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sacking of Juan Antonio Roca from his post as Municipal Real Estate Assessor at Marbella Town Hall was justified

Posted January 15, 2010
judge in Social Court 11 in Málaga has ruled that the sacking of Juan Antonio Roca from his post as Municipal Real Estate Assessor at Marbella Town Hall was justified, and that the man who is at the centre of the Malaya corruption allegations has no right to his job back or any compensation…

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flamenco dancer Juan Manuel Fernández Montoya, known as ‘Farruquito’, is a free man after completing his three year prison sentence for a fatal hit an

Posted January 15, 2010
flamenco dancer Juan Manuel Fernández Montoya, known as ‘Farruquito’, is a free man after completing his three year prison sentence for a fatal hit and run in 2003. Montoya had been out on parole since January last year, after completing two thirds of his sentence and spending the previous s…

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Eighteen people have been arrested across Spain for the illegal online sale of protected species

Posted January 15, 2010
Eighteen people have been arrested across Spain for the illegal online sale of protected species, in a Civil Guard operation which began with an investigation into an Iberian Wolf which had been put up for sale on the Web.Dubbed ‘Operation Lobezno’ – ‘Wolf Cub’, a number of exotic animals have been …

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Free Sex on the Net

Posted January 15, 2010
un-named woman resident in the Cartagena district has been taken into Civil Guard custody for advertising an offer of free sex on the Internet, but giving the contact details of a rival.La Opinión de Murcia said she published the telephone number and even the full address of her enemy, a woman who h…

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Málaga woman has accepted a one year sentence for assaulting her son’s teacher

Posted January 15, 2010
Málaga woman has accepted a one year sentence for assaulting her son’s teacher during an incident at the child’s school in the Palma-Palmilla district of the city. It happened in the first week of the new school year in 2007, when the mother hit the teacher and threw her onto the floor in front of o…

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counterfeit Osborne black bull

Posted January 15, 2010
National Police have broken up a network which was importing counterfeit items using the famous Osborne black bull logo from SE Asia, mostly China and Thailand.26,478 articles were recovered in total during the operation which was carried in warehouses in the provinces of Madrid, Crevillente…

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Juan Antonio Roca.The court considered that his situation was worsening and that with the news that he could have money stored abroad

Posted January 15, 2010
The Provincial Court in Málaga has once again denied an application for bail from the man at the centre of the Malaya and Saqueo corruption cases in Marbella, the ex municipal real estate assessor, Juan Antonio Roca.The court considered that his situation was worsening and that with the news…

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mystery surrounding the murder of former Polop mayor Alexander Ponsoda

Posted January 14, 2010
After following countless unsuccessful lines of enquiry officers from Guardia Civil think that they have finally uncovered the mystery surrounding the murder of former Polop mayor Alexander Ponsoda after they apprehended a man in Alfaz on a totally unrelated issue. The secrecy surrounding the case w…

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Piers Morgan’s long awaited documentary finally aired on ITV.

Posted January 14, 2010

So Morgan on Marbella wasn’t the horror show that we were all dreading, and at the end we had the sneaking suspicion that Piers had perhaps fallen a little in love with the town. “Marbella, whatever tickles your fancy” he summed up “has it all!”


Marbella was glued to its TV screens when Pi…

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80,000 cars were stolen throughout Spain last year, and almost 14,000 of those were from Alicante.

Posted January 13, 2010
Almost forty cars are stolen every day in the Alicante region, according to official papers, making the coastal city top of the league table when it comes to car thefts in Spain. That surpasses such cities as Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia for the rate at which the cars are being nabbed.The figures,…

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TV personality and former Mirror editor Piers Morgan was the second most watched show between 9pm and 10pm. ‘Piers Morgan on Marbella' had an average of 4.1 million viewers, a 16.1% share of the audience.

Posted January 13, 2010
TV personality and former Mirror editor Piers Morgan was the second most watched show between 9pm and 10pm. ‘Piers Morgan on Marbella' had an average of 4.1 million viewers, a 16.1% share of the audience.

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THREE bodies were found in less than 24 hours in Cullera, Sellent and Favara,

Posted January 8, 2010
THREE bodies were found in less than 24 hours in Cullera, Sellent and Favara, although authorities have said that the deaths do not appear to be related. They were found by passers-by who alerted the Guardia Civil and were each found in a different state of decomposition. One is believed to be that …

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LOCAL POLICE in Palma arrested a 32-year-old man

Posted January 8, 2010
LOCAL POLICE in Palma arrested a 32-year-old man, after he and his brother attacked two officers who had been called to their home after a family argument. The events took place in the early hours of the morning in Son Roca when the officers were called to the scene because of a violent row. When th…

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TWO people were arrested by Local Police after they used an umbrella to rob a perfume shop in the centre of Malaga

Posted January 8, 2010
TWO people were arrested by Local Police after they used an umbrella to rob a perfume shop in the centre of Malaga and attack the shopkeeper. The two men, both from Malaga and aged 29 and 40, hit the shopkeeper on the head with the umbrella, as well as punching and biting him. They then fled with tw…

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Piers Morgan heads to Marbella to investigate a tale of two cities

Posted January 8, 2010
Marbella, the Costa del Sol’s capital of cool, is set to be the fifth exclusive global destination to be put under the spotlight of Piers Morgan’s Travelogues show on ITV, as part of the second series.Piers Morgan’s Travelogues began last year investigating the inner-workings of some of the …

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Guardia Civil arrested 13 individuals of Rumanian origin accused of commiting 20 robberies

Posted January 8, 2010
Guardia Civil arrested 13 individuals of Rumanian origin accused of commiting 20 robberies in recreational spaces and bars, restaurants and hotels of different points of Andalucia. The first crime took place last October in a bar in Grazalema (Cadiz) where the accused forced a window and took the mo…

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Six people have been arrested in Valencia for kidnapping a businessman who was held captive in a countryside cabin

Posted January 8, 2010
Six people have been arrested in Valencia for kidnapping a businessman who was held captive in a countryside cabin in Chiva for six days before he managed to escape. Europa Press said one of his captors is an employee at the construction company the businessman owns.The victim was snatched on an ind…

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homeless man who was attacked with an axe in Fuengirola in the early hours of Monday regained consciousness on Tuesday

Posted January 8, 2010
homeless man who was attacked with an axe in Fuengirola in the early hours of Monday regained consciousness on Tuesday and is now understood to be off assisted respiration. His condition is however still serious and he remains in the Intensive Care unit of the Carlos Haya Hospital in Málaga.The 53 y…

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death of a 42 year old Russian woman whose stabbed body was found in her home in Almería.

Posted January 8, 2010
Police are investigating the death of a 42 year old Russian woman whose stabbed body was found in her home in Almería. Her flatmate alerted the National Police to the tragedy and they say that all lines of investigation remain open.The body was found in the early hours of Wednesday in the home in Ca…

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body of another homeless person has been found in Málaga

Posted January 8, 2010
The body of another homeless person has been found in Málaga. The 45 year old showed no signs of violence, but given the two recent axe attacks on homeless men in Fuengirola, one of which was fatal, the Police say they are investigating and waiting the results of an autopsy.The body was found around…

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sacking of Juan Antonio Roca from his post as Municipal Real Estate Assessor at Marbella Town Hall was justified

Posted January 15, 2010
judge in Social Court 11 in Málaga has ruled that the sacking of Juan Antonio Roca from his post as Municipal Real Estate Assessor at Marbella Town Hall was justified, and that the man who is at the centre of the Malaya corruption allegations has no right to his job back or any compensation…

Read more

flamenco dancer Juan Manuel Fernández Montoya, known as ‘Farruquito’, is a free man after completing his three year prison sentence for a fatal hit an

Posted January 15, 2010
flamenco dancer Juan Manuel Fernández Montoya, known as ‘Farruquito’, is a free man after completing his three year prison sentence for a fatal hit and run in 2003. Montoya had been out on parole since January last year, after completing two thirds of his sentence and spending the previous s…

Read more

Eighteen people have been arrested across Spain for the illegal online sale of protected species

Posted January 15, 2010
Eighteen people have been arrested across Spain for the illegal online sale of protected species, in a Civil Guard operation which began with an investigation into an Iberian Wolf which had been put up for sale on the Web.Dubbed ‘Operation Lobezno’ – ‘Wolf Cub’, a number of exotic animals have been …

Read more

Free Sex on the Net

Posted January 15, 2010
un-named woman resident in the Cartagena district has been taken into Civil Guard custody for advertising an offer of free sex on the Internet, but giving the contact details of a rival.La Opinión de Murcia said she published the telephone number and even the full address of her enemy, a woman who h…

Read more

Málaga woman has accepted a one year sentence for assaulting her son’s teacher

Posted January 15, 2010
Málaga woman has accepted a one year sentence for assaulting her son’s teacher during an incident at the child’s school in the Palma-Palmilla district of the city. It happened in the first week of the new school year in 2007, when the mother hit the teacher and threw her onto the floor in front of o…

Read more

counterfeit Osborne black bull

Posted January 15, 2010
National Police have broken up a network which was importing counterfeit items using the famous Osborne black bull logo from SE Asia, mostly China and Thailand.26,478 articles were recovered in total during the operation which was carried in warehouses in the provinces of Madrid, Crevillente…

Read more

Juan Antonio Roca.The court considered that his situation was worsening and that with the news that he could have money stored abroad

Posted January 15, 2010
The Provincial Court in Málaga has once again denied an application for bail from the man at the centre of the Malaya and Saqueo corruption cases in Marbella, the ex municipal real estate assessor, Juan Antonio Roca.The court considered that his situation was worsening and that with the news…

Read more

mystery surrounding the murder of former Polop mayor Alexander Ponsoda

Posted January 14, 2010
After following countless unsuccessful lines of enquiry officers from Guardia Civil think that they have finally uncovered the mystery surrounding the murder of former Polop mayor Alexander Ponsoda after they apprehended a man in Alfaz on a totally unrelated issue. The secrecy surrounding the case w…

Read more

Piers Morgan’s long awaited documentary finally aired on ITV.

Posted January 14, 2010

So Morgan on Marbella wasn’t the horror show that we were all dreading, and at the end we had the sneaking suspicion that Piers had perhaps fallen a little in love with the town. “Marbella, whatever tickles your fancy” he summed up “has it all!”


Marbella was glued to its TV screens when Pi…

Read more

80,000 cars were stolen throughout Spain last year, and almost 14,000 of those were from Alicante.

Posted January 13, 2010
Almost forty cars are stolen every day in the Alicante region, according to official papers, making the coastal city top of the league table when it comes to car thefts in Spain. That surpasses such cities as Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia for the rate at which the cars are being nabbed.The figures,…

Read more

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