Nerja News

Police have arrested a woman in Benalmádena on suspicion of killing her husband at their home in urbanisation Torremuelle. more »

Mexican bullfighter Arturo Macías is in a very serious condition in the Hospital General in Jerez de la Frontera after being gored by a bull on Sunday. more »

The mother of the five-year-old boy whose lifeless body was found on Friday in the Espiel Natural Park in Córdoba has been charged with gross negligence. The woman is currently in the Reina Sofia hospital in Córdoba where she was admitted on the day she reported her son missing. more »

Doñana National Park was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1994, but there is a possibility that this status could be withdrawn, being replaced by one of ‘area at risk’. more »

A fire in calle Juan Ramón Jiménez in the Solis district of Estepona caused the evacuation of the entire block for a period of six hours while firemen tackled the blaze. more »

An autopsy has confirmed that the five-year-old German boy reported missing by his mother and whose body was found in the Espiel Natural Park in Córdoba died from multiple organ failure as a result of dehydration or heatstroke. more »

Guardia Civil, Infoca, Protección Civil, Local Police, Red Cross and volunteers are involved in a search for a 30 year old hiker who went missing in the Sierra de Mijas on Tuesday. The missing man is an experienced hiker who knows the area well.

A five-year-old boy died in the early hours of Friday morning at the Carlos Haya hospital in Málaga after having been rescued from the water at El Morche beach, Torrox. more »

Guardia Civil officers in Córdoba have located the body of a five-year-old German boy who was reported missing three days ago. more »

The body of a young boy, a Polish national, has been recovered from a reservoir on a farm in Mazagón, Huelva. The boy and another minor had apparently been trying to jump the fence around the reservoir when he fell into the water. The reservoir is located near the HU-3110, known as la carretera de  La Peñuela.

A man has been arrested in Marchena, Sevilla, after falsely reporting the theft of his wallet near the municipal fountain while celebrating Spain’s World Cup success when, in fact, he spent the money celebrating in a local ‘alternative club’. more »

National Police officers discovered a man, apparently unconscious, in a car parked in calle Canchal in the San Andrés district of Málaga. They called the 061 Emergency Services who, upon arrival, found that the man, aged 46 years, was dead. The incident is being investigated.

As from September, the start of the new academic year, the Ministry of Health of the Junta de Andalucia is going to take a more active supervisory role when it comes to school meals, an action being carried out in conjunction with the Ministry of Education. more »

There were three low intensity earthquakes registered in Almeria province in the early hours of Wednesday morning, the largest measuring 3.3 on the Richter Scale. more »

A 26 year old worker who was seriously injured in an accident last week in Jaén has died in hospital. more »

The historical centre of Frigiliana, kinown as ‘Barribarto’, is a maze of narrow streets and whitewashed buildings, the architectural legacy of the Moorish culture in Spain. The Foundation Blas Infante is behind a move to award the ‘Príncipe de Asturias de la Concordia 2010′ to the descendants of the Moorish Andalucians expelled from Frigiliana in 1610.

A 39 year old Moroccan man has been arrested in Sanlúcar la Mayor, Sevilla, on charges of smuggling tobacco after 30,540 packets of cigarettes were found hidden in his van. more »