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SOUTH EDITION Did You Know…?
The Alicante Diputation’s ‘Did You Know…?’ Roadshow has been a resounding success this week when it landed on the Costa Blanca. • p4
La Marina residents in uproar
Your English Newspaper
Issue 579
Crossroads chaos 19 - 25 NOVEMBER 2010
Residents in La Marina have been left fuming after the Town Hall decided to site a new Eco Park just yards from their homes. • p10
How to generate UK Tax Refunds
Find out how you may be able to claim tax refunds in the UK by reading David Mayer and Jez Crawford of Jacksons, Chartered Accountants article in RTN’s new property section. • p32
No Go Go Hamsters
This week Paul Watts reviews this year’s top ten Christmas toy list and it’s not cheap. • p34
Wembley woe
This week Andy Kay’s writes about last nights England friendly plus the recent Haye v Harrison farce. • p62
Last year’s collision caused the total destruction of the Barton’s wall
AFTER THE gates and walls of their property were damaged on four separate occasions, the Barton family from La Marina are calling upon the Town Hall of San Fulgencio to urgently implement safety measures on the crossroads outside their home. The latest incident took place last Tuesday evening when a car coming down Avenida de Londres crashed into the gates of the house after the driver tried to avoid colliding with a car coming across the carriageway. The house is located on the corner of Calle
by Louise Clarke Frai Luis de Leon and Calle La Marina and is within the Calle Marina Community (66A). Opposite the Barton’s house is Calle Murcia, which has a severe blind spot. There are no Stop signs on any of the junctions, just Give Way signs and the markings on the road seem to be done with Tippex®, such is their clarity! As well as the four collisions into the Barton’s property, there have been dozens of accidents and near misses at the crossroads
and now they, along with other members of the community, have decided that enough is enough. The residents have already raised a petition with more than 200 signatures and presented it to the Town Hall. This resulted in ‘sleeping policemen’ (or rather those useless rubber bumps) being placed on the road, but in their wisdom the Town Hall engineers placed them on the wrong side of the crossroads, where cars go up the hill rather than down and so they are completely ineffective. Continued on page 3