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Updated 4pm with PN statement
Plans to expand the Mrieħel bypass with a new flyover are being quietly moved forward by Infrastructure Malta, Moviment Graffitti said on Saturday, in what it described as the roads agency s standard way of operating.
The proposed expansion will take up more than three football pitches worth of agricultural land – 20 tumoli - which is outside the development zone and forever destroy farming in the area , Graffitti warned.
It will also require authorities to destroy a €1 million pedestrian footbridge built and installed above the bypass just two years ago, according to plans which the NGO showed
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Villa Bianca in Birkirkara is set to be transformed into a school of music for children with autism and disabilities. The project will be financed by government, and once completed it will be administered by The Malta Trust Foundation, which is chaired by Former President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca.
Minister Roderick Galdes explained that this villa was donated to the Malta Trust Foundation and, through the funds allocated from the Scheme for Persons with Disability offered by the Housing Authority, the necessary works will be carried out so as to offer the required environment to these children and young people.