E Merner News

The sport facility in Moraira-Teulada is to have a 750,000 euro facelift.

The upgrade will create a state of the art facility for the area.The new complex will be called “Football Espai Teulada-Moraira” and it is being described as a socio-cultural and sports area.

There will be a full sized football pitch as well as a seven a side pitch which will have an all weather surface.There will be six changing rooms,a cafe,facilities for the disabled,a carpark and a green area.

The project has been started because there is a huge demand for sporting facilities. and what the area has is in a state of poor repair.

The aim is to have it completed by Christmas so that all residents and youngsters are able to enjoy it.

Funding has come from the State Fund for Employment and the Investment Plan in Productive Municipalities.

Operation Atlanta involved the Spanish frigate Victoria and an anti-piracy operation at sea.

The ship was welcomed home by a lot of top brass such as Chief of Staff Jose Rodriguez,Chief of Navy Staff Manuel rebollo and Fleet Admiral Juan Carlos Muñoz-Delgado plus the Minister for defence Carme Chacon.

The Victoria took part in a liberation of two merchant ships and escorted 10 other vessels from the World Food programme.

This is the Spanish contribution to the EU operation to tackle piracy and it includes the patrol boat Infanta Cristina,a maritime patrol aeroplane and the amphibious assault ship Galicia,currently sailing towards the Indian Ocean.

There were over 200 personnel on board the Victoria and their work together with the work of other allied countries has permitted 85 criminal gangs to be broken up,this involved more than 1000 pirates.This is five times the number of pirates arrested in 2009.

ECIS is the parking contractor who took on the underground carparks in Javea´s Old Town.The company constructed the carparks in return for the contract to run them.

The scheme didn´t work out as nobody uses them and consequently ECIS has not made any money.Now they are seeking compensation of 22 million euros from the council.

The company maintains that it is entitled to tax payers money as occupancy of the carparks has fallen below 85%.In reality both carparks only reached 17% and 22% respectively over their first year in operation.

The town hall had calculated on a 1.8 million euro underperformance payment,not this whopping amount.In fact the council has already won a type of judicial review which goes in favour of the tax payer.

They viewed the whole scheme as anything but a commercial enterprise.In fact many believe that ECIS has done little to to make the carparks work commercially.

Other similar carparking seems to work in other towns and maybe ECIS needs to learn from other towns and just get it to be a profitable scheme.

Some think that the company is bluffing  and that the company has little on its side to force the issue.Time will tell.

ECIS is the parking contractor who took on the underground carparks in Javea´s Old Town.The company constructed the carparks in return for the contract to run them.

The scheme didn´t work out as nobody uses them and consequently ECIS has not made any money.Now they are seeking compensation of 22 million euros from the council.

The company maintains that it is entitled to tax payers money as occupancy of the carparks has fallen below 85%.In reality both carparks only reached 17% and 22% respectively over their first year in operation.

The town hall had calculated on a 1.8 million euro underperformance payment,not this whopping amount.In fact the council has already won a type of judicial review which goes in favour of the tax payer.

They viewed the whole scheme as anything but a commercial enterprise.In fact many believe that ECIS has done little to to make the carparks work commercially.

Other similar carparking seems to work in other towns and maybe ECIS needs to learn from other towns and just get it to be a profitable scheme.

Some think that the company is bluffing  and that the company has little on its side to force the issue.Time will tell.

A British man in San Miguel de Salinas ( inland from Orihuela Costa) has been arrested by the police because of his appalling behaviour.

To add insult to injury he resisted arrest!He is accused of criminal damafge,disorderly conduct and issuing threats.

Officers were called to an address in El Galen.When the police arrived they discovered the 26 year old brandishing an iron chair and threatening to kill everyone inside.He also banged on the front door and the windows.

The officers requested him to stop but he just legged it through fences of adjoining properties.However he returned with an iron bar and continued to damage a door and a window.

He threatened and attempted to injure officers by throwing a chair in their direction.Eventually the police overwhelmed him and arrested him.He has been denounced by the home owner who will now claim damages from him.