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Héctor Barbotta
Marbella has become the first large town or city to be awarded the Q mark, a top tourism quality certification, for its safe management of public spaces. The award was made by the government-accredited ICTE. The council was audited by inspectors
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Héctor Barbotta
The company that manages Marbella Fútbol Club has recently presented a project for a new stadium on the site of the existing one. According to the plans, the present stadium, which has had structural defects for some time and had to close off two ... complete. The viability of this initiative is subject to technical reports from council experts regarding the plans presented by the company, but in principle they seem to comply with the current Urban Plan which is in force for Marbella as they would not ... been decided which steps will have to be taken for the council, which currently owns the land on which the present stadium stands, to cede it to the company which owns the football club. Sources at Marbella town hall have said this may be through open
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Héctor Barbotta
The main property agents in Marbella and the surrounding area are calling for their profession to be regulated to ensure good practice, and for a code of ethics to be drawn up to protect consumers. LEADING PROPERTY AGENTS Honorary president. ... García (Nevado Realty); Jesús García (Banús Properties), Wolfgang Schlesier (Casa Marbella); Sergey Sinichkin (Drumelia); Miguel Tobar (Villa Marketing). This was explained on Tuesday at the official launch in Marbella of the sector's first association ... owns NGOVA, and the board includes representatives from Panorama, FM Consulting, Lucía Pou Properties, Gilmar, Diana Morales, Nevado Realty, Banús Property, Casa Marbella, Drumelia and Villa Marketing. Regulation The professionals behind the
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Ángel Escalera
...control, having concluded the contact tracing and testing process. In the last week 245 new positive PCR Covid-19 tests have been recorded in the Costa del Sol district. Of them 154 were in Marbella, 23 in Fuengirola, 21 in Estepona and nine in
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Héctor Barbotta
Masseurs who usually work on Marbella's beaches during the summer have stepped up calls for the town hall to allow them to return to work. The around 100 masseurs say that the town hall's decision not to renew permits violates their right to work.
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Héctor Barbotta
The new Official School of Languages (EOI) on Avenida Alfredo Palma in Marbella will be ready for use in time for the start of the next academic year, the town's mayor, Ángeles Muñoz, has announced. The works, with a budget of 1.3 million euros, ... began in November last year and were funded by assets seized from Juan Antonio Roca, mastermind of Marbella's huge town-planning corruption scandal. The school, which has 12 classrooms, is already 95 per cent complete and will be furnished by the Junta
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J. CANO / Á. Frías
The National Police have got to the bottom of the murder of Milos Perunic, the 41-year-old Montenegrin shot dead with a sub-machine gun in Marbella town centre in the middle of the day on 2 June. The investigation, led by the special team set up
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A British far-right activist has reportedly moved to Marbella with his family. Tommy Robinson is said to have fled the UK after an arson attack on his family home. The 37-year-old, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is known for his
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CHARO MÁRQUEZ
The Olivia Valère nightclub in Marbella has announced it will reopen on Thursday after closing unexpectedly on Monday night due to some members of staff testing positive for Covid-19. The management cancelled the event planned saying that "due to ... later, with Covid-19 symptoms. One of them publicly denounced the situation. Marbella Local Police then contacted the firm to ensure that the correct protocol for positive tests in a business was being followed. On Wednesday 29 July, the Costa del Sol ... in many other businesses, our nightclub is always in the news; it must be because our brand is internationally known", she said. Marbella town hall said that according to regulations, when cases are detected in a workplace, those affected must
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Héctor Barbotta
A developer is to build 15 luxury villas in the heart of Marbella after the town hall gave the project the green light on Monday. The villas will be built on land which currently has several homes in a state of abandon, on the old ring road at