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Eight point<br />
plan revealed<br />
BENISSA Mayor Arturo Poquet<br />
(Partido Popular) and<br />
members of his team unveiled<br />
their eight key projects<br />
in a press conference<br />
this week, with the first<br />
item being approval of the<br />
new budget without which<br />
the whole package will<br />
presumably be in doubt.<br />
by Simon Russell<br />
The General Structure Plan<br />
also needs to be approved and<br />
it is hoped to submit this<br />
to the Generalitat by June<br />
next year after the initial<br />
procedures are followed.<br />
Other goals include boosting<br />
tourism, the construction<br />
of a new town hall, a new<br />
football pitch and athletics<br />
track plus the building of a<br />
municipal auditorium.<br />
These ambitious proposals<br />
represent a four year plan<br />
for Benissa, said Mr Poquet,<br />
as the town enters a period<br />
of political stability compared<br />
to recent years.<br />
Mayor Poquet (right) with his Tourism Councillor at the press conference last week<br />
FRIDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER 2019 19<br />
Calpe<br />
THREE people, two men<br />
and a woman, have been<br />
arrested in connection<br />
with a spate of burglaries<br />
on an urbanisation in the<br />
municipality in August.<br />
They have initially been<br />
charged with five counts of<br />
theft and breaking and entering<br />
relating to incidents on<br />
the Maryvilla development.<br />
At the time the group<br />
WHEN is an electric<br />
scooter not an electric<br />
scooter?<br />
When it weighs 60 kilos,<br />
has a top speed of 45<br />
kmph and engine power<br />
equating to 1,600 watts<br />
according to the Calpe police,<br />
who fined the rider of<br />
one €1,500 recently.<br />
Everyone will have noticed<br />
the dramatic increase<br />
Local&WhatsOn<br />
by Simon Russell<br />
were stopped on their way<br />
out of Calpe by a Citizen Security<br />
Unit and asked about<br />
items they were carrying in<br />
the vehicle.<br />
The officers cross checked<br />
them against computer records<br />
of missing or stolen<br />
goods but as there was no<br />
reports they were allowed<br />
Big fine for e-scooter rider<br />
by Simon Russell<br />
Burglary<br />
gang<br />
arrested<br />
on their way. However a<br />
few days later, presumably<br />
because the properties were<br />
unoccupied at the time of the<br />
theft, the reports did come<br />
in and the trail led back<br />
to the three people in the<br />
car leading to their arrest<br />
this week.<br />
Further arrests and<br />
charges have not been ruled<br />
out say the authorities.<br />
in the number of such machines<br />
buzzing around recently,<br />
something legislation<br />
is struggling to keep up<br />
with.<br />
However as far as the<br />
police were concerned this<br />
ride-on “scooter” was effectively<br />
a moped and needed<br />
to be registered and insured,<br />
which it wasn’t when<br />
they stopped it on Calle<br />
Doctor Fleming.<br />
Calpe itself has no specific<br />
bylaws on the vehicles,<br />
leaving the police to judge<br />
the matter within the<br />
framework of the current<br />
legislation, something that<br />
may prove controversial to<br />
some but many will also approve<br />
of.<br />
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