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Once downloaded, the user creates an account with their SIP number and date of birth. They will then receive a verification code by text message that they must introduce, and finally create a password.
Marina Salut haematology department chief Alfons Serrano stresses the importance of reading the new guidelines carefully, “as they will also include the instructions that until now were given verbally by the nursing staff at their local health centre.”
The app can also be used for a wide range of other services such as checking in when arriving at the hospital, requesting and modifying appointments and renewing prescriptions, among others.
Keeping it clean
BENIDORM Town Council has launched a drive to reduce littering and other antisocial behaviour.
Under the title ‘Benidorm, my town. Look after Benidorm. It’s your home’, several simultaneous campaigns are targeting specific areas of street cleanliness.
smokers not to throw cigarette ends on the ground.
BENIDORM Council is finally set to legalise the first of seven hotels built at the start of the millennium and which are still sitting in a legal limbo.
The first to receive the green light nearly two decades later is Hotel Deloix in the Rincon de Loix, a fourstarplus establishment for which Benidorm Town Hall will receive €371,000 in compensation due to the hotel occupying more space than permitted when it was built.
This is a medieval Spanish saying and is used ironically when someone boasts about his own qualities.
Following an initial campaign stressing the importance of cleaning up after pets in the street, this week efforts are focusing on encouraging
‘Don’t let cigarette buts end up in the sea’ is the slogan for the new campaign, which, added to the placing of stickers and plaques next to manholes and drains, is aimed at reminding passersby that anything thrown down there eventually reaches the ocean.
In addition, a new series of bins have been installed at several points throughout the town.
The compensation will be paid by the company in charge of the Deloix, who was allowed to go over the permitted floor space limit thanks to a special piece of legislation approved by the local government at the time to promote the construction of four and fivestar hotels.
The condition to go over the allotted floor space was that the company should compensate the council, either financially or with land for public use, which had not been done till now.
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BENIDOR M’S new public car parks have worked “splendidly” over Easter, according to the council.
There are currently 7,600 free parking spaces in 40 car parks around the town, 600 of which were created over the weeks leading up to the bank holiday week-
Benissa up, Javea down
SECOND-HAND property sale figures for the first three months of the year in the Valencia Region throw up some interesting results.
Prices for used houses in Spain have risen drastically over the last year, with Valencia as one of the Spanish regions with the highest increase. The average cost per square metre for a second-hand house in Spain sat at €2,016 in March - a 6.5 per cent increase on 2022 - according to a leading Spanish second-hand property sale website.
But surprisingly, one of the Spanish towns where prices dropped the most in this time was Javea, historically one of the most expensive places to buy. At the same time, Benissa experienced the sharpest increase, climbing by 9.29 per cent between January and March this year and a whopping 25.4 per cent compared to 2022.
