A 35-year-old man has been arrested in Guardamar del Segura (Alicante) for allegedly leaving his 5-year-old daughter alone in the house in order for him to go to a local karaoke bar. As reported...

A court has acquitted a physical education teacher at a school in Finestrat (Alicante) who was accused of molesting five girls aged between 6 and 10 years old. The tenth section of the Audiencia...

The prosecutor has asked for significant custodial sentences for a number of alleged key players in the so called “caso Brugal”, including the former president of the Alicante government, José Joaquín Ripoll, and former mayor of Orihuela, Mónica Lorente, both Read More ...

The administrative court in Elche has dismissed a case brought by Pedro Mancebo and Juan Ignacio López-Bas of the CLR political group against the then acting mayor of Orihuela, Antonio Zapata. CLR had complained to the courts that by not having the plenary meeting in August of last year, and by moving it to September, […]

Last Friday Martina Scheurer handed in officially to Orihuela Town Hall the different projects ready to put out to tender and to be paid out of the 40% of the sale of land. These are: The park in La Regia for a total amount of 254.686,55€. Thi...

Tuesday this week sees the final stage of administrative procedure being completed, which will mean that the money obtained from the sale of plots of land on the Orihuela Costa is available to spend on the planned projects. Although the process has tak...

The Governing Board of the City of Torrevieja dismissed on Thursday a petition signed by three members of the Policia Local requesting that the municipality meets the legal costs of a court case to be held on 6 October where they will be dealt with fol...

Friday's civil case in Orihuela was for precautionary measures to be taken in regards to the non validity of the alleged expulsion of Juan Ignacio Lopez Bas and Pedro Mancebo from the director's board of the CLR-CLARO coalition by Bob Houliston.

It was widely expected that the civil court would rule that Pedro and Juan were not expelled from the CLR-CLARO coalition because valid procedures were not followed.

Bob's story gave the impression that Juan and Pedro had been expelled, making them non-ascribed councillors and stopping them from voting the Mocion of Censura on the 3rd January. The civil court ruling would have shown that Bob Houliston acted illegally.

However the civil court case was postponed today because the public prosecutor "did not turn up". The new date for the civil case is the 11th April. The date for the contentious-administrative court case was postponed last month until 24th April because the court clerk "forgot" to request a file from the town hall. It's amazing how "lucky" our left wing minority government is.

You know the saying.... If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and walks like a duck.....then it most

Raymond Kearney

In an unexpected twist in proceedings on Friday morning, the court case in Orihuela in which Pedro Mancebo and Juan Ignacio López-Bas protested against the legality of their expulsion from the CLR-CLARO group was postponed, due to an administrat...