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Rachel Haynes
October from 9am to 12pm at Saydo Market, Mollina; and Thursday 24 October from 9.30am to 12.30pm at The Blue Bakery, Vélez-Málaga. UK nationals can drop in to any of the sessions where members of the consular team will be ready to answer questions on
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Eugenio Cabezas
With the Real Feria de San Miguel fair in full swing in Vélez-Málaga, the town hall and emergency services have put together a comprehensive safety, self protection and evacuation plan. Information is being given about safe areas, evacuation
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EUGENIO CABEZAS
The Junta de Andalucía has put out to tender a contract worth 42,229 euros to supply and install handrails and other safety and accessibility features along the coastal path of Caleta de Vélez harbour. The contract forms part of the ongoing project ... towns. Director General of the Andalusian port agency (APPA), Rafael Marino, said, "It is about opening up the harbours and making them dynamic spaces to generate tourist and economic activity." The Caleta de Vélez project is expected to take two months
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AGUSTÍN PELÁEZ
Controversy has erupted at Vélez-Málaga town hall after it was revealed that one of the deputy mayors, and councillor for Torre del Mar, Jesús Pérez Atencia, stopped receiving disability allowance in August after 18 years, to allow him to work and ... earn a salary exclusively for the town hall. If agreed at the next council meeting, Atencia will receive a salary of 60,646 euros per year; just under 3,000 euros less than current mayor of Vélez-Málaga, Antonio Moreno Ferrer, earns. It remains
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Jennie Rhodes
The Red Cross in Vélez-Málaga will be offering free memory stimulation courses for English-speakers from October. The courses are designed for the over sixty-fives to help with sharpening the memory, helping with response time and logic skills. ... coordinator at Red Cross Vélez-Málaga said that the courses would provide a good opportunity to meet other English-speaking people in the Axarquía area. The sessions will be held every Wednesday morning from 11am to 12.30pm at the Red Cross Centre, just off ... the A-356 near the La Palma garden centre in Vélez-Málaga. For further information email Richard Weale (29094social@cruzroja.es).
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AGUSTÍN PELÁEZ
Vélez-Málaga town hall has given the initial go ahead to a 4,680 square metre extension to the town's El Ingenio shopping centre. All but one of the political parties represented in the council voted in favour, with Andalucía por Sí abstaining. ... mayor and councillor for Torre del Mar, Jesús Pérez Atencia, who called for land near the Río Vélez to be earmarked for a permanent fairground and site for the Weekend Beach music festival, as well as compensation for businesses in Torre del Mar centre.
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Eugenio Cabezas
Vélez-Málaga town hall announced on Wednesday that this year's day feria will take place in the Paseo de Andalucía, instead of the area around La Carmelitas square and the town hall, due to the ongoing pedestrianisation works. The night feria
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Eugenio Cabezas
Vélez-Málaga town hall met with neighbours' groups and local businesses last week to find an alternative venue for the town's feria, which will take place from 25 to 29 September. The day fair, which is normally held in the town centre, will need
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EUGENIO CABEZAS
The friends of Vélez-Málaga culture association have called on the town hall to "act urgently" at the Toscanos Phoenician settlement near the mouth of the Río Vélez to remove rubbish, which includes building waste and furniture, as well as prickly
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PILAR R. QUIRÓS
...larger places in Malaga province have failed in their environmental duty. With the exception of Marbella, which has 29.7 square metres of green zone per local resident, Antequera, with 29.2 and Vélez-Malaga with 19.09, the other large towns do not meet ... municipalities in the province, especially thanks to its Rey Juan Carlos garden. Surprisingly, the amount of green space per inhabitant is featured on the Vélez-Malaga council website: it has 19.08 square metres of green zones per inhabitant, after having