ISSUE NO. 1667
15 - 21 June 2017
A XARQUÍA - C OSTA T ROPICAL
YOUR PAPER, YOUR VOICE, YOUR OPINION
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Down in the dumps 12 arrested over €2.5 million scam
CAVE RAGE: The paintings were a cultural artefact.
Vandals wreck cavern
TOXIC: Detectives pick through the devastation. By Sally Underwood Officers from the Guardia Civil have arrested 12 people, are investigating 25 others and have confiscated 170 items worth millions of euros over an illegal dumping ground in Nerja’s Rio de la Miel. It comes after investigators in charge of the probe, which began in August last year, concluded there may be a €2.5 million case for fraud to cover the costs that would have been incurred if the waste had been disposed of legally. As reported in issue 1666 of the Euro Weekly News, the site is located in the National Park of Tejeda, Almijara and Alhama near Nerja, and was previously a working quarry owned by the council. The area was later exploited unlawfully as a dumping ground for 16 years, between 2000 and September 2016. The Public Prosecutor ’s Office has labelled the landfill “a genuine environmental disaster” and has been investigating the matter following
complaints filed by the Association of Construction and Demolition Waste Management Companies of Andalucia (AGRECA) and by the Spanish Federation of Associations of Construction Waste Management Companies and Demolition, for illegal and uncontrolled dumping of construction and demolition waste, hazardous waste, pruning waste as well as vegetation and plastics. So far it has been discovered the site was used and managed by a group of companies in Nerja’s construction sector in breach of council rules. These companies were engaged in major collection and transportation of construction and demolition waste, including hazardous wastes, which were subse-
quently dumped at the illegal landfill site. The police believe those responsible were aware this was illegal and knew about authorised sites in the area. They say the fraudsters even issued certificates to customers guaranteeing the waste had been disposed of legally. The site poses an environmental risk to the surrounding area, which is protected under environmental law, with hazards such as fire due to gases produced from the waste, some of which are flammable and at risk of self-combustion. Humans are also at risk from the site, which has been running without any controls. Investigators say they are also concerned about possible contamination of fluids into
the groundwater. Police have detained 12 on charges of alleged crimes against the environment and natural resources, documentary falsification, fraud, membership of a criminal group and environmental crimes. They are continuing to investigate another 25 people, as well as 11 legal entities. It is believed it could cost up to €10,700,000 to clear up the site.
A POLICE probe has been launched after a caving team from Spanish TV channel Cuatro discovered furniture and graffiti in the Cueva de la Victoria (Victoria’s Cave) in Rincon de la Victoria. It comes after the long-running show Cuarto Milenio (Fourth Millenium), which explores themes of mystery and the unknown, chose to explore the adjoining Cueva del Tesoro (Cave of Treasure) for its next series. Accompanied by councillor Antonio Jose Martin, the group were shocked to find evidence that squatters have invaded the protected space, which lies within Rincon’s Archaeological Park, while someone had daubed graffiti over a series of ancient cave paintings which are protected by law. While opposition parties immediately claimed that photos apparently taken by Martin are ‘archival,’ the incumbent Popular Party insists that they are genuine, and that the previous council is to blame since “people drinking in the caves at the weekend is hardly a new issue.”
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Standing firm RESIDENTS of Almuñecar have honoured a 57-year-old domestic abuse victim with a minute’s silence outside the town hall. The woman was killed by her partner in Las Gabias.
New number FRIGILIANA’S Council has changed its telephone number to save money on its contract and following changes to its telephone and internet system. Its new number is 95 253 30 02, which is available from 9am to 2pm.
Water baby A LOCAL girl, Lourdes Mª Herrero Centurion, has won a bronze medal in the Andalucia Open Water Swimming Championships. The Nerja-born swimmer competed against 288 others at the contest in Sevilla.
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River’s end? Popular site overwhelmed By Matt Ford ENVIRONMENTAL groups and other concerned residents have once again voiced their outrage over the Rio Chillar in Nerja. It comes as access remains unrestricted with as many as 3,000 visitors and 1,000 vehicles expected to descend on the once pristine river each weekend over summer. The overcrowding has resulted in untold ecological damage as the hordes march up and down the increasingly damaged waterway. Signage advising that hikers should park their cars on nearby Calle Mirto is routinely ignored, with many opting to drive into the channel itself. This constitutes a breach of environmental law, but Local Police are unable to cope with
INVASION: The river attracts up to 3,000 at weekends. the sheer numbers who continue to park alongside the river despite dozens of fines being handed out. As reported in the Euro Weekly News last year, walkers also fail to respect basic rules and two clean-up operations in June and September resulted in over 850 kilos of rubbish being removed. A total of 20 rescues were also carried out, and the situation
is unlikely to improve this year since the council has as yet tak-
en no action beyond installing additional signage. Since the river runs through a gorge which is narrow at certain points, there is also a considerable risk of people being trapped should a wildfire break out, but a management plan announced in 2016 has not yet been completed. Despite the authorities being aware of the issue for a number of years, a river that was an unspoiled paradise a decade ago appears set to suffer further degradation in 2017.
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Bullfight sparks outrage A PETITION protesting last Saturday’s bullfight in VelezMalaga attracted 10,765 signatures. The petition was signed both online and in person and expressed protestors’ “disgust at this bullfight and any form of animal abuse.” In May, around 200 protestors from pressure group, ‘Rodea el Ruedo,’ had previously marched through VelezMalaga’s streets, carrying a large banner saying, ‘No to bullfights. Torture is neither art nor culture.’ They made their way to the town hall, where they challenged the council to fulfil its commitment, made last year, to ban animal cruelty in the town. Mari Carmen Castillo, one of the movement’s spokesmen, said “it seems a joke that a bullfight is scheduled barely a year after this commitment,” adding she believed the fight was “illegal.”
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Job support VELEZ-MALAGA’S Council has created a workshop helping families on unemployment benefits into the workplace. They will begin in July on the first Wednesday of every month from 10am to 11.30am in the Social Welfare Department of Velez-Malaga’s Council and from 12pm to 1.30pm at the Social Services Department in Torre del Mar.
Tram time VELEZ -MALAGA’S Council is considering striking a deal to reinstate the town’s tram service after five years. It comes after a critical report by the Court of Auditors, which identified ‘practices that were not in accordance with the principles of equality, objectivity, transparency and economy in the management of public funds.’
Death smash A 46-YEAR-OLD has died after falling from his motorbike trying to avoid another driver on the A-7 in Nerja, just after the tunnel coming from Torrox. Elsewhere, three vehicles were involved in a crash on the A-357 in Malaga, leaving one man seriously injured and creating a huge tailback.
Conman caught THE National Police in Torrox have arrested a 27-year-old German man who was wanted on a European arrest warrant for selling thousands of euros of products to 10 people over the internet before failing to send them.
SPANISH FACTS OF LIFE...16 From jumping through bonfires to hurling dead rats at fellow revellers, Spanish culture is awash with quirky traditions, none more so than El Salto del Colacho, the annual baby jumping festival which takes place this Sunday.
HELD in the village of Castrillo de Murcia near Burgos in northern Spain, El Salto del Colacho most closely translates as the Devil’s leap. During the celebrations, babies born within the previous 12 months are laid on mattresses in the street before men dressed as the Devil in red and yellow costumes take turns to leap over them. Normally taking place on the Sunday after the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi, baby jumping is a traditional practice dating back to the early 1600s. The infants are placed in rows before the devils, who also sport grotesque face masks, make their way through the crowd, whipping bystanders before careering over the
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helpless children. As they do so, the babies are said to be blessed and cleansed of original sin before being sprinkled with rose petals and recovered by relieved parents. Although it might seem dangerous, there are no reports of injuries or fatalities during the event, although it is frowned upon by the Catholic Church, with news reports in 2012 suggesting that Pope Benedict himself encouraged the Spanish clergy to distance themselves from it.
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EL COLACHO is organised by the shadowy, black-clad Brotherhood of Santisimo Sacramento de Minerva, members of which dress up as both the devil and his companion the Atabalero, or drummer. The devils clutch percussion instruments known as castanets while the top hat and tailcoated Atabaleros beat drums in unison as they run through the town’s streets. Festivities begin on the Wednesday preceding the event with daily processions during which the devils also chase cheeky adults and children, ter-
rorising and hitting them gently with horse-tail whips. Each Devil is followed by two rows of the brotherhood and the group makes its way to the church, where an entrance ritual is performed. All members remove their hats and bow in greeting as the Devil and Atabalero arrive, the former removing his mask before heading to the sanctuary where both remain during mass.
fits system and reduce waiting times to receive payments.
COUNCILLORS in Motril have criticised the national government’s €625 million social services cuts and reached a deal with the Junta de Andalucia to protect against further loss of funding. The new agreement will provide funding for those in the bene-
Fatal plunge AN 85-year-old man has died in Torrox after falling 3.5 metres from the fig tree he was picking fruit from and hitting his head on a rock. Local Police and health
workers attended the scene after the man’s family raised the alarm, but were unable to save his life.
Out of joints GUARDIA CIVIL investigators from Velez-Malaga have shut down a major cannabis plantation and arrested three
Canine carers for abuse victims dence and reintegrate with society. The group, currently based in Alhaurin de la Torre, boasts a team of 24 employees. 14 psychologists, three lawyers and seven dog trainers stand ready to rehabilitate the victims of domestic abuse. The new collective have made their services available to Social Services within Andalucia, police forces and the Public Prosecutor’s Office. The mayor of Malaga has referred to the initiative as an “excellent model which uses the noblest of animals” to combat one of Spain’s worst social scourges.
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DEVIL: Jumps over the babies.
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PROJECT PEPOS, a newly formed initiative based in Malaga, have announced plans to provide trained dogs to the victims of domestic violence. According to statistics, Spain saw a 2.4 per cent increase in officially registered domestic violence victims in 2016, with 134,462 complaints being filed nationwide. The president of the new collective, Sebastian Rayo, explained that the project ensures the protection of those who have suffered in domestic relationships, whilst providing a means for women to regain their self-confi-
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Services men, with 661 plants seized. The trio are accused of distributing the narcotic throughout Axarquia after setting up the secret farm in an agricultural warehouse at an undisclosed location.
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LOCAL POLICE in Torrox have been given 24 new bulletproof vests. Mayor Oscar Medina says it is “important all our agents are properly protected,” adding that the vests are “of the latest generation, so they are anti-knife and anti-punch, adhering to European regulations.”
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The total number of news and features appearing in Issue 1666 of the Euro Weekly News Axarquia - Costa Tropical edition, with 31 local stories.
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In Japan, letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered to bring good health to the child. In Finland, at the Wife Carrying World Championships, first prize is the wife’s weight in beer.
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Surprise result raises questions THERE is little doubt that the Conservative party was caught by surprise by the seemingly disastrous result of the General Election. The powers behind the throne, the two advisors to Mrs May, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill resigned almost immediately and now the Prime Minister appears to be trying to carry on as if nothing too untoward has happened. Her cabinet remains broadly as it was prior to the election, although another Brexiteer Michael Gove returns as environment secretary and will be responsible for reviewing agricultural support following Britain’s exit from the EU. The loss of an overall majority will make it more difficult to enter Brexit negotiations when the EU knows that the prime minister has made a major error of judgement by getting the mood of the nation so wrong. She said she would use the anticipated increased majority to strengthen her hand with Europe and instead has to keep power by putting together an unlikely and possibly unstable pact with the Democratic Unionist Party which has already caused negative comments from the Republic of Ireland. Assuming she is not voted out as Tory leader, it is possible Mrs May will have to be a little less hard line in her negotiations with Brussels than she had originally hoped.
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€102 million budget boost By Sally Underwood VELEZ-MALAGA’S Council has approved this year’s multimillion-euro budget following protracted political wrangling. Investments include increase funding for the Women’s Information Centre, as well as improvements to the Mercovelez building, Casa Cervantes, the Local Police station and the Alcazaba. Also €500,000 for employment, environmental and cultural spending, as well as the extension and maintenance of parks and €50,000 for the Museum of the City, MVVEL. The plan also includes more than €13 million for investments and a 6.4 per cent increase in welfare for families. Transport for university students, which costs the council €130,000 each year, has also been ringfenced. Commenting on Velez-Malaga’s commitment to social welfare, Councillor for Finance, Juan Carlos Marquez, explained, “we are spending more than €11 million in this area.”
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Model behaviour! LUCY: Racy swimwear.
HE quit much-loved soap Coronation Street to pursue an acting career in London, and recently finished filming Bear Grylls’ Celebrity Island in Panama. But work appeared the furthest thing from 33-year-old Ryan Thomas’ mind as he whipped up a storm at a pool party in
Magaluf, Mallorca alongside brother and Love Island star Scott, 28. The pair knocked back vodka before accepting a chocolate cake for Ryan’s birthday which he duly smashed into his sibling’s face, much to the delight of the rapturous crowd. Ryan reportedly became close to ex-
The Only Way Is Essex beauty Lucy Mecklenburgh, 25, while being tested to the limit on the Channel 4 survival show. And the fitness fanatic was also in the Balearics this week as she shot a racy series of swimwear shots in Ibiza after being chosen as the face of V by Very High’s summer collection.
Summer lovin’ HIS Barcelona team finished second in La Liga and was beaten in the Champions League quarter-finals. But Argentinian superstar Lionel Messi, 29, clearly remains a winner in love after his stunning partner Antonella Roccuzzo, 29, put on a sizzling display aboard a luxury yacht in Ibiza. The bronzed beauty topped up her tan after slipping into a tiny tanga-style bikini which accentuated her curvaceous figure. The pair have been together for almost 10 years and are set to marry in their hometown of Rosario, Argentina, later this summer. Their children Thiago, four, and Mateo, two, joined them on their aquatic adventure as did teammate Luis Suarez and his wife Sofia Balbi, plus Chelsea’s Cesc Fabregas with girlfriend Daniella Semaan and their three children Lia, Leonardo and Capri. But it was the gorgeous Antonella who stole the show as she relaxed on the side of the boat, dipping her toes into the crystal-clear Mediterranean water. LUCKY IN LOVE: Leo and Antonella in Ibiza.
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Blue is the colour SHE is the only Spanish actress to win an Oscar after bagging the Best Supporting Actress gong for her 2008 performance in Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona. And Penelope Cruz, 43, provided ample back-up to British-born American actress Lily Collins, 28, as the delectable duo filmed an advert for luxury cosmetics brand Lancome in Barcelona. The Iberian icon was a picture in a figure-hugging navy dress while Lily, daughter of Genesis singer Phil Collins, smouldered in a matching navy sleeveless blouse and elegant trousers.
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Coke bust sees three jailed for trafficking TWO men and one woman, aged between 44 and 53 years old, have been arrested for selling cocaine and heroin after National Police raided their house in Velez-Malaga. The three suspects, who were caught under Operation Ordago VII, have been transferred to the judicial authority, together with the police report. The police started their investigation in March after receiving a tip-off that several people were dealing cocaine and heroin at an address in Barrio de Carabanchel. After busting the property, officers found two people who were living at the home were distributing the narcotics, while the third was acting as an ‘aguador,’ a look-out who is usually using drugs and acts as an informant to the dealers. The agents seized 63 cocaine wraps, five further grams of the
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SEIZED: Cocaine, heroin and cash. drug, 15 heroin wraps, five grams of heroin and €500 in cash. During the course of Operation Ordago VII, which ended in May, officers intercepted
12 drug deals in the Carabanchel area. The haul: officers found cocaine, heroin and cash at the property.
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€20,047 spent to prevent accidents By Sally Underwood VELEZ-MALAGA’S Council is spending tens of thousands of euros treating three roads with an anti-slip coating to prevent accidents. Calle Tapia de Cruz will be closed to traffic for a week while the work is underway, while Calle Real de la Villa and Calleja Santa Maria will host specially adapted walkways so residents can access their homes during the same period. The work, which is being carried out in the town’s historic centre to improve safety on the particularly steep roads, is being undertaken by Mencia Projects SL. On Calle Tapia de Cruz, a total of 608 square metres will be planed down by an industrial diamond-tipped grinder to removing debris
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Compact cleaner NERJA’S Council has invested in a compact street cleaning machine to clear up the town’s narrow streets. The ride-on vehicle will be able to access roads the other, larger machines cannot.
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SMOOTH: Workers grind down the original road. and prepare the road surface before the area is pressure washed and degreased and painted with two coats of anti-slip paint. On Calle Real de la Villa and Calleja Santa Maria, workers will simply clean and paint the surfaces, which measure a total of 686 square metres. Juan Carlos Ruiz Pretel, councillor for Infrastructure
said the treatment will “improve traffic on these roads and ease accessibility for residents as the works will focus on the pavements which have been worn away by footfall and bad weather.” He added workers were aiming to match “the colour of the original stone, therefore the anti-slip paint used is the same colour as the current road surface.”
COMPETA’S Council is putting together its San Sebastian 2017 pamphlet ahead of this year’s festival. It is calling on any businesses interested in advertising to do so by June 23.
Beach watch BEACHES in Almuñecar and La Herradura will be safer this summer with the hiring of 33 lifeguards. The workers will be protecting the coastline from June 20 to September 15 when the beaches are most popular.
Art folk FRIGILIANA’S Council has announced the winner of this year’s Cane Honey Day painting competition. Mr Brendon Taylor won first prize with his piece, ‘Dulce bocado.’ His work will be displayed in the House of Culture until Saturday.
Scuba style OVER 20 scuba divers from Rincon de la Victoria’s Eco-Dive scuba school have helped clean up the coastline around La Cala del Moral. The volunteers donated their time to ‘protect the area’s biodiversity.’
Hand ball TORROX has earned its sporting stripes after hosting the Spanish Beach Handball Championships on its Playa de Ferrara. The town’s mayor, Oscar Medina, was awarded a medal for his part.
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VICTOR LECHE POVEDA: Is being honoured for handing the cash in.
Nearly €1,000 found in park By Sally Underwood A MUNICIPAL worker in Almuñecar has found a wallet containing €950 while on his s hift in Pa rque El Majuelo. Vic tor Le c he Pove da , who handed the wallet in, is now being honoured by the council for his good deed and will receive an exemplary behaviour note on his work record.
Mr Leche Poveda, who found the wallet, which also contained credit cards, in a planter in the botanical-archaeological park, has been in charge of El Majuelo for 14 years, and has worked for the council since 1980. He commented, “I found
the wallet and took it to the Local Pol i ce i n case i t s owner claimed it. It is not t he f i r st t i m e t hat I have found valuable items, although it is the first wallet that had €950 in notes in it, but I f i nd m obi l e phones and cameras all the time.”
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VELEZ-MALAGA’S mayor, Antonio Moreno Ferrer, has praised the council for its achievements over the last two years. He said its various projects have resulted in 1,995 people having a job.
Work ends NERJA’S Council has finally completed the initial stage of works to the town’s Puente Viejo. The works, which have taken around three months, have seen Nerja’s main artery closed and traffic diverted.
Street art NERJA’S Council has chosen eight street performers allowed to play in the town’s streets. Each artist will be allowed a square metre of ground for their performances and will not be allowed amplifiers.
United front FRIGILIANA and Nerja’s councils have signed an agreement to combine police powers for the towns’ ferias. A police presence was stepped up for Frigiliana’s San Antonio Padua celebrations last week.
SUMMER SEASON: The works have come in ahead of schedule for the tourist period. WORKS to pipelines behind La Herradura beach will be finished on June 23, a week ahead of schedule. The project, which will see rainwater and sanitation s e rv ice s alo n g th e Cos ta Tropical upgraded, has been prioritised, “so as not to disrupt the area’s tourist season,” according to municip al e n g in ee r, J u a n J o s e
Fernandez. The works have taken place between the Hombre del Mar monument and the Acera del Pilar, where the communications and electricity networks meet. Their completion will see the completed area tarmacked. Company Partal undertook the project, which began at the end of April.
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Acompalia creates artist network for good ACOMPALIA believes in the positive power of art, that’s why the palliative care charity has created Acompalia Artistica - an exciting new community for artists. Providing a network where regional artists can connect and collaborate, Acompalia Artistica will also support and showcase creative talent to help raise vital funding for the charity. Acompalia Artistica is open to creatives ranging from artists, sculptors and photographers, to writers, designers and musicians. However, it is not solely for artists. There are also opportunities for people who love the arts and want to get involved. This might be through support marketing, writing releases, or helping at events. Community members can connect and support one another on the Facebook Group, through sharing creative
POWER OF ART: Creative talent. ideas, forging collaborations, and arranging meetups. Acompalia will also support and suggest opportunities for members to exhibit, run workshops and present in their chosen field. According to Acompalia Artistica, Andalucia is a hotbed for creativity and they are fortunate to have such an array of artistic talent here. As the region’s leading palliative care charity, they have a strong supporter network and
will run a packed schedule of events - to raise funds and awareness. They’re excited about bringing the creative community together so they can share ideas and connect. If they choose to promote art through them; they can
help raise much-needed funds for their helpline; hospice and day centre and palliative care services. For local artists or art lovers who would like to get involved, please contact Emma at info@acompalia.org with their name, website, creative discipline and phone number or find out more about the project on the Acompalia About page at www.acompalia.org/about. For further information or comment, please contact Emma Plunkett on info@miss plunkett.tv.
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Lux Mundi hosting a photography class LUX MUNDI ECUMENICAL CENTRE, Torre del Mar will be hosting a photography workshop on June 20, from ‘good shot to great shot.’ This is a great opportunity to learn the art of photography with ‘Rob Bell photography.’ It will be a fun and informal class, which will help every enthusiast get the most out of their cameras. It is open to all levels; from beginners to more experienced and any type of camera can be used. This season will focus on various styles of photography and computer software. There will be something for everyone. Don’t forget to bring your cameras and to arrive at 4pm. On Friday June 30, all group activities finish for the summer holidays. The Lux Mundi Ecunemical Centre is on Avda. Moscatel 1 ‘I’ Jardines Viña
Malága, Antigua Casa de la Viña, Torre del Mar, 29740. Opening hours are Monday to Friday 10am to 1pm
and 3pm to 6pm. Tel 952 543 334 email lux mundi@lux-mundi.org or website www.lux-mundi.org.
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An exclusive interview Today Michel Euesden, Managing Director went along to Oakland Furniture to meet and interview Steve Day, Managing Director of Oak Land Furniture Spain. The Euro Weekly News were delighted to be able to get the interview as Steve is not well-known to hold them and doesn’t like the limelight, so it was certainly an exclusive scoop for the coast’s number one expat newspaper.
MICHEL: Well Steve, here we are at your San Pedro store and I must say it looks magnificent with such a large choice not only of solid oak furniture but also wonderful sofas too. Firstly I would like to say thank you for allowing us this interview as I understand you don’t like publicity and interviews. May I firstly ask as it’s intriguing why is that? STEVE: Ha ha, straight to the point as always Michel, wouldn’t expect any more from you, but that’s why I enjoy my team working alongside the EWN Media Group as it does exactly what it says it’s going to do. You have a fantastic group of newspapers here in Spain. MICHEL: Thanks for the compliment Steve but you haven’t answered my question and this is only my first one! STEVE: I guess I’m quite a shy person deep down but it’s more than that, the business is not about me, it’s all about the furniture and my great team of employees, without both of those the business wouldn’t achieve what it does. I often wish wardrobes could talk as they and other items are the real success of the business!
At the end of the day if you haven’t got a quality product then there’s no longevity to your business, rather like your newspaper hey Michel! If you printed rubbish people wouldn’t read your newspaper, but as we know you deliver a great read and that’s why you have been on the coast for so many years! It’s the same for my furniture, we deliver a full USP, 100 per cent solid oak throughout the product, building a product that will last the client a lifetime. It’s not about me, it’s about the furniture and so I like to sit in the background and allow the furniture to stand out and do the talking, customers can come in store and see the quality of the product and it stands out. On the shop floor our ethos is the furniture sings out and the store staff just answer questions and explain procedures, we don’t employ sales people in effect as the aim is to build the highest quality and designs that stands out. MICHEL: Steve, whilst we are not here to talk about my newspapers thank you again for the compliment, but yes we carry that same ethos within our business. Now can we stick to the questions without the swing back to me! So obviously all this lovely furniture
The cuts of wood we use to manufacture the furniture are of the highest quality. in store, who designs it all and where does it actually come from? STEVE: Well as you can see the cuts of wood that we use to manufacture the furniture are of the highest quality, the wood itself comes North America from substantial forests complying with all strict EU timber regulations. We use the highest grade which is North American white oak grade 1 on all the natural oak finished ranges. These are the cleanest cuts with the least knots if any and the most beautiful grains. With our rustic oak finishes we use grade 2 as we want the slight blemishes and knots to create the rustic look. Anyway the logs are sent to our factories in both China and Vietnam where 90 per cent of the world’s oak furniture is produced, the factories work to our designs and produce the furniture en masse to ensure the manufacturing process is economical to be able to offer our low retail prices. So for instance we do a production run of double wardrobes and then ship 40 foot sea containers to the warehouse in Swindon of double wardrobes, Swindon warehouse receives on a daily basis around 35-40 containers per day, every day six days a week. The designs of our furniture are all exclusive to us and design protected and are all actually designed in-house by ourselves which I feel we are very good at, but this also saves huge designer fees to which again we pass on the savings to our customers. Designer fees are very large in the industry we are in, so as we all have an eye for design we make some great savings. MICHEL: So Steve do you go to the Far East yourself to the factories and what’s it like there if so? STEVE: In the early days of the business, the answer is yes, I probably spent 50 per cent of the year there, you had to as we had to train factories how we expected our furniture quality to be produced. I lived in Dalian which is north China, where the majority of factories are, as
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well as Qingdao, China. Whilst huge it is strange as different products are manufactured in different regions, although we did get down to Shanghai and Beijing many times. North China is beautiful and not how you would imagine, lovely coast line, great sea food and clean air! Over the last few years China has changed so much, I remember the first ever trip back in 2001 and as myself and my travel companion went down for breakfast we didn’t like the look of the food as it was quite extreme to say the least, so we decided to stick with what looked hard boiled eggs, the waiter brought them over in a basket with a pair of chopsticks, we knocked the top off the egg to discover the chop sticks were for eating the chick! Thankfully as the years have gone by and the country has become more modern, better food is now more available! I don’t go as much now as all the production is built up and as the business has grown Quality Control teams are now in place. Vietnam we also use too, they have caught up with the supply market and chain and do a fantastic job as well. In fact in furniture making terms they are now more competitive and trips there are enjoyable, but again less frequent as QC teams on the ground. Lovely places to visit but now I focus my main time here in Spain in the sunshine as we have a lot of work to do as we progress through Spain, Portugal and France.
MICHEL: Yes Steve I saw on your website that delivery options are available to Portugal and France too, was that planned? STEVE: In truth no, it wasn’t in the initial plans but when we launched in Spain some eight months ago now, lots of inquiries came in via the website requesting it and so we set up the delivery infrastructure to incorporate the ex- pats in those countries as well. No point turning away valued business! MICHEL: You haven’t hung around there then Steve, so what was the initial plan and why Spain? STEVE: At my age I don’t have time to hang around these days Michel! If I was as young as you maybe I would have more time! MICHEL: For someone who claims to be shy you are a bit of a charmer that’s for sure! Now back to the question why Spain? STEVE: Firstly I have always loved Spain and it was a good excuse to move here, but more importantly we could see the potential, we had customers on a weekly basis inquiring in the UK operation if we delivered to Spain. At the time we didn’t and customers were paying a small fortune to ship the furniture over themselves. So clearly there was a market opportunity and a service to provide. Customers obviously know our
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product and brands so in realistic terms it made sense. MICHEL: Many people reading this could be thinking about starting a business here themselves, how did you find it to the UK and how different is it? STEVE: Patience is required for starters and a few deep breaths at times! But overall it’s rather much the same although trading patterns are very different to the UK, the main reason being that the expat market is very spread out along the coast in the main. So we get less people to the showroom and more through the website. As the ex- pat knows our brands and products from the UK and of course see the UK adverts on TV here in Spain, we had to build the infrastructure internally to cover all options to enable us to deliver further distances from our Malaga-
based warehouse. For instance delivery vans at home go out for a day’s work but here in Spain they can go out for a week’s work. It took a lot of planning and selecting the correct delivery teams was important too. Yes of course we have the product but we have to back the product up with the service. MICHEL: Yes I agree, the customer should always receive good service, I’ve taken a look at the reviews on your website and see that you have a 9.8 five star rating on the independent review website Trust Pilot, that’s very very impressive! STEVE: I’m sorry it’s not impressive enough, it should be 10.10 in my book, but we will achieve it. Yes it’s a great score because we work so hard to deliver the full customer service at all
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times, but I always believe there’s room to improve. Everything is about the customer within our company. As we cover so many thousands of miles on delivery routes so our customers can enjoy the benefits of our furniture, we have to strive hard and we do with a great delivery infrastructure, as well as fantastic communication channels from the team to the customer. MICHEL: So Steve simple question, what’s your biggest frustration? STEVE: Honestly, foot flow to the store, yes I know that the trading patterns are different here in Spain, but I still can’t get my head around it totally, yes I get it’s a modern world and people use the Internet and website, I get they know our quality product and brand but it still frustrates me, that’s probably because I’m used to large store foot flows. The Store Manager Nik probably holds the largest conversion rate ever because everyone who comes to the store purchases in the main as they have already done their homework via the web. I guess I’m just an old-fashioned retailer but I will always find it strange that a customer will order say from Mijas on the web when the store’s only 15 minutes away. I guess it doesn’t really make any difference to us, but we do like to show off our fantastic products and showroom. Just a personal frustration really, just an age thing I guess! MICHEL: Okay that’s your frustrations, but do you have a pet hate? STEVE: I try not to have them as it’s never the end of the world, but there
are a few. Advertising reps calling the store phone number has always been one for 30-odd years now. The phone line is for our customers to inquire about furniture not a free tool for advertising reps who can’t be bothered to call in store and show what they have to offer. It does really wind me up this especially as the phone line could be engaged whilst a customer is trying to get through. I can’t believe advertising reps can’t see it’s annoying and reduces their chances of obtaining business! I have to say we don’t get it too bad here as we have carefully selected our media partners like yourself Michel but it’s a pet hate of many years. Calls have dropped in recent years but at the same time spam emails have gone up which are just as bad. I believe if you have something decent to offer go out and demonstrate and sell it. MICHEL: So with the showroom open in San Pedro, the website clearly fully operational and the delivery structure all in place with deliveries basically going out on a weekly basis across Europe to what appears rapid rate, what’s next? STEVE: The first thing is always to both maintain and improve where possible standards and customer service. You have to establish a solid foundation to ensure when you do further expand you are ready for it and that it doesn’t affect current business and customers. We have though launched a website in full Spanish for the Spanish nation, we love Spanish people, their way of life and thank them for allowing us to bring our business to their country. At the same time I
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hope they will enjoy and take advantage of our great product ranges and quality furniture. The website is www.oaklandmuebles.com. We have employed recently the lovely Lola Lopez to work both at the showroom and operate the Spanish website. It’s a very important project for me at present. We also have as many customers know a superb choice of sofas at the finest low prices so we have also added www.sofastorespain.com. MICHEL: Another store Steve? STEVE: Yes for sure, the next one will be in the Costa Blanca somewhere in 2018 I would imagine, but it may change route dependent on how the Spanish website performs. Things never go to plan so it’s a matter of how it all unfolds, maybe your readers could tell us if they want a store in Costa Blanca, if they do they can let me know by emailing info@oaklandfurnitures pain.com. MICHEL: Steve it’s been an absolute pleasure to meet you today and thank you so much for the interview. I know you don’t like doing them so it’s an honour for us at the Euro Weekly News to have one. Thanks again and I’ll leave you to get on with your work as I see the email inbox on your computer is filling up. Thanks again Steve. STEVE: Never an issue for you Michel and thank you for the amazing services you provide to Oak Land Furniture Spain. Shall we go for a pint now? All this talking has made me thirsty in this heat!
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MOVING over from the UK 10 years ago, guitar-vocalist Andy Time now spends his evenings performing a mixture of pop, rock and ballads across Axarquia. The Birmingham-born musician started gigging 40 years ago when his dad managed a covers band called Aquarius in the UK and he
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Born to be wild became inspired. He now plays up to four concerts a week at venues from the Plaza in Competa to the Nerja Club, explaining “I’m not an exhibitionist, I just love
what I do.” Real name Colin Jeffrey, he describes himself as a professional who plays around 50 songs a gig, and chose his stage name because his mid-
dle name is Andrew “and there’s never enough time.” Performing great music from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s to get the audience on their feet, rock fans particularly
love his gigs, with songs by The Drifters, Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen and Jerry Lee Lewis. Andy, who is also a qualified electrician, often per-
COMMUNITY forms at large venues including the Nerja Caves Restaurant and Cudeca and CAS events. He also plays private villas. On autonomo, Andy is now taking bookings for summer bookings and private parties. He can be contacted on sparkinspain@rocket mail.com or 666 707 297.
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Telefonica to offer consumer loans IN the UK, directory enquiry company 118 118 runs an unsecured loan business and now Spain’s Telefonica is to do the same. Movistar Money, is now to start offering loans from €600 to €3,000 in order to expand its sources of revenue and will initially market its services to customers who have obtained their mobile phones through the company finance division although once tested, they intend to expand the service to
of government not an individual. One medical professional even went so far as to suggest that it would be more appropriate for Mr Ortega to spend his money making life better for his employees
The basis of the management model of the Popular Party in our Madrid community is debt,” according to Podemos spokesperson Lorena Ruiz-Huerta.
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€320 million but already four health authorities around Spain have been criticised by their own employees for accepting donations estimated at €17 million each, with staff saying that health funding is the job
a wider market. Everything will be applied for, approved and distributed online without the need to provide any paper documentation and loans for periods of up to three years at interest rates in the region of 16.5 per cent, will if approved, be transferred to bank accounts within 48 hours. The company arranging the loan, Telefonica Consumer Finance, is part owned by Caixa Bank, one of Telefonica’s largest shareholders.
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Against CETA MADRID streets were taken over by hundreds of protestors demanding that the Spanish government should block the free trade deal between the EU and Canada. They believe that the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) will damage the Spanish economy.
Pound down IMMEDIATELY following the news of a hung parliament, the pound slipped against the euro and the dollar. Conversely, shares in the FTSE 100 rose as larger companies benefit from a weak pound especially when repatriating foreign earnings.
IMF comment THE International Monetary Fund has congratulated the European Central Bank on the speed of action to resolve the potential bankruptcy of Banco Popular. The sale to Santander, will it believes, bring stability to the Spanish and European market.
Catalonian economy plans DESPITE the fact that the Catalonian government plans to hold an Independence Referendum, the Spanish government has just approved loans of €5.3 billion until September. Whilst much is made of the value of the Cat-
alonian economy and there is no doubt that industry there generates large amounts of income, the government there is not so healthy and needed €1.3 billion to cover the budget deficit and the balance for interest and to repay debts.
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Billionaire criticised for cancer donation WHEN billionaire Amancio Ortega, decided to offer funds for the treatment of cancer, he probably didn’t expect to receive so much criticism. A new book being published in the USA suggests that the majority shareholder of Inditex - the Spanish fashion retail group - had a small tumour that had to be removed and this is what spurred him on to make the offer. In Britain, hospitals are more than happy to accept donations
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and those producing his stock in Asia rather than meddling in what is a matter for the government to deal with. His donations have been used to buy mammogram and radiography machinery as well as for investigation into the causes of cancer. If this was a ‘simple’ illness, easily cured, the position of medical practitioners would be more easily understood say cancer charities, but any advance in treatment doesn’t just help Spain but sufferers all over the world.
Liberbank suffers on stock exchange SET up in 2011 a after the amalgamation of three savings banks, Liberbank which employs 4,850 has seen a drop in share value. The sudden sale of Banco Popular seems to have caused a backlash for this supposedly vulnerable bank, with its shares dropping well below the €1 mark. In a bid to show support for the bank, major shareholders have been purchasing the cheaper shares and are attempting to push the price back up as with assets of more than €38 billion and a 2016 profit of €128 million, they do not consider it to be a risky investment.
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MORE than £150 million (€177m) in old British five pound notes officially withdrawn from circulation have still not been handed in. Some of the old fivers now worthless when shopping are undoubtedly still held by British expats living in Spain, according to one banking source. “We are not exchanging the notes here as they are no longer officially legal tender” the Costa del Sol based money man said. However, he claimed that some of the old-style cotton-paper notes not handed in before the final deadline ahead of the more modern and new notes will still be in wallets and travel bags used only by expatriates when travelling back to the UK. “We all do it, putting notes aside when we return from a trip to the UK, and we only look at the money when we next travel. In some cases the trips can be a year apart meaning many expats probably have some - and perhaps in certain cases many worthless fivers in wallets and purses used when travelling.” The Bank of England in London is legally obliged to encash the old notes - taken out of circulation from midnight Friday May 5 - when handed over the counter in person. Expats not travelling to the UK can post the old five pound notes directly to the Bank of England. But when posted this action is done at ‘sender’s risk.’ If the amount of old fivers is viewed as large, identification may also be sought. Additionally banks, building societies as well as post offices
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throughout the UK are still accepting them, but only in person, with many seeking an explanation as to the source and reason they were not handed in before they went out of circulation. There are even online companies who will purchase these and other withdrawn notes at 92 per cent of face value.
BANCO POPULAR SOLD FOR €1 IN what was something of a surprise announcement, Banco Santander Group Executive Chairman, Ana Botín announced that the Bank had paid €1 for Banco Popular. According to her, this now makes Santander the largest bank in Spain and one of the largest in the world although existing shareholders in Popular are likely to lose their entire investment. The acquisition was completed following an auction conducted by the Single Resolution Board and FROB in which Santander was selected as the successful bidder, paying a notional consideration of €1. As part of the transaction Santander will complete a rights issue for a total amount of €7 billion in order to cover provisions in Popular ’s balance sheet caused in the main by bad property debts. It is reported that quite substantial investments in the failing Banks had been made from South America recently and these investors together with an estimated 300,000 disap-
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The story behind the sale Ana Botin announcing the Banco Popular takeover.
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pointed shareholders will only be offered the opportunity to have preferential rights to purchase new Santander shares although there are rumours of legal action. The Governor of the Bank of Spain Luis Linde declined to make any statement about Banco Popular when he appeared before a Senate Budget Committee saying that he was unprepared for the question and Ana Botin reportedly denied that Santander had been put under any government pressure to take over Popular. Popular will be brought under the Santander umbrella in Spain and
Santander Totta in Portugal and the combined operation will promote vital SME lending - loans to small and medium sized companies - in Spain fuelled by the recovery of the economy and expects to hold 25 per cent of the entire market. Although there will be the need to write down part of the value of the Popular balance sheet, Santander expects to reduce the number of bad debts and properties quickly so that it forecasts a return on investment of 13 to 14 per cent by 2020 and an overall cost reduction of €500 million by the same year. The combined entity will be led by the current management team of Santander Spain with Rami Aboukhair as CEO. “We welcome Banco Popular customers as part of the Santander Group and will work hard to continue serving them at the highest standards through the transition and beyond” said Ana Botin when making the announcement of the takeover.
THE Spanish Tax Agency is targeting Chinese-owned companies in Spain which it suspects may be importing or selling goods without paying tax. More than 300 officials have been tasked with visiting 60 warehouses of wholesalers in 11 different provinces including Elche and Madrid in order to audit books and identify possible evasion. This is one of a number of regular investigations into Chinese entrepreneurs who have opened wholesale operations and shops in numerous towns and cities throughout Spain thanks to earlier financial incentives from the government. Similar actions have taken place in recent years and resulted in the discovery that up to €100 million of unpaid or evaded tax existed.
Gibraltar’s cybersecurity IT is particularly appropriate that following the massive disruption by the Wannacry hacking that Gibraltar should have hosted its first Cybersecurity conference. Organised in association with the Royal Gibraltar Police, this event was particularly important to hold in Gibraltar with its many int er net bet t i ng com pani es and new tenants in the recently opened World Trade Centre, all of whom are potentially vulnerable to disruption. Expert speakers arrived on board the Sunborn Yacht Hot el t o war n del egat es about the dangers of cyberattack and the way to protect their companies. Later in the day, the event was opened to the general public and their families in order to pass on tips and advice to consumers who can also be vulnerable to cyberinfection.
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President of Duro Felguera, A ́ ngel Sua ́rez.
it may find the rush to sell its shares may either bring it down or frighten off new potential clients.
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SPANISH COMPANY FIGHTS FOR ITS LIFE JUST one year away from the 160th anniversary of its founding, industrial company Duro Felguera must be wondering if it will last that long. Shares in the company which specialises in the implementation of turnkey projects for the energy and industrial sectors, as well as the manufacturing of goods lost 26 per cent in one day, following the sale of Banco Popular to Banco Santander and in four years its value has fallen by €800 million. The problem for the company is that it has very large borrowings which it is having difficulty in refinancing, so shareholders fear that now with a worth of less than €100 million that it could fail or could be vulnerable to an aggressive take-over. This company faces a typical dilemma as it appears to be quite adept at obtaining new business but it is burdened with so much accumulated debt that
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The fact that shareholders in Banco Popular may receive next to nothing for their shares after acquisition of the bank by Santander for €1 is driving small investors to desert this and other vulnerable companies following what is being called ‘Black Wednesday’ in the Spanish financial press.
ALTHOUGH it will not affect retrospectively anyone who took advantage of the 2012 Spanish tax amnesty, the Constitutional Court has upheld complaints that it was unconstitutional. The matter was laid before the court by some 50 delegates of the PSOE political party who argued that it was an abuse of the constitution to allow some high earning tax payers to pay just 10 per cent of outstanding tax over €100,000. According to the complainants, those who were honest and paid their taxes in accordance with the law paid far more than those who had hidden their income and then simply declared it when the discounted offer was made. Current Minister of Finance Cristóbal Montoro was cited as being responsible for the introduction of this unconstitutional offer although the government argued that this was a way of collecting additional income which it might never have received. The court however considered that it would have been better to use the law to beat tax dodgers, rather than encourage them to benefit from their deception.
Losing mental capacity whilst living abroad by Stone King Charlotte Macdonald Contact me at international@stoneking.co.uk
MANY UK expatriates living in Spain own properties in the UK and have pensions and investments in the UK. They rely on their UK assets to maintain their lifestyles (and those of their families) in Spain. If they can no longer manage their affairs in the UK due to a loss of mental capacity, it can cause many difficulties.
You can choose a person or people, who you trust, to act for you when you are no longer able. The best way to avoid the legal and practical difficulties that can occur with the loss of mental capacity is to plan for it in advance by drawing up a document called a ‘Lasting Power of Attorney’ (‘LPA’).
An LPA must be made while you have full mental capacity.
What is an LPA? An LPA is a legal document that enables you to appoint one or more attor-
neys to act for you when you are no longer able to act for yourself. Your attorney can be a professional,
such as a solicitor or a family member or friend. There are two types of LPA: ‘Health and Welfare’ or ‘Property and Financial Affairs’ An LPA must be made while you have full mental capacity. It is therefore important to make one while you are in good health. Why should you get an LPA? You can choose a person or people, who you trust, to act for you when you are no longer able. If you lose your mental capacity and do not have an LPA, then your family (or the authorities) will have no choice but to make an application to the Court of Protection to appoint a ‘deputy’ to look after your affairs, which can be time consuming and costly. Will my LPA be recognised in Spain? Unfortunately there is no international type of LPA which is guaranteed to work in both the UK and Spain. The advice we give to our clients at Stone King, is that if you have assets in both Spain and the UK, your only safe option is to appoint attorneys in both jurisdictions.
If you would like to discuss LPAs contact Charlotte Macdonald or Dan Harris at Stone King LLP by email international@stoneking.co.uk or by telephone on +44 (0)1225 337599.
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Beds and laying in them comes to mind! LEAPY LEE SAYS IT
OTHERS THINK IT I WOULD have loved to have been a politician. Of course, when I was a young man, those who aspired to these lofty positions were deemed untouchables; people who came from some planet of intellectual hierarchy that was far beyond the reach of mere mortals. Therefore very few of us who came from somewhat humbler backgrounds, ever dreamed that it may be possible to attain any sort of success in these areas. Well, after the recent performance of Ms May and her scurrying, utterly browbeaten ‘Yes Minister’ minions, I’m now convinced that even I could have stood a good chance of occupying the portals of Number Ten! In fact a large number of this column’s perusers would probably have a good chance as well. The utterly naive, egotistical mis-calculation of the public’s intelligence by the May
THERESA MAY: Even her post-election address outside Number Ten was atrocious. brigade simply beggars belief. Three weeks ago I voiced my concerns about her manifesto content and method of campaigning. Well, almost unbelievably, it actually managed to get worse. Even her post-election address outside Number Ten was atrocious. Almost in denial of the unmitigated disaster her arrogance (or ignorance) had led her party into, she spoke as
though there had actually been no election at all and nothing had changed. Well, as strange as it may seem, I personally think that in the circumstances it was a great result. May got her ego quite rightly kicked into touch. The fishy Kranke from Scotland realised that screaming freedom at every opportunity doesn’t exactly endear herself to all of our north of the
border friends. Salmond has now finally sunk beneath the rivers of obscurity and, despite his young supporters fanatical attempts to make sure they had no country for their own children to grow up in, Corbyn and his Union bully boys (hopefully!) won’t be photographed grinning from the steps of Number Ten. All in all a pretty good result and firm kick up the backside for all our
so-called leaders, who most certainly don’t originate from that distant planet I mentioned, nor do they live in the non-mortal bubble they all seem to think they do. And what a chance for this ol’ boy’s column to Phoenix itself up from the morass of baleful boredom we seem to have been sinking into of late. Particularly with the emergence of the DUP party. This party, founded by para military supporters, is led by a woman who has been declared sexist, wants a soft Brexit and denies climate change. It also dislikes women’s rights and is anti-abortion and gay marriage. And they are offering to be the new ‘stabilisers’ of British politics! Well, good luck with all that Ms May. Beds and laying in them comes to mind! Lots of fun and frolics coming up folks. Enjoy your week. Keep that mail coming. Thanks for all your votes, they don’t go unnoticed! And whatever ya do, always. Keep the faith Love Leapy. leapylee2002@gmail.com
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In my opinion Views of a Grumpy Old Man SO the election has been and gone and to be honest Mrs May got what she deserved. That’s all I’ve got to say about that because I only get a limited amount of words and I don’t want to waste any more of them on slime bag politicians. What is it with choices these days? My daughter has just bought her first house and needed to buy some white paint. ‘No big deal,’ I said to her, ‘go down to B & Q and buy a pot.’ Simple. Job done. Oh no not any more. There are so many it’s ridiculous. She sent me a list of 20 different whites. But these days it’s the same with everything. We are all spoilt for choice. Try buying anything. It gets on my nerves. You spend hours online just comparing prices. Then you find something and think you have cracked it. But no - it’s not quite the same thing - it’s either a little smaller or a little lighter in weight. Have you ever tried to buy a computer? What a minefield that is! You go into the store and ask the salesman to help. Then come the questions.
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Exterminate! robots - How soon will they replace British jobs post-Brexit? Isn’t it a bit scary? By Graham Braben
Nora Johnson
ROBOT: Will it make a cup of tea?
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/3.0.15/nora-johnson
NEWS that the next likely governor of California is preparing for battle against Silicon Valley’s job-killing robots shouldn’t come as any surprise. After all, 60,000 workers in a Chinese factory owned by the manufacturer of the iPhone have already been replaced. But what about British jobs potentially lost to robots postBrexit, that’s the million-dollar question. After all, we already have the first ‘affordable’ household robot. With its big blue eyes and saccharine voice, this toddler-sized machine called Zenbo is billed as a friend for children, a personal assistant to parents and a carer for the el-
derly. All for less than the cost of a new iPhone. There’s no getting away from the fact that the age of the robot is already here. It’s just a question of how many there’ll be and how quickly they’ll replace humans. (But hang on! Don’t they already run the civil service, the public sector - and the EU?) When I discussed this Zenbo robot with a friend, she asked would it make a cup of tea, wash up, make the beds, get her kids off to school, iron,
hoover without knocking chunks off the furniture and trim her daughter’s pony’s hooves? No? Then, next to useless! And as for buying one to care for an elderly relative, she couldn’t see that catching on unless Social Services are salami-sliced to death. Even more slashed to the bone. But just to add some facts. We already have robots in numerous essential areas like medicine. They assist surgeons and do a better job of surgery than anyone could do on his
own, so horses’ hooves would be a doddle. Not sure about psychiatry and how robots could help there, though. Which reminds me of an old joke. A man goes to a psychiatrist to complain that the song ‘Delilah’ keeps going through his head and he can’t sleep or work. The psychiatrist tells him he has the ‘Tom Jones Syndrome.’ The patient then asks: ‘Is it common?’ To which the psychiatrist replies: ‘It’s not unusual.’ Very soon, robots won’t be that unusual either... Nora Johnson’s psychological/suspense crime thrillers ‘No Way Back,’ ‘Landscape of Lies,’ ‘Retribution,’ ‘Soul Stealer,’ ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.nora-johnson.net) available from Amazon in paperback/eBook (€0.99;£0.99) and iBookstore. All profits to Costa del Sol Cudeca cancer charity.
IN my defence, I really didn’t know. You see someone asked me who I thought was the wickedest soap opera character ever. Unfortunately, I don’t watch soaps, so, like an idiot - which in this context I am - I said the first name that came into my head. Ena Sharples. As stunned silences go, it was up there with the best of them. I can understand it and I can understand the resulting ridicule. I’ve since checked, Ena Sharples left Coronation Street in the spring of 1980! Oops. Maybe my ignorance shouldn’t be such a big deal, but today, with wall-to-wall soap operas and reality shows throughout the day and night, it inevitably is. Just look at how the lives of a Kardashian or two fascinate audiences. Unfortunately, I still haven’t passed my GCSE in Kardashianology so don’t have a clue what they do to be so famous; does one of them play in goal for St Mirren? No of course not, everyone knows their goalkeeper is Billy O’Brien. There are people worse than I am though. I knew someone who thought Taylor Swift was an express delivery company. Silly, everyone knows he’s a singer. Today celebrities are all over the place, in jungles, on dance floors or, a new one, potentially washing dinner guests’ dishes. We can’t escape them - just look at the daily diet of models, actors and sports stars that fill our newspapers. That brings me to the point - well maybe not a point, just an excuse for this nonsense - so many people are obsessed with celebrities, they mimic what they say and look up to them as role models. Isn’t it a bit scary? Hasta la vista baby!
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Across 1 Support parade proudly (5) 4 Plots resistance in different places (7) 8 Commemorate memorial, it’s rebuilt (11) 9 Take flight until tar is repaired (4,4) 10 Eye infection encountered in the first years of life (4) 12 Increases the number of dandies (6) 13 The approach or escape includes tedious tasks (6) 16 Ailment causing nasty eruptions, initially (4) 18 Detective is indeed comprehensive (8) 21 Hag can smell crooked coppers (5,6) 22 Beginning the climb after first of November (7) 23 Fibre used in optics is altered (5)
Crete (5) 7 Bags of cash confused alien skinhead (7) 11 Covers The Ashes broadcast (8) 12 Rank of Victoria for example (7) 14 Softens on the French in tears (7)
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15 Farmer loth to consume wine (6) 17 Sent school head faulty dens (5) 19 Live in Erskine Caldwell’s house (5) 20 We must accept silver as payment (4)
Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 13 represents Z and 14 represents G, so fill in Z every time the figure 13 appears and G every time the figure 14 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.
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Down 1 Broke the family, in a way (5) 2 Regret about an inspector (7) 3 Accelerator or choke (8) 4 Good natured head of clan is wearing tartan (6) 5 Bitterly reproach perjurer for going back (4) 6 Upstanding characters from
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Across 1 Omits (5) 4 Pairs of people who live together (7) 8 Fundamentally (11) 9 Manifold (8) 10 Adhesive (4) 12 Expensive (6) 13 Purchased (6) 16 Dark shade of blue (4) 18 Messages informing of danger (8) 21 Capable of being classified (11) 22 Spectacles (7) 23 Fragrance (5)
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Across 1 Well (in a good manner) (4) 3 Celery (4) 8 Cálido (climate) (3) 9 Estirar (7) 10 Nightmare (9) 14 Mayor (7)
Down 1 Water vapour (5) 2 Rude expressions intended to offend or hurt (7) 3 Showing reason or sound judgment (8) 4 Appreciably or disagreeably cold (6) 5 Unattractive (4) 6 Faithful (5) 7 Propose (7) 11 Joins (8) 12 Marked by skill in deception (7) 14 Real (7) 15 Differs (6) 17 Russian spirit (5) 19 Depleted of content, energy, force, strength (5) 20 Requests information about (4) The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English.
16 Ceniza (polvo) (3) 17 Toad (4) 18 Pinzas (4) Down 1 Owl (long-eared) (4) 2 Between (5) 4 Mascota (animal doméstico) (3)
5 Eight (4) 6 Normalmente (7) 7 Alabanzas (7) 11 Dejar (5) 12 Alfombras (pequeñas) (4) 13 Este (4) 15 Taza (recipiente) (3)
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Fill all the empty squares using the numbers 1 to 9, so that the sum of each horizontal block equals the ‘clue’ on its left, and the sum of each vertical block equals the clue on its top. No number may be used in the same block more than once.
How many English words of four letters or more can you make from the nine letters in our Nonagram puzzle? Each letter may be used only once (unless the letter appears twice). Each word MUST CONTAIN THE CENTRE LETTER (in this case M) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.
• Average: 9 • Good: 12
AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) This is a time to consider finances and keep your options open. Someone who tries to get a fast decision out of you by pushing you into a corner is doing you no favours. You will decide what (if anything) needs to be done when you are good and ready.
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Keep things simple. Getting involved in other people's problems is not for you at the moment. It may be necessary to delay a decision to give yourself time to think. Could you manage a few days away somewhere? Maybe you could stay with a friend or relative. You need some peace and quiet on your own.
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1 Talisman, 4 Deal, 8 Libya, 10 Acreage, 11 Reagent, 12 Eats, 14 Notary, 16 Stigma, 19 Grit, 21 Inspire, 24 Insular, 25 Alert, 26 Lush, 27 Asteroid.
1 Shampoo, 5 Cocky, 8 Buddy, 9 Piranha, 10 Uproars, 12 Stein, 13 Desire, 15 Closed, 18 Bling, 19 Epsilon, 21 Expands, 22 Apart, 23 Surge, 24 Success.
1 Marcador, 7 Nadar, 8 Awake, 10 Hoe, 11 Oca, 12 Oil, 13 Aisle, 14 Traje, 15 Bookshop.
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1 Tolerant, 2 Shame, 3 Awaits, 5 Exact, 6 Lied, 7 Ernest, 9 Blast, 13 Talented, 15 Rattle, 17 Grime, 18 Tigris, 20 Rests, 22 Stale, 23 Pill.
1 Subdued, 2 Adder, 3 Pry, 4 Oppose, 5 Chrysalis, 6 Confess, 7 Yearn, 11 Arrogance, 14 Skipper, 16 Donates, 17 Versus, 18 Bless, 20 Leave, 22 Arc.
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ARIES (March 21 - April 20) Although things are going pretty well, there are some things that could be just a little better organised. The time and money that this saves could be small, but it's the ongoing positive attitude that counts. There have been times recently when you have wondered if your progress on a certain matter would ever start up again.
TAURUS (April 21 - May21) It is better if you don't get involved in any high profile, high risk business deals. Success is not assured. This is a time for financial consolidation. Count your pennies and see the pounds collecting in the future. On a cold winter’s night it can give a pleasant glow to realise your action during the summer is keeping you warm.
GEMINI (May 22 - Juny 21) Partnerships see you leap ahead on something that was a bit stuck in the mud. A leap in your bank balance follows. Some quick decisions may be called for so it is better to share responsibilities, whatever the outcome. You have a chance to show just how clever you can be, but do it because it gives you personal satisfaction rather than to impress.
CANCER (June 22 - July 23) After a hectic start to the week, things seem to have slowed down. Look carefully at what has happened, but remember that there is no point in worrying over something that you cannot change. Sitting tight and waiting for this period to pass could be the best solution. Certainly, it will prove less stressful than fighting a losing corner.
LEO (July 24 - August 23) Money is good and this can make you over-confident. Beware bank managers offering loans in large amounts. Nothing is for free and you need to look carefully at interest rates right now. Another, more personal, investment also needs looking at right now. Are things going exactly the way you want them to?
VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) Aim a bit higher than usual and you may be surprised at your success. When seeing the bigger picture, you realise that it is not so daunting after all. If one person can do it, then so can another. It is a matter of how you approach it. What you have to ask yourself this week is why you should accept the minimum when the maximum is so close by.
LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) This should be a great time for your finances. Any glitch is likely to be because you have overspent. Even if things still need close attention, you can win if you concentrate. A bit of plotting and planning can work wonders at the moment. Most of your big expenses are behind you and if you can just tighten that belt a wee bit more.
SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Although things seem fine, this is not a time to overstretch your finances. Spending a lot this week without thought is problematic later. This is a week of shifting and changing and that certainly means your finances. The other area is your social circle, where people come and go, sometimes without warning.
SAGITARIUS (November 23 - December 21) This is not a particularly lucky week for you, so I would certainly advise caution. Gambling is not recommended. Being clever with money is as much about not spending it as about how you spend it. .
CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Look at the long-term picture when considering money matters. What seems like a good deal now may not be so a few years down the line. Someone who appears to be telling a lie may simply have either misunderstood or have the wrong information.
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Cover up! It’s time for a new law SIR, When is Spain going to clean up its act and ban tourists... and sadly in a few cases local residents... walking around the streets half naked. While it is easy to blame the Brits having now lived near Mojacar for the last five years I can assure you some German and also a few Scandinavian visitors – though to a lesser degree – are also among those who choose to walk around the streets and go window shopping without shirts on, or in the case of women, in just bikini bottoms. In the South of France local laws are in place making such behaviour illegal, and anyone walking around without a shirt or in beach attire can be fined on the spot. Keep beach wear and partial nudity where it belongs, which is the beach. Spain will be a better and more attractive summer destination if and when it makes such attire illegal away from around pools and on the beach. Nora Caulcott Torre
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Security smile I AM delighted – yet a little surprised – to note (EWN Issue 1665) that Marbella is now considering installing CTV cameras in various places including Puerto Banus and La Canada shopping mall. Having lived on the Costa del Sol for almost 10 years, when the idea of such security checks in Puerto Banus was muted several years ago, local businesses fought the suggestion as it was feared cameras would frighten some clients away. One can glean for ones-self the base of such concerns given the criminal leanings of a few of the big spending people who frequent the ritzy port throughout the year, and especially in summer. Marbella is well aware of this, as are many people living and vis-
PUERTO BANUS: Security likely to be stepped up. iting Spain. Additionally having once been robbed in the car park of La Canada – I was distracted by a stranger, only to later discover my handbag had been stolen while giving directions - CTV cameras will be a huge
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bonus, for the mall offers excellent facilities, but in this day and age crime is something we must all fight against. R Craddock Estepona
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Comments from EWN online Gay friendly traffic lights in Madrid Surely Spain as a country emerging from years of recession would have better things they could spend the money on !!! Anyway, where are heterosexual people supposed to cross the road now? Rob Ogden It's good to see some light in Madrid!
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Have the dissenters gone quiet? (Leapy Lee) Media commentators can skew our perceptions away from reality if we’re not careful. The dreadful terror attacks in the UK have been truly awful for those caught up in them and my heart goes out to the victims, their families and friends. But everywhere else in the UK and the whole wide world billions of the rest of us have been leading normal lives at work, or we’ve been out and about enjoying ourselves, or having a quiet night in without experiencing any terrorism at all - except maybe for those who were glued to the blanket media coverage. While it is undoubtedly important to take action against terrorism, it is vital that we keep a sense of proportion. Countless billions of us live our entire lives into a ripe old age
without ever becoming involved in a terrorist incident. The vast majority of people on the planet never see terrorism at first hand. Without the 24-hour news media they might not be aware of it at all. It’s a fact there are many more deaths every year from accidents at home than from terrorism, but we don’t waste time being afraid of our own homes! Brian Eagleson
Mega drug bust in Madrid They are a greedy and arrogant bunch. They are making their money by hurting others. How many OD because of their actions? Too many! The authorities are helping put these criminals behind bars where they belong. Great job guys on a job well done!!!! Guy Campbell
Battered, bothered and bewildered by a boring election campaign (Nora Johnson) Spot on about everything-especially Brown and Blair - yesterday’s men! Stevie
Scottish voters save the Conservatives Great Scot! That clever Ruth Davidson has saved Theresa May’s bacon by delivering 13 Scottish Tory MPs! A lucky number for her and 12 more than before, undoubtedly keeping the keys to No 10 in Theresa’s handbag - for the moment. Her huge losses to Labour in England would have made her position completely untenable without those additional Scottish MPs. Who would have thought Scotland would save a Tory government? Life is full of surprises these days. With the SNP still the third largest party in Westminster, the DUP in a government coalition, and all those Scottish Tory MPs in government, Scotland and Northern Ireland now have more power over the Brexit negotiations than ever before. How ironic, considering the PM previously ignored both countries completely! It’s worth remembering both those countries voted to stay IN the EU. A second EU referendum is now much more likely. Some MPs are even saying Stormont has just imposed Direct Rule on Westminster! It’s usually the other way round. Talk about a Coalition of Chaos! The Irish border will dominate the talks at last. Seriously, how can a UK which has left the EU continue to have an open border with it in Ireland? I’ve said before I wouldn’t want to be in Theresa May’s shoes. That’s even more true now. Boy, those high heels must be killers! And she’s bound to lose the keys to No 10 sooner rather than later. Brian
WHY is it that so many British living in Spain do not even try to learn at least a little Spanish. I have now been here for three years, and can still only master a few simple sentences, despite numerous lessons and ongoing attempts to improve. But one thing is clear. My efforts, however poor, are invariably welcomed by local Spanish people, who either do their best to understand me, or try to speak to me in my own mother-tongue English. I look forward to the day when – just perhaps – I am fluent, for despite the fact I am now retired and many say I am too old to learn a new language, just imagine the pleasure I will get from mastering all the idiosyncrasies that seem to exist. Having said that, perhaps in reality it is the strange English language that is befuddling my linguistic brain! Name and address supplied Costa Blanca
Be warned I’VE been coming to Benidorm now for the last 14 years twice a year with my wife. It is brilliant we love the place and have never had any problems. On Wednesday June 7, I took my wife shopping and she bought a €160 leather coat before we decided to go to the church in the Old Town. An opportunistic thief stole the coat which was beside my wife in the church, leaving her devastated. Geoff, Wirral, Merseyside
Election mess WELL, after all the huffing and puffing, the election was finally decided and it resulted in a hung Parliament. That I would suggest is the last thing that anybody wanted, however it demonstrated the arrogance of Theresa May and the total misreading of the British electorate. She gambled, she lost, big style. Her ‘strong and stable’ government is anything but. What a shambles!! Philip, San Fulgencio
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Skin cancer awareness week MORE than 250 dermatologists evaluated thousands of Spaniards across 49 provinces in a bid to detect and prevent skin cancer. The initiative was part of the 2017 melanoma campaign organised by Spain’s Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (AEDV), in which 33 other EU countries also participated. According to AEDV, around 4,000 melanomas are diagnosed each year in Spain and believe around 80 per cent of these could have been avoided if adequate sun protection was used. Cases are more common in those aged over 50, particularly as sun protection and the damaging sun’s rays were less known about a few decades ago, but there are more and more cases of young people being diagnosed due to unhealthy habits of sun exposure. However, the good news is that 80 per c e n t o f m e l a no mas a re cured with surgery and early diagnosis means it is unlikely to
EXPERTS are warning against the so-called ‘sleeping beauty’ diet. The ‘diet’ advocates sleeping as long as possible so there are less hours in the day to eat. Many women are also relying on sedatives and sleeping pills to enable them to sleep up to 20
have spread to other parts of the body. During the week-long campaign, specialists analysed moles and offered free consultations to check people’s skin. Different activities were also arranged to remind people of the importance of protecting the skin from the sun’s harmful rays and in checking moles for any changes. Remember if you have an existing mole that has changed shape, colour or size, you should get it checked. Also, look for new moles, spots or lesions that are red, can bleed and are not healing.
SUN DAMAGE: Get your moles checked out.
Avoid sleeping beauty diet hours a day and are at risk of overdosing and becoming addictive. The diet could also have an impact on the mental health of
followers unable to interact or socialise, spending most of the day in bed leading to social isolation and potentially depression. It can also affect a person’s
body clock and dieters are more likely to binge eat when awake. Experts warn sleeping pills should always be used with caution. A study by Keele Uni-
versity found that as they can cause drowsiness and impaired balance, the risk of a fracture doubled in those who relied daily on sleeping pills to get to
sleep. In 2015, a University of Washington study also showed a worrying link between sleeping tablets and dementia and researchers from Nottingham University in 2012 found that sleeping pills increase the risk of contracting, and dying from, pneumonia during their study.
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Good or bad boredom? BOREDOM. What is boredom? Simply being fed up, having nothing to do at the weekend? Lacking enthusiasm in your work, being uninterested in things? Boredom has many different levels and experiences and it can affect different people in different ways. It can be healthy, but can also be harmful. Now, experts have suggested their could be up to five different types of boredom and the ‘wrong’ sort of boredom can be self-destructive and could lead to an earlier death. A type of boredom known as ‘reactant’ is deemed the most harmful by experts. They say this involves strong negative feelings making people restless, angry and stressed. This can also lead to long term boredom with people more likely to skip school or quit their jobs, as well as
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FED UP?: Boredom can affect different people in different ways.
smoke, take drugs and binge drink; all factors that can reduce the life expectancy as it was found that the boredom leads to bad habits. However, ‘indifferent’ boredom could be benefi-
cial. This is the state where people are not actively doing anything, but they are calm and quiet and so allow their mind to wander off. This has proven to boost creativity and it is often recommended to allow chil-
dren to be ‘bored’ so they can spend time with themselves, be more creative and stimulate their minds to play and be active without outside factors such as electronics and video games being given to entertain them.
Donors above average SPAIN continues to break records on the number of organ and tissue donations and transplants. For 25 consecutive years, Spain continues to be a world leader and in 2016 again increased its figures to more than 43 donors per million inhabitants, totalling 2,018 donors and 4,818 transplants, well above the European average. The figures were announced as the country marked National Organ Those who Donor Day to celebrate and donate do thank the altruistic gesture of not know who all donors and their families. receives it. The Spanish model of organ donation and transplantation is often used as a worldwide reference and is deemed as an example to be followed for all countries that want to improve their donations and transplants. It is based on a 100 per cent public system with an extensive network of health professionals with specific and impeccable training. Those who donate do not know who receives it and do not receive any compensation. Equally the recipient does not know the donor or have to pay in a way to TRANSPLANTS: guarantee Spain leads. equality.
SPECIALIST: Doctor Luis Perez Belmonte. What happens if a jellyfish stings me? The com m on sym ptoms of jellyfish stings, assuming the patient is not allergic or suffering from some type of illness which could worsen the effects, are: Pain, burni ng, i nf l am m at i on and reddening and bleeding. How do I treat a jellyfish sting? When a jellyfish stings us, the pain and itchiness is immediate. The first thing that it is necessary to do is clean the area affected by the sting. We should never use freshwater, because it could break the stinging cells, causing another sting. To cl ean t he ar ea, a saline solution is perfect. In case you don’t have one, salt water could also be a sol ut i on. For approximately 15 minutes, you should apply cold to the affected zone. If you use ice, don’t apply the ice directly to the sting, but rather cover i t wi t h a cl ot h or a towel. If any of the tentacle is still stuck to the skin,
remove it, but never with t he hands. Use som e kind of pincers. You shoul d al so use some kind of antihistamine, for the reaction, and a painkiller for the pai n. Pr egnant wom en must pay special attention when taking antihist am i nes. I f t he pai n i s very intense, or the victim’s condition worsens, they should seek medical attention immediately. I t ’s not necessar y t o rub yourself, either with towels or with sand; not with anything that could hurt you even more. How can I avoid being stung by a jellyfish? You shoul d keep an eye out for the appearance of these animals on beaches or places where you regularly swim. You shoul d never t ouch or handle jellyfish if you are not wearing appropriate protective gloves. Limit yourself to looki ng at t hem f r om f ar away. They may be curious cr eat ur es, but you shoul dn’t f orget t hat their stings can be dangerous.
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bet. Restaurant Bambu will be serving up salmon ravioli with miso sauce and chirimoyo jam with mango. The opening ceremony takes place tomorrow at 1pm at Dolce Vita, while at 5pm there
will be a cocktail tasting at the Bamboo chiringuito. Councillor Ruiz Joya said “we have been able to count on the help of great collabo-
rators who have supplied the restaurants involved with seasonal products like avocado and mango and of Agroindustrias Tropicales who have supplied frozen fruit out of season.
FRUIT-FILLED DELIGHT: Bambu’s saucy entry.
Rocking the Kasbah VELEZ-MALAGA’S fortress is set to host famed Spanish 80s band, ‘Los Secretos’ in a gig on June 24. The concert, which will also see performances from bands Hermanos Essencia and Los Electroduendes, after the initial date of April 26 was pushed back due to weather conditions. Ticket sales at the event, known as the Spring Festival, have “exceeded the norms for Malaga,” according to its promoter, Carlos Lucena, who added Los Secretos would play the “best-known songs of their career.” While Gregorio Campos, President of the Commonwealth of Municipalities of Axarquia, has shown his “great support for an event of these characteristics that is guaranteed to attract a significant number of public inside and outside the region.” The event is also an opportunity for fundraising and community spirit, with the local scouts benefiting. Scout Treasurer, Jesus Peña , explained the youth organisation has been able to use funds raised from the Spring Festival collection to start
SPRING FLING: Carlos Lucena, Gregorio Campos, Antonio Moreno Ferrer and Jesus Peña launch the event. work on new scout premises, and “we expect most of the works to be finished for this October, so the Scouts can carry out their first activities there.” Antonio Moreno Ferrer, Velez-Malaga’s mayor, praised the work of the Scout collective in Velez-Malaga and thanked its young volunteers “who have come together to raise funds for their new premises.” Tickets, which cost €15 in advance and €20 on the door, can be purchased at Zona Base and Femme in Velez Malaga, from Zona Base,
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Feeling fruity this weekend LA HERRADURA is preparing to celebrate its first ever tropical fruit festival this weekend. This event, which is organised by the town hall alongside several companies in the sector, brings together 11 restaurants from the area to promote Malaga and Granada’s tropical fruit. The event sees establishments put together dishes using various fruits, such as the Cerro Gordo restaurant’s entry of mango with oxtail and frozen papaya sorbet. The Chambao de Joaquin restaurant has put together a fillet of hake in a mango sauce with chilli peppers on a bed of rice, while Dolce Vita is offering up mackerel ceviche with a nispola sor-
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O’Donell and Berebere in Torre del Mar and Zona Base in Nerja. Tickets for the initial April 29 performance are still valid.
According to Carlos Lucena ticket prices are a bargain, explaining, “normally just the price of seeing Los Secretos is never below €25.”
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If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish Sherry can bring the dead back to life. Alexander Fleming If God had not made Sherry, how imperfect his work would have been. Benito Perez Galdos
GOOD FOOD, GOOD WINE AND GOOD FRIENDS WITH
GARRY WAITE NE OF THE MOST ANNOYING THINGS ABOUT BARS AND RESTAURANTS in this part of the world is attempting to get a Sherry. If very lucky you may be offered a Tio Pepe, but apart from that you will get a Manzanilla! And yet we are only a spittoon’s distance from the home of Sherry. Jerez is a fabulous city and a visit to the Sherry houses is always worthwhile, as is the Real Escuela Andaluza del Arte Ecuestre (Royal Andalucian School of Equestrian Art) to see an incredible horse show. I have loved Sherry since I was a kid. It was my Christmas treat even at the age of 10. Just like Mateus Rosé, Liebfraumilch, Blue Nun and Entre-Deux-Mers it was the sort of wine that 60’s people drank... as long as it was Bristol Cream! But to discover the delicate chalky overtones of a delicate Fino, like La Ina, or a rich Oloroso is worth the wait. I once held a dinner where I paired food with Sherry, starting with a great Fino with Oysters and finishing with a rich dessert with the fabulous Pedro Ximenez. Though I could go on about the attributes of a great Sherry, instead I have asked my friend Rex Leyland, London restaurateur (ret’d) and Sherry aficionado to give me his perspective on the state of Sherry in Andalucia.
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SPANISH SHERRY: A visit to Jerez is worthwhile. REX SAYS “I share Garry’s annoyance that when I arrive in a restaurant in Andalucia and ask for a copita of Sherry all they offer is a glass of Manzanilla, which technically is not Sherry as it comes from Sanlucar and not Jerez.* Sometimes they may also offer a glass of Fino, which is of course Sherry, but very dry. I prefer the other slightly richer Sherries, like most English people, while the Spanish prefer Fino. Jerez produces many varieties of Sherry that for me are much more exhilarating - namely Old Amontillado, Oloroso Seco, Palo Cortado and abocado, ligadillos, [both local Andalucian words], in common Spanish it is mitad mitad, which is a mix of normally dry and sweeter varieties. These are normally dispensed in front of you so that you can choose which balance of dry and sweet you prefer. Why can’t every restaurant stock the province’s most famous wines. This beggar’s belief. I can only assume that the Spanish have just lost appreciation of their own incredible invention.
This is so sad as the wines have so much to offer and can be enjoyed primarily as an aperitif, or drunk with various foods including ham, seafood, cheese, and of course for the English, all Sherries complement fine smoked salmon. Sherry is robust enough to withstand many strong flavours which then, as with the sweeter varieties, allow them to be enjoyed as a digestif; as cream and old Oloroso, can accompany various puddings and cakes. A good way to enjoy the sweeter wines is to prick plump sultanas or raisins and macerate for 24 hours allowing them to engorge the Sherry and serve with ice cream! Sadly now, for aficionados, good Sherry has to be found in England as it is so difficult to obtain in Spain. The best stock of these great wines are in gentlemen’s clubs in St James’s in London. Recently I was in a small bodega in Puerto Santa Maria called Bodegas Obregon where we were spoilt with locally produced varieties of Sherry including Muscatel and other sweet wines which were all mixed with dryer types.
Rosé, Red, White or BLUE? THIS WEEK’S WINE CORNER is extremely unusual and a first in my case. I am familiar with blue tonic but this is the first time that I have encountered BLUE wine!! Baltar de Alort was given by a friend to try. I admit to having been a little hesitant, even though it looks pretty! Trying to find information about this
wine, however, has proven difficult. The Bodega, which is in Alcázar de San Juan (Ciudad Real) seems to specialise in sparkling wine. Nothing is mentioned about this ‘still’ version! It has very little nose, because of its colour one cannot determine the freshness of colour, hue just to say... it’s blue!! On the nose it has undercurrents of acetone (yes nail polish!) and little fruit. I did try two small glasses!! But was obviously not convinced.
I WAS VERY SURPRISED when asked by a colleague to find a place to hold a lunch for 60- 80 people in Marbella that there is a shortage of premises/restaurateurs willing to hold such an event. Having arranged many similar events across Spain as an organiser for Classic Car Clubs and the like, including such lunches in my own restaurants, I have normally been greeted with some enthusiasm. It’s true that the budget offered is normally well down on the average spend per head that many venues are used to achieving, but if you have a place that is empty on that day then to me it’s fairly logical. Criteria are parking space, a large enough room to lunch and a quality, value for money menu. Maybe Marbella restaurants are doing so well, they don’t need the extra €2,500 such an event can bring in!!
A copa in this bar costs very little - perhaps a couple of Euro - with tapas to accompany. You can also take away any of the Sherries from the barrels for about 6€ a litre, but they charge an extra 1€ if they have to provide a bottle! For those who adore Spanish brandy as I do, they also produce their own, which is well worth sampling and of course it’s for sale. Finally there are other Spanish wines that ‘pose’ as Sherry namely Montilla and Chiclana, and although they seem to drink better when consumed in their respective town’s bars, I prefer to avoid them elsewhere as they can never match the great wine called Sherry!” *Manzanilla can technically be considered Sherry. It has a separate DO (denominación de origen) as it only comes from Sanlúcar, but is run by the same Consejo Regulador, in Jerez.
ON THAT NOTE I will bid farewell until next week and should aspiring restaurateurs need some help or advice, please do contact me. A toast to Good Food, Good Wine and Good Friends.
(WINE SHOWN IS THE FRIZZANTE FOR WHICH THE BODEGA IS BETTER KNOWN)
Garry Waite is a foodie and restaurateur as well as an Hospitality Management Consultant. If contemplating setting up an operation in Spain, or indeed having problems with an existing project, contact (HIM) on garrywaite@euroweeklynews.com
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BAÑOS DE LA HEDIONDA: A chamber in the baths.
Roman baths in Casares IF you have a nose for history then a visit to the Baños de la Hedionda (Casares) might be a good idea. That is if you also have a nose that can ignore the smell of sulphur in the baths which date back to Roman times and are said to be where the devil breathed out after being expelled from heaven.
These sulphurous springs are difficult to reach but are still accessible to the public if somewhat tatty as they have been partly vandalised over the past few years. History records that Roman legionaries on the side of Julius Caesar visited the area in 61AD prior to one of the major battles with the troops of Pompey and
those suffering from Scabies were said to have recovered after bathing in the waters. Although it is not confirmed Caesar himself was a visitor, work was undertaken in the baths over the centuries by the Romans, Moors and Spanish, and the area next to the Rio Manilva has been declared an area of local cultural interest.
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Back on track as house prices climb in a slow and steady march upwards HOME prices shot up by 3.6 per cent last month compared to May of 2015. The increase was most pronounced in major cities and on the Mediterranean coast, where prices rose by 4.7 per cent. May’s increase means that average prices across Spain are now roughly comparable with December 2013. Adjusted for inflation there are also similarities with September 2003. Research from Tinsa showed that Spain's slow but steady march towards prices seen during the boom years is continuing well into 2017. Prices are on average 40 per cent lower today than they were at the height of the property market’s unsustainable success in 2007. It may take another decade for them to reach those heights. But property experts are confident that gradual progress will
Coast -vthe coast AN interesting new study has shown the differences of the new homes market on Spain’s different Mediterranean coastlines. There are 2,483 new homes on sale on the Costa del Sol, compared to 2,110 on the Costa Blanca. There are 345 on Costa Calida, 378 on Costa Dorada and 279 on the Costa Brava. Prices are lowest on the Costa Calida at €151,000 on average, and similarly cheap on Costa Dorada at €154,400. Average prices of the new homes on the Costa Blanca and Costa Brava are roughly equal at €196,000 and €199,400 respectively. The Costa del Sol bucks the trend with an average price of €353,000, with 12 per cent of the homes costing in excess of €500,000.
continue. In many respects slower is considered better, allowing the market to evolve organically, rather than rushing into another period of untenable highs. May’s news comes as BBVA released a comprehensive report into the first quarter of 2017. Its Real Estate Obervatory of Spain report notes a posi-
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tive sales performance which accelerated price growth. Year on year sales of residential properties rose by a healthy 19.5 per cent, suggesting that 2017 is on course to meet the lofty targets set at the beginning of the year. Experts were optimistic that up to 600,000 transactions could take place by December.
GOOD NEWS: May’s increase means average prices across Spain are roughly comparable with December 2013.
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Jacaranda tree - is it friend or foe?
SPECTACULAR SIGHT: A Jacaranda tree in full flower. The Jacaranda require no pruning except to remove deadwood. Pruning a Jacaranda spoils its natural shape and they don’t recover well from pruning. Pruning also stimulates vertical growth of branches which is contrary to its natural horizontal form. It spoils the look of the tree to have vertical growths so it becomes a chore
to have to keep removing them. The difficulty of having a Jacaranda tree however is that it sheds material practically all year. Never plant one even remotely near a pool or over driveways, paths or any area that you do not want covered in plant debris. If you do, you will be constantly sweeping and cleaning the area of spent flow-
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Opel Mokka X THE Mokka X is a revised version of the Opel-Vauxhall Mokka crossover, and with smart looks, extra equipment and the option of four-wheel drive, it can take on the best in this fast-growing segment. There is a wide range of petrol and diesel engines, with the 1.6 diesel a highlight, but so too is the 1.4 turbo-petrol engine which offers 0-100 kph in well under 10 seconds, yet can still return excellent fuel economy. Mokka X prices start at €21,746 (£18,930) and entry level version is well-kitted with standard features such as cruise control, parking sensors, power windows and door mirrors, high beam assist, alloy wheels and a touchscreen infotainment system. That list covers what most people want but up the range more and more equipment is added and my test model was in Elite trim and with auto gearbox, four-wheel drive and 1.4 litre petrol engine cost €30,282 (£26,360). For this price you get too much to list but kit includes larger alloy wheels, roof rails, side mouldings, leather heated sports seats and heated steering wheel, touch-screen
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and connectivity including Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and Opel-Vauxhall OnStar which offers a range of driver aids. You also get climate and cruise controls, auto lights and wipers, front and rear parking sensors among many other features. The Mokka X has strong visual road presence and dis-
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able comfort. The 356 litre boot is among the biggest in the class and can be increased to 1,372 litres by folding the rear seats, which drop flat easily. The cabin has a quality appearance with attractive design touches, chrome detailing and well-ordered layout of controls and overall, the Mokka X interior is a pleasant place to be. Only quibble is with the oddly-designed handbrake release which is awkward to operate. On the road, the 150 hp 1.4 litre turbo petrol engine is refined and quick, with a 0-100 kph time of 9.3 seconds and a top speed of 193 kph (120 mph). Fuel economy is 15.4 kpl (43.5 mpg). The controls are light and positive, giving assured handling and minimal body-pitch on the corners, and ride quality though firm is still comfortable. Mokka X is right among the best in the compact crossover class, with impressive styling, good driving dynamics and plenty of standard equipment. So much kit in fact that many buyers will find bestvalue at entry or mid-range levels.
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Classic Car Club of Andalucia
The May Classic Car Run he May Classic Car Run was a great success. The start was near Ojen, just above the La Cañada shopping centre, where around 45 beautiful cars turned out on a very pleasant, hot day. Breakfast was enjoyed at Venta Peligrino and cars departed at their leisure just after 11.00am after the usual briefing from Club Chairman / Presidente, Ian Giles who had also organised the run and day out. The route went up and over the top of Ojen, passing Monda and Coin before heading for the back-road to Alozaina and Casarabonela. Then a climb up out of Casarabonela on the Ma-
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5401 through the beautiful forest where a drinks halt was much appreciated! That before descending to the spectacular ArdalesEl Burgo road and out through El Burgo to by-pass Alozaina and Tolox and turning up through Guaro and Monda. The route was a great success and showed off some beautiful parts of Andalucia which is always a treat. The finish of the day was at the famous Castillo de Monda (Monda Castle) where a very enjoyable lunch was taken and some stupendous views enjoyed from the top of this amazing old castle. See some of the photos of this great classic car day out on
this page. By the time you read this the June classic car run will have taken place and we will report on that in our next Euro Weekly News page. For those of you wanting information on the Club or details of how to join, please see www.cccandaucia.com or email info@cccandalucia.com.
The Annual Summer Ball COMINB back to CCCA events, we have the Summer Ball happening at the Hotel Tamisa Golf on Friday June 23. This is always a marvellous night out with drinks and canapés on arrival, a marvellous dinner, with all wines included, served ‘al fresco’ under the stars by the poolside and fantastic entertainment from one of the top entertainers on the coast, Johnny G. Tickets are still only €40pp from Brian Ladd brian.ladd8@gmail.com.
The Tour de Sands
THE Classic Car Club of Andalucia was very proud to be involved with the Tour de Sands six-week cycle ride which finished recently on the Costa del Sol. Several CCCA members took part in the mammoth ride from Lincolnshire in the UK to Elviria, on the Costa here. A huge amount of money was raised to help Lymphodaema
Support, and St Barnabas Hospice, to honour the memory of another CCCA member, Sandra Watson. Our thanks to all CCCA members for their support and generosity. See www.tourdesands.com for more information and where one can still donate through the Giving Page.
The CCCA Monthly Photo Competition THE CCCA Photographic competition is going well. We have a prize awarded for the best photo every month and a huge prize presented by Paul Yaffé at the end of the year for the best photo of the year. This month’s winner was Henri Hoogewoud who took this photo of Tony Minta’s beautiful, yellow Rolls Royce convertible on the May Classic Car Run. Club members may submit up to five photos for consideration each month. The winner is then presented at the first Club night following the competition month.
FAST-MOTION: A great shot.
CLASSIC CAR RUN: From Ojen to Monda Castle.
Runner-up this month was Richard Masters with a great ‘fast-motion’ shot of Annie and Brendan O’Brien’s beautiful, red Rolls Royce Corniche taken on the May Classic Car Run.
Further information on Classic Car Club of Andalucia events can be found on the Club’s website www.cccandalucia.com. Membership of this vibrant club is open to anyone owning a genuine classic car here in Spain. Saca tu coche clásico del garaje y diviértete con el.
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Golf International Nerja Society THEY managed four games, travelling with 28 players to Granada and the Las Gabias course. Friday June 2 INDIVIDUAL STABLEFORD LADIES 1st Penny Tegher Hcp24 35pts 2nd Neilma Jary Hcp28 33pts MEN 1st Rafik Tagher Hcp22 39pts 2nd Malcolm Ritchie Hcp28 34pts 3rd Graham Francis Hcp27 33pts 4th Brian Early Hcp26 31pts MEDAL LADIES 1st Liz Taylor Ingram Hcp18.8 66.2 Net 2nd Gill Green Hcp19.9 72.1Net MEN 1st Jim Henderson Hcp20.6 64.4 Net 2nd: Nick Brown Hcp 4 65.0 Net
Añoreta. AÑORETA Monday June 5 TEAM GAME 1st TEAM Pete Thompson 17 hcp and Rod Oldham 28hcp 2nd TEAM Brian Hollinrake 11hcp and Marisa Elias Garcia 18hcp 3rd TEAM Stewart Green 6hcp and Carlos Villen 28hcp It was a great day with 10 teams and only eight points the difference, so third prize was decided on countback with three teams on the same score. Pete Thompson and the returning to form Rod Oldham were the winners with 42 pts just pipping Brian and Marisa on 41pts.
Las Gabias. LAS GABIAS Monday June 5 INDIVIDUAL STABLEFORD 1st LADY Penny Tagher Hcp24 31pts MEN 1st Gil Richardson Hcp14 42pts 2nd Nick Brown Hcp 4 38pts 3rd Brian Page Hcp20 36pts Jim Henderson Hcp19 36pts 4th Neil Taylor Hcp14 33pts 5th Robert Durston Hcp28 33pts Twenty-eight members and one guest had yet another really enjoyable day out at Las Gabias yesterday. It was warm, as was the welcome from the staff; the sun shone all day and there was some good scoring to boot!
BAVIERA Tuesday June 6 INDIVIDUAL STABLEFORD OVERALL WINNER Mark Fulton 37pts LADIES: 1st Gill Sibson 34pts 2nd Jackie Viles 29pts MEN: 1st Graeme Birch 35pts 2nd Rafael Martin 34pts 3rd David Jenkins 33pts Twos Gil Richardson 5, Ian Paterson 10, Gill Sibson 10 & David McKinlay 8 With 30 players itching to have a good round it was a little disappointing that some early groups ahead of GINS made it a painfully slow day. We had several occasions where three or four of our flights were stuck at the same place on the course - like the adjacent 13th and 15th tees. Winning scores were good with the overall winner - Mark Fulton - getting 37 points despite his new handicap of six. The Vice Captain, Erica was playing and kindly presented the prizes to the loyal few who stayed to the end.