Local News in Brief

Wednesday, 18 January 2012 10:00

Written by Editor

COIN

March demanding highway completion

More than 2,000 took to the streets last week to keep up the pressure on the Junta de Andalucia to complete the road that will finally connect the Marbella highway to the Malaga highway. The mayors of Coin, Alhaurin el Grande, Tolox, Casarabonela and the deputy mayor of Monda headed the march, which was organised by cultural, social and business associations as well as local politicians. Local shops expressed their support by closing for the hour the march lasted.

SAN PEDRO DE ALCANTARA

ITV station to open soon

More than 90 per cent of the building that will house the ITV plant is finished and all that remains to be done now is install the electricity and airconditioning, the woodwork, floors and tiles. The Junta de Andalucia said last week that it should be up and functioning “in the first quarter of this year”. Once opened, it will inspect an estimated 72,000 vehicles a year, which will ease the pressure on the ITV stations in Malaga, Estepona and Algeciras.

Body identified

The National Police have identified the human remains found by workmen on Friday at a quarry near the old Guardia Civil barracks. The body was little more than a skeleton, but its clothes contained papers identifying it as a 76-year-old Dutch woman, identified only as S.L.V.H., whose family reported her missing in Benalmadena in 2010. Police are waiting for the autopsy to give the cause of death which was not immediately apparent because of the body’s advanced state of decomposition.