A 55-year-old Spaniard has been arrested for running an indoor marijuana farm close to the local police station in Rafal, after reports of a strange smell in the area. Guardia Civil officers from Callosa de Segura raided the premises in the town in Operation “Nafal” and seized 400 plants and six kilos of marijuana that were ready to be sold. The man was bailed after a court...
SAT Animal Rescue last week opened its new charity shop in Los Montesinos on Calle Alejo Martínez, after spending a decade in the town at its previous location on Avenida del Mar. Los Montesinos mayor José Manuel Butrón(pictured-left) helped to cut the tape as the revamped shop takes its place in a network of six outlets across the south of the Costa Blanca from the first store opened in Guardamar in...
THE private company that runs Torrevieja Hospital and Elche´s Vinalopó Hospital says that waiting lists for operations at their facilities are far lower than the average for publicly-run hospitals across the Valencia region. Ribera Salud faces losing the contract to run health services in parts of the region in the autumn of 2021, with the Valencian government pledging to bring all health management...
GUARDAMAR stages its carnival parade this Saturday in a traditional curtain-raiser to the Lent season. It´s a colourful event that features a heady mixture of music, masks and fancy dress. Prizes will be offered for some of the best costumes, with the procession starting at 7.30 pm from Plaza Jaume II which will finish up at the square in front of the town hall. A children´s parade takes place on Sunday...
A LOCAL charity is appealing for people to get their knitting needles out to help provide homeless people with blankets. The idea came after HELP Vega Baja donated five thousand euros to a Cruz Roja project at their centre in Guardamar to help those without a roof over their heads. Some of the HELP volunteers then suggested knitting some blankets which they could donate. HELP President Michele Masson...
A new lift will go into service before the end of next month at Guardamar´s Santa Ana industrial estate car park which will link up to Calle Molivent. The lift will accommodate six people, and along with a new staircase next to it, it will provide substantially easier pedestrian access to the town hall, the weekly market site and the local health centre. Guardamar´s public works councillor, José...
SPEEDING motorists in Torrevieja will now have to risk being caught in the act by a new mobile radar unit which will be used by local police officers. In addition to the existing fixed speed camera points around the city, the local council has agreed to buy the mobile device that will be used by police patrols. The advantage of the gizmo is that officers will be able to use it in built-up areas of the city...
AN Icelandic man, who recently decided to take up running to lose weight, will take part in next month´s Elche Half-Marathon to raise money for the Elche Children´s Care Home. 22-year-old Ben del Grosso lives on the La Marina urbanisation, and only started running last September and got hooked, getting his first Half-Marathon under his belt just a few weeks ago. In a message to the Elche home, Ben...
AN Almoradi resident had a Saturday afternoon to forget when he slipped and fell into an irrigation ditch in the town. Almoradi firefighters and local police officers were called into the help the young man get out of the drain after he broke his left leg in the fall. The unidentified man was taken to the Vega Baja Hospital after initially being treated at the...
THOUSANDS of people lined the streets of Torrevieja on Sunday for the carnival parade, as they witnessed the usual array of bright costumes and dancing of all shapes and sizes. The participants made the journey from Plaza de María Asunción to Calle Clemente Gosálvez, with perfect weather for everybody to enjoy the occasion. The night parade takes place this Saturday evening along the same route and has...