Just a week after the municipal elections a preliminary deal has been struck between the PP and Ciudadanos which could give the mayoralty to the former. »

Alcaucín in the Axarquia has a Belgian Mayor, Mario Blancke, there appears to be a movement to have a Spanish one. »

early 50 clubs and associations will gather in Almuñécar's Parque Majuelo on Saturday the 8th for the annual clubs fair. »

The Guardia Civil bagged four young individuals from Guájar Faragüit after the discovery of an indoor marihuana plantation. »

We begin the month for our Looking Back section with an article about a shooting in Almuñécar's Parque Majuelo. The actual shooting took place in March, but the arrests took place in June. »

The paperwork for the Hotel Boutique in Salobreña started back in 2003 but the economic crisis got in the way... until now. »

The two crew members of an Austrian-registered catamaran were rescued by the maritime service of the Guardia Civil off the island of Tabarca (Alicante). »

A young man has been sentenced to a 9-month, suspended imprisonment sentence for indecent exposure on a Motril beach. »

Bathers on a Torrenueva beach yesterday afternoon were surprised to see a RIB approaching the beach crammed with illegal immigrants. »

Tests on the high-speed-train connection between Granada and Madrid are rapidly concluding, with the service soon to be operative. »

Not just Almuñécar residents but also foreign residents from along this end of the Costa Tropical will remember Restaurante Jacquy Cotobro or Jacky Cotobro. »

A large waterproof parcel containing drugs appeared on the Salobreña beach, La Charca, yesterday morning. »

The Guardia Civil in one of their more cuddly moments rescued a horse that was trapped next to a fast-flowing river. »

An articulated lorry became jammed yesterday afternoon on the Camino del Canal in Salobreña. »

The woman's body found floating off a Salobreña beach has been identified to that of a 79-year-old woman from Zaidín in Granada. »

The last of the May 2009 looking Back articles concerns the fate of the palm trees along the Avenidad de Salobreña in Motril, uprooted when they modernised the thoroughfare. »

The Almuñécar fire service was deployed to put out a fire in a bar in Plaza Kelibia Wednesday evening. »

An association of illegal-dwellings owners in the Axarquía area of Málaga (many of whom are foreigners) has called upon the new Junta administration to be "brave." »

Doctors are being investigated by the Health Board over allegations of taking bribes from the German company, Fresenius, providers of dialysis products . »

The sports area in La Caleta is being overhauled, especially the fence that surrounds it. This is the one near the old chimney stack on the N-340. »

There has been yet another fire, this time in Nerja on Los Acantillados next to Playa Burriana, which started around 16.00h on Monday. »

The Guardia Civil intercepted a luxury yacht with 3,385 kilos of hashish on board opposite the Almería/Granada provincial border. »

The body of a woman was found in Salobreña waters, just off the beach to the left of the Peñon this morning. »

It turns out that Motril's election balance might not be the final results; everything depends on what a judge decides on Wednesday morning. »

In Motril, the PP under Luisa García Chamorro (ex-mayor) was the most voted candidate, winning for her party eight seats on the Town Council. »

Two drivers were intercepted by the Guardia Civil driving the wrong way down an autovía in two separate incidents recently. »

Juan Carlos Benavides, who has spent longer as the Mayor of Almuñécar than anybody else, is looking at taking the Mayoralty again. »