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, painting has commenced in the colour of bright blue.

Initial reaction from local residents is one of aghast, leaving them questioning why Estepona cannot have a cycle track in a similar colour as the cycle tracks in the rest of Europe; that of a darker shade of Green.

Ex Mayor of Estepona Antonio Barrientos is asking for the Judge to be replaced in the pending Astapa case.

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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 to be the inclusion of false data and the omission of important data that would help the defence case.

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 more time to pay its outstanding debts to the company - estimated to be around 350,000 Euros.

In little over a week the City will again have to face the payment of more than 3.8 million Euros representing the monthly salary of a workforce totalling around 1,300 workers,

Although the bank account of the town hall is currently flush to the tune of 20 million Euros (mostly gained from a land rights deal with the Saudi Royal Family) funds cannot be made available from this account under the current constitution.

Estepona Town Hall has restored the supply of cleaning products which had been disrupted by the non-payment of 85,000 euros to the main supplying company. The last invoice has now been paid.

The situation had reached such a point that parents of students at certain schools in Estepona had been asked to toilet paper and hand gel to the schools.