Plan E is going to pay for Javea council to overhaul its water mains.Last summer parts of the town were suffering water cuts which caused everyone a great deal of annoyance,as they often lasted for days.People were having to fill water containers from water cisterns which the council provided.

The second round of the Plan E finance will amount to 3.3 million euros and the town council will spend 500,000 on this water mains work.The town does have a desalination plant which provides the town with more than enough drinking water.However parts of the water mains system are well over 30 years old.They are in need of an upgrade.

Opposition councillors are seeing the use of state money to complete work on a private company system,as not acceptable.They agree that the work needs doing but that it should not be done with public money.They feel that Amjasa,the water company should be upgrading the infrastructure.In the vote on the ways in which the Plan E money ought to be used the PSPV and Nueva Javea abstained.

A socialist councillor in Villajoyosa has gone public over her views regarding the public car park at the Villajoyosa hospital.It appears that the Mayor made a statement last June that he would ensure that a car park was made provisionally until they could get a permanent one constructed.

This provisional car park would be enough for 200 cars.He made this announcement after the private company that had been contracted to build the structure,pulled out.As there are 800 employees working at the Vega Baja hospital then 200 parking spaces don’t meet the need of the hospital.

There have been talks with Valencia about the situation and permission has been sought to get the car park built but Valencia has said that talks are still ongoing with a private company.The socialist councillor thinks that this will eventually happen.Her concern continues to be the fact that patients and visitors have to park over a kilometre away when they attend for appointments.

It isn’t only the council in Benidorm on the Costa Blanca which perceives the cigarette end as the scourge of the beaches there.Virtually any councils in any country where beaches are an important part of the economy,would say the same. Cigarette ends are the No.1 source of beach pollution around the world.

However on the Costa Blanca the beaches become very crowded during the summer months and when people drop their cigarette ends into the sand they become extremely difficult and costly to clean up.This summer in Benidorm they came up with the novel idea of issuing smokers with disposable ashtrays in which to dispose of their cigarette ends.No data has yet been issued about just how successful this strategy turned out to be.

There is always an alternative of course and in this case it is a very” green ” alternative. The electronic cigarette is going to become the biggest change in the habits of all smokers. It is a very “green” alternative because it doesn’t pollute the atmosphere of those around you as the “smoke” you breathe out isn’t smoke at all, it is just water vapour. There is no smell and there is no ash and there is no cigarette end to throw away to litter the beaches. The other “green” thing about them is that the colour at the “burning ” end of the electronic cigarette……it glows green.

These very clever alternatives to smoking cigarettes are not intended to help people to give up smoking. They just enable smokers to smoke in all of the places where they are now banned. The other massive benefits are, that there are no carcinogens ( as there is no tobacco) and you save money too.

Hopefully next summer along the Costa beaches more and more people will be getting their nicotine the “cool” way ,by smoking Inlife electronic cigarettes.

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It isn’t only the council in Benidorm on the Costa Blanca which perceives the cigarette end as the scourge of the beaches there.Virtually any councils in any country where beaches are an important part of the economy,would say the same. Cigarette ends are the No.1 source of beach pollution around the world.

However on the Costa Blanca the beaches become very crowded during the summer months and when people drop their cigarette ends into the sand they become extremely difficult and costly to clean up.This summer in Benidorm they came up with the novel idea of issuing smokers with disposable ashtrays in which to dispose of their cigarette ends.No data has yet been issued about just how successful this strategy turned out to be.

There is always an alternative of course and in this case it is a very” green ” alternative. The electronic cigarette is going to become the biggest change in the habits of all smokers. It is a very “green” alternative because it doesn’t pollute the atmosphere of those around you as the “smoke” you breathe out isn’t smoke at all, it is just water vapour. There is no smell and there is no ash and there is no cigarette end to throw away to litter the beaches. The other “green” thing about them is that the colour at the “burning ” end of the electronic cigarette……it glows green.

These very clever alternatives to smoking cigarettes are not intended to help people to give up smoking. They just enable smokers to smoke in all of the places where they are now banned. The other massive benefits are, that there are no carcinogens ( as there is no tobacco) and you save money too.

Hopefully next summer along the Costa beaches more and more people will be getting their nicotine the “cool” way ,by smoking Inlife electronic cigarettes.

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Agustin Navarro is the Mayor of Benidorm and he and his council have announced that they will be leading a strong push for the AVE high speed rail link to come to Benidorm.They want this to happen by 2020.

The Mayor has said that a viability study will be carried  out by sociologists at alicante University or an international consultancy firm.What they will look at is the feasability of connecting Madrid,Valencia,Benidorm and Zaragoza.

The Mayor has indicated that the infrastructure should be constructed on public land with some thought given to high density development.It is estimated that by 2020 there will be 250,000 people living in the Benidorm area and that they would all benefit from the AVE rail link.Then of course there are the predicted 7 million tourists who will visit the region and the town of Benidorm.The train would pass under Benidorm should the project be accepted.