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Win an Internet Set top box and watch Your Favourite internet Uk TV via the Internet this Christmas... page 13 Delta del Ebro represent Spain in the planetary scale art project, 350 EARTH p16 Christmas fair open in Cocentaina-Muro d’Alcoi stretch of A-7 now open More protests and Valencia . strikes planned over VALENCIA’S Christmas fair is now open, mass unemployment with a world of fun and games for kids and NEW strikes are afoot mid-month over la- plenty more for grown-ups. bour reform proposals and general unem- From December 23 to January 6 – during ployment. Two of Spain’s major unions, the the Christmas holidays – the fair will be CCOO and the UGT, as well as the regional open every day from noon to 14.00hrs and syndicate IV, intend to down tools on Decem- then after 17.00hrs. ber 15 and 18. Demonstrations will be held Before the holidays start – and once they on the streets at 18.00hrs to protest over fi nish on January 7 through to the last day, the government’s poor efforts to create and January 24 - it will be open on Friday, Sat- keep jobs. The unions recalled that there urday and Sunday afternoons and evenings are 600,000 people unemployed in the and on the two upcoming bank holidays. PART of the motorway run- nally connected by motorway, of local drivers easier. Comunidad Valenciana alone, and a stag- ning inland from Alicante to but the initial plans were not Look out for ‘children’s day’ on January 22, This partly accounts for the gering quarter of a million have no income Valencia has opened, bridg- without their controversy in increased cost in building the whatsoever because their dole money has 23 and 24, with special discounted prices ing the 11.6-kilometre gap the beginning. of one euro for kids and 1.50 euros for motorway, which is toll-free, run out. Furthermore, 89 per cent of new between Cocentaina and Hundreds of residents in the since it had to be diverted job contracts created in the region are tem- adults. Muro d’Alcoi. area protested against plans to avoid fl attening parts of porary, and 57 per cent of these are part- The rest of the new stretch of to build the new trunk road, green-belt countryside. time. The countrywide strike on September the A-7 will open before next saying it would destroy the Si- The road links up to the N- 29 this year ‘brought no improvements’, say summer, says minister of erra Mariola nature reserve 340 in Muro d’Alcoi and to unions, and if anything the situation has public works, José Blanco. and would ‘only benefi t a the north of Alcoy, and CV- worsened. 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