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Population

Fuengirola is Spain's fifth largest municipality in terms of number of bars per capita

Cristina Vallejo

The Costa del Sol province is home to the towns with most bars and restaurants in all Andalucía, including Torremolinos and Marbella

Malaga keeps alive the memory of Torrijos, the martyr for freedom

Antonio M. Romero | Málaga

With a floral tribute and the vindication of his values, the city commemorated the 194th anniversary of the execution of the liberal general and 48 companions on the beach of San Andrés for attempting to overthrow the absolutist monarch Fernando VII

Exhibition

Exhibition discovers the Malaga behind Ankersmit's abstract art

Paco Griñán | Málaga

The painter shows her career and her most recent production in an exhibition dominated by the sea in the rooms of the Sepulcro brotherhood

Image of the world's largest nativity scene, now open to visitors in Alicante's city hall square. JUAN CARLOS SOLER

Christmas

The world's largest Nativity scene is in Spain

Ana I. Martínez

In Alicante, the figure of St Joseph stands tall at 18.1 metres and six angels, each measuring nine metres high, are scattered throughout the city to mark the trail to this truly monumental Nativity scene

Salón Varietés offers a magical adventure above the clouds

Tony Bryant | Fuengirola.

Local residents and Guardia Civil officers during a search which led to the discovery of the weapon in July.

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Man injured in assault in Malaga village still in hospital five months after 'brutal' attack

Eugenio Cabezas

Councillors and organisers announce the initiative.

Costa del Sol

Fuengirola aims to break Guinness World Record for longest line of pizzas

Tony Bryant

The Corsairs train in the Campanillas area of Malaga city.

American football

American football fights for survival as clubs rebuild amid falling numbers

Antonio Castro | Malaga.

Malagueños del Año

Seven named Malagueños of the Year for their talent and achievements

Economy

Malaga is Spanish province with fastest-growing per capita income, but inequality remains high

Nuria Triguero | Málaga

Photo of the bus and HOV lane in Malaga, 11 December.

Traffic

New bus and high-occupancy lane opens on A-357 on Malaga city outskirts following year of construction work

Chus Heredia

Christmas

The Christmas tour from crib to crib in Malaga city

Juan Soto | Malaga

Locals and visitors can enjoy more than 70 Nativity scenes over the Christmas period

Health

Walk-in flu vaccination this Saturday in Malaga province's shopping centres

Some 41 nursing teams, with 150 nurses in total, will be offering jabs from 11.30am to 7.30pm

The prepaid cards were presented at the town hall on Tuesday.

Benalmádena provides direct help to the needy with the distribution of 200 prepaid cards

Tony Bryant

The town hall and the ACEB announce the event.

Costa del Sol

Benalmádena to host the popular 'turkey run' race this weekend

Tony Bryant

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41-year-old man admitted to Hospital Clínico in Malaga with facial gunshot wound

María José Díaz Alcalá

Umbrellas will be back on the streets of Malaga this weekend.

Weather

Weekend with wintry weather in Malaga province: intense rainfall on Friday and strong winds on Saturday

Ignacio Lillo | Málaga

Health

Junta extends the card scheme with discounts of up to 55% at opticians for the over-65s

Ester Requena

PhD student Carmen Losantos controls Paws, the UA's robot dog.

Innovation

The robot that wants to be a guide dog for the blind

Tere Compañy Martínez | Alicante

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Malaga has more water reserves underground than in reservoirs: the map of groundwater in the province

The 12 days of Christmas? More like a month of celebrations

Benalmádena town hall launches responsible pet ownership campaign

Historic Supreme Court ruling: Malaga city council ordered to return land it expropriated from private company 30 years ago

Restrictions on jet skis to come into force in Almeria's Cabo de Gata Natural Park

Employee of the MGI shop in Málaga Nostrum.

Commerce

MGI: Malaga's low-cost toy shops go for their 100th shop

Nuria Triguero | Málaga

Image of the opening of the Cáritas Christmas Bazaar in Marbella.

Charity

Cáritas Christmas bazaar in Marbella opens its doors with the aim of beating the 250,000 euros raised in 2024

José Carlos García | Marbella

Agriculture is one of the sectors most affected by the minimum wage.

Economy

Raising Spain's minimum wage in line with CPI would imply extra cost of 1.72 billion euros for companies

Lucía Palacios | Madrid

What to do Christmas 2025

Christmas lights

Malaga city lights up a magical Christmas

Juan Soto | Malaga

The videomapping show on the cathedral in 2024.

Christmas 2025

Christmas videomapping show projected onto Malaga Cathedral: these are the times and the dates

Isabel Méndez | Malaga

Christmas

Alice Christmas: all you need to know about the new festive light show at Malaga's botanical garden

Almudena Nogués

Christmas 2025

Everything you need to know about the festive light show at Malaga's botanical gardens

Almudena Nogués | Malaga

File image of Calle Larios full of people to immortalise the festive light and sound show.

Christmas 2025

Malaga surpasses major rival Vigo as the place to visit for Christmas markets in Spain

Pilar Martínez | Malaga

'A Nativity of Light' premieres in Malaga this Christmas.

Christmas 2025

What are the dates and show times for the magical Christmas light and sound show in Malaga's Calle Larios

Isabel Méndez | Malaga

Artist's impression of this year's Christmas show in Calle Larios.

Christmas 2025

Malaga reveals details of city's new Christmas light and sound show on Calle Larios: this is what it will look like

Juan Soto | Malaga

Christmas

Is this the first town on the Costa del Sol to switch on its Christmas lights?

SUR in English | Torrox

Families participating in Christmas festivities at Miramar shopping centre

Christmas 2025

Miramar shopping centre in Fuengirola introduces Christmas festivities programme

SUR | Fuengirola

Christmas 2025

This is the emotional video that's been released to promote Spain's huge Christmas lottery draw

A. Mateos | Madrid

Christmas 2025

El Corte Inglés is already lit up for a dazzling Christmas in Malaga

SUR | Malaga

Top 50

Opinion

The Music Maker

Peter Edgerton

Whose company needs a crowd?

The Euro Zone

Mark Nayler

Bad for business

Food and Drink

Andrew J. Linn

Disappearing Mediterranean tuna

The Bottom Line

Anya Soares

Christmas consumerism

A look at La Liga

Rob Palmer

The honeymoon period is over

The Bottom Line

Troy Nahumko

The great Franco revival circus

History

Liz Parry

Fifty years on

Costa del Sol / Malaga province

Image of the front line to the demo on Tuesday 9 December, Malaga city. SALVADOR SALAS

Health

Four-day strike by doctors leaves fewer patients at surgeries, but fills emergency rooms in Malaga on day one

José Antonio Sau

Unions estimate the strike's participation rate across the Costa del Sol province at 75%, while the regional government puts it at 32.3%

Solidarity

Cancer care foundation Cudeca to open its 27th charity shop in Malaga province

José Rodríguez Cámara | Alhaurín de la Torre

Aerial view of the Malaga marina, with some of the most luxurious megayachts in the world.

Malaga port

Arrival of megayachts in Malaga port doubles in one year

Ignacio Lillo | Málaga

The San Pedro market will undergo its first refurbishment in its almost 50-year history.

Infrastructure

Marbella town hall to increase modernisation budget for San Pedro market

José Carlos García | Marbella

International relations

Malaga village strengthens ties with USA

Eugenio Cabezas

Employment

More than 16,300 people hired in Malaga province's retail, hospitality and logistics sectors during Christmas campaign

Cristina Vallejo

Water

Work to increase use of recycled water in Malaga province nears completion

Chus Heredia

After connecting the Peñón del Cuervo and Rincón de la Victoria wastewater treatment plants, the Andalusian regional government is now undertaking the construction of reservoirs and connections which will benefit some 2,000 farmers and growers in the Axarquía

Tourism

Eastern Costa del Sol turns to AI for tools to help tourists

Eugenio Cabezas

Fouiza and her 18-year-old daughter Sanaa.

Crime

Fouiza, who was tied up during house raid in Benalmádena: 'I thought they were coming to kidnap my daughter'

José Rodríguez Cámara | Benalmádena

Crime

Five suspects arrested in connection with kidnapping and murder in Mijas in attempt to steal cryptoassets

María José Díaz Alcalá

Plot on which the shopping centre will be located.

Infrastructure

New Carrefour in Alhaurín de la Torre gets environmental go-ahead

José Rodríguez Cámara | Alhaurín de la Torre

National Police officers on duty. Inset photo of Miguel Vázquez, former PP councillor of Coín arrested in Operation Gargamel.

Crime

Resigned and now arrested: the PP councillor for Coín connected to a money-laundering scheme involving brothels

Julio J. Portabales | Coín

Spain

Politics

Full detailed sentence of former attorney general released by Supreme Court

SUR | Madrid.

The court has sentenced Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz to a two-year ban from public office and a 7,200-euro fine for disclosing confidential information

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Woman dies in Madrid after falling from tenth floor with her three-year-old twins, both fighting for their lives in hospital

Doménico Chiappe

Military

Could military service return to Spain? Unlikely, it seems

José Antonio Guerrero | Madrid

The point on the river promenade where the hit-and-run occurred.

Crime

Reduced sentence sought in Spain for fatal hit-and-run driver as he was rushing his baby daughter to hospital

Ainhoa de las Heras

Christmas

Christmas decorations on the balcony in Spain: when do you have to ask your neighbours for permission?

E. Gabriel Llanderas | Almería

Sport

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Zaragoza

Malaga's Dani Lorenzo rues a missed chance on Monday night. ÑITO SALAS

Football

Controversial penalty stuns Malaga CF late on despite dominant display

Daryl Finch

A 95th-minute spot-kick denied Juan Francisco Funes’s side a vital home win, as they again dropped points in stoppage time

Swimming

Less than a second separates Fuengirola swimmer from medal

Pedro Luis Alonso

The new AVOI football club made up of children in treatment or recovery at Hospital Materno Infantil in Malaga.

Society

Children from cancer association Avoi form Spain's first oncohaematological football team

Cristina Pinto

Marbella's Rodri Ríos, left, celebrates scoring his second goal on Saturday.

'New manager bounce' sees Antequera CF and Marbella FC pick up vital wins

Pedro Luis Alonso

Rugby

Green light given for new rugby field in a boost for local clubs in Malaga city

SUR | Malaga.

The Spain players celebrate one of their five goals.

Women's futsal

Spain beat Argentina to seal World Cup futsal bronze

Javier Varela

Andalucía

The delivery driver, on the bonnet of the now arrested man's van.

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Man arrested for reckless driving and endangering the life of Glovo delivery worker who he carried on van bonnet in Algeciras

The van driver had lost all licence points at the time of the incident

Jet skis

Restrictions on jet skis to come into force in Almeria's Cabo de Gata Natural Park

E. P. | Almería

The beach in Garrucha, where the body of the child was found.

Child abuse

Court reports continuous physical and sexual assault of boy murdered in Mojácar and accuses mother's partner

Camilo Álvarez y Nerea Escámez | Granada | Almería

The whole of Granada pushing for the Capital of Culture at an event held on 16 November at the Puerta de la Justicia.

European Capital of Culture

Granada bidding to be European Capital of Culture 2031

Jorge Pastor

Granada, Spain (Retrato Alhambra 1925) 2025

Culture

Granada brewery's centenary 'Retrato Alhambra 25' nude photo revealed

Jennie Rhodes

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Alleged murderer of woman found on Granada's Costa Tropical in 2024 wanted to evict her from his land

Laura Velasco | Granada

Gibraltar

Gibraltar

Gibraltar launches 'G-less' personalised number plates

SUR in English

The new registration system goes live today, Friday, with exclusive designs available online

Sport

Gibraltar Rugby accepted as a full member of Rugby Europe

SUR in English

Crime

Local man appears in court on child abuse image charges

SUR in English

Cultural awards

Johnny Bugeja and Sonia Golt honoured at Cultural Awards 2025

SUR in English

Health

RICC donates vital medical equipment to St Bernard's Hospital

SUR in English

Health

New oncology suite opens at St Bernard's Hospital

SUR in English

Lifestyle

Carol service

Nerja charity carol service raises more than 1,000 euros

SUR

The Anglican parish of Nerja and Almuñécar held its Christmas carol service on Thursday afternoon at the San Miguel church in Nerja

Gardening in southern Spain

Recommended for your garden in the south of Spain: Cotoneaster coriaceus

Denise Bush

tThe historical Charles Bridge, over 500m long, connecting the Old Town and the Lesser Town.

Travel

Rich in history and quality beer, Prague can do it all

ANYA SOARES

The archaeological site of the villa of Noheda, where the culinary research is being conducted.

Heritage

Dishes from Roman Hispania make their way to haute cuisine

J. M. L. | Cuenca

Kasia and Tomasz at the Axarquía Business Networking event in November.

Cooking for the community after the 2024 floods

JENNIE RHODES

Gardens

Recommended for your garden in the south of Spain: Paraserianthes lopantha

Denise Bush

Calling all gardeners

Health

Andalucía to implement single-appointment breast- screening system as of 12 January

Europa Press

The regional ministry of health has signed the order requiring that mammography, ultrasound and biopsy take place in a single appointment for suspected cases of breast cancer

Health

Malaga needs more bone marrow donors: numbers have fallen by 28.3% in one year

José Antonio Sau

Health

Pharmacies across Andalucía to be allowed to renew prescriptions for patients with chronic conditions

Jesús Hinojosa | Malaga

Living and health

What if you stop trying to sleep in one go and do it in two?

Solange Vázquez

Health

Weighted blankets to fight insomnia: when gaining ten kilos can help

Carmen Barreiro

Health

Junta starts vaccinating vulnerable population groups against flu and Covid without prior appointments in Andalucía

Europa Press | Malaga

What To Do

Music

Psychedelic sound of Pink Floyd shines on in Malaga

TONY BRYANT

The Pink Floyd Experience will recreate the music and ambience of the legendary band at Eddy's Music Factory on Sunday 14 December

What to do

New Year's classical concert returns to Gibraltar

SUR in English | Gibraltar

Sculptor Anette Skou with one of her pieces.

Art

Mijas-based Danish artist to host her second exhibition on Costa del Sol

Tony Bryant | Mijas

Nigel Smith brings his Solitary Man show to Benalmádena.

Legendary voice of Neil Diamond reproduced during Benalmádena tribute show

Tony Bryant

Marisa Flórez in front of one of her photographs at the Tabacalera (MEET) exhibition space.

Russian museum shares Tabacalera with a new exhibition space