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Stop that noise! Accidental discovery
A COURT in Mallorca has for the first time stopped a construction project due to complaints about the noise.
Two residents in the Son Vida urbanisation filed a complaint against Palma Town Hall for failing to control the noise caused by builders of two luxury houses in the area.
Private technicians employed by the residents performed volume tests and found that the work hit levels of over 90 decibels, far above the permitted limit under current noise pollution laws.

These readings were reported on 10 different days and times, starting at 8am and continuing until late in the afternoon.
However, the town hall claims to have sent in the Local Police to take measurements on four different days, and the officers reported that the work was being carried out with adequate machinery and within the per
SWEETTOOTHED Palma residents are in for a treat.

A circular, creamfilled croissant called the ‘New York roll’ that has taken the US by storm is now on sale at Maison Legrix cake shop in the city centre.
Originally called ‘Supreme’, the roll was first launched at Lafayette Grand Café & Bakery in New York in 2022, mitted times.
Finally, a judge ruled that the excessively high volume levels were preventing the residents from leading a normal life and that their fundamental rights were being infringed, as well as their physical and mental wellbeing.
The complainants are not requesting financial compensation and only ask for the work to be halted until the developers present an acoustic report that falls when it went viral on social networks and led to long queues of customers outside the shop looking to try the cake at $8 a go. within the municipal noise pollution laws.
Its popularity continued to grow and the ‘New York roll’ can now be found all over the world including Palma, where French confectioners Florence and Paul have renamed it the ‘Palma roll’.

RENOVATION work being carried out in s’Aigua square in Arta has uncovered a historic water deposit.
Council workers are currently in the second phase of a project to improve the town centre, and while they were excavating the town square discovered a 100squaremetre and 12metrehigh deposit split into two sections.
The last recorded references to the water deposit date back to 1792, although its exact size was unknown until now. It was buried during previous renovation work in 1923.
Spokespeople for Arta Town Hall have declared that there are no plans at present to make a special feature of the historic finding and that it will be covered over again once the municipal archaeologists carry out the necessary measurements and evaluations in order for the renovation project to continue according to plan.
In the meantime, the ancient remains have become a point of interest for residents and visitors alike, keen to discover what used to be the only drinking water source in many towns and villages throughout Spain.
These types of deposits work by collecting rainwater from building roofs through a system of pipes.
NO more than three cruise ships a day will be able to dock at Palma port this year and next.
Cruise ship restrictions
drawn up to prevent more than three ships from coinciding at any one time.
The regional government has signed an agreement with the main operators to reduce the number of liners with no daily exceptions, as was previously the case.

Tourism councillor Iago Negueruela met with cruise ship companies and sector authorities at a European summit in Paris this week, where the calendar of arrivals for 2023 was