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Area councillor meetings with local communities

‘Community councillors’ in Jávea have restarted their neighbourhood surgeries where residents can ask questions and put forward complaints and ideas. If you miss yours but...

Another temperature record falls

High temperatures have been making the headlines again this week. While 11 municipalities in the Vega Baja area of south Alicante – including Orihuela and...

Giving a new life to sea grass

A new public works contract for cleaning and maintaining Denia’s beaches will include a treatment centre for a sea plant native to the Mediterranean,...

Police prevent death by pork scratching

A man who nearly choked to death on a pork scratching had his life saved by two National Police officers. The incident happened at a...

Help needed to catch ‘disgraceful’ fly-tippers

Local police in Almoradí have asked for residents to help them catch fly-tippers. They published photos of areas of countryside in the municipality where ‘uncivil’...

Burning bins cause consternation

A spate of fires in different parts of Alicante province caused by embers placed in rubbish containers has led town halls to issue a...

Head-on crash on the AP-7

Two people have died following a head-on crash on the AP-7 near Benissa. Europa Press news agency reported that one of the vehicles, driven by...

Record breaking year for Alicante airport

Britons made up more than a third of the passengers who enabled Alicante-Elche airport to record the busiest year in its history, according to...

Putting an end to throw-away culture

The draft of a law designed to prevent food waste has been approved by the Cabinet. The coalition attempted to pass the legislation at the...

Alicante set to get emergency response centre

More details have been given on the new regional government’s plan to re-establish health emergency call centres (CICU) in Alicante province and Castellón. The previous...

Mountain fire next to Benidorm-Alcoy road

A forest fire which broke out in the Guadalest Valley on Sunday night has been stabilised, according to the provincial fire service. The blaze started...

Inland motorway to cut coast congestion

The A-33 motorway – designed to cut journey times between Murcia and Valencia – is now open. It offers a route that is 47 kilometres...

Valencia highlights waiting list reductions

The number of patients on the high-priority waiting list for operations was slashed in the last six months of 2023, according to the Valencia...

Pioneering Parkinson’s disease treatment carried out in Valencia

The first implant of a deep brain stimulation (DBS) system, to help improve the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, in Spain has been successfully carried...

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The 2024 Summer Olympics Simone Biles along with the American team with their gold medals Photo: @simonebiles After three full days of competition, up to midnight on...

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