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Will cost block bus link plan? ALICANTE City could have a ‘Circle Line’ if plans for a new bus route prosper. This would link the top end of the Gran Via with the Avenida de Denia and the seafront before continuing to the Gran Via’s southern access. Careful prior study is necessary, admitted Juan Seva, who heads the city council’s Traffic and Transport department. The biggest drawback is the high cost of the project, he said. City Hall pays Subus, the public transport concessionary, according to the number of kilometres its buses travel, and the new route would be long, Seva said. A similar line which was introduced some years ago was little-used and
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eventually had to be discontinued. “But things have changed since then and the city has grown considerably,” the councillor conceded. Having fewer Number 11 buses is the solution suggested by the PCM citizens’ group. The circular route would be faster and attract more people, said spokesman Vicente Alcaraz. The La Alcoyana bus line, which connects towns in the L’Alacanti area with the city, also backs the circular line. Another advantage would be that buses from San Vicente, San Juan and Muchamiel would be spared from having to negotiate tortuous city streets to reach the centre.
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Bull’s-eye in Benidorm MORE than 10,000 people participated in the 22nd National Darts Championship held in Benidorm’s Palau d’Esports stadium, which ran from October 25-28.
Ale ‘n’ hearty TWENTY thousand litres of beer will be drunk by around 30,000 visitors - organisers estimate - at Calpe’s 25th Oktoberfest festival, running from last Thursday 25 until this Sunday (November 4).
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SPAIN is emerging from the crisis, declared Minister of Labour Fatima Bañez on Monday. Twenty-five per cent of the workforce - 5.7 million people - are jobless and this could rise to 27 per cent in 2013. It is brave of Bañez to insist there are ‘indications’ of improvement but rather than confidence she is more likely to inspire a response of: “Whatever she’s on, we’ll have some too.”
DESPITE unexpected regional semi-victories in Andalucia and Asturias in March, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba led the PSOE to defeat in Galicia and the Basque Region. Ideological renewal is said to be the answer, but what the party needs now is leadership renewal. It’s time for Carme Chacon to step forward, but only if Zapatero’s former Defence Minister opts for federalism and steers clear of Cataluña’s pretensions of grandeur and independence.
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THE rubbish collection tax in Marina Alta towns may be increased by €10 plus 10 per cent VAT next year, the company managing the regional waste treatment plant (Reciclatges de Residus) has warned.
Man shot A MAN aged 23 was shot in the leg at Republica Argentina Avenue in Gandia. Police sources said two men wearing helmets stole €12,000 from the victim.
Market tender JAVEA’S San Anton food market is being put out to tender. The town hall says it is no longer able to maintain its management and upkeep.
FLASHBACK: Demonstrators on the streets during the last General Strike on March 29.
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NIONS CCOO and UGT have called for a General Strike on November 14 to protest against government cutbacks. This comes just eight months after the last strike on March 29 and is due to coincide with strikes in Portugal, Malta, Cyprus, Greece and other European countries. Union Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) has said that the decision has been taken because there is ‘no other option’ and expects the strike to be well supported throughout the country. Meanwhile, Union General de Trabajadores (UGT) pointed out that people should not be afraid to ‘lose a day’s pay’ because there are more important matters at stake. It also said that the strike should be backed by all sectors which are affected by the crisis and the response from the Spanish government, including the unemployed,
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Call to keep seniors holiday plan BENIDORM Council of Tourism and the National Hotels Confederation have asked the government not to change the Imserso travel programme for the elderly, as it has ‘a positive impact on the Spanish economy’.
CHILDREN aged eight to 14 participated in a singing contest held at the El Corte Ingles shopping centre in Alicante, competing for the top prize of a €300 gift voucher.
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FOUR months have passed since a whole 34-bed floor was closed at the Marina Baixa Hospital in Villajoyosa, while some patients are being transferred to nearby centres, the CCOO trades union has denounced.
BENIDORM’s mayor has been accused by PP party councillors of ‘misleading’ Spanish singer Raphael, who was promised a commemorative sculpture in August that never came about.
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students, consumers, pensioners and workers. However, the Civil Servants and Independent Union (CSI-F) is not backing the strike, because it says it is ‘not convenient’ at a time when the rescue for Spain is still being discussed and is at a critical point. The strike will not solve unemployment, warned vice-president and Rajoy’s righthand woman Soraya Saenz de Santamaria. “This strike will help neither workers nor the unemployed, she said. “We do not believe the best way of creating jobs is to invite people not to work.” “The government has made it inevitable,” said Ignacio Fernandez Toxo, secretary general of CCOO. UGT and CCOO expect to be joined by 200 smaller sector alliances as well as student and residents’ groups.
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time of going to press, due to Hurricane Sandy, which is making its way up the east coast of America. Around 50 to 60 million people have been affected by the storm.
Clean award MAL PAS, Levante and Poniente beaches in Benidorm have won the Ecoplayas award from the Ategrus agency, which acknowledges optimal waste treatment.
Das ist gut FREE German lessons are being offered by Costa Blanca German Club members to unemployed people in the town of Jalón, near Benissa and Teulada.
Dancing day RESIDENTS associations in Benidorm marked their special day with a live playback choreography contest at Aiguera Park.
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Golden hues BRITISH scientists have managed to change the colour of gold by altering the way it absorbs or reflects light by embossing tiny raised patterns onto the surface. It can now be red or green, or a host of other hues.
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Car’s the dream in charity cause By Benny Davis APASA’S latest fundraising event, Fayre in the Square, brought the centre of Javea’s old town to life at the weekend. An array of market stalls offered everything from fashion to sculpture and cosmetics to jewellery, with entertainment by a Zumba dance group, Xabia Washinkai Karate, Rodeo Stompers line dancers and the relaxed sounds of ‘Swingman’ Barry Peters.
STAR TREK fans made history by breaking the record for the largest gathering of people dressed as characters from the TV series at the ‘Destination Star Trek London’ convention.
In the centre of all this activity, a gleaming Peugeot 206 car was sitting patiently waiting for someone to become its new owner by Christmas. Donated by the dog-loving management of Javea Auto Sales, the car, a 1.1 litre, five-door model is the first prize in the APASA Christmas raffle to be drawn at their annual dinner dance on December 8. Tickets are available from various shops in the Javea area and Pedreguer.
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No hope for tree ONE of Javea’s most ancient trees, at least 1,000 years old, has died. Known as ‘Pi Ver’ (Pine View) the tree is believed to have been strangled by the urbanisation to which it gave its name. Although a draft plan was produced to try and save the tree, its survival chances were virtually non-existent after its branches were damaged by trucks and an estimated 40 per cent of its roots were cut when building an access road around it. The town hall says it sent reports to the owners advising that they prune the lower dead branches, but that these were ignored.
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‘Give blood’ plea in Javea RESIDENTS are being urged to give blood next Friday. The Transfusion Centre of Valencia, part of the Valencia Health Agency, has appealed to all organisations and citizens in the community to give blood on Friday, November 9 at the Xàbia Music Conservatory (Rafael street Echagüe
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Teeing off for charity A CHARITY golf day in aid of Cancer Care Javea will be held at Oliva Nova Golf Club on Sunday, November 25. With a Texas scramble format and a shotgun start at 9.45am, the fundraiser is being held in association with Campbell Lamont Golf. Entry for teams or individuals is €45 per person. Contact www.clgolf.es for details.
On air LOW-FARE airline Ryanair may open new air routes from Alicante airport in 2013, Spanish airports authority Aena has announced.
Back home AROUND 50 Spanish soldiers who have been serving in Afghanistan for five months flew into Alicante’s El Altet airport to be reunited with their families.
Lower spend FAMILIES in the Valencia Region spent on average €26,253 during 2011, a 2.8 drop on last year, the National Statistics Institute said.
Sign up to the padrón and make a difference Urgent appeal to expats: It’s so easy to join By Raul Candela TOWN HALLS in Spain have set out on a mission to sign as many expatriates up to the ‘padrón’ - the municipal register - as possible. Expats resident in Spain are required by law to sign up but thousands are either unaware of their obligation or unwilling to register. Now, the town halls want to prove just how easy it is, and how much it can benefit their community. By law, the National Statistics Institute (INE) requires town halls to update their municipal register before December 31. However, some municipalities with a large foreign community have decided to extend this date and intensify padrón promotion. Some expats have never heard of the padrón, while
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Riot breasts A TOPLESS protest was staged by female activists at Ikea in Hamburg who were demonstrating about women being cut out of the company’s catalogue in Saudi Arabia.
Driving skills BETTER INFORMED: One expat group learning about the padrón. others may know about it but have decided not to take action, either because they do not deem it necessary or beneficial, or maybe because they think they will lose some rights from their home countries.
The truth is that registering on the padrón only brings benefits, including: • Better public services. • Parents can only choose their children’s school when
Millions are urged to help out THERE are currently a total of 5,711,040 foreign residents registered in Spain. EU-residents total 2,440,852, with Romanian nationals leading (15.7 per cent), followed by British citizens (397,535, a 7 per cent share) and Germans (196,729, 3.4 per cent). The British community in Spain has increased by 1.6 per cent from 2011 to 2012, as well as their presence in the
foreign population, from 6.8 to 7 per cent. The community of international residents is especially important in the Balearics, Valencia and Murcia regions, where they account for 21.6, 17.2 and 16.1 per cent of the overall population. In Andalucia, the share is smaller (8.8 per cent) but it was the fastest-growing region in foreign population last year, welcoming over 13,000 new residents.
‘empadronado’ (registered on the padrón). • It is essential to obtain the healthcare card (tarjeta sanitaria). • Social care and local benefits including discounts at sports facilities, easier car registration, etc. • Tax reductions. • The right to vote in local and European elections. It is very easy to register on the padrón and it is free. Expats just need their passport and a resident’s certificate with them, and a copy of each to hand to their local town hall. Applicants will be asked to fill in some simple forms, too. And that’s it.
A WOMAN aged 45 from Düsseldorf won a national car parking championship which included fitting a nine-metre-long limousine into a parking bay.
Winter woe A THIRD of trains in North RhineWestphalia may be cancelled during the winter as a coal plant is being shut down, company Deutsche Bahn has said.
In memoriam A BRONZE statue to Knut the polar bear, who died last year, was unveiled at Berlin Zoo.
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Tightening up postal service POSTAL authority Correos wants to stop home deliveries to seven districts on the outskirts of San Vicente del Raspeig. San Vicente Town Hall was given a fortnight to appeal the decision last week, and council officials are currently studying each potentially affected area. If Correos gets its way, 1,192 residents in outlying neighbourhoods and urbanisations will now have to install post-boxes at central points. Residents’ interests will come first, Town Hall sources stressed, and solutions found if and when home deliveries cease. The council now wants to look at the areas involved and discuss with residents the best locations for grouped post-boxes, applying the same guidelines as those already used on the Villamontes urbanisation.
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Scary town RESIDENTS associations in Alicante old town are claiming that the area is now too dark and consequently dangerous since the new street light off-hours were applied.
Sign up THERE were more than 650 vacancies available (at press time) for courses at the Alicante
F1 loses Valencia â‚Ź1.8 million VALENCIA succeeded in lowering its outlay on staging the Formula 1 European Grand Prix, the regional parliament learnt last week. The percentage of savings was ‘ample’, according to Lola Johnson, head of the regional government’s Tourism Department. Johnson had provided a written reply to Socialist MP Eva Martinez who requested a breakdown of ‘each and every expense as well as payments
Official Language School, the one with the most vacancies in the region, the Valencia government announced.
China trade A BUSINESS workshop for companies willing to export their products to or invest in China will be held next Tuesday November 6 at the Alicante Chamber of Commerce.
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UNESCO aim THE Moors and Christians festival, held all along Alicante Province and other Spanish regions, has applied for the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage title.
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made and payments due’ for the event. The MP also wanted to know how many tickets were sold, and for how much. The final report is not yet finished, so she was unable to offer an itemised account, Johnson explained. The cost of organising this year’s Valencian Grand Prix, plus building stands and the circuit – 5.4
ISSUING a passport or national ID card is now quicker in Alicante, as the police station in Isabel la Catolica street has installed information screens, digital machines and other improvements. STALLED: The Valencia Grand Prix lost out. kilometres long and 14 metres wide with 25 bends – was almost ₏7 million. Earnings from the event, which was staged between June 22 and 24 and attended by 105,419 people, brought in a total of ₏5.2 million, she said.
Tram strike HALF of Alicante trams operated last Thursday, according to trades untions, as around 90 per cent of railway workers went on strike following plans to dismiss between 400 and 800 of them.
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Man stranded A PARAPLEGIC man, 49, dragged himself four miles down a dirt road over three days to get help after being stranded in the New Mexico desert without his wheelchair.
Alive again A CAR-WASHER, 41, from Brazil shocked his family by turning up at his own wake after his family mistakenly identified a murdered local man at the morgue as him.
Less famous UN leader Ban Ki-moon admits he is no longer the world’s most famous South Korean as he came face-to-face with Gangnam-Style rap phenomenon Psy.
Bottled it A NINE YEAR-OLD boy in Ireland discovered a message sent in a bottle from Canada eight years ago, and has even managed to track down the two senders.
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Judge takes pity on bullied worker A JUDGE spared a cleaner from returning to work at the Barcelona hotel where her life was allegedly made intolerable.
The cleaner, Carlotta, was suffering from depression, but pronounced fit to return to work last month. “My boss shouted at me.
He told me I did everything wrong,” Carlotta said. “Sometimes he simply ignored me when I asked him a question,” she told the judge. She was regularly made to clean the same room two or three times, because he said she had done it badly and her shifts would be altered at the last minute. On other occasions she was made to remain on duty even after her working day was finished. Carlotta lodged an official complaint of bullying and is now claiming compensation of €15,000. Her case will be heard in December. Meanwhile, a 2011 law stipulates that when workplace bullying occurs, the courts are authorised to exonerate an employee from working, Carlotta’s lawyers claimed. The judge agreed to do so ‘as a precautionary measure’. RISING: The number of smuggled cigarettes in Spain. The potential harm to Carlotta outweighs the ‘limited disruption’ that her absence would cause her employers, he ruled. He also ordered the hotel to pay CIGARETTE smuggling rose steeply in the first three months of 2012. Carlotta’s salary and social security In 2009, only 0.4 per cent of every 100 cigarettes smoked by the Spanish were contributions. contraband, but this rose to 9 per cent between January and April this year, the Guardia Carlotta, a middle-aged South Civil revealed. American, later expressed her The high price of cigarettes, the economic crisis and recent law reforms are all held relief. She had won the first round, responsible. she said, “and at least I won’t have Most tobacco is intercepted on the Galicia coast and at the border with Gibraltar in to see that man’s face again.” Andalucia and Andorra in Cataluña.
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The Spanish dream... Two of our writers went head-to-head to argue whether expats are still living the Spanish dream
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HEN I was in college, a professor was naive enough to endow me with an Erasmus grant to study in Bilbao. Needless to say, as a 20-year-old student away from home for the first time, I did everything but study. As the year wore on, I became aware that I had made few local friends. No one ever said: “Come to my house for dinner.” It seemed odd but I also came to notice that every birthday party or dinner was held in a restaurant. Eventually, the penny dropped: the home is for the family, outside is for socialising. For Northern Europeans, this can be hard to appreciate and not being invited in for a cuppa can be mistaken for rudeness. But to say that because you are not welcomed into their homes, you are not welcome in their country is something of a leap. It’s also a bit of a stretch to portray the Spaniards as
Standing up for Spain by Alvaro Reynolds
Alvaro Reynolds. warlike, especially if you have to use parameters going back to the 12th century to justify
such a claim. Few will argue, they inhabit a special country though, that the Spaniards do and are damn proud of it – and like to fight among proud people want to show themselves, as civil off by inviting visitors to their country, 57 wars totalling 17 of million last year. the past 179 years Spain has To that end, bear testament to. come a they tolerate And they were so behaviour by good at the long way foreigners that infighting that since Franco few other nations everyone from died. would even Hemingway to countenance. Orwell and Hitler to And they are Stalin wanted to join in on the action. arguably paying a price for it But what was it that inspired because the sort of carry on such sacrifice and great works that takes place in the strips of of art and literature in those Magalluf, Playa del Inglés and with no connection to Spain? Fuengirola is increasingly being The architecture? The scenery? replicated by Spanish youth. The politics? Or was it the This tolerance can also be people? seen in the fact that expats are The Spaniards are aware that under no pressure to integrate.
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The extent of moaning about them centred on their pushing up property prices during the boom. Can the same be said of immigrants in other countries? But the biggest misconception of all is that in Spain nothing works and that it is a bureaucratic nightmare. When a train is due to depart at 12:27, it leaves on the dot. When you go to the health centre, you rarely wait longer than half an hour. But for some, it’s easier to highlight what doesn’t work, say the postal service, rather than on what functions smoothly and efficiently. We forget just how far Spain has come since Franco died. This is a country that has gone from being a closed society dominated by priests and soldiers to one of the most open and liberal countries in the world in just three decades. To not appreciate that those changes can produce the odd wart is just nitpicking.
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the debate rages on Lost in Translation
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E Brits enjoy a good moan and there’s nothing better than complaining about life in Spain. It’s too hot in the summer, there’s too much rain in the winter, there aren’t enough jobs and we see Spaniards as expatriate communities, hard-nosed and uninterested in expecting our waiters and shop us ‘foreigners’. assistants to be fluent in our However, I put it to you native language. Also, when that if the tables were choosing to visit turned, you would Spanish the more remote struggle to put on are being areas of Spain, a smiling face if where little you were forced to bombarded with foreign langchange their foreign nationals uage is spoken, everywhere you rather than way of life. turned. embracing the For one thing, we challenge and expect the Spanish to speak attempting to get by as English/French/Danish/ we expect of foreigners Spanglish, but many of us, residing or holidaying in the especially the English, are too UK, we choose to speak loudly bone-idle and lazy to even and slowly instead, expecting cross the bridge of learning them to understand our every anything different. word, and becoming frustrated There are many regions, when they don’t. Spaniards are faced with this especially here on the Costa del Sol, that function solely as day after day; they have come
By Laura-Jane Bruce
Laura-Jane Bruce. to expect that we are here to stay, and to continue on with
their day, trying to accommodate us as much as they can. This welcoming attitude speaks wonders of the residing community. The Spanish are proud of their culture, where prices are maintained at an all-time low, even in these hard times. Yes, IVA was increased to 21 per cent this year, but that is only to pump revenue back into the system so we are able to sustain our ways of life. They are also looking to create more jobs, not only to help the country back from ruin, but also to allow us expats to stay put and ignore the prospect of having to move back to our bleak former countries of residence. Come the summer season, we descend on the beaches,
bars and restaurants expecting the same distinction as back home. The quality of food is high and price is kept low, and public transport is second to none, in order to live up to the same standards as we are used to, probably even surpassing our expectations. This entices more and more people to holiday here frequently and take up permanent residency, all the more quashing the stigma of unfriendly locals. The English can also be seen as ignorant to the way of life here in Spain. Many of us complain when shops or offices are closed for siesta, and that banks have minimal opening hours, but it has been revealed that in 2013, retail opening hours are going to increase from 72 to 90 hours per week. The Spanish are being forced to change their way of life to accommodate ours. That’s pretty welcoming if you ask me…
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ADVISING: British Consulate Paul Rodwell (far left) addresses the convention.
Help available, but plan ahead HOW do Social Services work in the Valencia Region? What help is really out there for British nationals? These are two of the questions that Spanish social workers and English-speaking associations tried to answer at the ConeXiones Social event in Alicante last week. During the event, Social Services teams spoke about the services on offer, including home help, meals on wheels and panic alarms for vulnerable people who live on their own. They stressed how important it is that people keep their documentation up to date; having padrón registration, ‘residencia’,
passport and proof of income are essential for accessing almost all of the support offered by Social Services. They also explained the importance of planning ahead, as there is often a waiting list before people can access Social Services. They said that having the funds to be able to cover that gap privately can be essential. The English-speaking welfare associations who attended also had the opportunity to find out about these services and how to access them as well as explaining to Social Services what they can do to assist. The English-speaking associations illustrated how
much help they can offer, ranging from hospital visits to equipment loan and nursing care. British Consul Paul Rodwell attended the event and opened by explaining briefly what the consulate’s role is in supporting British nationals and highlighting the importance of knowing what help is out there from local town halls and charities. Charities who attended the event were ACASA, RBL, Age Concern, MABS, HELP Marina Alta, HELP Vega Baja, HELP Benidorm, RAFA Costa Blanca, RAFA Costa Blanca North, Help at Home Costa Blanca and Samaritans in Spain.
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Workers escape prison COAL miners from Leon, where pits are threatened with closure, will not go to prison for protesting. The 10 miners faced 18-month prison terms for public disorder and attacks on authority after they cut off traffic on the AP-66 motorway and the CL-626 main road on three occasions in September 2010. None of the men has a criminal record and after pleabargaining by their lawyers, sentences were suspended for two years for seven of them and fines for three. The compromise was the best solution although the accusations were false, said Lisardo Riesgo, one of the miners.
Happy to work? Not as much as last year ONLY 77.98 per cent of Spanish workers are happy in their jobs, compared with 81.2 per cent last year. The higher a person’s social standing and earning the happier they are, found the Adecco recruitment agency. Enjoying one’s work, personal satisfaction, good colleagues and a pleasant working environment are considered vital by the majority of those participating in the recent Adecco survey. Good pay was necessary for job satisfaction, a further 12.4 per cent responded. Artists – actors, musicians and painters - are considered to have the greatest job satisfaction, followed by footballers, sportspeople in general, photographers and archaeologists. Next come vets, researchers, public sector workers, pilots and decorators. More people now believe that artists, footballers, sportspeople and photographers are happier in their work than in the previous Adecco survey. In contrast, more said that public sector workers are probably less
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Red beard ACCUSED September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has been tinting his beard red by rubbing it with fruit juice and crushed berries.
Fine runner A CZECH runner who doctors said might never walk again after a car crash finished a 30-day run around Iceland aimed at inspiring the disabled.
Bodies back POLISH police recovered 12 bodies that went missing after a van carrying coffins to a crematorium was stolen by apparently unwitting thieves in Germany. DROPPING: Less Spaniards are happy in work this year. content than a year ago. Women tended to feel that artists and vets are happiest, while men settled for sportspeople and footballers. Those happiest in their work live in Navarra (88 per cent), followed
by Murcia (86.2 per cent) and Extremadura . Aragon has the least contented workers with 71.2 per cent saying they are satisfied, followed by the Canary Islands (71.6 per cent) and Galicians (74.3 per cent).
Heated paths RESEARCHERS in the Netherlands have come up with a novel way to get more cyclists out during the winter: heated bike paths.
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All gone THIRTY-SIX players, including both teams and substitutes, were sent off during a Paraguayan junior league football match that ended in mayhem.
Human flag MORE than 24,000 Pakistanis formed the world’s largest ‘human national flag’ in the eastern city of Lahore, smashing a five-yearold record set in Hong Kong.
Buried alive A JACK RUSSELL terrier has had a ‘miraculous’ escape in France after being poisoned and buried alive on his third birthday.
Puppy love A US schoolboy who got lost in the woods near his home survived a night of cold weather by cuddling his pet puppies.
Women still draw the short straw SPAIN has lost ground in gender equality, dropping from 12 to 26 in the World Economic Forum’s rankings. The patchy results of the 2007 gender equality laws are also reflected in the Global Gender Gap Index. This evaluates 135 countries regarding women’s access to health care, education, economic equality and political empowerment. Iceland, Finland and Norway head the 2012 list with Chad, Pakistan and Yemen at the bottom. Spain came in at 78 in 2010, rose to 74 in 2011 and dropped one place to 75 this year. Spain’s gender gap begins at the highest level, with only four females amongst Mariano Rajoy’s 13 Cabinet ministers. Plans to extend paternity leave so that men share the domestic burden have been postponed and businesses disregarded previous pledges to increase women’s presence as managers and on boards. They account
for 11.5 per cent of board members and occupy 22 per cent of managerial posts. Men are paid 22 per cent more for doing the same job, according to national statistics office, INE. Health and education equality have improved in most countries, but was diminishing in Spain, claimed Laura Nuño, head of the Equality department at Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid. Women are also the worstaffected by the unemployment and government spending cuts, she said. There was still “some way” to go before parity was reached, admitted Carmen Quintanilla, president of the parliamentary Equality Committee.
EQUALITY: Spain is falling behind.
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CAMEO: Served up their cabaret package of song, dance and light hearted fun.
Lust, lechery and seduction... and all in support of charity By Benny Davis AN appreciative audience was served up with a cabaret package of fine entertainment as well as a
hearty meal as Cameo came to Javea. The entertainment group, who offer the luxury of a good meal in a local
Hair-raising ordeal SCHOOLMASTER Phil Baldwin’s cherished ponytail has gone out in a blaze of colour. Phil’s flowing locks are having to be shorn next week just before he goes on stage, playing Sky Masterson, the lead in Footlights’ production of the musical Guys and Dolls, which opens at the Casa de Cultura in Calpe for a three-night run on November 8.
BRAVE: Phil gets the treatment. Unfortunately for Phil, a teacher at Laude Elizabeth School, a ponytail was the wrong thing for a man to be wearing in 1950s’ New York, where the show is set. The show’s director Val Turner - fortunately, in real life a hardresser will perform the task. In a special Hallowe’en fundraising day on Friday, pupils curled, coloured and combed Sir’s hair, raising more than €1,000 for various charities. The box office hotline 652 404 798 is open weekday mornings. Tickets are €12 each, children under 14, €8. Footlights plan to donate a percentage of profits from the show to the Maite Baronat Centre for the Mentally Handicapped in Calpe.
restaurant, before launching their cabaret package of song, dance and light hearted fun, performed at a benefit dinner for the Costa Blanca MABS cancer support group at the Inn on the Green bowls club. The audience was entertained with ‘Vices and Virtues’, Cameo’s latest production. Working within a confined floor area, the company of nine performers, sang, danced and mimed their way through musical versions of seven vices and seven virtues that had the audience, cheering,
applauding and joining in familiar choruses such as Tom Jones ‘Delilah.’ Thirty two dance routines and songs, delivered in around 90 minutes is a pretty swift moving show, the result of a lot of hard work and serious rehearsals. The evening raised €255 euros for the MABS charity. All due credit to the behind-the-scenes-fastchanging-cast: Don Hargreaves, June Seal, Ray Seal, Sue Jones, Brenda Boud, Cindy Hinton, Dawn Blythe, Pam Small, Sue Jones and their production team.
Celebrations for Aladdin ALADDIN continues his 150th birthday celebrations with a flying carpet visit to Spain this Christmas landing in Ondara’s Auditorio on December 1618. The landing ‘lamps’ are being lit by Big Fish Entertainment, the Costa Blanca’s rapidly emerging premiere theatre company that has already delivered spectacular productions of Cinderella and the Willy Russell musical, Blood Brothers. Heading the cast list will again be Adam King, well known to theatre goers, music lovers and radio listeners on the Costa and currently the voice of Iceland.
Adam King. Director Suzanne Millington, head of performing arts at Laude Lady Elizabeth School and well known actor/director explains … “Aladdin is a truly multinational theatrical work with origins dating back to the Tales of the Arabian Nights.” For information on tickets and competitions go to www.bigfishentertainment. biz or join facebook page.
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Lions a roaring success THE Lions club of Teulada-Moraira presented a spectacular evening of cabaret and jazz music and raised more than €2,000. The show featured the rich baritone of Rob Sweeney and a superb salute to Neil Diamond by J.J. Jones watched by a capacity audience in Espai la Senieta. The evening was hosted by Heat Gold’s Eric Taylor. Teulada-Moraira Lions also hosted a free children’s Halloween party on Wednesday in the church square, Moraira. Visit www.teuladamorairalions.org for more information.
GOOD CAUSE: Some of the students and staff in their pink accessories.
Students go pink STUDENTS at XIC Secondary celebrated Breast Cancer Awareness Month by wearing a pink accessory with their school uniform for the day. Boys and girls, staff and students, donned
wigs, hats, scarves, bracelets, sunglasses, even earmuffs - any accessory they could lay their hands on - as long as it was the designated colour for breast cancer. A well-known local gynaecologist, Dr Van Harmelen, presented
Cash boost for Poppy auction THE Benidoleig and District Branch of The Royal British Legion raised more than €2,000 at a packed auction at the El Cid Restaurant recently. Over 260 lots, donated by members and friends, went under the hammer of professional auctioneer Alan Lewis. Still remaining are two further batches of 20 lots each, which will be sold in the coming weeks. Patrick Scully, chairman of the branch, thanked all who provided the lots, to those who cleaned and stored them and to those who had bought them.
some important and humbling facts and figures about the disease, to help students understand the causes and effects of cancer. The school raised over €200 for local breast cancer charity, MABS; a gallant effort.
Anyone for a coffee? MONTGO RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION JAVEA meets for a Coffee Morning on the first Tuesday of the month. Come and meet the neighbours. All welcome. For more details of events, news and information of interest visit www.montgoresidents. com
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Stat of week SAVINGS of €102 billion will be made in Spain’s spending by 2014, according to a draft budget prepared for the nation’s Eurozone partners
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Christmas countdown! Shops take on festive look as extra staff hired THERE are now fewer than 50 shopping days left until Christmas, and around 60 until the Three Kings. Festive items are already beginning to adorn many shop windows, supermarkets are beginning to stock Christmas food goodies, and children are excitedly now thinking what Father Christmas, or the Three Kings, will bring them. Toys ‘R’ Us will hire up to 1,500 extra staff for
Banks wrong to evict say judges evict that BANKS mortgage defaulters from their homes have been criticised by judges. A report by seven judges expressed harsh criticism for the way in which mortgage defaulters are evicted from their homes. Some of the benefits and help extended by the government to banks should find their way to help clients who, despite their ‘good faith’, were seven debt-burdened, judges have said in a special report. “Otherwise the debtor will be faced by ruin and lose the place where they carry out their business or
professional activity or – worse – their home,” the report stated. “A solution should be found that avoids social exclusion and equally distributes the consequences of the economic crisis.” Evictions increased 13.4 per cent in the second quarter of this year compared with the same period last year. The legal and procedural implementation of mortgage loans should be revised, the report stated. further was There criticism for Civil Law modifications in 2000, when new eviction regulations were introduced.
Christmas, with sales normally accounting for 56 per cent of annual turnover. “Children are the last to be affected by the crisis,” said Antonio Urcelay, President of Toys ‘R’ Us in Europe. The chain has 47 outlets in Spain, with another opening in Logroño next Friday. A temporary ‘pop-up’ store opened recently in
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Bilbao and another is opening in Madrid later this month. Both will close on January 7, a day after the Three Kings holiday when Spanish children traditionally receive presents.
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Euro dreams PANAMA wants to introduce the euro as legal tender alongside the US dollar, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was advised during a visit to the country.
Up in smoke THE world’s secondbiggest maker of cigarettes - British American Tobacco has seen group sales fall in the first nine months of the year amid a ‘fragile’ overall economic recovery.
Roman hungers for sushi, so quickly splashes out on a €50,000 takeaway ROMAN ABRAMOVICH, the Russian billionaire businessman, solved a craving for sushi on a trip to Azerbaijan. While Baku might rank as one of the world’s most
CHRISTMAS JOY: Traders look to a business boost.
expensive capitals, it is not famed for its Japanese food. But undeterred, Abramovich owner of Chelsea Football Club in London - simply told an aide to order sushi from a restaurant in the British capital and fly it out to Baku in his Gulfstream jet. At an estimated cost of £40,000 (€50,000) it is believed to be the most expensive takeaway in history. It seems the sky is the limit when it comes to takeaways for the world’s super-rich. FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Jet-set Sushi... ordered by super-rich Abramovich.
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What is sickly truth about La Palma and SIP card
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A WARNING to readers. We have just returned from La Palma in the Canary Islands, where my wife was taken ill. I asked the hotel to call a doctor, which they did. He was a private doctor so I had to pay him. He gave me a prescription for my wife so I went to the chemist with the prescription, her SIP card and passport, only to be told they do not accept the SIP card in the Canary Islands. I do not understand as it You and the says on the card Sistema Law in Spain Nacional de Salud. By David Searl Can you explain this? Our travel agent had not included health cover in our insurance as she thought we were covered by the SIP card. So, when is Spain not Spain?
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Your question is nicely put. Spain is not Spain when it is one of the individual Autonomous Regions into which the country is divided. These regions administrate many of the government services, including healthcare. In the Valencian Region your health services are provided by the Valencian health service and in Andalucia, they are delivered by the Servicio Andaluz de Salud. They are all part of the national system, which is why your card says that, but they are individually administered, often with differences. The SIP card is one of these differences. SIP stands for Sistema de Información Poblacional, the System of Information regarding the Population. Every resident of the Valencian Region is supposed to have one, which enables the authorities to plan their services. Even a baby gets a SIP. Basically, it is a census. This card was formerly issued to anyone who was empadronado, resident in the Valencia Region, even penniless immigrants who had never paid into the system. It entitles holders to healthcare, but only under the Valencian system, which is why the Canary Islands region did not accept it. The SIP card is no longer so easy to obtain. David will respond to queries but reserves the right to select letters which will be of interest to the greatest number of readers. You can also consult David through lawyers Ubeda-Retana and Associates in Fuengirola. ask@lawtaxspain.com or call 952 667 090.
Budget cut, but Olympics runs up high cost LONDON 2012, recognised as one of the best ever Olympics, came with a hefty price tag for British taxpayers despite a £377 million government saving on the final budget.
£££ THE Royal Mail has enlisted the help of Paralympic gold medallist Ellie Simmonds in urging people to post early for Christmas.
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Scottish independence could be like soap opera WITH ongoing talk of Scottish independence not to mention the Catalan uproar interesting points come to mind, mostly concerning Jim Scotland and the rest of the Collins United Costa Blanca Kingdom. The position of REAL SOAP: Coronation Street attracts millions of Cataluña is of course very viewers... and eyes will turn to possible ‘soap different, with the opera’ fiasco if Scotland breaks from the UK. arguments for and against becoming more past experience, any EU constituencies in England, entrenched with every decision on this might take Wales and Northern utterance by political months - even years - Ireland. leaders on both sides of and I do wonder what, Would independence the divide. during this ‘interregnum’, mean them giving up their An agreement setting would be the situation of Westminster seats, out the terms of an those Scots presently triggering a rolling salvo of independence referendum living and working in the by-elections and for Scotland was recently remainder of the UK. governmental reshuffles? signed by Cameron and * What would similarly Of course, since there the Scottish First Minister, happen to those English, are no Englishmen and the hope and Welsh and Northern Irish representing Scottish expectation is that, should in Scotland? constituencies, there the split take place, it Of course, if Scotland’s would be no reverse would be amicable; a petition were successful, effect, but here’s a parting of friends. this problem would be thought: George Galloway However, points remain resolved by the immediate might have to quit to be resolved, among application of the EU’s Westminster and return to them these: ‘right to work and travel Scotland! * No doubt Scotland between member states’ Oh, what joy! would apply for European rule. A further possible upset, Union membership, However, this could not in the same league exchanging a partnership hardly apply to those when compared with the for a hopefully benign Scottish-born MPs political upheaval but dictatorship. But going by presently representing interesting in itself, is the question of the Scottish footballers playing in, and KATE MIDDLETON - Britain’s new receiving high favourite royal - costs more than salaries from, £102,000 (€127,500) a year mainly English equivalent to €350 a day - according teams. to Australian Vogue magazine. It Would they, if was recently revealed that Scotland became a £35,000 (€43,750) alone is spent member of the EU, on her wardrobe in a 12-month be counted as period. European players, thus free to sign for
Kate costs €127,500 a year!
United Kingdom clubs? Don’t forget that Cameron has promised to grant the UK electorate a referendum on Britain’s continued membership of the European Union, which as things stand, might result in an overwhelming ‘No’ vote. In this case, with the United Kingdom no longer tied to European rules, Scottish footballers might find themselves counted as foreign players, only two of which are allowed per club under Football Association rules. How complicated things have become just because the Scots were forced to accept the rule of an English king following the debacles of 1715 and 1745 which brought about the collapse of the Jacobite cause. Strangely, if the surviving pretender to the Scottish throne were to be invited to take over, the Scots would find themselves ruled by an Austrian. There is just no getting away from Europe, it seems. Mind you, the English have fared no better. Our present royal family was originally Sax-Coburgs from Hanover, and before, following the death of the last Stuart King, Charles II, England was ruled by William of Orange, who was Dutch! How fascinating are these convoluted historical meanderings! More like television soap opera storylines than real life.
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Tax Treaties Have A Direct Impact On You As A UK Expatriate Many people have heard of double tax treaties, and some may know that the UK has an extremely sophisticated and large network of double tax treaties. But how much do you really know about what a double tax treaty is there for? And do you understand how they affect you as a British expatriate? One myth is that you can use any relevant treaty to choose where to pay tax. This is not correct, as tax treaties are designed to decide where taxes on different income, gains and inheritances are taxable, when assets are located in one country and the individual is resident in another country. They generally also contain “tiebreaker” clauses where an individual satisfies domestic resident laws of both countries. Tax treaties are very detailed, and all of them are different, so to make sure you apply them correctly to your situation you should seek professional advice. Blevins Franks study all the fine print and are experienced at guiding expatriates through the detail and effective tax planning. Another myth is that income taxable in one country cannot be taxable in the other.
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This is incorrect and, in many cases, income remains taxable in the source country but can also be taxed in the country in which the individual is resident. To avoid double taxation, i.e. being taxed in both countries, tax paid in the source country is offset against the liability in the country of residence. Where income can be taxed in both countries under the terms of the treaty, each country will always be able to apply its own rules in calculating the taxable income, and also the actual tax payable. While tax paid in the source country can be offset against the tax payable in the country of residence, if the tax paid in the source country exceeds the tax payable in the country of
residence, no further tax will be due in the country of residence. If the tax payable in the country of residence is higher than that payable in the source country, you pay tax in the source country and then pay the difference between the two amounts in your country of residence. You always end up paying the higher of the two amounts. The trick here, of course, is to minimise the tax in both countries legally so that the minimum amount of tax is paid. A good adviser can help you ensure that you minimise taxes in both countries, so that your overall tax liability is minimised. Generally, certain types of income and gains are only taxable in the country of residence and others are taxable in both countries. For example, capital gains on real estate, dividends and bank interest are often taxable in both the country where the income arises and the country of residence (although not always). However state, occupational and private pensions and annuities are usually only taxable in the country of residence. Government service pensions, such as Armed Forces, civil service, police, fire brigade and
teachers’ pensions, usually are taxable only in the source country (but again, not always). The UK only has 10 treaties regarding taxes on death. These are with France, Italy, India, Pakistan, USA, Sweden, Ireland, South Africa, Netherlands and Switzerland. There are also exchange of information agreements, generally between countries formerly blacklisted by the OECD (i.e. formerly seen as tax havens) and various other countries. Where there is no double tax treaty governing where income is taxed and how relief is given in the case of double taxation, the UK will give “unilateral relief ” where another country charges tax on assets that are also taxable in the UK. The UK will apply UK law in determining where an asset is actually located for this purpose, and if the tax charged abroad exceeds the UK liability in the UK on that asset, the credit given for the foreign tax is limited to the amount of tax payable in the UK. Unilateral relief is also given where both the UK and another country tax income or assets in a third country. Double tax treaties supersede
national law and therefore take precedence over either country’s domestic rules. If you have assets outside the UK, or if you are moving or have moved abroad and retain UK assets, it is essential to have an adviser who understands how any relevant double tax treaty will apply to you, and how this works in relation to the domestic laws. We would always recommend that you take advice from an expert knowledgeable regarding the double tax treaty and both countries’ laws, such as Blevins Franks. They will be able to assist you in understanding exactly what will be taxed where, when and how, as well as assisting you in minimising taxation. The tax rates, scope and reliefs may change. Any statements concerning taxation are based upon our understanding of current taxation laws and practices which are subject to change. Tax information has been summarised; an individual should take personalised advice. To keep in touch with the latest developments in the offshore world, check out the latest news on our website. www.blevinsfranks.com
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309.65
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316.30
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1385.50
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1699.00
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MERCADONA has received a front page pat on the back from the Wall Street Journal. In an approving article, the globally famous newspaper reported that a formula based on increased productivity, flexible working hours and performance-linked bonuses ‘an unusual mix for a Spanish firm’ - have increased sales. Mercadona turnover rose 8 per cent last year, compared with Spain’s overall fall in retail sales for 25 consecutive months, the newspaper reported. Ninety per cent of staff are on full-time contracts, and the chain hired 6,500 employees last year, more than any other Spanish company.
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Just €2 a day can add up to a smile at month end HAVE you experienced hair loss, break-outs of sweat or a dull continuous pain in your stomach recently? Experts say that the troubled financial times we live in is causing no end of A look stress. at finance The stress of for females paying bills, worrying about job security Jane Plunkett and meeting the end jane.plunkett@euroweeklynews. of each month is no com bed of roses and can leave even the most positive a little down in the dumps. Therefore the thought of also trying to save a little as we muddle along is a daunting one. improve if they saved an extra €60 However, according to a new each month. study, putting away a little each High living costs and tough month will significantly improve employment conditions have piled our mood. the pressure on squeezed Saving just €2 a day, which household budgets, but the great amounts to €60 a month, will thing about this little savings’ tip is make us happier, says the report. that it’s a minimal amount which Nearly two-thirds of those shouldn’t put too much strain on surveyed wished they could put finances. aside more cash, while almost a Plus, seeing €60 adding up each third admitted their mood would month is guaranteed to create a
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big smile long-term. The report highlights that ‘for people who aren’t satisfied with their savings, it doesn’t require big changes to lay aside an extra €2 each day’. In fact, those using regular savings tricks have shown that it is so often the simplest daily changes that can make a big difference. Walking short distances rather than taking the bus or car, cycling or car sharing are all good ways to cut back on transport costs. Buying essential items in bulk always saves money, as does simply giving up that slice of cake or biscuit that goes alongside a cup of tea or coffee. The fun of saving can be a visual joy too. Get a big glass bottle or jar and drop in €2 each day and then watch the savings grow. And when it’s tipping over count it out. But be warned. Other family members should be told that they are YOUR savings and not to dip into them for small change or a bus fare!
Bankers in need of happy pills ONE in five staff of Bankia take antidepressants on a regular basis. Almost 22 per cent have visited the doctor in the last year, complaining of anxiety or depression, according to the union, Comfia. More than 3 per cent of the nationalised bank’s workforce needed sick leave for complaints ranging from apathy, exhaustion and mood swings to upset stomachs. As the first survey of this kind, it was impossible to make comparisons with the situation before Bankia was taken over by the Spanish government in May, Comfia stressed. At least 53 per cent of the bank’s counter staff and 66 per cent of managers had been threatened or verbally attacked by customers.
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Progress over European banking supervisor FINALLY some progress has been made in the Eurozone with leaders reaching a much-needed agreement to set up a single banking supervisor to European Union (EU) banks. In practice this means member countries will adopt a legal framework that will give the European Central Bank (ECB) overall control of the supervision of EU banks. This was a very positive move for the euro which continued to gain ground following the announcement. However, yet again it could be shortlived as concerns over Spain and the euro economy are still very present. Indeed the troubled Spanish economy continued to be the major focal point as investors’ fears loom over the recession in the region. First Standard & Poor’s cut Spain’s credit rating two notches to BBB. The rating agency declared that the negative outlook on their long-term ratings reflected their view of the significant risks to Spain’s economic growth and budgetary performance, as well as the lack of a clear direction in Eurozone policy. Then Moody’s, another credit rating agency, decided to cut the debt ratings of five Spanish regions,
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following the decision to keep its rating on Spain at one level above junk just a week before. The areas included Andalucía, Extremadura, Castilla-La Mancha, Cataluña and Murcia who have seen their ratings dropped by one or two notches thanks to “very limited cash reserves… and their significant reliance on short-term credit lines to fund their operating needs,” according to Moody’s. Meanwhile, official figures from Brussels just published show that Eurozone debt rose to another record high last year. Overall the deficits were reduced, but countries were still adding billions of euros to their debt piles.
The level moved to 87.3 per cent of GDP within the Eurozone, up from 85.4 per cent in 2010, and 70.2 per cent back in 2008. The extent of Eurozone states’ shortfalls reduced somewhat to a combined level of 4.1 per cent of GDP, from 6.2 per cent in 2010, but this still meant an extra €390.7 billion government debt. Elsewhere in the broader European Union area, only six countries saw their level of debt as a percentage of GDP fall from 2010 to 2011, while 21 saw it worsen. In spite of the UK’s Chancellor George Osborne promising a reduction
in government spending, the UK’s shortfall continued to be one of the largest in Europe while the powerhouse economy, Germany, dropped its budget deficit to less than 1 per cent of GDP in 2011 from 4.1 per cent in 2010 and saw its debt fall to 80.5 per cent of GDP from 82.5 per cent! Finally, EU members Sweden, Hungary and Estonia succeeded to stop the trend and record budget surpluses last year, even with the ongoing economic decline across most of the euro region. With such disparities in performance it is no wonder that markets and investors remain hungry for strong signs of cohesion, commitment and concerted European actions from all countries caught in the Eurozone crisis. Across the Atlantic, the greenback received some positive support on the back of a better than expected rise in September retail sales, the largest since October 2010 and a key indicator of the strength of the US economy. Nonetheless, the dollar overall remained in a limited range of around 2.5 per cent throughout the month as did the euro and British Sterling to an even lesser range.
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I, LIKE many responsible pet owners, went to the town hall and registered my two dogs. Then, as instructed, I carried the information whenever I took them out. However, the other day while walking my dogs at 6pm, a young woman asked me the time and somehow took my wallet. I only realised it had gone minutes later. What is most disturbing is that while there was no money in the wallet, my house keys and registration forms containing my name, address, and phone numbers were. This is more information than is on my passport. I am an elderly lady and often walk my dogs, and I want to warn others who probably like me are not fully aware of the dangers of carrying these forms on them. I have now had to have all my locks changed. It seems so stupid that we have to carry such information around, especially when our dogs are microchipped and registered anyway Frankye Hawkridge San Pedro, Costa del Sol
Clash of dates ON behalf of the charity Race for Life Javea, we would like to respond to the article concerning the clash of dates between Remembrance Sunday and Race for Life Javea. Firstly, the event is being held in collaboration with Club D’Atletisme Llebeig Javea and Javea Ayuntamiento, not five local Spanish charities as stated. We stated that when choosing the date, no disrespect was intended either to the British Legion or other organisations involved in Remembrance Sunday services. Mr Dawes, Chairman of Javea British Legion, had been in contact with our charity and had accepted the constraints we faced when selecting the date for our event and also that the British Legion had accepted our offer to sell poppies on their behalf. Race for Life Javea
Not so friendly HAVING lived in Spain for 15 years and running a business here, I agree with Mike Walsh rather than Linda Hall in the article ‘Are expats still living their Spanish dream?’ (Issue 1425). The Spanish can be charming if they think you will spend money with
Snapped! By Nena Jacques, Mijas Costa
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JUST 18 months ago the Sunday Market at the Hipodromo in Mijas Costa consisted of about 10 stalls in a field alongside the Costa del Sol horse racetrack. Now it fills 10–12 parking zones and attracts hundreds each week. So even in these tough economic times, some business ventures would appear to be expanding!
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them, but otherwise can be decidedly anti-social, unless you are ‘family’. The Spanish still receive EU money, whilst the British pay in £40 million (€50m) a day, as well as contributing significantly to the tourist industry. Even so foreigners are still known as ‘guiris’ even when they speak the language fluently. We live in an all-Spanish community and as a result have many Spanish friends, but instead of examining the depth of this friendship we prefer to reflect on the wonderful weather, beautiful scenery and bountiful supplies of fresh food. Spain is great, but don’t rely on the Spanish too much, you may be disappointed. Jennifer Rogers Lorca
Thanks, Aubrey I WAS delighted to see the report ‘Aubrey’s work earns honour’ (Issue 1424 CDS). Five years ago I moved - as do many British - to Los Boliches with my foreign-born wife.
When sorting out our residencia papers, we encountered Aubrey Bowles at Fuengirola National Police Station. He provided invaluable help not only to us, but also to scores of others each time we had to visit the police station as part of the ever-present paper chase involved in living in Spain. He remained calm throughout, was courteous - more so than many seeking his help - and most definitely truly deserved the White Cross of Spain for his voluntary work since retiring as a policeman in Britain and moving to Spain. Well done, Aubrey, and a belated personal big thank you. N Wells , Los Boliches
So misleading AFTER reading the weekly business articles by Jim Collins in recent months, it is clear to me that he hates Europe and is a right-wing ideologist! In his recent article ‘A United States of Europe just a political pipedream’ (Issue 1424) he compared the European government with Hitler, Napoleon and so on. He really does not know what he is writing about, with his articles dangerous and full of misleading information. How can Euro Weekly News publish such rubbish? Pete Collin, Nerja Editor’s note: Many readers have indicated over a long period that they find the weekly Jim Collins articles interesting
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and informative. Newspapers accept they cannot please all of their readers all of the time!
Notary fact IN the ‘Notarios are no lawyer substitutes’ article (Issue 1424) Mr Snelling stated there are no notaries in the UK. This is incorrect, with notaries appointed for centuries in the UK, and approximately 900 currently in England and Wales. A notary can be found in various local areas and traced on the website www.thenotariessociety.org.uk/ For Scotland: www.lawscot.org.uk/ Northern Ireland: www.lawsoc-ni.orf/ In Eire: www.notarypublic.ie/. Please clarify this to your readers. Diana Clark, Los Romanes
Evil is evil THERE is no such thing as lesser evils. Evil is evil. With regard to discussions about eating organic or bio foods, here in Europe totally organic food is very rare because with limited farming land much of the organic food is cultivated near non-organic food. In addition, we should not forget the irrigation and rain that seeps underground, in addition to the flying and crawling insects that abound. Because of all this scientists have proved that there is hardly any difference between bio and not bio. I have travelled through China, Asia, the Middle East, Australia, America, Europe and Brazil, studying these matters and listening to all the learned, and some not so learned, people. Many say to eat animals for pleasure is evil. Then of course there are many who continue to argue, but as I have learnt in life, the less one knows the more one argues. Mrs RV Nedelec, by email
Bank scam I RECENTLY read in the EWN about a scam letter, allegedly from the British tax authorities, and sent by email regarding a rebate. Readers should also be alerted that last week I received an email purporting to be from the CoOperative Bank Group in the UK, with regard to an alleged account in my name, and asking me to make contact. I have never had an account with them, so clearly this was also a scam, and I want to warn others to be on the look-out. NA Turre, Almeria
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something which is already taking place at an alarming rate of knots. Heaven forbid we do more to add fuel to that situation. And what about perfectly normal adults, who sincerely enjoy working with children? What a difficult scenario they face! It is a brave individual who enters into a profession that also holds a strong attraction to paedophiles. The danger here is that decent men and women will no longer take the chance of becoming Scout leaders or sports instructors for fear of being labelled a child molester. This will leave all these positions wide open to the only people who couldn’t care less - paedophiles. It is all a most difficult situation and one against which we must all remain constantly vigilant. Just this morning my little boy saw Paul Gadd being led away by police. “Daddy, what’s a peedofill?” he asked. Damn them all to hell that I should have to explain their actions to my innocent little boy! Thanks for all your correspondence. I can’t reply to them all but be assured I do read every one. Keep ‘em coming. Keep a spring in yer step. And, whatever ya do, always keep the faith. Love Leapy Leapylee2002@gmail.com
YOUR article about Savile was spot on. The stories emerging at the moment are truly farcical. His aide of 32 years lived the whole time terrified of him, and states he MAY have had a secret life! Along with friends in my teens I spent time at the Mecca in Leeds where there were lots of dolly birds hanging round him. He didn’t have to take advantage of any innocent lasses. Jim Loftus By email
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I READ Leapy’s article about Savile’s abuse of underage girls but he sent out a mixed message that girls slept with showbiz personalities as part of a promiscuous contest. Did this give showbiz stars the right to take advantage of vulnerable people? S L, Villajoyosa, Alicante
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LETTERS TO LEAPY
HE problem with this terrible paedophile brigade is that not only do they rob youngsters of their innocence, but also many adults as well. When I had my first two girls, some 50 years ago, I would think nothing of jumping into the bath with them and having fun splashing about. I wouldn’t dream of doing that in this day and age, as I would feel far too uncomfortable with its ‘inappropriateEAPY EE ness’. One more piece of innocent SAYS IT fun stripped away OTHERS THINK IT by these perverts. I love children. They are the nearest thing we can get to influencing and shaping the future. I’ve had six and have always been interested in watching the development of both them and other tots along the way. At one time, I could smile at FATHERLY LOVE: Now we have to think so differently. youngsters and enjoy having them innocently smile back, often with a from the adult who accompanies anywhere children gather. The couple of funny gaps in their teeth. them. How sad is that? Of course, danger here is that we are on a fast Not any more. When I pick up the as usual the whole overkill factor track to isolating our children from kids from school, I now find myself predictably shows its hand. adults altogether, which is not acknowledging only youngsters As a friend pointed out, it is now healthy at all. that I already know. Smiling at a considered an offence to take If children are taught to be strange child can often bring a photos of children at school sports suspicious of all adults, they will suspicious look of blank disapproval days, play parks, or in fact almost also cease to respect them,
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2:05am Jackpot247 Join the presenters live and play roulette on your telly. 4:00am Before Sunset 5:20am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service.
12:05am Friday Night Dinner Dad is very excited. He's just bought a new fax machine. 12:35am Barclaycard Mercury Prize Awards Show 1:55am Random Acts 2:00am Comedy World Cup 2:55am My Name is Earl 3:20am Bob’s Burgers 3:40am Allen Gregory 4:05am Charlie’s Angels 4:45am 90210 Dixon feels under pressure to create a hit song when Navid books him some studio time. 5:25am Deal or No Deal
BBC4 8:00pm World News Today The latest national and international news, exploring the day’s events from a global perspective. 8:30pm Lang Lang Live at the Roundhouse Chinese pianist Lang Lang’s live concert from London's Roundhouse, recorded at the iTunes festival in July 2011. He performs a Franz Liszt recital as the only classical music artist in a true rock-star surrounding, next to international pop stars like Coldplay, Adele or Linkin Park. 9:20pm Lang Lang: The Art of Being a Virtuoso The Chinese pianist Lang Lang is considered the world's top classical music star. This documentary links him and his piano hero, Franz Liszt. 10:15pm Weller at the BBC 11:15pm BBC Four Sessions 12:15am Bee Gees: In Our Own Time Documentary following the story of the Bee Gees, one of the most successful bands of all time. This is the story of three very close brothers, tied together by familial love and a natural aptitude and obsession for all things musical. 1:50am Weller at the BBC 2:50am BBC Four Sessions
11:00pm Alan Carr: Chatty Man
1:15am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel. 4:55am Motorsport Mundial The latest motor racing action from around the world. 5:20am House Doctor 5:45am Michaela’s Wild Challenge
Satellite channels SKY1 5:10am Crash Test Dummies 6:05am Don’t Forget the Lyrics 7:00am Crash Test Dummies 8:00am Modern Family 8:30am The Middle 9:00am Dog the Bounty Hunter 9:30am Dog the Bounty Hunter 10:00am Lie to Me 11:00am Terra Nova 12:00pm Terra Nova 1:00pm Stargate SG-1 2:00pm Stargate SG-1 3:00pm Dog the Bounty Hunter 3:30pm Dog the Bounty Hunter 4:00pm Stargate SG-1 5:00pm Stargate SG-1 6:00pm Futurama 6:30pm Raising Hope 7:00pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Middle 9:00pm Modern Family 9:30pm Spy 10:00pm Trollied 10:30pm Don’t Sit in the Front Row 11:00pm A League of Their Own
7:20pm Due Date 9:00pm School of Rock 11:00pm Hall Pass
1:00am Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps 3:20am Boys Don’t Cry 5:25am A Valentine's Date
12:50am Stan Helsing 2:30am Best Defense 4:10am Raising Arizona 5:50am Snow Dogs
SKY MOVIES DRAMA 5:55am Listen to Your Heart 7:40am The 5th Quarter 9:25am 33 Postcards 11:10am Stay Cool 12:50pm Jane Eyre 2:55pm Mr Popper’s Penguins 35mm Special 3:20pm Irreconcilable Differences 5:15pm The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud 7:00pm Shallow Hal 9:00pm Jane Eyre 11:00pm The Fighter
5:30am Death Becomes Her 7:15am Taxi 8:55am Snow Dogs 10:35am Raising Arizona 12:10pm Due Date 1:50pm School of Rock 3:45pm Hall Pass 5:35pm Taxi
4:30am The Thing 6:30am Skyfall on Set 7:00am Crimson Tide 9:05am Van Helsing 11:25am Battle: Los Angeles 1:30pm Independence Day 4:00pm Crimson Tide 6:00pm Shanghai Knights 8:00pm Battle: Los Angeles 10:00pm Independence Day 12:30am Shanghai Knights 2:30am Ironclad
TCM 8:00am Gunsmoke 9:00am The High Chaparral 10:05am Casablanca 12:05pm Gun Glory 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm The High Chaparral 4:00pm A Shot in the Dark 6:00pm A Place in the Sun 8:20pm Rocky Mountain 10:00pm Collateral Damage
12:00am An Idiot Abroad 1:00am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 2:00am Road Wars 2:50am Road Wars 3:45am Road Wars 4:45am Road Wars 5:10am Crash Test Dummies
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12:05am The Challenge 2:05am Collateral Damage 4:00am Rumour Has It...
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Humphrey Bogart.
Ingrid Bergman.
10:05am Casablanca A terrific love story, countless quotable lines - and a cinematic landmark to boot.
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4.00pm - midnight 5:30pm Final Score 6:20pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather. 6:30pm Regional News All the latest local news. 6:35pm Weather The latest weather information. 6:40pm Pointless 7:30pm Strictly Come Dancing 9:15pm Merlin 10:00pm Casualty 10:50pm National Lottery Saturday Draws The Thunderball, Dream Number and Lotto draws, live from Lottery HQ. 11:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather. 11:15pm Weather The latest weather information. 11:20pm Match of the Day Highlights and reaction to all of the latest football action.
8:00pm Pop’s Greatest Dance Crazes 9:00pm Top Gear Motoring magazine programme that tests and reviews the latest models of cars on the market, as well as covering older ‘classic’ models and news in the motoring world. 10:00pm Live at the Apollo Prepare to laugh out loud with sensational stand-up comedy recorded at London's famous Hammersmith Apollo. 10:30pm Russell Howard’s Good News 11:00pm Mobos Live 2012 1:00am Family Guy Animated comedy series about family life. Lois runs into an old male friend from school and they renew their friendship, but Peter’s jealousy forces a trial separation. 1:22am Family Guy 1:45am American Dad! Animated adventures of a hapless CIA agent and his family. If there’s one thing that Stan Smith loves, it's a good jury trial, so he anxiously awaits his annual jury summons. But when Roger is the defendant in the trial where Stan is the foreman, he is finally in a position to make Roger accountable for his misdeeds. 2:30am Unzipped 3:15am Cuckoo 3:45am Stacey Dooley in the USA 4:45am People Just Do Nothing
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7:00am Zigby 7:10am Finley the Fire Engine 7:20am Little Robots 7:30am 64 Zoo Lane 7:45am Rastamouse 8:00am Roar 8:30am Bear Behaving Badly 8:55am The Scooby-Doo Show 9:20am Dennis and Gnasher 9:30am Trapped: Ever After 10:00am Jedward’s Big Adventure 10:30am Sorry, I’ve Got No Head Children’s comedy sketch show. 11:00am Ministry of Curious Stuff 11:25am Deadly 60 Bites 11:35am Splatalot 12:00pm Prank Patrol 12:30pm Diddy Movies 12:45pm MOTD Kickabout 1:00pm Nigelissima 1:30pm Animal Park 2:15pm Bitter Victory 3:55pm The High and the Mighty
5:20am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service. 6:30am ITV Morning News The latest national and international news. 7:00am CITV 10:25am ITV News 10:30am The Jeremy Kyle Show US 11:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show US 12:20pm Dinner Date Australia 1:20pm ITV News and Weather 1:30pm All Star Family Fortunes 2:15pm Holiday Home Sweet Home 3:15pm Holiday Home Sweet Home
6:15pm Escape to the Country Series which helps prospective buyers find their dream home in the country. 7:15pm Flog It! Antiques show which helps amateur auctioneers, collectors and bargain-hunters make a saving. 8:15pm Dam Busters Declassified 9:15pm Dad’s Army 9:45pm The Late Great Eric Sykes 10:45pm QI XL Panel-based quiz where it is more important to be interesting than right. 11:30pm Skyes: The Stay-at-Home Holiday 11:55pm Arena A daily magazine programme which looks at the world of arts and entertainment.
4:15pm Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back 6:35pm Local News and Weather All the very latest local news and weather. 6:50pm ITV News and Weather A round-up of the latest news headlines and a national weather forecast. 7:05pm The Golden Rules of... 12:35pm - The Big Bang Theory 7:35pm You've Been Framed! Starring Kalley Cuoco, Jim Pearsons, Johnny Galecki. Comedy show which features a selection of camcorder catastrophes 4:55pm Come Dine with Me and video disasters. 5:25pm Come Dine with Me 8:05pm Take Me Out 5:55pm Come Dine with Me 9:20pm The X Factor 6:25pm Come Dine with Me 11:05pm The Jonathan Ross Show 7:00pm Come Dine with Me 7:25pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather. 7:55pm 4thought.tv 8:00pm George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 9:00pm Grand Designs Another chance to see the momentous 100th episode of Grand Designs. 10:00pm Green Zone Tasked with tracking down Iraqi WMDs in post-war Baghdad.
12:45am The Football League Show Highlights from the day’s Football League games. 1:25am Bigga Than Ben 2:45am Weatherview Detailed weather forecast. 2:50am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.
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1:05am Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel 2:25am Octane
BBC4 8:00pm Human Planet 9:00pm Horizon For centuries we have dreamt of reaching the centre of the Earth. Now scientists are uncovering a bizarre and alien world that lies 4,000 miles beneath our feet, unlike anything we know on the surface. It is a planet buried within the planet we know, where storms rage within a sea of white-hot metal and a giant forest of crystals make up a metal core the size of the Moon. 10:00pm Inspector Montalbano 11:50pm Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss 1:20am How the Devil Got His Horns: A Diabolical Tale 2:20am Top of the Pops: 1977 2:50am Horizon 3:50am Human Planet Nature series that marvels at mankind’s incredible relationship with nature in the world today.
5:25am Deal or No Deal 6:20am Countdown 7:05am BT and Channel 4 Present... 7:10am The Hoobs 7:35am Volkswagen Racing Cup 8:05am Beach Volleyball 9:00am The Morning Line Turf tips and news from the Channel 4 Racing team. 10:00am 4music Video Honours 10:30am Ne-yo Ne-Yo performs tracks from his latest album and sits down for a chat with Miquita Oliver. 11:00am Made in Chelsea 12:05pm Suburgatory 12:35pm The Big Bang Theory 1:05pm The Big Bang Theory 1:35pm The Simpsons 2:10pm The Simpsons 2:40pm BT and Channel 4 Present... 2:45pm Channel 4 Racing
12:05am ITV News and Weather A round-up of the latest news headlines and a national weather forecast. 12:20am The FA Cup Highlights 1:35am The Store 3:35am Ladette to Lady Series following 10 notorious ladettes at an oldfashioned ladies’ finishing school. 4:20am ITV Nightscreen
Channel 5 5:45am Michaela’s Wild Challenge 6:10am Wildlife SOS 7:00am Milkshake! 11:00am Power Rangers Super Samurai 11:35am Batman - The Brave and the Bold 12:10pm Highland Emergency 12:40pm Last of the Dogmen 2:55pm The Staircase Murders
4:35pm Dangerous Attraction 6:15pm The Sea Wolves 8:30pm 5 News The latest news coverage. 8:35pm Zulu Dawn 11:00pm CSI: Miami US drama series focusing on the work of the Miami forensics department.
12:15am What Happens in Vegas 2:05am Black Rain 4:10am Hollyoaks Omnibus
12:00am CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 12:55am Inside Hollywood 1:00am Super Casino
Satellite channels SKY1 7:00am Safebreakers 8:00am The 10th Kingdom 9:00am Last Man Standing 9:30am Last Man Standing 10:00am World Wrestling Entertainment Superstars 11:00am Soccer A.M. 1:00pm Terra Nova 2:00pm WWE SmackDown! 4:00pm Modern Family 7:00pm Glee 8:00pm Hawaii Five-0 9:00pm Hawaii Five-0 10:00pm Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story 11:50pm Road Wars 12:50am A League of Their Own 1:20am Brit Cops:
Frontline Crime 2:20am Road Wars 3:20am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 4:15am Road Wars 5:10am Lion Man 5:40am Lion Man
SKY MOVIES COMEDY 5:50am Snow Dogs 7:35am Take Me Home Tonight 9:15am Orange County 10:45am Ice Age 12:15pm Tower Heist 2:05pm Little Fockers 3:45pm How Do You Know 5:50pm Just Wright 7:35pm Ice Age 9:00pm Tower Heist 10:45pm Little Fockers 12:30am Take Me Home Tonight 2:15am Orange County 3:40am How Do You Know 5:45am Just Wright
SKY MOVIES DRAMA 5:25am A Valentine’s Date 7:00am Mask 9:05am Prom 10:55am You May Not Kiss the Bride 12:30pm Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2: Special 1:00pm War Horse 3:30pm Just Go with it 5:30pm Honey 2 7:25pm I Don’t Know How She Does it 9:00pm War Horse 11:30pm The Terminal
7:35pm - Ice Age
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5:00am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast 11:00am Saturday Kitchen 12:30pm Football Focus 1:00pm BBC News 1:05pm Regional News All the latest local news. 1:08pm WeatherThe latest weather information. 1:10pm F1 the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Qualifying 3:15pm Rugby League Autumn International England v France.
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5:30am Cupid, Inc
SKY MOVIES ACTION 4:35am Priest 6:10am Thunderbirds 7:50am Spy Kids 9:20am Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams 11:05am Real Steel 1:15pm Captain America: The First Avenger 3:25pm First Blood 5:10pm Rambo: First Blood Part II 6:50pm Real Steel 9:00pm Captain America: The First Avenger 11:10pm First Blood 12:55am Rambo: First Blood Part II 2:35am Species 4:30am Tremors
TCM 6:00am A Place in the Sun 8:15am Gunsmoke 9:20am The High Chaparral 10:25am A Shot in the Dark 12:25pm Dragonwyck 2:25pm Rocky Mountain 4:00pm Young Dillinger 5:55pm Spencer’s Mountain 8:10pm Crossfire Trail 10:00pm Demolition Man 12:10am Dark City 2:05am Demolition Man 4:10am Dark City
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7:00am Zigby 7:10am Finley the Fire Engine 7:20am Little Robots 7:30am 64 Zoo Lane Cartoon series about a girl who is told stories every night by animals from the zoo next door. 7:45am Rastamouse 8:00am Roar 8:30am Deadly Art 8:45am Copycats Two families battle it out in a range of hilarious games. 9:15am Paradise Cafe 9:40am Wingin’ It 10:00am 12 Again 10:30am Gastronuts 11:00am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 12:30pm The Great British Bakeoff Masterclass 1:35pm Escape to the Country Series which helps prospective buyers find their dream home in the country. 2:35pm Flower Drum Song
4:20am ITV Nightscreen 6:30am ITV Morning News 7:00am CITV 10:25am All Star Family Fortunes Vernon Kay hosts the high-octane game show, which sees two star guests and their families competing in a bid to win up to 30 thousand pounds for a charity of their choice. 11:10am The X Factor 12:50pm ITV News and Weather A round-up of the latest news headlines and a national weather forecast. 1:00pm F.A. Cup Live Round 1 Braintree Town v Tranmere Rovers (+ 2nd Round Draw).
4:10am Hollyoaks Omnibus 6:20am Countdown 7:05am BT and Channel 4 Present... 7:10am The Hoobs 7:35am The Hoobs 8:00am Extreme Sailing 8:30am Ironman 2012 9:00am BT and Channel 4 Present... 9:05am Will and Grace 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Sunday Brunch 1:00pm The Big Bang Theory 1:30pm The Big Bang Theory 1:55pm The Simpsons 2:25pm Never Been Kissed
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4:40pm Flog It! Antiques show which helps amateur auctioneers, collectors and bargain-hunters make a saving. 5:25pm The Tuxedo 7:00pm Fawlty Towers 7:30pm Indian Ocean with Simon Reeve This stage of Simon Reeve’s journey around the spectacular Indian Ocean takes him from Oman to the Maldives. 8:30pm Obama: What Happened to Hope? 9:30pm Space Dive 11:00pm Harry and Paul 11:30pm Hebburn
4:00pm You’ve Been Framed! Comedy show which features a selection of camcorder catastrophes and video disasters. 4:30pm Dickinson’s Real Deal Why let your antiques collect dust in the attic when you can sell them? 5:30pm The Home of Fabulous Cakes 6:30pm Downton Abbey 7:30pm Local News and Weather All the very latest local news and weather. 7:45pm ITV News and Weather A round-up of the latest news headlines and a national weather forecast. 8:00pm Surprise, Surprise 9:00pm The X Factor Results Show 10:00pm Downton Abbey 11:30pm ITV News at Ten and Weather Round-up of the day’s news. 11:45pm The FA Cup Highlights
4:30pm Deal or No Deal 5:30pm Come Dine with Me 6:35pm X-Men Adaptation of the long-running Marvel comic book series. 8:25pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather. 8:55pm 4thought.tv 4thought.tv asks: ‘Can the dead talk to us?’. 9:00pm How Britain Worked 10:00pm Homeland Kurt Russell. Brody finds himself a prisoner again, but this time on American soil. 11:10pm Friday Night Dinner 11:40pm Derren Brown
11:25pm Match of the Day 2 Highlights and reaction to all of the latest football action. 12:25am The Graham Norton Show 1:10am The Sky at Night The world of astronomy with Patrick Moore. 1:30am Weatherview Detailed weather forecast. 1:35am The Choir The SemiFinal. 2:35am Holby City 3:35am The Paradise 4:35am Real Servants 5:35am BBC News
BBC3 8:00pm F1 the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Highlights 9:00pm Gavin and Stacey Comedy series about the long-distance relationship of Essex boy Gavin and Welsh lass Stacey. 9:30pm Gavin and Stacey Comedy series about the long-distance relationship of Essex boy Gavin and Welsh lass Stacey. 10:00pm Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 11:00pm American Dad! 11:22pm American Dad! 11:45pm Family Guy Animated comedy series about US family life. 12:07am Family Guy 12:30am Cuckoo Comedy series in which a daughter returns from her gap year with an American husband in tow. 1:00am Unsafe Sex in the City 2:00am Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents Series in which teenagers take their first summer holiday abroad without their parents. 2:55am Russell Howard’s Good News 3:25am Gavin and Stacey Comedy series about the long-distance relationship of Essex boy Gavin and Welsh lass Stacey. 3:55am Gavin and Stacey 4:25am Cuckoo
12:00am Never Mind the Buzzcocks Irreverent pop quiz, with guest competitors from the worlds of music, TV and comedy. 12:30am American Beauty 2:25am The Big Kahuna 3:50am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.
BBC4 8:00pm The Golden Age of Canals 9:00pm Michael Wood: The Story of India Historian Michael Wood examines India's beginnings, from the first migrations out of Africa to new findings that are casting new light on the past. 10:00pm JFK’s Road to the White House: Primary 1960 10:55pm The Devil’s Backbone 12:35am Michael Wood: The Story of India Historian Michael Wood examines India's beginnings, from the first migrations out of Africa to new findings that are casting new light on the past. 1:35am Weller at the BBC 2:35am BBC Four Sessions In a session filmed at BBC Television Centre, Paul Weller performs numbers from his album 22 Dreams, solo hits such as From the Floorboards Up and Peacock Suit and a couple of classics from The Jam’s back catalogue. Weller performs with his regular five-piece band and is joined on some numbers by the Wired Strings and a brass section. Special guests include Oasis guitarist Gem Archer, fiddle player Eliza Carthy, and former Blur guitarist Graham Coxon. 3:35am JFK’s Road to the White House: Primary 1960
8:05am Bananas in Pyjamas 8:20am Play! 8:25am Noddy in Toyland 8:40am City of Friends 8:50am Milkshake Monkey 8:55am Little Princess 9:10am The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky 9:20am Mio Mao Plasticine animation following the antics of two lively kittens. 9:25am Angelina Ballerina 9:45am Rupert Bear 10:00am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 10:15am Toby’s Travelling Circus 10:30am Roary the Racing Car 10:45am Jelly Jamm 11:00am Power Rangers: Super Samurai 11:35am ThunderCats 12:10pm Looney Tunes 12:15pm Looney Tunes 12:25pm Eddie Stobart: Trucks and Trailers 1:25pm Stargate 3:40pm Close Encounters of the Third Kind
6:20pm Looney Tunes Classic Warner Brothers animation featuring Sylvester and Tweety Pie in Dog Gone Cats. 6:25pm Cats and Dogs 8:15pm 5 News Weekend National and international news. 8:20pm Hancock Action comedy about a disillusioned superhero. 10:00pm Bangkok Dangerous Thriller about a cold international contract killer who travels to Bangkok for his last assignments.
7:30pm Indian Ocean with Simon Reeve.
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12:30am Aviva Premiership Rugby Highlights 1:25am The Store 3:30am Golden Balls 4:20am Motorsport UK All the very latest motor sport action from around Britain. 5:05am ITV Nightscreen
12:40am Scary Movie 2 2:10am American Football Live 5:45am Brief Encounters of the Sporting Mind In April 2001 Richard Donovan was an unfit man in his 30s. 5:50am Grudge Match
1:25pm Stargate
12:00am Hatfields and McCoys 1:00am Bomber Boys Documentary series exploring historical events. 2:00am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel. 5:00am The F.B.I. Files 5:45am Rough Guide to Bang for Your Buck Highlights of the travel series presented by Julia Bradbury and Toby Amies.
Satellite Satellitechannels channels SKY1 5:40am Lion Man 6:10am Crash Test Dummies 7:00am The Hour of Power 8:00am The 10th Kingdom 9:00am Last Man Standing 9:30am Last Man Standing 10:00am Best of Oops TV 11:00am World Wrestling Entertainment Superstars 12:00pm WWE Experience 1:00pm Glee 2:00pm Glee 3:00pm Glee 4:00pm The Middle 4:30pm The Middle 5:00pm The Middle 5:30pm The Middle 6:00pm The Middle 6:30pm The Simpsons 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Raising Hope 8:00pm The Glee Project 9:00pm Arrow 10:00pm Strike Back 11:00pm Game of Thrones 12:15am NCIS: Los Angeles 1:15am NCIS: Los Angeles 2:15am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 3:10am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 4:05am Road Wars 5:00am Glee
SKY MOVIES COMEDY 5:45am Just Wright 7:30am Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason 9:20am Swingers 11:00am Analyze That 12:40pm Little Nicky 2:15pm 30 Minutes or Less 3:45pm No Strings Attached
5:35pm Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason 7:25pm Little Nicky 9:00pm 30 Minutes or Less 10:30pm No Strings Attached 12:25am Analyze That 2:05am Swingers 3:45am The Truth About Cats and Dogs 5:30am Dragnet
SKY MOVIES DRAMA 5:30am Cupid, Inc 7:00am Africa United 8:35am 4 Wedding Planners 10:05am An Affair to Remember 12:05pm One Day 1:55pm Burlesque 4:00pm Losing Control 5:40pm All I Want for Christmas 7:15pm The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud 9:00pm One Day 11:00pm Easy A
12:15am Rambo III 2:00am The Chronicles of Riddick 4:05am Gone in 60 Seconds
TCM 6:00am Dragonwyck 7:55am Spencer’s Mountain 10:15am Tall Man Riding 11:50am The Hill 2:10pm Crossfire Trail 4:00pm Young Billy Young 5:45pm A Thunder of Drums 7:40pm In Like Flint 10:00pm Moulin Rouge! 12:25am Badlands 2:15am Moulin Rouge! 4:25am Badlands Nicole Kidman.
12:40am The Kids are All Right 2:35am The Butcher's Wife 4:25am Skyfall on Set 4:55am An Affair to Remember
SKY MOVIES ACTION 4:30am Tremors 6:10am Spy Kids 7:45am Shanghai Noon 9:40am Shanghai Knights 11:40am The Tourist 1:30pm X-Men: First Class 3:45pm XMen: First Class Special 4:15pm Shanghai Noon 6:10pm Shanghai Knights 8:10pm The Tourist 10:00pm X-Men: First Class
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4:30pm Nature’s Miracle Babies 5:30pm Points of View BBC viewers share their thoughts, feelings and opinions on the channel's output. 5:45pm Songs of Praise 6:20pm Nigel Slater’s Dish of the Day 6:50pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather. 7:10pm Regional News All the latest local news. 7:15pm Weather 7:20pm Countryfile News and stories concerning the heart of the British countryside. 8:20pm Strictly Come Dancing Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman host the first results show of the series. 9:00pm Antiques Roadshow Antique experts travel the country to appraise people's wares. 10:00pm Andrew Marr’s History of the World 11:00pm BBC News 11:15pm Regional News 11:20pm Weather
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2:50am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather. 7:00am Breakfast The latest news stories and events. 8:35am Match of the Day Highlights and reaction to all of the latest football action. 10:00am The Andrew Marr Show Andrew Marr talks to key figures from politics, current affairs and the arts. 11:00am Sunday Morning Live 12:00pm Sunday Politics Andrew Neil presents the latest political news, interviews and debate. 1:10pm F1 the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
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10:00pm Moulin Rouge! Ewan McGregor.
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Altea MISS Altea on your travels and you’re missing out on a town with a rich history and a warm welcome. Situated between Calpe and Benidorm, visitors can drive through, get stuck in the congestion on the N332 or just take the motorway past not realising how much there is to offer in this very traditional town. ‘Al’ before a Spanish town usually indicates a Moorish heritage, the ‘Al’ being commonplace in the more southerly regions. Altea, however, has earlier roots and predates Roman times with a Greek settlement then known as Althaia. Over 2,000 ago, a town existed at the mouth of the River Algar where modern-day Altea now sits. Altea was part of the Moorish Taifa of Denia until James I of Aragon recaptured the area in 1244. Immediately the hill adjacent to the river mouth was fortified to enclose what we now know as the old town in Spanish the ‘Casco antiguo’ (‘old helmet’) from outsiders.
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Above: TRANQUIL: The calm waters of Altea bay. Right: NIGHTFALL: A restaurant gears up for a busy evening in the atmospheric narrow streets.
The blue dome of Altea’s Our Lady of Solace church has dominated the skyline for centuries and now overlooks a square surrounded by cafés and restaurants, a wonderful setting for a special celebration meal or just a lovely evening out. In the summer, this square is full of small artisan stalls. There is a mirador (lookout point) facing south to the
contrasting skyscrapers of Benidorm and no two places could be more different. Altea retains its old world charm with the cobbled old town lanes packed with fascinating shops and restaurants and small art galleries. This is all in a setting of whitewashed, historic buildings with a rabbit warren of steps taking you down to other parts of
the town, so different from anything else in the area. Down from the old town, another Altea stretches along the seafront with its marina and lines of cafés, bars, restaurants and shops, and all overlooking the wonderful view of the Mediterranean Sea. Between the old town and the seafront, an often forgotten Altea buzzes
with activity as more shops and cafés frequented by the locals are squeezed together on the main bustling high street, including a permanent indoor market with an outdoor vegetable market and the general market taking place on Tuesdays. The lovely thing about Altea is that it is small enough to cover easily on foot.
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Altea is also a working town with plenty of business having been long established and there is the University of Fine Arts which explains the strong sense of creativity in this town. With Christmas looming, treat yourself to a day of shopping and exploration. Pop in to some of the shops advertised in this feature; the area is full of good quality boutiques selling everything from watches,
jewellery made from semi-precious stones, men’s underwear and so much more. Or why not stay overnight in the bijou hotel ‘Abaco’ with only six themed rooms right in the heart of the town. Whatever you do, Altea will not disappoint.
Top: HISTORIC: The blue dome of Our Lady of Solace church has dominated the Altea skyline for centuries. Above: DIFFERENT SCENE: Down from the old town another Altea stretches along the seafront with it marina and lines of cafés, bars, restaurants and shops.
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5:35am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather. 7:00am Breakfast The latest news stories and events. 10:15am Remembrance Week 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer Property experts visit three properties before they go up for auction. 11:58am BBC News and Weather The most up to date news and weather forecasts. 12:00pm Robbed, Raided and Reunited 12:30pm Cash in the Attic Series which looks at the real value of household junk. 1:13pm BBC News and Weather The most up to date news and weather forecasts. 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:30pm Regional News 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm Nicholas Nickleby
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T’S been reported that 30,000 napkins are stolen from Jamie Oliver’s restaurants every month and that he’s had to weld the handles to his lavatories. Recent statistics from the Retail Fraud Study reveal that store theft, too, increased by 10 per cent in 2011, costing businesses £3.4 billion. The most often shoplifted items? Meat, condoms and razor blades. From the workplace? Not pens, but toilet rolls. And the most nicked item in the world? Cheese. Some friends of mine used to run a small hotel in the UK and were amazed at how dishonest some customers are. Jamie’s celebrity status makes his situation worse because of souvenir-taking and his restaurant prices leaving some maybe feeling ‘entitled’ to flogging some of his stuff on ebay. But my friends had really plain cutlery and china nicked. Other items ‘removed’ by guests included the following. Over 15 pepper mills. Liquid soap dispensers. Tips left on the table for staff, nicked by a member of the party who wasn’t paying; or the person who had left the tip (after the rest of the group had gone) or a different table. Toilet rolls and
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CELEBRITY SUFFERER: Jamie Oliver. the odd brush. Not to mention bathrobes from bedrooms. Now, it never ceases to astonish me how stealing is considered a joke. What kind of morality is that? And when does it pass from ‘petty pilfering’ (which is still theft) to all-out stealing? Who decides? Why this need to take something which doesn’t
belong to you? And if people are nicking old toilet brushes, it begs a couple of questions. Firstly, in what kind of, er, nick are their own toilets? Secondly, just what were they using until then? Ditto regarding the nicked toilet rolls. The problem is that some people are lacking in moral standards. But this is the society
we live in, where fiddling expenses (not only by MPs), pocketing stuff which doesn’t belong to you, and people trying to ‘rip each other off’ is considered par for the course. Hoteliers, like my friends, should take a leaf out of a recently opened Chinese hotel – all the objets d’art, lamps and such like are super-glued to the
surfaces they sit on. Enough to thwart the casual or impulse thief? Maybe. Though not a Jamie Oliver customer, it seems. Nora Johnson’s thrillers ‘Soul Stealer’ & ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.nora-johnson.com) available from Amazon in paperback/eBook (€0.89; £0.77) and iBookstore. Profits to Cudeca.
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6:00am True Stories 7:00am Zigby 7:10am Finley the Fire Engine 7:20am Little Robots 7:30am 64 Zoo Lane 7:45am Chuggington 7:50am Rastamouse 8:00am School of Silence 8:30am Pet Squad 8:40am Eliot Kid 8:55am Newsround 9:00am What’s New Scooby-Doo? 9:25am Mister Maker Comes to Town 9:45am I Can Cook with You 10:00am ZingZillas 10:15am Baby Jake 10:25am Dipdap 10:30am Wibbly Pig 10:40am The Koala Brothers 10:50am Get Squiggling 11:05am Big Barn Farm 11:20am Charlie and Lola 11:30am 3rd and Bird 11:40am Waybuloo 12:00pm In the Night Garden 12:30pm BBC World News 1:00pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm The Weakest Link 2:45pm Tennis
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5:50am Deal or No Deal 6:45am Make Do and Mend Simon plays culinary cupid to two lovestruck teenagers in Barry Island. 7:10am The Hoobs Iver comes across the Man in the Moon rhyme. ‘How did he get there?’ he wonders. 7:35am The Hoobs 8:00am Freshly Squeezed 8:30am According to Jim 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00am Frasier Frasier becomes pals with Roz's new boyfriend, who then cheats them both. 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Undercover Boss Australia 12:00pm A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 1:35pm Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Come Dine with Me 2:35pm Come Dine with Me 3:05pm Phil Spencer: Secret Agent
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4:10pm Countdown 5:00pm Deal or No Deal 6:00pm Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals 6:30pm Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks There's trouble in town as a mischievous newcomer arrives in Hollyoaks. 8:00pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather. 8:55pm 4thought.tv 9:00pm George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 10:00pm Heston's Fantastical Food 11:00pm Fresh Meat Things go from bad to worse when Josie makes a catastrophic error of judgement. 11:50pm Random Acts 11:55pm Homeland
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HAVE just finished reading Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James, which as it happens was a 50th birthday present. I knew that sex featured largely in the novel and that the writing, allegedly, verged on the pornographic so like most intelligent beings I skimmed until I found the ‘dirty’ bits, which turned out to be, to my mind, not so dirty after all. In fact the Marquis De Sade wrote much racier novels way back during the French Revolution (my favourite story of that time is the one about De Sade leaning out of a window in the Bastille shouting to the revolutionaries below that they were killing the prisoners, thus causing the subsequent storming, during which the manuscript of 120 Days of Sodom was mislaid for a while). De Sade and his cronies subscribed to the Libertines’ school of thought which basically stated that if you were
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Fifty shades of fed-up Suzanne Manners Suzanne has a degree in Fine Art from Goldsmiths and an MA in Writing from Lancaster University. She is currently teaching in Alicante and writing a book for teenagers (which doesn’t have a vampire as its central character). To comment on any of the issues raised in Suzanne Manners’s column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/columnists/suzanne-manners.
WARMING: Who could resist this on a grey day?
of noble birth and had shedloads of money then you could do whatever you wanted, with whomever you wanted (as long as they were over the age of 10), until Napoleon, fed up with his wicked ways, had him thrown into an insane asylum (Napoleon had a bit of a Cromwell complex). Even before the
revolution writers such as Voltaire were producing very saucy pieces such as Candide, Libertines all over France and even Britain were having a whale of a time pushing back the envelope of sexual depravity. So I’m sorry Ms James but in this instance I have to say that I am fifty shades of
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unimpressed, fifty shades of so what and fifty shades of what a lot of b*****ks and as for the setting back of female emancipation by a couple of centuries I am well and truly fifty shades of p****d off. Rain, grey skies, grey sea and clouds; ‘tis the perfect weather to lock oneself indoors and watch TV or read stupid
books about young people with perfect bodies doing unspeakable things to each other. The weather of stews, pies and mashed potato (none of which, I add, touch the lips of either main characters in Fifty Shades of Grey). It is also the weather of depression, sloth and weight gain (thanks to
the stews, pies and mashed potato) so in an effort to maintain my equilibrium I have been painting. I have started a series of works based on observations of the sea and sky painted in fifty shades of grey. Grey is an amazing colour (or shade if you are going to be pedantic), from slate to dark to dim. Grey can contain elements of violet, blue or green which makes it a ‘cool’ grey or red orange or yellow which is a ‘warm’ grey. Look at the sea during a rainstorm and witness the huge variety of grey. It is absolutely stunning. Looking at grey skies in this positive way enables me to stave off the incipient fed ‘upness’ that infects my being at this time of year. Strange to think that in a country like Spain, which is famed for its light and colours, it the nature of its grey which compels me to paint, but then I have always been a miserable git. Beef stew and dumplings anyone?
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12:35am US Election Night 2012 7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Remembrance Week 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer Property experts visit three properties before they go up for auction. 11:58am BBC News and Weather The most up to date news and weather forecasts. 12:00pm Robbed, Raided and Reunited 12:30pm Cash in the Attic Series which looks at the real value of household junk. 1:13pm BBC News and Weather The most up to date news and weather forecasts. 1:15pm Bargain Hunt Game show in which two teams compete for the best bargains before they go up for auction. 2:00pm BBC News 2:30pm Regional News All the latest local news. 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm Nicholas Nickleby
6:00am History Hunt 7:00am Zigby 7:10am Finley the Fire Engine 7:20am Little Robots 7:30am 64 Zoo Lane 7:45am Chuggington 7:50am Rastamouse 8:00am School of Silence 8:30am Pet Squad 8:40am Eliot Kid 8:55am Newsround 9:00am What's New Scooby-Doo? 9:25am Mister Maker Comes to Town 9:45am I Can Cook with You 10:00am ZingZillas 10:15am Baby Jake 10:25am Dipdap 10:30am Wibbly Pig 10:40am The Koala Brothers 10:50am Get Squiggling 11:05am Big Barn Farm 11:20am Charlie and Lola 11:30am 3rd and Bird 11:40am Waybuloo 12:00pm In the Night Garden 12:30pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm See Hear 2:30pm Coast 2:45pm Tennis
12:35am America Decides 2012 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
5:30am Beach Volleyball 6:25am Deal or No Deal 7:20am BT and Channel 4 Present... 7:25am The Treacle People 7:35am The Hoobs 8:00am Freshly Squeezed 8:30am According to Jim 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Undercover Boss Australia 12:00pm A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 1:35pm Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Come Dine with Me 2:35pm Come Dine with Me 3:05pm Phil Spencer: Secret Agent
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6:15pm Antiques Road Trip Antiques experts travel across the UK searching for treasures that will make the most profit at auction. On day three of their classic car jaunt, antiques gurus Catherine Southon and Charle Ross wend their way along the South coast buying antiques only to get a shock at the auction in Lewes. 7:00pm Eggheads Dermot Murnaghan hosts the show where every day a new team of challengers take on probably the greatest quiz team in Britain. The team is made up of some of the country’s top quiz champions, including Barry Simmons, Millionaire winner Judith Keppel, Mastermind winner Chris Hughes, three-time World Quiz champion Kevin Ashman, Weakest Link winner CJ de Mooi and 15-1 winner Daphne Fowler. 7:30pm Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two 8:00pm The Dark: Nature’s Nighttime World 9:00pm MasterChef: The Professionals 10:00pm How Safe are Britain’s Roads? 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 The Dales Observational documentary series looking at life in the Yorkshire Dales during the summer months. 5:30pm Cornwall 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Local News and Weather All the very latest local news and weather. 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 More drama and turmoil from the residents of Coronation Street in the longest running TV Soap. 9:00pm All Star Mr and Mrs A classic gameshow that is a test of love and marriage. 10:00pm DCI Banks 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather Round-up of the day's news. 11:35pm Exposure
4:10pm Countdown 5:00pm Deal or No Deal 6:00pm Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals 6:30pm Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks Mitzeee finds out there’s still a hidden secret that could change her life for ever. Myra struggles financially, finding charity from the most unlikely source. Callum is surprised at Martha’s honesty. 8:00pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather. 8:55pm 4thought.tv 4thought.tv asks: ‘Who are the real heroes in war?’ 9:00pm The Great British Property Scandal: Every Empty Counts Almost a year after launching his campaign to get some of Britain’s 350,000 long term empty homes back into use for families in need, architect and Channel 4 presenter George Clarke reports on the remarkable progress that’s been made. George’s campaign was so successful that the government appointed him Independent Empty Homes Advisor. 10:00pm Grand Designs 11:00pm Secret State
12:40am Weather The latest weather information. 12:45am The Road to El Alamein Churchill's Desert Campaign. 2:15am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather. 5:00am The Charles Dickens Show 5:20am The Charles Dickens Show 5:40am The Charles Dickens Show
12:35am Take Me Out 1:40am Jackpot247 4:00am Columbo Another case for the crumpled detective brilliantly played by Peter Falk. 5:20am ITV Nightscreen
12:00am Random Acts Channel 4’s nightly short-form arts strand presents insatiable funloving dancing. 12:05am Geordies Overboard The independent Blyth All-Weather Lifeboat is the only private offshore lifeboat left in the UK. 1:10am Barclaycard Mercury Prize Awards Show 2:20am Spotlight 2:35am Conspirators of Pleasure 4:00am The Thief 5:30am Deal or No Deal
4:00pm Regional News All the latest local news. 4:05pm Trade Your Way to the USA 4:35pm Lockie Leonard Live action comedy series following the adventures of 13-year-old Australian surf rat Lockie. 5:00pm Prank Patrol Down Under 5:25pm Léon Animated comedy shorts. 5:30pm Junior MasterChef 5:45pm Shaun the Shechampionsheeps 6:00pm Newsround Topical news magazine for children. 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News All the latest local news. 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm Police Elections - Time to Choose 9:00pm Pound Shop Wars 10:00pm Brazil with Michael Palin 11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News 11:30pm Weather 11:35pm National Lottery Midweek Draws 11:45pm Michael McIntyre Comedy Roadshow 12:15am The Ring 2:00am Weatherview Detailed weather forecast. 2:05am See Hear Magazine programme for the deaf community. 2:35am Exploring China: A Culinary Adventure 3:35am Andrew Marr’s History of the World 4:35am Cash Britain 5:05am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.
BBC3 8:00pm Young Apprentice 9:00pm Gavin and Stacey Comedy series about the long-distance relationship of Essex boy Gavin and Welsh lass Stacey. 9:30pm Gavin and Stacey Comedy series about the long-distance relationship of Essex boy Gavin and Welsh lass Stacey. 10:00pm Unsafe Sex in the City 11:00pm Unzipped 11:45pm Family Guy Brian, afraid that he may have lost his last chance at love, searches for a former flame, Tracy. 12:07am Family Guy Animated comedy series about US family life. 12:30am American Dad! 12:52am American Dad! 1:15am Unsafe Sex in the City 2:15am Unzipped 3:00am Gavin and Stacey Comedy series about the long-distance relationship of Essex boy Gavin and Welsh lass Stacey. 3:30am Gavin and Stacey Comedy series about the long-distance relationship of Essex boy Gavin and Welsh lass Stacey. 4:00am Don’t Tell the Bride Goes Global
BBC4 8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Timothy Spall Back at Sea 9:00pm Britain’s Best Drives Actor Richard Wilson takes a journey into the past, following routes raved about in motoring guides of 50 years ago. Richard drives a sporty, convertible Triumph TR3A around some of the Lake District’s most famous roads. He gets the lowdown on the area from author and resident Hunter Davies, takes on a notorious road, celebrates his birthday at one of Britain’s highest pubs and learns how climate change is affecting this delicate landscape. 9:30pm Tales From the Wild Wood 10:00pm Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 11:00pm Getting On Darkly comic series set in an NHS Trust hospital. Ward B4 is a world of slips, trips and hips, where health care is at its least glamorous. 11:30pm The Unseen Alistair Cooke 12:30am Human Planet The final episode of the nature series looks at the one environment that has been made by humans for humans the city. 1:30am Britain’s Best Drives 2:00am Tales From the Wild Wood 2:30am Getting On 3:00am Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Channel 5 7:00am Thomas and Friends 7:10am The Wotwots! 7:20am Fireman Sam 7:30am Jelly Jamm 7:45am Peppa Pig 7:50am Olive the Ostrich 7:55am Little Princess 8:10am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 8:20am The Mr Men Show 8:35am Thomas and Friends 8:45am Make Way for Noddy 8:55am Milkshake Monkey 9:00am Fifi and the Flowertots 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:20am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:30am Roary the Racing Car 9:45am Bananas in Pyjamas 9:55am Mio Mao 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Shark 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Law and Order 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm CSI: Miami
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4:10pm Killer Flood: The Day the Dam Broke 6:00pm 5 News at 5 National and international news. 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away Heath discovers that Bianca doubts his parenting skills. 7:30pm 5 News National and international news. 8:00pm Eddie Stobart: Trucks and Trailers 9:00pm The Removal Men 10:00pm Dallas 11:00pm Law and Order: Special Victims Unit 11:55pm Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
12:55am The Mentalist 1:50am Forensic Files 2:15am Super Casino 4:55am HouseBusters 5:20am House Doctor 5:45am Michaela’s Wild Challenge
Satellite channels SKY1 5:10am Brainiac: Science Abuse 6:05am Don't Forget the Lyrics 7:00am Airline 7:30am Airlinemore 8:00am Modern Family 8:30am The Middle 9:00am Dog the Bounty Hunter 9:30am Dog the Bounty Hunter 10:00am Glee 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 1:00pm Stargate SG-1 2:00pm Stargate SG-1 3:00pm Dog the Bounty Hunter
5:45pm Cyrus 7:25pm The Stepford Wives 9:00pm No Strings Attached 11:00pm Bad Teacher 12:45am The Pool Boys 2:25am Swingers 4:05am The Stepford Wives 5:45am The Fighting Temptations
SKY MOVIES DRAMA 1:20pm A Little Bit of Heaven 3:15pm Love and Other Drugs 5:15pm Cupid, Inc 6:45pm The Terminal 9:00pm A Little Bit of Heaven 11:00pm Love and Other Drugs 1:00am The Bodyguard 3:15am Cherrybomb
4:00pm Stargate SG-1 5:00pm Stargate SG-1 6:00pm Raising Hope 6:30pm Futurama 7:00pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm The Glee Project 10:00pm Last Resort 11:00pm Fringe 12:00am An Idiot Abroad 1:00am Trollied 1:30am Road Wars 2:00am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 2:55am NCIS: Los Angeles 3:50am Road Wars 4:45am Road Wars 5:10am Brainiac: Science Abuse
SKY MOVIES COMEDY 5:35am Dunston Checks In 7:05am Snow Dogs 8:50am The Fighting Temptations 10:55am Cyrus 12:30pm Snow Dogs 2:15pm No Strings Attached 4:05pm Bad Teacher
SKY MOVIES ACTION 7:00am Shanghai Noon 9:00am Shanghai Knights 11:00am Battle: Los Angeles 1:00pm Killer Elite 3:00pm Jaws 2 5:00pm Shanghai Noon 7:00pm Shanghai Knights 9:00pm Battle: Los Angeles 11:00pm Killer Elite 1:00am Gone in 60 Seconds 3:00am Ironclad
TCM SMD 6:45pm The Terminal European visitor Viktor arrives in New York only to find that his papers are no longer valid.
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WORKING: Oddly enough, the least favourite bit of a woman’s perfect day.
What women want (and it’s not what you think!) WHAT would be your perfect day? Going shopping? Spending the day in the spa? Family time? Well, it seems a woman’s perfect day combines a variety of things.
Researchers asked 900 women with an average age of 38 about their day-to-day lives and how they felt about them. They analysed their answers to produce the perfect day and top priority
after a solid eight hours sleep would be a little romance with their partner, 106 minutes of it. The day was broken down further into spending 98 minutes on the computer and 82
Fizzy drinks alert DRINKING fizzy drinks increases a woman’s chances of suffering a blood clot on the brain and a severe stroke. New research by Japanese scientists shows that daily consumption - including low calorie fizzy drinks - raises the chances by around 80 per cent for women, but there was only a slight increase in the risk for men. British consumers drink an estimated 14 billion litres of soft drinks every year, which has more than doubled since the 1980s.
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minutes socialising followed by 78 minutes of relaxing, 68 minutes exercising, 56 minutes shopping and just 36 minutes working. The researchers, from the University of Bremen (Germany) and the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA), said: “Greater well-being includes spending a little more time with friends, a lot more time with relatives, and a lot less time with the boss and co-workers.” They said variety was important and certain activities are more attractive because they do them so rarely.
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Can cosmetics’ chemicals cause early menopause? RESEARCHERS are warning that a group of chemicals known as phthalates which are found in make-up and hairspray can cause women to hit the menopause early. Those exposed to high doses were found to have gone through the change almost two-and-a-half years before other women, according to the study carried out at Washington University, Missouri (USA). There is already some concern over the potential health risks of phthalates, which are also found in plastics and food packaging having previously been linked to increased risks of cancer, diabetes and obesity. However, Professor Richard Sharpe from the University of Edinburgh (UK) said: “My concern is not high at this stage. Phthalate exposure is ubiquitous and thus impossible to avoid altogether.”
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PANACHE Hair and Beauty Salon has been established in Moraira since 1997. The salon is located off the Avenida del Portet in Calle Juan XXIII in the same street as Hamilton of London estate agents. There is ample free parking and blue zone area, which is free from 2-5pm. The salon is light and airy, cool in summer with full air-conditioning in the salon. The beauty and chiropody rooms have their own independent units to suit your personal needs and comforts, making your time in Panache a pleasure. From January 2011, Panache has offered a Monday ‘budget day’ service for those who like to save on those little extras in life: Cut and Blow Dry €24.50; Permanent Wave €48, including cut and blow dry; Hi-lites €60 including cut and blow
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NEVER TOO OLD: Short bursts of exercise are best.
Exercise to keep your brain alert SHORT bursts of exercise could be the best way to keep your brain alert, rather than mental activities like crosswords. Research suggests that brain shrinkage leads to problems with memory and thinking and these are the key symptoms of dementia. Physical exercise is the best protection against brain shrinking later in life. Author of the new study Alan Gow, from the University of Edinburgh, said exercise is critical for brain health and that
there was no real benefit to participating in mentally and socially stimulating activities on brain size.
COW’S milk could be used to produce antibodies to help defend against HIV. Although cows cannot contract the virus themselves, researchers have found that their immune systems develop antibodies to help fight it. A team from Melbourne University is working with an Australian biotechnology company to try and develop it into a cream that women can use to protect themselves from contracting HIV from sexual partners.
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King’s special protection
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LOW RANKING: Opening a business is tough.
Business block SCOLDING Spain is a little like rebuking a truculent teenager; some say you’re too hard and others say he needs a slap. Business fuels a nation’s economy and what do Spain’s politicians do? They make it so difficult to open a business that it ranks in 136th place out of 185 countries rated for business set-up procedures. Bless him; it took an Andalucían entrepreneur €10,000, three years and wading through the bureaucracy of four different administrations before he could set up his business. There are times when you despair.
F you’re going to sleep with a king you should make sure your sole intention is to sleep or read up on Article 56.3 of the Spanish Constitution. It states unequivocally that ‘the person of the King is inviolable’. Two Madrid judges dismissed paternity demands made by Belgian Ingrin Sartau and Spaniard Alberto Sola because the monarch enjoys ‘special protection’ from the legal process. In other words the
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gent wearing the crown can do whatever he wishes. The law, with which we are obliged to
UNPROTECTED: Julian Assange. comply, is well below his station. I bet whistleblowing Aussie Julian
Assange wishes that he had the same protection.
Captivating sight? B
LUE movie star of 3,500 productions, Nacho Vidal, protests his innocence after being arrested following a Chinese money-laundering bust. What a useless life, a rutting stud performing for glass-eyed voyeurs. Why do they call them adult movies when the content is
behind the bicycle sheds juvenile? Nacho is a bloke who does have his brains between his legs. I recall a bus driver’s experience when passing through a rural area. The attention of a young office worker at the bus stop was captured by a boar and sow in an
adjacent field doing what comes naturally. The poor girl was unaware that her bus had pulled in and its passengers were equally captivated by her interest. When the penny finally dropped I believe her face was a picture. I bet it was.
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All about saints and sinners B
Y THE time you read this you, Halloween will have passed and the sight of the Grim Reaper himself, wandering the calles of your pueblo, probably won’t scare or surprise you much. Probably just some stray partygoer yet to find his way home, right? Now that the candy has been handed out and kids the world over are suffering sugar withdrawal symptoms, all that remains is to reflect on how widespread this originally Celtic tradition of All Hallows’ Eve has become. The US may have embraced it and finessed it into the spectacle it is today, but it all started as a pagan ritual in Ireland, called Samhain, or a celebration of summer’s end. Is it so popular because we actually enjoy being a little spooked‌ in a nice controlled environment, of course! How else can you explain the
Expat Strife Swedish-born Ulrica is a freelance journalist living in Mallorca with her family. Her debut novel $Expat Wives is available on Amazon and iBooks. To comment on any of the issues raised in Ulrica’s column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/columnists/ ulrica-marshall
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popularity of the Haunted House and Ghost Rides of the world? While we may not wish to dice with death, per se, the ultimate inevitability of it is
BEEN AND GONE: But still beware of the kids!
both a curiosity and a preoccupation, be it subconscious or not. Every culture reveres traditions of the dead and gory, just look at the Mardi Gras, the Buddhist Bon Festival in Japan and remember, remember the 5th
of November - Bonfire Night which essentially celebrates a day of scuppered terrorism culminating in the symbolic burning of the perpetrator. Ghouls, ghosts and the dead are big hits the world over. In Spain and Latin America, the 1st of November is All Saints Day, also called Dia de los Muertos, and is followed by All Souls Day on the 2nd - a time when the dead shall rise again, returning to their homes. To mark the occasion people clad entirely in black pay their respects in the cemetery, leaving offerings or flowers, then hot-foot it to the theatre to see a production of Don Juan, as has been the tradition for more than a century. Saints, it seems, are allimportant in our host country. Forget birthdays, here it is the Saints’ Day (most Spanish names tie in with that of a saint, which is allocated to a day) or ‘Dia de Santo’ that is celebrated with gusto.
If you’re invited to one, do bring a present or you will be left red-faced, as well as empty-handed. Normally the birthday and saint’s day are on two separate days, but parents truly devoted to the tradition grace their offsprings with the corresponding saint’s day name, so you may well come across old goodies like ‘Hilaria’ (August 12) or ‘Fermin’ (July 7) in your travels in Spain. Not knowingly connected to any saint of significance, I shall swerve Don Juan and making any sacrificial offerings at the cemetery. Instead, I plan to watch a hat trick of Omen, Friday the 13th and Final Destination to mark el Dia de los Muertos, accompanied, of course, by the large bowlful of goodies collected while scaring the households of Mallorca witless. And if my vampire costume doesn’t do the trick, I shall have to send in the heavies, in the shape of two kids and one dog with fangs and devil ears to collect the treats. Boo!
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HAD a call from a gentleman he had put his Dobermann to sleep due to illness. The dog was 12 years old. He was devastated, but he has another four dogs. A few nights later when he was in bed he heard terrible fighting going on downstairs. His cocker spaniel had nearly bitten off one of the other dog’s noses and all of them were injured. Reluctantly he took the spaniel to the vet and put him to sleep. He said the spaniel looked at him as if
to say ‘Dad, why are you doing this?’ The man was in a terrible state and asked me if he had done the right thing. I had to say no. The pack hierarchy had now changed and sometimes this causes fights. If dogs start fighting each other it has
PHOEBE
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to be established which one is the new leader (in many cases an expert may be needed to help you). The new top dog is to be loved 10 times more and fed first. We must keep using his name and touching and cuddling him as the favourite. We are showing him he is top dog. The fighting then stops. However, I would stress this does not work with fighting female dogs. There is no known way to stop them. It is best to re-home one of them. When a dog places his paws and chest on the hindquarters of another dog as if he was mounting him, this is normal and common canine behaviour. In most cases, it is NOT sexual conduct unless the dog is thrusting. In young puppies, it is a play behaviour; in older dogs, it is a method of communication. The dog that is doing the mounting is generally displaying dominance. Quite often owners who have brought a new, younger dog into the family get upset when they see it mounting or biting the rear legs of the resident dog. It is best not to correct this behaviour; it is normal. Sometimes it occurs when the status of the younger dog in the pack is changing and he becomes the top dog. In order to understand
STRUGGLE: When dogs start fighting each other it is to establish which one is top dog.
dogs may eat too much fresh grass and cannot digest it. Because large quantities act as an irritant, the dog throws up. This leads the owners to think the dog ate the grass to induce vomiting. this type of behaviour it might be worth thinking how children, as they grow into adults, sometimes have to take care of and make decisions for their parents as they get older. The human pack changes, too! My daughter always bosses me around! Dogs eat grass Many people ask me ‘Why do dogs eat grass?’ I always smile, thinking of my good friend Dr Rainer Horning, a leading vet who had a surgery in Coin near Malaga. Many years ago we met by arguing about why dogs eat grass. I learned so much from him; thank you, Rainer. I hope soon we will be able to do a radio show together again. Rainer and I used to do a Sunday morning radio show bringing listeners up to date with the latest on pets and
answering questions and problems. Dogs do not necessarily eat grass because they are sick or have worms. It is normal for them to eat grass in very small amounts; their ancestors did. Grass foliage contains folic acid and it has been proved that cats eat it because of a lack of a vitamin supplement in a mainly meat-based diet. Maybe the same applies to dogs who could also be seeking roughage. Some
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CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Letting life get too tame will eventually irritate you no end. Your social life needs a boost which, in turn, helps romance blossom. It is easy to be a bit lazy when
The chance to help in a charitable manner or as part of a committee sees you at your best. Responsibility is something that you relish. This month it is possible for you to shine and show your very best.
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things are going smoothly but we all need constant stretching. With an active mind such as yours, the important thing is to keep making progress. This may be in a physical way or in some kind of business.
AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) A chance remark alluding to your past brings a flashback. This helps you to see a current situation more clearly. We all make mistakes and follow the same old patterns, but this time you are being forewarned. It is in your experience and power to make a different choice of action this time.
PISCES (February 20 - March 20) Someone will most certainly come to the rescue when your situation changes. Well, they will, won'ʼt they? Have Plan B ready just in case. In continuing to think in the short term you do yourself no favours. Think now of a ʻ10year planʼ and be determined to reach your goal. Bit by bit and day by day you will progress. You donʼt have to rush ahead and get stressed. ARIES (March 21 - April 20) An exciting project is bubbling
Born November 2, 1938, she is the current queen consort and wife of King Juan Carlos I of Spain. She met King Juan Carlos on a cruise of the Greek Islands in 1954. She is a great-great-granddaughter (paternally) and a great-great-great-granddaughter (maternally) of Queen Victoria.
away in your mind but may need financial backing. Take advice from a professional or someone with successful experience in these matters. Remember that any idea has to grow, so consider what you need to see happen in five yearsʼ time. There is little time for romance and you may decide to put that on hold because of complications. TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) During your social encounters this week you meet someone who offers to help. That is great, but do ask yourself if you would be prepared to give anything in return. GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) Some exciting suggestions make you think twice about a current business matter. However, it may not be necessary to change anything but to consider the new suggestion as a sort of ʻadd onʼ to a current project.
SU DOKU HOW TO PLAY Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3X3 box contains the digits 1-9. There’s no maths involved. You solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic.
CANCER (June 22 - July 23) The moment that you have been waiting for has arrived. A colleague has made a decision that is long overdue. Perhaps you are a little shocked and speechless because there has been such a time lag, but this will pass.
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LEO (July 24 - August 23) You work hard for your money. Make it worthwhile by trying to hold on to as much of it as possible. Someone who is charming and plausible may try to get you involved in a fast-track money making scheme.
Fill all the empty squares using the numbers 1 to 9, so that the sum of each horizontal block equals the ‘clue’ on its left, and the sum of each vertical block equals the clue on its top. No number may be used in the same block more than once. Solution on website.
Just joking • A man walks into a doctor’s office and says “Doctor, Doctor I swallowed a bone.” “Are you choking?” the doctor replied. “No, I really did!” • What do Scotsmen eat? Tart’n’pie! • What is heavier, a full moon or a half moon? The half moon because the full moon is lighter! Have you got a funny joke? jokes@euroweeklynews.com Include full name and town you live in.
VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) By showing confidence in your own way of doing things, you inspire others. This is chiefly because you are at last finding a balance between work and home life. In the past you may have felt stressed and equated that with working - not so now. LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) Because you are intent on pleasing others, you may be cramping your own style. This is something that you have in abundance and it should be used. You may be feeling that a business idea does not stand a chance and, in any case, you donʼt want to risk any money. .
By what, more common, names are the following chemical compounds better known? 1. Calcium oxide 2. Hydrated calcium sulphate 3. Hydrated magnesium sulphate 4. Magnesium hydroxide 5. Nitrous oxide 6. Potassium hydrogen tartrate 7. Sodium carbonate 8. Sodium chloride 9. Sodium hydrogen carbonate 10. Sodium hypochlorite
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SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) The rather more serious side of your nature needs to take over this week. Someone in a higher position is keeping an eye on you. This may be because they are considering you for promotion, so be on your best behaviour. It is important at the moment to stick to any rules and regulations or your reputation (and pocket) could be hit.
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technical problems facing the beginner which Peter Maddocks tackles, but he also considers the inspirational side of cartoons - what comes first, the idea or the artwork; once you’ve had a bright idea, how do you transfer it on to paper? And he supplies captions and examples of cartoons to help you
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SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) A juicy bit of gossip comes your way this week and it is hard to keep it quiet. You must do so, however, because there is a lot riding on it. When people trust you, they are saying much about the relationship. In this particular case, the person may well be able to progress you socially at some time in the future.
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draw that very first masterpiece. Peter Maddocks was a full time professional cartoonist, both in National newspapers, films and TV animation. Now residing in southern Spain, he is turning his hand to writing short stories for both children and adults and painting in this wonderful light! Ebook available on Amazon.com or access the author’s website: http://PublishedByMe.blogspot.com
TARGET: Average: 7 Good: 9
Very good: 14 Excellent: 17
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Move from the start word (CALF) to the end word (LOVE) in the same number of steps as there are rungs on the Word Ladder. You must only change one letter at a time.
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Crosswords CRYPTIC Across 1 Drug getting one worried after work (6) 5 Game bird thatʼs a bit like beef? (6) 8 Stick to relationship (4) 9 Couple allowed to join band (8) 10 Demote soldiers in front of emissary (8) 11 Amazed when African leader gets married (4) 12 Shout angrily and the rebate is different (6) 14 Sort of tea found in weather balloons (6) 16 Something in list gone over by site manager (4) 18 On the edge? Potentially alarming anyway (8) 20 Gas? I mean to change antacid (8) 21 Worldʼs most populous country is deprived of a double feature in some cases (4) 22 Bird of preyʼs offal concealed within (6) 23 Sorted out an English county (6) Down 2 Itʼs a pity that the one who is sponsored can get rope so tangled (7) 3 Muddle should end in new deal (5) 4 Note, many ladies support church cuddle (7) 5 Damaged German pear is one of a bunch (5) 6 Alfresco? Rope in a replacement (4-3)
ENGLISH - SPANISH The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English. Across 1 Sellos (Correos) (6) 4 Glass (for drinking) (4) 8 Proyectos (intenciones) (5) 9 Rhythm (5) 10 Dos (3) 11 Smooth (running of engine, motion) (5) 12 Comidas (5) 15 Labio (3) 16 Pala (para cavar) (5) 18 Spy (5) 19 Clavo (de carpintero) (4) 20 Tablecloth (6)
Co d e B r e a ke r 7 Leather wavered, I hear (5) 13 Neanderthal man academic uncovers calendar (7) 14 American university found a revised version in a solid condition (7) 15 An Oriental caviar cocktail is just plain greed (7) 17 Crown discovered in Nova Scotia rabbit hole (5) 18 Builderʼs mother and child (5) 19 Subject in dog (5)
QUICK Across 1 Tap gently (3) 3 Brazilian dance (5,4) 8 Attacks (5) 9 Heading (7) 10 Anger (3) 11 In front (5) 12 Crash into (7) 13 Scarce (6) 15 Doorkeepers (6) 19 Vow (7) 21 Let in (5) 23 Spoil (3) 24 Oblivious (7) 25 Snares (5) 26 Early model (9) 27 Pen for swine (3)
Down 1 Toads (5) 2 Spider (5) 3 Cakes (8) 5 Hormiga (3) 6 Gold (metal) (3) 7 Trumpet (8) 13 Manzana (5) 14 Forma (figura) (5) 16 Hijo (3) 17 There (near you) (3)
Down 1 Possibly (7) 2 Two times (5) 3 Also (7) 4 Choose (6) 5 Make use of (5) 6 Opening (7) 7 Quarrel (5) 14 Alligator pear (7) 16 Surprise (7) 17 Gratify (7) 18 Cure (6) 19 Chubby (5) 20 Adult insect (5) 22 Complains (5)
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC - Across: 7 Facade, 8 Turkey, 9 Maze, 10 Torments, 11 Fencing, 13 Borer, 15 Watch, 17 Gazebos, 20 Vicarage, 21 Spit, 22 Annexe, 23 Ironed. Down: 1 Damage, 2 Gate, 3 Neptune, 4 Stork, 5 Gruesome, 6 Beetle, 12 Cyclamen, 14 Javelin, 16 Aliens, 18 Oliver, 19 Caged, 21 Sloe.
QUICK - Across: 1 Satsuma, 4 Shift, 7 Scalp, 9 Soldier, 10 Express, 11 Seize, 12 Detest, 14 Gallop, 18 First, 20 Inflate, 22 Croatia, 23 Leave, 24 Solve, 25 Devoted. Down: 1 Suspend, 2 Tramp, 3 Assist, 4 Sulks, 5 Initial, 6 Terse, 8 Press, 13 Turmoil, 15 Awful, 16 Pretend, 17 Lizard, 18 Focus, 19 Title, 21 Apart.
ENGLISH - SPANISH Across: 1 Cups, 3 Thing, 6 Abril, 8 Tigre, 10 Add, 11 Cloud, 12 Otter, 13 Dog, 14 Shine, 15 Stain, 16 Goose, 17 Beso.
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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 (PARTED) and one letter in four other cells are given as clues.
Down: 1 Charcos, 2 Periodico, 4 Hot dogs, 5 Nightmare, 7 Ladders, 9 Erroneo.
1.Unscramble the name of a current British politician: I BAN MIDDLE 2. Unscramble the name of a European country and its capital city: SUBMERSIBLE SLUG
Play on Words STRAIN A E B
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Quote Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have laboured hard for.
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Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 3 represents C and 7 represents B, so fill in C every time the figure 3 appears and B every time the figure 7 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.
ADHERE BAGGED BELTED DWELLS ELDERS HANDLE HEALTH HELPED LABOUR LEERED METRES NEEDED PADDED PARTED (10) READER SHEETS SPEEDY STATES TWEEDS
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1 Stripe, 2 Meagre, 3 Desire, 4 Spears, 5 Tramps, 6 Meddle, 7 Reaped, 8 Rooted, 9 Dreams, 10 Proves, 11 Assure, 12 Thresh, 13 Favour, 14 Behave, 15 Hearts, 16 Chairs, 17 Treats, 18 Finger, 19 Kitten
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RMISTICE DAY is marked at the stroke of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. It marks the moment when, in 1918, peace was declared in Europe. On the sixth hour of the sixth day of the sixth month 1944, the invasion of Europe commenced. The figure 666, regarded as the sign of the devil can be interpreted as one wishes. Not many care to be reminded that the invasion didn’t liberate, but crucified half of Europe. Many more died and suffered in appalling circumstances after the war’s end than during the war. Officially hostilities ended on May 8, 1945, but for half the people of Europe, the war continued for a further 45 years. For them it was the great betrayal. The Yalta and Potsdam Agreements, signed by the triumphant allies, surrendered 11 independent European nations to Josef Stalin’s murderous USSR. When the Last Post sounded, tens of millions of Europeans faced deportation, starvation, gratuitous brutality, denial of free expression and democracy, enslavement and casual mass murder on a scale unprecedented since the Mongol invasions.
The great deception
Mike Walsh vwww.michaelwalsh.es International Journalism Europe Broadcaster Commentator International Radio Awarded ‘Writer of the Year’ Mobile 0034 662 067 490 To comment on any of the issues raised in Mike’s column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/columnists/mikewalsh
Oh, how the human-filled cattle cars rolled from Europe to far beyond the steppe. History is the propaganda of the victors. When posterity allows we may see the European tragedy in a far different light from what it is today. As a young seaman who
BEHIND THE WIRE: Men, women and children starved to death. mixed freely with all nationalities it was a mystery to me how men, who couldn’t be told apart from my own compatriots, had been our foe. They were born in the wrong place and forced by circumstance into the wrong uniforms. There were gaps in their ranks. It was the courageous Canadian journalist James Bacque who, despite formidable barriers placed in his way, revealed that in post-war allied
death camps in the Rhine valleys 750,000 surrendered servicemen, women, children and old men, were deliberately starved to death in barbed wire enclosures. Millions more throughout Eastern and Western Europe suffered similar fates. The Independent on Sunday said of his exposé: ‘This is a great and grim masterpiece of investigative journalism, unmasking one of the most successful cover-ups in modern history.’
The Jersey Evening Post: ‘This is not a pleasant book (Other Losses) and its revelations are so awful that many find them hard to accept. The book tells the dreadful story of prisoners of war who had outlived the war but did not outlive the peace. As Peter Bowman, the author, surmised: “Battle doesn’t determine who is right, only who is left. We destroyed fascists, not fascism; men, not ideas. “Our triumphs did not serve as evidence that democracy is best for the world any more than Russian victories proved that communism is an ideal system for all mankind. “Only through our peacetime efforts to abolish war and bring a larger measure of freedom and security to all peoples can we reveal to others that we are any better than our defeated opponents.”
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Fishy Fishy bring back the memories REMEMBER when you were a child and that smell of fish and chips at your local fish and chip shop enticed you in. Well welcome to Fishy Fishy in Moraira which opened its doors in July this year. This new restaurant and takeaway brings back those memories. The premises are simple yet tastefully decorated with inside seating as well as an outside terrace. Fishy Fishy is owned by brothers Steven and Craig Longstaff and their aim was to open a traditional fish and chip shop where as much as possible was made on the premises. So from their chips that are peeled and chipped below stairs and blanched to give that home made taste that is very rare in these fastfood days, the menu is what you would expect in a traditional takeaway/restaurant, but the cod and chips are the real
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ORIGINALLY from Galicia, Pepe moved to the Jalon valley thirty two years ago. Since 1993, he has owned the restaurant now known as Pepe’s. Located in the heart of the Vall de Pop on the road from Alcalali to Pedreguer, set back off the road and with plenty of parking. Although Pepe’s is closed over Christmas, he is now taking bookings for his pre-Christmas menu served during December. Booking essential. And now with Pepe’s having a new covered outside terrace you can enjoy alfresco dining all year round. In the summer, the restaurant is fully air conditioned so there’s never a bad time to dine at Pepe’s. As well as a la carte, there’s an extensive menu
AUTHENTIC: Pepe’s Alcalali offers a la carte, menu del dia and speciality menus. del dia at Pepe’s, and starting at only €9.90 including three courses, bread and ali oli, and half a bottle of house wine per person. Plus select from an amazing choice of nine starters and 14 main courses. Some famous main courses at Pepe’s are his home baked Steak, Mushroom and Kidney Pie and the Braised Shoulder of Lamb. And Pepe being Galician (the home of seafood in Spain) there’s also a large selection of fish dishes including salmon, sole, hake and swordfish. Popular house specialities at Pepe’s, some by advance order everything is fresh and preparation can take time - include succulent Roast Leg of Lamb, Roast Pork
RUSTIC CHARM: Inside and out. with delicious Crackling, Segovian style Suckling Pig, Chateaubriand and many many more. Pepe’s reflects the diversity of Spain’s regional cuisines as well as international classics. Steaks are really famous at Pepe’s too; sirloin, fillet
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tree with its elegant waxy flowers and colourful fruit or a large spreading fig tree are possibilities. • Do you want a tree that is likely to be long living? If so avoid palms as most varieties have now been attacked by the dreaded palm weevil in various parts of Spain and some species of yellow flowered acacias only last for about a dozen years. • Do you want to preserve something of Spain’s disappearing heritage? If so a several hundred year old or even, if you have the cash, a thousand year old olive tree could fit the bill. A cork oak with part of its cork bark
cut off to expose the bright orange inner trunk can also look attractive. For those that want a clean garden recognise that both these trees have leaf and fruit falls although essentially evergreen. • Do you want a tree that provides dappled shade so that other plants can be planted in the shade below the canopy either in the ground or in pots? If so consider a jacaranda false acacia or a fir tree. Space as so often happens is running out. Hope these thoughts help a good number of readers. If you have other general questions that you would like us to discuss in a EWN column do send them in or bring them along to one of our autumn talks such as The Homes Gardens and Outdoor living Show at the Palacio in Estepona on November 9 and 10 or the U3A Oliva meeting on November 22. We will have copies of our latest book ‘Making Waterless Gardens a Practical Reality Worldwide’ at each of the talks. (c) Clodagh and Dick Handscombe www.gardeninginspain.com November 2012.
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•AECC BOUTIQUE in San Isidro: Call 966 723 401. •AL-ANON FAMILY GROUP Benidorm – don’t suffer alone through another person drinking – Call 634 758 539. •DENIA RUGBY CLUB: Seniors meet at 8pm on beach outside Oasis Hotel. •HELP INTERNATIONAL Benidorm meetings. www.helpbenidorm.com. •PIETER SWINNEN Painting Club in Calpe: Call 965 835 212. •RBL Benidorm and district branch covers from Polop to Villajoyosa at different locations for social meetings, day trips, excursions or meals. Membership: 695 605 129. Secretary: 966 860 735. •XABIA RUGBY CLUB: Juniors meet at 7pm Seniors at 8pm. Call 688 640 092. •TORMOS Orba Valley International Bridge and Social Club meet at Restaurant Tormos, 1.45pm. 966 404 533. •ROYAL NAVAL ASSOCIATION meets for lunch on second Thursday of month at various restaraunts between Altea and Oliva and the Jalon Valley. Call 966 474 532.
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.
Church services •ANGLICAN CHAPLAINCY Sunday Services - Holy Communion in eight locations: See www.costablanca-anglican chaplaincy.org. •BENITACHELL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, Benitachell: 966 494 036 or 966 470 303. •CALPE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHURCH Perlamar, Sundays 11am: 965 835 502 or www.calpechristian fellowship.org. •CHRIST IN YOU THE HOPE OF
CONSULATES British 96 521 6022 Emergency consular assistance 902 109 356
ALICANTE Airport 96 691 9000 Guardia Civil 96 592 1100 Municipal Police 96 510 7200 Red Cross 96 525 2525
ALFAZ DEL PI Municipal Police 96 588 7100 Guardia Civil 96 584 0525 Municipal Police 96 584 5511
•CREATIVE TEXTILES GROUP – crosstitch, embroidery, crochet, quilting, knitting – in Javea, 10am-1pm. Call 966 472 049 or artcentrejavea@yahoo.com.
Guardia Civil 96 585 0330 Municipal Police 96 680 7766 Red Cross 96 680 8934 Bus Station 96 683 0014
•AUCTIONS FOR AECC. Items for donation wanted. Call 965 319 929 or 688 238 879. •UFO and World Mysteries Discussion Group in Javea meet the first Friday of month at The Social Club and Bar in Javea Old Town at 10 for 10.30am. Call Maria Buckingham on 966 459 976.
ALTEA BENIDORM
BENISSA Guardia Civil 96 573 0722 Municipal Police 96 573 0733
CALPE Guardia Civil 96 583 0080 Municipal Police 96 583 0812 Red Cross 96 583 1616
DENIA Guardia Civil 96 578 0036 Municipal Police 96 578 0190 Red Cross 96 578 1358
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•ROTARY INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP Costa Blanca North weekly lunch meeting at Los Leones restaurant 1.15pm. Call 965 795 421 the Wednesday before. Guests welcome. www. rotarycostablanca.wiki.dot. com.
Guardia Civil 96 563 0418 Municipal Police 96 563 7099
•TENNIS GROUP meets Tuesday and Friday mornings at Toscamar, Javea. Call 966 473 301.
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•JAVEA BRIDGE CLUB Duplicate Pairs. 965 795 458. •ROTARY INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP meets for lunch at Los Leones restaurant 1.15pm. Call to reserve by the Wednesday before: 965 795 421. www. rotarycostablanca. wiki.dot.com
SATURDAY •COMPUTER CLUB in Alfaz del Pi: Call 965 889 187. •EL VERGER MARKET at The Polygon from 9am to 1.30pm. •GUARDIAN ANGELS Dropin/Coffee and Chat at Help Centre, La Jara from 10.30am –12.30pm. Call 616 977 639.
•ERMITA CHURCH, Javea – Warden Colin D Welch - 965 771 792. •HOLY EUCHARIST at Nuestra Senora de la Merced Church, Calpe: Sundays 10.30am. 678 787 509 or bill.ingram@angliac3.demon. co.uk. •JAVEA EVANGELICAL CHURCH – Pastor Clive Read 669 386 702. •JAVEA INTERNATIONAL BAPTIST CHURCH, Pastor John Hansford, Sun-
JAVEA Guardia Civil 062 Municipal Police 092 Red Cross 96 579 1961 Red Cross 96 574 0950 British Embassy: www.uk.inspain.fco.gov.uk Age Concern Spain: www.acespana.org Airport Information: www.aena.es Local News: www.euroweeklynews.com
•MOSIAC COMMUNITY CHURCH Sunday 12pm Multicultural Service; Wednesday 8pm Intercessory Prayer; Last Thursday of month 1.30pm community lunch. 678 066 222. •SPIRITUALIST CHURCH Alfaz del Pi: Tuesdays and Thursdays 6.30pm. Call 966 878 469. •THE KINGS CHURCH Benissa English Sunday service, 11am: www. thekingschurch.net.
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•THE Valleys International Bridge and Social Club – friendly and relaxed – meet Thursday 1.30pm-6pm at Bar Tormos, Orba Valley. Call 966 404 533.
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GLORY CHURCH: Sundays 10.30am at the Europa Building, Avda del Pino.
days 10.30am at Calle Favara 8, Javea Pueblo (near Plaza de la Constitucion Espanola) 965 794 624. www.javeabaptist .com.
By Benny Davis ONE of the most fascinating places to visit in Denia is the Toy Museum. Housed on the second floor of a former rail passenger terminal CarcaixentDenis, the museum should be on everyone’s must-see-inDenia list. The exhibition shows the evolution of local production from 1904 until 1960 and includes toys, photographs, letters and documents spanning the years. Denia’s history of toy making originates from the late 19th century. The industry prospered through to recent times when modern elements were gradually introduced including the magic of Disney. The exhibition is open every day of the week from 10am to One of the exhibits on show. 1pm and 4pm to 8pm.
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• AECC BOUTIQUE in San Isidro: Call 966 723 401.
•AUCTIONS FOR AECC (donations welcome): Call 965 319 929 / 688 238 879.
MONDAY
• BERNIA BABIES international group meets 10.30am-12 noon at Sierra Bernia School, Alfaz del Pi: Call the school office 966 875 149.
•COSTA BLANCA SAMARITANS: Visit the website: www.costablancasamaritans.com •DENIA INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE CLUB Duplicate Pairs Start 4pm. Call 965 785 387.
•BSAC Marina Alta SCUBA Diving Club: Call Steve 966470163, www.bsacmarinaalta.co.uk • CANCER CARE CENTRE Javea park: Call 965 796 846.
•JALON VALLEY MUMS & TOTS CLUB at town hall 10.15am-noon. Call 676 441 758.
• DENIA Rugby Club seniors training 8pm on beach outside the Oasis Hotel
•COSTA BLANCA MOUNTAIN WALKERS - please go into www.cbmwalkers.org for details of today’s walks of varying difficulty gradings.
•JAVEA STAMPS & POSTCARD CLUB meets second and fourth Monday of month at L’Ancora Tennis Club at 10am. All welcome. 965 795 499 or 608 765 245.
• MALE VOICE CHOIR (no experience required) Teulada: Call 965 744 577.
•SATURDAY AUCTION 1.30pm at the Jacaranda Restaurant–Bar Moraira with our Auctioneer Mr Bob Gingell. First and third Saturday of each month. Phone to book your items in 965 743 292. To find Jacaranda Restaurant-Bar, from Moraira turn right at the new roundabout just before Mas y Mas 600 metre up the hill.
•ROYAL AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION in Pedreguer meets the second Monday of month: Call 966 430 215 or visit the website www.rafa-ncb.org. •U3A Marina Baixa meets fourth Monday of month at 10.30am at Alfaz del Pi Casa de Cultura. •JAVEA BRIDGE CLUB ‘No Fear’ pairs. 965 795 458.
• MONTGO RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION JAVEA meets for a Coffee Morning on the first Tuesday of the month, come and meet the neighbours, all welcome. For more details of events, news and information of interest visit www.montgoresidents.com • RAF Costa Blanca: Third Tuesday of month. Call 965 724 256 or email nwhancox@hotmail.com. • ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
FELLOWSHIP Denia meets first and third Tuesday of month at 1.30pm. Call 965 748 909 by the Sunday prior to meeting to advice attendance. • WORDS OF LIGHT: Call 662 688 865. • XABIA RUGBY CLUB (juniors and seniors): Call 688 640 092. • JAVEA BRIDGE CLUB competitive Duplicate. 965 795 458. • JAVEA ASSOCIATION OF MODEL MAKERS meet second Tuesday of month. Contact gaw@wworkshop.net.
WEDNESDAY •41 CLUB, Javea meets the first Wednesday of the month. www.costablanca41club.org •ALICANTE BUSINESS CLUB meets the third Wednesday of month in San Juan. Call 650 489 625 or visit the website www. alicantebusinessclub.org •BENIDORM INTERNATIONAL SINGLES CLUB: Call 690 300 166. •DENIA INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE CLUB Duplicate Pairs Start 4pm. Call 965 785 387.
•GARDENING CIRCLE: First Wed of month in Moraira. Call 966 498 681. •INTERNATIONAL SINGLES CLUB Benidorm: Call 690 300 166. •PERKY PENSIONERS Jalon, 2.30pm-4.30pm: 652 584 272. •RBL JAVEA: Second and fourth Tuesday of month. Call 965 790 123. •SPIRITUAL FRIENDS (Moraira) meet at Los Leones Restaurant, Sol Park at 2.30pm to discuss all things holistic, spiritual etc. www.Spiritualfriends.com •QUIZ NIGHT and buffet last Wednesday of month at Restaurant Paraiso in Parcent to raise funds for Emaus children’s home in Altea. davidreeley @hotmail.com. •FREE informal group that shares the understanding the three principles for innate well being every first and third Wednesday 78.30pm in Alfaz del Pi. Call Mark 616 762 131 or email Sheela@sheelamas and.com. •SKITTLES fun matches at Restaurant/Bar GranSol Calpe at 7.30pm. Call 600 837 054. www.kingpins-vpweb.co.uk.
OTHERS •CALPE ROTARY FELLOWSHIP La Fustera: www.calperotary.org.uk •LA NUCIA SPARTANS American football team welcomes new players for their sub 16, over 16s and female teams. www.lanucia spartans.com. •MASK FOR MABS children’s menu at El Paraiso Restaurant in Parcent. €1 donated to charity. •MORAIRA CHARITY SHOP on Avenida del Portet Road, opens Monday to Saturday 10am–1pm and Tuesday and Thursday 4pm–7pm. Call 666 625 856. •STAMP CLUB Javea: 965 795 499. •WALKING GROUP Castalla: 607 434 732/965 630 009. •COSTA BLANCA MOUNTAIN WALKERS - Saturdays and Wednesdays - different difficulty walks. www.cbmwalkers.org •GANDIA AREA ACTIVITIES: Thursday social club dinners and golf, Friday and Monday petanca 962 852 828; Saturday walking group – 962 808 601. •NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH: www.nhwinspain.com or 620 417 777. •U3A VALL DEL POP: See www.u3avalldelpop.com for events and activities to suit all tastes. •ARENAL School of Bridge and Social Club play duplicates Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 2.15pm at the Arenal Clubhouse in Javea. Tuesdays are for beginners. Call 965 770 509.
COMING UP •CAFÉ PHILO (U3A) meets at 11.30am on Wednesday November 28 to continue discussing ‘morality and the markets’. For further information, call Kate on 965 845 039
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Locksmith LOCKSMITH/ELECTRICIAN/C ARPENTER for emergency safe opening, Altea based. Call Michael Rice 686 513 510 or Sean Gannon 667 507 630 (101007)
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MOTOR INSURANCE. For the most competitive quotes in English call Linea Directa on 902 123 153, you could save as much as 30% and you can transfer your existing no claims bonus. Call Linea Directa on 902 123 153 for motor insurance with a human voice in English from Monday to Friday 9am to 6pm and save money now! GOING HOME ? Want to swap my UK Reg, RHD, 07 plated, VW Crafter Sprinter (LWB, high top, diesel, tax, MOT) for Spanish car. 646 600 898 (94920) WANTED Cars, vans, caravans, 4 X 4’s British Spanish 600 781 873 ibuyanycar@ hotmail.com (201970)
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Metal Works MOBILE WELDING SERVICE, gates, rejas, railings etc. Made to measure or repaired. Free quotes. NO JOB TOO SMALL. Calpe. Dave: 616 173 699 / 965 834 869 (97481)
Miscellaneous IT’S Christmas at Cathy’s Cards. Individual and packs of cards. Decorations, diaries, calendars etc. 649 665 620 (99655)
Mobile Homes WE BUY, Sell, Remove all types of Mobile Homes. We pay CASH and cover all of Spain. More details call Suzi Caley 616 250 727 / 951 063 059 or email suzicaley@gmail.com (100120)
ADRIA Coral S690SP Motorhome 2010, 160 bhp engine, 21,000 kms, cruise control, Sat TV, awning, island bed, large garage, excellent condition 46,500€. Tel 966 729 293 / 603 535 771
Painter/Decorator W. D GILMOUR. Painter & Decorator. Established 35 years in Moraira. Estimates FREE. Call William on 609 691 776 or 966 197 170. (97457) SIKKENS Elastomeric silicone coatings. This waterproofs/protects walls. Wooden Door Spraying. www.villapainting.es 678 179 346 (97340)
PET-COURIERS.COM – If you love your pet try us first – we are the best. Door to door service throughout Europe. Specialised vehicles – bespoke service. Full legal service including documentation if required. For further information call or email us: Tel: (0034) 651 033 670 or (0034) 637 066 227. Email: info@pet-couriers.com or www.pet-couriers.com (95495) NEED YOUR PETS TAKEN CARE OF? Not kennels, just a friendly home. Large fenced area. 699 790 080 Altea (97344) sales@euroweeklynews.com
JALON VALLEY Quality villas and apartments to let. Long and short term. All facilities. Tel Rod 605 231 331 (99566) CHEAP winter lets from £30, yes only £30 per week near Gandia. Rentals also available in Albir and near Mojacar. Email: oasis parks@yahoo.co.uk or 696 090 776 (101031) ALTEA sea front. Fully furnished, 2 bed, 1 bath apartment. A/C, pool, secure parking. Available 1st December. 500€/month. 965 847 697 (99647)
LA NUCIA / POLOP Country villa, quiet, private, 3 beds, 2 ensuite, 3 baths, lounge, kitchen. Self-contained apartment, 2 beds, 1 bath, lounge, kitchen. Double glazed, A/C, heating, pool. 653 064 757 (99659) www.100percentplumbing.com Call for a free quotation 965 835 939 www.dragonreforms.com Tel. 966 807 098. Free quotes given PLUMBING & ELECTRICS, Kitchens & Bathrooms. Tel: 634 401 805 www.plumbing-electrics.com GENERAL plumbing, water filter systems, water softener, air conditioning, gas/electric water boilers. Call your local plumber Alfaz del Pi/Altea/La Nucia - Todo Agua 965 889 923 / 628 313 212
Pool Services TH.POOLS.sc. Maintenance, servicing and repairs. New pumps and filters, sand changes and regrouts. Pool equipment and one-off lessons available. Moraira - Benidorm. CALL TRISTAN 627 008 158 www.instantpools.eu YES YOU CAN HAVE A POOL - We manufacture & install Wooden AboveGround Pools. Pools from 8ft - 32ft. Remember, with above ground pools there is “No Planning Permission Required”. Phone or email for a FREE BROCHURE NOW. Email: info@instantpools.eu - Tel: 965 050 064 - Mobile: 634 322 672
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MOTORHOMES & caravans for sale / wanted. www.hispavan. com. Tel Leo 687 845 730
M141 - Second floor, 2 bed, 2 bath apartment in the sought after Port Xabia complex, Javea, walking distance to beach and all amenities 600 € per month plus bills. 965 745 969 (89468)
ALFAZ DEL PI centre, apartment for long term let, 2 bedrooms, excellent views, ideal for couples, €450 negotiable. 670 330 084 (99573)
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GENTLEMEN. A happy love life with the amazing blue pill. Guaranteed. Amazing (from 2€). Delivery North Costa Blanca. Call Keith 687 357 529 (99530)
M100 - BENITACHELL, top floor apartment of a 2 storey block, 2 bedrooms, quiet location, stunning panoramic views. 420€ pcm - 965 745 969 (89468)
TV, ENTERTAINMENT EQUIPMENT, satellite, amplifiers, mixers, keyboards, etc. BLUESKY REPAIRS 966 875 283/626 430 671 WASHING MACHINE and all domestic repairs, Calpe / Campello BLUESKY REPAIRS 966 875 283/626 430 671 (101097)
Property for Rent APARTAMENTOS PLAYA ALBIR SL. Quality rental accommodation with reception, 2 beds, 2 bath. Washing machine, air con, sea views and swimming pool. Available for short or long term let. apartamentos@playaalbir.es / Tel/fax 966 866 206 (100774)
WINTER LET Calpe, Furnished 3 Beds 2 Bath House. Shared Pool / Tennis. October – May. 400es plus Bills. Refs and Deposit please. 965 875 531 / 608 250 649 (99524) BENIDORM Rincon. One bedroom Apartment – 2 people, long let. 460€ per month. Tel 696 772 049 (99666)
Property for Sale SELL your property with Schaich Estate Agents. See our main ad on front page. (101045) CALPE, La Calalga, 75 metres to the beach and local amenities. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, swimming pool, only €265,000. Tel: 629 991 543 (99211) OLIVA, 500 metres from beach, 2000m2 plot with 98m2 prefab house, 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, good quality kitchen, large living/dining area, pool and mobile home included in the price €75,000. 658 368 653 (201910) NEW Ecological Villas under construction of 140m2 with sea views in Costa Benissa, show home available to view, prices from €349,000 fully inclusive of all taxes! Tel 695 831 044 (204952) DENIA. Mongo. 3 bedroomed villa, 2 bathrooms. Pool 10m x 4m. Parking for 8 cars. Plot 800m2. 230,000€. 965 785 310 / 606 302 643 (99638) MOBILE HOME wallaby, Granada, 35x12 2 bed, 2001, excellent condition, must be viewed, 16,000€. Telephone 669 089 054 (200959)
Prop. Maintenance MADE IN SPAIN - Property & garden maintenance - Property management. 652 090 017 / 965 878 028 www.madeinspain.co madein_s@yahoo.co.uk (99546)
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BENIDORM & SURROUNDING AREAS, 2 men removals, house clearances. Also regular trips to UK. 655 239 797 (101110)
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Structural Surveys MARK PADDON BSc Hons. Building surveying. MCIOB, CAAT. From 245€ + IVA. Insured and legally registered in Spain. Tel: 653 733 066 / 962 807 247 www.costablancasurveyors.com
FURNITURE VAN FOR HIRE with driver. Careful local moves, Costa Blanca & UK. Hourly rate or fixed price. Call 676 644 014
VERY LONG TERM LET WANTED Javea area. Must have 4 beds & pool. Up to €700 pcm paid. 648 065 224 (99509)
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REMOVAL wanted from northern Spain to Costa Blanca. Sensible quote, eg part-loaded van returning from UK. Gone2asturias@hot mail.co.uk 622 657 632 (99650)
Roller Shutters CORDS, slats, winding mechanisms, motors. Calpe + 40 kms. Tony Bowers 659 464 992 www.toldosalchemy.com (99623)
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SCRAP VEHICLES wanted for cash. Call 646 726 377 (101035)
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CONTENEDORES MATA - SKIP HIRE 3-5-10M3. Tel 965 790 172 / 679 440 046 (99501)
MADE TO MEASURE loose covers. Choose from a wide range of materials in your own home. Javea area 686 453 827 (201876)
JAVEA SKIP HIRE 626 670 038, Moraira, Benissa, Calpe, Denia from S & W TOOL HIRE & FERRETERIA MORAIRA (99645)
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MAN & VAN Costa Blanca North Removals / delivery, house & garden clearance. Competitive rates. UK fixed prices. Call Graham 965 730 382 / 644 114 876 (101069)
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LOOSE COVERS, CURTAINS ETC. Made to Measure. Choose from a wide range of beautiful fabrics in your own home. Tel: 965 771 397 or 686 453 827 (97456)
EUROPEAN removals and transport with scheduled UK routes. UK Company, fully legal, taking loads from 5kg to 24,000kg. Lowest prices and the best service. 952 816 582 or www.focus-transport .com (96826)
SPAIN2UK2SPAIN man and van. Trips between UK/Spain twice a month. Excellent rates. en quiries@spain2uk2spain.com. Also local removals and deliveries. Christine 965 571 837 / 638 261 341
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Infiniti to launch Sebastian Vettel’s tailor-made road car THE most powerful and expensive Infiniti ever made is the realisation of double F1 World Champion Sebastian Vettel’s wishes. The Infiniti FX Vettel Edition features more focus and ability than standard. It is endowed with a bespoke aerodynamic, aesthetic and technical nature that draws on Formula One practices. The first cars will be delivered on March 2013. In the journey from concept to production – the company said - Red Bull Racing’s Sebastian Vettel was instrumental in the model’s development and, as part of the test driving team, in providing the crucial feedback needed by the engineers to bring his sporting vision to life.
INSPIRED: The first car is promised for the hands of the double World Champion. The German driver continues to be central to the FX Vettel project by participating in the VIP hospitality for the 150 people around the world who will join him in this exclusive motoring club. Each Infiniti FX Vettel Edition is powered by a naturally-aspirated 420PS 5.0-litre V8 engine which
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BTCC thrilling finale with a new Scottish champion GORDON SHEDDEN left the Kent venue as the newly crowned 2012 British Touring Car Champion. Shedden, from Fife, became the first Scottish driver to lift the UK prize since his own hero, John Cleland, in 1995. Matt Neal and first-time winners Aron Smith and Frank Wrathall shared the victories in the final three races of the Dunlop MSA BTCC season on a wet Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit. Furthermore, drivers and teams using Honda’s Civic model have achieved a clean sweep of all five BTCC titles. In addition to Shedden, Andrew Jordan collected the
Independent Drivers Trophy, Honda /Dynamics the Manufacturers /Constructors Championship and the Honda Yuasa Racing Team and Pirtek Racing the outright HiQ and Independent teams’ trophies respectively. For Shedden, being crowned BTCC Champion is a boyhood dream come true. The 33-year-old from Dalgety Bay commented: “All I ever wanted as a kid was to race touring cars – it was never about F1 – and it was John Cleland who was my hero when I used to go and catch a glimpse of the BTCC at my home track of Knockhill in Fife.”
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Under-par Levante lose out ECCL new boys Levante Cricket Club travelled down to The Woodbridge Oval, and after electing to bat first scored an under par 157 from the 35 overs on offer. Bowling first the SACC second string took control as Tyler Brown and Kieran Perman bowled excellent four over spells and removed the top order batsmen. Braithewaite did not get a wicket until his second spell, Graham Hunt quickly got into the 30s before an excellent catch by Braithewaite at 2nd slip ended his innings. Pilkington was the second Levante player to trouble the bowlers and hit a fine 50 before Braithwaite had him caught at gully, while Cooper also got amongst the wickets having Little stumped by Bryne’s and Laundon holding on to one from Murphy, innings over for 157 from 33.1 overs. Nix and McKinstry started for SACC, but Nix gave Pilkington and Levante their first wicket. Laundon joined McKinstry and watched in horror as McKinstry hit one to Bhavin and called for a single. Bhavin threw down the stumps with McKinstry well short, 15 for 2 from four overs. Tyler Brown and Laundon took the score towards the 100 mark, wides and no balls helping the SACC score along. Laundon was bowled after drinks and then an amazing collapse occurred, Cooper, Byrnes and Marriner all returned to the hut without troubling the scorer. Perman junior also only knocking a single. from 102 for 2 to 103 for 7. Debutant Keane gave the bowling attack some grief, reaching 37 and hitting eight 4s, the target of 158 being passed.
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FRIENDLY MATCH: Orihuela and Solihull RFC at the ground.
Home side dominate the opposition team SOLIHULL RFC were thrilled to be invited to Orihuela rugby ground to compete in a friendly rugby match. The match was played in three parts, with the
last third mixing the teams for a bit of fun. A vigorous game was played by both teams, with the home side winning with a victorious score of 49-20, but there
were no hard feelings as Solihull were delighted for the opportunity to play. The next home match will be played in three weeks time against
Good scores for Orba Warblers TWENTY-EIGHT players travelled to Bonalba for the Warblers game on October 24. The course was not in the best condition due to ongoing maintenance. This did not deter from some good scores with Michael Taylor topping Division 1 with 42 points off 13.9 and enjoying a 1.8 cut in his handicap. In second place was Fred
Cooley, 11.1, with 37 points and third was Tony Young scoring 35 points off 14.2 Division 2 was won by Sheila Dindar with 37 points off 20.6. The nearest the pin winners were Fred Cooley on the fourth, guest Deryk Edwards on the eighth, Sylvia Mortensen on the 11th and Steve Robinson on the 14th .
Gordon Holloway received a ball for a ‘two’ on the 14th. The next fixture is on Wednesday November 7 at La Sella. The first tee is at 9.12am so we would like you there before 8.25 for a two tee start. Guests are welcome subject to a current handicap certificate. To book call 634 351 950 or www.orbawarblers.com.
Salute for Captain’s Day at Oliva Nova BLUE skies over Oliva Nova Golf Course on October 23 welcomed members and guests of Pego Golf Society to support our captain Steve Patton and celebrate his ‘Captain’s Day’. The captain’s guests were Campbell Lamont, Rob Westland and representing Oliva Nova management team, Vincente. The day started with coffee and croissants, before the teams gathered to play a better ball matchplay format, with lots of friendly rivalry. Despite it being Captain’s Day, the competition was won by our vice-captain
Mike Holloway and his team with an 8:5 victory. Nearest the pin: Hole 3: Donna Green, Hole 6: Clive Wright, Hole 11: Campbell Lamont, Hole 16: Terry Leary. Nearest the pin in 2: Hole 5: Danny Herron, Hole 18: Brendan Young. Balls in the water 137: correctly guessed by Russ Peters. Following the golf we all gathered for lunch in the clubhouse restaurant. Next week as usual at Oliva Nova. Entries via the website www.pegogolfsociety.com.
UCAM. For information on Orihuela RFC or to join the club, call Garry on 692 767 242, new players are always welcome no matter what age or skill level.
CONTINUING their winning streak, Calpe Bowls Club dominated over visitors El Cid Spears with a 72 shots to 52 shots win, cementing them with another eight league points. The undefeated team of Alan and Alison Edwards and Enid Duxbury had a hard battle against Ian Brown’s trio, but triumphed 15-12. Stan Walmsley benefited from the excellent bowling of wife Betty and Sheila Garnham who led all the way to a 21-12 win. Kate Sayers run of bad luck was finally put to bed through some inspired bowling, and with the very able support of Alan Steed and Dave Adams, they prevailed to a 21-7 win.
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WORLD CHAMPION: Spain’s Jorge Lorenzo takes the 2012 MotoGP title.
All square on Merseyside as Lorenzo and Vettel win again FOOTBALL - Three English teams suffered Champions League defeats last week, although at least Arsenal and Manchester City bounced back to record hard-fought wins in the Premier League. Also, three PL sides were involved in Europa League action: Liverpool defeated mega-rich Russian club FC Anzhi 10, Newcastle overcame Bruges by the same score and Spurs drew 1-1 with NK Maribor. At the weekend, the 219th Merseyside derby ended level at 2-2... PL leaders Chelsea (reduced to nine men by referee Mark Clattenburg)
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followed Champions League disappointment with a 3-2 home defeat to Manchester United... Manchester City scraped home 1-0 versus Swansea (in the PL’s longest-ever game, 115 minutes in total)... Arsenal pipped 10-man QPR, also 1-0... Newcastle scored late to beat WBA, Spurs won at Southampton and Wigan upset West Ham, all by 21... Reading and Fulham shared six goals... Stoke and Sunderland failed to score... three Bennetts (one of whom was sentoff) played in the Aston
DID YOU KNOW? Footballers’ current whereabouts: David Bentley (FC Rostov, Russia), Chris Boyd (Portland Timbers), Michael Bridges and Emile Heskey (Newcastle Jets, Australia), Rob Earnshaw (Maccabi Tel Aviv), Francis Jeffers (Floriana, Malta), Kenny Miller and Barry Robson (Vancouver Whitecaps) and JLloyd Samuel (Esteghlal, Iran). Villa-Norwich 1-1 draw... Championship high-fliers Cardiff crushed Burnley 40... Tranmere, 1-1 with Preston North End, and Gillingham, 1-0 winners at Wimbledon, remain top of Leagues One and Two respectively... And Kilmarnock’s 2-0 victory at Celtic was their first at Parkhead in 57 years.
Soccer Extra • With 32 first round FA Cup-ties this weekend, you can expect a few upsets for sure and 76,000 fans will watch Manchester United play Arsenal in the PL. • Two more managers have lost their jobs Neale Cooper at Hartlepool and Paul Jewell at Ipswich. Meanwhile, Dougie Freedman is officially Bolton’s new boss, Sean Dyche could move in at Burnley and Blackburn are chasing Harry Redknapp, along with a few other managerless clubs! • Don’t be surprised if Chelsea lose ‘out of contract’ stars Ashley Cole and Frank Lampard in January. • When fighting broke out during the Uruguayan game between Libertad and Farina, the worried (and scared) referee ran from the pitch before redcarding 36 players - 22 in action at the time, plus 14 subs/reserves. He also booked both managers and four coaches. • Hard-up Greek club, Voukefalas, has been handed a lifeline by Madam Soula who runs a local brothel. She bought the club a new pink strip with a logo on the front
reading ‘Villa Erotica’ and one on the back saying ‘Soula’s House of Mystery’. The ‘Lady of the Night’ has promised another £8,000 if performances improve! Sports Round-Up * The New England Patriots walloped the St Louis Rams 45-7 in the annual American Football showdown at Wembley on Sunday. * Double Olympic champion Mo Farah may go for the 10,000m/ marathon double at the 2016 Oympics. * England’s rugby union head coach Stuart Lancaster, despite Jonny Wilkinson’s advice, has NOT selected any Frenchbased players in his squad for this winter’s early Test Matches which start against Fiji on November 10. * England with 14 tries, blitzed Wales by a record 80 points to 12 in their autumn Rugby League International series at Wrexham. * It was Sebastian Vettel, Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber 1-2-3 in the India GP. With three races to go, Vettel, after four successive wins in Asia, leads the driver’s championship by 13 points from Alonso. Out of F1 for five years, France may get a race
back in 2013. * Spain’s Jorge Lorenzo is the 2012 MotoGP world champion. He finished second behind home favourite Casey Stoner in last Sunday’s race in Australia to claim the title for a second time. * Padraig Harrington, with a second round 67, won the PGA Grand Slam of Golf by one stroke from Webb Simpson in Bermuda. There have also been tournament wins for Peter Hansen, ahead of Rory McIlroy in Shanghai, and for Nick Watney in the Asia Pacific Classic. * Next year’s Tour de France will not suit Bradley Wiggins, as it will contain a lot of mountain climbing which isn’t to his liking. Last week ‘Bradders’ said he’ll probably sacrifice defending his title and assist Sky team-mate and climbing specialist Chris Froome in the race. * Drug cheat and disgraced American cyclist Lance Armstrong has been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, won between 1999 and 2005. He’s also been told to pay back some of his winnings, around $7.6 million. The ICU has said that his titles will not be awarded to any other riders.