JAVEA Town Hall has instructed the company responsible for laying the new pavements on Avenida Pla to rip up and replace those already completed as they used the wrong materials. The firm had already had a warning that their work was not as specified in the contract and on this occasion, the council decided to act, said Councillor Isabel Bolufer. The company said that the material they used was of the same...
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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...
Emergency services, including fire engines, helicopter and an 'air tractor' fire fighting aircraft, rush to extinguish fire very close to Benidorm residential area and Aqualandia water park. At around 17.15 local time a fire broke out on the Sierra Gelada Mountains, that extend from Benidorm to Albir. The origin of the fire is as yet undefined, but emergency services worked hard and efficiently at...
A GANG that targetted beach goers in Benidorm and across the Costa Blanca, has been arrested by the National Police, and charged with violent robbery and belonging to a criminal organisation. The five men, aged between 25 and 31, and of Spanish and Ecuadorian nationalities, were rounded up, after a British tourist was robbed by them on Tuesday. Police arrived at the scene at the undisclosed beach in...
A young woman died instantly, when a transfer bus carrying newly arrived holidaymakers, ploughed into her on a busy corner of a Benidorm old town street earlier this week. Witnesses to the accident suggested the bus may have suffered brake failure The victim, described as a Portuguese national aged between 25 and 30, had been walking with a friend, when the driver of a transfer coach, with bold livery...