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SUR
Vélez-Málaga town hall last week unveiled an "innovative" scheme by which a specially equipped tractor will not only smooth out the sand on the town's beaches but also mark a safe distance of two-and-a-half metres for sunbathers this summer.
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eugenio cabezas
Vélez-Málaga mayor Antonio Moreno Ferrer announced on Monday that he hoped to get approval of the town's draft town planning document (PGOU) before the end of April. The plan, which includes 10,000 new homes, has been in the pipeline for 10 years.
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AGUSTÍN PELÁEZ
The council in Vélez-Málaga has announced that it is revisiting its plans for three stretches of coastal pathway along the N-340 road between Chilches and Benajarafe after Malaga province's Diputación rejected the project last week. The provincial ... authority has taken five months to give an answer to Vélez-Málaga, after the latter submitted its proposals in December 2019. The Diputación has said that it rejected the proposal on the grounds that the town hall failed to provide a geotechnical study of ... the area and changed its original plans. Mayor of Vélez-Málaga, Antonio Moreno, said the town hall is already looking at its proposal again and that the footpath is "non-negotiable" as well as "strategic". The path is part of the provincial
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AGUSTÍN PALÁEZ VELÉZ-MÁLAGA
An avocado dip made with Axarquía-grown fruit has gone on sale in Carrefour supermarkets. The spread, which is made with 99.2 per cent avocados and is preservative and gluten free, is the creation of local tropical fruit company Reyes Gutiérrez.
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agustín peláez
Vélez-Málaga town hall unveiled plans this week to redesign the El Tomillar roundabout at the entrance to Torre del Mar. The roundabout is considered one of the worst accident black spots in the area with collisions happening almost on a daily
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A. PELÁEZ / E. CABEZAS
Residents of Almayate, Valle-Niza and Cajiz villages are calling on Vélez-Málaga town hall as well as the government to take action following a wave of burglaries. Speaking to local radio station, Ser Axarquía on Monday, local resident Esther ... "We heard the dogs barking but we thought it was because of a cat, yet when we looked at the video we saw they had broken the perimeter fence and were trying to enter the house. Ruiz explained that as well as reporting the problem to Vélez ... is only one patrol for the whole [Vélez-Málaga] area". National Police sources in Vélez-Málaga told SUR this week that while they have had a number of reports of burglaries in certain areas and that they are trying to locate the perpetrators, they
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eugenio cabezas
Four Guardia Civil officers who were the first to search the house that the missing Romanian woman Dana Leonte shared with her partner Sergio Ruiz, told the court last Friday that traces of her blood could have been removed with bleach by Ruiz after
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Eugenio Cabezas
Vélez-Málaga’s long-awaited new National Police headquarters could be open by the end of February, SUR has learned. The building in the Cuesta del Visillo area of Torre del Mar, near the A-7 motorway, was initially scheduled to open almost a year
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Eugenio Cabezas
Vélez-Málaga runner Christyan de la Cruz completed a 170-kilometre ultramarathon in India at the end of January to raise money for villages in the south of the country. The 35-year-old sports fan was among 250 people to take part in the event
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Jennie Rhodes
Vélez-Málaga town hall last week unveiled a new environment plan which aims to plant over 1,000 trees in the town this decade. Under the slogan 'One Child, One Tree' the town hall and local schools aim to have planted 165 trees by the end of