Day: April 22, 2014

La Voz de Almería is on this Saturday’s ONCE ticket

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La Voz de Almería, our local newspaper, is celebrating its 75th anniversary, and has been honoured by appearing on this Saturday’s ONCE lottery ticket. ONCE, for those of you who don’t know, is the Spanish Org for the Blind, and raises money via a national lottery. Visually impaired people sell the tickets, receiving a salary for doing so, and the money raised goes towards aid programmes across the country. Their lottery ticket always features a Continue reading La Voz de Almería is on this Saturday’s ONCE ticket→

Let’s build out way out of recession, suggests the Junta de Andalucia

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Susana Diaz, La Presidenta of Andalucia, has revealed her latest get rich quick scheme for getting Andalucia out of the recession – we’re going to build our way out! Hang on, I’m getting a sense of dejá vù here…. She’s unveiled a package of legal changes aimed at speeding up the planning process in order to allow the construction sector to flourish, in her own words. In my own words, it looks as if she’s Continue reading Let’s build out way out of recession, suggests the Junta de Andalucia→