The new tenants of the Salobrena Town Hall are not happy bunnies because the previous administration hadn’t paid even one bill of the 120 telephone lines at the Town Hall, resulting in an outstanding bill for 100,000 euros. The new mayor claims that the last time that a bill was paid to the telephone company was in 2008.
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Fired and Rehired
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One of the last controversial acts of Juan Carlos Benavides’s Mayoralty was the dismissal of five town-hall workers. The said workers took their grievance to court. Now the new Mayoress has made good a promise made as part of her investiture speech and reinstated the five municipal workers
First Step, First Stone…
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Politicians are given to presenting work projects, on site, with a ceremonial first-stone placing – and normally, that’s it, with not much else happening on the project for months or even years to come. Let’s hope that this is not the case with the presentation of the Rules Reservoir pipe connection to the east coast of Granada.
New School for Velez Benaudalla
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The Regional Education Board is spending 2.6m euros on a new school for Velez Benaudalla (just above Motril) to replace the old Colegio Madrigal & Padial. This new building will provide a room for a further 225 pupils.
Velilla Copper Theft Thwarted
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The Guardia Civil arrested a young man and a minor on a building site in Velilla, whom they had caught in the act of allegedly stripping copper from electrical installations.
Blue Zone Changes in Almunecar
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We managed to collar Francisco Prados, who is the leader of the local PSOE and opposition leader, concerning the Blue Zones in Almunecar. He confirmed that in the first Plenary meeting of the Town Council it was agreed to reduce the Blue Zone timetables, although not as much as his party had proposed.
Bye Bye Big Books
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The Plaza de Damasco, which is just in front of Caja Rural, Av. Andalucia, has had a facelift… only a year after its last one. Now, gone are the tombs-cum-marble Korans, for instance, as nobody actually seemed to like them, much less know for certain what the hell they were supposed to be.
1st Costa Tropical Gastronomic Fair
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Playa de Poniente, Motril, is set to see what is claimed to be the first pan-Costa Tropical gastronomic fair with participants from Almunecar, Salobrena and Motril
Argentina Steakhouse
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Ergon from the Argentina Steakhouse tells us that they are now doing live music every Saturday from 20.00h.
New Roundabout Demand
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With the ever-growing numbers of visitors to the very popular Cantarrijan beach, just west of La Herradura, calls for a roundabout to be built on the N-340 are also growing. In fact, several plenary meetings of the municipal council have culminated in a request to the Demarcacion de Carretera (road authorities) for such a junction, as well as one at the entrance to the Urbanizacion de Las Palomas, just before the Cerro Gordo tunnel.