Alicante grows

Anna Ellis IN the past year the province of Alicante has grown by a whopping 50,000 inhabitants.

The growth is a result of the increase in foreign citizens according to provisional data from the Continuous Population Statistics published by the National Statistics Institute (INE).

According to the data, the province of Alicante had a population of 1,965,252 inhabitants at the end of the first quarter

DUE to the inclement weather being suffered on the Costa Blanca, Elche’s Street Food Market has once again been postponed. Elche’s councillor for Commerce, Felip Sanchez, confirmed: “Due to the weather conditions, which have been changing and worsening, we are forced to postpone the ‘Elx Street of this year, compared to 1,913,741 at the same time last year.

The figure represents an increase of 51,511 people which makes Alicante the 10th most populated city in Spain.

The arrival of the foreign population has been one of the main factors behind the increase in the population in Spain this quarter, according to the INE, and specifically the Valencian Community recorded the highest increase, 0.54 per cent.

The figures place the province as one of those with the highest population increases in the whole country and comes at a time when Spain has registered a record high by exceeding 48 million inhabitants for the first time.