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Edition 271
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Friday 13th May 2016
USE IT OR LOSE IT!
ritish expats living in Spain have until this Monday May 16th to register for a postal vote in next month’s EU Referendum. That is the deadline for making people can get their ballot papers in the post and then send them back in time for the vote to be counted. Voting papers will be sent out in the week beginning May 23rd. If the postal vote deadline is missed, expats who have been on a UK electoral register for the last 15 years can still register their details at www.gov.uk/register-to-vote but they will need to choose someone in the UK to vote on their behalf in what is known
as a proxy vote. British Ambassador Simon Manley said “I know there is a huge amount of interest among Brits in Spain in the EU Referendum. Almost 100,000 people with Spanish IP addresses have so far visited the government webpage where you can register to vote. “Ultimately, it is for the British people to decide whether we should remain in or leave the European Union, but, whatever they think on the issue, I would appeal to my fellow Brits in Spain not to miss the chance to have their say in this once-in-a-generation referendum.”
BY ALEX TRELINSKI
LONG WAIT IS OVER Contract Awarded For New School
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fter a 14 year fight by parents and teachers, a new contract has finally been awarded for the building of a new infant and junior school to replace the “temporary” cabins that have been used by the Colegio Playas de Orihuela situated at the end of the Playa Flamenca market road, which often suffered from flooding.
Despite a tender for the six point six million euro
project being advertised by the Valencian government a
year ago, no information on its progress had been released until news came in the Official Gazette of the Valencian Region last Friday that a deal had been signed. The contract has gone to Civimed SLU for the work which will take 18 months to complete, which in all probability means that the project will not be finished before the start of 2018.