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20 - 26 FEBRUARY 2014
Pilar’s ‘embarrassment’ finally comes down WORKERS have moved in to remove an embarrassing landmark that stands as testament to financial
mis-management. For eight years locals and visitors to Pilar de la Horadada have scratched
Death probe POLICE are investigating the death of a 58-year-old woman whose body, which showed signs of violence, was found at her home in El Campello.
Road fatality A MAN in his 50s has died in a collision with a car on the N-332 at Guardamar del Segura. The accident happened next to a service station in the early hours of the morning.
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ON TOP: Thomas (back/red jacket and yellow hat) reaches the summit of Mount Aconcagua.
Freemason peaks A FREEMASON’S quest to scale the highest mountain in the Americas has raised more than €5,000 for the homeless in the province. Alicante resident Thomas Ronning is a Freemason and reached the summit of Mount Aconcagua (White Sentinel) in the Andes mountain range in Argentina by scaling the ‘Polish Traverse’, which took him 20 days.
their heads and wondered about an unfinished feature on what should have been the town’s flagship auditorium. The project began 13 years ago under former Socialist Mayor Ignacio Ramos and was supposed to cost €2.4 million. Work on the building, which was to include an underground car park, topped with a dove, 30 metres high, has been frozen since 2006 after costs spiralled with €4 million having already been
spent on the project. Now, the ‘neck’ of the dove on top of the building has been pulled down, at a cost of €64,000. Mayor Jose Fidel Ros said the government team decided to remove the tower or ‘neck’ of La Paloma, which was in a dangerous state “and then finish a work that is now an embarrassment to our people.” He said: “We will try to take advantage of the rest of the building and finish it with minimal budget.”