First of all, it is very important to make it very clear here that not all the villas in Urbanisación las Alminares are tainted by this scandal – many were bought by honest people through honest means.
Budget Won’t Budge
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The ideal thing would be to start off on a positive note, but why break a habit of a lifetime, eh? Seriously though, the best place to start off is on the most important note – the one that will have most repercussions: the municipal budget.
Adding Insult to Injury
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To add insult to injury, almost, the badly battered business along Velilla in front of the car park works have received yet another blow…
VPO’s For Almuñécar
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And now onto something completely different… thanks to a subsidized housing project, there is some construction work going. Work in that sector fell so low that whereas before we lived in a forest of building cranes, now the mere glimpse at a building crane in action is something out of the ordinary. As far as…
Solidarity Concert
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Now, this man is probably one of the nicest and most respected persons around town, as well as being an amazing guitar maker, which is probably why, when the news that his workshop had been ransacked and emptied of every instrument in it, the musical world of Almuñécar banded together to perform a charity performance at the Casa de la Cultura in his honour, and in order to raise funds for him.
Not A Priority?
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This time about the new roundabout on the N-340, where the Los Pinos road joins it. Now, nobody would claim that it was a waste of money, but surely there are much more needy trouble spots in the N-340, where it passes through the municipality.
Reader’s Letter
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Dear Sir,
Quality Tourism in Almuñecar?
During my current visit to the area, I have been reflecting on the declared directional shift of the current administration in Almuñécar towards the attraction of “quality tourism.”
Server Problems
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Sorry folks for the slow appearance of news articles this month but we are having server problems. We hope to get the rest of the articles up during today and tomorrow
School Failure Too High
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Eight out of every ten pupils in Motril fail their end-of term-exams. A study carried out by the Asociaciones de Padres y Madres de Alumnos found that only 16% of pupils pass these exams, which means that things are just as grim as the 2008/2009 school year.
Hands Off
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The Regional Council for Culture has said ‘hands off’ to the Town Hall over their plans to demolish the Alcoholera (The old building where the municipal TV station is housed, between the park and La Esplanada)