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priest transferred. The locals say that the priest is a very human person, dedicated to helping others. More than 1,000 local signatures have been gathered in his support. xtensive white coral reef discovered in the Alborán Sea. The international marine conservation organisation Oceana has discovered a deep sea, white coral reef in the Western Mediterranean. It’s in international waters in the Alborán Sea and is thought to cover a surface area of as much as 10 hectares. It was discovered on the Ocean Ranger 2011 expedition, which set sail from Burriana, Castellón, on June 22, on a two-month voyage to study seamounts and underwater canyons. The expedition is led by Ricardo Aguilar, Director of Research at Oceana Europe in Madrid. He said the extensive reef also includes large areas of gorgonian coral, black coral forests and fields of glass sponges. Rare or little known species have been found there, such as ball coral, carnivorous sponges, the bathyal octopus and the sandy ray. The one and a half metre high reef lies at a depth of 400 metres, growing on a structure of dead coral. Oceana is to present
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its findings to the Barcelona Convention, which aims to protect the marine environment in the Mediterranean. ataluña supports retirement at 67 - in exchange for the hospitals. The Government has obtained key support for their proposal to delay the retirement age to 67. They now have a majority on the Employment Commission in Congress, thanks to support from the Catalan CiU who will, in exchange, see the ownership of hospitals in Cataluña being transferred to the regional Generalitat Government. The majority for the Government on the Commission means that the legislation can now pass to the Senate without being voted on before hand in Congress. The CiU were the only option for the Government on the matter, given that the PNV Basque Nationalists have already indicated that they will support the PP who is against delaying the retirement age.
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arry Potter finale to be dubbed into Catalan. The Generalitat of Cataluña has reached agreement with the Hollywood majors which will allow films to be dubbed into Catalan again. A new law brought in by the previous regional government, which stipulates that half the films shown in the region’s cinemas must either be dubbed or subtitled in Catalan, led the studios to stop releasing films in Catalan last November. It’s understood that the finale of the Harry Potter series, The Deathly Hallows Part 2, will be the first to be released in the language. El Mundo reports that the distributors will also be releasing ‘The Smurfs’, ‘The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn’, and the latest ‘Happy Feet’ in the Catalan language.
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