Archive for: May 20, 2012

Alicante on the Costa Blanca like many other towns is going down the “shopping mall” route,This is a route to disaster for smaller businesses and for city centres.It is such a shame that towns and cities in Spain don´t look …

La Nucia on the Costa Blanca hosted the Third National Symposium on Forest Fires last week.The Costa Blanca suffers greatly from fires during the summer months,many of them man made,others accidents and yet others just caused by the heat.This national …

The Mayor of Alicante is Sonia Castedo.The anti-corruptopn prosecutor in Alicante believes that Castedo has allegedly been involved in corruption with a businessman Enrique Ortiz.

There are three charges and the evidence originated from secretly recorded telephone conversations between Ortiz and …

Property tax is known as IBi and in Altea on the Costa Blanca the Town Council team have proposed yet another tax rate reduction on this tax.This would be the second reduction in a year.

They are proposing to cut the …

Nueva Javea political party has criticised the “urban gardens experiment” which they state has already cost the residents of the town in excess of 14,000 euros

The Nueva Javea member made a joke of the fact that it was extremely doubtful …

Two hundred and fifty prosthetic hip implant patients  in the Valencia region have had to be contacted because their prostheses were defective.This happened between 2003 and 2004.

They want to evaluate these patients as they may require another operation to replace …

The Benidorm fiestas begin on November 12 to 17th and most of what happens takes place in the centre of Benidorm.

Hoteliers in Benidorm are rubbing their hands with glee as the hotels are being inundated with bookings for the fiesta …