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Mothers in Carlet , near Valencia on the Costa Azahar , became suspicious when the vaccination cards given to their children , after they had been vaccinated , had no reference number.

Now a paediatrician has been arrested for injecting the children with serum but no vaccination and charging the parents 70 and 90 euros for the “service “. Fifty children were involved and the excuse given by the doctor was that she “needed the money “.

She has also been accused by four adults who she charged between 400 and 800 euros for injections against the Human Papilloma virus.Once again they say it was only a serum.

The doctor was charged and released after she gave a statement in court and now the Health department will also investigate the case.

She has been working in Carlet for five years but has now been suspended.The concern of the parents was that their children had not been protected.The parents have had meetings with the Department of Health.

It is hoped that the culprits for over 100 Spanish robberies , have been arrested.Thirteen people have been arrested and charged with more than 100 robberies in Almeria , Alicante and Murcia.

This was a joint operation between the National Police and the Guardia Civil.They searched 9 properties and found a wide variety of goods including drugs.

The leader of the gang hired the others to carry out the robberies in a variety of towns.Most of the gang were Latvian, Algerian and Russian.They were involved in the burglaries but also involved in the falsifying of documents and stealing from vehicles.

They were based in Orihuela Costa and Torrevieja and they committed crimes in Vera , Mojacar , Garrucha , Los Alcazares, Formente del Segura , Almoradi and Rojales.

The investigation has been going on since last October and the arrests were eventually made in Torrevieja , Alicante and Marseille in France.Some of the 13 were women who received the stolen goods and stored them.Seven of the 13 have been remanded in custody.

An inspection of the retirement home in Benissa on the Costa Blanca called “Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, San Joaquin and Santa Ana “deemed that the centre did not comply with minimum hygiene requirements.

Now the new owners of the retirement home are carrying out measures which will sop the establishment being closed down.This follows complaints regarding hygiene and care received by the Valencia Regional Government´s Social Welfare Department.

Staffing at the home was also deemed to be not enough with only 7 staff for 64 residents.Only one member of staff was a nurse.There was no doctor , psychologist or physiotherapist.

Press reports have stressed that the elderly residents did have a roof over their heads and they were fed but there was very little in the way of care.The home is about to take on 10 more staff.They will compromise 8 assistant nurses, 2 social workers and a manager.

In 1829 Torrevieja on the Costa Blanca suffered an earthquake that killed 389 people.The earthquake measured 6.6 on the Richter Scale.

The Costa Blanca still has regular tremors only they are generally to small to be noticed but they are recorded.

Now Torrevieja is to draft an action plan to indicate just what everyone should do should another earthquake hit the region.

The Torrevieja town hall has been forced into doing this by the Valencia regional government.They want all municipalities to have planned for the way in which they would react.This would include all emergency services plus health centres and hospitals, also the water authorities and other utility services.

A spokesperson for the Torrevieja town hall seemed to play down the importance in saying that the region had only a moderate risk of another earthquake.However a working group has now been set up and it will implement the regional government guidelines.The working group is made up of councillors plus heads of the various departments most affected in such circumstances .

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It seems that Alicante Province has the highest incidence of black market traders in Spain.This was discovered by Social security inspectors.Over half of the cases detected in the Valencia region were in Alicante province.

The statistics from January to September in 2011 were obtained and published by the CCOO union.They show that over 11 million euros per month in social security payments are not paid .Out of a total of almost 7000 cases , 4000 were in Alicante , 2313 were in Valencia and 647 were in Castellon.

The CCOO has called for an end to a culture of fraud which hinders competitiveness.It appears that it is often impossible to trace who actually owns a business and so recover back payments and fines.People who do not pay cannot just use a lack of money for non-payment says one union.Well , yes they can if their businesses are not making any money.It is those businesses that are making money and who do not pay who are the cause of the problem.

The aim was to construct a museum in Villajoyosa on the Costa Blanca but now the Councillor for Culture says that the project is on hold but could be ready for the summer of 2013.

The company building the museum announced the delay last week , saying that it could not be ready for this summer.They stressed that this had nothing to do with money being unavailable from the regional government.Problems which were highlighted at the beginning of the project have not been resolved yet.

One problem related to the foundations of the building after there had been very heavy rain.This structural problem needed more thought.Then a rare bird was found nesting on the site.

Now the thoughts are to resolve the issues and to promote the museum at the next Fitur tourism fair in Madrid in 2013.

The Valencia regional government has withdrawn all of its subsidies to local councils for helping them prevent flooding.In so doing they have saved 3.6 million euros.

These subsidies helped to pay for road resurfacing ,repairing mains water supplies,flood defence systems , road resurfacing in rural areas and such important projects.

In November another 2.1 million euros was withdrawn and this was announced by Alberto Fabra the Valencia president.The reason was a basic one, they just do not have the money .He also stated that the economic climate in Valencia is a bad one.The 2012 budget has had to be cut because of this lack of money.

He went on to explain that any funding will need to be fully investigated before it is agreed or spent.Others who have been hit by the cuts are sporting clubs who will receive nothing and many of them will be unable to carry out their full programme of events this year.

The cuts will also affect investment in infrastructure investment and projects such as the final phase of the Via Parque in Alicante have now been stopped until things improve.

Last week a fire took place in an apartment on the Costa Blanca and luckily a mother and her two young children were rescued by firefighters.The firefighters managed to get a ladder up to the window where the family were trapped and pulled them through the window.

This was not a normal fire case as the woman told her rescuers that a man had broken into her flat and started to hit her before tying her hands and feet.She managed to wriggle to the bedroom where her children were sleeping and close the door.However later she began to smell smoke and started to scream for help.Neighbours were alerted by her screams and called the emergency services.

The police have now started an attempted murder investigation.The brother- in -law of the woman is being sought by the police as the husband has stated that his brother had commented that he wanted to see his wife dead.In fact he has even attempted to run her over in the last 18 months.

The flat was totally destroyed in the blaze.The brother-in-law was later found and questioned but no arrests have been made.

Elderly residents in Murcia on the Costa Calida have been subjected to a scam whereby some people have posed as nurses to gain access to homes and steal property.

Now National Police officers have arrested two young men in Molina de Segura in connection with these thefts.To enable them to get into the homes the 19 and 21 year old would say that they were registered with the Regional Health Department.

Once inside they would start to carry out health checks and would ask the residents to remove jewellery to enable the checks to take place.They would then steal the jewellery.

Criminals carrying out similar scams were arrested last year in Pilar de la Horadada ,Los Alcazares and San Javier.They also claimed to be nurses on a training course.The National Police have warned that most residents were elderly and living alone.