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Cartagena: Cultural Hotspot

CARTAGENA’S museums are buzzing with exercise this 12 months! Thus far, they’ve welcomed 394,865 guests, a cool 9.14 per cent soar from final 12 months. Summer time was notably busy, with a shocking 11 per cent enhance in customer numbers throughout July and August. July noticed 52,973 company, up 12.42 per cent from final 12 months, whereas August adopted go well with with 76,939 guests, a ten.34 per cent improve.

Mayor Noelia Arroyo is thrilled, noting that this improve in guests not solely helps the native tourism trade and creates jobs but in addition helps protect town’s wealthy cultural heritage. Financially, issues are trying nice too, with ticket gross sales climbing to just about €2 million, a 13.82 per cent rise from 2023.

The star of the present is the Teatro Romano, attracting 175,422 guests. The Panoramic Elevator and the Fort of Concepción additionally drew giant crowds. Cartagena’s cultural scene is unquestionably thriving!

Mar Menor: Cleaner Waters

RESEARCHERS from the Polytechnic College of Valencia have discovered that stricter fertilizer guidelines are serving to shield Spain’s Mar Menor lagoon. Launched 4 years in the past, these measures embrace precision farming, planting hedges as limitations, and replanting and rewilding areas, which have lowered nitrate runoff by over a 3rd. By tailoring fertilizer use to plant progress and utilizing drip irrigation, nitrogen runoff has dropped considerably, making a giant distinction in water high quality.

Precision agriculture, although typically debated, has reduce nitrogen ranges within the groundwater by 43 per cent. Re-forested areas might stop about 23 per cent of runoff, however they arrive with price and practicality challenges. An easier resolution, like dedicating simply 5 per cent of every farm to hedges, might nonetheless reduce sediment manufacturing considerably.

The outcomes are promising, however ongoing collaboration amongst farmers, policymakers, and the group is vital. Utilizing these mixed measures might drastically scale back each sediment and nitrogen getting into the lagoon, serving to to revive the Mar Menor’s fragile ecosystem.

Royal British Legion Murcia Department: Funds Raised

THE Royal British Legion (RBL) is making an influence in the Murcia area of Spain, offering essential monetary, social, and emotional assist to veterans, energetic service members, and their households. Just lately, the RBL Murcia Department hosted a fundraising occasion at Cat’s Bar and Tel’s Bar, that includes leisure from the gifted singer Vanessa. The group got here collectively in a giant method, elevating €490.84 by means of raffle tickets, and with an extra beneficiant donation from Sean the DJ, the whole hit €500.

However the giving didn’t cease there—extra donations poured in all through the evening, and with some light-hearted encouragement from those that made the rounds with a set bucket, attendees dug deep to assist the trigger. The grand complete raised was a formidable €552.

The funds raised will go on to serving to veterans in Murcia. For these concerned about studying extra, the RBL Murcia Department committee will likely be at ‘Boochies’ in Los Alcázares on September 19 for a espresso and chat.

Virgen de la Arrixaca Hospital: European Excellence

VIRGEN de la Arrixaca Hospital in Murcia has simply been recognised as a high European centre for theranostics, a contemporary most cancers therapy that mixes prognosis and remedy. It’s one in all solely three hospitals in Spain to earn the ‘EARL Theranostics Centres of Excellence’ certification, becoming a member of the College Hospital of Salamanca and the College Clinic of Navarra.

Theranostics makes use of particular molecules to focus on most cancers cells and is used for treating thyroid, liver, neuroendocrine, and prostate cancers. These molecules are mixed with radioactive substances to each detect and destroy tumours with precision.

Well being Minister Juan José Pedreño highlighted the hospital’s dedication to high-quality care and superior know-how, making it a key participant in personalised most cancers therapy.

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