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4 FRIDAY 1ST NOVEMBER 2019<br />
www.weekender.news<br />
Migrant landings<br />
EIGHT BOATS carrying up<br />
to a 100 migrants from<br />
<strong>North</strong> Africa were intercepted<br />
at different points<br />
off the <strong>Alicante</strong> Province<br />
coast last weekend.<br />
Flu jab campaign<br />
THE VALENCIA region<br />
starts its annual push to<br />
get people vaccinated<br />
against influenza this<br />
Monday (November 4th).<br />
Vulnerable groups are being<br />
targetted to persuade<br />
them to get the flu jab, including<br />
people aged over<br />
65; pregnant women; people<br />
with serious ongoing medical<br />
conditions; young children;<br />
by Alex Trelinski<br />
All of the boats and immigrants<br />
were eventually transferred<br />
to <strong>Alicante</strong>, and were<br />
treated by the Cruz Roja.<br />
by Alex Trelinski<br />
emergency workers like<br />
firefighters and ambulance<br />
crews; and medical staff.<br />
Figures suggest that only<br />
around 65 per cent of elderly<br />
people in Spain take<br />
advantage of the free vaccinations,<br />
which will be available<br />
from all local health<br />
centres.<br />
Areas where the boats were<br />
stopped included the waters<br />
off Cabo Roig and Pilar de la<br />
Horadada in the south, with<br />
Altea and Benitatxell seeing<br />
interceptions further north.<br />
PROSECUTORS have<br />
asked for four years in jail<br />
for a local police officer<br />
accused of forging a disabled<br />
parking badge for<br />
his partner.<br />
The unidentified man<br />
worked in the town of Moncofa<br />
in the Castellon province<br />
where his then partner,<br />
a 49 year old Ukrainian<br />
Most of the migrants,<br />
which included children, appeared<br />
to have come from<br />
Algeria, and early checks<br />
showed them all to be in<br />
good health.<br />
Policeman<br />
parking probe<br />
by Simon Russell<br />
woman, was parking in an<br />
area reserved for disable<br />
people or those with reduced<br />
mobility. This carried on for<br />
four years until the infringement<br />
came to light.<br />
The officer’s partner has<br />
also been accused of fraud<br />
though not of forgery.<br />
Cruz Roja<br />
in <strong>Alicante</strong>
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