Archive for: May 19, 2012

The celebrated novelist ,essayist and playwright Azorin lived in Monovar near alicante.Now the house in which he lived has been declared a ruin and will have to be pulled down.It has been cordoned off to prevent accidents.Neither the Monovar council …

The Valencia Comunidad is issuing multi-lingual leaflets for expats with all of the current information about swine flu.The leaflets will be produced in five languages and will be distributed across the region in French,English,German ,Arabic and Romanian.Health Centres across the …

There is a fear in Alicante that those companies which manufacture plastic carrier bags will need to make redundancies in their factories if the “crusade “to replace them with other fabrics continues.Plastic manufacturers say that there could be hundreds of …

The Spanish National Statistics Institute has informed the public that last year more than 15,000 girls and women under the age of 20 in Spain had abortions.It also emerged that nearly half a million women between the ages of 15 …

Last Saturday in Benidorm 3000 euros was raised by the Euro Marathon.The money was raised for the local fiestas.The commission of the annual patron saint fiestas created a long line of one euro coins along the street with contributions made …

The town of Elche ,near Alicante,wants to give the economy f the town a boost and in 2010 the mayor has announced  that the cost of opening a new business or receiving planning permission will cost 25% less than in …

Benidorm on the Costa Blanca is still way ahead of Torrevieja in the tourism stakes.While Torrevieja is the fifth city in the Valencia Community it just doesn’t have the same facilities as Benidorm .It lacks high quality hotel accommodation and …

Calpe and Teulada and other Marina Alta schools are having problems with truancyin their schools.Now the situation has become so bad that councillors and school authorities are getting together to try and resolve the situation.

There are many reasons for children …