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LOCAL MARKETS

Monday:         Antas, Huércal Overa.
Tuesday:        Los Gallados, Almeria City.
Wednesday:  Mojacar, Bedar, Lubrin.
Thursday:      Cuevas del Almanzora, Carboneras, Sorbas.
Friday:            Garrucha, Turre.
Saturday:       Vera, Aguilas.

USEFUL PHONE NUMBERS

National Emergency Number: - 112 for Police, Fire, Ambulance.
                                                          (operators speak Spanish, English, French & German)
24 hr. Emergency Clinic / Doctor: - 950 390075 in Vera near Mercadona Supermarket.
Local Doctor, Garrucha: - 950 133202 National Health.
Local Doctor, Garrucha: - 950 132803 Private, not emergency, speaks English.
Chemist, Garrucha: - 950 460085.
Chemist, Vera: - 950 390712 - 950 390136.
Dentist, Mojacar: - 950 478534 in Parque Comercial.
Dentist, Vera: - 950 390655.
Coast Guard 900 202202
Local Police - Guardia Civil, Garrucha  950 617079,  Vera 950 390027.
British Consulate (stolen Passports) 952 352300.
British Embassy  913 190200 Madrid. Passport Call Centre 807 429026
Town Hall - Vera 950393016 - Garrucha 950 460058

NATIONAL FIESTAS

January 1st - New Years Day
January 6th - Epiphany
February 28th - Andalucia Day
April 5th - Maunday Thursday
April 6th - Good Friday
May 1st - May Day
August 15th - Assumption Day
October 12th - Hispanic Day
November 1st - All Saints Day
December 6th - Constitution Day
December 8th - Day of the Imaculate Conception
December 25th - Christmas Day

Vera Playa Club Hotel - 4X Hotel
Benitos - Bar / Rest
Buena Mesa - Bar / Rest
Gift Shop
Pizzarie Jardin - Bar / Rest
La Chava - Spanish bar
The Blue Parrot - Bar / Rest
Bar Broadway - Late Bar
A’ Divina - Gay bar (formerly Miamie’s)
Happy Castor - Snooker hall & Bars
Supermarket - General provisions
Tablao de la Chus - Flemenco - Show bar
La Perla Negra - erotic bar        
El Balconito - Spanish Tapas Bar
Frankie’s Bar - Bar
Corner Bar
Pasa Double cafe bar (behind NatSun pool)
Nat-Sun Chiringuito - Beach Bar / Rest
Ground Zero - Louis´s. Beach hut bar
Buena Vista (formerly Sol y Luna) - Beach Bar
The Cabin - Ice cream, beer, near Sol y Luna
PuntoNat - Beach stuff, beer, near Sol y Luna
Chez Tri-al - Swingers club
Mini-Market. 8 to Midnight supermarket
Cafe - Bar Trinidad. Vera Natura reception
Atoda Vela Bar  - Late Bar
Rest. Mayo 2004 - Bar Rest
Leńos & Carbon - Grill Bar
Kikiri-pollo - Take away / eat-in (chicken)
Heladeria Fado Bar Rest
ConSum Supermarket & Shopping Mall
Cyber Cafè Ocala
Wok Buffet - Chino buffet
Piano Bar
Heladeria - Ice cream - bar
Chilli´s Indian Restaurant
Parque Aquatico (Water Park)     

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Central Beach
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Judge orders temporary accommodation be given to Helen and Len Prior
After two years living in the garage next to the remains of demolished home in Vera, Almería, British Couple Helen and Len Prior are to be given a temporary home by a judge’s order.
Lawyers acting for the couple are claiming compensation from the local council for the loss of their home and also applied for ‘provisional measures’ to house them in a similar property to the one they lost, and it is these measures which the judge has ordered be met. The local council now has to find them a similar property or pay the rent on another one while the case is completed.
AUAN, Abusos Urbanisticos Almanzora No, the protest group acting against the demolition of property in the area, reports that Helen and Len have found a suitable property, and are waiting for the council to agree.

44 years since atomic bombs fell on Palomares, Almería
A propaganda documentary made at the time on the United States operation which led to the accident has now been released. Photos went round the world in 1966 of the then Spanish Minister for Tourism, Manuel Fraga, and the United States ambassador to Spain, Angier Biddle Duke, taking a dip off the coast of Palomares in Almería. It was a publicity shot taken with the intention of proving that the waters were safe after four atomic bombs fell in the area, two on land and two at sea, following a mid-air collision involving a B52 bomber and a tanker plane based at Morón de la Frontera in Cádiz during a mid-air refuelling operation.The bombs fell on January 17, 44 years ago. None of the 1.5 megaton bombs exploded although two of them leaked radioactive plutonium over the area. The other two were recovered intact from the sea, one of them a month later by a local fisherman.Now a propaganda documentary made at the time on the incident has been declassified under the freedom of information law, and is available at the webpage of the United States National Security Archive, a private body based at Washington University. Despite the publicity shots it is known that plutonium, uranium and americium were released into the sea.
The documentary is called ‘Operation Headstart’, and was produced by the United States Air Force to show the viability of its strategy in the face of a hypothetical attack from the USSR. Military chiefs explain in the film how the Soviets could launch long range ballistic missiles, and that the United States response was to have a permanent presence in the air of B52 bombers, loaded with nuclear bombs, and refuelling in flight, to counter-attack. In fact the strategy was revised following two refuelling accidents in Spain in 1966 and in Denmark in 1968. Remaining radioactivity was found in earth in the area in testing carried out in 2008. That discovery resulted in the United States giving a new undertaking to remove the contamination and 1.6 tons of earth. The incident is also now being made into a Hollywood film by Miramax.