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A7 Past and Future
With the change of Central Government and a litany of cut backs promised, there is a great deal of concern over the A-7 autovia where it passes through the province of Granada - the only part of this main traffic artery that traverses the whole of the Mediterranean coast of Spain. »
Avoidable Flooding?
That is what the residents of Calahonda are asking themselves after extensive flooding beset the town. The fact of the matter is that torrential rain cannot be blamed on municipal authorities, but the readiness - or lack of it - of a town to cope with such phenomenon is quite another matter. »
A-7 Confusion
The Province of Granada seems to be receiving one piece of bad news after another. First of all it was the negative from Brussels to route the Mediterranean rail-freight network via Costa Tropical, leaving Motril port without a rail connection, and then on the 26th of October, it was announced that the autovia construction... »
ETA Announces End of Armed Conflict
The Basque terrorist organistation, ETA, which is responsible for over 800 deaths since its beginnings in the late 1960's, has announced that it has definitely put aside armed conflict; i.e., there will be no more bombings and assassinations. »
Pyromaniac Targets Cerro Gordo
The Guardia Civil is going all out to track down the culprit behind four deliberate fires on Cerro Gordo; one of the few pine forests left on the Costa del Sol. »
Supreme Court Finds Against Almuñecar
This time it wasn’t Benny that received a knuckle rapping from the Supreme Court, but the PSOE-PP coalition council from the year 2000, who the court considered had abused their municipal prerogative over minor changes to the standing PGOU. The way the system works is that a town will draw up an urban development... »
Marina del Este Stabilized
The extensive work that has been taking place on the hillside behind and above the Marina del Este, La Herradura, has concluded. All told, 30 shafts have been sunk to drain off underground water within the hillside. What has caused all the problems to date is that the hillside has been retaining water, which has softened... »
Juanca Pranged His Bally Kite
Or if you would prefer it in plain English, instead of RAF WW2 banter: Juan Carlos Gomez, Infoca pilot based in near the Pantano de Bermejales, crash landed after hitting a cable. »
Site Outage 5th August
We lost the web page and email addresses due to a domain’s problem yesterday, resulting in the site being down virtually the whole day – which will play havoc with out site stats… and all over the princely sum of just 11 euros! A bill wasn’t paid, one that should have gone through automatically... »
7 Star in Trouble
According to the IU (left-wing coalition) the Junta called on the Almunecar Town Hall to annul the building licence for the 7-star hotel in Cotobro on the Penon del Lobo on the 30th of June, days before the local elections. »
