ISSUE NO. 1439
31 JANUARY - 6 FEBRUARY 2013
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Repair works close off road ROAD works to repair drains damaged in the last rains will close the A402 at La ViĂąuela. Traffic will be diverted until it is completed.
Beach clean BOATS found abandoned on the beach and in bad condition will be removed by Rincon town hall in a move to clean up the locality.
POSITIVE GROWTH: 3.81 per cent more jobs and businesses were created last year.
Business boost for the Axarquia region LAST year 354 businesses and 430 jobs were created in the Axarquia due to a drive by the Andalucian Government. These figures show a growth of 3.81 per cent compared to 2011 in the
creation of new businesses in the Axarquia, said the Centre for Support of Business Development (CADE). Marta Rueda, delegate of Economy, Innovation, Science and Employment,
presented the results of the progress made by the five CADE regions; Benamocarra, Riogordo, Torrox, Algarrobo and Velez-Malaga. Rueda said she was convinced that the businesses would
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create wealth in these areas and because of this it was important to support them. Another 522 existing businesses have also applied for help to open new lines of business.
THE official poster for this year’s Holy Week (Semana Santa) has been painted by a local artist and commemorates the anniversary of 325 processions in Velez-Malaga.
Finally after 76 years families able to bury their relatives FAMILIES of 18 victims who were shot in June 1937 attended a solemn ceremony in Casabermeja cemetery to finally bury their relatives. The remains of the bodies were
recovered by a team of archaeologists led by Andres Fernandez, and after confirmation of identification by DNA, were returned to the families. The excavations had begun last
September at the request of eight families from Casabermeja after the discovery of 10 other victims, this time from Periana in a communal grave. The 18 victims, all male farm
workers aged between 20 and 64, had been driven at gunpoint in a lorry to an isolated spot where they were judged and tried as rebels and then shot by troops loyal to General Franco.