The Cabildo de Gran Canaria has given control this afternoon, at 7:30 p.m. (local time), the fire that broke out on the top of the island on Tuesday and that has affected some 480 hectares.

In a statement, the island corporation specifies that not all of this surface should be considered “burned”, since “many areas can be seen where the fire has had a very low intensity, remaining only on the surface with hardly affecting the pine forest”..

This afternoon, the GC-130 highway was opened, the only one that remained closed, and the residents of La Caldera de los Marteles, Los Bucios and Cuevas Blancas have been able to return to their homes.

However, as the media continue to act in the area of the fire until its complete liquidation, the Cabildo asks citizens to be prudent when moving around the summit.

Pending the inspection of all the areas, there is only evidence of one house affected by the fire, located at the intersection of Pico de las Nieves with the GC-130 highway, although it is not ruled out that within the perimeter of the fire it could have other properties affected.

The president of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, Antonio Morales, has congratulated all the security and extinction bodies and forces that have worked to put out the fire.

Morales has remarked that “the fire originated in one of the highest risk and most dangerous areas, since it had enormous potential, but the teams have done an enormous job”.

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Since June line 1 of the Madrid Metro has been closed and now the Line 9 service will also be affected by the comprehensive renovation works in the tunnels. During this time, it will be used to remove asbestos from the vaults and the different technical rooms of the stations..

The Minister of Housing, Transport and Infrastructure, Jorge Rodrigo, explained that the Community of Madrid has decided to launch this renovation of the Madrid Metro during the summer months because there is less influx of users. He has ensured that these “improvements that are essential to continue guaranteeing the standards of quality, speed and safety of our suburban”.

affected sections

Specifically, the central section of Line 9, which runs from the stations of Núñez de Balboa, Avenida de América, Cruz del Rayo and Concha Espina, will be closed.. To cover the absence of service and the route between the Príncipe de Vergara and Colombia stops, the regional government is going to launch a special free bus service.

Since when will it be closed?

It has also announced the start date and duration of the works. Line 9 will remain closed from August 5 until early September. In this case, the improvement works will last less than those of Line 1, which will be interrupted until October.

The asbestos removal plan for the Madrid underground network, which began in 2018 and is expected to end in 2028, has an investment of 170 million euros, of which more than 62 million have already been committed. Since its start, more than a hundred contracts have been put out to tender to eliminate this element of trains and facilities.

The State will have to reappraise Rumasa's shares 40 years after their expropriation and faces the payment of multimillion-dollar compensation to the heirs of José María Ruiz-Mateos. In a sentence to which El Confidencial has had access, the Contentious Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM) agrees with the businessman's family, who appealed at the hands of his widow, María Teresa Rivero Sánchez- Romate, and obliges the Ministry of Finance to make a new calculation taking into account “all the shares or social participations” of the holding company intervened.

According to the family, the value of the Rumasa Group exceeded 13,712 million euros at the time of the expropriation. The Ruiz-Mateos have been litigating in court for decades to try to obtain compensation. After its expropriation in 1983, the State Administration assessed the company negatively and set the price per share at zero euros. Since then, both the Ruiz-Mateos and several of the minority shareholders of their companies have been suing by the hundreds with unequal results.. The sentence is appealable before the Supreme Court (TS), which will have, in the end, the last word.

In fact, the Supreme Court later confirmed this negative calculation in several sentences, but the Supreme Court now concludes that this decision “had effective significance for minority third-party shareholders.”. In the case of the Ruiz-Mateos, and given their status as owners, the magistrates agree with Rivero and the businessman's children and order the State to make a new calculation taking into account “the total consolidation” of the business group from that first assessment.

For this, the Ministry of Finance will have to review all the procedures that have been carried out around the Rumasa companies in these four decades. According to the family, in some of these procedures a new valuation was produced that yielded a positive result regarding the shares of various companies, such as the cases of Banco de Albacete and Galerías Preciados..

The TSJM now orders the State to reassess the price of Rumasa's shares taking these new figures into account. In the opinion of the Ruiz-Mateos, the true value of the shares would not be zero euros, but that the conglomerate would exceed 13,500 million euros. If this appraisal is confirmed, they will be entitled to a million-dollar compensation.

“It was not possible to declare a negative net worth as proven,” argued the family regarding the agreement by which the share price was set at zero euros. “The definitive determination of the fair price of the shares of Rumasa SA, parent of the group, required taking into account the revisions of the fair prices of the companies owned by it, established by sentences pronounced at a later date”.

The resolution mentions the judgment handed down at the time by the Supreme Court and in which it was apparently determined that the fixing of the price at zero euros of the fair price to be paid by the State for the expropriation was correct.. However, it stresses that already then, in 2001, the high court recalled that it would be necessary to wait for the full consolidation of the results of the expropriated group, once the judicial resources were cleared up and proceed to include in the valuation a series of items or economic concepts and accountants. It referred, specifically, to the updating and consolidation of balance sheets.

The TSJM now recalls that what was decided is that “the result of the total consolidation process would have to be accepted, for which it would proceed in the manner established in the first instance judgments and that it was correct to defer the fixation to the execution of the sentence. of fair value, given the pending nature of other processes”. “This means that, in accordance with the judgment of the Supreme Court, a new valuation of the shares of Rumasa SA must be carried out in view of the consolidated balance sheet of the group, from which it follows that the claim of the actor,” he says.

The expropriation of Rumasa took place in 1983 during the presidency of the Government of Felipe González. The decision against the holding company was published in the BPE on February 24 at a time when the conglomerate was made up of more than 200 companies, including some twenty banks, and had more than 60,000 employees.

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As usual during the summer in our country, tourism grows massively. Thousands of visitors circulate through the cities in search of the best places in each town to get to know them and enjoy their history and culture.. However, many of these sites are too large to explore on foot.. Therefore, it is very common to use public transport for greater convenience of movement..

One of the most used is the intercity bus, especially in Madrid, given the large size of the capital and the cheap price of the trip.. However, we must worry about what the regulations are when accessing one of these, especially if we are visitors and have luggage with us.. And it is that we could be denied entry into these public vehicles if we do not meet a series of conditions.

This is how they told it in the Tik Tok Madrid Secreto account. In many cases, the drivers have no problem with us getting on the bus with our suitcases. However, many of them can leave us ashore if we do not comply with the regulations. It reflects that these cannot exceed the equivalent of hand luggage and must be subject to. Hand luggage may be carried that does not disturb other passengers. If our suitcase exceeds these proportions, we can only access the vehicle without it having a hold ready for this type of cargo.. If this is not the case, it will be up to the driver's decision if we get into the vehicle or not..

Bus regulations

There are more rules that must be met in order to use the urban bus. The first and most basic is that it must be accessed through the front entrance and respecting the turn. Once inside, the passenger should situate himself as far back as possible so as not to hinder other people entering the following stops.. In addition, the driver should not be distracted unless some type of information is required or an incident in the vehicle needs to be reported..

Before getting off at the corresponding stop, it will be essential to press one of the various bells arranged on the sides inside the bus. It must be done some time in advance so that the driver can anticipate and approach the stops with a certain margin. On the other hand, it is advisable to have the corresponding ticket on hand during the journey, since the employees of the transport company could request it at any time during the journey.

To all this, it is added that we must give up our seats to elderly people or people with reduced mobility who need it. It is totally obligatory in the places reserved for it.

Unity lasted one day. Only 24 hours after the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, and the JxCAT spokesman in Parliament, Albert Batet, launched reciprocal messages in pursuit of unity to negotiate in Madrid, ERC has distanced itself from the agenda of maximum of Carles Puigdemont to agree on the investiture of Pedro Sánchez. Their petitions will not include self-determination or amnesty.. The Republicans give priority to three points: the transfer of Cercanías, a new regional financing and the continuity of the dialogue table. Everything continues the same as in the electoral campaign. Realism vs. Maximalism at Waterloo.

ERC has appointed a negotiating team to work headed by number two on the Madrid list, Teresa Jordà. This team will also integrate Gabriel Rufián and the future senator Sara Bailac. In addition, these negotiators will be reinforced by a “political” team, according to the definition of the party, which will operate from Barcelona with the deputies Marta Vilalta, Josep Maria Jové and Juli Fernàndez, in addition to the general secretary, Marta Rovira, who has fled to Switzerland since 2018..

This group will negotiate with the PSOE the conditions so that ERC, with its seven deputies, offers its support to a possible investiture of Sánchez.

In any case, everything seems very far from a joint strategy with JxCAT, although ERC ensures that “work is being done” on it, but it is not known on what basis, since the red lines are very marked from Waterloo. The difference is that the Republicans want to avoid a repeat election. In the last general elections, they lost more than 400,000 votes, almost triple the 125,000 that Junts lost. In the municipal elections, the Republicans lost 300,000 votes, while the formation founded by Puigdemont was able to mask its bleeding —much smaller, 67,000— by Xavier Trias in Barcelona.

immovable stance

In Madrid, but also in a large part of the PSC, they hope that going on vacation and letting the matter mature without taking any steps will help JxCAT change its position. They consider that such an opportunity to obtain political advantages from Madrid can only be compared to the Majestic pact between José María Aznar's PP and Jordi Pujol's CiU. Then the deployment of the Mossos d'Esquadra was agreed. a historical situation.

But Puigdemont insists on “maintaining the position”. That is, in not giving in to anything. Self-determination and amnesty, two things that neither the PSOE nor anyone in Madrid can give you. The escaped former president defends that an electoral repetition will harm the Republicans and give JxCAT the leadership of the independence movement. Puigdemont has already vetoed any pact with the Socialists before the elections, although the PSC was offering to agree on the councils of Tarragona, Lleida and Barcelona, according to party sources..

Carles Puigdemont then alleged that they would harm Míriam Nogueras and her candidacy for the generals. The final result is that JxCAT was the fifth force in number of votes in Catalonia, behind ERC. The Republicans ended up agreeing to the deputations with those of Salvador Illa, compensating for the loss of votes with more institutional power.

wait for it to soften

The expectation of the PSC, and also of the PSOE and Moncloa, is that ERC ends up dragging JxCAT to its most pragmatic positions. There are months for that to happen. But Puigdemont has been on the run in Belgium for years and suing not to be arrested. The time factor is not something that is going to wear Waterloo down on its own.

Carles Puigdemont defends that, in the worst case scenario, an electoral repetition would help Junts to recover positions in Congress. The ex-president alleges before his close circle that the pro-independence voters would reward them for the firmness of “maintaining the position” and that a percentage of the abstention that has moved the most radical pro-independence movement could even be recovered. But in the same way, presenting himself to public opinion as the president who has not given in to the demands of sovereignty, would also end up favoring Pedro Sánchez.

On the night of 23-J, the left was filled with euphoria at an unexpected electoral result, while PP and Vox saw their options to govern blow up. Minutes later, Pablo Iglesias already warned that the five deputies with purple cards would report directly to the leadership of Podemos, and hours later he questioned the result of Yolanda Díaz. Ione Belarra fell asleep later. Groundhog Day for a large part of the formations integrated in Sumar, which in private expressed their indignation at the depth charges launched by a party that ran within the same candidacy, to which the polls predicted its disappearance if it had presented separately. And that, before, during and after the campaign, he has charged against the strategy, has criticized the allies or has vindicated figures who on the platform understand that, today, there remain.

As a general rule, the parties within the coalition led by Díaz are clear about it.. “You have to ignore them,” they say. They insist that, every day, Podemos addresses a smaller audience. Also that his messages “have less and less impact”. They consider that they have been left out of the public debate and that “more and more people are tired” with their performance. That is, by questioning the course set by the space leader. By repeating that the veto of Irene Montero was “cruel” and “unjustified and will make those who made this decision regret it for years,” in the words of the historic purple secretary general. And with continuing to pronounce publicly on the internal life of the coalition, just what all the leaders of the left previously considered had taken a serious toll on them..

“Very quiet. We must not engage in provocations”, summarizes a Sumar leader, who asks to “focus on what is important”, which is what “those who have voted for us” want.. “Its ability to wear is very limited,” says another prominent figure in the political space of the left to the left of the PSOE. They defend that the purple ones spend too much time talking about the past and organic life, to object live about the current course, when they are no longer the hegemonic force and barely have those five of 31 deputies. Even to boast of their own achievements from the Government, but they barely focus on proposals for the future.

There is a part of the leaders under the umbrella of Sumar, on the other hand, who ask to “normalize the discrepancies”, without falling “into the monotheme that Iglesias claims”. Put in silver, avoid “closing ranks”, say that the results on 23-J were “historic” or incur in “absurd vendettas”, such as comparing the political moment of 2023 with that of 2015. Read without context, this Sunday's result represents a setback, since they have lost more than 700,000 voters with respect to the “worst result” of Unidas Podemos, as Belarra and Iglesias reproached Díaz.

The point is that the majority of Sumar's allies, as well as the hard core of the vice president, are elated to have survived weeks of internal warfare, the activation of the useful vote by the PSOE and the collapse in the polls.. For having managed to mobilize the left two months after other elections, even though it is the PSOE that has experienced growth.

The leadership of Podemos, except for the leaders who were also candidates, has opted for a low profile in the campaign until Belarra multiplied his presence, in the intermediate stretch. Various allies of Sumar accused them of sitting idle, of not fighting at the risk that the PP and Vox would form a government, while the purples claimed to have been “made invisible”, assuring that the second vice president had “resigned” from feminism. With Belarra at the helm, they vindicated Montero, his legacy, and even the “historical responsibility of his militancy.”.

Iglesias broke in to charge against Díaz's strategy, which Podemos had already identified as wrong, some time ago. They are convinced that, with a much more combative speech in substance and form, they would have achieved a better result.. And there, the rest of Sumar's allies deny the greatest.

They understand that, without the difficult confluence achieved, without Díaz's leadership, the result would have been devastating for the left.. More, if possible, after the debacle in the regional and municipal elections, in which Podemos was expelled from parliaments such as Madrid or Valencia. Compromís accused the coup; the commons lost the Barcelona City Council, and Más Madrid fell back in the city council, but grew in the Assembly. The setback was especially serious for the purple. “They do not connect with people on the street, who are very happy about what happened,” they abound.

On election night, a large part of these leaders assumed that Podemos and Montero herself, who withdrew from the public spotlight to focus solely on her ministry after being excluded from the lists, would not have space to fight internally.. At least, not while there was the slightest option of reissuing the coalition government. they were wrong.

Belarra's speech at the closing of the campaign, last Friday, caused discomfort, but they chose to remain silent. And it is what they want to continue doing, although they assume that the darts of Podemos will continue. That the purple formation claims its autonomy within the parliamentary group is expected, but other Sumar forces recall that, if they leave the parliamentary group in Congress, they will lose 23% of the resources that correspond to them by the coalition agreement. Coexistence, they understand, is necessary for the left. And Podemos argues that it demands exactly the same as Compromís or the commons, which in the last legislature enjoyed freedom to vote on an issue as sensitive as the PSOE bill to prohibit prostitution and reinforce the punishment of whoremongers.

Díaz, who is not used to responding publicly on internal issues, gave Podemos the data of the “million votes” achieved, together with the IU, on March 28, in response to his criticism for having gone back to three million voters.. Such a forceful public response is not remembered, even after several cross-examinations in an interview in La Sexta, since Belarra claimed to continue negotiating the coalition agreement, at the beginning of June, when he also denounced that it did not guarantee the representativeness of Podemos.

On Wednesday, at his farewell as parliamentary spokesman for United We Can in the Lower House, Pablo Echenique, who will return to his position at the CSIC, declared himself “proud to have made a lot of noise”. It is precisely that noise, also their way of revealing internal fights, what they want to avoid in Sumar. Today they assume that they have it difficult, and choose to ignore them.

Three workers from a pig farm in Tarancón (Cuenca) have been found this Thursday unconscious inside the facilities, probably due to intoxication, and have been evacuated in different health facilities to the Virgen de la Luz Hospital in Cuenca.

The three workers have been found at 2:36 p.m. by colleagues inside the farm, located on Camino de Tribaldos, who have notified the 112 emergency service, which in turn has sent the park firefighters to the place. from Tarancon.

Likewise, these sources have indicated that the firefighters are considering the hypothesis that the three workers have been unconscious in a first inhalation, which has later dissipated because the farm has a forced ventilation system..

One of the three workers, aged 39, has been transferred to the Cuenca Hospital by a medical helicopter, while another whose age is unknown has been taken to the hospital in a mobile ICU and the third, aged 38, in a basic life support ambulance (SVB).

In addition, another SVB support ambulance and an emergency medical team have traveled to the farm to care for the injured, as well as agents of the Civil Guard and the Local Police of Tarancón, indicated 112.

A French speleologist died this afternoon after being trapped in a cave under exploration in the Cantabrian municipality of Soba, in the Portillo de La Sía area, due to a rockfall.

The Government of Cantabria had activated a device of more than 30 people a few hours ago to rescue the espeologist, although it has finally confirmed his death.

Two people who were with the deceased, also of French nationality and who have been unharmed, were the ones who notified the emergency services after part of the roof of the cave fell off..

According to the information that has transpired, it is a complex and very narrow cavity, with two 25-meter and 7-meter wells, very narrow meanders that probably would have to be removed with microblasting, and a circular 1.5-meter room where brought down the roof.

Technicians from the General Directorate of the Interior of the Government of Cantabria, cavers from the Red Cross, the Mountain Rescue Group (GREIM) of the Civil Guard of Potes, the Civil Guard and volunteers from the Civil Protection Group of branches of victory.

A first evaluation team, made up of three members of GREIM, two cavers from the Red Cross and the coordinator of the General Directorate of the Interior, initially went to the cave with the aim of evaluating and providing information on its situation..

Meanwhile, other members of the operation proceeded to mark the area to avoid losses and set up a transmitter at the mouth of the cave to guarantee communications with the Advanced Command Post, located in the La Gándara de Soba sports center..

Due to the complexity of the intervention, the rescue was expected to last hours, although the death of the speleologist has finally been confirmed, about which no further information has been provided for the moment..

The judge has provisionally released the 30-year-old woman arrested last Monday accused of impersonating a nurse and doctor in various health centers, including the Hospital de Berga (Barcelona), after having invoked today her right not to testify in court.

As reported by the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC), the investigating court number 1 of Berga (Barcelona) has agreed to provisionally release the woman, since none of the parties in the process have requested other measures, if well, it has imposed several precautionary measures, such as biweekly appearances, the withdrawal of the passport and the prohibition to leave the territory.

The Mossos d'Esquadra arrested the woman in Vic (Barcelona) last Monday night, since, despite not having a university degree to practice medicine, she allegedly posed as a nurse and doctor in various health centers, including the Berga Hospital (Barcelona), where he worked for seven months in the emergency room, and the Dexeus University Hospital in Barcelona.

The court keeps the case open for the crimes of intrusion, document falsification and usurpation of civil status.

The manager of the Berga Hospital reported to the Mossos on Thursday of last week that from December 2022 until the middle of this month of July they had a doctor who did not have the required qualification in the emergency department.

The hospital was put on alert after a preventive health services company, where the fake doctor had looked for work, warned them about the possible falsehood..

According to the Mossos, when the personnel responsible for the Berga Hospital requested the documentation, the woman only showed a screenshot with a collegiate number and two photographs dressed as a doctor, after which they informed her that on December 20, 2022 She could join as a doctor in the Hospital's emergency department and they asked her to provide the paper documentation when she could..

Finally, when the Hospital discovered in the middle of this month of July that the woman was not included in the database of the College of Physicians, they opened a disciplinary file for a very serious offense and suspended her from her duties.. The Mossos are now investigating how many health centers the woman could have worked in.

In this case, the Hospital de Berga has admitted “important irregularities” in the hiring procedure of the false doctor and has fired the director of the Human Resources Department of the center.

The Official College of Physicians of Barcelona (COMB) and the Official College of Nurses of Barcelona (COIB) have announced that they will appear as private prosecutors when the legal case against the false doctor is opened.

The Mossos d'Esquadra are investigating an alleged fraud committed by a travel agency in Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona), which sold flights and hotel stays that it never contracted and affects some eighty people, twenty of whom are already They have formalized a complaint at the police station.

As reported to EFE by sources from the Mossos d'Esquadra, the owner of this agency would have allegedly charged those affected for some trips that she never contracted, such as flights and hotels.

The aforementioned sources have explained that the amount allegedly defrauded would amount to about 60,000 euros for the moment.. As of today, more than twenty people have already filed a complaint at the police station, although the Mossos estimate that there would be another fifty citizens affected by this alleged scam..

The investigation is being carried out by the Mossos d'Esquadra de Vilanova i la Geltrú police station, which is compiling all the information on the case.

The victims have created a WhatsApp group under the name 'Affected FG Viajes' to coordinate their defensive strategy and have placed their case in the hands of a law firm.

One of those affected, Sara, explained to EFE TV that she had booked a trip with this agency, from which she had received good references from other clients, to celebrate her son's 18th birthday as a “special gift”, and for which has paid more than 2,000 euros.

After making a first payment in March for this trip, Sara recounts that when it came to paying the second part of the cost of the trip, it was all excuses from the owner, after which she asked for the documentation, which she has not received: “I don't even have the locators” neither of the flights nor of the hotels, says this affected, who assures that the whole issue is “very painful”.

Sara adds that she has called the airline and that her family is not among the passengers at their requested destination and that the flight that this agency supposedly contracted, now investigated for fraud, does not even exist..

A young couple, Verónica and Sergi, have confirmed that they already traveled with this agency without problems in 2018. This year, in January, they hired a trip to Kenya that they began to pay month by month, and when there were a few weeks left to travel to this African country, they contacted the agency for the processing of entry visas, because they did not have any type of documentation.

So, Verónica and Sergi explain, the owner of the house began to delay or not get on the phone..

This couple's trip began on August 1, so, before it was imminent, they went to the agency and, to their surprise, found that it had been closed for days: “From one night to the next – the owner – stopped answering”, says Sergi, who has already filed a complaint with the Mossos.

“There are people who had booked honeymoon trips, families with children, couples like us… all kinds of trips and all kinds of budgets, many of us are affected,” Verónica and Sergi underline..

The lawyer for those affected, Eric Ventura, explained that once they studied case by case, since some people have not been able to make the trip while others, for example, have found themselves at the destination that did not have the hotel contracted and paid for and have had to pay for another stay out of pocket, they will resort to justice through civil or criminal proceedings, in the latter case with a joint complaint, to purify responsibilities.

He has said that the victims have been observing actions that are not typical of a business such as a travel agency for months, such as working with half the blinds down, without light.. “It is strange that a travel agency works in such an opaque way,” adds the lawyer.

Later, in a very short period of time, clients of the agency began to emerge who could not travel, since either they did not have the travel documentation or they could not contact the owner, or the services at the destination were not those contracted.. Subsequently, the lawyer continues, the agency went from working with half the blind closed to lowering it completely.

The people affected went to this law firm that is in front of the travel agency because they felt cheated or were “victims of a hoax”, for which a joint platform has been created to compensate this damage..