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THE new Alicante school year opened to new protests. And the protests were backed by claims spending cuts breach pupils’ rights and jeopardise teachers’ conditions. As Education Councillor Antonio Ardid opened Alicante City’s newest school, Colegio Mediterrani, the Defence of State Education Platform protested outside, demanding ‘an immediate reversal’ of new measures. The administration is doing everything possible to destroy the state education system, claimed the group, which plans more demonstrations throughout this month. • Turn to Page 4
Jail threat A COUPLE who falsified an accident report should be jailed for two years and fined €2,160, Alicante’s Prosecutor has said.
MORE people in Spain - expats and locals - are giving up smoking. And it is the nation’s economic crisis and high unemployment, plus the ban on smoking in public, that have most encouraged people to quit. • More quit smoking - Page 3
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ALL Bank Holidays should be moved to Mondays in a bid to save €788 million, the Valencian Government has said.
EIGHT Romanians have been arrested for raids on homes, businesses and farms by Alicante Provincial Police.
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Hard to swallow ONLY 26 per cent of parents want children to take their own food to school, an Alicante Federation of Parents Associations survey shows.
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Home sales rise, but no reason for glee SPANISH property sales improved between April and June, statistics reveal, but they were below numbers for 12 months earlier. Homes on the Costa Blanca and the Costa del Sol were the best sellers, with Alicante and Malaga provinces the leading performers. In total 80,235 buyers finalised deals between April and the end of June, an increase of 15.6 per cent on the first quarter of 2012. But despite the increase, second quarter sales were still 11.6 per cent lower than the same period in 2011. Transactions involving new properties rose by 33.7 per cent compared with the first three months of this year. There was also a 12.1 per cent rise in the number of foreign purchasers, accounting for 9,502 of properties sold in the second quarter. A breakdown of the figures issued by the Ministry of Public Works shows that the majority of properties acquired by non-Spanish buyers were
Hi-fi giveaway THREE people with criminal records have been arrested in Burriana, Castellon, for breaking into a social club after Guardia Civil traced back a stolen hi-fi system they had sold.
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UNSOLD: Property market still buried in doldrums. in Alicante Province (2,645), followed by Malaga (1,127), Barcelona (847), Santa Cruz de Tenerife (655) and the Balearics (536). Although the 56,695 previously-owned homes sold in the second quarter were a 9.4 per improvement on this year’s first quarter, sales were 5.7 per cent lower than for the same period in 2011. The 72,723 homes sold accounted for 90.6 per cent of the total. A further 9.4 per cent - 7,512 - were social housing. New properties
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accounted for 29.3 per cent of the total with sales of 23,540. The Valencian Community and the Canary Islands made the best regional showing, with property sales rising 1.4 per cent and 0.2 per cent respectively. The outlook was less encouraging in Cantabria, where property sales fell by 36.3 per cent, the Basque Region where they dropped by 31.1 per cent, followed by Navarra (30 per cent fewer) and Madrid (28.9 per cent fewer).
FOUR people who used a pizza restaurant and two homes in Sueca, Valencia, for drug dealing, have been arrested by the Guardia Civil.
Lesson to learn? ALMOST 40 per cent school failure is the People’s Party education policy in the region, the Socialist Party Secretary General said when visiting an El Palmeral School in Alicante.
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Tough times see more quitting smoking
MORE people in Spain - expats and locals - are giving up smoking. The three per cent VAT price increase on tobacco on September 1 had little effect, for it was compensated by a reduction in other government taxes on tobacco. But Spain’s economic crisis and overall high unemployment, plus the ban on smoking in public, have led to more people quitting. Also, according to the OCU consumers’ group, price increases in
March also saw many - especially low income families and the young - quitting. Health warnings on cigarette packets are the least efficient way of persuading people not to smoke, experts and others have agreed. But while grisly images do little to dissuade smokers, they help put off young people from starting, claimed Joseba Zabala, coordinator for XQNS, which defends and advances Spain’s antismoking laws.
The biggest reduction in smoking occurred between 2010 and 2011. During this period consumption dropped 17 per cent and 16 million fewer packets of cigarettes were sold, said Dr Rodrigo Cordoba Garcia, a lung specialist and expert in nicotine addiction. He attributed this to the economic crisis and the price of cigarettes. Health warnings on packets account for only 2 per cent of smokers deciding to quit, he claimed.
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A CONFERENCE to warn that night-time emergency health services are likely to be cancelled was called by the PSPV-PSOE of Teulada-Moraira. More than 300 people attended.
Repair call JAVEA Mayor Jose Chulvi asked the regional Ministry of Education to restore structural damage at the Graull and Vicente Tena public schools.
In the picture A PHOTO contest with a €300 top price is being arranged for people aged 14 - 35 and living in Altea and its surroundings. Pictures should be sent to jovesmarinabaixa@hotmail. com
LANGUAGES, and computers, guitar playing and creative sewing are among 13 course subjects available at the Cultural Centre of Alfaz del Pi, starting on October 1.
Happy end FINESTRAT public pool in Finestrat closed the 2012 season with more than 100 people taking part in Sports Council courses.
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ITH September now almost midway through lazy days on the beach are a little numbered. Even so, two Spanish beaches face a sunny end to the season after being included among a Ten Breathtaking European Beaches ranking by travel webbased site TripAdvisor. The highly ranked beaches are Playa de ses Illetes in Formentera, the smallest of the four Balearic Islands, and Islas Cies Beach in the Cies Islands, an archpelago off the coast of
Pontevedra in Galicia on the north-west tip of mainland Spain. A brief description on Playa de ses Illetes states ‘the water is so clear and blue, the sand is white, and the views amazing...’ The Islas Cies Beach comes in for similar adoration with a description of ‘white sand beaches, light blue water and high rocky landscapes.’ Also in the European 10 are three beaches in Greece, two in Italy, and one each in Croatia, Portugal and Turkey.
Euro-Vegas goes to Madrid US MAGNATE Sheldon Adelson has chosen Madrid over Barcelona for Las Vegas Sands Euro-Vegas venture “Cataluña has its advantages,” Madrid’s regional president Esperanza Aguirre said in a radio interview, “but perhaps today, unlike 30 years ago, Madrid is more ‘open’, more cosmopolitan,” she added. The first phase of the project – The Strip with its hotels – should be completed in two to three years, Aguirre said. “It won’t all be inaugurated at the same time.” The Las Vegas Sands venture is expected to create 200,000 jobs in service industries “without counting those related to building the complex itself,” she said.
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KITES flew high at the Gandia beach during an exhibition, with colourful 15 - 30 metres long artefacts making spectacular loops watched by swimmers and passers-by.
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ASTURIANS in Benidorm celebrated their region’s national day at the Julio Iglesias auditorium with live music and typical products including cider, sweets and pies.
THE Moors and Christians festival will in future be held on the fourth Sunday of September, Altea town council has ruled.
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‘Architects should be killed. I dislike them, because their crimes last longer than their own lives.’
Esperanza Aguirre, President of the Autonomous Community of Madrid, while visiting Valquemada Town Hall.
Bus battle with regional government NOVELDA’S governing cabinet is fighting a regional government decision to cancel the school bus from neighbourhood Estacion.
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doctors will continue to help irregular immigrants without a health card, according to a register of objectors created by the Spanish Society for Family and Community Medicine.
VALENCIA’S healthcare system is poor, according to the Federation of Associations in Support of Public Healthcare.
No lessons NO MORE courses will be given to the unemployed by the Council for Education and Employment as it has not been paid for them since May, CECE Alicante has ruled.
141 lay-offs THE assembly of workers from the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias in Valencia has accepted 141 layoffs as part of a redundancy scheme.
and finally... BRITISH expatriates will star in tomorrow’s (Friday) Come Dine With Me* TV series. All from the Costa Brava, travel journalist Irena Bodnarec, banker Nick Middleton, clairvoyant Hilary Marshall, and drag queen Gary Brown will show off their culinary skills. *Channel 4 at 8pm.
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New term sees more protests From Front Page They were not protesting because they objected to the new school, which the platform recognised was much needed, explained a spokesperson. But the Manjon Cervantes school has been housed in prefab classrooms for four years, ‘with no prospect of change’, it was claimed. Neither is the administration doing enough for the El Palmeral and La Florida school, or others on the outskirts of the city, the platform complained. Pupils’ grants covering textbooks, school meals and transport were late in arriving and not enough was spent on maintenance or school equipment. With fewer teachers, staff now face longer hours and bigger classes. The regional government’s multilingual policies are also likely to sideline Valenciano, the platform warned.
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Polygamy allowed A MUSLIM tycoon declared in court that his wife did not ‘deserve’ divorce since polygamy is allowed under Islamic Law. He was unfaithful to his wife and has two extramarital children. DETERIORATING: The vacant site in Marqués de Campos.
Shopping hopes for Denia town centre
By Benny Davis DENIA’S popular tree-lined shopping street Marqués de Campos may feature an added attraction in the nottoo-distant future. If Mayor Ana Kringe has her way, visitors will be able to shop-until-they-drop and then take a relaxing break in a public square
surrounded by trees, shrubs and flowerbeds. The site of the proposed venture is the former Social Security centre and offices of the National Institute of Social Security (INSS) situated at the sea end of the street. For many years under the old Spanish number
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system, ‘frustrated’ outpatients and Social Security claimants queued for hours on end before hopefully getting attention. Since demolition, the site has deteriorated. The future of the plot is under serious discussion between Denia Council and the Director General of
Social Security Treasury, Gema Gomez Magraner, together with the provincial director INSS, Miguel Angel Martinez. Mayor Kringe said that the provincial officials have shown their willingness to study the proposals including a possible land swap deal.
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A RABIES vaccination campaign will be held in Altea from October 1-5, the council has announced. Local vets for a reduced fee of €16 will provide dogs with microchips, a health card, rabies vaccination or booster, de-worming and a check-over. The price is subsidised to encourage pet owners to have dogs vaccinated, which by law all should receive once three months old, with boosters every two years.
Fake reviews BEST-SELLING crime writer RJ Ellory apologised for writing fake reviews online to criticise competitors and laud his own books, in a statement to The Daily Telegraph.
Hard times THE BBC’s Andrew Marr Show has replaced its opening sequence of the host driving a Nissan Figaro with a Vespa, to match the austere times in England.
Costly model IT will take enthusiasts longer to build the model warship ‘Sovereign of the Seas’ with the parts provided by the weekly magazine of the same name than it did to construct the original ship in 1637.
BB’s father SIR Peter Bazalgette, who first introduced Big Brother to British TV, has been appointed Head of the Arts Council, one of Britain’s leading arts organisations.
Snake scan SIX volunteers helped carry a 23-foot python at Chester Zoo to its ultrasound heart scan as part of a cardiology study in collaboration with Cardiff Metropolitan University.
King found THE church where Richard III is thought to have been buried has been found in Leicester. An archaeological team is exploring the remains to locate the grave.
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Benidorm-Denia railway under threat of closure
THE unique Denia to Benidorm train line is under threat of closure. Undisclosed sources suggest that the Generalitat Valenciana is considering closing the line with effect from the end of this year. If they are allowed to proceed with their ‘cost cutting exercise,’ apart from its value to tourism, it will leave the region with no official rail link to either Valencia or Alicante. The train is well used by over one million passengers a year and needed by many, including schoolchildren who commute on a
Granadella voted best beach GRANADELLA BEACH Javea was voted the favourite with 40,361 web surfers, an on-line poll by media company Antena 3 has shown. Second was la Carnota of A Coruña with 37,166 votes, followed by TarifaBologna in Cadiz with 20,908 votes. The Antena 3 television crews were spotted down on the beach earlier this month, and are thought to have been filming a news clip to support the survey poll.
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UNDER THREAT: Denia to Benidorm line could close.
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daily basis. Local users have reacted angrily claiming the line is an essential public service and as such, should be immune to any form of government budget cuts. They say the line is “a great way to travel with no traffic problems and scenery that is worth the trip alone, following a beautiful coast line for miles but also passing through farm land, interesting tunnels and over various bridges, making every single kilometre of the journey interesting in every aspect.” They are also demanding an immediate positive statement from Valencia, fearing that the possible
closure will happen without warning, allowing no time for public discussion or appeals. A petition is being organised by Spanish users of the line, who hope they will receive full support from all who live in the Marina Alta. They suggest further petitions registering a protest vote, should be delivered personally to the mayor’s of town halls affected by the threatened closure. The route links the following towns: Alqueries, Denia Hospital, La Xara, Gata, Teulada, Benissa, Ferrandet, Calpe, Olla Altea, Cap Nagret, Garganes, Altea, Ventorrillo, Alfas del Pi, Cami Coves and Disco Benidorm.
Benidorm feels summer pinch through jobless By Paul Deed BENIDORM ended last month with 63 more registered unemployed than in July, bringing the
total claiming jobless to 5,915. This ended a trend in previous summers when August has been the best
Traffic access plan PLANS limiting traffic access to El Calvari failed this Summer. Pylons down and traffic lights on amber were common during nights and weekends, leading to noise and insecure situations, Benidorm’s PP town councillor Jose Ramon Gonzalez said. “Motorcycles, motorbikes and cars rode at their ease in an area
where citizens should have been the main focus, not the vehicles,” he added. Councillor of Mobility Maria del Carmen Martinez denied this situation, saying the devices worked from Monday to Friday, and that during the weekends, nights and holidays, traffic access was monitored by the police.
month for employment, coinciding with the tourist peak.Traditionally, year on year, August saw an increase in employment compared with July. In August 2009, unemployment fell by 62, in 2010 by 100 and last year by 131. This year’s reversal indicates the depth of the recession - in Benedorm at least - is overriding seasonal trends. Although domestic tourism has been described as being “in free fall”, the drop has mostly been compensated by an increase in foreign tourist numbers.
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By Paul Deed A BACK-ROAD awash with litter and garbage that links Benidorm with L'Alfz del Pi is to be cleaned up. Following protests by residents near Camí de Lloma extra police patrols are also planned to deter illegal tipping. The town hall pledge for the clean up followed a call by PP councilor Angela Llorca who said
the area “looks like a dump. Fly tipping and lack of resources to help combat and clear up the refuse was blamed. “The area looks more like an uncontrolled tip rather than a country lane,” said Lllorca, who added if the problem had occured one kilometer away in the tourist area the situation would not have been allowed to remain.
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Accidental plantation A 74-YEAR-OLD farmer in Bavaria was reportedly ‘baffled’ when told by police that his 300m2 field in Aschaffenburg was a cannabis plantation. He had sowed bird food which contained hemp.
Nazi vandals SIX Jewish tombstones have been desecrated with graffiti including Nazi swastikas in the city of Rostock.
Weapons stay AMERICAN nuclear weapons will not be removed from Germany. The government will keep and modernise US nuclear bombs, as requested by NATO, reported the Frankfurter Rundschau.
Late apology THE German firm Grünenthal has apologised for the first time in 50 years to the people who were born disabled because of thalidomide, a drug against morning sickness for pregnant women. PUBLISHED: Mayor Sánchez with budget translators.
New online budget
By Benny Davis IN keeping with his policy of ‘total transparency’, Calpe mayor César Sánchez has published the town budget on the internet. Working in collaboration with a team of 18 residents, full details are now available for all to see in five languages including English, Spanish, German, French and Dutch. The collaboration has not only allowed international access to the town’s financial accounts for the first time ever, but also saved €18,000 in estimated translation costs. Ratepayers will also be able to ask online questions and offer suggestions through a direct email link.
Honour dead ON the 40th anniversary of the terror attack at the Olympic Games of Munich 1972, relatives of the nine Israeli victims criticised the lack of honouring by the Olympic authorities.
Green Party THE Green Party has announced their opposition to large-scale livestock farming in the campaign for parliamentary elections in Germany next year.
Expats step in as volunteers TWO British citizens are the first international members of 19 pioneering volunteers in a Villajoyosa cultural programme. The Vilamuseu volunteers is one of the most important of its kind in Alicante province. “They are a sign of how foreigners can
cooperate for the benefit of this city, just like they did in past stages of our history. One cannot understand the history of the Marina Baixa without the overseas commerce and all the international people that gave so much life to the port of Villajoyosa,” said Pepe Lloret, Councillor of Cultural Heritage.
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Sports facilities to cost more By Benny Davis JAVEA Town Council has approved an increase in fees for sports services which are not offered by local clubs. This is to optimise the use of the central Sports Hall in the Port and turn it into a viable service. Users of municipal sports services in schools will pay €70 a year. A spokesman for the council said the price still remains excellent value although it represents a 113.5 per cent increase. He added that costs for sports equipment is still subsidised. The result of this decision is that the Palau d'Esports will be more available to host sports clubs requiring specific units for exercise, such as rhythmic gymnastics, which until now used the facilities of the IES. The ‘Third Age’ keep fit sessions retain their 50 per cent subsidy.
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Exchange books and learn a lesson By Gemma Quinn ALMOST 1,000 school textbooks to exchange between pupils have been
collected by a voluntary organisation. Donaz was formed to instigate the exchange of used textbooks amongst
students in chosen local locations in the region but have been overwhelmed by the demand in the Vega Baja. With books costing up to €250 per student, Alejandro Sarmiento set up the initiative where parents can hand in textbooks from previous courses and receive books for the current year. He says many people are arriving daily at their headquarters in Callosa Segura to inquire about how to take part. Aware that many of the books are no longer used as study (From left) Peter Emmett, Appeal Coordinator and Maria Morawiec, MD of Dragon material in Spanish schools, volunteers Insurance and club sponsor, handing over the equipment to Rod Warnes. have been in contact with a library in Brazil. MONEY to buy a life-saving Defibrillator and Although no charges Oxygen Resuscitation Kit was raised following are made, Donaz donations by Benitachell Bowls Club members. accept small donations. For further information check out the special double page feature on pages 40 and 41. For more information visit www.donaz.es
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Unaffordable energy NORWAY - A study claims that Arctic oil and gas production will decrease by 2050 because of high costs and the development of alternative sources of energy.
Take a break SWEDEN - A 72-yearold man died at Lidköping hospital after his doctor and nurse went for lunch in the middle of his operation.
Too rich DENMARK Copenhagen has a surplus of 2.4 billion kroner (€322,090,754), which makes politicians unsure as to whether to cut taxes or save the money.
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Freedom ship helps Gaza THE Freedom Fleet, a group of activists that sailed the SV Estelle into Alicante and Santa Pola ports, brought the dramatic situation created by Israel in the Gaza Strip to public attention. The visit to the Costa Blanca was part of the journey by the mainly Scandinavian activists on their way to Palestine to try to end the Gaza blockade. Guided tours and other activities took place during the ship’s visits.
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High Court bans CAM bank boss pensions THE high pensions former CAM bank executives awarded themselves have been temporarily suspended. The National High Court in Madrid made the move after hearing that auditors looking into the bank’s affairs believe predating pensions adversely affected the bank, despite denials by former executives. The amounts frozen - 14 in total
‘Pot’ plants seized A 57-YEAR-OLD resident of Vinaros, Castellon has been charged with growing 11 cannabis plants at his home by the Guardia Civil.
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GETTING HIGH: Cannabis plants in Vinaros.
Filmoteca on the move ALICANTE CITY’S Filmoteca is to move to Yelmo cinemas in Babel district. This follows the decision by the Navas and Aana cinemas to end an agreement with the IVAC regional film library. Filmoteca showings will now move from
October 3 to Yelmo cinemas, which is making one of its 13 cinemas available to the club. Around 14,000 people attended Filmoteca screenings last year in different cinemas, including Cine Navas and Cine Aana, in the city centre for almost 30 years.
nominal sum of €1. The CAM pensions were frozen following a request from Carlos Gomez-Jara, CAM’s legal representative appointed by the FROB. The documents were signed in March 2011, not in late 2010, Gomez-Jara claimed. The decision to backdate the documents was allegedly made to forestall possible objections from prospective merger partners Cajasur, Caja Cantabria and Caja Extremadura. These banks eventually voted not to admit CAM, triggering the Bank of Spain takeover.
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Murder-hunt pathologist fired THE police pathologist who identified charred bones of sister and brother Ruth and Jose Breton as those of rodents has been sacked. A full police inquiry into how the blunder was made has opened, and steps are being taken to avoid such errors in the future, police have promised. Bones belonging to the two children, aged six and two, were found shortly after they disappeared on October 8 last year. Forensic pathologist Josefina Lamas, who trained as a doctor, dismissed their significance in her nine-page report. Their elimination from the investigation prolonged the case for almost a year, raising hopes that the children were still alive. Their father, now charged with murder, allegedly drugged Ruth and Jose and later burned
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Environment concerns RUSSIA has decided to participate in the second phase of the Kyoto Protocol, which limits global gas emissions, according to the newspaper Kommersant.
Assange case VICTIMS: Ruth (6) and Jose (2). their bodies on land at Las Quemadillas, his parents’ home in Cordoba. For 11 months the estate was scoured for traces of the children and groundpenetrating georadar equipment used in attempts to locate them. Ruth and Jose’s mother, Ruth Ortiz, who is divorced from her husband, finally sought an independent analysis of bones and teeth recovered from the bonfire at Las Quemadillas. An initial examination by forensic anthropologist
Francisco Exteberria, a professor of Legal and Forensic Medicine, revealed they were human. “It was obvious at first sight,” he said. His findings have since been confirmed by other forensic experts. “The bones are very deteriorated. They are unmistakeably human and they belonged to two children,” said Bernardo Perea, Head of the School of Legal and Forensic Medicine at Madrid’s Complutense University.
Mayor eats and awaits talks A MAYOR is due to have talks over government plans for five solar energy plants that were called off. Angel Vadillo, Mayor of Alburquerque in Badajoz, abandoned a 90-day long hunger strike after the Ministry of Industry agreed to talk to him. He had been camping out on hunger strike in front of the ministry in Madrid since June 11 after walking 639 kilometres protesting at the government’s change of plans for solar energy plants for Alburquerque, which has more than 40 per cent unemployment.
Urdangarin linked to €9m payouts SUMS paid to Iñaki Urdangarin’s non-profit making sports foundation, Instituto Noos, were allegedly diverted to other companies. Most of approximately €9 million paid into Noos’s current account at La Caixa between March 2004 and July 2007 was transferred to seven commercial concerns, reported El Pais newspaper. These were either owned solely by the king’s son-inlaw or in partnership with his business associate Diego Torres.
The largest amounts came from directlyawarded administration contracts which were not put up for tender, Spain’s widest-read daily has claimed. Urdangarin and Torres, together with their wives, received €3 million from Instituto Noos, police believe, following analysis of the La Caixa current account and 39 more at six other banks. In earlier court appearances, Urdangarin and Torres have denied such claims.
PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin accused Britain of double standards over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition order to Sweden, from where he might be sent to the US.
Flying Putin VLADIMIR Putin could be seen in a puffy white suit piloting a motorised hang-glider as part of the ‘Flight of Hope’ project to help endangered Siberian crane populations.
Not declared A FLIGHT attendant from the US is accused of smuggling more than 8 million rubles (€196.965) in jewellery. She did not declare the goods at the airport and was caught by the guards.
Downgraded RUSSIA’S competitiveness has been ranked 67 in the world, which is down one place from the previous year, according to the World Economic Forum.
March request OPPOSITION leaders in Russia have applied again for authorisation to march this Saturday (September 15). Laws on demonstrations have recently been tightened after mass protests since last December’s elections.
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Boss of airport with no planes gets ₏88,000 AIRPORT General Manager Javier Garcia, earned ₏88,104 last year, almost ₏4,000 more than in 2010. This was even though a report for accounts of the Valencian Regional Government shows that his salary as boss of the Castellon Airport should have been reduced by 15 per cent. Of this salary, ₏46,029 is for his managerial position and ₏42,074 for assuming management of the surveillance and control of airport works. Aerocas, the company which manages Castellon Airport, spent ₏368,865 on staff in 2011 although there are only seven people working there as it is not yet operational. However, this is less than they spent in 2010 when it hadn’t even been inaugurated. Last year, more than ₏5 million was also spent on advertising, marketing and PR. Following 10 years of work and a ₏151 million investment, the airport was inaugurated in March last year, just ahead of the regional elections and even though there were no flights scheduled. Eighteen months on, there are still no flights. In 2011, it lost more than ₏8 million, bringing the total loss to ₏23 million, but the regional government still got a loan in March last year for ₏33.8 million for the airport which is due to begin operating in January next year, according to the president of Aerocas, Carlos Fabra.
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Jobless may aid clean-ups PEOPLE on state unemployment benefits could be called on to clear and re-plant areas devastated in this summer’s forest fires. Public administrations and non-profit making organisations will be allowed to seek the help of registered unemployed, said vicepresident Soraya Saenz de Santamaria following a Cabinet meeting. Only workers professionally and physically suited to the work would be considered. The amount earned “will always be in excess of the minimum wage of €641.40 a month,” the Ministry of Labour said. Public administrations or organisations hiring the jobless would be expected to make up any difference between the minimum wage and the unemployment pay.
Jose Aznar pockets €200,000 last year FORMER Spanish president Jose Maria Aznar earned €198,112 as a News Corporation board member last year.
Aznar has worked for Australianborn Rupert Murdoch - embroiled in the UK phone hacking scandal – since 2006.
His 2011 earnings in cash and shares as a non-executive director both increased by 7.6 per cent during the last tax year. He received €86,112 in cash, and €112,000 in News Corporation shares “His wide experience, including the period as president of the Spanish government, contribute knowledge, experience and an international perspective to the board,” said News Corporation when Aznar was first appointed. The former president’s “firm policy” on MARBELLOUS: As featured in The Sun newspaper. international terrorism received particular emphasis, together with Spain’s “close FORGET Ibiza and Las Vegas, “There are plenty of beach clubs in relationship” with the Marbella has now been coined ‘the Marbella but we loved Sala Beach. US. real party town.’ Ian Radford, Sala Group’s The US-based multiThe Sun, Britain’s most famous Chairman said: “Marbella has long national company is now tabloid newspaper, in a centre-page been a party playground for the proposing to add another report said the Costa del Sol resort is social elite, with so much to choose former president, Alvaro all about partying hard and being from we are happy Sala Beach and seen. After spending a long weekend AQWA Mist is at the top of The Sun’s Uribe of Colombia, to its in Marbella The Sunday Sun quoted: list.” board.
Marbella the party town
Parents pay-up for books ONLY the regional governments of Andalucia and Navarra are covering the cost of school textbooks this year. Aragon, CastillaLa Mancha, La Rioja and the Canary Islands, that provided them free in 2011, will not do so this year. As in other autonomous regions, they have instead opted for grants for lowincome families. Parents will consequently have to spend €200 on textbooks for each child this academic year, 30 per cent more than 10 years ago, according to consumer groups.
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SKY-HIGH: easyJet says passengers prefer allocated seating.
ROLL-OUT: The scheme will come into effect on designated routes in November.
Allocated passenger seats on the easyJet horizon from November
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ROM November, easyJet passengers will be allocated seats, rather than boarding to take pot luck at where they sit. This follows a six-month trial on 6,000 flights carrying more than 800,000 passengers. Passengers paying extra will still be able to select their seats, but those not choosing this option will be allocated a seat. Friends or family travelling on the same booking will be seated together wherever possible, says easyJet. Research among passengers this year
spelt out that more than 70 per cent wanted allocated seating rather than than easyJet’s current system. Carolyn McCall, Chief Executive of easyJet, said: “Allocated seating gives all passengers the choice of selecting a seat. On trial flights the majority of passengers were simply allocated seats when they checked in. “Some passengers chose particular seats with best-selling seats usually those near the front, for those who wish to get off the aircraft quickly at their destinations, and exit row seats with their extra leg room.”
Allocated seating will continue on trial flights and the dates in the rollout across easyJet’s network are: Services to/from: November 13: Gatwick South, Luton, Stansted, Southend, Bristol and Glasgow November 20: Gatwick North, Milan Malpensa, Rome Fiumicino and Paris Charles de Gaulle November 27: Belfast, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Basel, Geneva, Lyon, Nice, Toulouse, Paris
Orly, Madrid, Lisbon and Berlin Schönefeld All passengers will be allocated a seat free on easyJet’s flights but will have the choice of selecting their seat for a fee when they book flights or add them later to guarantee where they will be sitting. There are three bands of pricing, dependent on the seat selected: • £12 for extra leg room (front row and exit rows) • £8 for up front seats (rows 2-5 on A319 or 2-6 on A320) • £3 for any other seat
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A feast of entertainment set for Costa Blanca this autumn season OLD TIME MUSIC HALL The management of the Benitachell Arts Centre proudly present a splendiferous and phenomenal evening of entertainment in the form of an Old Time Music Hall in aid of the Red Cross, on Friday September 28. Compered by Ian Henry, the artistes will include Double Impact, Encore, Candida Wright, Kaye Stubley, Andy Crabb and the Cameo Entertainers. Sing-a-long and song sheets included. Victorian dress optional. The evening will also include supper consisting of good old sausages, pie, mash and peas, traditional sherry trifle and an interval drink (extra drinks available at only €1 a glass.) Early booking recommended, phone Ann at 680 673 871.
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THE HOT BOX CLUB featuring a chorus of beautiful young dancers will be opening its doors in Calpe this November. But only for three days – as it is an essential part of the hit musical Guys and Dolls being staged by the Calpe-based ‘Footlights’ group. The ‘Pearl Girls’ will hit the stage at Calpe’s Casa de Cultura, together with other great Damon
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and 10. Tickets priced at €12 for adults with a reduced price of €8 for children under the age of 14. Box office hotline now open on weekday mornings only. The Company support the Baronat Centre The Hot Box Club Chorus. for the Mentally Handicapped in Calpe. company. com. Tickets at Footlights will play a one- €12 include an interval night reprise during the drink and a charity following week to help donation. raise funds for the Royal BOURBON STREET British Legion. STOMPERS Lovers of WHISPERS Contrary New Orleans jazz will be to previous advertising, delighted to know that the the Monte Pego Theatre fabulous Bourbon Street Company will be Stompers will be returning presenting the exciting to the Auditori de Teuladapsychological thriller Moraira. The concert will ‘Whispers’ for its autumn be on Friday October 12 production. Directed by with tickets priced at €12. Jeff Corbett, the action The seven-piece centres on a wheelchair- German band will be bound lady who cannot accompanied again by top provide her husband with Hamburg vocalist Betty an heir. She accidentally Berent. Tickets available unleashes the ghost of at the Ayuntamiento de Belle, a resident of the Teulada Moraira on house in the 19th century Monday to Friday from with disastrous results. 9am to 3pm, or from the This will be staged at Auditori box office from the Rafol theatre at 8pm Wednesday to Sunday on November 22, 23 and from 11am to 1pm, and 24, with a matinee on the between 6pm and 8pm, or 23rd starting at 3pm. Box SERVICAM on 96 511 Office opens October 1, 7117 or at phone 635 688 990 or www.servicam.com. email montepegotheatre Further details of the tour
are available from organiser Norman Dunnington on 96 574 8127, mobile 660 732 707, or email norman dunnington@gmail.com. LEADING LADIES promises to be an evening of glamour, style, class, music and comedy involving three very experienced and talented ladies, Joanna Baldwin, Sue Benson and producer Amanda Dean, under the musical direction of número uno MD Roger Dean, will take the stage at the Teulada Espai de Senietta for two nights only on October 10 and 11 at 7pm. The show will include a range of entertainment from everyone’s favourite Hollywood movies to the swing era, evergreens and today’s best of the best. Tickets priced at €12 each, obtainable from Humpty Dumpty newsagents in Javea Park. MABS is the chosen charity for both performances. DOLCE DIVA’S A concert in the charming and intimate Teatro del Sol, situated between Altea and La Nucia is the epitome of an evening of relaxing entertainment. Starring ‘Dolce Diva’s’ Claire Post, soprano and flute, and Kirsty Glen, piano and vocals, playing what they describe as “classical and contemporary gems”. The programme will also include guest artist trumpet player Miguel Angel Buigues from the Murcia Conservatorio. The concert will be performed on Sunday September 23 at 8pm. Reservations 629 388 159 or 676 164 048. Admission €10. www.dolcedivas.net www.teatrodelsol.org
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Computer phone scam alert Nineteen websites offering fake computer support have been closed by the Metropolitan Police’s e-crime unit in London, but the scams continue to spread across Europe
By Benny Davis benny@euroweeklynews.com A PHONE scam that defrauded A PHONE scam that defrauded thousands of computer owners in Britain continues to be reported in Spain. Many computer owners on the mainland have been contacted by a company claiming to be connected to the Microsoft support team, informing them of problems with their PCs. These could be fixed online, the callers have claimed. The ‘problem’ they are told about is that many ‘error’ messages have been received from their PC, including notification of viruses that should be fixed to prevent ‘crashing.’ To prove their authenticity, the user is then invited to view the ‘error’ messages on screen by following the caller’s instructions. After being told to press a sequence of keys, the messages appear apparently proving that PC doomsday is around the corner. The helpful caller then ‘clears’ the messages and informs the user that their problems are over. But in reality the problems have only just started. In effect, there were no ‘error’
WARNING: Never give anyone remote access to your PC over the phone. messages and the PC had no problems, but through a clever keyboard scam, the caller has gained complete remote access to the user’s PC including all private and confidential information, which can be used in a variety of financial and identity scams. Some UK users were actually charged a £185 (€230) subscription for the ‘fixing’ service. Last April, the Metropolitan Police’s e-crime unit in London closed many illegal sites including ‘supportonclick.com’ registered to Pecon
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Software, a firm based in Kolkata, India. The company has since opened further ‘support’ websites including onlinepccare.com, which has been operating within the English-speaking Spanish market. David Shaw, an EWN reader from Calpe, said that a well-spoken man, probably of Asian origin, phoned twice in an attempt to get him to check-out his computer. He gave his name as Greg Smith and when asked, quoted a US phone number.
Attempts to contact this number since have all been unsuccessful. However, Microsoft officials say they are aware of the problem and have issued the following statement. “There are many potential dangers. As well as losing money to a scammer by paying for a service that provides no benefits, personal and banking details are also at risk. If you give a scammer remote access to your computer, they can cause all sorts of mischief, including infecting your computer and acquiring your personal information.” They say anyone receiving such a call like this should just hang up. Strangers should never be given remote access to a computer, and personal, credit card or online account details should not be given out over the phone unless the call has been personally made, and the phone call came from a trusted source. Microsoft added: “If you think you have provided account details to a scammer, contact your bank or financial institution immediately. “We are told the police are unable to effect refunds for people who are scammed by the cold callers, though they do class the crime as ‘obtaining money by deception’, in other words, fraud.”
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Breastfeeding mums find new way to save money
BREAST IS BEST: More mothers are breastfeeding for longer to save money.
AN increasing number of Spanish mothers are breastfeeding for longer. And indications are that the choice is in part based on the ongoing economic crisis and unemployment. Midwives believe that the crisis is motivating women to continue breastfeeding, according to Consuelo Martinez, Assistant Manager of Nursing at Murcia’s La Arrixaca hospital. “It’s as though they’ve been given a little push. Many say they have no
choice,” she said. Midwives are also professionally using the crisis to persuade new mothers of the benefits of breastfeeding. “It’s cheap. It’s unadulterated. This is what we’ve always told mothers and now it’s an absolute necessity for very many of them,” said Martinez, who is also President of FAME, Spain’s association of midwives. There are women without money for formula, she said. Others who are out of work and therefore remaining at home can breastfeed for longer than the four months that maternity leave would last. And in cases where they do find work, some are expressing and freezing milk – it lasts up are watching violent to six months – to and illegal continue saving money pornography, illegally later. downloading films and Not only are hard-up songs, and having mothers reported to be pirated software. preferring to breastfeed, The scam is focused but some are returning in such a way that most to washable cloth receiving it are unlikely nappies because to report it to the police disposables are so for fear of being expensive, Consuelo thought to have broken Martinez revealed. the law. Nevertheless, the lack A swathe of payment money is not the only options are given, with reason why Spanish an assurance that upon women are breastfeeding receipt of €100 the for longer than the six computer will be months recommended by unlocked. However, the World Health when paid, the Organisation, she computer remains maintained. hacked. If twice as many Computer experts say women still breastfeed the solution is to at six months, this is professionally have also due to the work and Windows reinstalled, encouragement of though previously groups and stored data will be lost organisations including along with the virus. the La Leche League International, she said.
Beware! Computer scam alert threatens fines and also jail A POWERFUL virus is a potential threat to all computer owners in Spain. The virus attacks computers while users are online, leading to the screen’s icons disappearing, and being replaced with a page appearing to be from Spain’s National Police. This states in Spanish that the computer has been blocked because the user is guilty of one of the offences listed on the page. EWN has been contacted by several readers on the Costa Blanca already affected by the scam. Among the list of alleged offences, with statute references and penalties including fines and prison terms,
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Stat of week ALMOST 4,750 bankruptcies were declared in Spain in the first eight months of this year, an increase of 34.3 per cent on the same period in 2011.
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Lack of loans slows progress IT is more difficult to get a bank loan in Spain than almost any other country in the world. And with affordable bank loans currently thin on the ground, Spain’s economy is becoming less competitive. Banks attach stringent pointers to
extending loans after getting their fingers badly burnt when the property bubble burst. This is highlighted in the latest World Economic Forum (WEF) rankings, which situate Spain’s global competitiveness at 122 out of the 144 countries examined. Added to the banks’ reluctance to lend money, Spain also lost WEF marks owing to the difficulties in reining in the deficit. This reached 8.9 per cent in 2011 and Rajoy’s government will struggle to EUROPEAN solar panel makers believe China reach the 6.3 per cent fixed by is providing national firms with subsidies so Brussels for this year, the WEF they can sell solar panels abroad below their predicted. market value. If found guilty, the firms could Even so Spain retained its face anti-dumping tariffs on exports. 2011 ranking at 36th for competitiveness, six places higher than in 2010. But it remains lower than LUXURY brand Hermes Estonia at 33rd and even International has accused LVMH, Ireland, which needed an EU owners of Louis Vuitton, of bail-out in 2010, which using insider information outperformed Spain to take ‘and manipulation’ to 29th spot. increase its holding in the Spain managed to hold on company to more than 22 to last year’s competitiveness per cent. ranking thanks to infrastructure - it came sixth for its rail network - as well as THE average price of a cabbage for families in computer technology, primary northern Nunavut, Canada, is €22.70, with a and secondary education and need for all fresh produce to be flown in daily business schools. at around €5.80 per kilo. Life expectancy in Spain was a further plus, but conditions for hiring and firing workers and flexibility regarding RUSSIA spent almost €160 million salaries all received the WEF preparing Vladivostock, its North Pacific thumbs-down. Worse still was port, to host the 2012 Asia-Pacific its evaluation for Economic Co-operation summit, which productivity and has just ended. remuneration, limping in at 133 out of the 144.
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Zara looks to BY the end of this year, Inditex, which owns the Zara brand of clothing, will have 425 outlets in China. This will make the Asian Tiger the second biggest market for the Spanish company, where earlier this year the number of outlets stood at just 275. Spain is still the firm’s biggest
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Samsung outsmarts Apple ALMOST 50 per cent of the world’s smartphone market is dominated by Apple and Samsung. Currently - and perhaps surprisingly to many - Samsung has the edge on Apple, following the release of its Galaxy SIII model earlier this year.
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The down-to-earth facts of a community satellite dish Does a member of a community have to pay for its satellite dish?
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Some time ago, the urbanisation community where I live installed a satellite dish. We were told that it was the law and we had no choice. The installation came also with a maintenance contract which finished this year. Our president has signed for a new contract at a cost of €1,000. Has he the right You and the Law in Spain to do this? Just before our last By David Searl Annual General Meeting (AGM) I was informed every citizen has the right to have a private satellite system. Therefore my questions are: 1. Must the community prove that I voted in favour and if I did not vote for something, do I have to pay for the ongoing maintenance contract for a satellite system? 2. Has the president the authority to spend community money without approval from the general meeting? 3. If I decide to opt for my own dish, must I pay the community maintenance charge? K S (Costa Blanca) Firstly, the community does not have to prove you voted in favour of some measure. The only time this proof is really necessary is when the dissident intends to protest a vote of the AGM. He must then make sure that his negative vote is registered in the official minutes of the meeting. Secondly, the president is not permitted to spend community money without AGM approval. However, this is normally routinely passed for ongoing costs, including a gardener or antenna maintenance. Thirdly, you are not obligated to pay for the antenna maintenance if you do not make use of it. Now for the bad news. Yes, you have the right to have a private satellite system. However, you do not have the right to install a dish on your balcony or terrace, which alters the appearance of the building. If you can find a way to mount your antenna, perhaps on the roof, this will be acceptable, as long as it is not visible. The idea of the original law is to do away with the unsightly clutter of individual antennae.
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Football and Olympics create TV surge TOP-OF-THE-RANGE television sales soared in the UK early on in the build-up to the European Football Cup, the London Olymic Games, helping Dixons to increase first-quarter sales by 5 per cent.
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AN average house in the UK cost £160,256 (€200,230) in August, a 0.4 per cent decrease on July. The fall reverses increases in May and June, with prices returning to January’s levels.
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ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND is to close its precious metals trading operation, industry sources revealed. It was halting commodities research owing to an internal review, the bank confirmed.
£££ EXPENSE claims from MPs have increased 25 per cent over the last 12 months. The total bill will be almost as high as it was before the expenses scandal broke in 2009, official figures revealed.
Now independent Croatia puts its head in EU noose LONDON Mayor Boris Johnson is one of those people able to reduce complex problems and ideas to more manageable proportions. Love him or loathe him, he is an able journalist, editor and politician who prefers not to ‘pull his Jim punches’. Collins On returning from a holiday in Costa Blanca Croatia, he wrote in the Daily Telegraph a rather BEAUTIFULLY INDEPENDENT: But Croatia is set to become part of the EU next July! sad little item. Historically, after struggles to succeed, its even Ireland are fair creeping humiliations. Ireland fought for declaring itself free of the government has applied examples, and what for centuries to rid itself of the disintegrating Yugoslavian for membership of the EU. them has been gained? Could it be that after hated English occupiers, Federation, Croatia The dirty deed (‘placing became enmeshed in a its head in the noose,’ as years of having all only to meekly hand itself devastating war that cost Boris puts it) is due to take decisions forced upon over to the mandarins of thousands of lives and place next July, and like them, they no longer have Brussels. Poland and the Baltic ended only with the Serbs the London politician I the confidence to govern States are further being ousted in 1995. cannot fathom what themselves? What made Spain so examples. What did they By then the fledgling makes a people so new state had its own recently liberated from a willing to labour beneath expect to gain by joining independent parliament dictatorial tyranny give the yoke of the EU after the euro and renouncing and legal system, and in themselves so willingly to throwing off that of the their flowering independence? Are they looking 1994 its own currency to another. Brussels may not Franco years? Similarly, Portugal was over their shoulders now, replace the Yugoslav dinar. be as cruel as was Serbia, In the ensuing 18 years but it is, nevertheless, an for many years under the wondering when the iron dictatorship of Salazar, and hand of Brussels will clamp Croatia became a unelected dictatorship. the people down as it has upon What is it that makes a perhaps prosperous nation boasting all the trappings nation so keen to thought nothing could be Greece, Portugal and soon, perhaps, Spain? and advantages of a relinquish its hard-won worse. Now they have Were all these states independence? Spain, modern European state. Yet now, after all the Portugal, Greece, Italy and surrendered the right to seduced by the EU’s early govern themselves, whilst largesse? Perhaps they bending the knee to all the should have considered other non-democratic the bible story of Esau, the controls the EU has seen man who sold his MERCEDES-BENZ sold 91,316 vehicles fit to impose. birthright for a ‘mess of worldwide last month, a record for Greece suffered the potage’, and remembered traditionally slow August. colonels, managing at last that there are no free Compared to one year ago, to claw its way back to lunches, especially when this represented a 4.5 per democracy, only to accept dealing with the cent increase. the euro with all its unscrupulous.
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www.euroweeklynews.com BANKING security has once again been compromised. While Switzerland’s banking secrecy has been under attack from international tax authorities, it has also been facing a second threat – stolen data. What typically happens is an employee copies confidential client data onto a disk and then either hands it over to a foreign tax authority or, in some cases, sells it to them. The latest case involves Swiss private banking group Julius Baer. On 26th August Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung reported that an employee of the bank had stolen data on accounts owned by German clients. A spokesperson for the bank then admitted that it had launched an internal investigation and discovered a case of data abuse. He said they were contacting the potentially affected clients. The employee has been fired and arrested. Under Swiss secrecy laws bank employees can face a jail term if they divulge client information. It is reported that the data was acquired by the German tax authorities, who paid an undisclosed sum for it. If this is true, the German authorities are likely to use the information to investigate tax evasion and prosecute where they find evidence. The state in question, North-Rhine Westphalia, has a history of buying stolen data and using it
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to collect unpaid taxes. Julius Baer already has a troubled relationship with the German authorities. Last year it paid €50 million to end an investigation over undeclared assets; an investigation which came about following another instance of data theft. Earlier in August German officials reportedly raided Julius Baer clients over tax evasion. This followed raids on Credit Suisse clients in July. The use of stolen data to track down and prosecute tax evaders may be controversial, but tax authorities in various countries are increasingly offered confidential bank data and are using it to aid their antitax evasion efforts. In July, German media reported cases of data theft from UBS AG, Switzerland’s largest bank, as well as the Zurich branch of Coutts. The German edition of the Financial Times reported that German tax officials offered €3.5 million for the Coutts CD which contained details of 1,000 clients. Both banks have since said that they have not found any evidence of data theft. Merrill Lynch Bank Suisse SA also admitted it had looked into the possibility of data theft, but did not divulge the results. It is no coincidence that stolen data is often offered to
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German authorities. German taxpayers hold an estimated €150 billion in Swiss accounts and the government loses an estimated €30 billion a year to tax evasion. However other countries also receive and benefit from stolen client data. According to reports from Bloomberg in May, people at two Swiss banks passed over client data to the UK tax authority HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). The banks were not named, other than to say one is foreign owned and has clients based in over 100 jurisdictions. The UK tax authority was reported to be checking the data before beginning to contact the taxpayers in question, and to be sharing the information with other countries. When questioned HMRC neither confirmed nor denied the story, simply stating: “We get information from a
wide variety of sources which we carefully examine to make sure everyone pays the right tax. Tackling tax evasion is a top priority and the days of hiding money offshore to evade UK tax have gone.” HMRC has already been actively investigating tax evasion using information from a previous case of data theft, the infamous “Falciani list”. An IT employee of HSBC Geneva, made a disk containing information on 79,000 HSBC clients from 180 countries. He handed it over to the French authorities who passed it on to several tax departments in Europe. HMRC is believed to have received over 6,000 names and has been working through them ever since. Its most high profile prosecution so far involved a wealthy property developer, who in July was found guilty of using an undisclosed Swiss bank account to evade tax and made to pay around £830,000. The Spanish tax authorities are thought to have received
3,000 names from the list. Last year it was reported that they had already collected €300m as a result. Data theft is not the only way Swiss banking secrecy is being breached. The Swiss banking industry will be more concerned about the way international tax authorities have been able to force them to disclose private client information. Most famously UBS agreed to pay a $780 million penalty in 2009 and hand over data on 4,700 American owned accounts, to settle a tax dispute with the US. Eleven Swiss financial firms are being investigated by the US authorities for allegedly helping their US clients hide assets away from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Swiss banks are not the bastion of security they once were. The consequences for anyone failing to declare assets held in Switzerland are likely to be very costly. It is essential that you only ever use legitimate tax planning arrangements. These vary from country to country so you should seek advice from an international tax planning and wealth management firm on which arrangements are effective and compliant in your country of residence.
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1131.00
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-0.46
185.07
Aggreko PLC
2361.00
5.00
0.21
163.47
AMEC PLC
1124.50
9.00
0.81
554.64
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ARM Holdings PLC
549.25
2.00
0.37
2,447.43
Ashmore Group PLC
338.55
1.90
0.56
415.34
Associated British Foods 1274.50
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1,100.89
British American Tobacco 3134.75
AstraZeneca PLC
2911.25
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1,324.44
British Land Co PLC
351.90
4.10
1.18
5,868.05
British Sky Broad Grp
Babcock International Gp 922.25
1.50
0.16
462.63
BT Group PLC
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329.10
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208.05
1.65
0.80
47,580.31
BG Group PLC
1275.25
6.00
0.47
2,225.68
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1918.75
12.50
0.66
3,254.36
438.68
4.05
0.93
16,975.33
Aviva PLC
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704.75
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1,557.57
1212.00
35.00
2.97
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Croda International PLC 2429.00
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86.82
1699.75
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2,205.23
341.70
3.10
0.92
3,262.32 2,588.13
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1029.50
8.00
0.78
627.47
2,657.47
Fresnillo PLC
1764.50
41.00
2.38
433.56 623.55
539.00
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520.21
G4S PLC
260.45
1.90
0.74
5.50
0.72
1,036.31
GKN PLC
224.55
0.60
0.27
925.89
228.80
0.74
0.32
12,279.10
1415.00
5.58
0.40
5,793.29
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1111.50
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216.61
Glencore International
370.45
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1378.50
5.00
0.36
698.66
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462.55
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753.25
10.25
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341.85
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563.40
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300.08
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0.57
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0.04
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686.00
28.62
4.35
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Kingfisher PLC
281.90
3.00
1.08
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798.25
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135.05
1.20
0.90
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37.11
0.10
0.27
128,310.00
Marks & Spencer Group
371.80
10.60
2.93
9,034.30
Meggitt PLC
410.30
2.80
0.69
516.02
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291.50
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420.64
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3,763.44
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Polymetal International 1036.00
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239.21
Prudential PLC
817.50
0.50
0.06
1,185.45
Randgold Resources Ltd 7000.00
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319.57
Reckitt Benckiser Group 3603.00
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509.87
0.50
0.08
2,212.86 2,340.68
Reed Elsevier PLC
601.75
Resolution Ltd
214.25
3.62
1.72
REXAM PLC
423.30
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927.71
Rio Tinto PLC
3088.50
68.00
2.25
5,654.14
Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC 830.75
3.00
0.36
1,971.49
Royal Bank of Scotland
253.55
9.00
3.68
14,745.35
Royal Dutch Shell PLC
2301.50
6.50
0.28
1,228.87
RSA Insurance Group PLC 115.65
0.80
0.70
6,134.14
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304.90
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0.40
92.49
Serco Group PLC
574.50
7.00
1.23
474.12
Severn Trent PLC
1695.50
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185.90
Shire PLC
1934.50
0.00
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625.56 1,418.90
Schroders PLC
Smith & Nephew PLC
675.75
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1050.50
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267.95
SSE PLC
1363.50
5.23
0.39
1,017.71
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0.50
0.04
2,268.56
Standard Life PLC
276.50
-0.80
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1,989.38
Tate & Lyle PLC
638.00
3.50
0.55
670.13 5,389.94
Tesco PLC
344.12
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Tullow Oil PLC
1382.50
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-1.50
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Unilever PLC
2245.50
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United Utilities Group
690.25
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Vedanta Resources PLC 1004.00
29.50
3.02
864.38
Vodafone Group PLC
176.90
-0.20
-0.11
34,106.35
Weir Group PLC
1679.50
25.00
1.51
528.61
Whitbread PLC
2304.00
24.00
1.05
423.01
Wolseley PLC
2739.50
31.00
1.14
1,177.24
WPP PLC Xstrata PLC
841.75
5.50
0.66
1,926.41
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11.00
1.08
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Everything rosy Down Under but things different for Spain SPAIN is likely to be toppled as the world’s 12th-largest economy to Australia later this year. This will reverse estimates at the start of the year when the International Monetary Fund (IMF) calculated that Australia’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) would be
$3,000 million smaller than Spain’s by the last quarter of 2012. Spain’s GDP of $1.386 billion (₏1.126bn) is likely to be overtaken by Australia’s $1.379 billion (₏1.121bn), Bloomberg has predicted. Debt-ridden Spain, beset by
GROWING ECONOMY: Canberra, the Australian capital, is enjoying the nation’s ongoing success, with the country not facing recession since 1981.
economic recession, cannot compete with Australia’s substantial investment in resources, the international finance experts believe. Spain’s economy contracted 0.4 per cent in the second quarter of this year compared with the same period last year. In contrast, Australia has not entered recession for 21 years and its economy grew by 3.7 per cent between April and June 2012. Unemployment now standing at 24.63 per cent is another factor dragging down the Spanish economy. There are proportionately more people out of work in Spain than anywhere in the EU and additionally at any time since the return to democracy almost 37 years ago. Australia has just 5 per cent unemployment and expects to finish the financial year with a budget surplus. Hardly surprising, then, that it receives the top debt grade from the three principal ratings agencies. Spain’s debt, meanwhile, is now ranked as Baa3 by Moody’s, just one step away from junk status.
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Rain no dampener as the UK scoops up ice cream sales By Business Editor Brendan Small ICE CREAM quite understandably is a favourite with most throughout the hot summer months in Spain. But it is surprising that ice cream sales in the UK are soaring. This year the summer weather in the UK has been the dampest on record, and other years in the recent past have left the majority of British wishing for much better weather, with only odd sunny days. Combine this with tightening of purse strings in the tough economic times, and it is even more of a shock that ice cream sales last year hit the £1 billion (₏1.25bn) mark, up from £998 million (₏1.247 bn) in 2010. With sales figures looking so sweet, it is obvious nothing can dampen the spirits of the UK’s ice cream lovers. And a survey by Mintel, a global research and consumer use company with offices worldwide, including London, shows that in the last five years the UK ice cream, sorbet and frozen yoghurt market overall has experienced more than 19 per cent value growth to this year reach £1.1 billion (₏1.37bn) up from £910 million (1.137bn) in 2007.
Although only accounting for 1 per cent of all ice cream sales, frozen yoghurt has been the star performer of the ice cream sector with the market having risen by 50 per cent between 2009 and 2011 from ÂŁ4 million (â‚Ź5m) to ÂŁ6 million (â‚Ź7.5m). “While the market has been fuelled by inflation which has seen the average price per litre of ice cream rise by more than a quarter over the past five years, ice cream remains an affordable treat for most of the British,â€? said Amy Price, Senior Food Analyst at Mintel. “The relatively cheap cost of ice cream is one of the most important drivers of underlying growth throughout the economic downturn, helping to position it as an affordable treat.â€? Globally, Norway spends the most per head on ice cream at ÂŁ33 (â‚Ź41.25), followed by Australia, Switzerland, Sweden and Finland. The UK ranks in 10th place with ÂŁ17 (â‚Ź21.25) per head spend. However, in terms of who is eating the most, the USA tops the list, with 17 litres per head, way ahead of its nearest competitors Australia with 10.3 litres per head and Norway at 10.2. To end on a sweet note, as many as 85 per cent of all British buy ice cream.
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Ex-soldier and civil servant looks to more film stardom From army soldier and civil servant to becoming an actor, Billie Gaddess has now set his sights on promoting films in Spain. Nicole Hallett reports. Previous jobs? After school I joined the army, then became a civil servant for most of my working life. How did you get involved in acting? I joined a theatre group in San Fulgencio, Costa Blanca. While offered the main part, I felt it was too much for a first time actor deciding instead to help backstage. Six days before curtain-up one of the cast fell ill and I stood in. Film work then followed Acted in? Six theatre productions on the Costa Blanca. My first role in a film was a debt collector in Dead Frequency, and my latest the lead role in The Hit. What is ‘The Hit’ about? Corruption in a local council. I play a doctor and councillor on the take. Fellow actors include James Conlon
(Emmerdale) and Andrew Allsopp (Dead Frequency). It is possibly out this Christmas on television. Future plans? After Adhoc Theatre’s production of ‘Allo ‘Allo! in November, as Rene, I will concentrate on a film project to be shot on the Costa Blanca. I am also starting Siesta Film Productions to give actors in Spain a chance to make film and TV work a reality. Most like to play? Inspector Clouseau. I think I would be better than Steve Martin. Proudest achievement? Appearing in front of 600 for my first performance at Adhoc Theatre, Rojales, in 2010 after pushing for the theatre to open. Tell me something not many know? While at the Moscow State Circus during a visit in 1987, I met British double agent Kim Philby who was sitting behind me.
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Vital Statistics • From: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK • Lives: Torrevieja (Alicante) • Age: 55 • Status: Married • Hobbies: Cooking, fishing, flying gliders, writing, and acting • In Spain: Six years • Best thing about Spain: Beaches • Worst: Getting something done • Favourite movie: Ice Cold In Alex • Most like to meet: Peter Sellars
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Fiery problem MANY fires this summer were deliberate. Soldering irons, fireworks and cigarette ends also played a part, but authorities feel exonerated if they can claim that fires are intentional. Even if less were left to chance, with deadfalls and woodland debris religiously removed and firebreaks maintained, fires would still occur. But whether deliberate or accidental they would spread less rapidly and their effects would be less devastating.
More hypocrisy JUSTICE MINISTER Alberto RuizGallardon is dismantling the 2010 abortion law. But the hardline anti-abortion lobby should wait before hailing this as a triumph. A total ban on termination would lose votes even
from PP supporters and abortion will instead be permitted if a mother’s physical or mental health is at risk or when rape results in pregnancy. Consequently, there will be no fewer abortions, merely more lies and hypocrisy.
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EU winter fuel payments rule ‘ridiculous’ I FOUND comments by British politician Iain Duncan Smith published in British newspapers recently both ridiculous and insulting. How could he say that following an EU ruling on winter fuel payments that he plans to block allowances to British old-age pensioners living abroad by means of ‘a temperature test’. I have subsequently written to him, stating I find it insulting that he is trying to deprive people who have paid into the UK system all their working lives of their rightful dues. If this was a ‘means tested’ allowance in the UK then I could give some credence to it but it would appear that providing you reside in the UK then it does not matter if you have £1 or £1 million in your bank, you are still entitled to it. I live in a small town 25 miles south of Alicante, which, if you do not know, is on the Costa Blanca. Frequently in the winter we suffer temperatures below freezing. Is it ‘ridiculous’ of me to expect some help? Anthony Wagstaff, by email
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Snapped! By Vicky Knill from Madrid
IF you can’t beat them, join them, is what the motto of Fuengirola Town Hall must have been when they came up with the beach massage service this summer (Costa del Sol, Issue 1418). I am referring to reports in previous summers of them cracking down on the people illegally offering beach massage. Makes sense, really. Nick Poole, Fuengirola (Malaga)
IN a letter to Spanish newspaper Las Provincias , Maria Teresa Ricart Vines said she was amazed at the superior level of English in Denmark, Finland and The Netherlands. She asked why Spaniards do not have a similar level of English after spending so many school years trying to learn it. As a retired English teacher I ask does dubbing exist in the movie theatres and TV broadcasts of those countries or only here in Spain? A student from Mexico told me that all the English-speaking films
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WHILE visiting the south of Spain recently I was struck by how much the crisis had affected the local area. So many shops and bars closed, and far fewer visitors than normal. I really feel for the local people who are caught up in this difficult situation. I believe this picture of the Marbella sign above the quarry is an adequate visual metaphor for the current state of Spain.
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Buses dilemma IN regards to Keith Nicol’s article (Issue 1364) about Torrevieja's new smart cards being required from September 16. My existing card was refused by a bus driver, having been shown as expired on his card-reading device, on Monday the 3rd. I was just testing and did not make the trip. It has occurred to me that those who happen to have read about this are relatively fortunate in having been forewarned; there must be many passengers who will not understand why their cards are now being rejected.
I seem to recall seeing a reference to an office at No. 1 Avenida (Doctor) Gregorio Marañon as the place to apply. Do you know about that? Roger McCutcheon, La Siesta Editor’s note: Keith Nicol says the cards can be renewed in the old town hall building at the corner of Ramon Gallud and Calle Maldonado at no cost for another 12 months. For those that did not join the scheme last year there is a €35 charge.
VAT poser WHILE I understand the reasoning behind the VAT increases - to put more money into the empty governmental coffers - if people don’t have the money to spend, surely this will be detrimental to the economy? Either the businesses absorb the hike or the consumer will not buy as many things as I doubt their salaries will increase along with the rise. The result will be the same; businesses not doing as well and maybe closing down. At least basic food items, medicine and school items have remained unaffected. Jessy Johnson, Mijas Costa (Malaga)
Night discord How many of us have had the experience of going out at night to listen to some live music, only
13 - 19 September 2012 Costa Blanca North for the police to turn up halfway through to put an end to the proceedings? This seems to be becoming more and more prevalent in the towns on the Costa Blanca and has been happening throughout the summer at a time when bar owners are hoping to make some money and holiday-makers are looking for entertainment. Usually, it is the result of one person making a phone call to the police to complain. In the UK, we have a name for the type of person who goes straight to the police over the slightest grievance - Grass! By cutting off the music the police are causing the bars concerned to lose custom, which means they may have to cut down on staff and buy less from Spanish wholesalers. A discreet word with the bar owner could have easily resolved the issue without any far-reaching consequences. Brian Mullins, Moraira (Alicante)
Wedding bliss IT is great that Orihuela Town Hall will be offering more pleasant locations for people to get married (Costa Blanca South, Issue 1419). I hope that all town halls in Spain will offer this service so that people can get married in botanical gardens, parks, plazas and on beaches. They could also offer services for people to hold receptions there with tents set up. They would pay the municipality a fee for use of space and hire outside caterers. Vicki Hampton, Torrevieja (Alicante)
Wrong assumption IN his letter (Issue 1416), R Nedelec said I should be ashamed of myself for being preoccupied with bulls when I eat them. He automatically assumed that I ate meat. While I cannot say that meat has never passed my lips like him, I do not currently eat meat nor wear any materials made from animals. I am not a vegan, but do only buy eggs and dairy if they are free range. However, this is not my point. He says that if people eat meat they should not care about the torture of animals for amusement. I disagree. If you can make people aware that this is cruel, the next step is the treatment of livestock raised for human consumption. Jasmine Forrest, Estepona (Malaga)
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Mallorca designated a Mecca for cyclists: Heaven help us!
ROAD MENACE: Lycra-clad pedal-pushers.
LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT island of Mallorca. We have just been declared ‘a Mecca for cyclists’. Well, all I can say is Heaven help us. It is already well nigh impossible to go any distance at all without finding yourself behind
hordes of shiny bums pumping up and down. Something really has to be done. The accident rate is steadily rising (mostly borne out of motorist frustration) with even the odd fatality. The whole shebang must be somehow brought under control. Firstly, all cyclists should all be licensed in exactly the same way as
motorised vehicles. In the event they break the rules of the road, the full weight of the law should be brought to bear; with the same points system and possible loss of licence. I think cyclists should also only be allowed to traverse the highways at designated times, so motorists will at least be able to avoid their presence.
They should never be allowed to ride more than two abreast and always give way to pedestrians and other roads users. Using the pavement should bring an automatic disqualification. Putting these people in the same bag as the eco-friendly, GM food and the green brigade simply has to stop. There are now growing hordes of arrogant ‘sub Angels’ who already consider themselves above the laws of normal road users. These packs are getting bigger and bigger. If they were hoodies, the public would be really worried. Well, I wouldn’t put ‘lycra hoods’ beyond the realms of possibility. Is anyone listening out there? Somehow I doubt it. Keep the Faith, Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com
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FURTHER to your column ‘Britain’s broken pride’ (Issue 1417); all developed countries have their own unique problems as any in a democratic society. Britain is in no way a broken society, though many things need fixing and updating. If we could just concentrate on the great things that have been going on in the UK including the Olympics and all other positive aspects in society I think that would serve to inspire young people more. Britain may not be an empire any more but it still has great influence in many countries in the world. Everything has a cause and effect. If people feel they are on the margins of society then that has to be seen and changes made. Keep positive! Arthur Cascoe, by email
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TO me the only difference between Hells Angels and an ever-increasing faction of lycra-clad yobbo cyclists is the fact that the the pedal-pushers have no engines. This cycling minority wear ‘colours’. They are riddled with drug scandals. They commandeer the roads, treat traffic laws with complete distain and are only thinner than their leather-clad cousins because they physically propel their machines. Now they are wallowing in the glory of their Olympic success I really dread to think where it will all end. How many will now want to emulate the success of Mark Cavendish - a man whose ego seems to grow by the day. I shudder to think. It is even worse for those who live on this
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Help! The doublebedded room made me pregnant!
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WITH the holiday season almost over, the Association of British Travel Agents must be bracing itself for the inevitable post-holiday complaints. Like the one sent in by a woman who returned to Britain with an unusual holiday souvenir: “My fiancé and I booked a twin-bedded room, but we were placed in a doublebedded room. We now hold you responsible for the fact that I find myself pregnant.” Her complaint and scores like it, compiled by ABTA, do nothing to dispel the cliché that the Brits are a nation of whingers! Now some readers may have read my own rant here about hotels some weeks ago, others with maybe a bit too much time on their hands may do so via the website, while many may be a lot more interested in reading about the following that ended up in ABTA’s files. Some British tourists complained their holidays were spoiled because
“the beach was too sandy” and “no one told us there would be fish in the sea; the children were startled”. One angry wife declared that “topless sunbathing should be banned” because her “holiday was ruined as my husband spent all day looking at other women”. Complaints from British tourists about Spain are particularly telling. For some, there are “too many Spanish people”. “The receptionist speaks Spanish.” “The food is Spanish.” “There are too many foreigners; we had to queue outside with no air-conditioning.” Others think it should be explained in brochures that “the local store doesn’t sell proper biscuits like custard creams or ginger nuts and local shopkeepers shouldn’t be lazy and close in the afternoons because I often needed to buy things during ‘siesta’ time.” Maybe those who whinged they’d been bitten by mosquitoes – “no one
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said they could bite” – were the same ones who sought compensation for a spoiled excursion they’d booked to a water park: “no one told us we had to bring our swimming costumes and towels”. Good grief! What’s up with these guys? I’d be more than happy to be bitten by a mosquito while standing in a non air-conditioned queue waiting for the shop to open after siesta time so I could buy some local biscuits to eat while I went swimming, because it would mean I WAS having a holiday!
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HAD intended to write an article about Bedlam, more specifically the Bethlem Hospital for the Insane. Partly my interest was due to the derivation of the word bedlam (meaning chaos and disorder, like my life) and also due to the longevity of the institution which has been respectively mentioned by Shakespeare and (more melodramatically) by Charles Dickens. Suzanne has a degree in Fine Art from Goldsmiths and an Bedlam became a by- MA in Writing from Lancaster University. She is currently word for the teaching in Alicante and writing a book for teenagers (which doesn’t have a vampire as its central character). mistreatment of the mentally impaired and those suffering from an excess BEDLAM: The Bethlem Royal is a of melancholia (a much gentler term than depression) and conjured up images of stinking, crowded cells full of deranged and drooling figures covered in hair and human filth. It has been well documented that wealthy Londoners would Rest and recreation at Bedlam pay to watch the unfortunate probably consisted of a daily creatures rage and howl and hosing down with freezing bang their heads against the Thames water and the stone walls (a bit like Saturday occasional ‘liaison’ with the night in Basildon). nearest wild-haired, One did not ‘check’ oneself into knickerbockerless nymphoBedlam for a spot of rehab and it maniac (if you were lucky and certainly was not considered a did not get partnered with suitable alternative to the ‘fancy’ Hannibal Lecter’s great-great Swiss sanatoriums much beloved grandfather that is). of Freud and his ilk. Anyway, I digress as actually I
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hospital for the treatment of mental illness in London.
Wiki what? began this column by announcing my failed intention to write about Bedlam, therefore concluding that in actual fact I would be writing about something entirely different, but therein is the rub, if you have read my previous columns you would be aware of the fact that I lack focus and am wont to wander off on a tangent (or a tandem as my dyslexic friend
Anna would say)... Now where was I? While attempting to write about Bedlam and its history I stumbled upon Wikipedia (as one does). Now Wikipedia is a wonderful online encyclopaedia and is useful when conducting research... to a certain extent, that is, as it is well known that facts and figures can be hacked into and changed fairly easily.
Therefore, one approaches Wikipedia with a certain cautious interest and heightened state of alert as one would when approaching a dog. The page devoted to Bedlam contains many interesting references and facts, most of which are easily corroborated by other more academic, learned websites (like CBBC), so it wasn’t the information on Bedlam that caught my attention but the little comments contained in various boxes that accompanied it; comments like: ‘this article reads more like a story’ and ‘This section appears to be written like an advertisement’. It was the latter that grabbed my imagination and ran away with it thus ending my research on Bedlam and my intention of writing a serious, thought provoking piece. So just for Wikipedia, I invented a few of my own Bedlam advertisements: ‘Come to Bedlam, the beds are hard and so are the women!’ ‘Feeling bogged down with worry; enjoy a Bedlam enema, the celebrity way to a healthy mind.’ ‘You think you’re mad, wait ‘til you’ve sampled bath night at Bedlam. We accept gift vouchers.’ This article reads like the ranting of a lunatic. Please rethink your use of the sanity clause. Be like that, then!
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F I were to say that I spent the best part of last week beating the living daylights out of trees in my garden, you would probably think me mad. But if I added we were then joined in this curious behaviour by friends and most of the villagers, you would, no doubt, correctly assume that it was a matter of nuts: almonds, to be precise. We happen to have landed in a field of some 188 almond trees, which each year need pruning and picking. My husband, whose ancestors were all of Yorkshire farming stock, is practically lyrical about it, while I - frankly prefer my nuts in a small dish with a cool glass of cava in a suitably snazzy bar. Even with a small yield this year (much of the blossom blew away in the storm before being pollinated, according to resident experts) there was still a whole lot of trees to whack, as the many calluses on my hands and the odd head wound will attest to. But I have to confess, it is actually rather cathartic, this nut business; any pent-up anger or energy is easily dissipated by swinging a twometre long metal pole at a branch, followed by the highly
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It’s all gone nuts! Expat Strife Swedish-born Ulrica is a freelance journalist living in Mallorca with her family. Her debut novel $Expat Wives is available on Amazon and iBooks.
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rewarding sound as a cascade of nuts drops into the strategically-placed net. Not to mention the work-out for the arms; I might take up tennis again now that my swing is back in tip-top shape. I think I even have the grunt down to a ‘t’, assuming they still allow this on the courts after the Wimbledon grunting debate earlier this summer. And it is not just me who has taken leave of my senses; some smartly-dressed friends, innocently expecting a leisurely afternoon on the terrace, got stuck into the final few trees with laudable gusto at our harvest fiesta crescendo. It was a veritable mud-bath, after the deluge of rain. Even so, it has been years since I
ALMOND HARVEST: At this time of year, the trees need to be whacked and pruned, and the nuts collected. have seen so many truly delighted people, who left with heavy bags of freshly-picked almonds. Sure, the reward of
the wine and Jamón Ibérico may have eased the workload, as did the university musicians strumming in their fine outfits,
and the hilarious ‘seed dance’ by the Gatecrasher comedians, but still! Deep down, do we all have an inner farmer desperate to come out? Maybe even Victoria Beckham would finally smile after a session with the nuts in our field. Overwhelmed by technology and social media, perhaps many of us have lost touch with nature and Mother Earth. “Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust,” the eulogy goes, so perhaps embracing a bit of terra firma mid-journey will help us make sense of the cycle of life. Before this gets too morose, I would like to point out that you are still far more likely to find me in the local Champagne bar than knee-deep in a muddy field. But, come next harvest time, you can be sure that I will be the first to take aim at those pesky almonds, even if it will take the best part of a lifetime to crack them, let alone finish them all.
Next week's article here in Euro Weekly News will be: ‘Inventive ways with nuts’...
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Then Then the the Benitachell Benitachell Bowls Bowls Club Club is is the the place place to to be. be. YES ---- this is an offer too good to miss. Why not come along and see if you would enjoy an activity which is not only fun, but also where you can meet new friends and enjoy a social experience. It is very easy to do, requiring only gentle exercise and is as competitive as you want it to be. Our team of instructors will be delighted to offer you an individual lesson of an introduction to bowling. All equipment is provided and there is no obligation whatsoever to join or commit to BBC. Our hope is that you will enjoy the experience and also the welcome you receive when visiting the Club. You may very well find you have a natural gift for the sport which could develop to a very high standard as you gain skill and confidence.
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Benitachell Bowls Club THE BBC has been in existence for almost 25 years and is one of the most successful bowls clubs on the Costa Blanca. It is situated in a fantastic setting with panoramic views, close and within sight of the village of Benitachell. During this period the club has evolved to the high standard of bowling enjoyed by currently over 220 members of this prestigious club. Many of these members have learnt bowling since moving to Javea, Moraira and the surrounding area. As it is the only bowls club on the Costa Blanca owned by its own membership and not privately owned or commercially driven, we have the advantage of ensuring all income is spent maintaining and improving the facilities. Our excellent modern clubhouse and recently upgraded eight rink playing surface are a testament to the major investment made over the past five years. We are also able to ensure our bar prices are extremely attractive and the envy of most other clubs and establishments, as our visitors will readily agree. Throughout the year there is a constant programme of social activity organised by our social team with events such as dinner dances, whist and quiz evenings, BBQ’s and car treasure hunts. There are also art classes and Spanish language classes run by our own experienced tutors who are also members of the club. We are constantly active in promoting the interest in bowling to prospective new bowlers who would like the opportunity to try out this sport within a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. If this feature has in any way awakened an interest whether as a spectator or participant, then please take up our invitation to visit the Club to
Come along and try out this sport within a friendly and relaxed atmosphere.
watch the BBC Masters Open Competition which takes place from September 17 - 20 and during the hours of 9.30am to 5.00pm daily. This competition will see some of the best bowlers on the Costa Blanca competing for cash prizes, involving all four skills, namely singles, pairs, triples and fours.
We look forward to welcoming you. For further information please go to our website at: www.benitachellbowlsclub.com
Upon arriving just ask for a committee member who will be pleased to show you around. What better way of enjoying the current spell of fantastic weather than sitting on our club terrace with a glass of something chilled, watching ladies and gentlemen from the 20 competing teams in their whites demonstrating how the game of bowls is played? The Club is very easy to find using the simple map instructions provided.
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Do meet the president! IT is said that the Welsh are the Irish who couldn’t swim during the Saxon invasions of Britain from the 9th century onwards. It’s true; this is where the Irish name Walsh derives from. Back in those far off days Saxon immigrants were regarded as ‘the smelly heathens’. No worries; we Paddies have been called far worse. Over the centuries our British brothers acquired their own character, which is often endearing. One such is their presumption that they’re God’s chosen people when it comes to managing things in orderly fashion. We are all familiar with the stereotype busybody; NCO in the armed forces and the ladies especially in trying situations abroad. These were known as ‘empire builders,’ without which the empire upon which the sun never set couldn’t have come about. The ladies get everyone pulling together; they make schools, crèches, knitting circles and charitable events. My homespun philosophy is that the British Empire was made possible only by the fusion of English organising ability, Celtic can-do mindset and the upper-class leaning towards international piracy. It was a formidable combination that brought the world to its knees and later to its doors. That is by-the-by: I want you to meet the president. Not the president of the United States, but more important the president of our community of residents.
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SYMBOL: The man with the moustache stands out from the unruly mob.
The eyes, ears and mouth of the community, he knows what is going on. Our tireless organiser doesn’t suffer fools gladly. When tradesmen arrive he guides and monitors them. If you’re out of order it is explained to you kindly, and basically he keeps our community ship-shape and Bristol fashion; an offensive remark to us Liverpool sailors, but we let it pass. In the unlikely event that our community’s inmates are bitten by the escape bug the president needs to be in on it. He knows his onions better than any Frenchman, which is why our empire is bigger than theirs. The Greeks; it is true we borrowed their concept of democracy. But we organised it our way which leaves people wondering why we bothered with the Greek model at all. Our natural-born English organisers
borrowed another idea from the Greeks; their moustaches. Here again is a cultural difference. It is said that Greeks grow moustaches so they can look like their mothers. A snide Little Englander remark if ever I heard one. I digress: English-born community organisers, be they in charge of the POW camp’s escape committee or our community’s affairs of state, grow moustaches. The David Niven pencil moustache is acceptable, as is Gilbert Harding tufts; anything else passes muster. It is you see a symbol of authority; a bit like blue collar–white collar. The man with the moustache stands out from the unruly mob. When you want to know who is in charge ‘ere you look for the man sporting a moustache. ‘Ah, that’ll be our president’.
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HAPPINESS GENE: Women are more affected than men.
Gene that makes women happy A GENE that determines one’s level of happiness has been discovered by scientists, and it affects mainly women. It is called MAOA and has been linked to alcoholism, aggression and antisocial behaviour in the past. In a study conducted by several institutions in the USA, it was found that women with one or two copies of MAOA reported a larger amount of happiness than did women with no copies. The gene regulates an enzyme responsible for ‘feelgood’ chemicals in the brain, the same
substances targeted by antidepressants. Men do not seem affected by the gene and researchers suspect it may have to do with testosterone, a hormone that could neutralise the positive effects of MAOA. Scientists warn that happiness does not only depend on our genes, of course, but also about 35 to 50 per cent of variance could indeed be due to genetic factors. The rest, one has to work hard at. The study was published in Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry.
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4:00pm The Alan Titchmarsh Show 5:00pm My Tasty Travels with Lynda Bellingham 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Local News and Weather 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm UEFA Champions League 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:35pm UEFA Champions League All the latest coverage from the UEFA Champions League.
4:10pm Countdown 5:00pm Deal or No Deal 6:00pm Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate Cookery Course 6:30pm Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 8:55pm 4thought.tv 9:00pm Double Your House for Half the Money 10:00pm Derren Brown 11:35pm Big Fat Quiz of the 80s
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4:05pm Horrible Histories Historical sketch show, based on the successful books by Terry Deary. 4:35pm Lockie Leonard 4:47pm Léon Animated comedy shorts. 5:00pm Who Let the Dogs Out? Wacky dog training talent show presented by Zak George and narrated by Rik Mayall. 5:30pm Trade Your Way to the USA 6:00pm Newsround 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News All the latest local news. 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm EastEnders 9:00pm Holby City 10:00pm DIY SOS The Big Build Nick Knowles and the team work on another large scale building project. 11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News 11:30pm Weather 11:35pm The Lock Up
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12:15am Citizen Khan 12:45am Trust the Man 2:25am Weatherview 2:30am Watchdog 3:30am Toughest Place to be a... 4:30am Rip Off Britain 5:15am Celebrity MasterChef 5:45am BBC News
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12:20am China on Four Wheels 1:20am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather. 5:00am Coping 5:30am Love Hurts
BBC4 8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Indian Hill Railways 9:30pm British Passions on Film 10:00pm Love and Marriage 11:00pm Lilyhammer 11:45pm Rude Britannia 12:45am Inspector Montalbano 2:25am British Passions on Film Getting Away From it All. 2:55am Love and Marriage
12:35am Grimefighters 1:00am Jackpot247 3:30am Golden Balls 4:15am ITV Nightscreen
1:15am Random Acts Channel 4’s nightly shortform arts strand. Random Acts are turning on the bright lights. 1:20am Pokerstars.co.uk European Poker Tour 2:15am KOTV Boxing Weekly 2:40am Sailing 3:05am International Volleyball 4:00am Mobil 1 The Grid 4:25am British F3 Highlights of the Cooper Tires British F3 International series 2012. 4:50am GE Strathclyde Park Triathlon 5:45am Freesports on 4
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Satellite channels SKY 1 5:35am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 6:30am Airline 7:00am Don't Forget the Lyrics 8:00am Emergency Animal Rescue 9:00am Stargate SG-1 11:00am Lie to Me 1:00pm Oops TV 2:00pm The 4400 4:00pm Stargate SG-1 6:00pm Futurama 7:00pm The Middle 7:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Road Wars 10:00pm Strike Back 11:00pm Insomnia 1:15am Road Wars 3:10am Cop Squad 4:50am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime
SKY MOVIES COMEDY 5:00am Family Jewels 6:40am Father of the Bride II 8:30am Wayne's World 2 10:10am Death Becomes Her 12:00pm A Night at the Roxbury 1:30pm The Change-Up 3:30pm Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back 5:20pm Wayne’s World 2 7:05pm Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason 9:00pm How Do You Know 11:00pm The Change-Up 1:00am Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back 2:50am Women in Trouble 4:30am A Night at the Roxbury
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•THE Valleys International Bridge and Social Club meet Thursday 1.30pm-6pm at Bar Tormos, Orba Valley. Call 966 404 533. •PIETER SWINNEN Painting Club, Calpe: 965 835 212. •ROYAL NAVAL ASSOCIATION meet for lunch second Thursday of the month at various restaurants in the Jalon Valley. Call 966 474 532. •AECC BOUTIQUE in San Isidro: Call 966 723 401. •AL-ANON FAMILY GROUP Benidorm – don’t suffer alone through another person’s drinking – Call 634 758 539. •HELP INTERNATIONAL Benidorm meetings. www.help-benidorm.com. •RBL BENIDORM and district branch covers Polop to Villajoyosa at different locations for social meetings, day trips, excursions or meals. Membership: 695 605 129. Secretary: 966 860 735. •XABIA RUGBY CLUB: Juniors meet at 7pm; Seniors at 8pm. Call 688 640 092. •TORMOS, Orba Valley, International Bridge and Social Club meet at Restaurant Tormos, 1.45pm. 966 404 533.
FRIDAY •JAVEA BRIDGE CLUB Duplicate Pairs. 965 795 458.
Email whatson@euroweeklynews.com Fax 952 440 887 Post Euro Weekly News, Calle Moscatel 10, P-62, Poligono Industrial Arroyo de la Miel, 29631 Benalmadena, Malaga.
•ANGLICAN CHAPLAINCY Sunday Services - Holy Communion in eight locations: See www.costablanca-anglican chaplaincy.org. •BENITACHELL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, Benitachell: 966 494 036 or 966 470 303. •CALPE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHURCH Perlamar, Sundays 11am: 965 835 502 or www.calpechristian fellowship.org. •CHRIST IN YOU THE HOPE OF
•ROTARY INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP Costa Blanca North weekly lunch meeting at Los Leones restaurant 1.15pm. Call 965 795 421 the Wednesday before. www. rotarycostablanca.wiki.dot.com. •AUCTIONS FOR AECC. Items for donation wanted. Call 965 319 929 or 688 238 879. •GANDIA Area Social Club Petanca: Call 962 852 828. •JAVEA Bridge Club Duplicate Pairs Tournaments: Call 965 793 413. •TENNIS GROUP meet Tuesday and Friday mornings at Toscamar, Javea. Call 966 473 301.
SATURDAY •COMPUTER CLUB in Alfaz del Pi: Call 965 889 187.
GLORY CHURCH: Sundays 10.30am at the Europa Building, Avda del Pino. •ERMITA CHURCH, Javea – Warden Colin D Welch - 965 771 792. •HOLY EUCHARIST at Nuestra Senora de la Merced Church, Calpe: Sundays 10.30am. 678 787 509 or bill.ingram@angliac3.demon. co.uk. •JAVEA EVANGELICAL CHURCH – Pastor Clive Read 669 386 702. •JAVEA INTERNATIONAL BAPTIST CHURCH, Pastor John Hansford, Sun-
•JACARANDA MORAIRA CHARITY AUCTION first and third of month at 1.30pm. Exc h a n g e u n wa n t e d g o o d s fo r cash; one person’s rubbish is another person’s treasure. Call 965 743 292 to book your goods in.
SUNDAY •BARC’S ROULETTE FUN NIGHT on September 15 near the Canelobre Caves. €18 included unlimited buffet, free bar including shorts and mixers, free chips to play the games and free prize draw. Call 965 699 976 or 648 851 106. •DONATION OF ITEMS NEEDED for charity auction to be held on Sunday September 23 at Sins Bar on Corvetta Fuma to raise funds for the abandoned and ill treated ani-
(donations welcome): 965 319 929 / 688 238 879.
days 10.30am at Calle Favara 8, Javea Pueblo (near Plaza de la Constitucion Espanola) 965 794 624. www.javeabaptist .com.
•CANCER CARE CENTRE Javea park: Call 965 796 846. •JAVEA Bridge Club Duplicate Pairs Tournaments: 965 793 413.
•MOSIAC COMMUNITY CHURCH Sunday 12pm Multicultural Service; Wednesday 8pm Intercessory Prayer; Last Thursday of month 1.30pm community lunch. 678 066 222.
•MALE VOICE CHOIR Teulada: Call 965 744 577. •RAF Costa Blanca: Third Tuesday of month. Call 965 724 256 or email nwhancox@hot mail.com.
•SPIRITUALIST CHURCH Alfaz del Pi: Tuesdays and Thursdays 6.30pm. Call 966 878 469. •THE KINGS CHURCH Benissa English Sunday service, 11am: www. thekingschurch.net.
mals rescued by Asociacion Protector de Animales in El Campello. Their shop is in Avda Germanies 20. Call 965 633 547. • AECC BOUTIQUE in San Isidro: Call 966 723 401.
MONDAY •JALON VALLEY MUMS AND TOTS CLUB at 10.15am. Call 639 326 135. •JAVEA BRIDGE CLUB ‘No Fear’ pairs. 965 795 458. •JALON VALLEY MUMS AND TOTS CLUB at the town hall 10.15am-12pm. Call 639 326 135. •COSTA BLANCA SAMARITANS: Visit the website: www.costablan casamaritans.com. •DENIA INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE CLUB Duplicate Pairs Start
• BERNIA BABIES international group meets 10.30am-12pm at Sierra Bernia School, Alfaz del P i . C a l l t h e s c h o o l o ff i c e 9 6 6 875 149.
4pm. Call 965 785 387. •JAVEA Bridge Club Duplicate Pairs Tournaments: Call 965 793 413. •JAVEA STAMPS & POSTCARD CLUB meet second and fourth Monday of month at L’Ancora Tennis Club at 10am. All welcome. 965 795 499 or 608 765 245. •ROYAL AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION in Pedreguer meet the second Monday of month: Call 966 430 215 or visit the website www.rafa-ncb.org. •U3A Marina Baixa meet fourth Monday of month at 10.30am at the Alfaz del Pi Casa de Cultura.
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7:30am 64 Zoo Lane 7:40am Chuggington 7:50am Rastamouse 8:00am Barney’s Latin America 8:30am The League of Super Evil 8:40am Eliot Kid 8:55am Newsround 9:00am What’s New Scooby-Doo? 9:12am Léon 9:25am Buzz and Tell 9:30am Nina and the Neurons: In the Lab 9:45am Baby Jake 10:00am The Adventures of Abney and Teal 10:15am Raa Raa the Noisy Lion 10:25am The Large Family 10:40am The Koala Brothers 10:50am Dirtgirlworld 11:00am Chuggington 11:05am Nuzzle and Scratch 11:25am Driver Dan’s Story Train 11:40am Waybuloo 12:00pm In the Night Garden 12:30pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm See Hear 2:30pm Coast 2:35pm Lifeline 2:45pm To Buy or Not to Buy 3:15pm The Weakest Link
4:15am ITV Nightscreen 6:30am ITV Morning News 7:00am Daybreak 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning The popular morning lifestyle magazine show with advice, chat and competitions. 12:25pm ITV News 12:30pm This Morning The popular morning lifestyle magazine show with advice, chat and competitions. 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV News and Weather A round-up of the latest news headlines and a national weather forecast. 3:00pm Dickinson’s Real Deal Why let your antiques collect dust in the attic when you can sell them?
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4:00pm Wanted Down Under 4:45pm Helicopter Heroes 5:30pm Flog It! Antiques show which helps amateur auctioneers, collectors and bargain-hunters make a saving. 5:45pm Match of the Day Live Live coverage of a key football fixture. 8:00pm Celebrity MasterChef 8:30pm Coast 9:00pm Antiques to the Rescue 10:00pm Dead Good Job 11:00pm The Culture Show Topical magazine programme which features the best arts and culture stories of the last week. 11:30pm Newsnight Comprehensive coverage of the day's important national and international news stories.
4:00pm The Alan Titchmarsh Show Chat show that celebrates the very best of British. 5:00pm My Tasty Travels with Lynda Bellingham 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Regional News and Weather Up to the minute regional news and weather updates. 7:30pm ITV News and Weather A round-up of the latest news headlines and a national weather forecast. 8:00pm Emmerdale Popular long-running soap opera, set in a Yorkshire village. 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm All Star Mr and Mrs 10:00pm Mrs Biggs 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:35pm Full Metal Jacket
4:05pm Horrible Histories 4:35pm Lockie Leonard 4:47pm Léon 5:00pm Who Let the Dogs Out? 5:30pm Stepping Up 6:00pm Newsround Topical news magazine for children. 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather. 7:30pm Regional News All the latest local news. 8:00pm The One Show Magazine series featuring a mix of interviews, topical reports and features from around the UK. 9:00pm Watchdog 10:00pm Who Do You Think You Are? 11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News 11:30pm Weather 11:35pm National Lottery Midweek Draws 11:45pm Imagine...
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2:15am Super Casino 7:00am Thomas and Friends Timeless TV series following the adventures of a cheeky little tank engine and his friends. 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Big Body Squad 1:10pm 5 News The latest news coverage. 1:15pm Dirty Great Machines 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:20pm NUMB3RS Detective drama series about a maths genius recruited by the FBI to solve complex criminal cases.
4:20pm A Gunfighter's Pledge 5:55pm The Family Recipe Cookery series in which celebrity chefs share their family recipes. 6:00pm 5 News The latest news coverage. 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Hugh Grant & Away Tara Fitzgerald 7:30pm 5 News 8:00pm Cowboy Builders 9:00pm Emergency Bikers Action-packed documentary series following the work of emergency bike crews. 10:00pm Dallas Epic soap saga following the lives and loves of the Lone Star State millionaires. 11:00pm Paddy and Sally’s Excellent Gypsy Adventure
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BBC3 8:00pm National Treasure A treasure hunter finds the map to a secret war chest hidden by America’s Founding Fathers. 10:00pm Be Your Own Boss 11:00pm The Revolution Will be Televised 11:30pm Family Guy 11:52pm Family Guy 12:15am American Dad! 1:00am Be Your Own Boss 2:00am The Revolution Will be Televised 2:30am Bad Education 3:00am Let Me Entertain You 4:00am Don’t Tell the Bride
12:20am Storyville Series showcasing the best in international documentaries. 1:20am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather. 5:00am Ask Lara 5:10am Ask Lara 5:25am Ask Lara 5:35am Ask Lara 5:45am Ask Lara
BBC4 8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 9:00pm 20th Century Battlefields 10:00pm Surviving Hitler: A Love Story 10:55pm My Father Was a Nazi Commandant 11:45pm Human Planet 12:45am Mission to Mars: A Horizon Special 1:45am Great British Railway Journeys 2:15am 20th Century Battlefields 3:15am Surviving Hitler: A Love Story
1:45am Jackpot247 3:45am Columbo 1978, Mystery Peter Falk, Nicol Willamson. 5:05am ITV Nightscreen
12:05am Random Acts 12:10am 2 Broke Girls 12:40am New Girl 1:10am Itunes Festival 2012 2:10am Nelly Furtado 2:35am Spotlight 2:50am Runway 4:30am You Deserve This House 5:25am Deal or No Deal
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4:55am Lady Jane 7:20am The Company Men 9:10am Serious Moonlight 10:40am Eat Pray Love 3:05pm The Chateau Meroux
4:00pm Stargate SG-1 6:00pm Futurama 7:00pm The Middle 7:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Emergency with Angela Griffin 10:00pm A League of Their Own 11:00pm An Idiot Abroad 12:00am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 1:00am Road Wars 3:00am Cop Squad 4:50am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime
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4:45am Bad Girls 6:30am Cowboys and Aliens 35mm Special 7:00am Superman 9:25am Circle of Pain 10:55am Shanghai Noon 12:50pm The Eagle 2:50pm X-Men: First Class
6:00am Death Becomes Her 7:50am That’s My Boy 8:10am The Rebound 9:55am Dragnet 11:50am The Dilemma 1:50pm Your Highness 3:40pm It’s Kind of a Funny Story
5:05pm Sucker Punch 7:00pm Shanghai Noon 9:00pm The Eagle 11:00pm X-Men: First Class
5:30pm Just Married 7:15pm The Rebound 9:00pm The Dilemma 11:00pm Your Highness
1:15am Sucker Punch 3:10am The 13th Warrior 5:00am The Perfect Weapon
12:45am It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2:30am Just Married 4:15am Blackball
8:00am Gunsmoke 9:00am The High Chaparral 10:05am Calamity Jane 12:05pm Rawhide 1:45pm Gunsmoke 2:50pm The High Chaparral
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CAT SMELLS: If not cleaned up properly, they are likely to go again in the same spot. and one tablespoon of biological washing powder to one pint of water. Then rinse the area thoroughly in
cold water and let it dry or dry it with a hair dryer if time presses. Next spray or apply some surgical spirit. Use a nail brush to get this into fabric and crevices. This gets rid of the fatty residues that prompt a cat to top up his own marks. Dry completely. If using Feliway, wait 24 hours after using surgical spirit because it interferes with the Feliway. If the cat has access to this area during the 24 hours, rig up some cling film on the area and use Feliway on this.
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VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) You wonʼt avoid the occasional mishap, but if youʼre tactful on Tuesday and chill out on Wednesday, the lead-up to the weekendʼs partying will see you go after whatever you want. Personal and financial discussions will remind you that life is what you make it. Just ride lifeʼs waves with confidence.
LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) This weekʼs change of planetary powers will allow you to find exactly what you're looking for, especially if you're shopping for bargains. Happily, everything is coming together, so don't let everyday niggles spoil your long-term plans.
SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) On a personal and financial level, wait for further developments before you reach or activate any important decisions. As you draw near the final phase of this year, the best results will come from spending as much time as possible with loved ones, or those who're on your creative wavelength.
SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) Whatever your plans, or however you intend to enjoy the weekend, there'll be laughter, fun and plenty of action. Refuse to be distracted or upset by any of Monday or Wednesday's twists and turns.
Just joking A man was driving home and his car was weaving violently all over the road. A policeman pulls him over. “Well,” says the cop, “it looks like you’ve had quite a few to drink.” “I did, all right,” the man replies. “Did you know that a few intersections back, your wife fell out of your car?” the policeman asks. “Oh, thank heavens,” sighs the drunk. “For a minute there, I thought I’d gone deaf.”
IF ITʼS YOUR BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK: Your birthday heralds the start of better times ahead, although right now the stars are just a tad at odds with your career and personal affairs, so take it easy. Get out and about tomorrow, and obviously join in with the fun over the weekend. Most importantly, keep up the social momentum.
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This week's potent presence of sombre Saturn in your own sign is a warning not to lose your cool, particularly on Tuesday and Thursday. Otherwise, you can expect a weekend of quality and frivolity.
You will be ready and waiting for whatever you've organised. Then, without warning, you could have to backtrack or make other plans - you might even encounter some undeserved criticism. But no matter what happens, the weekend will definitely make up for any workaday muddles. Meanwhile, if you're a mixer and mingler, you'll be swept off your feet.
With so much to think about, will it really be a wonder if something or someone gets left out? It's not just the glitz that's inspiring the action, but certain thankless tasks which are bound to crop up. Whatever the planets get up to, there'll be no stopping Friday and Saturday's enchanting delights.
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TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) There will be enough hurly-burly to cope with at work, let alone elsewhere, so don't even think about doing everything single-handedly. Cooking, hosting and being all things to everyone shouldn't be your version of the perfect week. Teamwork is the way forward, so take the lead and be sure that everyone gets happily involved.
The more you can offload, the happier you'll be. As you attract kindred spirits, you'll be able to look forward to the weekend whirl with family and friends. In the lead-up to the weekend, try to be patient with those who seem to be pulled in other directions. The weekend's full moon sets the scene for a useful exchange of ideas.
As you top up your spirits with some extra ideas, don't be surprised if a couple of items drop out of sight. If you seriously want to minimise niggles and hassles, then ask friends or relatives to lend a hand. It's a great week for togetherness, so ensure that you
CANCER (June 22 - July 23) Good news should come your way this week. Regardless of how you mark it, you'll be surrounded by caring hearts. Sunday's full moon is one of two this year associated with journeys, homely connections and good fortune. Despite some workaday hassles your efforts will be well starred.
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Many happy moments will keep you on your toes. With warming wishes in the wind, and a charming touch of luck, don't panic if certain events don't match up to your high standards. Just be Leo-proud that you've got what it takes to make things tick. Unfortunately you can't afford to assume that everything will run to time.
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Crosswords CRYPTIC Across 7 Television presenters move from one vessel to another (6) 8 Get at one in brown cover (6) 9 Taverns mentioned in Huckleberry Finnʼs adventures (4) 10 Charges broken rib cases (8) 11 Horseshoe expert is rarer if crazy (7) 13 Religious outfit is second nature (5) 15 Quick, note the threat (5) 17 Scratches for supplies for a long time (7) 20 Anti note rebel chant (8) 21 Atmosphere in a restaurant (4) 23 Small dog perhaps that is biting catʼs tail (6) 24 Savage mailman lost his head and went to pieces (6) Down 1 Iron service plant (4) 2 Possibly snares a former Egyptian leader (6) 3 Shipʼs kitchen equipment? (7) 4 Mockery in distant church (5) 5 At Thailand the ItalianAmerican will turn into a
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ENGLISH - SPANISH The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English. 1 Receipt (document) (6) 4 Wave (in hair) (4) 8 Code (5) 9 Onza (5) 10 Alquitrán (3) 11 Dueño (de casa, coche, perro) (5) 12 Comidas (actos de comer) (5) 15 Un (3) 16 Skinny (5) 18 Sobrina (5) 19 Rat (4) 20 Desfile (militar) (6)
Co d e B r e a ke r barbarian (6) 6 Similarly prepared Kiwi eels (8) 12 Put in order a grander transport (8) 14 Place to hide skunk (7) 16 Many returned one day showing little emotion (6) 18 Some para mistaken for a Musketeer (6) 19 Get thinner and lighter (5) 22 Bring up the back (4) 25 Quick race (6) 26 Go away (4,2) Down 1 Give in (7) 2 Distribute (5) 3 Set aside (7) 5 Academic divisions (5) 6 Instalment (7) 7 Extra (5) 8 Clean, tidy and smart (4-7) 15 Hunting dog (7) 16 Appease (7) 17 Serious (7) 19 Less (5) 20 Free from dirt (5) 22 Contaminate (5)
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC - Across: 1 Labour, 5 Dowse, 8 Cite, 9 Tabulate, 10 Antithesis, 13 Gazebo, 14 Rubies, 16 Narcissist, 19 Foursome, 21 Hail, 22 Drink, 23 Screen. Down: 2 Avid, 3 Overate, 4 Rotations, 5 Dab, 6 Wilde, 7 Entailed, 11 Tardiness, 12 Paranoid, 15 Butcher, 17 Corgi, 18 Dire, 20 Oak.
QUICK - Across: 7 Dahlia, 8 Abroad, 9 Bald, 10 Specific, 11 Heather, 13 Never, 15 Carry, 17 Dessert, 20 Split end, 22 Saline, 23 Narrow. Down: 1 Manage, 2/21A Glad rags, 3 Hamster, 4 Cadet, 5 Trainers, 6 Ravine, 12 Terrific, 14 Wedding, 16 Appeal, 18 Region, 19 Defer, 21 Rare.
Down: 1 Sol, 2 Reservoir, 3 Salvajada, 4 Bread, 6 Citar, 8 Cielo, 9 Ancho, 13 Owe.
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Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 17 represents V and 10 represents Q, so fill in V every time the figure 17 appears and Q every time the figure 10 appears. Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.
Hexagram The purpose of the Hexagram puzzle is to place the 19 six-letter words into the 19 cells. The letters at the edges of interlocking cells MUST BE THE SAME. The letters in the words must be written CLOCKWISE. The word in cell 10 (BLEARY) and one letter in four other cells are given as clues.
Acorns Assert BLEARY (10) Cellar Centre Charts Enable Enters Estate Humane Longer Papers Prayer Rebate Regard Spears Stored Tolled Tramps
I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION when old. 1 Sickly, 2 Steeds, 3 Neatly, 4 Medals, 5 Treaty, 6 Enters, 7 Dearly, 8 Crater, Robert Frost (1874-1964) 9 Stayed, 10 Recall, 11 Bitten, 12 Welled, 13 Hearts, 14 Dwells, 15 Reeled, American writer and poet. 16 Rested, 17 Weeded, 18 Adhere, 19 Raised
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Atlantis and Spain…. Tsunamis and Blood Tests EVEN the most casual Google search for the ‘Island of Atlantis’ will yield literally hundreds, if not thousands, of results. For centuries, the topic has been debated, analysed and discussed, some would say to the point of ad nauseam. Thousands of books and articles have been written about the legendary island and equally as many theories abound. The philosopher Plato, writing 2,300 years ago, was perhaps the first primary source in Atlantis scholarship. He depicted the Island of Atlantis as an ancient but advanced naval power lying just beyond the ‘Pillars of Hercules’ or what we know as Costa del Sol’s Straits of Gibraltar. He claims Atlantis sank into the ocean “in a single day and night of misfortune.” Plato places
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this account at about 7600 B.C. and many believe that his Atlantis account is a
DOÑANA NATIONAL PARK: Some people argue that Atlantis is submerged near variant of Noah’s Flood told in the Old Testament book of Genesis. Since the time of Plato, Atlantis scholarship has received contributions from geographers, geologists,
archaeologists, philosophers, novelists, poets, occultists, dilettantes, etc. In both ancient times and modern times attitudes toward Atlantis has ranged from an unquestioned belief in Plato’s dialogue, to mocking parodies, to strident rejection of the possibility of Atlantis’ existence. What follows are two of the most recent perspectives. They are ‘science oriented’ making claims that are very curious, very original and, for the purposes of this article, very Spanish specific. Consider… Inspired by recent studies of tsunamis following Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster (April 2011), a National Geographic team of archaeologists and geologists have made what they label a ‘gamechanging’ discovery. They argue that Atlantis was swamped by a monumental tsunami and it is indeed submerged near Doñana National Park on Spain’s Costa de la Luz. The Canadian, U.S. and Spanish team used a satellite photo of the shallow mud-flats in the estuary of Doñana Park to determine that a certain architectural symmetry exists when viewed from above. This aerial symmetry
appears to be submerged megaliths adjacent to an ancient canal system. The team surveyed the area with combinations of deepground radar, digital mapping and underwater technologies. They believe the power of this particular tsunami produced waves hundreds of metres high, capable of wiping out 100 kilometres of inland elevation. The submerged megaliths and canals match descriptions made by Plato. Furthermore, the architectural detail equates in nature to some of southern Spain’s inland Iron and Copper Age remains. The National Geographic team speculates that refugees fled inland after the wildly destructive tsunami and built Iron and Copper Age ‘memorial cities’ constructed in the Atlantis image. Studies are ongoing in matching that architecture in and around Cadiz with that submerged in Doñana Park. Unrelated, yet relevant to this discussion are the discoveries from another branch of science. Genetic and DNA research in the past few decades has produced unexpected results that have opened the doors to many historical mysteries. The DNA analysis of the Spanish (and French) Basques population is a perfect example. As a
population, the Basques are unique in that they contain the highest levels of the rare RH-O negative blood-type AND the lowest levels of the common type ‘B’ blood in the world. These patterns are remarkable as they are shared with the DNA lineage of the Iroquois Indians of the north eastern North America and the Berber population of Morocco’s Atlas Mountains (think Pillars of Hercules!). DNA researchers, anthropologists, historians and even linguists have collectively suggested that perhaps some people had fled the sinking Atlantis continent and went west and settled in the Iroquois region of New York. Others went east to the Iberian Peninsula (Basques) and the Atlas Mountains of North Africa (Berbers). How else to explain that these disparate peoples share a very rare RH-O negative DNA lineage that occurs nowhere else on the planet? The mystery of The Island of Atlantis has always been attractive for humans to speculate upon. The case of Atlantis is especially tantalizing – so much so that the whole issue has, over the centuries, been as much about emotion as it has been of reason and scholarship. To be sure, empty theory, dogmatic opinion, emotional prophecy and blind belief have been part of every generation that has discussed the legend of Atlantis. So too has well weighted reason and scientific attempts to explain the mysteries of Plato’s discourse. It is interesting to note, however, that the very first recorded mention of Plato’s ‘Pillars of Hercules’ and the most recent scientific discoveries have put Spain front and centre in any Atlantis discussion. Collectively, these discussions have very Spanish overtones. Is this a coincidence? Draw your own conclusions…
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to create a truly delightful dining area, which with the addition of a garden terrace makes the perfect place to enjoy the fabulous menu. Restaurateur Abi Satari is a real professional when it comes to running an eating establishment. With 30 years experience in leisure and catering he knows the business inside out and it shows on his excellent menu. For starters, among other things, you could have pan fried chicken livers with wild mushrooms with a crispy pastry pillow, or fresh mushrooms in a creamy garlic sauce, or smoked salmon with herb salad. For the main course there is a choice of lamb, pork, fresh fish, steaks and many vegetarian dishes. Desserts are all homemade and delicious; the most difficult part is what to choose from the vast selection. “We can organise private parties of up to 100,” says Abi Satari. “We tailor-make the menu to your liking and budget, organise live music and flowers in keeping with the type of
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OR a lovely meal, or just a drink, combined with one of the best views on the Costa Blanca, visit Foxes Bar and Restaurant at the far end of Calpe’s Levante Beach. Open every day, 10am-3pm and 6.30pm–late (Monday evenings only) it’s a great place to find all of your traditional favourites – and more, whilst soaking up the stunning views across Calpe’s Levante Beach towards the Peñon Ifach. You really are just feet away from the beach! John and Tina opened Foxes only 10 weeks ago and are already inundated some nights as more and more locals discover it.
They have more than 10 years experience in running pubs and restaurants back in the UK and it shows in the cosy attention to detail in the décor and the excellent menu. John is the chef and he is assisted by Thomas in the kitchen. Thomas is German and adds an international flavour to the cooking, preparing everything from schnitzel to paella. John says Foxes caters for every customer, and he can create wonderful meals at the drop of a hat for vegetarians. It’s the mix of professionalism and friendliness that makes Foxes worth a visit. They offer breakfasts and menu del
dia, and the a la carte is constantly being updated to keep the choice lively. All ingredients where possible are locally sourced and John buys his vegetables fresh every day from Benissa market. Seafood, pastas, pizzas, homemade pates and cheesecakes available. John’s special Mushroom Pot with cream bacon garlic and secret ingredients is a real favourite. Every night a special - Tuesdays: Pie night (homemade!!) Wednesday: Steak and ribs, Friday: fish ’n’ chips, and Sunday a full roast day and evening. Seating 70 it’s perfect for parties, and with a sunny terrace facing the beach it’s great for intimate meals for two or family groups. John says the emphasis is on quality food at reasonable prices. At the Esmerelda Hotel on the beach (Green Top) and at the promenade turn left up the rise – 50 metres you’ll be there. Tel: 662 961 990. Booking now for Christmas Day as well!
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Animal aid THE Busot Animal Rescue Centre’s (BARC) charity shop in El Campello is now open. It is located on Avenida de la Generalitat 57, opposite the entrance to the tram station. Opening hours are Monday to Saturday, 10am-2pm. They offer a selection of good quality clothing, brica-brac, books and birthday and greeting cards. They also provide for a donation wheelchair and crutches hire. Anyone who would like to donate goods can drop them at the shop. Volunteers who can spare a few hours in the shop should speak to Steve or call him on 644212819. All money raised helps take care of and feeds the more than 30 dogs in their kennels. www.barc.sunnysunnyspain.com
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WITHIN two weeks of an appeal being launched at Benitachell Bowls Club to purchase vital lifesaving equipment, sufficient monies had been raised from club member donations to purchase a defibrillator and oxygen resuscitation kit. Pictured from left to right are Peter Emmett, Appeal
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REVAMPED menu and the brand new three-strong kitchen team of Harry, Anita and Mel, means Bar West in Alfaz is all ready to go for the autumn season. With the usual Value for Money emphasis throughout - whether it’s a bar/terrace area caña and tapa for €1.20 or glass of wine with tapa for €1.50, or the €8 menu del dia including wine, your money goes further at Bar West. The steakhouse menu soup starter and steak at €7.95 is brilliant value, and
READY TO GO: Bar West set for autumn season. at night the evening menu including wine at €10.50 has eight starters and eight mains to choose from – it’s the same as an a la carte for a fraction of the price!
Try the Black Pudding with caramelized onion and apple starter, or the main course Boozy Chicken Filet with brandy and cream – delicious!! The menu changes regularly and there’s always something that catches the eye and taste buds! Sunday lunches are different, too. As well as the usual roast beef and pork mains you can choose a prawn cocktail starter or the sizzling prawns in garlic. Main courses? Why not try beef olives or sole Veronique for a change? It’s Sunday lunch with a
twist. Yet the homemade Yorkshires are served in the authentic Yorkshire style as a dish with home-made gravy before the main course! Desserts are Harry’s specialties for after your meal or to take with a coffee whilst chilling on the sunny terrace or bar area. All homemade – tiramisu, butter cake, walnut tart, carrot cake, Dutch apple and plum pie and apple strudel – and coffees come with a free shot of Baileys! Great value again. So if it’s for breakfast from 10.30, snacking on a homemade burger, the really popular crunchy steak and onion baguette on the sun terrace, or a fantastic blow-out meal, get down to Bar West and let your money go further. Value and quality are the key. Call 682 707 580 or just pop in. Bar West on Alfaz main street opposite the Bed Centre.
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SMALL SCALE: Good for an apartment terrace. unexpected guests easily and well. 7. By using natural fertilizers, insect control methods and fungicides you will have no need to resort to manufactured inorganic chemical solutions. Both the garden and garden shed become less smelly and healthier places to work in. 8. Include herbs within the vegetable plot and you have culinary and medicinal herbs that are more potent when fresh than when dried. 9. Involve the family in growing the vegetables, even establish a children’s garden, and you may find it easier to persuade every one to eat more salads and vegetables. Making a start is not difficult and a large area is not necessary as explained below. A. SMALL SCALE Start to grow vegetables in large pots, an old bath, grow bags, a growing table or a small raised bed. All are possible on an NEED FOR COMPOSTED MANURE TO BE ADDED TO SOIL BEFORE PLANTING. HIGH MODERATE LOW
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apartment terrace, in a patio garden as well as a corner of a larger garden. Purchase plantlets to save the bother of sowing from seeds. Potatoes can also be grown in large pots. B. LARGER SCALE Develop a traditional vegetable patch. Start or expand a compost heap to produce an annual supply of humus and beneficial micro organism rich compost for enriching the soil. Garden weeds, shredded prunings and green kitchen waste can all be usefully recycled. Keeping a couple of hens and rabbits that love to eat many waste leaves from the vegetable garden are also a good source of organic manures, especially if you feed them natural rather than processed foods. And of course you will have a home source of organic meat and eggs. Work well-rotted compost into the soil on the basis of up to 1:2 of the original soil if you have poor soil. Add TYPICAL VEGETABLES IN EACH CATEGORY Potatoes, tomatoes, courgettes, beans, peas. Globe artichokes, beetroots, garlic. Carrots, parsnips, radishes.
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CONVENIENT: Much easier to start with plantlets rather than seeds. well-rotted manure according to the needs of particular groups of vegetables as illustrated in the text box in this article. Leaf vegetables like a moderately rich soil but also do best when given fortnightly nitrogen feeds. Nettle leaves steeped in water for a few weeks is one of the best naturally available and free. Once plants are growing use natural methods for deterring and controlling pests. Where possible irrigate with non chlorinated water. Install a water butt to collect
rainwater if you do not have access to agricultural water or a spring. WHAT CAN BE GROWN IN SPAIN? Almost anything and more than one sees in most greengrocers. All can be grown from seed, but in many cases it is more convenient for beginners and those with only a small growing area to purchase young plantlets ready for planting out. They also enable you to plant an instant vegetable garden and restock it as earlier plantings are eaten. In this way terrace or patio pots
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or grow bags and small raised beds can be made very productive. There is no reason why you should not be growing your own home grown freshly harvested ecological vegetables on Christmas day. As you see growing your own vegetables can be very worthwhile and fun. Why not have a go? Our book ‘Growing Healthy Vegetables in Spain’ tells you how to do so step by step and most importantly ecologically. © Clodagh and Dick Handscombe www.gardeninginspain.com September 2012.
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NE of the more frequent questions that I get asked relates to nursing care in Spanish state hospitals. Invariably, people believe that this does not exist or, if it does, that it is very restricted. At times, I have spoken to people who think that any nursing in a Spanish hospital has to be done by members of a patient’s family, who are also responsible for bringing food into the hospital. I am not certain where this misconception comes from but I suspect that it may derive from the fact that numerous members of Spanish families are invariably present in a ward when a member of their family is ill. I suspect this may give the impression that they are there to nurse and actively care for the patient concerned.
Nursing care in a Spanish state hospital is pretty much identical to what you would expect in a UK hospital.
Nick Snelling Nick Snelling is the author of five books including ‘How to Buy Spanish property and Move to Spain – Safely!’ and runs the information site Culture Spain
Certainly, one of the endearing traits to Spanish hospital care is the freedom to have visitors whenever you want (unless you are in intensive care) and for
those visitors to stay overnight as they so desire. I say ‘endearing’ with some trepidation, as having a noisy family around the bed next to you when you are feeling grim is not always a pleasure!
In any event, let me confirm that you do get proper nursing in a Spanish state hospital and, along with it, meals and everything else you need. In fact, the care is pretty much identical to what you would expect
in a UK hospital. This is important to know – particularly if you are thinking of moving to Spain (or even coming here on holiday). Most people that I know who have had to use state healthcare in Spain have been
impressed by the efficiency and level of service that they have received. On my part (in case you think I am writing from sheer hearsay), I have personally tested everything from the local GP and his nurse right through to the ambulance service and intensive care. This was not, of course, so that I could write authoritatively on the subject of Spanish healthcare but because I had a nasty heart attack whilst rock climbing a couple of years ago. As you can imagine, my heart attack resulted in an emergency pick-up from a roadside close to me (with all sirens blazing) and a rapid trip to A&E and then intensive care. There I stayed for a few days before going into a normal ward, followed by the extensive after-care that I have received ever since. There are, of course, downsides to Spanish state healthcare and one of these (understandably) is that few medical staff can be relied upon to speak English. So, you can feel very vulnerable unless you speak Spanish, although even then you may find that your Spanish lacks the specific vocabulary to either understand or communicate properly. It is at times like this that you will almost certainly need a translator. However, I can honestly say that the treatment and nursing that I had in intensive care was nothing short of superb and was followed by more than adequate care when I was on the recovery ward. So, worry not, if you have been concerned about the level of care and type of treatment that you would receive – and whether, if something awful happened, you would need your family to be nearby.
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BEFORE we have a beautiful time together, why don´t we first have a nice dinner at a restaurant of your choice with some light conversation about art, psychology and, most importantly, humour then, take it from there. Are you a slim, adventurous, open-minded young lady between 35 and 65?. Call me at 687 601 036 and let´s talk about where to meet. Look forward to hearing from you. Paul (101180)
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Personal Readers of a sensitive disposition may find some of the advertisements in this section offensive. GENTLEMEN. A happy love life with the amazing blue pill. Guaranteed. Amazing (from 2€). Delivery North Costa Blanca. Call Keith 687 357 529 (97476) SWINGERSBENIDORM.COM. Regular parties in purpose-built club. (97345) THE BEST FROM GERMANY, VERONICA SEXY LADY. 27, tall, 1.78, brunette, beautiful face, playboy body, lovely. Discreet luxury apt, 7 days, 10am 11pm. Benidorm 697 648 395 (97452)
PET-COURIERS.COM – If you love your pet try us first – we are the best. Door to door service throughout Europe. Specialised vehicles – bespoke service. Full legal service including documentation if required. For further information call or e-mail us: Tel: (0034) 651 033 670 or (0034) 637 066 227. Email: info@petcouriers.com or www.pet-couriers.com (95495) NEED YOUR PETS TAKEN CARE OF? Not kennels, just a friendly home. Large fenced area. 699 790 080 Altea (97344)
Locksmith LOCKSMITH/ELECTRICIAN/ CARPENTER for emergency safe opening, Altea based. Call Michael Rice 686 513 510 or Sean Gannon 667 507 630 (101007)
Metal Works SOS INSURANCE. Best prices available. Call us first for all your insurance needs. Including funeral plans. Tel: 966 787 123/622 275 561 (101137)
MOBILE WELDING SERVICE, gates, rejas, railings etc. Made to measure or repaired. Free quotes. NO JOB TOO SMALL. Calpe. Dave: 616 173 699 / 965 834 869 (97481)
Mobile Homes
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WE BUY, Sell, Remove all types of Mobile Homes. We pay CASH and cover all of Spain. More details call Suzi Caley 616 250 727 / 951 063 059 or email suzicaley@gmail.com (100120)
GOING HOME ? Want to swap UK Reg RHD Mitsubishi L200 warrier immaculate cond inside/outside taxed,mot 43.000 kms cash either way 646 600 898 (94920) JUST BRAKES, JUST SERVICING. Competitive rates. Call Dave 634 408 749 (99228) MERCEDES Cabriolet 320SLK, RHD, Avant Garde, metallic silver, low miles, history, tax, MOT, €5,950 or swap for Spanish reg car plus cash. 667 270 969 (101094)
Pet Insurance ALBIR; BENIDORM, Young beautiful lady, speaks English, offers massage & escort services. 626 096 866 (101078) SEX CINEMA ‘El Sofa’. (Straight, Gay and Bi rooms), Calle de la Parra 5, Benidorm www.SexCinemaBenidorm.com (97998)
PROTECTAPET. Spain’s leading pet insurance. 965 756 371. info@protectapet.eu (95962)
Plumbing
BENIDORM C/ Kennedy. Young, gorgeous, English speaking, Spanish, brunette will fulfil all your fantasies. All erotic services. Home visits or in her apartment. 678 985 867 (101077)
BEAUTIFUL, Sexy, High Class German Lady, 27, Discreet Luxury Apartment Benidorm 697 648 395 (101021)
Pool Services www.instantpools.eu YES YOU CAN HAVE A POOL – We manufacture & install Wooden AboveGround Pools. Pools from 8ft – 32ft. Remember, with above ground pools there is “No Planning Permission Required”. Phone or email for a FREE BROCHURE NOW. Email: info@instantpools.eu - Tel: 965 050 064 – Mobile: 634 322 672 (97263) A.P.M. Pool Maintenance. Visit our shop for all your pool products, one off lessons, Sand Change, New Pumps and Filtros, Cleaning Contracts. Call Linda on 966 499 314 / 654 443 638 (97493) TH.POOLS.sc. Maintenance, servicing and repairs. New pumps and filters, sand changes and regrouts. Pool equipment and oneoff lessons available. Moraira Benidorm. CALL TRISTAN 627 008 158 (95844)
Professional Services
TV, ENTERTAINMENT EQUIPMENT, satellite, amplifiers, mixers, keyboards, etc. BLUESKY REPAIRS 966 875 283/626 430 671 (101097) WASHING MACHINE and all domestic repairs, Calpe/Campello BLUESKY REPAIRS 966 875 283/626 430 671 (101097)
Property for Rent
M100 - BENITACHELL, top floor apartment of a 2 storey block, 2 bedrooms, quiet location, stunning panoramic views. 420 euros pcm - 965 745 969 (89468)
GORGEOUS ENGLISH BLOND 45 years gives discreet massage, 1 hour or over night stay. 15 mins Alicante airport.Tel Karen: 662 049 021 (101006)
NEW IN BENIDORM/ALTEA, Risa, Indonesian exotic, offers sensual erotic fantasy, massage, selection of toys. English speaking escort available. 603 352 507 (201814)
PLUMBING & ELECTRICS, Kitchens & Bathrooms. Tel: 634 401 805 www.plumbing-electrics .com (97341)
APARTAMENTOS PLAYA ALBIR SL. Quality rental accommodation with reception, 2 beds, 2 bath. Washing machine, air con, sea views and swimming pool. Available for short or long term let. apartamentos@playaalbir.es / Tel/fax 966 866 206 (100774)
Javea, Moraira, Christina, Eastern European lady massage and more. Older gentlemen welcome, also weekends. Tel: 667 817 407 or 661 034 261 (97343)
ALTEA/BENIDORM Russian lady, massage, escort service. 671 218 624 (101066)
www.dragonreforms.com Tel. 966 807 098. Free quotes given (101023)
PAWS PET TRANSPORT SPAIN UK SPAIN every month. We treat all pets as if they belonged to us. Maybe the best rates in Spain. Please call JOE on 966 074 576 or 650 341 087 for a chat or email pawspettransport@hotmail.com. Quote ewn1 (97486) QUALIFIED mobile dog groomer. At your house or mine. All breeds. References available. EVA 656 459 657 (101092)
MOTOR INSURANCE. For the most competitive quotes in English call Linea Directa on 902 123 153, you could save as much as 30% and you can transfer your existing no claims bonus. Call Linea Directa on 902 123 153 for motor insurance with a human voice in English from Monday to Friday 9am to 6pm and save money now! (95302)
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M141 - Second floor, 2 bed, 2 bath apartment in the sought after Port Xabia complex, Javea, walking distance to beach and all amenities 600 euros per month plus bills. 965 745 969 (89468) TO LET LONG TERM, 1 bedroom apartment with garage, Aguamarina, Calpe, near Diamente Hotel 0044 (0)208 368 5562 (101178)
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Property for Sale SELL your property with Schaich Estate Agents. See our main ad on front page. (101045)
Prop Management COMPLETE HOME SERVICES Villa changeovers, laundry, pool cleaning, gardening, and general maintenance. Everything You Need. North Costa Blanca. denise bridger12@gmail.com Denise 667 298 576 (97374)
Removal/Storage
CALPE, La Calalga, 75 metres to the beach and local amenities. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, swimming pool. Only €265,000. Tel: 629 991 543 (99211)
EUROPEAN removals and transport with scheduled UK routes. UK company, fully legal, taking loads from 5kg to 24,000kg. Lowest prices and the best service. 952 816 582 or www.focus-transport .com (96826) MAN & VAN Costa Blanca North Removals / delivery, house & garden clearance. Competitive rates. UK fixed prices. Call Graham 965 730 382 / 644 114 876 (101069)
UK - SPAIN - UK. Local & distance work. Call Kevin. 627 075 334 (99229) FURNITURE VAN for HIRE with driver. Careful local moves, Costa Blanca & UK. Hourly rate or fixed price. Call 676 644 014 (97462)
Prop Maintenance TOP CLASS maintenance. Painting , plumbing , building , electrics etc. We cover them all. Jason 648 011 291.(101183)
VAN SPAIN-UK-SPAIN leaving every 2 weeks. Great rates. Contact Joe on 966 074 576 or 650 341 087 or email civic1235@msn.com. Quote EWN1 (97486) BENIDORM & SURROUNDING AREAS, 2 men removals, house clearances. Also regular trips to UK. 655 239 797 (101110)
Situations Vacant
Soft Furnishings
SCRAP VEHICLES wanted for cash. Call 646 726 377 (97379)
LOOSE COVERS, CURTAINS ETC. Made to Measure. Choose from a wide range of beautiful fabrics in your own home. Tel: 965 771 397 or 686 453 827 (97456)
Shops
Tennis Coaching
Solar Power
VAN leaving UK to Spain 21st September. Space available. Tel 679 042 805 / 0044 (0)755 298 5343 (101184) SPAIN2UK2SPAIN man and van. Trips between UK/Spain twice a month. Excellent rates. enquiries@spain2uk2spain.com. Also local removals and deliveries. Christine 965 571 837 / 638 261 341 (97380)
OLIVA, 500 metres from beach, 2000m2 plot with 98m2 prefab house, 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, good quality kitchen, large living/dining area, pool and mobile home included in the price €75,000. 658 368 653 (99212)
Scrap Vehicles
SOLAR BEST DEAL IN SPAIN, www.gosolarinspain.com (99345)
Structural Surveys
Situations Vacant PRETTY single young women required for soon to open XXX Western Club near Finestrat. 608 094 861 www.lapondarosa.es (101165)
MARK PADDON BSc Hons. Building surveying. MCIOB, CAAT. From 245 EUROS + IVA. Insured and legally registered in Spain. Tel: 653 733 066 / 962 807 247 www.costablancasurveyors.com (101061)
Tax Affairs
BAR & WAITING STAFF required. Royal Carvery, Alkabir, El Campello. Please call Natalie 965 636 890. (204307)
UKTVSPAIN.COM. See our main ad in services. (101037) SECOND HAND Dishes/Systems, 1m, 1.37m, 1.9m, 2.4m. Call UKTV Spain on 689 205 137 (97377)
DELIVERY DRIVER Required. Must be friendly, hard working & responsible. Send info & CV to info@activehygiene.es or call 600 061 202 (101170) BLANKET Factory tours now in our fifteenth consecutive year, are recruiting ful and part-time mature individuals for our excursion programmes running out of Benidorm. Basic wage plus commissions. We will be holding interviews from 13th September. Please send CV to martin@la costamag.com or call Joan between 4-6pm on 649 686 615 (101173)
Skip Hire JAVEA SKIP HIRE 626 670 038, Moraira, Benissa, Calpe, Denia from S & W TOOL HIRE & FERRETERIA MORAIRA (97294)
TV / Satellite TV
Wanted Taxi Service LEO TAXI’S, 24H, covering all CBN, Airport Transfers. Call 633 433 369 (97384)
Telecoms FED UP PAYING TOO MUCH FOR YOUR MOBILE PHONE CALLS? THEN CONTACT TELITEC TODAY. CALLS TO SPAIN 7C PER MINUTE INCLUDING MOBILES. CALLS TO UK 5.3C PER MINUTE. NO MONTHLY FEES, NO CONTRACT. WWW.TELITEC.COM TEL: 902 889 070 (0)
Wig Specialists WIGS-R-US EL CISNE MARKET BENIDORM. Thursday, Saturday and Sunday 9.30 till 2pm. 690 378 844 (95294)
Removal/Storage
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Federation of Rugby in collaboration with its ERF national counterpart. The Spanish national Sevens team qualified for the World Sevens Series which will see them travel to countries such as New Zealand, South Africa, USA and Japan amongst others, as well as the
WINNERS: Celebrating at the La Galiana Course.
World Championship which will be held in Moscow in 2013. The teams from England and France are third and seventh respectively in the official International Rugby Board rankings. Tunisia hope to take advantage of this occasion on the Alicante coast to focus before they play in Rabat for a place in the World Championship in Russia on September 28. The teams who are participating in this international tournament began training in the sports complex of Valencia Oliva Nova Golf this week and will continue right up until the day of the championship. The competition will take place on September 15, 4pm-9pm. Entry is €10. The games will be broadcast live on channel Nou Valencia 2, and the games may be transmitted by other regional channels as well.
Montgo Golf Society stableford competition MONTGO GOLF SOCIETY had a change of venue to the La Galiana course, north of Gandia. “The course was in superb condition and the settings stunning,” said society member Richard Morris. The stableford competition was sponsored by George Braddick. The winner was the society’s only French
member, Alain Nozahic, who scored 37 points from his 25.8 handicap. In second place was KiwiRon Steele with 36 points from 14.9 with Norman Howell (14.4) taking third spot on 35 points. Two nearest the pins were won by guest Val Marrison on the fifth and Ros Fletcher at the 12th. The longest drive was on
the 15th hole and Alain added to his prizes by taking the men's competition with guest Val getting her second prize of the day in the ladies event. There was only one two today and that went to another of the ladies, Denise Cooper. The Society’s next game is at Oliva Nova on Friday September 21. www.montgogolfsociety.net
Orba Warblers Golf Society Sponsored by, Bonalba Golf, Money Corp and Giles Walker Properties
Pete receiving the cup from the captain.
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Spain face England, France and Tunisia in Villajoyosa By Laura Powell THE Villajoyosa Rugby Stadium will host world class rugby this Saturday. Seven teams from England, France, Tunisia and Spain will meet in an international tournament organized by the Valencian
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ORBA WARBERS GOLF SOCIETY played for the Bonalba Cup at Bonalba Golf Course. The trophy winner was Pete Nicholson with the trophy winner was Pete Nicholson with a score of 38 points from an exact handicap of 18.2. There were five prizes in each division there after and the division won winners in order were, David Knight, Mike Badain, Bob Edwards, Andy Loeber and Michael Taylor, top of division two were, Gordon Holloway, Ken Robinson, Roy Booth, Paddy Kenmore and John Daniels. Tim Harrison, Keith Tickner, Mike Badain and Andy Loeber were nearest the pin in two on the parr three’s and David Knight and Peter Nicholson were nearest in regulation on the 15th and 10th.
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Paralympics end in style and an ace at last for Andy Murray beating Novak Djokovic in a dramatic five-set final. The last Brit to win a Grand Slam was Fred Perry in 1936, and there is no one more deserving to follow through than Murray. Meanwhile, Lewis Hamilton kept the British flag flying on Sunday by winning the Italian Grand Prix. PARALYMPICS: Sunday’s closing ceremony was the biggest festival of light, sound and fire ever staged. GB’s athletes, 282 of them, some setting world and paralympic records, ‘inspired a generation’ by winning 120 medals, with
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By Tony Matthews
A former football player and the world’s most prolific author of football books (more than 100 published), Tony is also the sports reporter for Spectrum Radio and lives in the Cabrera mountains.
the tally made up of 34 gold, 43 silver and 43 bronze. This was 18 more than they achieved in Beijing four years ago and the combined efforts of the athletes enabled GB to
AT LAST! Andy Murray became the first Brit in 76 years to win a Grand Slam.
finish third in the final medal table behind China (231) and Russia (102). Spain, meanwhile, collected 40 medals. It is sadly not possible to name every GB medal
NEALE COUSLAND
WHAT a week for sport! The Paralympics closed with a tremendous ceremony, and Andy Murray is now finally a Grand Slam champion. The Scot - the first GB Grand Slam champion for 76 years - added the US Open title to the Olympic Gold he won earlier,
winner so I have shortened my list with my following ‘class of gold.’ * ‘Athlete of the Games’ and the greatest wheelchair racer of all-time, David ‘The Werewolf’ Weir,
with victory in the 800m, 1,500m 5,000m and marathon races. * Cyclist Sarah Storey also won four golds - taking her overall tally to 11. * Mark Colbourne, champion cyclist, won the individual pursuit. * Track speedsters on blades, Jonnie Peacock (100m) and Richard Whitehead (200m). * Mickey Bushell and Hannah Cockroft (twice) both powered home in their wheelchairs. * Ellie Simmonds (two gold, one silver, one bronze), plus Josef Craig, JessicaJane Applegate, Oliver Hynd and Jonathan Fox in the pool. * Equestrian riders Sophie Christiansen (three golds) and Natasha Baker. * Discus throwers Josie Pearson and Aled Davies. * Helena Lucas, GB’s firstever sailing gold medallist, lapped up the waves.