Plan to boost manufacturing
THE REGIONAL government is bidding to reindustrialise the Valencia region.
A three-year plan was outlined this week by councillor for employment, commerce and the sustainable...
Villajoyosa vice
THE Guardia Civil this week dismantled an alleged dangerous criminal organisation in Villajoyosa following a Hollywood-style kidnapping.
Two men and four women have been arrested...
Magnificent Mayans head for Alicante
The fascinating Mayan culture will form the basis of the main international exhibition at Alicante city’s MARQ museum in 2017.
More in Friday’s Costa Blanca...
Anyone for mushroom picking?
Email
November 23, 2016
Hello, I wonder if you know of any people who go mushroom picking in Costa Blanca?
Thank you, Carl (contact: carleric20@outlook.com)
Dear Carl,
Although there...
Mobility scooters
Email
November 26, 2016
I read the article about mobility scooters with such disbelief that I checked that we had not done a fast-forward to April...
The Dinner
November 27
Dear Sirs
Thank you for printing my rhyme about turning seventy. It has produced enough comment from a number of friends and acquaintances for...
Unhelpful airport car park staff
La Marina
November 28, 2016
Thank you (not) to the parking staff at Alicante-Elche airport.
This problem happened on the evening of Sunday, 27th November, 2016.
I went...
Furious over annuities
Murcia
November 22, 2016
I have just been reading my Daily Mail dated Monday 21st November, page 8, with reference to annuities and I am furious!...
The death of the Mar Menor
SEAGRASSES in the Mar Menor are being wiped out.
An investigation carried out by ecologist organisation ANSE and the national oceanographic institute (IEO) found that...
Cash payment limit dropped to €1,000
THE CABINET will tomorrw (Friday) approve new measures to fight fiscal fraud, including a new limit on payments in cash to €1,000.
Currently, cash payments...
World heritage ‘Fallas’
VALENCIA’s main fiesta was added to Unesco’s Immaterial World Heritage list on Wednesday.
The panel of representatives from 24 different countries finally decided to include...
Living the high-life with someone else’s cash
TWO men have been arrested in Torrevieja for using cloned bank cards to make purchases over the internet and pay for stays in luxury...
Opposition join forces to scrap PP ‘gagging law’
THE PP government this week began to feel the consequences of no longer having an overall majority as all left-wing and nationalist parties joined...
Double or nothing
BENIDORM town hall this week relaunched its efforts to secure greater funding from the central government, following repeated and failed attempts to be declared...
COSTA BLANCA
Police home in on electric scooters
Benissa is the latest Costa Blanca town to launch a campaign over the use of electric scooters.
They have come under the spotlight as police...
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