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20 - 26 FEBRUARY 2014
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Smuggler trap ONLY 1.1 tonnes of hashish reached the Alicante coast last year. A new radar system is deterring smugglers who formerly landed up to 70 tonnes a year.
Rough justice ALICANTE CITY needs seven more judges, said senior judge Juan Carlos Ceron. Cases are accumulating and the situation is “quite bad,” he declared.
Knifeman shot LOCAL POLICE officers in Gandia shot and wounded a 38-year-old Spanish man who was brandishing a knife. His partner had called the emergency services because she believed she was in danger.
Opposition grows to oil exploration plans THERE is growing opposition in Javea towards oil prospecting in the Mediterranean Sea. Spokespersons from all political parties - the PSPV socialists, Xabia Democratica, Partido Popular, Ciudadanos por Javea and
Compromis - attended a meeting called by the mayor, Jose Chulvi. They are presenting a united front to convey their worries to the central government. A draft statement has now been prepared and is expected to be approved at an extraordinary
council meeting today (Thursday). It will set out the worries of the local tourist and fishing industries which are anxious to learn what the oil prospecting company Cairn Energy has in store for them. Oil prospecting would adversely affect fish catches, potentially damaging a sector important to the area’s economy as well as the catering industry. This in turn would put even more It should now be possible to people out of work. determine whether or not there is any Members of the Marina Alta’s risk to residents living nearby. hotel and tourism association The SGS company, under contract Aehtma are also uneasy and to the town hall, has now assembled want the regional government’s everything it needs to analyse air at Cabinet to reject “this threat to the crematorium. Earlier, the our way of life and our legacy to crematorium owners ASV had refused coming generations.” to allow any samples to be collected.
A burning issue in San Juan THE Alicante courts have backed San Juan’s request for air samples to be taken in the vicinity of the crematorium. A judge said that town hall technicians should be allowed to enter the crematorium to continue their inspection “for reasons of public health.”