Police now believe that the case of a man who died in Antequera as a result of serious burns was not, as was initially thought, a suicide.
Two more car parks for Antequera
Two new municipal owned car parks should be opening in Antequera in the next couple of months, each car park having around 200 spaces.
IX Annual Congress
More than 150 chiefs and administrators of the Local Police in Andalucía are meeting at the Antequera Golf Hotel in Antequera for their IX Annual Congress. Amongst the activities planned are trips to the Wolf Park, El Torcal Natural Park and a gala dinner at the Hotel Convento La Magdalena. Sunday will be a free day for the participants.
First major fire in Antequera
The first major fire of the year has destroyed around 25 hectares of public land near Antequera.
Protest in Antequera
Around 200 people marched through the streets of Antequera yesterday in protest against the ERE (Expediente de Regulación de Empleo) submitted by the company Antal Textil, a measure whic affects 49 workers at the plant.
Police seize almost 4 tons of hashish in Antequera
The National Police has seized around 4,000 kilos of hashish after a raid on a small warehouse in Antequera. Also seized were three top-of-the-range vehicles. Police had been carrying out an investigation into the goings on in Antequera for several months before initiating a raid. Three people were arrested in Antequera and another, who managed to escape along with two …
Industrial accident in Antequera
A worker was seriously injured this morning in Antequera. The man was working on the construction of the N-331 when he fell from a bridge. He is now in Cabra hospital.
New solar garden in Antequera
On Wednesday, the inauguration took place in Antequera of the Parque Solar Fotovoltaico Cortijo del Cura, the first solar garden in the area. Attending the ceremony were Pilar Serrano, delegate from the provincial Ministry of Innovation, Science and Business, Ricardo Millán, mayor of Antequera, Robin Schöck, director of Ansasol and representatives of JUWI, the company responsible for installing the plant.
Cable thefts in Antequera
For more than a year, gangs of East Europeans have been steadily stealing copper cabling and farm implements in the Antequera region, operating during the hours of darkness. Now, however, some new groups have started operating in broad daylight and seem not to care who sees them. On one occasion, a farmer spotted a group who had pulled up in …
Opportunism knocks in Antequera
An employee of the Unicaja bank in the Parquesol area of Antequera, a man in charge of driving the armoured truck, placed a bag containing €20,000 on a table and in full sight of customers in the branch. Whether he was over-trusting, over-confident or negligent (or stupid!) is not known, but the bag didn’t remain there for very long. For …