News of the day 21 September 2016
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The Marivent gardens, some of them anyway, will be open to the public from February.

Royal family

Town hall wants all Marivent gardens open to the public

"We expect that in the future we will be able to open all the gardens," says town hall director of urban planning Joan Riera.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter

Just under 40% of the students on the first medical degree course are from the Balearics.

Education

New faculty will mean that medical students can stay in the Balearics

The first course in medicine - it is being taught at Son Espases Hospital - has 62 students. Of these, 24 are from the Balearics.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter

The Gorg Blau reservoir isn't gaining any more capacity, as dry weather has continued.

Weather

Driest summer in the Balearics for thirty years

This has been the driest summer in the Balearics since 1985 and the fourth driest since 1952.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter

The Partido Popular's Marga Prohens said that the government didn't know where to begin with some of its tourism policy.

Politics

32 million euros raised by the tourist tax

The Partido Popular proposed a "grand pact" for tourism that will define tourism policy for the next twenty years.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter

President Armengol at the gala inauguration ceremony for FAN Mallorca Shopping.

Retail

FANtastic: FAN Mallorca Shopping's gala ceremony

Europe's latest, largest and most diverse commercial and entertainment centre, FAN Mallorca Shopping, held a gala inauguration ceremony this evening.

Humphrey Carter

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Royal yacht

I could never understand why Britannia was withdrawn in the first place.

Jason Moore

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