Apr 10, 2013

Last Saturday the Spanish National Duathlon was held in the Valencian town of Canet de Berenguer. Fausto López, Jesus Vicea, Alberto Plaza, Alberto Lara, Sergio Gomez and Christopher Vera made up the Club Tragamillas team from Orihuela. With three of the athletes under 20 years of age their finishing position of 22nd from 65 starters was a credit to all...

Oct 17, 2012

The clean up was held in conjunction with the municipality of Vera and the Civil Protection and it was carried out by thirty students, some of whom were Erasmus. The cleanup, which was held last Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm took place at the Vera municipality ‘ground zero' where many houses are still completely blocked with mud. The students joined many...

Aug 15, 2012

There have been many public warnings this year about the high risk of forest fires. The authorities have called for extreme caution in what is proving to be one of the most difficult summers in the fight against fire. Current legislation prohibits the holding of barbecues in forested areas but it mostly ignores the use of rockets and fireworks at the many...

Dec 7, 2010

Heavy rain is being blamed for causing a 51 car pile up in the San José tunnel in Málaga last Saturday. Fortunately there were no reports of anyone being seriously hurt, with just three people requiring hospital treatment and 12 others suffered slight injuries. The accident happened in the tunnel at the 242 km point of the A-7 ring road round the...