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Old bangers MARINA BAJA Local Police stopped and checked 8,571 vehicles between January and July this year. Lacking an ITV certificate accounted for 60 per cent of fines, they revealed.
Fast food THE third TeuladaMoraira Gourmet Race, where yacht crews must cook a meal while racing, will be held on October 11.
Help at hand ALFAZ set aside €15,000 of its budget to help parents in financial straits meet extras that must be paid even in state schools.
Locked in A BENIDORM police officer was reprimanded for locking up the public library at 8.30pm when two 11-year-old girls were still inside the toilets. They were freed 20 minutes later.
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Emergency money is earmarked for Montgo THE Generalitat regional government has already allocated €175,000 for emergency action after the Montgo fire. This will be made available as soon as possible so that work can begin on reversing erosion in the 444 hectares of the national park that were affected by the fire, said Salome Pradas of the Regional Environment Department. Dry stone walls and terracing will be repaired, charred vegetation removed and water troughs installed for wildlife. Meanwhile, residents in the Javea neighbourhood of La Plana, who saw their homes threatened by the blaze, were critical of the regional government and the Montgo park’s board of governors.
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They had been asking them for permission to clear the park as well as their own properties of debris and
deadfalls since 2012, they said. “They treat us as though we’re delinquents,” one resident complained in allusion to the board’s rejection of all requests to thin the park’s increasingly abundant vegetation. The La Plana residents were equally displeased with investigators’ initial Mayor, said: “It is a sector conclusions that although that stimulates much of the fire could have been the economy in the deliberately started, it was province and one great more likely to have been source of income for the result of negligence. Alicante.” He also called This made it look as for more transparency to though the fire was the ‘know where those fault of the residents, they investments are spent’. said.
Investment in province’s beaches takes a dive INVESTMENT in Alicante’s beaches has dropped by more than 90 per cent. In 2007, the province was allocated €20.8 million for the maintenance and upkeep of beaches while last year it was only just over €1
million. This year, up to August, the investment has been €355,000. In a province which relies so heavily on beach tourism, the figures are a concern as the president of the hospitality association, Hosbec, Toni