In memory of James Foley See Page 26
ISSUE NO. 1521
EWN FRONT EXTRA
Stag-do headache A GANDIA residents’ association has lodged a formal complaint against the owners of two houses reported to be used for holding stag parties. The properties were rented irregularly and the noise was intolerable, it claimed.
Ancient menu EXCAVATIONS at Sierra Helada in Benidorm have revealed that early inhabitants were eating braised snails 30,000 years ago. This is 10,000 years earlier than their European neighbours.
Sixth case ALCOY has reported its sixth case of Legionnaires’ disease in a month. The latest was detected in an Alcoy woman treated at Valencia’s La Fe hospital for another health condition.
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‘Full-up’ signs for Marina Baja hotels JULY’S tourism figures were the second-best ever recorded, with a 5.9 per cent increase in foreign visitors. The figure quoted by Jose Manuel Soriano, Minister for Industry, Energy and Tourism, applied to Spain as a whole although the Costa Blanca was not excluded from the good news. The Costa is enjoying its best summer in seven years, revealed hotel and catering association, Hosbec. Supermarket queues, traffic jams, almost-full hotels and packed bar and restaurant terraces all point to a period of resurgence, according to Hosbec President Antoni Mayor. However, last-minute bookings were less lively than in previous years and the UK market, the Costa
Blanca’s main source tourism, “had relaxed a little,” Mayor admitted. “But the sector is having a good summer,” he said, adding: “We’re not grumbling.”
Overall, Alicante Province has had 90 per cent hotel occupancy with Benidorm, Altea, Finestrat and Alfaz del Pi enjoying the best results.
Roundabout solution for Calpe access IMPROVED access to Calpe from the N332 is the town’s longest-standing request. The entrance to the town has remained unchanged since the 1980s although the town’s population and the amount of traffic on the N332 have increased substantially since then.
But now a solution has been found and the town hall is about to approve plans for two new roundabouts. One is to be located at the point where the Avenida Generalitat Valenciano meets the N332 and which is a notorious black spot.
The other will be sited just before the Carretera dels Lleus. The roundabouts are important not only from the point of view of road safety and eliminating hazards for drivers entering the town, the town hall explained. By connecting one of the
roundabouts to Avenida Generalitat and Avenida Felipe VI, traffic flow can also be better controlled in the town centre, it said. Drivers making for the urbanisations located to the north of the town will no longer be forced to cross the busy N332.