CORRUPTION CLAIMS

AS part of its campaign for the upcoming local elections, the Ciudadanos Party in Murcia has taken a stance to denounce corruption in politics.

It had erected a poster in the Plaza de Las Flores in which images of the former presidents of the autonomous community Pedro Antonio Sánchez and Ramón Luis Valcárcel appeared behind bars, alongside the PSOE candidate Pepe Vélez.

To round things off there is also an image of the current head of the Murcian executive, Fernando López Miras, with the phrase ‘Calienta que entras’ (Warm up and come in).

Perhaps understandably, the opposition parties have not taken kindly to this form of campaigning and complained to the Electoral Board which in ­ structed Ciudadanos to remove the offending poster which they have done, but have appealed against the decision. A Ciudadanos spokesperson

THE civil protection and emergency services for Mazarrón announced that on Saturday, April 29 at 2.20pm there was a fire in the area of the Rambla de las Pinillas. CEIS firefighters and Local Police arrived at the scene along with the Forest Brigade of Mazzarón and Lorca. The Guardia Civil along with a team from Iberdrola also arrived as there was a worry that the fire would impact the power supply in the area.

The Local Police evacuated some homes as a precaution but by 5.40pm the fire was under control. The emergency services announced that they are on maximum alert for forest fires with the rise in temperatures and because of this as a preventative measure they will be closing all the public mountain trails on certain days.

The scattered showers and storms in the region will come as a relief, but reports show temperatures will rise again.