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The people’s paper ISSUE NO. 1869
29 April - 5 May 2021
Shorter walk SHOPPERS bound for Torrevieja’s weekly open-air market can take a bus as far as the pedestrians’ entrance now that Torrevieja Town Hall has installed an extra bus-stop there.
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Local talent BIGASTRO-born dress designer Eduardo Navarrete has been confirmed as a contestant in the next edition of the Spanish version of Celebrity MasterChef. Navarrete is no stranger to reality television as he also appeared in the first edition of Masters of Couture.
VALENCIA VISIT: Francina Armengol and Ximo Puig discussed PCR tests.
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An unfortunate choice
THE driver of a cement‐mixer lorry chose the wrong bridge to cross the River Segura at the end of March. A tree was blocking his view and he failed to see a warning sign that barred heavy vehicles from the metal bridge linking El Raal, an outlying Murcia City district, and La Basca in Beniel. The bridge collapsed when the vehicle was half‐way across, sending the lorry and a mass of girders and tarmac into the river. Despite the apparently disastrous accident the driver, who is from Elche, was able to escape through the cab window al‐ though he was later transferred to hospital. Three weeks later the ruined bridge, and the lorry were still blocking the riverbed. The Confederacion Hidrografica del Segura (CHS), responsi‐ ble for the area’s waterways has now called on Murcia City Hall and Beniel’s own local government to decide together on how to remove the lorry and the remains of the bridge from the riv‐ er. The CHS revealed that this would require draining this part of the river which is less than two kilometres away from Ori‐ huela. Although this could potentially affect the irrigation water that Vega Baja growers depend upon for their crops, the CHS ex‐ plained that this will be transferred from Murcia to Orihuela us‐ ing the infrastructure network that usually delivers Taja‐Segura water.