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    <title><![CDATA[Ara in English - Bages]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[Aliança Catalana wins a councilor in Santpedor who had gone to the Junts list]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/politics/alianca-catalana-gained-councilor-in-santpedor-who-had-previously-run-the-junts-list_1_5621100.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/2b383cbd-155d-4049-99fd-f23b687d66c4_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>Aliança Catalana will gain a councilor in Santpedor. This is Jordi Soteras, the party's number two in the Bages region, who had run on the Junts list but failed to win a seat. The resignation of one of their councilors in this municipality, Jordi Rojas, is what opened the doors of the town hall for Soteras, who is now part of the far-right pro-independence party, rather than Junts. <a href="https://santpedor.net/radio/el-vicepresident-dalianca-catalana-al-bages-ocupara-la-vacant-de-sumem-per-santpedor-junts/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">as reported by Radio Santpedor.</a> This has caused an uproar in Santpedor Town Hall, where the mayor, Agustí Comas (ERC), is demanding explanations from Junts or, at the very least, that they "recommend" that he not accept the position. The CUP warns that it will stand up to them and will not tolerate "the presence of an Aliança member who wasn't elected."</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 17 Jan 2026 18:40:33 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The council members, in an archive image.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[It is Jordi Soteras, vice president of the far-right pro-independence party in Bages]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Magneti Marelli plans to close its Santpedor plant and lay off 52 employees.]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/economy/magneti-marelli-plans-to-close-its-santpedor-plant-and-lay-off-52-employees_1_5536364.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/062217f9-1f31-4193-bfa8-317aa400ff69_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0_x519y728.jpg" /></p><p>The automotive components company Magneti Marelli has informed its workers that it will open a redundancy plan (ERE) to dismiss 52 employees and close its factory in Santpedor (Bages), union representatives explained on Tuesday. Last week, the company's management informed the plant's works council of its intention to cease operations at these facilities and lay off the workforce, citing financial losses and a drop in production, according to a statement from the CCOO (Working Council of Workers' Commissions).</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:59:22 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The Magneti Marelli facilities, in an archive image.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The automotive components company is in the midst of a complete restructuring process.]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Joan Frank Charansonnet: "Good Catalan wines have body and soul, like actors and cinema."]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/food/joan-frank-charansonnet-good-catalan-wines-have-body-and-soul-like-actors-and-cinema_1_5501646.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/eb7f13a9-f440-46cc-a956-120cf6e1f614_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0_x738y911.jpg" /></p><p>After more than thirty years of experience in front of and behind the camera, Joan Frank Charansonnet (The Valley of the Holy Cross, 1971) has found a long-standing role in Salvador Dalí. He had already played him in the theater and brought him to the cinema with <em>The Angelus case, Dalí's fascination</em> (2023), a film that explores the Empordà painter's obsession with Jean-François Millet's painting and which will now be released in more than seventy theaters in France.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elena García Dalmau]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 19 Sep 2025 05:00:27 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Joan Frank Charansonnet]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Actor and director]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[One month after the Pont de Vilomara fire: "My whole life has gone up in flames"]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/c355acba-db2e-4d6e-aac8-e65948a4f118_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>"I have lost everything: I had old photos and mementoes of my parents and family, clothes, two very large aquariums, also a miniature train line I was assembling with 40 engines... My whole life has gone up in flames". This is the hard and overwhelming summary made bu Jordi, a 66-year-old resident of the River Park housing estate in Pont de Vilomara, who only a month ago saw it all disappear due to the Pont de Vilomara <a href="https://es.ara.cat/sociedad/estabilitzats-fuegos-bages-noguera_1_4438827.html" >fire that burnt down over 1,700 hectares of land and around sixty houses, including his own</a>.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Garcia]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 18 Aug 2022 12:13:24 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Hi has houses in the River Park urbanization in Puente de Vilomara totally burned, like the one in the picture]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Neighbours affected by the fire request help to start again]]></subtitle>
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