THE STORY BEHIND A PLACE NAME
Cútar: A pointed castle or a fountain of paradise
A copy of a 16th-century Quran was found when local builder Miguel Lozano Ruiz and his son were renovating a house in the Axarquía village
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Weekend Beach festival tickets go on sale on Sunday with 'early bird' discounts
The three-day event at Torre del Mar on the Costa del Sol will take place from Thursday 4 to Saturday 6 July
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Customer service
Axarquía town hall returns to ‘first come, first served’ system for customer services
Users who still wish to book appointments online may do so and there is a special service for foreign residents in Vélez-Málaga
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Tourism
Owners of hotels and holiday accommodation in Nerja encouraged to update details for new tourism website
According to Spain's national institute of statistics, the Costa del Sol resort has more than 1,900 hotel beds in 59 establishments and thousands of holiday homes registered with the Junta de Andalucía
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Education
Axarquía school children win prizes for responsible water use
Arthur Cardoso won the children's drawing competition organised by Aqualia and Torrox town hall
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Drought crisis
Axarquía town hall issues drought reminder after residents contest water bills
Locals have been reminded of a change in a bylaw reducing the consumption per inhabitant in line with a decree issued by the Andalusian regional government
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People
Francisco Alí Manen, the Malaga man who designs custom motorbikes for Hollywood stars
The artist and businessman doesn't hang the Lord Drake Kustoms name outside his workshop, because he doesn't need to
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Tourism
Almost half of the weddings that take place in Nerja are foreign couples, and this is why
Top of the list are Irish Catholics who choose either the town's Salvador church or Las Maravillas church in neighbouring Maro
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Dispute
Axarquía water bill row: Residents threaten to bring in lawyers over high demands
British resident Paul Rouse has set up a Facebook page to help those affected
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Extra HM Hospitales
SUR in English
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Dispute
Axarquía water bill row: 'They have sent us a quarterly bill for 45,220 euros and we were only there for two weeks'
José Juan Jiménez, mayor of La Viñuela, has said the meter readings are correct and that a modification to a local drinking water law "penalises excessive consumption”
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Animal welfare
Axarquía village cracks down on dog mess problem with confidential hotline
Benamargosa town hall will fine pet owners 500 euros for failing to pick up after their pooches and has set up two telephone numbers for residents to file complaints via WhatsApp
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Drought crisis
Axarquía mayors demand that regional government makes repairs to leaking pipes
Elsewhere in the province, the Guadalhorce system, made up of the three reservoirs which supply Malaga city, is on the verge of entering an emergency situation due to the lack of rain
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Tourism
The village which lay abandoned for half a century that has now become a mecca for rural tourism
In 1949 its few inhabitants had to leave but, at the end of the 1990s, this small Malaga province village began its second life
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Planning
Axarquía road lit up after years of complaints
Torrox town hall has installed more than 20 LED street lights along the N-340 coastal road between the town and neighbouring Nerja
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Planning
Twenty companies bid for 2.2-million-euro Axarquía road widening contract
The development of the Camino de Torrox, which includes a large logistics area, has been pending for more than a decade
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