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Tarmacking and Verge Clearing

The Almuñécar Town Hall has been busy tidying up the verges of the municipality’s country lanes, cutting back the grass along the access lane for Pago de Guerra, just above La Herradura

.22 D.I.Y. Rifle

The Guardia Civil at the Puerto de Motril arrested a man for being in possession of an illegal weapon. It was during a routine embarking search of vehicles waiting to board the Volcán de Tejada ferry that the police found the homemade firearm inside a luxury car with a French number plate.

Music School Survives

The Motril Town Hall and the teaching staff at the Municipal Music School have reached an accord that will keep the school running, after all indicated that it would be closed down due to a lack of funding.

Chiringuitos Rescue Town Hall

On the 6th of August Salobreña announced that it didn’t have enough money to replace the missing or damaged wooden walkways on the beaches – such was the state of the municipal coffers. Bathers were not happy.

Brief Independence?

Torrenueva and Carchuna-Calahonda fought for a long time to gain administrative independence from Motril, eventually achieving it, albeit to a semi-autonomous degree, but now with the Government cuts, their independent state can be very brief, indeed.

Editorial Comment: A Slap in the Face

Some members of the Almuñécar hostelry community consider that the Fería de Dia, set up along Calle Pinto Rivera is little more than a ‘slap in the face’ from the Town Hall and many people would agree with them.

Cotobro Beach Railings Installed

There has always been a fun drop available for the unwary, unwitting and unwanted from the Cotobro beach road to the beach below, owing to a ridiculously narrow pavement and a sadist lack of fencing.

Public Plastic to the Rescue

Rubite, which is about 17 km above Castell de Ferro, had no unemployed amongst its 450 inhabitants, but things change because now there are 43 people officially registered as unemployed, most of whom come from the construction trade.