12 Mar, 2020 @ 16:52
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CORONAVIRUS: Mijas and Fuengirola on Spain’s Costa del Sol close down markets

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MIJAS and Fuengirola councils have suspended all the towns’ markets among a raft of measures against coronavirus.

In an effort to control the spread of the disease, municipal sports facilities in the two towns – indoors and outdoors – are also being shut.

Fuengirola's popular market
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POPULAR: Fuengirola’s markets are all being suspended. Credit: Wikipedia

All cultural events and youth activities are suspended, while Mijas has ordered the closure of its libraries and study rooms.

Both towns have shuttered all day centres for the elderly, including the pensioners’ cafes, as well as any activities and trips planned.

They have also reduced office hours for dealing with the public to between 9am and noon, and are asking people to make enquiries by telephone or via their web pages.

Fuengirola has set up several new phone lines for customer attention: 952589300, 952589301 and 952589302

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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