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Waiting times DESPITE complaints about long waiting times at Torrevieja’s La Loma Health Centre, the average wait is just 47 minutes, lower than last August, according to the Salud health authority.
Job assault A MAN has been arrested in Alicante for the rape of two women who applied for a non-existent job he posted online.
Trade woes TRADERS in Torrevieja’s Calle Maria Parodi are calling for improvements to the road. They said they had been ‘abandoned’ and complained that the street had remained open to traffic all summer.
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‘Full-up’ signs for Costa Blanca 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 of 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.
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