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Mijas beaches get ready for summer MIJAS Town Hall is cleaning and improving the safety and appearance of the town’s beaches. This is thanks to a budget of almost €500,000 for this year, which includes the purchase of machinery and equipment. The town hall will also hire boats to remove flotsam and jetsam from the water, and will maintain buoys along 14 kilometres of the coast to guarantee the safety of swimmers.
IN PREPARATION: Cleaning up the beaches. There will be 200 wooden walkways installed to make the beaches more accessible.
There will also be 1,000 cement walkways to reach the shore without stepping on the sand.
Woman faces eight years for mowing down her ex A TORREMOLINOS Local Police officer accused of running over her ex-
husband is facing eight years in prison for attempted murder.
Costa del Crime gone THE Costa del Sol is no longer considered a safe haven for international crime organisations. According to the Government Sub-Delegate in Malaga, Jorge Hernandez, crime levels have fallen throughout the province and Malaga now has ‘excellent levels of safety.’ However, at one point, more than 700 criminal organisations were thought to be based in the area.
The events took place in January 2013, when the man had gone shopping at the Lidl store in Churriana. The woman, who was on leave for depression and was separated from her husband, allegedly left their daughters at tennis lessons and went to the store’s car park. When she saw her husband with his back to her, she allegedly accelerated and hit him several times.
NEWS Sex offered on streets of Malaga ALMOST 350 people were fined in 2013 for requesting sexual services or having sex on the streets of Malaga City. According to the city hall, Local Police fined 907 women last year for offering sexual services in the streets and another 108 for carrying out such services. A 2010 law banned prostitution and the solicitation of sexual services in public areas. This refers to areas which are less than 200 metres from schools, play parks, residential areas or businesses, and bans offering, requesting, negotiating or accepting sexual services. Prostitutes who previously worked on the Guadalhorce Industrial Estate were moved from there to an area where they do not have the minimum hygiene conditions they had been promised. Despite facing €1,500 fines, many of them are working outside of the designated area.