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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.

At least six people were injured this Wednesday as a result of a gas leak that led to a large flare-up at the Plaça de Sants metro station in Barcelona, at the connection point between lines L1 and L5. According to La Vanguardia, the injured are operators who were working to control the leak.

One of the shafts of the Montcada i Reixac undergrounding works has unexpectedly collapsed while operators were working this midday. No personal injuries have been registered, but the open sinkhole is so large that it has swallowed a large crane.

A worker, approximately 30 years old, died this Wednesday and two others were injured after being crushed by metal train maintenance machinery at the Renfe Comprehensive Maintenance Base located in the Madrid district of Villaverde.

17 ground units and seven aerial units from the Generalitat Firefighters are fighting a forest fire in Cervelló after receiving the alert at 2 PM this Wednesday. Civil Protection has sent an ES-Alert to confine the urbanizations of Can Paulet and Les Rovires, where about 300 people live.

The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has raised the high temperature warning to red for tomorrow, Thursday, on the southern coast of Valencia and Alicante, where temperatures could exceed 42º C.

The 340-meter covering of the Ronda de Dalt in Vall d’Hebron is starting to take shape two years after the works began. If last summer the central wall was erected, now it’s the turn of the slab that will hide this road scar between Vallcarca avenue and Vall d’Hebron institute. Although there is still a lot of work ahead, drivers passing underneath and residents seeing it from above will already appreciate how the six open-air lanes progressively turn into a tunnel.

The Agents Rurals and the Mossos d’Esquadra arrested a 37-year-old man last Saturday, July 18, accused of causing three forest fires during the same early morning in the pasaje de les Palmeres in El Prat de Llobregat.

Not even 24 hours. The new mural that urban artist TVboy had drawn in Joanic square of Ferran Torres kissing the World Cup —just covering his previous drawing of Leo Messi with the Barça shirt and the message “Barcelona, I’ll be back”, painted in December— has woken up vandalized.

A bull entered a bar in Ribes de Freser (Ripollès) last Monday at breakfast time. At that moment, in the establishment, Bar Gusi, located at the entrance of the municipality, there were several customers who were surprised to see the animal.