http://www.esteponanews.com Weekly News About Estepona Spain Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:56:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It was demolished in back in 2008 but still no fixed plans are in place for reconstruction of the site where the Hotel Prasa once sat. The local president of the PP, Ignacio Mena, has asked to convene a meeting on the issue to try to find a ... http://www.esteponanews.com/hotel-prasa-still-looking-for-a-solution/ To deal with the rather incredible situation of only one fully functioning fire engine the fire stations of both Benahavis & Manilva have had to be drafted in to provide essential support. In fact, last Tuesday and Wednesday night, the single functioning fire engine was in a non functioning ... http://www.esteponanews.com/fighting-more-then-just-the-fires/ Estepona Town Hall is looking to put 60 of its staff on fixed term contracts and move them away from permenent employment contracts. Recently, Councillor for personnel Cristina Rodríguez, said the number of civil servants in the Town Hall ‘is very low’ as they represent only 208 of the current ... http://www.esteponanews.com/60-town-hall-staff-asked-to-move-to-fixed-term-contracts/ Unemployment in Estepona has increased year on year by more than 1551 people. The latest figures from the Employment Service of Andalusia are for November 2009. Estepona now has 7264 people officially registered as unemployed. http://www.esteponanews.com/unemployment-still-on-the-increase-in-estepona/ For those of you who are not aware Google has introduced its excellent Street View into Estepona. Click here to go to Google Street View in Estepona Simply drag the the little yellow man that sits atop the scaling bar onto the area you wish to view at street level. You can now ... http://www.esteponanews.com/google-street-view-now-in-estepona/ Estepona Town Hall has launched a new program to encourage local Spanish children to learn English. The course, called ‘Saturdays in English’ will be aimed at children between three and 12 years and will cost 35 Euros per month. The classes will focus on spoken English and be held ... http://www.esteponanews.com/local-children-to-learn-english/ The latest figures from Estate agents indicate that the devaluation of the Pound and the rise in local taxation has resulted in a five fold increase in Brits putting their homes up for sale. Most of these Brits are selling up their second home, no longer finding it a viable ... http://www.esteponanews.com/five-fold-increase-in-brits-selling-up/ The cycle track being built along the area of Avenida Del Carmen in Estepona has finally got under way again after a four month delay and having been left half built. Having borrowed enough money to pay the constructors the remaining funds for them to complete the 2.5 million Euro project, ... http://www.esteponanews.com/something-borrowed-something-blue/ Ex Mayor of Estepona Antonio Barrientos is asking for the Judge to be replaced in the pending Astapa case. Image courtesy of El Mundo The legal defence team representing the ex mayor have claimed there are irregularities in the initial report made by the judge. These irregularities are said ... http://www.esteponanews.com/ex-mayor-antonio-barrientos-wants-new-judge/ Apparently the town hall has a monthly telephone bill in the region of 30,000 Euros. This might explain why telephone have been cut in reccient months as the town has struggled to pay the bill. Only this month the town hall has gone Telefonica cap in hand and asked for ... http://www.esteponanews.com/monthy-telphone-bill-of-30000-euros/