http://www.esteponanews.com Weekly News About Estepona Spain Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:52:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en La Federación de Consumidores y Usuarios Independientes (The Federation of Independent Consumers and Users) has given, for the second time, the Green Flag to Estepona. The Green Flag is awarded based on a number of criteria such as the environmental, consumption and sustainability of waste collection and cleaning, energy consumption ... http://www.esteponanews.com/estepona-awarded-for-its-environmental-management/ The President of the Court of Malaga, Francisco Javier Arroyo has admitted that, after looking at the current crime statistics in Estepona, the town would need a total of nine courts to handle the volume of criminal cases that are currently pending in the Estepona judicial district. According to Arroyo, ... http://www.esteponanews.com/court-system-close-to-chaos-in-estepona/ The incident occurred the night of April 29, when the Servicio Integral de Vigilancia Exterior (SIVE) detected a suspicious boat heading towards the Dos Hermanas beach. Two tons of hashish were seized and three people arrested by the Guardia Civil. After observing how the alleged drug traffickers began unloading the packages ... http://www.esteponanews.com/three-arrested-and-two-tons-of-hashish-seized-in-estepona/ 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/