Junta to begin the second phase of Spain’s Sierra Bermeja recovery plan
THE second phase of the Sierra Bermeja Forest Restoration Plan, prepared by a multidisciplinary team, will begin tomorrow, February 20, with a €2.4 million budget.
Modernisation works start on Marbella road to improve notorious sewerage issues
Marbella’s Calle Sierra Blanca is being torn up and modernised in a bid to solve sewerage problems. The project has a budget of 400,000 euros
Malaga’s closed kiosks have become ‘rat nests’, council orders 95 to be removed
All of Malaga’s closed kiosks, that once sold newspapers and magazines, have become ‘nests for rats’ and will need to be removed from the city’s
Spain’s Malaga port gives go-ahead to western San Andres marina funded by Qatari cash
THE Port of Malaga gave the green light to a new western marina funded by Qatari cash that will have space for over 550 boats.
The party’s over: Malaga approves crackdown on raucous stag and hen do’s
The city of Malaga has approved proposals to come down on wild and boisterous behaviour by weekend partygoers. The council has passed a new bylaw
Brit arrested in Spain for allegedly hacking Biden, Obama to be extradited
Spain will extradite a baby-faced Brit wanted by the United States over a Twitter hack which compromised the accounts of president Joe Biden and former
British architect Norman Foster designs this year’s poster for the new bullfighting season in Sevilla
World-renowned British architect Norman Foster has designed the poster to announce the new bullfighting season in Sevilla. He was commissioned by the Real Maestranza to
Friday weather warning: Orange alert for Spain’s Malaga province as high winds and waves batter coast once again
Strong winds are set to return to the province of Malaga this Friday and into the weekend after last week’s storm rattled the coast. Once
Two explosives blow up outside Malaga city bank branch
Neighbours awoke to two loud bangs overnight as a bank branch in the heart of Malaga city was blown up. In an attempt to steal
Man arrested in Spain’s Sevilla after stealing high-end vehicle with two children inside
POLICE have arrested a man accused of stealing a car with two minors inside, aged 10 and 13 years, after the owner left the car
Exports in Spain’s Andalucia soar by 24.3% achieving ‘all-time record’
ANDALUCIA has closed 2022 with record exports reaching almost €43,000 million. Sales abroad grew by 24.3% reaching €42.958 billion, 8 billion more than in 2021,
Ryanair expanding its flights to Malaga from Germany and Ireland ahead of high hopes for a booming summer season
RYANAIR is ramping up its flights to Malaga for the coming summer in anticipation of a bumper tourist season on the Costa del Sol. The
Spain wakes up to threat the EU’s new ETIAS tourist tax poses to its British tourism
Alarm bells have started to ring on the Costa del Sol over a new EU tourist tax that is set to hit their number one
A dozen people injured after shoddy surgery at fake cosmetic clinic in Marbella
Police have arrested three people for allegedly performing cosmetic surgery on patients without any qualifications in Marbella. The botched surgeries left at least a dozen
‘Get rich quick’ sports betting scammer wanted by 16 courts in Spain is caught in Murcia
A fraudster offering to quickly double investments via sports betting has been arrested while withdrawing cash from a Murcia City ATM. The man scammed a
Malaga’s most influential performers put on a show for flamenco specialist Jose Losada ‘El Carrete’
Esteemed flamenco performers put on a show to remember in Torremolinos as they honoured the life of famous dancer, ‘El Carrete’, Jose Losada. The dancers
Spain’s Mar Menor lagoon lost €54 million of European funding to fight pollution
SPAIN’S government says that €54 million of European money allocated in 2019 to fight pollution in the Mar Menor lagoon was switched elsewhere. The admission
Project to ‘repopulate’ Spain with 47 million Iberian bees gets underway in Malaga
REPOPULATING the Iberian Peninsula with 47 million Apis mellifera iberiensis, better known as the Iberian bee, is the aim of a project that has been
‘It’s a miracle’: How all 17 siblings of Turkish expat living in Spain survived horror earthquake
Turkish expat Refik Agri waited in quiet dread for five hours as he got nothing but radio silence from his family after a 7.8 magnitude
Teacher in Spain’s Cordoba province slammed for using blackface and exaggerated accent in video about Africa
A TEACHER at a school in the Andalusian province of Cordoba has been widely criticised online after a video circulated in which she appeared in
Crooked cop who tries to steal €6,200 watch from arrested man banned from the force in Spain’s Andalucia
A POLICEMAN who tried to steal a €6,200 watch from an arrested man in Spain’s Estepona lost his job and got a two-year suspended prison
MSC Cruises to bring more than 100,000 tourists to Spain’s Malaga this summer
MSC CRUISES, the third largest cruise company in the world by number of passengers, expects to bring more than 100,000 cruise passengers to the port
McArthurGlen to invest €75 million to expand designer outlet in Spain’s Malaga
THE McArthurGlen group, owner, developer and manager of designer outlet stores in Europe, will invest €75 million euros to expand its outlet mall in Malaga.
Criminal gang providing fake residency cards to Nigerian migrants busted by Spain’s National Police
SPAIN’S National Police force has busted a criminal ring that was forging residency cards for migrants in an irregular situation, thus allowing them to work.
Torremolinos police chase: Thieves caught after robbing 195,000 euros worth of jewelry
Crooks who stole 195,000 euros worth of jewelry have been chased through the streets of Torremolinos after a brazen robbery during broad daylight. Police spotted
Guardia Civil seize 2 tons of hash in surprise dawn raid on popular beach in Spain’s Andalucia
POLICE seized nearly 2 tons of hashish after a dawn raid on two launches that landed on the popular Tarifa beach of Los Lances. The
