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Jennie Rhodes
...been unearthed in the town in recent years, including Roman basins, more walls and other artifacts. "This latest discovery adds to the rich legacy left by the Romans which we are discovering in our town," explained town hall archaeologist, Elena
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MÓNICA PÉREZ
In 2017, recorded population growth in the province of Malaga was highest within the municipalities of Marbella and Malaga. The number of registered residents in the Marbella area increased by 6,000 to 147,000. Of the new population, 5,000 are from m
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BORJA GUTIÉRREZ
Just in front of the sports centre which bears the name of the new Spain coach Fernando Hierro, there was a party atmosphere as family members, friends and former colleagues gathered at the Hierro family bar, run by his brother Pepe, for the Fernando
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Tony Bryant
Torremolinos town hall has installed a new Foreign Residents Department in the town centre. Although the office, which also houses the tourist and culture departments, was opened 18 months ago, the foreign resident's department has only recently ... Spanish, but they will soon be able to attend enquiries in French, Italian and German. Since taking over in 2015, the PSOE council has instigated numerous changes to the town and one of its priorities has been the expat community. The town hall has ... serve them," María José explained to SUR in English. The department is considering a number of possible initiatives to help expats integrate. These include information in English on the town hall's website and an English language news and information
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Marbella town hall has signed a collaborative agreement with animal shelter Triple A which will secure the future treatment and care of abandoned animals in the municipality. The agreement was signed between the mayor of Marbella, Ángeles Muñoz, ... and the association's president, Bettina Pietsch, last week and will see the council pay 30,000 euros per year to subsidise the association's costs. “Without the very important work carried out by Triple A and their volunteers in our town, we would ... find it very difficult to provide services,” said Muñoz. The town hall will also support Triple A through a series of public information campaigns, principally those aimed at reducing the number of abandoned animals following the festive period, as
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Jennie Rhodes
Animal lovers are up in arms in Benamocarra following the publication of a leaflet by the town hall which threatens fines of up to 750 euros for feeding the local cats. Antonio Fernández Arcas, who says he has been feeding the felines every ... morning “365 days a year” for over 20 years with bags of dry cat food, which he says he buys with his own money from local supermarkets, and Diana Golledge, a British painter who has lived in Benamocarra for 13 years, say that the town hall needs to ... programme of sterilisation to control numbers but also to allow them to continue to feed the cats. “One of the British residents has sent letters to the town hall with research done in the USA about how controlled cat numbers is good for villages,” explains
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Nieves Castro
Hundreds of small and medium-sized businesses in Marbella are set to be granted temporary opening licences in a bid to ease the blockage in applications caused by changes to the town's master planning document. Since the 2010 document was ... on a case-by-case basis and will become permanent once the new final town plan is completed and published. Councillor José Eduardo Díaz estimates that 40 per cent of current applications, some 800 licences, fall under this banner.
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FRANCISCO GRIÑÁN / SUR
It's no exaggeration to say that this could be the best show that the people of Malaga will see all year. The world renowned Cirque du Soleil opens the doors of its “big top” here today, Friday to unveil its newest show, Totem. TOTEM Venue. Big top
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CHARO MÁRQUEZ
The new San Luis gastro-market in Estepona will open next week, town hall sources have said. It had been planned to open as early as Christmas last year but the need to carry out more repairs on the building, the town's previous main market hall,
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Eugenio Cabezas
Nerja and Cómpeta town halls are both seeking investors to purchase and take on the management of holiday accommodation which they each own in the Tejeda, Almijara and Alhama mountains. Cómpeta owns La Casa La Mina, which has been closed since ... 2014 and boasts 20 bedrooms, while Las Casas de los Mineros in the La Fuente del Esparto area of the national park belong to Nerja town hall and the doors have remained closed since 2015. Both town halls hope put contracts for the complexes out to ... tender before the end of this year. However, as the national park belongs to the Junta de Andalucía, they would also have to give the green light to any potential buyer. Nerja town hall has said that it hopes to attract interest by offering “more