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Beer fest ELCHE celebrates its annual Oktoberfest this weekend with free entrance to the event at the Miguel Hernandéz University from today (Thursday) at 7pm until Sunday.
Strike poll PRIOR to yesterday’s (Wednesday) general strike, 49 per cent of those surveyed locally indicated they would support it.
PHARMACY STRIKE: Queues form outside an open chemist’s in La Marina.
Insulin alert as chemists close DIABETES sufferers are increasingly concerned about getting their insulin with the pharmacy strike now in its second week. With many finding it harder to find supplies, they were urged to head to local health centres and hospitals.
President of the Provincial Association of Diabetics Mercedes Sanchez said: “We are advising patients to go to hospitals or health centres, where there will not be a problem, in case they cannot find the medication in pharmacies.”
Passengers run away as bus prices rise PUBLIC bus services lost 29.6 per cent of passengers in the Murcia Region in September. This is the highest drop registered in Spain. The figures published by the National Statistics Institute coincide with the bus fare increase, applied in mid-August by company Latbus. In addition, Latbus decided to get rid of all the discounted tickets, including the monthly pass and those specially aimed at school and university students.
The health department has been receiving calls warning of the shortage. Arantxa Cervera, the president of the provincial association, said the situation was ‘worrying’ as patients were being forced to visit several pharmacies to find the insulin or test strips they need This situation is particularly difficult for people in small towns and the elderly who are unable to travel. Pharmacies started their strike last week, in protest at the lack of payment by the regional government. Minister for Health Luis Rosado said: “The desire of the department is to end the conflict as soon as possible.”
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€65,000 aid for children’s charity A €65,000 grant has been given to the APANEE charity that helps children with special needs by Torrevieja Town Hall.
Humanitarian aid
Unkindest cuts
EVICTIONS have built the first bridge between the PP and the PSOE since the 2011 elections. A police union will support officers who call in sick rather than eject mortgage defaulters from their homes. Now it remains for the villains of the piece to play their part and it looks as though the banks might do so. Not from shame, but to protect their reputation. Such as it is.
SPAIN’S regions face the biggest spending cuts they have yet experienced. Soon it will be apparent whether regional pride expressed as nationalism is genuine or opportunist. Local and regional politics have traditionally been regarded as permission to mint money but the big-spending days are over. Can all that regional pride and passion survive the new ordeal of penury? Or will it turn out to be cupboard love?
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Looking ahead ABOUT 200 trees and shrubs were planted as part of a reforestation campaign in Aigües d'Elx by parents and children from Elche, Santa Pola and Alicante.
A PHOTOGRAPHY exhibition detailing Elche’s famous palm trees is on display at the city’s Miguel Hernández University. Paco Cascales spent two years photographing small details of trees unseen to the human eye.
FLASHBACK: Christmas in full flow last year, but October has seen shops begin the 2012 festive build-up.
40 days left, and counting down
On right road TWENTY Alicante municipalities have received grants for roadworks, with €831,904 given to repair, adapt and strengthen roads.
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UST 40 days are left until Christmas. Shop shelves and window displays have been increasingly festive in recent weeks, and with the number of shopping days remaining now down to a mere 33 - plus perhaps the bonus of some Sundays by some stores - the countdown is clearly under way. Whether the big celebration is on December 25, or January 6 for the Spanish who tend to identify more with Three Kings, family budgets are always squeezed at this time of year. But on the plus side with the dire economic woes ongoing, many stores fighting for their
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THIRTY FIVE people are attending a course for pesticide handlers in Pilar de la Horadada being funded by the Agricultural Research Institute.
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THE Rotary Club of Alicante has donated four bicycles adapted to wheelchair users to the Lucas Kosch Foundation, which is dedicated to children and youths with multiple disabilities.
Pest course
HEAVY storms have swept through the region, with 30 litres per square metre of rain recorded in Torrevieja .
RENOVATION work on La Alcudia Museum in Elche should be finished so it can reopen in spring, with window and electrical fitting installation now underway. The work began in August 2010.
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A TOTAL of €120,000 has been given for various municipality work including the improvement of the plaza and Casa de Cultura in Catral, and the reform of Unión Musical classrooms in Daya Nueva .
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I can’t believe that banks bailed out by the government won’t even answer the phone. This is why we ordered the withdrawal of €1.5 million of City Hall funds from Bankia.’
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Mayor Jose Manuel Bermudez
tills to ring continue to offer special discounts to attract extra business, with these set to remain in the festive build-up. “I will not have money to spend on many extras this Christmas with a tight family budget, and rising electricity and other costs following the VAT increases,” said local expatriate mother Lisa Stewart. “But by adding odd extras to the food cupboard over the next four or so weeks there will be some extra treats along with a few presents. Also I will save money this year by not sending as many cards, using the internet to greet friends back home in England,” added Lisa.
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Iberia airline staff members may be fired and pilots’ salaries could be cut by up to 47 per cent, according to plans submitted by the company to the trades unions.
MUNICIPALITIES in Alicante, Benidorm, Denia, Elche, Elda, Orihuela, San Vicente, Torrevieja and Xàbia have seen their incomes drop by more than €300 million in three years, though this is the lowest since the crisis began in 2007.
Light savings MORE than 13 per cent has been saved on public light expense by the Murcia City Hall, as they have awarded the contract to a new company, Electromur.
First snows SOME inland towns in the north-east of Murcia region, including Caravaca de la Cruz and Moratalla, were covered with snow due to the cold weather front.
and finally... A CANCER study conducted by the Barcelona Biomedical Research Institute has proved successful in preventing the spread of colon cancer in cases where a tumour had been previously detected.
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Children hurt in gate fall at Ochoa park A YOUNG girl is recovering in hospital following an operation to repair her fractured femur after a wrought iron gate fell on her. The 10 year-old was playing with other children in the Severo Ochoa park in Orihuela when the accident happened. As they swung on the park’s gate it snapped off and fell onto the youngsters. Several escaped with bruises but Marcia Carceles suffered from a shattered femur bone. Her father has criticised the state of the gate and asked why no one had noticed that is was completely rusting away, particularly as it was locked at night and opened every day.
Plants uprooted in rubbish collection A WAR between councillors is hotting up after town hall workers uprooted plants and shrubs from around the home of Orihuela Costa representative Bob Houliston. Four workers from the town hall’s maintenance brigade, operating under the authority of Pedro Mancebo, councillor for Maintenance and Infrastructure, tore up the plants which Houliston had planted 20 years ago. He said: “It was more than likely an act of revenge in the war of the collection of garden rubbish which Pedro Mancebo, and the services which work for him, are waging on the citizens of Orihuela Costa. “They are blaming the residents for the town hall’s failure to efficiently and reliably remove garden waste from the streets.” But Bob is not too disappointed. “The job of looking after and pruning these bushes no longer has the same environmental imperative as before. So, thank you Pedro Mancebo.”
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Skirt safety A GUST of wind in her skirts worked for Marilyn Monroe, but aides to Queen Elizabeth II take care to avoid any such incident for the monarch by sewing weights into her dresses.
Feline felon
RUBBISH REMOVAL: Council workers remove trees from fellow councillor’s home. “But if he is capable of ordering the uprooting and removal of bushes growing happily embedded in the pavement
around my house, why can’t he organise the removal of dead garden waste from the streets of the coast?”
A CAT in Wingrave, Buckinghamshire, reported to police for fighting dogs and stealing neighbours’ food, has been slapped with the feline equivalent of an Asbo. He been placed on house arrest and will be given flower essences to keep him calm.
Cookie test BISCUITS have been scientifically proven to taste better when dunked in tea – according to TV chef Heston Blumenthal. The tea experiment features in the third episode of new Channel 4 series Heston’s Fantastical Food.
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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: On stage later this month.
It’s panto time at Networks Theatre BEAUTY and the Beast is on stage at the new Networks Theatre, Orihuela, written and directed by their panto expert Nick Moore. Networks Theatre has been presenting pantomimes for the past 10 years and this much-loved story is brought to life in this production that will have you laughing out loud, then weeping a tear of joy as the Beast and Beauty find love in the enchanted castle. The show is on Thursday November 29 at 8.15pm, Friday November 30 at 9pm and Saturday December 1 at 6pm and 9pm. For tickets call 966 740 251, or email theatreinorihuela@yahoo.com.
BBC bosses told Professor Brian Cox that he could not attempt to listen to a newlydiscovered planet on the TV show Stargazing Live in case aliens breached the corporation’s editorial guidelines.
Red faced TWO robbers faced an embarrassing wait to be rescued after they leapt 20ft down an embankment in a bid to avoid arrest, only to find themselves stranded on a riverbank. The pair had to wait half an hour until West Midlands Fire Service rescued them.
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Counting the cost of strike THE Costa Blanca is today (Thursday) returning to normal as Spain counts the cost of yesterday’s nationwide general strike call. The strike brought some parts of the country to a virtual standstill, with the major cities including Madrid and Barcelona particularly badly hit. Transport services and businesses felt the main effects of the strike action, with the work stoppage coming just eight months after the last general strike in Spain on March 29. Yesterday’s action in Spain coincided with general strikes in Portugal, Malta, Cyrus, Greece and other European countries, and was called by unions to protest at austerity plans in the face of the present economic crisis. Spain’s Union Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) said there was ‘no other option’ to the strike call, while the Union General de Trabajadores (UGT) stressed that people should not be ‘afraid to lose a day’s pay’ because the issues at stake nationally were more impotant. In many parts of Spain the two main unions were joined by smaller sector alliances, as well as by student and residents’ groups. Pickets were on duty throughout the day, stopping workers from entering some companies. Meanwhile, pickets stopped shoppers from entering some shopping malls, thereby ensuring that businesses and restaurants where staff had turned up for work did not have any customers.
Phone sex scandal councillor resigns THE Torrevieja councillor at the heart of a mobile phone sex scandal has resigned. It comes following weeks of investigation and speculation after it emerged that councillors had allegedly used their official mobile phone to call X-rated premium numbers with the taxpayer picking up the bill. The councillor for sports and education, Daniel Plaza, reportedly admitted using his phone to call sex lines, but later denied it, claiming he was only returning missed calls. Now Plaza, backed by Mayor Eduardo Dolon, has resigned saying he was exhausted after the ‘media lynching that my family and I suffered’. The former Olympic athletic gold medallist said he was leaving with
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FROM LEFT: Dave Feest, Financial Manager with Diane Pickering, Shop Manager, and Sue Weeding, Co-founder of Easy Horse Care.
Horse care charity opens 5th shop
RESIGNING: Daniel Plaza denies involvement. his head held high knowing he had ‘done a good job’. Opposition parties are calling for a full investigation after it was
Bloomin’ beneficial festive florals MARINA Alta and Costa Blanca Floral Club are holding a demonstration on Thursday 22, presented by guest speaker Liz Broad from Merseyside. And Thursday December 13 will see Anne PamplinStoddart discussing FLORAL FANCIES: Liz festive florals, with with her blossoms. a presentation of funds raised. More information: 965 833 197.
found that several councillors used their mobile phones to call premium rate numbers.
EASY Horse Care Rescue Centre inaugurated its fifth charity shop last week in Guardamar. Situated on the main road through the town, co-founder Sue Weeding was on hand to open the store along with Taffeta, the first horse they rescued in 2008. Sue said this was a location that many people had asked for, further north than the others and easily accessible from the N-332. “These shops are working very nicely and proving to be important information points about the centre and increase awareness of what we do within the community. They provide us with vital funds and we will be opening more.” Manager Diane Pickering says the Guardamar store is open Monday to Friday 10am-4pm and Saturday 10am-2pm and they welcome donations of clothes, furniture and bric-a-brac.
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Light up your mind PEOPLE hoping to ignite an interest in science are being targeted in a series of lectures at Torrevieja science week. The fourth annual event, in collaboration with the Miguel Hernández university and the Municipal Institute of Culture, features a number of open lectures on a range of subjects The talks take place in the Virgen del Carmen Cultural Centre today on food technology, on Tuesday, when the subject will be sports technology and on Thursday when neuroscience will be discussed. All lectures start at 7.30pm.
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Shani goes to Hollywood THERE seems to be no stopping local Torrevieja girl Shani Ormiston. The popular singer who has graced stages around the Costa Blanca for many years, supporting good causes, may finally be on verge of a break into the major worldwide music scene. Apart from being voted by
NGOs and local associations to get grants PUBLIC grants will be awarded by Guardamar del Segura town hall to local associations and NGOs who are registered in the municipal listings. Grants, which cover around half of the costs, will be given for those activities held from December 1, 2011 and November 30, 2012. Equipment used during the activities will be included. Deadline is 10 days after the local ordinances are published.
readers of an English weekly as the best female singer around, she has just released her latest single, ‘Once Upon a Time’, now available on iTunes, the title song of her new album of her own compositions. Shani was also invited to represent Spain in October at an annual songwriters festival in Italy. In addition she had one of the tracks from the new CD awarded as the best pop song in a songwriters’ competition organised by the youth department of Alicante Diputacion. This song is a call to solidarity for solving the many problems facing humanity today, and is aptly named, ‘Brave’. Now Shani is off to participate in the prestigious Hollywood Music in Media Awards celebrations in the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles. Two of her compositions have been nominated at this red carpet celebration. This latest CD will be the basis of a benefit concert in aid of Alzheimer’s Association in
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Top awards WITH a total of 255 restaurants, Germany has surpassed its top number of restaurants awarded with Michelin guide stars.
Coffee tax STARBUCKS café chain has not paid federal income taxes since it started operating in the country back in 2002, a report by Reuters said, which was denied by the company.
Lucky slip SHANI ORMISTON: A local girl. Torrevieja Municipal Theatre on December 15 where the album will be on sale. Tickets for this live benefit show in Torrevieja can be bought at the ticket box office or the Servicam internet system.
A BANANA skin slip stopped a 39-year-old man from Bochum when he was about to stab his wife, court sources told Bild newspaper.
She believes CHANCELLOR Angela Merkel publicly spoke about her faith for the first time: “I believe in God and religion is my constant companion,” she said in a video blog.
So corrupt
ALL TOGETHER: We made a huge paella.
Women mark 27th anniversary
FORMER treasurer of the Brandenburg Green Party Christian Goetjes admitted in court he stole more than €200,000 from the party’s accounts and spent it on prostitutes.
Teen horror
MORE than 280 local women gathered at Pilar de la Horadada’s Municipal Stall for a celebration lunch. They are members of the Housewives Association, which this year is marking its 27th anniversary. Among their next activities, a walk against gender violence is scheduled for Friday 16 at noon.
A YOUTH aged 19 was sentenced to 10 years in prison as he stabbed an elderly woman to death in Bielefeld, wearing a Halloween latex horror mask.
We took it to heart
Bunny escape
MORE than 100 mothers have attended workshops ‘We took it to heart’ organised by the Department of Health in Torrevieja. The breastfeeding workshops have helped mothers to learn about and experience different aspects of breastfeeding. The workshops have been conducted by the department healthcare professionals across the Torrevieja area.
A RABBIT jumped out of a compost bin in Görlitz when it was opened. “It would have died a miserable death,” an animal rights centre told Die Welt.
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13-year fight for justice leads couple to a life in Spain
WE all have our reasons for moving to Spain but for one couple, that reason is a little more serious; they cannot afford to live in the UK any more after years of injustice has cost them hundreds of thousands of pounds in legal fees. Robin and Lynda Watkins from Dorset were in a car crash in September 1999. A white van hit the back of their car whilst they were stationery. The crash was so severe it wrote off their car, causing them both injury resulting in fibromyalgia, a long-term condition which causes pain all over the body. Their insurance claim was handled by the Motor Insurers Bureau (MIB) the UK body which provides compensation for victims of accidents caused by uninsured and untraced drivers. “It was set up to protect innocent victims like us,” says Lynda, “but it has done
FIGHTING ON: Robin and Lynda Watkins. nothing but cause us more harm.” After years of solicitors’ letters going back and forth, in August 2001, they were told to see two MIB medical experts. As no progress was being made, in 2004, they instructed their own
medical reports, which were also sent to the MIB that year. In August 2005, Lynda was so frustrated that she sent an email direct to the MIB and a member of staff phoned them. “He did seem to get things moving but
then disappeared. We had to go and see a Dr Andrei Calin for more appointments and assessments,” they recalled. When they received a copy of Dr Calin’s report the couple said they were horrified at the catalogue of errors in it, stating that Lynda had lost a baby at 10 months and had been abused by her mother and husband. “This could have ripped my marriage apart,” said Lynda. “I could not have children and the abuse claims were ridiculous.” The doctor dismissed the error, saying his secretary had ‘spliced two dictaphone tapes together’. Robin and Lynda reported him to the General Medical Council (GMC). He was being investigated when their case went to arbitration. “We told our solicitor that surely the arbitration should have been held off until the GMC
decision had been reached. But the arbitration went ahead and the MIB arbitrator preferred the MIB’s medical witness whose fee was paid by the same organisation that paid his, namely the MIB. It all seems to be a big cover-up.” In 2010, they were offered £5,000 to cover legal fees but their costs had already exceeded £100,000. The couple lost their business and had to down-size their home in the UK to cover rising debt and legal fees costing them in excess of £500,000. The pair owned a holiday in Torrevieja but are now relocating permanently for cheaper living and on their doctor’s recommendation that the warmer climate would ease symptoms for their fibromyalgia. In the meantime their fight continues.
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Residents fight on to evict ‘illegal’ tenants
RESIDENTS of Vegamar I in Almoradi are so fed up with paying the price of illegal rentals in their apartment block that they are asking the Press to highlight their situation. “We have done all the legal things we can do but the justice system is very slow,” says Marie Carmen Gómez from Afina, the administrators for Vegamar I. Problems arose as soon as residents began moving into the building in 2008. There are 126 apartments and 32 belong to the
promoter Proalto. They are currently going through the bankruptcy process with the courts in Alicante and a curator, appointed by the courts, is responsible for the 32 apartments. He has made a denuncia to the Guardia Civil in respect of the illegal letting of these apartments by a former Proalto employee who also lives in Vegamar I and has keys for the properties. “He just rents them out to anyone and does not care and
keeps all the money,” says community president Antoinette van Wouden. “These families have no respect for the rules and pay no community fees.” The ‘illegal’ tenants and the former employee are said to be tapping in to the private and community electricity supply for which the owners are paying the bill. “It is very problematic,” adds Marie Carmen. “Now there are three or four apartments connected to one meter, which is illegal and
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VEGAMAR I: Residents want illegal tenants evicted. dangerous but Iberdrola do not seem to care. “It is very difficult to explain to the residents why, since we
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Up, up and away fun day HUNDREDS of balloons will fill the air this weekend at the AECC cancer charity fun day on Saturday. The event starts at 1pm with all day entertainment on the terrace of Evolution at La Fuente Commercial Centre near to Campoamor Golf Course. Entertainers generously donating their time are, DJ Sammy Starr, Geoff Watts, Paul Allen, Suzy G, ABBA 2 and The Soul Power. For children there will be face painting and a pool competition. There will also be a fashion show by Tiger Feet of La Fuente and a raffle with prizes. The main event will be the release of hundreds of pink balloons at around 3.30pm. Each balloon will have a card tied to it with the purchaser’s details and the balloon that travels the furthest will win €100.
Visit to Teatreo Romea TO mark the 150th anniversary of the Teatro Romea de Murcia, the Office for the Urbanisations in La Marina has organised an excursion which takes in a tour of the theatre. Departure is from the Social Centre, on urbanisation La Marina at 8.15am on Thursday December 13. The visit to the theatre lasts about an hour and will take place in two groups. During the rest of the time you will be free to explore with information provided about interesting places to visit, shops and restaurants near the theatre. Those interested in signing up to this free tour can do so at the Office for the Urbanisations, Calle Madrid No. 5 from Monday to Friday between 9.00am and 1.30pm hours until Friday November 30.
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Officials from Alicante to have bunker lessons OFFICIALS from Alicante have visited Almeria to learn from the city’s highly successful Civil War
shelters tourist attraction. The shelters were discovered by accident during building work
for an underground car park 11 years ago on the Rambla del Obispo.
Harley-Davidsons in Guardamar GUARDAMAR has hosted its fifth annual event for the Harley-Davidson Club of Alicante. The weekend event saw hundreds of Harley owners and enthusiasts descend on the town as the Reina Sofia park was transformed into a meeting point with live music and market stalls. Two visitors were Brenda and Eddie Westwick who are passionate about bikes and regularly went on rally weekends in the UK but feel a little left out here in Spain. “The scene here is not the same, they are very snobbish if you do not actually own a Harley-Davidson. It is a totally different atmosphere.”
HUNDREDS of tourists visited Alicante as the Azura cruised into port. The two-week Mediterranean cruise arrived early in the morning and was the first chance passengers had of leaving the luxury ship since it left from Southampton four days earlier, as the first scheduled stop in Gibraltar was cancelled due to high winds. Guests were given the option of additional excursions to neighbouring towns such as Elche, but many took Alicante’s Turibus visiting the city’s sights on the open deck tourist bus.
BIKERS MEET: Harley-Davidson club meets in Guardamar.
Since opening to the public in December 2006 after restoration they have become the city’s number one tourist attraction, with more visitors than the Moorish Alcazaba. Now Alicante hopes to copy the successful format despite the fact that its shelters are just ‘small bunkers.’ A team of two councillors and a provincial deputy took notes and asked for advice from their counterparts in Almeria. They were guided around the almost 1km of shelters by Almeria Culture Councillor Ramón Fernández-Pacheco, who invited them to return to study them more closely so that they could better understand the ‘cultural, historic and tourist’ dimensions of the attraction.
Azura cruise ship visits port
HAPPY COUPLE: Visitors to Alicante, Anne Fisher and Carl Thomson enjoyed their time in the city. But what did visitors think about our major city? Euro Weekly News
reporter Gemma Quinn went along to find out... “I like the castle and the
mixture of old and new in the town.” Said Anne Fisher, 31, who was visiting with her fiancée Carl Thomson, 31. The couple had got engaged on the ship just two days earlier. Carl added, “It’s our first time to Alicante but I like the mix of beach right next to an historic town.” The Jenkinson family from North Wales had also enjoyed the beach despite the dull skies. Mum Angela said, “It’s our first time to Alicante but I like it. The shops were very cheap so I’ve bought all my
souvenirs and it was very easy to get around. I would come again and that is why we do the cruises, so we can see what places we like.” However the whistle stop tour wasn’t favourable for everyone. Mr and Mrs Ganon said, “We haven’t seen a lot of it and what we did see seemed a little scruffy.” Valerie Mollet was equally unimpressed, “I haven’t thought a lot of Alicante, not many people spoke English and I expected more shops like Marks and Spencer.”
Children’s cash help
CHARITY FOR CHILDREN: Lorraine Johnson with Sara, director of the home.
FUNDRAISER Lorraine Johnson has donated €550 to help the children’s home in Elche. Lorraine has raised the money in just a few months through the opening of a small charity shop at Cars R Us on the Lemon Tree Road, Guardamar. She handed over the money to Sara, the director of the children’s home, when she visited the centre.
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Paintings up for charity auction
DUTCH painter Rudy Zee has donated an original painting to Paul Cunningham Nurses (PCN). His generous offer came after reading in EWN about how another of his paintings was up for auction to raise funds for the charity. His picture of an abandoned car in the Australian desert was donated by Pauline Costello. She bought it for her husband Niall after he became ill and now feels it is time to give something back as PCN cared for Niall during his final weeks. After hearing what Pauline had done Rudy decided to donate another painting, this time a serene Buddha and flower image. He hopes it will raise hundreds for the charity that helped Pauline and Niall.
GOING GOING GONE! Dutch artist Rudy Zee donates painting to charity auction.
The painting can be viewed at Ma Rigby’s in Cabo Roig, and anyone interested in placing a bid can email gemma.quinn@ euroweeklynews.com with
your name, phone number and NIE or passport number. The email auction closes on November 30 for both paintings.
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Cuts mean closures NAVARRA, despite being one of Spain’s most prosperous regions, is to close its delegations in Madrid and Brussels. The Madrid delegation will close early next year, bringing savings of an annual €90,000 in staff wages and upkeep. It opened in 2001 to promote Navarra’s business interests and tourism while liaising with central government. Despite closing its offices in Brussels, which cost an annual €72,000 to rent, Navarra will maintain its presence there by moving to Spain’s Permanent Representation to the European Union. This step was recommended by Mariano Rajoy when he took over last year.
A BIG THANK YOU: To all those involved.
Golf tournaments lend their support for 2012 annual poppy appeal THE Lo Crispin Golf Society organised an open golf tournament at the Vista Bella golf course to support Torrevieja Royal British Legion in their 2012 poppy appeal. Over 40 players enjoyed a great game of golf with Gordon Turley winning first prize, Ronnie
Gibson coming second and Ray Moles third. On November 6 the very active Torrevieja Royal British Legion members held their own annual tournament at El Plantio golf course in Alicante and even though the conditions were a bit on the cool side and very wet to
say the least, there was still a great turnout and a fantastic atmosphere. Gordon Turley won the Sir Nick Faldo Trophy, Sam Curtis was second and Lenka Beresova came third. In total these two events raised a fantastic €1,078! RBL Torrevieja want to thank
all their sponsors and those who supported the events, especially Lloyds Bank International who provided them with golf goody bags for all competitors, some fabulous prizes and attended both events to lend their support. Don’t forget to buy your poppy!
Drivers choose old over new FOUR second-hand cars were sold for every new vehicle last October. Ownership transfers were carried out for 170,757 used cars, a 29 per cent increase. The year’s total rose to 1,322,980 and if
second hand sales continue at this rate they could reach 1.6 million by the end of December. In 2007, as the economic crisis began to deepen, sales were evenly split between new and used cars. The average age of a used car in Spain will reach 9.4 years by the end of the year although the number of cars over 10 years old is jumped turnstiles when the increasing, dealers said. Aoki began his act. Their sales grew by 39 Around 23,000 people per cent in October, but were crammed into an private transactions installation authorised for accounted for 57 per cent 10,660. Most were on the of the total, an increase of ground floor although the 28 per cent on last year. public was supposed to be Prices for new cars distributed evenly through- shrank by 4.9 per cent in out the Madrid Arena October to an average €12,400. The €2,000 building’s three floors. from the Overcrowding is not allowance unusual for a Diviertt event, government’s Plan PIVE claimed an employee in the was mainly responsible, leisure sector. “This was plus manufacturers’ special normal. Many tickets were offers on low-pollution sold ‘in the black.’” vehicles.
Madrid Arena admitted too many people to festival TOO many people were admitted to the Madrid Arena mini-festival which claimed four lives in a crowd-surge last month, police confirmed. Only 9,600 entrance tickets were issued, organisers Diviertt later claimed. Investigators now believe 19,600 were sold for the Halloween electrohouse concert featuring American DJ Steve Aoki, sources revealed. A further 3,000 people gatecrashed and many
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Moving within Spain in search of a job SPANIARDS are beginning to migrate to different regions within the country in search of a job. This is a relatively new trend among Spanish people, which have traditionally been very close to their roots and refused to move out from their province, International Financial Analysts (AFI) expert Sara Baliña said. Obviously, there are ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ in this new national migration trend. Thus, figures by the National Statistics Institute say that – from January to September, 2012 - more than 8,300 people moved away from Castilla-La Mancha, while some other 7,400 did it from the Castilla y Leon region. Both are the top out-flow regions in Spain. In Andalucia, more than 5,800 had to pack their suitcase and try their chances away. Surprisingly, a traditionally incoming region like Catalonia also lost some 3,500 fellow compatriots. On the positive side, most migrants (13,650) have chosen Madrid as the favourite place to find employment, followed by the Balearics (nearly 5,550).
REMEMBERING: Remembrance services were held across the province.
We will always remember them REMEMBRANCE Day services were held across the province as the young and old came together to remember those who gave their today for our tomorrow. The Torrevieja Branch of the Royal British Legion, formed in 1989, held their annual Service of Remembrance at the La Siesta Church which was
attended by the Mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolon. A service was also held by the Orihuela Costa branch as veterans were led by the sounds of the Torrevieja Pipes and Drums in a march through the streets to the service inside the small church of Mil Palmeras. Joined by local dignitaries
and mayors, at 11am everyone was united in a two minute silence to reflect on lost loved ones, past and present. In San Fulgencio, locals joined Mayor Carlos Ramírez and councillor Jeff Wiszniewski in the municipality’s first Remembrance Service held outside the town hall.
Age-linked diseases prevention a priority
AS the European population over 65 is expected to double in the forthcoming 50 years, the viability of the public health system may be at risk. Thus, prevention of chronic diseases linked to aging has been
reported by Spanish authorities as being a top priority for the European Union. The elderly population in Spain is nearly as high as 17 per cent, and the share of people over 80 years old – which currently stands at 4.1 per cent – will keep growing in the next few years, Spanish Health and Consumption Secretary General Pilar Farjas recently said during an EU summit. But while CIS polls say In mid October, the CiU will not make enough Spanish Ministry of Health Congress seats to get hold published its Strategy for of absolute majority addressing Chronic (between 63 and 64, when Diseases. Aim of the new the majority is set in 68), strategy is to set goals and CEO polls say they will get recommendations that will between 69 and 71, which effectively manage health would be enough. CiU party service deliveries to improve population’s holds 62 Congress seats. and its It is not clear which will health be the second political determinants, strengthen force. CEO estimates PP prevention of health right-wing party will get conditions and reduce 18 to 19 seats, while PSC limitations in chronic and would drop to the current comprehensive care. 28 to 15.
CiU set to rule again in Catalonia, polls say THE electoral campaign started in Catalonia for a new regional Government to see the light on November 25. First polls run by the national Sociological Research Centre (CIS) and its equivalent in Catalonia (CEO) yielded similar conclusions. CiU pro-autonomy rightwing party would win the elections again and socialist party PSC will notably decrease its number of congress representatives.
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…and the poor get poorer SOCIAL benefits in Spain do not reach the people who really need them, it was claimed last week. They help to reduce poverty by only 51 per cent, according to Jaime Lanaspa, managing director of the bank’s social Foundation. After two years on benefits, 54.6 per cent remain poor, he revealed. Around 30 per cent of Spaniards escape poverty by their own means, compared to the EU average of 20 per cent. “In other words, when things get bad they have ways of getting by,” said Lanaspa. Poverty has grown in Spain more than almost any other EU country and 2.4 million people now live below the poverty threshold of €3,700 a year, found the report. Families, which have acted as buffers during the crisis, are now stretched to the limit.
El Prado budget cuts not a pretty picture CASTELLON airport has not received one passenger since opening in March 2011 but receives better funding than El Prado. The Madrid art museum, which
A lions spectacle MORE THAN 8,000 spectacles have been donated by the Torrevieja Costa Lions Club, helping to drastically improve the lives of children in the third world. Old glasses are handed to the Specsavers store, passed to the Lion’s Club and delivered to the recycling centre near Alicante, where they are distributed to the needy.
houses one of the world’s best collections, has been allocated only €11.2 million for 2013 compared with €17 million for the Valencian Community airport. He was shocked when El Prado’s
allocation was slashed by 30 per cent and he learnt it was 35 per cent less than the airport’s, admitted the director Miguel Zugaza. “We have reached a point where we have to question whether certain initiatives and projects like airports and auditoriums were timely or necessary,” said the director when asked to comment on the allocations. There should be more Administration support for the country’s heritage of art and history as both have an “enormous influence” on the Spanish economy, Zugaza maintained. “For this reason there should be no budget cuts in the area of culture or at least they should be SEEING CLEARLY: Janette Bennett, with Pedro considered more Bellon Pascual and Iain Bennett. carefully,” he suggested.
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Official perks cut back THE government is to reduce its fleet of official cars, it was confirmed last week. Describing the decision as ‘emblematic,’ Mariano Rajoy’s second-incharge, Soraya Saenz de Santamaria did not reveal how many cars would go. Highranking officials would be particularly affected, the vice-president hinted. The government wants an efficient Administration that is close to the public and demonstrates it can respond in a time of crisis. “We have to do a lot more with a lot less,” she declared.
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Petrol theft
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THREE people were caught ‘red handed’ by the Local Police in Archidona, as they were siphoning petrol from construction vehicles parked at a quarry.
TWO men were arrested by the Guardia Civil after a car chase on the A7 to Murcia. When their van was searched, officers found 12 stolen construction crane counterweights and discovered the vehicle had been started by hot-wiring it.
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MILK exported from Almeria is being made into Brie cheese in France, with sales worth €5.3 million, a 47 per cent increase.
Work death trial FOUR bosses at the Briseis toiletries factory in Benahadux have gone on trial accused of negligence, which led to an explosion that killed two workers five years ago. They face up to three years and three months in jail if found guilty.
Testing times MORE than 300 Almeria students aged 20 and over are sitting their Baccalaureate exams this month, with the vast majority taking humanities and social science papers.
Northern nosh ALMERIA’S fifth Spanish traditional cooking festival focusing on dishes from the northern provinces of Asturias, Avila, Navarre and Ourense - will end at the La Encina restaurant in the old town on December 2.
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Mayors seek talks FAMOSA is moving its Ibi and Onil toy factories to Alicante City. The mayors of both towns have asked to meet management to discuss how the move will affect local employees.
Fake own goal A GERMAN man has been arrested in Teulada for selling fake football shirts on the internet. Police seized around 500 items which would have
Up in flames
SNOWY PEAKS: Sierra Nevada looks set for winter sport.
Snow drifts in for ski season
SNOW has fallen on the Sierra Nevada with two weeks to go before the skiing season opens. Between 10 and 15 centimetres of snow fell in the Borreguiles and Veleta districts. That is enough to let workers start preparing the pistes for the planned December 1 opening. Now local shops, businesses and hotels have started getting ready for what they hope will be a busy season. Pedro Rodriguez from the Kenia Nevada hotel said: “It is very good weather now. It is cold and we have had some snow, so we are in a good position for the opening. raised around €40,000 on the black market.
Gas scare EMPLOYEES were evacuated after workmen damaged a gas main near an Ondara shopping centre. They were allowed to return at midday.
Health offer THE Hospital Clinica in Benidorm is providing ‘health tourism’ for Norwegians, Russians, Libyans and Algerians, with cardiac and cancer the principal treatments offered.
“We need just a little more snow and then it will be perfect. “There is not yet enough snow to ski, but by the end of the month it should be very good.” He added: “It is definitely better than last year. We are looking forward to a good season.” Workers have also been clearing 10 centimetres of snow from the Andalucia and Pradollano squares and hauling it to the slopes for use. With more snow being collected from drifts in gulleys to prepare the hard base for the pistes, the slopes look set to open on time.
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Hikers rescued FOUR mountain hikers who got lost on a 1,900-metre-high peak in between the provinces of Granada and Malaga were rescued by the Guardia Civil and taken to Alhama in Granada.
Burnt at home A WOMAN aged 48 was injured after a fire broke out in her home in Antequera. She was stable, at Press time, but suffered 15 per cent burns.
Mushroom find
Uni budget cut
THE Guardia Civil rescued a 78year-old man in Vallada after he had become disorientated by heavy rain and mist while mushroom-picking in Moixent, Valencia.
INVESTMENT on R&D grants will be cut by 20 per cent to €800,000 at Malaga University next year, due to government budget cuts.
Lunch sponsor BUSINESS lunches held every month at the Marbella Tourist Initiatives Centre (CIT) – gathering representatives from 450 member companies – will be sponsored by Unicaja Bank.
Bye sea centre THE Centre for Endangered Sea Species Care (CREMA) in Malaga may be closed by the Andalucian Government next year, due to budgetary cuts.
Tourist influx
ANDALUCIA has high expectations for British tourism next year. This follows their participation at the World Travel Market in London. British tourists are expected to stay more nights in 2013, according to Jose Carlos Escribano, President of the Costa del Sol Hoteliers Assocation.
GUARDIA Civil arrested a German man on suspicion of staging the theft of his car and then setting it on fire in an attempt to claim €15,000 insurance. The car was found burned out in Rincon de la Victoria.
Court move TORROX’S courts could be moved to premises in the Plaza de la Almedina. At the moment the court is based in the 19th century Palacio de la Hoya, which has numerous ‘architectural barriers’, according to the town’s mayor, Francisco Muñoz.
White peaks THE first snows of the season in Malaga Province were spotted on La Maroma peak. This is the highest spot - 2,068 metres - in the Sierra Tejeda, Almijara and Alhama Natural Park.
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Doctors protest ABOUT 100 doctors at Son Espases Hospital held a demonstration to protest at the length of waiting lists for surgery and consultations.
Treasure island A PRIVATE bank has opened a branch in Palma with the aim of attracting as many of the 8,000 Mallorca residents it estimates are worth more than €300,000. Banca Madrid said tourism and expats were motivating factors in the move.
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THE Spanish Industrial Production General Index fell 11.7 per cent in September compared to the same period in 2011, the 13th consecutive month with negative numbers.
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Ringing up profits Latin America better for Telefonica than Europe TELEFONICA now earns more money in Latin America than Europe, where Spain continues to be the company’s weakest EU market. The multi-national Spanish company globally earned €3,455 million in the first three quarters of this year, reducing its debts by €5,500 million to ‘just’ €58,823 million.
Germany seeks Spanish workers By Linda Hall GERMANY needs workers, and is looking at Spain to provide them! The Hesse region in the heart of Germany has contacted Madrid Chamber of Commerce with job opportunities. There is nearly 50 per cent unemployment amongst Spain’s young but Hesse, with its six million population, has jobs available for 150,000 people. The region is looking for two different types of jobseekers. It needs young people combine to wanting vocational training with in experience work exchange for a salary of around €500 a month. Some programmes also offer training and include
board and lodging. Employers are also looking for students with technical qualifications, especially engineers and architects, as well as those with Spain’s equivalent of ‘A’ levels.. Additionally, companies want practising professionals ready to step into existing jobs, particularly architects and engineers. Spanish-trained engineers have a good reputation in Germany, hence the interest in engaging them, explained Bernd Haug, President of Hesse’s professional association of engineers. Many come from the construction industry, a sector where Germany wellrequires badly qualified workers, Haug added.
South America now brings in more money for Telefonica than its concerns on the other side of the Atlantic, generating 49 per cent of turnover, compared with 48 per cent in Europe. Telefonica had a total turnover of €46,519 million by the end of September - 0.3 per cent less than in 2011 of which Latin America accounted for €22,578 million.
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SPANISH energy company Repsol has discovered 105,000 cubic metres of natural gas in Algeria.
Law study WAYS to regulate mortgage contract clauses considered ‘abusive’ are being studied by government, Spain’s Deputy PM Soraya Saénz has said.
Energy loss SPANISH energy company Endesa reported €1,622 million in net benefits during the first nine months of the year, a year-toyear 16 per cent loss.
Vueling flying high with agreed merger A TAKEOVER bid has been made for Vueling, the Spanish low-cost airline company. IAG, the company resulting from the Iberia and British Airways merger, is offering €7 per share, which means a 28 per cent liquidity premium. Stakeholders have agreed the bid terms. IAG’s main stakeholder is Banco Financiero y de Ahorro (BFA), through its subsidiary Bankia bank, with a 12.05 per
RIGHT LINE: Telefonica is reducing its debts.
cent share. Investment corporations Blackrock, Schroeder and Templeton jointly own a 13 per cent share. Vueling shares in Madrid rose 51 per cent to €5.84 from the end of 2011 until trading in the stock was suspended. “This acquisition would be positive for Spain,” IAG chief executive Willie Walsh said. “We would retain Vueling’s Barcelona base and create new Spanish jobs.”
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Taxman Osborne proves real-life nightmare THE taxman, it seems, is everyone’s worst fear, with Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne the public figure who most often appears in British nightmares, a study has found.
£££ A FEAR of failure is holding back businesses as entrepreneurs play it safe, according to Barclays who in a survey of 1,000 small firms found they put off spending
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£££ LONDON financial firms have laid off more than 100,000 employees
since 2007, after four years of crisis. Now another 13,000 staff are set to go in 2013 as vacancies also drop in Europe and Asia, studies indicate.
£££ SALES at Morrisons slipped 2.1 per cent from July to September as they battled fragile consumer confidence and big discounting from rivals including LIDL and Aldi who saw business grow.
Random thoughts from bailout for Spain to the world of drugs SO much seems to be going on, without resolution, that the news generally is difficult to follow. Rajoy, after insisting since mid-summer that Spain does not, and will not, require an European Union (EU) bailout, now admits that one might be necessary but that he won’t know until the end of the year. Well, circumstances do change, and it is rather refreshing to find a politician who admits to uncertainty. Not so Artur Mas, the Catalan president, who, being quite sure he is correct, bangs on about regaining Cataluña’s independence. However, having searched the web for information, I can find no reference to Cataluña having ever been an independent state. Perhaps an historian reader will put me right. Carme Chacón, herself Catalan, who was
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narrowly beaten by Alfredo Rubalcaba for the leadership of PSOE earlier this year, has come out in the national Press with a quite different point of view, rejecting any possibility of Cataluña breaking away from Spain. They cannot both be right, but if asked, I’d put my money on Chacón.
Getting away from that, I see the EU is asking for an increase in its budget, with a figure of some €8 billion being mooted. Perhaps instead of expecting the already cash-strapped citizens to fork out even more, the bureaucrats should make cuts, and - horror of horrors - inflict some austerity measures upon themselves. For instance, does the EU really need two European Parliament buildings, one in Brussels and another in
A juicy orange deal for Don Simon ALMOST 250 Huelva citrus fruit growers have agreed to supply 30 to 50 million kilos of small or skin-damaged oranges a year for Don Simon fruit juice. The fruit would otherwise be
rejected for EU sale. The agreement will make Garcia Carrion group’s Villanueva de los Castillejos plant Europe’s leading manufacturer of squeezed orange juice
Strasbourg, between which the overpaid and underworked MEPs migrate every two months? Additionally, does the EU need Baroness Ashton, the second-highest-salaried woman in the world? She has, after all, failed to attend two-thirds of the commission’s meetings over the past year, and has, apparently, voiced her dislike of Brussels, the city not the institution. Finally, a thought concerning the trade in narcotics. The ‘Narcos’ running their multi-billion dollar international businesses are evil people to be sure, but why are their customers not more severely castigated? Without buyers the drug trade would wither on the vine, and when you think about it, these self-absorbed users of ‘recreational’ drugs frequently cocaine - share responsibility for the thousands of murders committed worldwide by the ‘narcos’ fighting their turf wars and ‘adjusting’ their accounts. The users are, in my view, accomplices, plainly and simply, to murder before, during and after, the fact, and should be prosecuted and punished as such.
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Spanish Succession Tax In The Costa Blanca Besides considering your personal tax planning, for example if you are looking to lower taxation on your savings and investments, you may wish to consider the impact of Spanish succession tax on your heirs and how you can reduce this liability for them. Spanish succession tax (impuesto sobre sucesiones y donaciones) is charged on inheritances and gifts. This article mainly covers inheritances, so if you make a gift you should look into the specific rules for this. Succession tax becomes due in the following situations: 1) The asset/s being inherited is/are in Spain (Spanish property, local bank accounts etc). This applies whether or not the beneficiary lives in Spain. 2) If the person receiving an inheritance is resident in Spain, regardless of where the inheritance is coming from. Three key things to note are that each beneficiary pays tax on the amount they receive (it is not paid by the estate); there is no blanket exemption between spouses; there are both State and Regional rules, and where the regional rules apply, the reliefs, rates and allowances can vary across the regions. State rules The progressive tax rates range from
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7.65% for inheritances under €7,993 to 34% for inheritances over €797,555. The amount of tax payable is then subject to multipliers, depending on the relationship between the deceased and the inheritor and their net wealth. Spouses and descendants worth under €402,678 suffer no increase, but for everyone else the tax due is multiplied by between 1.05 and 2.4, making a top rate of almost 82%. There are personal allowances, but they are low. For spouses, children and other descendants the allowance is just €15,957. Siblings, cousins, nephews/ nieces, uncle/aunts and in laws receive €7,993. No allowances are available to anyone else, not even to unmarried partners registered as a pareja de hecho (unless eligible for a disability allowance).
There is also a 95% deduction against the main home, provided the inheritor is a spouse or child (or someone over 65 who has lived with you for the last two years) and provided they do not sell the property for at least 10 years. The maximum deduction per inheritor is €122,606. The Autonomous Communities (AC) can vary the State rules to lessen the impact and in Valenciana the rules are particularly beneficial, to the point where it can be virtually eliminated. Comunidad Valenciana (Valencia, Alicante, Castellón) Valenciana has slightly different tax bands and multipliers to the State rules. The main home relief remains the same as under the State rules but the personal allowance for spouses and descendants is increased to €40,000. Since January 2007 there is a 99% reduction in the tax payable on inheritances received by spouses, children and grandchildren who are habitually resident (see below) in the Valencian Comminity at the time of your death. Murcia Personal allowances are the same as the State ones, and descendants under 21 can receive a 99% deduction against the tax payable. Since 2007 this 99% deduction also applies to
spouses and children and grandchildren over 21 provided the taxable value of the inheritance received is less than €300,000 per beneficiary. State or regional rules? You can only benefit from the Valenciana or Murcia rules if you are “habitually resident” in that region, i.e. have been living there for five years at your death. If not, or your AC cannot be determined, the State rules apply. So if you own assets such as property and bank accounts in Valenciana or Murcia, but remain tax resident elsewhere, your family will suffer the more pernicious State rules. The same applies if you have been living here but not submitting a tax return locally. Spain has been referred to the European Commission for discriminatory treatment of residents and non-residents living in the EU and the Commission has asked Spain to end this discrimination. We will have to wait and see what Spain does about this. UK inheritance tax If you are a British expatriate you could easily be liable to UK inheritance tax as well as Spanish succession tax. Inheritance tax applies to the worldwide assets of British domiciles. There is no double tax
treaty between the two countries on inheritances, but if inheritance tax is paid in the UK, the amount is usually deductible against the Spanish liability. However, if the UK bill is higher than the Spanish one, the Spanish authorities will, of course, not refund the difference. It is important to understand the various Spanish succession tax rules and how they apply to your situation, as well as how they affect any UK inheritance tax liability. A wealth management firm like Blevins Franks will guide you through them and explain how you may be able to lower your succession and inheritance tax liabilities and potentially save your heirs a considerable amount of tax. You can often combine your estate planning with your personal tax planning. 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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Save the planet and then save those expensive material items WHEN disaster strikes suddenly people are worried about the world around them and their own possessions. A perfect recent example is Hurricane Sandy and the amount of concern people are showing over the devastation left in its wake. Some people lost their homes, cars, belongings or livelihoods. Compassion poured out to affected individuals via news A look channels and social at finance media sites, as for females sympathisers tried to imagine what it must Jane Plunkett be like to lose jane.plunkett@euroweeklynews. everything in the blink com of an eye: savings, property, everything that financially supports people. STAY GROUNDED: Flying off for parties It’s hard to fathom. has an invisible cost! Yet the irony of all this is that the amount of concern people show about Sandy is directly proportional to the amount of time they add to distances or lighting up their property like a climate change by flying around the world for Christmas tree. bachelor or hen parties, driving cars short Experts have proven that climate change is
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driving extreme weather, which will only lead to more intense storms like Hurricane Sandy, as well as droughts, frequent flooding and wildfires. According to Greenpeace, the world’s oceans are on the brink of destruction. Tuna companies are killing thousands of sea birds, sea turtles and sharks and putting global food sources at risk through destructive fishing practices. Still, less than 1 per cent of the world’s oceans are set aside and protected as marine reserves. In Brazil last week, an agri-business lobby pushed through dangerous legislation which has weakened local forest laws, opening up a section of rainforest the size of Minnesota to deforestation. All the carbon emitting activities that we partake in cost us money, and the result of polluting our environment to such an extent is that in return it may some day cost us our belongings or even our lives. If we really are concerned about losing the material goods we paid so much to attain, maybe it is time to start thinking about how we can live more sustainably in this world. If not just to save the fish, at least to save that fancy flat screen TV!
Toxic homes could be rented out PROPERTIES acquired by BARES - Spain’s ‘Bad Bank’ - from nationalised banks, could be rented out. The proposal has come from Jose Luis Centella, spokesman for leftwing Izquierda Plural, a threeparty alliance in the national parliament. There is nothing in the management model chosen for the bank that prevents this, conceded the government in a written reply. Economic reforms passed in February and August oblige a nationalised bank to transfer toxic assets consisting of loans for properties and land unlikely to be recouped. At least 5 per cent of these must be disposed of to a third entity unconnected to its group.
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THIRD quarter profits for Repsol subsidiary YPF, nationalised by the Argentinian Government last April, have halved compared with last year. Spanish-owned Repsol had invested too little in YPF, said President Cristina Fernandez, and made Argentina increasingly dependent on expensive fuel imports. But while Repsol has recovered from the loss with an adjusted net profit of €496 million, its former subsidiary earned €126 million - 51 per cent less - between June and September. This was the first quarter that the company was entirely in Argentinian hands.
MANY of Spain’s top politicians are to lose the use of their official cars with a 66 per cent cut from 307 to 103 vehicles. The Spanish Government’s planned austerity measure will affect both the state and regional governments with an expected €10.5 million saving from the public budget. This decision will leave general directors without an official car, while deputy officers will have to share their vehicle with other work colleagues.
Ship stops here... CRUISE LINERS are helping buck the recession in Malaga as more passengers visit the city. Dilip Kuner looks at the 2012 success story. With 700,000 passengers due to have landed at the new Malaga port by the end of the year, foreigners for the first time now outnumber Spanish tourists to the city. Cruise liner passengers are being credited with breathing new life into the city’s streets and businesses, boosting trade during the worst recession of a generation. Malaga is an increasingly popular port of call, with the city enjoying a 11.25 per cent rise in cruise ship passengers up to the end of August. In contrast the Balearic Islands saw passenger arrivals fall 25.2 per cent and Barcelona 14.3 per cent in the same period. While Barcelona remains mainland Spain’s busiest cruise port by far, Malaga is now second, with much of its success credited
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PORT OF CALL: Malaga is now the second busiest in Spain.
Malaga cruising up the Spanish port rankings to the new cruise passenger terminal opened earlier this year. As part of an extensive port redevelopment, a €21.3-million terminal capable of accommodating 200-metre-long ships and cruise liners - was built. A state-of-the-art, 900-squaremetre two-level pier at Quay Two has a mobile bridge to connect liners to the dock. Meanwhile,
Land ahoy CULTURAL and leisure attractions are Malaga City’s main draw, according to Councillor for Culture, Tourism and Sport Damian Caneda. The city now offers an increasing number of chic restaurants in the winding lanes of the old city, along with tapas bars frequented by tourists and locals alike, with Malagueños nicknamed ‘boquerones’ after the huge amounts of fried fish they consume. While some bars are cool and modern in design, others are more traditional tavernas. Art lovers can visit the Picasso or more recently opened Carmen Thyssen museums, and the Roman amphithetre is an increasingly popular tourist destination. The cathedral is ever-popular along with trips to the Gibralfaro, and there is also superb shopping with Calle Larios the top attraction.
Quay One offers passengers and city tourists alike shopping and leisure space along with restaurants and food outlets. Malaga’s tourist board representative, Antonio Montejo Romero, described the new cruise passenger terminal as an exciting addition to Malaga’s extensive offering for tourists during its opening.
Changing tides MALAGA has been a port for 3,000 years. Originally called Malaka and founded by the Phoenicians in 1,000BC, the city was once capital of the Islamic Kingdom of Granada. Throughout the 16th and 17th centuries the port grew rapidly as an export base for cereals and goods, and in the 20th century was expanded, though following a decline in use in the second half parts were converted for residential use. Nowadays 10 wharfs are in use, including three for cruise liners and mega-yachts. In total as well as the arriving cruise liners, the port handles major imports including cement, cereals, grains, petrol and fertilisers. It also handles 39,000 vehicles a year and 450,000 containers.
“We now give a unique experience for arriving passengers in that they can be in the heart of the city in five minutes,” he said. Anxious for the city to cash in, since the opening Malaga City Hall has agreed to shops staying open on Sundays and bank holidays to provide cruise passengers the opportunity to shop and spend more during city visits. Meanwhile, the Malaga-Costa del Sol Cruise Tourism Forum has been set up to promote the city, and Malaga City Hall invested more than €61,000 in a campaign at the recent World Travel Market exhibition in London. Britain is one of Malaga’s main markets, with 36 per cent of arriving cruise liner passengers from the UK. October - traditionally one of the busiest for cruises - saw 45 liners dock, and November started well with 12 ships arriving between November 2-9. But it is not all plain sailing for the port, with reports indicating that Royal Caribbean and Costa Cruises are considering pulling out in 2013.
‘Pay up’ notaries are told CONSUMERS’ association OCU has called for Spain’s notaries and property registrars to return €400 million overcharged between 2007 and 2012. Last year OCU detected ‘excessive charges’ in 92 per cent of notaries and registrars’ fees for mortgage cancellations. The association lodged a formal complaint with the Public Prosecution Office, requesting an investigation into irregular conduct by both and reimbursement where overcharging occurred. Between December 2007 and May 2012, mortgages were cancelled on 1.6 million homes, according to national statistics’ office, INE. Notaries should have charged a fixed fee of €30.5 regardless of the value of the mortgage, OCU claims. Together with other expenses the total should in no case have exceeded around €70 but instead they charged an average of €260. Registrars were charging an average of €144 instead of OCU’S estimated €24. The Prosecution Department has finally concluded that OCU’s accusations are founded. The association now intends to write to Justice Minister Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon as well as the General Directorate of Notaries and Registrars, asking what steps they propose to take.
Solar wars THE heat is rising following a European Commission-launched probe into alleged illegal subsidies in the €21 billion import trade of solar panels from China.
Deadly dream THE Catholic Church has been angered by a Polish coffin-maker who produced a calendar featuring topless models next to his caskets in an effort to boost sales.
€6bn cuts GERMAN giant Siemens will cut €6 billion from its running costs by the end of 2014 as it fights to stay competitive during the global downturn.
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Spanish need a lesson on school books AS a former high school teacher in US public schools, American families do not pay one single dollar for student textbooks, unless the material is damaged due to borrower ‘negligence’. Students must ‘cover’ them adequately, but the taxpayer never has to pay for textbooks or other pupil school supplies. That is precisely why they’re called Public Schools: they are paid for via our federal (Washington DC) and state (Massachusetts) budgets. Quoting two recent Spanish Press complaints regarding textbook cost abuse: ‘Textbooks: €400 Heist’, El Mundo, and ‘Armed Robbery: €900 Euros: textbooks for 3 sons’, 20 Minutos, I have never understood why in crisis Spain it is obligatory to buy new textbooks annually in every school subject, with the exaggerated expense this entails for a struggling family of two or more school-aged children. The list of reusable textbooks for the following years and future student use is almost unending. Some privileged publishing companies and other fat cats are ‘making hay while the sun shines’ at the expense of many already downtrodden, down-and-out families in Spain. Richard M McBride, Benidorm, (Alicante)
Pricey Endesa WHAT does Endesa do with the money it extorts for an overpriced and unreliable service? On November 7 the electricity went off six or seven times in Mijas Pueblo. It’s getting to be a daily occurrence. We are now paying probably double the price that it was about five years ago. I’m certain the Endesa shareholders will be very happy with their dividends but what about the poor customers having an inadequate service? Each time the power fails we worry about what will be the next appliance ruined, not to mention the freezer food contents! I am a very disgruntled Endesa customer. Gerry N Hill, Mijas (Malaga)
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Snapped! By Celia Fernandez of Alora, Malaga
15 - 21 November 2012 Costa Blanca South unaware of the linguistic discrimination against the Castilian language currently enforced by the Generalitat government in Cataluña. I therefore would encourage you to travel there and speak to the many Catalonians whose mother tongue is not Catalan. They will reveal what doesn’t appear in the Press or on the news. Also check with some parties in Cataluña who are trying to fight this. The totalitarian adjective would have been better applied to the current government in Cataluña, which ironically is applying the same linguistic cleansing that Franco applied there after the Civil War. Tony Partida, Alhaurin de la Torre (Malaga)
Clean-up praise NORMALLY a 4x4 is the ideal vehicle for residents and visitors alike using a dry river bed to reach properties in Los Lagares, an outlying rural district of Alora. But following the recent heavy rains, this photograph by Alora based expatriate Celia Fernandez clearly shows a dinghy would be more useful.
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Cry for help WHEN will the Spanish government start to do something to help the tourist trade? Bar and restaurant owners have to pay huge amounts in social security and town hall rates, but get very little in return. Spain needs more of the golfing tourists who kept many restaurants profitable in out of summer months to return. What does the government do? Raises IVA from 8 to 21 per cent. Are they mad? Be prepared for a lot more bar and restaurant closures this winter. We have already been bled dry. J Evans, Fuengirola (Malaga)
Religious joke HOW can the Catholic Church be so insular spending half-a-million euros restoring the Nuestra Senora de Encarnacion Church in Torrox! What have they done it for, the people’s souls? What about the stomachs, shelter or education of the people? Such money could provide so much for homeless families in need. If ever anything was going to convince me to be an atheist, this has to be it. Catholicism is a joke! Norma by email, Competa (Malaga)
ALL the staff of Orihuela Town Hall should be thanked for the great improvement in service since the coalition has taken over. It is now a pleasure to attend the offices and meet the staff who are helpful, pleasant and co-operative. Veronica and the staff of the basura office after listening to concerns about the standard of service have made a great difference to our El Ghalan area. We have noticed there are lots of other clean-up procedures in place over Orihuela Costa which are appreciated by the community. Mill and Syd Bull, Orihuela Costa (Murcia)
Kind neighbours I DISAGREE with Jennifer Rogers’ letter ‘So anti-social unless family’ (Issue 1427). We have wonderful Spanish neighbours. My motto is you reap what you sow. Maureen Turner, Rambla de Oria (Almeria)
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YOUR editorial Totalitarian mind (Issue 1420), about the Spanish Education Minister J Wert is misinformed and misleading. While the minister’s choice of words were rather poor, you have to understand what he meant. He wants to try to enforce the current laws about protecting the linguistic rights of the Spanish speaking Catalonians, almost half of the population there, specifically in education. I must assume that you are
AFTER losing my cash card, my last hope was ExPats where I had been shopping. I called them and not only had they found my card, but had also put notices all over the shop asking me to contact the manager. In this day and age when one loses items like cash cards, one can normally kiss them goodbye. It is very refreshing that places like ExPats exist, and my thanks go to staff for being so honest. R Smith By email
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BBC2
5:20am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC’s Breakfast team. 10:15am Neighbourhood Blues 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer Series about properties that have gone to auction. 12:00pm Watchdog Daily 12:45pm Cash in the Attic Series looking at whether household junk could be worth a small fortune. 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One The latest national and international news stories from the BBC News team, followed by weather. 2:30pm BBC London News The latest news, sport and weather from London. 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm Escape to the Country
4.00pm - midnight 4:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories from the BBC News team, followed by weather. 4:05pm Deadly 60 4:35pm Lockie Leonard 5:00pm Prank Patrol Down Under 5:25pm Léon 5:30pm Junior MasterChef Series looking for the country’s best young cook. 6:00pm Newsround Topical news magazine for children. 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six The latest national and international news stories from the BBC News team, followed by weather. 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm EastEnders 9:00pm Young Apprentice 10:00pm Hunted 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News 11:35pm Question Time
ITV
Channel 4
Channel 5
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 Big and Small 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 Animal Park 2:00pm Restoration Roadshow 2:30pm To Buy or Not to Buy 3:15pm The Weakest Link
5:20am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service. 6:30am ITV Morning News The latest national and international news. 7:00am Daybreak 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning Presented by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby. Sue Hill needs your help solving more crimes. 12:25pm ITV News The latest headlines from around the world. Followed by a local weather forecast. 12:30pm This Morning Presented by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby. Sue Hill needs your help solving more crimes. 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV News and Weather Natasha Kaplinsky with the latest headlines from around the world. 3:00pm Crime Stories
5:30am Deal or No Deal 6:25am Countdown 7:10am The Hoobs 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 Canada 12:00pm A Place in the Sun: Home or Away The contrasting locations of Bournemouth and Sicily provide food for thought for Paul and Chris. 1:00pm Channel 4 News Includes news headlines and weather. 1:05pm Superscrimpers: Waste Not, Want Not The superspending Earle family's weekly grocery bill comes in at a staggering £200. 1:35pm Come Dine with Me 2:35pm Phil Spencer: Secret Agent 3:40pm Countdown
5:45am Michaela's Wild Challenge 6:10am Wildlife SOS 6:35am Wildlife SOS 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 Noddy in Toyland 9:00am Fifi and the Flowertots 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:30am Roary the Racing Car 9:45am Bananas in Pyjamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:15pm The Hotel Inspector 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Best House in the Street 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm CSI: Miami
4:00pm Real Rescues 4:45pm Flog It! Antiques series. 5:30pm Breakaway Hosted by Nick Hancock, Breakaway is a race to the finish line with up to 10,000 pounds to be won. 6:15pm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two 8:00pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 9:00pm MasterChef: The Professionals Double Michelin starred Michel Roux Jr and MasterChef judge Gregg Wallace put on the pressure in their search for Britain’s next culinary superstar. The six best chefs from this week’s heats return for this week’s quarter final. This is where the battle really begins. First they must prove to Michel and Gregg they have what it takes with a dish of their own invention. 10:00pm Great Continental Railway Journeys Michael Portillo retraces the journeys featured in George Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide. 11:00pm Hebburn 11:30pm Newsnight In-depth investigation and analysis of the stories behind the day's headlines, with Kirsty Wark.
4:00pm Dickinson’s Real Deal David and his team of David Ford, Ian Towning and Alison Chapman are in Watford today. 5:00pm Midsomer Murders Conclusion. 6:00pm The Chase Quiz show hosted by Bradley Walsh. 7:00pm London Tonight 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale Desperate for answers, Debbie braces herself to visit Chas in prison. Kerry is on a mission to prove to Amy she can pull her weight. Gennie is fuming when she uncovers Nikhil's plan. Debbie's hard exterior finally cracks after visiting Chas. Kerry and Amy are annoyed to discover why Kerry did not get the factory job. Nikhil finds himself in big trouble with Gennie. 9:00pm Coronation Street Michelle is furious at Steve’s childish attempts to dupe Rob. 9:30pm I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! The celebrity reality competition continues into day five. 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather Mark Austin and Julie Etchingham with the latest headlines from around the world. 11:35pm Corfu: A Tale of Two Islands
4:30pm 1001 Things You Should Know Comedian Sandi Toksvig hosts Channel 4’s brand new general knowledge quiz show. 5:00pm Deal or No Deal 6:00pm Come Dine with Me 6:30pm Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks In the aftermath of the accident, Hollyoaks falls into disrepair. 8:00pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather. 8:55pm 4thought.tv 9:00pm Kirstie’s Vintage Home 10:00pm Everyday 11:50pm 999: What’s Your Emergency?
4:15pm A Decent Proposal Thriller about a pregnant woman whose intrepid husband dies whilst on an assignment abroad. 6:00pm 5 News at 5 National and international news. 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News National and international news. 8:00pm Rolf’s Animal Clinic 9:00pm The Big Dig Two-part documentary series. 10:00pm Hatfields and McCoys Star-studded drama series about two feuding families in post civil-war America. 11:00pm Valkyrie
Shirley Henderson.
CH4
10:00pm Everyday John Simm.
12:35am This Week 1:25am EastEnders Omnibus 2:50am Holiday Weatherview Detailed weather forecast. 2:55am Panorama A report from the weekly current affairs programme. 3:25am Countryfile 4:20am Antiques to the Rescue 5:20am BBC News
BBC3 8:00pm Top Gear 9:00pm The Premier League’s Most Amazing Moments 10:00pm Russell Howard’s Good News 10:30pm Impractical Jokers 11:00pm World’s Craziest Fools 11:30pm EastEnders Billy’s attempt to make Alexa drop the case against Lola backfires. 12:00am Family Guy When a bully harasses Chris, Peter goes to the bully’s house and ends up assaulting him. 12:25am Family Guy 12:45am American Dad! 1:10am American Dad! 1:30am Russell Howard’s Good News 2:00am Impractical Jokers 2:30am Some Girls 3:00am Unzipped 3:45am The Premier League’s Most Amazing Moments
12:20am Dara O Briain’s Science Club 1:20am The Culture Show Andrew Graham-Dixon goes stateside to meet Tom Wolfe. 1:50am BBC News 5:00am Young Legal Eagles
BBC4 8:00pm World News Today The latest national and international news, exploring the day’s events from a global perspective. 8:30pm Top of the Pops: 1977 9:00pm Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity 10:00pm The Year the Town Hall Shrank 11:00pm The First Master Chef: Michel Roux on Escoffier 12:00am Heath v Wilson 1:30am Tales From the Wild Wood 2:00am Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity 3:00am Top of the Pops: 1977 3:35am The Year the Town Hall Shrank Series telling the story of how Stokeon-Trent struggles to cope with the impact of huge government funding cuts. It’s summer 2011 and having just made the biggest budget cuts in a generation, the council is staring down the barrel once again, expecting to slash another £20m.
12:05am The Jonathan Ross Show 1:05am Jackpot247 Join the presenters live and play roulette on your telly. 4:00am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service. 5:35am The Jeremy Kyle Show
12:50am Random Acts 12:55am Embarrassing Fat Bodies 1:55am Freaky Sleepers 2:50am Time Team Special 3:45am Unreported World 4:10am Dispatches 5:05am Deal or No Deal
1:25am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel. 5:00am HouseBusters 5:25am House Doctor 5:45am Michaela’s Wild Challenge Michaela Strachan undertakes a range of wildlife-related dares in exotic locations.
Satellite channels SKY1 7:30am Airline 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 NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00pm Glee 4:00pm Stargate SG-1 5:00pm Stargate SG-1 6:00pm Futurama 6:30pm Futurama 7:00pm Raising Hope 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm The Middle 9:30pm Modern Family 10:00pm Spy 10:30pm Trollied 11:00pm A League of Their Own 12:00am Road Wars 1:00am Road Wars 2:00am Road Wars 3:00am
Road Wars 3:55am Road Wars 4:50am Road Wars 5:20am Stargate SG-1
SKY MOVIES COMEDY 5:30am Dragnet 7:20am The Fighting Temptations 9:30am The Top Ten Show 2012 9:50am It's Kind of a Funny Story 11:40am Friends with Benefits 1:35pm Justin Timberlake 2:00pm Little Fockers 3:45pm The Stepford Wives 5:30pm Win a Date with Tad Hamilton 7:10pm It’s Kind of a Funny Story 9:00pm Friends with Benefits 11:00pm Little Fockers 12:40am The Stepford Wives 2:20am The Pool Boys 4:00am You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger 5:40am Win a Date with Tad Hamilton
SKY MOVIES DRAMA 5:10am The Age of Innocence 7:35am Henry’s Crime 9:30am The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 11:30am Lucky Christmas 1:05pm Life as We Know it 3:05pm The Top Ten Show 2012 3:20pm The Chateau Meroux 5:00pm That Thing You Do! 6:55pm Burlesque 9:00pm Life as We Know it 11:00pm Something Borrowed 1:00am 8 Mile 2:55am The Whistleblower 4:55am The Top Ten Show 2012 5:10am Prom
SKY MOVIES ACTION 6:05am Angel Flight Down 7:40am The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 9:30am Jaws 2 11:30am Batman Forever 1:35pm Transformers: Dark of the Moon
4:10pm Broken Arrow 6:00pm Shanghai Noon 7:55pm Batman Forever 10:00pm Transformers: Dark of the Moon 12:35am Broken Arrow 2:30am Rush Hour 4:15am 22 Bullets
TCM 9:15am Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror 10:30am The Capture 12:15pm Thunder Over the Plains 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm The High Chaparral 4:00pm Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon 5:15pm The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 6:55pm The Hallelujah Trail 10:00pm Passenger 57 11:35pm My Cousin Vinny 1:55am The Yakuza 4:00am My Cousin Vinny
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5:20am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC’s Breakfast team. 10:15am Neighbourhood Blues 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer Series about properties that have gone to auction. 12:00pm Watchdog Daily 12:45pm Cash in the Attic Series looking at whether household junk could be worth a small fortune. 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One The latest national and international news stories from the BBC News team, followed by weather. 2:30pm BBC London News The latest news, sport and weather from London. 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm Escape to the Country
ITV
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 Big and Small 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 Animal Park 2:00pm Restoration Roadshow 2:30pm To Buy or Not to Buy 3:15pm The Weakest Link 4:00pm Real Rescues
Channel 4
5:35am The Jeremy Kyle Show 6:30am ITV Morning News 7:00am Daybreak 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning Presented by Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford. 12:25pm ITV News The latest headlines from around the world. Followed by a local weather forecast. 12:30pm This Morning Presented by Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford. 1:30pm Loose Women Steps join Andrea McLean, Sherrie Hewson, Carol McGiffin, Jane McDonald to chat and perform live. 2:30pm ITV News and Weather Nina Hossain with the latest headlines from around the world. 3:00pm Crime Stories
6:00am Countdown 6:45am Make Do and Mend DIY Jo faces a flat pack challenge, and Lucia tries her hand at charity shop chic. 7:10am The Hoobs 7:35am The Hoobs 8:00am Freshly Squeezed 8:30am According to Jim Jim’s not pleased when he finds out that Andy's trying to sell a grill that he gave him. 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Everybody Loves Raymond Ally is constantly getting into bed with her parents, complaining of monsters in her room. 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Undercover Boss Canada 12:00pm A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 1:00pm Channel 4 News Includes news headlines and weather. 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Channel 4 Racing It’s day one of Cheltenham’s much coveted Open Meeting.
4:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories from the BBC News team, followed by weather. 4:05pm Deadly 60 Wildlife series. 4:35pm Lockie Leonard Live action comedy series following the adventures of 13-year-old Australian surf rat Lockie. 5:00pm Blue Peter 5:30pm Junior MasterChef 6:00pm Newsround Topical news magazine for children. 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six The latest national and international news stories from the BBC News team, followed by weather. 7:30pm BBC London News The latest news, sport and weather from London. 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm Children in Need 2012
4:45pm Flog It! Antiques series. 5:30pm Breakaway Hosted by Nick Hancock, Breakaway is a race to the finish line with up to 10,000 pounds to be won. 6:15pm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two 8:00pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 9:00pm Mastermind John Humphrys puts the questions to four more contenders. 9:30pm An Island Parish Series following the community on the tiny crown dependency of Sark in the Channel Islands. 10:00pm Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild 11:00pm Children in Need 2012 11:40pm Newsnight
4:00pm Dickinson’s Real Deal 5:00pm Midsomer Murders 6:00pm The Chase Quiz show hosted by Bradley Walsh. 7:00pm London Tonight 7:30pm ITV News and Weather James Mates and Natasha Kaplinsky with the latest headlines from around the world. 8:00pm Emmerdale Cain decides it is time to give Cameron a warning. 8:30pm Coronation Street A jealous Eva and Steve head to Sheffield to confront Michelle and Rob. 9:00pm Island Hospital 9:30pm Coronation Street Eva sets her sights on Nick after Rob’s betrayal. Is this the end for Michelle and Steve? 10:00pm I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! Another update from the jungle as contestants endure their sixth day. 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather James Mates and Natasha Kaplinsky with the latest headlines from around the world. 11:35pm Wanted Action-packed thriller.
4:30pm 1001 Things You Should Know Comedian Sandi Toksvig hosts Channel 4’s brand new general knowledge quiz show. 5:00pm Deal or No Deal 6:00pm Come Dine with Me 6:30pm Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks One resident hears life-changing news, but can they live with the consequences? 8:00pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather. 8:30pm Unreported World 8:55pm 4thought.tv 9:00pm Come Dine with Me In this brand new episode Come Dine with Me visits the island of Jersey for the very first time. 10:00pm Derren Brown BAFTA-winning Derren Brown concludes his specials for 2012 with his customary inventive, intelligent mix of thought-provoking, compelling entertainment, stunts and suggestion, combined with tried and tested psychological tricks and experiments. 11:00pm Alan Carr: Chatty Man
11:00pm BBC News at Ten The latest national and international news, with reports from BBC correspondents worldwide. 11:25pm BBC London News The latest news, sport and weather from London. 11:35pm Children in Need 2012 2:30am Weatherview Detailed weather forecast. 2:35am BBC News
12:10am The Review Show 12:45am The National Lottery Friday Night Draws The National Lottery Friday Night Draws presented by OJ Borg. 12:55am Later... with Jools Holland 2:00am Backstage 3:25am Battle Beyond the Stars Sci-fi adventure based on the ‘Seven Samurai’ theme.
1:35am Jackpot247 Join the presenters live and play roulette on your telly. 4:00am Enter the Dragon Martial arts action thriller. 5:45am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service.
12:05am Friday Night Dinner The boys come home to find the house in a real state. 12:35am 8 Out of 10 Cats 1:25am Random Acts 1:30am Full English 2:00am The Ricky Gervais Show The Ricky Gervais Show continues its third season. 2:25am My Name is Earl 2:50am My Name is Earl 3:10am Bob’s Burgers 3:35am Bob’s Burgers 3:55am Charlie's Angels 4:40am 90210 5:20am Deal or No Deal
4.00pm - midnight
BBC3 8:00pm Merlin 8:45pm Doctor Who 9:30pm Impractical Jokers 10:00pm Unzipped 10:45pm Russell Howard’s Good News Extra 11:30pm Some Girls 12:00am Family Guy 12:25am Family Guy 12:45am Family Guy 1:10am Family Guy Animated comedy about family life. 1:30am American Dad! Animated adventures of a hapless CIA agent and his family. 1:55am American Dad! Animated adventures of a hapless CIA agent and his family. 2:15am American Dad! 2:35am American Dad! 2:55am Impractical Jokers 3:25am Russell Howard’s Good News Extra 4:10am Unzipped
BBC2
10:30am - Wibbly Pig
BBC4 8:00pm World News Today The latest national and international news, exploring the day’s events from a global perspective. 8:30pm The Solti Centenary Concert 10:25pm Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top 10 11:55pm Sound it Out Over the last five years an independent record shop has closed in the UK every three days. 12:55am The Genius of David Bowie 1:55am Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top 10 Documentary chronicling our everchanging love affair with the British singles chart on the occasion of its 60th anniversary. 3:25am Sound it Out Over the last five years an independent record shop has closed in the UK every three days.
Channel 5 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 Noddy in Toyland 9:00am Fifi and the Flowertots 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:35am Roary the Racing Car 9:45am Bananas in Pyjamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:15pm The Hotel Inspector 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Best House in the Street 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm CSI: Miami
CH5
9:35am Roary the Racing Car
4:10pm The Perfect Marriage 6:00pm 5 News at 5 National and international news. 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News National and international news. 8:00pm The All New Gadget Show Entertainment show devoted to gadgets. 9:00pm Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan Dominic Monaghan travels in search of weird creatures. 10:00pm The Mentalist 11:00pm Castle Quirky US crime drama series about a bestselling author who teams up with a young New York detective to solve murders, gaining inspiration for his books along the way. 11:55pm Law and Order: Criminal Intent
12:55am Inside Hollywood Get your daily fix of the latest film and TV news from the USA. Presented by Mark Morris. 1:05am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel. 4:55am Motorsport Mundial The latest motor racing action from around the world. 5:25am House Doctor 5:45am Michaela’s Wild Challenge
Satellite channels SKY1 5:20am Stargate SG-1 6:10am Stargate SG-1 7:00am Airline 7:30am Airline 8:00am Modern Family 8:30am The Middle 9:00am Dog the Bounty Hunter 10:00am Glee 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 1:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00pm Glee 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 Simpsons 9:00pm Modern Family 9:30pm Spy 10:00pm Trollied 10:30pm Trollied: Behind the Scenes 11:00pm A League of Their Own
12:00am Don’t Sit in the Front Row 12:30am Road Wars 1:00am Ross Kemp: The Invisible Wounded 2:00am Road Wars 3:00am Road Wars 3:55am Road Wars 4:45am Road Wars 5:10am Stargate SG-1
SKY MOVIES COMEDY 5:40am Win a Date with Tad Hamilton 7:20am Dunston Checks In 8:50am Swingers 10:30am Ramona and Beezus 12:20pm Eurotrip 2:00pm Johnny English Reborn 3:45pm Swinging with the Finkels 5:15pm Ramona and Beezus 7:00pm White Men Can’t Jump 9:00pm Johnny English Reborn 10:45pm Eurotrip 12:25am Swinging with the Finkels 2:00am Jimmy Hollywood 4:00am White Men Can’t Jump
SKY MOVIES DRAMA
5:50pm Shanghai Knights 7:50pm Batman and Robin 10:00pm Green Lantern
5:10am Prom 7:00am Mask 9:05am Frankie and Johnny 11:05am Honey 2 1:00pm Black Swan 3:00pm The Help
12:00am Gone in 60 Seconds 2:00am The Chronicles of Riddick 4:00am Species
5:30pm The Art of Getting by 7:00pm Black Swan 9:00pm Water for Elephants 11:00pm The Help 1:30am Beautiful Wave 3:10am Conviction 5:00am Cherrybomb
SKY MOVIES ACTION 4:15am 22 Bullets 6:15am The Chaperone 8:05am The Top Ten Show 2012 8:20am Batman and Robin 10:30am Green Lantern 12:30pm Braveheart 3:30pm Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
TCM 6:00am Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon 7:15am Gunsmoke 8:15am The High Chaparral 9:15am The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 10:50am The Hallelujah Trail 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm The Spider Woman 5:10pm Sherlock Holmes in Washington 6:30pm Downhill Racer 8:30pm Wichita 10:00pm The Silence of the Lambs 12:15am Dead Calm 2:00am The Silence of the Lambs 4:10am Bad Company
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www.euroweeklynews.com AS family budgets become increasingly stretched, more than 60 per cent of mothers in the UK return to work because they cannot afford to stay at home. While many Spanish parents call on family living locally to look after the children while they are at work, many expatriates do not have this support, but still find dual incomes within the family unit much more a necessity in the present tough economic climate. In an exclusive survey into the lifestyle of mothers in the UK, Research company Mintel discovered that financial needs top the reason why mothers go back to work. Aside from economic reasons, keeping the mind active (28 per cent), being more independent (25 per cent) and not wanting to give up a career (21 per cent) were the other main reasons for returning to the workplace. Moreover, less than one in 20 mothers said their partner wanted to stay at home with the baby. One in five British mothers return to work when their baby is between seven and 12 months and almost one in six do so
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New mums find work a must in modern life when their baby is less than six months old. By contrast, just 8 per cent return once the child is five or older. But while lack of income forces many women to return to the workplace, this year more mothers have decided against returning to work after having a baby compared with 2011. In September, nearly a quarter of mothers reported they did not return to work after giving birth, up from 18 per cent in June 2011. They highlighted high childcare costs as a key reason
for not returning to work. Ina Mitskavets, Senior Consumer and Lifestyles Analyst at Mintel said: “Job security is highly prized in the current climate of uncertainty with many mothers returning to work within the 12 months that their job has to be legally held open for them. “Affordability of childcare, or lack of, is keeping lower-income mums and those with more children at home. Lower salaries are frequently not covering childcare costs, which are rising more rapidly than the average salary.”
STAYING AT HOME: Raising a family is more important for some. However, 61 per cent of stayat-home mothers surveyed said that raising a family was more important than a career outside the home, and 54 per cent said they loved being a homemaker. But, for four in 10 mothers, not working poses a difficult position socially, as they say ‘I find myself justifying to others why I don’t work’. Less than one in five said they felt less equal than their partner and around one in 10 believed not working was harming their career. Overall, 65 per cent of
mothers said parents should equally share responsibility for raising children. Proving life is not a bed of roses for Britain’s children, 47 per cent of mothers make their children help out with household chores and one in three admit to being strict. Around a third limit the amount of time children spend online and 34 per cent restrict the time their children watch TV. By contrast, 21 per cent of British parents say their children are free to do what they want most of the time.
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2:35am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC's Breakfast team. 11:00am Saturday Kitchen Live 12:30pm Baking Made Easy 1:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news from the BBC. 1:10pm BBC London News The latest news, sport and weather from London. 1:15pm Football Focus 2:00pm Cycling Jonathan Edwards presents highlights of cycling’s Track World Cup from Glasgow. 3:00pm Rugby Union
4.00pm - midnight 5:30pm Final Score 6:10pm BBC News The latest national and international news from the BBC. 6:20pm BBC London News The latest news, sport and weather from London. 6:30pm Children in Need 7:30pm Strictly Come Dancing 9:00pm Merlin 9:45pm The National Lottery Saturday Night Draws 9:55pm Casualty 10:45pm Live at the Apollo The BAFTAnominated Live at the Apollo returns for an eighth series. 11:15pm BBC News The latest national and international news from the BBC. 11:30pm Match of the Day
1:00am The Football League Show Manish Bhasin presents all the action from the Football League. 2:15am Weatherview Detailed weather forecast. 2:20am BBC News
BBC3 8:00pm Rugby Union 9:00pm Top Gear 10:00pm Russell Howard’s Good News Extra 10:45pm Bruce Almighty 12:20am Family Guy 12:45am Family Guy 1:05am American Dad! Animated adventures of a hapless CIA agent and his family. 1:30am American Dad! Animated adventures of a hapless CIA agent and his family. 1:50am Impractical Jokers 2:20am Unzipped 3:05am Some Girls 3:35am Russell Howard’s Good News 4:05am Unsafe Sex in the City
ITV
Channel 4
Channel 5
7:00am Zigby 7:10am Finley the Fire Engine Animation following the adventures of the vehicles of Friendlyville. 7:20am Little Robots 7:30am 64 Zoo Lane 7:45am Rastamouse 8:00am Roar Rani Price and Johny Pitts present the show packed with wild animal action and creature fun. 8:30am Bear Behaving Badly Comedy series starring Barney Harwood and Nev the bear. 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 11:00am The Ministry of Curious Stuff 11:30am Deadly 60 Bites 11:35am Splatalot 12:00pm Prank Patrol 12:30pm Ooglies 12:45pm MOTD Kickabout 1:00pm That Darn Cat! 2:50pm Miracle
5:45am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service. 6:30am ITV Morning News 7:00am Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 7:25am The Hive 7:35am The Hive 7:45am The Hive 7:50am Canimals 8:00am Canimals 8:05am The Avengers 8:25am Rated ‘A’ for Awesome 8:40am Rated ‘A’ for Awesome 8:50am Horrid Henry: The Movie 9:05am Horrid Henry 9:20am Horrid Henry 9:35am Shake it Up! 10:00am My Phone Genie 10:25am ITV News 10:30am The Jeremy Kyle Show US 11:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show US 12:20pm Dinner Date Australia 1:15pm ITV News and Weather 1:25pm All Star Family Fortunes 2:10pm Holiday Home Sweet Home 3:10pm Holiday Home Sweet Home
5:20am Deal or No Deal 6:15am Countdown 7:00am The Treacle People Times are hard for the Treacle People. 7:10am The Hoobs Tula's got the hoobyhics. 7:35am The Hoobs It's not a good day for Tula. 8:00am Freesports on 4 HIghlights from Freeze 2012. Freeze is the UK's biggest après ski party. 8:55am The Morning Line Turf tips and news from the Channel 4 Racing team. 9:55am BT and Channel 4 Present... 10:00am Example at Itunes Festival 2012 Special 10:30am Made in Chelsea 11:35am Suburgatory 12:05pm The Big Bang Theory 12:40pm The Big Bang Theory 1:10pm The Simpsons 1:40pm Deal or No Deal 2:45pm Channel 4 Racing
7:50am Abby’s Flying Fairy School 8:00am Roobarb and Custard Too 8:05am Bananas in Pyjamas 8:20am Animal Antics 8:25am Noddy in Toyland 8:40am City of Friends 8:55am Little Princess 9:10am The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky 9:25am Angelina Ballerina 9:45am Rupert Bear 10:00am Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom 10:15am Toby’s Travelling Circus 10:25am Roary the Racing Car 10:40am Jelly Jamm 11:00am Power Rangers: Super Samurai 11:35am ThunderCats 12:20pm Looney Tunes 12:25pm Highland Emergency 12:55pm Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan 1:55pm The Train Robbers 3:45pm Brannigan
5:00pm Flog It! Members of the public are invited to try to make money out of their antiques by taking a risk at auction. 6:00pm Rugby Union Gabby Logan is joined by Keith Wood and Jeremy Guscott for live coverage as Ireland XV take on Fiji at Thomond Park in Limerick. Remarkably, this will be only the fourth time Ireland have played the Fijians. The previous encounters have all been emphatically won by the Irish, including a 41-6 victory the last time they met in Dublin in 2009. This match for Ireland is sandwiched in between the Test with South Africa and the visit of Argentina. The Irish will be desperate to end 2012 on a high after a disappointing year in which the senior side managed just two wins coming into the autumn internationals. The Fijians arrive in Ireland following their match at Twickenham against England. Eddie Butler is joined in the commentary box by Phillip Matthews. 8:30pm Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild 9:30pm Dad's Army Classic wartime sitcom. 10:00pm F1: Grand Prix Qualifying 11:15pm Rolling Stones: Crossfire Hurricane
4:10pm Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Tim Burton’s retelling of Roald Dahl's classic children’s story. 6:15pm London Tonight Regional news update for the capital and the South East, plus local weather. 6:30pm ITV News and Weather Lucy Meacock with the latest headlines from around the world. 6:45pm The Golden Rules of TV Comedian Robert Webb reveals more of TV’s best kept secrets. 7:15pm You’ve Been Framed! More surreal comedy from the mind of Harry Hill, inspired by viewers’ home videos. 7:45pm Take Me Out Paddy McGuinness presents another episode of the fun dating show. 9:00pm The X Factor 10:20pm I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! The celebrities have survived a week in the Australian bush. 11:20pm ITV News and Weather Lucy Meacock with the latest headlines from around the world. 11:35pm Fast and Furious Fourth film in the wheel-squealing action series.
4:55pm Come Dine with Me 5:25pm Come Dine with Me 5:55pm Come Dine with Me Night three's host is shortorder cook Gerald Cox. 6:25pm Come Dine with Me 6:55pm Come Dine with Me 7:25pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather. 7:55pm 4thought.tv 8:00pm Heston's Fantastical Food 9:00pm Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 11:50pm The Crazies
5:55pm 5 News Weekend National and international news. 6:00pm Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 8:40pm NCIS 9:35pm NCIS 10:25pm CSI: NY New York-based spin-off of the crime drama series. 11:25pm CSI: Miami Crime drama.
12:15am ... Sings The Rolling Stones TV tribute to the song writing skills of enduring 60s rockers The Rolling Stones. 1:15am The Rolling Stones: Rock and Roll Circus 2:20am Later... with Jools Holland 3:25am Night of the Living Dead Low-budget horror classic in which radiation from a space probe reanimates the dead, who become ravenous for the flesh of the living.
1:30am The Store 3:35am In Plain Sight Drama series about US Marshals involved with a witness protection programme. 4:55am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service.
1:50am Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 3:40am Hollyoaks Omnibus 5:45am Countdown
BBC4 8:00pm Metalworks! 9:00pm Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity 10:00pm The Killing 11:00pm The Killing 12:00am Chateau Chunder: When Australian Wine Changed the World 1:00am Metalworks! 2:00am Top of the Pops: 1977 2:30am Duets at the BBC 3:30am Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of our quest to master nature's most mysterious force - electricity. This series tells of dazzling leaps of imagination and extraordinary experiments - a story of maverick geniuses who used electricity to light our cities, to communicate across the seas and through the air, to create modern industry and to give us the digital revolution.
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6:00pm Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes. 12:20am CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 1:15am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel. 5:00am House Doctor Home improvement series. 5:25am The Great Artists Art historian Tim Marlow looks at some of the western world’s most famous artists. 5:50am County Secrets Series that throws a spotlight on some of the UK’s most scenic counties.
Satellite channels SKY1
5:00am Best of Oops TV
5:10am Stargate SG-1 6:05am Stargate SG-1 7:00am Top Ten Show 7:10am Stargate Continuum 9:00am UK Border Force 10:00am World Wrestling Entertainment Superstars 11:00am Soccer A.M. 1:00pm Futurama 1:30pm Futurama 2:00pm Futurama 2:30pm Futurama 3:00pm Modern Family 3:30pm Modern Family
SKY MOVIES COMEDY
4:00pm Modern Family 4:30pm Modern Family 5:00pm Modern Family 5:30pm Stargate: The Ark of Truth 7:30pm A League of Their Own 8:00pm Hawaii Five-0 9:00pm Hawaii Five-0 10:00pm The One 11:40pm Road Wars 12:40am Night Cops 1:40am Inside Gatwick 2:40am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 3:40am Road Wars 4:10am Road Wars
6:00am Dunston Checks In 7:35am The Cat in the Hat 9:05am Snow Dogs 10:50am Chalet Girl 12:35pm Team America: World Police 2:20pm The Hangover Part II 4:10pm The Cat in the Hat 5:40pm National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 7:20pm Chalet Girl 9:00pm Team America: World Police 10:45pm The Hangover Part II 12:35am Little Nicky 2:10am Eddie Murphy: Raw 3:45am Wild Cherry 5:15am Snow Dogs
SKY MOVIES DRAMA 5:00am Cherrybomb 6:30am Listen to Your Heart 8:15am Prom 10:05am Africa United 11:35am Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 1:45pm Jane Eyre 3:50pm Beastly 5:20pm Sweet Home Alabama 7:15pm Going the Distance 9:00pm Jane Eyre 11:00pm My Week with Marilyn 12:45am The Bodyguard 3:00am Purple Rain 5:05am The 5th Quarter
SKY MOVIES ACTION 5:50am The Longest Day 8:50am Spy Kids 10:25am Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams 12:10pm Tron Legacy 2:20pm Haywire 4:00pm Killer Elite
6:00pm Twister 8:00pm Colombiana 10:00pm Haywire 11:45pm Killer Elite 1:45am Déjà Vu 4:00am Machete
TCM 6:00am Downhill Racer 7:50am Gunsmoke 8:55am Gunsmoke 9:55am The Spider Woman 11:10am Sherlock Holmes in Washington 12:30pm Wichita 2:05pm Escape from Fort Bravo 4:00pm Monte Walsh 5:55pm Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 8:10pm Legally Blonde 10:00pm When Harry Met Sally 11:55pm Two Days in the Valley 1:55am Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 4:15am When Harry Met Sally
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By Ric Polansky IN a not so surprising election victory, America has turned its back on an ‘independent thinking’, strictly business approach to running what has grown into a multifaceted government of gargantuan size and opted for reliance upon a ‘Big Brother’ arrangement. The choice between the two major parties couldn’t have been more distinct. In a US economy barely keeping afloat, radical changes should have had to be made to keep the ship of state afloat. Most likely, the choice was just too simple. Nevertheless, the voting populace gave the nod to sitting down and reaching for the weekly remuneration cheques, stamps and welfare cards posted to them. The populace has spoken and by no means with a majority voice. It is somewhat like a family of seven deciding to go on holiday. The patriarch and sons choose Pakistan as their ideal destination while the three remaining women are in fear of
their lives but are forced to pay allegiance to the over-whelming majority (of one) that then condemns them to make the trip. Worse yet, the contradicting closeness of the individual votes has created a disturbing and frightening polarity dividing the country, possibly irreparably. Maybe the Conservative Republican party will disappear forever. They are the ones that wanted to curb spending. The Democrats (Labour) of the next election could most likely be divided into differing groups depending upon what promises and gifts they are to bestow on the voter. The European ‘Big Brother’ system with the large helping hand has been stroking the consciousness of the American masses for some time. Its well established system of gifted reimbursements has kept Mediterranean EU countries full to the brim with refuse collectors, gardeners, and street sweepers all living well from their government remunerations.
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America votes for European socialism!
NEWLY RE-ELECTED: President Barack Obama. Since the Second World War, Europe has created a situation wherein those who know how to use the system can live for free while the less know-ledgeable, or more proud, work and are heavily taxed for their efforts. Europe is possessed by friendly governments not too necessarily
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bothered by those extorting it or internal spending corruption. In both insider and outsider trading deals, few if any regulations are in control and no accounting done to arrive at possible checks and balances. Benefits are the awards for those clever enough to forcibly insist on their continued rainfalls
of manna from the heavens. Those workers not receiving the benefits will either soon learn how to do so or opt out for another country with just rewards and less taxes - a legalised ‘con within a con’ govern-ment recognised and approved. But as Europe is learning this, it creates a self-inflicted brain drain. What is left behind are the political wolves pledging to guard the sheep! The staunch personal individualism so preferred by America’s founding fathers, like Thomas Jefferson, has become rationalised away to the point of simplistic pragmatic ‘comfort for the masses’ at any expense. The opening line of newlyelected President Obama’s speech will in fact be the opposite of his words ‘better times are just ahead’. In any case, America got just what its pandering masses pleaded for, four more years of continued mediocrity flowered with colourful oratory and a united feeling of going down the bunghole together, embracing and waving those flags deliriously.
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2:20am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC’s Breakfast team. 8:25am Match of the Day 10:00am The Andrew Marr Show 11:00am Sunday Morning Live Samira Ahmed hosts live interactive debates on the topical issues of the week. 12:00pm Sunday Politics Andrew Neil and Tim Donovan with the latest political news, interviews and debate. 1:25pm Countryfile 2:20pm Bargain Hunt 3:20pm Escape to the Country Series in which prospective buyers are helped to find their dream home.
4.00pm - midnight 4:20pm Nature’s Miracle Babies 5:20pm Lifeline 5:30pm Points of View 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 from the BBC News team. 7:10pm BBC London News The latest news, sport and weather from London. 7:20pm Countryfile John Craven and Julia Bradbury head to rural Leicestershire. 8:20pm Strictly Come Dancing 9:00pm Antiques Roadshow 10:00pm The Secret of Crickley Hall Drama. When Eve Caleigh and her family arrive at Crickley Hall, they hope to escape the past. 11:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news, with reports from BBC correspondents worldwide. 11:15pm BBC London News The latest news, sport and weather from London. 11:25pm F1: Grand Prix 1:25am Hooper 3:00am Weatherview Detailed weather forecast. 3:05am Holby City Ric returns from holiday and is shocked to find Serena running the hospital in Hanssen's absence. 4:05am The Paradise Drama series. 5:05am Film 2012 with Claudia Winkleman 5:35am BBC News
BBC3 8:00pm Snog, Marry, Avoid? 8:30pm Snog, Marry, Avoid? 9:00pm Gavin and Stacey 9:30pm Gavin and Stacey 10:00pm Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 11:00pm Him and Her 11:30pm Him and Her 12:00am American Dad! 12:25am American Dad! 12:45am Family Guy 1:10am Family Guy Animated comedy series about family life. 1:30am Some Girls 2:00am Him and Her 2:30am Him and Her 2:55am Superstorm USA: Caught on Camera 3:55am Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents
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Channel 5
7:00am Zigby 7:10am Finley the Fire Engine Animation following the adventures of the vehicles of Friendlyville. 7:20am Little Robots 7:30am 64 Zoo Lane 7:45am Rastamouse 8:00am Roar 8:30am Deadly Art 8:45am Copycats 9:15am The Scooby-Doo Show 9:40am Wingin’ It 10:00am 12 Again 10:30am Gastronuts 11:00am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 12:30pm The Great British Bake Off Masterclass 1:30pm Rugby Union 2:30pm Cycling
4:55am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service. 6:30am ITV Morning News The latest national and international news. 7:00am Engie Benjy 7:10am Jungle Junction 7:25am Jungle Junction 7:35am Signed Stories 7:50am Canimals 7:55am Canimals 8:05am Matt Hatter Chronicles 8:25am Almost Naked Animals 8:35am Almost Naked Animals 8:50am Almost Naked Animals 9:00am Phineas and Ferb 9:15am Phineas and Ferb 9:30am Big Time Rush 10:00am Good Luck Charlie 10:25am ITV News 10:30am There’s No Taste Like Home 11:25am Dinner Date 12:25pm Dickinson’s Real Deal 1:25pm Countrywise 1:40pm ITV News and Weather 1:55pm Carry on Henry 3:40pm The X Factor
5:45am Countdown 6:30am Make Do and Mend 6:55am BT and Channel 4 Present... 7:00am The Treacle People PC Pendle needs wheels. 7:10am The Hoobs 7:35am The Hoobs Tula wants to write a poem. Will she ever be able to find a word that rhymes with ‘hoobacious’? 8:00am Extreme Sailing Series 8:30am Sailing Russell Coutts gives an update on the latest construction crisis within his team, Oracle Team USA. 8:55am BT and Channel 4 Present... 9:00am Will and Grace 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Sunday Brunch 1:00pm The Big Bang Theory 1:25pm The Simpsons 1:55pm Channel 4 Racing
7:50am Abby’s Flying Fairy School 8:00am Roobarb and Custard Too 8:05am Bananas in Pyjamas 8:20am Animal Antics 8:25am Noddy in Toyland 8:40am City of Friends 8:55am Mio Mao 9:00am Little Princess 9:10am The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky 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 10:40am Jelly Jamm 11:00am Power Rangers: Super Samurai 11:35am Thunder Cats 12:10pm Looney Tunes 12:15pm Looney Tunes 12:20pm Meals in Moments 12:30pm Rolf’s Animal Clinic 1:35pm You’ve Got Mail 3:50pm Open Season
6:15pm Coast A look back at part of an episode of coast. Series exploring Britain's coastline. 6:30pm Indian Ocean with Simon Reeve 7:30pm Fawlty Towers 8:00pm Operation Iceberg Chris Packham and Helen Czerski and a team of explorers and scientists investigate a massive tabular iceberg floating at sea 50 kilometres from the Canadian coast. Their aim is to discover the forces that gradually destroy an iceberg these stunning natural phenomenon. As they seek out these mysteries, the team confronts dangers including polar bears and a partial disintergration of the iceberg beneath their feet. 9:00pm Sandy: Anatomy of a Superstorm 10:00pm Dragons’ Den Series in which budding entrepreneurs pitch business ideas to multimillionaires. 11:00pm Harry and Paul Harry and Paul re-invent themselves as Ricky Gervais, and the 1930s movie original of The King's Speech is unearthed along with ‘Sherlock On The Buses’. 11:30pm Match of the Day 2
5:00pm The Home of Fabulous Cakes In an episode devoted to everything chocolaty, Fiona Cairns creates a veritable feast. 6:00pm The Nation's Favourite Number 1 Single 7:30pm London Tonight Regional news update for the capital and the South East, plus local weather. 7:45pm ITV News and Weather Steve Scott with the latest headlines from around the world. 8:00pm Surprise Surprise Holly Willoughby hosts another bumper night of surprises. 9:00pm The X Factor Results Show Dermot O’Leary returns with the second of this weekend’s shows. 10:00pm I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! The celebrities have survived a week in the Australian bush. 11:30pm ITV News and Weather Steve Scott with the latest headlines from around the world. 11:45pm Piers Morgan’s Life Stories
4:10pm Hugh’s 3 Good Things For the second week of the food competition the chefs turn their attention to meat. 4:40pm Hugh’s 3 Good Things 5:10pm Hugh’s 3 Good Things 5:40pm Hugh’s 3 Good Things 6:10pm Hugh’s 3 Good Things It's the final day of meat week and it's time for beef to take centre stage. 6:40pm Home Alone 8:40pm Channel 4 News 8:55pm 4thought.tv 9:00pm How Britain Worked 10:00pm Homeland 11:00pm Watchmen
5:35pm Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle Comedy action adventure. 7:40pm 5 News Weekend National and international news. 7:45pm Stealth Action thriller in the Top Gun mould, complete with jet plane heroics. 10:00pm Unforgiven Uncompromising western.
12:20am Hebburn 12:50am Never Mind the Buzzcocks Ed Sheeran and Caroline Flack also join the team for some pop-quiz antics. 1:20am My Year Without Sex 2:50am BBC News
12:45am Rugby Highlights Martin Bayfield presents the pick of the action from the AngloWelsh tournament which encourages the promotion of young rugby talent. Featured games include Northampton Saints’ trip to Newport Gwent Dragons. 1:40am The Store 3:40am Motorsport UK 4:35am ITV Nightscreen Textbased information service.
2:05am American Football Live Baltimore Ravens at Pittsburgh Steelers 5:45am Grudge Match Humorous tales of longstanding rivalry in the world of sport and competition. 5:55am Deal or No Deal
12:30am Hatfields and McCoys Star-studded drama series about two feuding families in post civil-war America. 1:30am How Do They Do It? 2:00am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel. 5:00am The F.B.I. Files 5:50am County Secrets Series that throws a spotlight on some of the UK's most scenic counties.
11:00pm Game of Thrones
3:40am How Do You Know
12:15am NCIS: Los Angeles 1:15am NCIS: Los Angeles 2:15am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 3:10am Night Cops 4:05am Road Wars 5:00am Best of Oops TV
SKY MOVIES DRAMA
Thunderbirds 8:40am Sanctum 10:40am Kingdom of Heaven 1:05pm I, Robot 3:00pm Independence Day
BBC4 8:00pm Time Shift Documentary which tells the surprising story of how Britain entered a new age of steam railways after the Second World War and why it quickly came to an end. After the war, the largely destroyed railways of Europe were rebuilt to carry more modern diesel and electric trains. Britain, however, chose to build thousands of brand new steam locomotives. 9:00pm Michael Wood: The Story of India 10:00pm Storyville 11:15pm Undertow 12:50am Michael Wood: The Story of India 1:50am Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top 10 3:20am Sound it Out Over the last five years an independent record shop has closed in the UK every three days.
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Satellite channels SKY1 6:00am Best of Oops TV 7:00am The Hour of Power 8:00am Lion Man 8:30am Lion Man 9:00am UK Border Force 10:00am The Glee Project 11:00am World Wrestling Entertainment Superstars 12:00pm WWE Experience 1:00pm WWE Presents: You Think You Know Me... 2:00pm Best of Oops TV 3:00pm Road Wars 3:30pm WWE Survivor Series Preview 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 Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Arrow 10:00pm Ross Kemp: The Invisible Wounded
SKY MOVIES COMEDY 5:15am Snow Dogs 7:00am Blackball 8:40am Death Becomes Her 10:25am Take Me Home Tonight 12:10pm Beavis and Butt-head Do America 1:40pm Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son 3:30pm Bad Teacher 5:10pm Take Me Home Tonight 6:55pm How Do You Know 9:00pm Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son 11:00pm Bad Teacher 12:40am Stan Helsing 2:15am Beavis and Butt-head Do America
5:05am The 5th Quarter 6:45am The Top Ten Show 2012 7:00am Cupid, Inc 8:25am Beautiful Wave 10:05am Stepping Out 12:00pm Morning Glory 1:55pm I.Q. 3:35pm A Little Bit of Heaven 5:25pm You May Not Kiss the Bride 7:10pm Morning Glory 9:00pm A Little Bit of Heaven 11:00pm Just Go with it 1:00am Boys Don’t Cry 3:00am The Art of Getting by 4:25am Cherrybomb 5:55am I.Q.
SKY MOVIES ACTION 6:00am The Amazing Spiderman: Premiere Special 6:30am X-Men: First Class Special 7:00am
5:25pm Real Steel 7:35pm Kingdom of Heaven 10:00pm Independence Day 12:25am I, Robot 2:30am Circle of Pain 4:15am Jaws 3
TCM 6:00am Invasion Quartet 7:40am With a Song in My Heart 9:55am Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 12:10pm Escape from Fort Bravo 2:05pm Monte Walsh 4:00pm Trooper Hook 5:35pm The Horse Soldiers 7:55pm Bridge to the Sun 10:00pm Posse 12:05am Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever 1:50am The Boston Strangler
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5:35am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC’s Breakfast team. 10:15am Neighbourhood Blues 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Watchdog Daily 12:45pm Cash in the Attic Series looking at whether household junk could be worth a small fortune. 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One The latest national and international news stories from the BBC News team, followed by weather. 2:30pm BBC London News The latest news, sport and weather from London. 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm Escape to the Country
4.00pm - midnight 4:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories from the BBC News team, followed by weather. 4:05pm Deadly 60 4:35pm Lockie Leonard 5:00pm Prank Patrol Down Under 5:25pm Léon 5:30pm Junior MasterChef 6:00pm Newsround Topical news magazine for children. 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six The latest national and international news stories from the BBC News team, followed by weather. 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Panorama 10:00pm Richard Hammond’s Miracles of Nature 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News The latest news, sport and weather from London. 11:35pm Four Born Every Second 12:35am Seraphim Falls 2:20am Weatherview Detailed weather forecast. 2:25am Question Time 3:25am The Choir The Semi-Final. 4:25am Wartime Farm 5:25am BBC News
8:00pm Snog, Marry, Avoid? 8:30pm Snog, Marry, Avoid? 9:00pm Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands 10:00pm I Want to Change My Body Young body-obsessed Brits turn the cameras on themselves. 11:30pm EastEnders 12:00am Family Guy 12:25am Family Guy Animated comedy about family life. 12:45am American Dad! Animated adventures of a hapless CIA agent and his family. 1:10am American Dad! Animated adventures of a hapless CIA agent and his family. 1:30am I Want to Change My Body Young body-obsessed Brits turn the cameras on themselves. 3:00am Russell Howard’s Good News 3:30am Impractical Jokers 4:00am Unsafe Sex in the City
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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 Big and Small 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 Royal Upstairs Downstairs 2:30pm To Buy or Not to Buy 3:15pm The Weakest Link
4:35am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service. 6:30am ITV Morning News The latest national and international news. 7:00am Daybreak 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning Presented by Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield. 12:25pm ITV News The latest headlines from around the world. Followed by a local weather forecast. 12:30pm This Morning Presented by Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield. 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV News and Weather Alastair Stewart with the latest headlines from around the world. 3:00pm Crime Stories
5:55am Deal or No Deal 6:50am BT and Channel 4 Present... 6:55am The Treacle People 7:05am Sali Mali Sali Mali and Jackdaw make masks and play a trick on Thomas Carradog. 7:10am The Hoobs Roma has been asked to look after a squigglytiddlypeep while its mum and dad are out. 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 Canada 12:00pm A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Superscrimpers: Waste Not, Want Not 1:35pm Come Dine with Me 2:35pm Phil Spencer: Secret Agent 3:40pm Countdown
6:40am Thomas and Friends 6:50am Roary the Racing Car 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 Noddy in Toyland 9:00am Fifi and the Flowertots 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:35am Roary the Racing Car 9:45am Bananas in Pyjamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm The Hotel Inspector 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Best House in the Street 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm CSI: NY
4:00pm Real Rescues 4:45pm Flog It! Antiques series. 5:30pm Breakaway Hosted by Nick Hancock, Breakaway is a race to the finish line with up to 10,000 pounds to be won. 6:15pm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two 8:00pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 9:00pm University Challenge 9:30pm MasterChef: The Professionals The competition to crown Britain's next culinary superstar continues. 10:00pm The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler seemed an unlikely leader - fuelled by anger, incapable of forming normal human relationships and unwilling to debate political issues. Such was the depth of his hatred that he would become a war criminal arguably without precedent in history. Yet this strange character was once loved by millions. 11:00pm Never Mind the Buzzcocks Comedy pop quiz. 11:30pm Newsnight In-depth investigation and analysis of the stories behind the day’s headlines with Jeremy Paxman.
4:00pm Dickinson’s Real Deal David Dickinson is in Bedworth with Brenda Haller, James Layte and Mike Melody. 5:00pm Midsomer Murders Conclusion. 6:00pm The Chase Quiz show hosted by Bradley Walsh. 7:00pm London Tonight 7:30pm ITV News and Weather Alastair Stewart and Natasha Kaplinsky with the latest headlines from around the world. 8:00pm Emmerdale Jimmy fights his emotions and comes to a decision about the business. 8:30pm Coronation Street Eva’s jealousy spirals out of control. Kirsty grows suspicious of Tyrone. 9:00pm Little England 9:30pm Coronation Street Nick falls into Eva and Kylie’s trap. Fiz’s concerns grow for Tyrone. Rob tries to make amends. 10:00pm I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! The celebrities have survived a week in the Australian bush. 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather Mark Austin and Natasha Kaplinsky with the latest headlines from around the world. 11:35pm The Agenda
4:30pm 1001 Things You Should Know Comedian Sandi Toksvig hosts Channel 4’s brand new general knowledge quiz show. 5:00pm Deal or No Deal 6:00pm Come Dine with Me 6:30pm Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather. 8:55pm 4thought.tv 9:00pm Dispatches 9:30pm Stephen Fry: Gadget Man Stephen Fry, Britain’s favourite clever clogs, doesn’t live life like the rest of us. 10:00pm 999: What’s Your Emergency? 11:00pm 8 Out of 10 Cats 11:50pm Full English Meet the Johnson family in Channel 4’s brand new animated satirical sitcom.
4:15pm Angel in the Family 6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News National and international news. 8:00pm Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan 9:00pm The All New Gadget Show 10:00pm The Contract
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12:05am A few Good Men Military drama. A young and impetuous naval lieutenant and a more experienced officer are given the job of defending two marines accused of murder. As the two officers come to terms with one another, their investigation uncovers some sinister secrets and collusion at the highest level.
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12:10am Coogan’s Bluff Deputy Sheriff Walt Coogan, a tough Arizona cop, travels to New York to collect a wanted man. 1:45am Jackpot247 Join the presenters live and play roulette on your telly. 4:00am UEFA Champions League Weekly 4:25am ITV Nightscreen 5:35am The Jeremy Kyle Show
12:20am Dragons’ Den Series in which budding entrepreneurs pitch business ideas to multimillionaires. 1:20am BBC News 5:00am Make a Musical A bully and his victim find themselves lost in a fantasy world.
BBC4 8:00pm World News Today The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective. 8:30pm Timothy Spall: All at Sea 9:00pm Nature’s Microworlds Series in which Steve Backshall looks at some of the world's most iconic ecosystems. 9:30pm Only Connect 10:00pm Calf’s Head and Coffee: The Golden Age of English Food 11:00pm Storyville 12:25am The Killing 1:25am Timothy Spall: All at Sea 1:55am Nature’s Microworlds Series in which Steve Backshall looks at some of the world's most iconic ecosystems. 2:25am Only Connect 2:55am Calf's Head and Coffee: The Golden Age of English Food
12:20am Rory Peck Awards 2012 12:25am Alan Carr: Chatty Man 1:30am Secret State 2:25am Derren Brown 3:20am The Good Wife 4:00am Moonfleet 5:30am Supernanny US
12:05am A Few Good Men Military drama. 2:30am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel. 4:55am HouseBusters 5:20am House Doctor Home improvement series with Californian interior designer Ann Maurice. 5:45am Divine Designs
Satellite channels Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason 10:30am Galaxy Quest 12:15pm Down to Earth 1:45pm Bridesmaids 3:50pm Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
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7:00pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Arrow 10:00pm Road Wars 11:00pm Game of Thrones 12:15am Fringe 1:15am Road Wars 2:15am Miami SWAT 3:05am Road Wars 3:55am Road Wars 4:45am Road Wars 5:10am Stargate SG-1
SKY MOVIES COMEDY 5:40am A Nanny for Christmas 7:10am Down to Earth 8:40am
5:40pm Galaxy Quest 7:25pm Cyrus 9:00pm Dragnet 11:00pm Bridesmaids 1:10am Swingers 2:55am Cyrus
SKY MOVIES DRAMA 9:30am Mean Girls 11:15am The Age of Innocence 1:35pm Just Married 3:15pm The Help 5:40pm Mean Girls 7:20pm Mean Girls 2 9:00pm The Help 11:30pm Just Married 1:10am Legends of the Fall 3:25am Henry’s Crime
SKY MOVIES ACTION 1:40pm Jaws 2 3:40pm Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 6:00pm Gone in 60 Seconds 8:00pm The Tourist 10:00pm The Delta Force 12:10am Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection 2:10am Missing in Action
TCM 10:05am Trooper Hook 11:45am The Horse Soldiers 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm Vera Cruz 5:55pm The Last Challenge 7:45pm Red River 10:00pm Blown Away 12:20am City Heat
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Back to the ‘campo’, where the flavour is Get to know the Spanish way of life from Raul Candela, a Spaniard born and raised.
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RURAL PRIDE: It is not all sun, sea and siesta in Spain. Discover a different way of life in small towns.
FUNNY beverage advertisement on Spanish television proposes “bringing together countryside towns who need people, and people who need countryside towns.” The advert is very symptomatic of the new migration and cultural trends going on in Spain. Traditionally, living in the countryside - the ‘campo’ - was a synonym of being a country bumpkin (a ‘paleto’) with poor cultural skills, unsophisticated manners, weak patrimony and a bleak future. But especially since the present economic crisis first broke out, people
have started to build some sort of countryside rural pride. There is increasing nostalgia, especially among those born in towns who have then moved to cities, as well as among people raised in urban areas and who are now thinking outside the box. The fact is, for many, living in the city is not the life that appeared promised. Such a lifestyle can take a lot of time to go to work and back; petrol prices have significantly increased; and many find no time to educate the children, so hire a babysitter. This has led to some realising it may not be worth spending 12 hours a day away from home to hardly make it through the month because they have a mortgage to pay. Our grandparents sought life in the city because in Franco’s dictatorship, there were almost no public welfare services elsewhere. Life was miserable back then, but there have been huge improvements in the last 40 years, with good health, education and other services now widely available. Who would have thought that Spain would be able to boast availability of the internet to the middle-ofnowhere areas by this early in the Third Millennium? But with some salaries no longer balancing out with the extra expense of living in cities any more and with five million people unemployed, staff speak some English. some Spaniards are beginning to move back to certificate (or family book if born the countryside, where life is in Spain). If living with just one not only simpler, but parent, authorisation will also be also cheaper and healthier. Of course, owning a vehicle needed from the other parent. - If the parents are separated or is a must, but that is a small divorced, an agreement price to pay. My advice is that for people confirming custody of the child who have a Spanish friend must also be presented. With the correct documents to living in the countryside - or hand registration should be one who has relatives there completed within about 10 don’t miss the opportunity to minutes. Most expatriates will find spend a few days and try to that staff in the municipal register discover what the campo is offices - especially within areas really all about. Mix with the with a large foreign community - locals and you will get to meet ‘the real Spain’. usually speak English.
Signing on at the padron easier than many fear EXPATRIATES signing on the municipal register - despite many beliefs - do not face mounds of paperwork. It is now possible to be included in the municipal register - officially known as the padron - with only a passport or national ID card following changes earlier this year in the Spanish Immigration Law. Padrons are issued at the municipal register office (oficina del padrón), normally within local town halls. However, on occasions registration is at Tourist Offices and Foreign Resident Council departments. For this reason is it advisable to make phone or e-mail contact before setting off to register. Padron benefits - including sport and leisure activity discounts, bus passes and a number of other issues - can vary, according to locations. To register, the following
AYUNTAMIENTO DOS HERMANAS: Often registration department documents - originals plus a photocopy - are required: - Passport or national ID card (in force).
Q AND A: MY wife works and finds it difficult to go to the town hall to register. Can I sign her up on her behalf? Answer: You can register all relatives - including your children - as well as friends, but only with the full required documentation. It is not sufficient to merely present a signed authorisation on their behalf.
- The EU Certificate of Residence is not required by law, though some town halls may seek it for further confirmation. - Title deed (if a property owner), rental contract (if renting a home). - People living as guests (relatives or friends) in a property for more than three months should produce an authorisation signed by the owner or the tenant plus a copy of their ID card and the title deed. - People under the age of 18 should also produce their birth
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5:25am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC's Breakfast team. 10:15am Neighbourhood Blues 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer Series about properties that have gone to auction. 12:00pm Watchdog Daily 12:45pm Cash in the Attic Series looking at whether household junk could be worth a small fortune. 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One The latest national and international news stories from the BBC News team, followed by weather. 2:30pm BBC London News 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm Escape to the Country
4.00pm - midnight 4:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories from the BBC News team, followed by weather. 4:05pm Deadly 60 4:35pm Lockie Leonard 5:00pm Prank Patrol Down Under 5:25pm Léon 5:30pm Junior MasterChef The pressure is on for the final four cooks left in the competition. 6:00pm Newsround Topical news magazine for children. 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six The latest national and international news stories from the BBC News team, followed by weather. 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm EastEnders 9:00pm Holby City 10:00pm Last Tango in Halifax 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News 11:35pm Imagine...
12:40am Hollywoodland 2:40am Weatherview Detailed weather forecast. 2:45am Exploring China: A Culinary Adventure 3:45am Servants: The True Story of Life Below Stairs Series about the real history of Britain’s servants. 4:45am Lorraine’s Fast, Fresh and Easy Food Lorraine Pascale creates amazing food, completely from scratch, in super quick time. 5:15am BBC News
BBC3 8:00pm Total Wipeout 9:00pm Don’t Tell the Bride 10:00pm Transsexual Teen, Beauty Queen 11:00pm Some Girls 11:30pm EastEnders 12:00am Family Guy 12:25am Family Guy 12:45am American Dad! 1:10am American Dad! 1:30am Some Girls 2:00am Transsexual Teen, Beauty Queen 3:00am Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 4:00am Russell Howard’s Good News 4:30am Some Girls Comedy series about the lives and loves of a group of quirky 16-year-old girls who play on the same school football team and live on the same inner city estate. Viva invites her friends to help babysit, but then struggles to keep control of the situation.
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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 Big and Small 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 Royal Upstairs Downstairs 2:30pm To Buy or Not to Buy 3:15pm The Weakest Link
5:35am The Jeremy Kyle Show 6:30am ITV Morning News The latest national and international news. 7:00am Daybreak 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning Presented by Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield. 12:25pm ITV News The latest headlines from around the world. Followed by a local weather forecast. 12:30pm This Morning Presented by Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield. 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV News and Weather Nina Hossain with the latest headlines from around the world. 3:00pm Crime Stories Documentary-style police drama series.
5:30am Supernanny US 6:10am Deal or No Deal 7:05am BT and Channel 4 Present... 7:10am The Hoobs Tula is outside in the cold painting a picture of some penguins. 7:35am The Hoobs Tula has knocked over Groove’s tray of hooboblubbers. 8:00am Freshly Squeezed 8:30am According to Jim 8:55am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Undercover Boss Canada 12:00pm A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 1:00pm Channel 4 News Includes news headlines and weather. 1:05pm Superscrimpers: Waste Not, Want Not 1:35pm Come Dine with Me 2:35pm Phil Spencer: Secret Agent 3:40pm Countdown
6:10am Wildlife SOS 6:35am Wildlife SOS 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 Noddy in Toyland 9:00am Fifi and the Flowertots 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:35am Roary the Racing Car 9:45am Bananas in Pyjamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm The Hotel Inspector 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Superior Interiors with Kelly Hoppen 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm CSI: Miami
4:00pm Real Rescues 4:45pm Flog It! Antiques series. 5:30pm Breakaway Hosted by Nick Hancock, Breakaway is a race to the finish line with up to 10,000 pounds to be won. 6:15pm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two All the backstage gossip and behind-the-scenes action from the world of Strictly Come Dancing. 8:00pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip TV entertainers Neil Stuke and Penny Smith hit the road with £400 to invest in antiques. 9:00pm MasterChef: The Professionals The competition to crown Britain’s next culinary superstar continues. 10:00pm Dara O Briain’s Science Club Experts and a lively audience join Dara O Briain to tackle the biggest ideas in science. 11:00pm Later Live... with Jools Holland 11:30pm Newsnight In-depth investigation and analysis of the stories behind the day’s headlines with Jeremy Paxman.
4:00pm Dickinson’s Real Deal 5:00pm Midsomer Murders A glassware factory in Midsomer Magna faces ruin after the death of its co-owner Alan King. 6:00pm The Chase Quiz show hosted by Bradley Walsh. 7:00pm London Tonight 7:30pm ITV News and Weather Alastair Stewart and Natasha Kaplinsky with the latest headlines from around the world. 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm UEFA Champions League Live 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:35pm UEFA Champions League
4:30pm 1001 Things You Should Know Comedian Sandi Toksvig hosts Channel 4’s brand new general knowledge quiz show. 5:00pm Deal or No Deal 6:00pm Come Dine with Me Second host in this brand new competition in the West Midlands is mortgage adviser Andrew Devey. 6:30pm Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm 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 11:50pm Rory Peck Awards 2012 Homs in Syria: a city under siege. 11:55pm Homeland
4:15pm Together Again for the First Time 5:55pm Looney Tunes Classic Warner Brothers animation. Tweety thwarts all of Sylvester’s ingenious plans to capture him. 6:00pm 5 News at 5 National and international news. 6:30pm Neighbours Paul manages to put Ajay off the scent when he goes looking for Priya. 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News National and international news. 8:00pm Highland Emergency Documentary series. RAF Rescue 137 responds to a massive car crash. 8:30pm Highland Emergency Documentary series. 9:00pm Rolf’s Animal Clinic Documentary series presented by Rolf Harris. 10:00pm Body of Proof US mystery series. 11:00pm CSI: NY New York-based spin-off of the crime drama series. 11:55pm CSI: NY New York-based spin-off of the crime drama series.
1:00am Pokerstars.co.uk European Poker Tour 2:00am BT and Channel 4 Present... 2:05am Sailing 2:35am KOTV Boxing Weekly 3:00am Beach Volleyball 3:55am Bullrun 4:20am Freesports on 4 5:20am Extreme Sailing Series 5:50am Volkswagen Racing Cup
12:55am CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 1:40am Forensic Files Documentary series examining the application of modern technological advances in crime-fighting. 2:05am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel. 4:55am HouseBusters 5:20am House Doctor 5:45am Divine Designs
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8:30pm UEFA Champions League Live 12:20am Storyville 1:45am BBC News 5:00am L8r Youngers 2 Short dramas in the Baftawinning series about the journey from primary to secondary school. 5:40am Seeking Refuge
BBC4 8:00pm World News Today The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective. 8:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 9:00pm Canal Walks with Julia Bradbury 9:30pm Britain on Film 10:00pm America on a Plate: The Story of the Diner 11:00pm Rick Stein Tastes the Blues 12:00am The Killing 1:00am Storyville 2:15am Canal Walks with Julia Bradbury 2:45am Britain on Film 3:15am Rick Stein Tastes the Blues
12:35am Take Me Out Paddy McGuinness presents another episode of the fun dating show. 1:45am Jackpot247 Join the presenters live and play roulette on your telly. 4:00am Loose Women 4:50am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service.
Satellite channels SKY1 5:10am Stargate SG-1 6:05am Stargate SG-1 7:00am Airline 7:30am Airline 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 NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00pm Glee 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 Last Resort 10:00pm A League of Their Own 11:00pm The One 12:40am Miami SWAT 1:40am Road Wars 2:40am Road Wars 3:40am
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SKY MOVIES COMEDY 4:35am Swingers 6:20am Dragnet 8:10am High Anxiety 9:50am Harry Potter: The Magic Lives On 10:20am Diary of a Wimpy Kid 12:00pm Raising Arizona 1:40pm No Strings Attached 3:35pm Crazy, Stupid, Love 5:40pm The Stepford Wives 7:20pm Diary of a Wimpy Kid 9:00pm No Strings Attached 11:00pm Crazy, Stupid, Love 1:00am Best Defense 2:40am The Stepford Wives 4:20am Raising Arizona
SKY MOVIES DRAMA 5:15am The Age of Innocence
7:35am The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 9:35am The Lake Effect 11:15am Deck the Halls 1:05pm The Top Ten Show 2012 1:20pm An Affair to Remember 3:20pm New York, I Love You 5:10pm All I Want for Christmas 6:50pm Burlesque 9:00pm The Bodyguard 11:15pm Morning Glory 1:05am Against the Ropes 3:00am Cherrybomb 4:30am Stay Cool
SKY MOVIES ACTION 5:35am Jaws 2 7:40am The Amazing Spiderman: Premiere Special 8:10am Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 10:10am Crimson Tide 12:15pm Déjà Vu 2:30pm Black Hawk Down 5:00pm Sucker Punch 7:00pm Shanghai Noon
9:00pm Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 11:00pm Black Hawk Down 1:30am Sucker Punch 3:25am American Ninja 2: The Confrontation 5:00am American Ninja 3: Bloodhunt
TCM 6:00am Vera Cruz 7:45am Gunsmoke 8:45am Gunsmoke 9:55am The Man From Snowy River 12:00pm The Last Challenge 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm Valerie 5:40pm Elmer Gantry 8:30pm The Ride Back 10:00pm Ocean's Eleven 12:15am Body Heat 2:25am Ocean’s Eleven 4:20am Who’s That Girl?
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A MAN who took his exgirlfriend’s pregnancy test for a joke discovered that he had testicular cancer after it was revealed as positive.
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HOSE regular perusers of this blurb will know only too well my personal opinion of the BBC. For years now I have considered this alleged bastion of British free speech and integrity nothing more than a bunch of subversives, using the taxpayers’ EAPY EE money to maniSAYS IT pulate and distort news items and OTHERS THINK IT political reporting to further their own DEBACLE: The BBC have lost credibility. biased, left-wing preferences. I still recall watching an early morning interview with Tony Blair sounded utterly persuasive and them have been shown the door. during his New Labour totally positive. It was a blatant If I had my way I’d sack the lot of campaign.The whole thing was a manipulative disgrace (and the ‘em and start again. complete propaganda disaster. I wife’s wasted early call didn’t go Let’s all get back to the no longer remember the exact down too well either!). standards of the 40s and 50s, dialogue, but recall it was so bad This latest debacle is a typical which was about the last time I took my life in my hands and example of their complete distain you could truly believe in woke the wife specifically to listen for the viewing public. Well, anything they reported on at all. to it when it was re-aired later. I they’ve finally gone too far. At Did not the obscene amounts needn’t have bothered. Some long last the total arrogance of of money spent on the recent US half-an-hour later when ‘Slippery’ this whole despicable bunch has presidential campaign bring reappeared, the whole thing had backfired on them and I for one home once and for all that it is been chomped, chopped and hope that by the time this column not the elected politicians who edited to such an extent that it all goes out a great deal more of rule the world, but the faceless
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4.00pm - midnight 4:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories from the BBC News team, followed by weather. 4:05pm Deadly 60 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 Comedy prank series. 5:25pm Léon 5:30pm Junior MasterChef 6:00pm Newsround Topical news magazine for children. 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 9:00pm Supersized Earth 10:00pm Crimewatch 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News 11:35pm The National Lottery Wednesday Night Draws 11:45pm Crimewatch Update 11:55pm Would I Lie to You? 12:25am Film 2012 with Claudia Winkleman 12:55am Shank An action film for the youth generation, set in a decaying future London. 2:25am Weatherview 2:30am See Hear 3:00am Ian Hislop's Stiff Upper Lip: An Emotional History of Britain 4:00am Paul Martin’s Handmade Revolution 4:45am Cash Britain 5:15am BBC News
BBC3 8:00pm Young Apprentice 9:00pm Gavin and Stacey 9:30pm Gavin and Stacey 10:00pm I Hate My Body: Skinny Boys and Muscle Men 11:00pm Unzipped 11:45pm Family Guy 12:10am Family Guy Animated comedy about the everyday trials and tribulations of American family life. 12:30am American Dad! Animated adventures of a hapless CIA agent and his family. 12:55am American Dad! 1:15am I Hate My Body: Skinny Boys and Muscle Men 2:15am Unzipped 3:00am Impractical Jokers 3:30am Russell Howard’s Good News 4:00am Him and Her 4:30am Him and Her
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4:50am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service. 6:30am ITV Morning News The latest national and international news. 7:00am Daybreak 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning Presented by Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield. 12:25pm ITV News The latest headlines from around the world. Followed by a local weather forecast. 12:30pm This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV News and Weather Natasha Kaplinsky with the latest headlines from around the world. 3:00pm Crime Stories Documentary-style police drama series.
5:50am Volkswagen Racing Cup 6:15am Deal or No Deal 7:10am The Hoobs Not only is ‘Brainbox Iver' full of bright ideas today, he’s boasting about them. 7:35am The Hoobs 8:00am Freshly Squeezed 8:30am According to Jim Jim is determined to sabotage his own surprise 50th birthday party. 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond Ray is shocked when Debra takes all their baby stuff to a garage sale. 9:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Undercover Boss Canada 12:00pm A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Superscrimpers: Waste Not, Want Not 1:35pm Come Dine with Me 2:35pm Phil Spencer: Secret Agent 3:40pm Countdown
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4:00pm Dickinson’s Real Deal 5:00pm Midsomer Murders Conclusion. 6:00pm The Chase Quiz show hosted by Bradley Walsh. 7:00pm London Tonight 7:30pm ITV News and Weather Mark Austin and Natasha Kaplinsky with the latest headlines from around the world. 8:00pm Emmerdale Bernice creates waves, but holds her cards close to her chest. 8:30pm Coronation Street Fiz feels the full extent of Kirsty’s anger. Leanne makes a big decision. David drops a bombshell. 9:30pm I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! The celebrities have survived a week in the Australian bush. 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather Mark Austin and Julie Etchingham with the latest headlines from around the world. 11:35pm Exposure Update
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BBC4 8:00pm World News Today The latest national and international news, exploring the day’s events from a global perspective. 8:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 9:00pm Britain’s Best Drives Actor Richard Wilson follows routes raved about in motoring guides of 50 years ago. 9:30pm Tales From the Wild Wood 10:00pm Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 11:00pm Getting On Jo Brand, Vicki Pepperdine, Joanna Scanlan, Ricky Grover, Sandro Kopp, Tilda Swinton. 11:30pm Frost on Satire 12:30am Metalworks! 1:30am Britain’s Best Drives Actor Richard Wilson follows routes raved about in motoring guides of 50 years ago. 2:00am Tales From the Wild Wood 2:30am Getting On 3:00am Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
12:35am The First Great Train Robbery 1:30am Jackpot247 Join the presenters live and play roulette on your telly. 4:00am Columbo The dishevelled detective is called in to investigate when a popular actor is found murdered. 5:40am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service.
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Satellite channels SKY1 5:10am Stargate SG-1 6:05am Stargate SG-1 7:00am Airline 7:30am Airline 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 NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00pm Glee 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 Trollied 12:30am Road Wars 1:00am A League of Their Own
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Phew! What’s that bad smell lingering around here? W
HAT a difference a few months make! Now you can hardly open a UK newspaper without reading about the latest example of corruption being laid bare or scandal uncovered somewhere or other. Take, for instance, the recent failure of a politically-motivated attempt to sue a Greek journalist for naming and shaming alleged Greek account holders in an offshore bank ‘safeguarded’ for two years from tax investigation. A Greek court acquitted Lagarde List magazine-editor Kostas Vaxevanis on all charges. This left Greek leaders at a loss to explain why Greece harbours so many super-rich tax evaders at a time of austerity, shortages and painful cuts for the rest of the country intermittently on strike and on the brink of running out of cash to pay its public servants and pensioners.
Breaking Views NORA JOHNSON Nora, who has lived on the Costa del Sol for a number of years, is the author of psychological suspense and crime thrillers. To comment on any of the issues raised in Nora’s column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/columnists/norajohnson
Meanwhile in Mexico, hundreds of police officers in Acapulco were fired after failing tests specially aimed at flushing out officials in a corruption scandal enveloping the country’s security services. Mexico, you’ll recall, is engaged in an ongoing battle against corruption with drugs gangs bribing low-paid police officers and state officials. And while we’re on the subject of scandal and corrupt practices, don’t let us forget Britain where even the former Europe Minister,
CORRUPTION: Scandals are being uncovered on a regular basis. Denis MacShane, was fiddling his expenses, where the richest escape tax by offshore deals and where it’s common for tradesmen to suggest VAT can be avoided by paying cash. In fact, David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Boris Johnson have all admitted they’ve made cash-in-hand
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payments in the past. Still in the UK, there’s additionally the ever-widening, unfolding story of the child abuse scandal at Welsh care homes in the ’70s and ’80s. While the focus is on the alleged involvement of a
former Conservative minister, it’s also claimed that MPs, police officers, lawyers and businessmen were implicated. Indeed, many are demanding an overarching public enquiry into child protection failings generally - by the BBC, NHS, police as well as care homes. Simply put, these past few months have fuelled those conspiracy theorists who question the fundamental integrity of the UK media, police, judiciary and politicians ‌ I’m reminded of the time when Gandhi was asked by a Western journalist what he thought of Western civilization and he replied: “I think it would be a very good idea.â€? Nora Johnson’s thrillers ‘Soul Stealer’ & ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.nora-johnson.com) available from Amazon in paperback/eBook (â‚Ź0.89; ÂŁ0.77) and iBookstore. Profits to Cudeca.
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POORLY MUMMY: Having to take time off work.
Sick leave during pregnancy ACCORDING to a new study, three-quarters of pregnant women take sick leave from work, outside their normal
maternity leave, citing tiredness and sleep problems as the main reasons. Researchers from the Stavanger University Hospital, Norway, gathered information
through a questionnaire conducted at weeks 17 and 32 of pregnancy from 3,000 hospital patients. Just over 75 per cent of them received sick leave at some point,
with more women requiring time off as their pregnancy progressed. However, women who had flexible working hours took less time off.
THE RIGHT CHOICE: Choosing fruit over pills.
Fruit and vegetables win over popping pills SPENDING on vitamins has dropped as more people are shunning the expensive health supplements to save money and going back to cheaper fruit and vegetables. According to market analysts Mintel, just 35 per cent of Britons still take vitamin supplements regularly, a fall from 41 per cent in 2008.
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Aging signs could be early THINNING on top or got fatty deposits around the eyes? Then you could be at a great risk of a heart attack. People who have three to four aging signs including a hairline, receding baldness, creased ear lobes or fatty deposits around the eyelid, have a 57 per cent higher risk of a heart attack and a 39 per cent increased risk of heart disease, according to scientists. that say They xanthelasmata deposits of cholesterol under the skin strongest the is predictor for both heart attacks and heart disease. The results follow a study by Danish researchers of nearly 11,000 people over the age of 40 in a 35year period assessing their aging signs and the number that went on to have heart disease and heart attacks.
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Denial: who has the problem? THERE is a tale told in hearing circles that, whether true or not, illustrates a problem that many couples have but only one or neither of them will admit to. John’s wife was due to get her new hearing aids fitted that day. He had put up with her not hearing him for years or being able to hold a conversation without shouting and repetition. Now it would all be cured! He came home from work, crept into the house and could see his wife at the sink doing the washing up. He stood at the kitchen door and, keen to test the new hearing aids, gently spoke “I want to make passionate love to you.” No response from his wife. Slightly disappointed with the performance of the new hearing aids he moved silently half way across the kitchen floor to be nearer to her and repeated “I want to make passionate love to you.” No response. Now really disappointed, he moved right up to his wife’s shoulder and whispered into her ear “I want to make passionate love to you.” His wife turned and looked at him and said “For the third and final time, no chance.” Communication is a wonderful thing but it is a two-way street. It is up to everybody to take responsibility for making the most of their hearing. No-one wants to wear a hearing aid,
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Thoughts of selling a bar, football and yoghurt as ‘end of world’ date nears THE end of the world is nigh with December 21, 2012, earmarked as the last day of life by the Mayans. Dilip Kuner sought down-to-earth views from people in the street FORTY THREE three days and counting. If doommongering believers in the ancient South American Mayans’ prediction that the world will end next month are to believed, time really is rapidly running out. So do people in the street believe the end is nigh? And if so, what are their final wishes and hopes.
Diane Hendren from Fuengirola does not believe
it will happen, but would not be overly disappointed if it does! “The world will definitely not finish then, but if it should, it cannot come soon enough,” she said. “That’s what comes from being a bar owner in Spain.” And her unfulfilled ambitions? “I would like to sell the bar first,” she laughed.
Ex-submariner Brian Mathieson says he
would like to win the lottery by December 21. “I might not have much time, but I would spend, spend, spend, and travel around the world for a month,” said the 49-yearold from Paisley, Scotland. “And I’d buy St Mirren Football Club, just to say I owned it for a time.”
As far as Kirsty Johnstone is concerned,
wolf has been cried once too often. “No way are the Mayans right. There have been lots of times when the world has been supposed to end, but we are still here,” she said. But if doomsday is set to happen, then she would like to see her family in the time remaining. “I have relatives in Australia, New Zealand, Scotland and Newcastle in the UK. I would want to say goodbye to them all.” And the 19-year-old from Fuengirola thinking of herself would also like to go skydiving.
I know a habit that’ll get on your nerves A British survey of men and women aged 17 to 77 has highlighted what most annoys and irritates them. Now Tony Matthews takes a look at his pet hates. Arrogant people: Those who think they are the cat’s whiskers. Know-alls: After sulking, they disappear when they cannot give the right answer. Quiz moaners: Contestants who MOBILE SHOUTERS: They should move away. complain ‘Oh, not sport, or not pop music.’ Why muttering ‘get out of the last moment. Also drivers who cruise slowly in the enter in the first place? way.’ Bossiness:. People fast lane, and motorists What would they expect on Pointless, The Chase or who shout off their who tailgate. Mobile shouters: mouths in public. Be The Weakest Link? Miserable shop bossy at home any time, People who talk loudly in assistants: It costs but don’t become an idiot public or in company. They should move away. nothing to smile when and do it elsewhere. Singers who mime: Messy walkers:. Pet serving a customer. Pushy parents: This is embarrassing, owners who fail to clean Fathers and mothers who along with those who sing up the mess while out on walks. without a please or may I, out of tune. Directionless drivers: Litter louts:. They are guide a buggy down a shop aisle, over the Those who don’t indicate still around, and the footpath or into a crowd when turning right or left, authorities should impose at a packed market, or do so only at the very more fines.
For Charlotte Batt from Riviera del Sol, thoughts of the world ending next month saw her thinking of yoghurt. “I have some in the fridge with a January sell-by date, so I hope the world will last that long,” said the 18-yearold. “I would love to travel the world before the end, particularly America and Australia,” she added on a more serious note.
Businessman and former journalist Kari Karjalainen has no overall regrets on life, and does not believe the world will end shortly. But he believes every day could be a person’s last anyway. “If you live life like it will go on forever, the danger is you will put things off and miss out,” said the 61-year-old Finnish expatriate who now lives in Calahonda. “Do not leave until tomorrow what you can do today.”
But chef Jamie Dyson believes the Mayan prediction could be right. “But I am hoping they are wrong and that it does not happen until at least after Christmas, and in reality after the New Year which would be even better” said the 20-year-old from Glasgow. As for any unfulfilled ambitions, Jamie would like to buy a boat before the world ends. “You never know – it might be another flood – a boat would be handy then.”
Twenty-one-year old Jay Moule from Kent, in England, puts his faith not in ancient Mayans but in modern technology. “If it was really going to happen I am sure Apple would have come up with an App for the iPhone to predict it! “In fact wasn’t the end of the world supposed to happen earlier this year?” he asked. “I am sure when December 21 passes and we are still here someone will come up with another prediction.¨ But before any apocalypse, Jay would like to give London Mayor Boris Johnson a wedgie. “A wedgie is pulling someone up hard by the waistband of their underpants, just to give everyone a laugh.” And for me? “I find it hard to believe the world will end in a little over a month. And so do scholars, with many claiming that the Mayans’ calendar ends on December 21, but that will not signify the death of the world. “It merely means a calendar cycle has finished and a new one is due to begin.”
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the accident happened. His wife was critically injured.
OTELS are used to disappearing towels and cutlery, often disappearing with an unpaid bill. Those of us resident in Spain will know the feeling. How often do we have visitors who, after a week or so of wining, dining; sharing the good life and the bed and roof, then disappear By Mike Walsh with a cheery wave. www.michaelwalsh.es Most even get To comment on any of the issues free airport pickraised in Mike’s column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com ups and watch /columnists/mike-walsh whilst you enter the contents of your wallet into the supermarket check-out lady’s lap. I had a 12-month cuckoo in my nest. Not many leave a box of VISITORS: Not many express their gratitude for your generosity. chocolates on the coffee table to express their gratitude at such largesse. It comes with the territory.
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For the first time on record there was only one fatality on Spanish roads over a recent weekend. The average is 10 accidents resulting in death.
Traffic accidents occur for many reasons but a new factor is reduced traffic and speeds due to the economic crisis. There have been 1.2 million fewer drivers on the road in
2012; a 10 per cent drop in traffic fatalities. The unfortunate victim was Damià Badia Serentill, a teacher from Raimat in Lleida. He had been out collecting mushrooms when
When after World War Two the United Nations (UN) imposed a trade embargo on Francoist Spain in an attempt to starve it into submission, Juan Peron’s Argentine government came to Spain’s aid. Vital foods and medicines got through; for this reason, Eva Peron is still a revered icon for many in Spain. Austerity measures, it is said, are plunging Hispaniola back into the severe shortages and endemic poverty of the Franco period. The Ministry of Health and Social Services concede that 8 million people are now registered as being in need of state aid. Not good when this appalling figure is set against Spain’s small population. Spain is a country big enough to be a self-sufficient major exporter of foodstuffs. It could have taken over the Ukraine’s pre-Communist position as ‘bread basket of Europe.’ What went wrong? Who will now come to Spain’s aid?
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TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) For all of the things that you want to do, there are three others that you wish to do. Maybe they are waiting for their own time to come. During the course of this week you will be thinking of what the future could hold, even though dealing with practical issues.
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.
GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) When it isnʼt possible to change something, often it is just as effective to rearrange it. That is the solution which comes to you this week. Instead of being frustrated at a delay, try changing the conditions or times.
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ARIES (March 21 - April 20) Rarely has your mind been as sharp as it is at the moment. There have been some awkward and downright bad periods in the recent past, but this week everything falls into place. Why, you wonder, have you worried so much about things which could not be changed?
CANCER (June 22 - July 23) When we have long-standing friendships, these are often taken for granted and yet often we could make so much more of them.
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 Did you hear about the guy who lost his left arm and leg in a car crash? He’s all right now. What lies at the bottom of the ocean and twitches? A nervous wreck. What did the fish say when he hit a concrete wall? “Dam”. Have you got a funny joke? jokes@euroweeklynews.com Include full name and town you live in.
LEO (July 24 - August 23) Consider what is the most important thing to you at the moment? Is it wealth or social position? Your work, or how it may be possible to afford that new conservatory are minor considerations compared with your greatest asset which is your health. This week, then, is all about boosting this valuable commodity and building its future.
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PISCES (February 20 - March 20) Pat yourself on the back for all of your efforts of recent weeks. Looking back just
TARGET: Average: 16 Good: 21
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION aged, dang, drag, dreg, edge, edgy, egad, gale, gean, gear, geed, geld, gene, glad, glee, glen, grad, gran, gray, grey, gyre, rage, rang, yang, agley, agree, angel, anger, angle, angry, eager, eagle, eager, edger, elegy, gayer, genre, glade, gland, glare, glary, glean, gnarl, grade, grand, greed, green, gyral, lager, large, ledge, ledgy, leger, raged, range, rangy, regal, agreed, anergy, angled, angler, argyle, danger, dangle, energy, enrage, gander, garden, geared, gender, genera, glared, gnarly, grande, grayed, greedy, greeny, greyed, ledger, legend, ranged, regale, regnal, angered, dangler, derange, eagerly, enlarge, enraged, general, gleaned, gleaner, gnarled, grandee, grandly, greenly, grenade, regaled, enlarged, LEGENDARY
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VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) As the saying goes, ʻno one ever said it would be easyʼ. In the past few months you have found this to be true. Hard work is not alien to you, but there is a point where you want to shout ʻenoughʼ. It may be business or home life needs some rearranging, or that someone is moving job and the routine is severely disrupted. LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) As a home-loving Libran, you are torn between making changes to your surroundings and getting some cash in on the business side. Apparently, it is not possible to do both because energy levels fluctuate.
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How many English words of four letters or more can you make from the nine letters in our Nonagram puzzle? Each letter may be used only once (unless the letter appears twice). Each word MUST CONTAIN THE CENTRE LETTER (in this case L) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.
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Move from the start word (CAME) to the end word (WITH) in the same number of steps as there are rungs on the Word Ladder. You must only change one letter at a time.
CAME CASE CASH WASH WISH WITH
AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) When you are at home this week I would like you to consider how you
a few months, would you have thought so much progress could be made? Because of your efforts, home life is enhanced and you are more appreciated. Give yourself a break at the weekend and do something with a loved one that you have not done together for some time.
1. TINKY WINKY, DIPSY, LAA-LLA and PO, 2. IDAHO, ILLINOIS, INDIANA and IOWA,
view your surroundings. This is a good week to make changes and have discussions about future directions.
3. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY (GWR), LONDON AND NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY
feelings about being at or near home this week, with thoughts of more progress possible elsewhere.
(LNER), LONDON, MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY (LMS) and SOUTHERN RAIL-
Expecting too much help from others has held you back in the recent past. It makes sense to be part of a team only when everyone is pulling their weight. Some things are best done alone for real progress.
Ines Sastre, Born on November 21, 1973, she is a Spanish actress and model. She has performed in more than 20 films, including ʻVidocqʼ and ʻThe Lost Cityʼ. She was the face of Lancômeʼs perfume Trésor.
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family and distinctly damaged life, aided by his best friend Harry Biscuit and definitely not aided by his cruel and ironically named guardian Mr Gently Benevolent and his accomplices, the fearsome Hardthrasher siblings. Add in grim circumstances, mistaken
(kneecap), TIBIA (shinbone) and FIBULA (calf bone), 6. GRYFFINDOR, HUF-
CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) The enthusiasm of your bright Capricorn mind is also capable of making you restless. There are mixed
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SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) Is playing the waiting game really to your advantage? Your Sagittarian character naturally leads you to be optimistic, and why not? It wonʼt hurt to hurry someone along rather than having them go at their own pace.
Bleak Expectations began as a riotously funny Sony Award winning Radio 4 comedy but it was so amazing it has transformed itself into an equally splendid book. Featuring added jokes and lots of extra bits of story and additional dimensions to characters, it recounts the adventures of young Pip Bin as he tries to repair his destroyed
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1. Name any three of the four Teletubbies. 2. Name any three of the four US states whose name begins with the letter I. 3. Name any three of the four railway companies that operated the rail networks in Britain between 1923 and the nationalisation of the rail system in 1947. 4. Name any three of the four English quarter days. 5. Name any three of the four bones found in the human leg (excluding the foot). 6. Name any three of the four houses at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter series of books. 7. Name any three of the four original members of The Goons. 8. Name any three of the four major Balearic Islands. 9. Name any three of the four March sisters in Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little Women. 10. Name any three of the American presidents whose faces are depicted on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
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SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) There is so much in you that is determined and looking forward to a fresh start, but something that you are trying to get rid of, or give up, may be giving you more trouble than anticipated. Some things have to be done alone, or so you think, but others have gone through this before you so they are able to give support.
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(MENORCA), IBIZA (EIVISSA) and FORMENTERA, 9. MARGARET (MEG),
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ENGLISH - SPANISH
Across 1 Like a bird slightly injured (6) 5 Dairy food for a dirty fighter (6) 8 Spanish painter involved in yoga (4) 9 Ignominious hoax leads to fuel spill (8) 10 War paint in defeat across one quiet street (8) 11 Streak without South African tramp (4) 12 The beloved compilerʼs expression of dismay (4,2) 14 Portray part of old epic tale (6) 16 Cold weather from the first of September, instantly (4) 18 False encouragement before debts (8) 20 Fashionable police force at hospital department event (8) 21 Female with hole in her footwear (4) 22 Weigh a female donkey (6) 23 Syʼs red, can look stylish (6) Down 2 Adore lookers (but not doers), we hear (7) 3 Flies the deer back north in (5) 4 Detest scruffy kidʼs lie (7) 5 Capital of Belgium has a dearth of ebony (5) 6 Move otter record to canopy (7) 7 Draw out end, but crew regularly
Funagram 1. Unscramble the name of a bestselling American author: BINS ROLL BY 2. Unscramble the name of a popular type of (sweet) biscuit (two words): ECOLOGISTS HID ACE VET
Across 1 En alguna parte (9) 5 Fechas (días precisos) (5) 7 Letter (mail) (5) 9 Pulgar (5) 10 Anillos (5) 11 Carreteras (5) 12 Italia (5) 14 Navajas (9)
Down 1 Triste (persona) (3) 2 Lavabo (9) 3 Scorpion (9) 4 Hierba (5) 6 Truffle (5) 8 Income (from property) (5) 9 Late (after usual time) (5) 13 Sí (3)
Co d e B r e a ke r missing (5) 13 War returning? Conceal television series (7) 14 Wasnʼt sure about party, but confused journalist (7) 15 Slips company up on
25 See 23 Down 1 Flower part (5) 2 Diluting agent (7) 3 Dreamy happiness (5) 4 Tremble (6) 5 Pilotʼs compartment (7) 6 Last letter of Greek alphabet (5) 7 Money matters (7) 12 Roosts (7) 13 Menacing (7) 15 Flags (7) 16 Worldʼs largest desert (6) 18 Bohemian dance (5) 19 Overly sentimental (5) 20 Terminated (5)
Play on Words
AREA
CHAOFRGE
Answers: A grey area, In charge of
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Across 1/6 Postpone (3,3) 3 Fundamental (5) 6 See 1 8 Capital of Georgia (7) 9 Free from dirt (5) 10 Loans (5) 11 Make clear (7) 12 Forgive (6) 14 Balanced (6) 17 Duplicate (7) 19 Slightly burn (5) 21 Greeting (5) 22 Put to use (7) 23/25 Neptune, for example (3,3) 24 Frightening (5)
The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English.
Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 1 represents Q and 3 represents L, so fill in Q every time the figure 1 appears and L every time the figure 3 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.
Saturday (7) 17 No points on afternoon prayers (5) 18 A dialectic name for various ducks seems backward (5) 19 An edition for the children (5)
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC - Across: 1 Socks, 4 Random, 9 Trained, 10 Slaps, 11 Less, 12 Purpose, 13 Rat, 14 Fine, 16 Easy, 18 Pad, 20 Extreme, 21 Bait, 24 Ranks, 25 Chicane, 26 Spends, 27 Sings. Down: 1 Settle, 2 Chaps, 3 Song, 5 Absorbed, 6 Dragons, 7 Master, 8 Adept, 13 Released, 15 Intense, 17 Beards, 18 Peach, 19 Others, 22 Again, 23 Digs. QUICK - Across: 1 Decent, 4 Tennis, 9 Stature, 10 Tutor, 11 After, 12 Realise, 13 Ale, 14 Rebel, 16 Eager, 18 Son, 19 Gnocchi, 21 Focus, 23 Evict, 24 Narrate, 25 Seethe, 26 Defeat. Down: 1 Despair, 2 Chant, 3 Neutral, 5 Extra, 6 Nothing, 7 Serve, 8 Depressions, 15 Bromine, 16 Enforce, 17 Respect, 19 Guess, 20 Catch, 22 Chase. ENGLISH - SPANISH Across: 1 Ruta, 3 Obras, 6 Syrup, 8 Truth, 10 Rat, 11 Llave, 12 Ounce, 13 Nun, 14 Sound, 15 Steep, 16 Zorro, 17 Head. Down: 1 Results, 2 Tartamudo, 4 Buttons, 5 Aguanieve, 7 Prender, 9 Huesped.
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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 (DANCED) and one letter in four other cells are given as clues.
ACTING CINDER COURSE DANCED (10) DEALER DESIRE INLAND
Quote Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me
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Steve Jobs (1955-2011), American entrepreneur, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
INTENT ISLAND MISERY NORMAL RENDER SENDER SEVERE
SLAYER STEEDS STENCH TASTES TINDER
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 Estate, 2 Bitten, 3 Either, 4 Render, 5 Hearts, 6 Suited, 7 Header, 8 Tumble, 9 Neatly, 10 Halted, 11 Dreams, 12 Rioted, 13 Barest, 14 Floats, 15 Metres, 16 Barley, 17 Awaits, 18 Aflame, 19 Seared
FUNAGRAM SOLUTION 1. BILL BRYSON 2. CHOCOLATE DIGESTIVES
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www.euroweeklynews.com HENRY VIII was a tyrant. Grossly overweight with bad breath and a foul smelling wound on his leg; at the age of 48, convinced he was still the handsome prince of his youth, he took a wife of barely 16 and then had her executed. During the last years of his reign, England lived in fear of his whims, for the whim of a king could mean death for his subjects. The sight of 16-year-old Catherine Howard being dragged screaming to the executioner’s block was not one of England’s finest moments. Nor was the execution of the two young courtiers (framed by Catherine’s ambitious uncle the Duke of Norfolk), who suffered the traitor’s fate of being hung, drawn and quartered. That Henry was mad is in no doubt, pain from his leg would have been excruciating and his life as a monarch feared and fawned over had engendered in him an ego the size of a football stadium and a belief he was God’s envoy on earth. England’s most powerful families sent him sycophantic men who used their young daughters, nieces, granddaughters as pawns in their games of power.
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Surviving the whims of kings That Norfolk survived both Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard after having been the architect of both their rise and subsequent fall must have caused their severed heads to spin wildly on Traitor’s Gate. The Tudor attitude towards women is well documented; they were ciphers used solely at the whim of the men who ‘owned’ them. The whims of men have steered us through the centuries. Ultimately, it is the people who indulge or not indulge the whims of great men, the people who allow tyrants to rule and leaders to commit genocide or to rise 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.
in dissent. In a democracy the people vote, or protest and stand against a failing leader. In dictatorships, brave souls work from within to topple the throne. Importantly, we women who once whispered in the darkness now lead. Elizabeth I was a great
HENRY VIII: How women have moved on since his times. monarch; she may have been vain and suspicious but at least she didn’t allow her whims to guide her. So as I sit knitting (yes knitting) I reflect on how far we women have grown and developed. No longer at the mercy of tyrant
kings or ambitious uncles, free to dissent and to vote and to make our voices heard above the din of male power; no longer forced to bow to the judgement of men. All men and women deserve to be free from tyranny... I must go now, my son wants his lunch.
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Salt and shake style crisps given hot makeover DO you remember ‘salt and shake’, the crisps with a little blue sachet of salt inside? They were launched in the 1920s and were an instant hit allowing consumers to add as much or as little salt as they wanted, but now they have been revised and had a modern-day makeover. Crisp lovers can now buy a bag of crisps with an added condiment bag – of scorching jalapeno chilli pepper seasoning. The crisps, made exclusively for Tesco have been launched at more than 400 branches of the supermarket chain. Crisp buyer Lee Bannerman said: “Sweet chilli flavoured crisps have been around for more than 10 years but we believe that customers are now ready for something hotter... you can completely control just how hot you want to make them, depending on how much you use.”
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HOT SNACK: Crisps with jalapeno chilli pepper seasoning.
Winter wonder foods WANT to keep healthy this winter? Then try to eat fruit like apples, grapes, oranges, tomatoes and berries every day. On top of that plenty of vegetables, olive oil, garlic and wholegrains should be eaten as well. These will all perk up the body’s immune system. Chicken, eggs, milk, oats, raisins, red wine, rice, soya and yoghurt two or three times a week are also good.
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Juicy fruit is a superfood MANGOES are the latest superfood. Rich in Vitamins C and A as well as having traces of Vitamins E, B and K, the juicy fruit packs a nutitional punch well above its weight. They are high in cancer fighting antioxidants, low in carbohydrates and, like other yellow or orange fruit including pumpkin and carrot, they are an excellent source of betacarotene, according to the Better Health blog. They also contain Vitamin E and selenium, which help protect against heart disease and cancer. On top of that you can get 40 per cent of your daily fibre intake from just one mango. Research has shown that dietary fibre has a protective effect against
VITAMIN-PACKED: Fresh mangoes. degenerative diseases, especially with regards to the heart, may help prevent certain types of cancer, as well as lowering blood cholesterol levels. The nutritional value of
Calories on nutrition labels not accurate RESEARCHERS at Tufts University, USA, recently analysed 269 food items from 42 national sitdown and fast-food restaurant chains, and they found that nearly 20 per cent of samples contained 100 or more calories than reported by the restaurants. Think about it like this: if every meal you eat has 100 more calories than you need, you’ll gain more than two stone this year.
mango makes it good for weight gain, eye disorders, hair loss, heat stroke, prickly heat, diabetes, bacterial infections, sinusitis, piles, indigestion, constipation, morning sickness, diarrhoea, dysentery and scurvy, Mango, being high in calories and carbohydrates, is good for those who are trying to gain weight. The phenolic compound found in mangoes has been found to have powerful antioxidant and anti-cancer properties. Being high in iron, mango is said to be good for pregnant women and people with anaemia.
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Don’t just put flowers in vases, eat them too! I HAVE had a garden since the age of five, which means for 70 years I should have been eating mostly home grown ecological food for every meal, every day of the year. But like many, poor school food, poor cooking by a busy mother, snacks on the run during a busy business life diverted me at times from maximising eating the free health foods from the garden. And helping my father in his bakery, when around 10 years old, crystallised violet flowers for decorating cakes was
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in hindsight not the healthiest produce to add to already heavily laden iced cakes. When I retired in 1994 following two cancer operations, I followed the surgeon’s advice of
eating a healthy Mediterranean diet rather than experiencing a debilitating programme of radio and chemotherapy. Fortunately our holiday home was in a then selfsufficient valley that ate and exported fresh produce daily and the older folks still gathered wild herbs and flowers for culinary and medicinal purposes. For decades we had eaten globe artichokes, the flower bud of the plant and when harvesting nasturtium leaves to add zest to salads, we added a few flowers for decoration and subtle taste. Likewise rose petals were added to salads and
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www.euroweeklynews.com elderflowers were used to make a home made wine. Then we started to make Kombucha and added elder, rosemary and thyme flowers to add interesting and beneficial tastes. When we walked the local mountains we chewed the flowering tips of rosemary stems for the energy giving oil and romanesque and cauliflowers were often eaten as vegetables. Then within five years of living full time in Spain the village and valley lost its self-sufficiency as families moved off the land to work in the construction industry in the mad Spanish bank destroying boom. So we started to grow all we could ourselves to be self sufficient. In 2002 we visited Cuba for a month. Not to visit tourist resorts but to wander around the countryside to study the communal allotments outside every town, village, school and factory. One day we visited the research department of the Havana Botanic Garden and were invited to lunch by the Director. Asked what we would like to eat, we said give us a garden speciality. This turned out to be a brightly coloured hibiscus salad and we learned that the flowers were a relaxant, cooled one down and helped to control your blood pressure. Returning home we researched what other beneficial flowers we had in our garden and what others we should grow. The list soon grew. The following are from ‘Living well from our Mediterranean garden’. Chive flowers while still fresh to add interest to salads. Begonia flowers can help keep livers healthy. Broccoli flowers for folic acid and vitamin content. Borage flowers to add to cider or cold herb infusions. Courgettes flowers for stuffing to steam or bake. Day lilies are good for your hair and nails. Marigold petals are a good addition to salads. Passion flower infusions can be relaxing. Rocket flowers and leaves add a spiciness to salads. Sunflower seeds can be dried as a snack. (c) Dick Handscombe www.gardeninginspain.com November 2012
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U3A talk and trip TORREVIEJA U3A was treated to an informative talk by Steve Munn, an ex-Royal Marine, who was involved in the 1982 Falklands War. He covered issues leading up to the Argentinian invasion, the preparation of the taskforce and the retaking of the islands. Steve’s talk was particularly pertinent in this the 30th anniversary year, with the ongoing interest in the future of the islands. Also discussed was the recent trip to Portugal by members, along with their interest in the Creative Writing group, two members of which will hold book signings at Bookworld in Las Habaneras Commercial Centre in the coming weeks.
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SINCE launching her book ‘Simply Speak Spanish’ a year ago, Gwen Cookson has been surprised at how popular it has now become all over Spain and the UK. Gwen arrived in Spain in 1988 and struggled with the language for 23 years. When she first arrived, she did the same as many expats, she went to British-run bars and mixed with the Englishspeaking community. In this first year she learned two words ‘chicken’ and ‘beer’. Her children started Spanish school so she had to learn Spanish to help them. The next thing she learned was the six times table, very useful! She then bought a dictionary and a grammar filled text-book. Oh no! She didn’t know her own grammar and what’s more she didn’t want to learn it! She couldn’t understand when Spaniards said ‘hola amigo’ to her husband and ‘hola amiga’ to her. She didn’t know the simple rules of masculine and feminine words, the books did not explain it in simple terms. She didn’t attend Spanish lessons as all the teachers
KEEPING IT SIMPLE: Gwen Cookson. taught the grammar-based way. She did not want to pass a GCSE, she just wanted to converse in Spanish.
Four years later and still not speaking Spanish, she returned to the UK with her family. She tried to carry on learning and bought more
textbooks: grammar, grammar, grammar! Hence she gave up for 15 years. In 2008, she returned to Spain and started work with a letting agency and her Spanish started to improve. She met a family who didn’t speak any Spanish. She set about teaching them. It was during this time that she devised her own way of coming to grips with the language, and in turn taught it to her new friends. Pretty soon the word was out that there was a new teacher who taught Spanish but did not base it on grammar. The floodgates opened and she now teaches expats up and down the costas; it has become a full- time job. The book or CD called ‘Simply Speak Spanish’ is on sale at the various outlets listed and would make a great Christmas present. It costs €12.50 plus P&P. To order the book or for more info visit www.simply speakspanish.co.uk or ring Gwen on 633 154 323 to join in her lessons in many towns on the Costa Blanca.
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Dog myth IT’S a myth dogs are colour blind. They are not. The colours they see may not be quite as vivid as we see, but they do see colours. They can tell the difference between blue, yellow and gray. They may not see red and green, or see them differently than we do.
It’s a fact THE top two rows of a cat’s whiskers can move independently of the lower two rows.
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Saying hello to a new dog IF you have cats that are not used to dogs, you should think carefully before doing this. If you must, then make sure it is a puppy as young as possible. Chasing breeds like greyhounds or hounds, or terrier breeds, are more likely to go for small furry running things like cats than gundog breeds like Labs or spaniels. NEVER ever expect cats to live with a dog that hates cats or, worse still, has been trained to chase them. It is cruel. What is a joke to some humans is death or severe injury to the cat. In this case, either cat or dog must be rehomed. Cats that are chased will probably leave home eventually, if they are lucky enough to survive the attack. The best way to proceed is to start with the cat, and only when the cat is established in the family, add the dog. Both should be young, before six months of age in cats and before one year in dogs (though a dog this age should only be introduced if it has a known record of not being hostile to cats). They need to be young so that
BE CAUTIOUS: Cats and dogs. they can learn each other’s body language. The cat must be able to go towards and retreat from the dog without being chased or needing to run. Borrow a dog crate, where you can put the puppy with his bedding and bowls. When he comes out for walks, make sure he is on a lead.
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LOVING: I ‘lick’ you!
Hello teddy! OUR two-year-old black cat Leyla is a loving little girl who is always licking people on the nose to greet them. Here she is saying hello to the teddy bear. June Arch, Alhaurin el Grande. Submit fun pet pictures to petoftheweek@euroweeklynews.com, in as high a resolution as possible. Please include name of the pet, your full name, where you live and if relevant a couple of lines to explain the circumstances of the photo. Due to space restrictions not all submissions will be used.
Let the cats first see him when he is safely in the crate. Do not let the cats get scared in the first place. For them it is life or death. One snap of a big dog, and they’re dead. Speak to your vet. If you can’t get a crate, keep the puppy on a lead every single moment. Tie him to furniture, when you are not holding the other end. While he is tied, or in the crate, make a fuss of the cats so that he realises they are valued family members. Take this process carefully over several days. The aim is NEVER to let a chase occur in the first place. If things are going okay, let him out of the crate but with a houseline (made out of old rope) trailing from his collar, so that you can grab it if necessary. You can also mix their scents, by placing pieces of an old towel in the dog’s bed and in the cats’ beds, then swapping them round. Remember, at this point the cat’s welfare must take priority.
Consult ‘Introducing our cat to other cats and dogs’ on www.fabcats.org or send an s.a.e. and small donation for it to Feline Advisory Bureau, Taeselbury, High St, Tisbury, SP3 6LD.UK For your local radio frequency log on to www.talkradioeurope.com.
Not just for Christmas RABBITS have a lifespan of about eight to 10 years. But of course it depends on how well you take care of your rabbit. If you forget to feed it a lot, and if you only feed it pellets and don’t give it any hay, your rabbit will probably not live as long as someone who is consistent about feeding their rabbit. You also need to make sure you are brushing your rabbit frequently because when a rabbit licks itself clean, it will lick up all of the loose hair and then it will get into their systems, and that is not good for your rabbit.
BUNNIES: 10 year lives.
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Spain’s new buy to let property laws new buy to let property laws. Current rental laws are more favourable towards tenants. The new measures set to be unveiled reportedly give more power to landlords. With the new legislation, property owners will be able to take their home back after two months’ notice. Tenants will be given 10 days to pay overdue rent before they can be evicted. There will also be a tax relief on rental income, ranging from 60 per cent to 100 per cent on the condition the property is rented out to working people younger than 30. The tenant’s right to live in the property will be cut to three years with a
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quarter of the year compared to the same period in 2011, according to Spain’s public works ministry. The Malaga Province was among the most popular areas.
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Evictions to be stalled AN agreement to put a stop to evictions for the next two years in cases involving extreme hardship was made by the Spanish Banking Association (AEB). While membership of the AEB is voluntary, the vast majority of banks in Spain are members. This agreement was the result of ‘lengthy and intense debate’ by representatives of the associated banks, the banking association explained in a press statement. It has come in response to ‘humanitarian issues’ and in view of its policy of ‘social responsibility’ and aims to ‘alleviate the vulnerable situation many people have found themselves in because of the recession.’ It is not clear how they will decide who the most vulnerable people are. The AEB’s decision has been conveyed to the Ministry of the Economy and the Bank of Spain. This announcement came three days after a women in the Basque Country took her life as she was about to be evicted from her home. A Granada man also committed suicide last month as his house was due to be repossessed.
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Andalucian city to be created in China AN Andalucian city is to be created in China. A team of architects from Andalucia, Baum and Sodimor, in collaboration with West Line from Giuyang won a competition to create a new city for 400,000 inhabitants in the Dushan municipality in the Guizhou region, Diario Sevilla reported. The city will cover 630 hectares and boast five universities and all the facilities the public may need including schools, hospitals, a road network sewage system and water supplies to commercial areas, stadiums, parks and residential areas. There will be micro climate areas with an urban system to give ventilation like natural winds. The buildings will have thermal and sun panels, intelligent illumination systems and a sustainable cycle of water with catchment areas of rainfall. Currently, Dusham is a city that developed along the highway and was not precisely planned, said architect Javier Caro. However, the team is reportedly finding Chinese fast construction times
NEW CREATION: To be in the Guizhou region of China. a problem. The union of cultures between China and Europe and the speed of construction needed were cited as the most difficult part of the
project by Chinese architect Wei Haobo. The first of the five universities, with a capacity of 50,000, must be ready and in operation by August next year.
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RUSSIANS are searching the Spanish Costas for homes in prime areas, according to a recent report in The Moscow Times. They are attracted by the warm climate and the good links between the two countries. Andalucia and Catalonia are the two most popular destinations for those wanting a holiday, and also for those wanting to buy an investment property In the last year the number of Russian visitors has almost doubled, with the one millionth tourist arriving in Malaga on October 31.
WORK on the Marina Alta gas pipeline has unearthed Roman remains in Gata. The discovery was not unexpected and its probable existence was cited in the council’s objections to the route planned by the construction company. Workmen uncovered the remains some days ago as they began to cut trenches for the pipeline near Gata’s La Rana archaeological site. They came up against a 50centimetre section of wall which Javea’s town architect Ximo Bolufer believes was built between the 2nd and 3rd Centuries AC. The wall was probably a workshop where pottery jars were made for exporting wine.
UNCOVERED: The Neolithic village was found during works on the AVE fast track railway line.
4th Century discovery A NEOLITHIC village has been uncovered in Andalucia. Workmen found the fourth century site under the mud at Arroyo Saladillo while working on the AVE fast track SALES for developer Taylor Wimpey Spain rose 76 per cent year this year. And with more than half of the enquiries
railway line between Antequera and Bobadilla. Although the site was already known about, it turns out it is much bigger than expected.
It could be the biggest of its kind in the Malaga Province at 1,400 metres in width. A decision has not yet been made as to what to do with the find.
Life’s a beach received being for beach properties, the company has started a new Costa
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Villajoyosa is, according to the company, the only development with direct access to the beach being built in Spain at the moment.
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T the risk of finding a severed horse’s head in my bed, I thought I should address the perilous subject of organised crime. Being an optimist (naive, if you prefer) I actually thought that the realms of the Mafia in the developed world - apart from Russia - had pretty much faded into obscurity with the likes of Al Capone and John Gotti. But as recent events show, it has once again raised its ugly head: The Mafia is alive and very well, indeed. Well, were it not for some 80 of their Chinese contingent being arrested in Madrid and Barcelona in October and, not forgetting, the recent resignation of Japanese Justice Minister, Keishu Tanaka, amid revelations that he was buddies with some top honchos in the Yakuza. These incidents are, of course, the mere tip of the cement-booted iceberg; the UN Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that organised crime accounts for $870 billion (682 billion euros) in the many sordid and heinous activities they engage in. With such power, the real question is; why are they not more visible? At a time, when politicians and the police seem unable or unwilling to act against everyday crime like robberies, assaults and general hooliganism, isn’t this 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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exact time that the Mafia could gain both political power and public favour? These major league criminals do not wish their hunting ground to be disturbed by the seething masses of low-life crime; these people have ‘respectable’ fronts, and you may even find that your kids share the same school… Presumably, they, too, want to keep ‘their’ streets safe, regardless of the drugs shipment they just ordered. After a spate of robberies in her street, one friend asked the police what they were doing about it; any extra patrolling, intensified search for the perpetrators or anything at all, really… The answer was no. So she got together with some neighbours to see if they could hire a private security company to patrol the area. This turned out to be impossible or
SECRET SOCIETY: Do you really know your neighbours? prohibitively expensive (even when divided by some 100 property owners).
This friend lives here in Spain, but the same problem is echoed in most European countries. I am in no way condoning the Mafia, but it strikes me it may be in their interest to control the lawlessness of today, in the same way that the Yakuza in Japan has kept petty crime at bay in the past. As a civilian, you could walk the streets of the capital quite safely, (assuming you were not caught in any rival Yakuza gang crossfire) returning to find your home intact. Simple human rights we should be able to take for granted. Of course, the preferred method of regaining control would be to follow the lead of former New York mayor, Rudy Guiliani, who succeeded in turning the city from one of the most treacherous in the States to one of the safest in the 90s. He achieved this with hard hitting policies like zero tolerance, even for minor offences; this comes at a price, but I think we could all live without new government buildings or road extensions in favour of some basic safety and security. Do you feel safe? Let me know your thoughts (anonymously if you wish) on ulrica@euroweeklynews.com and I will follow up with a summary of responses in the next few weeks.
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Soldiering on to help homeless veterans IT is important to raise funds for the serving and ex-military, and 50+ Solos Torrevieja branch is dedicated now more than ever following remembrance weekend. On Saturday, the group has organised a lunch at Nandos restaurant at 1pm, where stories and gifts will be exchanged. Also, on Friday, November 23, The Black Bull Chaparral will be hosting a charity event for Help for Homeless
Veterans, where it is hoped that a serving soldier will make an appearance, who will have recently completed his second tour of Afghanistan. All proceeds raised from any of these events will be donated to the homeless veterans in the UK.
For more information, contact 966 789 063 or 966 786 281.
Happy anniversary to local commercial centre CENTRO Comercial Rioja celebrates 10 years of service to the people of Orihuela Costa this month, having opened its doors for business in 2002. Many of the businesses which
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Leesons Bar and Bistro on Friday in aid of BBC Children in Need, a chill-out celebration at The Belfry on Wednesday, along with various businesses giving discounts next week.
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Y one big desire this weekend is simple… to let my hair down and forget about the troubles from my drinkdrive episode! But there is now an even bigger problem to face up to. For last weekend was the final one in Marbella for one of my closest girlfriends. She left for pastures new on Monday. A fellow singleton, we have been like two olives in a Martini. Always after the same men, sharing clothes; you know the deal. Gal pals for four years; I will never forget the moment we met. In one of my favoured local Spanish watering holes, the bartender called out ‘free Jäger’. She and I were the only ones to bolt to the bar. I instantly knew we would get along. Anyone who sprints on the promise of free shots is a friend of mine.
As I see it... Ana JeffersonSmith takes an irreverent look at life as a singleton expat in Spain
The following week she celebrated her birthday. Invited to her party, we marked our new-found friendship, drinking and clinking glasses to the mischief we anticipated would come. Not covered during our first meeting, I asked what ripe old age she was turning. Only to find out it was in fact her 17th birthday. Oh, b…….! I’d just found a drinking buddy two years older than my little sister, and in reality, illegal trouble! However, even with a few
years between us, we’ve spent every weekend without fail in clubs – some the wrong side of nearseedy – flirting our way to free vodka and celebrating when one of us found a squeeze for the night!. I’ll always remember trying to sneak backstage at Peter Andre’s first concert on the coast. We tried to blag being members of the Press… I think the fact that we were, let’s say, a little more provocatively dressed than most reporters, is what gave us away. But my left-hand chica has now gone. How am I going to cope on the coast surrounded by couples? Hopefully, I won’t end up hanging out in bars alone. But if I am seen propping up a Puerto Banús bar, just quietly suggest I go home… because the chances are, I will have been there since lunch-time.
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Be on your guard against diabetes WITH an estimated 385 million people suffering from diabetes, watching your diet is the key to controlling the condition. The long-term condition is caused by too much glucose, a type of sugar, in the blood. Yesterday (November 14) was Diabetes Day and the aim is to raise awareness of this chronic condition. The main symptoms of undiagnosed diabetes can include passing urine more often than usual, especially at night, increased thirst, extreme tiredness, unexplained weight loss, genital itching or regular episodes of thrush, slow healing of cuts and wounds, and blurred vision. Normally the amount of sugar in the blood is controlled by a hormone called insulin. When food is digested and enters the bloodstream, insulin helps move any glucose out of the blood and into body cells where it is broken down to produce energy.
In diabetics the body is unable to break down glucose into energy. This is because there is either not enough insulin to move the glucose, or because the insulin that is there does not work properly. In Type One diabetes the body produces no insulin. It is often referred to as insulindependent diabetes and often starts before the age of 40. It is far less common than Type Two diabetes which occurs when the body produces too little insulin or when the cells in the body do not react properly to insulin. Sufferers of Type One need to take insulin injections for life. They must also make sure that their blood glucose levels stay balanced by eating a healthy diet and carrying out regular blood tests. Type Two diabetes occurs when not enough insulin is produced by the body for it to function properly, or when the body’s
Lena warms up ‘chilly’ Costas DURING the 70s and 80s, Lena Martell was one of the biggest stars in the UK, and has brought her ‘One Day at a Time’ tour to the Costa Blanca. She has taken the somewhat unkind weather all in her stride, and will conclude her five night tour on Friday at The Lounge Bar in Torrevieja. Tickets are 12 euros, call 695 135 134. This fundraising tour is to benefit Help at Home.
Charity danceathon STRICTLY Dance raised a superb total of €841 for EMAUS Children’s Charity and AECC Breast Cancer at Casa La Pedrera. Dancing a variety of ballroom, Latin American dances along with a few ‘Old Time’ dances, visitors were entertained with ‘Strictly’ music.
FAIRYTALE: The actors in rehearsal.
The beauty of the stage BEAUTY and the Beast will be performed at the new Networks Theatre, written and directed by their panto expert Nick Moore. This well-known pantomime is showing from Thursday November 29 until Saturday December 1. For more information: 966 740 251.
MONITORING: A check must be kept on blood glucose levels. cells do not react to insulin. This is called insulin resistance. Around 90 per cent of all adults in the UK with diabetes have Type Two. It can remain undetected for many years and the diagnosis is often made from associated complications or through a urine test. If you have Type Two you may be able to control your symptoms simply by eating a healthy diet and monitoring your blood glucose level. However, you may eventually need to take insulin medication, usually in the form of tablets. Local Cambridge 800 dietary consultant Sarah Hawes is backing yesterday’s World Diabetes Day, saying that the condition is often associated with obesity, and with an estimated one in five European adults being classified as obese, diabetes is on the rise.
It is not a curable condition and needs to be managed effectively through the appropriate medications, diet and weight control, she added. The key for all diabetics is to lose inches around the waist. Waist size more than half that of your height is a real risk factor. By making a few simple changes in your life such as watching your weight, eating a healthy balanced diet and regular exercise, you can improve your overall health and well-being and of course delay or prevent the onset of diabetes.
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T was truly a night to remember. And it will have a lasting effect on the lives of 17 families in Almeria badly hit by the recent floods. The event was a charity dinner-dance followed by an auction and raffle at the El Mar La Mar in Villaricos, which raised an amazing €12,000 for the flood victims. Prizes at the big fundraising event attended by around 100 people included a round of golf with English cricketer Ian Botham, a weekend for two at the fivestar Don Carlos Hotel in Marbella and a meal with James Hewitt at The Polo House restaurant, plus a flat screen television donated by Euro Weekly News (EWN). EWN Publishers Michel and Steven Euesden attended the function accompanied by key staff from the newspaper’s Costa del Sol headquarters, as well as representatives from the company’s local Almeria office in Mojacar. EWN was the only newspaper with representatives at the charity evening. Michel Euesden said she has always believed that charity begins at home, and “this evening has proved this once again without any doubt. “I have always been fond of Almeria but sadly in recent times it has been hit by a catastrophic chain of events. “Between political decisions - which I am not equipped to comment on raging fires and then the recent floods, this small corner of enchantment was turned by unimaginable nightmares into a zone disintegrating before the eyes of residents,” she said. “However, the local families are not quitters and none more so than the dynamic Richard and Louise Shepherd of El Mar La Mar. “Involved in many charitable events over the years, they put their money where their mouth was, paying personally for all the food and wine. “This means that all - and I mean all the money raised
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through people buying tickets for tonight’s event will go straight to the Red Cross. “And the staff have even donated their tips. “The atmosphere tonight was incredible and credit must also go to Jessica and Richard Shanley, owners of the local Spectrum Radio station.
“Their attendance reflected their efforts in both the lead-up to, and the night itself,” added Michel. Richard Shanley was equally exuberant over the event. “I am thrilled with the funds raised. I can’t think of an event in the area that has
raised so much, and I can’t thank everyone involved enough.” Richard Shepherd, owner of El Mar La Mar, said: “The local community should be proud of what has been achieved. I will be happy sitting down to my Christmas dinner knowing that the families affected will be close to gaining normality in their lives again.”
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Your weekly music news with Melissa Jayne Official UK Top 10 1. Robbie Williams – Candy 2. Labrinth – Beneath You’re Beautiful 3. The Wanted – I Found You 4. Adele – Skyfall 5. Swedish House Mafia – Don’t You Worry Child 6. PSY – Gangnam Style 7. Wiley – Can You Hear Me? 8. Rihanna – Diamonds 9. Micha B – Do You Think Of Me 10. Rita Ora – Shine Ya Light
Official Spanish Top 10 1. Pablo Alborán – Tanto 2. Adele – Set Fire To The Rain 3. Taylor Swift – We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together 4. Juan Magán – Te Voy A Esperar 5. Katy Perry – Wide Awake 6. Alejandro sanz – Se Vende 7. Alicia keys – Girl On Fire 8. Auryn – Don’t Give Up My Game 9. Flo rida – Whistle 10. Rihanna – Diamonds
Official UK Top 10 Downloads 1. Bruno Mars – Locked Out of Heaven 2. Little Mix – DNA 3. Gabrielle Aplin – The Power of Love 4. Labrinth – Beneath You’re Beautiful (feat. Emeli Sande) 5. McFly – Love Is Easy 6. Robbie Williams – Candy 7. PSY – Gangnam Style (강남스타일) 8. Adele – Skyfall 9. One Direction – Little Things 10. Rihanna – Diamonds Rihanna... Diamonds
Bieber and Gomez split GOOD news is in store for avid female Justin Bieber fans, as America’s cutest couple have officially broken up. While the pair have put it down to ‘not being able to spend enough time with one another’, it seems that the break-up has been brewing for the past few months. The first incident was back in June when Justin arrived late to appear on a US talk show, and sources then revealed that his tardiness was due to a huge bustup with Selena, while she was pictured ‘in floods of tears’ at a friend’s birthday bash. The young lovers did appear to
Hot Gossip be able to get things back on track, but just a few weeks ago, Justin posted a moody picture of himself on picture-sharing site Instagram with the caption ‘lingse’, which fans later deciphered was an anagram of ‘single’. However, Justin deleted the
photo and re-posted it shortly afterwards with the caption ‘Just me’ after fans and the Press started to question him. But the final straw for their relationship came last week when Selena was away working in Los Angeles and Bieber took the opportunity to perform at a Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in New York, where the models reportedly poured themselves all over him during the after-party and pictures appeared on Twitter. So whether the split is due to work commitments or other reasons, it seems the young couple are done… for now.
One Direction fuel ‘fake’ X Factor claims TALENT show The X Factor has added more fuel to the ‘fakery’ row after producers misled the viewers into thinking that boy band One Direction were performing live on last week’s show. One Direction, runners-up on The X Factor two years ago, were performing their new single Little Things on stage, with show host Dermot O’Leary giving them a huge thumbs-up after their performance. But it later emerged that that particular segment was in
MUSIC NEWS fact pre-recorded and he was giving the thumbs-up to an empty stage, although Dermot had stated at the start that they were ‘live from London’. Judges wore the same clothes to give the illusion that it was live, and the band even wore poppies in support of Remembrance Day; but the boys were photographed that evening out and about in Los Angeles, letting the cat out of the bag.
INXS call it a day A REPORT out of Australia is saying that group INXS
have broken up after 35 years. A story attributed to ‘Staff Reporter’ in The Australian reports that drummer Jon Farriss made an announcement during their recent show in Perth that they were playing their last ever performance. “I’m getting teary,” he said, as they launched into Need You Tonight. INXS have just completed an Australian tour with Matchbox Twenty and were showcasing their new singer Ciaran Gribbin. Ciaran joined the band in September 2011 replacing J.D. Fortune who replaced Jon Stevens who replaced Michael Hutchence, who died in 1997. At this time INXS have not issued an official statement confirming the break-up. According to INXS.com, the band have no upcoming tour dates listed.
Vibe’s Top Tip LITTLE MIX – DNA is the second single to be released from last year’s The X Factor winners Little Mix, and is to be taken from their upcoming debut studio album of the same name. The girl group performed their new track live on The X Factor results show last week (November 11) and have so far gained many positive comments from the critics. Lyrically, the track is about that special connection you have with a loved one, and know it’s more than just chemical. DNA is out now for digital download, and was officially released last Sunday.
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•HOPE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: Sundays 11am. Avenida de Antonio Quesada. Call Pastor Dave 622 919 604.
•PINOSO VINEYARD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, Calle Veintiocho de Marzo, Sunday 11am. www.pinosovcf.com or 667 049 647.
•INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY Torrevieja: Sunday service and children’s church 11am; Ladies meeting Thursdays 11am. 966 799 273/660 127 276.
•ROMAN CATHOLIC MASSES in Orihuela Costa. Don Joaquin Carlos. Fridays 5.30pm to 6.30pm.
•ORIHUELA CHURCH SERVICES: Call 966 733 093. •PILAR CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH, Calle Canalejas 3, Pilar de la Horadada: Sundays 11am; Thursdays 5pm Bible study and Prayer; weekday home groups.
•ST NICHOLAS ECUMENICAL CHURCH Camposol Sundays 10.30am: 968 138 952 or www.stnicholaschurchspain.com. •TORREVIEJA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, Avenida de las Cortes Valencianas 68: Services Sunday 10.30am with Communion and children’s Sunday School plus Wednesday 6pm. Call 966 788 771.
THURSDAY •FRIENDS UNLIMITED Quesada: 966 719 862 or www.helpvegabaja.com.
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
MURCIA Airport
•LADIES Card making & crafting group, Torrevieja, 2pm-5pm. 966 789 977.
96 817 2000
ORIHUELA
•MABS Cancer Support Group meetings: sue@mabscancersupport.org.
Guardia Civil
96 530 0139
Red Cross
•SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING Torrevieja, a f t e r n o o n s a t Re s t a u ra n t e L o s Ro s a l e s , Guardamar. 966 783 508.
96 530 5151
PEGO Municipal Police
•COFFEE MORNING Help Murcia Mar Menor. Los Narejos. 11am.
96 577 0118
SANTA POLA
FRIDAY
QUICK STEP: Strictly eat your heart out.
•CANTABILE SINGERS rehearse at La Siesta C h u r c h , 2 . 1 5 p m - 4. 1 5 p m . 9 6 6 7 9 6 8 6 6 . www.cantiblesingers.es.
ANYTHING GOES Social nights, Thursdays at El Paraiso (near Carrefour, Habaneras). 7.30pm until 10.30pm, with a charity raffle in aid of Reach Out Homeless. Call 635 584 431. 1pm until 4pm. Contact Maria on 966 715 891 or visit w w w. t h e c a r d e n a l b e l l u g a theatregroup.com.
Town Hall
96 541 1100
Guardia Civil
96 541 1290
Local Police
96 541 1103
Red Cross
96 541 6936
TORREVIEJA Guardia Civil
96 571 0113
Municipal Police
96 571 0154
Others
Red Cross
96 571 1818
• A L - A N O N F A M I L Y G R O U P To r r e v i e j a d o n ’ t s u ffe r a l o n e t h r o u g h a n o t h e r p e r s o n drinking – 692 799 318.
Guardia Civil
96 589 1143
Municipal Police
96 589 0050
Red Cross
96 589 1400
•CHESS CLUB Daya Vieja: 660 825 390. •TORREVIEJA STROKE SUPPORT GROUP meets 2.45pm - 5pm in The Annex Municipal Buildings on Calle Paganini. www.torreviejastrokesupport.com.
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• MABS BOOK SALE - The Arches Restaurant, Los Alcázares 10am-1pm (weather permitting). The MABS Book Stall is a regular feature at The Arches Restaurant on a Saturday and is popular with book-lovers from Los Alcázares and the surrounding areas. Browse the stall and have a coffee or breakfast while you choose your books.
•FREE KNITTING CLUB Mazarron: 619 493 183.
•CAMPOVERDE THEATRE GROUP: Mondays and Thursdays, 2pm at Rendevous, La Zenia. 966 774 127.
•SEEKERS LADIES CLUB Torrevieja meet every other Tuesday, 2pm at Bar Sacko’s, El Limonar: 966 784 033.
•COSTA BLANCA MOUNTAIN WALKERS: d i ffe r e n t d i ff i c u l ty wa l k s . www.cbmwalkers.org.
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•SEWING CRAFT CLASSES Torrevieja: 966 708 199.
•CRIME WATCH SPAIN: Torrevieja: 966 786 266. Catral: 965 992 838. Montesinos: 685 444 335 C o l a b o ra n d o . crimewatch@skynetlink.com.
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•TREASURE HUNT. Meet at the Don Lorenzo restaurant, Los Urrutias 11am. 12€ including meal.
SUNDAY • PATIENCE LODGE No 2177(GC) RAOB Meets 10.30am-12.30pm at Algorfa Hotel near La Finca golf in Los Montesinos. 966 188 105.
MONDAY • SAMARITANS Drop-in Café: 902 883 535. •SEW N SO’s Sewing Group (MABS): mabsmurciane@gmail.com. •3A MARINA BAIXA general meetings fourth Monday of month, 10.30am at Alfaz del Pi Culture Centre. www.u3amarinabaixa.com. •CARDENAL BELLUGA THEATRE GROUP rehearse at the San Fulgencio Theatre from
WEDNESDAY •A1 DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB: 966 722 897. •COMPUTER CLUB Torrevieja: 966 700 041 or www.torreviejacomputerclub.com •MABS ART WORKSHOP Café Golf, San Javier 10am - 12pm. €2 donation. 968 192 768. •STRICTLY SOCIAL friendship club Punta Prima: 966 730 569. •VELVETONES LADIES HARMONY CHORUS rehearses at El Paraiso Restaurant, Torrevieja, 10am - 12.30pm. Call 965 327 446. •BADMINTON at Pilar de la Horadada 10am1pm. Tel: John McGilvray on 966 786 774 for info.
•DROP-OFF POINT for non-perishable food items to help the needy at Benijofar Town Hall, Monday–Friday, 8.30am–3.30pm. •FAST emergency number 968 970 626. •PEPA Charity Shop Gandia: 650 304 746 or www.pepaspain.com •PRACTICE SPANISH FOR FREE: Saturday 10am-12pm. Sunday 11am at Athenea bar, Pilar d e l a H o ra d a d a . 9 6 6 7 6 2 3 0 8 o r rogeames@hotmail.com. •SAMARITANS emotional support helpline 8pm–12am: 902 883 535. •TOASTMASTERS INTERNATIONAL: 966 798 036 or visit www.toastmasters.org. •NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH: 620 417 777 or www.nhwinspain.com.
EMERGENCIES
CB. North
648 169 045
CB. South
625 912 078
The Samaritans
902 883 535
British Embassy : www.uk.inspain.fco.gov.uk Age Concern Spain: www.acespana.org Airport Information: www.aena.es Local News: www.euroweeklynews.com
COMING UP •TORREVIEJA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP Christmas Fayre. 2pm and 4pm, Saturday November 24. Handcrafted Christmas gifts and cards, jewellery and toiletries, bric-a-brac, home-made jams, cakes and scones. •HELP MURCIA MAR MENOR are meeting on Friday November 30 at 1pm for a ‘menu del dia’ at Puerto 3, Los Alcazares for their Christmas party.
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Airport Transfers AIRPORT TRANSFERS Airport Taxis / Minibuses / Coaches www.CostaBlanca Transfers.com (94916) HAVE fun going to the airport or having fun in a black London taxi. Excellent rates. 633 367 779 (201796)
Alarms ALARMS: All types, quality systems, very reasonable, guaranteed. Tel: 966 797 370 / 600 237 223 (96107)
FULL GOSPEL Business Men’s Fellowship International. We are a Christian organisation with a difference. Breakfast meetings for men each month including a testimony time, & time to ask questions for those who seek answers. Info: Stuart 968 575 417 or 664 673 863 (95452)
Antiques Building Services QUALIFIED Tradesman - air conditioning, electrical, plumbing, satellite, fencing, painting, balustrades, general maintenance. Small jobs welcome. Torrevieja and surrounding areas. 965 328 361 / 680 934 549
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Charities/Churches ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS IS ALCOHOL COSTING YOU MORE THAN MONEY? Drinking to excess not only affects your health it can spill over into every other aspect of your life – damaging everything that is important to you. English-speaking AA meetings are held throughout the Costa Blanca from Valencia City to Murcia. Anyone wishing to attend a meeting or discuss a possible drinking problem contact Costa Blanca North: *648 169 045* or Costa Blanca South: *625 912 078*. All calls are treated in the strictest confidence. AA in German: 645 456 075; Spanish: 96 521 9471; Flemish: 635 047 053; and Scandinavian: 659 779 222. www.aa-costablanca.org
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ROUNDABOUT CHARITY SHOP. We are now into summer and very soon we will be feeling the heat! It is time therefore for another visit to the shop where you might find a bargain or two. Choose from the clothing selection, jewellery, household goods, books or bric a brac. There is usually something there for everyone —- but not always. Charitable donations have recently been made to The Alzheimers Centre, Cancer Research and The Amigos Ambulance Service. We still need your help with donations etc. Please keep them coming in! During July and August the shop will only be open Wednesday to Saturday from 09.30 until 13.00 (93325)
THE SPIRITUALIST CHURCH OF QUESADA, meets at Sociedad Compas, 14 Calle de Toledo, Quesada. Sunday Service at 11.30am. A Tuesday evening of Mediumship at 7.30pm and every Thursday there is an opportunity to develop your skills at the Open Circle at 7.30pm. Spiritual Healing is available Sunday and Tuesday. Contact Wendy on 965 323 028. (95454) THE ROYAL NAVAL ASSOCIATION, Torrevieja Branch, meet at 17.00 on the first Wednesday of each month at the Restaurante El Paraiso, Urb. Jardin del Mar 3 (behind Carrefour), Torrevieja. Contact Mike Wright, Chairman 966 188 701 or Margaret Forshaw, Secretary 966 921 996. (95455) HELP VEGA BAJA. We help anyone, any age and any nationality, 24hr helpline. Offices based in San Miguel at Calle Lope de Vega and in Torrevieja on Rambla Juan Mateo Garcia 4. You can contact us on 966 723 733 between 10am and 1:30pm or online at www.helpvegabaja.com. For emergencies 24hr helpline 965 704 282 (95456) THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION Orihuela Costa - covering from Punta Prima to San Javier. The branch meets at Olympia restaurant, Mil Palmeras on 3rd Thursday of each month at 19.00 19.30pm. More info can be found on branch website www.orihuela costarbl.co.uk. (95457)
THE BAKER FOUNDATION for SPIRITUAL AWARENESS. 16 Nicolas De Bussi Ave, Playa Flamenca. Sunday Service every week 11am to 12 noon, everyone welcome. For further details please phone/fax 966 760 665 (95458) THE PHILIP SCOTT LODGE No 10671 of the RAOB meets every Friday in the Bar Catorce, Benijofar. Please call the secretary, Colin Bird on 653 066 919 for further information. (95459) CHARITY BOOK STALL PEGO THURSDAY MARKET. Selection of over 500 books, all proceeds given to the elderly/disabled of Pego and local Animal Rescue. More stock always required please contact Chrissie 965 977 228/617 647 395 (95460) THE ANGLICAN CHURCH, La Fustera. For more info: contact Frank Bentley on 966 495 188 (95461) CANCER SUPPORT GROUP (MABS) MURCIA/MAR MENOR Help and support is just a phone call away, Avda Rio Nalón, Tel: 693 275 779 or 968 432 525 (95462) PILAR CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH has moved to: Calle Canalejas, 3. Pilar de la Horadada. Sunday Service 11am & Thursday at 5pm for Bible Study and Prayer. All welcome from any church background or none. Info: PilarChristian.Commu nityChurch@gmail.com or Eddie on 966 769 300 / 650 509 606 (95463) TCF is a multi-national English speaking church now located on Avenida de las Cortes Valencianas 68, Torrevieja. The Sunday Service, including Communion and Creche/Sunday School, commences at 10.30am with a Bible Study/Prayer Meeting on Wednesday evenings at 6.00pm. Telephone 966 700 391 or call in to the Church any day between 9.00am until 1.00pm. Monday to Friday to find out more about Church activities. (95464) THE AIRCREW ASSOCIATION COSTA BLANCA BRANCH. Former & serving aircrews of the UK or Allied Armed Forces are welcome to join this convivial & friendly organisation, now in its 21st year. www.acacostablan ca.org or call the Secretary on: 966 495 042 (95465) HELP MMM CANCER SUPPORT GROUP Appointments for cervical, breast and prostate screening in the Murcia area, please ring 680 393 257 (95466)
THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION JAVEA BRANCH meet on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month @ Scallops Rest on the Arenal at 11.00am. Everyone is welcome to attend as a visitor and join the branch if they wish. Anyone needing any help or advice on welfare, or any information regarding the branch can contact either Sheila on 965 791 270 or Roger on 965 790 123 (95472) TORREVIEJA STROKE SUPPORT GROUP meets each Friday 3pm to 5pm in The Annex, (behind Age Concern Centre), Calle Paganini, Urb. La Siesta. Our aim is to support stroke survivors and their carers by a range of facilities from speech therapy, rehabilitation exercise, group discussion etc. For info: Louie 96 671 8964 or Carol, Secretary: 966 765 488, e-mail: strokesupportgroup@hotmail.com Donations and further voluntary helpers are needed and guest speakers with relevant knowledge or experience are very welcome. (95473) THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION Gran Alacant Branch meets 1st Tuesday of every month at The Norwegian Club on Sierra Mar Urbanisation at 7pm for 7.30pm prompt. For further info contact Barbara Turnbull, Branch Secretary on 608 994 456 or email b_dmt1966@ya hoo.co.uk (95474) CAMPELLO CONTRA CANCER in conjunction with AECC Association Español Contra Cancer has opened a charity shop at C/Virgen de los Desamparados No 13 (next door to Mas y mas) El Campello. The shop is open Mon-Fri 10 2pm and is run by unpaid volunteers and all monies raised goes to the AECC. We urgently need donations of clothes, books, large and small furniture etc, and we will arrange collection of large items. We need volunteers to help out in the shop and also clothes rails, shelves etc. for display. Please support your local Cancer charity and if you wish to obtain literature or simply talk to someone. Please stop by at the shop. Contact Mina or Trisha. Tel 650 071 278 or 610 921 413 e-mail aecc_campello@hotmail.com International Christian Assembly Calle Pilar de Horadada 5, Torrevieja Evangelical non-denominationa Sunday services 11am Children’s church 11am House groups in Torrevieja, Los Balcones, San Javier Ladies meeting Thursdays 11am. Pastor, Rafael Restrepo All nationalities welcome 966 799 273 / 660 127 276. (95476)
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HOME FROM HOME. Professional chimney sweep. Family run business Telephone 660 478 881 (94776)
Computers ThePCshop - Computer Sales and Repairs. Visit www.thepc shop.es or call 966 721 699 (98380)
Dancing INSPIRATIONS OLD TIME Dancing, Bienvenido Restaurant, La Zenia, Sunday 8.00pm 10.30pm. Tuition if needed €3.00. 966 785 415 (96179)
Electrician
WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE. Spanish cars bought and sold. All paperwork done. Mazarron to Torrevieja Vehicles also taken away and legally disposed of patrickhur ley@hotmail.com Pat 667 711 380 (201812) MOTOR INSURANCE. For the most competitive quotes in English call Linea Directa on 902 123 153, you could save as much as 30% and you can transfer your existing no claims bonus. Call Linea Directa on 902 123 153 for motor insurance with a human voice in English from Monday to Friday 9am to 6pm and save money now! (95302)
FIND LOVE IN THE SUN w w w. i w a n t 2 m e e t y o u . c o m . Browse for free Spain´s No. 1 online dating site. Bringing expats together. (204448)
Gardening GARDENER, 25 years working in Spain. English/Spanish spoken. Private gardens and communities. Free quotes, billthegard ner@hotmail.es. Tel 699 682 630 (96109)
GOLD WANTED. English jeweller will buy broken, unwanted jewellery and coins. 664 890 990 (99704)
Health & Beauty TANTRA WITH THE PROFESSIONALS, MASSAGES, ONE DAY SESSIONS, WORKSHOPS, TRAINING AVAILABLE. SINGLES AND COUPLES. ALEGRALUZ DOT COM. MARIA 618 478 067
Insurance SOS INSURANCE. Best prices available. Call us first for all your insurance needs. Including funeral plans. Tel: 966 787 123/622 275 561 (101137)
SPANISH lady - classic. Playa Flamenca, private house, 35 years, attractive. All erotic services, massage, sexy lingerie. From €40. Ana 680 735 412
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THE BLUE PILL - NOW EVEN BETTER. From €2, other products available. Don’t miss out. Derek 685 207 378 (201880)
MARINE INSURANCE - Get an instant quotation for your boat insurance and save money with a UK insurer. Contact Yachtsman Euromarine for an immediate quote on 966 260 423 or email info@yachtsman.ie (90210)
UK ELECTRICIAN Fully qualified all aspects of electrical work. Free estimates. 965 725 445 / 616 226 083 (96106)
CASH for cars, runners/non-runners Call 607 848 332 (92598) 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)
Limousine Hire TUXEDO LIMOUSINE CHAUFFEURS we specialise in Limousines, Rolls Royce’s and Vintage cars for hire. Airport transfers Benidorm Palace, birthdays, theme parks, shopping trips, weddings etc. Check our website www.tuxedolimousines.es Tel 968 969 648 / 618 315 933 info@tuxedolimousines.es (201888)
DO YOU want company? Do you want to make your sexual fantasies come true? 2 beautiful girls, Brazilian and oriental, 24 hrs, only home and hotel callouts. 689 526 354 (98197) THAI Lady in Cabo Roig. For massage and lots of pleasure. 605 292 304 (201882) SEXY BLONDE GIRL slim DD cup, available Campoamar Cabo Roig. Anything possible. 676 067 381 (96183) GENERIC VIAGRA Cialis, jellies, trial packs, same or next day delivery. www.costablues.com 680 878 735 Colin (99688)
Pet Insurance PROTECTAPET Spain’s leading pet insurance 965 756 371 in fo@protectapet.eu (95962)
Pets
BEST price paid for your car. Spanish/English PX welcome. 633 367 779 (201796)
Pergola Covers SAILS, carports etc. Tailor made durable canvas. POLYETHYLENE SAILS. Exhibiting Procomobel Market Guardamar Saturdays/ Camposol anyday. 667 879 399 krugercanopies@in.com (201768)
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WE BUY, Sell, Remove all types of Mobile Homes. We pay CASH and cover all of Spain. More details call Suzi Caley 616 250 727 / 951 063 059 or email suzicaley@gmail.com (100120)
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LUXURY mobile home located near the coast on small family run site. 630 055 418 (96080)
ALICANTE MASSAGE FOR MEN. Qualified masseur in Alicante city, based 10 mins from airport, brings his services for men. Relaxing and sensitive massage, in discreet cabinet, different time sessions and rates, available from 10am to 11pm. Appointments at 649 761 607, more information at www.handsony ourskin. blogspot.com
ELEGANT SLIM SEXY ESCORT LADY available, home/house visits. La Manga – Torrevieja Mazaron area. 693 357 526 (201771)
Motor Homes
GORGEOUS ENGLISH BLONDE 45 years gives discreet massage, 1 hour or over night stay. 15 mins Alicante airport.Tel Karen: 662 049 021 (99628)
MOTORHOMES & caravans for sale / wanted. www.hispavan.com. Tel Leo 687 845 730 (204610)
YOUNG Spanish lady, big breasts, beautiful body, erotic massage and much more. Cabo Roig 637 052 300 (96232)
MOUNTAIN VIEW CAT HOTEL Professional care near Hondon de las Nieves. www.mountain viewcathotel.webs.com 966 195 816 / 654 155 473 (96101) P E T - C O U R I E R S . C O M – If you love your pet try us first – we are the best. Door to door service throughout Europe. Specialised vehicles – bespoke service. Full legal service including documentation if required. For further information call or e-mail us: Tel: (0034) 651 033 670 or (0034) 637 066 227. Email: info@petcouriers.com or www.petcouriers.com (95495) SMALL FRIENDLY BRITISH K E N N E L S individual runs, large exercise area. 25 mins Alicante airport. www.parkbark.co.uk 628 244 712 (201991)
DEES KENNELS AND CATTERY, family run, with total commitment and individual attention, peace of mind guaranteed, ring for visit, 965 996 807 / 659 991 945 or email jan_wat son@hot mail.co.uk PET Transporter Spain/UK/Spain. Travel door to door with your pets for free. www.spanishmoves.net UK (0)1209 843971 or Spain 678 756 644 (99692)
Pet Transport INTERPAWS: 20 years’ licensed pet transportation. Competitive rates. Difficult dog? Effective behavioural training in your home. www.interpaws.com janette@interpaws.com 689 742 289 (204958)
Pet Charities EASYHORSE CARE RESCUE CENTRE We aim to rescue HORSES. If you would like to DONATE please call 965 967 033 or sales@easyhorsecare.net www.easyhorsecare.net or call Sue 652 021 980 (95706) SPAMA GANDIA SHELTER. Dog and cat rescue registered charity, La Safor area. 500 animals awaiting re-homing. Shelter open 7 days a week 12noon 2.00pm & 3.30pm - 7.00pm. (Spanish speaking staff ) or phone Gail 962 896 118. Visit our website for directions. www.spama.org and view our new blog at www.spamasafor.blog.com.es PLEASE HELP US TO HELP THEM (95707) P.E.P.A. VOLUNTEERS & FOSTER HOMES URGENTLY NEEDED. By fostering an abandoned dog, or spending a few hours each week on our telephone helpline, you could help save the lives of many animals. Please call: 650 304 746. For more information browse our website: www.pepaspain.com EURO WEEKLY NEWS CLASSIFAX AGENT (95708) GATAMI ORGANISATION, to help kittens and cats, looking for good homes, also spaying wild cats in the community. Kittens require adoption, fully vaccinated, de-wormed, defleed. We also need volunteers to help Car boot sale in Polop on Sundays Tel Anna: 966 806 976 / 654 729 977 (95709)
Property for Rent SM122 - San Miguel, 2 bed, 1st floor apartment, terrace, com pool & solarium, underground parking, walk to town centre amenities - 355€ pcm - 965 720 766. (89468) SM61 - Las Violetas - lovely 2 bed, 2 bath spacious ground floor apartment, Sat TV, hot/cold air con, terrace & garden, com pool, close to Plaza 425€ pcm - 965 720 766 (89468)
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Property for Sale 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 MOBILE HOME wallaby, Granada, 35x12 2 bed, 2001, excellent condition, must be viewed, 16,000€. Telephone 669 089 054 (200959)
Property Wanted WANTED urgently, apartments, villas and townhouses close to the beach from Pilar de la Horadada to Guardamar del Segura, other areas considered. Call 965 368 379 (203078)
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QUAD BIKE and jet ski, UK or Spanish. 650 722 905 (99064) WANTED - female companion for gentleman to share his life and villa with. Call 626 821 100 (200252)
UK-SPAIN-IRELAND all European Destinations. Removals with the personal touch. Pets transported 965 696 750 / 0044 (0) 7554 447 006 e-mail chrisy ounge73979@aol.com (201769) UK – SPAIN - UK. Local & distance work. Call Kevin. 627 075 334 (204897)
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JACUZZI, hot tub spas, quality American spas at factory prices, also spares, filters and repairs, used and ex-display spa available. We part ex and buy spas, best prices. Established 9 years in Spain EUROSPAS 650 722 905 www.eurospas1.com
Services FRIENDLY Spanish lady speaking English for doctors visit, hospital, notary, etc. with transport if necessary. Negotiable rates, all translation services. Maria Del Rio 685 499 832 (96196)
Spiritual INTERNATIONAL medium - spiritual readings, healings and teaching. Quesada area Call Sammy 965 725 424 (201990)
Sewing QUALIFIED SEAMSTRESS 40 years experience, turn-ups to tailoring patterns taken from your favourite cloths, reasonable prices. Torrevieja, Sandra: 966 799 188 / 680 486 336 (98431)
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Swimming Pools DUE to expansion of our Real Estate Company to the Costa Blanca, we urgently require experienced sales staff/agents/secretary from Belgium/Holland/England and Russia, with knowledge of the Spanish language. Must have good communication skills and be flexible. Immediate start and high earnings possible. Send CV with recent photograph to info@go goestates.com (200958) DENTAL receptionist/nurse required part time for La Marina practice. Experience essential, knowledge of Spanish an advantage. Email CV to molar23@gmail.com (200976)
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JACUZZI, SPA, HOT TUB WANTED. Working or not. 650 722 905 (99064)
TOTAL POOL CARE. Leak detection, structural repairs, regrouts and retiling, replacement pumps, lights, sand filters etc. Tel: 654 687 536 (96092)
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ITV ORIHUELA: All ready for a hard match.
Scrum down for a tough match A TOUGH match is lined up for ITV Orihuela Rugby Club as they entertain UCAM. Following the hard fought loss to champions Murcia in their last home match they now face last year’s second placed team in what is expected to be another testing game.
ITV Orihuela will be hoping for a bit more luck than they got against Murcia if they are to win the game. All are welcome to watch the match with kick off at 5pm on Saturday at the Miguel Hernandez University ground. This coming weekend the Costa Blanca Rugby Supporters Club will be televising all
of the autumn international rugby matches at the rugby bar in The Steakhouse, Rojales. On Friday, Wales v Samoa at 8pm, followed on Saturday with Scotland v South Africa at 3pm or England v Australia also at 3pm and Ireland v Fiji at 6pm. The next home league match will be on December 15 against Cartagena.
Training is at the Miguel Hernandez University ground at 8.15pm on Tuesday and Thursday for the seniors and juveniles. The juniors start at 6.15pm. New players are always welcome. More information: phone Garry on 692 767 242, and for the juniors contact Oscar on 600 871 606 (Spanish).
Mazarron on top against nine man Fuente despite missing a host of chances to score EMF Fuente Alamo 0 Mazarron FC 1 MAZARRON missed a host of chances against nine man Fuente but still managed to win the match with a Cecilio goal. Even without Jose Ruben and Matt Clarke, who were serving one match suspensions, Mazarron soon took control of the game and forced two corners in quick succession, the first of which was headed wide by Cecilio and the second punched well clear by the Fuente keeper. Influential midfield player Poyato was forced to leave the field in the 17th minute with a hamstring injury, but this did not stop Mazarron continuing to attack the Fuente Alamo goal. Panocha was unlucky with a shot which was turned away for a corner, then Diego should have given Mazarron the lead
in the 20th minute when he completely missed his header from a Santi corner. After half an hour Edu ran on to a through ball but shot
straight at the Fuente keeper, then Barrachina shot over the bar following yet another Mazarron corner. However, the pressure finally told in the 37th
WELL DONE: Man of the match Panocha receives his award.
minute when Cecilio showed of the penalty area. However, frantic penalty good control and ran on to hit despite a rasping shot from distance appeals from the home team, the referee awarded a giving the home keeper no free kick which was chance. easily cleared. Fuente started Mazarron Cecilio had the second half two more well and had a took chances for couple of shots quick Mazarron which sailed before Fuente harmlessly over control thought they the bar before of the game. had equalised Mazarron again from a free kick in took control with the 80th minute both Santi and when the ball was driven Panocha going close. There followed a spate of into the net only for it to be bookings for both teams and disallowed as it was an in the 59th minute Fuente indirect free kick. The game ended with a went a man down for a further spate of bookings second yellow card. Cecilio missed two good which culminated in a second chances and the away sending off for a Fuente team were nearly made to player. pay in the 72nd minute Mazarron’s next game is on when a Fuente attack Saturday at home to CD resulted in the ball Alberca at the Estadio striking Urrea on the Municipal, kick off 4.30pm. arm right on the edge Admission is €4.
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Costa lose out against Oriol Oriol CF 3 – 2 Orihuela Costa ORIOL came out on top in a hard fought and exciting match when they hosted Orihuela Costa Cadetes. The home side started the better and created chances due to their ability to hold the ball for longer periods. If Oriol’s finishing had matched their general play the game could have been over in the first 20 minutes, but Costa rode the storm and started to hit back on the counter attack. Oriol finally took the lead in the 29th minute when Costa lost the ball cheaply and the home team took advantage of acres of space on the left for Oriol’s right winger to have a free shot at goal. Patrick Bass and Gummi Gudmundsson came close before half time but it remained 1 - 0 to the home team. In the second half Costa changed to a 4 - 4 - 2 formation to try and peg back Oriol. This did seem to work although chances still fell at both ends. Then on 51 mins Jamie Cockroft struck for Costa to level the scores. Charley Frost was becoming a serious threat up front partnering Gudmundsson and getting good service from Glen Lawton from the heart of Costa’s midfield. For the first time Costa were putting the home side under consistent pressure. But against the run of play Oriol won a penalty which was slotted home in the 59th minute to make it 2-1. But Costa players never give up, and in the 65th minute Frost got the Orihuela team back on level terms with a well taken goal after some great skill from Gudmundsson. The game was well poised for a tense finish and in the 65th minute Oriol again took the lead.
A sparkling stableford win PAUL MATTHEWS lit the fireworks to come in with a sparkling 41 points and win the San Javier GS November 5 stableford competition. But he only just edged out Keith Copley who scored an impressive 40 points at the Roda course. In Division Two Joe Flanagan came out on top with 40 points for the second time in a month. Barry Butterworth finished second on 37pts The award for the best dressed golf went to Nic Evans, turned out in a great pair of pink trousers. Well done to Christine Flanagan who got the top ladies score of 33pts. The next society game is the Captain’s charity day on Wednesday, November 21 at Peraleja
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BRAVEHEARTS: Only a few completed the course.
A wet Pego Golf Society SINGLES STABLEFORD ONLY 19 bravehearts out of 51 starters completed 18 holes when the Pego Golf Society tackled Oliva Nova in the heavy rain this week. The singles stableford proved too wet for most, who left the course at varying intervals as the rain became heavier and more persistent. In Division One first was Mike Holloway with 36 points playing off 10.5. Second was Alan Barwick (35 off 14.8. Peter Chapman won the Division Two competition (35 off 20.6) with Tony Jerman (31 off 20.8). Nearest the pin at hole 3 was John Chessher and at hole 16 was Paul Trigwell. Congratulations to John Chessher who beat Ken Millar 2 and 1 to become the 2012 knock out winner. Next week as usual at Oliva Nova. Entries via the website: www.pegogolfsociety.com.
euros for guests and 3 euros insurance for non federation members. Roy Herbert is still out in front for the golfer of the year award on 218pts but now only two points back is Barry Butterworth with Dave Williams in
BEST DRESSED: Nic Evans in a great pair of pink trousers. third on 208pts. Ladies golfer of the year is lead by Joan Williams from Lyn Gallard.
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Defoe and Hernandez hat-trick heroes and Jess is Number One FOOTBALL Congratulations to Celtic who last week pulled off their greatest win for 45 years by beating Barcelona in the Champions League. Chelsea and Manchester United also won but Arsenal drew. In the Europa League, Jermain Defoe’s hat-trick helped Tottenham beat Maribor 3-1, Newcastle drew in Bruges but Liverpool lost to Anzil in Russia. Spurs need four points from their last two games to qualify for the knockout stage; Newcastle and Liverpool are both virtually through. Hot-shot Defoe is now Spurs’ second highest scorer in European competition with 15 goals, behind Martin Chivers on 22. There was another hat-trick hero on Saturday – Javier Hernandez for Premiership leaders Manchester United who came back from 2-0 down to beat Aston Villa 3-2. There was a cracking 3-3 draw at The Emirates between Arsenal and Fulham. Gunners’ midfielder Mikel Arteta gave away a first-half
HOT-SHOT: Jermain Defoe nets three for Spurs in Europe.
SPORTS SCENE By Tony Matthews A former football player and the world’s most prolific author of football books (more than 100 published), Tony is also the sports reporter for Spectrum Radio and lives in the Cabrera mountains.
penalty and then saw his 95th minute spot-kick saved by Mark Schwarzer. Fulham have never won on Arsenal territory in 108 years. Chelsea were held by Liverpool, Manchester City edged past Spurs, West Ham won at Newcastle, WBA likewise at Wigan and David Moyes celebrated his 400th PL game in charge
DID YOU KNOW? IN 2011-12, a total of 752 non-British professional footballers were engaged by Premiership/ Championship/League clubs. Almost 200 were based in London, with a record 40 at Arsenal, 38 at Chelsea, 32 at Fulham and 23 at Spurs. Manchester City had 37, Liverpool 31 and Manchester United 26. This season could see the number of ‘foreigners’ top 850! of Everton who pipped Sunderland 2-1. Unfortunately, Southampton can’t keep a
clean-sheet and QPR (beaten by Charlie Adam’s first goal for Stoke) and Reading can’t win. That’s why they’re all in the bottom three! Elsewhere, Crystal Palace lead the Championship; Tranmere and Gillingham are five points clear in League One and Two respectively, and Hibs are top the SPL, with Celtic second. This weekend it’s the North London derby between Arsenal and Spurs, Norwich welcome leaders Manchester United, neighbours City (second) take on Aston Villa, Everton (fourth) go to Reading, WBA (fifth) play Chelsea (third) and strugglers QPR and Southampton meet at Loftus Road. England manager Roy Hodgson named three ‘new’ players in his squad for last night’s friendly in Sweden, including Arsenal’s Carl Jenkinson who played for Finland at youth team level. This was the 24th international against the Swedes. Other friendlies played this week featured Luxembourg-Scotland, Panama-Spain, Republic of Ireland-Greece, ItalyFrance and HollandGermany. Northern Ireland met Azerbaijan in a WC qualifier. And the FA are still investigating referee Mark Clattenberg about remarks made to Chelsea players. Round-Up • Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic contested the APT World Tour final at the 02 Arena.
• Kevin Pietersen and Jonathan Trott hit centuries in England’s last warm-up friendly ahead of the first Test against India which starts today. • Jessica Ennis is British Sports Woman of the Year for 2012, and deservedly so! • In the Autumn Rugby internationals, England (ranked fourth in the world) beat Fiji 5412, Five Nations champions Wales lost 26-12 to Argentina, Ireland succumbed 1612 to South Africa, New Zealand thrashed Scotland 51-22 and France thumped Australia 33-6. Meanwhile, the draw for the 2015 Rugby World Cup (in England) takes place
early next month. • England again whipped France 48-4 to win the Autumn Rugby League tournament. • GB’s Nathan Cleverly beat USA’s Shawn Hawk to retain his WBO lightheavyweight title in Los Angeles. • Spain’s Dani Pedrosa won the final MotoGP of the season in Valencia. • By finishing third in the Singapore Open, Rory McIlroy secured top spot in the European money list for 2012. • And I understand Lewis Hamilton has ‘regretted’ moving to Mercedes!
RIVALS: Federer and Djokovic contest the APT World Tour final.