Archive for June, 2008
There will be performances of Fame and High School Musical at Benidorm’s Terra Mitica every day except Mondays during July and August.
HSM will be performed at 19.30 and twice on Saturdays at 12.00 and 19.30 between June 29th and July 27.
Fame will be performed at the same times between August 1st and 31st.
Tickets will cost 35 euros for one show and 54 euros for the show and theme park.
A 21 year old man was arrested in Calpe after he broke into a post office on Calle Pintor Sorolla.
He forced his way into the building at 20.00 and set off the alarm.
A police patrol noticed torch light coming from inside the building and on gaining entry they found the detainee hiding in an office where the safe is kept.
It is thought that two others were involved . The detainee was from Torrevieja.
The Orihuela commission is to investigate the existence of mass graves at the site of the Albatera POW camp which is now in the municipality of San Isidro.
it will interview experts and also look for areas where it is known that firing squads shot prisoners.
There is no documentation , so we only have the testimonies of survivors.
The new government law on recovery of historical memory does not allow funding of excavations.
There will be a second educational day next April to inform about Albatera Camp.
There is also a project to establish a study centre about the concentration camps at a national level.
The PSOE opposition has asked the mayor of Benidorm to request regional government to extend the newly opened Alicante to Benidorm tram-trenet link to include a line direct to Valencia.
They feel that such a direct link to the capital would benefit everyone.
If the 37 kilometres of track between Denia and Gandia is included then it would enable Benidorm to connect with other cities such as Barcelona.
The forecast for extra visitors with the Alicante link is 500,000 people , with the extra link this figure could be doubled.
Land value represents between 40 and 60 per cent of the final value of a property and that value has dropped 14 % in the first quarter of this year in the Valencia Region
The housing ministry released figures this week to show that prices in the Valencia Region fell by almost double that of the rest of the country, except in Cueta , Melilla and La Rioja.
Here the prices have dropped by 35 and 20.9 % respectively.
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The number of property deals involving urban land also dropped by 30% over the same period.
A PSPV-PSOE MP announced this week that the government has given the contract for carrying out the study into improving the N332 between Benissa , Gata de Gorgos and Pedreguer.
The government is committed to improving roads throughout the country, especially in the Valencia Region where investment from regional government was found to be lacking .
These improvements would guarantee economic growth as well as provide better services for residents and visitors.
The Ministry of Public Works will include improvements to widen the access route on the N-332 into Benidorm.
They will take into account the amount of traffic that comes from the access route from Benidorm , La Nucia , the AP-7 tollroad and Altea.
The contract to build the Benissa bypass has also been awarded.
A 4.6 kilometre bypass will be built between the AP-7 and the town at a cost of 14.5 million euros.
The 44 million euro budget for Javea has almost been approved .
Bloc-Centristes , Cpj, PSPV and Nueva Javea have all voted in favour.
Nueva Javea has forced through an amendment which would see the council invest 120,000 euros in the area of the Arenal.
Benissa council is requesting an energy agency for the Marinas Alta and Baja from the EU. Such an agency would oversee the use of all energy resources.
The EU would finance 85% of the project for 3 years after which time the local councils would take over the financing .
Other town councils backing the plan are Pedreguer, Ondara , Teulada and Benidorm.
They had committed 130 violent crimes and assaults. They were led by a 25 year old from Morocco and his Spanish partner.
This gang of 14 were arrested last week in Murcia and Alicante Province.
Thee gang specialised in stealing cars which had been ordered in Morocco.
On their return from North Africa they would transport drugs into Spain. Their violent methods have caused
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