TORREVIEJA LOOK SET TO EXTEND CEMETERY The ruling political group of Torrevieja, the Partido Popular, intend to table a motion in the next plenary meeting that will see a mass of land near to the municipal cemetery have its classification changed in the Plan General, which will subsequently... Read More
BIGASTRO TO RECOVER NIGHT EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE Having been closed down for over a year, the town of Bigastro will once again have emergency health cover at night, when the service resumes on the 1st of March. Antonio Ángel Hurtado, the head of the health council and mayor of Almoradí... Read More
TORREVIEJA MAYOR MEETS WITH WASTE WORKERS Workers involved in street cleaning and waste disposal in Torrevieja attended a meeting this week, in which the mayor of the city, Eduardo Dolón, attempted to reassure them that their jobs are safe, irrespective of the recent plans to split the ... Read More
LORENTE LOSES APPEAL IN CORRUPTION CASE The former mayor of Orihuela, Mónica Lorente, has lost a pre-trial appeal which she hoped would have avoided criminal charges for alleged irregularities in the award of a contract relating to building work at a plaza in the town of El Escorratel... Read More
ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS CAST DOUBT ON ALICANTE IKEA Environmental plans which look set to be approved to protect wetlands of Rabasa in Alicante may have serious repercussions for the proposed site of the long awaited branch of furniture giant Ikea. Plans working their way through the Department of Infr... Read More
TORREVIEJA TO PAY COMPENSATION FOR FALL A court in Elche has condemned Torrevieja council to pay 3,000 euro, plus interest for late payment, after a 61 year old woman suffered injuries when she tripped over a wooden plank on the walkway of La Mata, in August 2005. This is the second such co... Read More
EARLY MORNING FATALITY ON THE N-332 A pedestrian, described as a 50 year old man, died in the early hours of Friday morning after being hit by a car on the N-332 main road as it passes the town of Guardamar del Segura. According to the Information and Emergency Coordination Centre, the ... Read More
SPOOKY SOCCER SPECTATOR IN TORREVIEJA A group of children playing football made a rather unusual discovery after their ball had gone astray; stumbling across a small blue bag, with the words “Tanatorio de Vitoria” printed on it, lay on the ground in the vicinity of the El Acequ... Read More
ORIHUELA N-332 TO CLOSE FOR BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION The Councillor for the Coast in Orihuela, Martina Scheurer, has announced that the N332 road near La Regia will be completely closed to traffic on the night of Monday the 17th of February, to enable the new footbridge to be moved into place over the ro... Read More
ALICANTE TO GET SIX MONTHS OF HELICOPTER FIRE SUPPORT The provincial administration of Alicante has invited bidders to submit to be awarded the contract to provide air support for the province to cover fire detection and fighting duties during the summer. This year, the period of cover has been extended ... Read More
FRUIT THIEVES FOUND IN PILAR INSPECTIONS Police officers from the Valencia region joined forces with the local police of Pilar de la Horadada this weekend, carrying out the inspection and preventative seizure of 210 kilos of mandarins. A number of checks were carried out in various locations... Read More
ELITE TORREVIEJA COPS RETURNING TO NORMAL DUTIES IN LABOUR DISPUTE Six of the twenty local police officers involved in Torrevieja´s elite Grupo de Refuerzo Operativo, the task force who were left to deal with such problems as the plagues of “lookie lookie” men, have left the squad and returned to nor... Read More