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Cadiz

Expats lose battle to save Costa de la Luz homes from demolition

Imogen Calderwood - 6 Mar, 2014 @ 11:00

On March 12 they must leave their homes in Zahara de los Antunes before they are torn down. By Imogen Calderwood

valdevaqueros beach row with mayor gil blaming guiris

Andalucia

SAVED! Junta places ‘explicit ban’ on Valdevaqueros development

Giles Brown - 23 Jul, 2013 @ 19:46

Tarifa beach development and others on Andalucian coast are scrapped in new coastal protection shake up

Cadiz

Black mark for Tarifa

Annabel Grossman - 13 Jun, 2013 @ 12:13

The Costa de la Luz town has received 'black flags' for its two main beaches

Andalucia

Two months to save El Palmar beach

Giles Brown - 11 Jun, 2013 @ 19:15

Protesters have two months to raise nearly 20,000 signatures

Andalucia

Oldest race in Spain

Mason Jones (Reporter) - 6 Aug, 2012 @ 12:00

Famous horse race on the beach of Sanlucar de Barrameda on the Costa de la Luz will take place in August

Andalucia

Shedding light on the Costa de la Luz

Rund Abdelfatah - 22 Jul, 2012 @ 16:30

We present a guided tour of the beautiful Coast of Light

On Tarifa island a statue of Jesus looks across to Morocco’s fabled Pillar of Hercules

Andalucia

Tarifa: Where the wind blows

Helen Pierpoint - 13 Jul, 2012 @ 15:45

Wendy Williams is blown away by the magic of Tarifa, Europe’s southernmost point

Andalucia

Gay cruise ship headed to Morocco forced to dock in Spain

Helen Pierpoint - 3 Jul, 2012 @ 18:28

The Moroccan tourist minister denies accusations of discrimination

Andalucia

Golf macroproject passed on Costa de la Luz

Wendy Williams - 10 Aug, 2011 @ 12:56

The Següesal Golf Resort in Barbate gets the green light

Andalucia

Costa de la Luz mayors strike a blow for offshore wind farm projects

Wendy Williams - 7 Aug, 2011 @ 09:20

Costa de la Luz mayors oppose wind farm scheme

Andalucia

Riding the wind on the Costa de la Luz

James Bryce - 25 Jun, 2011 @ 10:00

JON CLARKE takes a trip along the Costa de la Luz, Andalucia’s most unspoilt, if sometimes rather breezy, coastline

Andalucia

Spanish footsteps of the gods

James Bryce - 23 Jun, 2011 @ 18:15

JAMES BRYCE took a trip to Chiclana and Sancti Petri, where it is said that the Temple of Hercules once stood and Roman leaders Hannibal and Caesar took their hols

Environment

Green victory for Spain

Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor) - 7 Apr, 2011 @ 09:30

Delight for ecologists as marina, golf course and housing projects scrapped on the Costa de la Luz

Andalucia

Virgin beach gets ‘urbanised’

Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor) - 6 Nov, 2010 @ 09:00

Plans to develop the stretch of virgin coastline around El Palmar have come a step closer

Property

MRI petition launched

Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor) - 30 Aug, 2010 @ 09:30

Hundreds join attack on beleaguered property firm

Other News

Seeing the light

Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor) - 7 Jun, 2010 @ 13:34

Jon Clarke takes a ride down Andalucia’s most alluring, unspoilt coastline the Costa de la Luz – or the ‘The Coast of Light’ of Cadiz.

Andalucia

Beach bums

Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor) - 22 Apr, 2010 @ 12:08

Nudists can now legally bare all on Tarifa's beaches

Andalucia

Save our beach

Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor) - 5 Apr, 2010 @ 13:12

El Palmar beach under threat by plans to build a massive hotel complex

Andalucia

Timeshare lynchpin raided

Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor) - 1 Feb, 2010 @ 11:10

Police swoop on four offices for "suspected breach of consumer law"

Andalucia

Flagging up the good times in Spain

Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor) - 10 Nov, 2009 @ 13:07

Bidders fought bitterly to secure the famous flag, which flew over fleet that defeated Napoleon

Travel News

Mesmerised by the light

Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor) - 18 Jul, 2009 @ 00:00

Take a trip round the other side of the Rock of Gibraltar

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Gibraltar leader blasts customs Eastern Beach landing as ‘most serious and dangerous incident’ in years

John Culatto - 3 Feb, 2023 @ 19:01

GIBRALTAR’S Chief Minister has declared the Eastern Beach landing by Spain’s customs officers ‘the most serious and dangerous incident for many years’ and ‘a...

Easyjet cabin crew in Spain reach pay deal and call off strikes

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Gibraltar’s answer to TED talks, Gibtalks, offers this weekend 17 speakers from diverse areas of life

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Top Spanish fashion designer Paco Rabanne dies, aged 88

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Developer submits slightly-changed new home plan for unspoilt section of Spain’s Costa Blanca

3 Feb, 2023 @ 16:30

SHOTS FIRED: Spanish customs injured by stones while chasing smugglers onto Gibraltar beach

3 Feb, 2023 @ 16:20

Sweet deal: Marbella’s old sugar factory to be restored

3 Feb, 2023 @ 15:45

WATCH: Choke hold bandit: Police hunt violent mugger in Spain’s Sevilla after choking woman out and robbing her

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‘Wobbling’ lorry stopped with driver six times over alcohol limit in Spain’s Murcia

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Police expose Almeria port base that smuggled migrants into Spain, drugs across to Africa

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Honest Woman Finds €500 In The Street And Hands It Back To Owner In Spain's Costa Blanca

Honest woman finds €500 in the street and gives it to police on Spain’s Costa Blanca

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Gibraltar speakers to take part in climate change conference at Sunborn Hotel in March

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