Man arrested after six vehicles completely destroyed in blaze at beach car park on Costa del Sol
The suspect was spotted handling lighters and allegedly using drugs inside one of the cars which sparked the fire, according to a witness
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112 incident
73-year-old man dies after being run over by his own vehicle in Malaga town
According to the Local Police force, the car may have broken down, the driver got out to check what the problem was and he became trapped under the vehicle
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Planning
Investors negotiate with Pritzker prize-winner David Chipperfield to lead the luxury hotel project in Malaga port
Developers will soon announce in Malaga the two key unknowns for this controversial project: which hotel company will be the standard bearer for the proposed port tower hotel and which architecture studio will be responsible for the final design, as a change is on the cards
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Malaga city lights
Countdown to official switch-on of Christmas lights in Malaga
The Ximénez lighting company has begun to install the electrical installation on which the city's Christmas lights will be placed and the switch-on date has been set
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Housing crisis
Malaga needs to triple current house-building to meet demand: 12,000 more homes annually
Property consultants Savills warns that the housing crisis, "far from being solved, will worsen in the short term" unless the city's skyrocketing demand begins to settle
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Ronda
Philippe Starck's organic olive oil mill experience in Ronda is now a reality
Now open to the public, this avant-garde building, designed by the Frenchman and commissioned by LA Organic and its backers, is dedicated to the liquid gold and Ronda with past and present intertwined into an experience for all the senses
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Environment
Race against time to stop Malaga's pine trees from dying: these are the causes
Forestry specialists are clearing up wooded areas in the city and removing diseased specimens while scientists from the University of Cordoba begin to analyse the results from samples taken
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Serranía de Ronda
Júzcar: reinventing itself after the Smurf era
Locals unite to revive the village that lost its status as the first Smurf village over a dispute about profits
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Fuengirola
Fuengirola's trees named after 1,600 children
Some 26 years ago the town hall started a project that allows any child registered in the municipality to adopt a tree and have a plaque installed with their name on
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Community spirit
The sky's the limit for daredevil Brit raising funds for dementia and cystic fibrosis
Casares Costa resident Rebecca Flowerdew, 63, is wing walking on a biplane to raise funds and awareness
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Environment
Rising sea levels, sand barriers and drought: dozens of fish trapped again at the mouth of the Guadalhorce river
The Junta is working tirelessly to create an outlet channel and remove the dead fish. The last occurence of this kind was in January
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Roads
Rush-hour traffic jams, the order of the day at a dozen black spots in Malaga province
The worst hold-ups are around Marbella, but there are also problems in Axarquía, Antequera, Fuengirola, Torremolinos and Guadalhorce
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Costa del Sol
A second opportunity for a 7,400-kilo dragon tree in Benalmádena
The town hall has relocated a "priceless" specimen from the garden of private flats to Calle Piscis in the Costa del Sol town
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Fuengirola
Fuengirola town hall announces start date for renovation of Calle Feria de Abril
A meeting was held with the residents of the street earlier this week, during which it was agreed that the remodelling work will begin on Monday 21 October
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Entertainment
Malaga prominent in the first images of The Snow Girl 2 released by Netflix
Milena Smit returns as SUR's crime reporter in this story that adapts the bestseller, The Soul Game, by Malaga author Javier Castillo