A second violent incident in the province of Toledo occurred on Saturday, this time involving an 11-year-old boy who was stabbed and killed by a masked assailant in the football grounds of Mocejón (Toledo).
A tragedy, in the modern sense of the word, unfolded in Otero, a small village of barely 500 inhabitants within the province of Toledo (Castilla-La Mancha).
A collision between two vehicles on the A-7 above Castell de Ferro, left a tunnel blocked during several hours.
The crackdown on beach hoggers commenced nearly two decades ago in La Herradura, then under Juan Carlos Benavides – today it continues in Torrox.
Starting tomorrow at 17.00h, northbound traffic on the A-44 will have three lanes at its disposal, thanks to one of the southbound lanes being incoporated to this end.
The Almuñécar Councillor for Beaches and the Environment, Lucía González, has given the figures behind the clean up following fiesta week.
Parking a non-electric car (diesel/gasoline) in a recharging-point spaces will get you fined. This includes hybrids with no socket for charging.
A man died after a concrete pillar fell on top of him as he lay on a sun lounger on Monday the 12th.
You will have noticed that temperatures have cooled a little, especially at night, with temperatures in the low 20s on the coast and middle-to-high teens inland in the Valle de Lecrín (Dúrcal) and the Alpujarra (Lanjarón).
Whilst all eyes on the Costa Tropical were on the fire behind La Herradura and Almuñécar, the Infoca provincial units had to deal with a fire in Dúrcal and another in Fornes, which is near the Bermejales Reservoir.
A lorry driver in his late 50’s was stopped by the police in Navarra and was found to have seven times the legal limit of alcohol in his system.
The NASA satellite service, Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) shows areas affected by fires from yesterday as Dúrcal and La Herradura/Almuñécar.
Given that it is absolute madness-on-a-stick trying to find somewhere to park anywhere on the coast, Almuñécar has increased its night-service timetable during fiesta week.
A hill fire broke out behind and above La Herradura and Almuñécar, in the area of Peña Escrita, which is still ongoing.
There is a photo exhibition in La Herradura from now to the 18th entitled, Recuerdos del Pasado.