Euro Weekly News - Costa Blanca North 17 - 23 April 2014 Issue 1502

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TWO new lanes have opened on the Benidorm N-332 bypass to ease Easter traffic. There are now 6.2 kilometres of dual carriageway between Avenida de Europa and the Villajoyosa junction.

Pitiless abuse FOUR Romanians have been arrested for forcing fellow countrymen and women to beg in Benidorm and Alicante City. Those failing to make at least €80 a day received brutal beatings.

Well-balanced TEULADA finished last year with €1.8 million in the municipal kitty. The town hall will use the surplus to settle debts while reserving some for local projects.

No takers NO bids have been received to take over the contract to run the cafeteria at San Juan’s library and cultural centre. The town hall has now decided to install vending machines.

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Paddy’s Got Talent! A SEVENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD British expatriate was the star of the show of Saturday night’s Britain’s Got Talent. Despite being buzzed by Simon Cowell early in what seemed a dull routine, Paddy Jones and her dance partner Nico Espinosa held their nerve to launch into an acrobatic dance routine that left the audience and judges gasping. A twirling Paddy performed a series of moves that would put competitors 60 years younger to shame with her energy, technique and courage. And that led to a standing ovation from the huge crowd at Birmingham’s ICC where the audition was filmed, an apology from Simon Cowell for buzzing her, and most importantly, Amanda Holden hitting the Golden Buzzer. That puts Paddy (real name

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Sarah) and Nico straight through to the smash ITV talent show’s semi-finals. Paddy revealed that her dreams of becoming a professional dancer ended in 1956 when she married and decided to raise a family. She and husband David finally retired to Gandia on the Costa Blanca, but shortly afterwards, in 2003, he died of leukaemia. So the great-grandmother decided to fill the hours in her new life alone by taking up dance again. She walked into Nico’s dance studio hoping to learn Flamenco. The pair hit it off and were soon competing in club competitions around Spain. In 2009, they won the Spanish TV talent competition Tu Si Que Vales before deciding to bring their routine to a British audience. Editor says... Page 34

Towns unite to fight oil exploration MARINA ALTA mayors are as determined as ever to prevent oil exploration taking place in the Gulf of Valencia. When the Xarxa d’Alcaldes – a network of Marina Alta mayors – met recently, the prospecting was the sole subject on the agenda.

The objective of the meeting was to join forces and thrash out a plan of action to ensure that the Cairns Energy explorations never take place. “Our industries – tourism, fishing and the restaurant trade – will be seriously and

immediately affected,” warned Javea Mayor Jose Chulvi. The 16 Xarxa members have created a fourmember committee to speak for them in talks due to take place shortly with the regional and national governments. Each of the area’s four

principal parties – the PP, PSOE, BlocCompromis and Independientes - are represented on the committee by Ana Kringle (Denia), Jose Chulvi (Javea), Joan Miquel Garces (Jalon) and Juan Alejandro Mut (Sanet y Els Negrals).


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