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17 - 23 OCTOBER 2013
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Beach sand washes away THREE THOUSAND tonnes of sand used to regenerate Denia’s Blay Beach in June have disappeared. The beach has been eroded by storms and the constant battering of waves.
Voted down THE central parliament in Madrid has voted against declaring Benidorm a ‘tourist municipality’. The status would have brought tax breaks and other benefits to the town.
Airport loss ALICANTE-ELCHE Airport ran at a loss last year for the first time since 2000. Redundancy payouts and one million fewer passengers left it €2.43 million in the red.
La Nucia campaign is looking for €1m boost LA NUCIA now has 20,000 registered inhabitants. The ‘padron’ campaign launched by the town hall in May has paid off. At the beginning of 2012, the town’s population had reached 19,135 but now exceeds 20,000, according to the National Statistics
Institute. Thanks to the padron drive, hundreds more have added their names to the municipal roll. This means that the yearly cash transfer from the central government in Madrid will increase by 4.52 per cent. The next objective is to reach
25,000, which is not an unrealistic one as unofficial estimates place La Nucia’s real population at close to 30,000. Once the municipal roll reaches the magic figure of 25,000, La Nucia will be in line for another €1 million a year.
Banks to pay town hall for giving us cash CAMPELLO TOWN HALL has provisionally agreed to charge banks for ATMs accessed directly from the street. Banks will have to pay €1,000
for each cash machine. They have been given a month to appeal against the decision. The proposal, presented by Campello EU political party, was
backed after modifications by the PSOE, and passed at a plenary meeting in July. “The banks make money by using the public right of way,” they
argued. The new charge would affect eight of the town’s cash machines but not consumers, according to EU spokeswoman, Raquel Perez.