The Budget has now been approved for the first of a number of major investments into the infrastructure, particularly the road network, around San Miguel de Salinas, with works expected to get under way next year on the first such improvement.

Meanwhile, despite their immense popularity, there can be no more mud baths in Torrevieja Salinas as he authorities have instructed the police to administer fines of between 60 to 600 euro, to anyone found contravening the recently publicised law and despite the awful weather conditions over the weekend we report on one of the very few Easter Sunday resurrection parades that did go ahead.