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Bad bribe A DRIVER has been jailed for a year for offering €265 to a Guardia Civil officer who pulled him over. The man had five grams of cocaine in his possession.
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MALLORCA will today (Thursday) begin to count the cost of yesterday’s General Strike. As this picture of striking workers in one of the main streets of Palma shows, the harsh reality of present Perfect storm chaos - Page 6 life in Spain is at times a sad one!
Dumped upon By Frank Anderson The Balearic parliament has approved the controversial incineration in Mallorca of waste from other European Union states. Parliament passed the legislation after the European Commission approved the incineration of refuse-derived fuel at the Son Reus facility north of Palma. Opposition parties voted against the legislation, which they claimed would make Mallorca ‘the dump-site of Europe’.
But the ruling PP argued that it was ‘a solution and would help avoid raising waste treatment charges’. Outside the parliament building, a small group of environmentalist protestors dressed as tourists and wore gas masks. But the commission ruling argued that incineration with energy recovery has a better environmental impact than other similar practices. The protestors claimed that the Council of Mallorca was importing the Turn to Page 2
TEN members of a gypsy clan were arrested in an investigation into loan sharks. Among them was a man who claimed he acted as a ‘peacemaker’ during riots last year in Palma.
Lifesavers URUGUAYAN journalist Carlos Lopez, who rang from Japan to alert Palma police that a student planned to carry out a massacre at the university, has been honoured by the Spanish Government along with the policeman who took the call.
Ten evicted TEN homes are being repossessed every day in the Balearics. The Association of Consumers in the Balearic Islands has asked councils not to send police officers to enforce repossession orders.
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Waste incineration gets green light From Front Page waste to make the incinerator profitable for Tirme, the company that has the concession to run it. They also describe as ‘fraudulent’ the PP’s argument that it would help keep charges down. Inside the parliament, the PP’s Virtudes Marti accused opposition groups of hypocrisy and of ‘dirtying’ Mallorca’s image by opposing the importation of the waste. She said: “They have turned into a problem for our land something that is normal in Europe’s other advanced countries. We’re not doing anyone’s job for them, we’re applying the law.” But nationalist deputy Antoni Elordi stuck to the opposition argument that it was all about money. He insinuated that production forecasts had been exaggerated so that a €325m extension of the incinerators could go ahead. The Socialists attacked the government in the same vein, with Cosme Bonet accusing the PP of “selling out to the interests of large corporations”. He also claimed the importation of waste would be bad for the tourist industry. About 100,000 tonnes of waste are expected to be incinerated in the first year of the plan, with the company making between €70-80 per tonne. In addition to authorising the incineration of waste from other European countries, the legislation includes measures to promote the implementation of renewable energy and telecommunications.
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Disability charge THE Balearic government is to charge a new €20 levy on firsttime disability assessment applicants. There will also be charges of €25 for a string of maritime-related activities.
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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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Doctors protest ABOUT 100 doctors at Son Espases held a demonstration at the hospital to protest at the length of waiting lists for surgery and consultations.
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TWO directors at Emaya, the Palma municipal waste collection firm, have been suspended over irregularities in the awarding of contracts.
FLASHBACK: Christmas in full flow last year, but October has seen shops begin the 2012 festive build-up.
40 days left, and counting down
SMALL firms in Mallorca endured a miserable October, with 56 per cent saying the month had been compared with a year earlier. Compared to September, the figure rose to 64 per cent.
PALMA will receive a €4m boost during the quiet winter season after Costa cruises announced it will bring almost 57,000 cruise ship passengers to the capital.
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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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A RADIO licence for Calvià awarded by the council when it was run by current Balearic tourism minister Carlos Delgado has been cancelled. A judge ruled the tendering process had not been advertised and was unlawful.
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A BRITISH professional cycling team will train in Mallorca in the New Year. Team Raleigh, which takes part in the UCI Continental Circuits, has retained three riders and recruited nine new ones.
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TWELVE lucky punters who bought ONCE lottery tickets in Palma have scooped €35,000 each. The lottery, organised by a charity for the blind, has handed out winnings of more than €4m since October 10.
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A PRIVATE bank has opened a branch in Palma with the goal of capturing as many of the 8,000 Mallorcan 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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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.
A PENSIONERS’ protest that has been marching through the island since August in protest at the ‘lies’ of the Balearic government reached Palma. They are upset at health cutbacks and language policy.
Mini home A GERMAN who hired a Mini didn’t return it to the car rental agency and had set up home in it. National Police arrested the 42-year-old man after someone spotted him.
Tourist cash THE Palma 365 tourism consortium uniting the council and 30 private sector businesses will have €3.1m to spend on promoting the capital.
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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A NORDIC walk against domestic violence will be held on Sunday, November 25. The walk will start at 11am outside Palma City Hall on Plaça de Cort and make its way to Playa de Palma.
New party A new Balearic political party, the Proposta per les Illes Balears wants to stop Madrid’s ‘fiscal plunder’ of the islands and attacks on the Catalan language.
Bike thieves TWO Estonians were arrested for stealing six high end bikes worth €44,000 from hotels in Playa de Palma. One would claim to have a bike so he could gain access to the pen where bikes were locked.
García, I presume GARCÍA is the most common surname in nine of Mallorca’s 53 municipalities. It’s also in the top three five others. The most common traditional Mallorca surnames are Coll, Barceló and Pons.
Property sales THERE was a 9 per cent increase in property sales in the Balearics between September and October.
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Police line at Plaça de Espanya.
Perfect storm of chaos hits By Frank Anderson TORRENTIAL rains and strong winds coupled with the General Strike brought chaos to parts of the island. In Palma city centre, many traffic lights failed and there was localised flooding, while more than 1,000 homes in the Poligono de Levante were left without electricity. Across the island, emergency services dealt with dozens of call-outs.
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 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’s been placed under house arrest and will be given flower essences to keep him calm.
Protesters outside El Corte Ingles.
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Meanwhile, early morning commuters trying to board buses and trains had to contend with pickets. During rush hour, they roamed central Palma preventing businesses from opening. Shortly before lunchtime, no retailers were open in Carrer Sindicat. Protestors trying to reach the Plaça de Espanya transport hub faced off with police at the intersections with the Avingudes. Down the road, about 20 police officers guarded the El Corte Inglés department store from protestors. By lunchtime, there had been two arrests. Trades unions claimed that municipal and transport workers had seconded the strike
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.
‘massively’, and that 71 per cent of all workers had stayed at home. Among the representatives of the island’s small and medium firms, there was some division. Bernat Coll, of the Pimeco lobby, said that he was not opening for the first time in 35 years. He added that he was ‘anguished by the current situation and the future that awaits us’, and described the strike as a ‘legitimate action against policies that are destroying us all’. Manela Campos of the women’s section of the Pinem lobby, said that while ‘people supported the strike, they can’t shut down their businesses for financial reasons’.
Marching through Plaça de la Porta Pintada.
Alien ears BBC bosses told Professor Brian Cox that he could not attempt to listen to a newly-discovered 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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Desert island bolthole ‘at taxpayers’ expense’ denied by two ministers By Frank Anderson TWO Balearic government ministers have denied they took luxury trips to the uninhabited island of Cabrera at the expense of taxpayers. It is claimed that Education Minister Rafael Bosch and Environment Minister Biel Company made their way out to Cabrera on publicly owned boats and that while on the island, were served by public employees who had to either forgo their duties or work extra hours to attend to the
ministers. Furthermore, it has also been reported that the ministers gorged on lobster and expensive Champagne, a claim both denied. Last year, Mr Bosch posted on his Facebook profile a video that showed him scuba diving off Cabrera. He claims it was an educational video for broadcasting to students. He told the Balearic parliament that he reserved the right to sue anyone who had lied about his activities on the island. Mock-ups
of him as children’s cartoon character Spongebob have appeared on social networks. The ministers were there on private business as official diaries show they had no public engagements to attend while on Cabrera. Cabrera is a national park and was run by the Spanish state until three years ago, when control was handed over to the Balearic government. It is believed that public servants on the island were forced to sign confidentiality
clauses to prevent them from revealing what happened on the island. Private citizens with close links to the PP government are also said to have enjoyed VIP treatment during stays in Cabrera. Opposition groups were outraged, with the econationalists of PSM-IV pointing out that ordinary citizens now have to pay a €25 charge to scuba dive in the waters off Cabrera, while ministers live it up
at the expense of those same taxpayers. The island has no residents and very few facilities. There is a café, a small tourist information outlet and a museum. It does, however, boast a stunning natural harbour and some scenic rambling routes. Visiting Cabrera can only be done through private boats operating out of Colonia de Sant Jordi an hour away. This summer they charged €40 for a return day trip. Overnight stays are not allowed.
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A DOG owner has been charged after he beat his pit bull terrier because he “didn’t like the way he looked at me”. The 20year old man from Can Picafort beat the dog so badly it has lost its sight in one eye.
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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.
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TWO burglars tied up a woman at gunpoint and robbed €25,000 from the safe at her family’s home in Petra. The 30-year-old Swiss woman had just finished showering when the men jumped her and terrorised her into revealing the safe’s location.
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.
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Copper thief A MAN has been sentenced to two years in jail for stealing 621kg of copper from an electricity sub-station in Calvià. A woman who accompanied him received an 18month sentence. They both also face ecstasy dealing charges.
‘MUGALUF’: There are concerns about the amount of crime in the area.
Tourism cash
By Frank Anderson MAJOR British tour operators have warned Turespaña, the Spanish state tourist board, that the image of Magaluf is harming efforts to market Mallorca. The popular resort is famed for its hedonistic nightlife but in recent years
THE Balearic government has allocated a budget of €69m to the Tourism Ministry, an increase of €6m on last year. Despite being the islands’ top industry, that figure is less than 2 per cent of government spend.
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Tourist board warned about Magaluf image has reached new levels of notoriety because of a spate of ‘balconing’ deaths and the nightly presence of African prostitutes who local businesses and the council claim are, in fact, muggers. The problem has become so widespread that even its long-time nickname of
‘Shagaluf’ has given way to ‘Mugaluf’. Concerns about the degradation of the resort’s image are such that tour operators approached Turespaña employees at the World Travel Market in London last week to complain about the problem.
It is believed that Manuel Butler Halter, the director general of Turespaña, planned to visit Magaluf to see first-hand the scale of the problem. However, while the visit was welcomed by local business some felt it should have come long ago.
No more petty crime By Frank Anderson A CRACKDOWN on petty crime in Playa de Palma has led to 25 barring orders and a five-fold rise in the number of charges against pickpockets and shoplifters. There has also been a crackdown on illegal street
traders and African muggers pretending to be prostitutes. Palma Mayor Mateo Isern has played a visible role in dealing with the problems faced by the resort and has met regularly with local business leaders. He said the “sense of impunity in Playa de Palma is finished”. Mr Isern added: “Everyone should know the situation has changed. We’ll keep up the pressure, year in, year out.” According to the mayor, two gangs of card sharps, one comprising 12 Romanians and the other 13 Spaniards, have been barred from the area.
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 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 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.
Bunny escape 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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Drivers choose old bangers 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 vehicles by the end of December, dealers say. In 2007, as the economic crisis began to make itself felt, sales were evenly split between new and used cars, but only Greece and Estonia now have a higher proportion of old cars on their roads. 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 increasing, dealers said.
Opposition to tax increases grows By Frank Anderson HOTELIERS, car rental agencies and transport companies have spoken out against the Balearic government’s recent tax hikes, which they feel will hurt their sectors. The hoteliers claimed the new levies would ‘asphyxiate’ them and demanded a meeting with Balearic President José Ramón Bauzà at the World Travel Market in London. But Mr Bauzà said that while he understood their concerns, they “can’t stand on the sidelines while others made sacrifices”. In a strongly worded statement, the Mallorcan hoteliers’
federation had attacked the ‘insensitive’ taxes and claimed their industry was being used as a cash cow by the regional and central governments. “This Budget loads the tourism sector with a very heavy tax burden. These four new ‘environmental taxes’ are a direct attack on tourist businesses,” the federation said, noting that the Budget paper itself admitted the sector was the only one keeping the economy ‘alive’. It said that the new levies on water, plastic, car hire and wealth came on top of all the other increases imposed in the past few years,
such as those in IVA and social security. Mr Bauzà told the hoteliers he had no choice but to introduce the charges but had to make decisions that he didn’t like. The hoteliers’ view was seconded by the car rental lobby. Antoni Masferrer, president of Baleval, the Balearic car hire association, said: the government was using the environment as an “excuse to collect
between €2 and €5 per vehicle”. He added: “The hire companies were already burdened by the exorbitant increase in fuel duty and IVA and would have no choice but to pass on to customers this new charge.” The Balearic transport federation (FEBT) also spoke out against the charge and demanded a meeting with the economics minister so they could demand the tax be scrapped.
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Everyone off NORWAY - Around 330 workers were evacuated from a North Sea oil rig platform managed by state-owned company Statoil, as it had tilted four degrees due to a leak.
Fatal crash SWEDEN – A woman was found dead in the Ore Lake in Furudal, after her car crashed on a bridge over the lake and sank around 15 metres to the bottom.
New tunnel DENMARK – A new 27,000 million kroner (€3,620 million) port tunnel designed to reduce traffic congestion was approved in Copenhagen by the city council.
Chief goes UNIQUE: Size is 150 x 104.5 mm, for the interest of stamp collectors.
Commemorate stamp to celebrate victory THE Spanish national football team will mark the UEFA 2012 Eurocup Tournament victory with a commemorative stamp. The circleshaped stamp portrays the team when they raised the cup to the 60,000 people seated at Kiev’s Olympic Stadium during the Final Match. The post value is €1 and 280,000 copies will be released, state mail company Correos reported.
SWEDEN – The director of the national Counter-Terrorism Cooperative Council resigned, saying the government ‘retains a structure from the Second World War’.
US ally NORWAY – Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg congratulated Barack Obama on his US election victory, saying he was looking forward to co-operating for another four years.
Nordic share DENMARK – Defence Minister Nick Hækkerup signed an agreement with Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland whereby they will share war planes.
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Marathon Man raises funds for children’s hospice RUSSELL BAKER, Lord of Little Moulton in Norfolk, has said he plans to run the Palma half-marathon again next year. Lord Baker ran the ‘hard but satisfying’ event last month in one hour and 51 minutes, and raised more than £1,500 for the East Anglia’s Children’s Hospice.
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More business than failures By Frank Anderson MORE businesses were formed than were wound up in the Balearics last
month, though the bottom line is still not rosy. One hundred businesses were wound up, with a further 27 entering administration. The number of dissolutions represented a 122 per cent rise on the same month a year ago. However, 185 new companies were formed, an increase of 14 per cent on October of last year. There was also some WINNER: Jorge’s piece is to be submitted. positive news to be gleaned from the figures for companies going into administration. So far this year, there have TWELVE-YEAR-OLD Jorge Cerdo Schmann, a year eight been 198, which is down student at Bellver International School has taken the 15 per cent on 2011. first step to becoming an internationally recognised That means the Balearics artist by winning a local competition sponsored by the are the only region in Calvia Lions Club. His poster will be among more than Spain to have shown a 375,000 entries submitted worldwide in the 25th decrease. annual Lions International Peace Poster Contest.
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Left babies A BOX in which parents can leave their babies anonymously without any legal risk has opened in the maternity department of Kirishi’s hospital.
Manslaughter AT least six people died, at press time, after a man aged 30 opened fire on his work colleagues in a Moscow office which is part of pharmaceutical company Rigla.
US elections PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin congratulated US President Barack Obama on his reelection, while Prime Minister Medvedev said he was pleased Romney did not win.
Minister fired DEFENCE Minister Anatoly Serdyukov was fired in connection with a corruption scandal, President Putin announced. Moscow Governor Sergei Shoigu was appointed in his place.
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Yuletide show
NOMADS (North of Mallorca Amateur Dramatic Society) are in the final stages of rehearsal for their Christmas Pantomime,
Babes in the Wood. Performances at the Casa de Cultura in Alcudia Friday 23 at 8pm and Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 at 5pm.
RUSSIAN billionaire Vladislav Doronin was congratulated on his 50th birthday with a luxury party in India, organised by his girlfriend, the supermodel Naomi Campbell.
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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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I HAVE seen newspaper articles about obtaining access to the Spanish Social Security health service either by paying a modest monthly or yearly fee, or simply applying if from a country that has agreements with Spain. I am interested in this possibility because my ill health has forced me to retire early, so I am not yet of pensionable age. This means that I do not have a British pensioner’s access to Spanish healthcare, You and the and as I do not work in Spain, I do not pay Social Security Law in Spain By David Searl contributions. There are many exclusions and problems with pre-existing conditions which make a private medical insurance not suitable for me. We are here legally, with the Certificate of Registration for EU citizens resident in Spain. P C (Malaga)
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YOU may be in luck. The Spanish Government has enacted two laws which provide for both possibilities. Decreto-Ley 16/2012, passed in July, makes provision for poor immigrants from outside the EU to obtain Spanish healthcare by paying modest fees, of less than €1,000 per year. This measure was expanded by Real Decreto-Ley 1192/2012, which provides that a EU citizen from a country that has reciprocal agreements with Spain can access the national health system simply by applying. The citizen must reside legally in Spain, with his Certificate of Registration and he cannot have an income of more than €100,000 a year. There is still some confusion about the exact form of the application but I do know of a success story from Valencia. The applicants simply filled out Social Security application form TA1 and received provisional cards. So it can be done. David will respond to queries but reserves the right to select letters which will be of interest to the greatest number of readers. You can also consult David through lawyers Ubeda-Retana and Associates in Fuengirola. ask@lawtaxspain.com or call 952 667 090.
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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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UK Taxman Looking At Overseas Property The UK tax authority HM Revenue & Customs has issued another warning against hiding assets offshore, and this includes overseas property. Many British residents own property in countries like Spain, but not all of them fulfil their tax obligations in the UK and/or here in Spain. Both countries are now taking a closer look at property ownership to ensure they receive all tax due. Tax obligations If you own property in Spain but are a UK resident, you need to comply with both the UK and Spanish regulations. As a UK taxpayer, you need to declare the rent on your annual UK tax return. Any gains on sale need to be declared and taxed in the UK. Overseas property must also be declared as part of your estate for UK inheritance tax purposes if you are UK domiciled. Here in Spain, rental income from the property is taxable under the local rules, with special regulations and tax rate for non-residents. If you do not rent out the property, or for times when it is unlet, a notional income is deemed to arise and tax is due on this. There is therefore always some income tax to pay in Spain (the
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notional income is not taxable in the UK). If and when you sell the property you will pay tax on the capital gain under the savings income regime (if held for less than a year, any gain is likely to be taxed at the scale rates from 2013). The net equity value of the property may also currently be liable for wealth tax if valued at over the allowances. It is subject to succession tax when you die or give it away as a gift. This can be expensive for non-residents as you cannot benefit from the more favourable local rules. Spain and the UK apply their own rules to calculate the tax due in each case, so the taxable amount will be different in each country. You do not however have to pay tax twice. In the case of rental income, capital gains and succession
tax you can offset the Spanish tax paid against the UK liability to avoid double taxation. If the UK tax is higher, further tax will be due in the UK. If the UK tax is lower, you do not get a refund for the difference. It can be hard enough getting tax planning right in one country; getting it right when it involves two countries is even more complicated. You should seek professional advice from a firm like Blevins Franks which specialises in both Spanish and UK taxation and how the two interact. UK warning Chief Secretary to the UK Treasury, Danny Alexander, warned that the government is going after tax dodgers to make sure they pay their fair share. This includes those hiding assets offshore. It is targeting wealthy Britons who own property abroad as it has concerns that owners are failing to declare millions of pounds of rent. Its team of tax investigators is looking through tax return records across different databases and public records, comparing them all and looking for “oddities”. For example, HM Revenue & Customs recently launched a successful case against a UK taxpayer who owned and rented out over 10 properties abroad but had not
declared any income. The case involved over £100,000 of unpaid tax. People who only own one overseas property could also be targeted, though HRMC is particularly focusing on those who own a few houses. HMRC had announced that it was targeting wealthy individuals who own property abroad last autumn. It applies sophisticated data mining techniques to public information to identify people who own property abroad, and uses risk assessment tools to compare the information to that supplied on tax returns. This highlights people who do not appear to be correctly declaring the income and gains, and those who do not have the means to purchase the property. HMRC can use the internet to spot “anomalies”, “lifestyle indicators” and “unexplained inconsistencies” – any discrepancy between information provided on tax returns and reality. Much of this work is being done by HMRC’s Affluent Unit. Its remit has been expanded to cover people with assets over £1 million previously the threshold was £2.5 million. It is also hiring 100 additional staff.
Here in Spain The Spanish Tax Authority, Agencia Tributaria has linked up with the Land Registry to receive property ownership information and also gets electricity usage data for every property in Spain. It then compares these records with tax returns, including non-resident returns. The Spanish tax amnesty, due to end on 30th November, also covers non-resident income tax. For advice on Spanish and UK tax law, and effective tax planning in both countries, speak to experienced tax and wealth management firm. Blevins Franks has decades of experience advising British expatriates in Spain and helping them legitimately lower their tax liabilities. 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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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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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 get to work and back; petrol prices have significantly increased; and many find no time to raise 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 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 the padron is 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 email 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: Question: 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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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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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 Mallorca 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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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
€12,000 boost for flood victim families HATS OFF: Michel and Steven who believe charity begins at home.
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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HE euro started November almost unchanged on the month against the US dollar and the pound. It gained three and a half yen as the Japanese currency fell from favour. Its lack of net movement did not mean the euro’s month was an uneventful one. During the first three weeks of October it strengthened by one and a half British pence before falling all the way back to the psychologically important £0.80, putting sterling/ euro on the cusp of €1.25. The euro’s movement against the dollar was more hit and miss; up and down by
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reluctant to do that for two reasons. One is that that the mere threat of ECB action is serving to hold down his borrowing costs; Sr. Rajoy’s most recent comment on the presumed bailout and bond rescue was that it “is not essential at this moment”. The other thing holding the prime minister back is the embarrassment it would cause him, having promised voters less than a year ago that no bailout would be necessary. But investors refuse to be concerned about the lack of progress. They are also strangely nonchalant about the situation regarding Greece. There is a growing realisation that Athens will need more money and more time to pay if a wholesale default on its debts is to be avoided. Investors blithely assume the EU will have no option but to come up with a solution, even if it is a typical lastminute lash-up to pull the euro back from the brink. Investors are less relaxed about the Euroland economy though, hence the euro’s loss of ground towards the turn of the month. The US economy is certainly doing better and recent signs are that Britain’s position is improving too. Even if Greece and Spain are not a cause for concern, this differentiation could be expected to hold down the euro against the dollar and the pound.
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T is a mystery to me why those most useless at communicating are those whose trade is communication. Many advances rival those of the Victorian age; only the postal service stays in the Penny Black era. The Victorians crossed the bridge from centuries-old horse dependency to air, motor, rail, mail, and telegram and telephone familiarity. Beat that, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates! Unable to keep up, we plebs find ourselves in the slipstream of emerging innovation. As a consequence many of us are clueless as to what new devices do and how we can best use them to benefit our lives. Coming from a sales background I can see a fortune to be made by explaining how gadgets work. This cannot be left to the geeks running the business. They may be iPod and Kindle tablet savvy but when it comes to communication they are knuckle-shuffling Neanderthals. What they’re doing is manufacturing pens for a largely illiterate market; doh!
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I was delighted with my first digital camera. It was as far removed from traditional photography as the laptop and Word are from typewriters. Now digital cameras have passed their sell-by date; that is progress for you. I could hardly wait to use my first digital and downloaded the instruction manual. Yes, it is not a booklet, you download them. Imagine my dismay when having printed the guidebook I found it to be the size of a
may as well have been written in Egyptian hieroglyphics; a waste of space and rain forest. To their credit I did see an enterprising couple making pin money by holding two-day courses showing new users how to get the best from their digitals. They would probably make a fortune by showing those yet to buy these cameras their advantages then taking orders for them. Geeks don’t think that way. You see, that is how sales work: I was a very successful USER FRIENDLY? You have to be joking! salesman and sales manager. This was telephone directory. Its because I had the nous to content was so geek that it explain the benefits of my
company’s products in a way that could be understood. Our philosophy was you’ll get what you want when you convince the customer he will get what he wants: ‘don’t sell the steak, sell the sizzle’. What happens when we visit a geek-gadget store? The behind-the-counter staff have their heads so far up their hard drives they can’t communicate except in a language we do not understand. User friendly; you have got to be joking. They speak geek and haven’t the patience of a fruit fly. If only an enterprising geekgadget entrepreneur with an engaging personality would set up short introduction courses. He could at the close take orders and trouser a fortune. Would someone please explain to me what an iPod, an app and e-book are in simple language, please? I might well buy one.
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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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money manipulators who provide the billions of dollars to place their own pet puppets in these positions of power? These people are the real schemers and shifters in this world we laughingly refer to as ‘ours’. Well, I’ve got news. It’s not ours. This planet is not a democracy. This is simply the illusion they create. It’s theirs. Each and every one of us who are outside their shadowy financial portals of power exists under their sufferance and is completely expendable. This small, faceless bunch of bandits are nothing more than gamblers dealing in inconceivable amounts of money and power stakes. The losers who backed Romney in this latest two-horse race saw untold billions wiped from their stock market ‘bookie shops’ when their man came second. Mind you, when your income is in the region of millions a minute, I doubt they’ll be crying in their beer for too long. Keep the faith Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com
Positive back-fire 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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PREGNANCY: Takes toll.
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 in 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.
Take a hike for health WALKING for two-and-a-half hours each week could increase your life span by seven years. A study, by experts from the US government’s medical research agency and Harvard University, found even half of that is beneficial, with 75 minutes of brisk walking a week enough to extend life by almost two years. The lives of more than 600,000 men
and women aged 40 and over were analysed and it was found that people of a healthy weight who didn’t exercise could expect to die 3.1 years earlier than obese people who stayed active. But the biggest gains were seen in people of a healthy weight where weekly moderate exercise for two-anda-half hours extended life by more than seven years.
Popping pills out of fashion 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.
RIGHT CHOICE: Fresh fruit instead of pills.
MORNING CUPPA: Avoid staining those pearly whites.
Keep your smile bright RED and white wine, fizzy drinks, tea, and coffee can all contribute to the yellowing of tooth enamel. If you just can’t give up your morning tea or latte, try to sip through a straw when possible to minimise contact with your tooth enamel.
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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. Meanwhile in Mexico, hundreds 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-yearold 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
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
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, Denis MacShane, was fiddling his
CORRUPTION: Scandals are being uncovered on a regular basis. 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 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.”
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Surviving the whims of kings games of power. 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
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.
to commit genocide or to rise up 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
HENRY VIII: How women have moved on since his times. now lead. Elizabeth I was a great 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
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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.
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION
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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
Word ladder CAME
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.
Very good: 31 Excellent: 38
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.
WITH
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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IF ITʼS YOUR BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK:
(September 29) and CHRISTMAS (December 25), 5. FEMUR (thigh), PATELLA
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
FAMOUS FOURSOMES
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.
TER SELLERS and MICHAEL BENTINE, 8. MAJORCA (MALLORCA), MINORCA
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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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
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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.
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NEW MEASURES: More in favour of the landlord. 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 one-year agreed extension, instead of the
current five years plus a three-year extension. Meanwhile, foreigners bought 12 per cent more properties in the second 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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City creation 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.
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- CHARITY BAZAAR - El Día de Dorcas in aid of Haiti and Columbia from 11am to 8pm at the Iglesia Christiana Evangelica in Palma. - RUGBY MATCH RC Ponent vs RC Sitges at the Principes de Espana sports ground on the Poligono Son Castello 4pm. - HISTORY WORKSHOP at Belver Castle. 11.30am ‘Del Talaiotic a la romanització’ plus a guided excursion throughout the castle in English or Spanish. Price €8.
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- CHARITY BAZAAR - El Día de Dorcas in aid of Haiti and Columbia from 4pm to 8pm at the Iglesia Christiana Evangelica in Palma. • Fri November 23 - Sun Nov 26
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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
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HOT-SHOT: Jermain Defoe nets three for Spurs in Europe.
IN 2011-12, a total of 752 non-British professional footballers were engaged by Premiership/ Championship/Leagu e 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!
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By Tony Matthews
A former football player and the world’s most prolific author of football books (more than 100 published), Tony is also the sports reporter for Spectrum Radio and lives in the Cabrera mountains.
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 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 54-12, Five Nations champions Wales lost 2612 to Argentina, Ireland succumbed 1612 to South Africa, New Zealand thrashed Scotland 5122 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.