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For the second year running, Mijas Town Hall is teaming up with the popular charity padel tournament ‘Todos con Cudeca’, sponsored by De Cotta Law, to raise funds for the Cudeca Foundation. The Cudeca Foundation’s work is supported by the event, which provides free palliative and medical equipment to people with advanced illness and their families. The tournament was officially …

Severe weather from Storm Emilia created the journey from hell for passengers and their cars on a ferry between Algeciras in the south of Spain and Ceuta, the Spanish enclave on the north coast of Africa. The journey only usually takes one hour, but the sea in the Strait of Gibraltar tossed the 3,500-tonne ferry around like an inflatable dinghy. …

THE US-based short-term rental site Airbnb has been slapped with a €64 million fine by the Spanish government over more than 65,000 adverts encouraging customers to rent out unlicenced tourist apartments. The Ministry of Consumer Affairs announced that it has identified 65,122 ads on Airbnb’s site promoting tourist apartments which violate consumer protection laws. Investigators found advertisements that listed accommodations …