E Merner News

A child from Alicante who in 2007 developed odd marks on her skin,gave rise to suspicions of abuse by the mother.

In 2008 after a series of meetings with Social services,the child was taken into care and the mother was arrested and kept in custody for 24 hours on suspicion of sexual abuse.

Then the Technical Commission for the Protection of Minors finally concluded that the child was suffering from dermatitis and the charges were dropped.

Now the mother has been awarded compensation by the state for the unwarrented allegations of sexual abuse of her daughter.

The court had been seeking 18,000 euros for the emotional upset caused by the forced separation from her child and there is also the terrible emotional turmoil that the child suffered for being placed with total strangers.

The Guardia Civil in Alicante province are not only seeking drug traffickers and the like.They also deal with sorting out illegal trafficking of animals,particularly endangered species.

The police took a tiger cub from a circus in San Juan Playa last week as first and foremost it is an endangered species but secondly the owners lacked any legal papers to show that they were able to have this animal in Spain.

The cub was being used by the circus in San Juan to make money out of being photographed with it.

The police are now trying to process all of the necessary paperwork as all other regulations for the proper care of the animal were being observed.The police returned the animal to the circus for its care while all of this was being done.

A spokesperson for the PSOE ( Socialist) party in Javea has spoken out about a litany of complaints concerning the state of the town and the summer season.

He has quoted traffic chaos,cliffs that are about to fall into the road,road works that ought not to be there at the height of the tourist season,the list went on.

He feels that tourists will be driven to other resorts because they will have had such a bad experience this summer.

Traffic was brought to a standstill in the Arenal,this being one of the most important times of the year for this area of Javea.

Naturally the spokesperson feels that it is all down to poor management from the ruling council.He is correct in saying that a main source of income is tourism and that the feelings of tourists should be high on the list of priorities for the town of javea.

As Mayor of Benidorm,Augustin Navarro conducted his first gay marriage last week.As councillor in opposition he actually conducted 12 such marriages.

Gay marriages have been legal in Spain since 2005 after a parliamentary ruling approved the modification of the Civil Code.This followed the Socialist governments campaign which was led by President Zapatero.

For the marriage to be valid then one of the partners has to be Spanish.However two non.Spanish people may marry if they are both Spanish residents.

This made Spain the third country in the world to recognise gay marriages and to give them the same status as heterosexual marriages..Spain followed Holland and belgium and were closely followed by Canada.

The Partido Popular party still proclaim the “unconstitutionality” of same sex marriages.Since the law was passed there have been 16,000 gay marriages as compared to almost a million heterosexual marriages.

Benidorm on the Costa Blanca is going to have its first night time half marathon in November.In fact it will be the first such marathon to take place in Spain.It takes place on November 27 at 8.30pm.

If you live in the Jalon Valley area of the Costa Blanca then from September 13 to October 8 the Jalon Valley HELP shops are going to have a clothing sale from Monday to Friday from 10am to 1pm in Alcalali.

Last week a fire destroyed many trees in the Pego area of Alicante province and blazed for 4 hours before it was extinguished.

On Sunday September 5 the Moraira-Teulada Lions are holding a jazz concert outside the castle in Moraira in aid of local charities.

A Spanish woman,aged 74 was found dead in the River Segura in Guardamar del Segura last week.At the moment it is not known how the woman got into the river.Her husband dropped her off at a certain point and went to collect her,but she did not turn up.