LOCAL NEWS – THURSDAY 02 FEBRUARY 2012

ORIHUELA MARKET LICENSE CHECKS

Having faced months of discussion regarding the relocation of the Orihuela street market, the reopening of the bargain business outlet was accompanied by police officers who were checking the validity of licenses for market traders to work.

Every trader had to produce their license before being granted permission to trade, which resulted in a number of irregularities being found, including people who were attempting to practice with another person´s license and sellers attempting to offer products they were not authorized to sell. The councillor for markets, Juan Ignacio López-Bas of the CLR party, has now said that the council will consider each case one by one.

The action was in direct response to clean up the licensed operations and ensure compliance with the laws of trading.

WANTED CRIMINALS LOCATED IN TORREVIEJA

Police officers from the Generalitat Valenciana wide force have arrested two wanted criminals and located a third, all of whom were in Torrevieja at the time.

One person had an arrest warrant issued from Málaga for a crime of theft, the second detainee was the subject of arrest warrants in both Orihuela and Torrevieja, whereas a third person wanted by the Orihuela Criminal courts was also identified.

Those arrested faced the judicial system at the Guardia Civil barracks in Torrevieja.

DRIVER SUFFERS HEART ATTACK AT WHEEL

Emergency services attended a driver, of Slavic origin, who had collapsed at the wheel of the car they were driving along the main Caballero de Rodas road in the centre of Torrevieja.

The driver was thought to have suffered a cardiac arrest and was treated at the roadside, causing major delays for half an hour, before the driver was transferred to Torrevieja hospital in a serious condition.

THE TAXMAN IS COMING

Despite Russian tourism on the Costa Blanca, being on the increase, with more than 70,000 Russians passing through Alicante airport in 2011 and new regular flight connections between Moscow and St. Petersburg, from June, the residential numbers may not follow the same growth following tax announcements made by the Spanish government.

There is going to be a clampdown on large cash purchases, such as property, so as to avoid transactions that avoid paying tax. A number of Russian buyers are thought to prefer cash transactions as they feel more protected from their own government.

In another tax clampdown, the Government of Spain has vowed to increase inspections on private properties which are rented out to tourists, without the owners paying income tax on their earnings.

SIBERIAN COLD SNAP HITS

Weather forecasters have issued a warning for cold weather, as a weather front from Siberia has descended on the Costa Blanca and will remain for a few days.

Temperatures will be “very cold” until Sunday, with a risk of ice and frost in higher places, in the coldest winter season since 2005, which may well feel even colder due to the unseasonally high temperatures of early January.

Road and rail networks are on alert to implement their emergency plans for inclement weather.

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