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ISSUE NO. 1808
27 Feb - 4 March 2020
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CARNIVAL FEVER
MORE than 50,000 people descended on Alicante at the weekend for one of the highlights of the city’s seven-day Carnival 2020 extravaganza, which drew to a close last night. The main streets were thronging with revellers and families on Saturday for the Ramblero, when ‘the city does not sleep’ and instead enjoys processions, demonstrations, dancing, workshops, music and more. However, on the flipside, the aftermath was not so much fun, as a clear-up operation saw 28 tonnes of rubbish collected from the
LITTERED STREETS: Twenty-eight tonnes of rubbish was collected after the Saturday Romblero. litter strewn streets on Sunday morning. Alicante City’s Department of Cleaning and Waste and UTE were up and out at 6am on Sunday morning to ensure the city was ‘clean and in perfect condition’ for residents and
holidaymakers by 10am. More than 80 staff and 15 vehicles worked to get the streets spick and span in record time. Fifty-two Civil Protection volunteers patrolled the streets, and security sources confirmed the Local Police
seized just over 2,000 litres of alcohol in just 10 hours. This is more than three times the amount confiscated in 2019. Ten people needed hospital treatment and emergency services dealt with a further 102 incidents, of which 44 involved minor injuries, and 16 were cases of suspected alcohol poisoning.