SPAIN’S new leader Mariano Rajoy will have the ultimate say in whether to allow the prospecting for gas off the Costa del Sol. While locally PP bosses insist drilling off Mijas would be a disasterous idea for tourism, Madrid’s environment department has already given it the go ahead. Now, Rajoy will have to decide if [...]

GREENPEACE has slammed a proposal to prospect for gas on the Costa del Sol. The global pressure group has called for an immediate halt to the exploration project, which could cause ‘chronic contamination’ and a lasting impact on marine life. Spanish boss Sara Pizzinato insists that the scheme proposed off Mijas ‘poses a huge risk [...]

FORMER UN supremo Kofi Annan is coming to Marbella to talk about wine. The Nobel Prize winner will be a guest speaker at the Third World Conference on Climate Change and Wine, which is being held in Marbella for the first time. The former secretary general for the United Nations is the key note speaker [...]

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MARBELLA Town Hall has rejected the government backed plan to search for oil and gas off the Costa del Sol. Mayor Angeles Muñoz considers the measure ‘diametrically opposed to tourism’, and has set her Conservative PP party against the measure. The mayor, who was voted in last year, insists it puts the environment of the [...]

As the British media follow up our story on the plans to ‘develop’ virgin El Palmar beach on the Costa de Luz, Harriet Alexander takes a look at the storm that’s brewing on the coast…

THE Terra Sana Cooking Club in Marbella is back after a summer break with new classes for kids and adults from the healthy food restaurant group. Kids classes will start on September 18, 2010 and then run every Saturday from 11.30am – 1pm. Mexican food is on the menu for the first class and the [...]

YOU already know that fish is a good source of vitamin B and also of vitamins A and D in the case of the oily fish species. As for minerals, fish meat is regarded as a valuable source of calcium and phosphorus in particular but also of iron, copper and selenium. Additionally salt water fish [...]

THE local politicians have been clamouring for an expensive and environmentally-damaging toll motorway between the two towns for years. But Ronda and Marbella are going to have to put up with something much more ecological, in the short term at least. For a new walking and cycling route has been inaugurated between the two towns. [...]

RAY of light for Artola dunes tempered by ongoing threat to Barronal de la Morera