School collection

BENIDORM library network has commenced a solidarity campaign in collaboration with the Red Cross. This is a campaign to collect school supplies that will run until Friday, September 8.

The collection of the school supplies is being carried out at the central library, and items needed are pencils, erasers, pens, pencil sharpeners, coloured pencils, markers, rulers, lined and grid notebooks, backpacks, cases, folio cases, glue, scissors, compasses, A4 size folders, coloured crayons and plastic covers.

Every person who hands a donation in at the central library will receive a gift in the form of a surprise book.

The councillor for Historical and Cultural Heritage, Ana Pellicer, indicated that “the objective of this campaign is to collect school supplies that will later be distributed among families in vulnerable situations before the start of the school year.”

EURO WEEKLY NEWS is thrilled to announce that our newspaper and website will feature in a TV programme to be filmed in Benidorm.

Hold the Front Page is a programme following two of the UK’s favourite comedians, Josh Widdicombe and Nish Kumar, as they embark on a journey as trainee local journalists attempting to get a story on the front page. Now they are coming to Spain for their training.

Josh and Nick are coming to Benidorm to receive editorial tasks from managing director Michel Euesden, who is the driving force behind Spain’s biggest free English language newspaper group.

They will then be accompanied on a sales drive to see if they can achieve in the world of fast­paced journalism.

Exploring some incredible regions through their local papers, the series is a warm celebration of the world of local journalism besides the people and communities the papers serve.

Being a people’s paper, Euro Weekly News is looking for a charity or community group who would like to be featured

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ACCORDING to Idealista, during June and July, Benitachell was the town in which the highest volume of housing searches was recorded. The search was mainly from foreign buyers of whom 56 per cent searched for Benitachell in particular.

More jobs

UNEMPLOYMENT fell again in the Marina Alta region in July. The region is practically at historical lows, with 8,431 people registered as unemployed. This is the lowest number since September 2008, when there were 8,427 people seeking employment.