THE POLICIA NACIONAL have detained two disruptive and drunk passengers flying with Ryanair from Bristol to Alicante-Elche airport on Saturday. The air traffic controllers association claims that 30 intoxicated Brits got involved in a brawl. The captain of the Ryanair plane requested the police presence upon arrival due to problems with the drunk passengers on […]
The choice of hotels on the Costa de la Luz is huge. FROM rural estates to beachside boutiques and historic houses to restaurants with rooms, there are so many places to lay down your hat on the Costa de la Luz. The place for romantics is Vejer, where you’ll find the seminal La Casa de
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THE city of Cadiz is on a peninsula, precariously attached to the rest of Spain by three strings: the glorious Puente de la Constitucion (known as ‘La Pepa’); the ho-hum, but sturdy Puente Jose Leon de Carranza (both on the east side) and a 3 km strip of the CA 33 from the south. Historically,
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THE mother of a high school student has been arrested for assaulting the school headmistress in Malaga. The 37-year-old woman allegedly attended the school in the Churriana neighbourhood with another family member, a man aged 39. Inside the building, she is believed to have assaulted the school headmistress by pushing and shaking her. The assailant
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Some say that Malaga’s Costa del Sol has all the fame, and the Costa de la Luz in Cadiz has all the beauty. I couldn’t possibly comment – suffice to say my summer weekends are spent on the beaches of Cadiz. From Sanlucar de Barrameda in the northwest to San Roque in the Southeast, the
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SPAIN’S Economy Minister Nadia Calviño has said that she expects the Council of Ministers to extend on Tuesday some of the anti-crisis measures that are scheduled to expire on June 30. Speaking to Radio Nacional on Monday, Calviño would not go into specifics ahead of Tuesdays meeting, but insisted that the drop in IVA on
BEACH-goers sunbathed and played in the sea along Malaga’s beaches yesterday, Sunday June 25—the first Sunday of summer. Despite the fact that the peak tourist season has not yet begun, the Malaga beaches were heaving, with many local residents and pre-high season visitors becoming early birds for the day in order to snag a good
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SEVERAL people have been injured in Malaga city— two seriously — after a Metro train collided with a car yesterday afternoon, Sunday June 25. As reported by Malaga City Council the accident, which took place shortly before 8pm, occurred due to a violation of the car for not respecting the traffic light signal. Two occupants
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CARLOS Alcaraz has won the Queen’s Club Championships yesterday, Sunday June 25, ensuring he will enter Wimbledon next month as the No. 1 seed. Alcaraz, with more power and precision beat Australian Alex De Minaur 6-4, 6-4 in the Queen’s Club Championships final in London. However, the actual shot of the match came from the
A VUELING flight had to make an emergency landing after a bird struck the plane shortly after takeoff. The mid-air scare occurred last Saturday, June 24, on flight VY3068 en route from Malaga to Gran Canaria. According to a statement from air traffic controllers, the flight crew was alerted that a bird had hit the
