Inland motorway work halted

News Staff Reporter
WORK on the construction of the central motorway on the Barranc de la Batalla section near Alcoy has been suspended by the company carrying out the work because of a government announcement that all payments due in 2010 would be suspended until 2012.

Counterfeit crackdown

By Alex Watkins
A GANG dedicated to storing and distributing forged goods in Torrevieja has been broken up by the National Police.

High speed minister

By Tom Cain
PUBLIC Works minister José Blanco said this week that the future AVE high speed rial link linking Madrid, Albacete and Alicante will see the journey time between Madrid and Alicante cut to just two-and-a-half hours when the service goes into operation in 2012.

Dead men found at sea

By Tom Cain
A GUARDIA Civil maritime patrol boat recovered two corpses from the sea off the coast of Jávea on Wednesday after the crew of a leisure boat spotted them at around 10.15.

Bullfight ban

A groundbreaking law to ban bullfighting was voted in by the Catalán regional government on Wednesday.

Under new management

By Tom Cain
THE AQUALANDIA-Mundomar leisure park group has successfully bid for the right to take over the running of Terra Mítica for the next 10 years, with the option to purchase the theme park outright if it is thought to be economically viable.

'Official' turncoats run Benidorm

By Tom Cain
WHAT has been for many an open secret was confirmed this week when the 'Comité de Expertos del Pacto Antitransfuguismo' declared that the 12 socialist councillors in Benidorm who changed colours and with the aid of former PP councillor José Bañuls to form a non aligned party and seize power are in every sense renegades (transfugos).

'It's all or nothing'

By Samantha Kett
JUST a few months after Jávea council threatened to pull down the fixed terrace of Bar President on the Arenal beach, leaving the owners of other eateries with fixed terraces fearing for their livelihood, the issue has come to nothing.