Euro Weekly News - Costa Blanca North 29 January - 4 February 2015 Issue 1543 by Euro Weekly News Media S.A.

ISSUE NO. 1543

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A new experience SCOTS belonging to San Juan Bilingue, hosted a Burns Night supper in Campello. The association, set up in 2012, promotes social relations and language practice between the British and Spanish communities.

Bottleneck LOCALS have warned that the Cova de l’Aigue watercourse on Montgo is too narrow following channelling work in 2008. Unless widened, there could be flooding in periods of heavy rain, they claimed.

Bookworms PUBLIC libraries in San Vicente, where 43 per cent of the population are subscribers, lent 130,328 items - 2.8 per inhabitant - last year, triple Spain’s national average.

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Costa Blanca back on the promotion trail in Madrid IT’S that time of the year again, because January means Fitur. The Costa Blanca’s resorts will be out in force as they are each year,

displaying every facet of what the area can provide. Benidorm has announced that this year it will be present for the

first time in Fitur’s promoting next Benidorm Pride with of duplicating the

LGTB area, September’s the intention 8,000 who

attended the event last year. Javea will feature its campaign of weekend mini-breaks costing just €55 per person while TeuladaMoraira is putting emphasis on its gastronomy, local wines and products with a cooking demonstration. Food is a perennial attraction and Denia too will draw attention to traditional local dishes as well as its beaches and toughest since the start of water sports opportunities. the cold and flu season. The Costa Blanca and However, despite the Alicante Province offer is as complaints about lack of diverse as their towns and space and staff to deal resorts and all will be with the epidemic, the present at Fitur, either regional minister for singly or in the Valencian health, Manuel Llombart, Community section. reported that the The tourism trade fair virulence of flu this year Fitur, held early each year was lower than in other in Madrid, is one of the years. biggest and most important He said that there were in the world. less severe cases in This year it will be hospitals, proving that the showcasing what 9,107 vaccination campaign and companies from 165 vaccine were working. countries have to offer and Llombart added that 95 will be visited by an per cent of the patients estimated 200,000 people, arriving at hospital had of whom 120,000 are not had the vaccination. tourism professionals.

Flu epidemic brings hospitals in the province to a standstill THE flu outbreak has led to full A&Es in hospitals across the province. The increase in cases has been highlighted particularly at Sant Joan Hospital in Alicante, where patients reported waiting times of up to 20 hours, with others left attached to drips on beds in the corridors due to the lack of space on the wards. One woman, who was accompanying her mother, said: “The staff are charming, but they cannot cope and tell us the whole hospital is full. It’s a shame that public health is in this situation.”

Cases of flu were expected to increase but hospital workers com-

mented that the beginning of the week had been one of the

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Time Out 48 -49 Health & Beauty 52 - 54 Food 55-56 Homes & Gardens 58-59 Property 60 Services 61 - 64 Classifieds 65 - 67 Motoring 68 - 70 Sport 71 - 72

WORK IN PROGRESS: Officials visit the market site in Campello.

Square upgrade CAMPELLO Town Hall is carrying out reforms to Plaza de Saint Christol les Alez, built in 1991. The lower level of the plaza is used each Wednesday for the weekly market and during fiestas but also provides free parking for members of the public visiting the adjoining sports complex or town hall. The renovations costing €145,000 are part of the town hall’s 2014 investment plan and were made possible thanks to the surplus in last year’s accounts, explained the mayor of

Campello, Juanjo Berenguer. The pillars and ceiling on the lower level have now been painted white, making the precinct appear much airier and lighter, said Infrastucture Councillor Alejandro Collado. Although the town hall weatherproofed the surface of the square some years back, constant use of the upper and lower levels has taken its toll. Structural damage has been located, and beams and supports reinforced while the stairs to the parking and market areas have been refaced.

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Pet penalty FIFTY dog-owners in Gandia’s Benipeixcar neighbourhood have been fined for not cleaning up after their pets in public places. Persistent offenders face penalties of up to €1,500.

Hush, hush, it’s on the map BENIDORM’S less peaceful areas will be charted on a noise map. Noise is a continual source of friction between those who want to play and those who work, said Public Safety councillor Jose Marcet, although conflict is not generalised but specific to certain areas. A Leisure and Rest Monitoring Committee has been

set up with members including Benidorm mayor Agustin Navarro, town hall spokesman Conrado Hernandez, Local Police chief Juan Fuertes and representatives from the Neighbourhood Council. “After analysing complaints received by the police we shall know which businesses are not complying with regulations and where action is most needed,”

Marcet said. The Old Town, Calle de la Palma, the so-called English Zone and seafront bars are known to be noisy but the committee wants to go further, he added, by identifying the real “hot spots.” Strategy to minimise situations that have caused so much illfeeling between noisy businesses and residents should be defined by Easter, the councillor pledged. Photo: Eloy Verdu Martin/flickr

Outlook sunny LLIBER Town Hall will save 70 per cent on electricity bills thanks to solar panels on the roof of the building. The Alicante Diputacion provided a €20,000 grant towards the installation.

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Pathfinders MEMBERS of Spain’s mountain bicycling associations asked the regional government to allow them to ride in Mariola national park. At present they are barred from using the park’s trails and paths.

Making music MUCHAMIEL’S Music Conservatoire, authorised to confer professional qualifications now has 200 pupils, 11 per cent more than two years ago. Piano, guitar and percussion are the most popular instruments. Kindest cut BENIDORM will reduce IBI rates in the town by 10 per cent. This compensates for the increase in rateable values carried out by Spain’s tax authority Hacienda, the town hall said.

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Stiff bill

FIVE turncoat councillors in Benidoleig voted not to settle €12,000 legal costs incurred in 2013 when they temporarily installed a new mayor. BlocCompromis, now governing in minority, must foot the bill.

Parking worry MORE than 900 staff petitioned for free parking at Gandia’s new Francesc de Borja hospital. The town hall will manage the car park and they want assurance that they will not be charged.

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Thumbs down THE Agriculture ministry turned down a request from Vinalopo growers to sell substandard dessert grapes for wine-making. These grapes can be used only for alcohol or fruit juice production. Pedal power THE Coastal Authority authorised a 1.25-kilometre bike lane in Denia’s Paseo Marineta Cassiana for cyclists and pedestrians. There will be a 10kph speed limit, with priority given to pedestrians.

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ALICANTE Province finished 2014 with 46,300 fewer people out of work than there were by the end of 2013. This was the greatest improvement since records began in 1977.

Strays reproach GETTING INTO CHARACTER: Valencia celebrates the past.

Moors and Christians meet again in celebration

HE streets of Bocairent in Valencia will reverberate to the sounds of clashing scimitars and gunfire as Moors and Christians maraud through the town to mark the ancient battles when the area was taken over by Moorish invaders, only to be overthrown by the Christians centuries later. The first weekend in February sees Bocairent kick off the round of Moros y Cristianos (Moors and Christians) festivals that take place throughout Spain. Visually spectacular, the event commemorates the Moors and

Christians’ struggle for control of the country, with Christian crusaders eventually triumphing over their Arabic North African neighbours. Complete with camels, horses, armour, guns, swords and - in some places - elephants, many towns and cities hold Moors and Christians festivals to commemorate Spain’s rich and culturally diverse past. Medieval music and spectacularly colourful parades over a number of days mark the festival that usually culminates in a mock battle to remember the Christian ‘reconquest.’ MOORISH INVADER: Typical scene from a ‘Moros y Cristianos’ fiesta.

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MORE than 900 pets were abandoned in Villena last year, revealed the local Animal Protection association. Their messages regarding pets’ needs and rights were not reaching the public they said.

Research backed ALICANTE UNIVERSITY (UA) allocated €1m for contracting young scientific researchers, and physicists. This will safeguard ongoing important investigation projects, said rector Manuel Palomar.

Mugs mugged FIFTEEN tourists complained their bank accounts were emptied after accepting spiked drinks in Valencia City clip joints. Extra charges were added to the credit cards they had already used there.

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Quote of the Week We know that (our) problems cannot be resolved with magic works or Caribbean incantations,’ said Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in reference to political party Podemos’s ties with leftist governments in Latin America.

Number of the week

€600,000

is the amount that an individual could be fined for protesting in Spain under a new law that is expected to be made official in February. Unauthorised demonstrations will be outlawed under the Citizens’ Security Bill.

And finally... AN ‘armada’ of 352 kitesurfers in Tarifa in southern Spain has broken the Guinness World Record for the largest kitesurfing parade across one nautical mile. The army of adrenaline junkies broke the previous record for the largest enmasse kitesurf by 34. Tarifa is a Mecca for kitesurfers from all over the world.

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Old depot turns into disaster area LA NUCIA Town Hall in conjunction with the USAR 13 (Urban Search and Rescue) non-government organisation (NGO) is designing a dog-training zone. It will be located at the former municipal depot in Rotes and work will be carried out in phases at the 10,000-square-metre site so that instructing the Search and Rescue dogs can start without delay, the town hall said. The training ground will be made as realistic as possible, resembling a disaster area following an earthquake. Beams and columns from demolished buildings, boulders and all kinds of materials will be used to recreate the type of surroundings in which the dogs will have to carry out

USAR 13: Search and rescue volunteers with their dogs. their lifesaving duties. “Our objective is to be as well-trained as possible so that we can co-operate with international rescue teams during the next natural disaster, whether at national or international level,” said USAR 13’s Omar Suarez.

The Marina Baja USAR 13 is a non-profit-making association composed of volunteers who include firemen, police and medical professionals. Together with their trained dogs they search for and rescue the victims wherever natural disasters occur.

Callosa project is ruled out VALENCIA’S Upper Court (TSJCV) has confirmed its invalidation of the Anibits-Margequivir development in Callosa d’En Sarria. The planned 2,000 homes and two golf courses will not be built, following a formal complaint against the project lodged by environmentalist association, Ecologistas en Accion. The urbanisation was planned for an area reclassified for building in the 2006 town plan (PGOU) although almost 180 hectares of land on the Bernia foothills was officially protected. It was declared a Site of Community Interest by Brussels and could not be developed, the environmentalists argued.

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Good news as sterling soars

XPAT pensioners living in Spain got a welcome bit of good news this week following the controversy over the Winter Fuel Allowance being axed. It may come as some consolation to cold pensioners that at least now their UK pension goes a lot further thanks to sterling hitting a sevenyear high against the euro. With the European Central Bank pumping more than a trillion euros into the eurozone economy, £1 now buys nearly €1.34, giving you more bang for your buck in a country where the cost of living is (relatively) cheap and the sunshine is free. Analysts are predicting that the euro could plummet even further given the result of the elections in Greece, which have shaken the money markets’ faith in the euro.

This is great news for those expats on a UK pension and for Brits wanting to holiday in Spain this year. The exchange rate is at its best since early 2008, which means more money at a time when the Winter Fuel Allowance is stopped for pensioners living in Spain thanks to the misleading ‘temperature test’ which tells the British Government that we are all sweltering in our Spanish villas during the winter and nabbing UK taxpayers’ money for heating that isn’t needed. While the ramifications of the Greek elections remain to be seen and the political landscape slowly shifts in parts of Europe, at least the good news for expats on a British pension in Spain is that it results in more money in your pocket than it did before. That’s some solace to help get through the cold winter months.

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Crystal clear in Calpe CALPE Town Hall has published details of all its minor contracts on the municipal website. On the ‘Gobierno abierto’ (Open government) web page, the council headed by Cesar Sanchez has set out all administration contracts for services, supplies and

public works. This applies to both the current and previous legislature but does not include large contracts which are voted on at the council’s plenary meetings. The information has been set out in a clear and easy-tounderstand format so that

FASHION LINE-UP: Manuel Fernandez, fifth from right.

Artist returns to his roots

‘FASHION ART’ featuring Benidorm-born Manuel Fernandez opened recently in the town hall. The paint-decorated clothes created by fashioner designer and artist Fernandez, reached Benidorm after exhibitions at some of the most prestigious art museums in Europe and the United States. Present at the exhibition, opened by Benidorm Mayor Agustin Navarro, Tourism Councillor Gema Amor and the artist himself, were many of Fernandez’s friends and colleagues. These included actresses Loles Leon and Maria Pineda, TV personality and presenter Francine Galvez as well as presenter Ximo Rovira and the writer Josep Lozano. Former Benidorm mayors Eduardo Zaplana - later a government minister – and Manuel Catalan Chana were also present, together with hotel representatives.

residents can see details of the town hall’s small contracts, including the amounts and suppliers. “It is important for residents to be able to know the administration at first hand and trust its management,” Sanchez said.

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Counting up the cost of landslides RESEARCHERS have found a way to estimate the future financial implications of unstable Costa Blanca cliffs. The pioneering study at Valencia City’s Polytechnic

University (UPV) will allow town halls and investors to calculate the probability of economic losses arising from the potential impact of landslides on residential buildings.

Bike lane to go ahead THE four kilometres between Alicante City’s Casa Mediterraneo and the EU Trademarks Office (OAMI) will have its cycle lane. The Generalitat has listened to OAMI’s president Antonio Campinos who recently reminded Valencia’s regional government that he was still waiting for the promised lane. Campinos, like many other OAMI staff who cycle to work, has repeatedly complained about dangerous traffic conditions on the Avenida de Elche out of Alicante City. Although cyclists will now benefit from the €300,000 lane, residents and visitors to the area will have to wait to see improvements to the road itself. It has no central reservation, they complain, there are no pavements and the hard shoulder is too narrow for pedestrians to walk in safety.

Their findings, which were recently published in the journal, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, will act as a guide to investment in municipalities where vulnerable to landslides and rockfalls. Their conclusions are applicable to any geographic locations that have the same characteristics, UPV experts said, although research centred on the Valencian Community. Towns in the Marina Alta, Marina Baja and the inland l’Alcoia areas were those where the economic impact would be greatest, the team found. “They are dangerous zones firstly because of their geographic situation and secondly because of their urban populations,” said the UPV investigator Eric Gielen.

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A younger way to record history CALPE has a new official chronicler, Mario Molines Carbonera. The post has remained vacant since the death of his predecessor Pedro Pastor at the age of 90. In sharp contrast, Mario is only 22 and admitted that he was surprised to be named as Pastor’s successor. Mario, who studied journalism at Valencia University, wants to renew the language habitually used when chronicling local history and customs. He hopes to bring more pace to a

subject generally remote from modern life, he said. He sees the Calpe post as an interlude, he recently told a Spanish interviewer: “But I’m more than aware that you have to do all kinds of work,” he said. Journalism is his first love and it has pushed him to move mountains, he explained, as he was born with cerebral palsy. “I was quite clear about it. I knew that I was going to overcome the problems that were likely to arise and little by little I’ve managed,” Mario said.

Going up in smoke IN 1990, Valencian Community inhabitants smoked 478.6 million packets of cigarettes. Last year – although the figures do not include the month of December – they smoked only 260.6

million, according to figures from the Tobacco Market Commission. The huge drop is principally due to the anti-smoking laws introduced in 2010, said Juan Paramo, Director General of Adelta, the

tobacco sector’s association. “There are fewer opportunities for smoking in restaurants or public places but that alone cannot explain why sales have fallen so much in recent years,” Paramo added.

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‘Trenet’ makeover is right on track THE Line 9 (Trenet) facelift announced a year ago is steaming ahead. Contracts worth €30 million of the €43 million originally set aside by the regional government for modernising the railway

line between Benidorm and Denia have already been awarded. The budget was recently increased to €50 million owing to the complex geology of the areas involved, revealed Pablo

Spanish soldiers train Iraqi troops THE first 30 soldiers and a commanding officer from the 300-strong Spanish contingent are now in Baghdad. All belong to the Special Operations Command from Rabasa in Alicante City. The Spanish troops will instruct Iraqi soldiers in conventional and special operations against IS jihadists, the Ministry of Defence announced. The first arrivals are also co-ordinating the deployment of the remaining Spanish soldiers as they arrive in Iraq. As instructors the Spanish soldiers will not be responsible for security in the compounds where they are stationed with Allied troops, the ministry explained.

Cotino, director of the regional rail operator FGV. Cotino detailed the different stages and costs of the five-year project, starting with the €3.1 million phasing out of the line’s diesel locomotives. Another €11.2 million will be spent between now and 2017 or 2018 on improvements to the section of track between the Altea’s La Olla station and Calpe. It has also been necessary to allocate €200,000 to stress-test the century-old metal bridges and viaducts across Line 9’s many gorges, gullies and riverbeds. Meanwhile, the number of Line 9 passengers continues to increase and it was used by 751,172 people last year, 2.3 per cent more than in 2013.

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Driving licence changes THE news that expats in Spain who have lived here for two years or more may have to renew their driving licence has caused some confusion. Here we look further into the matter to try and clarify the issue. PEOPLE who already have a Spanish driving licence or a UK/EU pink photo card style licence are unaffected by new regulations aimed at people with old style permits. A January 2013 EU directive allows countries to insist that foreigners resident in a member state have a driving licence with the same validity period as those issued by that state. In Spain a normal driving licence is valid for 10 years or five years after the age of

65. The new regulations mean that people from the 28 EU states who are legally resident in Spain must renew or change any licences they hold that are valid for 15 years or more in the case of Group One (car and motorcycle) category permits, or five years or longer for Group Two (transport and large vehicle) permits. For recently registered residents, the measure comes into effect two years after the date they became legally resident in Spain.

It is still acceptable to drive on a UK driving licence as long as it is in date and one of the pink photo card style with a 10-year expiration date. But holders of old style UK paper licences valid until the age of 70 will have to change them for a photo card if resident in Spain or face a â‚Ź200 fine. While UK photo cards are valid here, the DVLA will not change or renew them if the holder lives abroad. They must be renewed or changed at the Spanish DGT traffic department.

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Developers notice construction revival PROPERTY developers say they are noting the revival of construction in the Marina Baixa. According to the Association of Real Estate of the Province of Alicante (Provia), construction in the area in 2013 and 2014

Fine for pine cutters TEULADA Town Hall has fined two neighbours a total of €3,311 for cutting down pine trees in a woodland clearing without a licence. They have been given six months to plant 11 specimens of the native trees or they will have to pay the fine.

has risen around 60 per cent. Secretary general, Jesualdo Ros, notes that the increase is in part due to more foreign investors willing to buy property in the area as a second home and even promoters from Nordic countries are arriving with their own construction projects. He added: “We are enhancing residential tourism. We have organised campaigns in the UK, Poland and the Nordic countries and this type of

foreign client is very important for the province.” Ros also believed investors are returning, “as they have the perception that the crisis is coming to an end.” In L’Albir there were 27 applications for major works and in 2014 the number increased to 45. Villajoyosa awarded 86 building licences in 2013 and 90 in 2014. La Nucia approved in 2014, 126 licences for major works and expect an increase in 2015.

Hotel work halts JAVEA City has ordered the immediate suspension of work by an employer who intends to open a hotel next to the Sant Antoni lighthouse as the work is not licensed. The building belongs to the Correos postal service and the employer has rented it for 20 years.

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Beach injury award THE regional government must pay €24,229 compensation to a woman who broke her ankle on a Calpe beach. The accident occurred in August 2008 as she slipped on wooden steps, the only access to the Cantal Roig beach. They were covered in a plastic material which made them dangerously slippy, Valencia’s Upper Court of Justice heard. The woman spent nine days in hospital and needed 84 days of rehabilitation although the injured ankle has never recovered full mobility. The steps were in the port area and the responsibility of the regional government, the court ruled.

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Football chants to be silenced VICTORY chants like those sung by Denia’s junior football team and trainers are to be eliminated. The municipal football school (EMF) suspended Gervasio Carril, coach of the junior A team, for a month without pay for encouraging nine- and 10-year-olds to celebrate their victories with a ‘violent, sexist’ chant. This vowed to ‘slash’ anyone who messed with them and - albeit with euphemisms - to have sex with any girl or castrate any male who criticised them.

Coaches will be separated from their teams if phrases like these are heard again, warned Denia’s Sports Councillor Sisco Signes. They too are educators, Signes reminded the coaches of the football school’s 25 teams during a recent meeting. EMF’s director, Miguel Garcia de la Reina, said later that the parents of the boys concerned apologised for the chants but also expressed their total support for Carril’s coaching. Some did admit that they had been ‘surprised’ by the words.

Cormorant cull authorised CORMORANTS devouring fish in the Albufera lake (Valencia) will have to watch out. For the first time ever the regional government’s environment department has authorised a cull following complaints from the El Palmar fishing guild. The voracious seabirds, an invasive species, are devastating the fish population in the Albufera lake where

their numbers have shot up in recent years and could now be up to 10,000. Each bird can eat up to one kilo of fish a day, complained the El Palmar fishermen who for centuries have earned their living there, catching eels and grey mullet. The fishing guild will organise shooting parties and has already received applications from a dozen or so hunters, said its president Jose Caballer.

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Printer could give game away in chair court case FORGET fingerprints and a magnifying glass - an HP printer could identify the culprit in the ‘Chairs contract.’ An Alicante judge asked police to verify whether the printer and a laptop were used by local company Isjoma to print out a tender for a city council contract. In 2009 Isjoma put in a €6 million bid to supply chairs during public events and processions for eight years. This was €1 million more than his own bid, complained Jose Alaves whose company also competed for the contract. He lodged a formal complaint with the courts in 2009,

complaining of irregularities. Alaves also supplied a recording in which the city’s former Finance councillor allegedly admits that the contract was rigged. A search of the Isjoma offices by the Judicial Police criminal investigation unit failed to locate a copy of the bid exactly matching city hall’s, although the company claimed this was due to the printer. The Judicial Police are now examining the printer and computer to determine whether they were the origin of the city hall document and finally tie up the case after more than four years.

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New drains for San Pere

ROAD UP: Drainage work due to start soon.

ALTEA Town Hall is spending €450,000 on renewing Paseo San Pere’s main drainage. This has caused problems for some time, said Pere Barber, the councillor responsible for the town’s water and drainage system. The town hall had intended to renew the sewage pipes, Barber explained, and plans were

brought forward after two water pipes burst recently in San Pere. They are in the same zone as the main drains and will be covered over when all work is completed. Barber added. “We are doing this now during the tourist low season so that businesses in the area are affected as little as possible,” he said.

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Vaccinations list is expanded for free CHILDREN are to receive free vaccinations against pneumococcus. The Department of Health has agreed to offer the vaccine for free, which is recommended by paediatricians but was not on the official schedule of vaccinations and therefore parents had to pay. Pneumococcus infections can lead to diseases such as pneumonia, meningitis and bronchitis. During 2013, the incidence of these diseases in the Valencian Community

was 7.3 cases per 100,000 population, but reached 16.5 cases per 100,000 in children under the age of one. The vaccine is expected to be included in the routine immunisation schedule for 2016 and from this month the vaccination will be available to all born after January 1, 2015. The vaccinations include three doses of vaccine during the first year of life and a booster dose in the second year of life.

Annual hospitality awards JUAN MOLL, from Restaurant La Sort in Moraira, received the lifetime award during the annual awards by the Academy of Gastronomy of Valencia (AGCV). The AGCV recognises the work of hospitality professionals across the region as part of the awards which this year were held at the Populi Bistro in Alicante where a dozen awards were handed out including best baker, entrepreneur, waiter, gastronomic journalism and excellence.

Juan Moll dedicated his prize to his family, whilst ‘chef of the year’ Begoña Rodrigo, from La Salita Valencia, dedicated her award to “the team that holds me.” The event was attended by the Minister of Economy, Industry and Trade of the Generalitat, Maximo Buch who said: “Food is economy, tourism, industry and employment, and our intention is to take care of it to keep it growing as well as it is doing now.”

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Going underground MOBILE phone services will be available in the tunnels of the Malaga Metro by this summer, the Junta de Andalucia regional government’s development delegate Manuel Garcia Pelaez has announced.

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NEWS DESK path to connect Cami des Reis with Son Espases.

Cocaine bust A MOROCCAN man was taken into custody last weekend in Sant Llorenç d’es Cardassasr (Palma), after Guardia Civil officers found a 500-gramme cocaine haul under one of the seats of his car.

Green route plea

GRUPO EXCELENCIAS, which edits a number of travel and tourism magazines in six languages, has awarded its Premio Excelen-cias Turistas 2014 tourism excellence prize to Torremolinos Town Hall.

MORE than 250 people demonstrated last Sunday (January 25) in the Plaza de Alaro to demand the creation of a new green route along the former railway track between Alaro and Consell.

Learning to recycle

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MIJAS schools are taking part in a recycling campaign with trips to the recycling plant in Casares and a video competition, prizes for which will be awarded in April.

THE water supply was interrupted for 10 hours in a large part of Manacor after a pipe broke as a result of the construction works that are currently taking place in Calle Sebastia Rubi.

Helping the needy ESTEPONA Council has announced that the 2015 budget for the town includes €150,000 for its Social Emergency Fund to help needy local citizens.

Nature forum TWO HUNDRED people took part in the 11th International Nature Conservation Forum in Malaga City last weekend, sharing information on endangered species and how to protect them.

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Free Wifi ALMERIA CITY’S historic centre will soon have free Wifi. Technical issues delayed connection in late 2013, but the work now begins in earnest by Netllar Lirosan Telecommunications.

Mayoral candidate JUAN PEDRO PEREZ has been formally announced as PP candidate for mayor in Albox. Perez said: “I want Albox to be a town of opportunities for all, with quality public services.”

Port expansion ADRA PORT is to be extended by 700 square metres. The land is to be reclaimed from the coastline and will be used for the storage of pleasure craft during the winter months.

Health shortfall DALIAS residents have complained that staffing levels at their health centre are insufficient. There are just two health professionals to cover the needs of almost 4,000 residents.

BACK IN PLACE: The Apofis Vase was loaned to the Metropolitan Museum.

Almuñecar treasure returns from New York ONE of Almuñecar’s archaeological treasures, the Apofis Vase, has returned to the Axarquia town from New York after being featured at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Called ‘From Assyria to Iberia: Crossing Continents at the Dawn of the Classical Age’, the exhibition opened in September last year, and gathered archaeological remains from 14 different countries and 41 museums around the world.

The Apofis Vase is an Egyptian funerary object, sculpted from a single piece of marble, with hieroglyphs, and has a royal seal engraved on it. Councillor for Culture, Olga Ruano, stressed the rich historical heritage of the town and encouraged all residents to visit the local museum Cueva de Siete Palacios, where they will be able to admire the vase and the many other items in the museum’s collection.

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OLA and the Choque por el Empleo contracts generated 88 jobs in Almeria over two years. However, despite including an equality clause, only a minimal percentage of the jobs went to women.

LOCAL POLICE in Elche have opened proceedings against 18 dog owners for failing to clean up after their pets in the street, in just over a month.

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HUNDREDS queued in Elche at an information booth in Calle Uberna next to the site of the new sports centre to apply for around 30 vacant positions.

Budget opposition THREE opposition parties in Santa Pola have, for the first time, rejected the approval of municipal budgets, criticising the increase in revenues through bank loans amounting to 30.5 per cent more than in the previous year.

Garage arrest A MAN was arrested in Torrevieja in connection with a robbery at a petrol station in Guardamar del Segura, which took place last November when he and an accomplice, who has not yet been found, made off with cash from the till.

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Students lose out PUBLIC university budgets in the Valencia Community have lost €143.3 million in the last four years, representing a reduction of 12.44 per cent in spending per student.

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New bike path PALMA COUNCIL will spend almost €300,000 on the construction of a new bike

Body found A DEAD man was found last Sunday under the Torrente de Mal Pas Bridge in Palma. The body had to be retrieved with ropes and Local Police believe the victim could have been a homeless person.

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Charitable chemist LOS ALAMOS pharmacy in Motril has donated €500 to the town council to be used for social projects. The donation forms a part of the shop’s Christmas benefit scheme.

Gorilla photo victory THE Almuñecar photographer Francisco Mingorance has won first prize at the Share the View International Nature Photography Contest. His picture depicts a young gorilla splashing in a river.

Nerja on show NERJA COUNCIL together with Nerja Caves Foundation will have their own stand at prestigious tourism fair, FITUR, which will be held until February 1 in Madrid.

Cemetery upgrade THE council in La Herradura (Almuñecar) has carried out renovation works at a local cemetery to solve the problem of damp on the walls, as requested by the town’s residents.

Badminton success ALMOST 100 athletes participated in the first Badminton Tournament of Salobreña, organised by Granada Provincial Council and celebrated last weekend at the Sports Centre Julio Martin Perez.

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STAT OF WEEK TOLL-ROAD traffic rose 2.39 per cent to a daily 16,346 vehicles in 2014. This was the first increase since 2007 but 31.5 per cent below that year’s 23,867 vehicles a day.

Telefonica still matchmaking REJECTED by British Telecom, Telefonica is still looking for a suitor for its UK mobile subsidiary O2. The Spanish company is in talks with Sky, Virgin and Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa, which owns the Three mobile network. Three is currently the smallest operator in the UK but if Hutchison goes ahead, paying a possible $13.6

billion (€10.5 billion) for O2, it would become the country’s biggest mobile operator with more than 31 million customers. Were Hutchison, Sky and Virgin all to reject Telefonica’s approaches, the Spanish company would take its remaining option of floating the company on the stock market, sources said.

Spain heads up eurozone growth THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut growth predictions for all but the US and Spain. The IMF reduced global economic growth to 3.5 per cent for 2015 and 3.7 per cent in 2016 owing to a slowdown in China, probable recession in Russia and the eurozone’s continuing weakness. In its sixth consecutive upward review of Spain’s economy over the last 12 months the IMF now foresees 2 per cent growth for this year and 1.8 per cent for 2016. This will be doubly pleasing to Spain’s president Mariano Rajoy as the revised figure coincides with his own

estimate and negates the 0.8 per cent forecast from the IMF’s Director of Resarch Olivier Blanchard a year ago. Over the last two years the IMF’s predictions for Spain have been the most modest amongst the world’s biggest economies. Now the position has been reversed and Spain is at the head of eurozone growth, although at this stage the IMF foresees a slowdown in 2016. Unemployment is the only cloud on the horizon. Last October the IMF calculated that Spain would create 130,000 jobs in 2015 compared with the government’s forecast of 348,000.

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Big plans for Lidl LIDL is building its largest European logistics centre in Alcala de Henares (Madrid). Work on the €70 million project has now begun and should be finished by summer 2016.

Take it easy FIVE executives of the now-defunct Novacaixagalicia will stand trial at the Madrid high court in May. They are accused of awarding themselves early retirement deals worth €18.9 million.

Comfort letter clears the air EY, formerly Ernst & Young, have now revised AENA’s accounts for 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. The auditors worked in record time, practically occupying AENA headquarters according to employees, working weekends and over Christmas. The required ‘comfort letter’ confirming the financial soundness of Spain’s airports operator and the accuracy of its accounts has now been

drafted, EY sources confirmed. An 8 per cent stake was sold to Corporacion Financiera Alba last November, plus 6.5 per cent to Ferrovial and 6.5 per cent to Children’s Investment Fund. AENA has now cleared the final hurdle before its stock market debut and the sale of the remaining 28 per cent to privatise 49 per cent of the company.

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Free courses in customer relations MOST of us are uncaring of marketing strategies designed to shape our buying habits as we browse supermarket aisles. The ‘sheds,’ like Primark, IKEA, B&Q and ASDA, spend millions analysing our shopping penchants. Like donkeys chasing carrots we are tempted around displays. Some colours on packaging create more sales, others have the opposite effect. A well known expression in the marketing industries: ‘Blue and green should never be seen.’ The science of creating and maintaining customer loyalty is zealously studied and put into practice. Some larger organisations

Talking shop Mike Walsh Mike Walsh was for 20 years Regional Assessment Manager for the Guild of Master Craftsmen, Britain’s biggest quality assurance body for businesses.

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regard good customer service as pivotal to their existence. I was reminded of this when I contacted Amazon customer service. As a publisher I had a technical question. Within hours I received a reply: “Thank you for contacting Amazon KDP. I hope you are having a

nice day. I’ll be more than happy to assist you.” As good as his word, Raul sorted my problem out. Had he been unsuccessful he would personally help me through the process. Cynics say such American salutations are insincere. I do not. But, I do know that when a neighbour calls, “How are you today?” he sincerely hopes I will not unburden myself. Some businesses are good at customer relations, some are hopeless. Disgruntled customers are a financial drain on businesses. Lack of customer empathy means one needs to constantly advertise to replace

dissatisfied clients. Revolving doors; new clients in turn will be offended by poor service. My business budget could never match that of the larger companies when analysing buying habits and customer retention. Never mind, we have ‘free’ staff courses. Let us say I am recruiting staff for a new restaurant. Having given a nod and a wink to the manager of a friendly business, I would treat my staff to a night out. I would ask only one thing of my new employees. That, throughout the dining (or shopping) experience they focus on the super service we receive. The lesson for the day is: ‘This is How I Want it Done.’

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Get active and save yourself money Loose change A look at finance for females

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THE start of a year can be a difficult month financially. Especially after perhaps forking out on Christmas presents, expensive New Year plans or having flown abroad to visit family over the holidays. It’s also a time of year where everyone is talking about getting into shape. And while such resolutions are predictable at this time of the year, it can be difficult to keep up momentum and stick to an exercise regime. But here are a few reasons to keep on exercising - and not just for your physical health, but in terms of your financial health too.

Save on Make-up Regular exercise is one of the best things for your skin. Sweat out all those nasty toxins and your skin will thank you for it. The clear complexion that goes along with regular exercise, helps to improve your selfimage too, so you don’t feel the need to hide your face behind a painted mask. So get moving and you won’t have the urge to fork out money every time you pass the make-up counter.

Regular exercise is one of the best things for your skin.

SAVE MONEY: Swap your coffee break for a quick, brisk walk.

Save on Mental Health Frequent exercise helps to enhance your mood. Isn’t that why they call it ‘the runner’s high’? A good running session can work just as well as antidepressants for many cases

Reader spots error in 2015 Lawbook Q. I have recently upgraded to the new 2015 Edition of ‘You & the Law in Spain,’ and this time I purchased the Kindle edition. In the Spanish Income Tax section on page 289, you give a ‘Sample Calculation’ for computing your tax. I have read this over with care, but I am at a loss to determine where your figure of €918 reduction comes from. I have copied out the relevant section here.

Sample calculation. “It works like this: If you are a married couple of pensioners with two pensions and a small investment income totalling, say, €27,442 a year, you first consult the list of deductions. If both of you are 66, your personal minimum is €5,151 plus €918, a total of €6,069 each.” Perhaps you can clear this up for me? L.T. (e-mail)

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A. Thank you for your letter, and double thank you for exposing an error in the book. You could not find the figure of €918 because it is not there. The €918 is the previous year’s extra exemption for people over 65-years-old. The figure for this year should have been €1,150. Oh, my. Furthermore, the personal minimum should have been €5,550 and not €5,151. Upon checking, I find that I made the corrections, but failed to mark them properly, so the old paragraph ran without change, and I did not catch this in proofreading. In practical terms, it makes very little difference, but it is indeed embarrassing.

So our ‘Sample Calculation’ should have read:

“If you are a married couple of pensioners with two pensions and a small investment income totalling, say, €30,000 a year, you first consult the list of deductions. “Your personal minimum for tax year 2014 is €5,550. In addition, you have a further deduction of €1,150 because you are over 65. This gives a total of €6,700 each. Times two gives €13,400. In fact, if you each receive income, you will make two separate tax declarations, but I am lumping them together to simplify. You are also each entitled to the wage earner’s deduction of €2,000 for ‘other expenses,’ together making €4,000, which gives total deductions of €17,400. “Deducting the €17,400 from €30,000 gives €12,600 taxable income. You look at the table and see that a tax base up to €12,450 pays at 20 per cent, so you owe about €2,500 to the Spanish tax man.”

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of mild depression. So getting up and moving is a fantastic way to cheer up without having to fork out for professional help. Save on Caffeine Slouching around leaves a person with little energy, whereas an active lifestyle guarantees lots of energy. So the more you move, the less need you’ll have for a double espresso throughout the day. You could save a euro or two a day by simply swapping your coffee break for a quick brisk walk. Save on Medical Costs A healthy fitness routine will help you steer clear of having a heart attack or stroke. It helps to decrease the chance of developing chronic conditions like diabetes and arthritis. Staying fit also strengthens your immune system, improving your body’s ability to fight infections, helping you get through flu season without needing a pricey prescription. Stay active and avoid expensive medical bills.

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Slow progress UNEMPLOYMENT should gradually improve although Spain will continue to have one of the highest rates in a developed country, said the International Labour Organisation (ILO). It will remain above 21 per cent until at least 2019 when the ILO predicted 21.49 per cent unemployment, compared with 23.6 per cent this year.

Low cost THE Sandero hatchback which costs less than €7,000 with discounts is made by the Romanian firm, Dacia, that was bought by Renault in 1999. A total of 19,394 units were sold in Spain between January and November last year, representing 30 per cent of all the Renault group’s Spanish sales.

Build it up CONSTRUCTION companies asked the government for ‘legislative mechanisms’ and financial help to help the sector grow again in Spain. International ventures representing 90 per cent of business and national projects were positive, they agreed at the recent Infrastructure Sector Meeting, but help was needed to boost the domestic market.

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Buzz off, little ones! You are not welcome! RE the noisy children outside a reader’s house, I am reminded of the action taken by the Moulin Rouge to discourage prostitutes outside the venue. They simply installed green lighting which made the girls look ghoulish and put off the punters - job done. A similar change might work for the reader. Some years ago I read of a small device which emitted a high-pitched sound, similar to that of a mozzie that younger people can hear, but not those whose hearing has deteriorated with age. Apparently it is very, very irritating. Try Google to find it. Another ploy is to play classical music which had the same effect; choosing something soporific should work wonders. Best of luck! Richard in Crevillente (Murcia)

Lesson learnt I DEALT with a ‘noisy children’ situation quite recently, but they were under the age of 16. During the first two evenings I merely acknowledged their presence. They were obviously encouraged and so became noisier. I then decided to tell them that if they wished to sit on my wall, I would join them and give them a class in English. They smiled and left! They now wave to me from the wall of a Spanish neighbour further down the hill. Stuart Burnley has had to tolerate the situation for a long time, whereas I was able to nip it in the bud. Maybe this won’t help you, Mr Burnley, but try it! Pamela Hosey, Almayate (Malaga)

Think positive SORRY, but I don’t agree with ‘Our view’ about seasonal blues. My view is firstly that the sun was out during most of the month of December with clear days to enjoy sitting outside on

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terraces, looking out at the sea and mountains. Eliminate January from the calendar? April or May when the season begins are still a long way off, so why push time any faster? Rather, enjoy this tranquil and relatively quiet time to be happy and thankful for so many things, those that are mostly taken for granted! And let’s not forget, we have generally been fortunate enough to afford to celebrate the festive season in the first place. Let’s be positive all the year round including January ! Felipe, Palma de Mallorca (Baleares)

Trade-off I AM not one to reply to correspondence under most circumstances, but the blatant misrepresentation in the letter from Bill Campbell should not go without correction. Is he not aware that we do have to leave the EU to trade with the rest of the world? We are specifically banned from arranging trade deals with them by EU statutes and are not even allowed into the talks which take place. Furthermore we buy 50 per

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cent more from Europe than we sell to them and thus would benefit from any trade restrictions in the very unlikely event of their being applied. Also is he not aware that the study, so often-quoted, was based on data up to 2011 and totally at odds with current realities? It did not take into account the massive influx of immigrants since then. Nor did it take into account the millions in family allowances paid for children not living in this country. Similarly it did not take into account the massive amounts of money transferred by immigrants to their overseas accounts. Alison Wilson, Benidorm (Alicante)

The sad problem IT is sad that people are taken in by populist but totally uninformed anti-EU UKIP propaganda. The EU would work even better if the laws thought up in Brussels were accepted by individual member states wholly and not diluted. Unless a person does a bit of travelling or a bit of business, people see improvements in this area as threatening and pressure for further EU integration, which seems to be mainstream media reactionary hype. I think people are conflating EU migration with multiculturalism and failed integration. It is a failure of multiculturalism that we have entire swathes acting exactly as they did in their home countries (forced marriages or female genital mutilation, for example). This has nothing to do with hardworking Polish bricklayers or Spanish chefs. David Charteris, Palma de Mallorca (Baleares)

Stalemate I RECEIVED my telephone and broadband service from a company who began to send the monthly statement via the internet.

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They tended to be erratic and I did not always receive one, but I noticed a few months ago that the amount taken from my bank did not always tally with the amount on the statement. Upon telephoning to discuss this I spoke to a young lady in customer services, during which she said she could do nothing without the billing date. Her attitude was quite obstructive as I thought a look at my account would show this up. I concluded by saying that if she could not clear this up I would pay no more money. Her reply to this was that they would no longer provide the service and hung up. I fully expected her to calm down after a couple of days and to get some explanation from the company. I was therefore surprised to find some three days later that my broadband was no longer working, so it would seem she was as good as her word. I am guessing that I have overpaid up to €100 on my monthly account, but am unable to be sure because of the lack of invoices. I am unable to phone them as they have barred my phone number, so all I get is a message to say that ‘this number is unobtainable from your area’ when I try to call. I now find that they have transferred my phone to Telefonica - with no permission from me - and I have just received a bill from Telefonica for two months calls and line rental. As I am unable to contact them and as they are not replying to my emails I am at a loss to know how to proceed. Is anyone able to help? John Shannan, Turre (Almeria)

The real deal ALL this hype about Mr Darcy! Unlike reader Suzanne Stokes I’ve always found him an almighty bore and doubt that in real life he’d have been anything like Colin Firth doing his wet tshirt number. Now Lord Peter Wimsey, that’s another story. Read the description of him leaning naked out of an upstairs window in ‘Busman’s Honeymoon.’ Phwoar... Jacqueline Miller (by email)

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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC's Breakfast team. 10:15am Wanted Down Under 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Saints and Scroungers 12:45pm Helicopter Heroes Down Under 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One 2:40pm BBC London News 2:45pm Doctors

BBC TWO 7:05am Homes Under the Hammer 8:05am Saints and Scroungers 8:50am Helicopter Heroes Down Under 9:20am Channel Patrol 10:05am Six Puppies and Us 11:05am Claimed and Shamed 11:35am HARDtalk 12:00pm BBC News 12:30pm BBC World News 1:00pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm Coast 2:40pm Reel History of Britain

ITV 7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning Presented by Phillip Schofield and Christine Bleakley. A look at the day's news and headlines. 11:55am ITV News 12:00pm This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women Lunchtime chat with the ladies and their guests. 2:30pm ITV News and Weather

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CH4 7:00am Countdown 7:45am According to Jim 8:10am King of Queens 8:35am King of Queens 9:00am Frasier 9:35am Frasier 10:05am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 11:05am Undercover Boss USA 12:00pm Car S.O.S 1:00pm Channel 4 News Summary 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Three in a Bed

CH5 8:35am Thomas and Friends 8:50am Noddy in Toyland 9:00am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:35am Toby's Travelling Circus 9:45am Bananas in Pajamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Cowboy Traders 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours

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SKY 1 7:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse 8:00am Inside RAF Brize Norton Take one last look around Britain's biggest airbase. 9:00am All Aboard: East Coast Trains 10:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles This taut two-parter reaches its nail-biting conclusion. 12:00pm Hawaii Five-0 1:00pm Hawaii Five-0 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

3pm 3:15pm Father Brown 4:00pm The Link 4:45pm Escape to the Country 5:30pm Antiques Road Trip

3:10pm Walden on Heroes 3:40pm Churchill 4:40pm Return From the River Kwai An American pilot joins British guerrillas to rescue POWs from a Japanese camp.

3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Tipping Point 5:00pm Mel and Sue

3:10pm A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 4:10pm Countdown 5:00pm Deal or No Deal

3:15pm NCIS 4:10pm Cedar Cove

6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm The Kyle Files

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

6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm North Pole Ice Airport

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

9:00pm Emmerdale

9:00pm Location, Location, Location 10:00pm Cucumber 11:00pm The Mega Brothel

9:00pm Benefits

9:00pm A League of Their Own 10:00pm Ross Kemp: Extreme World

Chat show with Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins.

Series about a community judge struggling to maintain a sensible work-life balance in a small lakeside town in Washington State.

3:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:00pm Inside RAF Brize Norton 5:00pm Futurama 5:30pm Futurama

6pm 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm EastEnders

6:15pm Flog It! 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 8:00pm Antiques Road Trip Antiques series.

9pm 9:00pm Eat Well for Less? 10:00pm Death in Paradise Detective drama series set on a Caribbean island.

9:00pm Attenborough's Paradise Birds Documentary tracing David Attenborough's lifelong passion for birds of paradise.

James's life hangs in the balance. Robert is alerted to Katie's plan.

Documentary series about people who live on welfare.

9:30pm Birds of a Feather 10:00pm Bring Back Borstal 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm Perspectives

12:20am MH17: In Search of Truth 12:50am The Super-Rich and Us 1:50am Rescued from a Forced Marriage 2:20am This is BBC Two 5:00am Around the World in 80 Faiths

12:40am Ade at Sea 1:05am Jackpot247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 4:40am ITV Nightscreen

12:05am 24 Hours in Police Custody 1:10am Weighing Up the Enemy 2:05am One Born Every Minute 3:00am Food Unwrapped 3:25am Dispatches 3:55am Queen Victoria and the Crippled Kaiser

12:00am Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side 1:00am Super Casino 4:10am Race to the Pole 5:00am Michaela's Wild Challenge 5:25am Divine Designs 5:45am House Doctor

12:40am David Attenborough's Galapagos 1:40am A League of Their Own 2:10am A League of Their Own 2:35am NCIS: Los Angeles 3:25am NCIS: Los Angeles 4:20am Hawaii Five-0 5:10am Hawaii Five-0

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8:00pm Top Gear 9:00pm Traffic Cops 10:00pm Bangkok Airport 11:00pm Crims 11:30pm EastEnders 12:00am Family Guy 12:25am Family Guy 12:45am Family Guy 1:10am Bangkok Airport 2:05am Crims 2:35am Excluded: Kicked Out of School 3:35am South Side Story 4:05am Vodka Diaries 4:30am Crims 5:00am This is BBC Three

8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Top of the Pops 9:00pm The First World War From Above 10:00pm Time Shift 11:00pm The Epic of Everest

9:15am The Cube 10:15am Psych 11:10am The Chase 12:15pm All Star Family Fortunes 1:15pm Emmerdale 1:40pm Coronation Street 2:15pm You've Been Framed! 2:45pm Psych 3:40pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm Scorpion 11:00pm The Hangover 1:10am Cockroaches 1:40am Two and a Half Men

9:25am Where the Heart is 10:35am The Royal 11:40am Judge Judy 1:00pm Murder, She Wrote 2:00pm Heartbeat 3:00pm Where the Heart is 4:10pm The Royal 5:15pm Never the Twain 5:50pm Rising Damp 6:20pm On the Buses 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Foyle's War 11:00pm Collision 12:00am Law and Order: UK

10:00am Hogan's Heroes 11:00am Magnum, P.I. 12:05pm Minder 1:05pm The Professionals 3:05pm Magnum, P.I. 4:00pm Highway Patrol 4:30pm Pawn Stars 5:00pm Hogan's Heroes 6:00pm Minder 7:00pm Ax Men 8:00pm Pawn Stars 9:00pm River Monsters 10:00pm River Monsters 11:05pm D-Tox 1:05am River Monsters

2:00pm How I Met Your Mother 3:00pm The Big Bang Theory 4:00pm Rules of Engagement 5:00pm New Girl 5:30pm Suburgatory 6:00pm How I Met Your Mother 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm Rude(Ish) Tube 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm 2 Broke Girls 10:00pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 10:30pm Marry Me 11:00pm Banana 11:35pm The Inbetweeners

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11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News 11:45pm Question Time

As Britain debates what should be done to update our antiquated prostitution laws, this unique documentary takes a look inside one of the biggest brothels in Europe.

10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother

Ross Kemp investigates South Africa's rape epidemic.

10:00pm Modern Times 11:00pm Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe 11:30pm Newsnight

Highlights of the latest events from the past 24 hours.

11:00pm Botched Up Bodies

11:00pm Ascension Pressure mounts on Enzmann when a government investigator intervenes.

12am 12:45am This Week 1:30am Skiing Weatherview 1:35am BBC News

Film record of the legendary Everest expedition of 1924, restored by the BFI National Archive.

12:25am The Eiger: Wall of Death 1:25am Horizon 2:15am Top of the Pops 3:00am Barry White at the BBC Barry White live in concert at the Royal Albert Hall in 1975.

3:55am Time Shift 4:55am This is BBC Four

SKY MOVIES Action 7:00am The Day After Tomorrow 9:05am World War Z A United Nations worker battles to halt a zombie pandemic.

11:10am Saving Private Ryan 2:00pm Aliens: Special Edition 4:35pm Batman Begins 6:55pm The Day After Tomorrow 9:00pm Saving Private Ryan 12:00am World War Z A United Nations worker battles to halt a zombie pandemic.

2:15am Aliens: Special Edition 5:00am The Karate Kid, Part II

Comedy 5:45am Little Shop of Horrors 7:25am Despicable Me 2 Special 7:55am Starsky and Hutch 9:40am Stand Up Guys 11:25am Last Vegas 1:20pm The Heat: Sky Movies Special 1:40pm The Heat 3:45pm Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa 5:35pm Starsky and Hutch 7:25pm The Harry Hill Movie 9:00pm Last Vegas 11:00pm The Heat 1:00am Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa 2:45am Stand Up Guys 4:25am Why Stop Now? 5:55am The Harry Hill Movie

5:55am Point Last Seen 7:30am All Things to All Men 9:00am Deadfall 10:45am Ripley's Game 12:45pm American Hustle 3:05pm All Things to All Men A corrupt copper plots to stage a bank robbery in order to catch an elusive London crime boss.

4:45pm Murder at 1600 6:35pm The Machinist 8:20pm Deadfall 10:00pm American Hustle 12:20am Green Street 2:15am The Machinist 4:15am Single White Female

6:25am Saving Mr. Banks Special 7:00am Turbo 8:40am Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams 10:30am The Flintstones 12:10pm Primates of the Caribbean 1:35pm The Croods 3:15pm Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams 5:00pm Stage to Screen 5:35pm Turbo 7:15pm Epic 9:00pm The Croods 10:40pm Jack the Giant Slayer 12:35am The Flintstones 2:10am Baby's Day Out

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6:00am Captain Phillips: Sky Movies Special 6:30am Stage to Screen 7:00am Wild Special 7:30am In Secret 9:30am Return to Nim's Island 11:15am The Zero Theorem 1:15pm The Trials of Cate Mccall 3:00pm Maleficent Special 3:15pm When the Lights Went Out 5:00pm 300: Rise of an Empire 7:00pm In Secret 9:00pm 300: Rise of an Empire 11:00pm The Zero Theorem 1:00am When the Lights Went Out 2:30am The Trials of Cate Mccall 4:15am Return to Nim's Island

6:00am Solomon and Sheba 8:30am Gunsmoke 9:35am Gunsmoke 10:40am The Fearmakers 12:15pm Tarzan the Magnificent 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm Tarzan's Savage Fury 5:30pm Secret of the Incas 7:30pm On the Beach 10:00pm Queen of the Damned 11:55pm Soldier 1:50am Queen of the Damned 3:40am Soldier 5:25am Ed Sullivan's Rock N' Roll Classics

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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Wanted Down Under 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Saints and Scroungers 12:45pm Helicopter Heroes Down Under 1:15pm Bargain Hunt Antiques challenge. 2:00pm BBC News at One 2:40pm BBC London News The latest news, sport and weather from London. 2:45pm Doctors

BBC TWO 7:05am Homes Under the Hammer 8:05am Saints and Scroungers 8:50am Helicopter Heroes Down Under 9:20am Channel Patrol 10:05am The Big Allotment Challenge 11:05am Food and Drink 11:35am The Travel Show 12:00pm BBC News 12:30pm BBC World News 1:00pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm Great Britons

ITV 7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 11:55am ITV News 12:00pm This Morning Presented by Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes. A look at the day's news and headlines. 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV News and Weather

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CH5 8:35am Thomas and Friends 8:50am Noddy in Toyland 9:00am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:35am Toby's Travelling Circus 9:45am Bananas in Pajamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Cowboy Traders 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours

SKY 1 7:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse 8:00am Ashley Banjo's Secret Street Crew 9:00am Big Hero 6 Special 9:30am Kingsman: Secret Service Special 10:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm Hawaii Five-0 1:00pm Hawaii Five-0 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

3pm 3:15pm Father Brown 4:00pm The Link 4:45pm Escape to the Country 5:30pm Antiques Road Trip

3:00pm Churchill: The Nation's Farewell 4:00pm Young Winston Historical drama chronicling the early life of Winston Churchill.

3:00pm Judge Rinder Studio courtroom show where criminal barrister Robert Rinder rules on real life cases.

4:00pm Tipping Point 5:00pm Mel and Sue

3:10pm A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 4:10pm Countdown 5:00pm Deal or No Deal

3:15pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:15pm A Risk Worth Taking Romantic drama. A young wife cares for her terminally ill husband in the wilds of Scotland.

3:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:00pm Inside RAF Brize Norton 5:00pm Futurama 5:30pm Futurama

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

6:15pm Antiques Roadshow 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 8:00pm Antiques Road Trip

6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street

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

6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm Race to the Pole

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

9:00pm Mastermind

9:00pm The Martin Lewis Money Show

9:00pm Jamie and Jimmy's Friday Night Feast 10:00pm 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 11:00pm The Last Leg

9:00pm Ice Road Truckers 10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother

9:00pm Show Me Your Garden

9pm 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Room 101 10:00pm The Musketeers 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News 11:35pm The Graham Norton Show

John Humphrys invites four more contenders to answer questions in the black chair.

9:30pm Food and Drink 10:00pm The Big Allotment Challenge 11:00pm QI 11:30pm Newsnight

Martin Lewis and Saira Khan present the money-saving series.

9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Benidorm 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm Shaun of the Dead

The award-winning gang show, live on Friday nights.

Highlights of the latest events from the past 24 hours.

11:00pm Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side

Hopping over to the Emerald Isle, the gardening competition continues with a look at some of Ireland.

10:00pm Ascension Tightening its grip, the ambitious sci-fi drama reaches its conclusion.

11:50pm Ghostbusters

12am 12:25am Bluestone 42 12:55am EastEnders Omnibus 2:50am Weather for the Week Ahead 2:55am BBC News

12:05am The Road 1:45am Question Time David Dimbleby presents topical debate from Wrexham in Wales. 2:45am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

1:30am Jackpot247 4:00am Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed 5:30am ITV Nightscreen

12:05am Catastrophe 12:40am Brooklyn Nine-Nine 1:05am Rude Tube 2:00am The Rocky Horror Picture Show 3:45am The Ricky Gervais Show 4:15am The Ricky Gervais Show 4:45am Grand Designs

12:30am Celebrity Big Brother 1:15am Super Casino 4:10am Celebrity Big Brother 5:00am Michaela's Wild Challenge 5:25am Divine Designs 5:50am House Doctor

1:55am A Most Violent Year Special 2:05am NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00am Hawaii Five-0 4:00am Hawaii Five-0 5:00am NCIS: Los Angeles

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8:00pm Doctor Who 8:10pm Doctor Who 9:00pm Excluded: Kicked Out of School 10:00pm Tough Young Teachers 11:00pm Russell Howard's Good News 11:30pm EastEnders 12:00am Family Guy 12:45am Family Guy 1:35am Crims 2:00am South Side Story 2:30am Russell Howard's Good News 3:00am Bangkok Airport 4:00am Life is Toff 4:30am Life is Toff 5:00am This is BBC Three

8:00pm World News Today

7:45am Emmerdale 8:45am You've Been Framed! 9:15am The Cube 10:15am Psych 11:10am The Chase 12:15pm All Star Family Fortunes 1:15pm Emmerdale 2:15pm You've Been Framed! 2:45pm Psych 3:40pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00pm You've Been Framed! 8:00pm 100% You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm I Am Legend 12:05am Take Me Out

9:25am Where the Heart is 10:35am The Royal 11:40am Judge Judy 1:00pm Murder, She Wrote 2:00pm Heartbeat 3:00pm Where the Heart is 4:10pm The Royal 5:15pm Never the Twain 5:50pm Rising Damp 6:20pm On the Buses 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Agatha Christie's Marple 11:00pm Collision 12:00am Law and Order: UK

9:00am The Professionals 10:00am Hogan's Heroes 11:05am Magnum, P.I. 12:05pm Minder 1:05pm Ax Men 2:05pm The Professionals 3:05pm Magnum, P.I. 4:05pm Pawn Stars 5:00pm Hogan's Heroes 6:00pm Minder 7:00pm Ax Men 8:00pm Pawn Stars 9:00pm Counting Cars 10:00pm The Enforcer 12:00am The Day of the Jackal

1:00pm Hollyoaks 1:30pm Rude(Ish) Tube 2:00pm How I Met Your Mother 3:00pm The Big Bang Theory 4:00pm Rules of Engagement 5:00pm New Girl 5:30pm Suburgatory 6:00pm How I Met Your Mother 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm Rude(Ish) Tube 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm Marry Me 10:00pm Hot Tub Time Machine 12:00am The Big Bang Theory

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The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective.

8:30pm Sounds of the Sixties 9:00pm Symphony Simon Russell Beale presents a radical reappraisal of the place of the symphony in the modern world.

10:00pm Sound of Song 11:00pm Kraftwerk 12:00am Synth Britannia 1:30am Sound of Song 2:30am Kraftwerk 3:30am Synth Britannia

SKY MOVIES Action 5:00am The Karate Kid, Part II 7:00am Poseidon 8:55am Pacific Rim 11:15am Captain America: The Winter Soldier 1:40pm Kick-Ass 2 3:35pm Getaway 5:20pm Poseidon 7:15pm Kingsman: The Secret Service Special 7:45pm Pacific Rim 10:00pm Captain America: The Winter Soldier 12:20am Kick-Ass 2 2:10am Getaway 3:55am Ironclad: Battle for Blood

Comedy 5:55am The Harry Hill Movie 7:25am Uncle Buck 9:20am Bruce Almighty 11:15am Ride Along 1:10pm Turbo: Sky Movies Special 1:40pm The Incredible Burt Wonderstone 3:30pm American Pie 5:20pm Uncle Buck 7:10pm Bruce Almighty 9:00pm Ride Along 10:45pm The Incredible Burt Wonderstone 12:35am American Pie 2:15am American Pie 2 4:05am American Pie: The Wedding 5:45am Heaven Can Wait

4:15am Single White Female 6:15am Sam Churchill: Search for a Homeless Man 8:00am The Fast and the Furious 10:00am The Truth About Emanuel 11:50am Derailed 1:50pm Fast and Furious 6 4:05pm The Fast and the Furious 6:05pm 2 Fast 2 Furious 8:05pm The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 10:00pm Fast and Furious 6 12:10am Pulp Fiction 2:45am 2 Fast 2 Furious 4:35am Taxi Driver

7:00am Stuart Little 8:40am Spy Kids 3: Game Over 10:10am Smurfs 2 Special 10:30am The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas 12:05pm Despicable Me 2 1:45pm Robots 3:30pm Spy Kids 3: Game Over 5:00pm Despicable Me 2 6:45pm Monsters University Special 7:20pm Stuart Little 9:00pm Mrs. Doubtfire 11:15pm Save the Last Dance 1:10am The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas 2:55am Mrs. Doubtfire

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6:00am Stage to Screen 6:30am Wild Special 7:00am Ain't Them Bodies Saints 8:45am In Secret 10:45am Fort BLISS 1:00pm Alien Abduction 2:45pm Maleficent Special 3:15pm Ain't Them Bodies Saints 5:00pm Maleficent 6:45pm Fort BLISS 9:00pm Maleficent 10:45pm Ain't Them Bodies Saints 12:30am Alien Abduction 2:15am Fort BLISS 4:30am In Secret

6:00am On the Beach 8:20am Gunsmoke 9:20am Gunsmoke 10:20am Secret of the Incas 12:20pm Tarzan's Savage Fury 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm Tarzan's Hidden Jungle 5:30pm Toward the Unknown 7:40pm Taras Bulba 10:00pm In Hell 11:55pm The Long Kiss Goodnight 2:10am Hell on Wheels 3:05am The Long Kiss Goodnight 5:05am Rock N' Roll Forever: Ed Sullivan's Greatest Hits

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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast 11:00am Saturday Kitchen Live 12:30pm James Martin's Home Comforts 1:00pm BBC News 1:05pm Weather 1:10pm Football Focus 1:50pm Saturday Sportsday 2:00pm Bargain Hunt

BBC TWO 6:35am Quantrill's Raiders 7:45am Bitter Victory 9:25am Tennis 12:30pm Animal Park 1:00pm James Martin: Home Comforts 1:45pm Hollywood Greats 2:25pm Lust for Life

ITV 7:00am CITV 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 12:25pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 1:30pm ITV News and Weather 1:35pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 2:40pm The Undriveables

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CH4 8:25am Itera Expedition Race 8:55am The Morning Line 10:00am King of Queens 10:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 11:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 11:30am Frasier 12:00pm Frasier 12:30pm The Big Bang Theory 1:00pm The Big Bang Theory 1:25pm Speed with Guy Martin 2:30pm Channel 4 Racing

CH5 5:50am House Doctor 6:10am House Doctor 6:35am House Doctor 7:00am Milkshake! 11:00am Sponge Bob Square Pants 11:35am Access 11:45am Ice Road Truckers 12:45pm Ice Road Truckers 1:40pm Ice Road Truckers 2:40pm Ice Road Truckers

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SKY 1 6:00am Stargate Atlantis 7:00am Are You Smarter Than a 10 Year Old? 8:00am Glee 9:00am Whiplash Special 9:15am Wild Special 9:30am Big Hero 6 Special 10:00am The Fantasy Football Club 11:00am Soccer A.M. 1:00pm What's Up 1:30pm Kingsman: Secret Service Special 2:00pm Last Man Standing 2:30pm Last Man Standing

3pm 3:00pm Escape to the Country 4:00pm Homes Under the Hammer 5:00pm Final Score

4:25pm Hidalgo Held yearly for centuries, the Ocean of Fire - a 3,000 mile survival race across the Arabian desert - was a challenge restricted to the finest Arabian horses ever bred, the purest and noblest lines owned by the greatest royal families.

3:10pm Who's Doing the Dishes? 4:10pm Doc Martin 5:10pm Big Star's Little Star

5:00pm Come Dine with Me In King's Lynn, Norfolk, body builder Daniel Coleman takes on London snob Maggie Flowerdew, Norfolk local Richard Moore and outspoken Amber Woolmington.

3:40pm Columbo: A Friend in Deed A police commissioner provides a false alibi for a wife killer but then expects an alibi in return.

5:35pm Columbo: A Deadly State of Mind

3:00pm Last Man Standing 3:30pm Last Man Standing 4:00pm Greggs: More Than Meats the Pie 5:00pm Last Man Standing 5:30pm Last Man Standing

6pm 6:20pm Pointless 7:10pm BBC News 7:20pm Regional News 7:25pm Weather 7:30pm Now You See It 8:00pm The Voice UK

6:30pm The Great British Sewing Bee 7:30pm Flog It! 8:30pm Attenborough's Birds of Paradise

6:10pm Local News and Weather 6:20pm ITV News and Weather 6:30pm You've Been Framed! 7:30pm Stars in Their Eyes 8:30pm Planets Got Talent

6:00pm The Big Bang Theory 6:30pm The Simpsons 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Channel 4 News 8:00pm The Restoration Man

7:10pm NCIS 8:00pm NCIS 8:55pm NCIS

6:00pm Sun, Sea and A&E 7:00pm The Fanatics 8:00pm Show Me Your Garden

9:30pm Dad's Army 10:00pm QI 10:30pm The Secret World of Lewis Carroll 11:30pm Ginger and Rosa

9:05pm Take Me Out 10:20pm The Jonathan Ross Show 11:25pm ITV News and Weather 11:35pm The Shawshank Redemption

9:00pm The World's Weirdest Weather 10:00pm Ted

9:50pm 5 News 10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother 11:00pm CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 11:55pm Law and Order

9:00pm Ghostbusters 11:05pm A League of Their Own 11:35pm A League of Their Own

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

Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis star in Seth MacFarlane's irreverent and vulgar comedydrama about the relationship between a man, a woman and the man's toy bear.

American police and legal drama series set in New York.

More never-before-seen footage of Corden and the gang from series eight.

12am 1:00am The Football League Show 2:20am Stark Raving Mad 3:55am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather report. 4:00am BBC News

12:55am The Tempest 2:40am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

2:10am Jackpot 247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA Jeremy Kyle presents the American version of his popular talk show. 4:40am Nightscreen

12:10am Your Highness 2:05am The Last Leg 3:00am Prizzi's Honor 5:10am Hollyoaks Omnibus There's a new development in Mercedes's murder case.

12:50am Criminals: Caught on Camera 1:15am Super Casino 4:10am Celebrity Big Brother 5:00am House Doctor 5:25am Make it Big 5:50am Make it Big

12:05am Hawaii Five-0 1:05am NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00am Hawaii Five-0 3:00am Big Trouble in Thailand 4:00am Hawaii Five-0 5:00am Road Wars

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8:00pm Great Movie Mistakes V: Revenge of the Fifth 9:00pm Top Gear 10:00pm Blades of Glory 11:30pm Russell Howard's Good News 12:00am Family Guy 12:22am Family Guy 12:44am Family Guy 1:06am Family Guy 1:28am Family Guy 1:50am Family Guy 2:12am Family Guy 2:34am Family Guy 3:00am Crims 3:30am South Side Story

8:00pm The First World War From Above 9:00pm Bright Lights, Brilliant Minds: A Tale of Three Cities 10:00pm Spiral 10:55pm Spiral 11:50pm Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe 12:20am Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top 10 1:50am Top of the Pops 2:40am Play it Loud: The Story of the Marshall Amp 3:40am Bright Lights, Brilliant Minds: A Tale of Three Cities 4:40am This is BBC Four

2:55pm FYI Daily 3:00pm Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco 3:40pm Honey 4:40pm FYI Daily 4:45pm Honey 5:35pm E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 6:35pm FYI Daily 6:40pm E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 7:50pm The Mummy Returns 8:50pm FYI Daily 8:55pm The Mummy Returns 10:20pm Take Me Out: The Gossip 11:05pm Keith Lemon: The Film 12:05am FYI Daily

8:50am The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery 9:35am Where the Heart is 10:40am Where the Heart is 11:45am The Darling Buds of May 12:50pm A Touch of Frost 2:55pm Wycliffe 4:00pm George and Mildred 5:00pm FYI Daily 5:05pm George and Mildred 5:55pm Agatha Christie's Marple 8:00pm Doc Martin 9:00pm Foyle's War 11:00pm Lewis 1:05am A Touch of Frost

10:35am Hogan's Heroes 11:05am Hogan's Heroes 11:35am Hogan's Heroes 12:10pm Hogan's Heroes 12:40pm World Rally Championship Highlights: Monte Carlo 1:45pm Darts 6:00pm Storage Wars 6:30pm Storage Wars 7:00pm Storage Wars Texas 7:25pm Storage Wars Texas 7:55pm Uefa Champions League Hat-Trick Heroes 8:00pm Darts 12:00am Africa Cup of Nations Highlights

2:30pm How I Met Your Mother 3:00pm How I Met Your Mother 3:30pm Bad(Ish) Robots 4:00pm Bad(Ish) Robots 4:30pm Rude(Ish) Tube 5:00pm Rude(Ish) Tube 5:30pm Troy 6:35pm The 100 7:35pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm The Big Bang Theory 8:30pm The Big Bang Theory 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm Terminator Salvation 12:15am The Inbetweeners

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SKY MOVIES Action 8:00am Thor: The Dark World Special 8:30am Die Hard with a Vengeance 10:50am Die Hard 4.0 1:10pm A Good Day to Die Hard 3:00pm Kingsman: Secret Service Special 3:30pm Die Hard 5:45pm Die Hard 2 7:50pm Die Hard with a Vengeance 10:00pm Die Hard 4.0 12:10am A Good Day to Die Hard 1:50am The Top Ten Show 2015 Which movies are doing the best business at home and across the pond?

2:05am Die Hard 4:20am Die Hard 2

7:30am Ali G Indahouse 9:10am Bean 10:50am Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues 1:00pm Grudge Match 3:05pm The Way Way Back 5:00pm Alien Autopsy 6:50pm The Internship 9:00pm Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues 11:00pm Grudge Match 1:05am Ali G Indahouse 2:45am The Internship 4:55am The Internship Special Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson talk about their roles in the tech-tastic comedy.

8:10am Pride and Glory 10:25am Breakdown 12:05pm Swordfish 1:50pm Captain Phillips 4:10pm S.W.A.T. 6:10pm Pride and Glory 8:20pm Breakdown 10:00pm Captain Phillips 12:15am Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2:10am Kill Bill: Vol. 2 4:30am S.W.A.T. A police honcho brings together some of the best gunmen in the force to create an elite team, but their first assignment causes havoc.

7:00am Stuart Little 2 8:25am The Blue Umbrella 8:40am Garfield 2: A Tail of Two Kitties 10:15am Ella Enchanted 12:10pm Sammy's Great Escape 1:50pm Despicable Me 2 Special 2:20pm Escape From Planet Earth 4:00pm The Harry Hill Movie 5:40pm Garfield 2: A Tail of Two Kitties 7:25pm Stuart Little 2 9:00pm Escape From Planet Earth 10:30pm The Harry Hill Movie 12:00am Look Who's Talking 1:45am Ella Enchanted 3:30am The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

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8:35am Gunsmoke 9:40am Gunsmoke 10:45am Toward the Unknown 12:55pm Tarzan's Hidden Jungle 2:25pm The Lion and the Horse 4:00pm What's Up, Doc? 5:50pm The Great Race 8:45pm Sherlock Holmes: Pursuit to Algiers 10:00pm The Hangover 12:00am Romper Stomper 1:50am The Hangover 3:35am Romper Stomper 5:10am Off Set

After years in jail, a Texas outlaw breaks out and attempts to find his wife and child.

12:30am Alien Abduction A family on a camping holiday have a terrifying extraterrestrial encounter. Scifi/horror.

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OPINION & COMMENT

EWN

29 January - 4 February 2015/ Costa Blanca North

Poisoning young minds LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT

OMETHING really must be done about Ofsted. Their rampant rhetoric and unchecked inspections are not only becoming ludicrous, but often to my mind dangerously akin to child abuse. These misled incompetents, who profess to be on a mission to stamp out racism, homophobia and inequalities in schools, are creating the very ‘intolerances’ they purport to be eradicating. The recent report of their antics in the case of Durham Free School is a glaring case in point. An individual apparently asked youngsters between 11 and 13 if they knew what a lesbian was - knew anyone in the school who was actually gay - felt they were trapped in someone else’s body - what they would do if a Muslim came to the school - or had learned how to make a baby. If these were appropriate

MISGUIDED: Ofsted antics could plant the seeds of intolerance in schoolchildren. questions to ask 11-year-olds, then I’ve completely lost track of the plot. With this type of approach and question, I believe these jumped-up morons are actually managing to create intolerance and racism where it has in fact never before existed. The five-year-old boy, who was reported for asking, because

his little friend was brown, did he come from Africa, is a case in point. The ‘official’ hue and cry that ensued resulted in a number of things. Namely, the young lad became completely confused and traumatised because he didn’t really know what he had done wrong and what is even more

disturbing, he was of course introduced to racism. By the same token, the young lad who was asked what a Muslim was. Apparently his answer included a reference to terrorism. Well, of course, it did. With a never-ending list of highly publicised terrorist attacks by militant Muslims, does it not stand to reason that his young mind would link the two? He was subsequently accused of bigotry. Is it not obvious to any clear-thinking person that the completely over-thetop official reaction to these children’s innocent observations could easily plant the seeds of racism or intolerance in young minds? What I want to know is, who is watching the watchers? Who trains these misguided people? We don’t have to ask who pays them, of course. But frankly if someone doesn’t rein them in, they will, inadvertently or not, continue to poison our precious young minds until bigotry in our places of education could well become a part of the curriculum. Keep the faith Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com

Colin Bird Each week, Colin brings his slightly off-the-wall view of the world to the pages of EWN in his own irreverent style.

ACK in the early 70s, before novelty birthday gifts like strip-a-grams became all the rage, an acquaintance from the local pub decided that he was going to hire himself out in this manner. His name was Jack. He had the build of an athlete, complete with an impressive six pack - unlike me who sported more of a Gobi Desert belly (flat and featureless) - and was always an instant hit with the ladies. Nevertheless, he was a good bloke and was well-liked by most of the male patrons. He outlined his plans to us and asked if anyone had a suggestion of what he should call himself. A lot of weird drink-induced handles were suggested and when I came up with my own idea, it was adopted with great enthusiasm. Thus Jack the Stripper was born. Personally I was glad to get rid of

him on Saturday evenings. At least, I reasoned, there would be a better chance of pulling a mini-skirted dolly or two with him not around. We saw less and less of him as his novel service caught on and he seemed to be travelling further afield entertaining rooms full of drunken women on birthday binges. Then he vanished completely. Somebody told us that he had a regular spot in a London strip club, so we resolved to surprise him and travel to the Smoke one weekend to catch his act. We expected some upper-class establishment, but were shocked to find a seedy little uni-sex place in a back street off Soho. Jack the Stripper was the headline act according to the tatty poster outside and as we were shown to our seats, one of the supporting acts was just about to start her routine. Our jaws dropped open as an aging, very ugly, woman limped on to the stage dressed in a man’s suit, complete with ventriloquist’s dummy! It was the most grotesque thing we had ever seen and long before

the old biddy had removed even half of her Burtons’ three-piece, we were yelling for her to strip the dummy. It would have been more of a turn-on. This was more than enough for us and we agreed that we had no wish to witness the depths to which our erstwhile pal might have descended; paid the extortionate bar bill and left. None of us ever saw Jack again, but we subsequently heard that he had inexplicably moved to Switzerland - the land of dodgy bank accounts and cuckoo clocks. God knows what he was doing, but I had recurring visions of him entertaining a bunch of Swiss hausfraus, covered in melted Toblerone and yodelling to the strains of Edelweiss.

JACK THE STRIPPER: With the build of an athlete and an impressive six pack.

Better strip the dummy!

E W N 29 January - 4 February 2015 / Costa Blanca North

BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast 8:30am Match of the Day 10:00am The Andrew Marr Show 11:00am The Big Questions 12:00pm Sunday Politics 1:15pm MOTD2 Extra 2:00pm BBC News 2:10pm Weather for the Week Ahead 2:15pm Bargain Hunt

BBC TWO 7:00am The Football League Show 8:20am Countryfile 9:15am Tennis 1:00pm Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 2:30pm James Martin's Home Comforts Cookery series in which James Martin cooks delicious treats from the comfort of his home.

ITV 7:00am CITV 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 12:25pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 1:30pm ITV News and Weather A round-up of the latest news headlines and a national weather forecast. 1:40pm Stars in Their Eyes 2:40pm Off Their Rockers

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CH4 7:20am NFL 7:45am How I Met Your Mother 8:10am How I Met Your Mother 8:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Sunday Brunch 1:30pm Jamie and Jimmy's Friday Night Feast 2:30pm The Big Bang Theory

CH5 5:50am Make it Big 7:00am Milkshake! 11:00am Sponge Bob Square Pants 11:35am Access 11:40am Robson's Extreme Fishing Challenge 12:40pm Robson's Extreme Fishing Challenge 1:35pm Robson's Extreme Fishing Challenge 2:35pm A Little Princess

SUNDAY TV

SKY 1 6:00am Mission Implausible 7:00am The Hour of Power 8:00am Are You Smarter Than a 10 Year Old? 9:00am Glee 10:00am Harrow: A Very British School 11:00am Ashley Banjo's Big Town Dance 12:00pm WWE Raw 1:00pm Modern Family 1:30pm Modern Family 2:00pm Inside RAF Brize Norton

3pm 3:15pm Escape to the Country 4:00pm Eat Well for Less? 5:00pm Your Home in Their Hands

3:00pm Food and Drink 3:30pm Talking Pictures 4:00pm Ivanhoe 5:45pm Flog It!

3:10pm Mel and Sue's Best Bits 4:10pm Tipping Point 5:15pm The Spy Who Loved Me

3:00pm The Simpsons 3:30pm The Simpsons 4:00pm Penelope 5:50pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather.

4:25pm Hoodwinked 5:55pm Made of Honour When Hannah asks Tom to be the Maid of Honour at her forthcoming nuptials, Tom sees it as a chance to finally win her affections.

3:00pm Greggs: More Than Meats the Pie 4:00pm Last Man Standing 4:30pm Last Man Standing 5:00pm Emergency with Angela Griffin

6pm 7:35pm Local News and Weather 7:45pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Get Your Act Together

6:20pm Mr. Popper's Penguins 8:00pm The Jump

7:50pm Hellboy II: The Golden Army

9:00pm Top Gear 10:00pm Dragons' Den 11:00pm True Grit

9:15pm All Star Family Fortunes 10:00pm Mr Selfridge 11:00pm ITV News and Weather 11:15pm Perspectives

9:00pm The Hotel 10:00pm Our Guy in India 11:05pm The Simpsons 11:30pm The Super Bowl: American Football Live

9:55pm 5 News

12:45am New Jack City 2:20am Countryfile News and stories concerning the heart of the British countryside. 3:15am Holby City 4:15am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

12:15am LV Cup Rugby Highlights 1:10am The Store 3:30am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA Jeremy Kyle presents the American version of his popular talk show. 4:15am Nightscreen

4:30am Superscrimpers: Waste Not, Want Not 4:40am Kirstie's Best of Both Worlds 5:35am A Place in the Sun: Home or Away

1:00am Britain's Flashiest Families 2:00am Super Casino 4:10am Storage: Flog the Lot! 5:00am House Doctor 5:25am Make it Big 5:50am Make it Big

12:00am Show Me Your Garden 1:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00am Hawaii Five-0 3:00am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 4:00am Night Cops 5:00am Mission Implausible

BBC THREE

BBC FOUR

ITV2

ITV3

ITV4

8:00pm Great TV Mistakes 8:30pm The Voice UK 10:00pm Backchat with Jack Whitehall and His Dad 10:30pm Russell Howard's Good News 11:00pm Family Guy 11:50pm Crims 12:20am Family Guy

4:40am This is BBC Four 8:00pm Shoah: Second Era 12:40am Sound of Song

4:15pm Stormbreaker 5:15pm FYI Daily 5:20pm Stormbreaker 6:05pm Despicable Me 7:05pm FYI Daily 7:10pm Despicable Me 7:55pm Legally Blonde 2: Red White and Blonde 8:55pm FYI Daily 9:00pm Legally Blonde 2: Red White and Blonde 10:00pm The Matrix 11:00pm FYI Daily 11:05pm The Matrix 12:40am Tricked

9:45am FYI Daily 9:50am George and Mildred 10:40am Heartbeat 11:40am Heartbeat 12:40pm Sherlock Holmes 2:50pm Carry on at Your Convenience 3:50pm FYI Daily 3:55pm Carry on at Your Convenience 4:45pm Rosemary and Thyme 5:45pm Inspector Morse 8:00pm Lewis 10:00pm The Best of the Royal Variety Show 11:00pm Northern Lights 12:05am Pride and Prejudice

8:55am Hogan's Heroes 9:25am The Motorbike Show 10:25am Ax Men 11:20am Pawn Stars 11:50am Pawn Stars 12:15pm Pawn Stars 12:45pm Pawn Stars 1:15pm Pawn Stars 1:45pm Darts 6:00pm Africa Cup of Nations Highlights 7:00pm Counting Cars 7:30pm Counting Cars 8:00pm Darts 12:00am Africa Cup of Nations Highlights 1:00am Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

2:30pm Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 3:30pm The 100 4:30pm Melissa and Joey 5:00pm Melissa and Joey 5:30pm The Big Bang Theory 6:00pm The Big Bang Theory 6:30pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 7:00pm Marry Me 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm The Big Bang Theory 8:30pm The Big Bang Theory 9:00pm Drillbit Taylor 11:05pm The Big Bang Theory 11:35pm The Inbetweeners 12:05am The Inbetweeners

Crime

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6:00pm Songs of Praise 6:35pm BBC News 6:50pm Regional News 6:55pm Weather 7:00pm Animals in Love 8:00pm Countryfile

6:15pm Ski Sunday 7:00pm The Coffee Trail with Simon Reeve Documentary uncovering the stories behind, and roots of coffee.

Action fantasy.

8:00pm The Motorway: Life in the Fast Lane

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

9pm 9:00pm Call the Midwife 10:00pm Last Tango in Halifax 11:00pm BBC News 11:20pm Regional News 11:25pm Weather 11:30pm Match of the Day 2

The latest news coverage.

10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother 11:00pm Justice

9:00pm A League of Their Own 10:00pm Hawaii Five-0 11:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

12am 12:30am The Apprentice USA 1:50am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather report. 1:55am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

Animated comedy series about the everyday trials and tribulations of family life.

12:42am Family Guy Animated comedy about the everyday trials and tribulations of family life.

1:05am Backchat with Jack Whitehall and His Dad

Composer and musician Neil Brand's series exploring the alchemy that creates great songs reaches the modern era, when a revolution in how they were made took place.

1:40am Kraftwerk Documentary telling the story of how a group of reclusive Rhineland experimentalists called Kraftwerk became one of the most influential pop groups of all time.

2:40am Synth Britannia 4:10am Sounds of the 70s 4:40am This is BBC Four

SKY MOVIES Action 6:30am Oscars 2015 Nomination Special 7:00am After Earth 8:45am Elysium 10:45am Deep Impact 12:50pm Pain and Gain Three Florida bodybuilders devise a criminal get-rich-quick scheme that goes horribly wrong.

3:10pm After Earth 5:00pm The Patriot 7:50pm Deep Impact 10:00pm Pain and Gain Three Florida bodybuilders devise a criminal get-rich-quick scheme that goes horribly wrong.

12:15am Elysium 2:10am Assault on Precinct 13

Comedy 7:00am Liar Liar 8:40am We're the Millers 10:35am Nacho Libre 12:15pm 13 Going on 30 2:00pm Who Framed Roger Rabbit? 3:50pm Liar Liar Fletcher Reede didn't become a top lawyer by telling the truth.

5:25pm Mr. Deeds 7:10pm Who Framed Roger Rabbit? 9:00pm We're the Millers 11:00pm The to Do List A college bookworm sets out to gain the experience she needs to seduce her hunky lifeguard crush.

12:50am In a World... 2:30am Scary Movie 3

6:30am Loss of Faith 8:15am Magic Magic 10:05am Dead Again 12:05pm 25th Hour 2:30pm After the Sunset 4:20pm Closed Circuit 6:10pm Veronica Mars 8:10pm After the Sunset 10:00pm The Last Boy Scout 11:50pm Oldboy An ad man is inexplicably imprisoned in a sparse cell.

1:45am Fear 16-year-old Nicole falls in love with David, a good-looking guy she meets at a party.

6:35am The Muppets Sky Movies Special 7:00am Miracle on 34th Street 9:00am The Smurfs 2 10:55am Stage to Screen A look at the new all-star film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical Into the Woods.

11:30am Return to Nim's Island 1:15pm Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 3:15pm Eragon 5:15pm The Smurfs 2 7:15pm Return to Nim's Island 9:00pm Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 11:00pm Eragon 12:45am Baby's Day Out 2:25am Lassie 4:10am Saving Santa

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6:30am Maleficent Special 7:00am Ain't Them Bodies Saints 8:45am 300: Rise of an Empire 10:45am Fort BLISS 1:00pm Oscars 2015 Nomination Special 1:30pm Ain't Them Bodies Saints 3:15pm Alien Abduction 5:00pm The Top Ten Show 2015 5:15pm Maleficent 7:00pm 300: Rise of an Empire 9:00pm Maleficent 10:45pm Ain't Them Bodies Saints

8:10am What's Up, Doc? 10:00am The Great Race 12:55pm Sherlock Holmes: Pursuit to Algiers 2:10pm Romance of a Horse Thief 4:00pm Yellowstone Kelly 5:50pm The Big Circus 7:55pm Drum Beat 10:00pm Hell on Wheels 11:00pm Pale Rider 1:15am El Condor 3:10am Pale Rider 5:05am Ed Sullivan Presents: Rock 'N' Roll Revolution: The British Invade America

After years in jail, a Texas outlaw breaks out and attempts to find his wife and child.

12:30am Alien Abduction 2:15am Fort BLISS

E W N 29 January - 4 February 2015 / Costa Blanca North

BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Wanted Down Under Revisited 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Saints and Scroungers 12:45pm Helicopter Heroes Down Under 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm Regional News 2:45pm Doctors

BBC TWO 8:05am Saints and Scroungers 8:50am Helicopter Heroes Down Under 9:20am Channel Patrol 10:05am Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 11:05am Great British Railway Journeys 11:35am Click 12:00pm BBC News 12:30pm World News 1:00pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm Coast 2:15pm The War Lords 2:45pm The Road to War

ITV 7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 11:55am ITV News 12:00pm This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV News and Weather

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CH4 7:00am Countdown 7:45am King of Queens 8:10am 3rd Rock from the Sun 8:35am 3rd Rock from the Sun 9:00am Frasier 9:35am Frasier 10:05am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 11:05am Undercover Boss USA 12:00pm Car S.O.S 1:00pm Channel 4 News Summary 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Three in a Bed

CH5 7:00am Milkshake! 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Cowboy Traders Documentary series about cowboy shop-owners and dodgy dealers. 1:10pm 5 News 1:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours

MONDAY TV

SKY 1 6:00am UK Border Force 7:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse 8:00am Greggs: More Than Meats the Pie 9:00am Ashley Banjo's Secret Street Crew 10:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm Hawaii Five-0 1:00pm Hawaii Five-0 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

3pm 3:40pm Mountain 4:40pm Open All Hours 5:10pm To the Manor Born 5:35pm Hi-De-Hi!

3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Tipping Point 5:00pm Mel and Sue

3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Deal or No Deal 5:00pm Shipping Wars 5:45pm Couples Come Dine with Me

3:15pm NCIS 4:15pm Angels Fall

3:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:00pm Inside RAF Brize Norton 5:00pm Futurama 5:30pm Futurama

6:15pm Flog It! 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great Antiques Map of Britain 8:00pm Top Gear

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

6:30pm The Simpsons 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News

6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News 8:00pm Criminals: Caught on Camera 8:30pm Car Crash TV

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

9:00pm University Challenge 9:30pm Only Connect 10:00pm A Cook Abroad: Dave Myers' Egypt 11:00pm Backchat with Jack Whitehall and His Dad 11:30pm Newsnight

9:00pm Richard Wilson on the Road 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Broadchurch 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm The Jonathan Ross Show

9:00pm The Jump 10:00pm The Undateables 11:00pm Catastrophe 11:35pm Bodyshockers

9:00pm Celebrity Big Brother 10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother 11:00pm 10,000 BC

9:00pm The Holidaymakers 10:00pm 50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy 11:00pm Air Ambulance ER

12:15am Weather 12:20am Debbie's Story 12:50am Alex Polizzi: The Fixer 1:50am The Super-Rich and Us 2:50am This is BBC Two 5:00am Biomimetics

12:45am The Kyle Files 1:10am Jackpot 247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA Jeremy Kyle presents the American version of his popular talk show.

12:40am 24 Hours in A and E 1:35am Walking the Nile 2:30am Man v Weird 3:25am Jon Richardson Grows Up 4:20am A Place in the Sun: Home or Away

12:00am Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side 1:00am Botched Up Bodies 2:00am Super Casino 4:10am Britain's Flashiest Families 5:00am Michaela's Wild Challenge

12:00am Hawaii Five-0 1:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00am Hawaii Five-0 3:00am Hawaii Five-0 4:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 5:00am Airline USA 5:30am Airline USA

BBC THREE

BBC FOUR

ITV2

ITV3

ITV4

8:00pm Great TV Mistakes 8:30pm Don't Tell the Bride 9:30pm Waterloo Road

4:40am This is BBC Four 8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm National Treasures of Wales 9:00pm The Treasure Hunters 10:00pm Regina: The First Woman Rabbi 11:00pm Storyville

1:15pm Emmerdale 1:40pm Coronation Street 2:15pm Coronation Street 2:45pm Psych 3:40pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:50pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00pm You've Been Framed! 7:30pm You've Been Framed! 8:00pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 9:30pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm Through the Keyhole 11:00pm Death Race 12:00am FYI Daily

12:05pm Judge Judy 12:35pm Judge Judy 1:00pm Murder, She Wrote 2:00pm Heartbeat 3:00pm Where the Heart is 4:10pm The Royal 5:15pm Never the Twain 5:50pm Rising Damp 6:20pm On the Buses 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Rosemary and Thyme 10:00pm Long Lost Family 11:00pm Wycliffe 12:05am Law and Order

2:00pm The Professionals 3:00pm Magnum, P.I. 4:00pm Pawn Stars 4:30pm Pawn Stars 5:00pm Hogan's Heroes 5:30pm Hogan's Heroes 6:00pm Ax Men 7:00pm Africa Cup of Nations Highlights 8:00pm Rugby Highlights 9:00pm Storage Wars 9:30pm Storage Wars 10:00pm Storage Wars Texas 10:30pm Storage Wars Texas 11:00pm Ax Men 12:00am Bundesliga

3:30pm The Big Bang Theory 4:00pm Rules of Engagement 4:30pm Rules of Engagement 5:00pm The Jump 6:00pm How I Met Your Mother 6:30pm How I Met Your Mother 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm The Jump 9:00pm New Girl 9:30pm New Girl 10:00pm Revenge 11:00pm Rude Tube 12:00am The Big Bang Theory

Crime

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3:15pm Father Brown 4:00pm The Link 4:45pm Escape to the Country 5:30pm Antiques Road Trip

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

Includes sport and weather.

9pm 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Panorama 10:00pm Silent Witness 11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News 11:40pm Weather 11:45pm Football Focus

Prehistoric adventure.

12am 12:30am The Graham Norton Show 1:15am City Hall 3:00am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather report. 3:05am BBC News

Drama series set in a failing comprehensive school.

10:30pm South Side Story 11:00pm Cuckoo 11:30pm EastEnders 12:00am Family Guy 12:22am Family Guy 12:44am Family Guy 1:06am Family Guy 1:30am South Side Story 2:00am Cuckoo 2:30am Excluded: Kicked Out of School

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Comedy 7:40am Oscars 2015 Nomination Special 8:10am Stir Crazy 10:05am Syrup 11:40am Kingsman: Secret Service Special 12:10pm The Hangover Part III 1:55pm Starsky and Hutch 3:40pm Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo 5:10pm The Best Man Holiday 7:20pm Syrup 9:00pm The Hangover Part III 11:00pm Starsky and Hutch 12:45am Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo 2:15am Stir Crazy 4:10am Alter Egos 5:30am The Pink Panther Strikes Again

7:30am Perfume: The Story of a Murderer 10:10am The Chamber 12:15pm Get Rich or Die Tryin' A stretch in prison helps New York drug dealer Marcus realise that he must change his life.

2:25pm American Hustle 4:55pm Dangerous Mind of a Hooligan 6:25pm Zero Dark Thirty Special 6:40pm Get Rich or Die Tryin' 8:40pm American Hustle 11:00pm Lucky Number Slevin Two New York crime lords think luckless Slevin owes them money.

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A family on a camping holiday have a terrifying extraterrestrial encounter. Scifi/horror.

12:30pm Fort BLISS 2:45pm Kingsman: Secret Service Special 3:15pm Ain't Them Bodies Saints 5:00pm Maleficent 6:45pm Fort BLISS 9:00pm Maleficent 10:45pm Ain't Them Bodies Saints 12:30am Alien Abduction A family on a camping holiday have a terrifying extraterrestrial encounter. Scifi/horror.

The jungle king fights to protect a lost city of gold from the international criminal Vinaro.

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Nora Johnson

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

AVE you been targeted by one of those ‘phishing’ scams? You know, those scam emails pretending to offer customers a tax rebate? Or worse still, think you might miss the January 31 deadline for online UK tax returns? If so, you’d better come up with a better excuse than those provided recently by HM Revenue and Customs as the worst examples people have come up with for filing/ paying their tax return late. These range from the usual “my pet dog ate my tax return… and all the

reminders;” “I was up a mountain in Wales, and couldn’t find a post box or get an internet signal” and “I was in Australia” to the “poor me” variety (“I fell in with the wrong crowd;” “I live in a camper van in a supermarket car park”; “a work colleague borrowed my tax return, to photocopy it, and didn’t give it back to me;” “my girlfriend’s pregnant”) to the truly bizarre (“Barack Obama’s in charge of my finances;” “I’ve been busy looking after a flock of escaped parrots and some fox cubs;” “I’ve been travelling the world, trying to escape from a foreign intelligence agency”). Unsurprisingly, none of these led to a successful appeal - or worthy of an award at next month’s Oscars. As HMRC director general of personal tax put it: “People can have a

Tax return cop-outs worthy of an Oscar? genuine excuse for missing a tax deadline, but owning a pet with a taste for HMRC envelopes isn’t one of them."

Have you been targeted by a ‘phishing’ scam?

TAX EXCUSE: Is yours worthy of an Oscar?

To return, briefly, to ‘phishing,’ maybe the best advice nowadays is, sadly, ‘Trust nobody.’ The world in which we now live. Fake tradesmen in hi-vis jackets knocking at your door to check some phoney gas-leak/pipework ‘problem’ and walking out with your wallet. The elderly being palmed off with third-rate stuff at outrageous prices. Or a worthless plot of land as an ‘investment.’

This happens, we all know it happens. The answer may partly lie with the media: more publicity given about the punishment dished out to offenders to scare off those hell-bent on committing such crimes. And more, much more success in catching the offenders ... What’s really disturbing is that the police often know who the offenders are, but can’t get enough people to testify against them. Perhaps we’re all at fault here. What’s your view?

Nora Johnson’s thrillers ‘Landscape of Lies,’ ‘Retribution,’ ‘Soul Stealer,’ ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.nora-johnson.com) available from Amazon in paperback/eBook (€0.89;£0.79) and iBookstore. Profits to Cudeca.

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3pm 3:40pm Mountain 4:40pm Open All Hours 5:10pm To the Manor Born 5:40pm Hi-De-Hi!

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3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Deal or No Deal 5:00pm Shipping Wars 5:45pm Couples Come Dine with Me

3:15pm NCIS 4:15pm Undercover Bridesmaid

3:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:00pm Inside RAF Brize Norton 5:00pm Futurama 5:30pm Futurama

6:15pm Flog It! 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great Antiques Map of Britain 8:00pm Antiques Road Trip

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

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1:40pm Coronation Street 2:15pm Coronation Street 2:45pm Psych 3:40pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:50pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00pm You've Been Framed! 7:30pm You've Been Framed! 8:00pm You've Been Framed! 8:30pm The Mummy Returns 9:30pm FYI Daily 9:35pm The Mummy Returns 11:00pm Cockroaches 11:35pm Plebs 12:05am Plebs 12:35am Two and a Half Men

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Subversive animated comedy about the trials and tribulations of American family life.

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You have the right to answers Mike Walsh Mike, based in Mediterranean Spain, is an international journalist, author and professional writer.

N Ukraine, a terrifying civil war rages. Devastation is likened to the Battle of Stalingrad as the death tolls nears 5,000. Europe’s biggest country is disintegrating. Over one million Europeans are displaced, 750,000 live in Russian displacement camps; borders sealed to stop thousands of young people avoiding conscription by escaping to Russia. EU sanctions and economic sabotage in support of the Kiev regime is said to have plunged the eurozone into recession. And for what? The Russian invasion of Crimea? Then part of the USSR, Crimea in 1954 was gifted to Ukraine by a tipsy First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev. Crimeans recently voted

overwhelmingly to return to their homeland. We have yet to see credible evidence of a single Russian army boot on Ukrainian soil despite numerous alleged invasions. Seven EU countries, so far, demand sanctions be lifted: Austria, Hungary, Italy, Cyprus, Slovakia, France and the Czech Republic. Their economies and others

sabotaged by BrusselsWashington blockades. Greece may soon give two fingers to EU membership; will Spain and others follow? The New York Observer: ‘The new Ukraine is run by Sexpots, Warlords, Lunatics and Oligarchs.’ Venerable British journalist, John Pilger: “In the Ukraine the US is dragging us into a war

UKRAINE: Europe’s biggest country is disintegrating.

with Russia” - The Guardian, May 13, 2014. Let us take a closer look at those in key positions of the EU/ US backed Kiev regime. After Washington DC bragged about their ousting elected President Viktor Yanukovych, there is little point in debating whether they did or not. Who has taken the overthrown government’s place? Get ready to squirm. Billionaire oligarch Pyotr Poroshenko is President. Prosecutor General of Ukraine Oleg Makhnitsky, the xenophobic leader of the Bandera Svoboda Party. It uses Nazi regalia and salutes. I don’t know why, as Banderistas spent their war in Nazi concentration camps. New Secretary of the powerful National Defence and Security Council, Andriy Parubiy, aka ‘The Commandant,’ is leader of the Swastika flaunting Fatherland Party. His Deputy is Dmytro Yarosh, leader of the Right Sector’s paramilitary wing. Photographs of him

and his armed henchmen wearing army fatigues and IRA type balaclavas circulate. New Defence Minister is Ihor Tenyukh, extreme rightist of the Svoboda Party. Key government positions are held by various Svoboda Party thugs such as Oleksandr Sych, one of Ukraine’s three Prime Ministers. This obnoxious party holds key government ministries such as Agriculture. The Economy Minister is Lithuanian, the Finance Minister, a US citizen. The Health Minister is Georgian who cannot speak Ukrainian. All parachuted in by Washington DC. These are the kind of people that Washington DC’s Victoria Nuland, Senator John McCain, and other top US and EU officials embrace. If you ask what the hell is going on then you have every right to ask. You also have the right to demand answers. If we fail to address this unfolding tragedy, the John Pilger war prophecy could be reality.

A happy event for Susana Diez Cassandra Nash

A weekly look - and not entirely impartial reaction to the Spanish political scene

USANA DIEZ, president of Andalucia’s regional government and - who knows? possible aspirant to the presidency of Spain, is pregnant. The baby is due this summer and the 40-year-old president will not be altering her public agenda. “Nothing will change,” said sources close to Diez. Will she follow the example set by Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, Mariano Rajoy’s vice-president and the most powerful woman in Spain? Saenz de Santamaria gave birth in November 2011 and worked up to the last day of her pregnancy. She appeared in public nine days later, on the night of the PP’s election victory and was back at work almost immediately.

You win some, and you lose some THE Partido Popular intends to wheel out Jose Maria Aznar, Spain’s president between 1996 and 2004, during its election campaigns. The idea is to attract and reassure the more conservative PP voters, but once again the party leadership is looking in the wrong direction. The far right has no other option bar the party currently headed by Mariano Rajoy, but the voters he needs to attract can choose from the PSOE, UPyD, Ciudadanos, Ganamos, IU and last but not by any means least, Podemos. On becoming president, Rajoy was wise enough to distance himself from Aznar. He might be revered by hardcore PP voters but Aznar is a monumental turn-off for the undecided majority. And those are the votes that Rajoy needs to court and convince, not lose. Diez’s baby is due mid-July, sufficient time to recover from whatever the municipal elections might bring and to prepare for the national ballot.

As for her future political ambitions, Diez’s domestic arrangements after the baby is born will reveal more than any statements or interviews.

JOSE MARIA AZNAR: A huge turn-off.

leave the national high court he has presided over since 2010. There is nothing sinister about his removal, which is in line with Spain’s legal system. Ironically, his place is likely to be taken by Jose de la Mata Amaya, a highranking official in the ministry of Justice during the last socialist government. Although Ruz expects to have tweaked and tied up any loose Gurtel ends, De la Mata will be taking over other sensitive cases. Will it be a case of “come back, Ruz, all is forgiven”?

Speciality act

All forgiven THE judge Pablo Ruz, investigating or ‘instructing’ the Gurtel corruption case, is due to

CAMPAIGNING politicians pledge to cut down on their special advisers. It was one of Rajoy’s election promises, but instead they increased by 18 per cent in 2013 and 151 trusties cost the taxpayer €8.3 million in 2013 with three earning more than Mariano Rajoy. Whatever their expertise, at least we know what makes them so special.

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3pm 3:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:00pm Harrow: A Very British School 5:00pm Futurama 5:30pm Futurama

3:40pm Mountain 4:40pm Open All Hours 5:10pm To the Manor Born 5:40pm Hi-De-Hi!

3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Tipping Point 5:00pm Mel and Sue

3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Deal or No Deal 5:00pm Shipping Wars 5:45pm Couples Come Dine with Me

3:15pm NCIS 4:15pm Another Man's Wife

6:15pm Flog It! 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great Antiques Map of Britain 8:00pm Antiques Road Trip

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

6:30pm The Simpsons 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News

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

9:00pm Alaska: Earth's Frozen Kingdom 10:00pm Wolf Hall 11:00pm Up the Women 11:30pm Newsnight

9:00pm Midsomer Murders 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm Bring Back Borstal

9:00pm The Jump 10:00pm 24 Hours in A and E 11:00pm Bodyshockers

9:00pm GPs: Behind Closed Doors 10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother 11:00pm Age Gap Love

9:00pm The Fanatics 10:00pm 50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy 11:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

12:15am Weather 12:20am Inside the Commons 1:20am See Hear 1:50am Posh People: Inside Tatler 2:50am This is BBC Two 5:00am Making Media 5:30am Ten Pieces Extra

12:35am I Never Knew That About Britain 1:05am Jackpot 247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA Jeremy Kyle presents the American version of his popular talk show. 4:40am Nightscreen

12:00am The Undateables 1:00am Launched at Red Bull Studios 1:30am Ramsay's Hotel Hell 2:20am Barney's Version 4:40am A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 5:35am Deal or No Deal

12:00am Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side 1:00am Trauma Doctors 2:00am Super Casino 4:10am Botched Up Bodies 5:00am Michaela's Wild Challenge 5:25am Divine Designs 5:45am House Doctor

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1:00pm Murder, She Wrote 2:00pm Heartbeat 3:00pm Where the Heart is 4:10pm The Royal 5:15pm Never the Twain 5:50pm Fresh Fields 6:20pm On the Buses 6:55pm Heartbeat 7:55pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Paul O'Grady: For The Love of Dogs 9:30pm Paul O'Grady: For The Love of Dogs 10:00pm Hotel in the Clouds 11:00pm The Kindness of Strangers 12:35am Law and Order

11:05am Magnum, P.I. 12:05pm Minder 1:10pm Ax Men 2:05pm The Professionals 3:05pm Magnum, P.I. 4:05pm Pawn Stars 4:35pm Pawn Stars 5:00pm Hogan's Heroes 5:35pm Hogan's Heroes 6:05pm Highway Patrol 6:30pm Ax Men 7:30pm Africa Cup of Nations Live 10:30pm Memphis Belle 11:30pm FYI Daily 11:35pm Memphis Belle 12:40am The Enforcer

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9:40am The Nutty Professor 11:25am Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 1:40pm The Top Ten Show 2015 2:00pm Bruce Almighty 3:50pm My Big Fat Greek Wedding 5:35pm Our Idiot Brother 7:15pm The Nutty Professor 9:00pm Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 11:10pm Bruce Almighty

6:30am Sam Churchill: Search for a Homeless Man 8:20am The Liability 9:55am Syriana 12:10pm Jennifer Eight 2:25pm Zero Dark Thirty 5:05pm Breakdown 6:45pm Cold Comes the Night 8:20pm The Call 10:00pm Zero Dark Thirty 12:40am Green Street

7:15am The Reef 2: High Tide 8:40am Chimpanzee 10:10am Garfield 2: A Tail of Two Kitties 11:45am Parental Guidance 1:40pm The Croods 3:25pm The Flintstones 5:00pm Planes: Sky Movies Special 5:30pm Garfield 2: A Tail of Two Kitties 7:05pm Parental Guidance 9:00pm The Croods 10:40pm Look Who's Talking Too

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Boyhood Filmed with the same cast over a period of 12 years, Boyhood was recently nominated for eight Academy Awards. The movie plots the joys and pitfalls of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason, his parents and his sister. A series of vignettes of Mason’s life from the age of five to 18 captures family meals, road trips, birthday parties, graduations and other important life milestones. A favourite to pick up the Best Picture award at this year’s Oscars. Directed by Richard Linklater, stars Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke. Run time 162 minutes. Rated R.

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LEO (July 24 - August 23) Mutual plans are exciting but make sure that others know your needs exactly. As a Leo, you will never willingly accept second best but how can others know your standards?

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TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) You may feel a bit like Sherlock Holmes when you solve a tricky dilemma. With your intellect soaring, it is little surprise that others come to you with their problems.

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GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) Someone with a romantic interest in you starts buzzing around. This is all very well if you are willing, but if not keep your distance. As thoughts turn to summer, it is not surprising that a holiday is on your mind.

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) Putting your thoughts and feelings on a par with someone else will help you to understand their point of view. Tthere will need to be some compromise if everyone is to be happy.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) Small matters start to clog up the emotional works. You would rather be somewhere else, but grit your teeth and deal with necessary matters. Finances certainly must be watched most carefully.

LIBRA

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(September 24 October 23) Although you may not have received the expected response to a question recently, it is no reason to brood. SCORPIO (October 24 November 22) The way to bring energy levels up this week is to spend time with energetic people. You may feel a little on the fringes initially but, at the end of the day, your spirit will be lifted.

Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3X3 box contains the digits 1-9. There’s no maths involved. You solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic.

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SAGITTARIUS (November 23 December 21) Look ahead to see how exactly you can make this spring extra special. Making your plans clear to others means a smooth journey. CAPRICORN (December 22 January 20) There is an incredibly romantic week ahead if you only enter into the spirit of it. Let your feelings be seen and felt, showing appreciation for loved ones.

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Nonagram How many English words of four letters or more can you make from the nine letters in our Nonagram puzzle? Each letter may be used only once (unless the letter appears twice). Each word MUST CONTAIN THE CENTRE LETTER (in this case L) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.

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Average: 11

Very good: 20

Good: 14

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

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PISCES (February 20 - March 20) Even as you prepare to go on a trip or start something new this week, the future beckons. In small things there are clues to the way forward. A chance encounter brings humour and opens your eyes to a friendship lately neglected.

Alicante TODAY:

(SEAM) SEAS PEAS or SNAP SOAP

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ARIES (March 21 - April 20) Emotional and monetary wealth go hand in hand at the beginning of this energetic week. Someone is likely to make demands that you find unacceptable and you will need all your tact to avoid unpleasantness.

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AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) Being at the forefront of a learning experience is pleasurable this week. An unexpected offer seems small but could have a big effect. A friend in need may go over the top and annoy you.

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EURO WEEKLY’S SPACE FOR YOU TO TAKE A BREAK, BE INFORMED AND ENJOY A CHALLENGE

1. According to Roman mythology, which twin brothers were the legendary founders of Rome? 2. Both located in the Cairngorms in Scotland, which are the two highest mountains in the UK? 3. In terms of land area, which are the two largest US states? 4. What are the forenames of the two female members of the Swedish pop group ABBA? 5. What are the names of the two team captains on the longrunning TV panel show Have I Got News For You? 6. What were the names of the actors who played the first two ‘incarnations’ of Dr Who? 7. What were the names of the first two women (both Russian) in space? 8. What were the two former names of the Turkish capital city, Istanbul? 9. Which are the two UK newspapers with the biggest daily circulation?

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