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ISSUE NO. 1555 // 23 - 29 APRIL 2015

SEVENTY-FIVE Saharawi children from refugee camps in Algeria will spend two months in Almeria on the Amigos del Sahara ‘Holidays in Peace’ programme.

Uni parents HALF of Almeria University’s 13,000 students have parents with further education qualifications, a survey found. Only 10 per cent of parents failed to finish basic schooling.

Old memories GALLERIES below the shot-tower at Adra’s old San Andres foundry will open to the public. They were used as airraid shelters during the 1936-1939 Civil War.

Bank account holders in Spain face identity crisis By Jan Gamm MANY bank customers have until the end of the month to prove who they are or face having their accounts frozen. A law first passed in 2010 aimed at preventing money laundering and funding of criminal and terrorist organisations is finally coming into force from April 30. It requires banks to hold digital ID of their customers to pass on to the authorities. But despite having had five years to get their act together some banks have only recently started notifying their customers to provide identification. For many it has come via a message in Spanish when withdrawing money from cashpoints, something that may have left English-speaking expats in the dark. Those who have opened accounts since 2010 may not need to take action as the information

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should have been recorded when they signed up. Many more, however, who have held accounts longer may face having their accounts frozen without receiving any notice, leaving them unable to honour direct debits, pay bills or withdraw cash. That is because accounts opened years ago before digital information was filed are likely to

need clarification of identity. A valid NIE (or DNI for Spanish nationals) or a valid passport will be necessary. In addition you could be asked for a contract of employment, an income tax return, an IVA receipt, a utility bill, a recent payslip or a DAE, which is a statement of economic activity. One bank employee told Euro Weekly News: “You wouldn’t be-

lieve the chaos this has caused, both for the bank and for our clients. We face so much anger and criticism from our customers but the freezing of accounts is conducted by the Bank of Spain and our hands are tied. We cannot legally delay matters while clients collate their documents.” Anyone unsure of their position should check with their bank.

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OPEN-AIR: Nijar to get its first art and flea market.

Las Negras sets out its stalls

ART and commerce have joined forces to provide Nijar with another open-air market. The Soñadores del Arte (Art Dreamers) and the local Asociacion de Comerciantes have worked together to create the ‘mercadillo’, the town’s first art and flea market, in Nijar’s Las Negras district. It is located in Calle Buendia and Cantos Rodados near the seafront ‘paseo’. The recently inaugurated open-air market at Las Negras will be held on the third Sun-

day of each month between 10am and 2pm. This complements the main town’s existing market which is held every fourth Sunday and has now switched its location to the central Church Square. Coinciding with the start of the good weather, resident and visitors can browse the Las Negras stalls where they can discover art, antiques, handcrafted items, traditional food and organic produce. There will also be live music and children’s workshops.

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NEWS New role THE ministry of Public Works will finance 70 per cent of the cost of restoring Almeria City’s 19th century railway station. Closed since 2005, it will become a cultural centre, the mayor revealed. Bookwork clues A 44-YEAR-OLD carer was arrested in Huercal-Overa, charged with stealing jewellery worth €4,000 from her disabled employers. The alleged thefts emerged during routine Guardia Civil checks on a local gold-dealer’s transactions.

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Where did the Goyas go? A LIMITED edition of Goya prints acquired by a previous Carboneras town hall has apparently disappeared without trace. ‘The Disasters of War’ were ordered from the publishing firm Planeta in 2009 at a cost of €3,250 to be paid in 62 instalments of €124 each. Nobody now knows where the prints are or remembers having

seen them and there is no record that they were ever registered in the Municipal Library inventory. The current town hall has now asked Planeta to certify who actually took delivery of the prints. The purchase order was signed by the previous mayor, according to town hall sources, and was accompanied by the Culture

department official stamp. “We wrote weeks ago to Planeta but are still waiting for a reply,” said Felipe Cayuela, councillor responsible for Finance. No steps have been taken to start legal proceedings as the town hall wants to tie up all loose ends before involving the police or the courts, insiders explained.

New market MACAEL will soon have a covered municipal market, with eight stalls and a bar. The €99,000 cost was covered by the national government’s PFEA plan to encourage investment. Trading plans AN international stockbroking firm is giving free tutoring on stock market investment on May 19 and 20 in Almeria City. No previous knowledge is necessary. Three Rs NEXT month 8,230 secondyear pupils at primary school will sit reading, writing and arithmetic evaluations. The results will enable them to make decisions regarding the educational process.

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Moneymaking fun THE Arboleas Charity Fundraisers association held a Family Fun Day on April 12 and raised €820 to be shared between families in need and the schoolchildren of Arboleas.

Firmed up THE earth road between Almeria City’s Cabo de Gata neighbourhood and Cortijada Mazarrulleque will be paved with pigmented cement compatible with its surroundings. The €160,000 cost will be met by the Diputacion.

Uplifting news THE regional Health service will spend €300,000 on overhauling lifts at the province’s hospitals and health centres. This follows repeated complaints from Almeria City’s Bola Azul where lifts have been out of order for weeks. Pet defence A MAN was injured after reproaching a dog-walker whose pet fouled an Almeria City park. The owner, who hit the man’s head with his dog’s lead, spent the night in police cells.

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Saying farewell A DAILY average of 27 Almeria residents left the country last year compared with 33 in 2013, national statistics office INE revealed. A daily 25 left to work elsewhere in Spain.

Cycling peril INNER SANCTUARY: For an overwhelming scent of jasmine, geraniums and orange blossom.

Blooming wonderful festival in Cordoba

THE COURTYARDS, or simply ‘Patios’ festival of Cordoba 2015 will run from May 4, until May 17. ‘Los Patios de Cordoba’ is Cordoba’s most anticipated, and fragrant yearly event. The first two weeks of May see the most beautiful kept courtyards in the world fling open their doors to the public. Carpets of flowers, handmade Islamic mosaics, striking water features combine with an overwhelming scent of jasmine, geraniums, carnations and orange blossom. Since 1921, the town hall has organised a competition of Courtyards and Crosses in the first week of May, where the owners decorate their houses with great care to try and win the prestigious award offered by the authorities. Over 50 patios will be open free of charge to the public. The town hall has published nine sug-

Quote of the Week I’ve got to kill more people,” said a 13year-old secondary school student in Barcelona over and over again after killing a teacher and injuring another four people on Monday during what authorities are describing as a psychotic outbreak.

gested routes you can visit on your own accord, or you can join a paid tour party to take in these wonderful authentic inner sanctuaries that date back hundreds of years. Firstly the Romans, and later the Muslims adapted the typical design of the popular house to their needs, making the home centre on an inner courtyard (or patio), normally with a fountain in the middle and often a well to collect rainwater. The Muslims made further adjustments, giving the house an entrance from the street which passed through a porch, and filling the courtyard with plants to give the sensation of freshness. A visit is indeed worth the effort, but bear in mind, nearly all the patios close between 2pm and 6pm. For more details and routes, see the website at www.patiosyrutascordoba.com.

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non-Spanish people began paying into social security system in March said reports by the Employment and Social Security Ministry. March was the second month in a row to see increases in the number of foreigners finding legal work in Spain.

FIVE cyclists have died on Almeria roads since between 2012 and 2014, more than in any other Andalucia Province. Barcelona was most dangerous province during this period, with 18 deaths.

Help with bills ALMERIA CITY by-laws will be modified to reduce water bills for some collectives. These include pensioners, large families, families hit by unemployment and those at risk from social exclusion.

‘Not our fault’ THE Junta rejected a Vera resident’s €152,290 compensation claim for permitting his house to be built on a flood plain. September 2012’s rainfall was exceptional and unforeseeable, the Junta argued.

And finally... A VIDEO of a choir from Jacaranda school in Sevilla singing La Musica No Se Toca, a song by Alejandro Sanz, has gone viral on the internet after the singer shared it on his Facebook page, stating that he had fallen in love with the entire school.

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Tables are turned and tempers fray in the Andalucia Parliament ANDALUCIA’S regional MPs have been sworn in, but not without incident.

Proceedings began smoothly with the election of the PSOE’s Juan

Pablo Duran as President, equivalent to the Speaker. Naming the Chamber’s three vicepresidents, one each from the most-voted PSOE, Partido Popular (PP) and Podemos, was also completed without problems. Then came the election of the Mesa’s (Table) other three members or secretaries. The Table is a deliberative body which

evaluates the documents that enter Chamber and approves them for processing by Parliament. Tempers then frayed and insults were exchanged between the PP’s spokesman Carlos Rojas and PSOE’s Luis Pizarro. In a role equivalent to Father of the House, he supervised the composition of the Mesa and since all parties should be represented on

the Mesa, he designated one each from Ciudadanos and Izquierda Unida. Another went to the PSOE as the most-voted party but Pizarro’s arithmetic incensed the PP, which maintained that it was entitled to another place on the Mesa. The party will formally complain to the Constitutional Tribunal about the way the Mesa was set

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Immigrants: To help or not to help?

OW desperate would you have to be? What could convince you to risk the lives of your children and spouse, not to mention your own? It must be one of the most difficult decisions anyone would have to make to uproot family and place them in the hands of human traffickers, in the hope of reaching a safer country. But that’s the decision thousands of families take every year, often with the tragic outcome witnessed this week when more than 700 people drowned off the coast of Libya. The problem that Europe is facing at the moment with the influx of migrants landing on our shores is not so much: “Should we help them?” But rather: “What is the best way to help them and us at the same time?” There seem

to be two main camps of thought. Those that say: “Keep them out.” And those that say: “Let them in and never mind the consequences.” Australia would be the perfect example of how zero tolerance works well. PM Tony Abbott said: “If you want to stop migrants crossing the Mediterranean, don’t let them set foot on land.” And although it sounds harsh, we cannot deny it has stopped the boats heading for Oz. But European refugee groups say: “Forget the future, save them now and sort it out later.” Which on the face of it is the most humane response. Hopefully common sense will prevail at the emergency EU meetings this week. Maybe a mix of both camps will be the answer. Save them all now! Then stop any more boats leaving port.

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up, Carlos Rojas announced. “Pizarro has committed a criminal offence,” he said.

No power spoils Sunday A SEVEN-HOUR power cut in Almeria City last weekend was the last straw for hostelry association ASHAL. When work was carried out over a wide area on a similar occasion in the past, electricity company Endesa staggered it so that no district was without electricity for a long period of time, ASHAL recalled. This time the news that the El Zapillo area and the Paseo Maritimo would be without electricity between 8am and 3pm was sprung on bar and restaurant owners with only two days’ notice. “We tried to contact Endesa for more information but no-one could tell us anything,” ASHAL lamented. “This was a nonworking day with good weather, encouraging a lot of people to go out. Endesa should understand that the many small businesses do most of their trade at the weekend.”

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Job well done THE central government extended until 2018 the Almeria posting of its present sub-delegate for Defence, Col Javier Angel Soriano Trujillo. The extension is recognition of his achievements in the province.

Local oil EXTRA virgin olive oil produced in Tabernas won two gold medals at the agricultural trade fair, AVPA in Paris. The winning varieties are named ‘Picual del Desierto’ and ‘Esencia.’

Weight issue TWENTY-THREE per cent of children and adolescents aged between two and 16 in Almeria Province are overweight. Lifestyle changes have ‘drastically’ affected local eating habits, the regional government said.

High court holdups LAST YEAR, each Almeria high court judge dealt with an average of 227 criminal and 289 civil cases. They lagged behind the Andalucia region’s average of 301, admitted Lourdes Molina, president of the Audiencia Provincial. They also take longer to clear their workload of criminal cases than counterparts in Andalucia’s other provinces, spending between eight and 18 months on each case. The 2,014 criminal cases referred to the high courts were 5 per cent up on 2013 but the total of 1,882 hearings were 3 per cent down, Molina said.

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From Almanzora all the way to Mars GEOLOGIST Dr Jesus Martinez Frias gave a recent talk on jarosite in Cuevas del Almanzora. This mineral was first discovered in the 19th century in the Barranco del Jaroso gully in Cuevas del Almanzora, hence the name jarosite. It has also been detected on Mars in 2004, revealed Dr Martinez, an expert on meteorites, planetary geology and astrobiology. Its presence on Mars is strong evidence there was water on the planet in the past, Dr Martinez told his fascinated audience. The local mineral’s presence on Mars was also confirmed recently by new data pro-

GEOLOGIST: Dr Jesus Martinez Frias. vided by Curiosity, the robotic rover that explored Gale Crater, Dr Martinez added.

Briton loses life at traffic blackspot in Los Gallardos A 36-YEAR-OLD British man was run over and killed as he crossed the N-340 in Los Gallardos. The accident occurred at around approximately 11pm but the emergency services could do nothing to help the victim who died at the moment of impact. According to a Spanish witness who stopped at the scene, he was a local resident walking from the town to his home on the Huerta Nueva urbanisation. He was hit by the

car as he crossed the old N-340 main road where it intersects with Calle Molino. There are neither streetlamps nor traffic lights at this notorious spot where Huerta Nueva’s 300 residents have repeatedly asked for a roundabout or underpass. They take their lives in their hands every time they cross it, one told the press, as this busy road links the motorway exit with Garrucha and Mojacar.

No arrest has been made, the Guardia Civil confirmed later, pointing out that the victim was not wearing a high-visibility jacket.

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What symbols are there at your door? CHALKED symbols can often be seen on gateposts or the outer walls of a house. Are they encoded messages from the burgling fraternity? Or are they no more than scrawled graffiti, as sceptics claim? An Almeria reader forwarded a crib of these alleged symbols to the Euro Weekly News , sent to him after a friend heard that he had been the victim of a break-in. “Earlier this month I caught a guy in our bedroom,” John Hare told us. “Fortunately we were able to restrain him with the aid of our neighbours, one of whom risked his wedding tackle by climbing over a sixfoot wall to assist us. “Others came to help,

CRIB: Signs with a hidden message called the Guardia Civil and an ambulance and took over from my wife (three days short of her 70th birthday) who was holding the man in a headlock. Last Friday he received a prison sentence from an Almeria court,” John continued. Word of the incident

spread quickly through Zurgena and as a result he received a list of the symbols. “I have no idea if these are accurate or if they are relevant to our case,” John said, “but perhaps it could be worth warning other people.

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Hash haul A DRIVER and his passenger were arrested at a Cuevas traffic control after a kilo of marihuana was found in their vehicle.

Charity quiz A QUIZ night at Bar Sierra Enmedia (Las Norias) organised by Alan and Joyce to raise funds for the Parkinson’s Association made €809, which will be donated to the charity.

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NEWS EXTRA NIJAR Council has voted to ask the national government to review the town’s rateable values, to adapt them to the present economic circumstances and reduce IBI property rates.

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MINHA LUA: (L to R) Cesar Jimenez, Victoria Cruz and Gabriel Pancorbo.

Fado notes in Vera

MORE than 400 people filled Vera’s municipal auditorium for Minha Lua’s fado recital. Fado has Portuguese roots although singer Victoria Cruz, cellist Cesar Jimenez and guitarist-composer Gabriel Pancorbo are all from Granada. They won the ‘Premio del Jurada’ (Jury Prize)

at the 2014 edition of the Encinart Festival and have toured extensively in Spain, Portugal, France, Switzerland and Brazil. Minha Lua recently brought out their second disc, ‘O Milagre’, with music born of fado which evokes Al-Andalus in its rhythm and the rich poetic tradition of its lyrics.

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Ageist list THE PSOE mayor of Cobdar will run for the PP after he was sidelined in favour of younger candidates for the May elections. The news was like a cold shower, he said.

City record EXACTLY 42,286 people visited Almeria City’s Alcazaba in this year’s first quarter. Easter Week saw a record 9,434 visitors.

Days off AN Almeria couple have received a ninemonth prison term and a €1,350 fine for their children’s repeated truancy. Aged 10 and 12, they missed 82 and 97 days respectively during the school year.

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Every little helps... THE Ministry of Defence will pay Viator Town Hall €60,000 a year for occupying municipal land. The Spanish Legion has

occupied the base, which covers an area of 351.8 hectares, for 50 years but no attempt was made until now to fill a legal void,

Franco-era eagle to go from school A FRANCO-ERA crest will be removed from the main entrance to Almeria City’s Celia Viñas school. The wrought-iron eagle, a symbol of the previous regime, will be cut away from the decorative grillwork over the door. It should disappear before the end of the month, confirmed Isabel Arevalo, the regional government’s education delegate. Culture department personnel inspected the crest in January, taking photographs and estimating the date when it was installed, Arevalo explained. Having established that the emblem was a later addition to the grillwork it can be removed with a minimum of official formalities and without involving the regional heritage commission, she said

said Viator Mayor, Maria del Mar Lopez. A study of files and archives at the town hall failed to uncover paperwork granting municipallyowned land for the base’s firing range and manoeuvres, Lopez revealed. Although the Ministry of Defence had made every effort to co-operate, the negotiations leading up to the 75-year agreement lasted three years, the mayor said. The agreement signed recently with Junior Defence Minister Pedro Arguelles Salaverria in Madrid has also cleared the way for a second deal. It has been agreed the El Chapao area in the northern section of the land used for field exercises can be used for hunting. A second pact will be signed in the coming weeks, specifying conditions and timetables, Lopez said.

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No bids for Cabo de Gata mining ENVIRONMENTALISTS have opposed moves to put Cabo de Gata mining rights out to tender. The Amigos del Parque Natural Cabo de Gata-Nijar group announced they will appeal against this decision to Andalucia’s Upper Court and the European Union. Expressing “maximum respect” for any collective

to exercise their legal rights, a communiqué from the Junta’s Economy, Innovation, Science and Employment delegation pointed out that the appeal will have no effects. No bids have been received to acquire the right to prospect for minerals in the areas concerned, the communiqué continued.

Nevertheless, Spain’s mining laws oblige the regional government to put them out to tender and old permits in now protected areas are not exempted from this, the Junta said. “So this process and the required environmental reports are necessary independently of any decision in the future,” it concluded.

Robbery that never was AN El Ejido greengrocer’s employee was arrested after false reporting that he had been mugged. He claimed he was attacked on his way to bank the shop’s takings of €11,400 and a €5,100 cheque. His attackers who were on a moped approached from behind and sped off after snatching the money, he claimed. Criminal investigation officers from the

Judicial Police found the same man had reported similar crimes on several occasions. Each time he had received a compensation payout from his insurance company which he changed each year. A reconstruction demonstrated the robbery could not have been carried out as he described it, police revealed later. The supposed victim was finally arrested and the case referred to the courts.

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Trip turns out bright after a drizzly start CHAMPIONS: Good results in an excellent season.

Junior team hit the top of the league MOJACAR CLUB DEPORTIVO’S youngest football team have been proclaimed champions in their group. There was still one match to play in the 2014-2015 season but the outcome was clear following the team’s 4-1 victory over the Oriente side. The team belongs to the category for children born in 2005 and 2006 who have been promoted to the second division of Andalucia’s League Seven, the highest possible level for the youngest players. The team’s 14 players have had an excellent season with 20 wins, a draw and one defeat in the 22 games played. They scored 134 goals while conceding only 50. Coach Thomas Saez Castro is full of praise for the effort, enthusiasm and motivation of his young players and achievements that Club Deportivo Mojacar can be justly proud of.

THE morning was drizzly but the coach taking Mojacar residents on an excursion to the Alpujarras was full. A breakfast stop in Fondon was welcome after such an early start and it was here that the party picked up the guide who was to accompany them on the trip. The rain had stopped by then and the group were able to walk round the town and pay an interesting visit to the unusual Palacio de las Godoyas and the San Andres church. From Fondon the group went on to Laujar de Andarax where they strolled through the picturesque Plaza Mayor with its fountain and saw the town’s oldest building, the La Encarnacion church. This was followed by a visit to the Valle de Laujar bodega where they sampled a variety of the local wines. A lunch of local specialities at the Sol y Luna restaurant in Al-

IN THE ALPUJARRAS: Mojacar residents take a trip. colea was followed by visits to three local producers of olive oil, cakes and cured hams, meats and sausages. The very full day of activities was well-organised by Raquel

Belmonte, Mojacar’s Councillor for Culture and the excursion funded by Mojacar Town Hall was thoroughly enjoyed by Spanish and non-Spanish residents alike.

Tips for success START-UPS are the focus of Huercal-Overa’s twoday Entrepreneurship Conference that starts today, Thursday April 23. The programme of

talks and round-tables includes guest appearances tomorrow from national swimming champion David Meca and the versatile Venezuelan-born

author and journalist Boris Izaguirre, who brings the conference to a close. Both will describe in separate talks their own formulas and secrets for success that each of them has had in their particular field.

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On call ALMERIA CITY’S fire station will have nine bedrooms, bathrooms and a common room once promised work on its upper floor is completed.

Play plans NIJAR is to reduce the number of children’s playgrounds from 50 to 36, the town hall revealed.

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Lunch ‘n’ Listen in El Pilar HOWARD HEADWORTH presents his Andalucia saga in El Pilar, Sorbas-Lubrin at 12.30pm on Thursday

April 30. Novelist Howard Headworth has lived in Almeria for 20 years and is enthralled by the vestiges of the former Muslim kingdom still evident in Andalucia. This prompted his two novels, The AlAndalus Chronicle, and its sequel, Spain’s Pursuit of Destiny: The Columbus Years, which details events during a crucial point in Spanish history around the year 1500. The talk is followed by book-signing and a three-course lunch. Tickets cost €12 and early booking is advisable as places are limited. Call 950 069 077/647 877 091 or email restaurante albar@gmail.com

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Success for Team Harmony event TEAM HARMONY’S recent fashion show and lunch organised by Sandra Lyon and Jeannie Kettle raised €1,143 for charity. This included €422 from Jeannie’s raffle for Casa Teja, the Pulpi association for the disabled. Officials from the organisation, together with the mayor of Pulpi and the local council, were present to accept the cheque. The event was held at Hotel Calypso in San Juan de los Terreros where all attending enjoyed lunch. It was an “absolutely fantastic day” they agreed afterwards, describing the atmosphere as electric, as the stunning ladies modelled clothes and accessories from the Oasis fashion boutique in Mojacar.

TEAM HARMONY: Getting ready for the catwalk. Music was provided by Danny from Annie’s Bar in Tererros. Team Harmony, which has been supporting local and international charities since 2008, thanked all those who attended or were involved in organising the show as well as Oasis and Hotel Calypso. “We shall certainly be holding another in the

near future,” the group promised.

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A-334 upgrade WORK has finished on 38 kilometres of the A-334 between Baza and HuercalOvera. The €6 million project included resurfacing, better access, new signposting and improved surface drainage.

On target GUARDIA REAL officers were recently on exercises at the Viator military base. The guards, selected from Spain’s armed forces to protect the royal household, spent five days on firearms training.

Gone at last THE electricity transformer at the Carretera La Alqueria and Camino del Molino crossroads in Adra has gone. Now that the transformer has been moved at last in response to years of requests from residents, the site will be given a facelift with pavements and a resurfaced road, the town hall said.

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Stop felling! THE IU spokesman on El Ejido Council has called for the ‘indiscriminate’ felling of trees to cease in Paseo de Las Lomas.

Physics prize TWO Almeria contestants won ‘Mentions of Honour’ in the national phase of the Physics Olympics in Madrid. One studies at the city’s Al-Andalus Institute and the other at SEK Alboran.

No cars ALMOCITA will become car-less at weekends by creating covered parking on a nearby urbanisation. It is hoped to extend this to working days, the mayor revealed.

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Fewer pirate workshops and more self-employed in Almeria MORE than 30 per cent of Spain’s unregistered car repair workshops are located in Andalucia. There are around 3,000 post-sales garages operating outside the law in the region, maintained GANVAM, Spain’s national asso-

ciation of car salespeople, mechanics and spare parts suppliers. Unfair competition encouraged by price-conscious consumers is making a difficult situation even worse, GANVAM pointed out during a recent meet-

ing of more than 200 sales and car repair employees. Sevilla and Cadiz account for more than 30 per cent of the sector’s pirate activities, followed by Malaga with 15 per cent. Almeria, in contrast, has fewer than any other Andalucia

province, with just 0.1 per cent. The latest Social Security figures from Andalucia’s Statistics Office put Almeria at the head of another list in direct opposition to piracy, as the province has proportionately more self-

Labour of love for The Doghouse THE Doghouse, which helps the Huercal-Overa area’s abandoned and abused animals, recently called for help. It asked for assistance in rebuilding kennels and clearing up after the recent storms which caused so many animal deaths and so much damage. After raising €1,000 The Doghouse was able to

KENNEL BUILDING: Not-so-casual labour. buy building materials but was still in need of labour. Volunteers Sandie and Phil Wines, Annie and Pete Walker, came to the rescue. They put in four days’ work and last Sunday were joined by Dave, Geoff, Claire and Jean to help rebuild the kennels.

employed workers than any other Andalucia province. Autonomous workers represent 17.5 per cent of Andalucia’s total workforce with 20.8 per cent registered in Almeria Province. The number of self-employed workers increased throughout Andalucia over the last year, with men accounting for 65.6 per cent of the regional total.

New venue for Dames in Turre DAMES IN TURRE hold their next meeting on Monday, April 27, at 11am at their new venue, Hostal Rural Turre. With summer coming and everyone wanting to look their best, Alison Bramwell will be demonstrating easy exercises that can be done at home. So get out those sweat bands and lycra shorts and join in the fun! Come and make new friends, as guests are welcome, and relax in the beautiful surroundings with coffee and tapas. For more information contact Secretary Pam Smith on 677 543 031 or President Lesley Barlow on 950 095 980.

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Compensation for storm damage THE Junta de Andalucia regional government will pay €1.4 million in compensation to growers following last January’s hailstorms. El Ejido’s San Agustin area suffered the worst damage and the 27 beneficia-

ries of the payouts lost greenhouses which covered an area of 31 hectares. The payout came from a €4 million fund set up to assist growers to resume normal production as soon as possible, said the regional government’s Almeria delegate for Agriculture, Fisheries and the Environment, Jose Manuel Ortiz. “We requested sufficient funds to ensure that nobody was left out and could count on help if THREE men in their 30s have been arrested for stealnecessary,” Ortiz said. ing 1,336 kilos of copper from a newly-finished GarThe Junta initially calrucha urbanisation. culated that 72 hectares The thefts began in January 2014. Copper piping and of greenhouses were cables had been stripped away, causing considerable damaged at the begindamage to the properties, which are now up for sale. ning of the year, pointed Guardia Civil investigators identified one of the alout the Junta’s delegate leged thieves and then visited scrap metal dealers, loSonia Ferrer. “Emergency cating one in Cuevas del Almanzora who had bought estimates, as we saw lat20 vanloads of copper from the suspect. er, are not always realisAfter arresting him in Garrucha, the Guardia returned tic, meaning that in cases to the urbanisation where they arrested his two accomlike these we should proplices, both from Vera, just as they prepared to strike ceed with caution,” Ferrer again. added.

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Successful with milk allergies PAEDIATRICIANS at the Torrecardenas hospital have introduced a pioneering programme for treating children with cow’s milk allergy. Over the last two years

the unit has achieved a 92.2 per cent success rate with “specific oral tolerance induction” (SOTI) therapy. “The programme is carried out with children

Compensation for goat crash A MOTORCYCLIST who crashed into a goat on the Almeria City ring road will receive €49,900 compensation. “I was doing around 90 kilometres an hour when two enormous goats, each weighing around 100 kilos, jumped out from the central reservation,” said Jose Manuel afterwards. “I avoided the first one but all I remember about the second was seeing its back and falling.” He suffered serious road burns and bruising on hands, arms, knees and back in an accident that the Madrid high court said was caused by ministry of Public Works’ negligence.

aged over five,” explained Dr Jose Maria Batlles during a talk to the Andalucia Food Allergy Association (Avanzax). They begin with extremely low doses of milk which are gradually increased if the young patient is able to tolerate them. Reaching the stage where they can drink an entire glass of milk can take around 11 weeks for low-risk cases or 30 where children have a history of anaphylactic shock. “At present this is the only possible cure for these children,” said a spokesman for the Avanzax association which was created six months ago with the aim of raising awareness of food allergies.

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Noisy sports centre impossible in spring THE sports complex in Almeria City’s Los Angeles district was good news for sports enthusiasts but not residents. Every spring since it opened 10 years ago, residents of Calle Oria adjoining the centre have complained about the noisy air-conditioning units which will go full blast until the autumn. The centre closes at 10pm but the air-conditioning is still functioning in the early hours of the morning, they main-

tained. Noise levels measured by police in 2006 registered more than 50 decibels instead of the respective 35 or 30 stipulated for living rooms and bedrooms. A wall built at ground level round the low-level units did nothing to eliminate the noise, residents said, and their sleep is still disturbed. Some changed their living arrangements and spend as much of their time indoors as far away from the continual racket

as they can get. Others take medication for anxiety, insomnia and tension headaches, they admitted. “Spring and summer are impossible but living here in the winter is heaven,” said one of the 20 residents who complained in writing to city hall’s Town Planning department. The situation is making their lives a misery, they said in a call for a definitive solution from Almeria City Hall.

Prevention better than cure HUERCAL-OVERA families recently received advice on protecting small children from domestic accidents. Statistically under-fives are most at risk and Huerca-Overa Town Hall organised a talk and demonstration on preventing or, in a worst-case scenario,

handling accidents in the home. Choking on toys, poisoning from cleaning products or medication and fire or electricity injuries were covered during the session. “We hope this will help families when they are faced with an emergency,” said Huercal mayor Domingo Fernandez.

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Hate crimes SEVEN ‘hate crimes’ were reported last year in Almeria. Four were homophobic in nature and three were racist, according to a report by central government’s Interior ministry.

Rag trade VICAR residents recycled 5,899 kilos of clothes and textiles from January to April. This was almost 50 per cent more than the 3,969 kilos deposited in this period last year.

Country air ANDALUCIA’s rural accommodation works out at €23 per person per night, 11 per cent below the €25.8 national average. Almeria is the region’s dearest destination (€29.8).

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Black box clues to chopper mystery THE Beatles had a Yellow Submarine and Nijar has its Yellow Helicopter. The extensively damaged but empty bright yellow aircraft was found lying on its side in a field in Fernan Perez almost three weeks ago. There were no previous calls for help

and the presumed owners have not reclaimed it. Their unaccustomed silence could be related to the traces of hashish found by sniffer dogs in the helicopter’s cargo hold. The Policia Judicial, Spain’s equivalent of the CID, recently sent off the helicopter’s black boxes for analysis and their contents are expected to shed some light on events leading up to the crash. From the outset the PoliThe link between these cia Judicial were not ruling two sobering statistics out any possible explanadoes not need spelling tion, said sources quoted in out and the Guardia Civil the local Spanish press, altraffic division (DGT) has though everything points launched a nationwide to a drugs shipment. campaign to raise awareThe black boxes are exness of the need to repected to reveal whether spect speed limits. the helicopter had planned Traffic police are douto land in the Fernan Perez bling the number of confield where it was found or trol points, warned DGT if it was on its way to pick head Maria Segui, espeup a cargo. The aircraft’s cially on statistically-perposition suggests that it ilous main roads. was making for the coast.

‘Slow down’ THE Guardia Civil traffic police issued 5,623 fines for speeding in Almeria Province last year. Ignoring speed limits was the motive for most of the traffic fines issued to drivers in this province for the eighth year running. Speeding was also a contributing factor to three out of every five fatal road accidents, revealed the provincial traffic authority.

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Gap bridged THE Almanzora Via Verde path will have a €300,000 walkway linking the Olula del Rio and Fines sections so users no longer need to cross the main road.

Different use ONCE the new Simon Fuentes school building in Carboneras is finished, the vacated 6,900-square-metre site will be used for the weekly market.

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New look at the awards QUEEN LETIZIA of Spain surprised everyone on Monday night (April 20) by appearing with a new look for an awards ceremony in Madrid. The queen has jumped on the ‘long bob’ bandwagon, a style other wellknown women including Victoria Beckham have recently started to favour. Her Majesty Letizia presided over the first edition of the Woman Awards at Madrid Casino, which were organised by Woman magazine. Actress Salma Hayek,

QUEEN LETIZIA: Is now sporting a ‘long bob.’ doctor Maria Neira and orchestra director Inma Shara were among those chosen to receive

an award. The queen noted that many things needed to change and improve in

the ‘world of women,’ including unemployment levels, violence, unequal salaries and the difference in the amount of time women dedicate to housework and childcare compared to men. “If there’s a reason for us being here tonight it is that we have many reasons to think lots of things still need to change for women,” the queen stressed, before noting that along with unequal work conditions, education and marriage of young girls also needed attention.

Late in leaving home THE latest study on youth trends by Eurostat statistics office has revealed that young adults in Spain are amongst the slowest to leave

home in the EU. While the average age for moving out for all the member states combined was 26.1, in Spain an average age of 28.9

was reported. While Spanish women were in a bit more of a hurry with an average age of 27.9, young men take another two years to budge. Scandinavian countries were reported as those where youngsters spread their wings the earliest, with Swedish youths leaving home at an average age of 19.6, Danish at 21 and Finnish at 21.9. They were followed by Holland at 23.5, France

at 23.6 and Germany at 23.9. Yet youths in Spain were not those who dragged their heels the most. Croatians were reported as the latest nest-flyers with an average leaving age of 31.9, followed by Slovakia (30.7), Malta (30.1), Italy (29.9), Greece (29.3), Bulgaria (29.1) and Portugal (29). Across all EU member states women were reported to take the leap earlier than their male counterparts.

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IS blamed for Spanish embassy bombing A BOMB exploded outside the Spanish embassy in Tripoli, Libya. Nobody was injured as the building has remained empty since Spain, like most Western countries, pulled diplomats out of the country months ago after heavy fighting broke out between rival armed groups. The bomb, which was thrown from a vehicle, went off just before 1am local time on Monday, April 20, and caused damage to the building’s outer walls, witnesses reported. IS militants have been claiming a string of killings of foreigners along with attacks on embassies and oilfields in Libya over recent months, creating chaos in the North African country where two separate governments fight for control four years after

BOMBING: Tripoli in Libya. Colonel Gaddafi was ousted. Last Sunday, the group claimed to have killed around 30 Ethiopian Christians, just two months after 21 Egyptian Copts were beheaded on a beach.

Politician’s button mix-up AS Spanish opposition leader Pedro Sanchez rushed to apologise for accidentally voting in parliament for an abortion proposal his party was against, social media filled with jokes on the gaffe. Sanchez hit the wrong button when

the time came to vote on taking the issue to debate. Spanish national newspaper ABC remarked that Sanchez was not the first politician to fail to notice the difference between red and green buttons in congress.

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Cardinal petition TWO thousand parishioners in Javea have signed a petition to the cardinal against the imminent transfer of the popular vicar of the Church of Sant Bertomeu, Julian Puras.

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THE cherry harvest in the Vall d’Acala near Alcoy is predicted to be 10 per cent down this year due to bad weather, estimated at a total crop of only seven million kilos.

THE festival of the Virgen del Milagro that began on Saturday in Cocentaina was marked with 27 fogueras (bonfires) in honour of the tears of the Virgin. La Crema was followed by a spectacular procession.

Jailed teacher THE owner of a Valencian language school has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years imprisonment after embezzling €317,283 from various university courses.

WORK in the Campillo de Vidrio car park in Nerja has been completed, including its repaving as well as road sign painting. Parking spaces have been extended from 50 to 80.

Sports facilities BOUGAINVILLEA PRUNING: Even the gardener looks real.

Estepona unveils its latest mural THE Bougainvillea Pruning, a mural by Jose Fernandez Rios, has been unveiled at Victor de la Serna school in Estepona. The mural covers an entire 300square-metre wall, and aims to confuse the observer, who can be forgiven for thinking the gardener is a real

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Open sailing GUARDAMAR’S sailing school is hosting an open day on May 1 at the port where more than 40 sailing schools will be present and offering demonstrations.

Bee swarm THE Beekeepers Association of Young Farmers (ASAJA) removed a swarm of 6,000 bees from a building in Calle García Morato, Alicante. The bees will be examined and not destroyed, to promote biodiversity.

Jellyfish attack THOUSANDS of jellyfish were washed up along the coast of La Manga del Mar Menor following strong winds.

Calf collision A MAN was taken to hospital with serious injuries after his car collided with a calf on the A-7 motorway just north of Lorca, Murcia. It appears the animal had escaped from a nearby farm.

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cial advertising spot for the Tour of Spain bicycle race. The filming was carried out on El Cañuelo beach, at the Maro Cliffs Natural Park.

STREET improvement works of Calle Cadiz in Almuñecar have already begun. With a total cost of €24,000, plans are to renovate the sewage and water systems, as well as paving.

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AN earthquake in the region of the central highway between Xixona, Ibi and Alcoy registered 2.7 on the Richter Scale on Friday evening at 10.58pm, particularly felt in Alcoy. The Emergency Coordination Centre received dozens of calls.

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Caritas is 50 CARITAS Orihuela-Alicante is marking its 50th birthday with exhibitions and documentaries. The exhibition ‘50 years with you’ is at las Cigarreras, Alicante to May 3.

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Come south! ANDALUCIA was present at the BTravel tourism fair in Cataluña last week to encourage more visitors from the area to come south on holiday. Andalucian hotels registered visits from 519,446 people from the region last year.

Language conference EAQUALS (Evaluation and Accreditation of Quality in Language Services) international conference was held in Malaga last week, bringing 250 people from 30 countries to the city for the event.

person, the artist explained. The painting is the 24th addition to Estepona’s mural route, and joins another two by the same artist: A Day’s Fishing, which at almost 1,000 square metres was declared the tallest mural in Spain, and Girl Watering.

Better parking MANILVA Council has contracted a local company to renovate and improve parking in Playa Paraiso due to popular demand. With a budget of €44,671, the work is expected to be ready before the summer.

Open air art WORKS by 22 emerging artists are on show at Malaga’s La Concepcion Botanical Gardens until May 17. The show, Caprichos, includes more than 50 pieces by local and expatriate artists.

New flights AENA airport authorities have announced two new routes for this summer linking the Malaga-Costa del Sol Airport to Amberes, Belgium, and Amsterdam, Holland.

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Eurovision star EDURNE, Spain’s 2015 Eurovision representative, visited Nerja to record the offi-

WORK to replace the pavement at the sport courts of Maro and the Nerja sports Centre has already begun. The total cost of the project will be €90,000.

Bullying arrests TWO minors from Motril and Madrid have been arrested by National Police for allegedly threatening and harassing another young boy through social media. The victim alleged that the suspects had asked for sexually explicit photographs of him.

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Deadly fall A 65-YEAR-OLD woman died on Sunday (April 19) after falling from the sixth floor of a building in Palma. The incident occurred at around 5pm.

Good cause catwalk THE charity children’s fashion runway event held by the Association for People with Disabilities of Calvia (Asdica) last week, raised almost €3,000, which will be donated to the association’s projects for disabled youths.

Injured rider A MOTORBIKE rider suffered injuries after falling in the Cami de Passatemps (Son Sardina). Local Police believe that the fall was accidental although they are carrying out an investigation in case he was hit by another vehicle.

Sustainable transport THE Balearic Islands Regional Government has allocated €300,000 in funding to convert public transport vehicles to use compressed natural gas. This fuel is more environmentally friendly and 40 per cent cheaper than traditional ones.

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VERY few foreigners convicted of crimes in Norway go home to serve their sentences. This year only eight returned to their country of origin to finish their jail terms.

Ebola aid NORWAY’S health minister, Bent Hoie, has confirmed that the country has provided more than NOK500 million to fight Ebola in West Africa.

In Memorium JOHAN MARTIN FERNER, the 87-year-old husband of Norway’s Princess Astrid, has passed away quietly at the Oslo University Hospital.

Legalise drug HANNA WAGENIUS, chairperson of Sweden’s Centre Party Youth Wing, has called for the legalisation of cannabis, following the example of the Netherlands and some US states.

Global best SWEDEN’S Pensions and Social Care systems have been applauded as the best in the world according to the Global Agewatch Index. HAPPY DAYS: Sweden’s pension system is the best in the world.

BERLIN is cracking down on casual holiday rentals in the city following a law passed last year banning unregistered rentals.

A UK pensioner discharged after a stay in hospital found her house cleared of all her belongings - including her dog - by Age UK, authorised by her son. He thought she “wasn’t going to survive.”

Steward theft A RYANAIR steward allegedly addicted to drugs is accused of stealing a passenger’s £500 Nikon camera and trying to sell it on eBay.

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No priority UK schools will no longer give entrance priority to younger siblings due to the pressures of a steadily increasing population on available places.

Top Honda THE UK motor trade has placed Honda at the top of its Reliability Index for the ninth consecutive year. Running last are Bentley and Porsche.

Costliest pint LONDON is the fifth most expensive place in

Ukraine investigation UKRAINE President Petro Porochenko has ordered an investigation into the murders of a pro-Russian journalist and a former politician close to Viktor Yanukovitch.

OPEC talks THERE are signs indicating renewed discussions between Russia and OPEC coun-

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the world to buy a pint of beer, the most expensive city being Paris at €5.87 per pint and the cheapest South Africa at €1.86 per pint.

BERLIN schoolteacher Annegret Raunigk is proudly pregnant with quadruplets, bringing her brood of children to 17. Her 12 eldest are aged 44 to 22: her youngest, aged nine, “asked for a sibling.”

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GOLDEN NECTAR: London has the world’s fifth dearest pint.

A BRITISH-LED team of divers has recovered £34 million in silver coins from the SS City of Cairo, torpedoed in 1942.

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A STEM cell donor has been found for 24-year-old Leukemia sufferer Eva Fidler, who recently gave birth to a healthy baby despite her illness.

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tries. Deputy PM Arkady Dvorkovitch has said: “Unprecedentedly active consultations are taking place with OPEC and Latin American producers.”

Open Russia raid RUSSIAN security forces raided the Moscow offices of ‘Open Russia’, a foundation backed by Mikhail Khodorkovsky concerning allegations of ‘extremism.’

Putin accusations PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin speaking during a televised live phone-in has accused the Ukraine government of “cutting off” rebel-held areas of Eastern Ukraine by means of an economic blockade.

Training troops CANADA is to despatch 200 military instructors to Ukraine to train soldiers fighting pro-Russian forces. A statement confirmed: “The trainers will help Ukraine to maintain sovereignty.”

Roof protest BUILDING workers at a spaceport in eastern Russia who have not been paid for four months have painted an appeal to Putin on their hut roofs.

GERMAN police have indicated they would be happy to wear body cameras despite reservations from the union.

School song BERLIN police are questioning a high school teacher following allegations that she had her 17-year-old students march up and down a classroom to a Nazi song.

Dentist loser A GERMAN dentist who removed all of the teeth of a mentally ill patient has lost his appeal against a €20,000 compensation order.

Raising roof A HERD of dairy cows nearly lifted the roof off of their barn in central Germany when methane released by the animals caused an explosion.

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Press conference protester A PRESS meeting at the European Central Bank was interrupted last week when a woman rushed across the room shouting and climbing onto the table in front of ECB President Mario Draghi. She scattered papers and threw confetti all over the Italian banker while screaming: “An

end to the dictatorship of the ECB!” Draghi has since stressed this was not a protest by FEMEN, the feminist group known for its members stripping off and protesting topless against what they perceive as male economic domination, but actually a former member. Spontaneous lone protester

Spain’s recovery not successful OLIVIER BLANCHARD, Harvard and MIT professor and the IMF’s chief economist since 2008, has both criticised and praised Spain’s performance as it emerges from financial crisis, but on the whole says its recovery “is not a success story.” Speaking from his office in Amiens, France, Blanchard remarked that Spain’s high levels of unemployment have still not been addressed effectively. When asked whether he thought that, despite Spain’s high unemployment levels, it had nonetheless come out of recession, he responded: “Can you say that a country has successfully emerged from recession when it still has 23 per

cent unemployment? Competitiveness and exports have certainly improved and are getting stronger, behaving reasonably well. They are very good news compared to a year ago and can continue.” He went on: “How do you define crisis? The country has been left in growth, but unemployment is too high. Therefore Spain is not cured. Unemployment can only go down through reform. “For me, the key is the duality of the labour market and the need to remove large differences between temporary and permanent workers. Spain should not be living with 10 per cent or 15 per cent - or 23 per cent unemployment.”

Josephine Witt had gained entry to the conference by posing as a reporter. She was dressed in a black tshirt bearing the slogan: ‘End ECB Dick-tatorship’. The meeting was suspended for a few minutes while the table was cleaned up.

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Cross-border cooperation IN an article for EU’s, The Parliament magazine, Iskra Mihaylova regional development committee Chair said, “Spain and Gibraltar should work together and coordinate activities as partners in order to boost the competitiveness of small and medium enterprises.

Cuban change THE Spanish secretary of state for trade said Spain wants to be at the forefront of the economic changes that Cuba will experience in the coming years, especially with its relationship with the US.

Coca-Cola feeling flat THE Supreme Court has found that Iberia Partners, managers of CocaCola at Fuenlabrada’s (Madrid) bottling plant, infringed its workers’ right to strike when it used other bottling plants within the group to continue business as usual. The court ruled that by doing so

the company had compromised its employees’ right to a reasonable period for negotiation. The vote was taken at eight votes to five against Coca-Cola. A spokesman for the workers, who had congregated outside the court, said: “Today is for celebrating, not thinking.”

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STAT OF WEEK IT is anticipated that more than 60 Spanish wine producers and bodegas will participate in The World Bulk Wine Exhibition, the largest in the world, scheduled for November 2015.

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C O M PA N Y PRICE(P) CHANGE Centrica 257.45 -2.65 Coca-Cola HBC 1,347.00 -11.00 Compass Group 1,167.50 5.50 CRH 1,854.00 19.00 Diageo 1,867.25 -9.25 Direct Line Insurance 323.30 -1.20 Dixons Carphone 440.95 -0.35 easyJet 1,816.50 -6.50 Experian 1,186.50 5.50 Fresnillo 730.00 1.50 G4S 294.80 -3.40 GKN 364.30 3.00 GlaxoSmithKline 1,579.75 4.25 Glencore 302.98 4.43 Hammerson 675.25 2.25 Hargreaves Lansdown 1,203.50 -5.50 Hikma Pharmaceuticals 2,092.00 11.00 HSBC Holdings 609.25 9.25 Imperial Tobacco Group 3,249.50 18.50 InterContinental Hotels 2,771.00 49.00 International Consolidtd 568.25 3.75 Intertek Group 2,619.00 0.00 Intu Properties 350.80 1.60 ITV 264.45 0.45 Johnson Matthey 3,434.50 4.50 Kingfisher 354.00 -0.50 Land Securities Group 1,277.00 10.00 Legal & General Group 278.40 0.30 Lloyds Banking Group ORD 78.78 0.03 London Stock Exchange 2,487.00 -4.00 Marks & Spencer Group 565.50 1.50 Meggitt 542.75 2.25 Merlin Entertainments 450.90 3.70 Mondi 1,374.50 16.50 Morrison (Wm) Sprmrkts 198.00 0.30 National Grid 886.80 -0.80 Next 7,220.00 0.00 Old Mutual 236.95 0.55 Pearson 1,369.50 14.50 Persimmon 1,713.50 -19.50 Prudential 1,658.50 22.00 Randgold Resources 5,075.00 30.00 Reckitt Benckiser Group 5,906.00 -34.00 Reed Elsevier 1,127.50 -2.50 Rio Tinto 2,856.00 55.00 Rolls-Royce Group 978.75 0.25 Royal Bank of Scotland 350.50 1.30 Royal Dutch Shell 2,117.25 28.25 Royal Dutch Shell 2,145.00 24.50 Royal Mail 444.45 -1.15 RSA Insurance Group 422.40 -3.20 SABMiller 3,621.25 -2.25 Sage Group (The) 467.70 -1.60 Sainsbury (J) 274.60 -0.60 Schroders 3,275.00 16.00 Severn Trent 2,135.00 1.00 Shire 5,467.50 37.50 Sky 1,046.00 -6.00 Smith & Nephew 1,148.50 12.50 Smiths Group 1,119.50 4.50 Sports Direct Internatnl 655.50 -1.50 SSE 1,559.50 0.50 St James's Place 928.75 1.25 Standard Chartered 1,049.75 -0.25 Standard Life 461.50 0.10 Taylor Wimpey 161.80 1.30 Tesco 235.53 -1.17 Travis Perkins 1,988.00 12.00 TUI AG 1,201.00 5.00 Unilever 3,012.00 20.00 United Utilities Group 956.50 -3.00 Vodafone Group 227.35 0.95 Weir Group 1,869.00 -3.00 Whitbread 5,250.00 10.00 Wolseley 4,036.00 -13.00 WPP Group 1,536.50 -6.50

% C H G. -1.02 -0.81 0.47 1.04 -0.49 -0.37 -0.08 -0.36 0.47 0.21 -1.14 0.83 0.27 1.48 0.33 -0.45 0.53 1.54 0.57 1.80 0.66 0.00 0.46 0.17 0.13 -0.14 0.79 0.11 0.04 -0.16 0.27 0.42 0.83 1.22 0.15 -0.09 0.00 0.23 1.07 -1.13 1.34 0.59 -0.57 -0.22 1.96 0.03 0.37 1.35 1.16 -0.26 -0.75 -0.06 -0.34 -0.22 0.49 0.05 0.69 -0.57 1.10 0.40 -0.23 0.03 0.13 -0.02 0.02 0.81 -0.49 0.61 0.42 0.67 -0.31 0.42 -0.16 0.19 -0.32 -0.42

VOLUME 12,919.60 5,035.65 19,598.40 15,176.01 47,680.27 4,932.00 5,089.46 7,308.63 11,654.21 5,478.80 4,687.37 6,103.33 77,642.79 39,508.48 5,309.72 5,867.32 4,222.92 116,623.87 31,383.01 6,412.95 11,662.76 4,284.16 4,651.07 10,728.91 7,032.78 8,416.30 10,103.06 16,739.45 57,027.62 8,781.47 9,355.06 4,347.19 4,582.13 5,078.94 4,698.19 33,611.10 11,136.84 11,837.16 11,237.81 5,311.76 42,743.12 4,716.42 42,996.76 12,871.13 40,408.02 18,125.94 22,573.69 82,136.80 52,334.61 4,491.00 4,409.58 58,749.19 5,163.32 5,320.65 7,553.67 5,064.54 32,227.49 17,998.11 10,263.88 4,476.58 3,970.81 15,491.10 4,986.40 26,309.71 11,231.44 5,290.13 19,580.47 4,926.30 14,756.39 38,644.96 6,607.50 60,286.71 4,058.51 9,493.88 10,615.35 20,613.48

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Banking on moral investments Loose change A look at finance for females

Jane Plunkett jane.plunkett@euroweeklynews.com

THE simple mention of banks, bankers or ex-bankers these days sends a chill up the spines of many. Corruption and dodgy practices, along with the aiding and exercise of tax evasion are just some of the nasty things that some banks and people like former IMF chief Rodrigo Rato have been knee-deep in over the years. Historically banks have been viewed solely as financial institutions and morality has not entered the equation. Traditional banks thrive on a thirst for profit, and as we have seen from various news reports over the years this is often at the expense of

SOLAR POWER: Ethical banks invest in ‘quality of life’ projects. morals, the environment and customers. You may also be surprised to find out that the money you put into your typical bank is often used and invested in projects that many might find offensive. Would you consciously support a massive weapon-producing establishment? Or donate to an energy project that plans on actively destroying the environment? Probably not! But indirectly

through your banking choice, you could be doing just that. Current profit-focused behaviour means that the typical big banks finance everything from weapons’ manufacture to the most polluting fossil fuel projects on the planet, as well as causing asset bubbles and financial crises. However, not all banks have profit as their overriding objective and there are other approaches

that are becoming successful. Several banks make it their mission to create social and environmental benefits, by carefully choosing which companies and projects they provide finance to. These are called ‘ethical banks’. Ethical banks still prioritise capital and seek to maximise returns, but in doing so they promise to align their money with their values, by using their capital to help finance ‘real economy’ businesses selling products and services, not speculative ventures. They adopt transparency principles to give public insight to how their money is being used. They consider the long-term impact of their lending decisions, in projects that support quality of life for all. Traditional banks have long embraced a profit-over-people mentality, so maybe it’s high time we looked at where our money spends the night and if we’re not happy, take our money elsewhere.

BUSINESS EXTRA

Fraud arrest FORMER IMF chief and ex-Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Rodrigo Rato was arrested for alleged tax fraud, concealment of assets, and money laundering after his home and office were searched.

Party funds THE Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development welcomed the legislative package on democratic regeneration recently approved by the Spanish Parliament in order to fight corruption and promote integrity and transparency.

Slow progress THE Eurozone crisis was an economic nightmare for many, not least the property sector. While there are signs of growth across the bloc, prices in many countries remain low, according to Eurostat.

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Can Hacienda claim back taxes? Q. I read your article on Spanish tax returns. I am 72 and have been a resident here for 12 years. When I became an OAP in 2008, I was informed that (as you pointed out) as a pensioner, I did not pay tax. This year I received a letter from Hacienda. According to the letter, and my accountant, it would appear that on November 27, 2014, a law was passed and my accountant now informs me that I will have to send in my complete bank records of pensions received for the last five years. This is two

You and the Law in Spain By David Searl

A. It seems that you are being audited by the Tax Agency. In Spanish this is called ‘inspección’. And the picture does not look good. Let us clear up two points. First, I never said that Old Age Pensions are

OAP pensions from England and Scandinavia, plus a small private pension, which total about €12,000 per year. My accountant now tells me that according to the new Spanish tax laws, OAP residents are liable to taxation. I am now confused and worried, as I may be facing a back tax payment of several thousand euros. Where do I stand? F W T (Costa del Sol)

not taxed in Spain. It is only Civil Service or other government service pensions that are taxed in their country of origin. Old Age Pensions are treated as normal income. Second, there is no new Spanish tax law which affects you. Yes, the tax reform package for 2015 was issued in November 2014, but there is no change regarding Old Age Pensions. They are liable for tax in Spain, as I

have written various times. If your accountant advised that you were not liable for Spanish tax, he was in error. And you are not liable for fines and penalties because the law has changed, but because you were misinformed. You must now present your records to the Tax Agency. At your level of income, you probably owe little tax, so the charges and interest should not come to much.

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Not everyone was born equal LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT

HE idea that all man/womankind are born equal is complete and utter claptrap. We are not all equal. Even as far as limbs and bodies are concerned, many of us are of course different. The levels of human intelligence and intellectualism are also tremendously varied. Some of us couldn’t hammer a nail in; others are capable of building machines which can bring together proton beams at rates approaching the speed of light. The majority of our human race are followers; leaders are in the minority. Without the leaders, we would all wander off into some New Age state of oblivion. It is therefore my opinion

LEADERS: From corner-shop owners to big business entrepreneurs. that those who are capable and willing to utilise their superior intellect to create companies and occupations for the followers, should reap just rewards for their efforts, not find themselves penalised. From the corner-shop owner

who employs one sales assistant to the entrepreneur who creates jobs for thousands, all should be reimbursed accordingly. So what if the man or woman who employs large numbers has a big yacht or a mansion?

Without their expertise and incentives, many of those they employ probably wouldn’t be able to afford a mortgage, or to clothe or even feed their children. So what if the corner-shop owner can afford to purchase a nice car? Because of his efforts, his sales assistant can no doubt live in a comfortable bedsit and enjoy a relatively stressfree existence. The truth of the matter is that we need these leaders. Outside of themselves, the Labour party do not agree. The Lefties, with their politics of envy, would like to see the back of them all. The powermad, dysfunctional leaders of the Left want the whole country reliant solely on them and their party. They want to kill free enterprise, nationalise just about everything, buy future voters by handing out benefits to all and sundry, and discourage and alienate anyone with

the initiative to think or act otherwise. Have no doubt, if, heaven forbid, Miliband and his awful cronies are elected in a couple of weeks’ time, the brains, entrepreneurs and investors will haemorrhage from the country like blood from an opened jugular vein. This left-wing approach has of course all been tried before and always failed. It’s called Communism, folks. Pure and simple. Do we really want to see the wonderful country of our birth commit suicide by adopting the doctrine of Lenin? Vote for Cameron. You know it makes sense! Lovely mistake in the TV auto descriptions this week when a somewhat average singer told us of the thousands of songs she had ‘sunk’ over the years. Yep! Keep the faith Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com Web: leapylee.co.uk

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BBC TWO 3:00pm The Daily Politics 4:00pm World Championship Snooker 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Antiques Roadshow 8:00pm The Mekong River with Sue Perkins 9:00pm Alex Polizzi: Chefs on Trial 10:00pm W1A 11:00pm Inside No 9 11:30pm Newsnight

ITV 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Paul O'Grady Show 7:00pm ITV News London 7:25pm Party Election Broadcast 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Tonight 9:00pm Emmerdale 9:30pm Double Decker Driving School 10:00pm Ice Rink on the Estate 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm The Agenda

CH4 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Deal or No Deal 5:00pm Come Dine with Me 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Coach Trip 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 8:55pm Party Election Broadcast 9:00pm Supervets 10:00pm The Island with Bear Grylls 11:00pm The Last Leg

CH5 3:15pm NCIS 4:15pm Deadly Hope 6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 7:55pm Party Election Broadcast on Behalf 8:00pm The Classic Car Show 9:00pm The Last Days of... 10:00pm The Hotel Inspector 11:00pm The Mentalist 11:55pm Born to Kill?

SKY1 3:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:00pm The Fanatics 5:00pm Futurama 6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Arrow 10:00pm Forever 11:00pm Wild Things

Friday BBC ONE 4:00pm Decimate 4:45pm Escape to the Country 5:30pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm A Question of Sport 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm MasterChef 10:30pm Have I Got News for You 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News 11:35pm The Graham Norton Show

BBC TWO 3:00pm World Championship Snooker 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Antiques Roadshow 8:00pm World Championship Snooker 9:00pm An Island Parish 9:30pm Gardeners' World 10:00pm Sex and the Church 11:00pm The Clare Balding Show 11:30pm Newsnight

ITV 4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Paul O'Grady Show 7:00pm ITV News London 7:25pm Party Election Broadcast 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Weekend Escapes with Warwick Davis 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Slow Train Through Africa 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm Rambo III

CH4 4:15pm Deal or No Deal 5:00pm Come Dine with Me 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Coach Trip 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 8:30pm Unreported World 8:55pm Party Election Broadcast 9:00pm Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 10:00pm Gogglebox 11:00pm Alan Carr: Chatty Man

CH5 3:15pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:15pm The Obsession 6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm The Gadget Show 9:00pm Secrets of Great British Castles 10:00pm NCIS: New Orleans 11:00pm NCIS 11:55pm Law and Order: Special Victims Unit

SKY1 3:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:00pm The Fanatics 5:00pm Futurama 6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Relatively Clever 10:00pm Trollied 11:00pm The Simpsons

Saturday BBC ONE 5:30pm Final Score 6:10pm The Princess and the Frog 7:40pm BBC News 7:50pm Regional News 7:53pm Weather 7:55pm Pointless 8:45pm Atlantis 9:30pm The National Lottery: In It to Win It 10:20pm Casualty 11:10pm BBC News 11:28pm Weather 11:30pm Match of the Day

BBC TWO 3:15pm Flog It! 4:00pm Final Score 5:30pm Snooker 6:30pm World War One Remembered: Gallipoli Highlights 7:30pm Gardeners World 8:00pm Snooker 9:00pm Dad's Army 9:30pm Gallipoli 10:30pm QI XL 11:15pm Up in the Air

ITV 3:35pm Housesitter 5:35pm Tipping Point 6:35pm Local News and Weather 6:45pm ITV News and Weather 7:00pm You've Been Framed! Yearbook for Ybf 8:00pm Ninja Warrior UK 9:00pm Britain's Got Talent 10:15pm Play to the Whistle 11:00pm ITV News and Weather 11:15pm Inside Man

CH4 2:25pm Channel 4 Racing 5:15pm Come Dine with Me 6:10pm The Simpsons 6:45pm The Simpsons 7:10pm The Simpsons 7:35pm Channel 4 News 8:00pm For the Love of Cars 9:00pm The World's Most Extreme Roads 10:00pm Paul

CH5 3:30pm Police Interceptors 4:30pm Columbo: An Exercise in Fatality A health club owner murders one of his franchisees. Lt. Colombo is on the case.

6:30pm The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 7:25pm Britain's Horror Homes 8:15pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away! 9:15pm 5 News 9:20pm NCIS 10:10pm NCIS 11:10pm CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

SKY1 3:00pm RSPCA Animal Rescue 3:30pm RSPCA Animal Rescue 4:00pm Modern Family 5:30pm Modern Family 6:00pm Wild Things 7:00pm Modern Family 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm Modern Family 8:30pm Modern Family 9:00pm Hawaii Five-0 10:00pm Poseidon 11:55pm Hawaii Five-0

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BBC TWO 3:00pm Snooker 7:00pm London Marathon Highlights 8:00pm Snooker 9:10pm Coast Australia 10:00pm Hunters of the South Seas 11:00pm The Inside Story 11:30pm W1A 12:30am Snooker 1:20am Snooker 3:20am Countryfile

ITV 3:40pm Britain's Got Talent 4:55pm Doc Martin 6:55pm Ninja Warrior UK 7:50pm Local News and Weather 8:00pm ITV News and Weather 8:15pm Celebrity Squares 9:00pm Vera 11:00pm ITV News and Weather 11:15pm Perspectives 12:15am Aviva Premiership Rugby Highlights 1:15am The Store

CH4 3:20pm The Simpsons 3:50pm Location, Location, Location 4:50pm A Place in the Sun 5:50pm Paranorman 7:35pm Channel 4 News 8:00pm Three in a Bed 9:00pm For the Love of Cars 10:00pm The Impossible 12:30am Navy Seals 2:45am Super Casino

CH5 4:20pm Sabrina, the Teenage Witch 6:10pm 5 News 6:15pm Labyrinth 8:15pm Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls 10:00pm The Last Stand

SKY1 3:00pm Harrow: A Very British School 4:00pm Modern Family 4:30pm Modern Family 5:00pm Modern Family 5:30pm Modern Family 6:00pm About a Boy 6:30pm About a Boy 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm The Simpsons 9:30pm The Simpsons 10:00pm Hawaii Five-0 11:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00am NCIS: Los Angeles

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BBC TWO 4:00pm Snooker 6:55pm Party Election Broadcast by the Conservative Party 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Snooker 9:00pm Alex Polizzi: Chefs on Trial 10:00pm Inside Harley Street 11:00pm Jack Dee's Election Helpdesk 11:30pm Newsnight

ITV 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Paul O'Grady Show 7:00pm Regional News and Weather 7:25pm Party Election Broadcast 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Wild Ireland 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Safe House 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm The Agenda

CH4 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Deal or No Deal 5:00pm Three in a Bed 6:00pm Couples Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 8:55pm Party Election Broadcast 9:00pm The Secrets of Sports Direct 10:00pm Skint 11:00pm Gogglebox

CH5 4:15pm Blind Trust 6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News 7:55pm Party Election Broadcast 8:00pm The Gadget Show 9:00pm Police Interceptors 10:00pm Gotham 11:00pm Person of Interest

SKY1 3:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:00pm The Fanatics 5:00pm Futurama 6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Modern Family 9:30pm Driving School of Mum and Dad 10:00pm An Idiot Abroad 11:00pm Hawaii Five-0

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BBC TWO 3:00pm The Daily Politics 4:00pm Snooker 6:55pm Party Election Broadcast by the Labour Party 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Snooker 9:00pm Alex Polizzi: Chefs on Trial 10:00pm Wastemen 11:00pm Later Live... with Jools Holland 11:30pm Newsnight

ITV 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Paul O'Grady Show 7:00pm Regional News and Weather 7:25pm Party Election Broadcast 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Countrywise 9:00pm Midsomer Murders 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm Northern Ireland Election Debate

CH4 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Deal or No Deal 5:00pm Three in a Bed 6:00pm Couples Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 8:55pm Party Election Broadcast 9:00pm Kirstie and Phil's Love it or List it 10:00pm The Queen's Big Night Out 11:00pm Ballot Monkeys 11:30pm 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

CH5 3:15pm NCIS: New Orleans 4:10pm Cedar Cove 6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News 7:55pm Party Election Broadcast 8:00pm Police Interceptors 9:00pm Britain's Horror Homes 10:00pm Sick Note Skivers Exposed 11:00pm Psychopath: The Nazi Killer

SKY1 3:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:00pm Futurama 5:00pm Modern Family 6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm The Flash 10:00pm Critical 11:00pm Forever

Wednesday BBC ONE 4:00pm Decimate 4:45pm Escape to the Country 5:30pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 9:00pm Inspector George Gently 10:30pm Peter Kay's Car Share 11:00pm BBC News 11:30pm Regional News 11:45pm Weather 11:50pm Elections 2015: A BBC Special

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SKY1 3:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:00pm Futurama 4:30pm Futurama 5:00pm Modern Family 6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm An Idiot Abroad 10:00pm Poseidon 11:55pm NCIS: Los Angeles

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Sacré bleu! Names to drive you nuts... and you could end up being in a jam! Nora Johnson

Breaking Views Nora is the author of popular psychological suspense and crime thrillers and a freelance journalist. To comment on any of the issues raised in her column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/ columnists/nora-johnson

FRENCH court recently banned parents from naming their baby girl ‘Nutella’ after the hazelnut spread, ruling that it would make her the object of ridicule. The judge ordered the child be called Ella instead. French parents can choose whatever name they want, but local prosecutors can report what they consider to be daft names to a family court. Like the couple who wanted to call their daughter ‘Fraise’ (Strawberry). The baby was renamed ‘Fraisine’ (err, Little Strawberry).

In another instance, a father took legal action to try to stop French car makers Renault from using the same name as his daughter, Zoe Renault. Cedric Renault argued that if Renault named a car model ‘Zoe,’ it would make his daughter’s life a ‘nightmare.’ lain and Sophia Renaud in 1999 saw off legal action to prevent them from naming their daughter ‘Megane,’ even though prosecutors said it sounded too much like the car. Choosing first names can be a headache in the UK too. So, where can you go for inspiration? Well, there are beautiful names from nature at least for girls - like Holly, Hazel, Cherry. But then you have to be so careful with surnames, don’t you? Holly Tree, Hazel Wood, Cherry Pye, anyone? There are enough unfortunate first/ surname combinations around

CHOOSING NAMES: So where do you go for inspiration? like Sidney Harber, Joe King, Chris P Duck, Chris P Bacon and Wendy House. Plus a policewoman in Tasmania, Lauren Order. (Incidentally, there was a girl a couple of years ahead of my mother at school called Primrose Lane. Luckily she married a man with a boring, run-of-the-mill

surname - and that was the end of Primrose Lane.) As for Hollywood and its celebrities, they’re sophisticated and savvy enough not to choose something really naff, surely? How about: Moon Unit (Frank Zappa, also father to Dweezil and Diva Muffin); Kal-El (Superman’s original birth name

courtesy of father, Nicholas Cage); Destry (Steven Spielberg); Aurelius Cy (Elle Macpherson); North West (Kim Kardashian/Kanye West); Apple and Moses (Gwyneth Paltrow). Just imagine how one of those names would go down in your average British school playground. When the next celebrity pregnancy’s announced in Hollywood, may I suggest a national primary school competition to choose the name? After all, the winning entry couldn’t be half as daft as the ones given to the previous lot. Nora Johnson’s thrillers ‘Landscape of Lies,’ ‘Retribution,’ ‘Soul Stealer,’ ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.nora-johnson.com) available from Amazon in paperback/eBook (€0.89;£0.79) and iBookstore. Profits to Cudeca.

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Spot on about health tourism and illegal immigration I TOTALLY agree with Nora Johnson’s spot on recent articles about health tourism, scams and, especially, illegal immigration. It’s all too clear the UK can’t continue being the world’s destination of choice. I don’t have a problem with immigrants moving to the UK if they ’re decent, honest, hardworking people. However, I think the way in which successive governments have abandoned all control of immigration is downright irresponsible. No one really knows how many immigrants have entered Britain, where they’re from, who they are, or what they’re doing there. Britain’s a tiny island in the grand scheme of things, and none of its infrastructure is suited to deal with this massive influx. Housing, transport, education and health services are all buckling under the strain. Surely it needs to shut the doors and get its own house in order before anyone else can settle there? Andrea Turner (Alicante)

Shady deal AFTER reading in the Euro We e k l y N e w s a b o u t s h a d e b e i n g p r ov i d e d fo r h o r s e s ( Costa del Sol issue 1553 ), I wa s s o p l e a s e d . I c a n o n l y hope this will be done soon before the long awaited summer arrives. We all look forward to a good summer but the horses that pull the tourist carriages really do deserve some shade in between their trips around Fuengirola. Mavis Lloyd, Fuengirola (Malaga)

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t u r n ove r o f M u s l i m s - t h e y c a m e o n F r i d ay n i g h t a n d were soon gone - ‘where’ I asked? I was told they had b e e n m ove d t o a h o t e l i n t o w n ! T h e y w o u l d n ’ t s t ay there. I n C a r d i ff I c o u n t e d s i x mosques to one church. They work and go off to pray - no problem! Brits would get the s a c k fo r l e av i n g t h e i r d e s k unattended as they do. My son couldn’t get work - they wouldn’t accept his Spanish qualifications. Human rights Where? Kay, Beniarbeig (Alicante)

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ILLEGAL immigrants or drug smugglers? Police in Marbella had to remove this inflatable boat which had been slashed and hidden in a stream bed. JB Mijas (Malaga)

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Just send an email (or a letter) to the relevant Tax Office in the UK stating you no longer want to pay any UK Tax and they will, in a very short time, send back a confirming note together with any Tax Rebate due (I received £18.64p - not much, but every little helps). HMRC will also at the same time issue a new Tax Code for you which exempts you from any further tax obligations to the UK. Brian Maddox, Beniarbeig (Alicante)

Knee-jerk HAVING read the opinions of those interviewed in the Street Talk last week, could one of them please explain to me how extra security checks and delays to passengers will ensure that some suicidal pilot will not fly me into the side of a mountain. This must be one of the best knee jerk solutions ever. Perhaps they hope that if the flight is delayed the pilot might think his p a s s e n g e r s h ave s u ffe r e d enough for one day. John Maclennan Benamocarra (Malaga)

What rights? I MUST reply to Bill’s letter re t h e M u s l i m s : h av i n g g o n e back to the UK and spent 15 months of hell there. I can tell him that the problem is not the Muslims but the government’s attitude to them.

Racial prejudice has backfired into prejudice against British people returning to their land of birth. G ove r n m e n t p o l i c y i s t o bow and scrape to the Muslims or they shout racial prejudice. The first person I spoke to s a i d t o m e ‘ h o w l o n g h ave yo u b e e n a way ? ’ T h e n h e said ‘You must be appalled by your country.’ I did not unders t a n d w h a t h e wa s t a l k i n g about. At Christmas the councils used to have a nativity scene outside - I found it was true that they no longer did - it would upset the Muslims I was told. ‘Harry’ told me they loved Christmas as it came just after their most holy time in November, they got their kids a small present and had a special meal. It was another holiday for them. We s t aye d i n a h o m e l e s s place which had a large

I KNOW I am a bit late, but may be you are still interested. T h e n a m e o f t h e ye l l o w flower featured on your letters page is Oxalis pes-caprae L. It was imported from South Africa in the 18th century and i s a ve r y i nva d i n g w e e d . D o n ’ t l e t i t i n yo u r g a r d e n (even if it looks lovely) it is almost impossible to get rid of. Angelika Danielsen (By email)

Once bitten C E N T R A L F M ’ S A n d y L i tt l e played a brilliant joke. On his morning show he told listeners that due to the celebration of the 1025 Anniversary of the naming of the Mediterranean Sea, 2,500 boats and ships would be leaving Malaga port at 9am. Sailing along the coast, reaching Benalmadena by about 10.30am and continuing along the coast. He asked people who managed to see this amazing spectacle to post their pictures on Central’s Facebook page! Even one of the other DJ’s fell for it! He did the same thing last ye a r, o n l y t h e n i t wa s t h e S p a c e S h u tt l e b e i n g t ra n s ported on an aircraft carrier along the coast. As a result I was wise to the situation, but not last year. Patty (By email)

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

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