Splash!

THE new municipal swimming pool in Teulada Moraira opened at the weekend. Entrance to the pool in the Ciudad Deportiva Ricardo Benavente in Teulada is free and opening times are from Monday to Sunday from 10am to 8pm.

Local Sports councillor Josep Ivars encouraged residents and visitors “to come and enjoy the new municipal swimming pool, a refreshing way to spend the summer in the town’s sports facilities.”

Swimming classes at the new pool begin on Monday July 10 and inscriptions are open until midnight today, Thursday July 6.

Courses are split into different age groups from three to four years, five to 14 years and 15 years onwards and according to ability level. The price is €40 for children and €60 for adults. For further information visit www.deportes.teu ladamoraira.org

Green fingers

LA XARA Council has created an urban allotment for residents with functional diversity. Mayor Maite Pérez Conejero inaugurated the plot in the Centro Ocupacional, in which users tend the land, cook and eat the fruit and vegetables they grow themselves.

Clean streets

BENIDORM Council has reinforced the municipal street cleaning service ready for the summer high season. Council operatives will target individual neighbourhoods in the afternoons from Monday to Friday until July 31, in addition to the regular morning service.

Arenal closed

JAVEA’S Arenal beach had to be closed to bathers for one day last week after high levels of bacteria were detected in the water. The same situation was reported in July last year and is caused by a discharge pipe that empties its contents close to the sand.

Drunken flight

A FLIGHT from the UK landed at Alicante airport last week with 30 drunken and violent passengers that had a fight in mid­air. The crew of the Ryanair flight from Bristol requested police presence at El Altet to deal with the rowdy travellers.

Against time

RENOVATION work being carried out on Denia’s Calle Marqués de Campo was supposed to finish before the start of the tourist season but this was not quite the case, as business owners complained that workers had torn up the pavement in several points on Thursday.

Well done

ALFAZ DEL PI has been awarded two prizes by the Spanish Federation of Towns and Provinces for projects aimed at promoting gender equality and sexual diversity in the town.