Warm winter forecast
By Dave Jones
IT’S going to be a warm one.
The forecast by state weather agency AEMET for the next three months gives a 55% probability...
Ghost tourism agency wound up
By Dave Jones
“IT was set up in 2007 but it has never had a budget, never had any staff and has never done anything....
Europe’s favourite airline?
Email
December 18, 2015
Dear Sir
I’m a frequent flyer and I often use Ryanair because of their prices and the availability of certain destinations.
However, I did...
Winter Fuel Allowance
Email
December 26, 2015
Dear Sir,
I write to express my total agreement with the comments of Linda Garfield in last week’s letters re. Winter Fuel Allowance.
I...
Brexit vote
December 27, 2015
Els Poblets,
Dear Sir,
Is it going to be possible for ex pats who have been here many years to vote in the Referendum...
Fine fight
Email
December 22, 2015
Dear Editor
A few weeks ago I received by recorded delivery a letter from Agencia Tributaria a letter which was in Spanish, but...
Park progress
By Dave Jones
ANIMAL lovers have been flocking to La Mata-Torrevieja natural park during 2015 to see the plethora of birdlife on view.
More in this...
Public transport fares frozen
THE regional government in Valencia has decided to freeze the cost of public transport in 2016, in order to promote its better use by...
Prescription charges axed
FULL details of the regional government’s plan to scrap copayment for prescription charges for pensioners and the disabled from January 1 were announced on...
All so innocent
ANYBODY visiting Ibi on Monday could be forgiven for thinking the whole town had been afflicted by some kind of mass insanity as oddly...
Bankia sets new cash point charge
Bankia announced this week that it is levying a charge of €0,98 on anybody that uses its cash point machines if their credit or...
Conservatory hits wrong note
Multi-million-euro music teaching facility has a number of deficiencies
By Dave Jones
JUST when residents may have thought the scandals surrounding Torrevieja’s public buildings had run...
Benidorm main street to undergo revamp
The council has announced that its 2016 budget will be presented at the next full council meeting during the first week of January.
Mayor Toni...
Airport access upgrade approved
The public works ministry in Madrid has approved the project to upgrade the N-338 which links the N-332 with the main Alicante ring road...
COSTA BLANCA
Belgian baby rescued from locked car
Guardia Civil have rescued a six-month-old baby which was trapped inside a locked car in Torrevieja town centre, ‘with the street temperature rising’.
A force...
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