ISSUE NO. 1369
29 SEPTEMBER - 5 OCTOBER 2011
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Ex-mayor banned from public office By Jennifer Leighfield jennifer@euroweeklynews.com
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THE former mayor of Competa, Leovigildo Lopez, has been banned from holding public office for seven years for a crime against territorial planning. He has been found guilty of illegally granting a licence, and will also have to pay a fine of €10 per day for 12 months. Two councillors and the municipal architect have also been given the same sentence. Despite having a report from the Junta de Andalucia Housing and Territorial Planning Council which categorically stated that the licence for a house in the area known as Pago de El Cerro should not be granted, the mayor, architect and councillors permitted a woman to go ahead with the project in November 2004. In March 2005, the Junta de Andalucia issued a report against the construction of the building.
NEWS EXTRA
Housing tax frozen TORROX will have to delay the planned rise in housing tax which none of the opposition supported. Councillor Rocio Ariza said it is a decision which is not being taken lightly.
Tourist office VELEZ-MALAGA will have a new tourist office in Plaza de la Gloria, in a building which has undergone refurbishment at €5,600, and has a Nasrid arch dating back to the 13th century.
Costly accident COMPETA. Inset: Town’s former mayor, Leovigildo Lopez.
Jail sentence for theft of 10 custard apples A COURT in Motril has sentenced a man to six months in prison for stealing 10 ‘chirimoyas’ (custard apples) worth €15 from a farm. The man, from GualchosCastell de Ferro, broke into the property in the Pueblo Nuevo
area in May, having made a hole in the fence and, after taking the fruit, jumped over the fence to head to his car, where he was caught by the police. He will have to pay the owner of the farm €15 for the fruit, plus €20 for damages.
THE damage caused in July by a lorry which knocked down more than a kilometre of electrical supply cable for the Velez tram will cost €210,000 to repair, according to the local mayor.
Hit and run GUARDIA CIVIL have arrested a driver who allegedly knocked down a pedestrian on the A-7279 in Sierra de Yeguas and then fled the scene, leaving the victim seriously injured.