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Torrevieja at FITUR TORREVIEJA Mayor Eduardo Dolón is in Madrid at the FITUR Tourism Fair to promote health tourism, gastronomy and the 60th anniversary of the Habanera Contest.
ICU dismissal THE head of Murcia’s La Arrixaca Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit has been dismissed following disputes with the nursing staff and the changing of their working hours.
Tourism up THE Valencia Region received 5.9 million foreign tourists in 2013, 11.4 per cent more than in 2012.
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Population declining in Vega Baja small towns FOURTEEN of the 27 municipalities which make up the Vega Baja registered a marked decline in population in 2013. According to official figures, these municipalities have lost 2,641 inhabitants in the past year, from an area which, in recent years, had witnessed a population boom. Towns like Torrevieja and the Orihuela Costa have recorded an increase, mainly due to the arrival of Russian and Scandinavian residents, but smaller towns have seen their populations fall. Rojales was down 693 residents in the past year, 16.5 per cent of its population. San Miguel de Salinas lost 590, followed by Catral (-435) and Los Montesinos (-160).