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“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.

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.

The Civil Section of the Court of First Instance of Madrid has provisionally suspended the eviction of Paquita López Ruiz, an 82-year-old woman, initially scheduled for this Wednesday, from her home located on Santa Ana street, in the La Latina neighborhood of Madrid, pending public administrations offering her a housing alternative.

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.

The Local Police of Elx has closed down a second vehicle parking lot located in the hamlet of Torrellano Alto, in the vicinity of Alicante-Elche- Miguel Hernández airport, which was operating without an opening license, had more than 5,000 square meters and a capacity for more than 3,500 vehicles.

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.