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CHARO MÁRQUEZ
After more than 12 years closed, the Hotel Ciudad de Marbella, next to the town's bus station, could be set to reopen in the near future. Little information is known about the project ongoing in the building, but it can be confirmed that the town
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E. CABEZAS
Vélez-Málaga town hall. The protest will start at the old Chilches train station building at 7pm and finish at the Benajarafe station building, which is the stretch of coast where the path should have been built. Work started last February but has not yet
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Eugenio Cabezas
The main bus station in Vélez-Málaga reopened last Friday following two years of work to reform the building which was, until the 1960s, the town's train station. The Malaga provincial government, Diputación, financed the entire project, which ... with timetable information is already available and there are plans to open a café in the building in the near future. The bus station is open from 7.45am to 10.15pm.
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VANESSA MELGAR
Popular party at Ronda train station on Monday to demand improvements to the trains on the line between Algeciras and Bobadilla. This came after two incidents at El Colmenar station in which carriages caught fire from beneath, producing flames and smoke.
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ALBERTO GÓMEZ
Work on the 4.5-million-euro project to rebuild the train station in the Plaza de la Nogalera in Torremolinos will start in October, the town's mayor confirmed this week. The 18-month scheme will create a more accessible station with lifts and ... ramps and follows years of protests from local residents, many of whom are unable to use the current station which only has a one-way escalator that is often out of order. Preliminary works to prepare the area will begin in May at the Caballitos
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CHARO MÁRQUEZ
...fire station last Friday. Benjamin had died, after months battling his illness. In October last year, while playing football, he suddenly had a severe headache and felt dizzy. He was diagnosed with an inoperable tumor, which caused paralysis. However,
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Ivan Gelibter
After years of complaints, Mijas town hall on Monday announced a 7,000-square-metre plot of land in Las Lagunas, next to the Instituto La Vega secondary school, was to be set aside for the town's new fire station. The new station will be located ... fire engines such as the recently-purchased crane truck which cannot fit in the current fire station. The current 1,000-square-metre hub had been described as "obsolete" and "insufficient" for the force's needs.
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Ivan Gelibter
...seemingly unfounded fears that the department had been hit by eavesdropping as well. With that news, the mayor lost patience with the internal inquiry at the television and radio station, and, after ordering the Treasury department back to work, reported the ... incidence appears to have been a false alarm. Previous arrests He said that Laura Delgado, the new station manager, had hired Gil Mauriz in good faith to carry out the audit of staff computers as she had just taken over. But it appears that the auditor
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Ivan Gelibter
A possible new railway station on the local Cercanías line at Nueva Torrequebrada took a step forward recently at a meeting in Madrid. Locals have been campaigning for the extra stop for years, and for the first time a mayor of Benalmádena has ... team to present the plans for the station drawn up by town hall technicians. A petition of 1,400 names has also been handed in to Adif. "In the meeting we told Adif that we're willing to help towards the costs of the station, as the town-hall's ... accounts are in a healthy state," added Navas. According to town hall sources, the Adif team said they would ask the ministry for Infrastructure, which the rail company is part of, for permission to carry out a viability study for the new station. "The
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Alberto GÓMEZ
The contract has been awarded at last to upgrade the Cercanías rail station in the Plaza de la Nogalera in Torremolinos. The work is designed to improve accessibility to the station and will include a lift, resurfaced platform areas and improved ... signage throughout. The station does not comply with current legislation. The budget is 4.5 million euros and the contract has been awarded to Via y Construcciones after over 20 companies bid to carry out the work. Once work starts it is expected to take ... 18 months to complete. The station, in the middle of Torremolinos, is the fifth busiest on the Malaga-Fuengirola Cercanías line. Last year 1.1 million passengers used the station. Not only does it lack a lift, but there is only an escalator for