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902 88 90 70 ISSUE NO. 1426
1 - 7 NOVEMBER 2012
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Third time unlucky for olive grower A FARMER in Alameda has reported that olives have been stolen from his property three times in less than 10 days. He says he has lost approximately 3.2 tonnes of olives, worth up to €1,700 and complains that because they were beaten from the trees with sticks, the trees were also damaged, increasing his losses to almost €2,500. Not only that, on a fourth occasion, he found that 55 olive trees on his property had been cut down with a chainsaw. He believes this was done by local residents to castigate him for his decision to hire foreign immigrants to work on his land. However, the grower defended his decision,
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Trial delay for mayor THE trial of the former mayor of Canillas de Aceituno, José Manuel Aranda, and six other former councillors, has been delayed until February 7 next year due to the lack of an expert witness for the prosecution. The defendants are accused of granting planning permission for a house on land classified as not for development.
Two jailed OLIVE BRANCH: Farmer believes thefts linked to employment of foreign workers. saying the five immigrants in his team of 15 harvesters are ‘good people and hard workers’. He says the damage to the trees has cost him up to €15,000.
The Guardia Civil are still looking for the culprits, although they do not believe that the same people who cut down the trees stole the olives, as the motivation
behind the crimes is different. The farmer is now considering patrolling his property at night or hiring guards to prevent further damage.
Cemetery’s a tourist attraction SAYALONGA plans to turn its unique cemetery into a tourist attraction. Built in approximately 1840, the so-called ‘round’ cemetery, is unique in Spain and the most popular theory behind its unusual shape is that it was designed this way so that the dead would not turn their backs on each other.
A local historian, who also acts as a guide at the cemetery has concluded that the true reason behind its shape is masonic symbolism relating to a lodge built in the town in the 19th century which remained into the 20th century. More than 3,000 people visit the town every year to see the cemetery
where a visitors’ centre has already been set up in what was once the autopsy room. Sixty per cent of them are foreigners. The historian has urged the town hall to have the cemetery declared an Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC) and to give it back its original appearance.
TWO men, identified only as PCC and MCC, have been arrested and imprisoned by the Guardia Civil for the robbery and kidnapping of a taxi driver in Rincon de la Victoria. The two men, who are 46 and 36 years old respectively, were charged with robbery with violence and false imprisonment. Both men have prior criminal records.
New site VELEZ-MALAGA’S former bus station on Avenida Vivar Tellez is to become the new site of the municipal food market, currently in San Francisco, in the town centre. The building has been unused since the launch of the new station. The project has been awarded €300,000 in next year’s town budget and work should begin in early 2013, with plans to open in the summer.