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Manilva Council, in an effort to tackle housing shortages has enacted a bylaw suspending licenses for tourist accommodations In what they call “tense areas” for three years. Urbanism Councillor Juan Carlos Morejón said that the measure puts residents’ access to affordable housing first with the current boom in short-term rentals. The town now has 2,809 tourist homes that provide 14,877 …

On Barcelona’s Ronda Litoral, new speed cameras have been installed to enforce the 80 km/hr limit and improve safety. Credit: Maxim Morales Lopez Shutterstock Barcelona has installed two fixed speed cameras, one in each of the directions on the Ronda Litoral B-10 as part of an overall effort to make the road safer for all users. New cameras have been …

A body was discovered by police searching for an older British woman who has vanished from home in southern Spain. The body was lying in vegetation near a motorway. Geraldine Ann (73), disappeared mid-September, shortly after she left her home in Chirivel near Granada after a disagreement with her husband. She left the house late at night, in her pyjamas, …