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| SPAIN MOURNS AIR TRAGEDY VICTIMS |
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By James Parkes
THE COSTA Blanca is joining the rest of Spain in a three-day official mourning decreed by the government for the victims of the Spanair plane crash at Madrid Barajas airport on Wednesday.
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By Tom Cain
THREE PEOPLE; two women and a male lifeguard, were injured on Tuesday afternoon when two boats caught fire in Altea harbour.
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| Neighbourhood Watch catching on |
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By Tom Cain
THE ‘VECINOS Cooperando’ initiative, the equivalent of the UK Neighbourhood Watch scheme, which was recently launched in Altea, is reaping huge benefits as more and more people and urbanisations sign up.
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| RAMS butt heads with council |
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By Nikki Luxford
RESIDENTS of Monte Solana in Pedreguer are escalating their battle with the town hall to have their urbanisation improved and maintained.
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Crisis fight-back plan
By Oliver McIntyre
In the face of steadily worsening economic news, Spain’s prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, last week held an emergency holiday-season cabinet meeting to approve a 24-point reform package aimed at battling the crisis.
The move came as the latest inflation and economic growth figures were released, both showing dismal numbers. Inflation, based on the Consumer Price Index, hit 5.3 per cent in July, the highest level seen since Spain’s economic crisis of 1992. Meanwhile, the country’s economy grew just 0.1% in the second quarter of this year, skidding to year-on-year growth of 1.8%, the lowest in 15 years.
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