Guadalfeo-Ecologistas en Acción have brought to the attention of the authorties the presence of untreated domestic and industrial wastewater discharges, ending up in barrancos and irrigation ditches along the Costa Tropical.
Whilst the life an elderly man was saved on a beach in Torrenueva Costa yesterday, a woman in her 60 drowned off a beach in Rincón de la Victoria.
A man in his late 70s was rescued in the sea off a Torrenueva Costa beach yesterday, more or less in front of Restaurante El Churrasco.
Each summer the Almuñécar fleet of cleaning skiffs plies the waters off the town’s beaches, skimming off floating rubbish and questionable discarded objects.
A Polish tourist in his late 50s died in a swimming pool belonging to a cortijo ear Camino de Corca in Cómpeta, (inland Axarquía).
A butane-bottle explosion (una bombona) in Salobreña yesterday resulted in a woman suffering extensive burns to 20% of her body.
Whilst we used a tongue-in-cheek tone about the forgotten funeral urn, there is nothing nothing that can be taken lightly about the death of baby that had been left in a car in August in the Canary Islands.
A mobile-phone mast on top of a building in Vélez-Málaga has been turned off following clashes between the rulling coalition and the PSOE opposition group.
Almuñécar is still steering towards building a day centre for people with special needs, which will be built on the cleared ground were the Turismo Tropical complex used to stand and which is presently being used as summer parking.
Around two in the afternoon yesterday a small motorcruiser caught fire next to the Motril Port Yacht Club, injuring two from the same family; the boat owner and his daughter.