A middle-aged man died after being trapped between his vehicle and a column in a garage located on Alcántara Street in Madrid, the capital’s Emergency service reported early this morning.
The Minister of Education, Science and Universities of the Community of Madrid, Mercedes Zarzalejo, and the Labor Platform of Nursery Schools will meet this Thursday at 4:30 p.m., after more than a month of indefinite strike in the region.
The delay in obtaining major construction permits in Alicante has been a constant in recent times, which developers and professionals in the construction sector denounce wherever they find interlocutors. This happened at a recent technical conference organized by the Colleges of Architects and Technical Architects together with representatives from the Urban Planning Department. The aim was to bring together those who draft the technical documents with those who supervise and approve them, in order to streamline procedures and administrative processes.
Neither the words of businessman Juan Roig asking to monetize the arrival of tourists nor the possibility of opening the debate on the tourist tax hinted at by the mayor of Valencia, María José Catalá, after the Fallas, have affected the positioning of PP and Vox in the Valencian Courts. Both parties will reject this Thursday the proposals from PSPV and Compromís to recover this tax on tourist overnight stays that was approved by the Botànic but never implemented. A moratorium was established and, after the regional elections, the new parliamentary majority repealed it.
The non-appointment of Mónica Oltra as Compromís’s candidate for the Mayor of València is generating tension within the coalition. The fact that a first major pre-campaign event has been organized without her further fuels doubts. Compromís will hold events on May 22 and 23 in 19 towns of the Valencian Community to kick off the 2027 municipal campaign. In the València event, which will be held on Saturday at the Malva-Rosa promenade, the presence of the virtual candidate for Mayor is not planned, as this newspaper reported yesterday.
La diputada Glòria Freixa, secretaria primera de la Mesa del Parlament, is considering joining the Junts primaries to lead the Barcelona list for next year’s municipal elections. In the coming days, she will make a decision and could be the fourth contender if the other three who have publicly expressed their willingness to participate in the process at some point are confirmed.
About a hundred teachers and educational community staff blocked the N-240 in both directions in Tarragona on Thursday morning, at the height of the Sant Pere i Sant Pau neighborhood, as part of the teachers’ strike in Catalonia. The teachers also block vehicle access to the roundabout leading to the N-240 and the Sant Pere i Sant Pau neighborhood from the A-7 highway, where the Sescelades campus of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) is located.
Sea and mountains, volcanic lands and wetlands, fields and valleys make up the privileged natural environment of the northern regions of Girona. A territory that constitutes the main ingredient of a series of experiences that invite visitors to live it in a closer and more sensory way, from Empordà to Garrotxa.
The actress and director from Barcelona Aina Clotet has won this Wednesday the breakthrough award of the Critics’ Week, the parallel section of the Cannes Festival dedicated to the discovery of new voices, for her performance in Viva, which is also her debut behind the camera as a director.
“Flying rats,” “city plague,” “winged mice,” “urban plague,” “garbage cats”… pigeons do not have a particularly good reputation, to say the least. It is estimated that there are more than 400 million worldwide, and most of them are concentrated in urban areas, an ideal habitat where they can thrive.
