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Waiting times DESPITE complaints about long waiting times at Torrevieja’s La Loma Health Centre, the average wait is just 47 minutes, lower than last August, according to the Salud health authority.

Job assault A MAN has been arrested in Alicante for the rape of two women who applied for a non-existent job he posted online.

Trade woes TRADERS in Torrevieja’s Calle Maria Parodi are calling for improvements to the road. They said they had been ‘abandoned’ and complained that the street had remained open to traffic all summer.

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‘Full-up’ signs for Costa Blanca hotels JULY’S tourism figures were the second-best ever recorded, with a 5.9 per cent increase in foreign visitors. The figure quoted by Jose Manuel Soriano, Minister for Industry, Energy and Tourism, applied to Spain as a whole although the Costa Blanca was not excluded from the good news. The Costa is enjoying its best summer in seven years, revealed hotel and catering association, Hosbec. Supermarket queues, traffic jams, almost-full hotels and packed bar and restaurant terraces

all point to a period of resurgence, according to Hosbec President Antoni Mayor. However, last-minute bookings were less lively than in previous years and the UK market, the Costa Blanca’s main source of tourism, “had relaxed a little,” Mayor admitted. “But the sector is having a good summer,” he said, adding: “We’re not grumbling.” Overall, Alicante Province has had 90 per cent hotel occupancy with Benidorm, Altea, Finestrat and Alfaz del Pi enjoying the best results.

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HOME DELIVERY: Residents could end up with communal mail box areas.

Call to suspend delivery service

ACTING Mayor of Orihuela, Antonio Zapata, has signed a letter to Correos calling for the suspension of the removal of the home post delivery service in Orihuela Costa. The service is due to be removed from September 1 in the areas of La Regia, Campoamor, Cabo Roig, La Zenia and La Zenia II, but following uproar from residents and political groups, Zapata has called for a halt on the move whilst appeals are made and the issue is legally resolved.

The decision to stop home deliveries and replace them instead with mailboxes and a collection service, was adopted on the grounds that there is a population density of less than 25 inhabitants per hectare, as the whole area is divided into smaller urbanisations. However, the Government team have filed an administrative appeal on the grounds that Orihuela Costa as a whole is an established urban area with a much higher population.

Man dies whilst woman is saved in San Juan rescue A MAN, aged 55, died on Alicanteâ€™s San Juan beach whilst a woman, aged around 70, suffered from a heart attack. It happened in a busy area of

the beach between two life guard towers. Rescuers noticed two people looking lifeless in the water and proceeded to rescue them.

They managed to get them both out of the water and resuscitate the woman, who was taken to hospital but the man had already passed away.

The pair were both from Murcia but it is not known if they were together. At the time of going to press the condition of the woman was unknown.

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Poor policing THE UPyD party has denounced the absence of Local Police officers in many parts of Alicante City and urges the reorganisation of the force. There are around 500 Local Police serving Alicante.

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Man kills wife and himself A MAN in Alicante allegedly killed his wife before taking his own life. The 90-year-old reportedly killed his 86-year-old wife at an apartment building located on Calle San Bartolome in El Campello Alicante. He is reported to have then committed suicide. Police investigators believe the woman died from

asphyxiation, even though the officers purportedly found blood on the bed and her body is said to have suffered sharp force trauma. The husband is said to have killed himself by stabbing himself in the neck with a kitchen knife and it appears the bodies were found by their daughter shortly before midnight.

Police are now to determine whether the woman had previously lodged a complaint against her husband for domestic abuse and whether she was indeed killed by her partner, which would increase the number of women who have lost their lives at the hands of their partners so far this year to 38. FLICKR BY PHILIPPE GUINTOLI

Burglar arrested A MAN has been arrested in Cabo de Palos accused of several burglaries from homes in Los Alcazares, Pilar de la Horadada and San Miguel de Salinas.

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Exhibition opening A NEW painting exhibition by Cristobal Olmedo opens on Saturday at the Torrevieja Casino on the Paseo Vista Alegre at 8.30pm. The exhibition is on until September 12. Worshippers welcomed THE Anglican Chaplaincy of St Peter and St Paul (Torrevieja) has a new place of worship at Cristo Resucitado Church Centre near Zenia Boulevard Commercial Centre. For more information call 965 720 673.

Foreign visits MURCIA welcomed 113,181 foreign visitors last month, 38.8 per cent more than in July last year. There were over 6,000 cruise passengers arriving in the port of Cartagena.

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THE Supreme Court has ruled that the family of a pregnant woman who died of a stroke in 2008 at Elche Hospital, are to be awarded €163,000 in compensation claiming insufficient care was given.

Turtle threat THE abandonment of the American turtle into rivers and seas in the Alicante Province are harming native species invading their space. Biologist Emilio Rosillo said many people buy them as pets then dump them.

Community choir SPAIN’S OLDEST: Dating to before 1215.

Spain’s oldest Bull Run in Cuellar

Gala dinner HELP Association Vega Baja are holding a Gala Dinner Dance on October 17 at Campoamor Hotel. More information and tickets are available from HELP offices in San Miguel and Torrevieja. Beach rescue A MAN, aged 80, is recovering in hospital after being rescued unconscious from the water in La Manga. Lifeguards stabilised him before he was transferred to Cartagena’s Santa Lucia hospital.

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HE last week in August marks the beginning of Spain’s oldest Bull Run. The Encierros de Cuellar (Cuellar bull runs) in Segovia, date back to before 1215 when there was an argument raging between the Catholic Church and its bishops in the area. The bishops wanted to attend the bull fighting festivities, which took place on the outskirts of the town, but the Church considered it ‘undignified’ and so their attendance was banned. The bishops then found a loophole in the new regulations and this was that they could attend if the entirety

Quote of the Week Do you not know who I am? King Mohammed VI of Morocco after the Guardia Civil stopped his boat in the water just off Ceuta - an area commonly used by illegal immigrants and smugglers - under suspicion of being a people smuggler. The misunderstanding was rapidly cleared up after a call to King Felipe VI.

of the festivities took place in the centre of the town. For this to be possible, and for the bishops to obey the edict of the Church, the herd had to be brought into the centre and set off from there. Thus was born the first of the Encierros, with the people of the town helping to take the bulls from one part of the centre of the town to its bullring. The modern day bull runs are not dissimilar to the ones of the 13th century, one of the few differences being that these days they take place as part of the Feria of Cuellar and the Catholic Church does not mind if their bishops attend.

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per cent is the amount that Spain has grown in the last quarter. This is the country’s highest growth rate in the last six years and the fourth consecutive quarter that the economy has grown since the recession began. Chancellor Merkel of Germany has already congratulated President Rajoy on his austerity measures.

THE Casa Tom Community Choir meets every Monday from September 8 at Casa Tom, San Luis. All levels are welcome to join the mixed choir. Email casatomsanluis @gmail.com for more information.

Spanish guide A NEW guide with legal information for foreign nationals about holidaying, residing and working in Alicante Province has been published. Visit website www.ciudadanosextranjeros .es.

RBL BBQ OVER €750 was raised by the Orihuela Costa Branch toward their 2014 Poppy Appeal to support exservicemen and their families here in Spain from their recent Royal British Legion BBQ at Mil Palmeras.

And finally... Olmeda de la Cuesta, in Cuenca, is offering plots of land for just a few hundred Euros - so long as buyers promise to build on them within the first two years. This is a move by the local council to save the shrinking village from extinction, at the moment it only has around 35 residents.

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Murdered journalist never to be forgotten THERE is a black ribbon on the front of the Euro Weekly News today. There is another at the top of the page that has been left blank for the journalist James Foley. His family and friends are in mourning because he was murdered in Syria by an IS jihadist with a London accent. He was a hostage killed in cold blood because he was an American, because he had a brother in the US air force, but he was also slaughtered because he was a journalist. So the Euro Weekly News is in mourning, too, for James Foley and is donating a page in his memory. We now ask the world media to come together and follow suit by donating the cost of a full page in their respective newspapers. James Foley risked his life by going to Syria and was taken hostage while

doing his job. Fanatics and oppressors fear journalists because swords kill, but the words they write and speak outlive them. Once those words have been absorbed, there is no effective way to erase them from the mind of a reader, a listener, a viewer. It is hoped to use the money that is raised to fund a â€˜James Foley Scholarshipâ€™ to assist young journalists who are taking their first steps in the profession. Please help us to ensure that James is not forgotten. Help us to celebrate his life and what he achieved with the full support of the world press. For details of how to make a donation, please contact Dean Harrison at Euro Weekly News, directly at dean@euroweeklynews.com or on +34 952 561 245.

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Transfusion centre scrapping blood AROUND 500 bags of blood have been discarded by the Transfusion Centre of Valencia during the last six months. The blood could not be used after the anticoagulant was found not to work with some kind of problem appearing to have arisen as a result of a form of deficiency in the composition of the blood and the separation of the plasma and platelets. The Ministry of Health has said the centre is to launch an internal investigation to determine what has happened to result in such a large amount of blood being thrown away in a few months.

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Medical staff to be Ebola prepared EMERGENCY healthcare workers in Alicante are this week taking part in a

training course to protect themselves against Ebola. The course and practical

Robber caught POLICE in Elche have arrested a suspect for two robberies. A second man was also arrested accused of receiving stolen items. Investigations began a few weeks ago following reports of two robberies with intimidation with a weapon. In both cases women were targeted whilst driving alone and were robbed of their belongings and vehicle at gunpoint as they stopped at traffic lights.

workshop was organised by the Department of Health in response to last weekâ€™s scare where a Nigerian man was admitted to Alicanteâ€™s San Juan Hospital on suspicion of suffering from the deadly virus. A quarantine protocol was put in place with the man later being given the all clear. The course is open to all medical professionals in Alicante Province and will inform them on how to act upon detection of a possible case of Ebola.

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Fears for the condition of circus animals CONCERNS have been raised about conditions circus animals are being kept in this summer. A British family holidaying in Villajoyosa north of Alicante, have contacted the Easy Horse Care Rescue Centre (EHCRC) in

Rojales about a group of circus animals kept inside a 12m2 container in sweltering conditions. Anne Rowe and her family witnessed circus staff herding the eight horses and ponies, two camels and a monkey into the container after a

show finished. She says the animals are only let out of the container to drink for five minutes each day and are not being properly fed: “They get brought out for a couple of minutes for a little drink and then are returned to this

CIRCUS CONDITIONS: Holidaymakers tried to help animals kept in containers. container for the next 24 hours.” Sue and Rod Weeding

Arson possible

A FIRE in the Clot de Galvany, near urbanisation Gran Alacant, saw two sea planes and a helicopter mobilised to tackle the blaze. No nearby homes had to be evacuated. Police suspect arson in the natural park and have launched an investigation.

from EHCRC, plus staff from Alicante’s La Fundacion Raul Merida, which deals with wild animals and circuses, are assisting with the case and the police are expected to visit the site. “We’re doing everything we can to get the authorities to intervene but it’s quite difficult,” Sue said. “The problem with circuses is that they just move from place to place and once they’ve

moved the animals, the whole process has to start again because they’re in a different province.” While some councils across Spain, including Guardamar, have banned circuses with live animals, the practice is still legal in most areas. Sue said: “Many circus animals are not properly cared for, in this day and age it’s unbelievable that this still goes on.”

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Anger at state of area THERE is widespread anger at the filthy state of Orihuela Costa. That’s according to C.L.A.R.O.’s Bob Houliston who said they have never heard such strong feelings expressed. He said the streets are dirty and scattered with litter. Garden rubbish accumulates and is sometimes not removed for weeks. The beaches are cleaned superficially, scratching the surface of the sand but not being cleaned in depth and are not cleaned after their busy use on Saturdays and are consequently left in a filthy state for their even busier use on Sundays. The remains of food are left to litter streets encouraging the appearance of rats. Bob said: “This shameful

WASTE WORRIES: Rubbish piles up in Calle Nazaries. state of affairs has prevailed for weeks throughout the long, hot summer. Residents with family and friends who visit for their summer holidays are disgusted and ashamed by the appearance of Orihuela Costa.” He added: “The blame lies squarely on the government. No attempt is made, like in other tourist resorts, to deploy extra resources, manpower and machines, to keep the streets clean and to maintain a positive tourism image. This is the first summer when owners of small businesses have complained to C.L.A.R.O. that their interests are being harmed.”

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A new course, another law THE new school year begins in Valencia Region on Wednesday and with it comes a new law.

The seventh school educational reform in democracy is being applied in the Community as the

Tabarca waste builds up POLICE have received complaints about the amount of rubbish accumulating on Tabarca Island. Residents and visitors have denounced the piles of rubbish and overflowing bins in the port area, which is the first thing visitors see when arriving on the island which is a marine reserve. The complaints say the three waste collections per week are simply not enough in the summer months.

Organic Law of Education Quality and Improvement (Lomce) comes into effect. According to the Government, the primary goal of Lomce is to reduce the drop out rate of students. In doing so the educational reform will see the introduction of earlier tests to detect learning difficulties; greater use of English; increased flexibility of the system allowing for studentsâ€™ preference and extending the scope for external evaluation to ensure increased quality. Some have criticised the law for centralising the content and taking it away from the local authorities.

NEWS Murcians looking for life abroad YOUNG people aged between 18 and 30, wanting to experience life abroad without spending a euro are taking advantage of the European Voluntary Service (EVS) which is fully funded by the European Commission. Recognising the golden opportunity to improve skills and learn a new language, more and more young Murcians, particularly graduates, are applying for the scheme to stay for between two and 12 months working for an NGO in Europe, Africa, Asia or Latin America. Currently, 60 people from the region are on an EVS programme and next month another 13 will start their projects.

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New movie being filmed in Cox COX has been the focus of attention for the filming of scenes from a new movie. Young director Pablo Riquelme, from Orihuela, is shooting scenes for ‘Dead Flowers’ and has included more than 40

local people during the four-days of filming. Riquelme said the short film is set in Victorian London but budgets meant it was ‘impossible to film there’ as the film is being financed on a budget of €10,000. Although shot in Spain, the film will be recorded in English with the intention of international distribution. The plot tells the story of two brothers who hate each other to ALICANTE Province wine producers are collecting grapes death, literally, and during the night. stars Anthony For the fifth year running, Petrer wine producer Bocopa Nikolchev who won the is sending workers out to pick the grapes for the bodega’s Best Actor Award at the Chardonnay at 4am when temperatures are much cooler. Los Angeles InterDavid Llopis from Bocopa explained the reason behind the national Film Festival in night work is for enhanced grape taste and quality: “From 2012. 11am, the grapes begin to get warm and there is less Mayor of Cox, oxidation if they are picked early. Aromas and flavours also Carmelo Rives, change once the temperature goes up.” welcomed the filming Bocopa has brought in 42,330 kilos of grapes from its and praised the three vineyards in Sax. This is almost 20,000 kilos less than director’s “courage” last season although the company expects to bottle around during a difficult time 30,000 litres of white wine. Producers say weather for young entreconditions have led to a good quality grape this year. preneurs.

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Wine drive for tourism WINE culture encourages tourism. That’s the view of Murcia Regional Government who are driving an initiative to relaunch the wine routes in three designations of origin. The commitment to wine tourism will be one of the targets set in the agenda of the Regional Government and next month they are expected to approve the

PP’s proposal to boost wine tourism. Deputy spokesman of the PP and Tourism, Francisca Cabrera, said: “In our region wine is one of the most important signs of identity of several municipalities. In recent years the demand for this type of tourism in Spain has grown significantly to become a strong pull.”

Flamingos are flocking to area THE Lagunas of La Mata and Torrevieja have welcomed over 1,000 flamingos this year. The Department of Environment said it has broken its own record for nesting flamingos with the highest number previously recorded being 750 in 2008. They say the excellent water conditions and the increased presence of brine shrimp have caused this dramatic increase in the population.

NEWS Mazarron offers most accessible beach in Murcia THE Playa del Paseo in the Puerto de Mazarron has been noted for being the most accessible in Murcia for those with disabilities. German company ThyssenKrupp Encasa carried out the online survey with 60,000 votes cast. Mazarron came in at number 16 in a list of 48. It was noted for having disabled parking, access ramps, board walks over the sand and adapted toilets. The beach of La Arena in the Cantabrian town of Arnuero, came top for its accessibility.

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Charity cycle challenge raises €1,000 TWO men have completed their cycling challenge, riding from Murcia to Stroud in the UK. As previously reported in the Euro Weekly News , Keith Redger, aged 67, and George Burrage, aged 70, cycled for over 105 hours covering 2,071km travelling along the Costa Blanca, up to the Spanish/French border, through France to take a ferry crossing to Portsmouth and then on to Stroud. Keith raised €1,000 for MABS which was presented to the cancer charity with George cycling to raise money for cystic fybrosis.

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Smilers keep the cash coming for local charities MEMBERS of ‘Smile Charity Group’ have raised and donated €1,100 to the Torrevieja Stroke Support group. Over 200 people attended Smile’s latest Rock ‘n’ Roll Night with Woody and the Peckers at El Alto La Dolores Restaurant helping to continue raise funds. This event is being followed by two performances of their popular ‘Skool Blazers Flaming St Trinians’ which will raise money for the Benijofar Crisis Appeal and the Alzheimer’s Association. This comedy is being performed at Casa Ventura, San Luis, on September 16 and at The Club in Quesada on September 19. Tickets costing €10 including a meal are available from each of the venues or by calling 692 866 536.

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Help wanted HELP Vega Baja need volunteers for their San Miguel, Torrevieja and La Marina officers. If you can donate a few hours each week call Richard, 966 723 733.

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DONATION: Smile charity group present a cheque to Paul Owen of Torrevieja Stroke Support.

REGISTRATION is now open for adult Spanish classes for foreigners in San Fulgencio. Those interested should contact the town hall before September 19.

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Rural surveillance increases arrests ARRESTS in rural areas have risen by 70 per cent in the first half of 2014 thanks to increased security measures. Valencian government delegate, Serafin Castellano, said Guardia Civil policing will be further strengthened until the end of the year: “Police efficiency is increasing in the number of detainees and defendants,” said Castellano who announced that data showed that during the first six months of the year 526 people were arrested and charged in connection with offences

committed in rural areas; 70 per cent more than during the same period of 2013. Officers of the Guardia Civil have participated in 242 meetings with members of the agricultural sector and have performed nearly 600 personal interviews with farmers. Despite the positive data Castellano stressed the continued importance in reporting rural crime. Campaigns will start in September with surveillance on grapes in Alicante Province, vegetables, olives and citrus fruits.

€3m for works Body found in the Vega Baja TWENTY municipalities of the Vega Baja are to receive more than €3 million for works and refurbishment of roads, parks and gardens, street lighting and water infrastructure. The work is being fully funded by the province of Alicante and areas including Almoradi, Bigastro, Catral, Cox, Torrevieja, Los Montesinos, Orihuela, San Fulgencio and San Miguel de Salinas will benefit from the grants.

THE body of a newborn baby was found at a waste treatment plant in Elche. Workers found the infant, still with the placenta attached, in a rucksack. National Police have opened an investigation to locate the mother of the abandoned baby and are trying to determine its origin. Local hospitals have been contacted and waste items from the plant are being analysed.

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It’s more than just remembering REMEMBERING the Battle of Britain remains one of the more significant commemorative events to occur each year

and a special Service of Thanksgiving is being held at the La Siesta Church on September 15, at 11am. All are welcome. This special service is just one of the several events organised by the Costa Blanca Branch of the Royal Air Forces Association (RAFA) during September. As a charitable organisation, RAFA uses Battle of Britain Week as its major fundraising time. FOLLOWING the sudden death of Sheila Woodward, At present as well as owner of La Vida Sunset Bar in Doña Pepa, the seeking financial help for group Keep Entertainment Live on The Costa individuals, RAFA maintains Blanca, are organising a tribute evening in her three respite homes and honour. three care homes in the UK As a staunch supporter of the cause that is and has in the last few fighting for uniformity in the law allowing live years introduced initiatives entertainment on the Costa Blanca, Sheila was to designed to help families appear in a documentary currently being made whose husbands or about this Facebook group, but she passed away relatives are away from before she had time to put her point of view across. home facing dangers. In tribute to her the nationwide ‘Sing-a-long for RAFA can only continue Sheila’ will take place on September 22 from 8pm. to carry out it’s important Bars, entertainers and anyone who likes to sing works with the support of are invited to register for the event. the public. To apply or for more information email keepitliveonthecostablanca@gmail.com. Visit www.rafa.org.uk.

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Singing champs in Punta Prima to raise funds for convention in UK TWO times champion ladies harmony chorus, Spangles, are performing

at Restaurante Asturias in Punta Prima on September 19.

The concert is part of a fundraising drive to help with their costs of representing Spain at the Ladies’ Association of British Barbershop Singers (LABBS) convention in Harrogate (UK) in October. “We have been invited to open the LABBS national chorus contest, which is a great honour,” commented Spangles’ Musical Director, Gail Grainger. “Flights and hotel costs for a chorus of more than

SPANGLES: The ladies harmony chorus are excited about their forthcoming trip. 40 ladies are quite daunting, but we have been fundraising to make it happen and we’re all

very excited about the trip.” The concert will also feature the all-male

Hanfris Quartet. Tickets cost €8 available at the Restaurante Asturias or call 650 745 711.

Ice bucket challenge for councillor ON Wednesday Councillor Jeff Wiszniewski and Samantha Hull from the Office for the Urbanisations, San Fulgencio, will be doing the ‘Ice Bucket Challenge’ at the mini fiesta organised by the Final Whistle and Aloha Bar on the Consum Square,

urbanisation La Marina from 6pm. Jeff and Sam will be doused early in the evening to raise money for AECC Contra Cancer but beware because they will be nominating three further people who must also do the challenge on the night.

They ask people to support and sponsor the event and raise as much money as possible for the AECC who have helped so many people and friends in the area. Donations can be made at the Final Whistle or Aloha Bar.

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Take care around the pool THE tragic death of a two-year-old boy in a Mijas, Andalucia, swimming pool has thrown into sharp focus the issue of swimming pool safety. Part of the dream of living in the warm sunshine of Spain is access to an outdoor swimming pool. The pleasure of splashing into the pool, floating on a lilo, doing a couple of laps and putting the week’s stresses behind you is a great reward. However, with pool ownership comes great responsibility. Children are naturally drawn to water, but it is impossible for a parent to watch a child every single moment of their life. It only takes a second for an accident to happen and the results can be devastating. Installing a pool safety fence gives you, your family and if you rent out your villa, your guests, peace of mind. In the most basic common sense terms, if a child cannot get close to the pool, then they simply cannot get in. Community pools are regulated throughout Spain, with specifics on

Euro Weekly News offer the advice below. Cut it out, keep it safe, think of that little bit more you can do to ensure that your pool is safe for your family and all your visitors.

Pool safety hints:

POOL SAFETY: Private pools should have a safety fence and a gate. the height of fences, gates, child proof locks and no climbing areas, but private pools are not. Euro Weekly News believes that this situation has gone on long enough, the life of a child is far beyond that of a removable fence and lockable gate. A safety fence around your pool is entirely sensible, it affords protection for children and small pets, it is a moral issue for many owners who know they have done

all they can to prevent accidents. In France, the law states that all private pools should be equipped with a safety fence and gate with a self-closing latch, failure to comply carries fines of up to €220,000. We call on our readers to call, email, text, whatsapp and that old fashioned mode of communication, write a letter to their political representatives and demand that Spain adopt an enforceable policy similar to that of France.

• Secure your pool with appropriate barriers. Surround your pool with a four-foot high fence or barrier with a selfclosing, self-latching gate. Place a safety cover over the pool or hot tub when you are not using it and remove any ladders or steps that you use for access. • Keep children under active supervision at all times. Stay in arm’s reach of younger children. Select a responsible person to watch the water when the pool is in use - never allow children or weak swimmers to swim alone. Have young or inexperienced swimmers wear a floatie if playing near the pool. • Ensure everyone in the home knows how to swim. Take pleasure in teaching those who can’t swim how to, or, if too busy enrol them in a local swimming class. • Enforce rules and safe behaviour, such as ‘no diving,’ ‘stay away from drain covers,’ ‘swim with a friend’ and ‘no running.’ • Make sure everyone in the home knows how to respond to emergencies by having appropriate safety equipment and taking water safety, first aid and Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) courses.

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Advice on rape creates a storm THE Ministry of the Interior’s advice to women on how to avoid rape has created a storm on Twitter. Users of the social media website have denounced the advice as chauvinistic and laying the blame on the victims. Among other things the advice recommends that women should buy a whistle to call for help and avoid using lifts if there is a stranger in them as well as sitting near the driver on a deserted bus and always closing their curtains when at home. People have taken to the site to send messages back to the Ministry of the Interior like “Let’s see if we can all finally understand that the crime is not the victim’s fault,” and “It is unacceptable

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RIDICULOUS ADVICE: From the ministry of the interior. that a public ministry should be giving such out of touch advice!” Several PSOE delegates have also shown their disgust at the advice saying that it further victimises the victims by making it seem as though they could have avoided the crime if only they had had a whistle. The PSOE secretary for

equality, Carmen Monton, commented that the attitude of the government was outdated and would get them nowhere in the modern world and agreed with a tweet which had come in stating “Instead of teaching women how not to be raped, why don’t we teach men not to rape?”

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Factory funding BENAHADUX has been given a cash injection to restore the site of the former San Jose brickyard. The funding will enable recovery and reforestation of the land.

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NEWS DESK competition Andres Segovia organised in La Herradura is to be awarded a special prize at the international guitar fair in Malaga in September for its excellence and contribution to the world of music.

Unforgettable show MORE than 1,000 people enjoyed a memorable flamenco concert at Parque El Majuelo in Almuñecar. Vicente Castro ‘Parrita’ put on a wonderful show before a packed house. Parrita sang his greatest hits and most recent songs.

Roquetas house fire EMERGENCY services in Roquetas rescued a woman and two children aged six and nine from a fire in a flat in Roquetas de Mar. The residents were unhurt.

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MAYOR of Arboleas, Cristobal Garcia, has expressed his displeasure at the inadequate refuse collection by Ferrosur during the fiestas, describing the situation as “intolerable.”

ON Saturday, September 6 there will be a charity dinner in favour of El Refugio del Burrito (donkey refuge). Dinner at the Club Nautico in Benalmadena port will cost €25 per person.

New PSOE mayor? ENCARNA RODRIGUEZ QUINTANS has officially announced her intention to be a candidate for the position of mayor of Adra for the Socialist party.

Mozzie free feria AREAS around Almeria City have been treated with pesticides as part of an initiative called ‘una feria sin mosquitos.’ Almeria City spends €11,000 on keeping the city bug free.

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Early settlers STUDENT volunteers supervised by Alicante’s archaeological museum located 11 new tombs in Calpe’s mediaeval Ifach settlement. This brings the number of documented burial places up to 53.

Traffic fines GUARDIA CIVIL traffic police fined 3,576 drivers in the Valencian Community last year. The majority were sanctioned for driving under the influence of drink or drugs or without a licence.

Tight budgets BENIDORM’S streets are thronged at night, but tourists are spending less than last year said the owners of bars, pubs and discos. Instead they are looking forward to mid-September when the British return.

Country dances JAVEA’s Portitxol dance group is organising a weekend of traditional dancing on September 13 and 14 for beginners and all levels. More information at info@dansesportitxol.org or on 636 656 642.

BENIDORM: Preparing for a swim on the Poniente beach.

Easy access for all on Benidorm beaches

ALMOST 9,000 people used three easyaccess points for the disabled on Benidorm’s beaches between January and July. Thanks to these facilities, Benidorm was ranked eighth amongst all Mediterranean resorts by the Discapnet online guide to accessible beaches. This places it ahead of Baleares and Cataluña, pointed out a satisfied Beaches councillor Vicente Juan Ivorra. Three lifesavers are on duty at each of the easy-access points from 9am until 6.30pm without interruption. All have received specific training from ONCE -

Spain’s organisation for the blind - for assisting those with sight problems, Ivorra said. Each of the points has an access ramp and a boardwalk that connects the ramp to the seashore, with a bathing area marked out with buoys. There are changing rooms adapted for the disabled, windbreaks and shady areas as well as amphibious wheelchairs that are suitable for adults and children, Ivorra added. Prominent amongst this year’s improvements are a reading area and a free Wi-Fi connection, the councillor said.

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DENIA town hall faces a €40 million compensation claim from owners of land used for the hospital. Unless the courts uphold its appeal there could be a budget setback, the Finance councillor admitted.

PROFESSOR Francisco Velasco Rey is to present his first novel ‘Lo que pudo haber sido’ (What could have been) today at Palacete de la Najarra, Almuñecar at 9.30pm.

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SINCE August 15, as many as 20,000 beachgoers visiting Playa de Cantarrijan have used the public transportation service organised by the Junta de Andalucia, said the Incumbent Regional Government Delegate Inmaculada Oria.

Teaching success ESCO Director Miguel Angel Rodriguez is to hold a conference tomorrow at Palacete de la Najarra titled ‘Como llevar una vida de 5 estrellas y no morir en el intento’ covering topics related to motivation and success in personal life.

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More communication LOCAL POLICE in Marbella have 110 new digital radios which will allow them to have radio cover in areas which could not previously be reached. For the safety of the officers the new radios also have integrated geo-locators.

Big brother MALAGA is to install cameras on the main access roads to the city to limit the amount of heavy lorries which come in through Avenida Andalucia and Ciudad Jardin.

Joined squares CASARES is to renovate the Plaza del Llano. The square is to be extended to join with Plaza Marcelino Camacho and receive a fountain, trees and new urban furniture among other things.

Hilton rider THE main rider to Paris Hilton’s contract at the Olivia Valere night club was that she wanted several fans in the DJ booth as she refuses to sweat or be seen to sweat.

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First defeat REAL VALLADOLID beat Real Mallorca 21 at Estadio Jose Zorrilla on the first match day of the 2014/2015 football season of Liga Adelante (Second Division). The Real Mallorca goal was scored by Cendros on the 64th minute.

Near drowning A FIVE year-old boy is in a critical condition after being rescued from his hotel pool in Palmanova - he nearly died from drowning, but was found just in time. He is in a critical condition in the ICU at Son Espases hospital.

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ON THE FENCE: Receiving abuse in Spain?

Immigrant abuse

HRW (Human Rights Watch) has requested the Spanish government investigate whether Guardia Civil abused immigrants in Melilla on August 13 when they were coming over the fence. A video, spread by HRW and recorded by a journalist shows, among other things, how an officer repeatedly hits an immigrant until he falls off the fence. HRW sent out a message internationally requesting an investigation into the facts, they are also asking the Spanish government to stop the deportations of the newly arrived immigrants back to Morocco. European and Asian sub-director of HRW,

Benjamin Ward, has said Spain has the right to defend its frontiers but does not give it carte blanche to abuse immigrants. According to HRW the video shows abuse of authority on two separate occasions and shows a uniformed Guardia Civil officer using a truncheon to beat an immigrant off the fence and in the other instance shows a Guardia Civil officer hitting several immigrants as they are trying to scale the fence. HRW also claims the video shows how a Guardia Civil officer grabs an immigrant from the fence and shoves him back to the Moroccan side through the gate.

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Join EWN and say NO to sexism and YES to equality for women FURTHER controversy over the Spanish political establishment’s outdated views on women and sexual assault has arisen after comments made by a mayor to a radio station that seem to disparage accusations of rape. Francisco Javier León de la Riva, the Partido Popular (PP) mayor of Valladolid in central Spain, has been forced to apologise for comments made to the Onda Cero radio station on Thursday about women falsely accusing men of rape. The mayor said he would think twice about getting into a lift alone with a woman for fear of false cries of rape. Referring to a recent unsolved case in his city, De la Riva wholeheartedly condemned all forms of violence, but said it was

impossible to station a police officer in every park, and that women should think carefully about where they go at 6 o’clock in the morning. He added: “Sometimes it’s the other way around. Imagine you are in a lift with a girl who is out to get you. She rips off her bra or skirt and runs out screaming that you tried to assault her.” Reaction to the mayor’s comments was fierce and immediate, with some taking to social media to demand his resignation. On Friday, Valladolid Town Council issued a statement through Twitter, saying: “The mayor wishes to clarify his words which have been misinterpreted and taken out of context. He apologises for any offence caused.”

Mayor employs his son

Although decreased, most inmates in Spain are men

BENFERRI’S PSOE Mayor, Luis Vicente Mateo, has been criticised by opposition parties for approving new municipal budgets to make five jobs that were only temporary, permanent positions. He has been accused of “nepotism” by the PP party “in breach of the principles of equality, and openness” as his son is one of the workers. His daughter also worked for the town hall last summer.

THE number of inmates serving prison sentences in Spain has decreased. While in 2009 there were 76,079 convicts in Spanish prisons, their number has decreased by 12.24 per cent in five years, currently adding up to 66,765. In fact, there was a 2.67 per cent drop in Spain’s prison population between 2012 and 2013 alone. The data corresponds to both Spanish and foreign nationals, according to the Ministry of the Interior.

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SHOW OF SOLIDARITY: EWN ladies strip off in protest. Editor’s note: Euro Weekly News (EWN) has concerns over the misogynous views of an elected official who belongs in the Dark Ages. We question the motives behind the mayor’s retraction. He

in high places, just like Mayor de la Riva, are contributing to the continued erosion of women’s rights. Until society is reconciled to the fact that a woman’s body is owned by no one but the woman herself, that

BEHIND BARS: There are currently 66,765 serving prison sentences in Spain.

However, the number of foreign convicts has registered the sharpest

Santa Pola turns to sport RENOWN for its beaches and fishing history, Santa Pola is now turning its attention to sports. The new water ski park is due to open in September, believed

has not actually apologised for what he said. Instead, he has placed the blame on others (women, perhaps?) for ‘misinterpreting’ his words. At the EWN group, we are concerned that the outdated views of men

to be the first of its kind in the region, close to Playa Lisa. September will also see work start on a new skate park near the Els Xiprerets sports centre with a build time of 19 weeks.

decrease from 27,162 in 2009 to 21,116 in 2014 (22.2 per cent), while the number of Spanish inmates has merely dropped by 6.6 per cent in the same period from 48,917 to 45,649. This means that one in every three convicts serving prison sentences in Spain comes from abroad. As many as 5,773 are Moroccan nationals, 2,275 from Romania, 2,257 from

Colombia and 1,555 from Ecuador, said the Spanish Government. Data shows that the average inmate in Spanish prisons is 39 and has been convicted of theft or drug trafficking, though other common crimes include homicide and murder with 3,707 inmates, crimes against sexual freedom with 3,087 convicts and as many as 3,937 for domestic violence. Data also shows that nine out of every 10 convicts behind bars in Spain are men - 92.4 per cent - and that as many as 494 people are in prison for terrorism (61 women).

she has the right to wear what she likes; has the right to go where she likes; and has the right to do what she likes without fearing lewd stares and sexual violence, EWN will continue to campaign for equality. Equality in the workplace, equality at home, and equality in public places. Instead of telling our daughters what not to wear, we should show our sons how to respect their female peers. Equality means equality: and ‘No’ means ‘No’! Join EWN’s campaign: #ewn_no_means_no EWN would love to hear readers’ views on this controversial subject. Twitter storm...Page 22

Vital health screen

IT is Women’s Health Month at Medcare and to mark the month the British GP clinic in Benijofar is taking bookings for subsidised smears and mammograms. Mammograms will cost €65 and smears only €30. Medcare’s British GP, Dr Najma Hussain, explained the campaign: “In our experience, too many expats in Spain are missing out on vital screening health checks as they don’t understand the Spanish system, feel put off by language barriers or do not have access to health care. We don’t want any woman to miss screening tests that can and do save lives so are subsidising the cost of tests this month hoping more women will come forward.” Call on 966 860 258 or doctors@medcarespain.co m before September 30.

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Still living on a different planet

HAT planet do they live on? Politicians, that is. A furore has been caused by official Ministry guidelines on how to avoid rape. Measures include having a whistle with which to summon help, avoiding using lifts if there is a stranger in them and sitting near the driver on empty buses. Campaigners on gender issues point out that this advice seems to put the blame for attacks on the victims rather than the perpetrators. Then to compound the controversy, Francisco Javier León de la Riva, the Partido Popular mayor of Valladolid, made comments on radio that appeared to denigrate women’s accusations of rape. He said that he would think twice before getting into a lift with a woman for fear of being falsely accused of rape. He was forced to apologise. This raises the wider issue of how

sexist is ‘macho’ Spain. Although women certainly have more freedom then they did a few decades ago, and there are many women in the professions, business and politics, old attitudes still persist. A woman’s place continues to be in the home for many, even when they work as well. It is women who have to look after the home and bring up the children, that is just the way it is. And for far too many men, women are still viewed as a possession. At its worst, that leads to the disgraceful toll of domestic violence in Spain. If a woman is ‘disobedient’ many men view it as only too natural to turn to violence, with appalling results. So far this year in Spain, 38 women have died at the hands of their partners or ex-partners. That will continue as long as StoneAge attitudes persist. Politicians should be trying to change those attitudes, not espousing them.

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STAT OF WEEK SPAIN became the world’s eighth-largest agro-food exporter in 2013 and the sixth-most important in the EU. Total exports for last year reached a record €36.37 billion.

Work and family life MORE than 97 per cent of Spanish women work on parttime contracts. Many struggle to combine family responsibilities with the need to bring in money but find some companies are more accommodating than others. Repsol, which has 1,200 employees working from home,

is the best Spanish company in this respect and encourages teleworking, found an International Institute of Political Science survey. Dairy products company Leche Pascual came second for its teleworking scheme, flexi-hours and reduced working days. Vodafone was third, again

Freight train blues as sector shrinks SPAIN’S rail freight sector shrank by half in the last decade while Europe’s increased by 4 per cent. Progress is being hindered in a strategically important sector, say the country’s seven independent freight operators. They lay the blame squarely on state rail operator Renfe, which they accuse of disloyal competition since the 2006 deregulation. “Renfe Freight practises predatory and disproportionate price strategies that have plunged the sector into an untenable situation,” said Juan Diego Pedrero, director of the

Association of Private Railway Companies (AEFP). Despite multimillion losses these are offset by Renfe’s other operations, Pedrero complained. Renfe Freight had restricted the development of private sector operators, he said, allowing them to acquire only 20 per cent of the market since 2006. Neither was deregulation accompanied by better infrastructure, Pedrero continued. Spain’s track width is different, sidings are too short for foreign trains and timetables are incompatible with international logistics, he said.

thanks to flexi-hours but also for allowing more time for breastfeeding during the first year after giving birth. Spain’s worst employers for reconciling work and family life were Mediamarkt, followed by Tolsa, Port Aventura, Carrefour, Auchan and El Corte Ingles, the Institute found.

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Employment opportunities ANYONE looking for a job should go to Madrid, the Basque Region or La Rioja, which have more employment opportunities than any other Spanish region found an Adecco survey.

Helping hand THE Judicial General Council agreed to provide extra judges for Vigo and La Coruña courts until December 31. They will deal with cases centring on mis-sold Nova Galicia Bank preference shares.

An open and shut case THE Spanish government has not advised Brussels of the possible reopening of the Garoña nuclear power station. The plant was closed down in December 2012 and formally decommissioned in July last year. Nuclenor, jointly owned by Iberdrola and Endesa, have now applied for an operating licence valid until 2031.

The Commission is aware of changes in Spanish legislation that allow an operator to apply for a new licence within a year of shutdown, said Energy commissioner Gunther Oettinger. Any decision now rests with the Spanish government acting on the recommendations of the Nuclear Safety Council (NSC), Oettinger explained.

HOME WORK: Some companies are more accommodating.

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Lost cigarette duty going up in smoke CIGARETTE sales fell by 47 per cent in Spain over the last five years. Twenty-four per cent of the Spanish population aged over 15 admitted to the 2012 National Health Survey that they smoke each day, compared to almost 30 per cent in 2000. Partly this is due to the success of anti-smoking laws and greater awareness of the health risks involved. But increased tax on cigarettes, a steady source of income for governments everywhere, has done as much as either of the former to discourage smoking. A KPMG survey for leading cigarette companies found that 8.8 per cent of the cigarettes smoked in Spain are contraband. When added

to tobacco brought legally into the country by travellers, this means that no tax is paid on 11.3 per cent of all cigarettes smoked in Spain. That in turn means that the taxman loses out on €718 million a year. Meanwhile, low-cost brands account for 11 per cent of the market with best-selling makes like Elixyr, Golden America or Winfield costing between €3.95 and €4.10 for 20, compared to €4.8 charged for Marlboro over the counter or €4.95 from a machine. Cheaper lines were once overlooked by the big cigarette companies, but Altadis - formerly Spanishowned and now part of Imperial Tobacco - has seen sales of the relatively cheap Brooklyn brand soar.

CIGARETTE SALES: Have fallen by 47 per cent in Spain over past five years. Like Fortuna, they are made in Logroño at the last cigarette factory on the Spanish mainland; a further factory remains open in Cantabria although this manufactures cigars. In 2009, Altadis made and sold 2.5 million packets of Brooklyn - just 0.06 per cent of the Spanish market - worth €6.7 million. By 2013, this had

risen to 38.1 million packets with sales of €148.4 million and a market share of 1.6 per cent. The Logroño factory now employs 560 staff, compared with 650 in the past, prompting Altadis CEO Juan Arrizabalaga to admit that he “fears” for its future. Not from

the point of view of profitability, as it is one of the most productive Imperial Tobacco factories. What most worries Arrizabalaga are those changing habits: the market is shrinking, he explained to a Spanish interviewer, and Europe could soon need fewer factories.

An advertising spin… EXPORTS UP: Although foreign demand has slowed down.

No need to mind the gap SPAIN’S trade gap rose to €11.9 billion in the first six months of this year. That is twice as much as during the same period last year, the Economy ministry announced. Although exports increased by 0.5 per cent to €119.3 billion, an all-time high since records were first kept in 1971, imports totalled €131.1 billion. There has been a cutback in foreign demand in recent months, analysts explained, owing to an economic slowdown in Germany, France and Italy. Added to the continuing dispute with Russia, this

brought a 1.2 per cent reduction in exports in June. European ‘lethargy’ did little to assist exports, said junior Trade minister Jaime Garcia Legaz who admitted that if Europe failed to grow it would be difficult to reach the export levels of the preceding years. Despite the apparent slowdown last June was Spain’s second-best ever, he emphasised, with exports of €20.6 billion, compared to €15.6 billion at the onset of the economic crisis in 2008. The country’s exports had also remained stable.

THERE is no such thing as a guaranteed return on advertising. All you can do is set your stall out leaving every box ticked. The ability to catch on to something popular is often down to luck, but if you are not in the game you cannot win. Barely scratching a living, a young salesman was asked by his supplier if he was interested in selling hoops without sticks to propel them. Its purpose was explained to him: “You place it around your waist and by gyrating you keep it from falling. This was fun,” he was told. “It also slimmed the waist. The ladies would love it.” The salesman was cynical but added it to his wares. During his calls on retailers, he explained the purpose of the hoola-hoop. Few were interested until the novelty was

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demonstrated on TV. From that point on the country went wild for hoola-hoops. Shops couldn’t meet the demand. Imagination goes a long way. The HMV advert with the Jack Russell listening to its master’s voice was judged the world’s best advertisement. I recall two or three adverts that I saw as a child. Guinness was successful with their image of a toucan, a colourful tropical bird. “What one can do toucan do.” It sticks in the mind like 1950s Jaguar Cars; ‘Grace,

Space and Pace.’ Three simple words that sum up excellence and value for money. Idly glancing through LIFE magazine as a 16year-old, hardly a cheap magazine to advertise in, I was fixated by a blank page. A misprint? No, in small print at the bottom of the page a message: ‘We were just about to show you a picture of our millionth Volkswagen. Sorry, we just sold it.’ Can you do as well? Again and again we continue to do things the way we have always done them, even when they are not working as well as we hoped. If every business owner paid as much time pondering the criteria for a winning advert as he focuses on the pools or football fixtures, he might come up with an advert that rivals can only envy.

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Record numbers FOREIGN tourist numbers to Spain were up 5.9 per cent in July year-on-year according to the Toursim Ministry. A record total of 8.3 million foreigners visited the country, it said.

New offer TELECOM ITALIA plans to outbid Telefonica for Vivendi’s Brazilian subsidiary Global Village Telecom (GVT). The Italian operator has offered €7 billion in a deal handing Vivendi a 20 per cent stake in Telecom Italia.

Pricey oil OLIVE oil prices could shoot up as a continuing drought in parts of the country hits crops. It has been forecast the olive yield could be 40 per cent lower than 2013.

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Little sponges can benefit from some early financial absorption Loose change A look at finance for females

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ADULTS are always going on about how smart kids are. How many times have we heard about how young children just seem to absorb information like little sponges? Or how they remember things after it has only been mentioned once. Some kids, if brought up in a multi-linguistic household, are even capable of speaking two or more languages by the age of three. So why is it that when it comes to the matter of money many

parents avoid the topic and feel children just couldn’t get their little heads around the concept? According to research just out, however, if parents want to help kids gain a better grasp of money management, it’s essential to talk to them about cash. Apparently kids whose parents frequently talk about family finances feel smart and comfortable around money. The research reveals that kids who are educated about money matters are more prone to saving their own money so they can go to college. Kids whose parents frequently talk about setting financial goals say they are ‘savers,’ while kids whose parents frequently

Basis of AGM accounting Q. When we had an AGM with our lawyers we asked for a detailed You and the breakdown of the incoming monies, the Law in Spain same as the outgoing expenses. We were By David Searl told this is against Spanish law. I asked other lawyers locally and they are not aware of such a law. In accounting, if you have only a total with no detail, then monies could be removed from income and no one would know. Also, in your column in the EWN you said it is against the law for postal ballots to be permitted at an AGM. Does this also include email contacts? Our lawyers are trying to bring in a tick-box format for our next AGM instead of the usual sponsors system we have used in the past. A. G. H. (Costa Blanca) First, it is not lawyers who control your Community. It is the members’ vote at the AGM. The President and Administrator carry out the decisions made. Second, you should have a detailed breakdown of income as well as expenses. This is basic accounting. You must make a motion and vote at the next AGM. Make sure you get it on the official published Agenda beforehand. Third, good luck to your lawyers and their tick-box e-mails. I like the idea, but they will not be allowed. It is not a ‘sponsor’ system. It is a ‘proxy’ when a person assigns someone else to vote. Send your questions for David Searl through lawyers Ubeda-Retana & Associates in Fuengirola at Ask@lawtaxspain.com, or call 952 667 090.

discuss budgeting say they are very or extremely smart about money. Talking openly about money management to kids gives children confidence and the early financial education has a very positive impact on future money management. The bad news is, however, that

it appears parents are favouring boys over girls when it comes to financial matters. Some 58 per cent of boys say their parents talk to them

about setting financial goals, compared to 50 per cent of girls. And 80 per cent of parents with a boy think he understands the value of money, but only 69 per cent of parents with a girl think the same. But whether girls or boys, what’s vital is that all parents acknowledge the importance of discussing money with their kids at least once a week. Chose moments throughout the day to share some money management skills with kids; in the supermarket, at the cash machine, opening household bills no kid is too young to learn some of these things. MONEY TALK: Discuss with children.

‘Five-a-day’ could help beat Russian ban FRUIT and vegetable exports rejected by Russia will be withdrawn from the market and donated to charity. Brussels has also agreed to alleviate losses resulting from the Russian government’s 12-month veto of EU imports with a €125 million cash allocation. The ban arrived as fruit and vegetable production peaked and this will help to stabilise prices and compensate growers who lack storage options or alternatives to the now-closed Russian market. “All growers of the concerned products, whether in producer organisations or not, will be eligible to take up these market support measures,” said Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolos. Grants will be made available between now and November, he announced. “The impact of Russia’s sanctions can be assessed in several ways,” Agriculture minister Isabel Garcia Tejerina recently told a radio interviewer. “We are analysing exports,” she said. “Last year we exported currently-affected products worth €337 million to Russia. Between January and May we are talking

FRUIT: Will be donated to charity. about €107 million.” What worried her most was a possible deterioration of EU prices, as they accounted for threequarters of the market: “That’s the market we must work to protect.” Russian consumers were going to miss ‘irreplaceable’ products, predicted Garcia Tejerina who also reminded Spaniards to eat their recommended ‘five-a-day.’ Both Spanish cooperatives and the EU farmers’ union Copa-Cogeca, while welcoming the European Commission’s response, warned that national funding would be needed in addition to EU funds.

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Housing rental prices now cheaper than in July RENTING a property is now cheaper than in May. Housing rental prices dropped by 0.8 per cent in July 2014, as recently stated by the Spanish National Statistics Institute. The same decline was witnessed in June 2014. The sharpest decreases were witnessed in Navarra (-2.3 per cent), Madrid (-1.8 per cent), Murcia (-1.8 per cent), La Rioja (-1.6 per cent), Valencia and Extremadura (1.2 per cent), Andalucia (-1 per cent), Castilla La Mancha and the Canary Islands (-0.9 per cent). On the other hand, rental prices in the Basque Country dropped at the national average rate (-0.8 per cent), while Cantabria and Castilla y Leon (-0.5 per cent), the Balearic

VALENCIA: Housing rental prices dropped by 1.2 per cent. Islands (-0.3 per cent), Aragon, Galicia and Ceuta (-0.2 per cent) were below the national average. According to Spanish newspaper El

Mundo, the only increases were registered in Melilla (+0.5 per cent), Asturias (+0.1 per cent) and Catalonia (+0.1 per cent).

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Spain’s real-estate market has not lost its appeal to foreign investors P

RICES of luxury real estate properties in Spain have remained steady in the last six months. According to Lucas Fox International Properties, transactions have increased throughout Spain and the gap between asking and sales keeps narrowing. Moreover, foreign buyers account for the largest percentage of Lucas Fox sales 90 per cent - and interest from exotic regions like the Middle East and the Far East in Spain’s real-estate market is on the rise. Buyers from Northern Europe have not fallen behind and they are not returning to the Spanish market attracted by investment opportunities and low prices. In Barcelona there was a steady increase in sales in the first half of 2014, with most buyers coming from the UK and Northern European countries. “The Barcelona market has

BARCELONA: Its market has continued to improve since early 2014. continued to improve in the first two quarters of 2014 and there is a great deal more confidence amongst buyers, in particular international buyers. It looks like prices have now stabilised and the number of transactions

is slowly increasing. The big change is that sellers are being more realistic and that asking prices have come down in line with buyer expectations,” said Lucas Fox co-founder Alexander Vaughan.

Ibiza has also witnessed an increase in the number of transactions when compared to 2013 and its residential market is still performing strongly. Clients from the UK and Northern European countries

still remain the biggest group of buyers who have shown interest in Ibiza’s prime market properties, says Lucas Fox. However, the interest from American buyers has doubled since last year. “The continued appeal of Ibiza is most definitely its unique lifestyle. More people are choosing to relocate to the island due to good schools (including international schools), outstanding properties and the exceptional quality of life. The island now offers 4G Internet and better flight connections year round. “Interest from Europeans is still high but demand has significantly increased from the Asian market, mainly Korean and Chinese buyers. There has also been a rise in interest from American investors,” said Director of Lucas Fox Ibiza Amanda Marti.

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CONSTRUCTION SECTOR: It rose by 7.0 per cent in second quarter.

Construction increasing CONSTRUCTION in Spain increased by 7 per cent in the second quarter of 2014. According to recent estimates made by Eurostat, the statistics office of the European Union, no other country in the EU increased its construction output like Spain thanks to a 7 per cent increase between April and June. In addition, Spain was also the fourth country in the EU with the sharpest increase in its construction output in June (+6.8 per cent). However, Spain saw a 2.9 per cent decline in its construction sector on a month-on-month basis compared to May and this represented the second largest

decline seen in the EU. Both in the EU and the Eurozone, construction output is said to have fallen by 0.6 per cent between April and June 2014, while it dropped by 0.5 per cent on a yearon-year basis in the EU and by as much as 2.3 per cent in the Eurozone. In monthly terms, the most substantial decreases in construction output were witnessed in Hungary (-7.5 per cent), Spain (-2.9 per cent), Romania (-2.6 per cent) and Slovakia (-2.3 per cent), while the largest increases were registered in Poland (+2.7 per cent), Germany (+1.2 per cent) and Czech Republic/UK (+1.1 per cent).

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Property sales in Spain continue to increase PROPERTY sales in Spain have increased, though prices continue their downward trend. According to the latest data released by Spanish notaries, transactions in Spain have grown by 16 per cent compared to 2014. However, figures also indicate that property

prices have dropped by 5.7 per cent. Despite that, real-estate experts agree that the Spanish property market will continue to recover. On the other hand, apartment sales increased by 11.6 per cent and the average square metre price is estimated at â‚Ź1,214, which represents

SPAIN: Changes in tax laws ha a 5.7 per cent decrease when compared to 2013 and a 35.7 per cent price drop compared to 2007. According to Spanish notaries, the increase in the number of sales is a

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Spanish town hopes to attract new residents with cheap land A SMALL town south east of Madrid is trying to save itself from disappearing. Located in Cuenca Province, Olmeda de la Cuesta is down to only 35 residents and is the town with the oldest population in Spain with the average resident in his mid-70s. Now, local residents are hoping to attract new residents by offering land at bargain prices.

“Olmeda is the perfect place for anybody, from an artisan to a writer,” said Mayor Jose Luis Regacho. In fact, tranquillity may just well be the town’s biggest allure. The town recently started one of its latest attempts to attract new residents with the sale of eight plots of land. Out of the eight lots for sale, the most expensive one has a

total price of €1,300 for 205 square metres. The only requirement is that investors must build a house or a business on the land they buy within 30 months. Prices, however, go down to as little as €200 and locals are willing to negotiate and refund the initial investment as long as the investor agrees to register in town as selfemployed for a minimum of three years. “We would love to have new, young families from other parts of the world offers in Spain’s real-estate come and breathe new market and many French, life into our town,” said Russian, Chinese, Scandi- Mayor Regacho talking to navian and South East the media and added that Asian buyers are bidding international homebuyers for heavily discounted are welcome. Olmeda de la Cuesta properties on Spain’s coasts and cities. In fact, Ibiza, used to be a thriving Marbella and Mallorca are village of 500 residents, abuzz with foreign inves- but is now down to 15 tors interested in villas, permanent residents and rural estates, vineyards and the remaining 20 only equestrian properties and visit on the weekend or for holidays. luxury housing.

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ave increased the number of property sales result of changes in tax laws and a stabilisation of monthly sales. For instance, there was not a substantial difference between the number of properties sold between

January and June 2014 and the number of transactions in that same seven-month period in 2013, with 29,171 this year and 27,958 a year ago.

SINCE 2008, there has been a significant price fall in Spain’s residential property market. Prices in fact fell by as much as 30 per cent after the economic downturn and it has been difficult for the markets to fully recover. The good news is that Spain has been able to lure back real estate investors thanks to the launch of the Golden Visa Scheme and

the country’s residential property markets seem to be well on their way to recovery. The Spanish Government is offering automatic residency as well as free movement in the Schengen zone to all investors who spend €500,000 or more in property. British and American investors have responded enthusiastically to recent

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Health service a real shock for pensioner DESPITE having always been more than happy with the Spanish health system, I feel duty bound to warn people of a most worrying occurrence. A neighbour of mine who has grave medical problems was sent by ambulance by the local clinic to El Toyo hospital. On presenting her social security card she and her friend were informed that her treatment would not be covered and that she would have to pay. The hospital did a scan and transferred her to Torre Cadenas hospital where the crisis was resolved. Currently back in Torre Cadenas, a registered letter arrived at her home address invoicing her for in excess of €600, covering two ambulance journeys, scan and observation. She has been a resident here for more than eight years and has ‘residencia.’ She is on the padron, is a pensioner, a tax-payer, registered disabled and in receipt of home help as authorised by the Spanish social worker. The bill she received claimed that if she didn’t pay in full within 15 days the money would be deducted from her bank account. Only threat of legal action by her friend, a fluent Spanish speaker, has averted this charge. Be warned! Obviously the economic situation in Spain is bad, but preying on and discriminating against vulnerable people is not to be tolerated, particularly when the British Government is paying into this country’s social security system on our behalf. Shelley Symonds, Carboneras (Almeria)

Double standards MANY years ago Mijas Town Hall took down the advertising billboards alongside the ‘carreteras’ because they were a distraction to the motorists. It seems that a change in policy has them erecting giant billboards along the same roadways, especially a most notorious stretch of double bends leading

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Muslims. Therefore, according to the land whose symbol is ‘In God we trust,’ they are of no significance whatsoever. Or could it be a case of ‘the customer is always right?’ Jon Allso, Valencia

Same old story THIRTY-FIVE years ago I brought up three kids to a background of “He started it! No I didn’t! Yes you did!” There used to be a saying that you don’t poke a snake unless you can cope with the result. Now we hear the UK is sending taxpayers’ money to Gaza for humanitarian aid to terrorists who vow that Israel should not exist. As my late Father-in-law used to say, “The mind boggles!” Ziggy, Alhaurin el Grande (Malaga)

Free-for-all SOME hideous people are apparently abandoning black cats because they do not look good in selfies. Personally I prefer my own black cat to any selfish selfie . Deirdre Baxter (by email)

into La Cala de Mijas from Fuengirola (next to the chemist between the Oasis and Buganvillas urbanisations). This has taken lives in the past and caused many injuries in crashes. Does this now mean that they consider profit before safety? Terence Charles Bly (by email)

Long way round I AM faced with a quandary: do I sell my property in Mallorca or not? The reason for the quandary is the lack of direct flights from Glasgow after October. If you live north of Manchester there are no direct flights until March 2015. For the Christmas holiday period we are flying from Glasgow through London City airport to get to Palma. Do the Spanish not want any northern British to come and spend money here? Cyprus begins to look attractive since we can get flights there. Dr James Sommerville (by email)

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Figure it out THE Arabs invented zero? Complete ignorant nonsense from the politically correct brigade. The concept of zero, along with true algebra and the 10 base (decimal) system was invented around 630AD by the Indian mathematician Bramagupta. Arabs trading with India referred to the decimal system as ‘Indian figures.’ The truth regarding all the rubbish spouted about Arab science, medicine, architecture is just that: rubbish. All these things

already existed in the RomanoGreek societies of the Middle East, North Africa and Spain and were stolen by the invading Muslims and claimed as their own. Desmond Johnson (by email)

Word play HOW fickle we are when it comes to defining freedom fighters and terrorists! In the Second World War the French resistance carried out heroic deeds against the Nazi occupying forces who had virtually made them prisoners in their own land. I imagine Adolph considered them to be terrorists. Ah! But we won. The Palestinians trapped in the Gaza strip with no hope for any kind of future fight back against the oppressors but they are (officially) terrorists not only according to the Israelis but also Nobel Peace prize winner Barack Obama. Personally, I can see no difference except these freedom fighter/terrorists are Arab

A FRIEND and I, chatting in English waiting in the x-ray department of our area’s Specialist centre, were approached by a woman with a bandaged leg. She looked like a tourist and wanted to know how to get hold of her x-ray plates. She was sent there by the local health centre after her ankle, twisted a couple of days earlier, had swelled alarmingly. She had been told to return with the x-ray results, she said. I went to the information desk and asked on her behalf, but learnt that doctors access x-rays online and plates are not usually developed. Off she went, slightly put out, as she was already irritated after having been warned by the Urgencias doctor not to put her weight on her foot. If she wanted to walk on it she should get crutches, she was advised. On asking for crutches, she was told to hire them from one of the many establishments specialising in this type of thing. It was a disgrace, she moaned. Now I was irritated: “Do you know how much a private x-ray and consultation would have cost you?” I asked. She shrugged and had the grace to look a little shamefaced. I think she’d already done pretty well out of our system, don’t you? (Name and address supplied)

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11:25am The Real Housewives of Atlanta 12:25pm Emmerdale 12:55pm Coronation Street 1:25pm You've Been Framed! 1:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 3:00pm The Millionaire Matchmaker 3:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:00pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 6:05pm The Real Housewives of Atlanta 7:00pm Dinner Date 8:00pm You've Been Framed! 8:30pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Wonderful World of the X Factor 10:00pm Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous 12:20am The Magaluf Weekender

10:30am Judge Judy 11:00am Judge Judy 11:25am Judge Judy 11:55am Judge Judy 12:20pm A Touch of Frost 2:00pm Heartbeat 3:00pm The Royal 4:05pm Hamish Macbeth 5:15pm Barbara 5:50pm Duty Free 6:20pm On the Buses 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Midsomer Murders 11:00pm Blue Murder 12:40am Cracker

9:05am Police, Camera, Action! 9:35am Kojak 10:40am Magnum, P.I. 11:40am The Sweeney 12:40pm Alias Smith and Jones 1:45pm The Professionals 2:50pm Cycling 3:50pm Kojak 4:50pm Magnum, P.I. 5:55pm The Sweeney 6:55pm Alias Smith and Jones 8:00pm Cheers 8:30pm UEFA Europa League Live 11:00pm Cycling 12:00am Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

5:00pm Rude(Ish) Tube 5:30pm Rude(Ish) Tube 6:00pm How I Met Your Mother 6:30pm How I Met Your Mother 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm How I Met Your Mother 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm Suburgatory 10:30pm The Inbetweeners 11:00pm Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy 2: Tales From Painted Hawaii 11:35pm The IT Crowd 12:10am New Girl

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Professor Mark Miodownik continues his odyssey of the stuff of modern life.

SKY MOVIES Action 7:15am Stealth 9:25am Tombstone 11:40am Appaloosa 1:45pm The Last Samurai 4:25pm The Fast and the Furious 6:15pm 2 Fast 2 Furious 8:10pm The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift Teenage car-racing addict Sean is sent to live with his dad in Tokyo.

10:00pm The Fast and the Furious 11:50pm 2 Fast 2 Furious Former LA cop Brian now makes his living driving in illegal street races in Miami.

1:45am The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 3:35am The Last Boy Scout 5:25am Point Last Seen

6:30am Turbo: Sky Movies Special 7:00am Lola Versus 8:35am Our Idiot Brother 10:10am Best in Show 11:50am Grown Ups 2 1:40pm Wedding Crashers 3:45pm Look Who's Talking Now! 5:30pm 10 Years 7:20pm Our Idiot Brother 9:00pm Grown Ups 2 10:50pm Wedding Crashers 1:00am In a World... 2:45am Mr Woodcock 4:20am The World's End Special A special look at the comedy from the creators of Shaun of the Dead.

4:50am Feels So Good

7:10am The Mean Machine 9:15am Hustle and Flow 11:15am Flesh and Bone 1:25pm Captain Phillips 3:45pm Pride and Glory 6:00pm The Mean Machine 8:05pm Bullitt 10:00pm Captain Phillips 12:15am Pride and Glory 2:30am Falling Down Things become too much for a reserved father as life's annoyances push him to breaking point.

4:25am Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead Ex-gangster Andy Garcia is forced into a final job for former boss Christopher Walken, but taking it on proves to be the biggest mistake he's ever made.

7:45am Free Samples A disillusioned law student mans an ice cream truck for the day as she bids to sort her life out.

9:10am Dead Poets Society 11:20am Best Man Down 1:00pm Now is Good 2:45pm One Fine Day 4:40pm Austenland 6:20pm Les Miserables 9:00pm Cruel Intentions 10:45pm 50 First Dates 12:30am Being Flynn 2:20am Surviving Christmas At Christmas, rich loser Drew takes a nostalgic trip out to his old family house.

4:00am Les Miserables Special 4:30am Dead Poets Society

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6:30am Saving Mr. Banks Special 7:00am The Last Keepers 8:35am Enough Said 10:15am The Washington Snipers 12:00pm The Last Keepers 1:45pm Enough Said 3:30pm Baggage Claim 5:15pm Thor: The Dark World 7:15pm The Last Keepers

7:15am Gunsmoke 8:15am Gunsmoke 9:15am Tarzan and The Huntress 10:35am Tarzan and the Lost Safari 12:10pm Fort Dobbs 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm The Left-Handed Gun 5:55pm Charro! 7:50pm I Died a Thousand Times 10:00pm Band of Brothers 11:30pm Band of Brothers 12:40am City Slickers 2:40am The Girl 4:10am City Slickers

A teenage outcast discovers she has extraordinary powers in this charming family fantasy.

9:00pm Thor: The Dark World 11:00pm Baggage Claim 12:40am Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zero 2:20am The Washington Snipers 4:00am Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zero 5:40am The Internship Special

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BBC TWO 8:50am Animal Park 9:20am Operation Hospital Food with James Martin 10:05am The Big Allotment Challenge 11:05am First Time on the Front Line 11:35am The Travel Show 12:00pm BBC News 12:30pm BBC World News 1:00pm Fred Dibnah's Building of Britain 1:30pm Climbing Great Buildings 2:00pm Breakaway 2:45pm Cash in the Attic

ITV 6:05am The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 12:25pm ITV News 12:30pm This Morning 1:30pm The Chase 2:30pm ITV News and Weather

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CH4 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am The Big Bang Theory 11:30am The Big Bang Theory 12:00pm Come Dine with Me 12:30pm Come Dine with Me 1:00pm Channel 4 News Summary 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 1:35pm Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Come Dine with Me 2:40pm Phil Spencer: Secret Agent

CH5 9:00am Little Princess 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:35am Toby's Travelling Circus 9:45am Bananas in Pyjamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Cowboy Builders 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours

SKY 1 6:00am Airline USA 6:30am Airline USA 7:00am The Real A&E 7:30am The Real A&E 8:00am Dog Squad 8:30am Dog Squad 9:00am Futurama 9:30am Futurama 10:00am Futurama 10:30am Futurama 11:00am Got to Dance 12:30pm Got to Dance 2:00pm Got to Dance

3pm 3:15pm Perfection 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:30pm Hairy Bikers' Meals on Wheels Back on the Road 5:30pm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

3:15pm The Chef's Protege 3:45pm Celebrity MasterChef 4:30pm Coast 5:15pm Britain by Bike 5:45pm Great British Railway Journeys

3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Secret Dealers 5:00pm Tipping Point

6:15pm Flog It! 7:00pm Two Tribes 7:30pm Eggheads 8:00pm Young Vets

9:00pm Mastermind 9:30pm Sweets Made Simple 10:00pm The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice 10:30pm Gardeners' World 11:00pm The Perfect Morecambe and Wise 11:30pm Newsnight

3:40pm Countdown 4:30pm Deal or No Deal 5:30pm Win it Cook it

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6:00pm Gift Wrapped 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street

6:00pm Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News

6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm On the Yorkshire Buses

6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Futurama 7:00pm Futurama 7:30pm Got to Dance

9:00pm Harbour Lives 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Doc Martin 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm The Invention of Lying

9:00pm The Million Pound Drop 10:00pm Micky Flanagan: Back in the Game 11:00pm The Last Leg

9:00pm Marston's Brewery: One Ale of a Job! 10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother 11:35pm Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side

9:20pm Got to Dance 10:00pm A League of Their Own 11:00pm 50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy

US drama following the navy's dedicated federal agency.

4:20pm Blind Trust

3:30pm The Simpsons 4:00pm Modern Family 4:30pm Modern Family 5:00pm Futurama 5:30pm Futurama

6pm 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm A Question of Sport

9pm 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Scrappers 10:00pm Boomers 10:30pm Big School 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News 11:35pm Outnumbered

The award-winning gang show that takes a joyful, offbeat look at the world.

11:50pm Virtually Famous

Tag along with Irish presenter Baz Ashmawy and his lovely mammy Nancy as they embark on the adventure of a lifetime. First stop is Las Vegas, followed by LA.

12am 12:05am Would I Lie to You? 12:35am EastEnders Omnibus A chance to catch up on the week's drama in Albert Square. 2:30am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather forecast. 2:35am BBC News

12:05am Reading Festival Highlights 1:35am The Secret History of Our Streets The stories of archetypal streets in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen. 2:35am This is BBC Two

1:30am Jackpot247 Join the presenters live and play roulette on your telly. 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 4:40am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service.

12:40am Scary Movie 2 2:00am Anna and Katy 2:30am The Inbetweeners USA 2:55am Desperate Housewives 3:35am Revenge 4:20am Sarah Beeny's Selling Houses 5:15am The Hoarder Next Door

12:35am Celebrity Big Brother 1:15am Super Casino 4:05am Celebrity Big Brother 5:20am The Great Artists 5:45am House Doctor

12:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 1:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 3:00am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 4:00am Road Wars 5:00am Stargate Atlantis

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8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Friday Night at the Proms 10:00pm Blondie's New York... And the Making of Parallel Lines 10:50pm Blondie @ Glastonbury

11:25am The Real Housewives of Atlanta 12:25pm Emmerdale 12:55pm Emmerdale 1:25pm You've Been Framed! 1:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 3:00pm The Millionaire Matchmaker 3:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:00pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 6:05pm The Real Housewives of Atlanta 7:00pm Dinner Date 8:00pm You've Been Framed! 8:30pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm The X Factor: Your Top Ten 10:00pm The Matrix 12:45am The Magaluf Weekender

10:50am Judge Judy 11:15am Judge Judy 11:40am A Touch of Frost 1:55pm Heartbeat 3:00pm The Royal 4:00pm Hamish Macbeth 5:05pm Barbara 5:40pm On the Buses 6:15pm On the Buses 6:50pm Heartbeat 7:50pm Murder, She Wrote 8:55pm Wycliffe 10:00pm The Great Train Robbery 11:00pm Blue Murder 12:35am Cracker

9:40am Kojak 10:40am Magnum, P.I. 11:40am The Sweeney 12:40pm Alias Smith and Jones 1:45pm The Professionals 2:50pm Cycling 3:50pm Kojak 4:55pm Magnum, P.I. 5:55pm The Sweeney 6:55pm Alias Smith and Jones 8:00pm Cycling 9:00pm Storage Wars 9:30pm Storage Wars 10:00pm Casino Royale 12:40am Spy Game

3:30pm The Big Bang Theory 4:00pm Melissa and Joey 4:30pm Melissa and Joey 5:00pm Rude(Ish) Tube 5:30pm Rude(Ish) Tube 6:00pm How I Met Your Mother 6:30pm How I Met Your Mother 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm Suburgatory 9:00pm How I Met Your Mother 9:30pm How I Met Your Mother 10:00pm Die Hard 4.0 12:40am Rude Tube

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Comedy 6:30am Oz the Great and Powerful: Premiere Special 7:00am The Hot Flashes 8:45am Notting Hill 10:50am The Man 12:15pm This is the End 2:05pm Ali G Indahouse 3:35pm Nacho Libre 5:10pm Napoleon Dynamite 6:50pm Notting Hill 9:00pm This is the End 11:00pm Ali G Indahouse 12:35am The Man 2:05am Boat Trip 3:45am Caddyshack 5:25am Napoleon Dynamite

6:25am Loss of Faith 8:05am Bad Company 10:15am Argo: Sky Movies Special 10:35am Derailed 12:35pm 96 Minutes 2:25pm Runner Runner 4:10pm Bad Company 6:20pm Brake 8:05pm Derailed 10:00pm Runner Runner 11:35pm Training Day 1:40am Basic Instinct 3:50am Out of Sight Sexy crime caper based on the novel by Elmore Leonard, with terrific chemistry between stars G Clooney and J Lopez.

6:45am The Top Ten Show 2014 7:00am Giant 10:20am Under the Tuscan Sun 12:20pm Gorillas in the Mist 2:35pm Sleepless in Seattle 4:25pm Lincoln 7:05pm Forces of Nature 9:00pm Sleepless in Seattle 11:00pm Shirley Valentine 1:00am Dangerous Minds 2:50am Victim A young criminal rethinks his life when he falls for a country girl who has moved to London.

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6:00am Pacific Rim: Sky Movies Special 6:30am Fast and Furious 6 Special 7:00am Decoding Annie Parker 8:45am Baggage Claim 10:30am Magic Magic 12:15pm Violet and Daisy 2:00pm The Last Keepers 3:45pm Baggage Claim 5:30pm Gravity 7:15pm Decoding Annie Parker 9:00pm Gravity 10:45pm Violet and Daisy 12:30am Magic Magic 2:15am Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zero 4:00am The Last Keepers 5:45am The Internship Special

7:55am Gunsmoke 9:00am Gunsmoke 10:05am Charro! 11:55am The Left-Handed Gun 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm Good Day for a Hanging 5:40pm Bad Men of Tombstone 7:10pm The Oklahoman 8:45pm Navy Bound 10:00pm Band of Brothers 11:10pm Band of Brothers 12:30am McQ 2:35am Timecode 4:15am Terry Wogan Presents the Very Best of the Ed Sullivan Show

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Not deserving of a statue T

HOUGHT I’d leave out the Mid-East fiasco this issue, give a bit of time for the Nationals to catch up! So, in a week where we were told that Brussels is about to ban the sale of certain types of vacuum cleaner, lots of fatty foods are now miraculously good for us; Mariella Frostrup recommends taking someone else’s husband on holiday (wot!?) and Louise Mensch informed the media she’d rather see Ed Miliband eating a bacon sandwich than look at Karen Danczuk’s cleavage (no comment!) they’ve decided to erect a bronze statue to deceased songstress Amy Winehouse. Can anyone in God’s name tell me why? This was a young lady, with the good fortune to have been born with a considerable talent, who subsequently managed to squander it all, by leading a life of drugs abuse, alcoholism, and a sheer debauchery unequalled REAL DEAL: Churchill did merit a statue. by any other show biz

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individual since Fatty Arbuckle. She was a terrible example to our young people and completely wasted her time on this earth in a way that was nothing short of pathetic. And some idiots want to preserve her legacy by erecting a (very expensive) statue in her memory? Give us a break. It was exactly the same situation with George Best. Best was another extremely lucky young man, born with a natural talent millions of young men would die for. And how does he thank his creator for this wonderful natural blessing? Sweeps it all away on a tsunami of drink and drugs also squandering a precious liver transplant en route. Alright, I am completely aware that alcoholism is a disease and we should perhaps feel a certain sympathy for people caught up in its clutches, but no one forced a bottle or a needle into these peoples’ arms or mouths, it was all initially a matter of their own choice and frankly I think

immortalising these talent wasters in bronze, is nothing short of a disgraceful reflection of the priorities held by certain members of our money squandering local council members. Actually this whole past month has been a bit of an ‘ealth and safety lunacy drive. No more than two children to an adult at swimming pools. Donkey rides banned from some beaches. Workers told they couldn’t wear open toed shoes in summer and, although nothing to do with ‘ealth and safety, a real humdinger in the light of Brussels’ appalling waste of taxpayers’ money. Specifically it has now been announced that Britain is to donate £1.6 million (€2.01 million) to fund bin collection on the Caribbean island of Cuba! I dunno, sometimes I really do despair of it all. Thanks for all the correspondence. Sorry we can’t publish all of them. I’m delighted to say - there simply isn’t enough space! Just had a thought. What about Leapy Lee immortalised in bronze somewhere? No? Ah well. Keep the faith. Love Leapy. leapylee2002@gmail.com

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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast 11:00am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 12:30pm The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice 1:00pm BBC News 1:05pm Weather The latest weather information. 1:10pm Football Focus 1:50pm Saturday Sportsday 2:00pm Bargain Hunt Game show in which two teams compete for the best bargains before they go up for auction.

BBC TWO 7:00am Odette 8:50am Stage Struck 10:25am Living Planet 11:20am Living Planet 12:15pm Great British Railway Journeys Documentary series in which Michael Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country by train. 12:45pm Great British Railway Journeys 1:15pm Rowing

ITV 7:00am CITV 9:25am ITV News 9:30am Weekend 10:25am The Hungry Sailors Dick and James Strawbridge sail around Britain to discover fantastic food. 11:25am Murder, She Wrote Drama series about a sleuthing writer who solves murder mysteries. 12:20pm ITV News and Weather 12:30pm Columbo 2:25pm Peter Andre's 60 Minute Makeover

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CH4 7:05am The Hoobs 7:30am Transworld Sport 8:25am Mobil 1 The Grid 8:55am The Morning Line 9:55am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:25am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:50am Frasier 11:20am Frasier 11:50am The Big Bang Theory 1:05pm The Simpsons 2:10pm Gadget Man 2:40pm Channel 4 Racing

CH5 6:10am House Doctor 6:35am House Doctor Home improvement series that works its magic on neglected homes. 7:00am Milkshake! 11:00am Access 11:10am Police Interceptors Documentary series profiling the work of a highspeed police interception unit in Essex. 12:10pm Police Interceptors 1:10pm Burning Hills

SATURDAY TV

SKY 1 7:00am All Aboard: East Coast Trains 8:00am Ashley Banjo's Secret Street Crew 9:00am The Fantasy Football Club 10:00am The F1 Show 11:00am Soccer A.M. 1:00pm World Wrestling Entertainment Superstars WWE Superstars brings you matches involving wrestlers from both Raw and Smackdown. 2:00pm Got to Dance

3pm 3:00pm Escape to the Country 4:00pm Youth Olympics Highlights All the latest highlights from the Youth Olympics.

5:00pm Final Score

5:10pm Come Dine with Me

4:00pm The Man in the White Suit 5:20pm Coast

3:25pm Weekend Escapes with Warwick Davis 3:55pm Tipping Point 4:55pm I Never Knew That About Britain 5:25pm King Ralph

6:00pm Natural World

7:20pm Local News and Weather

3:15pm Alec Guinness Talking Pictures A compilation of TV clips featuring Alec Guinness.

First to host in Salisbury is Natasha Conti, who's laying on a 'summer fete', complete with hilarious prizes, and has asked her guests to dress in country casuals.

3:00pm Guns of the Magnificent Seven Action and adventure film.

5:05pm Rio Bravo

3:50pm Got to Dance 4:30pm Modern Family 5:00pm Modern Family 5:30pm Modern Family

6pm 6:20pm BBC News 6:30pm Regional News 6:35pm Weather 6:40pm Pointless 7:30pm Tumble 8:45pm Doctor Who

8:00pm Cricket on 5

6:00pm Modern Family 6:30pm The Simpsons 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons

7:00pm Flog It! 8:00pm Proms Extra 8:45pm Dad's Army

7:30pm ITV News and Weather 7:45pm The Chase 8:45pm The X Factor

6:10pm Come Dine with Me 7:15pm Come Dine with Me 7:40pm Channel 4 News 8:10pm Sarah Beeny's Double Your House for Half the Money

9:15pm Ancient Egypt: Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings 10:15pm Andrew Marr's Great Scots: The Writers Who Shaped a Nation 11:15pm QI XL

10:00pm Through the Keyhole 11:00pm ITV News and Weather

9:05pm Grand Designs 10:10pm Lockout

12:00am TOTP2 1:00am Marnie 3:05am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

1:30am Jackpot 247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA Jeremy Kyle presents the American version of his popular talk show. 4:40am Nightscreen

12:00am The Accused 2:05am Sean Lock: Lockipedia Live 3:00am The Last Leg 3:45am Homeland 4:40am Hollyoaks Omnibus

12:10am Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Psych 1:10am Super Casino Feeling lucky? Get the authentic, heart-thumping casino experience every night. 4:10am Celebrity Big Brother 5:00am House Doctor

12:20am Hawaii Five-0 1:20am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 2:20am A Touch of Cloth 3:10am Road Wars 4:00am Road Wars 5:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse

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8:00pm Great Movie Mistakes 9:00pm World's Craziest Fools 9:30pm Top Gear 11:00pm Russell Howard's Good News 11:30pm Russell Howard's Good News 12:00am Family Guy 12:22am Family Guy 12:44am Family Guy 1:06am Family Guy 1:28am Family Guy 1:50am Family Guy 2:12am Family Guy 2:35am Sexy Beasts 3:05am Comedy Fest Live 4:00am Russell Howard's Good News

8:00pm Human Planet

12:15pm Take Me Out 1:30pm You've Been Framed! 2:00pm You've Been Framed! 3:05pm The X Factor 4:05pm The X Factor 5:10pm The X Factor 6:10pm Wonderful World of the X Factor 7:10pm The X Factor: Your Top Ten 8:15pm Jurassic Park III 9:15pm FYI Daily 9:20pm Jurassic Park III 10:00pm The Xtra Factor 11:05pm Happy Gilmore 12:05am FYI Daily 12:10am Happy Gilmore

7:00am Movies Now 7:10am World Kitchen 8:00am Carry on Jack 9:00am FYI Daily 9:05am Carry on Jack 9:55am The Royal 11:55am Carry on Screaming 12:55pm FYI Daily 1:00pm Carry on Screaming 2:00pm Hidden Treasure 4:00pm A Touch of Frost 6:00pm A Touch of Frost 7:55pm Lewis 10:00pm Midsomer Murders 12:00am Bomb Girls

2:50pm World Rally Championship Highlights 3:50pm British Superbike Highlights 4:50pm British Touring Car Championship Highlights 6:20pm Police Academy 3: Back in Training 7:20pm FYI Daily 7:25pm Police Academy 3: Back in Training 8:00pm Cycling 9:00pm On Her Majesty's Secret Service 10:00pm FYI Daily 10:05pm On Her Majesty's Secret Service 11:55pm The Wild Bunch

9:30am Rules of Engagement 10:00am Rules of Engagement 10:30am Suburgatory 11:30am Rude(Ish) Tube 12:30pm How I Met Your Mother 1:30pm Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2:30pm The Big Bang Theory 3:30pm Melissa and Joey 4:30pm Made in Chelsea NYC 5:35pm The Big Bang Theory 6:35pm How I Met Your Mother 7:30pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 8:00pm The 100 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 1:15am Virtually Famous

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8:55pm 5 News The latest news coverage.

9pm 9:30pm The National Lottery 10:20pm Casualty 11:10pm BBC News 11:25pm Weather 11:30pm Match of the Day

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James Mather and Stephen Saint Leger codirect this science-fiction action movie, in which a reluctant anti-hero is co-opted on a rescue mission in outer space.

9:00pm Burned Alive: Anatomy of a Murder 10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother 11:00pm Paddy McGuiness: Saturday Night Live

9:00pm A League of Their Own 10:00pm There's Something About Mary Hilarious slapstick comedy about a man so tormented by memories of a missed high school date with a beautiful girl that he hires a detective to trace her several years later.

12am 12:55am The Football League Show 2:15am Weather for the Week Ahead 2:20am BBC News

Human Planet reveals the reality of life and nature on the grasslands, the terrain which feeds the world.

9:00pm Tales From the National Parks 10:00pm Crimes of Passion 11:25pm Britain's Lost Colosseum 12:15am Rome's Lost Empire 1:45am Kings of the Ring Danny Leigh explores the elemental drama of the boxing movie.

2:45am Human Planet 3:45am Tales From the National Parks

SKY MOVIES Action 5:30am Sam Churchill: Search for a Homeless Man 7:15am Jaws 4: The Revenge 9:00am Sahara Matthew McConaughey steps into Dirk Pitt, the intrepid marine explorer's shoes.

11:10am Hellboy 1:30pm X-Men Adaptation of the long-running Marvel comic book series.

3:30pm X2 5:50pm The Wolverine 8:00pm X-Men 10:00pm X2 12:20am The Wolverine 2:30am The Transporter

Comedy 5:25am Napoleon Dynamite 7:05am The Dukes of Hazzard 9:05am The World's End Special 9:35am The Hangover Part III 11:30am We're the Millers 1:30pm So Undercover 3:20pm The Top Ten Show 2014 3:35pm Analyze This 5:25pm Analyze That 7:10pm The Way Way Back 9:00pm The Hangover Part III 10:45pm We're the Millers 12:40am The Dukes of Hazzard 2:35am For a Good Time, Call... 4:05am The Ladykillers 5:55am Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot

6:00am Angel Flight Down 7:40am Dead Again 9:40am Last Passenger 11:30am The Sum of All Fears 1:40pm Proof of Life Engineer Peter Bowden is snatched by professional terrorists in the South American jungle.

4:05pm Black Hawk Down Brutally authentic war action detailing the covert US mission in Somalia that became a bloodbath.

6:35pm All Things to All Men 8:15pm Cold Comes the Night 10:00pm Proof of Life 12:25am Killing Them Softly 2:05am Black Hawk Down

5:00am Paradise, Hawaiian Style 6:40am The Great Gatsby Special 7:00am Borrowed Time 8:40am Knife Fight 10:30am Sparkle 12:30pm Life of Pi 1:00pm One Chance 2:50pm You've Got Mail 4:55pm The Bodyguard 7:10pm One Chance 9:00pm You've Got Mail A comic tale of romance on the internet.

11:00pm The Bodyguard 1:20am Ask the Dust 3:25am The English Teacher 5:05am The Top Ten Show 2014

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OPINION & COMMENT

ALLEGED CLAIMS: According to law, people are innocent until proven guilty.

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Nora Johnson

Breaking Views A Costa del Sol resident for a number of years, Nora is the author of psychological suspense and crime thrillers. To comment on any of the issues raised in her column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/columnists/nora-johnson

WITH yet another celebrity being fingered - the 73year-old Cliff Richard - over an alleged assault dating back to the 1980s, you have to ask yourself when is this celebritytargeting going to end? So far, we’ve had Stuart Hall, Rolf Harris, Freddie Starr, Gary Glitter, Jim Davidson, Dave Lee Travis, Bill Roache and PR chief, Max Clifford. What a roll call! Whilst I don’t condone what Cliff Richard or his fellow celebrities might be accused of, I do have some

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British justice or a celebrity witch hunt problems with the handling of investigations. First off, the lack of anonymity given to those faced with historical sexual offence claims. According to common law, people are innocent until proven guilty, and they should be entitled to anonymity, at least until a court orders otherwise. When the mere fact of an arrest (which the police and the tabloids have every interest in widely publicising) can effectively kill someone’s career, the balance is in the wrong place. It’s simply wrong and flies in the face of justice for their accusers to be able to make, anonymously, public accusations. In Cliff Richard’s case, David Crompton, Chief Constable of South Yorkshire police, has been

fingered himself over his handling of the criminal inquiry. His officers tipped off the BBC about an imminent search of the singer’s Berkshire home - a search that may have been illegal. David Davis, the Tory MP, said the force should not have confirmed Richard’s identity to the BBC: “It lays the process of law and order open to becoming a machinery for injustice.” Geoffrey Robertson QC called for an independent inquiry, accusing the police of “treating Cliff Richard as though he were a bank robber or a mass murderer.” Why were the police searching Richard’s home anyway? The alleged incident took place almost 200 miles away in the 1980s. And we all know how

hard it is to convict someone beyond reasonable doubt decades later. It’s been claimed that so much has been spent investigating historical sexual offence claims that there’s insufficient funding left for current cases. Would the police be pursuing these individuals if they weren’t celebrities? Is there maybe here a bit of envy of the ‘rich and famous’ and the perception that their reputations should be trashed long before the case reaches a courtroom?

Nora Johnson’s thrillers ‘Retribution’, ‘Soul Stealer’, ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.nora-johnson.com) available from Amazon in paperback / eBook (€0.89; £0.77) and iBookstore. Profits to Cudeca.

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OR Sara Stilo of Black Frog Divers in Torrox, Axarquia, there is little foundation to the image of tourists often portrayed in the press. She said: “Regardless of what the tabloids say, I find that both British on holiday and those living here are really great. “The majority are relaxed, easy going and fun loving! They are great people to hang out with and I love their hilarious and unique sense of humour.” Shannon Edwards of Shannon’s Nails and Beauty in Almeria said: “I don’t think you can really generalise. There are good and bad tourists wherever you go but a lot can also depend on the area. Some areas attract different people looking for different scenes and sometimes that contributes to bad behaviour.” Laura Hepburn from Let’s Eat Restaurant in Benimar Commercial Centre on the Costa Blanca felt that a lot of the bad press Brits abroad receive is true. Working in a restaurant she says they regularly see drunken Brits when they lock up: “It’s a bit embarrassing to admit it, but it always seems to be the British you see stumbling around. Sara Stilo However, Laura

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STREET TALK does not think that affects expats living and making a living in Spain: “I don’t think it tars us all with the same brush at all.” Amanda from Amanda’s Restaurant on the sea front in Altea, Costa Blanca, said: “It is just a few Brits that give all of them a bad name.” Having spent years working in Benidorm, she said the town can be home to drunken holidaymakers. “Rules seem to go out of the window in Benidorm and I think all inclusive hotels have a lot to answer for as holidaymakers over indulge and drink too much thinking it is all free. That is also then detrimental to other businesses as people don’t then leave the

hotels and visit local bars and restaurants.” Alan White from Euro Dog on Mijas Costa said: “When the British get bad publicity it’s always the minority letting down the majority. Then we are all unfortunately tarred with the same brush. British expatriates living in Spain are in general a very positive part of the LAURA from Let’s Eat community here.”

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BBC TWO 7:05am Homes Under the Hammer 8:05am Street Patrol UK 8:50am Caught Red Handed 9:20am Fake Britain 10:05am The Men Who Made Us Spend 11:05am Food and Drink 11:35am HARDtalk 12:00pm BBC News 12:30pm World News 1:00pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm The Super League Show 2:45pm Coast

ITV 6:05am The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 12:25pm ITV News 12:30pm This Morning 1:30pm Jo Frost Family Matters 2:30pm ITV News and Weather

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CH5 6:10am House Doctor 6:35am House Doctor 7:00am Milkshake! 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies 1:10pm 5 News 1:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours

TUESDAY TV SKY 1 6:30am Airline USA 7:00am The Real A&E 7:30am The Real A&E 8:00am Futurama 8:30am Futurama 9:00am Futurama 9:30am Futurama 10:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm Hawaii Five-0 1:00pm Hawaii Five-0 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

3pm 3:15pm Celebrity Pressure Pad 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm A Taste of Britain 5:30pm Flog It!

3:00pm Cash in the Attic 3:30pm The Chef's Protege 4:00pm Celebrity MasterChef 4:45pm Nature's Weirdest Events 5:45pm Great British Railway Journeys

3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Tipping Point 5:00pm Who's Doing the Dishes?

6:15pm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 7:00pm Two Tribes 7:30pm Eggheads 8:00pm Young Vets

6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Local News and Weather 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale

9:00pm Tricks of the Trade 10:00pm Super Senses: The Secret Power of Animals 11:00pm QI 11:30pm Newsnight

9:00pm Harry at 30 10:00pm Gems TV 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather

3:10pm Phil Spencer: Secret Agent 4:10pm Countdown 5:00pm Deal or No Deal

4:15pm Do No Harm

3:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:00pm Modern Family 4:30pm Modern Family 5:00pm Futurama 5:30pm Futurama

6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News 8:00pm Cricket on 5

6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Futurama 7:00pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons

9:00pm Cowboy Builders 10:00pm CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

9:00pm The Simpsons 9:30pm The Simpsons 10:00pm There's Something About Mary

3:15pm NCIS A team of special agents, operating outside the military chain of command, must investigate any crime.

6pm 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm EastEnders

6:00pm Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather.

9pm 9:00pm Holby City 10:00pm In the Club 11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News 11:30pm Weather 11:35pm 21 Up New Generation

Round-up of the day's news.

11:40pm Yes or No: The Debate

Comprehensive coverage of the day's important national and international news stories.

9:00pm Dogs: Their Secret Lives 10:00pm Worst Place to be a Pilot 11:00pm Ramsay's Hotel Hell Gordon Ramsay travels across the USA to fix struggling hotels, motels and bed and breakfasts.

An elite team of police forensic evidence investigation experts work their cases in Las Vegas.

11:00pm Celebrity Big Brother

Hilarious slapstick comedy about a man so tormented by memories of a missed high school date with a beautiful girl that he hires a detective to trace her several years later.

12am 12:35am Scrappers Three groups of scrappers from Brooklyn, New York collect and sell scrap metal. 1:05am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather report. 1:10am BBC News

12:20am Hotel India 1:20am The Super League Show 2:05am John Bishop's Australia 3:05am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

1:35am Jackpot 247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA Jeremy Kyle presents the American version of his popular talk show. 4:40am Nightscreen

12:00am Royal Marines Commando School 1:00am Pokerstars.Com PCA 1:55am Hard Knocks 2:50am KOTV Boxing Weekly 3:20am Transworld Sport 4:20am Mobil 1 The Grid 4:45am Ironman 2014 5:15am Ironman 2014 5:40am Gordon Ramsay's Home Cooking

12:05am Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side 1:05am Law and Order: Special Victims Unit 1:55am Super Casino 4:10am Once Upon a Time 5:00am Nick's Quest 5:20am The Great Artists 5:45am House Doctor

12:20am NCIS: Los Angeles 1:20am NCIS: Los Angeles 2:20am Hawaii Five-0 3:10am Hawaii Five-0 4:00am Road Wars 5:00am Stargate Atlantis

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8:00pm World's Craziest Fools 8:30pm World's Craziest Fools 9:00pm Barely Legal Drivers 10:00pm Don't Tell the Bride 11:00pm Sexy Beasts 11:30pm EastEnders 12:00am Family Guy 12:22am Family Guy 12:45am American Dad! 1:07am American Dad! 1:30am Sexy Beasts 2:00am Don't Tell the Bride 3:00am Comedy Fest Live 4:00am Don't Tell the Bride

8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 9:00pm World War I at Home 9:30pm The Secret Life of Books 10:00pm Tales from the Royal Wardrobe with Lucy Worsley 11:00pm The Fruit and Veg Market: Inside New Spitalfields 12:00am Human Planet 1:00am A History of Britain by Simon Schama 2:00am Tales From the National Parks 3:00am World War I at Home 3:30am The Secret Life of Books 4:00am Tales from the Royal Wardrobe with Lucy Worsley

12:25pm Emmerdale 12:55pm Coronation Street 1:25pm Coronation Street 1:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 3:00pm Millionaire Matchmaker 3:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:00pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 6:05pm The Real Housewives of Atlanta 7:00pm Dinner Date 8:00pm You've Been Framed! 8:30pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm The Cube 10:00pm The Matrix 11:00pm FYI Daily 11:05pm The Matrix 12:40am The Job Lot

10:35am Judge Judy 11:00am Judge Judy 11:20am Judge Judy 11:50am Hamish Macbeth 1:00pm Wycliffe 2:05pm Heartbeat 3:05pm The Royal 4:10pm Hamish Macbeth 5:20pm Faith in the Future 5:50pm Never the Twain 6:20pm On the Buses 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Midsomer Murders 11:00pm Trial and Retribution 12:00am Cracker

11:35am The Sweeney 12:35pm Alias Smith and Jones 1:40pm The Professionals 2:45pm Police, Camera, Action! 3:15pm Police, Camera, Action! 3:50pm Kojak 4:50pm Magnum, P.I. 5:50pm The Sweeney 6:55pm Alias Smith and Jones 8:00pm Cycling 9:00pm River Monsters 10:00pm Public Enemies 11:00pm FYI Daily 11:05pm Public Enemies 12:50am Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

4:00pm Melissa and Joey 4:35pm Rules of Engagement 5:00pm The Tomorrow People 6:00pm How I Met Your Mother 6:30pm How I Met Your Mother 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm How I Met Your Mother 9:00pm How I Met Your Mother 9:30pm How I Met Your Mother 10:00pm New Girl 10:30pm The Mindy Project 11:00pm The Big Bang Theory 11:30pm The Big Bang Theory 12:00am Almost Royal

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Drama

SKY MOVIES Action 5:15am The Lost Medallion: The Adventures of Billy Stone 7:00am Any Given Sunday 9:50am The Transporter 11:35am Hulk 2:05pm Gangster Squad 4:10pm Drop Zone 6:05pm The Saint Simon Templar is a debonair master thief with a talent for disguise.

8:15pm The Transporter 10:00pm Hulk 12:25am Gangster Squad 2:25am Drop Zone 4:10am The Saint Simon Templar is a debonair master thief with a talent for disguise.

5:35am The Pink Panther 7:35am Struck by Lightning 9:05am Why Stop Now? 10:40am The Cable Guy 12:20pm Admission 2:10pm Our Idiot Brother 3:45pm Arthur 5:25pm Arthur 2: On the Rocks 7:20pm Syrup 9:00pm Admission 11:00pm Our Idiot Brother 12:45am The Cable Guy Recently dumped Steven just wants peace, quiet and cable entertainment.

2:35am Coffee Town 4:15am Saving Mr. Banks Special 4:45am Conception

4:50am Red Rock West 6:30am Loss of Faith 8:10am Locked in 9:40am Ripley's Game 11:45am Twisted Detective Jessica recognises a murder victim as an old flame.

1:35pm Captain Phillips 4:00pm My Brother the Devil 6:00pm The Chamber 8:00pm Bad Company 10:00pm Captain Phillips 12:15am Scream 2 2:20am Fear 4:00am Murder at 1600 5:50am Angel Flight Down A two-year-old girl with a small object trapped in her throat is flown to Denver hospital.

4:00am Gandhi 7:10am Desk Set 9:00am Love and Honor 10:45am Promised Land 12:40pm Awakenings 2:45pm Love Actually 5:05pm St Elmo's Fire 6:55pm Dangerous Liaisons 9:00pm Love Actually Romcom following the interconnected lives of a group of loved-up, and lovelorn, Londoners.

11:20pm Promised Land 1:15am 42 3:30am The Break-Up Gary and Brooke are blissfully happy together in their Chicago condo.

5:25am Giant

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TCM

6:00am Gravity: Sky Movies Special 6:30am Hugh Jackman: Becoming Wolverine 7:00am Violet and Daisy 8:45am Decoding Annie Parker 10:30am Magic Magic 12:15pm Violet and Daisy 2:00pm The Last Keepers 3:45pm Gravity 5:30pm Magic Magic 7:15pm Decoding Annie Parker 9:00pm Gravity 10:45pm Violet and Daisy 12:30am Magic Magic 2:15am Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zero 4:00am The Last Keepers 5:45am Jack the Giant Slayer Special

9:25am Arctic Flight 10:55am Fort Vengeance 12:20pm The Wild One 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm Tarzan's Savage Fury 5:40pm Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. Gregory Peck stars as a British naval captain during the Napoleonic Wars.

7:55pm The Wrong Man 10:00pm We are Marshall 12:30am Land Raiders 2:25am We are Marshall 4:50am Ed Sullivan Presents: Rock 'N' Roll Revolution: The British Invade America Featuring the best of the British pop stars who found stardom in the US on the Ed Sullivan show.

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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast 10:15am The Housing Enforcers 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Street Patrol UK 12:45pm Caught Red Handed 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather. 2:30pm Regional News All the latest local news. 2:45pm Doctors

BBC TWO 7:00am Homes Under the Hammer 8:00am Street Patrol UK 8:45am Caught Red Handed 9:15am Fake Britain 10:00am Coast 11:00am Scotland Votes: What's at Stake for the UK? 12:00pm BBC News 12:30pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm Fred Dibnah's Building of Britain 2:30pm Climbing Great Buildings

ITV 4:40am Nightscreen 6:05am The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 12:25pm ITV News 12:30pm This Morning 1:30pm Jo Frost Family Matters 2:30pm ITV News and Weather

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CH5 6:10am House Doctor 6:35am House Doctor 7:00am Milkshake! 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Cowboy Builders 1:10pm 5 News 1:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours

SKY 1 6:00am Airline USA 6:30am Airline USA 7:00am The Real A&E 7:30am The Real A&E 8:00am Futurama 8:30am Futurama 9:00am Futurama 9:30am Futurama 10:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm Hawaii Five-0 1:00pm Hawaii Five0 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

3pm 3:00pm Cash in the Attic 3:30pm The Chef's Protege 4:00pm Celebrity MasterChef 4:45pm Nature's Weirdest Events 5:45pm Great British Railway Journeys

3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Tipping Point 5:00pm Who's Doing the Dishes?

3:10pm Phil Spencer: Secret Agent 4:10pm Countdown 5:00pm Deal or No Deal

3:15pm NCIS 4:15pm A Sister's Secret

3:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:00pm Glee 5:00pm Futurama 5:30pm Futurama

6:15pm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 7:00pm Two Tribes 7:30pm Eggheads 8:00pm Young Vets

6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Local News and Weather 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Coronation Street 8:30pm International Football

6:00pm Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News

6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News 8:00pm Ultimate Police Interceptors

6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Futurama 7:00pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons

9:00pm Hotel India 10:00pm Horizon 11:00pm Some Vicars with Jokes 11:30pm Newsnight

11:20pm ITV News at Ten and Weather Round-up of the day's news. Followed by a national weather forecast and the latest news and weather in your region.

9:00pm Sarah Beeny's Double Your House for Half the Money 10:00pm Grand Designs 11:00pm The Gypsy Matchmaker

9:00pm Countdown to Murder 10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother 11:00pm Wentworth

9:00pm Flintoff's Road to Nowhere 10:00pm An Idiot Abroad 11:00pm Glee

12:20am Super Senses: The Secret Power of Animals 1:20am Who Do You Think You Are? 2:20am Doctor Who 3:40am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

12:00am Through the Keyhole 1:00am The Cube 1:55am Jackpot 247 4:00am British Touring Car Championship Highlights 5:15am Nightscreen

12:00am 999: What's Your Emergency? 1:00am Ramsay's Hotel Hell 1:55am Paradise: Hope 3:30am The Ladykillers 5:05am Sarah Beeny's Selling Houses

12:00am Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side 1:00am Celebrity Big Brother 2:00am Super Casino 4:10am Once Upon a Time 5:00am Nick's Quest 5:20am The Great Artists 5:45am House Doctor

12:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 1:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00am Hawaii Five-0 4:00am Hawaii Five-0 5:00am Stargate Atlantis

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8:00pm Top Gear 9:00pm Motorway Cops 10:00pm Live at the Apollo 10:30pm Live at the Apollo 11:00pm Football Fight Club 12:00am Family Guy 12:22am Family Guy 12:45am American Dad! 1:07am American Dad!

8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 9:00pm The Wonder of Animals 9:30pm Beauty of Anatomy 10:00pm Bright Lights, Brilliant Minds: A Tale of Three Cities 11:00pm Wild China 12:00am Dreaming the Impossible: Unbuilt Britain 1:00am Pavlopetri - The City Beneath the Waves 2:00am The Wonder of Animals Ants. Episode 4. 2:30am Beauty of Anatomy 3:00am Wild China 4:00am Bright Lights, Brilliant Minds

12:25pm Emmerdale 1:25pm You've Been Framed! 1:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 3:00pm Millionaire Matchmaker 3:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:00pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 6:05pm The Real Housewives of Atlanta 7:00pm Dinner Date 8:00pm You've Been Framed! 8:30pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm I Don't Know How She Does it 10:00pm FYI Daily 10:05pm I Don't Know How She Does it 10:50pm The Hot Desk 11:00pm American Pie 12:00am FYI Daily

10:35am Judge Judy 11:00am Judge Judy 11:25am Judge Judy 11:50am Hamish Macbeth 1:00pm Wycliffe 2:05pm Heartbeat 3:05pm The Royal 4:05pm Hamish Macbeth 5:15pm Faith in the Future 5:50pm Never the Twain 6:20pm On the Buses 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Lewis 11:00pm Northern Lights 12:00am Cracker

9:05am Police, Camera, Action! 9:40am Kojak 10:40am Magnum, P.I. 11:40am The Sweeney 12:45pm Alias Smith and Jones 1:45pm The Professionals 2:50pm Cycling 3:50pm Kojak 4:55pm Magnum, P.I. 5:55pm The Sweeney 6:55pm Alias Smith and Jones 8:00pm Cycling 9:00pm River Monsters 10:00pm River Monsters 11:00pm Hell on Wheels 12:00am Green Street

2:00pm How I Met Your Mother 2:35pm How I Met Your Mother 3:00pm The Big Bang Theory 3:35pm The Big Bang Theory 4:00pm Melissa and Joey 4:30pm Rules of Engagement 5:00pm The Tomorrow People 6:00pm How I Met Your Mother 6:30pm How I Met Your Mother 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm How I Met Your Mother 9:00pm Big 11:05pm Rude Tube 12:05am Made in Chelsea NYC

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3:15pm Celebrity Pressure Pad 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm A Taste of Britain 5:30pm Flog It!

6pm 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm Fake Britain

Includes sport and weather.

9pm 9:00pm The Great British Bake Off 10:00pm Our Zoo 11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News 11:30pm Weather 11:35pm A Question of Sport

Comprehensive coverage of the day's important national and international news stories.

12am 12:05am Room 101 12:50am The Stepford Wives 2:15am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather report. 2:20am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

Animated adventures of a hapless CIA agent and his family.

1:30am Siblings 2:00am Cuckoo 2:30am Sexy Beasts 3:00am The Human Tissue Squad 4:00am Don't Tell the Bride

SKY MOVIES Action 4:10am The Saint 6:10am In the Line of Duty: Smoke Jumpers 7:45am The Last Samurai 10:20am Pain and Gain 12:35pm Tombstone 2:50pm Anaconda A film crew is hijacked by Sarone, a madman intent on capturing the biggest snake in the Amazon.

4:25pm Dante's Peak 6:20pm The Last Samurai 9:00pm Pain and Gain 11:15pm Django Unchained 2:05am Last Action Hero 4:20am Firewalker Two soldiers of fortune team up with a wealthy stranger to hunt for treasure in a lost Aztec city.

4:45am Conception 6:30am The Lone Ranger Unmasked A look behind the scenes of Disney's liveaction adventure The Lone Ranger, starring Johnny Depp.

7:00am The World's End Special 7:30am Hyde Park on Hudson 9:10am Stand Up Guys 11:00am There's Something About Mary 1:10pm Grumpy Old Men 3:05pm Grumpier Old Men 4:55pm Here Comes the Boom 6:50pm Notting Hill 9:00pm There's Something About Mary 11:05pm Stand Up Guys 12:45am The to Do List 2:35am Scary Movie 3 4:05am Someone Marry Barry 5:35am Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot

5:50am Angel Flight Down 7:25am Eden 9:05am Brake 10:40am The Island 1:00pm The Temp 2:40pm Runner Runner 4:15pm Brake 5:50pm The Island 8:10pm The Lookalike A pair of drug peddlers go in search of a woman to play a crucial part in a deal. Crime.

10:00pm Runner Runner 11:35pm Scream 3 1:35am American Psycho 3:25am Single White Female 5:25am Deep Family Secrets

5:25am Giant 8:45am Battle of the Year 10:40am Tootsie 12:40pm Best Man Down 2:15pm 50 First Dates 4:00pm Sense and Sensibility Elinor is pragmatic and ironic, while younger Marianne is more passionate and wilful.

6:20pm Les Miserables 9:00pm New Year's Eve 11:00pm 50 First Dates 12:50am Surviving Christmas At Christmas, rich loser Drew takes a nostalgic trip out to his old family house.

2:30am Cherry 4:20am Sense and Sensibility Elinor is pragmatic and ironic, while younger Marianne is more passionate and wilful.

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TCM

6:00am Henry Cavill: Becoming Superman 6:30am Gravity: Sky Movies Special 7:00am Violet and Daisy 8:45am Decoding Annie Parker 10:30am Magic Magic 12:15pm Violet and Daisy 2:00pm The Last Keepers 3:45pm Magic Magic 5:30pm Gravity 7:15pm Decoding Annie Parker 9:00pm Gravity 10:45pm Violet and Daisy 12:30am Magic Magic 2:15am Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zero 4:00am The Last Keepers

9:40am Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

A teenage outcast discovers that - like the rest of her family - she has extraordinary powers.

5:45am The Internship Special

Gregory Peck stars as a British naval captain during the Napoleonic Wars. Historically accurate drama co-starring Virginia Mayo.

11:45am The Wrong Man 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm Tarzan's Greatest Adventure 5:40pm Band of Angels 8:05pm Hell Bent for Glory 10:00pm Nowhere to Run 11:55pm Menace II Society 1:45am Nowhere to Run 3:40am Menace II Society 5:15am Off Set Actor Michael Douglas talks frankly about Hollywood, his award-laden career, and relationships with his father and his wife.

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LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) Getting a romantic situation wrong could cause a humourous moment this weekend. I am not telling you this so you can avoid it. You could do with a good laugh right now. Planning ahead is your preferred method but sometimes it is the last-minute decision that brings the best results. SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) The thing that you have to tackle this week is uppermost in your mind, but don't dwell on it. Write it down and what you intend doing about it, then put it away. Relax and get on with other things. When you do come to take it out again and face the situation it will be so much easier. SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) Imposing restrictions on someone else also imposes restrictions on you. Why? Well, you have to hang around and see that your wishes are followed and take further action if they are not. Wouldn't it be easier to find some kind of compromise? CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Avoid getting involved in other people's arguments. There is no way that you can come out a winner if you do. Taking a step backwards is sometimes the best thing. You have been down this path before, and did your intervention do any good? Go and trim the roses or sort out those rockery stones instead. AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) The need to be popular midweek could see you veer off track on a business matter. You have been warned and will be able to avoid it if you wish. Do not under- estimate how much hassle a wrong move could cause you. On the domestic front, you are able to fully relax and enjoy good company.

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 Bundle, 2 Deeper, 3 Caught, 4 Prefer, 5 Arenas, 6 Sought, 7 Bearer, 8 Cheers, 9 Neatly, 10 Barked, 11 Degree, 12 Tilted, 13 Perked, 14 Follow, 15 Luster, 16 Peered, 17 Poison, 18 Curled, 19 Devour

IF IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK: Taking a more forceful approach with an authority figure will work only in short bursts. Nagging on and on won't, but you do need to get your point across. August 28: Jack Black, 45. Film actor. This actor, comedian, voice artist, producer and musician was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor for his role in School of Rock. He also co-founded the band Tenacious D.

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September 1: Barry Gibb, 68. Singer. He and his brothers, Robin and Maurice, formed the classic disco group the Bee Gees. They sang hits like Staying Alive and How Deep is Your Love.

August 29: Chris Hadfield, 55. Astronaut. This Canadian astronaut gained a huge fan base on social media sites by posting prolifically from space. He also sang the David Bowie hit Space Oddity, in space therefore making him a legend. August 30: Cameron Diaz, 42. Film actress. Diaz shot to fame for her role in There’s Something About Mary and The Mask. Before that she modelled for Calvin Klein.

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VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) You are very much in two minds about how to deal with a personal situation. Ask yourself which approach will help and which will do nothing. Although you want to shout at someone and feel negative at times, hold fire.

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SET five years after the first film (2010), the Viking village of Berk has buried the hatchet with dragons, who now peacefully live among villagers as pets and working animals. Son of the Viking Chief and his best friend Toothless spend their days exploring new worlds. One day, they discover a secret ice cave with a herd of wild dragons led by an enigmatic dragon rider and find themselves in a race against time to keep the peace in their kingdom. Directed by Dean DeBlois, stars Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett and Gerard Butler. Run time 102 minutes, rated PG.

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August 31: Pablo Motos. Television presenter. Motos is perhaps best known for his current show El Hormiguero in which he interviews visiting celebrities. He got his start in show business on the radio and won a Microfono de Oro in 2007 for his work.

September 2: Salma Hayek, 48. Film actress. This Mexican actress gave a memorable performance as Frida Kahlo in the 2002 film about the painter’s life. She supplied the voice for Kitty Softpaws in Puss in Boots. September 3: Charlie Sheen, 49. Television actor. Before infamy for drugs and general bad behaviour Sheen starred in the hit show Two and a Half Men. He is the highest paid actor on television.

PISCES (February 20 - March 20) As someone is not showing the required amount of interest in your activities, you need a plan. Telephoning them and pointing out what you have achieved is one way, but it's not cool. Getting a few people together and using someone else to blow your trumpet for you is better.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) By using your intuition midweek, you will be able to solve a small problem at the weekend. Thinking ahead sometimes seems a waste of time to you because circumstances have a way of changing, but it makes sense to put in a bit of extra effort if you are able to avoid aggravation.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) A business colleague may be less than honest with you. When it is a small matter you are used to them bending the truth. This is not, however, something that you will want to let go by, so stay on your toes. On the home front, you tend to be snappy with loved ones because you are feeling stressed.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20) Having been dashing about like a mad thing, you find this week a refreshing change. Only when you slow down do you realise how much you have been doing and just how tired you have become. There are some social engagements that you would not miss for the world, however.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) A mistake seems a small thing until someone notices it. Although you feel that they are making a mountain out of a molehill, it still leaves a nasty feeling. Get out and do something completely different at the weekend. Not only will it blow the cobwebs away, but it will also put in perspective any negative thoughts.

LEO (July 24 - August 23) Looking for answers? They are there if only you go to the right source. There is no 'quick fix' this week and you need to delve deeper to get the information you need. It will be tempting to take a short cut but,believe me, it will not be worth the hassle in the longer term. Once you have the right facts you are truly in charge of what happens next.

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1. Deep, Around the World, Steam and Stay Another Day were all UK Top 10 hit singles for which English pop boyband? 2. Deepdale is the home ground of which League One football team? 3. In boxing, what name is given to the stance where the fighter has his right hand and right foot forward, leading with right jabs and following with a left cross right hook? 4. What is the name of the 20 metres (66 ft) tall contemporary sculpture, designed by Antony Gormley, which is located in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear? 5. What is the name of the former US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel who was a National Security Council staff member during the political scandal of the late 1980s known as the Iran–Contra affair? 6. What was the name of the American singer-songwriter and guitarist who won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1970 for Games People Play and was again nominated for the award in 1972 for Rose Garden? 7. Which 1955 film, directed by Elia Kazan, loosely based on a 1952 John Steinbeck novel, starred American actor James Dean in his first major screen role? 8. Which American actor played the title role in the 1960s live action television series Batman? 9. Which American adult animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, follows the exploits of four boys, Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman and Kenny McCormick? 10. Which Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim musical, first produced on Broadway in 1957, was inspired by William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

Nonagram 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 M) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION abet, able, abut, bale, bare, bate, bear, beat, beau, beep, beer, beet, belt, beta, blat, blue, blur, brae, brat, brut, burl, burp, lube, pleb, rube, tabu, tuba, tube, abler, baler, beaut, beret, betel, blare, blear, bleat, bleep, bluer, blurt, brute, buret, plebe, rebel, rebut, ruble, table, tubal, tuber, abrupt, beater, berate, brutal, burlap, butler, rebate, treble, upbeat, retable, pubertal, REPUTABLE

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Move from the start word (ROCK) to the end word (SALT) in the same number of steps as there are rungs on the Word Ladder. You must only change one letter at a time.

ROCK SOCK SICK SILK SILT SALT

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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 (JUMPED) and one letter in four other cells are given as clues.

1. EAST 17, 2. Preston NORTH End, 3. SOUTH Paw, 4. Angel of the NORTH, 5. Oliver NORTH, 6. Joe SOUTH, 7. EAST of Eden, 8. Adam WEST, 9. SOUTH Park, 10. WEST Side Story.

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Unscramble the name of a top British athlete: I’M A MILD AGE Unscramble the name of a woodwind instrument (two words): SO CAN A GIRL

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LONG DEW papers (7) 5 Sack the Spanish roll (5) 6 Fights cases (5) 9 Tongue-in-cheek advice to enter cast (5,1,3) 14 Churchman, the Queen and the journalist admired (7) 15 Dresser for a group of

ministers (7) 16 See Lear another way, free (7) 19 It's rowdy in Hanoi's youth area (5) 20 Went out with old hat (5) 21 Virginia allowed a manservant (5)

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Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 6 represents H and 23 represents Z, so fill in H every time the figure 6 appears and Z every time the figure 23 appears. Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.

Across 1 Investigate thoroughly (8) 5 Blemish (4) 9 Once more (5) 10 Most profound (7) 11 Aged (3) 12 Cheerful (5) 13 Commerce (5) 14 Gets rid of (5) 17 Slender (4) 19 Retained (4) 21 Having a sharp inclination (5) 24 Moving very fast (5) 25 Have sovereign power (5) 27 Green vegetable (3) 28 Ape (7) 29 Perfection (5) 30 Replete (4) 31 Accentuated (8)

Down 1 Attains (7) 2 Clearly detailed (5) 3 Irritate (6) 4 Hug (6) 6 Get ready (7) 7 Name of a book (5) 8 Monies owed (5) 15 Head covering (3) 16 Outstanding (3) 18 Occurring at the beginning (7) 20 In a confused mass (7) 21 Vapour (5) 22 Anticipate (6) 23 Express approval of (6) 24 Rigidly formal (5) 26 Thoughts (5)

English - Spanish The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English.

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Down 1 Locates exotic milk sugar (7) 2 Upright chalet I built (7) 3 Fashionable to be covered in fat? That's hard to see (5) 4 Tramp, one in collection of

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FUNAGRAM SOLUTION: ADAM GEMILI, COR ANGLAIS

Across 7 Fast rally reveals star-like qualities (6) 8 Thomas to include a fruit (6) 10 Diluting agent is less thick (7) 11 Material moved to and fro, so we hear (5) 12 Pot's turned over for card game (4) 13 Prepared meals for a Massachusetts seaport (5) 17 Elgar composition revised to be fit for royalty (5) 18 Go South for beer at a special price (4) 22 Make a speech with nothing but speed (5) 23 Spain's victory, as I've read is hard to pin down (7) 24 Gymnastic events for Spielberg, perhaps (6) 25 Cuts and rewrites verses (6)

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC Across: 1 Pass, 4 Scale, 9 Okapi, 10 Abolish, 11 Element, 12 Tiers, 13 Abroad, 15 Berate, 18 Skate, 20 Listens, 23 Narrate, 24 Abide, 25 Diets, 26 Scab. Down: 2 Amateur, 3 Seine, 4 Scanty, 5 Apostle, 6 Exile, 7 Bone, 8 Chaste, 13 Absent, 14 Average, 16 America, 17 Aliens, 19 Acrid, 21 Slaps, 22 Sees. QUICK Across: 1 Plasma, 5 Bebops, 8 Data, 9 Sinister, 10 Debris, 11 Packet, 12 Grow, 14 All, 15 Hide, 16 Upbeat, 18 Rarely, 20 Carefree, 22 Envy, 23 Rested, 24 Resist.

Across 1 Buildings (houses, offices etc) (9) 8 They (emphatic, to avoid ambiguity) (5) 9 Button (on garment, machine) (5) 11 Herramienta (4) 12 Bull (farm animal) (4) 14 Blue (4) 16 Helados (4) 19 Clear (5) 21 Both (5) 22 Pillows (9)

Down 2 Pain (in body) (5) 3 Puño (4) 4 Bucket (pail) (4) 5 Afuera (3) 6 Lechuga (7) 7 Inglés (7) 10 Wave (3) 13 To hear (3) 15 Cebra (5) 17 Elbow (4) 18 Room (in a house) (4) 20 Todo (en su totalidad) (3)

Down: 2 Leave, 3 Sparrow, 4 Assistant, 5 Bin, 6 Basic, 7 Pretend, 11 Polar bear, 13 Replace, 15 Harness, 17 Erect, 19 Lives, 21 Red. ENGLISH-SPANISH Across: 1 Syrup, 4 Depth, 7 Aun, 8 Aceptar, 9 Religioso, 13 Alcalde, 15 Ajo, 16 Tiles, 17 Susto. Down: 1 Seas, 2 Rinse, 3 Platillos, 4 Dieciseis, 5 Pet, 6 Harm, 10 Seals, 11 Last, 12 Pozo, 14 Col.

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TEN ODD FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT TRAFFIC A TRAFFIC jam can ruin anyone’s day, especially when there seems to be no need for it, so here are a few facts to help you understand what is going wrong. 1. The way we merge makes a big difference When most people have to merge into traffic on another road, or lane, they first brake and then speed up to merge into traffic. According to the Minnesota Department of Transportation that is wrong. We should wait until the last moment and then change lanes quickly with no slowing or speeding up so as not to confuse other drivers and make them brake. 2. Summertime and accidents The hour change isn’t just annoying it’s the most dangerous time to be on the road. The period of adjustment that follows the change increases the rate of accidents by around 16 per cent.

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where they solved nothing but they tried much like the modern world of conferences. 6. Parking meters were designed to control traffic flow Most cities weren’t designed with the car in mind and, as such, the car messed them up. The solution was to find somewhere for all the cars to get off the road and stop messing up the flow: the traffic meter was born to discourage drivers from leaving their cars in one place for the whole day.

expatriates. Hosseini is also the author of The Kite Runner (2003) on which the 2007 eponymous American drama film is based.

7. Billboards change the way people drive Studies at the Institute for Road Safety of the Netherlands have shown, unsurprisingly, that drivers spend more time looking at the board than at the road. They also found that people remembered the last billboard they had seen more clearly than the last traffic sign. 8. Finland has a sliding scale ticket system Police in Finland ticket a speeding driver not related to the speed but related to their income - they tap directly into the national tax register and fine the driver accordingly.

3. You are causing the traffic jams Researchers at the University of Exeter have found that just one person braking can have a massive effect on the traffic around them. Braking has a domino effect and carries through to around 15 cars - all slowing down for no reason. 4. Traffic jams created modern city layouts Long ago, cities sprang up around a single centre like a river but, in modern times, cities are becoming sprawling masses with several districts due to businesses establishing themselves on the outskirts so that customers can reach them easily and park.

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9. More lanes don’t always mean less traffic The amount of traffic on a newly expanded road usually goes up due to people’s impression that it will be faster unfortunately everyone has the same impression.

TRAFFIC JAMS: One person braking can have a domino effect. 5. Horse manure Traffic pollution is not a new problem. In the late 1800’s London was almost buried

Sudoku 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.

beneath horse manure, as all the traffic was horse-drawn, and this prompted the first international urban planning conference -

10. Traffic mimics the behaviour patterns of bacteria and slime mould Researchers at the University of Tokyo found that if they placed bacteria on a ridged road map it would follow the streets and motorways in the same way as human drivers do - even getting into traffic jams.

Boggled How many English words can you find in the Boggled grid, according to the following rules? The letters must be adjoining in a ‘chain’. They can be adjacent horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Words must contain at least four letters and may include singular and plural or other derived forms. No letter may be used more than once within a single word, unless it appears twice. No vulgarities or proper nouns are permitted.

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Average: 18

Just Joking Question: What did one toilet roll say to the other toilet roll? Answer: “People keep on ripping me off!” Q: What says “Eoo?” A: A cow with no lips. What goes up and down stairs without moving? Carpet.

Good: 23 Very good: 33 Excellent: 40

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4 letters: 1 point • 5 letters: 2 points 6 letters: 3 points • 7 letters: 4 points 8 or more letters: 11 points

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION aerate, unseat, user, taus, teas, tear, teat, text, treat, tare, tares, tart, taxes, taxer, tater, etas, eras, eater, exert, sate, sung, suet, snug, seat, sera, sere, sear, sextet, guns, gnus, gate, rate, rates, area, areas, ares, axes, ague, attar, tease, teaser, erase, ease, tags, tetra, tetras

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GREEK YOGHURT: Its popularity is on the increase in the UK. GREEK yoghurt - the thicker and more protein-packed version of yoghurt - has been everywhere lately. This type of fermented milk product, strained to remove whey, is on the rise in the UK. In fact, Greek and Greek-style yoghurt is the fastest growing sector of the UK yoghurt market. The delicious cultured food was originally made in England by immigrants such as the founders of Timâ€™s Dairy. The business, which still exists, is currently run by four brothers whose Greek Cypriot uncle started making yoghurt in a small London workshop in 1949, and now makes up to 10,000 litres of Greek-style yoghurt a day. But hereâ€™s a new dollop of truth that might sour your taste buds: when Greek yoghurt gets strained, it leaves a waste product called acid whey, a liquid substance consisting of water, lactose, protein and yoghurt cultures. Modern farmers reports that whey acid is so environmentally toxic that it is illegal to dump it. Once it gets into the waterways, it consumes so much oxygen that aquatic life significantly dies off.

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AGILITY most of you have seen on the television. This is where dogs run through tunnels and go over jumps and weave in and around poles. What can you expect to see? Jumps, hurdles, long jumps, weaving poles and a three metre ‘A’ frame. No agility course would be complete without the tyre hoop, the famous tunnel and seesaw. The equipment is made to

the highest safety standard and to Kennel Club Specification. Can any dog do this? Yes and all breeds and sizes provided the dog does not have a physical disability, such as hip dysplasia, and is not overweight. It is not fair to jump a fat dog. If you have any doubt about the fitness of your dog then seek advice from your vet. Is there an age limit for the dog or owner? Children are most welcome to bring their pets. There is no age limit for dogs and pups are encouraged for the tunnel work, see-saw and dog walk plank. Of course heelwork, sit, down stays, send-away is part of the lessons as is walking the dog off leash on the left or right.

Equipment for dog and handler The most important thing is good footwear, shoes that you can run in and have a good grip. Also wear clothes you can run in comfortably I recommend trousers for the ladies. For the dog, although an ordinary check collar or half check are both good for heelwork practice, these are not suitable for agility. The correct collar is a leather or webbed buckle collar. Leads should be fairly long and made of leather, nylon or rope, not of chain, which can get caught up in the jumps. Next week I will tell you a little about training your pet for agility.

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In making an appointment you should specify it is for a second opinion because it will take time to process the available information. The second opinion might be exactly the same as the first. There might be other, newer approaches to the problem as to diagnosis or treatments. Sometimes it just needs a fresh look at the whole situation. Maybe it needs your own language to understand what exactly is going on. It gets complicated when the first opinion and the second opinion

contradict each other. Be problems and solutions very careful because you are discussed. Although it will give you a lot of are tempted to information, it follow the second opinion because The internet can also make you doubted can be used itconfusing very for the first one to as a second you. begin with. If your dog My advice opinion would be to get a sneezes it does third opinion and not mean he has a then go for the option on tumour in the nose! which two of them I wish you all a (mostly) agree. wonderful summer and Nowadays the internet remember: Don’t COOK is often used as a second your dog. By Nazli, of Pointer opinion. Most veterinary sites offer information Veteniary clinic, Estepona. and there are many Tel. 952 80 41 65. www.pointerclinic.com forums on which

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Tools from 3D printer make car manufacturing easier at Opel FOR some, it may still seem like a long way off, but it’s already part of everyday life at Opel: assembly tools produced by a 3D printer are an increasingly important part of the production process. A six-strong team led by Virtual Simulation Engineer Sascha Holl prints plastic assembly tools in Rüsselsheim which are used in Opel manufacturing plants across Europe. Cheaper and quicker to produce, these tools are being used at Eisenach for the assembly of the Adam and its new Adam Rocks stable-mate. And this is just the beginning - Opel experts predict the use of tools from a 3D printer will continue to grow. “In the future, more and more 3D assembly tools will be integrated into the production process,” says Sascha Holl. For production of the Adam Rocks, to be

launched in September, the Eisenach carmakers use an assembly jig - a specific, fixed frame made by a 3D printer to produce the vehicle name logotype on the side window. And for the windshield, a 3D-printed inlet guide is also used to simplify the mounting process and help ensure a precise alignment. Other tools from the printer are used to fasten the chrome step plate on Adam Rocks door openings and install the standard Swing Top canvas roof. Around 40 such assembly aids and jigs are used in Eisenach. This equipment was developed on the computer during the development phase of Adam Rocks. “It enables us to quickly adapt the parts. If something changes on the vehicle, we can easily modify the tool with just a few clicks,” explains Holl.

3D PRINTING: Already part of everyday life at Opel. “The 3D printing process enables us to produce every imaginable form and shape. Unlike conventional manufacturing technology, we don’t have to accept any limitations.” The Virtual Engineering Team in Rüsselsheim only has to reach into their bag of tricks when it comes to the maximum size of parts built. Using sophisticated

technology to join a number of smaller elements, it is possible to produce larger parts. For instance, when developing an assembly aid for the side sill or rear spoiler of Adam Rocks. During 3D printing, plastic is melted and laid down in successive layers, each just 0.25 mm thick. The plastic used is light,

robust and versatile. Hollow spaces and overhangs are automatically treated with a filling material, which is later washed away in a type of dishwasher. “The process is comparable to bridge or balustrade construction,” says Holl. “There high or protruding elements must also be shored up and supported

until everything has hardened off. Only then is the supporting framework removed.” The small number of jigs required in final assembly was previously made by hand in an elaborate process using a milled cast and resin. Thanks to 3D printing, the production cost of these aids is now reduced by up to 90 per cent. In addition, the printed tools are ready to use after just about eight hours, and are up to 70 per cent lighter in weight. Another advantage is that these aids can be mechanically and chemically processed. For example, they can be drilled, milled, sanded, varnished and bonded, or connected and combined with various other materials. Ergonomic finetuning can also be carried out on a PC in a matter of minutes. “We can adapt the tools for each assembly situation, as well as make them userfriendly for our colleagues on the line,” adds Holl.

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Customers will be able to buy it from October with a price tag that starts at €112,200 in Spain. “The new S500 plug-in hybrid offers our customers the entire range of innovations that make our new S-Class so successful, and thanks to its intelligent operating strategy ensures outstanding driving pleasure and dynamism combined with the highest efficiency. “Moreover, it allows completely emission-free

driving for up to 33km,” said Ola Källenius, Executive Vice-President for Sales at Mercedes-Benz Cars. “The S500 plug-in hybrid is the first luxury saloon with the performance of a V8 and the fuel consumption of a compact model. “The greatest challenge in this is to translate highest efficiency into superior performance “In this respect there is a highly interesting parallel

with our successful Formula 1 racing car, which likewise has a turbocharged V6 engine and hybrid drive,” added Prof. Dr. Thomas Weber, member of the Daimler AG Executive Board responsible for corporate research and Mercedes-Benz Cars Development. The car offers a system output of 325 kW and 650 Nm torque, and in just 5.2 seconds sprints from 0 to 100 km/h and can drive up to 33km purely electrically.

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Best score comes from guest player THE Members Golf Society visited Font del Llop. There are five Par three’s on this course and bottles of wine, donated by Steve McGuinness were handed out to Vernon Brown, Chris Bellman, Paul Fairclough, Simon Lee and Steve Higgins. The Best Guest award went to Scandinavian K Krog with an excellent 40 points which was the best score on the day. In the Silver Division, it only needed 29 points for Roger Nilsen to claim fourth spot, Alex Goslan lost out to Mick Kennedy on the count back for third and second placing’s, but way out in front was Ole Rong with 38 points. The Gold lads didn’t fare much better and it only needed 32 points from the Captain and ViceCaptain to take fourth and third spots with Steve Higgins being beaten on the count back system by John Eyre. In second place, and only one point better was Alan Rixson with 33 points and this left Vernon Brown out on his own with a fine 37 points.

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FOOTBALL - It’s been League Cup 2nd round action this week and among the ties already played have been Aston Villa-Leyton Orient, BirminghamSunderland, Bradford CityLeeds, Burton Albion-QPR, Gillingham-Newcastle, MK Dons-Manchester United and Walsall-Crystal Palace. This evening Spurs (2-1 up) meet ASL Limasol and Hull (1-0 down) play Lokeren in the return legs of their Europa League qualifying matches. And on Saturday and Sunday it’s back to the Premiership, with plenty of big games including Burnley-Manchester United, Everton-Chelsea, Leicester-Arsenal, Liverpool-Tottenham and Manchester City-Stoke. The pick of the Championship fixtures are Blackburn-Wolves, Brighton-Charlton, DerbyIpswich, MiddlesbroughReading and Sheffield Wednesday-Nottingham Forest; PNE play Sheffield United in FL1 and it’s Portsmouth-Newport and AFC WimbledonStevenage in FL2. Meanwhile, Chelsea (2-0 winners over Leicester), top-of-the-table Spurs (4-0 victors over QPR) and Swansea (who beat Burnley 1-0) all have 100 per-cent records in the Premiership. Below-par Manchester United drew 11 at Sunderland, Arsenal scored twice in the last 10

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minutes to draw 2-2 at Everton, West Ham won 3-1 at Palace and there were draws for WBA at Southampton, Newcastle at Villa Park and Stoke at Hull while Manchester City played Liverpool on Monday. In-form Nottingham Forest lead the Championship; Fleetwood Town and Morecambe top Leagues 1 & 2 and Inverness Caledonian Thistle (1-0 winners over Celtic) head the SPL.

Belgian Grand Prix at Spa. Nico Rosberg (booed on the podium after ‘deliberately’ clipping Lewis Hamilton’s car on lap two - which effectively ended the Mercedes race) was second and Valtteri Bottas third. Rosberg leads the driver’s championship by 29 points from Hamilton (220-191). Sixteen of the 23 drivers have gained points this season. * The next Grand Prix takes place in Italy on September 7.

SOCCER SHORTS Atletico Madrid beat Real Madrid 2-1 on aggregate to win Spain’s Super Cup... Lionel Messi scored twice in Barcelona’s 3-0 opening day La Liga win over Elche... Cameroon striker Albert Ebosse (24) has died in hospital after being struck by an object thrown during a game in Algeria.... the summer transfer window closes on Monday with over £800m (€100.2 m) changing hands!... WBA have signed FC Porto winger Silvestre Varela on loan and by now Manchester United may have recruited Angel Di Maria for £75m (€93.8m) from Real Madrid.

CRICKET Congratulations to Birmingham Bears (Warwickshire) who won their first T20 Bash title by beating Freddie Flintoff’s Lancashire by four runs (181-5 against 177-8) in the final at Edgbaston last Saturday.

FORMULA 1 - Last Sunday, Red Bull registered their 50th Grand Prix victory when Aussie Daniel Ricciardo won the

RUGBY LEAGUE - After suffering six defeats since 2000, Leeds Rhinos finally won the Challenge Cup, beating Castleford Tigers 23-10 at Wembley. His was the Rhino’s first triumph for 15 years and their 12th overall. Only Wigan have won the Cup more times. ATHLETICS - Double world, Olympic and European champion Mo Farah beat the European two-mile record while Lynsey Sharp eclipsed a top field - including Kenya’s

world champion Eunice Sum - to claim victory in the women’s 800m at the recent Diamond League meeting at Birmingham.

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TENNIS - Andy Murray says he is in the best physical condition of the year as he prepares to try and win a second US Open title which started at Flushing Meadows, New York on Monday. Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams are the top seeds.

HARTLEPOOL United is the only football club of the 92 based in the Premiership, Championship and Leagues One or Two, which does not have a player from outside the UK on its books. The ‘Pool,’ managed by Colin Cooper, has 18 professionals.

GOLF - Jamie Donaldson won the Czech Open to qualify for Europe’s Ryder Cup team. The eagerlyawaited clash with the UA

starts on September 23 at Gleneagales.

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Belgian F1 Nico Rosberg (booed on the podium after ‘deliberately’ clipping Lewis Hamilton’s car on lap two) was second and Valterri Bottas third. TO READ MORE VISIT OUR WEBSITE: WWW.EUROWEEKLYNEWS.COM

San Javier golfers play at la Serena SAN JAVIER GS played at La Serena which was in great order. They played a medalford and had a good turn out on a very hot day. The winner was Barry Beale with a score of 15 points followed very closely by Dave Archer (16) with Mick Hardy (18) in third. Dave Archer came in with the best front nine score of a net 32 and Barry had the best back nine scoring 21pts. The nearest the pins was a Barry Beale gift day winning three of the four holes with Lillian Pilkington winning the other. The next Society’s game is on Monday, September 1 at La Serena for an individual stableford competition.

WINNERS: Played at La Serena which was in good condition.