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ICYMI: From real estate to buttercream: Guelph mom finds joy in cakes
Guelph Today
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August 17, 2025
Former 'The Bachelor Canada' star's Guelph Cakes has more than 20,000 Instagram followers This article was previously published on GuelphToday. A local mom has found joy not in eating but in decorating cakes. What began as a relaxing hobby after...
Spanish Infrastructure Giant to Move U.S. HQ Near Massive Georgia 400 Project
Savannah Herald - Georgia
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August 19, 2025
Local Voices. Statewide Impact. Stay Informed with Georgia News A Spanish infrastructure giant is set to move the headquarters of its U.S. and Canada arm to the Perimeter area this summer, close to the Georgia 400 toll lanes project for which it...
Housing crisis in Ibiza widens the gap between have-nots and 24-hour party people
The Globe and Mail
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August 19, 2025
It’s another night, another party at a hotel in Ibiza. The international clientele dances to the house beat while laser lights reflect on the curvy swimming pool and on a sea of sunglasses worn after dark at the open-air venue. Many party-goers...
41°C or 38°C? The Madrid postcode where a row of trees changes everything
Euro Weekly News
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August 21, 2025
Shade changes everything: campaigners in Puente de Vallecas recorded 41.4°C on treeless streets versus 38.6°C under trees. Residents want more planting in the south to curb Madrid’s growing urban heat island. Credit : Francisco Blanco,...
FC Barcelona News: 21 August 2025; Barça secure return to Montjuïc, Frenkie de Jong opens talks on contract renewal
Barca Blaugranes
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August 21, 2025
Five years since Pedri’s presentation as a Barça player - FC Barcelona Five years have now passed since midfielder Pedri was presented as an FC Barcelona player. Arriving from Las Palmas at the age of just 17, the man from the Canary Islands soon...
Daxon: Summertime is construction time in Brea
Orange County Register - California
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August 21, 2025
This would be a good time to own a backhoe business. Look around town, there are backhoes and tractors digging up the dirt, making way for more housing and commercial construction all around Brea. One project really charging ahead is the expansion...
Spanish Government regulation blocking financial assistance to tenants in the Balearics
Majorca Daily Bulletin
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August 19, 2025
The Balearic Government holds the Spanish Government responsible for a drop in the number of applications for rental assistance payments. Rents are higher than ever, but the applications have fallen because fewer tenants satisfy the requirements...
Eurostat: EU, Euro Area Construction Output Down Month-on-Month in June 2025
Bulgarian News Agency
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Construction output declined month-on-month in June 2025 in both the European Union and the euro area, Eurostat said on Thursday. In June 2025, construction output declined by 0.5% in the EU and by 0.8% in the euro area compared to May 2025. In...
5 Colfax Avenue dishes worth fighting construction
Denver Post - Colorado
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August 21, 2025
East Colfax Avenue, though it’s hard to admit, has seen better days. Fences, orange traffic cones, cement barricades and heavy machinery have condensed and diverted traffic, down to one lane in many places, through an obstacle course while...
Spanish PM hit by fresh blow as wife charged with embezzlement
The Times
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A judge has charged Begoña Gómez, the wife of Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, with the embezzlement of public funds. Gómez, along with Cristina Álvarez, an official employed at the prime minister’s office who acted as her aide and who has...
Gov’t has taken a bold step to address flooding challenges in Kumasi – Housing Minister
MyJoyOnline
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August 21, 2025
Kenneth Gilbert Adjei, the Minister for Works, Housing, and Water Resources, has announced government’s decisive action to tackle the perennial flooding challenges in Kumasi. He said the move was part of President John Mahama’s reset agenda to...
Climate Action Collaborative: The power of construction and demolition waste recycling
Vail Daily - Colorado
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Eagle County, though limited in developable size, is still a hot spot for new construction. Whether it’s much-needed employee/affordable housing, commercial buildings or sprawling single-family homes, we are still building. What people may not...
Spain’s party island Ibiza suffers housing crunch as rents soar
Cyprus Mail
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August 18, 2025
It’s another night, another party at a hotel in Ibiza. The international clientele dances to the house beat while laser lights reflect on the curvy swimming pool and on a sea of sunglasses worn after dark at the open-air venue. Many party-goers...
Barcelona lessons don’t fit Aspen
The Aspen Daily News - Colorado
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Editor: “Barcelona” is a code word being whispered around Aspen. Barcelona banned short-term rentals in its city center in 2014 and has since begun a citywide phase-out. Thousands of unlicensed STRs were shut down, yet central rents still climbed...
500-acre solar farm proposed in Sables Spanish Rivers Township
Mid North Monitor
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August 20, 2025
Breadcrumb Trail Links Local News The company, Portentia, made a presentation to the local council on the project this month. Aerial view of Birch Lake Road showing the out flow from Cold Spring at Cold Spring Road. jpg, EP, apsmc At the last...
Spain's party island Ibiza also suffers housing crunch as rents soar
The Gazette - Colorado
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By Nacho Doce and David Latona SANT ANTONI DE PORTMANY, Spain (Reuters) -It's another night, another party at a hotel in Ibiza. The international clientele dances to the house beat while laser lights reflect on the curvy swimming pool and on a sea...
Spain's Ibaizabal linked to fourth LNG bunker vessel newbuild, with option in China
Riviera
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August 18, 2025
18 Aug 2025by Georgios Georgiou Spanish shipowner Ibaizabal has reportedly expanded its growing LNG bunker vessel orderbook with a new ship in China Greece- and UK-based shipbrokers reported last week that Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding has secured...
From real estate to buttercream: Guelph mom finds joy in cakes
Guelph Today
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August 15, 2025
Former 'The Bachelor Canada' star's Guelph Cakes has more than 20,000 Instagram followers A local mom has found joy not in eating but in decorating cakes. What began as a relaxing hobby after her children went to bed turned into a business dubbed...
UK tourists in Spain told to 'go home' as residents say mass tourism is 'suffocating'
Birmingham Live
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August 20, 2025
Spain is a fan-favourite holiday destination for millions of Brits every year, however, as tensions continue to rise amidst mass tourism, locals have been biting back in recent years. Anti-tourism protestors have been witnessed marching through...
Winds complicate wildfire battles in Spain; Portugal suffers third death
Al Jazeera
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August 20, 2025
Strong winds have hampered efforts to contain unremitting wildfires that continue to spread in Spain despite lower temperatures, as the death toll in Portugal has climbed to three people after a man was killed while helping fight fires there along...