Cycling Championship

HUERCAL-OVERA is excitedly preparing to host the Iberian Masters Cycling Championship-II Trofeo Villa de Huercal-Overa. The event is expected to bring together 600 Spanish and Portuguese cyclists in the town.

The Master 30 and Master 40 races will be 116 kilometres long, passing the finish line up to three times and climbing the Santa María de Nieva pass three times, as well as other points such as the Vía Verde and the San

Isidro bridge.

The Master 50 and Master 60 races will be 62 kilometres long.

Both races, which will be held on Saturday June 17, will start and finish in Calle Hernan Cortes next to Parque Reina Sofía.

On Sunday, June 18, the individual time trial will take place which is 17.6 kilometres long. The start is in Calle Doctor Jimenez Diaz with the finish line in Calle Hernan Cortes next to Parque Reina Sofía.

Refunds given

MORE than 7.8 million taxpayers have already received a refund of €5,390M of Personal Income Tax for 2022. In the province of Almeria, a total of 245,074 Income Statements for 2022 have been filed up to the beginning of June.

Happy Birthday

BALANEGRA has just celebrated its eighth birthday as a municipality after separating from Berja. The new municipality of Balanegra has an area of 31.95 square kilometres which is 14.5 per cent of the original area of Berja.

Traffic fines

THE most common traffic fine in Almeria is for speeding. A total of 23,171 offences in 2022 were committed. Of these, 11,327 were imposed through mobile radar and 11,844 through fixed radars. The second most common is cars not having passed their ITV.

Flag fraud?

ECOLOGIST in Action Association has come out against the declaration of Blue Flags because of “the lack of rigour, solvency and criteria for awarding them, which makes us see them as a fraud.” They say: “Their only objective is to highlight the tourist attraction of the chosen beaches.”

Aromatic herbs

ALMERIA has ordered the imprisonment of a man who was driving a refrigerated lorry in which he was transporting up to 89 kilos of vacuum-sealed marihuana that he had tried to camouflage in a shipment of aromatic herbs.

Solidarity trail

ON June 11, Berja hosted the third Edition of the Solidarity Trail organised by the Red Cross which had to be postponed in May. The event started from the Castala Viewpoint with two routes.