The two underground car parks are going well. The latest update puts the termination date for both projects in May, right down to the flower gardens on the surface, which unfortunately means that both Christmas and Easter could still be disrupted by the continuing construction work in Velilla and San Cristobal.
Yet More Blue Zones
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The PSOE claims that there is a new drive to implement yet more Blue-Zone areas in Almuñécar. Their party leader, Francisco Prados, suggests that it is little more than another push rake in more money for the municipal coffers.
15 New Chefs
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The Town Hall has provided a course to train 15 chefs, accepting candidates from the town’s unemployed.
Social Services Strike
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The social services, provided by Adhara, narrowly avoided disaster when a strike that was set for the 20th of November was called off.
Death in a Gully
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Many in the foreign community have already head about the tragic accident that occurred on a country track, when a car with four youngster inside, who were returning from a Halloween party, drove off the track and plummeted to the bottom of a steep barranco (gully).
School Dinners
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The IU councillor, Fermín Tejero, has asked the Junta de Andalucía to annul a planned increase in the cost of school dinners.
Benny Faces Cape Horn
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The Mayor has a tough month coming up with a swarm of court cases to attend as the accused: he has a total of three trials and an appeal case.
Reward for Missing TV’s
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I’m looking at a press photo of a man called Ivan, who has a face that you wouldn’t like to inform that you got his daughter pregnant. But this has nothing to do with daughters or pregnancies, but has everything to do with TV’s.
Illegal Town Planning?
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The Town Council of Lanjarón is being investigated over a spot of alleged ‘illegal’ town planning, bless them. A provincial delegate for the PP has accused the present incumbent in the Councillor for Town Planning’s office of being a bit liberal with his interpretation of building restrictions where his own house is concerned.
Eco-Órgiva
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Órgiva hits the limelight thanks to the Junta de Andalucía choosing the capital of the Alpujarra as the subject of a national pilot project on sustainable urban development.