Cruise control Unwanted catch

Last year 219 cruise stops were made in Valencia port with an estimated 800,000 passengers, double 2019. A DENIA trawler got an unwanted catch after netting two migrants bodies at the bottom of the sea.

The crew of the Herminio y Dolores found the bodies in their nets six miles out at sea at a depth of 100 metres.

The Guardia Civil and a forensic team including a coroner were waiting for it when it docked at Denia.

The bodies were of two men and both had Nigerian documentation on them.

A further four bodies have been found in Denia fishing boat nets over recent weeks.

A campaigning, community newspaper, the Olive Press represents the huge expatriate community in Spain with an estimated readership, including the websites, of more than two million people a month.

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Fight the good fight

WHILE all seems to be lost in the fight to stop yet more concrete desecrating the Costa Blanca, campaigners have vowed to never give up.

Orihuela council has finally approved plans - apparently reluctantly - to build 2,200 homes at scenic Cala Mosca.

A move by Mayor Carolina Gracia to offer a land swap deal with developer Gomendio came to nought.

Now - despite visiting Brussels to personally oppose it way back in 2007 - she has given the green light, claiming the town would be bankrupted by the €200 million compensation it would have to pay the developer.

But local campaigners remain unimpressed by the political shenanigans that have seen the hot potato passed to and fro between the council and the Generalitat for years.

As campaign group Salvemos’ spokesman Angel Barcelo told the Olive Press: “The development is an attack on our town, against nature and yet another instance of the council damaging the coast.”

It is right that he points this out. The only people who actually want to see the development go ahead are the developers sniffing for yet another golden pay out.

But for some reason the politicians have been unable to halt the scheme.

So it now falls to the campaign groups to pick up their cudgels and stand in defence of the Costa Blanca coast, physically and in court.

But they need money to pay for a lawyer to take on the Goliath developer which is awash with cash. We urge people to support Salvemos in any way they can.

They are the last line of defence against Fat Cat developers with no concern for the coastline of this beautiful region.

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