Local
ÁLVARO FRÍAS / JUAN CANO
Improved crowd control and security coordination at Holy Week parades and events across the Costa del Sol were generally praised this week for avoiding much of the tension of a year ago over fears of terrorist attacks and stampedes. However, despit
Opinion
Mark Nayler
...how "essential" should be defined in this context). Yet explanations or justifications of these measures have so far been absent or, if attempted, tend to prompt the questions they're supposed to answer. On Monday, government spokeswoman María Jesús
Local
HÉCTOR BARBOTTA MARBELLA
A foreign couple in Puerto Banús called 091 when they thought they had witnessed a dead body, wrapped in a huge bag, being unloaded off a boat and transferred into a car boot. However the supposed arm the couple thought they had seen fall out of the
Opinion
Mark Nayler
Predictions for the growth rate of the Spanish economy this year have almost reached the magic number of 3.2% - the rate at which it expanded in 2016. On Tuesday, the IMF announced that the country’s economic expansion will be 3.1% of GDP in 2017, th
Local
sur malaga
The train cancellations prompted political reactions on Wednesday when the PSOE Socialist leader in the province of Malaga called for the central government, responsible for the rail company Renfe, to find an urgent solution to the problem. “It’s int
Opinion
ANDREW J. LINN
...in fish, so a human host is a cul-de-sac and it dies as it tries to penetrate the stomach wall. Immediate extraction, before it passes into the intestine, is the best solution. So, while John was lucky with his prompt examination, many people are not,
Local
álvaro frías / antonio romero
The Guadalhorce valley was in mourning on Thursday after a three-year-old girl who had gone missing the previous evening was found dead. The body of Lucía Vivar Hidalgo was discovered alongside the railway between Pizarra and Álora in the morning.
National
Melchor Saiz-Pardo
The ISIS-inspired propaganda cell that was broken up by Spanish police on Wednesday in Mallorca was led by a UK-based radical cleric, who once preached to one of the terrorists involved in the 2015 Bataclan massacre in Paris, sources say. Spanish i
What to do
Tony Bryant
The nostalgic sounds of 1960s guitar pioneer, Hank Marvin will vibrate in Torremolinos on Saturday 21 October. DETAILS When: Saturday 21 October. 8.30pm. Where: Pablo Ruiz Picasso Cultural Centre, Torremolinos. Tickets: 12 euros. Fender Swin
LifeStyle
Francisco griñán MALAGA
A simple competition on Facebook has changed a chapter in the history of art. It all started in June 2013, when the Sorolla Museum in Madrid posted a picture by the Valencia artist and asked "Where are we?" Most people replied “Cap Martí, Javea”, t