Annual nationwide Food Bank campaign collects 140 million kilos

• Second annual Food Bank collection gets over 135 tons of donations in the Campo area
• 1700 Campo de Gibraltar volunteers helped exceed expectations

ALGECIRAS (Cádiz) The second edition of a national annual foodstuffs campaign was a resounding success this year. Held throughout the country over three days last weekend and organized at local levels by several different groups coordinated by the Banco De Alimentos Foundation, the total collected came to over 140 million kilos to be distributed among the needy. In the Campo de Gibraltar area alone there were some 30 collection points, principally at supermarkets where you were handed an empty plastic bag as you went in and asked to do the best you could.

Campo de Gibraltar suffered 94.1% of last summer's forest fires in the province

Poniente winds and arson were the main problems

Near San Roque
(andaluciainformacion.es)

CAMPO DE GIBRALTAR -- Thirty separate forest fires burned 394.21 hectares of brushland in the Campo area last summer. There was at least one incident in six of the seven municipalities, the exception being La Línea. This is according to a recent report by INFOCA, the province's fire prevention unity. The province itself was impacted by a total of 69 fires, just over 6% of Andalucía's total. In terms of the whole province, most of the man-provoked fires happened in the Campo area, particularly in San Roque, where the annual arson count continues unabated. There was also an arson attack in the Rio de la Miel section of Algeciras and the perpetrator was arrested shortly after. In fact, arson is believed to be one of the main reasons the Campo de Gibraltar has neared the top of the list for annual forest fire incidents.

The possibility of Ebola in Algeciras and Tarifa

An immigration centre in the Campo
de Gibraltar (AFP)

(Date: Wednesday, Oct 08) ALGECIRAS – Last night, Wednesday, there were rumours flying about that there were several cases under suspicion of immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa carrying the feared Ebola virus. A survey among the various places the immigrants that come over on flimsy boats are given refuge in Algeciras and Tarifa, as well as local and national media, confirmed that there had been some suspicion but no confirmed cases. It isn’t surprising that suspicion would arise in the two towns, where these centres are overwhelmed at this time of year – summer is the preferred time of year to risk your life crossing the straits in what often amounts to nothing more than