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ANDREW J. LINN
...what? Almost as serious (!) is the EU's proposed renaming of the veggie-burger. Under pressure to call things what they really are and not to copy established food identities, a ruling that since it contains no meat it cannot be called a burger. The EU
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Héctor Barbotta
The days of the horse-drawn carriages in Marbella are numbered. The local council has approved a plan to withdraw the licences, compensating around a dozen of the 19 permit holders 30,500 euros each before the end of the year. The council has said
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Héctor Barbotta
A new law change approved by the Junta de Andalucía brings mixed news for the concession holders of the Puerto Banús marina. On the one hand it will end the uncertainty over the length of the contract, confirmed at 75 years, but that places the end
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IGNACIO LILLO / HÉCTOR BARBOTTA
...from feeding wild animals While some local residents like to see them, others are not happy and regularly complain to their local town halls because they are afraid of being attacked in the parks or that the animals will cause traffic accidents. In ... currently unable to operate as it is waiting for an official report "There are a lot of them and they pose a danger, especially because of the risk of traffic accidents on the road between Mijas and Fuengirola and in Cerros del Águila," he said. The ... and things have hardly changed since. So far this year the council has captured around 50 of these animals, sometimes four or five of them in one day. They live in the hills and when the sun sets they come down to the residential estates to look for
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The regional government is to close the borders of Andalucía from midnight on Thursday (12am on Friday 30 October) for ten days, until 9 November. No one will be permitted to leave or enter the region unless they have a valid reason. The president ... Family and social gatherings limited to six people, unless they are from the same household, is another of the restrictions listed on Wednesday. "Nothing will be as it was," said Moreno, calling for the maximum collaboration of the general public. This
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JUAN SOTO
...people have still not received the money they had spent because of delays in payment by airlines and tour operators, and this is overwhelming a sector which is already suffering from a lack of business. The travel agents, who act as intermediaries ... between the clients and service providers, say they feel they are trapped in a deadend, because the money their clients entrusted to them for their holidays is still in the hands of the companies or hotel chains, and they cannot refund it until these ... operators give it back to them. The president of the Agencias de Viaje Asociadas de Andalucía association (Aedav), Sergio García, says they are well aware that many payments have still not been refunded since the crisis began. "We are the weakest link in
Opinion
Rachel Haynes
And in the future (hopefully, not too distant), we will look back at photos from this year, with the ever-present masks and distancing, and know immediately they were taken during the "Covid era". Now the new term has started, seeing children going ... political ideology is frightening. Perhaps they don't mind posing for photographs in their masks and not having to shake hands, but we'd like to see them all working together so we can take that big family photo as soon as possible.
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ALBERTO GÓMEZ
...positive and then get a PCR test has become an ordeal of unanswered calls and waiting that tries anybody's patience. From the moment you suspect you might have Covid-19, or symptoms appear, or somebody that you have had contact with tells you they are ... There is a consensus that a new model is needed. "We're doctors, not administrators," he adds. Lack of personnel to do tracing The lack of people to carry out the tracing of contacts is also worrying the medical community. "It's a lie that they have ... asymptomatics One Intensive Care doctor said that the other worry is the inability to find asymptomatics. "Although they may wear a mask and respect social distancing, they do live with other people." The health authorities are therefore increasing their focus
Opinion
ANDREW J. LINN
It is an old axiom that every nation gets the government it deserves, and if this is applied worldwide, then we are not in good hands. It was ever thus.When Prohibition became law in the US a century ago, no-one had thought through the consequences,
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Tony Bryant
...lack of support and is claiming that the council is ignoring their pleas for help. The group held a meeting with mayor Ana Mula last week, but say they think she is "dragging her feet" with regards to publicising the area, which has become like a