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The people’s paper Issue No. 1887 2 - 8 September 2021
Fire broke out at 1am.
Blaze hits cars and homes A SHOCKING blaze hit five homes and six vehicles early on Monday morning, August 30 in Velez-Malaga, although luckily no-one was injured. According to the emergency services, the fire broke out at shortly before 1am. Over 30 people alerted the coordination centre to the blaze, and said that several cars were on fire in the Plaza San Juan de Dios. Officers from the Malaga Provincial Fire Brigade rushed to the scene of the fire where they discovered that six vehicles had been affected. They also found that the fronts of five houses had been partially hit by the fire. The fire brigade worked with officers from the National Police, Local Police and the Junta de Andalucia’s health services to ensure that everybody was safe. Luckily according to reports nobody was injured in the fire.
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Earthquake felt along coast AN earthquake was felt in Malaga with the epicentre in the Albo‐ ran Sea early in the afternoon on Saturday, August 28. The earth‐ quake was 4.9 on the Richter scale. According to information from the National Geographic Insti‐ tute (IGN) website, the earthquake happened at 1.20pm. So far there have been 11 aftershocks of 3.2 (13.24 hours), 3.1 (13.27), 3.3 (13.30), 2.6 (13.31), 2.5 (13.32), 2.5 (13.39), 3.6 (14.09), 2.6 (14.58), 2.5 (15.07), 2.5 (15.24) and 2.6 (15.44). According to the data, the earthquake did not cause any per‐ sonal or material damage. The earthquake, however, was felt in several towns including, Nerja, Velez‐Malaga, Torrox, Torremolinos, Malaga, Fuengirola and Calahonda. Many people took to social media to write their account of how they felt the earthquake and where. The last tremor that was felt in Malaga occurred two weeks previously in Granada.
New health centre
FRIGILIANA: One of the towns that had high occupancy during August. NERJA, Frigiliana and Torrox lead the provincial ranking for tourist occupancy in August with over 90 per cent occupan‐ cy. The province of Malaga fin‐ ished the month of August with an occupancy rate of over 76 per cent according to the Associ‐ ation of Hoteliers of the Costa del Sol (Aehcos). The association have said they are “moderately satisfied” with these figures. Some areas though have done far better than others. The ongoing coronavirus pan‐ demic has affected most of Spain, but summer tourists have returned. In August, 69 per cent of the total tourism in Malaga
were national tourists. This meant that the number of inter‐ national tourists came in at 31 per cent. The president of the Associa‐ tion of Hoteliers of the Costa del Sol, Jose Luque, has said he is “moderately satisfied” with the overall hotel occupancy for Au‐ gust. However, he commented that the number of international tourists was less than had been hoped for. “As explained by Aehcos in a statement, ‘national tourists have saved the season from an atypical summer’. The eastern coast ‐ Nerja, Frigiliana and Tor‐ rox ‐ has led the occupancy ranking, with 91.2 per cent. It is
followed by Marbella and San Pedro Alcantara, with 87.34 per cent, and Malaga City with 87.27 per cent.” Luque also commented that: “it is still too early to predict what will happen in autumn‐ winter, a season in which the operations of Malaga airport with connections outside Spain will be fundamental.”
NERJA company Transportes Antelo SL, for an amount of €834,215.50, according to the proposal made, obtained the high‐ est score in the assessment of the award criteria out of the 11 companies presented for the plot construction for the new health centre. “The execution of these important urbanisation works will al‐ low to equip the plot of 3,700 square metres in the surroundings of the Chillar river, with all the services and infrastructures neces‐ sary for the construction of the new sanitary equipment that will be executed and financed by the Andalucian Health Service. “Once the contract is signed with the winning company, the works will begin,” underlined the mayor of Nerja, Jose Alberto Armijo.
PLOT: For the new health centre.