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Sweetening the pill SPENDING by the regional health department on state system prescriptions fell to €89.7 million last November, a 3.23 per cent reduction on the same period in 2013.
Toll rise TARIFFS for most state-run toll roads have been frozen for the first time in five years. They rose on only six motorways, which included the Alicante-Cartagena road’s 1.01 per cent increase.
Fire doused HIGH winds fanned the flames of an agricultural bonfire in Pego, destroying four hectares of pines and scrubland. It took firefighting aircraft and fire crews on the ground six hours to extinguish the blaze.
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Fiestas bulls firmly in activists’ sights
‘BOUS a la mar’ are inseparable from fiestas in the Valencia Region’s coastal areas. In the Marina Alta they are one of the most popular features of Denia’s and Javea’s fiestas but their days could be numbered. Actyma, a Spanish association opposed to the illtreatment of animals, plans to lodge a formal complaint against ‘Bulls in the sea’ events held anywhere in the Valencian Community’s three provinces. What Actyma president Lluis Altes described as “a minor battle” has already been won in Cataluña after a 10-year struggle. The regional
government there began legal proceedings against the towns of Cases de’Alcanar and L’Ampolla in
Tarragona for holding ‘Bous a la mar’ events during local fiestas. This ruling will now hold good throughout Cataluña, Altes said. The association, whose headquarters are located in Alfaz del Pi, is turning its attentions to the Valencian were received into a Community. Threewarm world of family quarters of all the popular love, but the weather fiesta events in Spain that outside was less involve bulls take place in welcoming as the New this region, Altes remarked. Year was rung in. He was aware that Temperatures dropped the Generalitat regional to 6ºC below freezing in government would throw some parts of both out Actyma’s formal Valencia and Castellon complaints but said the Provinces, and also fell to association would start 2ºC below zero in inland legal proceedings to ensure Alicante. that ‘Bous a la mar’ were eradicated.
New Year new arrivals THE first baby born in the Valencian Community was a girl named Ana. She was born at nine minutes after midnight on January 1 in La Fe Hospital in Valencia City and weighed 3.65 kilos. The first baby to come into the world in Alicante Province was another girl, Sulamita. Her
Spanish mother gave birth in Alicante City’s Hospital General Universitario at 12.50am and the baby weighed in at exactly three kilos. Another newborn - and yet another girl - also arrived at 12.50am, this time in Castellon City’s Hospital General. She is to be called Valeria. All three baby girls
10 millionth passenger ALICANTE-ELCHE Airport has welcomed its 10 millionth passenger. The Ryanair Boeing 737 from Stansted landed amidst plumes of water from the hoses of the airport’s fire engines and first down the gangway was Keith Porter. The retired British policeman, the 10 millionth traveller to arrive at Alicante-Elche, was presented with flowers and then led to the VIP lounge. He also received two tickets for the same route, the airport management revealed.