Torrevieja’s Governing Board has awarded the contract for surveillance and access control of municipal facilities to Vigiprot SLU. The agreement carries an annual charge of €118,433 including VAT. It has a minimum term of two years with the option of two further one‑year extensions; if fully extended the contract’s value would reach €473,732 over four years. The contract will cover the market area at Parque Antonio Soria on market days, the municipal football pitches, the town hall, the census and […]

An ordinary plenary of Orihuela City Council was held yesterday for the first time in the Costa town hall at Playa Flamenca and drew a coastal protest of roughly one hundred people. Demonstrators, who complained of abandonment, inequality and poor municipal respect, collected more than one hundred and fifty signatures against a recent rise in the rubbish tax. The Party for the Independence of Orihuela Costa (PIOC) is seeking five hundred signatures to send to the European Commission by the […]

The Conselleria de Sanidad has sent an instruction to all health departments in the Valencian Community, including the ten departments in Alicante province, recommending the use of surgical masks in Generalitat-run healthcare settings in certain circumstances. The advice covers symptomatic people in shared spaces, staff attending symptomatic cases and everyone in vulnerable areas such as chemotherapy units, transplant wards, intensive care and emergency departments. Individual centres may extend measures after local risk assessment. Although the region remains at a low […]

Santa Lucía Hospital in Cartagena has returned to normal activity after a fire on Wednesday that forced the evacuation of 113 patients from four floors. No one was injured. The Emergency Department and Outpatient Clinic resumed service on Wednesday afternoon, although seven scheduled surgeries were postponed. The laboratory on the second floor of Block Five was damaged and its services were interrupted, while the ground-floor Dialysis unit avoided smoke infiltration. Investigators have discovered non-conductive polyurethane insulation within the building’s façade […]

A peacock that lived in the Reina Sofía municipal park in Guardamar del Segura has tested positive for avian influenza. The town mayor, José Luis Sáez of the PSPV-PSOE, has said on social media that laboratory analyses determined the virus was the cause of the bird’s death; the announcement was posted on twenty-six November. The town hall has activated an eradication protocol in coordination with the competent authorities. The council has placed notices forbidding people from feeding or giving water […]

The Town Hall of Torrevieja has awarded the contract for transporting teams of the Municipal Sports Schools to the private company Avanza. The award was made at an extraordinary and urgent local government meeting on 21 November. The contract will run for four years, with an option to extend for a further year, and is valued at €469,302.68, VAT included. Councillor for Sport Diana Box Alonso has said the contract preserves and improves the transport service provided to pupils. The […]

Vega Baja University Hospital has obtained basic accreditation in the Antimicrobial Stewardship Programme (PROA), making it the second public hospital in the Valencian Community, together with Elche General, to achieve this recognition. The accreditation certifies the hospital’s commitment to safe, effective and rational use of antibiotics with the aim of limiting antimicrobial resistance and improving clinical outcomes. The basic category recognises the development of solid structures and procedures that allow systematic therapeutic review, ongoing monitoring, staff training and evaluation of […]

A fire has broken out on Wednesday at Santa Lucía Hospital in Cartagena, centred in block five. First calls to the emergency line came at around seven twenty-five reporting smoke from the affected floors. Flames climbed from the third to the fifth floor, affecting about three rooms on each level, and the building’s outer cladding acted as a route for rapid spread. Firefighters, based four minutes away, deployed up to four crews and brought the blaze under control within the […]

Electra has opened the largest ultra‑rapid charging station in the municipality of Cartagena, beside the Parque Mediterráneo retail park in the Cabezo Beaza industrial estate. It is the firm’s first station in the Region and comprises sixteen charging points designed to serve long‑distance and local drivers. Eight of the points provide ultra‑rapid charging of up to 400 kW and the other eight offer up to 50 kW. Electra estimates the site can recharge up to 400 cars a day and […]