THE BEST FINANCE NEWS ON PAGES 14 - 17 Issue No. 1901 9 - 15 December 2021
3D map THE Urban Planning De‐ partment at Malaga City Council has commis‐ sioned different 2D and 3D studies, as well as aerial photographs, to look at the current state of the city’s Alcazaba. The council is con‐ cerned about the state of the fortified complex and that is why georefer‐ enced 3D techniques have been used as they can provide the detail that future conservation work to the area re‐ quires. The scans will also in‐ clude the surroundings of Mount Gibralfaro. This 3D scan will in‐ clude the Alcazaba Wall, Homage Tower, Gibral‐ faro Wall, Barbacana and the Coracha Wall, and will serve as the basis for future study. The interior, exterior and superior faces will be scanned, as well as the interior spaces of the towers, as long as they are accessible. In 2019, the Alcazaba in Malaga broke a record number of visitors, reaching 1,258,265, which is 5.32 per cent more than the previous year.
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SEVEN MEDALS: Members of the school were successful at the European championships.
A TORROX Jiu Jitsu school has won seven medals at a national competition following its success at the European championships. Progress Academia took part in the Brazil‐ ian Jiu Jitsu Madrid Open on December 4 and 5, with the school’s adult and child stu‐ dents competing. Lucy Birchall, eight, Max Birchall, 12, Aaron Jones, 12, and Louis Donnelly 15, all won sil‐ ver at the event. Meanwhile, the adults competing also took home medals, with Progress Academia owner Chris Birchall, 39, winning silver, Gleb Loginov, 51, also taking home silver, and Pe‐ ter Lumley‐Savil, 45, winning bronze. The school, which opened its doors on Tor‐ rox Costa in summer 2020, had previously taken five of its young students to the Brazil‐ ian Jiu Jitsu European Cup in Valencia earlier this year, with each of them winning medals. Chris Birchall told the Euro Weekly News that he was delighted at the school’s most recent wins. He said: “We noticed that this time the
kids were even more prepared which al‐ lowed them to perform better in the fights and use more of the techniques and skills they had learned in the classes, which ulti‐ mately led them to victory.” His daughter Lucy, who won a silver medal at the Spanish open and a silver at the Euro‐ pean Cup, told the EWN: “I loved standing on the podium with my silver medal.” Meanwhile, her brother Max said: “I’ve been doing Jiu Jitsu for quite a few years and I really enjoy it. “The weekend was amazing, especially af‐ ter I got into the final and onto the podium.” Chris told the EWN that the school will now be entering more competitions, and even wants to organise its own champi‐ onships. He said: “There is a shortage of competi‐ tions in Andalucia, but a lot of people who compete.” For more information about the course or the academy, contact 711 036 961 or info@progressacademia.es.
MOTRIL has presented the most ambitious budget in the history of the municipality that foresees spending of €56,077,461 to pro‐ mote economic, social and urban develop‐ ment and leave munici‐ pal debt at zero. Mayor Luisa Maria Garcia Chamorro pub‐ licly congratulated the deputy mayor for Econ‐ omy and Finance Nico‐ las Navarro Diaz “for his tenacity, effort and exemplary work in leading the total con‐ sensus of all areas and executing a realistic and very ambitious document for Motril.”
Garcia Chamorro highlighted “our impor‐ tant social commitment that means the needi‐ est citizens are not left out. That has prompted the council that I pre‐ side to keep them in mind since the pan‐ demic broke out. For us, it is not ‘social spending’ but the best investment that can be made, because people come first and always will.” Navarro Diaz said that this “is one of the first large councils in all of Spain to settle its municipal debt and, in this next year, it will set the score to zero.”