Malaga - Costa del Sol

Community spirit

Costa del Sol town hall allocates 55,000 euros for charitable causes

Torrox town hall has agreed to donate 35,000 euros to the Nerja-based Taller de la Amistad which helps people with disabilities and 20,000 euros to the local branch of the Red Cross

Courts

Owner of Costa del Sol travel agency remanded in custody for allegedly defrauding around 200,000 euros from clients

The courts in Vélez-Málaga refused bail to the business owner after a wave of new complaints

Drought crisis

Axarquía will be able to refill its swimming pools this summer after Junta de Andalucía gives green light

The 31 municipalities of the eastern part of Malaga province have also requested authorisation from the regional government to be able to use the push-button fountains and showers on beaches adapted for people with reduced mobility

Malaga firefighters rescue mastiff dog after it became trapped in a four-metre-deep chasm

The pet, which was microchipped and had been reported missing, was finally brought to safety and returned to its grateful owners

Costa del Sol travel agent arrested again after more complaints of alleged scams

National Police officers in Vélez-Málaga detained the woman for a second time after learning of 15 new victims with the alleged frauds totalling 20,000 euros

Crime

Individual arrested for allegedly drugging and raping two men on Costa del Sol

It is claimed the suspect slipped MDMA into the victims' drinks before sexually assaulting them

Wildlife

Almost three decades marked since the discovery of Iberian midwife toad, an amphibian species unique to the Axarquia in Malaga province

Canillas de Aceituno, the town where it was first discovered, is celebrating the occasion with the release of new information that will be critical to the survival of this endangered animal

Environment

Neighbourhood groups call for the protection of a centuries-old olive grove in Vélez-Málaga

Five lobby groups have organised a day of protest for this Saturday on the Poey estate where the olive grove stands to publicise their proposals for the creation of an agro-urban park on this site for Vélez-Málaga

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More than 300 kilos of illegal fruit and 200 counterfeit items seized in Costa del Sol town

Vélez-Málaga's Local Police force has intensified controls against unauthorised street trading on Torre del Mar promenade and in street markets

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Drunk driver in a stolen car with a suspended licence: how one driver was recently arrested in Vélez-Málaga

A local police patrol intercepted the vehicle, a BMW model 330, in which three other occupants were travelling, after it made an evasive manoeuvre upon spotting the police presence near the Fernando Ruiz Hierro sports centre