For those of you who are not aware Google has introduced its excellent Street View into Estepona.

Click here to go to Google Street View in Estepona

Simply drag the the little yellow man that sits atop the scaling bar onto the area you wish to view at street level.

You can now wander around the streets of Estepona in a virtual and three dimensional way. A great way for you to show your relatives, in great detail, where you live.

Estepona Town Hall has launched a new program to encourage local Spanish children to learn English. The course, called ‘Saturdays in English’ will be aimed at children between three and 12 years and will cost 35 Euros per month. The classes will focus on spoken English and be held held every Saturday at the municipal centre for adult education in the Plaza of the Missionaries.

The latest figures from Estate agents indicate that the devaluation of the Pound and the rise in local taxation has resulted in a five fold increase in Brits putting their homes up for sale. Most of these Brits are selling up their second home, no longer finding it a viable option to have a holiday home in Spain.

This is particularly prevalent in Estepona due to the almost trebling of local taxes in the past year. With the system very much skewed against foreign residents with large discounts only being available to local residents. A true case of a Town Hall shooting itself in the foot.

The cycle track being built along the area of Avenida Del Carmen in Estepona has finally got under way again after a four month delay and having been left half built.

Having borrowed enough money to pay the constructors the remaining funds for them to complete the 2.5 million Euro project, painting has commenced in the colour of bright blue.

Initial reaction from local residents is one of aghast, leaving them questioning why Estepona cannot have a cycle track in a similar colour as the cycle tracks in the rest of Europe; that of a darker shade of Green.

Ex Mayor of Estepona Antonio Barrientos is asking for the Judge to be replaced in the pending Astapa case.

The legal defence team representing the ex mayor have claimed there are irregularities in the initial report made by the judge. These irregularities are said to be the inclusion of false data and the omission of important data that would help the defence case.

Apparently the town hall has a monthly telephone bill in the region of 30,000 Euros. This might explain why telephone have been cut in reccient months as the town has struggled to pay the bill.

Only this month the town hall has gone Telefonica cap in hand and asked for more time to pay its outstanding debts to the company - estimated to be around 350,000 Euros.

In little over a week the City will again have to face the payment of more than 3.8 million Euros representing the monthly salary of a workforce totalling around 1,300 workers,

Although the bank account of the town hall is currently flush to the tune of 20 million Euros (mostly gained from a land rights deal with the Saudi Royal Family) funds cannot be made available from this account under the current constitution.