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suR
...good idea to go somewhere outside town centres and other areas where there is a lot of light. In Malaga province, places such as the mountains of La Axarquía, El Torcal in Antequera, the Serranía de Ronda and even Los Montes de Malaga are the best
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Eugenio Cabezas
Vélez-Málaga town hall has reactivated plans to build a 550-seat theatre in Torre del Mar. Councillors approved the plans in July and said last week that once they get the "green light" from technical staff, the work will be able to go out to ... tender. The eight-million-euro project will be built in the Cerro de Águila area near the town's indoor swimming pool.
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H. BARBOTTA
The new updated master town plan for Marbella, known as the PGOU (Plan General de Ordenación Urbana), won't penalise property built illegally during the years when Jesús Gil and his GIL party ran the town around twenty years ago. Unlike the last ... PGOU in 2010, which had a system of compensation payments to normalise the status of irregular homes that was later declared null and void by the courts, the new document will start from how the town looks now. In other words, all property classed as ... on consolidated urban land will be validated as such, irrespective of whether it was built with licences based on other rules valid at that time. According to the town's mayor, Ángeles Muñoz, this will bring peace of mind to the majority of those
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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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Héctor Barbotta
...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 ... political consensus about this initiative, because it is a project which goes beyond the merely sporting aspect and it ought to revitalise this area of the town, which includes the densely-populated Divina Pastora and Las Albarizas districts. At the ... presentation, Ribot said the new infrastructure that is being proposed would be a "jewel which will become a symbol of the town". He also pointed out that since the company took over the Fútbol Club in November 2018, its top priority had been for the town to
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Tony Bryant
Torremolinos town hall has announced that the municipal debt generated by the previous PP administration led by former mayor Pedro Fernández Montes has been reduced by 35 per cent in the last five years, lowering the figure from 197 million to 128 ... Likewise, taxes have been lowered, and this demonstrates the good management of the Torremolinos town hall despite these difficult times, which have been intensified by the economic, social and health crisis caused by Covid-19."
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Jennie Rhodes
Three Swedish residents living in Almuñécar were thanked last week by the town's councillor for Social Services, María del Carmen Reinoso, for raising over 4,300 euros to help vulnerable families during the coronavirus lockdown. The initiative ... started in March when translator Felicia Sánchez Hermansson offered her services to the town hall as information was published in Spanish. "Many of the foreign residents didn't understand what the rules were or what was going on, so I translated what the ... town hall published into Swedish and English and made sure it went onto local social media," she told SUR in English. From there, Felicia, who recently took over the Almunecar.se website, which has local information in English and Swedish, came up
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A. Jiménez / T. bryant
...that the meeting had been arranged to help the town hall understand the worries and concerns of the expat community. "There are four associations of this type in Benalmádena. They do a very important job offering support to facilitate social
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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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JAVIER ALMELLONES
...noticed a number of people with metal detectors operating on land with archaeological preservation orders in place. He then informed the town hall who started their own investigations. "After we were given this information, we saw that holes had been made ... in the plain - at the foot of Mount Sábora - and remains of marble began to appear, which seemed to show that there were buildings under the ground," explained the town's mayor, Jacobo Aranda. From there, the town hall found an orthophoto from 2012 ... Until now, archaeologists hadn't been able to pinpoint it, with some believing it to have been in the municipality of Teba. Following this discovery, the town hall contacted the territorial delegation of Culture and Heritage of Malaga in order to set