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Three Summers More I
The summer’s here but the coastal highway is not, nor will it be until early 2013 probably. »
Three More Summers II
As part of the austerity measures, the Government announced that it would cut back 6,400 million euros on public spending. Even before this announcement, the long-awaited completion date for the A-7 coastal highway had been set back to 2011. »
Corruption Touchdown I
El Caso Gürtel is possibly the biggest corruption scandal in history of post-Franco Spain, and one of its tentacles has touched the Costa Tropical: Urbanisación Las Alminares. »
Corruption Touchdown II
First of all, it is very important to make it very clear here that not all the villas in Urbanisación las Alminares are tainted by this scandal – many were bought by honest people through honest means. »
Hotel Chain Boss Arrested I
The owner of the hotel chain, Hoteles Senator to which Almuñécar’s Playacálida and Almuñécar Playa belong, has been arrested. »
Hotel Chain Boss Arrested II
When the Mayor announced that the prestigious hotel chain, Sol Melía had landed in Almuñécar in July 2001, it was with evident pride. Here, he claimed, was evidence that ‘high-class tourism’ was the future for our town. »
Demolition Order?
Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Andalucía upholds the Junta’s case against the Town Hall and the development company, Playa Costa Tropical S.L., in which the Junta demands that the original building licence be revoked, because the urbanisation is sitting on green-belt land. »
Pensioners Perish I
British pensioners, Christopher and Christine Martin, met a tragic end when the living room ceiling fell on them as they sat on a sofa at their friends’ cortijo in the Alpujarra village of Rubite. »
Pensioners Perish II
We have all been witness to the very uncharacteristic rainfall this winter, which has been with us since the 18th of December on an off – more often ‘on’ than ‘off’. Whilst roads have subsided, houses flooded and crops ruined, up to the last week of February, there had been no fatalities in our... »
Autovía 2013? (Part I)
The completion of the coastal dual carriageway, so that we will be able to drive along the Costa Tropical from one end of the province to the other and beyond is something that our politicians hold out to us as imminent.. always imminent, yet the long-awaited moment constantly recedes. »
