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Motril Shopping Centre Closer?

The Motril Town Hall says that it has found the formula to accelerate the bureaucratic process for a large shopping centre, on the scale of Vélez-Malaga’s Centro Comercial Ingenio, which will one day be built on the Cortijo de Conde site. But even so, we’re talking about 2014/2015.

Seaside Gazette Forums

It has been an objective of the online version of the Seaside Gazette to run a parallel forum where our readers can discuss articles from our news site. The Seaside Gazette Forums We have been in the process of setting it up, but it is now up and running, so if you would like to…

Visa Versa

In july 2010, the PP, who were then in opposition, staged photo stunt to denounce the delays in the work on the A-7; yet another promised completion date had slipped by.

New Motril Ferry Destination

Motril port will soon be running a direct ferry line to Morocco, as well as to the Spanish, North African enclave city of Melilla. The shipping line, Naviera Armas has announced that it will be connecting Motril to Alhucemas, which is a Moroccan city of some 180,000 souls. This daily connection will not only give…

Medusa Appearance!

San Juan brought with it unwanted summer visitor; jelly fish – and bloody great ones, at that! During the night, bathers were blissfully unaware of the ‘invasion fleet,’ apart from the occasional sting victim but the next day, people started hooking ‘aliens’ out of the water.

No Room For The Dead

Motril’s cemetery has a big problem; there’s hardly any space left for ‘new tenants.’ In fact, there are only eight burial niches left, so if you want one… you had better hurry.

Safer Beaches

The Mancomunidad has spent 100,000 euros on marking out the beach approach lanes for boats and other sea craft; we’re talking about the lanes marked out by twin lines of buoys that indicate the only place that you can beach or launch a boat from.