NO MORE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN!
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International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women 25 November
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Sard on show MALLORCA artist Amparo Sard is currently displaying her pieces at the Convento de Santo Domingo in Pollença. The exhibition can be visited from Tuesday to Sunday and entrance is free.
Bonsai fine A HAULIER has been fined €20,000 for damaging 80 bonsai trees in Llucmajor. Three of the trees were broken in transit and the rest damaged.
Church debate MALLORCA Church held a conference last weekend to debate the future of the institution. Seven hundred people took park in the discussions.
Bottle attack PALMA National Police have arrested a young man for attacking another one with a bottle in a bar located in Calle Fratin.
Cruise ships bringing in the good times THE importance of the cruise industry to Mallorca was highlighted when four cruise ships berthed in Palma this week. Between them they carried more than 11,500 passengers, who brought with them a potential offseason economic boost to the city. The Costa Diadema – part of the Costa Cruceros fleet – arrived in the
port just as it did last week and is scheduled to arrive in Palma every seven days. But this time it was joined by another giant cruise ship as the MSC Splendida also arrived. These two ships alone were carrying more than 7,000 passengers, many of whom disembarked to visit Palma. Also arriving were the Costa Mediterranea and the Aidavita,
bringing the single-day figures for passenger arrivals up to 11,540. And this is despite the fact that the offseason for cruises has already started, even though as many as 19 visits from liners are expected between now and the end of the year. New to the scene will be the Ocean Princess, due to arrive on December 5, which has never berthed in Palma before. Port officials expect 2015 to be a record year for port This represents a 3 per cent increase visits. The last figures compared to the same 10-month period in available show that in 2013 2013, while the number of new companies the port handled 1.3 million founded on a national level grew by 4 per cruise passengers, 26.5 per cent. cent more than in 2012, The total investment in new companies making Palma the fifth so far this year amounts to nearly €126 busiest cruise-liner port million, 59 per cent more than in 2013. in Europe.
Business start-ups rise
THE number of new companies established on the Balearic Islands has grown during 2014. As many as 2,475 new companies were registered on the Balearic Islands between January and October, according to a study on business demography published by INFORMA D&B.
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CUTTING COSTS: Many people use energy-saving light bulbs.
Call for energy price control
A LARGE percentage of Balearic Island residents think the government should implement measures to control the price of gas and electricity, according to rastreator.com. Data from an analysis conducted by rastreator.com on saving habits in Spain and the opinion of Spaniards regarding household energy spending shows that 91 per cent of consumers are concerned about the possibility of prices increasing, while 95.9 per cent of Balearic Island residents
think the government should step in to prevent this. In addition, 97 per cent of Balearic respondents said they were worried about their energy consumption and reported taking steps to use less. Some of the most popular money-saving measures include using energy-saving light bulbs (83.7 per cent of respondents), turning off lights and electronic devices (61.2 per cent) and using energy-efficient washing machines (61.2 per cent).
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NEWS Street vandalism A 19-YEAR-OLD is on trial for cutting a fence at a train depot in Mallorca with the intention of painting graffiti, causing €3,900 damage. New homes MODERNIST building L’Aguila de Palma, built in 1908, will have its four top floors turned into homes. Its original façade will be kept and its interior renovated.
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Walking against violence DEPUTY MAYOR for Culture and Sports Fernando Gilet and Social Welfare and Equality councillor Ana Ferriol of Palma Council presented the ‘Marcha popular contra la violencia de genero - 4a Nordic Walking Ciutat de Palma.’ The event is scheduled to take place on Sunday (November 23) and aims at condemning domestic violence and bringing
society together to fight this social scourge. The 11-kilometre Nordic walk which will start at Plaza de Cort at 11am and finish at Palma Aquarium - coincides with the International Week Against Domestic Violence and more than 2,000 people are expected to participate. Using the walking poles is not
mandatory, but participants wishing to buy them can do so by making a €5 donation. The money is to be donated to Temps per a Tu of the Red Cross. “The walk turns Palma into a single voice against those who denigrate life and do not value the importance of tolerance, dialogue and generosity,” said Gilet. Photo by Guinness World Records.
No expansion AN association from El Molinar has collected 750 signatures to stop the expansion works at the town’s port. Residents are concerned about the environmental and social impact the project will cause. Cool seniors AN old people’s home in Inca has received €7,000 from the council to install air conditioning in the facilities. Members of the opposition are concerned the aid is a mere electoral strategy. Road relief A ROAD project to relieve traffic in Algaida has been approved by the Ministry of Environment. The works will be carried out next year.
Career carjacker NATIONAL POLICE in Palma detained a well-known career carjacker who is believed to have been arrested as many as 30 times.
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Gruesome death A MIDDLE-AGED man died at Son Espases hospital after setting himself on fire in Marratxi. The Guardia Civil is currently looking into his death. It appears he set himself alight after arguing with his partner.
Getting trained LOCAL POLICE officers of Palma, Calvia, Marratxi, Llucmajor and Andratx this week took part in training courses on the protocol to follow in case of an Ebola infection.
Best cook THE high-level cooking competition ‘Balearskills’ was held last Tuesday at the Secondary School of Calvia. Contestants were students from different local technical schools.
Increased prices
WORLD BEATER: Kinumi Cati, the Spanish videogamer.
Spain leading in gamers’ world
Shamrock concert THE band Room for Three will hold a concert at Shamrock Fun Place in Palma tomorrow (November 21). It features 70s and 80s covers and will start at 11pm. Oil prospecting PRESIDENT of the Balearic Regional Government Jose Ramon Bauza reiterated yesterday (Wednesday) that the Govern opposes oil prospecting and extraction off the archipelago coast.
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Quote of the Week It’s necessary to explain to the banks that the most important thing is that a family don’t sleep on the streets,’ said Pablo Iglesias, leader of the fast-growing Podemos political party, when talking about the question of home evictions.
Twenty-seven-year-old Rodrigo Martin Santos, from Madrid, holds the record for the ‘Largest Collection of Tomb Raider Memorabilia,’ with a total of 2,383 game-related pieces from the popular videogame and movie series. And 16-year-old Hecaterina Kinumi Iglesias, from Vigo, holds not only one world record, but two. The gamer, model and singer is the world record holder for the ‘Longest Videogame Marathon on Final Fantasy’ (38 hours and 6 minutes), and ‘Longest Videogame Marathon on World of Warcraft (29 hours and 31 minutes). Known in the virtual world as ‘Kinumi Cati,’ Iglesias said she took on the marathon endurance sessions to be known as a “good gamer.”
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billion is the amount that will be paid out in prizes should all tickets for Spain’s national Christmas lottery known as ‘El Gordo’ - be sold before the draw on December 22.
FLIGHT prices from Son Sant Joan, Mao and Ibiza airports to mainland Spain are to increase considerably during this year’s holiday season compared to 2013 according to reports.
Lost and found A POLE was detained by police in Porto Cristo after he found a Samsung S5 mobile phone valued at €700 and told the owner to pay him €250 if he wanted to get it back.
Upcoming match RCD MALLORCA is to play CD Tenerife on Saturday (November 22) at Heliodoro Rodriguez Lopez Stadium at 8pm. So far this season, RCD Mallorca have won five games, drawn three and lost five.
And finally... Spanish clothing giant Zara has had to restrict the number of purchases at its stores in Venezuela to five items of clothing per person, per month, in order to cope with high demand. Low-cost clothing lines have resulted in massive queues at Zara stores in Venezuela and a rationing of stock.
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Ceiling collapses in public school AFTER complaints arose amongst parents concerning the poor
state of schools on the Island, the collapse of a school ceiling has
Pizza man hit by car A PIZZA delivery man, 18, was hit by a car on Avenida Mexico in Palma on Sunday night (November 16). “I was going down the avenue when all of a sudden a car jumped the red light and hit me. The worst part is he left me lying there like a dog,” said the man. “They took me to the hospital, but I am ok now.” Local Police in Palma have launched an investigation.
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proved them right. The accident happened in the Public School Molinar in Palma, inside the three-year-old student’s classroom. Fortunately, no one was injured since the 25 children were in the playground. Parents’ associations have taken the chance to condemn the state of the buildings, claiming that the Education Department has not taken any measures to solve the problems. But ceilings are not the only problem: window blinds that become detached with the wind, leaking roofs and a building that is falling to pieces are the result of the budget cuts that are affecting the health of schoolchildren.
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Tradition or torture? Bull festival shocks world
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RIGHTENING images of one of Spain’s lesser known festivals made the pages of several European newspapers this week, showing a terrified young bull charging around a makeshift bullring with burning stakes strapped to his horns. Caked in mud, the pictures of the bull in the dark night illuminated only by the burning balls of tar attached to his head could have come straight from some hellish vision of the Apocalypse. Clashes between animal rights activists and police brought the Joy of the Bull festival - in Spain’s Soria region - to the attention of the world, with widespread condemnation from most quarters. The annual festival has been deemed a “cultural highlight” in the village of Medinaceli, but has also been called a “sadistic festival” by animal rights group PETA. There has long been debate about
Spain’s treatment of bulls, particularly due to the popularity of bullfighting in the country. Whatever your thoughts on this famous Spanish tradition, most people would share the opinion that the Joy of the Bull festival is no doubt cruel. The bull is taunted and jeered as flaming hot tar burns precariously close to its head. Once the bull is exhausted, he is removed from the ring to be slaughtered and eaten by festival participants. The debate about bullfighting in Spain will be waged for some time to come, but we think most people with a modicum of common sense would agree that events like the Joy of the Bull festival are in no way fair to the animal. Just because it’s an ancient tradition doesn’t make it okay to torture and frighten a creature in such a manner. Like the majority of outside observers, we think it should be stopped.
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Man arrested for threatening woman A MAN was arrested for allegedly breaking into a home to steal and threatening a woman with a knife. The incident happened in the early hours of the morning when the suspect entered the victim’s home in Molinar.
He went into the woman’s room, who was sleeping and often left a knife in the bedside table to defend herself from a potential attacker. When he found out there was someone in the house, he took the
Museum to open 2015 THE renovation works at the Mallorca Museum are close to finishing. The centre is expected
Renovated THE wooden walkway at Playa de Can Pastilla will be removed during the next few weeks due to its deteriorated condition. The walkway will then be renovated and repainted.
to be reopened between March and April of 2015, according to the Education Department of the region. Representatives have emphasised the profound importance of the pieces displayed in the museum which tell the history and traditions of Mallorca. The rehabilitation works had a budget of €10 million, and solved the many problems existing in the building.
knife and threatened the woman. He took hold of a few items such as a tablet, a Smartphone and €100. The 32-year-old Spanish man already had a criminal record and is currently in prison.
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Domestic abuse LOCAL POLICE in Palma have detained a 48-year-old Algerian man for beating his wife, 53, with a belt. The victim, a Swiss national, was taken to Son Espases hospital.
Miro on show FUNDACIO Tren De L’Art in Palma is presenting a Joan Miro exhibition until Sunday, November 30.
Concert fun ROOM FOR THREE is giving a concert tomorrow, November 21, at 11.30pm at Shamrock Fun Place in Palma (Avenida Gabriel Roca) featuring songs by Stevie Wonder, Oasis and the Beatles.
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Child takes the floor in regional parliament A CHILD took the floor at the Balearic Regional Parliament to talk about children’s rights. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), Aldeas Infantiles SOS Spanish branch of SOS Children’s Villages - invited a 10-year-old boy to read a speech on children’s rights. The Convention - signed in New York on November 20, 1989 - sets out the social, health, political, civil, cultural and economic rights of children. Furthermore, 70 children are expected to participate today
CHILDREN’S RIGHTS: A 10-year-boy read out a speech. (November 20) in the third edition of the Childhood Congress, organised by the Balearic Regional
Government, Parliament and UNICEF, to commemorate Universal Children’s Day.
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€11.5m on church expenses THE bishopric of Mallorca has said that €11.5 million was spent by the Church of Mallorca last year. An amount of €4.8 million was destined for the diocese and €6.7 million to parish churches. The expenditure represents a slight increase compared to 2012, but is not higher than the costs in 2011. With regard to earnings, the total was €4.5 million, €2.8 of which came from citizen contributions and €937,401 from donations.
Man held on suspicion of committing 21 burglaries A 39-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested for allegedly carrying out a spate of 21 thefts and burglaries. The crimes, which
caused great concern amongst citizens, were carried out in the region of Es Raiguer and the Binissalem, Sineu, Lloret, Sencelles and
Inca municipalities. The burglar would allegedly wait until the residents had gone out before breaking into their properties.
Afterwards, he would sell on all the stolen items, which were mainly electrical appliances. The authorities have
advised that the investigation is still ongoing and that further arrests have not been ruled in connection with the crimes.
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Runaway donkey leads police on a wild chase down Cami des Prat LOCAL POLICE in Andratx responded to an unusual call about a donkey on the loose on the road joining the town and the port. A police car was sent to
the area and the officers found the animal, but when environmental agents tried to capture it, the donkey reportedly got scared and took off
running down Cami des Prat, crossing several properties on its way. The officers chased the runaway donkey and finally managed to capture
Man faces 20 years jail A MAN accused of murdering his ex-wife could spend 20 years in prison. The Public Prosecutor’s Office is asking for 20 years in jail for Joan Bernat Palou, 50, an Arta shopkeeper accused of murdering his ex-wife, Margalida Perello in 2013. The trial is scheduled to be held in Palma in February 2015. If convicted, he could also be sentenced to pay each of his two children €150,000 in compensation. The defendant reportedly stabbed the victim as many as 19 times with a knife, and then tried to take his own life. The crime can be qualified as murder because the victim was caught off guard.
it after cutting it off and leading it to the entrance of a house in the country, and are now trying to locate to owner of the animal.
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Parking permit renewal RESIDENTS of Palma can start renewing parking permits for 2015 until January 31. The annual price continues to be €24 for residents. They will receive a letter with the steps to follow in order to renew the document. Expenses can be paid through the internet or in banks La Caixa, Sa Nostra, Banca March, BBVA or Banco Santander. After payment is received, the town council will send the permit through the post. This year’s permit can be used until January 31 2015. After that, drivers without the renewed permit will be sanctioned.
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Cutbacks protest BALEARIC postal workers staged a demonstration on Tuesday (November 18) against cutbacks and
24 tortillas CALA D’OR hosted its first Spanish tortilla competition last weekend. There were 210 participants - organised in groups of 10 - who cooked close to 24 tortillas following different recipes.
called for work regulations and for a quality public service. Several unions - CCOO, UGT, CSI-F and Sindicato Libre gathered at the Government Delegate’s Office to condemn the loss of 8,000 jobs since 2011 and to warn against the possibility of even more jobs - an estimated 14,000 being lost should cutbacks continue.
MES oppose privatising libraries MES PER MALLORCA strongly opposes privatising the Son Gotleu and Son Canaves libraries. The political coalition said on Monday (November 17) that Palma Council’s wish to privatise the libraries six months before elections is immoral. “This is the wrong political decision. It goes against the public service offered to citizens by the Municipal Libraries Network and endangers the management model for the next term,” said MES councillor Antoni Noguera.
Stone sculptures A YOUNG artist from Pollensa will be holding his fourth exhibition from today (Thursday). It is Marcos Torandell’s fourth exhibition and is on at the Palma Cafe Gallery/Bar on Paseo Mallorca 30,
Palma for two months from 10am to 11pm. Marcos is working as a gardener whilst he tries to build up his career as an artist. His works are stone sculptures for the home and garden.
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Holiday season hiring expected to increase THE increase in seasonal hiring is further proof that the economy is slowly regaining its footing since the economic crisis. With Christmas just around the corner, business owners, hoteliers
and restaurant owners are already thinking about hiring additional employees for the holidays. Data provided by Adecco and Adecco Outsourcing shows that seasonal hiring is expected to increase
Sculpture back where it belongs THE Holy Sepulcre sculpture was returned to Son Sang Cemetery. ‘El Sant Sepulcre,’ a white marble four-piece sculpture by Josep Llimona, is back on its original spot in Son Sang Cemetery in Soller. The weatheredbattered sculpture was reportedly taken from the cemetery two years ago because it was supposed to undergo restorations, but it did not and was returned to the cemetery on Monday morning (November 17). The sculpture was taken from the cemetery back in October 2012 without the proper municipal authorisation. The proprietors merely sent a document to the council saying that it would be restored.
between November and January, creating 110,000 new jobs in Spain, which would represent a 10 per cent increase compared to Christmas 2013, whilst on the Balearic Islands as many as 500 new jobs are expected to be created (+15 per cent).
A busy year for airports BALEARIC Island airports registered a total of 30,246,433 passengers passing through between January and October. Of the total amount, 21,757,221 used Palma de Mallorca airport during the first 10 months of the year, a 1.3 per cent increase compared to the year before, airport authority Aena reported.
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Balearic breakthrough A TEAM of investigators at Balearic Islands University (UIB) has registered a patent on a cocoa extract which is claimed to prevent
Tunnel for motorway THE Mallorca Board and the Port Authority are to build a tunnel joining Dique Del Oeste and the Andratx motorway. “The objective is to divert traffic from the Passeig Maritim, especially heavy vehicles coming from the port,” said Territory Councillor Mauricio Rovira. The project is to cost the Mallorca Board €9 million, said ultimahora.es.
kidney stones forming. Laboratory director Felix Grases explained that the extract comes from a substance found naturally in cocoa beans and said that eating 200 grams a day of dark chocolate would be sufficient to avoid kidney stones. However, it would not be healthy especially as the majority of sufferers are overweight
and diabetic. After 15 years of studies on the effects various substances had on uric acid, the university investigators discovered that the cocoa extract stopped stones from forming. The team has decided to commercialise the product in capsule form through a company called Devicare.
Low season breaks records LOW-SEASON tourism in Palma has seen record-breaking numbers. The increase in city breaks and the improvement of Palma’s image as an urban tourist destination in Europe have increased the number of overnight stays in hotels during the low season between Thursdays and Sundays. Starting in September, tourism demand began focusing on the weekends and this has driven up the number of overnight stays in city centre hotels, leading to new records, said Head of the Palma and Cala Mayor Hotels’ Association, Javier Vich.
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Airport thieves are put on trial TWO middle-aged men have been put on trial for allegedly stealing tourists’ luggage and other
belongings at Mallorca airport Son Sant Joan. The incidents took place in May of 2012.
Young and violent THE majority of abusers seen by Palma Council’s assistance programme for aggressors between January and September were under 40-yearsold. Social Welfare and Equality councillor Aina Ferriol described the data as surprising during a presentation of the Municipal Domestic and Gender Violence Services. Ferriol explained that she was surprised at the figures as more time has been spent in the past on awareness projects aimed at the younger generations, but said they are probably due to the fact that younger women are more likely to report abuse. During 2013, programmes against domestic and gender violence in Palma dealt with a total of 266 victims, of which 102 were women and 164 children.
The two men operated in the car park, where they would get hold of tourists’ bags, suitcases and other belongings while they were loading their things in vehicles such as taxis. On two occasions, they allegedly used stolen cards and withdrew €1,200 and €2,000, respectively. The police were almost able to arrest them at the end of said month in 2012, but they escaped in a car, breaking a crossing gate on their way. Prosecution requests five years in prison and a fine for one of them, a Spanish man with a criminal record. His companion, a man from Algeria, could face a fourand-a-half-year sentence together with a fine.
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Rising dog attacks worry local farmers SENCELLES farmers in central Mallorca have voiced their concern about the increasing number of dog attacks in the municipality. The latest in a series of brutal attacks took place last Thursday morning (November 13) at a property between Santa Eugenia and Sencelles, near the Palma-Sineu motorway. A stockbreeder named Joan Crespi found 10 of his lambs and four of his sheep dead.
“Many rural homes are only used during the weekend, but the owners keep guard dogs. If they escape during the week, they roam the area without their owners finding out and their instinct pushes them to attack defenceless flocks,” said Crespi. According to the farmers’ association in Sencelles, the number of attacks has increased and farmers have contacted the authorities because they feel helpless. “Incidents like these are turning into an all-too-common disaster for farmers and stockbreeders in Sencelles. We call upon the authorities to find a solution,” he said. “I think it is great that there are animal rights activists and awareness-raising campaigns A MAN has been arrested in Soller by the about how to take care of Guardia Civil for allegedly shooting his them. But they should protect neighbour’s dog, which turned up dead in the all animals and not just puppies garden on October 25. and kittens. My sheep were Officers began an investigation and the animals too and they did not evidence pointed to the owner’s neighbour deserve to die such a savage having been responsible for the shooting. He death,” complained Crespi. was arrested, taken to court and later released He estimates he has so far on charges for mistreatment of animals. lost as many as 25 animals.
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‘Alaska’ kiosk not going anywhere DEPUTY MAYOR Irene San Gil took to Twitter to defuse a controversy making the rounds on social media according to which the ‘Alaska’ kiosk could be closed down. “Calm down. We are NOT going to close down the Alaska,” said Gil on her Twitter account. The campaign to save the famous kiosk located on Plaça des Mercat was launched by ‘Orgull llonguet,’ with lots of people sending support messages through the hashtag #SalvemBarAlaska, said diariodemallorca.es. Gil, however, said the ‘Alaska’ is not going anywhere because the “licence has been tacitly extended.”
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Assaulted for trying to prevent a fight A SENEGALESE national living in Palma was assaulted on Sunday (November 16) for trying to prevent a fight. “I was sitting outside a bar on Plaza de las Columnas and there
was a man I did not know sitting at a nearby table, he was around 25years-old,” said Seidou Diakne, 51. Two Ecuadorian nationals arrived at the bar and started insulting the man and trying to pick
Inventive thief is caught A MOROCCAN copper thief has been arrested and accused of cutting rural electrical posts down and stealing cables. Five agricultural properties in Mallorca suffered the effects of the 62-year-old man’s activities during which he always waited until the properties were empty, then cut down electrical posts and stole the copper cables. His victims not only lost their electrical lines, they also had to pay for new posts to be installed. Guardia Civil rural officers tracked the thief down and upon
COPPER THIEF: Would cut down rural electrical posts and steal the copper cables. arresting him confiscated 200 kilos of copper which were returned to their rightful owners.
a fight with him. “I told the young man not to pay any attention to them so there would not be any problems, and one of them started to insult me and calling me a racial slur. I stood up and told him not to disrespect me, because I had not disrespected anyone,” said Diakne. As stated by him, one of the Ecuadorian nationals picked up a bottle while another one attacked him from behind. “The one that was insulting me picked up a bottle, and the other one came from behind and hit me on the head with a bar stool. “Then they hit me and ran away. I started chasing them, but I had a wound to my forehead,” recalled Diakne. After being released from the Son Llatzer hospital, Diakne lodged a complaint with the police. According to ultimahora.es, the alleged attackers have already been arrested.
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Two dogs and a cat die in fire TWO dogs and a cat died in a blaze that scorched a home in Palma. The fire reportedly broke out on Monday (November 17) in a property located on Calle Bartomeu Pons Coll in La Bonanova. It took firefighters nearly two hours to put out the flames and the inhabitant of the home had to be treated for an anxiety attack. In an unrelated story, a 63-year-old man had to be treated for smoke inhalation after a fire started in the kitchen of a Costa d’en Blanes home. He was taken to the Son Espases hospital in Palma.
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Manacor insurance broker is arrested A MANACOR broker has been arrested for allegedly creating fake policies and keeping insurance payments from at least eight people. Police investigations began when it was discovered that a number of vehicles involved in accidents or fined for traffic offences did not
have obligatory insurance. The vehicles’ owners expressed surprise when told that they were not insured and all said they had taken out policies with one particular broker. The alleged fraudster took advantage of clients who paid for their
New police officers LOCAL POLICE of Manacor welcomed nine new officers. Last year’s budget cuts meant a reduction of more than 20 workers, after the elimination of the touristic police officer position. Currently, 84 members work for the local station, a number that is by far inferior to a town of 43,000 inhabitants’ needs, which should have at least 125 police officers, according to head of the department Antoni Sureda.
insurance in cash at his office by giving them fake receipts and sending the insurance company made up bank account numbers. The company was unable to contact clients as the details provided by the broker were also false, therefore the policies were cancelled.
Car accident A 60-YEAR-OLD man died in a head-on collision with a truck in Llucmajor last Monday (November 17). The accident took place at around 11.10am on the Ma-6015 road, which connects with s’Etanyol. The man, who was not carrying any personal documents, died instantly.
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Freddie Mercury THIS year marks the 23rd anniversary of Freddie Mercury’s death, lead vocalist and lyricist of British rock band Queen. His memory, however, lives on and to pay tribute to the legendary singer, Cinesa will be screening Queen Rock Montreal at Festival Park in Marratxi on Monday (November 24th) at 8pm. Tickets €8. The show was recorded at Montreal Forum in Canada in 1981.
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Campaign launched against child abuse A BALEARIC non-profit foundation has launched an online campaign against child sexual abuse. Founded in 2005, RANA Spanish acronym for Help Network for Abused Children - has taken to social media and is asking for help to fight the scourge of child sexual abuse. “We need you to help us change a reality confirmed by the Council of Europe: one in every five children falls victim to child sexual abuse. Let us gather ideas about how to protect them. “Write yours on a piece of paper and take a picture of it. Then upload it to Facebook, Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #ni1abusoinfantilmas. “And if you do not use social media, email us your support to info@fundacion rana.org,” said the
RANA FOUNDATION: Fighting child sexual abuse. foundation. Furthermore, people wishing to participate in this awareness-raising campaign can go to Estació Intermodal in Palma today (Thursday November 20) from 8am until 8pm to do their bit in this important
initiative. The members of RANA will be there giving out informative brochures and encouraging people to have their pictures taken with ideas about how to combat child sexual abuse. The launch of this campaign coincides with
the World Day for Prevention of Child Abuse (November 19) and the Universal Children’s Day (November 20). RANA has also created a video which they hope will go viral http://youtu.be/ Yn5fMQ76d08.
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¿Hablas Join us in purple against violence ingles? Yes, of TUESDAY November 25
is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, a cause we at EWN feel strongly about and are sure our readers do too. We here at EWN are marking the occasion by printing the movement’s logo on the front cover of each of our six editions this week. According to Spain’s Ministry of Health, Social Security and Equality, so far this year 43 women have lost their lives at the hands of their partner or ex-partner. Only 13 had previously reported being victims of abuse.
The aim of the international campaign is to raise awareness of the fact that women around the world are subject to rape, domestic violence and other forms of violence on a daily basis, in fact it has been estimated that one in three women will suffer some form of violence or physical or psychological abuse during their lives. Recognised officially by the United Nations in 1999, November 25 was previously adopted to mark the assassination of three political activist sisters in the Dominican
Republic in 1960. While nobody really knows exactly why the colour was adopted to symbolise the day, purple ribbons and handprints have become the most widespread way to show support for the cause, which most towns in Spain acknowledge in some way. Therefore the EWN team will be going purple on Tuesday and invite readers to do the same in a stand against all forms of violence against women. Purple to tell abusers we will not look the other way while they get away with it. Purple to let victims know they are never alone.
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SPAIN has reached its highest ever level of English language proficiency, marking a change in attitude among Spaniards towards learning English. According to the annual English Language Proficiency Index by Education First, Spain ranks 20th out of 60 countries featured in the study, its highest position ever. Spain now sits ahead of both France and Italy in terms of English-speaking ability, and is only just outside the ‘high proficiency’ bracket that includes English-literate countries such as Denmark, Holland and Sweden. “Spain is seeing the results of a significant change in attitude toward English language education,” stated the report. “The Spanish government has defined English as one of seven basic skills, alongside Spanish and math.”
The report shows that Spaniards between the ages of 35 and 44 have the highest level of English proficiency, but that age group is expected to be lower in the future as young Spaniards learn more English at school and also pick up English from television and the internet. The study notes that due to an increase in bilingual schools in Spain, English language skills are improving and are of vital importance in finding a job. “Although other economic factors are hampering Spain’s recover, training young people in essential skills for a globalised economy is undoubtedly a wise investment,” said the report. Spanish women speak better English than men, and those in the Basque country speak the best English among Spaniards. The remote Extremadura region has the lowest proficiency.
Spain is favourite for a warmer winter SPAIN is as popular as ever with holidaymaking Brits this winter, with thousands seeking to escape the cold and wet and make for warmer climes. Over the next three months, a whopping 75 per cent of Brits want to hit the beaches of Spain instead of taking off to traditional winter skiing destinations, a Monarch Airlines survey showed. The survey is reinforced by their winter bookings stats, which show that 87
per cent of British holidaymakers are jetting off to beach destinations over the winter months. Spanish destinations take up the top three spots on the list, with Tenerife the preferred holiday spot this winter, followed by Alicante and Malaga. There are still a significant amount of UK holidaymakers hitting the slopes this winter, but the beaches of Spain still rank high on the wish list, despite the time of year.
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Market protected LA LINEA’S Mercado de la Concepcion dating from 1882 - has been registered by the Andalucian regional government as a historic building.
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MALAGA won a new Guinness World Record during the city’s Sports Festival when 339 people simultaneously held the ‘plank’ position for one minute.
MARBELLA and San Pedro National Lottery ticket holders had reason to celebrate five, when their number won second prize with a total payout of €1.2 million.
Fatal accident A 62-YEAR-OLD man died when the lorry he was driving towards Malaga fell down a five metre embankment from the A45 road near Antequera.
COSTA DE ALMERÍA
Multipurpose centre HUERCAL DE ALMERIA is to get a new multipurpose centre with a cash injection of €330,316.59 from the province. The remaining €65,907.87 is funded by the town council.
New business HUERCAL DE ALMERIA now has 44 new businesses and 61 jobs through the support of CADE (Centre for Entrepreneurial Development). CADE provides services to 18,000 inhabitants.
Doggy rescue LOCAL POLICE and firefighters rescued a dog that had fallen into an eight metre hole in the Piedras Redondas district of Almeria City. The dog was taken to a vet to check for its microchip.
Playground refurbishment ALMERIA City’s council has approved the remodelling of the children’s playground in Plaza San Pedro. The work is expected to last approximately three months and has a budget of €239,498.64.
AXARQUIA
Better lighting
Fruit confiscation LOCAL POLICE and Guardia Civil of Almuñecar confiscated 150 kilos of custard apples which were being illegally sold at a charity market. Only second-hand or manufactured items can be sold there.
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against a ‘peaceful and democratic coexistence.’
MALAGA provincial government will spend €40,000 on improving the lighting around the area of La Torrecilla in Nerja. Traditional bulbs will be replaced with LED technology.
World Record abs
TEN people were involved in a crash between two cars on Avenida Carlos Haya in Malaga. Six people, including a pregnant woman, were injured and taken to hospital for treatment.
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NATURAL SPACE: One of the best protected areas in the world.
Sierra Nevada is top of the world SIERRA NEVADA is officially one of the best preserved protected areas in the world. It has become the first natural space in Spain to make it onto the UICN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Green List. The announcement was made during the World Parks Congress held in Sydney, Australia. The Sierra Nevada, which stretches between Almeria and Granada, houses two national parks and is subject to protection as a green area. It is included in the initial list along with 23 natural parks in Spain, Australia, China, Colombia, France, Italy, Kenya and South Korea. The Green List includes natural areas considered essential for the survival of the planet, which scientists say is threatened by global warming. “The management of the national park of Sierra Nevada successfully balances
Child friendly VICAR has been given the title of ‘child friendly town’ by UNICEF for its continued work for the rights of children. The title is to be reviewed in 2018 when it may be given permanently.
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Zero tolerance PLAYA FLAMENCA Town Hall held a minute’s silence in honour of domestic violence victims as a blue ribbon banner was unveiled.
Express service IN the first 10 months of this year, a total of 74,393 passengers have used Torrevieja’s express bus service to
the preservation of fragile mountain ecosystems and its rich cultural heritage with the dynamics of the tourism industry. It is a reference and example for other protected areas. Its managers have given us eyes to see the path to be followed,” according to a UICN statement. The first 23 additions to the Green List were selected from 50 candidates. Making it onto the list entails meeting a set of strict environmental requirements including the quality of protection of natural resources, as well as the cultural, social, economic and environmental benefits they provide. These areas must demonstrate that they share, in a fair and transparent manner, the costs and benefits of conservation, effective management and the results of long-term preservation. Alicante-Elche airport, an increase of 17.4 per cent over the same period of 2013.
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Hiring locals A TOTAL of 32 unemployed residents of Almuñecar have been hired by the council for three months to carry out maintenance works such as gardening and renovations.
Well done TORROX Council has rewarded two local students with €1,200 for obtaining the best marks in the town. Their names are Marta Brescias and Pedro Bermudez from the Secondary School Jorge Guillen.
Missing girl NATIONAL POLICE are investigating the whereabouts of a Nigerian girl who lives in Motril. She is aged between 15 and 16, was living in a social home and was last seen around two weeks ago.
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Fine situation GOVERNMENT income from Alicante Province traffic fines dropped €2.7 million to €47.8 million between 2011 and the end of 2013. Earnings from fines throughout Spain fell by €68 million during this period.
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ELCHE recorded winds reaching up to 67km an hour at the weekend with Utiel, Valencia, recording gusts of 70km an hour.
ALCOY Council was asked to consider the legality of subsidising the town’s Moors and Christians fiestas. The organisers are hindering the full integration of women, warned the regional Ombudsman.
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ORIHUELA has honoured the 17 victims executed in the city in 1939 under the Franco dictatorship. A monolith is installed in the cemetery in honour of those killed.
PARENTS will vote in an internet poll on whether children are taught in Spanish or Valenciano. The non-binding vote will apply to state schools, the regional government said.
Park vandalism VANDALS have sprayed graffiti on the walls around the Park of the Nations in Torrevieja. The city said they will take the appropriate action against those who act
More start-ups APPLICATIONS to open new businesses in San Vicente rose 21 per cent between January and October.
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DENMARK - Four hundred public ashtrays are to be introduced in Copenhagen due to the fact that cigarette butts account for four-fifths of all the rubbish cleared from the Danish capital’s streets.
THE childhood home of famous author Charles Dickens has gone on sale for £760,000 (€960,000). The one-bedroom apartment in Bloomsbury, London, is situated next to a former workhouse that is said to have inspired the novel Oliver Twist.
Fluent English DENMARK - Danes are the world’s best nonnative English speakers according to a major report. Denmark topped the list of the 63 nonCommonwealth countries in the study.
Check mate NORWAY - Police alerted to screams coming from an apartment found they had come from a chess player angry with his performance while playing chess on his computer.
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WHIZZ-KID Ayan Qureshi from Coventry has become the world’s youngest qualified computer specialist, at the age of just five. Ayan passed the Microsoft IT exam usually taken by University students aiming to become IT technicians.
TELEVISION presenter Declan Donnelly - better known as Dec from the duo Ant and Dec - is to marry his manager. It’s understood that the presenter popped the question to Ali Astall in Australia before the new series of I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!
Green light FIFA has cleared future World Cup hosts Russia of all serious corruption charges in their bid to host the games. The findings mean the games will go ahead as planned and there will be no re-vote for where to host the 2018 World Cup.
Replica guns THREE companies importing toy replicas of the Kalashnikov AK-47 gun are being taken to court by relatives of the gun’s inventor, Mikhail
Online spying GERMAN Foreign Intelligence is to hire computer hackers to penetrate secure connection technologies used by banks and online shops to create an early warning system for cyber attacks. It’s believed it will cost €28 million.
Drugs swoop
RUSSIAN PRESS A COURT in central Russia has ordered a man to cover up his swastika tattoo as exhibiting Nazi symbols in public is an offence. The man from Galich displayed his tattoo in public and has been fined Photo by Mike Mozart 1,000 rubles (€17).
SWEDEN - A Swedish poker player has won $10 million (€7.9 million) at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Martin Jacobson from Stockholm outlasted more than 6,500 entrants to win.
DICKENS: Childhood home for sale.
Byte-sized genius
NORWAY - A Danish sex offender has been banned for life from entering Norway after posing as a company representative and offering jobs to women as an excuse to molest them.
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THE Michael Schumacher website has reopened with a statement from his family saying they are “confident and hoping for the best” for the recovery of the seven-time F1 world champion.
Hygiene failure
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SWEDEN - A bus driver in northern Sweden has been sacked for refusing to pick up black passengers and for kicking black people off the bus.
Schumi’s back
FAST FOOD litter is at record levels in Britain and experts are blaming it on the wrong type of bins. Councils should use bins with wider hatches to discourage people throwing empty containers on the street, says a government-backed report.
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GERMANY has topped the list as the world’s favourite country in a poll by GfK. The USA has been replaced as people’s favourite country for the first time since 2009.
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AROUND 22,000 dental patients in the UK have been asked to report for testing after it was found a dentist in Nottinghamshire had ‘multiple failures’ in infection control. Former patients will be tested for blood-borne diseases such as HIV and hepatitis B and C.
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Kalashnikov, for trademark infringement. The Russian companies are importers of the toy gun made in China.
Capello not paid THE Russian Football Union has admitted that it does not have the money to pay national team coach Fabio Capello’s salary. Capello has not been paid since the summer when Russia was knocked out at the group stage of the World Cup.
Russian doll ban A RUSSIAN lawmaker has asked the government to ban popular Monster High dolls because he has received numerous complaints from parents that the dolls cause ‘suicidal moods’ among children. He wants ‘all foreignproduced toys that could DOLL BAN: Monster High doll Freaky affect the mental health of children’ to be banned. Fusion.
POLICE have arrested 15 people and recovered 2.9 tonnes of the main chemical used to make crystal meth in operation between German and Czech officers to take down a drug ring operating between Leipzig and Prague.
Cap effect A RENT cap will come into effect in 2015, but the announcement has caused rental prices to increase before the cap is introduced. The new law will prevent landlords from setting rent more than 10 per cent higher than the average for the area.
Warhol sale NRW BANK has sold two classic Andy Warhol pictures of Elvis and Marlon Brando for €152 million.
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STAT OF WEEK PROPERTY sales rose year on year by 13.7 per cent to 27,024 operations last September, revealed Spain’s statistics institute INE. It was this year’s second-biggest increase following March’s 22.8 per cent year-on-year improvement.
Cars are stars for Spanish economy TURNOVER for Spain’s car manufacturers reached €40.52 billion by the end of last year. All told the industry produces 40 different models and contributes 10 per cent of the country’s GDP. Equally important, it provides jobs for 8.1 per cent of the working population. Six of Spain’s 10 most-bought cars are produced at home,
CAR SALES: Rose by 18.1 per cent.
Cataluña verdict from Fitch quick to arrive THE Fitch ratings agency’s reaction to Cataluña’s recent consultative vote on independence was quick to arrive. Fitch analysed the effects on both Spain and Cataluña of three possible scenarios. The most likely, according to the agency, is further devolution and tax-setting powers like those of the Basque Region and Navarra. In general terms this would have a ‘mildly positive’ effect on Spain’s sovereign credit. Full independence would, in contrast, have negative consequences
for Spain’s sovereign rating, as even an orderly breakup would present risks for the national economy. A disorderly separation would be still worse, Fitch said. The third scenario, a continuation of the protracted tension between Madrid and Barcelona, would be little better, and could trigger loss of short-term deposits that would particularly affect Catalan banks. This would increase the cost of funding and prompt a reduction in capital expenditure as a protective measure, Fitch warned.
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Land fall AGRICULTURAL land fell by 0.7 per cent last year to an average price of €9,633 a hectare. This was the sixth consecutive fall since 2007’s high of €11,070 per hectare.
Nice work BEATRIZ DE GUINDOS, niece of Spain’s Economy minister Luis de Guindos, is now working at World Bank in Washington. She earns €14,000 a month as an assistant director.
Profits down VODAFONE Spain’s turnover fell by 7.5 per cent to €2.171bn during the first six months of 2014.
Bigger cushions for biggest banks THE world’s 30 largest banks will be told to provide themselves with big loss-absorbing liability cushions. These banks, which include Spain’s Santander and BBVA are categorised as systemic because their failure would have a ‘cascade effect’ similar to the collapse of Lehman Brothers which triggered the 2008 economic crisis.
To avoid a repetition, these banks must be able to withstand losses of between 16 to 20 per cent of risk-weighted assets in equity and cancellable debt, recommended the Basle-based Financial Stability Board (FSB). This will protect taxpayers from having to fund bailouts for ‘too big to fail’ banks, the FSB said in plans drawn up for G-20 countries.
headed by the Megane built at the Renault plant in Palencia. The Seat Ibiza manufactured in Martorell (Barcelona) comes next, followed by the Citroen C4 from Vigo (Galicia). The Seat Leon, again from Martorell, is fourth with the Opel Corsa from Figueruelas (Zaragoza) and the Volkswagen Polo (Pamplona) fifth and sixth respectively.
Thanks to the government’s €2,000 Plan Pive grant when buying a vehicle straight from the factory, sales between January and October rose by 18.1 per cent, with 716,746 new registrations. Although next year’s Budget has yet to be approved, this will includes €175 million for Plan Pive 7 - and more sales.
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Clients are your best salesmen AS the best advert is the satisfied customer, it is wise to reflect on how you can turn goodwill to drive your business forward. We all appreciate a customer who, pleasantly surprised, offer their thanks. Small acts of kindness are remembered long after basic service is forgotten. Twenty-five years ago, a shopkeeper remarked on how lovely my young sons were. “Just a moment,” she smiled. Then, taking a couple of lollipops from a jar she handed each of my sons their treat. The cost to the lady was a cent or so; to my wife and I it was a priceless and
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never to be forgotten gesture. This lesson in business was not given by a successful entrepreneur or at a business seminar but by an elderly lady running a corner shop. You can put customer goodwill to
better use provided your approach is diplomatic and never pushy. An enterprising business friend in the home improvement trade constantly received expressions of thanks. Explaining that he was trying to build his business, he suggested to clients that a short note of recommendation would be truly well received. Most were delighted at the opportunity to express their thanks in a tangible way. On receiving the written tributes my friend placed each in his presenter. Then, when pitching to new customers he left his testimonials presenter with them before going on his way. The outcome
was that, whilst he was at home reading bedtime stories to his children, his past clients were doing his selling for him. I adopted a more sophisticated approach. Following an order taken I posted to my client a small note of thanks and a five customer satisfaction survey. Important: I included a stamped address reply envelope. As a consequence I was soon to receive an unimpressive number of customer recommendations. These I placed in an envelope when confirming appointments by post. My sales success was assured, thanks to conscripting my customers to do my selling for me.
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Make a few simple changes in your life for some extra spare change Loose change A look at finance for females
Jane Plunkett jane.plunkett@euroweeklynews.com
CHANGING a habit takes some getting used to. However, if your way of living is causing serious damage to your finances, then it’s time to take a step back and review how you might save a little. A recent survey in the UK just revealed that most full-time British workers have an extra £500 to spend after paying all their bills and debts each month. This seems a little excessive to me, but wouldn’t a bit more spare cash each month be an incredible thing? By taking a couple of frugal money-saving steps in your
day-to-day life there is a way to cut down on needless expenses and make your money go further - on things you actually want to spend it on. Meal Plan. Draw up a weekly menu to help cut back on the huge amount of waste that many households create. This system helps to identify areas where you can use up leftovers, finish half-eaten sauces, use fruit and vegetables before they turn bad and avoid grabbing expensive ready meals. And remember to never go shopping when you are hungry. DIY Cleaning. Shops are lined with rows of expensive cleaning products, but a quick look in your kitchen cupboards and chances are you already have all the cleaning products you need right there. A teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda on a damp cloth works just as well as expensive
KEEPING FIT: Incorporate exercise into your daily routine.
brand-name cleaners, while vinegar is a great smear-free window and mirror cleaner.
Be Energy Efficient. Think about how you use the appliances in your home.
Simple ways to cut energy bills include not leaving devices on standby, always turning off lights when you leave a room and draught-proofing windows and doors. Also, switch to energy-efficient light bulbs. Fit For Free. When it comes to keeping fit the world is your oyster. In Spain we are lucky enough to enjoy fabulous weather most of the year, so forget expensive gym memberships - incorporate exercise into your daily routine instead. Try to walk more and take the stairs instead of lifts. For the sportier among us, parks or beaches are perfect for exercising, while public benches are ideal for pressups and other strength building exercises.
Was Administrator at fault? Our Administrator runs Community meetings, counts votes, and announces You and the results. Change of use for a business Law in Spain premise, was accepted by the majority of By David Searl Owners. A small minority objected to some alterations to windows. These dissenters have now obtained a court ruling that a vote of 100 per cent was required to be legal. The judge also ordered the Community to pay costs for returning to the original fittings. Was the Administrator wrong to allow the works to proceed? L.A. (Costa Blanca) First, the Administrator is employed by the Community and he cannot ‘allow’ or ‘disallow’ its actions. Nevertheless, he should have warned the AGM that a unanimous vote was required for this change. This is a lapse but it does not constitute professional negligence. In his favour we can say that many Communities have carried out such votes and actions without any serious consequences. Secondly, it is normally the President who runs the AGM and has charge of the votes. If he had a copy of ‘You and the Law in Spain,’ he would know what
BUSINESS EXTRA
Big business SPAIN has 3.25 million businesses, mostly small or medium-sized companies (Pymes). Only 0.12 per cent of the total have more than 250 staff but these companies employ 2.9 million employees, generating an annual turnover of €980 billion. Approximately 27 per cent are located in Madrid and 26.61 per cent in Cataluña.
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actions need a unanimous vote. Since July 2013, these minor changes need only a three-fifths majority to pass.
Send your questions for David Searl through lawyers Ubeda-Retana & Associates in Fuengirola at Ask@lawtaxspain.com, or call 952 667 090.
TELEFONICA raised €687 million with the sale of 597.85 million of its China Unicom (Hong Kong) shares, following its strategy of reducing its debt . The Spanish multinational retains a 2.51 per cent stake in China Unicom, the country’s secondlargest mobile-phone company, which has a 1 per cent stake in Telefonica.
OPINION & COMMENT
Not wild about campers WE residents of El Pinet are fed up with ‘wild camping’ in the car park, sometimes for months on end. We have paid a lot of money to live here, not to overlook a gypsy encampment because that is what it is. We have sent petitions in the past to Elche Council and complained but they are not interested. If the mayor of Elche or any of her cronies lived here this would not be allowed to happen. Has anybody in the Environment department thought of where they empty their sewage? Well, we can tell them. They empty it here in green areas or even down the drains at our lovely walkway. We have seen them and photographed them and sent the photographs to Elche Council but, again, they are not interested. Surely this is a health hazard? If Santa Pola and San Fulgencio can get rid of them, why can’t Elche? There are lovely campsites nearby, why don’t they go there? No, they are too tight to pay. A Nosworthy, La Marina (Alicante)
Get it in writing JUST a short letter to advise your readers if they are moving items to the UK from Spain they should get each quote in writing. This is my second letter but it is of public interest, so please print it. Recently I used the services of a removal company, received a quote for €150 and then the company increased the quote to €250. When queried they made all sorts of excuses, none of which were valid. James McKeown (by email)
Fuel fury ON a recent round-trip to the UK my wife and I chose to drive back through France, as we have done many times before. On our return journey, having filled up with fuel several times each way, we were told at our last stop in Spain that our debit card was being refused, which rang alarm bells.
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Colin Smyth, Mijas Pueblo (Malaga)
Having arrived home we immediately checked our bank account to discover there was little left because three transactions totalling approximately €160 had not been processed. Instead random amounts totalling €310 were taken. Two sums of €90 have since been repaid and the correct amount charged and eventually the last ‘theft’ of €130 was refunded. However, they took the correct amount after four days but did not refund the €130 for 10 days, which is an even worse crime in my opinion. The companies concerned are Super U and E L’Eclerc, supermarket chains with unmanned petrol stations where you can only use a credit or debit card to pay for your fuel. The receipts are printed at the pump and they were all for the correct amount for the fuel that we purchased. I have got nowhere trying to report this to my bank, VISA and even consumer groups. Why is that, I wonder, because it is clearly theft? Charles Day (by email)
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Home alone THE mother who received a police caution for leaving her sixyear-old daughter alone for threequarters of an hour some years back has all my sympathy. She now has a criminal record that she wants erased and you’d have to belong to the pursed-lips brigade not to empathise. My daughter is grown-up now but my blood still runs cold when I think of what almost happened when she was two. We had moved to a sixth floor flat on the seafront and the balcony had a sturdy wall topped with a railing. Nobody leaves a two-year-old to her own devices and I certainly
didn’t but one day I was in the kitchen, getting the tea ready while my daughter napped. Hearing a noise I popped my head round the kitchen door and to my horror saw her standing on top of the balcony wall. The sitting room door to the terrace was open and she had pushed a wicker chair against the wall and clambered up. The little so-and-so had her arms stretched wide, crowing with delight at the view and to this day I don’t remember reaching and grabbing her. And to this day the palms of my hands still sweat when I think about what could have happened. It’s not just physical presence that counts: that UK mother’s 45 minutes of absence were probably less blameworthy and dangerous than my carelessness. Linda Gonzalez, Altea (Alicante)
Question time AN outraged correspondent with a property in Benalmadena last week asked why he was charged more for rubbish collection and other services because it’s not his main residence.
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Starting early SOMEONE interviewed for ‘Street Talk’ said he regarded drinking Anis at 7am as expenditure on something that isn’t needed. I’m assuming he is referring to the custom as still practised by Spanish workmen and navvies. Anis isn’t what you’d describe as a huge outlay and this is a timehonoured habit, meant to kickstart the working day. If memory serves me rightly, opening hours for the pubs round Covent Garden in London used not to correspond to the strict licensing regulations then in force. I can’t see the Covent Garden porters who had been working until the crack of dawn drinking glasses of Anis, but they were obviously knocking something back when they didn’t need to. Still on the subject of ‘Street Talk’ I was amazed that two women admitted to spending on shoes when they didn’t need to. I commented on this to my wife, who looked flabbergasted. “You don’t have to need shoes,” she informed me. “You just have to want them,” she explained patiently. “Even if they’re never worn?” I asked. “Even if they are never worn,” she answered in a firm tone of voice that brooked no argument. Who was I to argue? James Ingram (by email)
Hot stuff A CORRESPONDENT who was a lifelong socialist wrote last week that she felt betrayed by New Labour and was willing to give the UKIP party a chance. Another letter described Farage’s party as ‘upstart and ultra-rightwing’ and warned against the effects on expats of an ‘in-out’ referendum regarding Britain’s EU membership. Personally I believe that any expat giving UKIP a chance would be cooking their own goose. S Wilkinson, Murcia
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Life is no holiday at London’s alcohol and bacon-free hotel LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT
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F you thought the UK was cold, you should try Denmark! My God, all the reasons I moved to warmer climes keep flooding back. Well, at least the Danish people seem warm enough. Mind you it really is a strange language - lots of ‘erks’ and ‘choovs.’ Why is it that the first words I always learn in a new language are swear words? Anyway, tomorrow I’m off to Sweden for the day - even colder! Apparently it’s 20 minutes by ferry. Ah well, someone has to do it. Did you catch the report of the
RELIGIOUS STAY: Would all hotels welcome gay couples? new Sharia hotel that opened in London last week? No alcohol, no pork, and subsequently, a serious drop in clientele. To my mind the whole exercise is a gross error of judgement. Notwithstanding the local Muslim populace, many of whom are, I’m sure, devout and
sincere in their beliefs, in my personal experience, the tourists from many of these strictly religious parts of the world travel to cities like London simply to get a break from their suffocating restrictions back home - the casinos are full of them.
I would also be interested to observe the result should a gay couple endeavour to check into the hotel and request a single room for the night. If this should happen, would there be the same outcry from the law as there was when that poor Christian family were mathered from pillar to post and subsequently arrested? Wouldn’t ya just love to give it a try? Come on any samegender newlyweds out there; try and check into the honeymoon suite. And just for a bit of icing, carry a couple of bacon butties and a bottle of bubbly in yer bag. Anyone up for it? It also interested me to read the new proprietor’s statement that it was an offence under Islamic law to ‘make a profit from alcohol.’ Does that mean
its ok to give it away? Sounds like a wriggle up to me. I was given gallons in Saudi Arabia. Does that imply I wasn’t breaking the law at all? I dunno, they take the fun out of everything. I also have a word of advice to the Muslims who objected to hamburgers being sold in their local supermarket. Don’t buy ‘em. Not rocket science is it? I dunno, sometimes I really do despair of it all. Don’t forget the Flying Curry Circus Christmas Party on December 13. Just in case you happen to be in the vicinity of Mallorca or thereabouts. Have a good week. You know you love me really! Keep the faith. Love, Leapy. leapylee2002@gmail.com
What is the most unexpected thing that has happened to you this week?
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ILES BIRCH, owner of the British Ski Center in Granada, says that the most unexpected thing NEIL: Caramelised potatoes were an unexpected request.
Lisa.
STREET TALK that has happened to him this week is… “in light of preparations for a busy ski season starting in just over two weeks, my knee decided to pack up two days ago just to add to all the apprehension - we battle on regardless ;-) !” Jenni Rock, Gladrags, Albox “My biggest
Jenni Rock.
surprise was getting a beautiful bouquet of flowers from my husband for my shop’s first birthday. He’s not a publicly romantic man normally, but he had the flowers delivered to the shop and had also made sure my favourite flowers (lilies) were included. I was over the moon and yes, I cried.” Name and job title: Lisa, Client relations and office security, Velasco Lawyers, Axarquia “Hi, I’m Lisa, yesterday, I was in the car with my boss, Luca, and the Guardia Civil fined us. Guess what? Spanish driving licence and car documents were all OK, but I must be tied or in a cage while he is driving. OUTRAGEOUS!” For Unni Warpe from L’Alfaz del Pi, who has recently lost a lot of weight through healthy shakes, the most unexpected thing to have happened this week was running from Albir to Benidorm over the Sierra
UNNI: New levels of fitness shocked her.
Helada: “For me that used to be a day excursion and I completed it in two hours five minutes and that was really unexpected and something I am really proud of.” Neil Lloyd, Head chef at Restaurante Christopher in Torrevieja said the most unexpected thing was to be asked for caramelised potatoes and duck breast and cabbage: “We had some Scandinavian diners in and they wanted caramelised potatoes, it is not something we do or something I’ve particularly heard of, but we did it for them.”
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The Cold War is hot news Mike Walsh Mike, based in Mediterranean Spain, is an international journalist, author and professional writer.
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NE hardly needs to be a visionary to prophesy what historians will make of the European Union’s trade war against Russia. It is a foreign policy débâcle without peace time precedent. The power brokers concede that sanctions on Russia is an American initiative from which only the U.S. benefits. Modern Russia, as far as Washington DC and War (sic) Street banks are concerned, is the biggest threat to world order. This is American-speak for Russia being a threat to U.S. world domination. It is a mistake to think of recent events as a new Cold War. It is already a hot war that has been heating up since 1990. When Russian President Boris Yeltsin, an habitual drunkard, handed the reins of power to President Vladimir Putin, he would have little idea of the force of the genie released from the rubbed lamp. With little fanfare the new President set about transferring his country’s natural wealth from American to Russian interests.
From here on he was vilified by the Western Powers. Far worse was to come. Having rebuilt the Russian economy Putin then set his own agenda; Russian interests. The growing strength of the rouble and Russian self interest converged to form the next logical step. Russian trade, in the future, would be independent of the U.S. dollar and instead based more favourably on barter and trade between national currencies such as those of China, India and Iran. The effect was to do far more damage to the American economy than any hot war possibly could. American and British economies are war economies. The U.S. and UK became more powerful and prosperous as a consequence of wars. Modern Russia denies opportunity for profitable wars and simultaneously undermines the dollar as a trading currency. The U.S. is fighting back but cannot do so on its own. To carry out its aims the U.S. needed to increase EU dependency on Washington and Wall Street. Its top Goldman Sachs bankers were parachuted into the parliaments and banking houses of Western Europe. American subversion of Western media is on a scale that horrifies. If you want to
know who Western media’s string-pullers are, simply see whose interests they put the spin on. European Union defence policy is based entirely on American finance. Washington DC instructed France not to hand over two partly Russian built Mistral Class warship carriers. The suggestion was that the EU purchase them. The €3 billion cost is calculated to be nearly double the EU defence spending budget. This is small beer to the damage being done to the EU economy and indirectly the financial well-being and security PRESIDENT PUTIN: of us all. The EU Transferred his economy is predicted country’s natural to take a €50 billion wealth from hit in lost trade. American to Russia took Option B Russian interests. by transferring its trading interests elsewhere. Sadly, the EU does not have an Option B. Well, not the kind of option we want to trouble ourselves with. Sleep well.
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ARIES (March 21 - April 20) Your mind is as sharp as a razor this week, so woe betide anyone who tries to trick you. It's a great time to use your talents fully, particularly in regard to a business venture. It is possible that your strengths are a little unrecognised so don't be afraid to try something entirely new.
CANCER (June 22 - July 23) A social gathering turns up an old friend who makes an offer. Although you may feel unworthy, please be reminded of the times in the past when you have given them support. It will be through others that real progress will be made.
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VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) As you have decided to rearrange both your business and home life, it is a busy time, indeed. You enjoy a challenge so it will not worry you that other people have different ideas. LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) Concentrating on hearth and home gives you great satisfaction. As a born homemaker, you relish the idea of making something beautiful. This week it may be possible to show more of your skills when someone seeks your advice.
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agin, gain, gait, gape, gate, gean, gear, gene, gent, girn, gnat, gran, grin, grip, grit, page, pang, ping, prig, rage, rang, ring, tang, ting, trig, agent, agree, anger, aping, eager, eager, egret, gaper, genet, genie, genre, giant, grain, grant, grape, grate, great, green, greet, gripe, pager, prang, range, reign, tiger, tinge, argent, earing, eating, enrage, gainer, gaiter, garnet, genera, gratin, negate, parget, paring, pinger, rating, regain, regent, taping, teeing, triage, granite, grantee, ingrate, integer, parting, peering, prating, reagent, reaping, tangier, tearing, treeing, trepan, petering, tapering, REPEATING
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SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Making a new start is not always the exciting thing that people imagine. When there are still old matters to be resolved, it takes the edge off the pleasure. It may be worth cooling off a new relationship until your social life is more settled.
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Code Breaker Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 1 represents B and 21 represents Z, so fill in B every time the figure 1 appears and Z every time the figure 21 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.
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC Across: 1 She, 3 Starboard, 8 Sheen, 9 Oarsmen, 10 Tan, 11 Extra, 12 Inspire, 13 Scared, 15 Basset, 19 Ascribe, 21 Caste, 23 Pea, 24 Private, 25 Dries, 26 Consensus, 27 Eon. Down: 1 Sisters, 2 Elect, 3 Santa fe, 4 Adonis, 5 Barks, 6 Armpits, 7 Dunce, 14 Auction, 16 Arcades, 17 Treason, 18 Repels, 19 Aspic, 20 Image, 22 Seize. QUICK Across: 1 Disaster, 5 Grab, 9 Servant, 10 Ranks, 11 Scare, 12 Refused, 13 Sweets, 15 Crisis, 18 Reserve, 20 Weird, 22 Tease, 23 Darkest, 24 Host, 25 Emphasis. Down: 1 Desks, 2 Surface, 3 Share, 4 Entire, 6 Rings, 7 Besides, 8 Prefer, 13 Stretch, 14 Target, 16 Spiders, 17 Seldom, 19 Stays, 20 Worth, 21 Dates.
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ENGLISH-SPANISH Across: 1 Arcos, 4 Faros, 7 Ham, 8 Monsoon, 9 Slow, 10 Bailar, 14 Tatuaje, 16 Nun, 17 Pipes, 18 Oeste. Down: 1 Ashes, 2 Campo, 3 Same, 4 Fontanero, 5 Rio, 6 Son, 11 Lunes, 12 Rinse, 13 Saws, 14 Tip, 15 Tap.
English - Spanish The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English. Across 1 Escalera mecánica (9) 8 Steel (metal) (5) 9 Second-hand (5) 11 Room (in a house) (4) 12 Cordero (4) 14 Días (4) 16 Huevos (4) 19 To bring (5) 21 Aceituna (5) 22 Resto (9) Down 2 Vapor (5) 3 Years (4) 4 Blue (4) 5 Goose (domestic) (3) 6 Biscuit (cookie) (7) 7 Monstruo (7) 10 Triste (persona) (3) 13 Abeja (3) 15 Vivo (5) 17 Tow truck (4) 18 Pronto (dentro de poco) (4) 20 Edad (de persona, animal, árbol) (3)
Hexagram The purpose of the Hexagram puzzle is to place the 19 six-letter words into the 19 cells. The letters at the edges of interlocking cells MUST BE THE SAME. The letters in the words must be written CLOCKWISE. The word in cell 10 (FIRING) and one letter in four other cells are given as clues. CORONA
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Funagram Unscramble the name of a famous football manager and former player: OR HANDCART SONG FUNAGRAM SOLUTION: OLD BAILEY, GORDON STRACHAN
Unscramble the name of a famous London landmark (two words): OILY BLADE
Across 1 Infirmary (8) 4/6 Pass on, as by inheritance (4,4) 7 Appears (5) 9 Bend down (5) 11 Squads (5) 12 Requirements (5) 13 Serves up (6) 15 Dormant (6) 19 Clearly defined (5) 21 Preliminary races (5) 23 Divvy up (5) 24 Dreads (5) 25 Follow (4) 26 Hands over (8) Down 1 Male spouse (7) 2 Fragrance (5) 3 Aid (6) 5 Challenges (5) 6 See 4 Across 8 Frighten (5) 10 Portion (5) 14 Remains behind (5) 16 Winter neckwear (5) 17 Commends (7) 18 Dairy product (6) 19 Brief (5) 20 Summit (4) 22 Condition (5)
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consumers purchased non-alcoholic beer at least once in 2013. Furthermore, the demand is strong throughout Europe as one in three (29 per cent) Italian consumers, a quarter (26 per cent) of Poles, and 18 per cent of French consumers bought NAB in 2013. In addition, despite having the notorious ‘lager lout’ status, one in seven (14 per cent) British beer-buyers purchased non-alcoholic beer in 2013, rising to a quarter (26 per cent) of 18 to 34-year-olds, among what is clearly a much more sensible generation. However, despite the clearly strong consumer demand, new nonalcoholic beers have accounted for just 3 per cent of all global beer launch activity so far in 2014, less than the 4 per
cent in 2011 and significantly less than the 10 per cent in 1999. Jonny Forsyth, Global Drinks Analyst at Mintel, said: “Non-alcoholic beer has huge, long-term sales potential, both in Muslimdominated regions and health-conscious but beer-loving Western markets. “This is an area of innovation which all major brewers should be focusing on – consumers want reassurance of product quality, something trusted brands can provide.” Furthermore, Mintel’s research shows that the popularity of nonalcoholic beer is strong amongst older consumers and women. Indeed, 63 per cent of Spanish and 50 per cent of German female beer buyers have bought NAB in the past six months, compared to
57 per cent and 46 per cent of male beer buyers respectively. “Analysis of NAB drinkers by age in both Spain and Germany, tells a similar and positive story for brewers
attempting to reverse flat sales in Western markets,” said Forsyth. “Millennial beer drinkers are less likely to drink NABs – although not hugely – with purchasing peaking
among the consumers aged 35 and over, presumably as consumers become more healthconscious and less resilient to the negative effects of alcohol.”
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New app keeps track of high risk marks on skin A NEW mobile app is said to detect skin cancer with up to 90 per cent accuracy. Called SkinVision, it is able to monitor moles and identify signs of skin cancer, and is said to be the most scientifically accurate to date. It uses an algorithm that was
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Run up to 22nd October I’VE always said it’s good to have a plan of action, and now that I had a date for my mastectomy there were lots of things to organise. Keeping occupied is important. Whatever the illness or problem you have in life, I think it is essential to carry on as best you can. Put your loved ones and your well-being at the centre of your life and keep the negatives to the margin. Being positive will automatically boost you, both physically and emotionally. A happy person can take on the world but if you feel sad and low, all you want to do is curl up in a ball. Curling up in a ball is not an option! I prescribe a daily dose of laughter to keep your engine running. So that’s what I did; laugh and plan! Aside from making arrangements for my children, I needed to have a rethink about what I packed for the hospital
stay. For the previous hospital visit I had taken towels and nightshirts, which proved to be unnecessary as the hospital provide you with a clean towel and a crisp nightie every morning. Aside from toiletries, the most important thing is to have comfortable clothes to wear when you leave the hospital. Try and take loose fitting clothes, preferably ones that button up at the front. You have reduced mobility after surgery and have to consider clothing that will be easy to put on, and that will also accommodate drains if you leave hospital with a drain still in. You also need to consider your bra. Soft, cotton sports bras without underwiring are best. You will need to wear a bra after the operation if you have a lumpectomy to provide compression. I had already been through that process and this time I would be having a mastectomy, so would need to be fitted with a mastectomy bra and prosthesis post-op. Both of which I got free from an orthopaedic shop five minutes after leaving hospital, armed with my hospital prescription. A fantastic service, easy and quick. I went in lopsided and
came out with two boobs again! A massive pat on the back for the Spanish National Health System. In between operations, I was called for my first physiotherapy session. It turned out that I would have to have rehabilitation after my cancer treatment but they checked my movement and gave me a series of exercises to prevent lymphedema, the swelling of tissues that I talked about in previous blogs, and to ensure that I would recover mobility in my right arm. I went home and did the exercises and found them pretty easy. At first your arm will feel like the strings of a guitar, taught and unforgiving. Bit by bit you will be able to raise your arm and return to near normality. The operation day loomed and I went into hospital the evening before. It took all of five minutes to register me and take me up to my hospital room. Who would I be sharing with this time, I wondered? I was accompanied by my lovely friend Bob. I felt quite at home as this was my second time at the Hospital Comarcal in Vélez-Málaga in a month! My roommate was a German lady called Erika and she was to be the third patient having their gallbladder removed that I had shared with. Ok, this was
familiar territory… what was not familiar territory was her husband who was one of the world’s most impressive snorers! This, I would find out the first night! To be fair to him, he did warn me that I would need to get a head start and get to sleep before him! I thought it a little strange that he made up his bed on the floor, but I was later to realise that this meant he was in bashing distance of his wife’s fan! (It was October but very hot and the air conditioning had been turned off.) I had my drip put in by a lovely nurse who recognised me from the last time - “You, here again, couldn’t stay away!” I replied, “Yes me again! I liked my first stay so much I just had to come back.” We smiled at each other. They made me comfortable and brought me dinner. The next nurse on the shift took one look at me and said, “You better give this lady a three-course meal or she’ll never make it through the 40 hours nil by mouth!” What a memory she had! Last time I was absolutely famished after the previous operation and on the point of sneaking off to the hospital café for an illicit bocadillo! So three courses it was! A cup of tea and then time for bed. Well, I didn’t get much sleep
in between the snorer and his wife uncere-moniously bashing him on the head with her fan, requesting his silence! They were a lovely couple but I was relieved that he would not be staying overnight again! Eight in the morning and I was showered and ready for action. Into the operating theatre I went and was out in no time. I felt a little groggy but was up and about a few hours after the op, managed to go to the loo on my own and even have a little stroll around. I was so surprised that the mastectomy did not hurt. Perhaps the pain would kick in tomorrow? It didn’t, much to my surprise, and I was mobile and able to shower. Then I got my first look at the results of the op. Not bad really. I didn’t feel depressed about it more relief that something so dangerous had been removed. I imagine everyone will have different feelings about having a breast removed but I had mentally removed it before the op, so the physical reality was easier to deal with. A few more days in hospital and then the drain came out and I was given the all clear to go home. Lovely Conchi came to pick me up and take me home. Time to rest and await the results of the operation and the next step!
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Boys growing into young men I WAS never a brownie, or a guide, (I know, looking back that surprises me as well). But when I was a kid I just didn’t ‘get it.’ I certainly didn’t want to dress up in an outfit that took its colour inspirations from the results of a bad curry and incredibly I didn’t want to join in. At all. Ever. What I wanted to do was be a cub, or a scout. But it wasn’t allowed, girls were not allowed to join. Which outraged my nine year old self. Now, as a grown up I can see the benefits of putting kids into single sex environments: I went to an all girls’ school which had the results of making me: a) totally useless around boys, which I suppose from a parents’ point of view is a bonus, and b) very good at spelling, with excellent exam results. The single sex environment worked up to the point where I finally DID discover boys, smoking,
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HE time of year has come when Avance Car Hire, in Mallorca, have their annual winter car sale. There are some great bargains in the showroom situated at Calle Serenes, Calavinyas where you can choose from over 20 good quality second hand cars. There is also an assortment of ex-rental cars of all shapes and sizes on offer, starting at the economical and compact series Ford Ka and working all the way up to Audi TTs and a firm favourite, the Range Rover. Automatic and manual cars are also on offer, with a range of different colours and a choice of diesel or petrol. Avance Car Hire also have special offers when it comes to car hire too, a Ford Ka or Fiat Panda will only cost you 17 euros per day between the months of October and May if you hire for a minimum of 50 days.
WINTER SALE: You can choose from over 20 good quality second hand cars or ex-rental cars of all shapes and sizes. We do a complimentary hotel service with our ‘Deliver and Collect’ service and there is no waiting time at the airport, as we supply your car ready waiting for you to collect with keys and parking ticket placed in the security
box attached to the car window. With the unique code that we supply you ahead of time, you don’t even have to wait, making your holiday just that few minutes longer and hassle free. At the end of your trip, just
return your vehicle to the same area and off you go! For the very best in car rentals Mallorca, Avance Car Hire has it covered. Avance Car Rental, Calle Serenes, Calavinyas. Portal Nous, Mallorca,
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Cats that pounce on their owners
CONTINUING my series with Celia Haddon on cat aggression I look at Predatory Agression. Sometimes a cat is bored and attacking humans becomes a substitute for hunting mice. The instinct to hunt is so strong that they will even leave a delicious meal in order to pounce on a rat. Pouncing, say on feet, with the owner’s shriek, is exciting and fulfils its natural instinct. Sometimes kittens have been encouraged to pounce on toes and feet, so that cat is, so to speak, trained to behave in this way. Install a cat flap, or even a cat ladder, so the cat can do some proper mousing. If you can’t do this, you MUST give the cat more to do. Lots of games with fishing rod toys will help. Carnivores are hard-wired to hunt. If better arrangements for the cat make no difference, try distracting the cat by throwing a toy, a wine cork, or something similar away from yourself, so that the cat locks on to a
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different moving target. It is also possible to use sound as a discourager. Ring a small bell each time you start vacuuming (if your cat, like most cats, loathes the hoover). The idea is to link the bell with the unpleasant noise of the vacuum in the cat’s mind. Then use the bell when you see the cat about to pounce. The aim is to deter the cat from pouncing, without the cat feeling that you yourself are frightening. It is essential you
Leila’s Milo, a shy Bengal kitten By Lamia Walker of HousesitMatch SOME cats find it difficult to make new friends or even accept newcomers. Feeling uncomfortable they adopt bizarre behaviour. Leila has four Bengal cats, a mother and three kittens. She finds even when friends come to visit at their home the kittens
disappear and act strangely. Recently Leila hosted a dinner party, and the smallest of the kittens, Milo, simply disappeared outside and stopped eating for four days. He was finally tempted back to his food bowl when he could see the coast was definitely clear. Leila had booked a holiday some months before the kittens
had arrived and wasn’t sure how they would react to her absence. So she found a catsitter through an online network and invited her to come and stay for a few days before her own departure, to make sure they all got to know each other. As expected Milo did his usual disappearing trick for a few days but eventually returned to his
lair cautious of the newcomer at first, then finally accepting treats served by her in his favourite bowl. As the old adage goes, preparation is everything. Download your Free Easy Guide to Housesitting from here www.bit.ly/ eurown001. To find a petsitter go to www.HousesitMatch.com or call Lamia on +44 (0)1865 521508.
don’t run away, make rapid movements, flinch or shriek. These reactions just make the hunting more fun for the cat! Keep hands still. Cats are turned on by moving targets and high pitched sounds. Wear wellies or, if the cat pounces or scratches higher up the leg, wear leather chaps or fishing trousers. Spray the wellies or chaps with a deterrent spray used to keep cats off gardens just in case this helps. Other possibilities, arrange a timed feeder so the cat is feeding at times it might be pouncing, or simply shut the cat in a different room at times/places when you know it pounces. Do not let it in the bedroom where it can pounce on your face. ENTERTAINMENT: Give your cat more to do.
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Eco-friendly and fascinating: make your garden a haven for wildlife
UNFORTUNATELY, over the past 20 years, less and less attractive and beneficial wildlife has been found in the average garden. The important losses include birds, mammals, reptiles that live on unwanted insects, and beneficial microorganisms in the soil. The causes range from the felling of trees, the expansion in the number and size of urbanisations, the use of agricultural and garden chemicals, forest fires and heathland fires, wind farms, the concreting over or use of large areas of gravel over plastic, the lowering of water tables, an increase in abandoned cats, and pet dogs who love chasing things. But the departure is not totally irreversible. There are several practical and inexpensive things that we can do to provide safe
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Gardening Corner By Spain’s best known expatriate gardening author living in Spain for 25 years.
havens for birds, beneficial insects, small mammals and reptiles. Our gardens will be richer as a result. HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN FARE TODAY? 1. Do you have a thick hedge in which birds can shelter and nest? 2. Are leaves left to rot under the hedges to attract worms and insects to be found by foraging birds? 3. How many mature/ maturing trees do you have in which birds can perch and shelter? 4. Have you fixed up nesting boxes on the upper trunks of the trees? 5. Have you left holes in old or new walls that might
BIRD BATH: A spot for birds to wash and drink. attract a nesting hoopoe? 6. Do you have a bird bath in which birds can wash and drink? 7. Do you have a pond to which birds and dragon flies are attracted to drink and where frogs have become resident? 8. Is there at least a small area of the garden left wild to attract birds looking for insects, butterflies wanting to lay eggs on the stalks of grasses and perhaps a nesting hedgehog? 9. Are there patches of lantanas, lavender, thyme
and rosemary to attract feeding butterflies? 10. Are there deepthroated, perfumed flowers such as the exotic flowered devil’s tongue, caesalpinia gilliesii, and the waxy flowered stephanotis that attract the interesting humming bird hawk moth? 11. Is there a length of
dry stone wall with holes in which lizards and toads can hide? 12. Are there bunches of herbs or hanging plants that give shelter? 13. Do you have a bat box under the eves? 14. Are there thickly growing climbing plants on walls that can offer shelter to birds, insects and butterfly chrysalises? 15. Do you put coconuts, nuts or seeds out to attract birds and in a few lucky situations red squirrels? 16. Have you banned chemicals in favour of more environmentally friendly, organic solutions? 17. Have you one or
more active compost heaps to recycle green kitchen and garden waste to produce microorganism and worm-rich compost? Blackbirds in particular love to scavenge around the bottom of the heaps. 18. Have you stopped burning bonfires that can asphyxiate insects and deter birds? 19. Do you grow a few sunflowers to attract seed eating birds? 20. Do you leave a pile of rotting logs and leaves in a corner to attract insects for birds and possibly a hedgehog or toad? © Dick Handscombe www.gardenspain.com
A homeowner’s work is never done THREE quarters (74 per cent) of UK homeowners are proud of their homes, but just 1 per cent feel they have achieved the vision for their home, according to a new report. Houzz, the home renovation and design website, found that a UK homeowner’s design and renovation work is never done, with one third decorating their homes at least once a year (35 per cent) and 42 per cent renovating at least once every five years. Dispelling the myth that UK homeowners improve their homes to add value, the majority of respond-
HOME WORKS: One third decorate once a year. ents are renovating and designing their homes to make them better to fit their needs. Improving the look and feel (78 per cent) and improving functionality (55 per cent) top the list of motivations.
When it comes to style, taste and dream features not everyone is the same. In Birmingham it’s dreams of a spacious wardrobe (14 per cent), while in London its wooden floors (56 per cent).
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THREE different businesses under one umbrella - LIFESTYLE. These consist of Lifestyle Properties, Lifestyle Charters and Lifestyle Reforms and Interior Design. Their offices are based in the prestigious village of Portals Nous, two doors away from La Opera and opposite Kompas and the large car park. The owners Carl Flay and Tracey Furness who have been on the island for over 25 years decided to merge their companies last year in order to give a complete one stop service whereby you no longer need to go from one company to another to another, with Lifestyle you have everything under one roof. The Estate Agents side deal with Property Sales, Purchases, Rentals, Management and Maintenance. The Reform side deals with all kinds of renovations from small projects to complete property refurbishment, which include Kitchens, Bathrooms, Interior/Exterior Decorations, Tiling, Flooring, Electrics and Plumbing, all works are carried out by the their fully qualified professional tradesmen. They can also transform your Pool and Gardens. The Interior Design side deals with all interior/exterior Furnishings from one-offs to designing your complete property. They also make all their curtains, cushions and soft furnishings on site. Lifestyle Properties and Reform offer a complete after sales service by their friendly and informative staff. The Charter side deals with all rental and sales of boats based in the south side of Mallorca mainly ranging from 37ft to 120ft. All the boats are professionally maintained and looked after by Lifestyle Charters, they also offer a complete service of Antifouling/ Polishing along with servicing of engines.
THE TEAM: Owners Carl Flay and Tracey Furness (right) with the rest of the team (above). To celebrate the opening of their new showroom here in Portals Nous they have an opening event on Friday November 28 from 3pm to 8pm. You will have a chance to meet the team whereby they can answer any questions from design to construction or buying, selling or renting your property or boat and if you leave your business card you are entered into our free draw! Come and join us for a glass of cava and nibbles. For further information contact their office manager Tammy on:
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Google battles illegal boat fishing with tracking tool TECHNOLOGY giant Google has joined the fight against illegal fishing by launching a boat-tracking tool to monitor fishing boats’ movements online.
It is hoped that the new technology will help curb illegal fishing internationally, an activity that is estimated to cost the global economy $23.5 billion (€18.8 billion) each year.
Sailor of the Year Awards ORACLE TEAM USA skipper James Spithill has been named sailor of the year at the ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards, at a ceremony in Palma de Mallorca. Brazilian sailors Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze have been named female sailors of the year. Spithill was nominated for leading Oracle Team USA to a great sporting comeback during the America’s Cup. Trailing Emirates Team New Zealand 8-1 in a first-to-nine competition, Spithill skippered the team back to eight wins apiece, before winning the final race to take the cup. “I feel a little awkward winning this award,” said 35-year-old Spithill. “It
seems it is an individual award and in my case it could not be further from the truth. “What happened on San Francisco Bay was an incredible team effort. I was just a small piece. I would like to accept the award on behalf of a great group of people, Oracle Team USA.” Grael and Kunze, who picked up the female award, have been leading lights in the 49erFX class all season, regularly topping the podium in ISAF Sailing World Cup regattas and holding the number one spot in the ISAF World Sailing Rankings. The awards were held at the Pueblo Español in Palma de Mallorca.
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Changes leg THE Spanish MAPFRE team in this year’s Volvo Ocean Race has made a personnel change for the second leg of one of the world’s toughest sailing races. Jean-Luc Nelias has taken over as navigator from Nico Lunven following MAPFRE’s seventh place finish in the first leg of the race from Alicante, Spain to Cape Town, South Africa. The Spanish team has also announced that Michel Desjoyeax - who was on board for the first leg - will not take any further part on the seas but will assist the crew from shore. MAPFRE has said that it was never intended for Desjoyeaux to sail the entire race.
He told Volvo Ocean Race: “The decision to no longer sail on board MAPFRE was taken by the team and me. They are not easy decisions to take but it’s also part of the life of a team. Even if I’m no longer sailing, I’ve not wasted my time. MAPFRE is a great team with really good guys on board.” The MAPFRE team finished the 6,500 nauticalmile first leg in last place, nearly two days behind winners Abu Dhabi Racing, and only narrowly missed out on sixth place to Team SCA. The second leg of the 2014/15 Volvo Ocean Race leaves Cape Town on November 19, bound for Abu Dhabi.
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DOWN BUT NOT OUT: The dejected crew of the Spanish team after the first leg. HIGH SEAS: The MAPFRE boat in Alicante.
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Don’t get left out in the cold this Christmas WITH Christmas fast approaching, the travel and tourism industry is gearing up to the single busiest period of the year. The self-titled ‘Car Hire Experts’ Indigo Car Hire are looking forward to what promises to be another challenging, but enjoyable winter. The one piece of advice that they offer is to Book Early and Avoid High Prices or worse, risk being without a car for your trip due to availability issues which seem to crop up every year. The main focus of Indigo Car Hire is customer service. They have a fantastic following
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Novak Djokovic Serbian and World number one Novak Djokovic won the APT Tour final at the O2 arena in London by default after Swiss ace Roger Federer withdrew shortly before Sunday’s final with a tedious back injury.
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By Lynda Demangeat THE only match played in the Baleares Regional Men’s League was a postponed match between RC Ponent and Ibiza RC. In this, the first match of the season for Ibiza RC, both teams showed their mettle and thanks to some good aggressive defence it proved difficult for the
home team to reach the try line. By half time they had advanced to 16 points clear. Playing against a strong wind during the second half proved difficult for the visitors and with injuries to three of their players they ran out of opportunities and lost by 41 points to eight. A hat-trick of tries by Fede Appelaniz and a final good run by Lucas Casariego that left four opponents standing were instrumental in RC Ponent’s win. A friendly match pitched the Baleares veterans team Babarians against youngsters Shamrock RC in Son
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IN ACTION: RC Ponent beat Ibiza RC. Roca on Saturday. A great atmosphere dominated and the experience of the veterans withstood the enthusiasm and speed of the new team and contained them within their
half for much of the match. There was a great turn out for the first school Flags tournament played in Palma at the weekend with more than 150 children taking part. Most of the
teams were from schools, but Dimonis RFC and Trepitjador Raiguer also joined in the U10 and U12 categories. It was good to see new coaches and referees which will enhance training and competition for this season. Play resumes in the Senior League next weekend with RC Ponent A at home against El Toro RC, Ibiza RC host Dimonis RFC, Shamrock RC meet RC Ponent B and Bahia RC will play Corsaris RFC. Mallorca Bocs in Inca are hosts for the Rugby Day and the Michel Rodier Trophy for the U14s. The U18 Sevens teams play in
Ibiza and the girls teams are also in action. Wherever you are in the Balearic Islands there is a rugby club not far away. Whatever size, shape or level of fitness you are, male or female, there is a place for you in rugby. The Baleares Sports Academy now also has top rugby players from the islands in the U18 age range amongst their students. Matches against visiting teams and Beach Rugby tournaments bring variety to the islands rugby life. For more information: http://www.federacionbale arderugby.org/.