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Dogs adopted TWENTY dogs were adopted from the Motril animal shelter in January, according to Councillor for Health, Margarita Yanguas.
Padron call NERJA Town Hall Foreigners Department wishes to remind those who haven’t renewed their registration on the ‘padron’ that they will be taken off the list if they don’t do so before the end of March. For more information call 952 548 401.
No sale NERJA Local Police have lodged a complaint against a hawker for reportedly selling potatoes in Calle Pintada. The man was using a megaphone to attract buyers.
Cycling’s golden knight pedals into the Axarquia BRITISH Olympic Gold medallist and Tour de France winner Sir Bradley Wiggins is in town. He will pedal through the Axarquia in the first stage of the Vuelta de Andalucia cycling competition which starts in Velez-Malaga today (Thursday). The British superstar cyclist will be joined by the entire Sky Team, to which he has belonged since 2010. They will pedal the 186.8 kilometres of the stage, from VelezMalaga’s Paseo de Andalucia to the Zafarraya pass 4,000 metres above sea level.
This is the first time a stage of the Vuelta de Andalucia has started in Velez-Malaga. The town served as finish line in 1961 and 1996.
The 60th edition of the cycling competition started yesterday (Wednesday) in Almeria with a preliminary stage.
It will take the participants to the eight Andalucian provinces through five stages. Otherwise known as Ruta del Sol, the cycling competition will finish on Sunday in Fuengirola, on the Costa del Sol. Sports network EuroSport will broadcast the last two hours of each stage in more than 70 countries. This is the second cycling competition in Spain that Sir Bradley Wiggins has taken part in so far this year. Earlier this month the 2012 Tour de France cycling race winner, and
‘Dangerous’ school wall demolished A WALL at a school in VelezMalaga which supposedly posed a danger to students has been demolished. Council workers knocked down the front wall of El Romeral school following public demand. The school’s managing board and the parents’ association had
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been asking the regional government to fix the front wall of the building since the 2012-2013 school year. They claimed the wall had serious structural defects and was a danger to both students and teachers. But their demands were never met until the town council
stepped in to demolish the wall. According to Councillor for Education, Aurora Diaz, this is proof of the regional government’s “lack of action” in a matter it is responsible for. Velez-Malaga Council is now expected to build a new wall complying with safety measures.
multi Olympic gold medal winner participated in the 23rd Iberostar Challenge in Mallorca (pictured).