Despite the news last week that 49,694 homes were repossessed from defaulting borrowers in 2013, a 10% rise from a year earlier, whilst many of the so called “social housing” units still stand empty and barren, and this week´s news th...
Despite the news last week that 49,694 homes were repossessed from defaulting borrowers in 2013, a 10% rise from a year earlier, whilst many of the so called “social housing” units still stand empty and barren, and this week´s news th...
As we approach Easter, what better way to turn our thoughts to the Easter story than to attend a performance of Handel's wonderful oratorio “The Messiah”. The oratorio, composed by George Frideric Handel in London in 1741, was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742.
After an initially modest public reception, "Messiah" has become one of the best-known and most frequently performed choral works in Western music.
Vivace will be joined by visiting soloists Mary Coffield, soprano, Rodney Porter, tenor and Arthur Berwick, bass. Mary, Rodney and Arthur are all well-known and respected singers in the North and North-East of England. They have extensive experience and a continuing desire to perform challenging music. What better than Handel's "Messiah", one of their favourite oratorios? This will constitute the third visit to our area of Spain to perform as soloists with Vivace. In earlier concerts each has given impressive performances: Mary and Rodney in Handel's "Messiah" in 2011, Mary and Arthur in Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" in 2012, and most recently Rodney and Arthur in Mendelssohn's "Elijah" in 2013. All three will now come together for the first time, and will be joined by Vivace's Katy Pargeter as alto soloist for this performance.
The concert will be performed as charity events in three different venues, the first being the Casa de Cultura in San Miguel de Salinas, on Thursday 3rd April at 7.30pm. Entrance is free, and there will be a retiring collection split between two excellent causes: Firstly, the Finca la Castellana, a local animal charity, now caring for animals that have been abandoned in great numbers since the crisis, and secondly, to support the continuation of the local appeal to help the needy in the town.
The second concert is a Memorial concert, to be held in La Siesta Church, on Friday 4th April at 7.30pm. Tickets are €6, and proceeds will be donated to Arco Iris's Children's Home in Mozambique. This was the favourite charity of Fiona Cooke, a well known and dedicated church member, and valued friend of Vivace, who died suddenly last year, and in whose memory the concert is being given.
The final concert will be presented in the magnificent church of the Colegio de Santo Domingo in Orihuela. Tickets are €5 and proceeds will be donated to Manos Unidos. If there are enough requests, a coach will be run for this final concert from Quesada to Orihuela, calling to pick up passengers in San Miguel en route at a cost of €5.
For tickets for the La Siesta performance telephone - 659 616 356
For information and tickets for the other performances telephone - 96 572 0919 or - 620 618 069
Filed under: http://www.theleader.info/article/43022/The number of registered unemployed people in Spain fell in February, with a total of 1,949 people now finding work, compared to January, representing the first fall in February since 2007with a total of unemployed people now standing at 4,812,486. I...
Representative of the Compromís group in Orihuela, Mireia Mollà, is demanding that the minister for health, Manuel Llombart, takes urgent action regarding building the outstanding health centre of Rabaloche. Mollà says that the neighbours of the area have been waiting “too long” and faced nothing but “false promises” from the PP government, after the original building was closed in 2003, and was budgeted for in 2011, but removed the next year, which shows “This lack of political will by the Valencian Government translates into more than 25,000 people having to be treated in barracks”, and that there “cannot be any more excuses for the implementation of this health center”, and to say that the PP government will “perhaps begins to build it within a year and a half is an insult to the citizens”.
Residents of the Pilar neighbourhood of Pinar de Campoverde will be able to take advantage of having a primary care doctor based in their health centre from this week, after the council made various changes in order to ensure that the department of health in Torrevieja were able to provide the required staff. The mayor, José Fidel Ros, visited the office along with the medical director of Primary Care Department, Hipólito Caro, in order to study the infrastructure and optimise the space to meet the needs of a population that has increased in this area. Hipólito Caro said that “this action is part of the commitment of Torrevieja Salud with the town of Pilar de la Horadada and the Consistory to meet the care needs of the population”. The new doctor will take care of about 500 health cards and will result in the medical facilities opening for two days a week.
The Asociación de Vecinos de San Miguel de Salinas are once again calling for the department of health to reinstate one of the Doctors removed from their health centre as a cost saving exercise. The group are demanding that the government satisfy the requirements of providing health care to the community.
The Spanish National transplant organisation, the ONT, have this week broken the record for the number of organ transplants performed in a single day. From a total of 16 donors, 2 of whom were living, Spanish doctors transplanted 26 kidneys, 10 livers, 5 hearts, 3 lungs and a pancreas, in operations performed in 22 hospitals from 11 autonomous regions. The 45 transplant record beats the 36 previously recorded.
Torrevieja Hospital has received yet another award for excellence, having been announced the winner for the best clinical professional session presented during 2013. A number of doctors from the hospital were present in accepting the award which honoured a paper entitled “Viewpoints," a case of multidisciplinary approach that addresses myasthenia gravis”, which was aimed at strengthening and energizing the “concept of quality care, research and teaching”, through customization in assisting patients.
Accompanied by banners calling for the “right to live with dignity” for pensioners and retirees, a large group of people concentrated in Torrevieja´s Plaza de la Constitución on Thursday to protest against the “attacks” by Spain´s central government against the rights to pensions and retirement through the labour reforms, particularly complaining over the loss of purchasing power and pharmacist repayment.
Filed under: http://www.theleader.info/article/42832/
According to data released this week by the Ministry of Economy, Industry, Tourism and Employment, the province of Alicante received a total of 70 million euro to improve the electricity and gas networks in the province during 2013. According to spoke...
Campoverde Theatre Group are proud to present their interpretation of that classic pantomime favourite, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. A fun filled, action pantomime that is full of memorable characters, laughter, song and dance that is being perfo...
A todo tren 2024 ” Tapas, Dulces y Tardeo”
8th April 2024 - 21st April 2024
establecimientos hosteleros @ calles de Torrevieja
Duty Pharmacy - CARBAJO BOTELLA, RODRIGO
19th April 2024
AV. ANTONIO MACHADO, Nº115 , Torrevieja
Duty Pharmacy - REYES CRESPO, MANUEL JAVIER
19th April 2024
C/ VILLA DE BARCELONA ESQ. C/SAN LUIS , Torrevieja
Duty Pharmacy - SOLER-SOLER, FARMACIA
19th April 2024
C/ RAMON GALLUD, Nº196 ESQ C/VIRGEN DE LA PALOMA , Torrevieja
Jose Carreras road closed
4th March 2024 - 2nd June 2024
Torrevieja Market
19th April 2024 08:00 - 12:00
Mercado Semanal Torrevieja, Calle Zv 42, 1, 03184 Torrevieja, Alicante, Spain