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Calls to be monitored SAN JUAN’s Town Hall is recording all telephone calls to discourage false alarms. This puts the local authority on an equal footing with its European counterparts, the town hall said.
All lit up JAVEA’S Soler Blasco museum has been equipped with new LED floodlighting. The original 17th century building was once the home of Antonio Banyuls, steward to King Felipe III.
New look THE €240,000 remodelling of Altea’s main shopping street, Avenida Jaume I, begins in January. Pavements will be widened, with cars now parking parallel instead of at an angle.
Icy depths RESTORATION has begun on the 17th century Cava Gran in Agres, originally built to store ice 12 metres below ground.
Hotel price war great news for tourists A PRICE war means that some tourists heading for Benidorm are having to pay less for their hotel rooms than pensioners on statesubsidised schemes. Some agencies are offering rates for Benidorm hotels at just €19, even lower than the €22 per person per day rate by Imserso, the cheap winter travel scheme aimed at pensioners.
This is good news for tourists looking for a cheap break as hotels have slashed prices to rock bottom, looking to entice customers during the winter. Hotels have to decide whether to take the lower rates to guarantee custom and keep employees busy or to close until the summer. The news comes as the Costa Blanca was being represented at
the World Travel Market in London, which resulted in moderate optimism about demand for the province in 2015. With tour operators wanting to book beds, but without the guarantee of subsequent occupation and therefore payment, hotels are weighing up the risk of committing to operators or selling direct to tourists.
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THE InTempo apartment block, Benidorm’s tallest building, has huge problems. The 47-storey tower is 94 per cent finished, but its promoters Olga Urbana are deep in debt and burdened with a €93 million loan from the now-extinct Caixa Galicia. This was a toxic asset acquired by Spain’s ‘bad bank’ Sareb which has decided that Olga Urbana should start bankruptcy proceedings. Last July, Sareb sources admitted that the only way to recoup the loan was by finishing the building. This is not the property of Sareb, the same sources stressed, but Olga Urbana. Given the company’s insolvency, demonstrated by its unpaid debts and inability to continue construction, bankruptcy proceedings would enable a judicial review of the company’s financial position, Sareb insiders said. It would also assess the viability of the company and the project itself. Nor are all InTempo’s problems exclusively financial as the 200-metre
UNFINISHED: InTempo, Europe’s tallest residential building. building is not equipped with the aircraft warning lights required for all
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No early closing SAN VICENTE shops will stay open on Saturday afternoons throughout December. This should boost sales and encourage residents to shop nearer home, said the local Asociacion de Comerciantes.
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No more eating mushrooms A VILLENA couple almost died after eating poisonous mushrooms they had picked in the fields. Forty-six-year old Jose Maria Paya has now recovered, but only after a spell in Intensive Care and a total of two weeks in hospital. His wife Teresa Alpañes, who ate fewer mushrooms, but was even more
seriously affected, had to remain a week longer in hospital. Paya and his wife raise goats and between them they have an encyclopaedic knowledge of the countryside, but still mistook the poisonous Lepiota brunneoincarnata or ‘deadly dapperling’ for the mushrooms known as ‘morenas’ that they have picked and eaten all their lives.
They closely resemble each other and both were growing side by side, Paya recalled. “I’ll pick and eat mushrooms again but not this year. “Mushrooms are over for me and for the time being I don’t even want to look at them,” said Paya who at one point was warned that he might need a liver transplant.
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Telling porkies AN Alicante woman faces prison after claiming that her ex-husband did not pay her allowance. He had actually paid more than required, and the excess was officially deducted from subsequent payments.
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It all adds up SECONDARY school teachers opposed moves to ban the scientific calculators that replaced slide rules from university entrance exams. This amounts to changing the rules after the game starts, they complaimed.
Tram collision A CAR ran into a tram on the Alicante City - San Vicente line. No-one was hurt during the incident which occurred when the motorist ignored a traffic light.
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Back on the list DENIA Town Hall suspended construction permits for sites of important local buildings erroneously divested of protected status. At least 26 buildings are at risk, the Opposition party claimed.
Run, rabbit, run THE Environment department confirmed Villena, Novelda, Monforte del Cid, Agost, Beneixama and Banyeres are plagued by rabbits. Farmers may apply for financial aid and also trap or kill them.
GANDIA’S mayor pledged to insist on free parking at the new Francisco de Borja hospital. The regional government intends to privatise the service to offset the new centre’s increased cost.
Flying high MOST TALENTED: The Madrid International Dance Festival.
Quote of the Week It is bizarre we are even contemplating paying this. Bullfighting is the last thing in the world we should be subsidising,’ said Labour MP Sir Alan Meale, who believes British taxpayers should not pay £13.5 million (€17 million) to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
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improvisation to dance theatre. Not only does the festival feature a huge array of dance performances almost nightly, there will be various workshops for professionals and amateurs to learn new techniques from the best dancers and choreographers the world has to offer. Twenty-three dance companies from Canada, Belgium, Monaco, Germany, Holland, France and Morocco will join 15 Spanish companies for this explosion of dance in the capital. There is something for everyone to get their teeth into during the festival. S
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ADRID will become the dance capital of the world for the month of November as it plays host to one of the most prestigious international dance festivals. The 29th Madrid International Dance Festival will see some of the world’s best dancers from the most talented dance companies globally, take to the stage at various venues around the Spanish capital. One of the highlights of the annual dance calendar, the Madrid International Dance Festival features a wide range of diversity in dancing styles: from flamenco to contemporary and from contact-
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Addicts helped THE Red Cross attended to 1,811 people at its Alicante City methadone centre. The centre, which opened 25 years ago, gives social and psychological support to those with addiction problems.
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Olive woes DROUGHT reduced the El Comtat olive crop by 50 per cent to eight million kilos this season. Trees are damaged and next year’s production could be worse, growers predicted. Off-putting THE number of students at Alicante and Elche universities fell by 1,300 last year. Academic sources blamed stricter requirements for grants and higher registration fees.
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per cent is the number of Catalans who voted for independence from Spain in a mock poll that was held over the weekend. More than 1.6 million people voted that the Catalonia region should separate from Spain.
TEULADA-MORAIRA allocated €40,000 from the town hall budget to promote the town in airline magazines. Each publication reaches an estimated two million travellers from Germany, France, Norway, Denmark and Switzerland.
All settled JIJONA and Campello town halls will have the healthiest accounts in the Alacanti area after paying off loans next month. Campello will be the only large town with zero debt.
Cruel bait FOOD laced with nails found in Alcoy parks and plazas was probably intended for dogs, police said. Vigilance has been stepped up but so far no vets have reported cases.
And finally... A Spanish television crew were the first to film people crossing from East to West Berlin on the night the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. The TVE crew were filming when an East German border guard opened a gate amidst confusion about orders. The Spanish crew captured the first images of East Berliners crossing to the West.
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More cases of Legionnaires reported in Alcoy AT the last count there were 11 cases of Legionnaires’ disease in Alcoy. The latest case involved a patient whose condition was not serious and did not need to be admitted to hospital, the Regional Health department confirmed. Only three people
are receiving treatment at the town’s Virgen de los Lirios hospital and are responding well, the department announced. All are elderly and one normally lives in a geriatric home. This is only a minor outbreak compared with those elsewhere
in Spain, but new cases continue to be reported in Alcoy. Representatives from the Public Health administration, the town hall’s Environment Department and the Aqualia water company admitted after a recent meeting that they had not located the source of the infection.
“Inspections of high-risk equipment and the domestic water have been stepped up,” said Alcoy Mayor Antonio Frances after the meeting. Stringent controls will continue but so far analyses of the town’s domestic water have given negative results.
Plaza work starts A PLOT of wasteland in Javea is now on its way to becoming Plaza Maruja Varo. Located between Calle Pescadors and Plaza Adolfo Suarez, it was formerly a ‘carabineros’ (coastguard) post, later becoming a Guardia Civil barracks when both forces merged in 1940.
BULLDOZED: Javea’s Mayor and Public Works Councillor at the site. The plot adjoining the La Grava beach promenade had been fenced off since 2007 when the building was demolished. Converting it into a
public space with benches and trees was included in the town’s budget. A total of €119,000 has been allocated to the project.
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Honouring the Fallen on Remembrance Sunday
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T was moving to see the commemorations in London over the weekend to mark Remembrance Sunday and the centenary of the start of the First World War. The striking display of ceramic poppies spilling from the Tower of London in a sea of red was no better image to remind us of all those brave souls who shed blood and gave their lives in both World Wars. A welcome decision has been made to leave part of the 800,000 poppies on display until the end of November so that people can pay their respects. Falling poppies were projected on to Big Ben, illuminating the skyline in another moving tribute to those soldiers and civilians who fought. Sometimes it can be difficult for expatriates living in Spain not to
be in the UK for special occasions, as last Sunday certainly was. But with so many expatriates living in all areas of Spain, Remembrance Sunday did not pass unmarked here. There were wreath-laying ceremonies and prayer services throughout the length and breadth of Spain, so that expatriates could pay their own homage to the men and women who gave their lives in the wars. While we choose to live in sunny Spain and adopt new customs and ways of life from our Spanish friends, we will always retain our own customs and close links with home, especially on important days like Remembrance Sunday. And on Sunday, as Britain honoured those who fought in two World Wars, so too did the proud British community in their home away from home.
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Gourmet race ‘means to an end’ TEULADA-MORAIRA’S Gourmet Race cost the town hall and the municipal tourist board the sum of €333,000 to organise. The event consists of a
yacht race during which the crew must also prepare a meal. The meal is then judged by a panel of famous chefs. The president of this year’s
jury was Joel Robuchon who, having accumulated 28 Michelin stars, possesses more than any other chef in the world. “The Gourmet Race enables
Fiestas to make everyone happy HOTELS in the centre of Benidorm were fully booked during the town fiestas that ended yesterday. Reservations from Spanish clients, mostly middle-aged or elderly, shot up over the last five days. Many are long-time visitors, returning year after year during the fiestas and, unlike Easter or the summer, they are only charged low-season rates. “Our perennial clients book well in advance to make sure of getting accommodation,” one receptionist said. The fiestas also attract British tourists, drawn by the atmosphere in the
streets with parades, processions, concerts and monumental firework displays. And it is thanks to the British that the Thursday after the official fiestas is never a let-down but sees the Benidorm Fiestas Festival. Organised in the English zone adjoining Calle Mallorca and Calle Gerona, it is attended each year by thousands of UK tourists who come to wear fancydress and drink until dawn. Benidorm fiestas are also welcomed by the hoteliers’ association Hosbec, which regards them as an important boost for occupancy. Not only hotels in central Benidorm feel the benefit of the fiestas, but
Big trade fair date CALPE is hosting next year’s Meetings and Incentive Travel Market (MITM) Euromed trade fair. During the fair European and Mediterranean travel and tourism organisations make contact with selected European and US firms through individual, pre-requested appointments. These all specialise in incentive trips as well as international meetings, conferences and congresses. This is the most important fair of its kind and is on from May 6 to 8 at the Diamante Beach Hotel.
also those in the other parts of town, a Hosbec spokesman said.
Teulada-Moraira to fly the flag for haute cuisine and quality tourism,” said Tomas Solano, who is president of the local tourist board and also manager of Moraira
yacht club. “The regatta is a good excuse to bring leading figures in the gastronomic world to the town,” Solano pointed out.
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Black spots to be eliminated CHANGES are to be made at one of the worst accident N-332 black spots in the Alicante area. The ministry of Public Works has given the go-
ahead to plans that will make the two intersections in Coveta Fuma safer for drivers. Work is expected to begin shortly, Campello Town Hall confirmed.
Jewellery taken from the church A GOLD bangle and a ring were stolen from two statues in Alfaz del Pi’s San Jose church. They disappeared when the parish priest, Miguel Angel Schiller, briefly left the church one morning without locking the door. “I leave it open so that people can pray,” he said afterwards. The jewels are worth little and their value is mainly sentimental, particularly the bracelet, which was donated by a local family 50-years-ago, Father Schiller explained. He doubted that they could be sold, he added. The same bangle was stolen two years ago, but returned a few days later and the priest is hoping that this will happen again this time.
The l’Amerador intersection located near the petrol stations is to be eliminated, and it will no longer be possible to turn there. Nothing changes for drivers heading in the direction of Valencia, but those bound for Campello will now have to turn off at the next intersection in Coveta Fuma. The slow lane on this section of the N-332 is to be eliminated and will serve as an entry and exit lane. Coveta Fuma drivers wanting to travel towards Villajoyosa and Benidorm will now have to make a detour before joining the N-332 according to the new plans. Instead they will have to drive towards Campello as far as the small flyover at the petrol stations where they can turn.
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Starlings take over Fontana JAVEA residents would question the name of ‘a murmuration’ to describe a flock of starlings. They are more likely to regard them as deafening as the starlings settle down for the night in the plane trees along the Fontana area. Their droppings also make it impossible to walk along the avenue leading to the Arenal beach in the evening, they complain. Residents who do not move their cars from under the trees at night find them
covered in guano next morning. Business-owners clean outside their premises each morning, knowing they will be covered again next day and have asked the council to hose the pavements. Each year the starlings ignore other parts of Javea, returning to these trees but there are now thousands due to the drought and high temperatures, experts said. The town hall intends to cut down the trees.
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Shared history for two towns
A THOUSAND years ago, Denia was a ‘taifa,’ an independent emirate during the period of Moorish dominance. So too was Alpuente in the province of Valencia, where it is still possible to see remains of the town’s Aljama tower, fortifications and walls. Denia Town Hall recently organised an outing to Alpuente as part of the town’s ‘taifa’
ALPUENTE: With the Alcazaba as a backdrop. millennium celebrations. As well as sightseeing, the party listened to talks on the history of both towns
from their respective municipal archaeologists, Josep Gisbert Santonja and Rosario Serrano.
More Altea recycling required ALTEA wants residents to recycle more. The town hall launched a media campaign and is distributing recycling bags, fridge magnets and leaflets.
“This is a priority for Altea,” said Mayor, Miguel Ortiz. “Between us improvements can be made, but we need everyone’s cooperation,” said Mayor Miguel Ortiz. Altea generates more than 13,000 tons of rubbish each year but the 660 tons of glass, 169 tons of containers and 279 tons of cardboard that are recycled are insufficient said Urban Setting councillor Jaime Selles. Although these levels equal the national average, they do not match Austria or Germany’s.
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Family custom PEPICA LLEDO DEVESA, aged 93, was proclaimed Alicante Province’s ‘Third Age Queen.’ She continues family tradition as her daughter, granddaughter and greatgranddaughter have all been fiesta queens in La Nucia.
Toy story TOY manufacturers in the Alicante Province foresee a modest rise in Spanish sales for the first time in three years. Despite lower turnover at home, exports have increased by 15 per cent.
Happy campers BENIDORM campsites were 74.7 per cent occupied in October, the highest figure since 2009 and 1 per cent more than 2013. Just over 71 per cent of clients were British.
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A ‘no case’ decision on Campello landfill A VALENCIA judge dismissed the case against Campello’s landfill site. It was launched by ‘Afectados por el Vertedero de Les Canyades,’ an
association of nearby residents affected by the installation. Reports and evidence from residents, the Local Police and Miguel Hernandez University
What’s up with WhatsApp? THE Paidos school in Denia have warned parents that WhatsApp could have a negative effect on their children. Teachers and the school managers have noticed that day after day pupils are neglecting homework or revising for exams and spending much of their free time using their smartphones for WhatsApp group chats. Parents have now been sent a circular, asking them to exercise a sense of responsibility regarding the use ‘of this new messaging system.’ This can doubtless be of help in some respects, the circular conceded. ‘But in the majority of cases it is hindering the children’s development and maturity.’
(UMH) all warned of highly toxic emissions from the plant, the judge said in her summing-up. At the same time, these were challenged by other reports that contradicted these findings, she said. Her investigation only went up to October 2012 when the association lodged its complaint, the judge continued. Until then Les Canyades had acted correctly and no irregularities occurred before 2012, she concluded. Nevertheless, Canyades’ Integrated Environmental Authorisation (AAI) is now being revised, after a review by the Universidad Politecnica (UPV) in Valencia City, ordered by the regional government. Undeterred, the spokesman announced they now intend to launch criminal proceedings.
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Cards to make one’s life easier CALPE Town Hall plans to provide older residents with cards entitling them to cheaper municipal transport. Once issued under the ‘Major a Calpe’ programme, the cards containing each user’s details will also facilitate discounts in participating shops as well as local services. The council hopes in this way to improve pensioners’ quality of life by providing easier access to public services and reducing their outgoings
DISCOUNTS: Help for older Calpe residents. as far as the town hall is able, said Calpe mayor Cesar Sanchez. “Our older residents deserve as much attention
and warmth as possible from public administrations together with recognition for a lifetime of work,” Sanchez added.
Animals from closed Alfaz del Pi shelter to be housed elsewhere NO animal from the closed animal shelter in Alfaz del Pi will be put down.
The Local Police, together with the municipal biologist, have now
inspected the installation and the condition of the 68 dogs and 27 cats housed there. Contrary to rumours and claims of the Opposition party on the local council, closing the shelter does not imply that the town hall is washing its hands of the animals, said town hall spokesman Toni Such. “Quite the opposite,” he declared. “The Opposition knew of the meetings we held with other towns to reach an agreement in the best possible conditions and preferably on a local level,” Such explained. The councillor also challenged claims that the person who ran the shelter received a pay off ‘for being our friend,’ but because of an agreement between both parties.
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Gas for La Nucia Downpours unlikely NATURAL gas will arrive in La Nucia homes by early 2015. The first phase has now commenced with the inauguration of the Cegas plant that will supply both La Nucia and Polop. “This will make La Nucia a more sustainable and competitive town as businesses and homes will benefit from cleaner and cheaper energy,” said Mayor Bernabe Cano during the gas plant inauguration. “We estimate that 1,125 homes and businesses will be linked to the network throughout 2015 with the first La Nucia connections made in January and February,” said Cegas executive Rafael Botella.
ON TAP: Gas plant inauguration with La Nucia mayor Bernabe Cano (right). Twenty-nine Alicante municipalities have natural gas piped directly to their homes.
WHATEVER the weather does this month there is little likelihood of torrential downpours. A cold front early put paid to September and October’s unusually warm weather and sea temperatures, which hovered at around 25C throughout October, plummeted 4C degrees. The entry of the cold air, bringing clear skies and colder nights, practically eliminates the risk of a monsoon-
Sacked for having a baby A COMPANY in the Gandia area had to readmit an employee who was sacked for becoming pregnant. She had worked for the company since 2012 on temporary contracts and was offered a permanent contract last summer. She accepted but the firm obliged her to sign a blank sheet of paper, revealed the CGT-La Safor trade union. “That signed piece of paper was later used to
force her resignation when her employer discovered that she was pregnant,” the union explained. The employee, who wanted to continue working, went to the union which took up her case and obtained her readmission. It would not drop its guard, the union warned, and is keeping watch to ensure that all the pregnant worker’s rights were respected.
like cold spell according to the weathermen. Although rainfall is predicted, this will be “normal,” they said. Not everyone is pleased, however.
For Alicante Province’s agricultural sector, normal rainfall will not be enough to alleviate the effects of this year’s drought, growers warned.
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New lease THE Red Cross will continue to occupy its present headquarters rent-free for another 30 years, Teulada Town Hall announced. Upkeep, repairs and utility bills will be covered by the organisation.
Jobs found EIGHT long-term unemployed Benitachell residents at risk of social exclusion were engaged by the town hall’s Maintenance and Services department.
No hiding ALFAZ DEL PI has installed three number plate recognition cameras at a cost of €33,577. There are now 17 in the town.
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Internet is principal outlet for fake goods SEVENTY-TWO per cent of 36 million bogus products impounded by EU Customs
officials were bought on the internet. That figure could not be
more official, as it came from Alicante City’s Trademarks Office, OHIM
For the good of the town THE need for a new National Police station in Benidorm is overriding political differences. Benidorm mayor Agustin Navarro is meeting the central government’s representative in Alicante today Thursday (November 13) to discuss the issue and suggest sites. There are three suitable plots of municipal land adjoining the Palacio de Justicia law courts and the Valencian Institute of Tourist Technologies (Invattur) and near the bus and fire stations. The town hall is prepared to cede more land if necessary, Navarro said. The mayor has also requested a Madrid meeting with the minister of the Interior and will be accompanied by Alicante senator, Agustin Almodobar. The senator, who was born and lives in
BENIDORM: Area for new station. Benidorm, belongs to the Partido Popular, while Navarro is a PSOE socialist. Navarro stressed the importance of Almodobar’s cooperation. “We have to seek the good of the town, which is above party politics,” he said. “I appreciate his help because we must join forces and be together on this.”
(OAMI in Spanish) during a conference that centred on stemming the flood of fake products. The conference, cohosted by OAMI and Europol was attended by Customs officials, police investigators and public prosecutors as well as judges, lawyers and brandprotection representatives. The internet is a perfect communications channel that has also encouraged illegal trade and piracy, the experts agreed. Medicines, personal accessories, food and drink were the most frequently seized products OAMI revealed. This was particularly serious not only for those whose trademarks, patents and copyrights were infringed but also for consumers.
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Calpe’s ‘Castellet’ singled out CALPE’S Mascarat tower features in a regional government brochure that lists the lookout towers of Alicante Province. The brochure gives details of the 21 towers that date from the 16th century and were built on the orders of Philip II Mary Tudor’s husband - to protect and defend the coast against raiding Berber pirates. The base and a 4.5metre high section of wall, complete with arrowslits, are all that now remains of the Mascarat tower, popularly known as the Castellet de Calpe.
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A third of people live in poverty A THIRD of the Valencian population lives in social exclusion and in poverty. That’s according to a report by Caritas and the Development Foundation for Social Research and Applied Sociology (FOESSA). The report concludes that Valencia is, “one of the autonomous regions most at risk of poverty
and social exclusion in Spain, because it has one of the lowest incomes and there is an increase in inequality in the community.” Based on the data, Jaime Perez, director of Caritas Diocese of OrihuelaAlicante, said: “We are facing a moment of weakness and social fracture is one of the
aspects we need to correct by transforming our socioeconomic model which is already outdated.” The report also concludes that 49.5 per cent of the population suffer exclusion from employment and one in three people are affected in some way by homelessness or unsuitable housing.
Parents call for park repairs A MOTHER is lodging a complaint against Altea Town Hall after her daughter was injured in park next to the Plaza La Carrasca de Altea. The five-year-old was celebrating a friend’s birthday in the bar next to the square when she tripped over a small rubber tile, raised from the ground, and fell on to one of the iron arches bordering the playground, protecting
the plants. Her face caught the edge of one of the arches and she was rushed to Villajoyosa hospital where she received stitches to two deep wounds on her cheek and forehead. The girl’s parents are calling for the state of the park to be addressed as other parents report accidents with children falling on the uneven tiles, and for the iron arches to be removed.
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Price of farmland hits an all-time low LAND is being increasingly devalued in Valencia Region. The average price of farmland in Valencia fell by 5.5 per cent compared to
last year, reaching €21,562 per hectare. This decline in price is the second highest fall in Spain and follows a trend which started in 2007, when the
Woman hurt by car bomb A WOMAN suffered multiple shrapnel wounds in Elche after an explosive device was placed in the headrest of the car she was driving. The 41-year-old from Elche, was taken to Vinalopo Hospital with minor injuries, but was later discharged. Police are still investigating the incident and are studying the composition of the explosive device that was placed in the car. Due to the unusual nature of the incident, emergency services initially thought the driver had been injured by the car’s air bag.
price of farmland was at €32,708 per hectare. The price of agricultural land rose throughout the property boom. The situation encouraged land speculation, so farms were bought with the intention of reselling land quickly at a higher price, or waiting until it was reclassified as building land. Irrigated farms with water resources were the most profitable, reaching €52,905 per hectare of land during the peak. Now, irrigated land has been devalued by almost €4,000 in a single year. The Farmers’ Union does not believe these lower prices are of any benefit for the sector, but said there is another major problem over and above the price of land; the lack of young people in the profession.
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Xmas music FIVE children were selected from 120 to sing during a Christmas musical that will premiere at the Christmas display at Alicante’s El Corte Ingles on November 21.
Swan Lake SWAN LAKE is being performed at the Calderon Theatre, Alcoy, on November 16. Tickets are €2024, from 965 549 403 or email tcalderonalcoi@gma il.com.
Mars exhibit AN exhibition, ‘Landscapes of Mars’ is now showing at Javea’s Casa del Cable until November 30 featuring works by artist Rene Monzon Relova.
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Increase in unpaid child support cases investigated PROSECUTION officers in Alicante are asking for police collaboration for offences of unpaid child support.
The Attorney General is asking police to investigate cases where child support is not paid despite a perceived income from black
money. The move comes after an increase in the number of parents avoiding payments. The plan would allow the prosecutor
Winter sees reduction in flights AIRLINES have reduced flights at Alicante-Elche airport by 40 per cent now the winter season is here. Operations have been cut 40 per cent compared to the summer and an additional 10 per cent compared to the out of season schedule last year. Connections with Germany and the Nordic countries are most affected with travellers now preferring to travel to the Canary Islands and even the Caribbean and Egypt, which is seeing an increase in flights again after the social unrest of the past two years. In total, the airport has lost 13 direct links including flights to Frankfurt, Hamburg, St. Petersburg and Santander. The UK is also without flights to Blackpool and Exeter and British Airways has cancelled the London-Heathrow service.
CUTBACKS: Fewer flights from Alicante-Elche. Ryanair, the leading airline in terms of the number of passengers, has cut almost half its operations. From the recent 44, there will now be 26 routes offered until April 2015.
in charge of each case of unpaid child support to ask the court to request police collaboration to ratify bank and money movements if the spouse claims they have no income and to substantiate their standard of living and check if they are working without declaring the income. Head of the Criminal Court of Alicante, Miguel Herrero said the acquittal rate of non-payment was “very high” and has increased during the crisis, with parents unable to pay, having lost their income but equally there are cases when people are not declaring the black market money they earn to avoid payments. Applications to the Family Courts of Alicante to change the amount paid for minors has tripled in the last five years. The minimum amount of child support imposed by courts in Alicante is €180 a month.
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Autumn snappers AROUND 600 amateur photographers took part in a competition in Alicante City. The seventh edition of the event, organised by the Association of Writers of Lights at the University of Alicante, was busier than ever. Children and adults took part to help create a unique photo archive of Alicante’s Old Town and to promote the area. The best will be displayed on December 9 at El Claustro.
VALENCIA ORANGES: Region’s fruit is so far free from greening.
Coca-Cola looks to halt citrus blight COCA-COLA executives are currently visiting Valencia in their bid to combat “citrus greening”. The soft drinks firm is profoundly worried about the disease which is advancing rapidly in Florida, Mexico and Brazil, decimating plantations. It fears that Atlanta-based citrus fruit supplies will soon diminish and rise in price.
Executives from the US firm have been in talks with experts from Valencia’s Instituto de Investigaciones Agrarias as Spain’s citrus fruit plantations are at present free of the disease. But it is feared that this could soon arrive and meanwhile Coca-Cola hopes to boost and coordinate the search for a solution to this global headache.
Police bust Social Security fraudsters POLICE have identified €10 million of fraud from the Treasury through false allowances and benefits, with nearly €3 million of it taking place in Alicante and Murcia. The National Police carried out an operation against fraud with the Public Employment Service in Madrid, Valencia, Alicante and Murcia, which has so far resulted in the arrest of 612 people. Investigations have
been ongoing for several months after the authorities detected a significant number of suspicious companies, with 22 found to be shell companies with fictitious trading. The investigation found companies and individuals which were without real or effective work activity, used to simulate business get people onto the Social Security system, allowing them to access benefits.
School day discussion THE Department of Education is discussing with trade unions the possibility of changing the timetable at schools across Alicante province. The draft decree states that the school day should continue to be divided into two sessions, morning and afternoon, although there could be a procedure to allow continuous lessons until a later lunch time. The draft decree also said that schools must still provide services such as buses to allow pupils to stay at school until the usual time.
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Lucky reader wins tablet competition FOLLOWING months of enthusiastic readers entering our Win a Tablet competition, we finally reached the finishing line on Friday October 31. As the competition was sponsored by Spanish Property Choice, we thought it only fair that the owner, Sharon Garner, be the one to choose the lucky winner. With a great fanfare, she selected the winner of the tablet - many, many congratulations to Lorraine Cochrane from Murcia! A delighted Lorraine said: “I never win anything! I have entered loads of competitions, but this is the first time I have actually won anything. Thank you so much!” Thank you to all of our
WINNER: Lorraine Cochrane. readers, and there were hundreds of you, for entering and we’re sorry we only had one tablet to give away. However, avid readers
may already have spotted that we have another competition to win an iPad starting this week, so good luck to you all – again!
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Lorna needs you! T
HE Euro Weekly News has recently promoted Lorna Eade to the new position of Editorial Controller. So, Lorna, congratulations, well done, you deserve it! Now you need to let our readers know something about yourself; after all, you will be in charge of what everyone will be reading.
How long have you been in the publishing arena? “I have been involved in newspapers for longer than I care to remember, or admit. I have been lucky enough to work at the Daily and Sunday Express papers in London as well as the biggest picture agency in the UK, the Press Association. I always say that I have ink running through my veins, not blood!” When did you leave the UK? “I left the UK 13 years ago to live in Tenerife. I wanted a better quality of life and realised that one day I was going to wake up and my life would have disappeared without me realising it. I
ended up editing a weekly publication there called Tenerife Weekly. However, I moved over to mainland Spain due to family commitments, and I love it.” How do you feel about your new position? “I am looking forward to the challenge that I have been given, but I am going to need some help if I am to take our papers up to the next level.” What are the future plans for the paper as EWN is already the biggest and strongest print media? “We are growing all the time and are now looking to expand even further to
encompass the most diverse and interesting topics of interest to those living in Spain. We are currently seeking and recruiting talented and creative writers across every aspect of the paper in order to bring the highest quality and most interesting publication that we can to our loyal readers and advertisers. “The paper has become an institution, a part of expatriate way of life. The EWN footprint is from Gandia to Gibraltar, which is a huge amount of readers to please every Thursday, 52 weeks of the year. Lorna needs your help to take EWN to the next level.
“I would love to hear from any writers living in Spain who wish to work in our diverse, multicultural, friendly office. If you think you have what I am looking for then send me your CV with a covering letter telling me why you would be perfect for the job, together with a recent photograph, to recruitment@euroweekly news.com Don’t mean to be rude, but you will have to excuse me as I have 600 pages to fill. Please get those CVs emailed – don’t delay as these front pages have to go to press. Ciao for now!!
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Wine time for culture group MEMBERS of Javea U3A’s Spanish Culture and Cuisine Group stepped back in time on a trip into the mountains just outside Jalon. On the outing, organised by group leaders Angela Chantry and Tony Dearie, the 37-strong party visited the enchanting Maserof Inn Museo wine museum and restaurant. Originally a Roman ruin, the site and its 18thcentury farmhouse buildings were bought in the early 70s and
MASEROF EXPERIENCE: Group leaders Angela and Tony take tour to the wine museum. restored to their former glory by Englishman Peter Pateman.
Catch Javea’s classic choir in concert THE Javiense Classic Choir will perform their winter concert on November 30 at 4.30pm in the Church of Loreto. The choir will have musical accompaniment by the Marina Alta Orchesta under the direction of Francesc Estevez. The concert will include the Coronation Mass in C Major by Mozart. Tickets cost €12 and are available from Humpty Dumpty of Javea, Calpe's Europe Library and from Letters R Us, Moraira. Or you can pick one up on the door one hour before the performance.
Since his death a few years ago, his daughter Carolina has continued the family tradition, welcoming visitors to the museum and serving meals in the restaurant, cooked in the original wood burning oven, accompanied by the natural red wine of the region.
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A TOTAL of 17 talented Spanish photographers are among 120 entrants in this year’s prestigious Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image 2014. An international jury of yachting and photography experts have chosen an incredible selection of images from yacht photographers around the world, and the public have until December 1 to choose their favourite one. “The collection of images submitted by the 120 photographers is very interesting and it has been a real challenge to vote,” said Antonio Palma, CEO of Mirabaud, the banking and financial group. “Each picture has its merit and it is fascinating to see how different photographers perceive and interpret the yacht racing environment through their art.” The yearly contest - that seeks to recognise the best yacht racing
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Best yachting image of the year - choose your favourite
WINNER 2012: A different interpretation.
WINNER 2013: Last year’s top photo. image taken during the year awards two prizes: one chosen by a panel of specialists and one by the public and delegates from the World Yacht Racing Forum.
The winners of the competition will be awarded a stunning Zenith El Primero Chronomaster 1969 watch - as well as the prestige attached to winning the award -
at the World Yacht Racing Forum in Barcelona on December 11. “This extraordinary collection of images is the visual expression of what happened in the world of
yacht racing this year, all over the planet,” said Aldo Magada, CEO of Zenith. “It proves the yacht racing world is very dynamic, diverse and beautiful; those are values that are dear to us.” To view the stunning images and to vote for your favourite, go to www.yachtracingimage.com.
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Jail for a €5 theft A SPANISH man has been jailed for two years for stealing €5 from his local bank. The angry bank customer jumped over the counter of a bank in La Coruña and took €5 he believed he was owed to him after bank charges had driven his account into the red. The man had gone to the bank to withdraw the last of his funds but was told that bank charges had reduced the amount in his account below zero. Furious, the man demanded an explanation and when the bank manager came out to speak with him the angry customer said he would beat him, according to La Voz de Galicia. He then jumped the counter and pushed staff aside before grabbing €5 from a cash drawer and fleeing. The man pleaded guilty at the court hearing and was sentenced to two years in jail for aggravated robbery.
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EWN’s Mike Walsh is an Amazon star
MIKE WALSH: Key to success was writing first-class poetry.
EURO WEEKLY NEWS columnist Mike Walsh has had one of his books named in the Top 100 by online retail giant Amazon. ‘All I Ask is a Tall Ship,’ the picture-poetry 102-page chronicle of life as a Liverpool sailor, has been nominated by Amazon Books to be included in their ‘Best Books of 2014.’ Chosen by a 100 member fraternity of Amazon
editors, the award is given to new books for best-seller content, quality and price. The key to success was the book’s imaginative compilation of illustrated first-class poetry. Liverpool born, Mike who lives on the Costa Blanca, says ‘All I Ask is a Tall Ship,’ reflects life as a Liverpool sailor through Beatles era Liverpool.
Encouraged to write by his father Paddy, associate and friend of war correspondent Ernest Hemingway and Irish playwright Sean O’Casey, Mike has earlier taken Liverpool by storm with poetry collections. In 1999, Mike’s 3,000 print-run of ‘A Sea Veneer of Liverpool’ and ‘Believin’ of Liverpool,’ sold out in weeks. His mother, Kathleen, a
friend of Spanish revolutionary ‘La Pasionaria,’ honed his gifts as a poet. ‘All I Ask is a Tall Ship’ is Mike’s seventh of nine poetry anthologies. He has a worldwide fan base and is a ghost-writer and journalist by profession. To find out more look up Amazon Editors’ Favourite Books of the Year.
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Ebola nurse is seeking compensation THE Spanish nursing assistant who beat the Ebola virus has demanded €150,000 in compensation for remarks made by the Madrid health chief while she was hospitalised with the killer disease. Teresa Romero claims that comments made by Madrid’s regional health minister, Javier Rodriguez, “seriously damaged her reputation.” Mr Rodriguez angered not only Ms Romero but also a large section of the Spanish population, when he said that she may have lied about how she contracted the virus. He then said “you don’t need a Masters to learn how to put on and take off a suit,” and “some people are better at learning than others.” Ms Romero’s legal team is demanding
TERESA ROMERO: With her dog Excalibur. €150,000 in compensation for his remarks that “seriously damaged the reputation and privacy” of the nurse. Ms Romero has said that she will donate the money to animal protection charities if she wins. Her own dog, Excalibur, was put down by authorities as a precautionary measure once it emerged that Ms
Romero had contracted Ebola. The 44-year-old nursing assistant was held in isolation for a month after contracting the disease while treating two missionaries who caught the Ebola virus while in Africa. She was released and allowed to return home last week. Ms Romero was the first person outside of Africa to contract the disease.
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Expats over 55 online experts BRITISH expats over the age of 55 are much more tech savvy than their counterparts in the UK, according to a new survey. Three out of four expats living abroad and aged over 55 are regular internet users, and are much more comfortable and capable when it comes to using Skype, paying bills online or booking plane tickets. In the UK however, more than 50 per cent of over 65’s can’t use the internet without supervision, and 28 per cent have never used the internet at all. The vast majority of the ‘silver surfer’ generation of expats use social media and email to stay in touch with loved ones back home, according to the NatWest International Personal Banking (IPB) Quality of Life Index.
TECH SAVVY: Older expats now using social media. Nearly two-thirds of expats also use social media to keep in touch with fellow expats. “It’s fair to say the internet has had an incredible impact on the life of your average British expat since our Quality of Life Index began seven years ago,” said Dave Isley,
head of NatWest IPB. “Being separated from home comforts and family and friends has clearly motivated older expats to adapt to a new way of communicating, as they are forced to embrace new forms of technology at a faster rate than their UKbased counterparts.”
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Young Spaniard wins €1.3m in top poker tournament A YOUNG Spanish poker player has walked away from a Las Vegas casino with $1.6 million (€1.3 million) after being knocked out in sixth place in the world’s most prestigious poker event. Andoni Larrabe, aged 22, from the Basque region but now living in London, was hoping to go all the way and become the first Spaniard since Carlos Mortensen in 2001 to be crowned the World Series of Poker champion. Not only that, he would have won a cool $10 million (€7.9 million) for first place. Unfortunately for Larrabe, he was the
fourth player of the final nine to be eliminated, but the young poker pro said he was delighted with how he played. Playing at the final table in an Athletic Bilbao football jersey and with Spanish flags being brandished by his family and friends in the crowd, Larrabe watched his Jack and Ten of Clubs beaten by the King and Five of Hearts belonging to Dutch player Jorryt van Hoof, to be eliminated in sixth. “I’m really, really happy with how I played this tournament,” Larrabe remarked after he was eliminated, adding: “I could not ask for more.
The cards just didn’t come. But I’m happy.” The youngest player at the final table, Larrabe has only been playing poker for four years, yet made it past more than 6,500 players to fight for the title. “The first couple of hands I was terrified and shaking,” he said. “But then when I started playing hands and doing well, I started to relax. And in the end I was just playing poker like I was at my house.” Before sitting down at the most daunting poker final table in the world, Larrabe’s career winnings were €269,000.
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Cameras rolling MALAGA City’s Calle Larios was busier than usual last week while the area was used for the filming of an advert for the latest Suzuki Vitara car.
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VAT return THE Municipality of Sant Llorenç will get a €618,322 VAT refund from the Tax Agency. The money will reportedly be used to settle part of the council’s debt.
Flamenco week
Called off
NOVEMBER 14-21 is flamenco week in Benalmadena, with a large number of events planned by La Repompa club, starting with a poetry and flamenco event on Friday November 14 at 9pm, at Salvador Rueda school.
THE Nurses’ Union (SATSE) and the Doctors’ Union decided to call off demonstrations after reaching an agreement with the Health Department.
Lucky winners
THE President of the Balearic Islands and the Minister of Development signed a cooperation agreement earmarking €13.52 million in financial aid for property leases and restoration, accessibility and energy efficiency.
TWO ticket holders, one in Malaga City and the other in Puente Genil in Cordoba, won €737,778.44 each on the Primitiva lottery.
Extra ferries TRANSMEDITERRANEA will run extra ferry services over the Christmas period between Malaga and Melilla to meet the increased demand during the festive holidays.
Officers hurt TWO Guardia Civil officers were injured in Casares after crashing into construction works while chasing a van on the A-7 motorway which ignored their signals to pull over.
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Kickboxing event FORTY-TWO fighters from around Andalucia took part in a kickboxing event in Rincon de la Victoria. Fighters from Granada, Almeria, Cordoba and Malaga participated.
Sustainable houses FIVE sustainable renovation projects will benefit families in Granada, some of them from Motril. The home improvement works will be paid for by the Development and Housing department of the regional government.
Newly asphalted AN amount of €200,000 was spent by Velez-Malaga Council to asphalt roads during the month of October. The works were aimed at repairing significantly damaged surfaces.
Helping families VELEZ-MALAGA Council will help 250 families who will not have to pay capital gains tax, in the case of losing their homes.
Financial aid CAMPAIGNING: Those affected by illegal properties visited the Andalucian Parliament (representatives from AUAN and SOHA).
Cantoria demolitions THE Junta de Andalucia regional government has announced the demolition of two properties in the Las Terreras area of Cantoria in a move that has been criticised by AUAN (Abusos Urbanisticos Almanzora No). Two other homes were demolished in 2013, reduced to rubble in less than 40 minutes by bulldozers. Cantoria Town Hall later accused the Junta of acting illegally, claiming the demolitions were not accompanied by the necessary licence or technical demolition plans. The Junta responded that the licence was unnecessary in order to comply with judicial resolutions. All the homes were sold to British families after completion and after utilities had been connected. The demolition order has been criticised by AUAN who are instrumental in fighting for homeowner rights in
Almeria. Alejandro Navarro, the lawyer representing the property owners, has announced plans to appeal on humanitarian grounds. The victims have been left homeless and in more than one case, lost everything. Navarro stated that, according to the Spanish press , the property owners were now living with family or renting, having returned to UK. He planned to fight to get the demolition delayed until the homeowners had been paid compensation, a total value of €789,000. AUAN and SOHA representing homeowners from Almeria and Malaga, are calling for a change in the Criminal Code to prevent ‘social and economic harm’ to purchasers in good faith. Cantoria Town Hall has laid the blame for the illegalities with the former mayor, Pedro Llamas.
Hiking fun
Pampanico painting
TWENTY hiking enthusiasts from Almuñecar defied the bad weather conditions on Sunday November 9, and decided to take on the walk between Carretera de la Cabra and Conchar despite the rain and wind.
RESIDENTS of the El Ejido municipality have grouped together to improve the look at their area by painting and repairing various walls and facades. Thirty residents grouped together for the work.
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Adra employment
Autism concert
Winter closure SON SANT JOAN Airport announced that it would close some of its facilities given the decline in winter flights. One of the areas being closed is Module A, which commonly handles passengers from non-Schengen countries.
Flying cheap LOW-COST British airline carrier easyJet is to offer flights between Palma and Toulouse on Mondays and Fridays during the summer of 2015 starting on July 3, said the company.
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Water cost MURCIANS pay more for their water than any other region and use more than the national average of 137 litres per person per day. Murcians use an average 143 litres per person per day at a cost of €2.50 per cubic metre.
Highway robbery A MUGGER who intimidated his victims with a pellet gun has been arrested in Cobatillas, Murcia. He also attacked two women who were hitch-hiking on the A-7.
Tax update
ALMERIA’S Auditorio Maestro Padilla was filled with music from the movies and musicals as well as classic pop tunes in order to raise money for the Darata Autism Association.
ADRA has provided work contracts for 68 young people as part of the Emple@joven programme. The contracts will run for six months and are funded by the Junta de Andalucia regional government.
MURCIA Region is updating its IBI property tax records, taking aerial photos to determine properties that have unlicensed extensions and swimming pools in a bid to crack down on illegal builds.
Windsurfing champ
Roadworks needed
Pool improvements
EL EJIDO has congratulated Victor Fernandez, the world-class windsurfing champion for his second place win in Maui. El Ejido sponsors the athlete who competes in windsurfing events worldwide.
ALMERIA’S UI party has pleaded for urgent work to be carried out on the El Charco boulevard after heavy rain again rendered the area inaccessible on November 4.
MAZARRON has spent €129,000 on a new retractable roof for the municipal pool which will allow it to be open all year round. Another €50,000 is being spent on improving the changing rooms.
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GERMAN PRESS Freedom celebration
BRITISH PRESS Bear alert
Flower kills gardener
SWEDEN - A driver called police to say she saw a bear wandering the streets of Gothenburg.
A GARDENER, Nathan Greenaway, aged 33, has died from multiple organ failure after brushing against a poisonous plant known as ‘Devil’s Helmet and Monkshood.
False alarm
Fox attack
SWEDEN - New Social Security Minister Annika Strandhäll inadvertently called police as she tried to adjust the height of her desk. She hit her panic button in error. Officers were soon at the scene.
A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy was attacked in his south London home by a fox that snuck into the house through a catflap. The urban fox bit into the boy’s heel before fleeing when the youngster’s screams alerted his parents.
Guards call NORWAY - A security report has said police want to have armed guards at Parliament as a safeguard against terrorist attack, amongst other measures.
Jobs gone NORWAY - More than 7,000 jobs have been lost in the oil industry with more set to go this year and next, according to DNB Marketing.
Cheese aid DENMARK - Fifteen tonnes of luxury cheese made by dairy Arla is to be given to homeless people. The produce had been destined for Russia until an embargo on EU goods was imposed.
Exports up DENMARK - Exports to China doubled between 2008 and 2012, making the country Denmark’s sixth largest export market. Germany remains the biggest client.
Likely threat NORWAY - Intelligence officers have warned the country faces a very ‘likely’ threat of a terrorist attack within the next year.
THREE days of celebrations to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall were held over the weekend. Guests included former Soviet leader Michail Gorbachev and ex Polish President Lech Walesa.
Paint order AN ex-tenant has been ordered by a court to pay his former landlord €3,200 to pay for an apartment he had left to be painted white. He had painted the walls and ceilings of his bedroom and living room blue and glossy green.
Hippy drug factory A MAN whose surname is ‘Hippy’ could face jail after police found £8,000 (€10,217) worth of cannabis growing in his garage. Gregory Hippy, 28, from Lincoln said he was growing the drug because it was “cheaper than buying it.”
NIPPY FOX: Snuck through a catflap.
Expensive snack
Skinner tells all
A LITTERBUG who dropped the lid of a Pringles can on a Bristol street has had to pay nearly £500 (€640) in fines. Initially fined £75, Gareth Daniel, aged 31, failed to pay in the allotted time and the fine was then upped to £200. He also had to pay costs totalling £298.75.
COMEDIAN Frank Skinner has revealed that he used to be a “reckless alcoholic”, and that his drinking led to temporary blindness. The 57-year-old said that he went blind for around 40 minutes one morning, and that he often slept on the street as he was unable to make it home.
RUSSIAN PRESS Pipe dream… RUSSIA and China are close to an agreement for a second gas pipeline between the countries, according to President Vladimir Putin. It is in addition to a $400 billion (€322 billion) deal for the first pipeline that was reached in May.
Not normal TWO Mistral class helicopter carriers will not be delivered to Russia until the situation in Ukraine has neared ‘normalcy, said French Prime Minister Manual Valls. He was responding to reports that Russia would take delivery of the ships tomorrow (Friday).
Obama snub RUSSIA will not attend the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit championed by US President Barak Obama, accusing the Americans who want to take charge of the issue away from international organisations.
Stitched up THE leader of Russian separatists in Ukraine has ordered his troops to arrest all women seen in pubs. Alexey Mozgovov says
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they should stay at home stitching.’
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Splash the cash DESPITE an estimated €6.4 billion drop in revenues, federal, state and local governments will spend €10 billion more in 2016, said the finance ministry.
Double take A HITLER look alike has been seen touring Germany in a marketing ploy for a new film called Look Who’s Back. He is said to have taunted demonstrators at a right wing rally, calling them wimps.
Lada upturn
Digital concern
SALES of Lada October, the first cheapness of its downturn, coupled
GERMANY and Brazil want the United Nations to toughen up regulations against spying on digital data. In a draft resolution concerns that human rights could be harmed by mass surveillance, interception of digital communications and personal data collection.
cars rose 4.7 per cent in rise in 19 months. The cars during an economic with a government funded scrappage scheme and the weakness of the Ruble are to thank, said analysts.
BERLIN WALL: It’s been 25 years since the wall came down.
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STAT OF WEEK SPAIN’S consumer confidence index fell 3.52 per cent to 74.2 points last month. Family finances, employment prospects and the general economic situation were to blame, said the Centro de Investigaciones Sociologicas.
BIMBO has been synonymous with cut bread , not an attractive and compliant airhead, since 1964. Sales plummeted by almost half after 2008 when the crisis changed spending habits. “The fall in disposable income meant that people ate less and ate differently,” said Ana Varela, Marketing lecturer at the ESADE
BREAD: Suffered during crisis.
Zara millionaire still top of the heap AMANCIO ORTEGA is still Spain’s richest man. The founder of Inditex and the Zara fashion label sits atop a €46 billion fortune according to the Spanish edition of Forbes magazine. Rafael del Pino and his brothers, majority shareholders in construction multinational Ferrovial take second position on the Spanish list with €6.4 billion. In 2013 the Del Pino brothers were ranked third after Juan Roig, but this year the positions are reversed, with the Mercadona president and his €6 billion fortune slipping a notch. The magazine’s calculations are based on declared business assets alone
without taking personal assets into account, explained Forbes editor Andres Rodriguez. The Spanish list is dominated by businessmen and there are no sporting figures or scientists amongst the top 100. Although former heartthrob Julio Iglesias was ranked 47th, his presence was due to real estate investments, not his singing career. Between them, the 100 richest Spaniards are worth €164.42 billion, the equivalent of 15.6 per cent of Spain’s GDP. While not untouched by the economic crisis, few have much to grumble about as their fortunes increased by 9.2 per cent over the last year.
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Set for the rush COURIER service SEUR will engage another 1,300 workers over Christmas. The company handles an average 200,000 items a day but expects this to rise to 500,000 on key dates like December 17.
Fine for sharing THE Uber car-share venture in Barcelona must pay 56 fines of €4,000 for operating without a licence. Twenty-eight were imposed on the company and 28 on the drivers themselves.
Outlook still brightish for 2015 THE European Commission (EC) adjusted its 2014 growth predictions for Spain by one-tenth to 1.2 per cent. Expectations for next year were reduced from 2.1 per cent to 1.7 per cent prompted in part by ‘domestic problems,’ but also by the eurozone slowdown although Spain’s GDP growth is still set to accelerate.
This would be supported by employment growth and easier financing conditions, said Pierre Moscovici, the EU Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs. Brussels foresaw weak growth for the eurozone and the EU overall, with a GDP increase of 1.3 per cent for this year and 0.8 per cent in 2015.
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Bimbo is determined not to be toast business school. Consumers also turned to the supermarkets’ own-label products, a tendency that ate into the profits of all food manufacturers but whose impact was even more pronounced for the industrial bakers. Bread and confectionery could be produced more cheaply in plants that were more modern than Bimbo’s and
at lower costs, Varela explained. Unsurprisingly, supermarket own-labels now account for 65 per cent of industrial bakery. Bimbo’s Mexico-based mother company Grupo Bimbo intends to redress the balance with a new €70 million plant in Guadalajara Province. This will cut costs and restore its market share, sources revealed.
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C H A N G E ( P ) % C H G. 4.00 1.00 4.47 1.01 -16.21 -1.33 10.00 0.65 10.00 0.73 15.09 2.14 -0.50 -0.06 12.84 1.23 2.00 0.07 21.50 0.47 0.00 0.00 -2.78 -0.26 3.10 0.68 -0.25 -0.11 18.00 1.72 20.50 1.22 0.90 0.20 21.50 0.60
NET VOLUME 427.59 612.21 273.45 214.37 1,629.82 729.13 598.74 579.86 141.18 463.50 1,303.61 606.15 1,135.87 7,693.55 1,841.48 2,522.58 9,043.31 422.73
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C O M PA N Y MMM 3M Co AXP American Express Co T AT&T Inc BA Boeing Co CAT Caterpillar Inc CVX Chevron Corp CSCO Cisco Systems Inc DD E I du Pont de Nemours and Co XOM Exxon Mobil Corp GE General Electric Co GS Goldman Sachs Group Inc HD Home Depot Inc INTC Intel Corp IBM International Business M... JNJ Johnson & Johnson JPM JPMorgan Chase and Co MCD McDonald's Corp MRK Merck & Co Inc MSFT Microsoft Corp NKE Nike Inc PFE Pfizer Inc PG Procter & Gamble Co KO The Coca-Cola Co TRV Travelers Companies Inc UTX United Technologies Corp UNH UnitedHealth Group Inc VZ Verizon Communications Inc V Visa Inc WMT Wal-Mart Stores Inc DIS Walt Disney Co
PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE VOLUME 156.55 92.26 34.91 124.45 101.76 118.80 25.33 70.41 96.59 26.41 190.71 97.65 33.58 162.07 108.20 61.47 95.10 59.34 48.68 93.78 29.92 89.13 42.32 102.37 109.08 93.61 50.86 252.43 78.77 90.00
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Most Advanced Sears Holdings Corporation Approach Resources Inc. Applied Genetic Technologies Corp Silver Standard Resources Inc. Coherus BioSciences, Inc. Varonis Systems, Inc. Progenics Pharmaceuticals Inc. Atara Biotherapeutics, Inc. Five9, Inc. American Public Education, Inc. Solazyme, Inc.
Most Declined Roka Bioscience, Inc. Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. PCM, Inc. Financial Engines, Inc. SAExploration Holdings, Inc. Performant Financial Corporation MISONIX, Inc. Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. Lakes Entertainment, Inc.
$3 $ 91.47 $ 172.59 $ 7.45 $ 31.39 $ 4.921 $ 7.04 $ 11.80 $ 28.78 $ 6.91
5.34 ▼ 64.03% 47.08 ▼ 33.98% 74.39 ▼ 30.12% 3.15 ▼ 29.72% 9.43 ▼ 23.10% 1.269 ▼ 20.50% 1.61 ▼ 18.61% 2.44 ▼ 17.13% 5.84 ▼ 16.87% 1.229 ▼ 15.10%
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C O M PA N Y PRICE(P) CHANGE Centrica PLC 300.05 -2.10 Coca-Cola HBC AG 1348.00 -12.00 Compass Group PLC 1008.50 3.00 CRH PLC 1390.50 -11.00 Diageo PLC 1844.25 20.00 Direct Line Insurance G.. 271.10 -0.10 Dixons Carphone PLC 399.80 -3.48 easyJet PLC 1527.00 -8.00 Experian PLC 1021.50 0.19 Fresnillo PLC 755.75 21.66 Friends Life Group Ltd 322.00 0.50 G4S PLC 262.30 -2.20 GKN PLC 321.95 1.10 GlaxoSmithKline PLC 1417.50 0.50 Glencore PLC 327.68 2.40 Hammerson PLC 598.25 -8.00 Hargreaves L PLC 1035.00 -7.90 HSBC Holdings PLC 632.05 2.00 IMI PLC 1241.50 14.00 Imperial To Group PLC 2800.00 20.00 InterContinental H Gro... 2417.00 12.00 International Co ... 406.95 4.30 Intertek Group PLC 2748.50 -8.00 Intu Properties PLC 340.85 -0.80 ITV PLC 203.10 -0.20 Johnson Matthey PLC 3053.00 35.00 Kingfisher PLC 290.70 -0.30 Land Securities G PLC 1098.50 -5.00 Legal & G Group PLC 236.00 0.03 Lloyds Banking Group PLC 76.09 -0.19 London Stock Ex Group... 2040.50 -5.00 Marks & Spencer G PLC 474.30 8.00 Meggitt PLC 483.95 7.70 Mondi PLC 1060.50 2.00 Morrison (Wm) Supe PLC 171.95 3.60
% C H G. -0.69 -0.88 0.30 -0.79 1.10 -0.04 -0.86 -0.52 0.02 2.95 0.16 -0.83 0.34 0.04 0.74 -1.32 -0.76 0.32 1.14 0.72 0.50 1.07 -0.29 -0.23 -0.10 1.16 -0.10 -0.45 0.01 -0.25 -0.24 1.72 1.62 0.19 2.14
VOLUME 3,150.80 107.86 511.82 902.16 1,425.82 742.13 380.31 564.28 612.91 550.39 868.52 2,066.09 749.01 1,617.99 6,346.69 649.56 328.20 5,778.89 191.53 460.42 121.33 3,506.66 98.64 446.95 1,412.35 134.16 2,308.24 463.52 3,222.71 28,198.33 145.20 2,764.82 809.55 293.20 3,622.25
National Grid PLC 923.75 Next PLC 6450.00 Old Mutual PLC 195.05 Pearson PLC 1184.00 Persimmon PLC 1419.00 Petrofac Ltd 1146.50 Prudential PLC 1437.50 Randgold Res Ltd 4188.50 Reckitt Benckiser G PLC 5227.50 Reed Elsevier PLC 1036.50 Rio Tinto PLC 3060.25 Rolls-Royce H PLC 873.25 Royal Bank of Sco Grou... 375.90 Royal Dutch Shell PLC 2351.00 Royal Mail PLC 457.80 RSA Insurance Group PLC 449.60 SABMiller PLC 3526.50 Sage Group (The) PLC 374.05 Sainsbury (J) PLC 258.45 Schroders PLC 2520.00 Severn Trent PLC 1959.50 Shire PLC 4248.50 Smith & Nephew PLC 1045.50 Smiths Group PLC 1224.50 Sports Direct I... 651.00 SSE PLC 1559.50 Standard Chartered PLC 945.50 Standard Life PLC 399.30 St James's Place PLC 741.75 Tesco PLC 189.67 Travis Perkins PLC 1664.00 TUI Travel PLC 399.95
4.80 -15.00 2.40 5.00 9.30 29.00 -0.38 58.00 70.00 5.33 21.00 6.00 0.90 25.00 -4.99 3.56 23.25 -1.40 -3.24 13.51 -0.28 76.00 1.00 7.05 -2.00 -9.95 -0.30 1.50 5.00 5.25 14.00 0.10
0.52 -0.23 1.25 0.42 0.66 2.59 -0.03 1.40 1.36 0.52 0.69 0.69 0.24 1.07 -1.08 0.80 0.66 -0.37 -1.24 0.54 -0.01 1.82 0.10 0.58 -0.31 -0.63 -0.03 0.38 0.68 2.85 0.85 0.03
1,816.35 170.16 3,982.15 279.29 189.33 654.69 612.53 269.76 337.82 513.14 986.38 1,322.87 2,063.43 1,068.28 1,049.86 835.45 279.28 786.61 6,044.61 131.64 80.60 632.76 401.23 180.24 213.80 870.76 2,541.96 1,488.14 394.31 18,388.70 111.33 420.96
Tullow Oil PLC Unilever PLC United Utilities G PLC
513.25 2531.00 857.25
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It’s too soon to panic over sanctions THE new European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, on November 5, loftily declares that Western imposed sanctions imposed on Russia are likely to remain at the same level. Brace! Brace! The 28 nations making up the European Union are set to lose €50 billion in trade with Russia during 2015. Even if sanctions are lifted most cannot be recovered. The Russians have many alternative sources, whilst EU Bloc traders have few options. Some struggling economies will suffer more than will others. Nevertheless, as a noted American economist points out, “One more sanction and the European Union is back in recession.” How will businesses tackle this self-
Talking shop Mike Walsh Mike Walsh was for 20 years Regional Assessment Manager for the Guild of Master Craftsmen, Britain’s biggest quality assurance body for businesses.
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strangulation? Many will tighten their belts and hope to survive whilst others will look for alternative markets. I propose the latter as being the best course. Why? Businesses have become either complacent or mulishly refuse to move
with the times. I was reminded of this when browsing one of Latvia’s biggest country fairs. On sale were Baltic State manufactured products restricted to home markets, yet would find eager buyers outside their own country. Given added novelty effect and the fact that many larger nations like the UK, Germany, France and the Low Countries have more disposable income, the opportunities for Baltic product sales abroad are phenomenal. When pointing this out I was dismissed as naïve. Really? I asked the owners of two switched on businesses that were successfully exporting their products, how they were doing. Both were
manufacturing Baltic related goods and explained that half their produce was being sold abroad; mostly Germany and the United States. They conceded that their businesses would be unlikely to survive without sales abroad. They owed their success to their internet marketing. A Swedish business friend of mine who runs a business networking association in Riga agreed. Businesses are mired in inertia. Is it any different in Spain? Many Spanish-made products, again because of their exotic value, would find eager buyers in the rest of Europe. A pipe dream? Hardly. Many Spanish entrepreneurs have grown super rich by looking for streets paved with gold. Why not you too?
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The least all business owners can do is make their customers feel special Loose change A look at finance for females
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HOW many times have you have walked into a café or shop only to be greeted by a sour grin and an obviously irritated expel of air asking what you want? This deplorable kind of customer service is a pet hate of mine. I have worked in a café. I have worked in a shop too, and I know that it is not that difficult a job. The least an employee - or owner for that matter - can do, is be polite and welcoming. So often, obviously untrained staff completely ignore customers, while they chat and
laugh with colleagues. It’s an infuriating situation when you are waiting at the till, with your hard-earned money in hand, ready to buy something from their business. Failing to make a customer feel welcome and worthy is a fundamental fault of any business that leads to massive losses, yet so many businesses still continue to put themselves above their customers. Proper training of staff is key to success, be it a dog walker or a nursery school or a supermarket chain. Receiving good service is a delight. So it’s essential to employ staff who are enthusiastic and who
CUSTOMER SERVICE: Proper staff training is the key. actually know what they’re talking about. This will put a smile on a customer’s face and make them WANT to come back and spend more money. Modern customers are smart - if they’re not
happy they will pop off to a competitor quicker than you can say, ‘where are you going?’ Remember the businesses that boast great success often have one thing in common great customer service. A tried and tested method of keeping customers happy is rewarding them for their loyalty. Make customers feel special and give them a reason to come back by offering a voucher, a loyalty discount card or special pricing. People love a discount. For any businesses or small business owners out there… please train staff to know what they are there for and actually attend to customers. While for all you customers, if businesses continue to treat you like dirt, then please… take your money elsewhere.
SIP Card no good in Tenerife? Q. Having just read your article ‘Worried Over Medical Bills,’ I question the You and the statement that the medical card is valid Law in Spain in all of Spain. By David Searl My wife and I have held a SIP card for five years and every year we spend five or six months in Tenerife. Each time we try to use the SIP card there we are told they do not accept it. Could you clarify? K.A. (Costa Blanca) A. Tenerife rejects your SIP card because it is not a Spanish Social Security card. In the Valencian region your health services are provided by the Valencian health service and in Andalucia, they are delivered by the Servicio Andaluz de Salud. They are all part of the national system but they are individually administered, often with some differences. The SIP card is one of these differences. The SIP stands for Sistema de Información Poblacional, (System of Information regarding the Population). Every resident of the Valencian region is supposed to have one. Even a newborn baby gets a SIP. Basically, it is a census. The SIP card
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Good showing SANTANDER’S 2014 third-quarter profits increased by more than 50 per cent to €1.6 billion, its best for three years. Profits for the first nine months of the year grew by 32 per cent to €4.36 billion thanks to improving revenue, falling costs and less need for write-downs, said Santander president Ana Botin.
Jobs assured
entitles holders to health care, but only in the Valencia region.
Send your questions for David Searl through lawyers Ubeda-Retana & Associates in Fuengirola at Ask@lawtaxspain.com, or call 952 667 090.
FIFTY-SEVEN per cent of Spain’s big employers expected their current number of workers to remain unchanged in 2015, found a survey during the Family Firms annual conference in Alicante. Thirty-two per cent intended to engage more staff, compared with 27 per cent who had planned to do so in 2013.
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Different address NORA JOHNSON wrote about ‘Millionaire’s row,’ The Bishops Avenue in Hampstead. I had my first baby there in October 1953, in what had been Gracie Fields house, ‘Towers.’ Shirley Bassey also gave birth to her first baby there in October 1954, before she became famous. The rich residents of The Bishops Avenue (among them Lord Sainsbury) didn’t like this ‘common mill girl’ living there and made it known. So when Gracie left, she gave the house to the Government with the proviso it was used as a maternity hospital: “See how they like ambulances going up and down in the night!” The house was just as Gracie left it, with ballerina wallpaper, a piano in the corner, a central staircase and a balcony all round the first floor. The bathroom was huge, black-tiled and the bath stood on a dais in the middle of the room. On the third day after giving birth we were moved three doors along by ambulance to another mansion, ‘Green Trees.’ The owner had tried three times to burn it down for insurance but the insurance company realised, so he lost the house and the money! It had a tennis court and swimming pool (not that we were allowed to use them, of course). It is sad to read about the Avenue now. Jenny Hollowell, Arroyo De La Miel (Malaga)
Flight fright WHY can I not get a flight to or from Majorca in November? I looked at easyJet, who I flew with last November and the year before, and also Ryanair. No flights for November! Daniel Duff (by email)
Time for a change YOUR columnists Nora Johnson and Mike Walsh raised some excellent issues about our UK politicians. I remember my grandfather telling me how proud he was to vote for the newly-formed Labour party, the party for working people. Alas things are no longer that simple! The New Labour Party appears to have forgotten completely who
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Not golden JUDGING from his reaction to noise, Michael Hill has clearly not resided in Spain for long. Otherwise he would have understood by now that the Spanish concept of silence differs radically from that of the British. The Brits associate silence with peace and tranquillity but to the Spanish it represents death and sadness, hence the love of noise and life! They say you can attend a fiesta somewhere in Spain every day of the year and the Spanish appetite in general for having a noisy time can be difficult to comprehend particularly when you are trying to make yourself understood in a restaurant! As a former bar-owner myself I can assure you that it’s never the Spanish who make the complaints about noise: it is almost invariably the Brits. Ken Bethell, Puerto de Mazarron (Murcia)
Taxing matter MONSTER mantis darkens the skies above La Cala (taken through my windscreen)! Geoff Stansfield (by email)
they are supposed to represent and all MPs are there purely for their own self-glory. They promise us everything tomorrow. Now a grandparent myself, I feel this is my chance to change our political system once again and perhaps give my own working-class grandchildren a chance to have a party that may, hopefully, stand up and represent their views in the future. Yes I know Nigel Farage isn’t working class, but he does appear to answer a direct question and certainly appears to know a little more about living in the real world. Just think about the mayhem they could cause when his party wins a few more seats: no more boring politics for us! They certainly couldn’t do any worse than the current lot. Ann Paterson, San Fulgencio (Alicante)
Do something now IF the British conservative party wins the general election in 2015
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the proposed EU referendum will no doubt go ahead in 2017, if not earlier. The merits of giving such a vote to the British public are in themselves debatable and of some concern. The issue is highly complex, beyond the knowledge of the average ‘Joe Public,’ and most commentary about the EU is to be found in the British tabloid press, known to be profoundly anti-EU and xenophobic. Any vote given to the public on this issue would unfortunately be a vote bound by ignorance rather than informed commentary of the workings of the EU.
If the referendum goes ahead, it will be a miracle if the British public votes ‘yes’ to continued EU membership, especially in the face of David Cameron’s current rhetoric and paranoid fear of losing votes to the upstart and ultra-rightwing UKIP. To the best of my knowledge the government has not indicated what it will do to protect the 1.4m or so registered British residents in other EU states. Other EU citizens working and living in the UK must have similar concerns. If no lobbying is done now, waiting for the vote to take place could be too late and we could see our rights eroded overnight. I have already written to the British prime minister and to the other two mainstream British political party headquarters expressing my concerns. Everyone who cares about their future residence should do likewise. Let the politicians really know of your concerns. Complacency and doing nothing achieve nothing. Jeremy Cordon Newby, Perin (Murcia)
I OWN an apartment in a complex in Benalmadena and was outraged to learn because it’s not my main residence I have to pay a lot more money for collections of bins and other services. Surely this is not right? Or was the information I received wrong? If true, is this in accordance with EU law? Andrew James, Hengoed (South Wales)
Job done I WAS charmed not long ago when I saw a young man stop in the street and greet a very old lady. A little unsteady on her feet and with a wheeled walking aid, she was out with someone who looked as though she must be her carer. This very good-looking young man kissed her on both cheeks. He was probably a relative, as all the Spanish residents in our small town turn out to be related to each other. The elderly woman asked him how he was and he replied he had found work. “Work!” she exclaimed. “That’s wonderful!” “I know,” he replied. “My parents are over the moon.” And so, at a distance, was I. But what a sign of the times! Rosemary Cochrane (by email)
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8:00pm Snog, Marry, Avoid? 8:30pm Snog, Marry, Avoid? 9:00pm Don't Tell the Bride 10:00pm Comedy Fest Live 11:00pm World's Craziest Fools 11:30pm EastEnders 12:00am Family Guy 12:25am Family Guy 12:45am Family Guy 1:10am Family Guy 1:30am Snow, Sex and Suspicious Parents 2:30am Life is Toff 3:00am People Like Us 4:00am Snow, Sex and Suspicious Parents 5:00am This is BBC Three
8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Sounds of the 70s
9:00pm Chivalry and Betrayal: The Hundred Years War 10:00pm Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled 11:00pm Puppy Love 11:30pm Horizon 12:30am Dolly Parton: Platinum Blonde 1:30am Barry Manilow at the BBC 2:30am Arena 3:30am Puppy Love
10:15am Royal Pains 11:15am The Chase 12:15pm All Star Family Fortunes 1:15pm Emmerdale 1:45pm Coronation Street 2:15pm You've Been Framed! 2:50pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 6:05pm You've Been Framed! 7:00pm Royal Pains 8:00pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! 10:00pm Scorpion 11:00pm Celebrity Juice 11:50pm Little Man
9:20am Wycliffe 10:30am Judge Judy 11:50am Inspector Morse 1:55pm Heartbeat 3:00pm Wild at Heart 4:00pm Wycliffe 5:10pm Second Thoughts 5:40pm Fresh Fields 6:15pm George and Mildred 6:50pm Heartbeat 7:50pm Wycliffe 9:00pm Midsomer Murders 11:00pm Philippa Gregory's The Little House 12:00am The Vice
8:55am The Professionals 9:55am Kojak 10:55am Magnum, P.I. 12:00pm Pawn Stars 12:55pm Alias Smith and Jones 1:55pm Minder 3:00pm The Professionals 4:00pm Pawn Stars 4:55pm Magnum, P.I. 5:55pm Kojak 7:00pm Alias Smith and Jones 8:00pm Pawn Stars 9:00pm River Monsters 11:05pm Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1:00am Jaws 3
1:35pm Rules of Engagement 2:00pm How I Met Your Mother 3:00pm The Big Bang Theory 4:00pm Rules of Engagement 5:00pm Melissa and Joey 5:30pm Suburgatory 6:00pm How I Met Your Mother 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm Melissa and Joey 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm Drifters 10:30pm 2 Broke Girls 11:00pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 12:00am The Big Bang Theory
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Documentary series presenting archive footage of rock, pop and soul performances from the 1970s.
SKY MOVIES Action 5:15am Born to Race: Fast Track 7:00am Jaws 9:15am Demolition Man 11:20am Thor: The Dark World 1:20pm Cinderella Man 3:55pm The Jewel of the Nile 5:50pm Jaws Steven Spielberg's scary chiller about a coastal community plagued by a killer shark.
8:00pm Demolition Man 10:00pm Thor: The Dark World 12:00am Commando 1:40am Crank 3:20am The Marine: Homefront 5:00am The Jewel of the Nile
5:15am Bean 7:00am Top Secret 8:35am Fun with Dick and Jane 10:10am This is the End 12:00pm The Internship 2:00pm The Break-Up Gary and Brooke are blissfully happy together in their Chicago condo.
3:50pm Syrup 5:25pm The Devil Wears Prada 7:15pm Uncle Buck 9:00pm This is the End 11:00pm The Internship 1:10am The Break-Up 3:10am Stir Crazy 5:10am Monkey Business
5:40am Deep Family Secrets 7:25am Dead Calm 9:15am Pain and Gain: Sky Movies Special 9:35am Flesh and Bone 11:55am Ripley's Game 1:55pm Runner Runner 3:40pm Hours 5:30pm Dead Calm 7:20pm Zero Dark Thirty 10:00pm Runner Runner 11:35pm Outlaw 1:30am Death Wish 3:15am Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead 5:20am Malpractice
6:20am Home Alone: The Holiday Heist 8:00am Snowmen 9:30am Miracle on 34th Street 11:10am The Santa Clause 2 1:00pm Die Hard 2 3:10pm Grumpy Old Men 5:00pm Miracle on 34th Street 6:45pm Love Actually Romcom following the interconnected lives of a group of loved-up, and lovelorn, Londoners.
9:00pm The Santa Clause 2 11:00pm Die Hard 2 1:10am Love Actually 3:35am Grumpy Old Men 5:30am Snowmen
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5:20am The Good Witch's Wonder 7:00am Pete's Christmas 8:35am The Good Witch's Wonder 10:15am Getaway 12:00pm The Good Witch's Wonder 1:40pm Pete's Christmas 3:15pm Aftermath 4:55pm Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom 7:25pm Pete's Christmas 9:00pm Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom 11:30pm Getaway 1:15am Aftermath 3:05am American Mary 5:05am The Heat: Sky Movies Special 5:20am The Good Witch's Wonder
6:00am Warriors Five 7:30am Gunsmoke 8:30am Gunsmoke 9:35am The Mackintosh Man 11:25am The Arrangement 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm Screaming Eagles 5:40pm Dial M for Murder 7:40pm The Black Stallion 10:00pm The Reaping 11:55pm Cradle to the Grave 1:45am The Reaping 3:30am Cradle to the Grave 5:15am TCM Shorts 5:35am Off Set
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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Neighbourhood Blues 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Call the Council 12:45pm Don't Get Done, Get Dom 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One 2:30pm BBC London News 2:45pm Doctors
BBC TWO 8:05am Call the Council 8:50am Don't Get Done, Get Dom 9:20am Holiday of My Lifetime with Len Goodman 10:05am £100k House: Tricks of the Trade 11:05am Children's Hospital 11:35am The Travel Show 12:00pm BBC News 12:30pm BBC World News 1:00pm Coast 1:10pm Animal Park 2:10pm The Life of Birds
ITV 7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 11:55am ITV News 12:00pm This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV News and Weather
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9:00am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:35am Toby's Travelling Circus 9:50am Bananas in Pyjamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Cowboy Builders 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Underground Britain 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours
6:00am Airline USA 6:30am Airline USA 7:00am The Real A&E 7:30am The Real A&E 8:00am Inside Gatwick 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
3:15pm NCIS 4:10pm Rosamunde Pilcher: The Unknown Heart
3:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:00pm Obese: A Year to Save My Life USA 5:00pm Inside Gatwick
6:00pm Come Dine with Me 6:30pm Coach Trip 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 8:35pm Unreported World
6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm World War II in Colour
6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Futurama 7:00pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons
9:00pm Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 10:00pm Gogglebox
9:00pm Rome: The World's First Superpower 10:00pm Alex Polizzi's Secret Italy 11:00pm Body of Proof
9:00pm The Simpsons 9:30pm The Simpsons 10:00pm Football's Funniest Moments 11:00pm Micky Flanagan's Detour De France
10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Daily Brunch 11:55am Celebrity Come Dine with Me 12:30pm Celebrity Come Dine with Me 1:00pm Channel 4 News Summary 1:05pm Celebrity Come Dine with Me 1:35pm Celebrity Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Celebrity Come Dine with Me 2:40pm Channel 4 Racing
3pm 3:15pm Moving On 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Glorious Gardens From Above 5:30pm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
3:00pm Tennis Sue Barker hosts live coverage from the ATP World Tour Finals in London, where the roundrobin phase is in its concluding stages.
3:00pm Peter Andre's 60 Minute Makeover 4:00pm The Alan Titchmarsh Show 5:00pm Tipping Point
5:00pm Deal or No Deal Noel Edmonds presents the hit show in which players could win up to £250,000 as they open 22 boxes and decide whether to do a deal or no deal when the Banker calls.
6pm 6:00pm Flog It! 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two 8:00pm The Home That Two Built
6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street
9:00pm Mastermind 9:30pm Tom Kerridge's Best Ever Dishes 10:00pm The Fish Market: Inside Billingsgate 11:00pm Children in Need 11:35pm Newsnight
9:00pm Secrets From the Sky 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Lewis 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm GoldenEye
12:10am Never Mind the Buzzcocks 12:40am Later... with Jools Holland 1:40am Michael Collins 3:45am Question Time 4:45am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.
2:05am Jackpot247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 4:40am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service.
12:10am Toast of London 12:40am Psycho 2:45am The Divide 4:35am Location, Location, Location 5:35am Phil: Secret Agent Down Under
12:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:55am Access 1:00am Super Casino 4:10am Miracle Babies 5:00am Wildlife SOS 5:25am Great Scientists 5:45am House Doctor
12:00am Britcam: Emergency on Our Streets 1:00am NCIS: Los Angeles2:00am Hawaii Five-0 3:00am Hawaii Five-0 4:00am Road Wars 5:00am Stargate Atlantis
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8:00pm Top Gear 9:00pm Motorway Cops 10:00pm Face/Off 12:15am Family Guy 12:40am Family Guy 1:00am Family Guy 1:20am Shanghai Knights 3:05am Sweat the Small Stuff 3:35am Some Girls 4:05am Some Girls 4:35am Fried 5:00am This is BBC Three
8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Darcey Bussell Dances Hollywood 10:00pm Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music 11:00pm Bob Harris: My Nashville 12:00am Brad Paisley and Friends 1:00am Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music 2:00am John Denver at Wembley Arena 2:40am Bob Harris: My Nashville 3:40am Brad Paisley and Friends 4:40am This is BBC Four
11:15am The Chase 12:15pm All Star Family Fortunes 1:15pm Emmerdale 1:45pm Emmerdale 2:15pm You've Been Framed! 2:50pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 3:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:00pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 6:05pm You've Been Framed! 6:30pm You've Been Framed! 7:00pm Royal Pains 8:00pm Ultimate You've Been Framed! 9:00pm I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! 10:00pm Ocean's Eleven 12:25am Dapper Laughs: On the Pull
11:20am Judge Judy 11:50am Inspector Morse 1:55pm Heartbeat 3:00pm Wild at Heart 4:00pm Wycliffe 5:10pm Second Thoughts 5:40pm Fresh Fields 6:15pm George and Mildred 6:50pm Heartbeat 7:50pm Wycliffe 9:00pm Wycliffe 10:00pm Love Your Garden 11:00pm Philippa Gregory's The Little House 12:00am The Vice
12:30pm Pawn Stars 12:55pm Alias Smith and Jones 1:55pm Minder 3:00pm The Professionals 4:00pm Pawn Stars 4:30pm Pawn Stars 4:55pm Magnum, P.I. 5:55pm Kojak 7:00pm Alias Smith and Jones 8:00pm Pawn Stars 8:30pm Pawn Stars 9:00pm Storage Wars 9:30pm Storage Wars 10:00pm Firefox 12:50am Runaway Train
4:00pm Rules of Engagement 4:30pm Rules of Engagement 5:00pm Melissa and Joey 5:30pm Suburgatory 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 Melissa and Joey 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm The Hole 11:55pm The Big Bang Theory 12:25am The Big Bang Theory
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6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm Children in Need 2014
9pm 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News 11:35pm Children in Need 2014 A star-studded line-up of famous faces take part in this year's marathon fundraising effort.
Britain's favourite opinionated TV viewers share their sharp, insightful, passionate and sometimes emotional critiques of the week's biggest and best shows.
11:00pm Alan Carr: Chatty Man
12am 3:00am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather forecast. 3:05am BBC News
BBC Three: Refreshing TV for the digital age. Tune in daily from 7.00pm.
BBC Four is the BBC channel for people who want more.
SKY MOVIES Action 7:00am The Patriot 9:55am Hulk 12:25pm Man of Steel 3:00pm The Saint Simon Templar is a debonair master thief with a talent for disguise.
5:05pm Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time 7:10pm The Patriot 10:00pm Man of Steel 12:25am Hulk 2:45am Shaft 4:30am The Saint Simon Templar is a debonair master thief with a talent for disguise.
Comedy 7:00am Best in Show 8:35am Big Daddy 10:10am The Hot Flashes 11:55am Grown Ups 2 1:40pm Click 3:35pm Notting Hill A self-effacing bookshop owner bumps into a major American movie star and falls instantly in love.
5:45pm The Harry Hill Movie 7:20pm Big Daddy 9:00pm Grown Ups 2 10:50pm Click 12:45am Anger Management 2:35am Feels So Good 4:05am Someone Marry Barry
7:00am Derailed 8:50am In Their Skin 10:30am Sleeping with the Enemy 12:10pm The Call 1:50pm The Manchurian Candidate 4:00pm Conspiracy Theory 6:20pm Derailed 8:10pm Trance 10:00pm The Call 11:40pm Kill Bill: Vol. 1 1:40am Cherry Falls 3:20am Jagged Edge Newspaper man Jack is the prime suspect when his rich wife is murdered.
5:20am Loss of Faith
7:00am Naughty or Nice 8:35am Mickey's Once upon a Christmas 9:50am The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause 11:30am Elf 1:15pm The Best Man Holiday 3:25pm Nativity 3: Dude Where's My Donkey Special 3:45pm Gremlins 5:40pm Look Who's Talking Now! 7:20pm The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause 9:00pm Elf 10:45pm Gremlins 12:40am A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas
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7:00am Time Lapse 9:00am Saving Santa 10:30am Getaway 12:10pm Almost Christmas 2:00pm Time Lapse 4:00pm Getaway 5:35pm Grudge Match 7:30pm Saving Santa 9:00pm Grudge Match 11:00pm Almost Christmas 1:00am Time Lapse 3:00am Aftermath 4:45am The Judge Special
7:30am Gunsmoke 8:30am Gunsmoke 9:40am Black Gold 11:35am The Black Stallion 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm Comando Al Infierno 5:45pm The Ballad of Cable Hogue 7:55pm The Big Knife 10:00pm The Fog 11:55pm F/X 2 - Effets Tres Speciaux 2:00am The Fog 3:45am Fort Vengeance 5:05am Ed Sullivan Presents: Rock 'N' Roll Revolution: The British Invade America
Robert Duvall and Robert Downey Jr chat about their new thriller The Judge.
5:15am Saving Santa
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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC's Breakfast team. 11:00am Saturday Kitchen Live James Martin presents the weekly live cooking show with guest chefs Glynn Purnell and Chris King. 12:30pm James Martin: Home Comforts 1:00pm BBC News 1:10pm Football Focus 1:50pm Saturday Sportsday 2:00pm Rugby League
BBC TWO 7:05am My Forbidden Past 8:15am Rugby League 11:00am The Life of Birds 11:50am Animal Park 12:20pm Coast Coast ventures out to new territory, the astonishing man-made shoreline of the Netherlands. 1:00pm Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odyssey 2:00pm Escape to the Country
ITV 8:10am Canimals 8:20am Signed Stories: Share a Story 8:25am Sooty 8:35am Mr. Bean 8:50am The Matt Hatter Chronicles 9:15am Horrid Henry 9:30am The Munch Box 10:25am The Hungry Sailors 11:25am Murder, She Wrote 12:20pm ITV News and Weather 12:30pm Storage Hoarders 1:30pm Surprise Surprise 2:30pm Faith in the Future
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CH4 7:05am NFL 7:30am Transworld Sport 8:25am River Rat Race Stockton 8:55am The Morning Line 10:00am Weekend Kitchen with Waitrose 11:00am Frasier 11:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 12:00pm The Big Bang Theory 12:30pm The Big Bang Theory 1:00pm The Simpsons 1:30pm Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2:30pm Channel 4 Racing
CH5 9:20am Wanda and the Alien 9:30am Zack and Quack 9:45am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 10:00am Jelly Jamm 10:15am Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 10:50am Access 10:55am Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away! 11:55am Alex Polizzi's Secret Italy 12:55pm The Christmas Heart 2:40pm Help for the Holidays
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SKY 1 7:00am Are You Smarter Than a 10 Year Old? 8:00am Glee 9:00am The Fantasy Football Club 10:00am The F1 Show 11:00am Soccer A.M. 1:00pm World Wrestling Entertainment Superstars 2:00pm Interstellar Movie Special A look at Christopher Nolan's new sci-fi epic starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway. 2:30pm The Middle
3pm 3:00pm Rugby Union 5:30pm Children in Need Shane Richie presents highlights from Children in Need 2014.
3:00pm Tennis Sue Barker presents further live coverage of the ATP World Tour Finals in London, where it is semi-finals day.
5:00pm Come Dine with Me
8:15pm The Chase: Celebrity Special
6:00pm Come Dine with Me 6:35pm Come Dine with Me 7:05pm Come Dine with Me 7:35pm Channel 4 News 8:05pm Speed with Guy Martin
6:10pm A Grandpa for Christmas 7:55pm 5 News Weekend 8:00pm The Battle of Britain
6:00pm Portrait Artist of the Year 2014 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles
9:00pm Walking Through History 10:00pm It Was Alright in the 1970's
10:35pm The Wild Geese
9:00pm Hawaii Five-0
First to host in Lincoln is hunting enthusiast Hunni Hindley.
5:30pm Come Dine with Me
4:20pm Christmas Mail
3:00pm The Middle 3:30pm The Middle 4:00pm All Aboard: East Coast Trains 5:00pm All Aboard: East Coast Trains
3:00pm Doc Martin 4:05pm Keep it in the Family 5:05pm ITV News London 5:15pm ITV News and Weather 5:30pm Euro 2016 Qualifier Live
Festive romantic comedy in which a mysterious woman employed by the post office to answer Santa's mail captures the heart of a disillusioned postman.
6pm 6:50pm BBC News The latest national and international news from the BBC.
7:00pm BBC London News 7:10pm Pointless 8:00pm Strictly Come Dancing
6:00pm Rugby Union 8:30pm Flog it! Trade Secrets Antiques series.
9:00pm Perry and Croft: Made in Britain From Dad's Army to You Rang, M'Lord?,
Bradley Walsh hosts another celebrity edition of the hit quiz show in which four famous faces take on the Chaser, one of Britain's finest quiz brains, in a bid to win thousands of pounds for charity.
National and international news.
9pm 9:30pm Atlantis 10:15pm Casualty 11:05pm The National Lottery Live 11:15pm BBC News 11:35pm Mrs. Brown's Boys Comedy series about a loudmouthed Irish matriarch and her family.
9:30pm Dad's Army 10:00pm QI XL 10:45pm War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme Narrated by Michael Sheen, this documentary details the experiences of the poets and writers who served in the 1916 Battle of the Somme.
9:15pm The X Factor 10:55pm The Jonathan Ross Show Star-studded chat show.
11:55pm ITV News and Weather Charlene White with the latest headlines from around the world.
This new two-part series revisits the TV decade that taste forgot.
11:00pm Chronicle
Richard Burton and Roger Moore star in this 1978 tale of revolution in central Africa. As the country is held by a brutal dictator, British mercenaries attempt to restore peace.
Chin puts his entire career on the line to help Danno save his brother's life.
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12am 12:15am TOTP 2 1:15am Down Terrace 2:45am Undertow 4:20am This is BBC Two
12:10am Euro 2016 Qualifier Highlights 1:10am Jackpot247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 4:45am ITV Nightscreen
12:40am Max Payne 2:30am Shell 4:05am Hollyoaks Omnibus
1:15am Gotham 2:10am Super Casino 4:10am The Gadget Show 5:00am House Doctor 5:25am Make it Big 5:50am Make it Big
12:40am Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?! 12:50am Futurama 1:00am Costa Del Street Crime 2:00am Hawaii Five-0 3:00am Starlings 4:00am Starlings 5:00am Ian Wright's Excellent Adventure
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8:00pm World's Craziest Fools 8:30pm Rugby Union 9:30pm Top Gear 10:15pm Sherlock 11:50pm Family Guy 12:10am Family Guy 12:50am Family Guy 1:15am Family Guy 1:40am Family Guy 2:00am Family Guy 2:25am Life is Toff 2:55am The Revolution Will be Televised 3:25am Sweat the Small Stuff 3:55am Snow, Sex and Suspicious Parents 4:55am This is BBC Three
8:00pm Swarm: Nature's Incredible Invasions 9:00pm The Riviera: A History in Pictures 10:00pm Inspector Montalbano
11:35pm Krakatoa Revealed 12:25am Swarm: Nature's Incredible Invasions 1:25am Guitar Heroes at the BBC 2:25am Deep Purple: Made in Japan 3:25am Sounds of the Eighties 4:00am The Riviera: A History in Pictures 5:00am This is BBC Four
7:00am Emmerdale Omnibus 9:40am Coronation Street Omnibus 12:15pm You've Been Framed! 1:15pm Twister 3:30pm I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! 5:35pm I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! 6:45pm Despicable Me 8:40pm Dungeons and Dragons 10:55pm The Xtra Factor 11:55pm Celebrity Juice 12:40am The X Factor 2:15am The Xtra Factor 3:10am Fake Reaction
7:00am The Darling Buds of May 8:00am 1914 All Out 9:40am The Royal 10:40am The Royal 11:45am The Darling Buds of May 12:55pm The Darling Buds of May 2:00pm Columbo 3:55pm A Touch of Frost 5:55pm Agatha Christie's Marple 8:00pm Rosemary and Thyme 9:00pm Doc Martin 10:00pm Midsomer Murders 12:00am A Touch of Frost 1:45am Bomb Girls 2:30am World Kitchen
12:00pm World Rally Championship Highlights 12:25pm GT Academy 1:00pm The Professionals 2:05pm Billion Dollar Brain 3:05pm FYI Daily 4:15pm Alias Smith and Jones 5:50pm Alias Smith and Jones 6:55pm The War Wagon 7:55pm FYI Daily 9:00pm Storage Wars 9:30pm Storage Wars 10:00pm Never Say Never Again 11:00pm FYI Daily 12:45am Klitschko
7:00am Make it or Break it 7:50am The 100 8:35am Happy Endings 10:00am Rules of Engagement 11:00am How I Met Your Mother 12:00pm Melissa and Joey 2:00pm Made in Chelsea 3:00pm Space Chimps 4:45pm Rude(Ish) Tube Shorts 5:00pm Melissa and Joey 6:00pm How I Met Your Mother 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm Love and Other Drugs 12:15am Rude Tube 1:20am The Inbetweeners
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12:05am Jack Whitehall Live 1:05am EastEnders Omnibus 2:35am Weather for the Week Ahead 2:40am BBC News
Drama based on the series of books featuring the Sicilian detective, Inspector Montalbano.
SKY MOVIES Action 4:30am The Saint 6:30am Pacific Rim: Sky Movies Special 7:00am Mean Machine 8:55am Gravity: Sky Movies Special 9:25am The Bridge on the River Kwai 12:20pm Catwoman 2:15pm Stealth 4:30pm Thor: The Dark World Special 5:00pm The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 8:00pm The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 11:00pm The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2:20am Mean Machine 4:10am The Bridge on the River Kwai
5:35am The Harry Hill Movie 7:10am In and Out 8:45am The Monster Squad 10:10am The Mask 12:00pm Starsky and Hutch 1:50pm The Hangover Part III 3:35pm In and Out 5:10pm How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days 7:10pm The Mask 9:00pm The Hangover Part III 10:50pm Starsky and Hutch 12:35am Scary Movie 5 2:05am The Man with Two Brains 3:40am The Monster Squad 5:05am Arthur 2: On the Rocks
5:20am Loss of Faith 7:05am All Things to All Men 8:45am The Island 11:10am Deadfall 1:00pm The Chamber 3:00pm A Few Good Men 5:20pm The Island 7:40pm Proof of Life Engineer Peter Bowden is snatched by professional terrorists in the South American jungle.
10:00pm Oldboy 11:55pm Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2:20am Deadfall 4:05am Fear 5:50am Point Last Seen
5:40am While You Were Sleeping 7:30am The Elf That Rescued Christmas 8:50am Disney's A Christmas Carol 10:35am Home Alone 12:25pm The Elf That Rescued Christmas 1:45pm Miracle on 34th Street 3:45pm Disney's A Christmas Carol 5:30pm Home Alone 7:20pm Pete's Christmas 9:00pm Bad Santa 10:45pm Black Christmas 12:15am New Year's Eve 2:20am Bad Santa 4:05am Black Christmas 5:35am Miracle on 34th Street
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5:15am Saving Santa 7:00am Time Lapse 9:00am Saving Santa 10:30am Getaway 12:10pm Time Lapse 2:10pm Almost Christmas 4:00pm Getaway 5:35pm Grudge Match 7:30pm Saving Santa 9:00pm Grudge Match 11:00pm Almost Christmas 1:00am Time Lapse 3:00am Aftermath 4:45am Pacific Rim: Sky Movies Special 5:15am Saving Santa
6:00am Comando Al Infierno 7:40am Gunsmoke 8:45am Gunsmoke 9:55am The Ballad of Cable Hogue 12:10pm The Big Knife 2:15pm Backfire 4:00pm The Train 6:30pm Ja, Ja, Mein General! But Which Way to the Front? 8:25pm Arctic Flight 10:00pm Crossfire 11:55pm San Ging Chaat Goo Si 2:15am Crossfire 4:05am The Frozen Dead 5:45am TCM Shorts
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Back in the old country... LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT
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HAVE just paid £8 for four coffees! Yep, back in the old Motherland for a couple of weeks. That was the price in the café at Blackpool train station. The mind boggles. With these sorts of prices one thing is becoming perfectly clear (as our politicians are so fond of spouting) I’m gonna have to put up my fees! Been a pretty eventful week so far. I’m delighted to say my prostate biopsy result came through as clear. Had to wait more than a month for the results. To say it was a long month is something of an understatement. It’s an odd sort of limbo-land when the future is unknown and certainly undecided. Thankfully I was one of the lucky
MINI TOUR: Blackpool is one of Leapy’s destinations back in UK. ones. My heart goes out to those whose results are not so favourable. Another event this week was my daughter Charlene’s announcement that she was finally going to tie the knot with her handsome Mallorcan partner, Miguel. Not before time. Mucha suerte to you both. It’s all done differently
these days. They've bought the house, had a beautiful baby boy, saved their money and now they’re getting married. I dunno, in my day that procedure was reversed. That’s progress, I suppose. All that has been rounded off by coming over to the auld country for a mini tour. Last night I had the pleasure of
working with Amen Corner. Now there’s a blast from the past! I am now on a train back to Blackpool, as I missed the Preston stop on the way down. Duh! One thing that does become apparent over here is the politeness of those who serve the public. Rail staff, hotel staff, etc, are all most obliging and helpful. A trait
that is somewhat lacking in some public servants in good old España where the dreaded shoulder shrug is prominent in most problem situations. Ah well, at least it’s warmer. It’s freezing over here. Just been informed that I needn’t have got the train back to Preston and could have caught my connection at Manchester. Gawd! Am now on my way back to Manchester Piccadilly and feel it may be wiser to discontinue this missive and concentrate on where I’m supposed to be going! Just as a matter of interest, waiting for my train, which incidentally goes on to Huddersfield, there were only three white faces out of some 50 or 60 waiting passengers. Just an observation, that’s all. Have a good week. Try and do a favour or two. And, whatever ya do, always keep the faith. Love Leapy Leapylee2002@ gmail.com
Honesty pays in the media Mike Walsh Mike, based in Mediterranean Spain, is an international journalist, author and professional writer.
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T would be a knee-jerk comment to describe the Euro Weekly News success story as being down to the hard work and dedication of its staff. Successful or not, newspaper hubs are no place for the faint-hearted; the answer has to lie elsewhere. Could it be that mainstream media has lost touch with their readership? Newspapers and broadcasters that once commanded enormous respect have lost public confidence. Today, mainstream media are megaphones for political and corporate interests. A career in journalism once carried a kudos similar to that enjoyed by healthcare professionals and the Civil Service. Now, even household name columnists are regarded as little more than hacks. In truth there has never been a truly free media: A. J. Liebling, a highly respected journalist for the New Yorker, remarked, ‘Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.’
Newspaper proprietors set the rules and we scribblers abide by them. Here in Spain I am privileged to be encouraged to challenge orthodoxy. I do so. However, many articles by truly great columnists will never be printed in mainstream media. In the U.S. 77 per cent of the population distrust corporate TV news. More Americans get their news from online sources rather than from conventional media. European mistrust is likely to be higher. It wasn’t always like that. Until a few decades ago queues formed at newsstands WHISTLE-BLOWERS: Like Julian Assange seek sanctuary abroad or take refuge in foreign embassies.
eagerly awaiting the days hot off the press news. Great newspapers, like the Chicago Herald, Daily Express, and Paris Soir published uncut articles by the then German leader, Adolph Hitler, Italy’s Benito Mussolini, Spain’s General Franco and other controversial figures. Would mainstream media today allow space to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Presidents of Venezuela, Argentina, Colombia or leaders of Novorussia or Belarus? Interestingly, those who express the most outrage at today’s media spin and control are insider journalists. Outraged at restrictions placed on them, they express themselves
eloquently, not in mainstream media but in freer media. Whatever spin media puts on it there should be outrage that whistle-blowers like Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and other dissidents seek sanctuary abroad or take refuge in foreign embassies; in cases like that of ex-serviceman Chelsea Manning jailed for years. Whatever happened to the Voltaire principle: “I disapprove of what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it.” Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and Wall Street Journal editor describes journalists as ‘presstitutes.’ Former CIA Director William Colby; “The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” Western mainstream media readership collapses as its cynical readership evaporates. In Britain, 52 corporate interest publications collapsed in 2009 alone. Despite this gloomy outlook, truly independent more trusted localised media adds to its readership and advertising revenue. Newspapers can survive and thrive but will do so only when once again independent of political and corporate interests.
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Democracy, disillusionment and the political class - it defies belief R
ECENTLY, there’s Nora Johnson been much coverBreaking Views age in the Spanish A Costa del Sol resident for a press about the high level number of years, Nora is the author of psychological of corruption cases here suspense and crime thrillers. To comment on any of the involving members of issues raised in her column, both mainstream political go to www.euroweeklynews.com/columnists/nora-johnson parties, each hurling accusations at the other. Well, glasshouses and find even one person to stones come to mind and, head an inquiry who isn’t a hopefully, British politicians member of the great and will be the last to throw the good? Next, the news that anything - in light of the latest shenanigans in records of MPs’ expenses from before 2010 have Westminster. First off, there’s the been shredded. Members musical chairs scenario of of the public who contacted who’ll finally end up as the parliamentary chair of the historical child standards commissioner to abuse inquiry, with both question their MP’s Baroness Butler-Sloss and expenditure have been Fiona Woolf forced to informed there can be no resign over their too-close- investigation because of a for-comfort links to the lack of evidence. So, what if an MP doesn’t ‘Establishment.’ Really, is it now impossible in the UK to want questions asked
WESTMINSTER: Glasshouses and stones come to mind! about their expenses? Under the current ‘rules,’ all they have to do is dither, ‘misplace’ letters, foot-drag and generally spin things out until three years have passed. All above board in a democracy, then whoosh! All records vanish! Magic!
Now, any decent company with this number of claimants would have a system set up requiring expenses claims to be saved as pdfs together with copies of receipts and kept for six years for tax purposes. In this case,
maybe MPs believe themselves to be above the law or that it doesn’t apply to them - no surprise there, then. Or, maybe space is needed for yet more expenses scandals? I’m sure there are some decent, upright politicians,
but it’s becoming increasingly hard to imagine why anyone still has faith in them when they are so busy looking out for themselves. If there’s nothing to hide, why shred these documents so hastily? Nobody else could ever get away with it. And yet we have politicians still in post who fiddled their expenses! Disillusionment with politics and politicians now runs so deep it defies belief. In exasperation, you could end up supporting clowns like Russell Brand. Well, maybe not Russell Brand ... Nora Johnson’s thrillers ‘Landscape of Lies,’ ‘Retribution,’ ‘Soul Stealer,’ ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.nora-johnson.com) from Amazon. Profits to Cudeca.
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With Britain out of recession it should be looking good for us all.
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What is something that people spend a large amount on, but don’t need to?
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RAHAM SALT from Pest Control, Costa del Sol says alcohol, because nobody in England would drink Anis at seven in the morning, but here it is normal!
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STREET TALK Trinidad Sanchez Fuentes from the Clinica Mejorate Physiotherapy and Osteopathy Centre which has centres in Altea, Los Montesinos and Torrevieja believes men and women spend money they don’t need to on two different things: “Women spend too much on shoes and men spend too much on televisions and technology, TVs always have to be the biggest and best and women always need a new pair of shoes!” Cesar Ripanu from TRINI: Women spend too much money on shoes.
Gold Rush in Zenia Boulevard, La Zenia, Torrevieja and Quesada, believes people spend lots of money on self confidence: “When people don’t have any, they think they can buy it as if they are saying ‘I don’t like the way I look, so I will buy a Rolex or a Ferrari’ and you don’t need to buy that sort of status and confidence.” Claire McCann of Total Entertainment, Albox and Arboleas said: “I might have to be a bit controversial, as one of those horrible, preachy non-smokers my answer would be cigarettes. Especially at UK prices! I always justify my huge Avon bills by saying it’s still less than my boyfriend spends on smoking.” Donna from Little Britain in Mallorca says shoes; she always spends thousands of pounds on shoes,
CESAR: People spend money on material things to buy self confidence.
when she doesn’t really need them. Sammi Clueit from Splash Pools, Costa del Sol says handbags. People spend ridiculous amounts of money on expensive handbags.
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Mark Austin and Julie Etchingham with the latest headlines from around the world.
Over the past 50 years Britain has changed almost beyond recognition.
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Graphic Australian drama series set in a women's prison.
Clues lead Martin to a mysterious figure named John Cameron and a possible assassination plot as the conspiracy thriller reaches its conclusion.
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Stop, think and plan the play at Trick One Plan the Hand at Trick One As soon as the opening lead is made, it is time to stop, think and plan the play. Do not touch any card in dummy, not even a singleton in the suit led, until you have considered the opposition bidding, counted your winners and losers, and assessed where any missing trick(s) might come from to make your contract. Cover up the E-W cards here and think how you would play this hand on the lead of the ♦3. Although you have a combined 31 HCP, there are only eight top tricks. Where is the ninth trick coming from? Several possibilities go
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♠K52 ♥AK63 ♦A742 ♣A7
through your head: 1. Finesse the ♠J. You have no reason to
♠♥ ♦♣
assume this is any better than a 50 per cent chance 2. Play for 4 ♦ tricks.
That will fail if the ♦3 was a very likely fourth highest. 3. Establish the fourth ♥ The suit is more likely to break 4-2 than 3-3 4. Lead up to ♥J or ♣Q You have no reason to place ♥Q or the ♣K with West 5. Is there a squeeze? No obvious squeeze possibility suggests itself 6. Can I endplay and opponent? Having reached this last possibility, the light suddenly dawns. Duck trick one! If the ♦3 really was fourth highest, East’s ♦T was a singleton and he is endplayed. Whatever he leads at trick two is 100 per cent guaranteed to give you a ninth trick.
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Running scared as control is slipping Cassandra Nash
A weekly look - and not entirely impartial reaction to the Spanish political scene
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PP and PSOE, harried by Podemos, mobilise against corruption.” This was an El Pais headline not long ago, but the same message was seen and heard throughout the Spanish media after a Metroscopia poll put Podemos ahead of both parties. It would be uplifting to believe that the PP and PSOE have the electorate’s good at heart. Instead most disillusioned voters believe that with local elections six months away they are running scared as political control slips from their fingers. It takes the threat of losing power to push the two principal parties into doing something serious and effective against the corruption that always was and still is endemic in Spanish politics.
Touchy-feely, but not in Spain MIRIAM GONZALEZ DURANTEZ is the Spanish wife of Nick Clegg, but that shouldn’t be held against her. A woman of professional substance in her own right, and incidentally the daughter of a former PP senator, she knows what she’s doing. And what she didn’t do during the Lib-Dems last conference was make a fool of herself with a staged smooch with her husband. The Spanish don’t go in for that sort of thing and although elections loom, voters will also be spared baby-kissing and wheeling out of wives. Does anyone know what Mariano Rajoy’s wife looks like? Very few, and that’s the way it should be. If they can do it now, or at least attempt it, why not before? The answer is depressing: because they have been found out.
Words and music PODEMOS, Spain’s third-most voted for party in the European
deliver. As Joaquin Almunia, the outgoing European Commission vice-president and a former PSOE minister, said of Podemos, “We’ve heard the music, now let’s have the words.”
Safe option
Nick Clegg with Miriam Gonzalez Durantez.
elections, is poised to eat into many more of the votes that the PP and PSOE regard as theirs. Both parties have lost voters’ trust and Podemos is promising to give them what they want although this is only ever on offer in a Utopia or immediately after the big bang
moment of a revolution. Following every election, as Mariano Rajoy knows to his cost, the magic wand turns into a joke-shop bunch of flowers and the new broom can’t sweep dirt under the carpet. The biggest danger for Podemos would be an electoral triumph and not being able to
THE same Metroscopia poll putting the Podemos cat amongst the PP and PSOE pigeons placed Felipe VI far above Spain’s politicians with a 52 per cent approval rating. In the past Spain’s republicans, communists and socialists admitted to being Juancarlistas, thanks to his father’s role during the transition to democracy after Franco’s death. Times have changed and only diehard monarchists would describe themselves as Felipistas, although most Spaniards currently appreciate having a king. At least it spares them the ordeal of choosing a head of state from the present crop of politicians.
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in history 1307: William Tell shoots an apple off his son’s head with a bolt from a crossbow. The legend of the Swiss folk hero and expert marksman tells of his famous shot that so impresses a local nobleman that he frees Tell and his son from execution. 1859: The first modern revival of the Olympic Games takes place in Athens, Greece. The ancient games were discontinued in 394AD by Roman emperor Theodosius I, until a series of revivals starting in 1859 revived the games that transformed into the Olympics as we know them today. 1938: LSD is invented by Swiss chemist Dr Albert Hofmann in Basel, Switzerland. The hallucinogenic drug would later go on to become synonymous with the counterculture of the 60’s and 70’s. Dr Hofmann maintained that the drug was ‘misused’ during that period. 1940: The German Luftwaffe conducts a devastating bombing of the English city of Coventry. In total more than 1,000 people lose their lives in a blitz that leaves much of the city in ruins, including Coventry Cathedral. Though bombed numerous times by German planes, the November 14 bombing is the most devastating. 1973: Princess Anne marries Mark Phillips, an army lieutenant, at Westminster Abbey in a ceremony televised around the world and watched by around 100 million people. The couple would later divorce in 1992. 1978: A mass suicide in Guyana, South America, leaves more than 900 dead. Known as the ‘Jonestown Massacre’, members of a religious cult run by the charismatic Jim Jones drink poisoned grape juice. Children among the dead number 278.
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Lieutenant Colonel Bill Cage is an untested military officer who is brought into an alien war against an extraterrestrial enemy who can reset the day and thus know what the future will bring. When Cage is killed within minutes of being dropped into battle, he suddenly finds he has the same power as the aliens and with each battle his skills improve. He soon teams up with a Special Forces soldier to try and defeat the aliens. Directed by Doug Liman and stars Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt and Bill Paxton. Run time 113 mins, Rated PG-13. SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) A juicy bit of gossip comes your way this week and it is hard to keep it quiet. You must do so, however, because there is a lot riding on it. When people trust you, they are saying much about the relationship. In this particular case, the person may well be able to progress you socially at some time in the future. SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) The rather more serious side of your nature needs to take over this week. Someone in a higher position is keeping an eye on you. This maybe because they are considering you for promotion, so be on your best behaviour. It is important at the moment to stick to any rules and regulations or your reputation (and pocket) could be hit. CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Letting life get too tame will eventually irritate you no end. Your social life needs a boost which, in turn, helps romance blossom. It is easy to be a bit lazy when things are going smoothly but we all need constant stretching. With an active mind such as yours, the important thing is to keep making progress. This may be in a physical way or in some kind of business. A brisk attitude to your whole life is needed. AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) A chance remark alluding to your past brings a flashback. This helps you to see a current situation more clearly. We all make mistakes and follow the same old patterns, but this time you are being forewarned. It is in your experience and power to make a different choice of action this time. In doing so, much confusion and upset can be avoided. PISCES (February 20 - March 20) Someone will most certainly come to the rescue when your situation changes. Well, they will, won't they? Have Plan B ready just in case. In continuing to think in the short term you do yourself no favours. Think now of a '10- year plan' and be determined to reach your goal. Bit by bit and day by day you will progress. You don't have to rush ahead and get stressed.
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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 Scream, 2 Agrees, 3 States, 4 Scones, 5 Centre, 6 Thanks, 7 Saucer, 8 Months, 9 Course, 10 Stormy, 11 Lasted, 12 Astray, 13 Normal, 14 Stench, 15 Amount, 16 Galley, 17 Rested, 18 Unable, 19 Scenes
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November 13, Whoopi Goldberg, 59, actress and comedian Goldberg gained recognition for her role The Color Purple, before becoming known mainly for starring in comedies such as Sister Act. She is one of very few actors to have won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy and a Tony Award. November 14, Condaleeza Rice, 60, politician Rice was the first female African-American to become US Secretary of State. She was a key figure in Middle Eastern policy in George W Bush’s administration. Before joining the Bush administration she was a political science professor at Stanford University. November 16, Paul Scholes, 40, football player Former Manchester United player Scholes was renowned for his playmaking abilities in
ARIES (March 21 - April 20) An exciting project is bubbling away in your mind but may need financial backing. Take advice from a professional or someone with successful experience in these matters. Remember that any idea has to grow, so consider what you need to see happen in five years' time. TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) During your social encounters this week you meet someone who offers to help. That is great, but do ask yourself if you would be prepared to give anything in return. GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) Some exciting suggestions make you think twice about a
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 G) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.
midfield. He is part of the group known as the ‘Class of ‘92’ that includes other former Manchester United players David Beckham, Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville and Nicky Butt.
November 17, Danny DeVito, 70, actor Before becoming an actor, DeVito worked as a cosmetician after graduating college. He gained fame for his role in the TV series Taxi, before going on to appear in movies such as The War of the Roses, Batman Returns, Get Shorty and Mars Attacks. November 18, Owen Wilson, 46, actor Famous for his roles in comedy movies with fellow actor Ben Stiller, Wilson made his film debut in Bottle Rocket. He dated actress Kate Hudson for three years and his brothers Luke Wilson and Andrew Wilson are both actors.
current business matter. However, it may not be necessary to change anything but to consider the new suggestion as a sort of 'add on' to a current project. CANCER (June 22 - July 23) The moment that you have been waiting for has arrived. A colleague has made a decision that is long overdue. Perhaps you are a little shocked and speechless because there has been such a time lag, but this will pass. It may not be over-convenient but the phrase 'striking while the iron is hot' springs to mind. LEO (July 24 - August 23) You work hard for your money. Make it worthwhile by trying to hold on to as much of it as possible.
CLEVER CLOGS All the following people are, or have been, members of the high IQ society Mensa International: 1. The films The Jerk (1979), The Man with Two Brains (1983), Roxanne (1983) and The Pink Panther (2006), all starred which award-winning American comedian, actor, musician, author, screenwriter, film producer and voice over artist? 2. What is the name of the American actress who starred in the films The Fly (1986), Beetlejuice (1988), Thelma and Louise (1991), A League of Their Own, Stuart Little (1999) and The Accidental Tourist (1988), for which she won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress? 3. What is the name of the American film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, producer and actor who began his career as an independent filmmaker with the release of Reservoir Dogs in 1992? 4. What is the name of the English entrepreneur and inventor, whose creations have included the ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum home computers? 5. What was the name of the American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, who is best known for his science fiction work the Foundation series? 6. Which American actress first found fame as one of the regular cast members on the 1968-1973 sketch comedy show, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, where she would often break out into high-pitched giggles in the middle of a joke, and deliver a polished performance a moment after?
TARGET: Average: 21 Good: 27 Very good: 39 November 15, Fernando Verdasco, tennis player. Madrid-born tennis player and three-time Davis Cup winner, Verdasco’s career-high singles ranking was world number seven in 2009. His best performance in a Grand Slam was as semi-finalist of the 2009 Australian Open, where he lost to fellow Spaniard Rafa Nadal.
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Someone who is charming and plausible may try to get you involved in a fast-track money making scheme. VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) By showing confidence in your own way of doing things, you inspire others. This is chiefly because you are at last finding a balance between work and home life. In the past you may have felt stressed and equated that with working - not so now. LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) Because you are intent on pleasing others, you may be cramping your own style. This is something that you have in abundance and it should be used. You may be feeling that a business idea does not stand a chance.
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION alba, bald, balk, bard, bark, bawl, blow, boar, bola, bold, bowl, brad, braw, brow, drab, board, brawl, broad, labor, lobar, aboard, aboral, abroad, bradawl, BOARDWALK
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CAKE
Move from the start word (SEED) to the end word (CAKE) in the same number of steps as there are rungs on the Word Ladder. You must only change one letter at a time.
SEED SEND SAND SANE CANE (SAKE) CAKE
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Unscramble the name of a famous English professional footballer: PARK FARMLAND Unscramble the name of an ice creambased dessert (two words): BLAST IN A PAN
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MACBETH Mexico (5,2) 4 Rocky said: “No”, being a handsome youth (6) 5 Ban Kansas sailing ships (5) 6 Imparts damaged axillae (7) 7 Bonehead taken up by Aztec nude dancers (5) 14 A cut I arranged to get on the sale (7)
16 A saint cared about galleries (7) 17 Turkish leader has a motive for lese majesty (7) 18 Deters rebel lepers (6) 19 Delia’s pickle contains jelly (5) 20 I am on time for the picture (5) 22 Grab hold of the Bishops’ seats, so to speak (5)
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Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 3 represents L and 13 represents X, so fill in L every time the figure 3 appears and X every time the figure 13 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 Catastrophe (8) 5 Take or grasp suddenly (4) 9 Attendant (7) 10 Grades (5) 11 Frighten (5) 12 Not accepted (7) 13 Bonbons (6) 15 Emergency (6) 18 Set aside (7) 20 Bizarre (5) 22 Make fun of (5) 23 Gloomiest (7) 24 Master of ceremonies (4) 25 Stress (8) Down 1 Office furniture (5)
2 Exterior boundary (7) 3 Have in common (5) 4 Complete (6) 6 Circles (5) 7 In addition to (7) 8 Like better (6) 13 Draw out (7) 14 Reference point to shoot at (6) 16 Eight-legged predatory arachnids (7) 17 Infrequently (6) 19 Continues or remains in a place or state (5) 20 Having a specified value (5) 21 Meetings arranged in advance (5)
English - Spanish The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English.
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Down 1 Nuns’ close relations (7) 2 Choose the Spanish city’s temperature (5) 3 Ant is in safe place in New
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FUNAGRAM SOLUTION: FRANK LAMPARD, BANANA SPLIT
Across 1 Female hiding in the cowshed (3) 3 Sensational people running the company? Right! (9) 8 Polish lady has a nurse (5) 9 Rewrite a sermon for rowers (7) 10 Nat return as Browning (3) 11 Redundant minor actor (5) 12 Encourage in tower (7) 13 Nervous school head showed compassion (6) 15 Hound fool involved in speculation (6) 19 Attribute to a writer (7) 21 A sect could be a social class (5) 23 Leguminous plant from Chesapeake Bay (3) 24 Squaddie against pirate at sea (7) 25 Rides around and dehydrates (5) 26 Compromise mad son in census (9) 27 One move is an eternity (3)
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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC Across: 1 Ankh, 3 Trespass, 9 Surpass, 10 At sea, 11 State, 12 Esteem, 14 Elapse, 16 Delete, 19 Cinema, 21 Plane, 24 Aroma, 25 Dislike, 26 Elements, 27 Deny. Down: 1 Assisted, 2 Korea, 4 Rushes, 5 Scant, 6 Austere, 7 Span, 8 Caters, 13 Cemetery, 15 Adipose, 17 El Paso, 18 Bandit, 20 Elate, 22 Alike, 23 Dame. QUICK Across: 7 Palace, 8 Erased, 9 Mess, 10 Careless, 11 Measles, 13 Grabs, 15 Bunch, 17 Desires, 20 Familiar, 21 Said, 23 Decide, 24 Tangle.
Across 1 Arches (5) 4 Lighthouses (5) 7 Jamón (de cerdo) (3) 8 Monzón (7) 9 Lento (ritmo, movimiento, caída) (4) 10 To dance (6) 14 Tattoo (7) 16 Monja (3) 17 Tuberías (5) 18 Western (side, part) (5)
Down 1 Cenizas (5) 2 Countryside (5) 3 Mismo (igual) (4) 4 Plumber (9) 5 River (3) 6 Hijo (3) 11 Monday (5) 12 Enjuagar (5) 13 Sierras (herramientas) (4) 14 Punta (de dedo, lengua, pincel) (3) 15 Grifo (de agua) (3)
Down: 1 Cage, 2 Causes, 3 Reached, 4 Beard, 5 Sailor, 6 Sensible, 12 Educated, 14 Secrets, 16 Crisis, 18 Insane, 19 Fixed, 22 Idle. ENGLISH-SPANISH Across: 1 Admit, 4 Peaje, 7 Sobrino, 8 Tia, 10 Rio, 11 Tan, 12 Patient, 14 Seeds, 15 Stage. Down: 1 Aceitunas, 2 Más, 3 Taburetes, 4 Prisoners, 5 About, 6 Expensive, 9 Apple, 13 Tea.
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TOP 10 MOVIE QUOTES OF ALL TIME A RADIO TIMES poll this week revealed the top 10 movie quotes of all time as voted by British film fans. There are some obvious ones, but a few surprises too. 1. ‘To infinity... and beyond!’ The catchphrase uttered by Toy Story’s space ranger Buzz Lightyear was the surprise phrase to top the list of the all-time favourite movie quotes. Voiced by Tim Allen, Buzz Lightyear’s catchphrase from the 1995 animated hit has caught the imagination of the British public. 2. ‘You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!’ Michael Caine’s infamous line from the 1969 classic The Italian Job, uttered when one of his gang of thieves uses slightly too much explosives during a trial run for the real heist.
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3. ‘Say hello to my little friend.’ Screamed by Tony Montana (Al Pacino) at the thugs out to kill him before he starts shooting wildly with an M16 machine gun through the door of his study. From the classic 1983 film Scarface, considered one of the best gangster movies of all time. 4. ‘He’s not the Messiah. He’s a very naughty boy.’ This phrase stood out for UK viewers as the most memorable line from a whole plethora of quotable funnies in Monty Python’s hilarious 1979 movie The Life of Brian. And who could forget the end song of the movie ‘Always Look on the Bright Side of Life’? 5. ‘You’re gonna need a bigger boat.’ The moment in Jaws when Roy Scheider is shovelling chum into the ocean and the massive great white shark of the title makes his first appearance is probably one of the most memorable scenes in cinema, as is Scheider’s line.
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do so with viewers today. At the time, the word ‘damn’ caused shock in movie theatres. Spoken by Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) to Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh) as his parting words to her when she asks him what she is to do. 7. ‘Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me.’ Another surprise entry in the top 10 of all time is this line from 1964’s Carry On Cleo. The line is uttered by Carry On favourite Kenneth Williams in his role as Julius Caesar.
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8. ‘All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain.’ Who knew robots could be so profound? Rutger Hauer’s compelling replicant, Roy Batty, speaks these words to Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) before his body shuts down, erasing all of his memories in Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi classic Bladerunner. 9. ‘Well, nobody’s perfect.’ One of the greatest ending lines in a movie is spoken by Osgood Fielding III (Joe E Brown) to Jerry/Daphne (Jack Lemon) in Some Like It Hot, also starring Marilyn Monroe. Removing his wig and revealing he is really a man, an exasperated Jerry hears those three famous words.
SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!: Al Pacino in Scarface 6. ‘Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.’ Winner of 10 Oscars, 1939’s Gone with the Wind captured audiences across America upon its release, and continues to
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.
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10. ‘We want the finest wines available to humanity’ We want them here, and we want them now!’ From every student’s favourite movie Withnail and I, another movie that has a whole host of memorable quotes. Richard E Grant stumbles through the movie as an alcoholic out of work actor.
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: 27 Good: 35 Very good: 51 Excellent: 62
SCORING: 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 ennui, enter, entire, retire, return, ether, nether, noter, thine, their, there, tenor, tenure, tinner, title, tired, tiered, niter, tenth, truer, tithe, tuner, turner, runner, ruler, rerun, herein, inner, inter, intern, intone, inure, untie, unity, unite, urine, lured, deity, either, alter, aerie
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OCTOBER: The phone rang, it was my surgeon’s secretary. I was expecting a call as the tumour committee, a delightful name I know, had met the day before to discuss my case but just not a call the following day. Invariably when you are contacted quickly it means there is urgent news and generally not positive. I was asked to come in the following morning for my results. My surgeon cut to the chase and said she was sorry to have to tell me that the news was not good. I had grade three cancer and that my breast was proliferated with micro tumours, all malignant, which had not been detected by the mammogram. The upshot was that they were going to have to get me back in for another operation; a mastectomy. This was going to be the only way to ensure the cancer didn’t spread to other parts of my body. Just starting to feel better again and back onto the operating table. Oh well, I thought, what can you do? I felt that my breast was unhealthy and so although I was not looking forward to another operation I knew it was necessary, and the sooner the better. I focused on my main objective, eradicate the cancer. So plan B, a deep breath, and wait for a surgery date. I didn’t have too much time to dwell as I had an appointment the same day to take my stitches out and the staples under my arm, which were becoming decidedly uncomfortable. The staples
Readers’ response Dear Erica, The article you wrote about your hospital procedure sounded almost like a happy holiday spa you went to... where all the staff were absolute caring professionals from the nurses to the surgeons. In fact you did compare it with hospitals in films. Certainly a lot more attractive than I have heard from the Murcian area of Spain. For whatever reason... you failed to mention the hospital you spoke of so fluently and I must admit to being curious... possibly because I am contemplating taking out Residencia. I would like you please to answer just one question... was your procedure with the Spanish National Health or did you go PRIVATE? Eva Taylor (Mrs) Dear Eva Many thanks for your email. In response to your question my treatment is with the Spanish National Health System. I am a resident and self-employed and therefore am entitled to use the public health system. To be able to use the system, naturally you need to pay taxes. British nationals who draw a pension are also entitled to use the system.
do not hurt when they are removed at all but the stitches are a little trickier as they are just like fishing line so cutting them is difficult. Once done, I came home. I was feeling tired and jaded. Thank goodness my good friend Bertie was coming to visit me… her timing could not have been better! As the day went on my son noticed that the scar under my arm was starting to open. It seemed fine when the staples had been taken out in the morning but it was looking pretty bad now and I suspected that if it were left it would become infected. In the end my son insisted I went to Urgencias or A&E.
The hospital where I had my operations and screening is called Hospital Comarcal de la Axarquía in Vélez-Málaga. When I start chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment I will be moved to Carlos Haya in Málaga, another very well known public hospital. I hope that answers your questions. Kind regards Erica What an inspiration this woman is... and so brave. Good for you, dear. Hope everything went well for you - with those wonderful people looking after you. God Bless. Ena Amengual Mallorca By Email Dear Ena Thank you so much for taking the time to put pen to paper and for your good wishes. I am a very lucky lady to have so much support. Thank you once again. Warmest wishes Erica
It was late at night and my friend was about to arrive but I had no choice, I couldn’t risk an infection. So off I went and had it dealt with. Dosed up with antibiotics and patched up, I came home. I felt quite weak the following day and was told to rest. Just as well Bertie was with me or I would have tried to cook, wash up, sweep and a host of other things. She strong armed me onto the sofa and did absolutely everything around the house! She even gave my children a yoga class and a relaxation session for me, along with anti-inflammatory exercises. Bertie is not to be argued with and I love her for it.
The next day I bounced back and we managed a lunch out, which lifted my spirits no end. I can’t emphasise enough the importance of having the support of friends and loved ones. You have to get used to accepting help if you want a quick recovery. While I waited for my operation date I couldn’t help worrying about the possibility that my left breast might also have tumours. If the mammogram hadn’t detected some of the tumours in the right breast, what guarantee did I have that the same scenario wasn’t the case for the other side? So instead of fretting I rang the doctor’s secretary and
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asked if I could see my surgeon to talk to her about my concerns. She tracked her down and was back on the phone within 10 minutes with an appointment for the following day to coincide with my meeting with the anesthetist. This is not very common in the National Health System. Normally you would have to go via your GP or Médico de Cabecera to get appointments but I had somehow managed to fast track everything, which was very fortunate because I believe every second counts. I discussed my concerns with my surgeon and she agreed that we could not take any chances with my “unpredictable breasts”. She sent me for an MRI scan the following day, to be on the safe side. If it was bad news then I would have a double mastectomy. It was an uncomfortable process. I had the line put in my arm through which they inject a dye to provide a contrast in order to show up any abnormalities more clearly. I had to lie face down and found it hard to breath with the most difficult thing being that I was unable to move at all. I was still smarting from the embarrassment of having slapped the male nurse administering the scan in the face with my unruly right boob! Anyway it was over and I went for breakfast with my lovely friend Conchi, whom I regard as my adopted aunt! Just two days after the MRI scan, my surgeon called me at home. She spoke in Spanish: “Hi darling, good news, the left breast is clear! So have a good weekend and I will see you on the operating table on October 22.” Great news! Now I had to prepare for the operation the following week.
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Economic crisis leads to rise in heart disease THE Spanish Society of Cardiology (SEC) has warned that there has been a small increase in strokes and heart attacks, which has been attributed to the crisis and its impact on social policies. “The biggest impact of the crisis was in social policy,” stressed the SEC chairman and head of department of the Hospital Universitario de Santiago (CHUS), Jose Ramon Gonzalez-Juanate. He pointed out that, in recent times, life expectancy had increased by more than six years, four of which were due to advances in the treatment of cardiovascular disease, which still remains the leading cause of death in Spain. However, he indicated that the “surge” in mortality from heart disease in both men and women in 2012, was blamed on social exclusion and the rise in the number of unemployed, saying, “poverty brings disease.”
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Pollution causes leap in pollen levels IT’S bad news if you suffer from hayfever as scientists say pollen levels are set to soar over the next few years. They say higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, pumped out by cars, planes and factories, will lead to a significant increase in the volume of grass pollen in the air, with airborne pollen increasing three-fold in the next 100 years. The increased carbon dioxide also means the leaves of plants can capture more of it, leading to greater growth of foliage, including grass, and therefore more pollen.
Working the night shift impares memory and decision-making DOING long-term shift work affects the brain’s memory and thinking
skills. Researchers found that working shifts for a decade or
more leads to a loss of memory and an impaired ability to think. By stopping shift work, the brain can recover, but it can take up to five years. The University of Toulouse in France said the disruption of the body clock and natural day and night cycles may cause the negative effect on the brain’s ability to function.
Specsavers recognises day for diabetes NOVEMBER 14 is World Diabetes Day. Throughout the month of November, everyone is being encouraged to undertake activities to raise awareness of diabetes, the side effects and different ways we can prevent and treat the condition. Specsavers Opticas have taken on the challenge and will be holding information events, complete with healthy snacks, on the day itself in all of their Costa Blanca stores in Javea, Calpe, Benidorm and Guardamar del Segura. They’ll also offer free eye tests, which detect signs of diabetic retinopathy, throughout the month. In addition they will be holding a free diabetes testing event in their Torrevieja store on November 28 with the local Torrevieja Diabetes Association. These tests are free of charge and can identify the signs of prediabetes and diabetes, and allow people to seek the correct help before permanent damage is done. Diabetes is a condition with more than 170 million sufferers worldwide. Its side effects can include blindness, heart attack, and kidney failure, and could even result in the sufferer requiring limb amputation if it is not identified and controlled in good time.
For more information on eye health and diabetes visit www.specsavers.es or visit your nearest store on November 14.
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requirements can be analysed and the best prescription-strength products supplied for your needs. It may cost a little more than your current high-street brand, but no matter the price, the most expensive highstreet creams are the ones that don’t work. So make sure you only spend your money on treatments that can make a difference. Book a consultation with a skincare doctor. Here on the Costa Blanca that is easy as Medcare’s aesthetics doctor offer free initial consultations at their clinics in Alfaz del Pi and Benijofar. Contact the team now.
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EUROCHANGE: Pleased to announce the opening of their new office in the Old Town area of Benidorm. you can trust and thousands do each week as currency changes hands every day. They are able to offer the best rates, exchange most currencies and reservations can also be made. Reserving your currency and the amount through either the website or the customer service central number is quick and easy to do and you can arrange for a later collection at any branch. The Eurochange club card is also available for
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Gay bull Benjy faces slaughter BENJY, a bull who currently resides at a farm in County Mayo in Ireland, hasn’t lived up to expectations recently and may be sent to the slaughterhouse as he is reluctant to go anywhere near any of the females on his farm. Although bought as a breeding bull, the pedigree Charolais, whose purpose is to impregnate the fertile female cows, takes more of a liking to the other male bulls. After realisation that
none of his cows were pregnant, the farmer was forced to replace Benjy with another bull and now more of his cows are thought to be pregnant. The anonymous farmer told the Irish Daily Mail: “The bull is now too old to castrate and turn into a bullock so I will keep him for the factory.” At first the farmer admitted he couldn’t take the situation seriously although he had heard of it happening to others.
Fire-starting hamster PEBBLES, a restless hamster has made its two owners, Tracey Hill and her son Kae, homeless after it started a blaze in their home. His constant running caused his cage to move the buttons on the hob of an electric cooker, which then caught fire. The fire caused £20,000 (€25,500) of damage to the home, as well as claiming the lives of both Pebbles and three of Tracey’s other pets - two dogs, Poppy and Twiggy, and a pet chinchilla. Fortunately Tracey and Kae managed to flee to safety.
Aggressive behaviour in cats
LAST week with the help of Celia Haddon I made some points on aggressive behaviour in cats, here I continue the theme… Some cats are aggressive only in specific situations that frighten them. They are friendly much of the time but lash out, for instance, when being picked up. Or they are aggressive if they feel they are cornered and cannot escape human handling. Soon they learn that being aggressive keeps humans at a safe distance. If this happens, they begin to be aggressive quicker because they learn that this tactic works. A pet behaviour counsellor can help you work out exactly what triggers your cat’s aggressive reaction and how to avoid it. Frustration aggression may be more common in hand reared kittens, as these were not weaned in a natural way. Kittens learn to tolerate frustration when their mother starts pushing
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them away from the teats. As the bottle is never withheld by a human, they are never frustrated. Hand reared cats have no emotional control as they were not put through this process.
Holly meets and greets her new housesitter By Lamia Walker of HousesitMatch IT is never easy leaving an elderly pet when you need to travel. Some owners find it the hardest decision to make. Do I leave the pet in a good kennels or just stay at home..? Sometimes you are called away and you have to prepare your pet to cope with a new carer.
This is the difficult decision Holly’s family faced when they had to return to Scotland to visit an ailing relative. After talking to friends, David and Janet decided that finding a housesitter would be the solution for them. Holly, a Cocker Spaniel, is 12-years-old and suffers with rheumatism in her legs and canker in her ears. They decided moving her
to a kennels for three to four weeks might not be a good move. They went online and met a number of possible candidates through HouseSitMatch.com. Within a week they met Jean a sitter from Malaga. She was available to come and meet Holly before they travelled. They spent an afternoon getting to know each
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Cats that have no coping strategy for frustration just lash out. They may try to control their owners by this. Their aggression is encouraged because the owner will back away showing the cat it can control its human. Turn round the relationship by clicker training or reward training the cat. Get help from a cat behaviour counsellor for this. Occasionally an otherwise docile cat will attack its owner, because it is aroused by something else. For instance, if it is watching another cat through the window, and feels threatened by it. If there is a threatening cat on the block, or cats in the same household are fighting, your cat may take out its aggression on you. You will also get bitten severely if you interrupt a cat fight. As this is an important subject I will return to it next week. Scared cats can be aggressive.
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The Tremeloes at Benidorm Palace THE TREMELOES are promising to raise the roof of the Benidorm Palace when they perform there at the end of the month. The concert on
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THE TREMELOES: To be top of the bill at Benidorm Palace.
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Gardens are now getting chillier but bright from the morning dew
NOVEMBER 5 is past us and now it is time for bright autumn gardens to cheer us up and tempt us into chillier morning gardens to do essential prunings and dead-headings to encourage colourful Christmas gardens. Having been away for a few days seeing a number of friends’ gardens and giving a talk to the Costa Blanca Gardening Circle, the two photographs show what greeted me this morning. Firstly the view across the mid garden
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along the rockery when going to feed the fish in the pond just off the photo to the left and secondly the view through the kitchen window when changing the water covering the olives being prepared for pickling. Hopefully nature will be kind this year with no early
NOVEMBER GARDEN: The view along the rockery.
MORNING VIEW: From the kitchen window.
frosts and the salvias at present taller than the olive tree will still be in flower at
into the garden to do some pruning and weed the fast growing vegetable seedlings and plantlets. Today’s breakfast salad includes lettuce, garlic chives, young garlic and radish shoots, rocket, purslane, chichory, a broccoli leaf, a couple of young onions, two young carrots, nasturtium leaves and flowers, a mini red pepper and one of the last two tomatoes. The mix is not only colourful and
Christmas. It is amazing how just a couple of spring type showers breaking the long drought and heavy morning dews have brought on autumn gardens. Unseen in the photos winter and spring bulbs are well above the soil and a large clump of crocuses normally out in January are already in full bloom. So once this article is emailed to EWN I am out
freshly harvested but also chemical free and healthy. These are grown in a number of raised beds and my 10-tub builders bucket vegetable plot as illustrated on page 61 of our book Growing Healthy Vegetables in Spain’ There is more about what we grow in the book Living well from our garden - Mediterranean style which will also be available in Spanish later in the month, like the other books from Amazon Books. If you are concerned about the quality of soil and composts that you have for growing vegetables, go to the garden centre and purchase some bags of soil based compost and sacks of worm compost, as well as some inexpensive sacks of dried goat or sheep manure. Mix these up in black builders buckets with hole in the bottom, or mix into a few square metres of the garden and you will ready to plant up an immediately productive mini vegetable garden and enjoy delicious salads by Christmas. © Dick Handscombe www.gardenspain.com and EWN Directory November 2014.
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Gap widens in house prices A SURVEY has shown that the difference in price for Spain’s most expensive and cheapest addresses is a staggering €10,600 a square metre. The cheapest address in Spain is in Castellón (Valencia region) where prices are a rock bottom €300 a square metre. That is more than 36 times cheaper than the €10,900 a square metre demanded in Madrid’s swanky Calle Serrano, which saw a 4 per cent rise in prices over the last year. Calle Serrano is home to a collection of luxury shops including Gucci and Prada, clearly signalling where the money is. For the second most expensive street in Spain you
PRESTIGE HOMES: Calle Serrano in Madrid.
need to head over to Barcelona, according to estate agents TecniTasa. Property in the city’s Passeig de Gracia commands €8,450
per square metre. There is a big drop to next on the list, but it still costs an eyewatering €6,400 per square metre to buy in Calle Hernani in
San Sebastian, just off the renowned La Concha beach. For those looking for a bargain basement price, the second cheapest addresses are
in the El Pilar and La Estación neighbourhoods of Talavera de la Reina (Castilla-La Mancha) where prices are €320 per square metre. Most expensive in Spain: 1. Calle Serrano, Madrid (€10,900) 2. Passeig de Gràcia, Barcelona (€8,450) 3. Area around Calle Hernani (Hernani Kalea), San Sebastian (€6,400) 4. El Sardinero neighbourhood, Santander (€6,350) 5. Abandoibarra Etorbidea/Plaza de Eusaki, Bilbao (€5,500) 6. Puerto Banús, Marbella (€5,450).
down as market forces have come into effect. By November the average rate was around Euribor plus 1.7 per cent on new loans. Indeed it is possible to get rates as low as Euribor plus 1.25 per cent, generally through finance professionals, and many offer charge-free mortgages – traditionally an opening fee of around 1 per cent was added, meaning an extra €1,500 on a €150,000 mortgage having to be repaid. The downside of the best offers is usually that they are tied in to a series of between five and nine conditions like buying insurance, paying bills by direct debit, having your wages paid direct into your account, taking out credit cards or opening a pension plan.
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Mortgage costs drop as banks reduce rates PROPERTIES are getting cheaper to mortgage. New loans on homes now cost an average €500 a year less on a €150,000 25-year term, as banks have been slowly reducing their rates throughout the year. It was a common gripe that bailed-out banks were not passing on all of the benefits of historically low interest rates to their clients, instead preferring to keep their margins up. But since the start of 2014 a group of banks have been driving a downward thrust in interest rates for customers. In January, most banks were offering mortgages at around Euribor (the rate at which they borrow money) plus 2 per cent (or 2.5 per cent including Euribor). But little by little that rate has edged
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OFFICES: Commercial property sales are recovering quickly.
Commercial sector leads the way as market begins to recover THE recovery in the property sector is developing at two speeds. Leading the way is the commercial sector, with investment in offices, hotels and shopping centres this year, double that of 2013. Capital spent in that sector has now reached pre-economic crisis levels, with the €9 billion spent this year showing
optimism for the future. But the housing market is still a buyer’s market, with the 27,000 homes sold monthly about the same as the 2013 figure. The difference is that home prices seem to be stabilising, with some areas, particularly on the costas, seeing slight gains over the summer. But nationally there have still been falls in the average
price of housing, although not at the rates seen at the peak of the crisis. Most homes sold are still resales, while the stock of unsold new houses still remains at around 560,000. Out of the total, new and old, unsold housing stock of 740,000, about 100,000 are felt to be ‘undesirable’ because of their poor locations or bad condition.
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THE Spanish government has bowed to public pressure and back-tracked on a new capital gains law that could have seen huge increases in tax payable on second homes bought before 1994. Under the original proposals, someone who bought their property more than 20 years ago who sold after January 1 next year (providing they were under 65 and it was not classed as their primary residence) would have seen a huge rise in their capital gains bill. For example, a house bought in 1976 at two million pesetas (€12,020), sold now at €222,000, would pay €10,869 tax (IRPF) under the current legislation. The modification of the act would have seen
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HEADQUARTERS: The Ministry of Finance in Madrid has backed the amendment to the bill. a dramatic increase in liability from the beginning of January next year, to €43,995.
The reason for that is because the government is getting rid of the adjustment co-efficient
which limited capital gains liability from the 80s and the monetary correction indices which
took into account inflation. Now, after protests from politicians, housing
associations and the public saying it would be another blow to the property market, the government has decided to soften the blow. An amendment to the bill, backed by the Ministry of Finance, will keep the reduced rate for capital gains ‘until the cumulative sum of the transmission value of the property exceeds €400,000.’ The converse aspect of the law is that it would have reduced capital gains liabilities on property bought since 1994. It is unclear whether the new amendment will affect that aspect of the bill. Property owners considering selling should talk to a property professional for advice on the full ramifications of the law.
DUBLIN: Fell behind Madrid in the third quarter of this year.
Autumn sees luxury property prices in Spanish capital climb faster than anywhere else in Europe MADRID overtook London and Dublin for third quarter price rises for prime residential property. According to figures from Knight Frank estate agents, the Spanish capital saw a 2 per cent increase in prices on luxury property compared to 1.4 per cent for Dublin and 1
per cent for London. Over the 12 months since September 2013 Dublin is highest ranked in Europe with rises of 12.7 per cent on the global luxury home index for price growth. Madrid is third in Europe behind London, with a rise of 6.5 per cent compared to
London’s 7.4 per cent. The figures put Dublin in fourth spot worldwide, with London 10th and Madrid 12th in the index of luxury home price rises for major cities. Leading the way were Jakarta in Indonesia with a 27.3 per cent rise, Los Angeles (16.3 per cent) and Tel Aviv
(14 per cent.) Worldwide luxury prices continue to outperform their mainstream counterparts. The average price of a luxury home on Knight Frank’s index is 36 per cent higher than it was at the index’s lowest point in the second quarter of 2009, while the average price of a
mainstream property has risen by 14 per cent over the same period. Madrid, Dublin and London have bucked the European trend with the average rise in prime residential property prices across European cities in the year to September being just 1 per cent.
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handyjavea@gmail.com. For all villa repairs, maintenance and small building works. Specialists in pool regrouting, filter and pump problems/replacements. No call out charge, no obligation quotes. Call 625 397 209, Javea (225678)
HEALTH & BEAUTY CHIROPODIST/PODIATRIST, Philip Mann, clinics in Benissa, Moraira, Javea, Calpe and Albir. 686 912 307 (229506)
BUY & SELL BOATS
INSURANCE ELECTRICIANS CARS WANTED
ALL washers/dryers/dishwashers/boilers/electrics in the house repaired. 604 103 909 (229721)
INTERNET
MB ELECTRICS. Approved electrician. Any electrical reparation. Iberdrola bulletins. Affordable prices. Miquel 655 282 175 (225595)
GET YOUR business noticed online! Make sure that expats in Spain can find your product, service, restaurant, bar or shop. Contact Spain’s newest and brightest online directory TODAY. Call 952 561 245 or email serena@eu roweeklynews.com for more details.
ELECTRICS GOODMANS. Moving meter boxes to boundaries, upgrading electrics, bulletins issued, electric gates. Air conditioning and servicing. Mark 608 669 165 / 965 831 082. (229806)
CLEANING
BUILDING SERVICES www.100percentplumbing.com Call for a free quotation 965 835 939 MINI DIGGER, Dumper, Bobcat with operator for hire. Pedregeur based. Keith 639 620 448 ¡¡¡HEMME’S ROOF & BUILDING SERVICE!!! Traditional and modern Mediterranean roofing. 10 years guaranteed. Call 608 330 544 (206387)
I BUY RECORDS 50’s to the 90’s. Best prices for good records. Tel: 622 750 117 / 962 851 809 (226341) MOBILITY SCOOTER FOR SALE. Sturdy, 40km range. As new. Also wheelchair. 500€. Tel 627 019 403 (227457)
COMPUTERS
FLOOR POLISHING
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LOCKSMITH
FLOOR POLISHING, all marble types. Excellent professional, excellent service. Free estimates. Tel: 627 103 412 (225711)
LOCKSMITH/ELECTRICIAN/C ARPENTER for emergency safe opening Altea area. Call Michael Rice 686 513 510 or Calpe area Sean Gannon 667 507 630 (224968)
METAL WORK
HANDYMAN
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BUSINESS OPP.
BORROW up to 500,000 euros without Guarantees. 634 079 898 (226393)
TREE SPECIALIST, cut and removal of palm/pine trees. Size not a problem. Also dangerous & difficult work. Garden cleaning and gravelling. Free estimates. 627 103 412 (225711)
CAMPING
www.dragonreforms.com. Tel 966 807 098 Free quotes given.
LOANS
www.dragonreforms.com Tel. 966 807 098. Free quotes given. (229064)
GARDENING
FOR SALE. Carvery Unit. Double Fridges. Under Counter Fridge. Planchas. Sinks and Fryers etc. 642 723 743 (226852)
BUILDING work, bathrooms, swimming pool leaks. Good quality for reasonable price. 22 years experience. Our team also has a qualified electrician & plumber. From Javea to Calpe. Steve 685 262 843 (229906)
RECESSION PROOF BUSINESS. Is Your Dream to Work from Home? This is a hugely successful global company now offering a ground floor opportunity here in Europe. For full details please go to www.getantiaging.com or call 644 383 708 (229097)
A1 SPECIALIST CLEANING. Carpets, upholstery, 15 years experience 965 058 177 / 697 511 071 marc@barnaclebills.co.uk www.britishbusinesspagesin spain.es (220953)
SOS <http://www.sosinsuranceinspain.com> Insurance in Spain. Best prices available. CALL US FIRST for all your insurance needs, including best deals on Funeral plans. Buildings and contents cover from just 82 euros per year and cars from 120 euros. Tel 966 787 123 / 622 275 561 / 686 116 297 / email info@sosin suranceinspain.com (229108)
RISING DAMP! We can cure Rising Damp, Leaking Flat Roof or Terrace. We can make your Underbuild Dry. Villa Repainting Due? We can protect your villa and stop PENETRATING DAMP with a Protective Coating. You can also pay in Sterling. Phone/email us now for a FREE survey. Tel 965 050 065 or 634 322 672 www.dryzone-espana.com (230334)
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PURELY MAINTENANCE For all your maintenance needs - big or small, contact Carl on 965 878 866 or 669 218 928 email pure lymaintenance@hotmail.com (229237)
Price per word: 0,42€ + IVA minimum 15 words - Discount: Book 10 weeks, get 2 weeks free - Deadline: 4pm Mondays Contact: Phone (0034) 952 561 245 • Fax (0034) 952 440 887 • email classifieds@euroweeklynews.com • www.euroweeklynews.com
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MOBILE HOMES WE BUY, Sell, Store, Remove all types of Mobile Homes. We pay CASH and cover all of Spain. More details call Suzi Caley 616 250 727 / 951 063 059 or email suzica ley@gmail.com (228718)
PEST CONTROL CHEAP, all insects and rodents. 604 103 909 (229721)
PETS
MOTORING
POOL MAINTENANCE YES YOU CAN HAVE A POOL We design & install Wooden Above-Ground Pools. Pools installed from 1,185€. With above ground pools there is “No Planning Permission Required”. You can also pay in Sterling. Phone or email for a FREE BROCHURE NOW. info@piscinasmadera.com Tel: 965 050 064 / 634 322 672 www.piscinasmadera.com (230334) SPG POOL CLEANING SERVICE from Oliva to Xeraco and inland. Call Paul 678 308 107 (221361)
PET-COURIERS.COM – If you love your pet try us first – we are the best. Door to door service throughout Europe. Specialised vehicles – bespoke service. Full legal service including documentation if required. For further information call or e-mail us: Tel: (0034) 651 033 670 or (0034) 637 066 227. Email: info@petcouriers.com or www.pet-couri ers.com (206497)
WE ARE currently the market leader in our country in the sale of direct car, motorbike, home and company fleet insurance. Since we started out in 1995, our philosophy has always been to offer an excellent service with the best prices in the market. For the most competitive quotes in English call Linea Directa on 902 123 309. (200726)
NEED YOUR PETS TAKEN CARE OF? Not kennels, just a friendly home. Large fenced area. 699 790 080 Altea (225716)
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FORD Transit Reg: YY53 LVG for sale or part-exchange for small car. 134,596 miles, drives extremely well. 2003 reg, 2L. €2,850. 961 703 888 Miguel (226253)
PAINTER/DECORATOR W. D GILMOUR. Painter & Decorator. Established 35 years in Moraira. Estimates FREE. Call William on 609 691 776 or 966 197 170. (234555) www.decorlux.es painting, decorating, renovation. Covering the Costa Blanca and inland since 1996. Estimates free. Tel 649 181 526 Facebook/decorlux painters (234562) PAINTER & DECORATOR. Reasonable rates, also experienced in flat roof repairs. Tel 606 399 281 (223616) VILLAS painted for under 700 euros. Call Airless for a brochure 965 846 620 / ehohara@gmail.com (234644)
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REGROUTING. Excellent value, quality service. Completed in 1 week. Javea area. handy javea@gmail.com / 625 397 209 (223617)
PROPERTY TO LET DOGS WELCOME - 500 year old beamed cottage in valley, Jesus Pobre, Javea. www.littlehousein spain.com. SPECIAL OFFER: 18 Oct - 25 Oct €500/week. WINTER OFFER (1st November onwards) €500/week. Also available for weekends. (225617) 1 BEDROOM, 1 bathroom, sitting room & kitchen. Overlooking port, Calpe front line. Wheelchair friendly & Sky TV. €400 pcm. 965 839 744 (234721) WE SPECIALISE in long term rentals, furnished or unfurnished. Jennifer Cunningham Estates 965 796 038 (230570)
WANTED Cars, vans, caravans, 4 X 4’s British Spanish 600 781 873 ibuyanycar@hotmail.com (234586) CHAPA Y PINTURA LA PEDRERA. Paint & body workshop! Recognised by all major insurance companies. Efficient service. We speak English! 965 731 816 / in fo@chplapedrera.com (225637)
ESTABLISHED POOL CLEANER, Calpe to Benitachell. Tel Richard 671 202 985 (225719)
PROPERTY FOR SALE
PET TRANSPORT COSTA BLANCA PET TRANSPORT TO UK. DEFRA registered. Excellent rates. www.costablan cadoghoming.com or call 965 698 052 (223629) PET TRAVEL UK Family pet transporters Spain/UK. Travel with your pets for free. All air conditioned vehicles (no vans) www.pettraveluk.co.uk. Removals also arranged in other vehicles. Tel UK 0800 612 4922 or Spain 960 130 537 (223645)
PIANO TUNING PIANO TUNING and repairs. PIANO MAN. 607 346 658 pianoman@pianoman.es (223632)
PLUMBING www.100percentplumbing.com Call for a free quotation 965 835 939 (87006) www.dragonreforms.com. Tel 966 807 098 Free quotes given. (229064) PAUL FAULKNER - PLUMBER. Dripping tap to complete kitchen and bathroom refurbishments, including tiling. Fully legal. 965 792 134 / 676 861 963. Facebook. (223783)
HOUSE in Calpe, Ortembach, for sale 400m plot 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, kitchen, flat, one level, salon, terrace, place to build a pool, parking, 2 big storeplaces, 137,000 euros. Independent, 400m supermarket, 800m town and beaches. 629 991 543 (234575) HOUSE, Orihuela, new, 4 beds, 2 bath, kitchen, living, air conditioning, 120m2, parking, barbecue, 80,000 euros, Vereda Buenavida 51, Desamparados. 629 991 543 (234575) COUNTRY HOUSE near Gata de Gorgos, in the middle of the mountains at Cami Font Mata and is second house to the right. NEW. 4 bedrooms, 3 bath, kitchen, living room. 160m2 build with 825m plot. 2.5km to the centre, 12.5km to the beaches Javea. ONLY 99,000 euros. Tel: 629 991 543 (223633) EL PORTET. Luxury 5 bed, 3 bath villa with sea views. Walking distance to beach. €795,000. No agents. 690 723 640 (2324661)
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PROPERTY WANTED WANTED: 2 Bedroom Apartment in Moraira town for long term rent. For more information contact info@spanishcoastvillas.com (229893) WANTED: Long term rentals all areas from Denia to Calpe and inland! For more information contact: info@spanishcoastvillas.com (229893) WANTED:Large villa in Javea for long term rent. For more information contact: info@spanish coastvillas.com (229893) WANTED: 3 Bedroom Townhouse. Benissa/Javea/Denia. Max 250,000€ for Mr Fitz. Contact: in fo@spanishcoastvillas.com (229893) WANTED: 3 bedroom apartment in Javea for long term rent. For more information contact: info@spanishcoastvillas.com (229893) WANTED: 3 Bedroom 2 Bathroom Villa. Benitachell/Cumbre del Sol. Max 300.000€ for Mr and Mrs O’Conor. Contact info@span ishcoastvillas.com (229893) WANTED: Min 5 Bedroom Villa. Moraira/Benissa coast/Calpe. Max 600,000€ for Mr. Schur. Contact info@spanishcoastvillas.com (229893) WANTED: 3 Bedroom Finca. Benitachell/Javea. Max 250,000€. For Mrs Fontaine. Contact info@spanishcoastvillas.com (229893)
SPANISH MOVES Small removals and deliveries. Spain/UK Budget prices. Last minute jobs undertaken. www.spanish moves.net. Pet transport also arranged in our air conditioned pet/people carriers. Telephone UK 0800 612 4922 or Spain 960 130 537 (223645)
SCRAP VEHICLES SCRAP VEHICLES wanted for cash. Call 646 726 377 (229234)
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INTERNATIONAL and European Removals. Expert removals worldwide. www.uni versalremovals.com. Tel: 951 247 834 (229718)
RESTAURANTS Charlotte and Salva welcome you to RESTAURANTE PLAZA, La Coveta Fuma, El Campello. THE PLACE for Sole, Fishpot, Filletsteak, Duckbreast and many more (also vegetarian) dishes. Weekdays 4-Course Menu 13.25€. Sunday Special Menu 15.25€. WEEKDAYS SPECIAL... For those who love Fish (and as long as available), 1 PLATE WITH 3 SOLE, CHIPS AND GARNITURE 13.50€. Extra Sole only 1,00€. PLAZA is open Sunday-Friday 19:00-22:00 h. Tel. 965 638 039 (225653)
ROLLER SHUTTERS REPAIRS, cords, slats, winding mechanisms, motors. Calpe + 40 kms. Tony Bowers 659 464 992 www.toldosalchemy.com (229110)
FULL TIME Experienced chef required starting mid September in Benitachell near Javea and Moraira. The successful applicant will be energetic, motivated, creative and reliable and have a proven track record of serving modern top quality well presented fresh food. Contract and good weekly paid salary with temporary accommodation available in some cases. Please send CV and other relevant details to tres.arcos@ya hoo.com or call Richard on 688 883 004 (231776) START your own business. Working alongside FCA regulated company. Working from home. Training and leads provided. Must have computer and internet. Small setup fee required. Tel 677 553 647 (230560)
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WANTED: 2 Bedroom Bungalow .Moraira/Benissa and Benissa coast. Max 150,000€ For Mr. Vandekerckhove . Contact info@span ishcoastvillas.com (229893) WANTED: 3 Bedroom min Villa in Moraira for long term rent. For more information contact info@spanishcoastvillas.com (229893)
REMOVALS/STORAGE UK - SPAIN - Anywhere Europe! Masses of experience. New clean vehicles. Insured with Royal Sun Alliance. Genuinely CARING service. FULL and part moves. ONLINE QUOTES!! www.bmceuro pean.com UK 08456 443 784 / ES 634 344 787 FIND US ON FACEBOOK!(220152)
REMOVALS / STORAGE
CAR TRANSPORTER. Call for excellent rates, fully insured, professional service. 951 319 320, email move@freinternational.com / www.car-transport-spain.com (215605)
ELS POBLETS. Charming detached 2 bed/2 bath finca style villa 120m2 on 400 metre plot, com pool, close to village. 189,000€. Tel 690 103 922 (234570) IMMACULATE, 3 bed, 2 bath villa with pool. Les Fonts, Benitachell. Panoramic views. €295,000. 653 408 558 (234661)
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SWIMMING POOLS
LOOSE COVERS, CURTAINS ETC. Made to Measure. Choose from a wide range of beautiful fabrics in your own home. Tel: 965 771 397 or 686 453 827 (224997)
TOTAL POOL CARE. Specialists in regrouts, leak detectio and structural repairs, replacement pumps and filters etc, also warranty service available for pipework, pumps, lights etc. Tel 654 687 536 (229062)
SOLAR POWER LOWEST PRICES IN SPAIN, www.solarmegastore.es (226345)
STRUCTURAL SURVEYS
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MARK PADDON BSc Hons. Building surveying. MCIOB, CAAT. From 245 EUROS + IVA. Insured and legally registered in Spain. Tel: 653 733 066 / 962 807 247 www.costablancasurveyors.com (229513)
TELECOMS FED UP PAYING TOO MUCH FOR YOUR MOBILE PHONE CALLS? THEN CONTACT TELITEC TODAY. CALLS TO SPAIN 7C PER MINUTE INCLUDING MOBILES. CALLS TO UK 5.3C PER MINUTE. NO MONTHLY FEES, NO CONTRACT. WWW.TELITEC.COM TEL: 902 889 070 (0)
13 - 19 November 2014 / Costa Blanca Nor th TRAVEL GIBRALTAR shopping trip, leaves Benidorm 24th November, return 26th. â‚Ź120. 634 167 593 (234745)
TUITION BRIDGE LESSONS. Every Tuesday at 2.30pm. October May. Complete beginners and Intermediate. Just turn up no need to book. Javea School of Bridge. Between Scallops restaurant and Arenal seafront. Contact: www.bridgewebs.com/javeasc hoolsocial or javeaschoolof bridge@gmail.com or Clubhouse 965 770 509 (226380)
TV/SATELLITE QUALIFIED BRITISH SATELLITE ENGINEER with over 25 years experience on Costa Blanca. Installing and repairing SAT TV equipment. Same day service, all work guaranteed. Call Steve 617 911 118 (223547) SATELLITE TV, best prices - Dishes, Sky+ HD, Sky cards, Freesat boxes, re-alignment, Sky on Demand and Catch Up TV from www.uktvrouter.com - call now 962 800 807, 667 427 271 (229541)
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SOPHIE. Elegant lady. Home, hotel in and out services. 693 357 526 (226825)
RECORDS and CDs WANTED. Pop, Rock, Jazz, Blues. Top cash paid. 630 665 363 (223644)
WIG SPECIALISTS WIGS-R-US. Indoor Market Rincon de Loix, Benidorm. Monday Saturday 10 - 3. Hundreds of wigs in stock, private appointments after 3pm and home visits. 690 378 844 (215804)
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ESCORTS Vanessa and Jessica 19 & 21. 685 835 078 / 685 119 040 (226414)
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Edward William Insurance expand their horizons
By Pete Woodall EDWARD WILLIAM INSURANCE SERVICES have done rather well for themselves over the last 15 years. Their policy ‘any boat, any waters, any use, anywhere’ combined with good customer service has built them a steadily increasing customer base in marine insurance both here in Spain and overseas. So much so they have recently expanded into general insurance cover. The key to Edward William Insurance Services’s popularity is that the team are native English speakers, most fluent in Spanish, providing the best of both worlds. Insurance in English for the customer and competent to deal with any paperwork in Spanish. It’s sensible to say when you are paying for an insurance service it’s nice to understand
GENERAL COVER: Services now include travel insurance, long or short term. what you’re getting or even not getting. The policies come in English with Spanish translations. No more (not quite sure if this is a free-phone number or not) calls to who knows where,
never to speak with the same person even twice. It’s personal service, just one telephone number to the same office, to speak to the same team. The firm is proud of their
supposedly old fashioned ways and should you have to make a claim, they see it as part of their job to ensure everyone gets a fair deal and the payout is appropriate and prompt.
So what’s on offer? Obviously to be this successful, premiums have to be competitive, which they are, but also appropriate. This is so important, the right insurance for the right situation. As well as the successful boat insurance already mentioned, Edward William Insurance Services now provide first class motor vehicle, travel, pet, business and household insurance. You get to choose and discuss what is right for you, third party only or fully comprehensive, long or short term travel insurance and of course good cover for your pets. Whatever your insurance needs are on land or at sea, at home or abroad feel free to call Edward William Insurance Services on 952 476 090, quotes are usually immediate and it costs very little to ask.
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HE green, green grass of home is now available across the Costa Blanca in the form of top quality astroturf. Giving that glorious greenness to your home, artificial turf from Evolution Grass uses the latest generation fibres which allows the look and feel of natural grass without the considerable work and effort to maintain it. Evolution Grass S.L., based in Crevillente, emerged in early 2007 as a result of three generations dedicated to the manufacture of carpets and rugs in Crevillente. The skilled team use their know-how in terms of manufacturing to launch technological artificial turf products as a result of customer enquiries giving them sustainable and ecological astroturf at the most competitive prices.
ALL PURPOSE: Providing flooring for sports facilities also. GREEN GRASS: Turf looks just as good as the real stuff and is easier to keep.
EVOLUTION GRASS: Artificial turf offers perfect looking grass all year round. Evolution Grass offer a fully professional and comprehensive service. They can give personalised advice on the product and how it would best suit a client’s need and their desired look and complete installation is offered. It can be fitted on any surface with the land being prepared before laying. Gravel is applied first to
allow for the necessary drainage and water absorption. It contains special treatments to protect from chlorine from pools, the sun and freezing conditions so it is the ideal all year round solution.
The turf is also easy to clean and diluted bleach, soaps and detergents free of abrasive solvents can be used. With the high cost of water and maintenance of a natural
lawn, astroturf is becoming a more attractive and affordable option with Evolution Grass providing artificial lawns for a range of clients, from private customers wishing to turf their garden, to community and public areas for town halls. They have also carried out installations in sports facilities including tennis courts, football pitches and golf courses. To discuss how Evolution Grass can transform your property contact the team now.
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SEAT Leon ST is Towcar of the Year
SEAT’S Leon is celebrating its first and second - towing titles, awarded at the UK’s Royal Automobile Club. Fending off 11 challengers, the SEAT Leon ST took the crown in the £20,000 (€25,500) to £25,000 (€32,000) category; the judges concluding: “The load-lugging Leon ST 2.0 TDI 184PS kept its torquey feel and produced punch whenever and wherever it was required.” Such was the Leon ST’s performance, the car was also crowned Caravan Club Towcar of the Year 2015. Aiding its ability to sip fuel at a rate of just 65.7 miles per gallon, at 1,415 kilos, the Leon ST is one of the lightest estates in its class.
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Love design, love Maserati FOR those who love Italian style, Maserati has come up with a treat. The Maserati Ghibli S Q4, designed in collaboration with Ermenegildo Zegna, offers a new, exclusive product style interpretation. With its dynamic, contemporary look, it targets a luxury bracket of precious detail lovers and has been created with a renewed product range in mind for the future. The bodywork has a tri-coated paint finish in a new colour shade and the 20” wheels also come in a specially developed colour. And the interior is first rate. It has been designed as the ultimate expression of style and exclusivity, with a contrasting colour scheme created by combining the finest leather and valuable Zegna yarns, says Maserati. The car stands out from the rest of the current Ghibli range thanks to its special colour finishes, materials and trims.
GHIBLI S Q4: An Italian style treat.
Intended to be a first milestone towards the manufacturer’s renewed, future product line-up, this special trim developed for the concept car enhances its character and aesthetic value, making it even more exclusive and creating the ultimate contemporary look, says Maserati. The exterior has a new exclusive Azzurro Astro colour; the production technology is based on a triple layer of pigment, adding to the depth, shine and iridescence of the finish, enhanced by
changing shades of blue at the brightest points, and toned down to ash grey in the darker areas. The aluminium pigments used for this special colour magnify the design lines and bring out the muscular profile of the bodywork; the car’s sculpted outline is forcefully enhanced by the colour used, while the transparent top coat adds depth and a glossy shine. Other immediately apparent exterior features are the 20” Urano wheels with their distinctive colour specially developed for this
concept car; this finish, named Liquid Metal, emphasises the sports style, high technology and luxury positioning of the vehicle design. As befits the sartorial excellence represented by the Maserati and Zegna partnership, the style focus is mostly on the interior. The shared experience with the Quattroporte Zegna Limited Edition helped Ermenegildo Zegna create a pure silk fabric, combining an essential and soft feel with an elegantly technical look, resulting in an extremely high visual impact. Dynamism and a contemporary feel are the key words to read the dualcolour, dual-material composition of the passenger compartment in leather tones and Zegna anthracite silk. As for the seating, the extra fine grain, natural
colour leather with contrasting, light grey stitching is matched to a central silk insert with a micro-chevron weave of vertical rolls on the central seat and backrest area, within which the central roll, with leather piping on the sides, features a special macro-chevron weave adding to its threedimensional, soft feel and technical appearance. On the door panels, the central span is covered with Zegna silk Jersey and embellished by a diagonal roll pattern, with ton-surton ornamental stitching and alternating rib embroideries. The same fabric is used to cover the car’s roof lining, top pillars and sunshades, carrying ‘Ermenegildo Zegna Exclusively for Maserati’ brand labels on the inside. The car is powered by the high-performance 410 HP V6 Twin-Turbo engine.
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Record 13th MotoGP win for Marc 2016 EURO QUALIFIERS On Saturday, WBA’s Saido Berahino could make his England debut against Slovenia at Wembley in a 2016 Euro qualifier; Wales visit Belgium and Spain play Belarus. Tomorrow, it’s Scotland v the Republic of Ireland and Romania v Northern Ireland. ROUND UP MotoGP Spain’s superstar Marc Marquez claimed his 13th victory of the year on his home track in Valencia last Sunday and therefore broke the previous record of 12 wins set by Australian Michael Doohan in 1997. F1 - Lewis Hamilton, will have to finish at least second in the last race of the year in Abu Dhabi in 10 days time to ensure becoming 2014 World champion after taking second place behind his Mercedes colleague Nico Rosberg in Brazil last Sunday. Remember it’s double points in the final race with 50 going to the winner. Football - Last week’s Champions League football saw Arsenal 3-0 up, held 33 by Anderlecht, Chelsea drew 1-1 in Maribor, Liverpool lost 1-0 to Real Madrid, nine-man Manchester City lost 2-1 at home to CSKA Moscow and Barcelona beat Ajax 2-0, Lionel Messi scoring twice
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Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan has become only the third player in cricket history to take 10 wickets (10-124) and score a century (137) in a Test match (doing so against Zimbabwe). Ian Botham and Imran Khan are the other two.
A former football player and the world’s most prolific author of football books (more than 100 published), Tony is also the sports reporter for Spectrum Radio and lives in the Cabrera mountains.
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to draw level on 71 CL goals with Raul. In the Europa League, Celtic drew with Astra Giugiu while Everton (3-0 v Lille) and Tottenham (2-1 Asteras Tripoli) recorded vital victories. The top PL matches ended Liverpool 1 unbeaten leaders Chelsea 2, QPR 2 Manchester City 2, Swansea 2 Arsenal 1, second-placed Southampton 2 Leicester 0, Manchester United squeezed past Crystal Palace 1-0, Stoke won 2-1 at Spurs, WBA lost 2-0 to Newcastle and Burnley won for the first time this season, 1-0 v Hull. In the Championship, it was Middlesbrough 0 Bournemouth 0, Bolton 3 Wigan 1, Derby 5 Wolves 0 and Ipswich 2 Watford 1, while in the FA Cup first round, Chester City (at Southend), Warrington (v Exeter) and Worcester City (at Coventry) caused the biggest upsets. Rugby Union - England,
MOTO SUPERSTAR: Marc Marquez claimed his 13th victory. fielding soldier Semesa Rokoduguni, started their winter programme with 2124 home defeat to New Zealand; Wales lost 28-33 to Australia, Scotland beat Argentina 41-31 and Ireland took out South Africa 29-15. SHORTS • The APT tournament is under way at London’s 02 Arena with Andy Murray in the same group as Roger Federer, Kei Nishikori and Milos Raonic. Novak Djokovic, Tomas Berdych, Stan Wawrinka and Marin Cilic form the other group. • GB’s Davis Cup tie against America will take place in Glasgow in March. • 80,000+ fans saw the latest NFL game at Wembley between the Dallas Cowboys and the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Cowboys won 31-17.
Orba’s Autumn Trophy A LARGE field assembled at La Sella Golf for the inaugural playing of the Orba Warbler’s Autumn Trophy. Sponsored by Steve and Sarah Cliffe, this competition has replaced the Carnaval Cup on the Warbler fixtures and will be played for every year. On top was Nick Berry with 37 points, in second was Tony Dickinson (35) with third spot taken by Colin Harris beating Sylvia
Mortensen on count-back both with 32. Nearest the pins were Clive Kay, Steve Robinson, Steve Cliffe . There were a raft of two’s with Steve Cliffe getting two and Clive Kay, David Knight, Paul O’Gorman and Sylvia Mortensen also receiving the coveted Warbler ball. The next game for the Orba Warblers will be on Wednesday, November 19 at Oliva Nova,
competing for the Oliva Nova Cup. Book in on 639 242 896.
• FIFA has said that the 2022 World Cup WILL have to take place in winter months (January/February or November/ December). • 19-time NH champion jockey Tony McCoy leads Richard Johnson by 152 wins to 75 in the rider’s title race. • Real Madrid goalkeeper
Iker Casillas has now made a record 144 appearances in the European Cup/ Champions League. • England’s Rugby League side finished third in the four-nations event, beating Samoa but losing to Australia and New Zealand. • Giles Scott has become
the eighth sailor to join Sir Ben Ainslie’s British America’s Cup team. • Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke said his team couldn’t get home quick enough from their humiliating Test 221 and 356-run defeats by Pakistan. Clarke said: “We were absolutely rubbish.”
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Well done La Vila LA VILA had a fantastic against away win Barcelona University Club BUC, by 28-20 which also gained them a bonus point. It was not an easy win as the players looked tired after a five hour drive to Barcelona. The win was good enough for La Vila to hold on to second place in the table, as they look for promotion to the top tier. Next home game will be on Sunday December 7,
at 12.30pm againts Les Abelles Valencia. The second team travelled 330 kilometres to Cuenca and beat the home team by 64-7. On Saturday, November 15 there is plenty of rugby to enjoy at La Vila. From 10am until 2pm there is the Regional Mini Rugby Festival for Under 12s, Under 10s, Under 8s and Under 6s. At 3pm the Under 16s take on CAU Valencia.
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Mixed Trips at BBC THE annual Bankia sponsored mixed trips took place at Benitachell Bowls Club with 28 teams enjoying some very competitive matches, using a round-robin format. All the teams played six games and the final placings were not decided until the very last wood of the day had been bowled. Winners were Harry Chick, Gail Chick and John Coates with Terry Corner, Jean McLaughlin, Clive Scott second and third going to Feli Croft, Mike Croft and David Poole. Mike Smith, Linda Smith and Malcolm Sprawson were fourth and Dudley Davis, Carol Davis and Peter Collins fifth. BBC Lions were at home to their nearest rivals Javea Green Opals in the Northern League and came through with a share of the points 55 which keeps them eight points ahead of the Opals. The Challengers
BANKIA WINNERS: (from left) Gail and Harry Chick with John Coates, together with Bankia manager Jose Ivars, support team of Angeles and Silva. team lost out 17-20. The Tigers travelled to Finca Guila Swallows where they won on shot difference 67-65 but lost out on points 4-6 having lost on three of the rinks. The Challengers team lost 14-17. Jaguars had an excellent result against Bonalba on their home greens winning by 80 shots to 53 and gaining
eight points. Their Challenger team remains unbeaten with an 18-15 win. Two wins for Bencid Utd and Siete Arribba keeps them top of the table in the BBC’s Saturday Winter Fours with maxium points from their three matches. More information: www.benitachellbowlsclub.com