Leading this week with news of the impending strike by waste disposal operators across the whole of Orihuela and Orihuela Costa unless their demands for improved working conditions are met within 20 days.

Page three, meanwhile, reports on the European Warrant issued by the Guardia Civil for the arrest of a sixth person, an Irishman, identified only as Simon, who fled Spain following the murder of Dubliner Carl Carr in La Siesta last September.