A 20/20 cricket match was organised by two teams ,not just at any old venue but at the Everest base camp.The funds raised were to be donated to the Lord’s Taverners  and the Sherpa Trust ,a charity which supports the families of sherpa’s who are in need of help.The match would also be listed as a world record for being a cricket match which had taken place at the highest elevation above sea level.

The match was played in April and had a lot of media coverage and it raised about 100,000 pounds.Included in those who took part there was a four strong medical team and  a part of their kit was a defibrillator.When they returned to the UK the machine was no longer needed and in fact it was never used on Everest.

There was a connection between someone who took part in the cricket match and someone in the Teulada -Moraira Lions and as the Lions had been looking for a defibrillator it was decided to give the Everest Cricket a donation in exchange for the machine.The rest is history so to speak and now the machine is in Benitaxell.The hisory of the machine will most certainly be a talking point when  it is being usedon a patient.

It seems that the aircraft deliberately hit a queue of people waiting outside the fish marketand other bombs fell on homes and on a football pitch.The spokesperson for the United Left said that they had made a formal request to the Torrevieja town hall in 2007 for a memorial to be erected to mark the 70th anniversary of the air raid.There has still been no reply from the ruling PP party.

The IU will now take their request to the regional and national governments to ask them to intervene in an effort to obtain a license from the port authority to erect such a memorial.The spokesperson has said that it is the obligation of the town hall to remember the people who died.

The taxi drivers arrived at the bus station at about noon and once they had organised themselves a statement in support of their colleague in Murcia.The statement was read in front of the president of the taxi drivers association.He then told them that being a taxi driver can at times be a very dangerous occupationand that it has very little if any real security .He called on the authorities to come up with some plan to standardise taxis so that security inside them could be improved.

He also called for government subsidies to help drivers to install security systems.To instal one into the town’s 232 taxis would cost about 600,000 euros.

Public works minister Jose Blanco has already given hints that people who earn more should pay more taxes.Analysts believe that this was his way of warning that tax rises were inevitable.The government doesn’t want to cut its public spending programme but maybe that is just what it must do .It is very bad housekeeping to spend money that you do not have to spend.Then to claw it back from the public seems to be quite immoral.Increasing the tax on alcohol,cigarettes and the like would be a much better way than putting up the general rate of tax.The 2010 budget will be announced in the next few weeks.

The regional transport councillor has said that the new line was needed because of the new terminal at El Altet.Once that is complete then it could see the airport having 20 million passengers pass through the terminals each year.The old routes from Alicante airport to the city centre have now been incorporated into other routes which will take people to Elche,crevillente and Torrellano.

At Manises they discovered paper used to print the money and then rthe National Police followed up this lead to discover the 8 million which was about to flood the European market.The money was discovered hidden in the two properties owned by the men who were arrested at the airport.A search of a house in real de Gandia also uncovered the laboratory where the money was printed.This led to a further twelve arrests.

The paper had come from China and it was ready to use.The National Police and the Banco de espana have both said that if the paper had not been discovered then there could have been 7,000 million euros in high quality fake notes circulating throughout Europe.This is the biggest coup since the euro was launched.This could have caused a major problem with the EU economy.

This investigation began in 2008 and at first it was thought that it related to drugs .A court in Valencia has begun proceedings against the two Spanish nationals detained at the airport and they will be charged with counterfeiting ,money laundering and drug trafficking.

they are stating that the vaccine must be safe and that additional tests must be carried out before it is used on a wide scale.The research and test procedures and their timings have to be respected and must be rigorous.Murcia doctors do not want to have the vaccine without these safeguards.

They feel that there is no need to launch a special protection campaign in Murcia as they have not experienced too many cases and they  do not want residents to be alarmed.If people follow good basic hygiene and common sense then it could be enough to protect people from the flu.

The president of the association agrees that A and E departments could be inundated but it will very much depend on the potency of the virusduring the autumn and winter.The virus has not been very active in the Murcia region so far.

Representitives from all regions of Spain met in Madrid last week to establish a common medical protocol with regard to swine flu and also to coordinate their actions.

The first time it happened was when he needed to have his national identity card replaced.When they checked his name it registered as someone who was wanted by the police and he was detained in the offices for over two hours until it was proven that he was not this man.

He thought that the matter had been cleared up and it went to the back of his mind until last week while on a walking holiday with his family in Castalla he was arrested by the Guardia Civil and because it was the weekend and his identity could not be verified because all of the offices were closed( where are the databases on police computers?)he was kept in custody for 48 hours.

During his two day stay in prison he suffered anxiety attacks and a serious asthma attack.To add insult to injury when the authorities realised that they had made a mistake not one person apologised for the mix-up.This is a man who needs to know that this will never happen to him again.He will now walk in fear of being detained once again.

He now has a lawyer working on his behalf and who is seeking that the police in some way ensure that this man is not misidentified again and that he receives some compensation for the trauma that he has suffered.He is not a criminal and has never committed a criminal act and yet the police don’t seem to care about his problem.

It appears that the man fired five shots at the flag and was then arrested as he tried to drive away in his car.He has had an ongoing dispute with the British Consulate because they will not allow him to enter the UK ,even though his children are there.

The Spanish authorities say that he has been arrested previously because of forgery and making threats.Considering the number of people who are already living in the UK illegally ,without seeking the permission of anyone.It seems ironic that this man is seeking to enter the country legally and cannot do so.When people are so thwarted then sometimes they do make threats and sometimes they do attempt to forge documents ,out of sheer frustration .

The British authorities may have very good reason to keep this man out of the country but he obviously feels very angry about something ,maybe it has nothing to do with his family but if it was for a more furtive reason then why would he try to go through the  correct channels?

Getting the building demolished has been high on the agenda of the council’s urban image department which has said that the building is in a very dangerous condition and has become the haunt of drug users and vagrants.Last week the Alicante council declared the building a ruin and that the general state of the building was giving cause for concern.

The owners of the building say that they will pull the building down within 15 days of receiving the demolition order and that they will then begin proceedings that will permit them to build 14 apartments and garages.

How can the council allow another building to be built on the same site when it is right on the sea front and within the no-building zone?That is the question which now needs to be answered.This zone is covered by the Ley de Costa which is being enforced in many areas obliging people to demolish their homes.

Rumour has it that Inversiones AM 2000 obtained permission to build in April 2008 provided that their plans were amended.This is one of those very strange cases which seems to have the hallmark of many similar cases in the past.Watch this space.