CRUZ Roja has revealed that they´ve helped 441 families in the Vega Baja region who were hit by last September´s storms. The organisation revealed the figures at a special briefing held at their Provincial headquarters in Alicante City, attended by around 500 people. In the audience were Cruz Roja volunteers and workers, as well as representatives of the emergency services and local charities who helped...
TORREVIEJA Hospital´s Internal Medicine Service has received a top award for the quality of care that it provides to patients. The Spanish Society of Internal Medicine(SEMI) has given its SEMI Excellence award to the facility, based on a whole series of measurements. Areas analysed included training, research and management, as well as acute patient care in the hospital. Dr. Julio César Blázquez, the...
COUNCILS across the Vega Baja and Mar Menor regions saw the investiture of mayors last Saturday to preside over the local authorities for the next four years. The Partido Popular(PP) won back control of Torrevieja in last month´s local elections, with Eduardo Dolon(pictured) returning as mayor after a four year gap. The PP have pushed ahead with a minority administration in Orihuela, whilst they are now...
A VARIETY show in aid of raising money for a cancer charity has helped to take the overall total banked to over 11 thousand euros. F.A.B. (Fighting Against Breast Cancer) is a Vega Baja-based fund-raising group run by a group of ladies who have had or have been affected by breast cancer. The group recently staged a finale show called 'For One Night Only' at San Fulgencio´s Cardenal Belluga Theatre with...
TORREVIEJA´S faulty system of police security cameras has at last been repaired, some nine years after the network was installed. The network, monitored by the local police, is used for car number plate recognition and controlling traffic flows, as well as providing footage for prosecutions by the local courts and Guardia Civil. Many of the cameras though failed to work or broke down soon after they...
Local charities benefited once again from another well-received production from the Studio 32 Musical Theatre company, as they staged Cole Porter´s Anything Goes. The audience at the Cardenal Belluga Theatre in San Fulgencio gave the cast a standing ovation on the final night of the short run, with director Susan Zila Wilson delivering another hit for Studio 32. Presentations to local beneficiaries will...
A LOTTERY ticket holder in the Orihuela area can sit back and relax for the rest of his or her life, after scooping a bumper pay out in the latest ONCE charity draw last weekend. A ticket sold from a kiosk on Avenida Teodomiro in Orihuela City had the lucky number of 87291 on it, which means the holder gets a 300 thousand euro bumper payout plus five thousand euros a month for the next 20 years. By Alex...
THE Torrevieja Christian Fellowship(TCF) is to move their church to Los Montesinos, due to increased rental costs for their current building on Avenda de las Cortes Valencianas. The TCF have bought their own building at the town´s industrial estate on Calle Daya Neuva, which is currently being converted into a church. The final service in Torrevieja will be this Sunday May 19th, and the following...
TORREVIEJA´S popular Sevillanas May Fair started on Wednesday, some three weeks later than the originally dates, due to “administrative problems” involving the council. Bureaucratic bungling two years ago led to the premium May event having to be staged in October The fair runs in the city´s port area until Sunday, and there´s plenty of entertainment and displays to enjoy, as well...
SUNDAY´S municipal elections provided good news for both the Partido Popular(PP) and the PSOE Socialists across the Vega Baja and Mar Menor areas. The PP seized control of Pilar de la Horadada from the PSOE, which means that José María Pérez will become the new mayor. The PP recorded overall majorities in Redován, Bigastro, Albatera, Cox, Formentera del Segura and...