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Héctor Barbotta
Marbella town hall on Monday approved a budget amendment that will allow for works worth ten million euros to be undertaken as part of the council's Economic Reactivation Plan designed to tackle the crisis caused by the pandemic. This initiative
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Héctor Barbotta
With the coronavirus pandemic wiping out more usual streams of income, Puerto Banús is turning to nautical tourism as a way to boost activity in the absence of the usual influx of visitors this high season. Marinas de Andalucía, the association th
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The Marbella players returned to the Antonio Lorenzo municipal stadium earlier this week for training ahead of their participation in the play-off series for promotion to Segunda. Much like their professional counterparts, the Marbella players
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Héctor Barbotta
Marbella town hall has started carrying out coronavirus testing on workers whose activities were unaffected by the lockdown. Some 4,000 quick tests are being carried out on staff at pharmacies, veterinary and other clinics, opticians, funeral
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Héctor Barbotta
Eight purse seiner fishing boats, which have been confined to harbour since 1 March, have resumed fishing off the Marbella coast this week. The president of the Marbella fishermen's association (cofradía de pescadores), Manuel Haro, has called on
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Héctor Barbotta
The Hospital Costa del Sol in Marbella is going to participate, alongside 61 other Spanish hospitals, in the first clinical trial at a national level and one of the largest in Europe, aimed at preventing Covid-19 in health professionals. This
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Héctor Barbotta
Marbella town hall has started testing around 2,000 key municipal workers for coronavirus using fast test kits. "The idea is to find out who might be a symptom-free carrier and who might have already had the illness," said the mayor Ángeles
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PEDRO LUIS ALONSO
Two weeks after an error in the interpretation of the lockdown rules saw Novak Djokovic and the Puente Romano Tennis Club in Marbella get in a spot of trouble, the world tennis number one returned on Monday, this time with the government's
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HÉCTOR BARBOTTA
The council in Marbella has announced the largest public investment and tax reduction plan in its history in a bid to tackle the economic crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic. Mayor Ángeles Muñoz announced last Friday a battery of measures ... which, she said, would involve allocating 130 million euros to economic recovery. She also called on central government to lift the ban on local councils spending their accumulated surplus, which in the case of Marbella amounts to 70 million euros. ... million euros has been allocated. Construction Meanwhile, since the state of alarm was decreed on 14 March, Marbella council has received 616 urban development files, of which 386 are building licences. This is a similar number to those that were put
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Héctor Barbotta
A new petition has been launched by the Acción por el Clima Marbella association, asking Marbella town hall to create a new network of cycle lanes. This comes as a direct result of the council's initiative to ban cyclists from the promenade and ... Marbella without the usual dangers," says the text that heads the petition which by Thursday had almost 500 signatures. The association hopes to encourage the council to revisit a plan drawn up (and never implemented) for bicycle lanes in 2014 with the ... aim of integrating this means of sustainable transport into Marbella's urban mobility. According to the petitioners, resuming this project now would make sense, especially because temporary spaces have already now been created and are being widely