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Schools reopen new term to face protests 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
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Monday move for holidays ALL Bank Holidays should be moved to Mondays in a bid to save €788 million, the Valencian Government has said.
Gang arrested EIGHT Romanians have been arrested for raids on homes, businesses and farms by Alicante Provincial Police.
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A COUPLE who falsified an accident report should be jailed for two years and fined €2,160, Alicante’s Prosecutor has said.
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
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INFLUENTIAL US blogger Gary Arndt has been on the Costa Blanca visiting Elche. It is the second time he has visited the city saying “it is unique with much history. I’ve never seen a city like Elche, especially
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 hifi system they had sold.
Pizza drug UNSOLD: Property market still buried in doldrums. 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 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 Internet. With almost 30,000 respectively. The outlook Facebook fans, 100,000 was less encouraging in twitter followers and Cantabria, where property 120,000 monthly blog sales fell by 36.3 per cent, readers, American Gary the Basque Region where Arndt is considered they dropped by 31.1 per among the world’s most cent, followed by Navarra influential bloggers. (30 per cent fewer).
by the Ministry of Public Works shows that the majority of properties acquired by non-Spanish buyers were 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
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FOUR people who used a pizza restaurant and two homes in Sueca, Valencia, for drug dealing, have been arrested by the Guardia Civil.
Learn a lesson 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.
Speak up THE mayor of Alicante should inform residents of the Line 2 tram road map to San Vicente, the UPyD political party has said.
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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.
Award winner in Murcia
MODEL boat lovers sailed their vessels in the lake at the IV edition of Navegación Nocturna at the Parque de las Naciones in Torrevieja.
Book signing WRITER Maria Dueñas will present her new novel at the Faculty of Business Sciences in Cartagena next Tuesday and will also sign copies on October 5 at the bookshop Escarabajal.
Sleep loss A NIGHT watchman found sleeping on the job - which he blamed on taking medication - has had his appeal rejected by Murcia High Couirt.
THE former president of the control commission of the Mediterranean Savings Bank (CAM) and seven managers have been summonsed in a case concerning €17 million credits.
Bad pool THE builder of a swimming pool that emptied within one hour due to poor construction must compensate the owner, Murcia Provincial Court has ruled. BEAUTIFUL BEACHES: Sea and sand vistas at Playa de ses Illetes and Islas Cies (inset).
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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.
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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.
TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY THREE people of various nationalities were locally arrested for domestic abuse in the second half of August, the Guardia Civil has revealed. In Alicante 124 people, 23 people were held in Castellon and 96 in Valencia.
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FURTHER subsidies for businesses affected by last year´s Lorca earthquake have been announced by the Ministry of Economy and Competition.
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LEYBOX, an online legal platform developed by a young Lorca man to solve the needs of lawyers, law students and users has been awarded the Yuzz prize for innovation in Murcia.
MURCIA Health Council has extended summer services provided by the Costa Cálida at La Manga and Puerto de Mazarrón health centres until Sunday.
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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.
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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.
VAT down VAT collections in Murcia region dropped 23.6 per cent in the first part of the year, opposed to just 9.2 per cent average in Spain.
Sculpture MURCIA police are investigating new damage to the Monument to the Guardia Civil sculpture with two missing bronze reliefs just one week after it was restored.
Quickly out! A BLAZE, probably caused by a cigarette that destroyed 2,000 square metre area in Pilar de la Horadada, was extinguished quickly.
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 school 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 admini-stration 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 govern-ment’s multilingual policies are also likely to sideline Valenciano, the platform warned. company which builds and repairs the region’s state schools. Of this, €1,245 million must be paid between 2029 and 2034, and the remaining €40 million by 2036.
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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.
Fake reviews POSSIBLE DANGER: No safety checks have been carried out on the cranes.
Cranes at centre of dispute in Torrevieja
THREE cranes in Torrevieja are at the centre of a dispute. The cranes in Colonia San Esteban close to the bus station could be a danger and must be removed, the city council ruled four months ago.
But the crane owners ordered to remove them say they will disclaim responsibility as they have been unable to access the fenced and gated site. There are now calls for the site owner to allow access to prevent
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a possible accident. The company has been ordered to remove the cranes as safety checks have not been done and the machinery not reviewed since 2007 when site work was halted. It has since been abandoned.
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.
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Help plea by shelter THIS summer has been one of the worst for Elche Animal Shelter. Already full housing 40 dogs and 10 cats, in adddition to those placed in foster houses, animals continue to need care. Traditionally, summer has been critical for the shelter with abandoned pets found, but this has been made worse as last winter they took care of many dog litters. Currently depending on 12 foster houses to care temporarily for animals, the shelter is seeking more goodhearted families with room. Under the motto I won’t survive without you, an advertising campaign seeking public awareness states that abandoned dogs usually cannot survive on their own.
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Pupils exchange textbooks and also 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.
Church garden is rededicated THE GARDEN of Remembrance at La Siesta Parish Evangelist Church has been rededicated. The service, led by Reverend Chris Scargill, was attended by members of various Royal British Legions with standards carried by Torrevieja Royal British Legion, the Royal Air Force Association and the Royal Marines Association. The service was to dedicate and hallow the ground around the Garden of Remembrance where a new path now allows access to wheelchair users and others with disabilities. Pam Brooks a founder member iof the Torrevieja Royal British Legion and a wheelchair user, cut the ribbon. The last post was played by
Aware that many of the books are no longer used as study material in Spanish schools, volunteers have been in contact with a library in Brazil so that the books can be used there. Although no charges are made, Donaz accept small donations to assist in maintaining the service of volunteers delivering the books. Visit: www.donaz.es
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GARDEN REDICATION: Rev Scargill during the La Siesta service. John Atkins. The Royal British Legion has thanked the Royal Airforce Association and the Royal Naval Association which each donated €250, plus other kind donors.
Gill Burden, the chair of the Torrevieja Royal British Legion has also apologised to the Royal Naval Association who did not recive an invitation due to an oversight.
TWO MEN have been arrested for allegedly trying to steal dogs from the kennel in Torrevieja. They were held after having no identification for them or the dogs while holding the animals without leashes. One of the dogs, a pitbull, was on the way to be adopted.
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Tourism courses THREE tourism training courses will be organized by CONVEGA and the Obra Social CAM this month in Torrevieja, Callosa and Almoradí.
Hemp show THE association La Gramaera organised the XXXII Exhibition on hemp spinning in Redovan, an important income source for many families up to the 1960s.
Forestry plan A NEW Plan for forest management in the Community of Valencia to be approved in October or November will include waste recycling for biomass, which will also create jobs.
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Palm tree lands on car By Gemma Quinn
centre. No one was injured. The top of the 12-metre palm, weighing around 200kilos, was pruned two months ago.
Councillor for Parks and Gardens, Manuel Rodriguez said that at the A PÀLM tree infected with the red time it “possessed no outward signs weevil hit a car parked in Elche city of infection.” The municipality is continuing to treat the 70,000 plants that make up the city´s historic palm grove and more inspections will now be carried out, Rodriguez said. Carlos Pomares, head THE restructured Cruz of Parks and Garden Cubierta park in Beniel Management in Elche has road, Orihuela, is planned revealed that inspection of the tree that fell to be ready to open next revealed it was “infected Monday. by weevil larvae at Eighteen jobs were different stages.” created by the €49,000, KEEP FIT: One of the new areas in the park. The red palm weevil Councillor of Hamlets Antonia Moreno revealed construction included in a The park will be divided was first spotted in Spain when visiting the work budget of €1.1 million into two, with one area in 1994 and usually site. that applies to for adults designed to infests palms under 12 help keeping fit. years old. “This is the first neighbouring villages.
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Abortions: ‘Wrong’ to alter law TORREVIEJA Socialist Party plans to fight a new abortion law. The new head of Social Welfare and Health, Dora Fernandez, wants to table a motion for the Spanish
Government to maintain the 2010 laws that allows abortions in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Fernandez declared that new planned law changes by the
government “would mean a backward step of over 30 years, since malformation or disabilities will no longer be considered a reason for abortion.”
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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.
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ENTERTAINMENT: The Jazz Singer, Matt Christian and Paul Christian.
Showtime gives a healthy boost
By Gemma Quinn A TRIO of events has raised funds for Paul Cunningham Nurses (PCN). Showtime hit the Costa Blanca with a dinner and dance spectacular by Snoopy Productions supporting PCN. It kicked off at the Asturias Restaurant in Punta Prima with more than 80 guests, followed days later by an equally great turnout at the Olympia in Mil Palmeras.
Award-winning vocalist Matt Christian got the crowds warmed up with his extensive repertoire of modern and classic hits, followed by Paul Christie's ultimate sounda-like to Gene Pitney. The Jazz Singer then stole the show as Neil Diamond leaving the audience on their feet wanting more and DJ Snoopy happily obliged. Showtime has put together a CD with a selection of songs from the evening and a proportion of the sales will go to PCN to help them continue the vital work they do offering community nursing. Gill Bray and Tyna Trevett are just two of the people used for mammograms, behind the event, with Gill cervical and prostrate feeling strongly that PCN cancer awareness and should be the sole the screening and early beneficiary of the monies detection programmes raised from the evenings. plus research,” said “My sister had a bike Maria Wilson, President accident and she was of the Torrevieja branch released from hospital still of the AECC who in a lot of pain and had no received a €9,152.45 control from her waist cheque donated by down,” said Gill. Someone Sarah Bavington and gave me the number of Paul 'Doc' Docherty Paul Cunningham Nurses from Urbanisation La and they were fantastic.” Marina. Showtime is happening They organised a again on Tuesday at the series of fundraising New Tavern in San Miguel events including a and at El Mirador, Eagles charity golf day, Nest on October 5. auction, sponsored hair Tickets cost €20 including grow and a football a three course meal and match fun day against are available at the venues the San Fulgencio local or by calling Tyna on 634 police. 379 354.
Cancer charity gets €9,000 gift MORE THAN €9,000 has been donated by San Fulgencio local community to the Asociación Española Contra el Cancer (AECC). “All the funds raised for the AECC go to our head office and will be
NORWAY - A study claims that Arctic oil and gas production will decrease by 2050 because of high costs and the development of alternative sources.
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 for a rainy day.
Holiday flats SWEDEN - Stockholm police have said that prostitutes are renting flats from unaware families on holiday.
Guilty teacher NORWAY - A teacher at a school in southeastern Norway has been sentenced to six months in prison after she pleaded guilty to seducing a 16-year-old pupil on a school trip.
Skeletal closet SWEDEN - A Gothenburg woman was arrested after police found parts of a human skeleton in her apartment. She had allegedly been firing a weapon from her window.
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€369,000 agreed for ex-CEO Maria Dolores Amoros, along with pensions being paid to former CAM president Modesto Crespo and ex-CEO Roberto Lopez Abad. According to documents these were agreed in late 2010. The Bank of Spain took over CAM in July 2011. It was nationalised after a cash injection from the government’s FROB bank restructuring fund and later sold to Solbank for the nominal
‘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.
GETTING HIGH: Cannabis plants in Vinaros.
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, GomezJara 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. National High Court judge Javier GomezBermudez said that the "only logical reason for falsifying the dates was apparent justification lent by 2010’s declared profits of €244 million profits." Gomez Bermuda’s ruling does not apply to the multimillion handouts paid to CAM executives who took early retirement under a scheme last year.
Curtain up on Filmoteca 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
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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 pre-dating pensions adversely affected the bank, despite denials by former executives. The amounts frozen - 14 in total include €129,000 a year for former director Gabriel Sagrista and
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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. The advantages of moving will outweigh inconvenience, organisers say, with films now shown in their original version with subtitles.
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Almost 30,000 visit age old exhibition A TOTAL OF 29,469 people visited the Neolithic Age: from nomadic to sedentary exhibition in Torrevieja which opened on July 11. Organised by Obra Social ‘la Caixa’ is a reconstruction of the decisive cultural evolution of human beings in the period between 13,000 and 5,000 years ago. In that period, humans transformed from the last hunters to the first urban societies, from nomadic to sedentary habits. Objects of the exhibition are structured around five time frames: the last nomadic hunters and harvesters, the first agricultural practices, the taming of animals as livestock, the use of ceramics and the development of writing. The exhibition has been commissioned by Lluis Batista, with the scientific advice of Eudald Carbonell, co-director of the Atapuerca Project.
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Curtain down as show group is now homeless By Benny Davis AFTER 20 years of making showbiz history, Show Group Torrevieja has been unceremoniously dumped on their pretty-crinoline-covered backsides, into the world of the homeless. No more will the interior of everyone’s favourite entertainment venue, restaurant Los Arcos, resound with the laughter, singing and applause of happy audiences. Old posters and programmes are all that remain of 20 glorious years of Los Arcos dedication to the local expat showbiz scene. Fried rice, chopsticks and undistinguishable music, now take front stage, as another Chinese restaurant adds it cuisine to the Torrevieja eating scene. Although Showgroup Torrevieja is the area’s oldest operating group, it is not the only company that has been using the restaurant as an entertainment centre. All have been given less than one week´s notice to cancel future publicised productions and to complicate the situation, they
NEW VENUE NEEDED: Showgroup Torrevieja cast. must immediately clear sets, costumes and curtains from the ‘theatre’, creating emergency storage difficulties. The closure will also hit local charities as most shows have been connected to specific fund raising activities, including Showgroup who have raised more than €50,000 with productions ranging from musicals, pantomimes, original musical comedies, murder mysteries and variety shows. So, the good-old-
expat entertainment in Torrevieja combined with help for needy charities is at a crossroads. Showgroup need a venue that can accommodate twice-weekly rehearsals, preferably in the actual performance centre, where they, and fellow groups, can keep the showbiz flag flying.If anyone has space and facilities to help, even on a temporary basis, contact Jan on 96 618 9741 or 647 579 068 or Sandy on 96 671 3614.
Nine days of happiness SANTA POLA was filled with happiness for nine days. The Moors and Christians festivities in Santa Pola which has just ended were once more a resounding success. The coastal city streets were filled with residents and tourists enjoying the celebrations in individual ways regardless of age or nationality, including the traditional festeros. After the spectacular landing of the Moors’ boats and the cheerful parades in the first days, the Big Day (Dia Grande) topped the festival with flower offerings and a procession in honour to the Virgin of Loreto. By night, the glittering fireworks lit the Levante beach.
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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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A clothes boost from university ELCHE'S University Miguel Hernández last year collected 6,201 kilos of clothing from the varsity community for local causes. The university collaborates with the Association of Alicante Lazarus Project that helps create jobs for people at risk of social exclusion.
Falling out of love with the European Union More Spanish view the EU negatively THE Spanish are increasingly falling out of love with the European Union. Twenty-eight per cent of Spanish now take a negative view of the EU compared with 22 per cent earlier this year, found European Commission pollsters, Eurobarometer. The Spanish figure is five percentage points more than the EU average and surpassed only by the 35 per cent of Cypriots who are unenthusiastic about Brussels.
Additionally 45 per cent of Spanish feel that their nation has little influence in the EU. This rose from 29 per cent, the same 16 percentage-point rise that Eurobarometer also noted in Ireland and Italy. The EU still has a good image with 30 per cent of the Spanish, although this hardly measures up to the EU’s overall average of 40 per cent. Just over half of the Spanish – 51 per cent – feel that EU membership
is a good thing, compared with 55 per cent seven months ago. Those believing it to be bad grew from 17 to 18 per cent. Forty-one per cent of Spanish participants feel more Spanish than European, Eurobarometer found. Again, the number has grown since the last poll when only 30 per cent admitted to feeling exclusively Spanish. Creating employment to solve the economic crisis is a priority for 89 per cent of the Spanish,
compared to the 72 per cent EU average, according to Eurobarometer. In Germany this view is held by 63 per cent, while 65 per cent believe that reducing the deficit is more important. Overall, only 37 per cent of Europeans and 22 per cent of the Spanish see the deficit as a priority. Curbing inflation to maintain citizens’ buying power is the main concern of 24 per cent of the Spanish.
UK choir set for Spanish concerts BY Keith Nicol THE powerful voices of the City of Truro Male Voice Choir should prove almost enough to lift the roof of concert venues in the City of Salt this autumn. This choir is to pèrform in Torrevieja early next month, with more dates still possibly to be added, plus guest artists. Confirmed dates are: October 1 the Palacio de la Música at 8.30pm. Admission €3 with the proceeds to local Alzheime’s association AFA. On October 4 the Inmaculada Concepción Parish Church at 8.45pm. For more information: www.cityoftruromalechoir. co.uk
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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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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.
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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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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 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
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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4.00pm - midnight 4:05pm Marrying Mum and Dad 4:35pm Splatalot Gameshow filled with medieval, messy madness. 5:00pm Who Let the Dogs Out? 5:30pm Roy The O’Brien family are new in town. 6:00pm Newsround Topical news magazine for children. 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six The latest national and international news stories from the BBC News team, followed by weather. 7:30pm BBC London News The latest news, sport and weather from London. 8:00pm The One Show Matt Baker and Alex Jones present the stories that matter from across the country. 8:30pm EastEnders 9:00pm Waterloo Road School-based drama. I 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News 11:35pm Neighbourhood Watched
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Nature probe on mountain A STUDY of the vegetation in the northern Orihuela mountain range has been presented to the Environmental Council. Towns including La Murada, La Matanza, and Barbaroja as well as the mountain range encompassing Crevillente, Algallar and Los Frailes have been investigated, said Environmental Councillor Manuel Culañez. As many as 16 protected and endangered species exist along the mountain range, said Culañez who described it as ‘a true natural monument’. Once the vegetation study on these areas of ‘priceless wildlife’ is complete, the Environmental Council will continue a similar study of animal life in the same areas.
World Alzheimer’s Day to be marked in Torrevieja PLANS have been finalised to mark World Alzheimer’s Day in Torrevieja next Friday (September 21). Mamen Mateo, Councillor for Charities at Torrevieja Town Hall and Matilde Sanchez, President of the Alzheimer’s Association of Torrevieja (AFA), have announced the following activites: September 21: From 10.30am the AFA day centre will open for tours and information for families and friends of AFA and all interested in what the centre does. Refreshments and entertainment will be provided. Midday in the Plaza de la Constitucion, in front of the Ayuntamiento building in Torrevieja, a reading of the Alzheimer’s Association’s constitution will be given, coinciding with similar events by other Alzheimer Associations to show solidarity to help manage the disease. All are welcome to join in and to see the launching of memory balloons.
Matilde Sanchez, President of AFA, with Jenny Mutter, AFA, and a representative from Sponsor of the ‘Memory Walk’, Avalon Funeral Services. September 28: At 7.30pm a talk entitled ‘The emotional origin of the disease’ by Dr Gullen of the University of Valencia at the Virgen del Carmen Theatre, Torrevieja. The talk will be in Spanish and all are welcome. October 4 and 5: The sixth annual conference on Alzheimer’s issues, hosted by AFA will be held at the Palacio de
Musica Theatre, Torrevieja. This year’s theme is ‘Living with the Disease’. The conference is aimed at anyone wanting a more in-depth look into Alzheimer’s. For further information contact Matilde Sanchez 647 119 991. October 27: ‘Memory’ sponsored walk open to anyone interested in helping raise much-needed funds for the Alzheimer’s Association of
Torrevieja area. The walk will start at 5pm in the Plaza de la Constitucion and finish at the Margalla Point around the coast. Sponsorship forms will be available at the AFA day centre, the AFA shop and various bars and restaurants or call Matilde Sanchez on 647 119 991. This event has been rescheduled from the originally intended September 23. Torrevieja Alzheimer’s Association relies on donations to continue its day-centre work and now has a Buy a Brick campaign to raise money to build a muchneeded residential care home for sufferers.
People seeking general advice or who feel they can contribute, visit the AFA shop in Calle Maestro Francisco Valejos in Torrevieja, the AFA Centre in Avenida de La Estacion or contact Matilde Sanchez on 647 119 991 or Judy Ferris on 610 082 593. Email: afatorrevieja@hotmail.com
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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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3088.50
68.00
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3.00
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Royal Bank of Scotland
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3.68
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Royal Dutch Shell PLC
2301.50
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1.23
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Severn Trent PLC
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Shire PLC
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0.50
0.04
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276.50
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1,989.38
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638.00
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344.12
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Unilever PLC
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29.50
3.02
864.38
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176.90
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34,106.35
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1679.50
25.00
1.51
528.61
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2304.00
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1.05
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31.00
1.14
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0.66
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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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POPULAR : Ice cream sales are hotting up.
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 South 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 up. 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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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
NORA JOHNSON Nora, who has lived on the Costa del Sol for a number of years, is the author of psychological suspense and crime thrillers.
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!
POSITIVE: Are you being serious?
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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. Bedlam became a byhas a degree in Fine Art from Goldsmiths and an word for the Suzanne MA in Writing from Lancaster University. She is currently mistreatment of the teaching in Alicante and writing a book for teenagers mentally impaired and (which doesn’t have a vampire as its central character). those suffering from an excess of melancholia (a much BEDLAM: The Bethlem Royal is a 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 pay to watch the unfortunate Rest and recreation at Bedlam creatures rage and howl and probably consisted of a daily bang their heads against the hosing down with freezing stone walls (a bit like Saturday Thames water and the night in Basildon). occasional ‘liaison’ with the One did not ‘check’ oneself nearest wild-haired, into Bedlam for a spot of rehab knickerbockerless nymphoand it most certainly was not maniac (if you were lucky and considered a suitable alternative did not get partnered with to the ‘fancy’ Swiss sanatoriums Hannibal Lecter’s great-great much beloved of Freud and his grandfather that is). 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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ULRICA MARSHALL ulrica @euroweeklynews.com
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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FAMILY BUSINESS: Who specialise in solar and heating systems. being able to pass on the extended guarantee given to them by Ferroli. For example, all aluminium radiators have a full 10 year guarantee, with 50 years manufacturer’s guarantee on all pipework. Kirk explained “our five radiator heating system only uses one 11kg bottle of gas per week which means you will be paying less than €2 a day to heat your
complete home. This is much less than you would pay for just one electric panel radiator that may only heat one small room.” Over 80 per cent of Cosy Casa’s work comes from recommendations, mainly because of their second to none service and top quality materials all at a sensible price. Their solar hot water system is a great way to save money on
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Have you thought about reducing or even eliminating your electricy bill? With new technology Cosy Casa can install a solar electric system in your home, in under one day, for €1,700, with or without battery storage for night time use.
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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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Beatles tribute band on board for cancer charity THE fight against cancer continues. Few families remain unaffected by cancer and the devastation it brings to individuals and family members. That is why early detection is so important. Maria Wilson, President of AECC in Torrevieja, has been diagnosed three times, and still finds the time and energy to tirelessly raise funds for the Spanish cancer charity. A remarkable lady, she has won many bravery and fundraising awards. AECC’s main task is early diagnosis of various forms of cancer including breast, cervical and prostate. The charity also advises families who need support by putting them in touch with psychologists. The charity has more than 50 nationwide branches and has worked in conjunction with other charities that need support. On Saturday Maria and other volunteers will be holding a raffle at The Liverpool Band Show at Restaurante Los Rosales in Guardamar. Doors open at 7.30pm. The Liverpool Band is the Number One Beatles tribute band in Spain, and played at The Cavern Club in Liverpool during last year’s Beatles
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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
SKY MOVIES DRAMA 5:45am Secretariat 7:50am Africa United 9:25am
Mask 11:30am Like Dandelion Dust 1:20pm Girl, Interrupted 3:30pm Something Borrowed 5:25pm Love and Other Impossible Pursuits 7:15pm Chalet Girl 9:00pm Something Borrowed 11:00pm Shallow Hal 12:55am Girl, Interrupted 3:05am The Kids are All Right 4:55am Lady Jane
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Chaparral 9:25am The King and I 12:00pm Murder Ahoy 1:45pm Gunsmoke 2:50pm The High Chaparral 4:00pm Calamity Jane 6:00pm Rawhide 7:45pm Under Capricorn 10:00pm My Cousin Vinny 4:00am Teleshopping 4:35am Valley of The Kings
4:05am The Thing 6:05am Thunderbirds 7:45am The Longest Day 10:45am I Am Number Four 12:40pm Jaws 2 2:45pm Hanna 4:45pm Colombiana 6:45pm Déjà Vu 9:00pm Hanna 11:00pm Black Hawk Down 1:25am Colombiana 3:15am Priest 4:45am Bad Girls
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•FRIENDS UNLIMITED Quesada: 966 719 862 or www.helpvegabaja.com. •FRIENDS UNLIMITED, the social arm of Help Vega Baja, meets every Thursday between 2pm and 4pm at The Club in Rojales. Call 966 719 862. •LADIES CARD MAKING & CRAFTING GROUP, PAL Social Club, Torrevieja, 2pm-5pm: Call Maureen 966 789 977. •LIONS CLUB Torrevieja Costa: 966 789 571 or davedanie@gmail.com. •MABS Cancer Support Group meetings: sue@mabscancersupport.org. •ROYAL BRITISH LEGION, Orihuela Costa and District meet at Olympia restaurant, Mil Palmeras, third Thursday of month at 7pm. Email helenlloyd1@gmail.com. •VELVETONES LADIES HARMONY CHORUS rehearse at El Paraiso Restaurant, Torrevieja, 2pm4pm. Call 965 327 446. •TORREVIEJA COSTA LIONS CLUB: Meet second Thursday of month, 7.30pm at Cabo Severa Hotel, La Mata. 617 069 064 or davedanie@gmail.com.
FRIDAY • ALICANTE BUSINESS CLUB – no joining fees or membership – meets first Friday of month at Captain’s Table in Benimar at 1pm. www.alicantebusinessclub.org. •CANTABILE SINGERS rehearse at Restaurant El Paraiso in Torrevieja, 2pm-5pm. 965 077 457 or jenmorton@hotmail.co.uk or www.cantiblesingers.es. •CHESS CLUB Daya Vieja: 660 825 390. •CYCLING GROUP Rojales: 966 716 442/653 433 933. •CHOIR El Pinar de Campoverde: 966 763 446.
Costa Blanca South’s best guide to local non-profit clubs, charities and societies 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 of St Peter and St Paul in Torrevieja offers services in six locations. www.c-of-e-torrevieja.com. •BAKER FOUNDATION for Spiritual Awareness, Playa Flamenca: Sunday Service 11am; Clairvoyance Tuesdays 7.15pm; Healing Thursdays 10.30am12pm. 966 760 665. •CHRISTIAN CHURCH English language meets at Alpha Centre, Los Nietos Viejos (Mar Menor) Sundays 10am: 968 133 724 www.losnietoschurch.es. •CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH Pilar de la Horadada: Sunday service 11am; Thursday Bible Study and Prayer 5pm. 966 769 300/650 509 606
Churches or email: communitychurch@gmail.com. •INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY Torrevieja: Sunday service and children’s church 11am; Ladies meeting Thursdays 11am. 966 799 273/660 127 276. •ORIHUELA CHURCH SERVICES: Call 966 733 093. • PILAR CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH, Calle Canalejas 3, Pilar de la Horadada: Sundays 11am; Thursdays 5pm Bible study and Prayer; weekday
home groups. PilarChristian.CommunityChurch@gmail.com or call Reverend Eddie on 966 769 300 or 650 509 606. •ROMAN CATHOLIC MASSES in Orihuela Costa: Don Joaquin Carlos - Fridays 5.30pm to 6.30pm. •ST NICHOLAS ECUMENICAL CHURCH Camposol Sundays 10.30am: 968 138 952 or www. stnicholaschurchspain.com. •TORREVIEJA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, Avenida de las Cortes Valencianas 68: Services Sunday 10.30am with Communion and children’s Sunday School plus Wednesday 6pm. Call 966 788 771.
•MODEL BOAT BUILDING GROUP Los Alcazares: 968 170 870 or www.rcmarmenorsailinggroup.eu.
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month. If not well, three free treatments given. Call Age Concern 966 786 887.
•PHILIP SCOTT LODGE No 10671 of RAOB now meet at a larger location; Bar Catorce in Benjofor from 7pm – 9pm. Call 653 066 919.
•CYCLING GROUP Rojales: 966 716 442/653 433 933.
•SEEKERS LADIES CLUB Torrevieja: 966 784 033.
•SHARE & CARE GROUP: An informal get together for anyone affected by cancer at MABS Cancer Centre, San Javier at 11am. Call 693 795 247.
SATURDAY
•CAR BOOT SALE in aid of PAPS animal charity in the car park outside New Yorks bar, El Trampolin Resort (On 3319 towards Murcia, turn off at El Garruchel/Sucina). Charge is €5 per car. Set up 9am-9.30am, sale starts 10am on September 15.
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•ANN SUMMERS PARTY in the back room of New Yorks bar, 7.30pm on September 16 in aid of PAPS animal charity. Ladies only. • SAMARITANS Drop-in Café: Telephone 902 883 535. • S E W ‘ N ’ S O s Sewing Group (MABS): mabsmurciane@gmail.com.
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• MABS BOOKS SALE - weather permitting – T h e A r c h e s Re s t a u ra n t , L o s A l c á z a r e s 10am-1pm.
•MABS EBONY & IVORY LADIES CLUB meets September 18, 1.30pm at Diamantes Restaurant, El Mojon. Call 965 352 947 to book.
•50+ SOLOS - for singles, divorcees and widowers – meet first and third Saturday of month at different restaurants in Torrevieja.
•FREE REIKI by The Reiki Healing Association on the first and third Tuesday afternoons of each
• KNITTING CLUB Mazarron: 619 493 183.
•SEWING CRAFT CLASSES Torrevieja: 966 708 199.
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•TORREVIEJA RETIRED ACTIVITIES CLUB meet third Wednesday of month, 11am in the Marina Club Bar at the International Marina in Torrevieja. Call 965 008 087. •ARPO (Association of Retired Police Officers) Costa Blanca South meet second Wednesday of month at Sackos Bar, El Limonar, Torrevieja, at 10.30am. Contact Jim Wood, Secretary on 966 188 369 or email jameswood1226@hotmail.com. •VE G A B A J A A S T R O N O M Y G R O U P meet second Wednesday of month, 3.30pm-5.30pm at Lo Maribou Restaurant in Ciudad Quesada. Contact 965 720 967 or deryjo@gmail.com. •ART WORKSHOP at Cafe Golf, San Javier, 11am – 1pm. €2 donation for by MABS Cancer Support Group. Call 968 192 768.
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www.euroweeklynews.com YOU have probably seen my recent adverts stating the following: Are you confused about the changeover of your private health insurance to another provider? We can help by offering extra special conditions for an easy transfer, similar terms and conditions and a more comprehensive medical directory of Englishspeaking doctors. Yes, this is actually happening, with a national company being taken over by a very large Spanish multinational one, at present with no special expats’ division. This will mean that most of the Englishspeaking doctors will disappear, and you will discover that there will be a far smaller local medical directory. This particular company does not have English-speaking personnel; therefore, unless you speak Spanish, you may find great difficulty when you need to contact them at their head office in Madrid; all their paperwork is in Spanish and, to be honest, they will have absolutely no experience within the expat market. Due to the policies being in Spanish, many clients will have no idea of the cover they have or rather don’t have.
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Does this article relate to you? Do you need help? I am therefore delighted that after many discussions, Asssa have given my company a wonderful alternative which any of the Jennifer Cunningham offices can assist you with. This has been especially designed for clients wishing to have an alternative to the large multinational company they will be automatically transferred to, without any explanation of the product, or the service they will be receiving. The transfer of your policy will occur on January 1, 2013. As an expat myself, this would personally make me feel very uncomfortable, but with Asssa’s philosophy, which is to ensure full transparency, you will know exactly what the cover on your policy is and be able to enjoy total security. The fact that you may not have heard from your existing company does not mean that it will not happen. As a company I have worked with Asssa for many years and
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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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5:45am Freesports on 4 6:10am Deal or No Deal 7:05am Sali Mali 7:10am The Hoobs 7:35am The Hoobs 8:00am Freshly Squeezed 8:30am According to Jim 8:55am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:25am Frasier Niles is distraught when Maris sends him their divorce papers. 9:55am Come Dine with Me 10:25am Come Dine with Me 10:55am Come Dine with Me 11:25am Come Dine with Me 12:00pm The Renovation Game 1:00pm Channel 4 News Includes news headlines and weather. 1:05pm Undercover Boss USA 2:00pm River Cottage Bites 2:20pm The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
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
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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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Passion for food This is my two-year-old dog Toby. He is a cross between a poodle and a Picardy sheepdog. I adopted him from the Malaga dog pound. One of his passions is food. If anyone is eating he will lift up his paws to let them know he wants to eat, too. Sara Pozo, Benalmadena (Malaga) Submit fun pet pictures to petoftheweek@euroweeklynews.com, in as high a resolution as possible. Please include name of the pet, your full name, where you live and if relevant a couple of lines to explain the circumstances of the photo. Due to space restrictions not all submissions will be used.
DOMINO PET CARE (Hotel) is the place to take your pet when you can’t be at home with them, and be safe in the knowledge that they’ll get all the loving care that you provide. Domino offers a wide and flexible array of services ranging from basic boarding to a full travel service or just a spa get-away! And of course all services are provided at the highest standards. From overnight to longterm, or just for a pet-free weekend. For dogs, DOMINO offers very spacious comfort, with single or family kennels up to 48 square metres, with an outside area and an exercise park. Daily grooming is a guaranteed service, including a free wellness bath on the last day of the stay. For cats they offer a wonderful, safe
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cattery park with many scratching posts and activity centres, cat sofas and a lot of natural plants. Domino warmly welcomes any pets with handicaps, and pets that need special care. Domino offers a full 24-hour service for your pet. Domino works with the best veterinary clinics and offers all services from vaccinations to blood tests and minor operations. Travelling pets? Since 2002 Domino has been a full member of IPATA: the very first
registered IPATA pet transport company in Spain, and ships pets to the UK and worldwide (USA, Australia, Dubai…) on a regular basis: always with a personalised check-in at the airport, and ‘Door to Door’ service can be arranged WORLDWIDE. Plus, Domino have a travel basket/crate to suit your particular pet, and at the best price! Domino Pet Care Manager Klaus Hoffmann says: “We are a company who provide a very high standard of service, and we can say with pride that WE CARE FOR YOUR PET. For our company this is not only a saying but also our philosophy. “We represent many years of experience in the transportation and care of animals. We provide the best service for the best quote.”
Home sweet home! Keeping kitty clean is all important
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F a cat’s urine or faeces are not cleaned up thoroughly, the cat is likely to go again in the same spot. Smell prompts re-use. One should clean up when the cat is not in the room, otherwise the cat thinks its mark gets attention. Consider redecorating after cleaning up if the spraying has been going on for a long time. Never use bleaches or disinfectants. They smell like urine to a cat, so does anything pine, rose or lemon scented and disinfectants that go cloudy are poisonous to cats. Use warm water with 10 per cent solution of biological washing liquid or powder. Alternatively use one tablespoon of Napisan and one tablespoon of
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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 hairdryer 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 its 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 clingfilm on the area and use Feliway on this. After 24 hours take it off and spray on it directly. Any curtains that have been sprayed with urine should be sent to the dry cleaners, and linen machine washed. With moveable mats and small carpets get these cleaned somehow if you can or throw away.
CAT SMELLS: If not cleaned up properly, cats are likely to go again in the same spot. Before putting cleaned mats back, use the white cloth or Feliway on the previously soiled area. Do not try to save money on cleaning because in the long run the more thorough one is the cheaper it all will be. A spraying/middening cat can cause a lot of grief and nothing is too much to stop it early on. When cleaning furniture and carpets, patch-test on a small area in case the biological washing liquid or surgical spirit removes dyes from carpets or polish from furniture. If carpet has had urine in it for a long time, consider replacing it rather than shampooing.
For more information please contact: Domino Pet Care Tel: 654 168 366. www.dominopet shipping.com/ Email: info@dominopet shipping.com We will answer all your questions.
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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.
occurred one evening; without warning, he was sent soaring out of his physical body. Confusion, severe headaches and unexplained phenomena followed and Adam was forced to begin a journey of self-discovery in order to interpret the otherworldly
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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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Across 1 Frightened (6) 4 Expresses (6) 9 Unit of heat energy (7) 10 Indian yoghurt dish (5) 11 Extremist (5) 12 Thin, supple and graceful (7) 13 Floor covering (3) 14 Dyed fabric (5) 16 Part (5) 18 Lubricate (3) 19 Kingdom in north-western Africa (7) 21 Church table (5) 23 Sound (5) 24 Look at closely (7)
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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Golf for local charity
HELP Murcia Mar Menor held a late Summer Fayre at the Arches restaurant, Los Alcazares. A total of €491 was made from the afternoon to enable HELP MMM to continue its aim of loaning out mobility equipment, visit people in hospital, provide assistance where needed and give to good causes. The highlight of the afternoon was the fashion show by Ziggy’s lovely ladies, followed by the Crazy Ladies energetic tap dancing, line dancing by the Arches’ line dancing team and a demonstration of jiving and salsa. There were also many stalls selling bargains. For more information call 968 570 059.
A GOLF game between police and a team of expats raised more than €9,100 for Spanish cancer association AECC. Paul Docherty and Sarah Bavington handed the cheque to AECC’s new president of Torrevieja and Orihuela Costa, Maria Wilson, at the Social Centre in Urbanization La Marina. The money was raised over the summer by Paul and Sarah, who organised a Golf Day at the El Plantio course near Alicante and a football match at San Fulgencio, between Paul’s team and the local police. Cancer sufferer Paul took part in the game himself. The police ended up as winners of the game.
FUN TIMES: A sketch from the performance.
Funny Business show comes to San Miguel THE Actors Studio’s latest charity show ‘Funny Business’ was presented at San Miguel Casa de Cultura last week in aid of AFA Alzheimers. David Whitney, who wrote and directed the humorous sketches, presented a series of original
characters to the audience. The first half of the evening saw a collection sketches ranging from a demonstration of everything that could possibly go wrong on a blind date to the portrayal of two obnoxious school girls manipulating their teacher
over his extra marital relationships. The second half included a parody of prostitutes plying their trade on the pavements and a danseur removing his egg and cress sandwiches from the front of his pocketless ballet tights.
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Duck race to help poorly local boy THE Torrevieja Costa Lions Club is organising a fundraising day in support of local lad Dayron Caracena Blanc.
Six-year-old Dayron from Formentera del Segura suffers from a chronic non-progressive illness which affects the language areas of the
brain. He currently receives specialised therapy at a clinic in Mallorca, a costly process for his family, but essential to help him lead as normal a life as possible. In response to his plight, the Torrevieja Costa Lions Club is organising a duck race and fun day on Sunday September 23 at the Paraje Natural Soto de Molino in Formentera del Segura from 2pm. Games and entertainment along with a BBQ, bar and live entertainment are also planned and entrance is free. The top-billing Duck Race will enable punters to place €2 bets and the chance to win prizes, with the Lions appealiong for as many people as possible to IN TUNE: The Cantabile Singers. turn out on the day to help looking to swell numbers. 965077457 or Jennifer on make Dayron’s day very Anyone interested in 966796866 or e-mail jen- special. joining a ‘friendly choir morton@hotmail.co.uk or For more information call with an active social life’, view the website 966 731 495 or visit contact Phyl on www.cantabilesingers.es. www.torreviejacostalions.org
The Cantabile Singers move to a new home THE Cantabile Singers have moved to another location. Their base is now at the La Siesta Evangelical Church where rehearsals are held every Friday, 2.15pm-4.15pm. This is the latest in a number of location changes with successive moves from Villa Agosto due to ‘closure’ and El Paraiso due to ‘imposition of charges’. The ladies that make up Cantabile Singers are composed of several different nationalities and are currently actively
€1,477 raised at hog roast MORE than 110 masons, their wives, partners, families and friends gathered to enjoy the Provincial Grand Master’s (PGM) Hog Roast.
It was held at Sociedad Compas in Ciudad Quesada, Rojales. The PGM in this was Barrie Mansell of Valencia. The aim of the day was to raise funds to support Red Cross Spain and the purchase and equipping of new ambulances for use in the Valencia Region. A total of €1,477 was raised. “A special thanks must go to all who helped make this event the success that is was,” said Richard Davis. “The list is too long to mention everyone individually, but thank you to the organisers, the cleaners and washer uppers, the music man, the ladies who provided the food and those who served, those who donated raffle prizes, those who sold the tickets and those who bought them.”
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Ladies in Red show THE Variety Show Group ‘The Ladies in Red’ will be performing this Saturday at Nando’s restaurant in Torrevieja. The show starts at 9pm with the ladies singing songs and sometimes asking the audience to join in. This is followed by Karaoke with Cookie. This year The Variety Show Group is supporting for the first time The Children’s Orphanage in Elche. For more information call eiinspain@gmail. com
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TRIBUTE ACT: Award winning.
AWARD WINNING tribute acts ‘Cliffasif’ and ‘Elvis 2000’ collaborate for the ‘Cliff & Elvis Spectacular’. The tour opens next Tuesday (September 18) at La Marina Sport Complex. Having sold out numerous venues last year, ‘Cliff-asif’ has returned from Cliff Richard´s vineyard in Portugal to tour the Costa Blanca once again this September. Onstage with him will be ‘Elvis 2000’, voted ‘Best Tribute 2012 Costa Blanca’, and Fiona McLean; lover of all things ‘60’s. Tickets, which range from €8 to €50, will be limited at all venues and seats will be allocated. The tour will assist in raising funds for Help at Home.
Tour dates in September are as follows: Tuesday 18 - La Marina Sport Complex 966796389 Wednesday 19 - The Lounge Bar, Torrevieja 966922134 Thursday 20 - Rocajuna, Punta Prima (10€- includes pre show buffet) 664591795 Friday 21 - Casa Ventura, San Luis 966789247 Saturday 22 - Condado Club, Condado de Alhama (15 Euros - Includes great pre show meal) 634358468 Sunday 23 - The Rendezvous, Campoamor (nr La Fuente centre) (10€- includes a great buffet) 608467597 Wednesday 26 - The Club, Quesada 966717028 Thursday 27 - Costa Narejos Hotel, Los Alcazares 965400188 Friday 28 - Los Rocas, Hondon de las Nieves 620457024
PERFORMING: Fiona McLean.
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Growing your own healthy vegetables SEPTEMBER is here and it is time to think about preparing an area to plant a few vegetables either in the ground, raised beds or containers, for in Spain one can take advantage of two springs - the autumn and spring. The advantages of growing your own vegetables include: 1. You can grow vegetables you like. 2. You can experiment with the growing of old heritage and heirloom varieties no longer grown commercially. 3. By crop rotation one can harvest a wide diversity of vegetables all year. 4. You can harvest just sufficient for a meal or each day. 5. You can reduce the weight of shopping carried back from the shops. 6. You can feed 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. 8. Include herbs within the vegetable plot and you have culinary and medicinal herbs that are more potent when fresh. 9. Involve the family in growing the vegetables and it may be easier to persuade everyone to eat more salads and vegetables.
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Making a start is not difficult and a large area is not necessary. 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 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 rich compost. Work well-rotted compost into the soil on the basis of up to 1:2 of the original soil if you have poor soil.
Once plants are growing use natural methods for 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. 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 or grow bags and small raised beds can be productive. There is no reason why you should not grow your own home-grown, freshly harvested vegetables for 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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Town & Country Spain say number one choice for new Source ‘A Place In The Sun Channel TOWN & COUNTRY SPAIN, estate agents based in Pilar de la Horadada covering the Orihuela Costa and Mar Menor areas are once again showing their 100 per cent commitment to the local Spanish property market by promoting their properties at the largest UK property show, Channel 4’s ‘A Place In The Sun’ at the NEC Birmingham. The show, which takes place for three days between Friday September 28 and Sunday 30 is expected to attract around 6,000 visitors. Town & Country Spain’s experience is that these potential buyers are serious about purchasing with many of them paying cash and keen to find out more about our beautiful and affordable part of Spain. Town & Country Spain take great care to promote properties in the best possible light and find that their sales go through the roof in the weeks following buyers visiting the stand at the exhibition.
‘A PLACE IN THE SUN’: The exhibition takes place at the NEC in Birmingham and is the largest UK property show.
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local government departments, as well as offering the properties they have for sale. Town & Country Spain say: “We find that this all-round approach often encourages buyers to come out exclusively with us and gives potential buyers the confidence to purchase on their first visit having received so much information on the area and properties beforehand.” If you want to sell your property then there is still time to have yours included at the exhibition and take advantage of showing it in front of thousands of keen and new buyers to the market.
Contact Town & Country Spain SL, Calle Mayor 135, Pilar de la Horadada on 966 347 966 or email info@townandcountryspain. co.uk Website www.townandcountryspain .co.uk
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JUST over one year after opening their first Bureau de Change outside of Benidorm, in the offices of Alamo Costa Blanca in Torrevieja, EUROCHANGE are pleased to announce the opening of their second Bureau, making currency exchange even easier for the residents, home owners and tourists of the Orihuela Costa. Residents of the Costa Calida will also now have access to competitive exchange rates, without having to journey to Torrevieja or Benidorm. Many clients commented that an office on the Orihuela Costa would make life much easier for them, so the search started for suitable premises. They had to be accessible, well known, have easy parking and be near a bus route. Several sites were considered and they can now announce that the second Bureau will be in the premises of the Costa’s best known and most reputable mobile phone shop, The Dog and Bone, at La Zenia.
NEW OFFICE: Very accessible. From La Zenia roundabout on the N332, take the slip road down the side of the taxi rank and it can be found 100 metres further down, on the lefthand side, just after the Bed Specialist and before the new Easy Horse Care Rescue Charity Shop. Another consideration for this
location was its proximity to the new La Zenia Boulevard commercial centre, making it very convenient for shoppers to change their currency for those shopping expeditions. This may be a new location, but EUROCHANGE will still be offering the same commission free, competitive EURO exchange rates for GBP (including Scottish and Irish), USD, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish Kroner, and Swiss Francs. They also change Euro and GBP traveller’s cheques. Torrevieja will now be opening from 9.30am-6pm Monday to Friday, 10am-2pm on Saturdays. It is located one street behind the waterfall, opposite the indoor fish market. La Zenia will be open from 10am-2pm and 4pm-7.30pm Monday to Friday and 10am-2pm on Saturdays.
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Official Spanish Top 10 1. Train – Drive By 2. Fun. – We Are Young 3. Flo Rida – Whistle 4. Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe 5. Loreen – Euphoria 6. Efecto Pasillo – Pan Y Mantequilla 7. Gustavo Lima – Balada 8. Maroon 5 – Payphone 9. Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know 10. Jose De Rico – Rayos Del Sol
Official UK Top 10 Downloads 1. Amelia Lily You Bring Me Joy 2. Ne-Yo - Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself) 3. The Script - Hall of Fame 4. Little Mix - Wings 5. Flo Rida - I Cry 6. P!nk - Blow Me (One Last Kiss) 7. Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together 8. Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen - Good Time 9. Sam and the Womp - Bom Bom (Radio Edit) 10. Fun. - Some Nights
Coldplay closes Paralympic Ceremony with Rihanna COLDPLAY brought the London 2012 Paralympic Games to a spectacular close on Sunday night (9th September), as they performed a 16 song set to the 80,000 spectators at the Olympic Stadium in Stratford, East London. Opening their performance with their hit “Us Against The World”, Chris Martin and co also included their Coldplay classics “Yellow”, “The Scientist” and “Clocks”. Bajan star Rihanna also made an appearance, arriving in a huge wooden ship and dressed from head to toe in red to perform their duet “Princess of China”. She then went on to perform her own hit “We Found Love”, before rapper Jay-Z took to the stage to link up with both Coldplay and Rihanna for their own rendition of “Run This Town”. He also joined the band for their
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Vibe’s Top Tip Flo Rida – I Cry: is the fifth single to be released from his fourth studio album Wild Ones. The track samples the Bingo Players’ hit “Cry (Just A Little)” and a classic cut from the 1988 hit by Brenda Russell – “Piano In The Dark”. The track has received a mixed review, with some criticising the lack of originality, while others have praised the simplicity of the song and the fact that he really does make it work. “I Cry” is available for download, and will be released in November.
HONOUR: Coldplay celebrate at the Paralympics. song “Paradise”, before they closed their set with “Every Teardrop is a Waterfall”. Coldplay later described their appearance at the Paralympics as “the biggest night of their lives”, while Rihanna also went on to say that “being at the Paralympics
was the biggest honour, and that the athletes were gladiators and were a true inspiration.” All 4,200 Paralympians then gathered on the stage in the middle of the venue to mark the end of the sporting event with an impressive firework display.
Professor Green talks about cancer scare LONDON rapper Professor Green has revealed that he has been in hospital having tests for a recent cancer scare. According to news site Digital Spy, Professor Green, real name Stephen Manderson, found a suspicious lump on his head and went for tests last weekend where the lump was removed. However, he did manage to keep his fans updated on his progress via his twitter page, tweeting: “Got the pre anaesthetic on my head so the injection doesn’t hurt as much apparently... We'll see. Yawn. Can we get this thing out of my head already?” He later added: “A 5mm x 5mm lymph node. Now all I can hope
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Cheryl: ‘Will.I.Am is on another planet’ Geordie lass Cheryl has revealed that Will.I.Am lives in “Will World” which she claims to be an “interesting place”.
Speaking to We Love Pop magazine, Cheryl says that she enjoys spending time with the Black Eyed Peas front man because he always has “something fun to say”. She said: “We talk about anything from teleporting human beings to RoboCop becoming real because he's super-duper intelligent. You have no idea what we talk about outside of business. The guy lives in Will World, and it's a very interesting place up there." She also revealed that Will.I.Am is highly interested in technology. He has a vast knowledge which sometimes confuses those around him. She admitted: “He loses me sometimes and goes off on one for hours.”
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Pet Charities EASYHORSE CARE RESCUE CENTRE. We aim to rescue HORSES. If you would like to DONATE please call 965 967 033 or sales@easy horsecare.net www.easyhorsecare .net or call Sue 652 021 980 (95706) SPAMA GANDIA SHELTER. Dog and cat rescue registered charity, La Safor area. 500 animals awaiting rehoming. Shelter open 7 days a week 12noon - 2.00pm & 3.30pm 7.00pm. (Spanish speaking staff) or phone Gail 962 896 118. Visit our website for directions. www.spama.org and view our new blog at www.spama-safor.blog.com.es PLEASE HELP US TO HELP THEM (95707) P.E.P.A. VOLUNTEERS & FOSTER HOMES URGENTLY NEEDED. By fostering an abandoned dog, or spending a few hours each week on our telephone helpline, you could help save the lives of many animals. Please call: 650 304 746. For more information browse our website: www.pepaspain.com EURO WEEKLY NEWS CLASSIFAX AGENT (95708) GATAMI ORGANISATION, to help kittens and cats, looking for good homes, also spaying wild cats in the community. Kittens require adoption, fully vaccinated, de-wormed, de-fleed. We also need volunteers to help Car boot sale in Polop on Sundays Tel Anna: 966 806 976 / 654 729 977 (95709)
Property for Rent PENTHOUSE APARTMENT, Formentera del Segura (Rojales) available for long term rent. 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom, kitchen/diner, large terrace with stunning views overlooking the mountains, communal pool, garage space. Available part furnished, references required, contract provided, €300 pcm plus utilities. Tel: 634 365 221/634 358 290 or email davidrowland30@hotmail .co.uk (95710)
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TV 117 - 2 bed apartment in Torreblanca area of Torrevieja. Furnished, large balcony, com pool/gardens. 375€ pm + bills. Contract provided. Tel 966 707 074. (89468)
TV 118 - studio apartment close to Los Locos, Torrevieja. Furnished, enclosed balcony, com pool, close to all amenities. 295 euros pm + bills. Contract provided. Tel 966 707 074 (89468) SM118 - Villamartin - 3 bed quad, 2 bath, off-road parking, tiled garden, terrace and com pool. 495€ pm 965 720 766 (89468) SM169 - Montebello, Algorfa - 3 bed spacious, unfurnished quad. 2 bathrooms, air con. 550€ pm 965 720 766 (89468)
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Legend of 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 Strait 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 BC and many believe that his Atlantis account is a
DOÑANA NATIONAL PARK: Some argue that Atlantis is submerged nearby. 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 have ranged from an unquestioned belief in Plato’s dialogue, to mocking parodies, to strident rejection of the possibility of its 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, US 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 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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Cash for Orihuela Costa Youth Football Club THE Orihuela Costa Youth Football Club based in Playa Flamenca have secured the financial backing of local businesses. This will allow them to continue for another season representing the Orihuela Costa area in the Valencian Federation Football League. “From day one Morgans Bar and Amber Pools owner's Trevor Massey and Steve Toomey have backed the idea of a local children’s football club in the area,” said George Marshall. “This allows children to learn not only about football but also team work and a chance to meet new friends from different schools and areas. We are also delighted to now have on board The Shandon Bells Bar Villamartin who owner Linda Carrol approached the club to see how she could back her local team. Along with Vic Cooper from Sun World Properties at Los Dolces, they have provided funds for a training kit which allows the team to now look like a team at training and travelling to away grounds.
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ON THE UP: Orihuela Costa Youth Football Club. We are also proud to be sponsored by Specsavers Torrevieja who's owners Colin and Michaela Evans have provide funds to help pay with high pitch fee's the club have to pay unlike all their rival clubs who they play against in the league.” This season Orihuela Costa will be playing in the Federation league
once more and are now back training every Tuesday and Thursday, 6.30pm-8pm. Training takes place at their home ground C.D.M. Playa Flamenca which has an astro-turf pitch. To train and join Orihuela Costa visit www.orihuelacostafc.com or contact Martin Cockroft on 698 278 218 or 693 828 567.
Quesada Golf By Darryll Dinho THE Quesada Golf Society’s latest meeting was at La Ramblas. This is said by many to be a course for the fainthearted, presenting real challenges and demanding accuracy.
Twenty-eight players turned up to pit their wits against it. While some loved it, others said they really wouldn’t like to play it again. The competition was a four ball better ball competition.
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Paralympics end in style and an ace at last for Andy Murray 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,
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
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winning 120 medals, with 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
winner so I have shortened my list with my following ‘class of gold.’ * ‘Athlete of the Games’ and the greatest wheelchair racer of alltime, 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, Jessica-Jane 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.
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