Brits on the piste!
It’s two decades since intrepid expats Giles Birch and Jonathan Buzzard started working in the Sierra Nevada, writes Jon Clarke
Top of the Sierra Nevada slopes
With his restaurants La Bodeguita and La Tinaja and now a shop, Snow Dream, Rafa Vigo is one of the key entrepreneurs on the slopes
Museum of Malaga opens in Palacio de Aduana
Grand palace has re-opened its doors after a 10 year renovation
Status Quo star Rick Parfitt dies in Spanish hospital at age of 68
Guitarist passes away after developing infection from shoulder injury
Festive fun in the Sierra Nevada
‘Nochebuena’ or Christmas eve, when the Spaniards celebrate the festive season with a huge family meal, is usually a sell out
New ‘smart-surveillance’ cameras installed on Spain’s roads
First of the new high-tech cameras has been installed on the motorway between Torre del Mar and Velez-Malaga
Iznate mayor encourages baby boom with cash gifts
Gregorio Campos is giving out €1,000 to new families
FLOOD HORROR: Expats forced to swim out of window to survive Costa del Sol floods
Expat family who almost drowned in the floods have lost everything
Gang of thieves gas and rob expat homes on Costa del Sol
Raider gang is using gas to knock out victims before robbing their homes including Xmas gifts
Spain’s El Gordo is the world’s biggest lottery… and it was originally set up to fight Napoleon
Today half of the country will be tuned into the television and radio to hear the results of the national Christmas lottery
Flood advice: How to claim on insurance following Costa del Sol deluge
Many affected people are now looking to make an insurance claim
Puerto Banus shoppers donate over 2,500 Christmas presents to needy on Costa del Sol
Customers of Overseas Iceland Puerto Banus have donated presents to orphans, sick children, those in poverty and the elderly on the coast
Long-awaited Estepona hospital given final go-ahead to be built
Junta health chiefs yesterday met José MarÃa GarcÃa Urbano, Estepona's mayor, to sign an agreement to allow works on the 17 million state of the
Woman from Granada named best rugby referee in the world by IRFU
Alhambra Nievas is the first woman to win the award, handed out by the IRFU (International Rugby Football Union) at a ceremony in London
Marbella boiler room mis sold €6 million of loans to British buyers
SLMF did not have any regulatory approval to legally raise funds from the public when it was selling equity release mortgages between 2004 and 2007,
Million British birds at risk due to Doñana National Park environmental failures
The WWF has issued a warning about the large number of birds as Spain fails to protect one of only two Andalucian national parks
CHRISTMAS APPEAL: Volunteers needed to help Costa del Sol flood victims
Kind-hearted businesses are also needed to do their bit for those living in stricken areas such as Coin, Cartama and Fuengirola, whose homes were ruined
British pensioner dies after crashing into lamppost outside Malaga hospital
Pronounced dead at the scene, 71-year-old expat George Brooks crashed as he left Malaga's Materno-Infantil Hospital
Junta recommends not to return €5 million luxury Bajadilla port deposit to Sheikh Al-Thani
The junta's Consejo Consultivo de AndalucÃa has recommended that the Public Agency of Ports of Andalusia (APPA) does not refund the sum paid by Abdullah
15 of 66 defibrillators in Malaga are faulty or have no batteries
A report by the Andalucian Firefighter’s Union has slammed the town hall
Missing Amy Fitzpatrick’s ill mother to travel to Spain to ‘kick-off’ fresh investigation
Audrey Mahon is currently bedridden with a liver disease
Sentencing of Most Wanted British paedophile Matthew Sammon adjourned for six weeks
Sammon was picked up in his camper van in Fuengirola following an Olive Press sting
Torrential rain warning issued for Costa del Sol
A yellow warning has been issued for much of the coast
British property scam victims to get €227,000 refund from bank
A Malaga court judge said Banco Popular was responsible for making the payment to the unnamed pair, who found out too late that their dream
British father killed by single punch in Fuengirola bar fight
Holidaymaker Nadeem Aslam died of head injuries after being fatally punched in the face by a Polish man
VIDEO: Meteorite seen crashing into earth from Costa del Sol
British tourists reported ‘noise like thunder’