Marbella eight urbanisations has been evacuated. 4,000 people have been evacuated from their homes.

The village of Ojen and eight urbanisations in Marbella have been evacuated. 4,000 people have been evacuated from their homes. The fire broke out on Thursday afternoon and has affected Coín where some 60 homes have had to be evacuated. The fire was still burning overnight so the terrestrial fire fighters continued to work overnight, according to the fire fighting Infoca.The...

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A huge wildfire is approaching the wealthy resort of Marbella on Spain's Costa del Sol, where the authorities have evacuated thousands of people.

Flames reached the Elviria area on the edge of Marbella early on Friday.About 1,000 people have been evacuated from the edge of Marbella, about 3,300 from Ojen and others from a camp site at Alpujata, Spanish media report.They include at least 300 British expats sent to evacuation centres, the UK embassy told the BBC.Marbella is famous for its up-market hotels and villas -...

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Estepona Wild Fires rage on a 2km front

Police and Ambulances hurried to evacuate as wild fires quickly spread our reporter on the scene photographer the devastation&nb...

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Estepona on Fire

We had a tiny little fire today, which they put out.Then an hour later, it restarted, and spread along 2 Klm of the coast.It was horrible seeing old people being run out of their homes, and carried through the smoke by police and ambulances.The pictures really doesn,t do show bad it really was.many houses have gone &nb...

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Brooklyn-based design pair Gregory Buntain and Ian Collings of Fort Standard take their ethos in a new direction with a line of jewelry

 Having built a repertoire of supremely simple, thoughtfully crafted contemporary furniture, lighting and home objects, Brooklyn-based design pair Gregory Buntain and Ian Collings of Fort Standard take their ethos in a new direction with a line of jewelry. "Jewelry allows us to explore the more sculptural side of design while simultaneously forcing us out of...

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Mini Coupe made lighter, more powerful by Revozport

Revozport is a Chinese tuner, but one of its tuning arms reaches all the way to the UK. To reward itself for getting a particular ISO certification, its UK office put together the Revozport Mini Targa Raze, a program applicable to either the Mini Coupe or Roadster.It might be a smidge OTT, but it's not a bad job. With the help of Targa racing the motor...

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Breaking Free of the Co-dependency Trap presents a groundbreaking developmental road map to guide readers away from their co-dependent behaviors and toward a life of wholeness and fulfillment.

Breaking Free of the Co-dependency Trap presents a groundbreaking developmental road map to guide readers away from their co-dependent behaviors and toward a life of wholeness and fulfillment.UK CitizensThis is the book that offers a different perspective on codependency and is strongly recommended by Dream Warrior Recovery as part of a solution based recovery. This bestselling book, now in a revised edition, radically challenges the prevailing medical...

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Vintage Ads Most Disturbing Household Products

 All of the following ads are real and unaltered, so don't blame us. We weren't there when they were made, and in some cases the entire insane thought process that went into creating them has been lost to history. Maybe they made perfect sense at the time?Maybe. But it's really hard to see how even our parents and grandparents didn't get nightmares from ...#13. Three-Legged...

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The mauve stinger menace in Marbella

:Text may be subject to copyright.This blog does not claim copyright to any such text. Copyright remains with the original copyright holder. Scores of jellyfish that caused more than 1,000 people to seek medical treatment for painful stings in the Costa Del Sol in July have returned to several beaches this week.All along the Malaga coast of southern Spain, lifeguards have...

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Brad Pitt is reportedly utilising his free time to plan his wedding with Angelina Jolie.

The 48-year-old has taken charge of preparations for the wedding that is expected to take place end of September. He has flown in a team of builders to renovate the home he shares with Jolie in southern France."Angelina isn`t so bothered about when they tie the knot, it`s Brad who is piling on the pressure," a website has quoted a source as saying."He wants the main house...

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yellow jacket stun gun case for iphone

yellow jacket is a case that transforms the iPhone 4 & 4S into that 650,000-volt stun gun you've always needed.scheduled to hit the US market in fall 2012 the case is advertised as being able to easily stop an aggressive male attacker, and ready for use in less than two seconds. its designer seth froom, a former military policeman came up with the product...

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Prada's Fall 2012 Campaign Video

It's all but a game. At least it is in Prada's just-released Fall 2012 ad campaign video, where models Anne Vyalitsyna and Magdalena Frackowiak face off in a surreal game of chess. Watch as every move they make has life-sized consequences for fellow models (or pawns?) Elza Luijendijk, Iselin Steiro, Madison Headrick, and Vanessa Axente. Lensed by Steven Meis...

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Now You Can Buy a $250,000 Nail Polish

Remember that time when everyone got all freaked out about thatsnakeskin pedicure that cost $300? Well, get ready to completely lose it, because we just got a press release for the “most expensive nail polish in the world.”That title was previously held by Models Own, which produced a $130,000 bottle (featuring a 24-carat gold, diamond-encrusted lid) back in...

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Estepona Town Hall sacks 176 municipal workers

The news was given on Wednesday by the Councillor for Personnel, Pilar Fernández-Figares Estepona Town Hall has sacked 176 municipal workers. The PP Councillor for Personnel, Pilar Fernández-Figares, announced on Wednesday that the 176 workers are victims of the ERE Employment Regulation which the Town Hall put forward in June. The workers will be compensated with 2.5 million € and they will be given their ‘finiquito payments of 408,000 € between...

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