Province says goodbye to 2022 in short sleeves

In short sleeves and on the beach, as the year came to an end in the Alicante Province. This was how many people said goodbye to 2022 with more than pleasant temperatures, inappropriate for the time of the year, well in excess of twenty degrees, with the Climatology Laboratory of the University of Alicante confirming figures that are well above the average for recent years.

" We appear to be witnessing fewer and fewer cold spells at Christmas," says climatologist Jorge Olcina, who said that "the end-of-year temperatures over the last two years are between five and six degrees above the average maximum temperature for December in the Alicante Province".

The data confirms what we all know of course, a sensation shared by the people of Alicante where coats, at least during the day, became an accessory, carried in the back of the car, ‘just in case’.

A heartfelt plea has been made for a family dog that has gone missing in Almoradi.

"It’s been heartbreaking," owner Leisa Geddes told The Leader. The dog, called Bobby, is micro chipped and went missing from the Almoradi campo area: "Bobby could be anywhere by now," said worried Leisa.

We also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2023 but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures, and without regard to the race, creed, colour, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.

The year 2022 has seen one of the highest temperatures in the last week of the year in Alicante , close to 22 degrees (21.6), which has only been exceeded on three previous occasions (2015, with 22 .2 degrees; in 2017, with 23 degrees, and in 2021, with 23.9 degrees), temperatures that are far removed from the coldest year in recent times in the Alicante capital, where, in 2013 the mer- cury was below 15 degrees.

As Olcina points out, "in the last ten years there has been a tendency towards a predominance of anticyclonic situations with maximum temperatures above the average". "This has a clearly positive effect on tourist activity in the province," he added, alluding to the sector that benefits the most when temperatures are pleasant.

Historically, according to the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), the

The Local Police in Torrevieja received an alert from a witness who had seen two cats jump or fall from the eighth floor of an apartment block in La Mata, Torrevieja.

A police patrol immediately attended, accompanied

CARMEN GÓMEZ, the second deputy mayor and councillor for Urban Cleaning, has announced her resignation as councillor in the PP government, as a consequence of two judicial cases that are investigating irregularities in her management.

Gómez, who was also the Parks and Gardens councillor, made the announcement at a press appearance together with the mayor, Eduardo Dolón, last week

Anti- Corruption Prosecutor, Pablo Romero, accuses Gómez of administrative prevarication and requests a sentence of 12 years of disqualification from holding public office.

In addition, the councillor is involved in another legal proceeding in which she is being investigated for ordering construction material to the value of 180,000 euros for the construction of a park in La Siesta, without a contract. In this case, the Public Ministry is asking for a penalty of another 11 years of disqualification from holding public office.

Gómez has been a councillor on the Torrevieja City Council for almost twelve years: between 2011 and 2015 in the first government of Eduardo Dolón, later in the opposition and now as one of the fundamental pillars of the government management, in Personal, Urban Cleaning and Parks and Gardens. mercury reached 23.6 degrees at the end of the year in 1996. On New Years Day, however, we saw a maximum of 21 degrees and a minimum of ten degrees, temperatures that they would ‘cry out for’ in the UK and Ireland. Unfortunately though, it will now start to go downhill as, in general, temperatures are expected to drop gradually at the start of 2023, up to a 17 maximum and 6 minimum forecast for the night of The Three Kings. by fire and rescue teams, where they located the cats. One of them was on one of the terraces of the building and was immediately collected and taken to the veterinary clinic, but the second cat had become trapped in a gap between two walls.

The fire crews carefully dismantled the wall, brick by brick, and located the cat seemingly unharmed, before he too was taken for a thorough examination.

"He’s a medium size dog, with a skinny body and short rough haired coat. If you see him please call him, he will 100% respond to his name and go to you," added Leisa.

"Bobby is a 'lockdown' puppy, nearly three-year-old. He was my first puppy.

"I’ve always had rescue dogs and the youngest was 6 months, until we got Bobby.

"He is such a clever dog and has always been really well behaved. Never had to clean up any mess from him, even when he was a tiny puppy.

Someone has reported seeing Bobby by the lake in San Luis: "A dog ran up to her and nudged her, then just stood back. She didn’t know he was missing, otherwise would have taken him.

If you have any information about missing Bobby please telephone Leisa on 649 179 122.

Appearing excited and nervous, she that her decision to resign as a councillor is exclusively personal and that no one has pressured her to do so. In addition to thanking the mayor, her colleagues in the local government and various officials, she said " I arrived like a lady and I'm leaving like a lady. With my head held high".

Gómez, is the fourth Torrevieja councillor to resign her position for being involved in a legal case linked to her management since 2011.

Daniel Plaza and Francisco Moreno did so during the first term of Eduardo Dolón 2011-2015, and during the previous term, the PSOE councillor, Africa Celdrán also had to resign.