Jun 17, 2013

According to the Spanish National Geographic Institute (IGN), the astronomical summer will begin on Friday the 21st of June, at 07:04 GMT, 09:04 local time, and will bring with it one of the longest summer seasons in recent centuries, lasting 93 days and 15 hours, until the arrival of autumn on September the 22nd. On Friday the 21st, there will be 15 hours and...

Jun 16, 2013

This week, in The Leader, we start with Orihuela council. Last week marked the halfway point in the current tenure of the government team. That doesn´t necessarily mean the bi-party coalition won´t carry on after the next elections, who knows what might happen in 2015, but it is halfway between the public making their democratic choices. We look at...

Jun 16, 2013

Having shared a box of chocolates with the members of the press, a token celebration of his two years at the helm of Orihuela, the mayor of the municipality, Monserrate Guillén, said that the government team still has “much to do”, and that his team has no intention of “giving in”. It was on the 11th of June, 2011, that the...

Jun 15, 2013

Jun 15, 2013

One of the most heart warming days at the beach took place at Las Teresitas, at Santa Cruz de Tenerife on Saturday, when the beach and the sea were both offered up to workers of a four legged kind. A total of fifteen guide dogs were freed from the responsibility of their daily routine and given the opportunity to take a day off, playing in the sand, swimming in...

Jun 15, 2013

A 62 year old woman managed to embed her car into the front of a Badajoz butchers shop today, after apparently becoming distracted at the wheel. The woman was said to have become nervous whilst carrying out a parking manoeuvre, hitting the car´s accelerator, rather than the brake, shooting forward and becoming embedded under the half closed shutter of the...

Jun 15, 2013

Jun 15, 2013