BEACH DO OVER

THE Spanish government is splashing out €1.3 million to spruce up the Costa del Sol's beaches for the summer season.

Fourteen seaside towns along the Malaga province coastline will benefit from the revamp.

The work will involve adding sand, reshaping the coastline and removing debris that washed up on 39 different beaches. This emergency measure aims to repair the damage caused by the ferocious Levante storm in February.

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maker Federico Schatz mean while added that in some places the giant schemes are digging up ancient ‘centenario’ olive trees.

The German, whose bodega was one of the first in Europe to be carbon neutral, added: “They also need a lot of water to clean them, that in an area and a time when we are suffering an extreme drought.”

“So much of this is about big money and giant grants from the EU. It is like a gold rush and with so many projects going in it feels like they are sacrificing Andalucia like killing a suckling pig.”

One of the organisers of the