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ANDREA JIMÉNEZ
...national park this week and met with the mayors of the 14 municipalities the park will have an impact on. The meeting was held in the village of Yunquera which was chosen as the headquarters of the park. "We're seeing a real pull effect: more firms are
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ANDREA JIMÉNEZ
...province. This month it was the turn of the Senate to sign off on the new status. A delegation of local mayors and officials from the area travelled to Madrid for the vote. The park and its protected area covers 14 municipalities: El Burgo, Yunquera,
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ANDREA JIMÉNEZ
The mayors of municipalities in the Valle del Guadalhorce and Sierra de las Nieves have joined forces against the installation of solar panel parks in their towns. Councillors from Almogía, Alozaina, Álora, Ardales, Carratraca, Cártama, ... has also recently been created, in which the locals are fighting plans install three photovoltaic plants. In a joint statement delivered after the meeting, the mayors said that they support the "deployment" of renewable energies, "but in a
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VANESSA MELGAR
The mayors of Gaucín and Casares in Malaga province and San Martín del Tesorillo and Jimena de la Frontera, in Cadiz, have expressed their joint concern over plans to create "massive" photovoltaic parks in their municipalities. They are calling on ... This needs to be done in a regulated, sustainable and controlled way to protect our environment and heritage," he says. These mayors have agreed to create a working group and have asked for a meeting with the Junta de Andalucía to discuss the matter
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jesús hinojosa
...earlier this year, it was welcomed by local mayors who were concerned by poor visibility on some stretches and the high accident rate.
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The provincial government's Environment department is preparing a mobile app so mayors and councillors can see instantly which species of plant are available. "We are in the process of setting up an online catalogue so that every municipality or
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SUR
Mayors suspended The events in Murcia came after last week it emerged several local mayors across Spain had been vaccinated ahead of priority groups in their municipalities. Four were suspended by the Socialist party this week. The majority claim
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Ivan Gelibter
The Junta de Andalucía's regional health service has announced two new health centres for under-served neighbourhoods of the Costa del Sol. After years of calls for better local healthcare provision, the first steps to planning the building of a me
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ANDREA JIMÉNEZ / ANTONIO M. ROMERO
...direct and indirect jobs, despite having been granted all the relevant permits from the Junta de Andalucía. The decision came after pressure from several mayors in the area who joined forces to try to have the project stopped because of fears that the ... supplies Villanueva del Rosario and the other villages whose mayors were opposed to the project. In the statement announcing that it would not now go ahead, the company said that during all the years of administrative processes, nobody had opposed or ... criticised the plans and all the permits and authorisations are in order. The mayors who have spoken out against the bottling plant are Juan González of Villanueva del Rosario, José María García of Villanueva del Trabuco, José Martín of Colmenar, Juan
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ANDREA JIMÉNEZ / Antonio J. Guerrero
The controversy over the new bottling plant in the Sierra de Camarolos is continuing. Earlier this week, mayors from the area met at the site to make a stand against the project and to demand that it is stopped. "It is senseless," said the mayor