The hugely successful television series will be filming between Malaga and Marbella over the next few months and is looking for people interested in taking part in the show. While speaking to a local Costa del Sol newspaper, series producer Bob Brear, said: “We are looking for people who are both trying to ‘live twice the life for half the …
Hearing screams coming from a flat in the La Virreina district of Malaga, neighbours called the police who found the 35 and 75-year-old victims tied-up and gagged. They told police investigating the break-in that their attackers forced entry into the flat while they were asleep, tying them up and beating them before ransacking the place in search of money and …
A probe by A HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) revealed how Butler tried to hide the scam by creating a complex web of businesses operating out of the UK, Spain, Gibraltar and the United States. Butler allegedly used his ‘ill-gotten wealth’ to purchase a luxury villa in Marbella and several sports cars that include a Ferrari Fiorano FI, a Ferrari …
The province of Malaga received the highest rating of 8.4 (out of 10) from tourists who visited the autonomous region of Andalucia during 2014. In total, 24 million travellers visited Andalucia last year, of which 10.2 million descended on the Costa del Sol. Andalucia is made up of 8 provinces – Almeria, Cadiz, Cordoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaen, Sevilla and Malaga, …
Police have arrested four South American nationals, two in Benalmádena and two in Getafe, as the alleged perpetrators of at least 14 robberies carried out on the homes of Chinese residents along the Costa del Sol.
The National Police have arrested seven people in connection with at least twenty robberies, some with violence and intimidation, along the Costa del Sol.
The Costa del Sol closed 2013 having received 9.5 million tourists, an increase of five percent over the previous year and is expected to maintain growth in 2014. This bucks the national trend of decreases in tourist numbers.
In absolute terms, the Costa del Sol registered the biggest increase in hotel visitors so far this year, an extra 136,496 or 4.21%.
Five business associations in Nerja, Frigiliana, Vélez-Málaga, Algarrobo and Torre del Mar have denounced the poor state of cleanliness of many of the beaches in the eastern Costa del Sol during the summer months and are asking the (oxymoron alert) competent authorities to adopt measures to prevent the situation from occurring next summer.
Investigations into the recent devastating wildfire on the Costa del Sol which left one person dead, damaged 8,225 hectares land, destroyed twenty houses and led to more than 6,500 people being evacuated from their homes has led to the arrest of a young man in Alhaurín el Grande. He has been charged with causing a wildfire through serious negligence.