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Digital readings IBERDROLA has begun replacing electricity meters in Elche. The company plans to install new digital meters to 125,000 customers free of charge before 2018.
No smoking THE number of legal cigarettes sold from licensed premises across the Murcia Region has fallen by 10 per cent in the last year. Sales are down by 46.6 per cent since 2007.
Flu continues THE flu epidemic continues as reported cases across the Murcia Region increased by 46 per cent last week with 2,705 patients being treated.
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Transparency law aims to tackle web of corruption LOCAL town halls will have to be more transparent than ever after the huge number of corruption cases to hit local councils in the province. The Law of Transparency, Access to Information and Good Governance, is expected to come into force by December 2015, but Alicante Provincial Council wants to accelerate the launch and have the internet portal up and running within the next six months. The website will require all local town halls to make public all their expenditure, contracts and records, allowing citizens to know how every euro is spent in a bid to restore political credibility and to tackle corruption. Adrian Ballester, responsible for the
Modernisation and Assistance to Municipalities, said many municipalities across the province have already adopted the measures and further implementation of the transparency rules will commence this month. He added the rules will serve “to know if a politician is a good manager because they
know where the money is spent. The politician who is not willing to change will be
transparent because the public will make the difference at the polls.”