among the UK national community in parts of Spain.
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The National Police have launched an investigation into a potential arson attack after a fire broke out at the Naô Pool beach club in Nueva Andalucía, managed by the son of Marbella businesswoman Olivia Valère, in the early hours of Tuesday morning. ... The damage only affected part of the exterior of the club which was able to open the next day, albeit two hours later than planned, as its essential services were not affected. At the same time as the fire broke out, firefighters in Marbella also had