Archive for May, 2008
Four men arrested in Santa Pola
Sunday, May 25th, 2008Four young men were arrested in Santa Pola after police were called by residents who witnessed damage being caused to a car.
They were found nearby but denied the act of vandalism initially. Upon examination of mobile phones in their possession, recordings of them damaging the car were found, together with several more recordings which identified [...]
Small earthquake in Alicante
Friday, May 23rd, 2008There was an earthquake, measured as being 2.9 on the Richter scale in the early hours of Thursday morning in the La Romana area of Alicante.
There are no reports of any personal or serious material damage caused by the tremor which happened at 5,45am and had its epicentre five kilometres from La Romana at 38.33 [...]
Postal Chaos In Los Arenales
Monday, May 12th, 2008As in so many small towns and urbanisations, the residents of Los Arenales are fed up to the teeth with the haphazard postal service supplied by Correos, which seems to have worsened since the beginning of the year.
As well as having to queue for ages at the local Correos office for correspondence which is sometimes [...]
Electricity prices set to rise in Spain
Monday, May 12th, 2008The National Energy Commission has recommended increases of between 19 and 30 percent.
The Government has confirmed that electricity prices are set to rise, but the Minister for Industry Tourism and Trade, Miguel Sebastián, has said that the domestic power bill increase will be ‘reasonable’. There had been claims in part of the Spanish press that [...]
Hunt for British suspects
Saturday, May 10th, 2008Police release photos of alleged sexual assailants.
Andrew Paul WOODWARD (left) and Warren HEWITT (right)
(Photos supplied by Guardia Civil)
GUARDIA Civil in Calpe have released the photographs of two British men wanted in connection with an alleged serious sex crime committed against an underage boy in Calpe in March.
The two men, Andrew Paul Woodward and Warren Hewitt, [...]
Rain affects the Costa Blanca
Friday, May 9th, 2008A house collapse in Altea closed the N-332 road for a time.The heavy rain to fall on the Costa Blanca yesterday led to the collapse of a house in Altea and the blocking of the N-332 road for a time. Fortunately there was nobody at home in the house in Calle La Mar when the [...]