All along the Costa Del Sol in southern Spain the building boom has been very evident in its relentless march across huge swathes of what was once beautiful, wild, open countryside. Rugged mountain ranges form the backdrop to this popular coastal area of the Costa Del Sol, which in recent years has been deluged by the construct

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Used cooking oil is an environmental problem the world over as it gets dumped into the sea as raw sewage and creates a nasty sludge that the sea does not deal well with. So anything that can be done to reduce the amount of used oil dumped into the sea can only be a good thing. In the Malaga region of the Costa Del Sol in southe

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The Costa Del Sol's capital Malaga is the host for an art exhibition organised by a British contemporary artist. The forthcoming exhibition comes to the Costa del Sol in April and is bound to attract a good turnout. Art has many outlets and establishments other than galleries on the Costa del Sol and these can all be visited a

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Life on the Costa Del Sol can be highly rewarding and the pace of life is much slower than elsewhere in Europe. Except for one sector of the local population that is.

Despite the laws stating you must waer a crash helmet, young moped riders flaunt that law. Seven out of ten of them in fact and the reason they give for

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The Costa Del Sol region in southern Spain has never been well known for its environmentally friendly agricultural policies. But there is some good news in that a study is underway to try and get more farmers to use better ecological practices.

The only way to get the stubborn chemically orientated farmers to shift their sta

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The Costa Del Sol is, like most places around the world, beginning to feel the effects of global warming, or climate change. Call it what you will, the result is unusual weather patterns that in this region are creating even hotter, drier summers and colder drier winters.

In an area that is close to becoming labelled as a de

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On the Costa del Sol as elsewhere in Spain, the Holy Week, or semana santa as it is known is celebrated from Palm Sunday until Easter Sunday with street processions. These processions are solemn religious rituals combined with both drab and colourful costumes of the marchers and other groups associated with it. On the Costa Del

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Here on the Costa Del Sol on southern Spain we're in for a treat, as coming up in April the Cervantes theatre in Malaga will be host to a live concert by none other than Paul Anka. The teen idol of the late 1950s and 1960s who had a string of hits very early on in his career went on to write some of the world's most popular songs of all tim

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