Ten years ago one of Motril’s main thoroughfares was undergoing extensive and disruptive road works – it was getting a face lift, but it was dragging on and on.

Apart from the disruptions to water and electricity supplies, the main beef was that all the parking was disappearing. Many of you will remember that there was in-line parking on both sides, all the way along this main artery, but it was all going to disappear under a bus and taxi lane on one side, and a cycling lane down the other.

Businesses were horrified.

Yes the street was often congested but compared to those, nightmare, summers days when the N-340 still ran down it instead of skirting the town completely, it wasn’t that bad.

It didn’t help when it later turned up that the construction company laying down the new Avenida de Salobreña was allegedly involved in the nationwide corruption scandal, Gürtel, that still haunts the Partido Popular.

(News: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)