LOCAL NEWS – WEDNESDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2012

DAVID BISBAL CONCERT WILL GO AHEAD

The councillor for culture and festivities in the city of Torrevieja, Luís María Pizana, has issued a statement confirming that the concert by Spanish singer David Bisbal, which is scheduled for Friday and Saturday of this week, will go ahead despite the accusations by the Los Verdes green party that the building does not have a license to be open.

The councillor has confirmed that all necessary work to satisfy the licensing requirements and previous deficiencies are now being carried out and will be completed in time for the license to be issued for the weekend performance. However, this statement has prompted the green party to reaffirm that their accusation was therefore correct and that the building should never have been opened for the concerts previously held in the venue.

DISMISSED WORKER STARTS HUNGER STRIKE

A former employee of the City of Calpe has started a hunger strike at the gates of the municipal building in protest of his dismissal, which occurred on Friday and without compensation, after working for the town council for the last eleven years.

Antonio Simón Rojas, who also worked to support his 80 year old mother, was relieved of his duties along with another 70 council workers, as part of a restructuring of council resources in a bid to cut back on wage bills.

VALENCIA POLICE MAKE ANOTHER TORREVIEJA ARREST

Regional Police Officers of the Generalitat Valenciana have arrested a person in a residential area of Torrevieja, who was wanted on an arrest warrant for an alleged offense of threatening behaviour.

This is the latest of nearly 900 actions that have resulted in nearly 6,000 vehicle checks, the identification verification of nearly 1,500 people and now 5 successful arrests.

ORIHUELA LOOKING FOR NEW POLICE CARS

Orihuela City Council has tendered a contract for the three year lease of eight hybrid vehicles for patrols by local police officers in the municipality, with a value of 11,900 euro per month.

The contract is worth 428,400 euro, although the town hall are looking for lower bids to enable the successful bidder to be granted the deal which will also include routine maintenance, all-risk insurance, 24 hour assistance and the ability to provide replacement vehicles if necessary.

WEEKEND EXERCISE MAY NOT BE HEALTHY

Rafael Florenciano, cardiologist at the USP San Jaime hospital in Torrevieja, has issued a report that stresses that regularity when exercising "is critical to cardiovascular risk”, and that the chances of suffering a heart attack during intense physical exercise are duplicated in patients performing less than four hours per week of regular exercise, which also means that it is “unwise to exercise intensively only during the weekends”

The statement was made ahead of a lecture by the renowned medic, which will be held on Saturday at the hospital, offering an insight into sports related medicine.

The report concludes that "clearly, sedentary life is bad and that we should practice exercise, but we must do so judiciously, but above all, regularly".