THE ROJALES Pantomime Group recently entertained the Orihuela Costa branch of the Royal British Legion by staging a Murder Mystery play. The Phoenix Nights restaurant in San Miguel de Salinas was the venue for the first time venture for the Rojales team, with the eighty-plus audience invited to fill in a form to name their murder suspect. Money was raised for the RBL´s charities, whilst the Rojales...
Costa Blanca South
TWO LUCKY people walked away with food hampers, as Age Concern South held a raffle last weekend at Iceland´s store in Torrevieja. Hundreds of tickets were sold with a grand total of 564 euros raised to spend on helping the over-fifties across the southern Costa Blanca. Store manager, James Lound, drew the winning tickets watched by Age Concern president, Maureen Payne. The Age Concern Day Centre...
SAN JAVIER-area choir, The Philharmonics, struck gold at last weekend´s Convention of the Spanish Association of Barbershop Singers(SABS). The ladies rehearse ever Wednesday evening at San Cayetano, and scored an impressive 74.8 per cent from the judges to secure their victory at the AR Diamante Beach hotel convention centre in Calpe. The Los Alcazares-based Spangles Ladies´ Harmony Chorus got the...
TOP NAMES from the world of jazz will once again descend upon San Javier this summer for the 22nd International Jazz Festival. A festival launch revealed half of the programme for the month-long even which will run between June 28th and July 27th. Jazz fans will welcome pianists Chick Corea and Niels Lan Doky, as well drummer, Steve Gadd, who recently won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Album. The...
THE SMILE Charity Group´s spring show “Have You Been Served?” is an affectionate tribute to the classic seventies TV comedy show set in Grace Brothers, with the usual twist that Smile put into their shows! Will Mrs. Slocombe keep her pussy and can Mr Humphries keep control of his sausage ? Will the gang manage to get to their holiday weekend ?. Local charities AECC Torrevieja, the San Jose...
A BLACKSPOT junction on the CV-95 in the Orihuela municipality will see a new roundabout at a cost of 450 thousand euros. The Valencian government has approved the funding for the work to be done on the CV-95 between San Miguel de Salinas and Bigastro, at the T-junction with the CV-945 for the Entre Naranjos urbanisation and Los Montesinos. The measure is part of a package of safety improvements on...
AN OIL TANKER jack-knifed on the AP-7 in the Catral area on Saturday morning, causing the Elche-bound carriageway to be closed for ten hours, as some of the cargo poured onto the road and into an adjoining field. Over 50 firefighters from five stations across the Vega Baja were involved in the clean-up operation, after half of the 27 thousand litres of diesel seeped out. The incident happened at...
OVER 70 new road signs warning motorists to watch out for cyclists are to be put on roads across the Murcia region. The signs carry the message that the highways are for both cars and cycles, and to warn drivers to keep their distance when overtaking a cyclist, which under law is one and a half metres. The RM-F35 between San Javier and La Aparecida in Cartagena will be one of the routes that will...
BATS are to be used by Almoradi council in the annual battle against mosquitoes in a plan carried out in conjunction with the Association of Naturalists of the Southeast. The Iberian bat feeds exclusively on mosquitoes and can gobble up over a thousand insects in an hour, and bat shelters are being put up around Almoradi to encourage the species to breed. A lack of bats has led to a large increase...
COLE PORTER´S musical Anything Goes will be the spring production for the Studio 32 Musical Theatre Company, which will be staged in San Fulgencio at the end of next month. Anything Goes is a hilarious farce set in the early 1930s aboard an ocean liner featuring love, stowaways, comedy and great songs of course! One of the splendidly named characters is Wall Street banker Elisha J. Whitney, played...