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ISSUE NO. 1489
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Projects paralysed NEARLY a dozen major projects, with budgets totalling an estimated €73.4 million, have been paralysed in Alicante. Defaults and lack of funds are said to be mainly to blame.
Hurt in blaze A WOMAN was injured in a house fire in Santa Eulalia de Murcia. Fourteen firefighters were sent to the scene and neighbouring properties evacuated.
Jobs found ELCHE created more jobs than any other municipality in the Valencian Community in 2013, with 2,314 fewer jobless than a year ago.
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Businesses in uproar over road closures BUSINESSES and residents are up in arms over plans to close off two roads at the La Zenia roundabout. They have drawn up a petition to object to the scheme, which they say will make it hard for locals and customers to reach businesses and several urbanisations. Interested parties have until Monday to register their objections. Within days of the news breaking that the Ministerio de Fomento - the department for development and infrastructure - wanted to close Calle Maestro Torralba and Calle Alhambra, which lead to several businesses and urbanisations, a crisis meeting was called at Paddy’s Point. Owner Hazel Connor said: “It will cut off all the
businesses, making them less accessible and is simply going to escalate the volume of traffic on the other road. It’s crazy.” She added that even the manager of the Consum supermarket was supporting their petition as closure of Calle Maestro Torralba would prevent delivery lorries reaching the store.
Concerned groups and individuals held a meeting with Councillor for the
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