EWN
GETS IT
.com
ISSUE NO. 1493
13 - 19 FEBRUARY 2014
WWW.EUROWEEKLYNEWS.COM
Ex-councillor stabbed by his own son
EWN FRONT EXTRA
Good record DENIA HOSPITAL treated 4,500 cancer patients last year, of whom 750 were new cases. There is no waiting list for oncology outpatients or surgery, the hospital announced.
Jobs lost UNEMPLOYMENT went up by 696 people in Benidorm last month. Sixty-one per cent were employed in service industries and lost their jobs when bars and hotels closed for the low season.
Buried treasure FIFTEEN gold and 486 silver coins discovered beneath a San Juan house in 1963 are on display at Alicante’s Archaeological Museum (MARQ). They were hidden when French troops invaded Spain to reinstate Fernando VII.
Sweet deed THE Marina Alta and Costa Blanca Floral club donated €350 to Teulada Town Hall for the local ambulance service.
A personal touch for foreign crime victims BENIDORM’S Servicio de Atencion al Turista Extranjero (SATE), whose inauguration last June was attended by British Consul Paul Rodwell (pictured), assisted 1,280 people between June and December 2013.
The office gives foreign crime victims personalised police attention in their own language. It also provides practical help in contacting family and friends, for instance, or cancelling credit cards. Questionnaires completed by
Property tax may come down THERE is every possibility that Villajoyosa will reduce the IBI rates paid by householders. Despite previously announced rises, residents could be in for a pleasant surprise, revealed Villajoyosa Mayor Jaime Lloret. Town halls are due to receive a draft of the guidelines to be used when determining rateable values by the end of March, the mayor explained. These are lower than those announced at the beginning of the year before the new information was available, he said. Contrary to expectations, property-owners should be paying amounts similar to those of recent years, Lloret predicted.
users of the service pronounced SATE ‘excellent’, the office recently revealed. A total of 837 British tourists needed help last year. Most were robbed on the beach. The office also attended 179 tourists from other EU countries as well as 174 from outside the EU, plus 90 Spaniards. Last year’s figures were announced at the latest meeting of the SATE monitoring committee. It was attended by Deputy Mayor Gema Amor, Public Safety Councillor Jose Marcet, President of the Hosbec hoteliers’ association, Antonio Mayor, and Local Police chiefs. “The SATE office demonstrates that Benidorm has the best interests of its tourists at heart,” said Deputy Mayor Amor.
JUAN GONZALEZ, a former Javea councillor, has allegedly been stabbed by his son. Gonzalez, aged 74, is a former Spanish Air Force officer who also represented Ciudadanos de Javea at the town hall from 1999 until 2004. He was reportedly attacked during an argument at the family home in Javea’s Calle Ausias March. After inflicting a deep stomach wound on his father, the son allegedly cut his own throat and hand. The 49-year-old had been receiving psychiatric treatment since the breakup of his marriage, sources revealed. Both were admitted to Denia Hospital where Juan Gonzalez was pronounced ‘stable’ after an emergency operation. The son is in Guardia Civil custody.