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Film win for German GERMAN Andreas Henn won the prize for best short film with his work entitled ‘Great’ at the ‘Almeria en corto’ film festival.
Pricey prawns WITH Christmas approaching the price of the red prawn has increased by 50 per cent within a week and is expected to continue to rise.
Travel time THE General traffic Department (DGT) has estimated that 60,000 journeys were made in the province during the long Constitution Holiday weekend. The safety campaign finished at midnight on Monday.
On the beat MORE than 200 extra police officers will be patrolling the streets of Almeria City, in a drive to strengthen security over the festive period.
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Bank holiday flop Hotel beds empty as tourists stay away THE long holiday weekend in Spain failed to attract national tourists to Almeria Province. Despite the warm day-time temperatures on the Almeria coast, hotel occupancy failed to reach 50 per cent with only around 40 per cent of hotels and hostels open. The number of visitors was similar to other years with enclaves like the Cabo de Gato doing slightly better with a greater occupancy rate. Diego Garcia, the president of the Association of Hoteliers, ASHAL, commented: “Almeria continues to have a large component of seasonal tourism, and hotel bookings are increasingly a last-minute thing
via the internet and dependent on the weather. “Add to that the long weekend and Christmas, and we expect to
see mainly domestic tourism at this time of year.” The problem is that Almeria saw its accommodation capacity increase rapidly from 2005, which with the arrival of the financial crisis has meant a AN absent-minded woman of advanced age was intercepted by the Guardia surplus of beds that Civil on Saturday afternoon on the A92 near to Velez-Rubio. exceeds actual demand. The woman was driving her car the wrong way down the motorway That are simply more heading towards Granada, while other drivers were travelling in the direction beds than customers to of Murcia. fill them. The 112 Emergency Services reported that at 1.20pm they began to Travel links to reach receive calls mounting up to a total of 27, warning that a car was driving the Almeria are also a wrong way between km 117 and km 82 of the A92. problem with limited rail Luckily the police managed to intercept the vehicle at kilometre 89, near communications and high the province of Granada, without a major incident after the woman had ticket prices, as well as driven almost 30 kilometres in the wrong direction. the lack of available flights.
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