112 incident
The 69-year-old victim lived with his wife in a rural house in the area and was described by locals as "a handyman who was prepared to help everyone"
Local byelaws
Vélez-Málaga has also clamped down on the dumping of garden and construction waste and leaving furniture by street containers without notifying the town hall collection service
Eugenio Cabezas |
Drought crisis
Boreal Light says that its plants can produce up to 2,400 cubic metres of water per day and can be made available within a month. But the company claims there is little or no interest from the town halls it has approached in the worst-affected areas
Eugenio Cabezas |
112 incident
The victim's wife alerted the 112 Andalucía emergency services because her husband was trapped under the tree in Frigiliana and unconscious
Eugenio Cabezas |
Retail
The Aldi store will be the chain’s one hundredth in Andalucía and it aims to open a further ten in the region during the course of this year, according to the company
Eugenio Cabezas |
Weather
A thin covering of the white stuff can currently be seen on top of La Maroma and some of the other high peaks of the Sierra Tejeda y Almijara natural park in the Axarquía
Eugenio Cabezas |
Missing person
The corpse, which has not yet been formally identified, was found after an air and sea search scoured the area from Malaga to Almuñécar in Granada province this Wednesday morning
Missing person
Two Salvamento Marítimo vessels and a rescue helicopter began the sea search operation on Tuesday but it was halted overnight as visibility fell
SUR |
Rural retreats
In its heyday, the Baños de Vilo once had five healing pools but today only one remains
Javier Almellones |
Crime
Ongoing police investigations have so far identified 10 victims of the man, who had no medical qualifications, with two of them fleeced out of a combined total of 300,000 euros for their treatments
Juan Cano / Irene Quirante |
Axarquía
In Arenas, with just 1,300 inhabitants, the PP and PSOE have reached an agreement to govern together
Eugenio Cabezas |
Axarquía
The 'alcohol procession' in Iznate replaced what would normally be solemn images of Our Lady and Jesus with two giant cardboard cutout bottles of Larios Rosé gin and Barceló rum
Eugenio Cabezas |
According to GENA-Ecologistas en Acción there are “too many bonfires” in rural areas of Nerja and Maro
Eugenio Cabezas |
Costa del Sol
Rincón de la Victoria hosted a presentation following a practical exercise on how to draw up a tsunami plan in compliance with a Junta decree, though there is no evidence of tidal waves on this shoreline in the last 2.6 million years
José Rodríguez Cámara |
Axarquía
Carmen Rodríguez Moreno was born on 9 February 1917 and passed away on Thursday 15 February, just days after celebrating her birthday surrounded by her two daughters, six grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren
Eugenio Cabezas |