Remembering the innocent See Page 26
ISSUE NO. 1524
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18 - 24 SEPTEMBER 2014
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Eager helpers MORE than 700 people applied to work as volunteers at the Volvo Ocean race installations at Alicante port in October. Around 500 will be taken on.
Done deal TEULADA’S auditorium, inaugurated in 2011, was not built on municipal property. Agreement has been reached with owners of the 51,000sqm plot, who will receive €40 per square metre.
On the buses SAN VICENTE buses will be free on September 22, European Sustainable Mobility day. “We want residents to leave their vehicles and use public transport,” the town hall said.
Long lives ALICANTE City has 145 residents who are over 100. Of the six women and two men who are more than 110 years old, seven are Spanish and one is foreign.
Montgo on fire THE fire that threatened Javea and Denia took two days to stabilise and was totally extinguished after four. Flames that took hold in Cabo de San Antonio in Javea at 4pm spread towards Denia almost immediately. Later that night, when almost under control the fire doubled back to Javea when the wind changed direction.
Approximately 444 hectares of the Montgo National Park were destroyed and 1,400 people temporarily evacuated from their homes, hotels and beaches in Denia. When the fire veered once more towards Javea it ripped along gullies and resembled molted lava, witnesses said. Owing to the inaccessible and steep terrain the fire
had to be controlled from the air. At its fiercest 12 aircraft - four helicopters, six air tractors and two Seal fire fighting planes - worked in relays to attack the flames with water and retardant. The Montgo disaster could have been deliberate as the original fire appeared to start at three separate points, claims yet to be confirmed.
Runway traffic jams complaint by pilots PILOTS lose up to eight minutes each time they take off from Alicante airport. There is a bottleneck as they taxi to the runways because designers did not allow sufficient room for two aircraft when the €700
million airport was on the drawing board. As a result pilots must wait until access is clear, airlines claim, and this causes delays and hold ups. “The extra time that an aircraft is on the ground means losing money,”
airport insiders said. Pilots get round the problem by asking permission to take off before they are totally prepared. “They know they will have everything ready in the time they wait before getting the “okay” from the control tower,”
the same sources revealed. Spain’s state-owned airports operator Aena officially denied there were hold ups but admitted they existed in private meetings with the airlines last month. A solution will be found when its budget allows.