Guardia Civil officers in Torrevieja are trialing a new uniform .

The current one is being called ” archaic ” and ” ineffective ” .

The new attire will consist of a polo shirt , combat trousers , tactical shoes and a baseball cap , in two shades of green .

It will also be trialed in Madrid and Leon which have different climatic conditions .

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It is not only Villajoyosa that has a crisis of having insufficient space within the school to house the number of students on roll.
In La Nucia the very recently opened secondary school is already using makeshift classrooms in which to teach almost 80 youngsters .
Alfaz del Pi secondary school has had to convert part of the library and the staffroom into classrooms .
In Villajoyosa the temporary classrooms are overcrowded and they leak it seems .It has been mooted for some years that the school needs to be enlarged and the council has not yet ceded the land for the job .
The Marina Baja has a totel of 12 schools for almost 10,000 students .

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The environment  water and urban development regional  councillor has become involved in the debate over providing water from the desalination plant in Javea to the towns of Benissa and Teulada .

He wants the mayors of both towns to come to an agreement over the laying down of pipes to both towns .

It appears that the cost of 12 million euros would mainly be borne by the regional government .

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A woman , an expat , was involved in an accident with her car in San  Miguel de Salinas near Torrevieja last week and fell foul of the medical help available here in Spain .

An ambulance took her to Cabo Roig health centre for emergency treatment and despite contributing to the social security system the attendant insisted that without a SIP card she would have to pay for her treatment .

They removed the glass from the wound on her arm and charged her 105 euros .

She then tried to acquire a SIP card and was refused as she was not on the padron and had no certificate of residency  and could not do this until October .

She returned to Cabo Roig where they now said that with the social security the treatment would be free but at San Miguel they would not accept her social security .

Eventually she ended up in Torrevieja hospital where she was told that she had to pay on the spot .

Since then a San Miguel spokesperson has said that EU citizens should be entitled to emergency treatment with only a passport .

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The Salinas lakes in Calpe are obviously doing very well as a provider of a habitat for wildlife .

The flamingo population is at its highest for a while , with 184 on the lake at the moment .

Ornithologists are all delighted and it shows that there is enough food to support such a population .

There is also a large population of herons , seagulls and black winged stilts   all good signs of the environment being provided and sustaining them all .

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Ten thousand copies of a new guide book to promote the Font Santa recreation centre , have been produced by the town hall in Teulada .

The booklet shows maps and pictures of the BBQ area , picnic area , childrens park and car park . It has been published in five languages and also includes a history of the chapel .

The castle in Moraira has also seen an upturn in the number of visitors that it had this summer , almost a 50% increase with almost 3000 visitors .

Half of the visitors have been Spanish , with the British being a close second , then French , Italians , Germans and Dutch .

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World Site Day is on October 9 and the theme this year is ” Eyes On The Future “and it will focus on sight problems which occur later in life .

The Teulada -Moraira Lions  Club is organising several activities to raise funds which will highlight the problems , especiallyin Third World countries .

The Lions will be in Moraira Market the week before and the week after the special day and all of the monies raised will be donated to the construction of health facilities and the training of specialists in the visual health field .

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The building of the Mercadona supermarket on the Moraira - Benitachell road has become a nightmare for some British residents who own a property nearby .

They have had their walls broken down , extortionate water bills ,a broken TV dish  , live cables all over the place and all through no fault of there own they have huge bills to pay .

The local council has been helpful and all that these people want is for things to return to the way they were . They are hoping that their insurance company will pay out on claims that they have made for the damage caused , but they don’t seem hopeful .

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A total of 450 youngsters took part in the Javea summer school this year .Once the children returned to normal school the summer school came to an end .

Over a 100 families benefited from the Social Services subsidies for attending the school .

The main objective of the Summer School is to offer something different to the children , which is also educational , during the summer holidays .

Youngsters from as young as three , through to twelve , enjoyed this years Marco Polo themed activities in the town ’s Arenal and Graull schools .

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A new guide of walks around Torrevieja has just been published and it comes with a mini DVD, which can be downloaded to an I-Pod or MP3 player , giving the walker a commentary as they walk along .

There are three new walks for tourists and residents alike . The first focuses on salt , taking the walker to the Museo del Mar , the old railway station , the Eres de Sal and the waterway channel between the sea and the salt lakes as well as the Paseo Maritimo .

The second one begins in the town centre and goes to the port , casino , customs house and fishing boats .

The third of the new walks takes one to La Mata’s natural park .

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