This article by Will Pavia first appeared in THE TIMES August 7th 2010
Beneath the same blue sky, a family of four from York had one last dinner in an old plaza fringed with orange trees, a man sold cocaine on the beach, the deputy-treasurer of the Conservative Party shot 92 in a morning round of golf, women gyrated in lap-dancing clubs, a group of school leavers from Brighton snorted happy gas in a nightclub owned by Gary Lineker’s brother and the First Lady of the United States of America went for a walk around town.
Even by its own standards, this was a remarkable week for Marbella.