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Big party for the opening of renewed Mallorca football field
Celebrating the Grand Reopening: A Spectacular Big Party at the Mallorca Football Field The Mallorca football field has undergone a remarkable transformation, and the grand reopening is set to be celebrated with a spectacular big party, it will be on the 13th of January. This event promises to be a momentous occasion for football fans…
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Seventh edition of Llonguet Fair
The ‘Fira del Llonguet’ is a traditional and craft fair organized by the Es Pil·larí Neighborhood Association with the collaboration of the Palma City Council and the Association of Bakers and Pastry Chefs of the Balearic Islands. An influx of up to 15,000 people is expected and it will have around seventy sales and exhibition…
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Mallorca 312 race
Next Saturday, April 29, the thirteenth edition of the Mallorca 312 OK Mobility will be held, one of the most important sporting events on the island that has three alternative routes of 167, 225 and 312 kilometres. Due to the logistics that this event requires, cuts and restrictions will be produced on a large part…
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Forecast Palma de Mallorca Mayor elections
Juanma Gómez, Cs campaign coordinator, is the one that the results show an upward trend. Carles Cabrera, candidate for the PI, believes that they will be decisive in electing mayor. Javier Bonet, general secretary of the PP of Palma, assures that the survey makes it clear that Palma is calling for a change after a…
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Autopsy of headless woman inconclusive
Prosecutors cannot charge suspect with murder unless the head is found An autopsy has been carried out on the body of a Bolivian woman believed murdered and found headless. The torso, legs and arms of Maria Elena Salcedo, 53, were found scattered in a bushy area along a roadside in a case that has gripped…
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Coma teenager flown home
No change in the boy’s condition A 16-year-old boy who has been in a coma since being attacked outside an Andratx nightclub has been flown to a hospital in his native Wales, reports the Press Association. Alex Hughes was on holiday with friends and their parents at the time of the assault on 2 August.…
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Hospital ward set aside for swine flu patients
Patients to be kept away from others Hospital San Dureta in Palma has reportedly set aside a separate wing for people suffering from the Influenza A virus, commonly known as swine flu. Up to 30 people a day on the island have been presenting themselves in recent days with symptoms. Yesterday a total of 11…
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Bombing: focus shifts to local radicals
Suspicion that the attack was perpetrated with the help of Balearic nationalists Police are no closer to establishing who was behind the bomb attack on Thursday that killed two members of the Civil Guard. Although the main suspects remain Eta, terrorism experts in Palma are concentrating their efforts on investigating a number of radical groups…
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Dead baby found in ventilation shaft
Investigators seek foreign mother who left immediately after birth Police are investigating the discovery of the body of a newborn baby boy whose body was discovered shoved down an air conditioning vent at a villa complex in the ‘Sometimes’ zone of Palma. Local residents had earlier alerted police after reporting an unpleasant smell. Investigators discovered…
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Car bomb causes carnage in Palma Nova
Powerful explosion has killed two civil guards as they sat in their vehicle The bomb exploded outside a civil guard barracks in Palam Nova at about 1400 local time, killing two civil guards who were sat inside the car. Eyewitnesses reported hearing the explosion and seeing a cloud of black smoke rise into the sky.…