ISSUE NO. 1551
EWN FRONT EXTRA
Teachers in short supply VALENCIAN schools need 500 teachers to implement the Ministry of Education’s objective of a maximum of 30 students per class.
Sheer poetry OLIVA’S Councillor for Culture David González and poet Gregory Angels have announced that the 11th Edition of the Poetry Festival 2015 will take place from March 27-30.
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A clean bill of health! By Irena Bodnarec THE Benidorm Municipal Sports Centre - El Palau d’Esportes L’Illa has finally reopened after more
than two weeks’ closure following six reported cases of Legionnaires’ disease. The legionella bacteria is usually
Lucky escape A NOVICE driver escaped with only minor injuries at around 11am on Monday when she lost control of her Peugeot 307 on a roundabout in Alicante. The car crashed through safety barriers before plunging onto a tram stop five metres below. . The 18-year-old driver was taken to hospital with shock; no one else was injured and a crane cleared the wreckage in 20 minutes.
caught by breathing in small droplets of contaminated water and the source of the outbreak was suspected to have been in the
centre’s changing rooms. Following extensive disinfection and chlorination, the Department of Health has reportedly given the Palau a clean bill of health and now all of the centre’s usual facilities are available to the public. Councillor for Health Angeles Valdivieso thanked everyone for their professionalism in dealing swiftly with the incident. He stressed that experts had carried out meticulous cleansing processes, “far more than was necessary to ensure that not even the slightest trace of the bacteria remained.”