Euro Weekly News - Costa Blanca North 5 - 11 February 2015 Issue 1544 by Euro Weekly News Media S.A.

ISSUE NO. 1544

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Fair shares for staff EMPLOYEES at Consum supermarket branches are to receive a 1 per cent pay rise. But there will be a pay freeze for managers and directors who work for the Valencia-based super-market cooperative.

Well done! EIGHT of 45 newlyqualified registrars who have passed entrance exams are Valencianos. They were congratulated by the region’s official College of Registrars for surviving the stiff selection process.

Official rocket NOVELDA Town Hall faces a €30,000 fine from the central government for not respecting the required distance in a fireworks display during fiestas last July. Three people were injured.

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Give us back our right to vote! BRITISH expatriates are demanding that the rule which removes their right to vote in the UK after 15 years is abolished. With the general election in the UK fast approaching, many expats in Spain – still bristling from the recent Winter Fuel

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HARRY SHINDLER: War vet fighting for expats’ right to vote. See Page 14.

Allowance debate – are backing a promised bill to abolish the controversial rule. Any British expats who moved to Spain before the year 2000 are not entitled to vote in the general election this May. A large number of expats feel disenfranchised as they don’t have a vote either in their home country or their adopted country, as expats can only vote in Spanish national elections if they have taken Spanish citizenship. According to the

official representative of one of Spain’s Conservative Abroad (CA) branches, the so-called ‘15year rule’ should be amended to a vote for life. Peter Newey told Euro Weekly News (EWN): “The current position is unfair in many ways. I pay tax in the UK. I have investments and may one day wish to return to live in the UK; after all, who knows what the future holds for any of us. “As we are seeing now, whichever political party is in Government today has a profound effect and impacts on the quality of life in the UK in years to come, and so having the right to vote in elections does matter. There are so many issues that Britons living overseas are concerned about in the UK, yet can do nothing about at the one time you can have a voice… election time!”

This matter has cross-party support, with Labour International and Liberal International also calling for the rule to be abolished Mr Newey said that although not everyone wishes to exercise their right to vote, there are those in Spain who do want to have their say in the government of their home country. “The largest number of CA branches in any single country is in Spain and it has been these branches who have led the campaign over many, many years to highlight how wrong this rule is,” Mr Newey remarked. EWN has also tried to get in touch with Labour International, but was still waiting for a response at the time of going to press. Vote Special Page 14 What do you think about the 15-year rule? Have your say on www.euroweeklynews.com.

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INDEX News 1 - 22 Finance 23 - 28 Letters 29 Leapy Lee 39 Daily TV

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Time Out 48 -49 Health & Beauty 52 - 54 Food 55-56 Homes & Gardens 57-58 Property 59 - 60 Services 61 - 64 Classifieds 65 - 67 Motoring 68 - 70 Sport 71 - 72

NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH: Attending a recent meeting with the local authorities.

Keeping an eye on the area

ALTEA’S Guardia Civil, Local Police, local councillors and neighbourhood watch association, Vecinos Cooperando, have held one of their periodic meetings. Vecinos Cooperando and the local authorities discussed incidents and problems in the Sierra Altea I, Sierra Altea Gold and El Paradiso urbanisations. “We run through what has cropped up regarding public safety,” said Councillor Yolanda Gallardo, who like her colleague

Councillor Marga Riera attends to residents’ complaints and suggestions in an Altea assigned area. “If necessary we establish public safety protocols for future use,” Gallardo added. It was reported during the meeting that housebreaking and theft diminished last year, a trend going back to 2012. The councillor drew attention to the close communication in several languages between the police and Vecinos Cooperando.

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Home brew THE second vintage of Benitachell’s ‘Moraig’ organic white wine was formally presented to a gathering of experts in Valencia City. It was chosen to conclude the Tastavins wine-tasting course.

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Denia hoping to be creative city DENIA, still hoping to become a Creative City of Gastronomy, is getting some tips from Granada. Narrowly missing nomination in 2014, Denia Town Hall refused to be deterred and decided to present the town’s candidacy for the Unesco classification once again. Ana Kringe, Denia’s mayor and Cristina Selles, president of the Aehtma hoteliers association, were

keeping their annual date with the Fitur tourism trade fair in Madrid where they met up with Granada’s mayor Jose Torres Hurtado. Granada joined the Unesco network as a Creative City of Literature last year and Kringe afterwards described the meeting with Hurtado and Granada’s councillor for Culture Juan Manuel Garcia Montero, as “very fruitful.”

Hurtado emphasised the importance of building up a relationship with towns that already belong to the Unesco gastronomy network. These prior contacts are vital, he said. Denia will need their backing, he explained, as Unesco customarily invites some of the chosen municipalities to sit on the Creative Cities selection committee. Sebas Romero/Red Bull/SIPA/Cordon Press

Tough test HEALTH SCIENCE graduates recently sat entrance exams for specialist training in the Valencia Region’s hospitals and health centres. Exactly 2,934 candidates competed for the 734 vacancies.

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Wrongfooted TWO people were arrested for selling 600 kilos of shoemaking lasts stolen from an Elda footwear factory. The scrap metal merchant who bought them was also arrested for receiving.

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ALICANTE City mayor Miguel Valor and Benidorm’s Tourism councillor Gema Amor meet next week to discuss the previously-vetoed AVE station shuttle bus. Valor is more open to dialogue than his predecessor, Amor said.

Straight flush MAIN drainage will be brought to 150 Denia homes in Les Marines and 85 in Montgo next September. There are still 22,000 properties in the town relying on septic tanks.

TWO Teulada property-owners who felled 11 pines without permits were given six months to replace them. If they fail to comply they will be fined €150 for each tree.

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Still here A HIGHLY-COLOURED graffiti at Javea’s Santa Lucia chapel was finally identified. It is a Mayan calendar, probably put there before the 2012 winter solstice when the world was supposed to end.

THRILL-SEEKING: Extreme sports go up a notch.

Park plans THE company that will run Gandia’s water park has now found investors to put up the €40 million cost. Due to open in May 2017 it will be sited near the N-337 beach access.

PAIR of death-defying adrenaline junkies have taken it upon themselves to hop out of a hot-air balloon at 5,000 metres and then slingshot themselves from a paraglider before skydiving down to a ski resort in the Pyrenees. It’s not the kind of thought to enter most people’s heads as a way to kill an afternoon, but then Spaniard Horacio Llorens and Argentinian Hernan Pitocco’s minds don’t tend to work the same way as other people’s. Thirty-two-year-old Llorens is a five-time Acro Paragliding World Cup champ and Guinness World Record Holder, and 36-year-old Pitocco is an experienced BASE jumper. The thrill-seekers took extreme sports to another level when they performed their spectacular dive over Catalonia, reaching 7G as

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Rating tips APPROXIMATELY 100 Campello homeowners attended a meeting to learn how Valencia Upper Court (TSJCV) rulings on revised rateable values could affect their own. Many local residents now pay too much, they said.

Surprise visit TWO Valencia girlie clubs where clients claimed they were drugged and robbed had surprise police inspections. They now face €90,000 in fines for infringing health and safety regulations and lacking third party insurance.

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Daredevils’ ‘slingshot’ jump at 7G is spectacular

Quote of the Week They’re a sad bunch, who go around saying how badly things are going. They’re not going to do it,’ said Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of the Podemos political party’s election chances as more than 100,000 anti-austerity supporters rallied in Madrid at the weekend.

they somersaulted through the air before slingshotting themselves in perfect tandem out of their paraglider. “To do it safely, we both needed to release from the glider together, at a very precise moment, to ensure we wouldn’t fall into the glider,” said Llorens. “At 3,900 metres, we did about 13 revolutions, and then after 13 we released, around 3,400 metres. Then it was a simple skydive to the landing at 2,000 metres, at the ski resort of La Molina.” To prepare for the Red Bull-sponsored jump, the two daredevils spent seven hours training in a wind tunnel and practised several jumps. And Llorens’ reaction when they touched down on Spanish soil? “One of the coolest things I’ve ever done in my life.”

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is the number of consecutive months that new car sales in Spain have risen. In January, the figure rose by 28 per cent with a total of 68,118 new cars being registered.

MANAGERS of three Chinese bazaars in Benidorm and a fourth person were arrested and charged with selling fake designer goods. Police impounded 1,196 handbags, wallets, sweaters, shirts, caps, watches and earphones.

Toys boost FOREIGN sales by Alicante Province toy manufacturers rose by 6.4 per cent between January and November last year. Exports to the US increased 40 per cent.

Weevils avoided ALICANTE Council is pruning the city’s 18,000 palms during the winter period when the red weevils do not fly and cannot attack them. Eighty unstable trees were also replaced, city hall said.

And finally... ‘Pixelated hair’ is the latest craze in the top hair salons worldwide. Pioneered by three Madridbased hair colourists, the pixelated look involves square blocks of colour being soaked into the hair and layered to give a computer graphic-like effect. The wacky, futuristic look has even been used by Revlon for a campaign.

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Rights explained to San Vicente women SAN VICENTE Town Hall has a specific section that assists women with legal advice. The free guidance helps them to avoid situations - particularly when

separating or divorcing - where they sign away or fail to claim rights because they did not consult a lawyer. Last year the town hall’s women’s legal advice service helped to solve

problems that included custody issues, domestic abuse, non-payment of maintenance and threatened eviction. The service, part of the welfare department, assisted 98 San Vicente women last year, a report by Welfare Councillor Maria Angeles Genoves has revealed. “Their ages, backgrounds and employment situation were all different,” she said, although 70 per cent were jobless and had only basic education. The most common worry was non-payment of child maintenance, rights and obligations regarding the family home and how to go about seeking separation or divorce, Genoves said. The free service is part of PRUNING: Not sci-fi - just a special crane. the town hall’s welfare network At the other end of town, palm trees on department’s the beach have now been lopped, using a created to help more vulnerable citizens. specially-adapted crane.

La Vila tends to its parks WORK has now begun in Villajoyosa on paving the Creueta and Avenida Pianista Gonzalo Soriano park. “A €119,873 grant from the Alicante Diputacion (provincial government) has allowed us to remodel both these areas and make a notable improvement to this part of town,” said Jeronimo Lloret, the local councillor for Economic and Sustainable Development. The park’s sand is to be replaced with paving stones, something that residents have long been asking for, Lloret added. Street lighting will be improved and the garden areas are being spruced up. “There will be a bicycle lane in the Creueta park as well as in Avenida Pianista Gonzalo Soriano,” Lloret confirmed.

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Voting rights for UK expatriates

HIS week we’re taking a look at the issues surrounding expats and the British general election in May. It won’t be happening this year, but hopefully by the next general election – and any future referendum on ‘Brexit’ – the ’15-year rule’ prohibiting expats who have lived outside the UK for 15 years or more from voting will have been done away with. Groups in Spain and the rest of Europe have been tirelessly campaigning for the rights of expat voters and are urging those who do have a vote to make sure to register now, in plenty of time to ensure you have your say. The more expats who register and vote, the larger the voice we have in the UK when it comes to matters that affect us all, not just those still at home.

Take a walk on the tipsy side! PEDESTRIANS in Spain have been warned this week that if they’re in a hurry and have had a few drinks that they could be ‘pulled over’ on the pavement for exceeding the ‘normal stride’. However, the new proposals to introduce pedestrian breath tests are only for those pedestrians involved in a traffic accident or offence. Overzealous policemen won’t be stopping joggers or pulling up happy revellers making their way home after a night out for a random breath test! More than half of the 370 pedestrians killed on Spanish roads last year had alcohol or drugs in their system. So just remember to stay safe while walking home, at all times, not just when you’ve been enjoying a drink. See full story on Page 18

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Conductor defends sacked opera director

MERCATCHEF: The proof of the pudding...

Learning about food in Javea COOKERY practice for budding chefs each Saturday in Javea’s municipal market is proving very successful. The morning starts with the seven to 14-year-olds inspecting the seasonal produce and selecting ingredients for that day’s task. One of the area’s local chefs then shows them how to prepare a simple but healthy main course and dessert using quality produce that they can eat themselves or take home. The children also learn to appreciate the cost of each dish and the work that goes into its preparation, explained Javea’s Councillor for Agriculture and Economic Development. At present there is no element of rivalry although at a later date outstanding pupils might compete against each other, he said. The sessions cost between €12 and €15 each, depending on ingredients, and numbers are limited to 20. It is necessary to sign up first at the Agencia de Desarrollo Local or Creama (Avenida Trenc d’Alba 2) or on 965 794 266, although this Saturday’s class is already full, the town hall said.

INDIGNANT Zubin Mehta has no intention of returning to Valencia. Nothing could induce him to go back there until justice has been done for sacked Helga Schmidt “to her entire satisfaction,” the world-famous conductor declared. Schmidt, the former artistic director of the city’s Reina Sofia Opera House, was fired last month, accused of manipulating contracts and accepting commissions on the artists she engaged.

Her sacking was an “atrocity” said Mehta who was engaged by Schmidt and was main conductor at the opera house until last year.

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Wonky crane worries residents BENIDORM police were called twice in the same day to investigate complaints about a precarious lorry-mounted crane. Residents of the Tropic Mar apartments claimed

that the Scania lorry was insecurely jacked up on piled wooden blocks. Their community has rented two parking places and an unloading space in the Tropic Mar grounds to a

Web series should prove a tasty treat ALFAZ DEL PI’s 27th Film Festival will be preceded by a newcomer. The town hall announced that it was organising the first Festival Internacional de Webseries – Fidewa for short – on May 7 and 8. This will be accompanied by other activities parallel to the main event that centres on web series and internet fiction. The acronym is also a phonetic rendering of Fideua – a version of paella using cut noodles instead of rice, a fact of which the town hall is well aware. “This festival has nothing to do with the kitchen but we’re sure that it will leave a good taste in the mouth,” said Alfaz’s mayor Vicente Arques.

construction company that is renovating an adjoining hotel, Magic Rock Gardens. Worried residents watching as the crane unloaded building materials called the Local Police who ordered workmen to stop until the company could prove that the lorry and crane were safe. Using wooden blocks is common in situations like these, the company told local Spanish media: “We own the crane and wouldn’t allow anything dangerous.” Despite police intervention the crane was back that afternoon, residents said. Benidorm’s Town Planning Councillor assured them the crane would not operate unless it was safe but lifted the suspension after deciding that the lorry-crane did comply with safety regulations.

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April start for Fontana marina THE company that will develop Javea’s Fontana marina expects to start work in April. It is about to close the deal to finance the €7 million venture, announced Marina Nou Fontana. Ninety per cent of the boats using the Fontana canal’s former public moorings have gone and the project is economically viable, company sources said, and sales of moorings from €22,885 to €42,756 are progressing according to plan. They also stressed that quays will be

raised and two streams feeding the canal will be channelled below the surface to prevent a repetition of the 2007 floods when hundreds of boats were wrecked. The firm, which manages the inner marina’s 151 moorings, split five years ago from another company, Vaindeco, which is now insolvent. The same sources emphasised that Marina Nou Fontana was “totally economically independent” and dedicated solely to running marine installations.

Car-park claim rejected AN Alicante court has thrown out Enrique Ortiz’s demand for €4.4 million compensation from San Vicente Town Hall. The developer’s company Enrique Ortiz e Hijos built an underground car park in exchange for

running it for 35 years. It opened in 2008 but lost money and was littleused, which Ortiz blamed on the town hall and asked for economic rebalancing of €4.4 million. The town rejected the request, claiming that the

losses were due to the way that Ortiz ran the installation. The developer responded by renouncing the contract in January 2014. Ortiz cannot ask for economic rebalancing on a contract that no longer exists, the court ruled.

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Tenants sought for Calpe nests CALPE’S mayor Cesar Sanchez has asked residents’ permission to install ceramic nesting boxes on their Old Town rooftops. The initiative has a practical side because the sparrows, swifts and other birds encouraged to use the nests will keep down mosquitoes and other insects during the summer. The nests resemble boats, windmills, churches, towers and minarets and even one that is based on Calpe’s emblematic Muralla Roja building, the creation of architect Ricardo Bofill. Designed by ceramic artist Esteban Juarez, they are decorative as well as environmentally

NESTING BOX: Inspired by Calpe’s Muralla Roja building. important, Sanchez pointed out. Town hall staff have now evaluated houses in the Old Town and taken photographs of roofs, eaves and cornices. Twenty-five owners whose homes have traditional curved rooftiles have now received letters from Sanchez, asking for permission to install the nesting boxes.

Atrium Beach fine confirmed THE Supreme Court has ratified a €3.8 million fine for planning irregularities in La Cala de Villajoyosa. The fine payable to Villajoyosa Council was imposed on promoters Hotel Luna SA by Valencia’s Upper Court of Justice (TSJ) in 2012 after the company exceeded the permitted area for the Atrium Beach complex by 53,000 square metres. The promoters appealed against the sentence which the Supreme Court has now confirmed although the fine is well below the €12 million originally set by the regional government. Now that TSJ has confirmed the sentence, Villajoyosa Town Hall will wait the required 20 days before asking the courts to expedite payment of the fine. After all these years he does not want collecting the fine to become another interminable chapter in the Atrium Beach saga which goes back to 2003 when construction was halted, the mayor said.

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Lorries barred from N-332 HEAVY lorries will be barred from 270 kilometres of Valencian Community trunk roads. The central government’s ministry of Public Works announced that from April all vehicles weighing more than 7.5 tons when loaded must use the AP-7 motorway

instead of the N-332 or the N-340 (Castellon). The N-332, notorious for its accident black spots, is one of the most saturated in Spain owing to tourist and commercial vehicles, with lorries accounting for up to 30 per cent of traffic. Benissa and Altea are at a further disadvantage as neither has a by-pass and the N-332 crosses both. Lorries must now leave the N-332 for 170 kms between Silla (Valencia) and San Juan (Alicante). The Public Works ministry BENIDORM Town Hall has reduced its debt by more plans to sign an agreement than €50 million. with the AP-7 concessionFor the first time in years its 2015 budget of €92 ary company, lowering million is less than its debt. tariffs for lorries by 50 per “Thanks to the steps taken to adapt to the cent on compulsory government’s Budgetary Adjustment Plan we have sections and by 35 per cent cut the deficit from €145 million to just below €91 on others. million,” said the council’s Finance councillor Natalia Some in the road Guijarro. The same austerity measures have also transport sector oppose the enabled the town hall to pay suppliers within 30 move, arguing that it pays days. “We’re on the right path and doing well,” an annual €22 billion in Guijarro added. taxes.

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Good luck ritual ended in disaster A WISH lantern released on a summer night in Denia caused a 1,000square metre fire in July 2013. An investigating Denia judge has now finished his summary and handed his findings, evidence and statements to the Public Prosecutor who will

decide whether the case should be shelved or go to trial. Those responsible were seven relatives from Ireland and the United States who had dined that night in the Montgo villa where some of them were staying. Horrified to see the

More room to fish VALENCIA’S Ports Authority (APV) agreed to allow Gandia’s Club de Pesca to fish from the harbour’s southern pier. Members of the angling club can already fish from the northern pier and have been asking for years for permission to extend to the south side. The APV, aware that sea-fishing is a longstanding Gandia pursuit, has now granted the club permission to fish there in 2015, announced Gandia’s mayor Arturo Torro. Members of the club may now fish from both piers for pleasure, sport or in competitions, but not profit.

lantern’s naked flame set fire to pines and scrub on an adjoining property, they called emergency services. Firemen eventually had the blaze under control, but at one point police warned neighbours to be ready to evacuate their homes and the nearby Denia-Javea road was temporarily cut. All seven were arrested and spent two nights in police cells before being charged and released. They were muchaffected and apologised for causing the neardisaster, a defence lawyer explained to the judge. In California where two of them lived it was common to release wish lanterns and they had no idea they were banned in Spain, they said.

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Register to have your say BRITISH expats in Spain are being urged to demonstrate that they have a voice in the upcoming general election in the UK by registering to vote as soon as possible. Those not affected by the ’15-year rule’ should register to vote now, according to the head of campaigns for Conservatives Abroad in Europe, Paul Barnes. “If you are a democrat, the core is the ability to vote,” Mr Barnes told

Expats’ right to vote COLIN BIRD THE vast majority of Brits leaving the mother country do so for one basic reason – to improve their quality of life. That’s it. I also believe that many have taken this major step because of the disgust at the constant attack on our long-established institutions, our crumbling public services and a general erosion of standards across the board. And like me, downright anger with self-seeking politicians and criminally-inept governments that have replaced what was once seen universally as the shining model for parliamentary democracy. Nevertheless, it is of vital importance that we retain and use the right as British citizens to vote in UK elections, and have our voices heard. In addition, demand the abolition of the arbitrary 15-year period of domicile in a foreign country, after which we are automatically disenfranchised. It was our choice to move to Spain, but I am an Englishman first and last. I have no idea whether I will have the opportunity to settle again in the country of my birth, but I sure as hell have earned the right over my working life to have a say in who governs it – wherever I choose to live.

Electoral limbo CASSANDRA NASH THERE will always be a corner in expat hearts that remains forever British and most of us

EWN. “We expats need to show that we do have a voice and as a result we should get out and vote. The 15-year rule alienates some British expats and as a result they feel disenfranchised. They can’t vote in the UK and they can’t vote in national elections in Spain.” Mr Barnes said that of the estimated 5.6 million Britons living abroad, around three million are eligible to

vote. But the UK Government has no record of the number of people who have lost their right to vote. “If expats voted they would suddenly have a voice and a bigger say in UK affairs,” he said. “The Conservatives have promised that they will eliminate the 15-year rule should they win the May election. This is of vital importance as expats currently not eligible to vote may be able to have their say if there

is a referendum on Britain leaving the EU, a matter which affects every single Britain living in Europe. Just because you live abroad doesn’t mean you’re not British and entitled to your say.” Mr Barnes stressed that those eligible to vote should register this month to ensure they can vote in the May general election. Don’t lose your right to vote! Register at www.gov.uk/register-to-vote.

Tirelessly campaigning for expat voting rights

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HARRY SHINDLER, a 94-year-old British war veteran, is the well-known face of the campaign to restore voting rights to UK expats abroad. Mr Shindler, who was last year awarded an MBE for his work in helping find the graves of missing Second World War British servicemen, has fought for years for the rights of Britons living abroad. Born in 1921 and currently living in Italy, Mr Shindler is a veteran of the Battle of Anzio and the liberation of Rome in the Second World War. He has fought tirelessly for the abolition of the 15-year rule, even bringing the matter to the European Court of Human Rights. He has also argued for parliamentary

representation in the UK for Britons living abroad. The war veteran is not alone, however. British MP Geoffrey Clinton-Brown has also been actively supporting the right of British citizens living abroad to vote. He has introduced a bill to abolish the rule. Mr Shindler has thrown his support behind the bill and travelled to the UK Parliament to give his views.

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care about what happens back in the place we still refer to as home. Nevertheless, anyone who has not voted in the UK for 15 years only has the right to hold forth in their local bar or on the Euro Weekly News Letters’ page. By the same token, many expats who have lived so long in Spain that they cannot vote in the UK want the right to vote here. Instead these long-term residents live in an electoral limbo and can’t vote in the regional and general elections although their results directly affect them. Being able to vote in local and European elections is better than nothing but if we are eligible for these, why are we not considered eligible for the others? As for residents whose command of Spanish is as sketchy as it was the day they arrived and whose knowledge

of Spain and its politics is sketchier still – better for them to have a vote and not use it than to have none at all. They probably didn’t vote at home, either.

A people without a nation MIKE WALSH IT is unlikely to be lost on many that the issue of expatriate voting rights follows the decision to end another state benefit. This is part of a

creeping strategy to make second-class citizens of us all. This in return for 50 years of our being taxed roughly 50 per cent of every penny we earned. Mainstream media spin, goose-stepping to the government’s tune, continually demonise those who wish to retire and live elsewhere in the European Union. I am sometimes asked if I have signed a petition for this, that or the other. My friends, if they treat our votes with contempt, how do you think ‘Pigminster’ responds to

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THERE are many issues that directly affect expatriates living in Spain on which after 15 years they have no say. Here are just some of them. Winter Fuel Payments: Pensioners are to lose their allowance. Tax changes on pensions: Any changes to pensions’ rules could have a profound effect on retired expatriates, many paying UK tax. They have no say in the matter after 15 years. EU referendum: The Conservatives have promised one if they win the next general election, but many people living in the EU will not be able to vote. The slogan for the American War of Independence is apt: ‘No taxation without representation.’ petitions? In exactly the same way as we treat their election promises, with contempt. The parliamentary system is a rotating dictatorship. In terms of electoral accountability it is no different from any former Eastern Bloc self-styled ‘democracy’, like the former German ‘Democratic’ Republic (GDR). I am inclined to riposte; does voting matter? Taking part in such an artfully manipulated fraudulent democracy can only achieve one thing, encourage the elite to keep fooling us.

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Youths staying longer at home MORE young people in Alicante are having to stay in the parental home as wages are lower than the cost of housing. A report titled the ‘Socio Situation of Youth in Valencia’ said those aged 30 and under are struggling to buy their own home and suggests more should be done to promote policies that promote rental housing under special conditions for this age group.

Javea in a party mood JAVEA celebrates Carnival on Saturday, February 14. The fun starts with the children’s parade which sets out from Plaza del Convento at 5pm and ends in Plaza de la Constitucion with a pirate-themed fiesta. The adults’ parade, scheduled for 11pm, takes the same route as the children’s and will be followed by live music from La Viva with the chance of a €150 prize for the best group in fancy dress, €100 for the best couple and €50 for the best individual. The evening ends with a disco hosted by DJs Toni Bup, Pablo Gisbert and Jose David. Those entering the competition can put their names down until 10.30pm in Plaza del Convento where the parade starts out. Are you dressing up for Carnival this year? Send us your photos and we will print the best in the paper and on our website. Please send to editorial@euroweeklynews. com.

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Congratulations B RIAN MORELAND from Javea is the lucky owner of a new iPad mini after winning our recent competition when we asked ‘what would you do if you were the editor for a day.’ “Immediately sack myself as I’d be useless,” was Brian’s humorous response. Having entered the competition back in November Brian said he had forgotten all about it until he received the call saying he had won the iPad mini: “I thought it was a hoax at first until I realised no one knew I had entered so it couldn’t have been a prank call. It was a pleasant surprise.” Looking forward to checking out the iPad he said it was the first thing he’s ever won, “apart from a turkey we won once on Christmas Eve!”

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Pedestrian breath tests facing Spain IF you have a drink too many and decide to walk home, be careful as proposed new regulations mean you might face a breath test. And you could get reprimanded for speeding as well if you can manage to stagger at a faster pace than ‘a normal stride.’ Spain’s traffic department, the DGT has proposed in a report new “tools to foster better relations and coexistence between pedestrians, cyclists, motorists and vehicles.” While proposals for higher drink driving fines and better regulation of driving schools are probably not too controversial, the plans hidden away in the report to give alcohol and drug tests to pedestrians involved in traffic accidents or offences are more contentious. Now Spanish government advisory body, the Council for State, has queried the proposals in a report, said Europa Press. The council is worried that it is a step too far that would restrict the freedom and invade the privacy of people as they go about their daily life. The proposal to restrict the speed of pedestrians to a normal stride could even

PEDESTRIANS: Don’t walk too fast! amount to a ban on jogging if police enforce the proposed laws in an overzealous manner. But the DGT has said that there is nothing new in the alcohol test proposals, with spokesperson Maria Segui Gomez explaining that municipal police, “have been carrying out these tests for months there is nothing new here that will allow us to start sanctioning pedestrians, whether with fines or penalty points.” She added that in 2014 more than half the 370 pedestrians killed on Spanish roads had alcohol or drugs in their blood.

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HIGH winds and strong waves caused severe damage at some of the La Herradura and San Cristobal beaches, as well as the Reina Sofia promenade. Reparation works will start shortly in the area.

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UNION officials are calling on Elche’s General Hospital to increase the number of nurses and nursing assistants to deal with the increase in cases of flu expected in the coming days.

Toy sales FOREIGN sales by Alicante Province toy manufacturers rose 6.4 per cent between January and November last year, with exports to the USA up by 40 per cent.

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Vicar lace MORE than 300 lace makers gathered in Vicar for the 10th edition of the provincial meeting. Mayor Antonio Bonilla said: “Vicar has earned the right to be the main meeting point for bobbin lace.”

Youth work TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY unemployed El Ejido residents have been given work through the Emple@ 30+ and Emple@Joven programmes. Roles vary from maintenance and home care to beauty and commerce.

Albox women ALBOX women came together under the Redmur umbrella to show off their entrepreneurial skills with their handmade goods in a regional craft fair to promote business.

Weather alerts ALMERIA received two severe weather alerts in just four days as high winds of up

ALMOST 10 years after the project began, Sabinillas sports centre is finally reaching completion and will be ready to open in March, Manilva Mayor Diego Urieta has announced.

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ANTI-EVICTION platforms have managed to halt the planned eviction of a family with a three-year-old child in Catral. They had been paying their rent, but it seems the banks had not received payments from the property owners.

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AROUND 3,000 health sciences graduates in the Valencia Region have sat exams to get a seat on one of the specialised training courses offered by the Ministry of Health in public hospitals.

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Police honoured AXARQUIA: Nerja continues to be one of the most requested settings for TV productions and this time it was an Estonian channel that chose the town.

Estonian TV visits photogenic Nerja A TEAM from National Estonian Television (ETV) visited Nerja to shoot a tourism programme titled Reisile Minuga (Travel with Me), a weekly production featuring Nerja and other Andalucian towns. The show is broadcast on Saturdays at peak viewing time and this particular episode will be released in February. The programme is not only broadcast in Estonia but also in countries such as Finland and Russia, and attracts a high audience share of more than 20 per cent. to 130kph and waves of up to five metres battered the province. A cold snap is predicted to follow.

Neighbourhood gathering MORE than 5,000 people attended the meeting of 30 neighbourhood associations at the Palacio de Congresos in the capital for a day of activities, stalls, crafts and performances.

It is hosted by Ivo Linna, a very popular Estonian singer who represented his country at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1996 together with Maaria-Liis Ilus, with a song titled ‘Kaelakee hääl.’ The visiting team have recorded scenes at Nerja’s beaches, Europe’s Balcony, the town’s historic centre and the Nerja Caves. Mr Linna commented that Nerja is one of the most ‘camera-friendly’ towns with movies such as Fathom, featuring Raquel Welch, shot in the 60s near the town’s Playa de Calahonda.

Attracting birds LOCOS DE PARQUE volunteers are busy building nesting boxes for La Linea’s Princesa Sofia Park, which thanks to the group’s efforts has an ever-increasing bird community.

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NINE officers of Velez-Malaga’s Local Police were honoured in an event for their performance on an illegal tobacco operation carried out in October. Officers confiscated 24,000 illegal packs of cigarettes.

Padel success MORE than 150 people participated in Nerja’s Padel Tournament at the town’s indoor sports centre. Winners were David Ponce and Maria Urbano.

Sand loss THE Playa Granada in Motril has lost a substantial amount of sand during the rain storms of the past week. Back in November, the council had spent €544,000 to add 150,000 cubic metres of sand.

Beach improvement NERJA will receive more than €120,000 to renovate its beaches. Head of the town’s Beach Department explained that aid was provided by the Commonwealth of Costa del Sol-Axarquia municipalities together with the Provincial Council of Malaga.

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TORREMOLINOS has opened two new dog-parks, one in Los Palacios area and another on Calle Francisco de Jorge Gallardo near Parque Olivar.

THE new Mosque of Porreres will be located in front of the sports complex of Ses Forques and beside the Secondary School of Porreres. The Muslim community was forced to change the location of the new building due to neighbours’ protests.

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OJEN Council will be distributing 4,000 leaflets in both Spanish and English to tourists in Malaga Province this year including information on local attractions and hiking routes to attract visitors.

MIJAS Council expects to save 24,300 watts of electricity per day once current work to change the bulbs on 162 streetlights on the Carretera de Mijas is complete.

MALLORCA’S firefighters put out a fire which ignited at a home in sa Pobla. The fire completely destroyed the bottom floor of the property but there were no casualties.

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STAT OF WEEK SOCIAL SECURITY allocated the record sum of €8.164 billion for contributory pensions in January, chiefly for old age and widowhood. This was 3.1 per cent more than in January 2014.

OHL wants €783.5 million compensation after Qatar rescinded its €1.759 billion contract to build the Sidra medical centre. The Qatar Foundation and the Spanish construction company parted ways last July after the former accused OHL of “lack of diligence” and failing to meet deadlines. The project was 95 per cent completed

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AENA shares sell like hotcakes TRADING in AENA shares begins on February 11, but demand already outstripped supply at prior meetings for investors. The price will be fixed on February 9, but shares in Spain’s airports operator are expected to fetch between €43 and €55 each. This puts a €2.31 billion price tag on the share offer and AENA’s total value at between €6.45 billion and €8.25 billion. Privatisation is partial, as the state retains control with a 49 per cent stake. Twenty-one per cent of AENA shares were allocated last November to three key investors with the remaining 28 per

cent going to new shareholders, including retail buyers. Spain’s airports handle 195.9 million passengers a year but are capable of handling an annual 335 million, said AENA’s president Jose Manuel Vargas. This, coupled with scant need for further investment make the company an attractive prospect, Vargas added. The excess capacity corresponds to the country’s biggest airports, he said. Passenger traffic could grow 67 per cent at Barajas airport in Madrid, by 46 per cent at El Prat (Barcelona) while Malaga, Alicante and Gran Canaria could all double their current rates.

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Car boost SPANISH car manufacturing plants produced a total of 2.4 million vehicles last year. Production in 2014 rose by 11.08 per cent, generating the best figures in the last five years.

€1bn offer AER LINGUS would accept a €1 billion offer from IAG, owner of Iberia, Vueling and BA. IAG would first have to negotiate with shareholders, the Irish government and Ryanair, plus the unions, the airline said.

Zara chief is landlord to rivals INDITEX owner Amancio Ortega has bought another prime property, this time in Madrid’s Gran Via. The world’s fourth-richest man now owns the building in Spain’s equivalent of Oxford Street where Mango and H&M already have premises. Primark has its Spanish flagship store there and Inditex itself, under its Lefties label, is also present in the 36,376square metre, nine-storey building that

is also the headquarters of the SER radio network. It was sold by the Longshore group which is headed by Drago Capital and includes Phoenix and Sun Capital. Neither seller nor purchaser has revealed how much money changed hands in the deal. The Gran Via purchase is in line with other investments made by Inditex’s investment division Pontegadea.

and due to be handed over during the first four months of 2015, the company maintained. It initiated an arbitration process supervised by the International Chamber of Commerce because the Foundation’s accusations had no legitimate basis, OHL said. The €783.5 million compensation claim excludes “additional concepts yet to be calculated” and could rise higher, OHL warned.

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Business is not a charity AN article recently caught my eye that reminded me of the sacrifices made by performers who offer their free support to charities. Why artistes are singled out to do so is beyond me. I can imagine the expression on plumbers or lawyers faces if it was suggested that they donate their fee to a charity. What others do is their business. I do think such artistes should be better appreciated. I recall a talented professional piano duo being invited to perform at a charityâ€™s gala. Being a charity there would not of course be a fee. The pair gave up their free time. On their arriving at

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the venue the two were flippantly waved to a stall-sized area without shade. At no time during their performances were they offered a meal, drink or even a word of thanks. Personally, I think many charities,

beneficiary to many perks denied to the rest of us, are already advantaged profitable concerns. There should be a much better partnership between charities and those who serve our communities. Substantial funds are raised at charity events; the venues where they are held do well out of bar and restaurant sales too. Guest speakers, comedians, sportsmen, politicians too, are paid handsomely for speaking at charity and fundraising events. My advice is, if asked to support an event of any kind, to negotiate a reasonable fee. A concession might be made as to the

size of the fee. Perhaps, wherever an event is held, an offer might be made in return of an overnight stay or dinner vouchers. Or, is that too charitable? Charities and artistes will be better rewarded if respect is mutual, there is understanding, and a complementary partnership. Charities tend to be well connected in the leisure industry. They might come to an arrangement with a venue by which supporting entertainers, or any other service that offers their support gratis, are provided with a paid for booking at a later date. That way everyone wins. It is called business.

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Sterling hits 7-year high versus the euro THE great British pound (GBP) recently rallied to a seven-year high against the euro. The move has been driven by the announcement of Quantitative Easing (QE) by the European Central Bank (ECB) at their January 22 meeting. The ECB unleashed a 1.1 trillion euro QE plan to stimulate the Eurozone economy and boost inflation. The programme will see the ECB buy a total of 60 billion euros of public and private assets per month, starting in March 2015 and running through to September 2016. Although the ECB denied that a weaker euro was a target, the impact of the news significantly devalued the euro. A weaker euro will help to boost exports and inflation across the Eurozone, as investors and importers outside the Eurozone take advantage of the exchange rate. The long-term impact of QE in the Eurozone is still very

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uncertain, but when you contrast the monetary policy of Europe who are just embarking on significant easing to that of the UK and the US, who are on the path to monetary tightening, the divergence is very apparent. This difference could in fact drive GBP/EUR higher still and some analysts are pointing towards 1.40 as a target. To achieve the heady heights of 1.40, much will also depend on the ongoing economic recovery in the UK. The UK recently posted its strongest level of growth for eight years

THE EURO: Volatility is expected to remain extremely high. with the annual pace growth of 2.6 per cent, up from 1.7 in the previous year, and confirms the UK is on course to be the world’s fastest growing developed economy for 2014. Admittedly other forecasts are still to post, but the data would place the UK top of IMF current projections for developed economies.

The news will come at a handy time for Prime Minister David Cameron as we enter the last 100 days before the national election on May 7. For the momentum in the pound to continue, the market will be looking for the Bank of England to be moving towards an interest rate increase and future economic data will be

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Can they ban debtors from pool? Q. We have heard that the Spanish courts have ruled that communities are authorised to ban debtors from using certain community facilities, including the swimming pool. As the president of a large community, with a large debt, this would be very useful to us as a way to encourage owners who owe back community fees to pay up. I am not

sure of how it could be enforced. So my question is: “Can we ban the debtors from using the community pool, and what precedent or law can we quote?” Also the latest book I have is the 2011 edition of ‘You & the Law in Spain.’ Has an updated version been released? P.B. (Costa del Sol)

You and the Law in Spain By David Searl

A. No, the Spanish courts have not ruled that communities may prohibit debtors from using common areas, such as the pool. What has happened is that the General Directorate of Notaries and Land Registries, which rules over Community Statutes and Constitutions, decided in 2012 that communities could include a clause by which they prohibit the debtors from using common areas such as the pool or play areas for tennis or other activities. They base their decision on the fact that these areas are not essential to the right of property of the owners. However, this prohibition has

not been confirmed by the courts. Therefore we cannot be sure that a case

would be won if an owner protested to the judge that he was unlawfully prohibited from using the pool. In strict legal terms, this can be considered as harassment or coercion against the owner. This is the same legal principle that stops landlords from changing locks or cutting off electricity or water supplies to tenants who do not pay the rent. In any case, the prohibition clause has to be included in the basic Statutes of the Community and registered in the Land Registry. To answer your question about ‘You & the Law in Spain,’ yes, there is a new 2015 edition, which you can obtain by sending an email to the law firm UbedaRetana & Associates, for the attention of David Searl, at the address given below. And thank you for asking.

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very important, in particular regarding growth, inflation and wage growth. Assuming the wheels do not fall off the UK’s economic recovery, the Bank of England should be raising interest rates within the next 12 months to support the pound. Although the UK recovery and the pound’s relative strength will be an important driver for GBP/EUR, it will be the euro that will be the key protagonist. For the euro the ongoing effect of QE is anticipated to be euro negative. In addition, the euro could potentially face additional pressure from the new antiausterity government in Greece and potential escalation of the Ukraine crisis. Overall the euro is facing significant headwinds for 2015 and volatility is expected to remain extremely high. As it stands, further momentum for GBP/EUR is anticipated possibly towards the key 1.40 level.

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OPINION & COMMENT

Scant reward in return for giving out so much I HAVE sent this letter to the Work and Pensions committee as dictated by my mother Ruth Ransford. Thank you for giving us the information in order to make our objection. “Please do not take away my heating allowance. I am on a reduced pension and need this money to keep warm. “After six years of apprenticeship my husband emerged as a highlyskilled fitter facing a country in depression with no work, no money. After doing whatever jobs he could find, he slowly built up a small poultry farm. “At the beginning of 1938 he was visited by government officials, asking him to start a job in a nearby factory overhauling cranes and machinery as pre-war work. He went on to work in a blacked-out workshop in Shrewsbury, making essential machinery to produce arms for a war which seemed inevitable. It was hard work with long hours and he was there throughout the war. “After the war my husband set up in business, providing work for others and paying their social security for many, many years. At the beginning he was not required to pay into the pension social security system for himself and did not do so as the business needed money. “Because of the period of nonpayment I find myself on a reduced pension. I am 96-years old and need a hot water bottle to keep warm. We live in sight of the snow-capped mountains of Sierra Nevada and the north winds blow down from them. “I am grateful for the winter fuel allowance which is so necessary to pay for my heating bills during the winter. Please think again before depriving me of it. Thank you.” Christine Ransford, Granada.

Bright flipside I AM a 71-year-old part time expat pensioner, here for five winter months only. I sympathise with Bob Heaven’s plight but must point out that due

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to the plummeting euro, the exchange rate that expat pensioners get for their UK pensions has resulted in a healthy 10 per cent increase in their pensions over the last year. From what I see, the cost of living in Spain has not risen at all so the expats are really in heaven, unlike non-expats. Add to that the low cost of fuel, the abundance of low-cost high quality fruit and vegetables and we are tempted to become permanent expats! Michael Warren, Fuengirola (Malaga)

Brainwashed YET again I read with disappointed shock Mr Walsh’s glib article and his blatant pandering to the totalitarian Putin kleptocracy. If he is a fifthcolumnist, he is doing a pretty poor job of staying under the radar. From what I can gather from past articles, both Mr Walsh and I have been blessed with finding Russian-speaking spouses. I assume, however, that whereas my wife prefers to listen to one of the last few independent media sources out of Russia, his is content to have her brain thoroughly laundered by the Kremlin propaganda machine that now owns 97 per cent of all media in Russia. Does Mr Walsh realise that there are over 20,000 journalists now directly employed by the Kremlin, all instructed to spin the

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On the cards REGARDING EHIC renewal, I have just renewed ours. The whole exercise was completed over the phone. It was not necessary to fill in any forms, and the cards arrived within 10 days. Information requested was date of birth, address and verbal confirmation that we were already registered in the Spanish health system. Have your old card handy as it has your details on it. The phone number provided for renewal that came with the cards is +44 191 279 0575. Hope this helps. Keith Braddock, La Manga (Murcia).

Cruel customs THE full moon, photographed in Arboleas. Gilly Elliott-Binns, Arboleas (Almeria) party line (yes, the twaddle in his article)? It is important to call Putin’s regime what it is: ultranationalist, populist, authoritarian and directly opposed to liberal democracy. Or put another way: neo-fascist. David Charteri, Palma de Mallorca (Baleares) Note from Mike Walsh: I would love to ask this correspondent to identify his sources. That would be an education in mind control.

Election chance I NOTICED last week that many people seem to think that they cannot vote in the UK elections if they live in Spain. We can vote if we have been on the electoral roll in the last 15 years. Contact the Electoral Commission Office where you were last registered. Diane Baty (by email)

Going nuts I HAVE just spent my 87th birthday screwing up my nuts.

I’ve been lying on my back with my head underneath the bidet after a leaky hose flooded the bathroom. I had previously bought stopend nuts from a local Chinese shop and connected one as a temporary measure to stop the flow but water still leaked from the connection. I spent a whole day sealing and rescrewing my nut without result. Then I remembered I had previously bought a television amplifier from the same shop, but could not connect it due to faulty threads. I replaced the pipe nut with an old nut with immediate success as the new nuts had faulty threads: I did not know that Chinese nuts were different from ours. A difficult job at my age, but thankfully I am no longer leaking. Ernie Barnes, Arroyo de la Miel, Benalmadena (Malaga)

Home address I CANNOT help thinking how amusing and ironic it is that the correspondent Roger Page, bemoaning immigration in the UK and explaining why ‘we’ should leave the EU, gives his

WE READ with dismay about the ill-treatment of horses, donkeys and mules forced to go in fire in some barbaric ritual in honour of St Anthony, the so-called patron saint of animals. When will people realise that such appalling behaviour, coupled with bullfighting and abandoning or killing dogs at the end of the hunting season, earns the contempt of the majority of rightminded European citizens. The failure to act by the Guardia Civil says a lot about Spanish rule of law. Roger and Sylvie Jefferies, Javea (Alicante)

Local help LIKE John Shannan I have had similar problems with Telefonica and Vodaphone over payment and refusal by the companies concerned to resolve it. We took all the paperwork regarding our complaint to our local Consumers’ Office in Palma (Mallorca). Mr Shannan will have one in Almeria and should look online for Oficina de la Atencion Al Consumidor. When we went to the one in Palma they told us that the most complaints they get are about telephone companies. Good luck! Don Donovan, Palma de Mallorca (Baleares)

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THURSDAY TV SKY 1 7:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse The Brainiac team return with more unruly science lessons. 8:00am Ashley Banjo's Secret Street Crew 9:00am Greggs: More Than Meats the Pie 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

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Every bride dreams of the perfect wedding day but what happens when their intended is behind bars?

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Ross visits one of the deadliest places on the planet: Honduras.

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9:00pm Ice Road Truckers

9:00pm Show Me Your Garden

Studio courtroom show where criminal barrister Robert Rinder rules on real life cases.

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

Romantic drama. A young wife cares for her terminally ill husband in the wilds of Scotland.

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

9pm 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News The latest news, sport and weather from London.

11:35pm The Graham Norton Show The award-winning host continues his anarchic talk show.

Gardeners go head to head in a competition hosted by Fern Britton.

11:00pm Rhod Gilbert v Kilimanjaro 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 Parenthood

The remaining celebrities head up into the mountains once more to compete live for a place in the semi-finals in the unforgiving ski cross.

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10:00pm 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 11:00pm The Last Leg

Our final trip up the garden path takes place in Scotland.

10:00pm Stella Ruth Jones's much-loved comedy drama returns. 11:00pm Quiz Nights

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1:55am Jackpot247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 4:40am ITV Nightscreen

12:05am Catastrophe 12:35am Brooklyn Nine-Nine 1:00am Rude Tube 2:00am Nine to Five 3:55am The Ricky Gervais Show 4:20am The Ricky Gervais Show

1:15am Super Casino 4:10am Celebrity Big Brother 5:35am Access 5:45am House Doctor

12:00am Hawaii Five-0 12:50am Underworld 3:10am NCIS: Los Angeles 4:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 5:00am Airline USA 5:30am Airline USA

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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 12:00am Family Guy 12:45am American Dad! 1:10am Family Guy 1:30am Crims 2:00am Russell Howard's Good News 2:30am South Side Story 3:00am Russell Howard's Good News 3:30am Bangkok Airport 4:25am Crims 4:55am This is BBC Three

8:00pm World News Today

12:55am TOTP2 1:40am Genesis: Together and Apart 3:10am Genesis 4:35am This is BBC Four

7:25am You've Been Framed! 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! 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm The Matrix 12:45am 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 Fresh Fields 6:20pm On the Buses 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Agatha Christie's Marple 11:00pm Trial and Retribution 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 The Car Chasers 5:00pm Hogan's Heroes 6:05pm Minder 7:05pm Ax Men 8:00pm Pawn Stars 9:00pm Counting Cars 10:00pm Coogan's Bluff 12:05am Memphis Belle

11:00am Charmed 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 The Jump 6:00pm How I Met Your Mother 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm The Jump 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm Marry Me 10:00pm Terminator Salvation 12:15am The Big Bang Theory

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12:20am Bluestone 42 12:50am EastEnders Omnibus 2:20am Weather for the Week Ahead 2:25am BBC News

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

8:30pm Sounds of the Sixties A trawl through the BBCs archives for 60s music with an acoustic bent.

9:00pm Symphony 10:00pm Genesis: Together and Apart 11:30pm Genesis Genesis filmed in November 1981 on the Abacab tour in North America.

SKY MOVIES Action 6:00am Broken Lance 7:40am Captain Phillips 10:00am Bad Boys Julie Mott is the cops' only lead to the criminal mastermind behind a theft of heroin worth $100m.

12:00pm Bad Boys II 2:30pm Hellboy 4:45pm Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines 6:40pm Captain Phillips 9:00pm Bad Boys 11:00pm Bad Boys II 1:30am Con Air 3:30am Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

5:30am Revenge of the Pink Panther 7:10am Scary Movie 5 8:40am Home Alone 10:25am Big Daddy 12:00pm Identity Thief 1:55pm Grown Ups 2 3:40pm Last Holiday 5:35pm Home Alone 7:20pm Big Daddy 9:00pm Identity Thief 11:00pm Grown Ups 2 12:45am Scary Movie 5 2:15am In Security 3:55am Why Stop Now? 5:30am The Trail of the Pink Panther

6:25am Loss of Faith 8:10am Harsh Times 10:20am Murder at 1600 12:20pm Dangerous Mind of a Hooligan A gang of football hooligans turn to bank robbery, with the police in hot pursuit.

1:50pm Blood Work FBI profiler Terry McCaleb has retired after a heart transplant.

3:50pm Harsh Times 6:00pm Pride and Glory 8:15pm Last Passenger 10:00pm The Green Mile 1:05am Blow 3:20am Cherry Falls 5:05am Pain and Gain: Sky Movies Special

5:30am Barnyard 7:05am Snowmen 8:40am Happily Never After 10:15am Moshi Monsters: The Movie 11:45am Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1:50pm Return to Nim's Island 3:35pm Ella Enchanted 5:30pm Moshi Monsters: The Movie 7:00pm Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 9:00pm Return to Nim's Island 10:40pm Ella Enchanted 12:25am Snowmen 1:55am Peter Pan 3:50am Spy Kids 3: Game Over 5:15am Happily Never After

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8:10am Gunsmoke 10:15am Rage at Dawn 11:50am Operation Secret 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm The Fighting Lawman 5:25pm Edge of Eternity 7:00pm The Oklahoman 8:30pm Cripple Creek 10:00pm Road House 12:10am Romper Stomper 1:55am Hell on Wheels 2:50am Road House 4:45am Rock N' Roll Forever: Ed Sullivan's Greatest Hits 5:40am TCM Shorts

FINANCE 2015 sees the introduction of a new pension regime in the UK. It provides UK residents and British expatriates with a range of options for their pension savings. What will the changes mean for you? What can you do with your funds? After first being announced in the March budget, further reform was released in stages over 2014. It is therefore important that you are up to date on all the changes and latest legislation. There are different rules for different types of pensions, so it is rather confusing. In order to make an informed decision, you need to be aware of all the implications of all your options, for your long-term financial security, for your heirs, and from a UK and Spain taxation point of view. It is increasingly important to seek expert advice on the detailed implications and opportunities. Here is a summary of the key changes from 6th April 2015, which apply to those with defined contribution schemes and aged 55 or over: • You will have complete freedom to draw down as much or as little of your pension pot as you wish, with

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By Robert Croizat, Senior Partner, Blevins Franks no requirement to buy an annuity. If you cash in your entire pension you will no longer be charged the 55% unauthorised payment tax charge. UK residents will pay tax at their marginal rate of income tax. For non-UK residents, where a double tax treaty applies, as is the case with Spain, taxation falls to their country of residence.

• You can take a series of lump sums from your pension funds without having to enter into a drawdown policy. • The 55% pension ‘death tax’ will be abolished. If you die under age 75, the balance of your fund can be paid to your choice of beneficiaries as a lump sum or drawdown, tax free. If you are over 75, beneficiaries pay their marginal rate of tax on the income. If they opt to take it as a lump sum, it will be taxed at 45%, though the government hopes to change this to the marginal rate from 2016. This applies to drawdown and annuities, but not to those in final salary pensions. • If you have an existing drawdown plan, you can keep it as it is and retain the current income limits (150% of GAD).

This may be of interest to you if you are still able to contribute more than £10,000 to your fund. Many of the new pension options apply specifically to defined contribution schemes. From April 2015 those with private sector defined benefit pensions could transfer to a defined contribution scheme, but be aware that you could lose valuable benefits. Transfers can only be made with advice from a pension transfer specialist regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority. Most Public Sector schemes will not be able to transfer after April 2015. It is essential to consider the tax implications here in Spain to establish what would work best for you. This article can only cover the key points of the new legislation

and only provide a summary. There are also other elements you may need to consider. Sound financial planning and personalised advice is crucial, particularly for those with larger funds. Do not make any decisions until you have all the information and understand all the implications. Tax rates, scope and reliefs may change. Any statements concerning taxation are based upon our understanding of current taxation laws and practices which are subject to change. Tax information has been summarised; an individual is advised to seek personalised advice. To keep in touch with the latest developments in the offshore world, check out the latest news on our website www.blevinsfranks.com.

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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 7:20am War and Peace 10:40am Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam 11:10am British Isles: A Natural History 12:00pm Six Nations Rewind Sports series showing classic moments from the Six Nations series of the past. 1:00pm James Martin: Home Comforts 1:45pm Food and Drink 2:15pm Talking Pictures

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 7:05am Transworld Sport 8:00am Cycling 8:55am The Morning Line 10:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 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 1:30pm Child Genius 2:30pm Channel 4 Racing

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

SATURDAY TV

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

3pm 3:05pm The Chase 4:05pm Doc Martin 5:10pm Big Star's Little Star

5:00pm Come Dine with Me

6:15pm Horrible Histories 6:45pm The Great British Sewing Bee 7:45pm Flog It! 8:35pm Britain's Tudor Treasure: A Night at Hampton Court

6:05pm Local News and Weather 6:15pm ITV News and Weather 6:30pm You've Been Framed! 7:30pm Harry Hill's Stars in Their Eyes 8:30pm Planet's Got Talent

6:00pm The Big Bang Theory 6:30pm The Simpsons 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Channel 4 News 8:00pm Our Guy in India

9:35pm Dad's Army 10:05pm QI XL

9:05pm Take Me Out 10:20pm The Jonathan Ross Show 11:20pm ITV News and Weather 11:35pm Hard Target

9:00pm The World's Weirdest Weather

12:15am Seven Years in Tibet 2:25am Glory Road 4:15am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

1:20am Jackpot 247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA Jeremy Kyle presents the American version of his popular talk show. 4:40am Nightscreen

12:15am Panic Room 2:20am Earthquake 4:25am Hollyoaks Omnibus Nancy's pill addiction has disastrous consequences.

12:10am Law and Order 1:10am Super Casino Feeling lucky? Get the authentic, heart-thumping casino experience every night. 4:10am 10,000 BC 5:00am House Doctor

12:20am Hawaii Five-0 1:20am Last Man Standing 1:50am Last Man Standing 2:20am NCIS: Los Angeles 3:20am Inherent Vice Special 3:50am A Most Violent Year Special

BBC THREE

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8:00pm Great Movie Mistakes V: Revenge of the Fifth 9:00pm Top Gear 10:00pm Butterfly on a Wheel 11:30pm Russell Howard's Good News 12:00am Family Guy 12:25am Family Guy 12:50am Family Guy 1:15am Family Guy 1:40am Family Guy 2:05am Family Guy 2:30am Family Guy 3:00am Crims 3:30am South Side Story 4:00am Russell Howard's Good News

8:00pm Yellowstone

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 Queen: Days of Our Lives 1:20am Queen: Days of Our Lives 2:20am Top of the Pops 3:00am Bright Lights, Brilliant Minds: A Tale of Three Cities 4:00am Sounds of the 70s

2:25pm Honey 3:10pm Small Soldiers 4:10pm FYI Daily 4:15pm Small Soldiers 5:20pm You've Been Framed Kids Special! 6:20pm Rumour Has It... 7:20pm FYI Daily 7:25pm Rumour Has It... 8:25pm Stormbreaker 9:25pm FYI Daily 9:30pm Stormbreaker 10:20pm Take Me Out: The Gossip 11:05pm Reality Bites 11:50pm The Keith Lemon Sketch Show 12:20am Death Race

7:10am Judge Judy 7:30am Agatha Christie's Marple 9:25am Where the Heart is 10:35am Where the Heart is 11:40am The Darling Buds of May 12:50pm A Touch of Frost 3:00pm Wycliffe 4:05pm Mutiny on the Buses 5:05pm FYI Daily 5:10pm Mutiny on the Buses 6:00pm Agatha Christie's Marple 8:00pm Doc Martin 9:00pm Foyle's War 11:00pm Lewis 1:05am A Touch of Frost

5:20pm Pawn Stars 5:45pm Pawn Stars 6:10pm Storage Wars 6:40pm Storage Wars 7:10pm Storage Wars Texas 7:40pm Storage Wars Texas 8:10pm Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment 9:10pm FYI Daily 9:15pm Police Academy 2 10:00pm Lethal Weapon 4 11:00pm FYI Daily 11:05pm Lethal Weapon 4 12:30am Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

2:00pm Melissa and Joey 2:30pm Melissa and Joey 3:00pm How I Met Your Mother 3:30pm How I Met Your Mother 4:00pm Troy 5:00pm The Jump 6:00pm The Jump 6:35pm The 100 7:30pm 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 2: Judgment Day 12:40am The Inbetweeners

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3:00pm Six Nations Rugby Union Action from the Six Nations Trophy.

5:30pm Six Nations Rugby Union Action from the Six Nations Trophy.

3:00pm Cowboy 4:30pm Escape to the Country Series which helps prospective buyers find their dream home in the country.

In Middlesbrough, beautician Fay Khatri serves up an East African menu.

3:35pm U-571 5:45pm Columbo

3:00pm Harrow: A Very British School 4:00pm Greggs: More Than Meats the Pie 5:00pm The Simpsons 5:30pm Modern Family

7:35pm 5 News

6:00pm Modern Family 6:30pm Modern Family 7:00pm Modern Family 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

5:30pm Final Score

6pm 7:55pm BBC News 8:05pm Regional News 8:10pm Weather 8:15pm The Voice UK

The latest news coverage.

7:40pm NCIS 8:25pm NCIS

9pm 9:35pm The National Lottery 10:25pm Casualty 11:15pm BBC News 11:28pm Weather 11:30pm Match of the Day

Panel-based quiz where it is more important to be interesting than right.

10:50pm Broken

The World's Weirdest Weather examines some of the planet's most extraordinary weather phenomena.

10:00pm American Pie: Reunion

9:20pm NCIS 10:20pm NCIS 11:15pm CSI: Crime Scene Investigation An elite team of police forensic evidence investigation experts work their cases in Las Vegas.

9:00pm Hawaii Five-0 10:00pm Underworld Kate Beckinsale is the sexy vampire caught up in a war between werewolves and bloodsuckers in this hit action horror.

12am 1:00am The Football League Show 2:20am Highlander: Endgame 3:50am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather report. 3:55am BBC News

Series looking at how three of the world's most iconic wild places have been shaped by man.

SKY MOVIES Action 7:25am Kick-Ass 2 9:20am The Day After Tomorrow 11:30am Fantastic Four 1:25pm The Top Ten Show 2015 1:45pm Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer 3:30pm Sahara 5:45pm The Day After Tomorrow 8:00pm Fantastic Four 10:00pm Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer 11:40pm Kick-Ass 2 1:30am King Arthur 3:40am Judge Dredd 5:20am In the Line of Duty: Smoke Jumpers

7:10am Kingsman: The Secret Service Special 7:40am Little Shop of Horrors 9:20am Get Smart 11:15am Oscars 2015 Nomination Special 11:45am We're the Millers 1:40pm The Heat 3:40pm Fun with Dick and Jane 5:15pm Uncle Buck 7:00pm Get Smart 9:00pm We're the Millers 11:00pm The Heat 1:00am Idiocracy 2:30am Caddyshack 4:10am Dead Man on Campus 5:50am Little Shop of Horrors

7:10am The Lookalike 9:05am Captain Phillips: Sky Movies Special 9:25am Derailed 11:25am The Transporter 1:10pm Transporter 2 2:50pm Runner Runner 4:35pm The Bone Collector 6:35pm The Transporter 8:20pm Transporter 2 10:00pm Marathon Man 12:10am Runner Runner 1:45am Shame the Devil 3:35am Training Day 5:50am Point Last Seen

7:00am Believe 8:40am The Smurfs 2 10:30am Planes: Sky Movies Special 11:00am Turbo 12:40pm Epic 2:25pm Primates of the Caribbean 3:45pm The Smurfs 2 5:35pm Turbo 7:15pm Epic 9:00pm The Harry Hill Movie 10:30pm Save the Last Dance 12:30am Believe 2:10am The Harry Hill Movie 3:40am Save the Last Dance 5:35am Primates of the Caribbean

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7:25am Gunsmoke 8:25am Gunsmoke 9:30am The Oklahoman 11:05am Edge of Eternity 12:40pm The Fighting Lawman 2:05pm Hotel Paradiso 4:00pm Knights of the Round Table 6:15pm The Story of Will Rogers 8:20pm Sierra Passage 10:00pm Ghost Ship 11:45pm Spawn 1:35am Ghost Ship 3:05am Spawn 4:45am Fury of the Congo

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BBC TWO 7:20am Great British Garden Revival 8:20am Glorious Gardens From Above 9:05am Countryfile 10:00am The Football League Show 11:20am Six Nations Rewind 12:20pm Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 1:50pm James Martin's Home Comforts 2:20pm Food and Drink 2:50pm The Mouse That Roared

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CH5 7:00am Milkshake! 10:55am Sponge Bob Square Pants 11:30am Robson's Extreme Fishing Challenge 12:25pm Robson's Extreme Fishing Challenge 1:20pm Robson's Extreme Fishing Challenge 2:20pm It Could Happen to You

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SKY 1 6:00am Mission Implausible 7:00am The Hour of Power 8:00am The Fanatics 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 4:15pm Open All Hours 4:45pm To the Manor Born 5:15pm Hi-De-Hi! 5:45pm Flog It!

3:10pm Mel and Sue's Best Bits 4:15pm Tipping Point 5:15pm Moonraker

3:00pm The Big Bang Theory 3:25pm The Big Bang Theory 3:55pm The Simpsons 4:25pm Marmaduke

4:15pm Over Her Dead Body 5:55pm 5 News

6:15pm Alaska: Earth's Frozen Kingdom 7:15pm Ski Sunday

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

6:10pm Channel 4 News

6:00pm What to Expect When You're Expecting 7:55pm Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

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

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 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

10:00pm The Bounty Hunter

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

12:15am Disconnect 2:05am Savage Grace 3:30am Countryfile 4:25am Holby City 5:25am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

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

12:05am Patriot Games 2:10am The Last Leg 3:05am Come Dine with Me 3:30am Come Dine with Me 3:55am Come Dine with Me 4:20am Come Dine with Me

12:20am Zack and Miri Make a Porno 2:15am Super Casino 4:10am 10 Most Annoying Things About 1999 5:00am House Doctor

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

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8:00pm Pop's Greatest Dance Crazes 8:10pm The Voice UK 9:30pm The British Academy Film Awards 10:00pm Backchat with Jack Whitehall and His Dad

4:35am This is BBC Four 8:00pm The Great War 8:40pm Britain's Wild Places 9:00pm Mark Lawson Talks to... 10:00pm Horizon 11:00pm The Sky at Night A look at the world of astronomy. 11:30pm Kings of 70s Romance 12:30am Genesis: Together and Apart 2:00am Genesis

3:25am TOTP2 4:10am The Sky at Night 4:40am This is BBC Four

2:15pm Take Me Out: The Gossip 3:00pm Scorpion 3:55pm Rumour Has It... 4:55pm FYI Daily 5:00pm Rumour Has It... 5:55pm Despicable Me 6:55pm FYI Daily 7:00pm Despicable Me 7:50pm She's the Man 8:50pm FYI Daily 8:55pm She's the Man 10:00pm The Ibiza Weekender 11:00pm The Keith Lemon Sketch Show 11:30pm Little Man 12:30am FYI Daily

8:10am On the Buses 8:40am Mutiny on the Buses 9:40am FYI Daily 9:45am Mutiny on the Buses 10:30am Heartbeat 11:35am Heartbeat 12:35pm Sparkling Cyanide 2:40pm Rosemary and Thyme 3:40pm Agatha Christie's Marple 5:40pm Inspector Morse 8:00pm Lewis 10:00pm The Best of the Royal Variety Show 11:00pm Northern Lights 12:05am Wycliffe

11:05am Hornblower 1:05pm Hornblower 3:15pm Blues Brothers 2000 4:15pm FYI Daily 4:20pm Blues Brothers 2000 5:40pm Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment 6:40pm FYI Daily 6:45pm Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment 7:30pm Africa Cup of Nations Live Final. 10:30pm Storage Wars 11:00pm Driven to Kill 12:00am FYI Daily

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 Brooklyn Nine-Nine 6:00pm Marry Me 6:30pm The Big Bang Theory 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Jump 8:00pm The Big Bang Theory 8:30pm The Big Bang Theory 9:00pm Mission: Impossible 11:10pm The Inbetweeners 11:40pm The Inbetweeners 12:20am The Big Bang Theory

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3:00pm Last Man Standing 3:30pm Last Man Standing 4:00pm Modern Family 4:30pm Modern Family 5:00pm Modern Family 5:30pm Modern Family

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

Coverage of winter sports events.

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

Includes sport and weather.

6:30pm Ice Age 8:00pm The Jump

9pm 9:00pm Call the Midwife 10:00pm The British Academy Film Awards Live coverage of the BAFTAS, honouring the best in British film and drama.

9:00pm Top Gear 10:00pm Dragons' Den 11:00pm Match of the Day 2 Highlights and reaction to all of the latest football action.

A bounty hunter learns that his next target is his ex-wife, a reporter working on a murder cover-up

12am 12:00am BBC News 12:20am Regional News 12:25am Weather 12:30am The Apprentice USA 1:50am Weather for the Week Ahead 1:55am BBC News

Jack Whitehall hosts a comedy chat show with a twist; he's joined by his dad.

10:30pm Russell Howard's Good News 11:00pm Family Guy 11:22pm Family Guy 11:45pm Crims 12:15am American Dad! 12:35am Family Guy 1:00am Backchat with Jack Whitehall and His Dad

Genesis filmed in November 1981 on the Abacab tour in North America.

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Greek general Thermistocles leads the charge against an invading Persian army.

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Tom Buchanan is heading home to start his own ranch when he is robbed and framed for murder.

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Don’t take offence! LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT

SPEAKING OUT: London mayor Boris Johnson.

DON’T know about you but I’m heartily sick of people who consider themselves offended by someone’s piddling remarks or actions. Wimps, who rush to the authorities, wringing their hands and wailing that someone has somehow upset their pathetic equilibriums. These reactions are of course a sign of complete insecurity. To my mind they are like children, who run to mummy snivelling

and whining that Johnny had called them a ‘scaredy cat’ or ‘smelly boots’. This latest example, however, just about took the whole tin. When Boris Johnson declared that, in his opinion, the majority of self-styled militants who leave their countries to fight for the likes of IS, are people who have difficulty with the opposite sex, probably spend a great deal of time watching internet porn and are social misfits who have problems communicating with normal society, up pops someone to tell us his remarks may cause offence! This time the general secretary of the ‘Women’s Muslim Network’ was given the opportunity to air her displeasure on Sky News. The lady declared that she really didn’t think the language Boris used was acceptable. Not acceptable to whom? Other toerag terrorists? How does she suggest we should describe these no-brain maniacs? Poor unfortunate, misled children? Soldiers of Allah? Pillars of society? A wonderful example to youngsters everywhere? Fighters to be admired

and revered? Give us a break! Sorry if you feel offended, madam, but these sub-humans are probably everything that Boris has profiled and more. To hell with his language! These misfits are psychopathic wastes of space that, on their return from these killing expeditions, should be locked away forever. Anyone who tries to excuse their actions should also be named as traitors and punished accordingly. I know many of these people consider the British a soft bunch and a nation of ‘sorrys’ (others have made this mistake to their cost!) but this ‘offended’ reaction really does stick in my craw. Well, I get offended when I see people’s heads being chopped off and kicked around by these animals. It also distresses me to hear of the mass killings and the rape and torture carried out in the name of their religion. ‘Offence’ is a question of priorities, ya see. Keep the faith Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com

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A pastor's young son claims to have visited heaven after a near-death experience.

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3:15pm NCIS A team of special agents, operating outside the military chain of command, must investigate any crimes 4:15pm Recipe for Murder

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In America at any one time there are over 70,000 children behind bars.

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Ross visits one of the deadliest places on the planet: Honduras.

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Austerity out here, Champagne in there 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

AR in the Middle East, turmoil elsewhere and many in the UK facing austerity. And the members of the House of Lords, what do they do? Complain about the quality of their Champagne. The Lords spend roughly £65,000 a year on Champagne and, it was recently reported, refuse to drink anything cheaper because “Champagne quality would suffer.” At a time when many resort to food banks to feed their families, such disconnectedness from the lives of ordinary citizens is appalling. What we see

HOUSE OF LORDS: Complaining about the quality of their Champagne. now is a Britain of bling and food banks: billionaires extending sprawling, empty mansions while waiting lists for social housing lengthen. It’s instructive to watch political interviews from the early 1970s on YouTube where you’ll find interviewees like PMs Harold Wilson and Jim Callaghan reacting to tough questions with tough, even-handed answers.

Telling because you don't see much of that nowadays. Instead a love of the sound bite and a general lack of accountability and responsibility. Recently there’s been a whole string of disturbing reports about failure in the NHS, the worst: Mid-Staffs. Some nurses were punished, but no doctors or administrators, despite exercising control over

dreadful conditions. (At a time when, with the NHS on life-support, many NHS managers are being paid grotesquely high salaries by cash-strapped health trusts.) The Staffordshire police and the CPS showed little interest in an investigation regarding it as a ‘systemic failure’ - the politically correct approach to avoid going after those responsible.

Don’t let’s forget either Rotherham and its Police and Crime Commissioner clinging to office over its child abuse scandal and Rochdale’s PC approach that ignores the racial elements of endemic child abuse. The problem is there seems little enthusiasm to tackle failure in the UK’s public institutions. Why? A decline in personal/professional

standards and integrity. Apart from the Lords and their scandals, it’s hard to forget MPs and all their shenanigans either. Claiming mortgages for second homes; fraudulent claims for overnight allowances; using parliamentary allowances to employ relatives who haven’t actually completed any work. And what about the £100 million spent on luxury travel over the past four years by Government Departments? I thought of a few words to describe my feelings after rereading all this and most of them wouldn’t be publishable. And the ones that would don’t express those feelings adequately. Nora Johnson’s thrillers ‘Landscape of Lies,’ ‘Retribution,’ ‘Soul Stealer,’ ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.nora-johnson.com) available from Amazon/ eBook and iBookstore. Profits to Cudeca.

What do you need to do, to make February fabulous for you? FEBRUARY: Consider how you can balance giving and receiving in close relationships.

Sally Trotman Based in Mallorca, Sally Trotman is a qualified Counsellor who works with Astrology, Numerology and the Tarot. Each month she will deliver the forecast as an intuitive tool to aid increased self awareness.

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ANUARY gave you the opportunity to clarify your goals. With Imbolc on February 2 (bringing in the first light of spring) and the full moon in Leo on February 3 (encouraging you to be fearless) this is the perfect time to think big, be confident and move out of your comfort zone. Leo is a generous sign. Remember that you always receive back when you give, so think about where you can give more and also be more open to receiving. Do you believe you are worthy of the abundance of opportunities awaiting you?

Repeat this powerful affirmation every morning to help you manifest your desires; ‘I am attracting abundance through all channels of the universe.’ Abundance comes through others so think for a moment about who can help you to achieve your goals, and also who you can help. This month we move into the Chinese New Year of the Sheep. The influence of this animal is encouraging you to work with others, and know that you can achieve more as a group than individually. February 14 is of course another important date. The moon is ruled by earthy Capricorn on this day, so take some time to pamper yourself if

single, and pamper both yourself and your loved one too if in a relationship! As February is the second month of the year this brings your awareness to how you can create more balance in your life, so consider how you can balance giving and receiving in all your closest relationships. In the Tarot deck the second

major arcana card is the High Priestess. This gentle yet powerful archetype is reminding you to listen to your intuition. This is perhaps more important during February than at any other time as the sun moves into the sign of Pisces on February 19. The new moon in Pisces on this date is helping you with creative and spiritual pursuits of all kinds. Listen to your creative ideas,

vivid dreams and hunches throughout this month. Life can sometimes become a little confusing under the influence of Pisces, so balance your intuition with practical steps. If you feel like you are a salmon swimming upstream at times in your life, then change your direction this month. Relax and go with the flow, and know that your inner guidance will take you to exactly where you need to be. Sally guides individuals and groups working with Meditation, Astrology, and Numerology as a tool for personal development. Also a qualified Counsellor and Reiki Master, she works with clients in a unique way to help each person feel more confident about their direction in life. Sally offers sessions via Skype or in Watford, UK.

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regularly enjoy coffee with two mainstream media editor friends. Neither will carry my articles because of my ‘proRussian leanings.’ I won’t play a part in mainstream media’s orchestrated anti-Russian rhetoric. Be proud of me; my candid nature suggests that, in the Euro Weekly News at least, you enjoy a free press. A fiction usually directed at Russia is that it doesn’t have a free Press; rhetoric without substance. Let us instead take a look at the so-called free Press in the West. William Colby, ex-director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is a man who should know Western media: “The CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)

GREG DYKE: Former BBC Director-General. owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” Not long after becoming a whistle-blower Colby died in a freak canoeing accident. There is no disguising the sinister and insidious nature of CIA tentacles: “In the US 90 per cent of all TV, newspapers, radio,

magazines are owned and controlled by six mega corporations. You can’t get a word in there that connects to the real world.” So says American political analyst Mark Mason. Former BBC DirectorGeneral, Greg Dyke, wrote in his autobiography: “When it came to

discussing the war in Iraq, staff found it so difficult to find any member of the public prepared to speak in favour that they ended up planting people in the (Question Time) audience.” BBC bias is well documented: Many years ago, Roy Bramwell of Inter-City Research, disclosed: “I have heard MPs and senior political aficionados complain that if they were to say on BBC what they really think, they would never be invited again, and not to be invited again could make a quick end to an aspiring politician’s prospects.” Udo Ulfkotte, former editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, caused a sensation when, in his best-seller, Bought Journalists, he revealed; “We are taught to lie, to betray and not tell the truth to the public.” He went on to describe how the CIA pays German media professionals to spin stories to follow US government goals. In an interview with a Dutch

journalist, Ulfkotte says, “some media are nothing more than propaganda outlets of political parties, secret services, international think tanks, and high finance entities. I’ve been a journalist for about 25 years, and I’ve been educated to lie, to betray, and not to tell the truth to the public. The German and American media tries to bring war to the people in Europe, to bring war to Russia. “We have betrayed our readers, just to push for war. I don’t want this any more, I’m fed up with this propaganda. We live in a banana republic, and not in a democratic country where we have press freedom.” This top German journalist challenged his former employers to prove him wrong or sue him. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung refuses to do so, but banned journalists from mentioning their former editor. A word of advice. Read between the lines and you will be far better informed.

Singing from different song sheet A weekly look - and not entirely impartial reaction to the Spanish political scene

UIS BARCENAS, former PP treasurer is no longer on remand after his family scraped together €200,000 bail. He is out because instructing judge Pablo Ruz has now finished his investigation into Barcenas’ involvement in the notorious Gurtel corruption case or his inexplicable millions in Switzerland. Without a passport he is unable to flee, cook up more stories or destroy evidence and there is no reason to keep him in custody until he comes to trial. What he can do, and is doing with much gusto, is sing about the PP party’s alleged double accounting, irregular donations and black money. It might be music to Barcenas’ ears, but tolls like a death-knell in Mariano Rajoy’s.

Comparatively speaking THE governing Partido Popular and the principal Opposition party PSOE are striving to avoid comparing Spain and Greece, according to political commentators. Unlike Greece, Spain did not lie about its finances to join the single currency and it does have industries other than tourism and olives. Despite a thriving submerged economy, the Spanish tend to pay their taxes, something many Greek voters recently failed to do, hoping for a Syriza victory. No, the comparisons are between Podemos and Syriza although Alexis Tsipras revealed Spain’s Izquierda Unida - the former Communist party - was his original inspiration. Meanwhile Tsipras appears to be

Weather vane THE early Andalucian election on March 22 promises to be another weather vane.

choosing the diplomacy route with Brussels regarding Greece’s repayment of its €240 billion debt, while Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias has gradually changed his tune about defaulting on Spain’s own. They both know that a party needs the moneymen if it is to keep its promises. Meanwhile, Podemos must keep an eye on Syriza because Greece will demonstrate if an anti-austerity programme is workable or if it’s all going to end in tears.

But will it be an accurate one? Both the PP and Podemos are already claiming this year’s local, regional and general elections will be a two-horse race, but this

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may not apply to Andalucia. Podemos is less of a force to be reckoned with there than elsewhere, so a less than mammoth vote will not necessarily herald dwindling support. Perhaps Diaz can hold it together and make a three-horse race of next month’s ballot but that doesn’t say much for what could happen later.

Stop plea PSOE candidates preparing for this year’s elections pleaded for an end to anti-Sanchez rumblings. They want to retain or gain seats in May and November free of party grandees’ complaints that party leader Pedro Sanchez is not shaping up. ALEXIS TSIPRAS: Diplomatic.

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Across 1 County borders (4) 4 Goes in and puts one's name down (6) 8 Arranged taverns’ helper (7) 9 Change old German sovereign (5) 10 Relation seen in haunted house (4) 11 Gores emu badly, it's horrific (8) 13 Mocking South African Roman Catholic as saint in charge (9) 17 Moving could start in leaving (8) 19 Surprising name for locks (4) 21 Gather it's a church service (5) 22 Not entirely bothered if I certify large building (7) 23 Senior journalist’s in little apartment (6) 24 Appear to be in Chinese emporium (4) Down 2 Dr earns free trips (7) 3 Stolen goods hidden in Volkswagen (4) 4 Diversion meant internet chaos (13) 5 Endeavour to cover a waistcoat, it's an absolute farce! (8)

Across 1 Exploitative situations (3-4) 5 Indelicate (5) 8 Serious play (5) 9 Deep red (7) 10 Hostilities (3) 11 Work hard (4) 12 Misplacement (4) 14 Additional (5) 16 Desert green spot (5) 18 Prod gently (5) 19 Spicy tomato sauce (5) 21 Cleaning lady (4) 22 Final (4) 25 Weep (3) 27 Aerial (7) 28 Dripping wet (5) 29 Wait on (5) 30 Capture in a trap (7) 6 Spanish uncle goes after the gunner for a relationship (5) 7 Overeating from meagre edible beans (5) 8 Don't leave the guy in the boat (4) 12 Demonstrations in support of experiments (8) 14 Poison, i.e. candy concoction (7)

15 Started climbing in the teenage boy’s go-kart (5) 16 Keep making a little dog (4) 18 Different aches from hunt (5) 20 Being intransigent and shaking heads, demonstrating partiality (4)

Code Breaker Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 15 represents H and 26 represents G, so fill in H every time the figure 15 appears and G every time the figure 26 appears. Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC Across: 1 Scarce, 4 Tattle, 9 Actuate, 10 Stake, 11 Drab, 12 Depress, 15 Rather, 16 Decade, 19 Uttered, 21 Cite, 24 Amber, 25 Isolate, 26 Travel, 27 Detest. Down: 1 Standard, 2 Attract, 3 Chat, 5 Asserted, 6 Traps, 7 Ever, 8 Negev, 13 Rehearse, 14 Vehement, 17 Animate, 18 Relic, 20 Tibia, 22 Bait, 23 Code. QUICK Across: 1 Arrest, 4 Rested, 9 Nap, 10 Declare, 11 Analyse, 12 Piece, 13 Dense, 15 Meets, 20 Heats, 22 Howling, 24 Useless, 25 Tie, 26 Steady, 27 Mended. Down: 1 Annual, 2 Replace, 3 Sadly, 5 Example, 6 Theme, 7 Danger, 8 Screw, 14 Suspend, 16 Twisted, 17 Chiefs, 18 Thief, 19 Agreed, 21 Amuse, 23 Waste.

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ENGLISH-SPANISH Across: 1 Lead, 3 Caves, 8 Traductor, 9 Tarde, 10 Claws, 12 Carpenter, 14 Hogar, 15 Codo. Down: 1 Lipstick, 2 After, 4 Aguacate, 5 Eat, 6 Papelera, 7 Presunto, 11 Agrio, 13 Rio.

13 15 17 20

Hides (8) In-depth examination (8) Disperse (7) Find (6)

23 Greek letter (5) 24 Formerly (4) 26 Category (4)

English - Spanish The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English. Across 1 Cenizas (5) 4 Century (5) 7 Viajero (9) 8 See 2 Down 10 Cabbage (3) 15 Sleet (9) 17 Yemas (de huevos) (5) 18 Discutir (5) Down 1 Abbot (4) 2/8 Palabras al aire (3,3) 3 Jabón (para lavar) (4) 4 Semilla (4) 5 Gulf (bay) (5) 6 Work (4) 9 In the same way (5) 11 Bebé (4) 12 Hormigas (4) 13 Eyebrow (4) 14 Pegamento (4) 16 Huevo (3)

Hexagram The purpose of the Hexagram puzzle is to place the 19 six-letter words into the 19 cells. The letters at the edges of interlocking cells MUST BE THE SAME. The letters in the words must be written CLOCKWISE. The word in cell 10 (STRUCK) and one letter in four other cells are given as clues. AFFECT

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Unscramble the name of a famous British children’s television programme (two words): REPEL TUBE

Down 1 Impolite (4) 2 Keyboard instrument (5) 3 Perfect (8) 4 Covert (6) 5 Flat metal disc used as money (4) 6 Run away (7) 7 Indicating evil intent (8)

1 Purred, 2 Dealer, 3 Bitter, 4 Morsel, 5 Roared, 6 Either, 7 Tallow, 8 Titled, 9 Mantle, 10 Wreath, 11 Sister, 12 Months, 13 Steals, 14 Detour, 15 Tastes, 16 Desire, 17 Humans, 18 Tested, 19 Enters

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How are you coping with the cold spell - Are you spending more to keep warm this year? MIKE HAYNES from Coys Rent a Car said he is fortunate to have under floor heating at his home, but even with that he has still been suffering: “I’ve been really cold this winter and the longer I live here the colder I feel. I watch my son play football and I’ve got five layers on and I can’t remember ever doing that.” He adds that the under floor heating uses oil which has actually come down in price so he is hopeful not to notice an increase in bills: “That has been a godsend as it’s definitely been on more this year.” Carsten Klinksgaard from Casa Interior in Altea however thinks the weather has been rather pleasant: “We have had a lot of colds in the family but it’s not been too bad. We have a pellet stove in the house and that gives out a good heat and is quite reasonable to run.” Lianne Satterthwaite. SRS Vehicle Services. Los Carasoles, Zurgena. “I don’t feel any colder this year because we use a great log supplier that we used last year. Although last

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From left to right, Mike, Lianne and Carsten: Managing to stay warm. winter was long, it wasn’t that cold and it’s still nothing compared to the UK. It makes you feel cold just looking at British friends’ snow photographs. A couple of

Joyce (left): Putting on more clothes. extra jumpers and moving around a lot more keeps us warm.” Joyce, owner and hairstylist at

Curiocity, just minutes from central Fuengirola says she is keeping busy in her salon to stay warm during this cold spell. “I love that people are coming to see me to talk about getting a new hairstyle for themselves as everyone receives a warm welcome here! It is keeping me busy which is the only way to stay warm at the moment!” When asked if she was spending more to keep warm this year she said “Definitely, mostly on electricity and on more clothes so I can put more layers on!” Wally, the African Grey Parrot who supervises David Downton, the owner of Simply Bathing in Fuengirola says “It’s easy for us parrots, I am just producing more feathers to stay warm this winter! We all lived in the Canary Islands for seven years before coming here so it is definitely colder, but I am nice and toasty in my glossy feather coat!” When asked if he was spending more to stay warm Wally said “not really but maybe David is as I do like to have spare ribs for my dinner!”

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28th January THE day before my chemo session was spent busily cleaning the house and getting things ready ahead of round four. You never know just quite how you are going to react to the treatment, so it is better to be prepared and have your shopping done and meals prepared ahead of time. My motto is never leave for tomorrow what you can do today. A lesson that has taken me many years to learn, but the ‘do it now policy’ works! Someone taught me that, you know who you are! I flopped into bed exhausted not having stopped all day, cooking, cleaning, revising with the children and collecting the car after its preMOT check. I’ve decided that life is one big MOT, both for our possessions and our bodies! I thoroughly recommend a

WE’RE always being told of the health benefits of drinking plenty of water, but now experts say drinking too much could actually be harmful. They say not only could it lead to kidney problems, but could also trigger symptoms such as excessive sweating. One surgeon from a clinic in London said he is seeing more patients suffer from

regular service or body MOT prevention is better than cure! Don’t wait until you are 50 to have a mammogram. I am 42 and despite having regular check-ups, smear tests and blood tests, I was told I was too young to have a mammogram. This is obviously if you are a patient with the National Health Service. Really you should start much sooner. It is important to be selfaware and check your breasts every month around the time of your period. No-one knows your body better than you, so you will be the first to know if there are any appreciable changes in your body. Perhaps you will notice a change in skin texture or colour, an inverted or leaking nipple or a lump in either your breast or armpit. I only realised something was wrong when I noticed a thickening in the skin around my areola and a change in skin texture a bit like orange peel. One day I was fine and the next it appeared. I could not detect any lumps in the breast, so worked my way up into my armpit. I found a hard lump the size of a walnut but very deep so it took some delving. I didn’t have a

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temperature and the lump wasn’t painful, so I immediately suspected something wasn’t right. I went straight to the doctor and was booked in for biopsies the following week which came back positive for grade three cancer. Act quickly or repent at leisure! With the eldest child’s favourite belt located, I made the children’s sandwiches… they normally make their own but as I was up so early I did it for a change. Reminded me of when they were little. Where do the years go? Then time to be out the door. I was happy to get my usual spot in the hospital car park, no mean feat as parking is very limited. I was second in the queue for my blood tests and then straight up to book my oncology appointment. It is a bit of a race, but just as well I got in first as there were to be complications. Off

to get some protein on board and a nice cup of coffee. I write this as I sit waiting and listening to various conversations. Generally people are quite upbeat. Coincidently a daughter of a mother having chemo for breast cancer started talking about the best age to have a mammogram. The daughter was 37 and said that she was told by her doctor she didn’t need one. Well, it didn’t take long for the whole waiting room to get involved!! If you are familiar with Spanish hospital and doctor’s waiting rooms, then you’ll know that they speak very openly and expect you to do the same. Everyone has an opinion and they like to share it with you irrespective of whether you want to hear it or not!! In this case I was in favour as the daughter sitting next to me appeared not to realise the relevance of her mother’s situation to her. She said that as the doctor had told her she was too young for a mammogram she was going to leave it at that. The Spanish rather deify doctors in my opinion and are not accustomed to questioning them or getting second opinions. In this case though

all the women in the waiting room descended like clucking chickens and told her she had to insist or find the money to have it done privately. This wasn’t something that could be left to chance for a few years! I repeat, early detection is vital and if the outcome of the tests are negative, then you have peace of mind and if not, you have a head start on cancer. It was time to listen to some music and relax. As always it would be a three hour wait minimum. Just one day in my life, so no need to get uptight. I would practice my breathing and ‘be in the moment,’ something Bertie has taught me. Finally I was called in to see my doctor. Everything was fine and I was good to go. The pharmacologist mixing up our chemo cocktails was ill, so they were ordering our treatments from another source a bit like a take away. I would have preferred crispy duck! Four attempts to get my line in… Nothing to be done as your veins and arteries take a pasting, but in it was and I had my treatment and I was half way through. Rather jubilant I went home to rest and to fight another day.

Can drinking too much water be bad for you? over-sweating, a condition known as hyperhidrosis. He said the first thing he asks is how much water they drink and said medically, being told to drink between

two and three litres of water a day is incorrect, as if you were in intensive care you would be given 1.5 litres of fluid every 24 hours.

There is no set way of defining excessive sweating, but if sweating is interfering with daily life and normal activities, a person may be diagnosed

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can also lead to loss of sleep as people have to get up in the night to go to the toilet and other studies show it can even cause kidney damage, instead of preventing it. Too much water can also lead to a rare, but potentially fatal condition called hyponatraemia, which sees the body’s salt levels drop and can lead to swelling of the brain.

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THE sudden arrival of cold and low temperatures has been accompanied by a flu outbreak in many regions of Spain. According to experts, the epidemic level is still no higher than in previous years, but they predict that in the coming weeks it will increase. Here, we look at some home remedies believed to ease flu

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Teas or infusions of garlic and onion. Both plants are good allies to combat influenza. If the taste is too strong, sweeten with honey, but not with sugar as it inhibits their natural healing qualities. Ginger tea. Ginger has analgesic and antibacterial healing properties. Medics say the best way to avoid the flu is to be vaccinated.

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MyWebDoctor’s online service A BRITISH GP, and frequent visitor to the Costa Del Sol, has set up an entrepreneurial online doctor service that can at last give thousands of people living in Spain peace of mind for their healthcare. With everyday nonemergency health needs in mind, My Web Doctor will give you the reassurance of having a UK doctor at your fingertips literally - right on the end of your mobile phone, tablet or computer. Mirroring the NHS in its ease of access and high medical standards, Dr Helen Webberley aims to provide quality routine healthcare at a price that will suit all pockets. For only £12.99 per month, the service allows you unlimited access to advice from a GMC-registered UK GP. www.MyWebDoctor.co.uk allows its members to email their query or request a

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being monitored properly.” Although not everything can be dealt with remotely, it is surprising how much can be. If people are worried about skin rashes or lumps or bumps, they can upload photos for the doctor to review. If a clinical examination is necessary then Dr Webberley and her team can advise people to have a face to face visit with a doctor, but even this is useful advice for those wondering whether to book an actual appointment with a doctor in Spain. Dr Webberley acknowledges that this is not an emergency service, and people with medical emergencies should call 061 as usual. However, this is going to bring NHS quality healthcare to you wherever you may be.

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SAMARITANS: A not-forprofit organisation. The 902 numbers followed by 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 are to provide a premium service, from which the receiver gains no financial benefit. For example the charity Samaritans in Spain uses the number 902 88 35 35, the fourth digit is 8, meaning the number is not

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Best bar in La Cala LOOKING for something to do this week? Then why not pay Winnies Cafe Bar a visit, situated just minutes from La Cala de Finestrat beach. Food is at the heart of Winnies with the kitchen open during the winter months daily from 10am until around 8pm. Thursday is steak night and fish and chip Friday is always a popular choice with their fresh, beer battered cod a hit with customers old and new and booking is recommended for the traditional Sunday roasts which cost just €6.95. Small breakfasts cost from €4.50, sandwiches and toasties from €3.50 and for the hungrier appetite, try the mixed grill at €13.95. Karaoke is on every Wednesday and Friday from 9pm and there are quiz nights and housey housey as well as live music on a Saturday. So for a small bar, it is jam packed with events and activities to make a visit any time of the week a memorable one, and to offer a truly friendly, community feel. But don’t take our word for it, reviews have flooded in since it opened in July 2013 on their Facebook page and on TripAdvisor, with the website now listing them as the number one venue in La Cala de Finestrat.

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Harvesting THE three main objectives of harvesting olives are: Pick when ready for preparing eating olives or making olive oil, to cause as little bruising as possible and cause as little damage to the trees as possible. Olives for eating need to be picked while still firm. Olives for oil can be picked at the same stage or left to fully swell to maximise the

overall yields. Some high quality producers still pick by hand. However most olives are allowed to fall naturally or racked, knocked off with long canes, or shaken off with mechanical tree shakers onto nets and then transferred to plastic boxes. In some areas, to reduce harvesting costs, the ground under trees is laid bare by using weed killers two weeks before shaking the olives onto the ground when they are blown or brushed into heaps for sacking. Yields can vary from 10 to 110 kilos or more per

OLIVE OIL: Good quality oil can be stored for many years. tree depending on the age, health and pruning

of the tree, and the summer and autumn sunshine and rainfalls. Pickling olives to eat See chapter 78 of ‘Growing Healthy Fruit in Spain’ for our favourite methods and recipes. Producing olive oil To extract high quality oil from olives they need to be processed as soon after their harvesting as possible to minimise the

onset of fermentation that can spoil the taste of the product. The process follows the following process. Riddling to remove leaves and stones, washing if allowed to fall on the ground before harvesting, the picking out of obviously bad olives, milling/mashing the olives to create a paste, pressing of the paste to

extract the oil and water and then the separation of the oil from the oil/water mix and pouring into storage vessels. These days quality plastic bottles or storage tanks are used. There are four ways to process olive to oil. 1. Purchase a manually or power operated mill/masher and press yourself or with a group of friends. 2. Arrange for a friend or local villager to do the pressing for you on in a historic or new old style press. 3. Arrange for a larger agricultural cooperative mill to process your olives mixed in with those of other growers. Old mills will still use a cold process and you will get good quality extra virgin olive oil. Commercially olive oils are classified in descending quality order as Extra Virgin, Virgin, Ordinary Virgin Olive Oil, Olive Oil, Refined Olive oil, Lamp Oil. The standard maximum acceptable acidity levels are 1.0 per cent for extra virgin, 2.0 per cent for virgin and 3.3 per cent for ordinary virgin. A good yield is a litre of oil from five kilos of olives. A poor yield from poor olives can be as little as a litre from seven or eight kilos. Bottled olive oil is best stored in a cool dark place. Good quality oil can be stored for many years. It is not usual or desirable to add preservatives. Coastal harvesting will now be complete but it will continue in colder inland and northern areas. (c) Dick Handscombe www.gardenspain.com February 2015.

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Market ends year with a faster decline SPANISH house prices finished the year falling at a slightly faster rate than earlier in 2014. The local markets index, which was released this week by valuation firm Tinsa, shows a drop in the period spanning October, November and December of 4.5 per cent, a little more pronounced than the third quarter decline of 4.3 per cent. But the index compares positively to the previous year’s figures, when prices were still dropping at 8.3 per cent in the last quarter. Two Spanish regions bucked the trend, registering rising property prices over 2014’s last quarter.

In the autonomous city of Melilla it showed a year-on-year increase of 2.3 per cent, and the Balearic Islands crept up by 1.5 per cent. Both these areas count amongst those in Spain least badly affected by the property crash. In Melilla, prices have fallen 12.3 per cent since 2007, and 29.4 per cent in the Balearics. The decreases are significant, but pale however when compared to Castilla-La Mancha and Catalonia, the two Spanish regions which have seen prices collapse by more than 50 per cent over the last seven years.

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Alfa Romeo unveils latest open top times stronger and seven times lighter than steel. Because of its inherent rigidity, Alfa Romeo engineers were able to minimise structural differences between the 4C Spider and 4C Coupé. As with the Coupé, the bodywork is made entirely from SMC (sheet moulded compound), a low-density, high-strength composite material that is 20 per cent lighter and dimensionally more rigid than steel, and even the Alfa Romeo 4C Spider’s windscreen and side windows have been optimised for lightness, using 10 per cent thinner glass to reduce weight by up to 15 per cent. While European specifi-

REVEALED: The open top Alfa Romeo 4C Spider. cations for the Alfa Romeo 4C Spider have yet to be announced, the weight difference between the Coupé and Spider versions of the US-market models is just 10kg. The Alfa Romeo 4C Spider shares much of its exterior design with its award-winning Coupé sibling - the changes are focused purely on the metamorphosis from fixed-

to open-top. The Coupé’s glazed engine cover and flowing coupé shape gives way to a more traditional spider form, with pronounced buttresses and a body-coloured engine deck-lid with three functional heat extractors and an aerodynamically tuned spoiler. The rollover structure is housed in a black (or optional carbon fibre)

‘halo’, creating visual harmony with the carbon fibre windscreen frame, where the attachment points for the removable, stowable cloth roof (or optional carbon fibre hardtop) can also be found. Other new features to debut on the Alfa Romeo 4C Spider Concept include an all-new, titanium exhaust system, mounted centrally with switchable

modes which can be altered depending on the driving environment and driver’s mood. Developed by worldrenowned exhaust specialists Akrapovic, this beautifully crafted system consists of two centrallymounted tailpipes and computer-optimised asymmetrical mufflers with a dual-mode exhaust valve system and link pipe with resonator to eliminate incabin droning. This optional system is finished with carbon fibre bezels on the exhaust tips. Like the 4C Coupe, the Alfa Romeo 4C Spider will also be available with the standard and the Racing exhaust system. In addition to the existing colours available on the Alfa Romeo 4C a new Giallo (yellow) paint scheme is also offered.

Longtail back for McLaren FANS of supercars will be waiting for the Geneva Motor Show (March 5 to 15) with bated breath to catch a glimpse of McLaren’s latest offering. The Surrey, UK, based manufacturer is looking to its heritage as it revives the legendary ‘Longtail’ name given to one

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THE latest open top Alfa Romeo Spider has been revealed. The production version of the 4C Spider features a unique carbon fibre windscreen frame and to save weight in the ultralight model. New design points feature an Akrapovic dualmode exhaust system, new alloy wheel designs and a new colour, with the car due to be released onto the European market this summer. Prices have not been announced yet. Like its Coupé sibling, the Alfa Romeo 4C Spider is built around an exotic, ultra-lightweight monocoque chassis using layered carbon fibre that is three

of the purest GT sportscars of all time, the McLaren F1 GTR ‘Longtail’ for the launch of the new McLaren 675LT. This road-legal supercar will embody the ‘Longtail’ ethos with a focus on performance optimised aerodynamics, increased downforce, driver engagement, power and reduced weight. The 675LT will join the core range of McLaren supercars alongside the existing 650S and

Asia-only 625C to form the newly-named McLaren Super Series, which sits above the recently announced Sports Series in the range hierarchy. In line with the convention begun with the 650S, the number 675 denotes the power produced by the 675LT’s engine in PS - the output equating to a devilish 666bhp. This figure makes the 675LT the most powerful offering in the Super Series. It will be offered in coupé body style only when deliveries start later this year. The iconic Longtail name made its debut during

the 1997 season of sportscar racing, and saw a legendary model from McLaren on the grids around the world evolve into the most efficient racefocused version seen todate. Rather than rest on the laurels of the highlysuccessful examples from the previous two seasons, which included a win on its debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1995, McLaren moved the benchmark on further - an approach that echoes through the company to this very day. Formula 1™ knowledge and experience, and the know-how gained from the pinnacle of the sport created the purest version of a true world-beater. Original McLaren F1 GTR Longtail in racing livery.

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Disappointment Down Under for Andy Murray and the England cricket team Tony Matthews A former football player and the world’s most prolific author of football books (more than 100 published), Tony is also the sports reporter for Spectrum Radio and lives in the Cabrera mountains.

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HAVING travelled over 25,000 miles by land, sea and air, I am now back in sunny Spain with my first weekly sport bulletin since early January and over last weekend there was some terrific action. * Andy Murray lost to world number one Novak Djokovic in the final of the men’s singles final in Melbourne. After three great sets the Scot lost 6-0 in the fourth as the Serb collected his eighth Grand Slam title. The majestic Serena Williams beat Maria Sharapova in the women’s final. * Also ‘Down Under’ England were thumped by Australia in the final of the Tri-Nations cricket competition. After twice beating India comfortably, they were no match for the Maxwell-inspired Aussies in the final, losing by 112 runs. Remaining with the hardball game, Perth Scorchers retained their 20/20 Big Bash title, beating Sydney Sixers by four wickets in the final game. * England’s Moeen Ali

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AUSTRALIAN OPEN: Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams won the singles.

has been named Wisden’s 2014 Cricketer of the Year. * Chelsea remain four points clear of reigning champions Manchester City after the top two drew 1-1 at Stamford Bridge. Manchester United are third (after beating Leicester City 3-1), while Arsenal walloped hapless Aston Villa 5-0 at The Emirates. The pressure is now certainly on Villa’s boss Paul Lambert. QPR lost their 10th away game on the trot, going down 3-1 at Stoke for whom Jonathan Walters hit his first-ever hat-trick.

* AFC Bournemouth lead the Championship by a point from Derby County; Bristol City and Shrewsbury Town stand top of Leagues One and Two while Celtic are in pole position in the SPL. In fact, the Bhoys beat Glasgow rivals Rangers 2-0 in Sunday’s Scottish League Cup semi-final and will now play Dundee United (2-1 conquerors of thee holders Aberdeen) in the final. * Barcelona came back twice to beat Villarreal 3-2 at the Nou Camp, Lionel Messi scoring a brilliant winning goal. Barcá remain a point behind La Liga leaders Real Madrid.

Scottish Cup for Pego Golf Bravehearts THE ‘Bravehearts’ of Pego Golf Society took part in the Scottish Cup just after Burns Night in a singles Stableford at Oliva. White frost on the greens and fairways greeted the players but did not deter the large field of 47 turning up for the first ‘major’ of the year. In the main event the prize went to Steve Crossan playing off

16.5 for a score of 40 points. He was followed by Nigel Siddall playing off 14.2 with 37 points, Jan Baker playing off 27.7 on 36, Martin Gates playing off 5.8 with 34, Danny Herron playing off 11.4 on 33, Bill Pike playing off 18.2 on 33 and Roger Brown playing off 17.4 on 33. Nearest the pin on the fifth was Jim Gillies and on the 16th was Barry Levett.

* Nottingham Forest sacked manager Stuart Pearce last weekend and

replaced him with Dougie Freedman. * AC Milan are hoping to build a new 48,000 capacity stadium. * Congratulations to Walsall who have reached their first-ever Cup final in the club’s 127-year history. They will meet Bristol City in the Johnstone Paint Trophy at Wembley. Also at Wembley next month we have Chelsea v Tottenham in the League Cup final. * England will stage a football tournament in 2018... the UEFA U17 Championship. * Sheikh Mansour has invested £1.2 billion in Manchester City since 2008 while across the way at Old Trafford, United’s executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward earned a record £2.52 million last year.

* Former Portugal and Real Madrid star Luis Figo is to stand for the Presidency of FIFA. * Football’s January 2015 transfer deadline ended on Monday and I will list all the top signings/deals next week. It was expected that the billion euro barrier would be smashed with all the top Premiership clubs involved in the signing (and selling) of several players. * Scotland’s Elise Christie is the new European shorttrack speed skating champion. * Big-time boxing will make a return to British TV screen on February 28 when Carl Frampton defends his IBF superbantamweight title against Chris Avalos at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast. The fight is on ITV.

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THE Northern League threw up some good results for Javea Green Bowls Club last week. Opal had an excellent home win against El Cid Swords, managing an impressive 10-0. The top scoring team was skipped by Brian Walker with a magnificent 33-8 win followed closely by Barry Elms’s team who won 29-7. John Coates’s team came back to earn a convincing victory, 30-15.

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Another important away win for La Vila

LA VILA consolidated their position at the top of the league table with an important away win against Tecnidex Valencia. An exciting game finished 2513, with La Vila pushing for the fourth try and all-important bonus point towards the end. The try never came but the travelling supporters enjoyed the convincing victory before the players get a well-deserved break this weekend. La Vila’s next game is against Barcelona Buc at home on February 22 at 12.30pm. The second team will play this weekend at 6pm against Cuenca Rugby Club. La Vila is still looking for players, members and supporters, and particularly players for the second

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CONVINCING VICTORY: La Vila beat Tecnidex Valencia 25-13. senior team. The team plays in the local Alicante league. Anyone wishing to get involved can visit La Vila Rugby Club at

Carretera El Pantono, Villajoyosa, or contact Jason Craig on 659 674 768 or Ignacio on 608 068 208 or email oficina@rugbylavila.net.

BBC still flying high THE in-form players at Benitachell Bowls Club (BBC) had another excellent away performance at Bonalba. The Winter League squad won on three rinks, drew one and took the overall shot difference by 25 shots for a well-deserved 9-3 victory. BBC’s winning rinks were skipped by Maggie Lawley, Dudley Davies and Dave Roberts, with Jeff Richard’s rink drawing the other. BBC has now regained fourth place in the league and close the gap on the leading pack. The next game is against Montemar in two weeks’ time. The postponed Saturday Winter Fours League will be rearranged and details www. communicated via benitachellbowlsclub.com in due course.