Alicante and other municipalities on the Costa Blanca close beaches due to strong wind alert

Alicante and other municipalities on the Costa Blanca close beaches due to strong wind alert

It’s hard to understand why access to Muchavista beach, in El Campello, is allowed, while access to San Juan beach, in the neighboring municipality of Alicante, is prohibited from five this afternoon. There is no physical separation between the two; we are talking about the same sandy area, but the prevention against meteorological warnings is not the same in the different town halls.

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The Vallbona sinkhole is attributed to the groundwater of the Rec Comtal

The Vallbona sinkhole is attributed to the groundwater of the Rec Comtal

The hustle and bustle of concrete mixers in Vallbona is incessant. Vehicles constantly cross the neighborhood to fill the sinkhole that swallowed a large crane during the Montcada undergrounding works. It is the emergency measure being applied by the Railway Infrastructure Administrator (Adif) after the ground unexpectedly opened up on Wednesday at noon without causing any injuries, but setting off all alarms.

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Veolia wins the mega water tender in the Barcelona metropolitan area for 1 billion

Veolia wins the mega water tender in the Barcelona metropolitan area for 1 billion

Societat General d’Aigües de Barcelona, belonging to the Veolia group, has won the major tender for water management in eight municipalities of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB), amounting to more than 1,000 million euros, by achieving the best score in the technical and economic criteria. However, the major tender is not yet resolved because the review process, appeals, and obtaining the final green light from the AMB must still be overcome.

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China's Geely takes a third of Ford's Valencia plant that will manufacture five cars

China’s Geely takes a third of Ford’s Valencia plant that will manufacture five cars

“One team, two brands and five vehicles”. Ford of Europe President, Jim Baumbick, confirmed this Thursday the “strategic alliance” of the Blue Oval firm with Chinese giant Geely to jointly produce from the Valencian plant in Almussafes. In the presence of the President of the Government Pedro Sánchez, Baumbicj and Geely’s Executive Vice President, Victor Yang, announced the creation, starting in 2027, of a joint venture to optimize the factory’s capabilities and be able to produce five vehicles from it starting in 2028. According to data provided by Ford, Almussafes has an annual capacity to produce half a million vehicles.

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The simultaneity of forest fires in Madrid makes extinction work difficult

The simultaneity of forest fires in Madrid makes extinction work difficult

The simultaneity of fires in Madrid complicates extinction efforts, with three active fires within a radius of less than 20 kilometers. Thus, in addition to the fires in Almorox (Toledo) and Burgohondo (Ávila), a new fire has been added in San Martín de Valdeiglesias (Madrid) after a car caught fire on the M-501, with the added difficulty of them being very close to each other and in three different autonomous communities.

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Llorca approves budgets and Vox warns: national priority “will reach state regulations”

Llorca approves budgets and Vox warns: national priority “will reach state regulations”

The image of a Vox parliamentary group wildly applauding every phrase of its spokesperson in the Corts Valencianes, facing a much less enthusiastic Popular Party bench after the approval of the 2026 budgets, yesterday revealed the big winner of the negotiation. President Juanfran Pérez Llorca will have his budgets and guarantees himself a fairly calm end to the legislature, but in return, he has had to concede and include in the year’s most important bill the national priority that Vox demanded. Concessions were made on all issues demanded by the far-right, except on language, to achieve stability and a candidacy for the Presidency of the Generalitat in 2027.

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The neighbor from Mataró fined for repairing his street starts a petition against the municipal sanction

The neighbor from Mataró fined for repairing his street starts a petition against the municipal sanction

Miquel Clos assures that he continues to water part of the trees because the automatic irrigation system does not work. He is also promoting a petition for the return of the 1,733 euros fine imposed by the Mataró City Council, as reported by La Vanguardia, based on the civility ordinance. He rejects any crowdfunding campaign, as some readers have proposed to him, who also send him hundreds of messages of support.

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