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In December 2022, repair work began on the last damage caused to rural roads by the extraordinary flooding of the Ebro River as it passed through Calahorra in December 2021. These works have already been completed.

These actions are subsidized under the subsidy ordinance for damage to municipal infrastructure and road network of April 13, 2022, with which the Calahorra City Council obtained 7,576.21 euros, corresponding to a maximum of 50 percent of the costs of investment of the works

During this week the municipal technical services will carry out, together with the construction management, inspections of the works in which the vegetation has been removed, the ground leveled and leveled and gravel added to the facilitated roads.

These works join those that throughout the year 2022 were undertaken as part of the two phases envisaged for the repair of the damage and improvements in said defences. On the one hand, practically all the conditions of the roads and infrastructure reported by the City Council a few days after the extraordinary avenue of the Ebro River were taken care of and repaired by the Hydrographic Confederation of the Ebro during the first quarter of 2022 at a cost which amounted to half a million euros.

In 2022, however, phase 2 of the repair of the riverbeds and hydraulic infrastructures for the defense of the Ebro was also completed. Last July, the president of the Ebro Hydrographic Confederation and the mayor of Calahorra carried out a work on the “Robles” ditch was completed on the occasion of the start of the works envisaged in phase 2 of repairing the canals and hydraulic infrastructures for the defense of the Ebro.

These works have already been completed, as well as other reinforcement and expansion works of the defensive area in order to guarantee its resistance capacity against future avenues, also avoiding other damages to infrastructures, roads or agricultural exploitations which would break at that point could cause. to produce.

The cost of these actions is included in the lot contracted by CHE for the repair of damages and defects in the Ebro flood defense structures in the municipalities of Calahorra, Rincón de Soto and others, amounting to 474,859.11 euros.

In addition, the Municipal Road Service of the Municipality of Calahorra continues to carry out maintenance work on the municipal road network, such as clearing and paving maintenance, as part of its annual programme.

ULE sees ‘disappointment’ in Seville hosting Space Agency, but announces it will continue to work on ‘other projects’

The rector of the University of León (ULE), Juan Francisco García Marín, assured that the decision of the Council of Ministers to choose Seville as the seat of the Spanish Space Agency was “a disappointment” because the project presented by this university “is been a good project”, although he warned that he will continue to work on “other projects” in the same field to “strengthen” the ULE.

García Marín explained in statements to Europa Press that the ULE trusted the point of the groundwork stating that the Spanish Special Agency headquarters project would be raised for “Spain emptied”, although it ultimately fell to the “Popolosa Spain”.

However, the rector of the ULE recognized a weakness “on a technical level” such as the airport, but also strengths such as the housing situation, where León had gained whole numbers “in a comparative study with Madrid and Seville”. “There will have been other factors that we will try to understand from now on,” he said.

On the controversy relating to the fact that the Junta de Castilla y León had not opted to give priority to one of the cities of the Community competing to host the agency -León competed together with Palencia and Cebreros (Ávila)-, the head of the institute academic institution believes that it would have been positive “if they had made the order of priority”, although it believes that this “would not have been decisive”.

Now, Juan Francisco García Marín said that the ULE will continue to prepare to opt for “other agencies and other projects”, aware that the whole process of attending the headquarters of the Spanish Space Agency has helped “evaluate” the University of Leon. “The ULE works, it’s fine. It’s not a provincial university, it’s a level university,” he pointed out.

October 2023. It is the date that the mayor of Logroo, Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza, anticipated this Friday as the one scheduled for the opening of the new urban bus station, “if no accidents occur”, in reference to the pending administrative procedures for this.

Thus expressed the mayor during the visit he made this morning to the underground works of the Cascajos electrical substation, which, as he specified, “are proceeding at a good pace”, for which he also set a deadline for its completion.Completion : As planned, early 2024.

As Hermoso de Mendoza explained, “the opening of the new bus station will take place, if there are no accidents, in October 2023, there is a negotiation with the company, because the possibility that the transport ‘roll’ will choose” .

This, he added, “leads us to talk about the next two months, because the uncertainties are great about fuels, about raw materials, what is the cost of transport, all of this must be negotiated and, from there, the entire administrative process takes us six months to make the tender open and public, so that the opening, hopefully, will be in October 2023”.

In this sense, the mayor referred to the extraordinary plenary meeting on the bus station, requested by the Gruppo Comunale Popolare, which will take place next Monday, 5 December.

“In Monday’s plenary session – he specified – we will explain all the topics on which we have made progress in terms of safety, accessibility and management model, and also in the environment that will allow us to open up”.

As the city councilor justified, “things must be done well, haste and electoral urgency are never good, for this reason, when we are accused of looking for an electoral calendar, it must be said that we have never been in that logic , but in doing them well and finishing them well, so, if all goes as we hope, in October 2023 the station will be open”.

KING’S CANE KNOT.

Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza also referred to the Vara de Rey Knot and the pending modified work. Some works in which, as he recalled, “the opening of the north-south road remains, and we are waiting for the ADIF to see when we can demolish the railway box and complete the work”.

These works impose “a change in the security protocol that will force us to make a change” to what was initially foreseen in the project.

“But, despite everything, I have always said the same thing: working without the tunnel is much cheaper and more efficient than with it, because maintaining it implies maintaining all the anti-flooding systems or electrical systems and this is much more complex ”, he said .

For this, concluded the mayor of Logroo, “despite the cost increase, the overall cost will be much lower and the maintenance will also be much lower, which is another thing equally pursued, sustainability”.

Activated this Sunday the yellow warning for wind in the interior of Valencia and Castelln

The Emergency Coordination Center of the Generalitat ‘112 CV’ has activated for this Sunday January 8 the yellow risk level due to the winds in the interior of the provinces of Castelln and Valencia.

The Emergency Coordination Center of the Generalitat ‘112 CV’ has activated for this Sunday January 8 the yellow risk level due to the winds in the interior of the provinces of Castelln and Valencia.

Yellow level risks do not trigger pre-emergency, as the danger is low, although assets and vulnerable population or in areas exposed to adverse weather phenomena may be impacted, as reported by ‘112 CV’ in a risk bulletin forecasts shared through their social networks.

For its part, the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has also activated the yellow alert for this Sunday in the hinterland of Castelln and Valencia due to wind gusts that can reach 80 kilometers per hour in some areas.

Likewise, the alert will remain active this Monday in the interior of the province of Castelln.

The Galician Parliament will draft the popular initiative bill for the restoration of the “reliable” text of the Galician anthem and its diffusion, and which aims to “restore the true text, so that everyone, and especially the new generations, know, sing and interpret correctly” the original text.

The legal services have given the green light to the debate, before which it will be necessary to collect the minimum of 10,000 signatures by the committee promoting this legislative initiative, made up of 30 people.

In the report of the lawyers of the Chamber –of last December 5th–, collected by Europa Press, the requisites necessary for admission to the process of the initiative are reported, all possessed by the promoters, among which there are intellectuals and personalities from the orbit nationalist.

Therefore, after examining the file, and since it “meets the minimum material and formal requirements” required by the regulation, the legal services have reported “favourably” so that it can be discussed in the Galician Chamber if it continues with the established procedure.

The interpretations over the years of the Galician anthem and its different written forms have led to an accumulation of errors, which this popular legislative initiative registered on November 29 at the Pazo do Hrreo, promoted by around thirty of them, now intends to correct. people including the entities Via Galega and Galiza Cultura and the musicologist and researcher of the score of hymns Fernado López-Acua and Manuel Ferreiro, who contributed a study on the situation.

It is not the first attempt that has been made to try to adapt the legal text to the originality of the poem written by Eduardo Pondal since 1996, approximately in 2002 and 2017-2018, as Ferreiro himself recalled in disseminating the initiative.

Specifically, the motivation refers to castilianisms and ‘hyperenxebrismos’ such as rauco/rouco or iorantes (it was written ignorant, in the original form), as well as to the disfigurement of the original expression through a “process of textual trivialization, passing from ‘clan’ –town– to ‘chan’ –land–.

As stated in the text, Eduardo Pondal himself “was aware of these textual distortions” when in a letter dated January 11, 1913 he warned that “the text contains many errors”, but “unfortunately Pondal’s state of health did not permit the corrective and restorative” that the promoters of this initiative believe the time has come to implement.

LEGAL TEXT

The bill includes four articles, the first of which is to modify article 4 of the law 5/1984 on Galician symbols to fix the text of the anthem in the first four stanzas. Also included is another modification, in this case of the third additional provision of this same law to include the complete text that corresponds to the hymn, including those modifications.

The popular legislative initiative provides for a third article for the Xunta to impose on all public institutions and companies dependent on it, such as radio and TVG, the “complete reproduction, singing and interpretation” of the anthem.

Finally, the proposal envisages that the Xunta produce a popular edition of the restored lyrics according to the text created by Eduardo Pondal, together with the score of the anthem, with the aim of distributing it, spreading it and making it massively popular in Galician society, individually , in all educational centres, musical and choral groups, marching bands, sports bodies, cultural associations or any other civic body.

The writer and professor of the University of A Corua Pilar García Negro also spoke in the presentation of the initiative, recalling that the MPs of the Galician Chamber have already been able to view the documentation supporting the restoration of the anthem in one day in 2017 and recalled that the texts can be consulted at the headquarters of the Royal Galician Academy (RAG).

Home sales grew by 33% last October in Extremadura compared to the same month in 2021, for a total of 992 transactions, as reported this Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).

The total number of relocated farms registered in the Extremaduran registers reached 4,251 units, of which 1,322 were rural farms and the rest urban, including 1,830 houses, 338 plots and the remaining 761 of other types.

Of the 1,830 homes, 992 were relocated through sale; 35, by donation; three per exchange; 516, by inheritance, and 284, otherwise. Among other data, of the houses sold, 759 were free, in addition to 233 protected. Furthermore, the majority (838) were homes for residential use.

NATIONAL DATA

Buying and selling of homes increased by 11.4% last October compared to the same month in 2021, reaching 51,615 transactions, the highest figure in an October since 2007, when it exceeded 58,500 purchases, as reported this Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).

With the interannual advance of October, the sale of houses chains 20 consecutive months of positive rates. In addition, operations growth accelerated 4.5 points from September’s year-over-year increase, when home sales increased 6.9%.

The year-over-year growth in home sales in October was a result of a 15.6% increase in used deals, to 42,771 deals, as new apartment deals declined 5.4% year-over-year , for a total of 8,844 operations.

92% of the homes sold for sale in the tenth month of the year were vacant homes and 8% protected.

Unlisted home sales rose 11.9% year-on-year in October, to 47,500 transactions, while secured home sales increased 5.2%, totaling 4,115 transactions.

According to the INE, seven out of ten home sales made in August (69.4%) were made between private individuals. In total, 35,834 such transactions were carried out between private individuals in October, 9.1% more than in the same month in 2021.

In month-to-month terms (October over September), home sales were down 10%, down from 2021, when deals declined 13.6% in October.

In the first ten months of this year, the sale of homes increased by 17.6%, with increases of 20.7% in the case of used homes and 5.4% in new homes.

ANDALUCA, LEADING IN PURCHASES

Last October, the highest number of home sales per 100,000 inhabitants occurred in the Valencian Community (203), Andalusia (163) and Cantabria (161).

In absolute values, Andalusia was the region that carried out the highest number of real estate transactions in the tenth month of the year, with 10,949 sales, followed by the Valencian Community (8,199), Catalonia (8,181) and Madrid (6,443). .

Thirteen communities sold more homes in October than in the same month of 2021. The largest year-on-year increases were recorded in Extremadura (+33%), Canary Islands (+32.5%), Basque Country (+24.6% ), Asturias (+21.7%) and Comunidad Valenciana (+17.4%), while the most moderate corresponded to Madrid (+1.7%), Cantabria (+3.8%) and Castilla y León (+ 5.9%).

Conversely, home sales declined in October in four regions: Navarre, where deals were down 8.8% from the same month last year; La Rioja (-3.7%), Galicia (-1.7%) and Castilla-La Mancha, with a year-on-year decrease of 0.1%.

TOTAL ASSETS SOLD DOWN BY 0.3%

The farms transmitted in the property registers, by public deeds carried out previously, reached 168,976 last October, 0.3% less than in the same month of 2021.

2.8% more farms were transferred for sale compared to the previous year, while those transferred for donation decreased by 14.6% per year; those transmitted by inheritance decreased by 1.7% and exchange transactions decreased by 27.3%.

87.7% of October sales corresponded to urban properties, which include homes, and 12.3% to rural properties. Sales of urban properties increased by 4.6% year-on-year, while those of rural properties decreased by 8.4% compared to October 2021, totaling 82,888 and 11,587 transactions respectively.