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Toxic trash protest

Wasted By Linda Hall Sixty per cent of Alicante Province’s rubbish is untreated and ends up buried in landfill sites. There are three plants in Campello, Jijona and Fontcalent as well as unauthorised tips in isolated locations where unwanted refuse is dumped. According to Carlos Arribas from Ecologistas en Accion, Alicante Province’s landfill sites, which handle hugely increased amounts of rubbish in the summer, were “ticking timebombs.” They posed a constant health threat owing to the fluids they leach and the emissions that pollute the water table, ground and the air, he claimed. What Arribas described as “gigantic silos of rubbish” are also responsible for methane emissions, whose greenhouse effect is 20 times more potent than car-

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DUMPED: Valuable materials could be recycled. bon dioxide, he said. “Many tips are inadequately controlled and responsible for introducing toxic elements into the environment.” It was no secret, he said, that living near one of the province’s

three landfill sites brought grave problems. The Fontcalent site’s neighbours regularly complained about the toxic smell, as did those in Campello, Arribas said.

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Factory fire SEVERAL workers were injured after fire broke out in airshafts at a Bañeres thread-spinning factory. This was the third fire in four months and afterwards firefighters had to ensure that each shaft was clear.

Old bangers CARS on Alicante Province roads have an average age of 12.2 years compared with 9.5 years in 2007 and are poorly maintained owing to the economic crisis, a Guardia Civil survey found.

No bulls FOR the third consecutive year, permission for bull running during the El Moralet fiestas at the end of August was refused on the grounds that this “is not in the public interest.”

By Linda Hall CALLOSA asked the regional and national governments to do everything possible to stop the spread of Xylella fastidiosa. The incurable plague described as ‘Ebola for trees’ eventually kills trees by stripping them of all moisture. It reached Baleares in November and the first mainland cases were confirmed last month in almond plantations in neighbouring Guadalest and Benimantell. All parties on Callosa Council backed the town hall’s appeal for strict measures to contain the plague in the document sent to Madrid and Valencia. The council also called for compensation for economic losses during the period when infected areas must observe a five-year ban on planting the same species. Not only diseased trees but also those within a 100-metre perimeter must be destroyed and there can be no

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Only almonds attacked as yet

Panic persists movement of vegetation inside a 10-kilometre radius of the outbreak. Callosa, whose economy centres on agriculture, will also urge the European

The estimated percentage of the world’s olive oil that is produced in Spain.

‘TREE EBOLA’: Could be less almond blossom around next spring. Union to increase controls on agricultural products from other continents when they enter European seaports and frontiers. The Generalitat has also requested urgent help from the central government in

combating the Xylella Fastidiosa bacteria which attacks not only almond trees, but olive trees, fruit trees and ornamental plants. So far only almond trees have been affected in the Marina Baja, the Generalitat

confirmed. Analyses of samples taken from 109 trees bearing avocados, carobs, cherries and walnuts were all negative, the regional government’s Agriculture and Environment department revealed.

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Plan still on hold THE Generalit Valenciana will respect the Valencia Upper Court’s suspension of plans to teach all classes in Valencia, Spanish or English. “We shall comply with the ruling but do not share it,” said Generalitat vice-president and spokeswoman Monica Oltra. The scheme, due to begin with three-year-olds in state schools this September, put pupils taught principally in Spanish at a disadvantage, claimed parents throughout the region but especially in Alicante Province.

SPANISH FACTS OF LIFE...23 Despite the sweltering summer climate and regular droughts, Spain is home to some of Europe’s most impressive waterfalls thanks to its diverse and mountainous terrain.

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Waved aside HIGHEST: The Salto del Nervion.

POWERFUL: The reventon of the Rio Mundo.

WITH a head-spinning drop of 222 metres, the spectacular Salto del Nervion is Spain’s highest waterfall. Located in Alava Province at the border of the Basque Country and Castilla y Leon, intrepid hikers can reach either the bottom or top of the towering cascade, with late winter to spring the ideal time to visit.

THE source of the Rio Mundo is considered to be among the most beautiful waterfalls in Spain, exiting a 32-km long limestone cave almost 100 metres up one side of the Calar del Mundo mountain plateau. It is famed for the reventon phenomenon, which occurs when the river swells in spring, forming a breathtaking wall of water. Matt Ford/Shutterstock

THE red flag was raised on Arenal beach in Javea for the first time this year with five rescues and one bather fined for disobeying life guards. Those rescued all ignored the flags and were pulled away from the shore by underwater currents, while the man fined was a Dutch tourist who repeatedly entered the water despite being warned against it.

Under fire A FIRE which broke out near the Marjal de Pego-Oliva natural park a n d C V- 7 1 5 r o a d b e t w e e n t h e towns of Pego and Olivia was quickly controlled by firefighters and Local Police. Three houses were evicted after the blaze, which burned an area of shaded scrubland, it was reported, while a helicopter and small plane helped put it out.

Blasts from the past THE furnace at the razed Antiu Xixona factory in Jijona has been reprieved. It will join the tall industrial chimney as another protected element, agreed Sercolesa the company that now owns the site. The 1920s building was abandoned in 1964 when leading turron-maker Antiu Xixona moved to larger premises on the outskirts of Jijona.

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Social UNIQUE: The Fervenza do Ezaro. THE Fervenza do Ezaro falls at the foot of Mount Pindo on Galicia’s Costa da Morte form an impressive 40-metre spectacle. They lie on the final stretch of the Xallas, the only river in continental Europe that empties directly into the sea via a waterfall. It now flows year-round after pressure from campaigners forced authorities to close a hydroelectric plant.

SCENIC: The Cola de Caballo. A THREE-HOUR trek brings determined hikers to the picturesque Cola de Caballo (horse tail) cascade in the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park situated in the Pyrenees of Huesca Province, Aragon. So-named because the water spreads out and remains in contact with the rock face as it descends, forming an effect resembling a horse’s tail.

Bridge work

Second try

Dodgy deal

THE first of 10 scaffolding towers has been erected below Fernando Reig suspension bridge in Alcoy. Once they are in place work can go ahead on replacing all 38 of the corroded cables.

ALTHOUGH there were no takers for San Vicente’s initial call for designs for a new €6.5 million sports complex, nine architects’ studios responded after the deadline was extended.

AN Elda insurance broker received a two-year prison sentence and a €2,160 fine for defrauding €1.44 million from 70 clients who invested in non-existent in financial products.

Public prosecution states its case THE public prosecutor recommended a 25-year prison term for Juan Cano, accused of murdering Polop mayor Alejandro Ponsoda. Cano, who succeeded Ponsoda as mayor, allegedly hired gunmen to murder him in October 2007. The prosecution department claims that he was helped by local businessman Salvador Ros, Pedro Hermosilla who owns the Mesalina club in Finestrat and Ariel Gatto, its manager. All face 25-year sentences if found guilty. Radim Rakowski and Robert Franek, both Czechs, and Spaniard Rafael Montero Trevejo, allegedly carried out the shooting and face 27-year terms.

All are currently out on bail, awaiting the trial due to be held in late 2018. According to the public prosecutor Juan Cano, Urban Development councillor until 2003, resented Ponsoda for not supporting him when he was linked to shady property deals. Placed deliberately low on the Partido Popular voting list for the 2003 municipal elections he lost his council seat but returned in 2007. Cano allegedly took his revenge that autumn, hiring the gunmen to shoot Ponsoda at his Chirles home. The mayor died days later and Cano replaced him until 2009 when he was arrested and charged with planning Ponsoda’s murder.

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Write on THE Esquera Unida political party in Campello proposed at the last plenary meeting that the municipality should try to engage an official chronicler to keep records for posterity.

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Investigations continue THE death of newly-wed Kirsty Maxwell who plunged to her death from a Benidorm balcony in April is still being investigated as suspicious. The 27-year-old had been celebrating a hen party with friends in the area before she fell 100ft to her death from a 10th floor apartment. New insight into the case suggests that Maxwell could have mistakenly walked into the wrong apartment following a night-out and attempted to clamber over a balcony to reach her friend’s room. Last week, toxicology tests revealed a significant

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TRAGIC ACCIDENT: Maxwell with husband Adam. concentration of alcohol in Maxwell’s blood, putting her more than five and a half times over the Spanish drink-drive limit, suggesting that alcohol could have been responsible for the tragic blunder. However, reports into the mystery death also reveal evidence of cocaine in the apartment from which she fell where five British men were staying at the time Maxine entered. One of the men, Joseph Graham, 32 was quizzed by police immediately after the incident whilst the remaining four flew to Benidorm following a court hearing last week. They were seen hiding their identities with clothing, caps and sunglasses as they arrived at court. Mr Graham was allowed back to Britain without charge and has maintained his innocence stating: “I am unable to say anything at this time other than I am innocent of any wrongdoing.” Further witnesses have claimed that Maxwell was “climbing to safety” amongst mixed statements surrounding the young woman’s death. One new witness, present at the time of the incident, offered valuable and detailed evidence, stating that Spanish people had been shouting from their balcony from a nearby hotel at the floor where Maxwell had been moments before, giving the impression she was trying to clamber to the floors below. Maxwell from Kingston, West Lothian had married husband Adam Maxwell only last September who insisted that his wife had been in no way suicidal at the time. No drugs were found in her blood and there was no evidence of any screams being heard from the apartment prior to her last movements nor were any injuries found on her body. The investigation into the mystery death continues as the four British men wait to hear if they face further legal action, although a Spanish judge this week said that they “might never be charged” due to “no new evidence of the men’s participation in the death of the victim.”

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GARDEN firms and nonresidents who dump garden waste on La Nucia’s urban i sa t i o n s f a c e a n €800 fine. The ban, backed by all polit i c a l p a r t i e s o n th e town council, addresses a grow i n g p r o b l e m i n th e town. The containers for garden refuse on La Nucia’s urban i sa t i o n s r e g u larly over f l o w wi t h w a s te brought in by professional gardening firms from all over the Marina Baja. At the same time a company that supplies containers for transporting garden waste has noticed fewer orders this year. “Th e y a r e n ’t t a k in g prunings and vegetation anywhere, they’re dumping t h e m i l l e g a l l y in -

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Alien gardeners fill dumpsters

OVERFLOWING: Meant for urbanisation use only. stead,” sources said. L a N u cia is th e o nly town in the area that provides urbanisations with containers where residents can leave unwanted refuse from their gardens and the

service was introduced in 2010. The y a re not the re for the benefit of gardening firms leaving “industrial” quantities of garden waste, the town hall said.

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Russian roulette!

LIFE OF RILEY: The accused and her partner on holiday. A 51-YEAR-OLD female bank employee has been held in Almoradi, Alicante, on suspicion of stealing €1.3 million over 25 years in a Russian client scam. The victim, now aged 80, contacted detectives a month ago after he realised that the money was missing. In a statement the Guardia Civil revealed that the suspect enjoyed a “standard of living little in line with the financial position of a bank clerk,” as she and her partner savoured a luxurious lifestyle. This included a large house, high-end cars and a string of holidays to exotic locations, all of

which she bragged about on social media. The scam reportedly started in 1992, when the victim opened a bank account at the Rojales branch of the now defunct Banco de Alicante, which was absorbed by parent company BBVA in 2000. He established a close relationship with the accused, who attended to him personally on every visit and gave him falsified statements to cover up her con. The racket came to light in June, when he requested a detailed breakdown of his finances f r o m t h e b a n k ’s h e a d o f fice in advance of transferring funds elsewhere.

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Denia newbie ESTEBAN Chornet Adsuar took office at the town hall in Denia last week - he replaces Mari Martinez who resigned in May citing ‘strictly personal and professional’ reasons before thanking Denia residents for their confidence in her.

Three s’s BENIDORM mayor Antonio Perez hoisted the ‘Q’ flags of Quality Tourism and Qualitur last week along the cities three beaches - Levante, Poniente and Mal Pas.

Little stars MORE than 200 people gathered to watch students of the San Rafael school in La Nucia perform in their final dance show for the academic year - each class performed a routine from different countries including Brazil and Morocco.

FINANCE

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The Spanish tax regime allows the Autonomous Communities to adjust some rules and tax rates, for example income and wealth tax rates, and rates, allowances and reductions for succession and gift tax. As a result there are substantial tax differences between regions, making some much more beneficial, tax wise, to live in than others. At a meeting of regional Prime Ministers with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in January this year, Andalucía requested a tax harmonisation of the Spanish tax system (especially for succession and gift tax and wealth tax) to avoid unfair competition and tax dumping between the different Spanish regions. Some other regions, including Comunidad Valenciana and Murcia, supported the petition, suggesting that a maximum and a minimum rate applicable for succession and wealth tax should be established, to reduce the differences between regions. On the contrary, Madrid and Islas Baleares rejected this proposal. After this meeting, the central and regional Spanish governments appointed a tax experts committee to look at the issue. This committee has been working on some

Spanish tax harmonisation Some possible future guidelines

By Brett Hanson, Partner, Blevins Franks recommendations to amend the Spanish regional funding system. The final report with their conclusions should be available soon, but in the meantime some information was released showing part of the guidelines that could be suggested by the committee. Wealth tax • A state law should establish

minimum and maximum wealth tax rates applicable to all the regions. Then each Spanish region can decide the applicable rates within those brackets. • The possibility to apply a 100% allowance on the final wealth tax bill for all regions so that no wealth tax is payable at all (as currently applies in Madrid). • While some experts have suggested the abolition of wealth tax, this idea has not garnered enough support, so it seems unlikely that wealth tax will disappear in the coming years in Spain. Succession and gift tax • A state law should establish minimum and maximum succession and gift tax rates applicable to all the regions. Then each Spanish region can decide the applicable rates within those brackets. • Tax rates of around 5% for close relatives (i.e. Groups I & II beneficiaries – ascendants, descendants and spouses).

• No option to apply an allowance so that this tax is not payable at all. • These suggestions will benefit those individuals resident in the regions with the highest taxes (e.g. Andalucía) but they will be detrimental for those living in regions with very low succession tax rates, like Madrid. Once the final report has been published, all regional and central governments will discuss and decide the way forward. The committee’s findings are simply suggestions; they are not binding. For example, a previous committee was appointed to help the government with the major 2015 tax reform. It suggested, amongst other recommendations, that wealth tax should be abolished – but the proposal has not been followed and wealth tax remains in place. How will this impact you? If committee’s guidelines are followed, it is likely that some

taxpayers, especially those in regions with high succession tax rates, will see their succession tax bills reduced at some point. We do not know exactly what affect there may be on wealth tax at this time. We will have to wait until they release their final report and how the different regional governments will decide to proceed in this regard. In the meantime, seek up-to-date specialist advice if you are looking for effective tax planning in Spain. Tax rates, scope and reliefs may change. Any statements concerning taxation are based upon our understanding of current taxation laws and practices which are subject to change. Tax information has been summarised; an individual is advised to seek personalised advice. Keep up to date on the financial issues that may affect you on the Blevins Franks news page at www.blevinsfranks.com.

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CYCLING: Three DGT routes on Alicante roads. THE General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) is creating three safe routes for Alicante cyclists this year. The provinceâ€™s three routes will feature the ascents so popular with cyclists, with three separate itineraries between Fuentes del Algar to Coll de Rates, Campello to Relleu and Maigmo to Agost. There have been numerous incidents this year where cy-

clists were killed by motorists and in two Alicante Province accidents, four were the victims of drivers under the influence of drink and drugs. Guardia Civil traffic police are already stepping up patrols on these stretches of road, especially at the weekends and on national holidays when roads are most-used by cyclists and drivers. The

routes will also be included on DGT helicopter traffic reconnaissance flights and alcohol and drug checks will be increased on the routes and their accesses, the DGT announced. The areasâ€™ Local Police forces will also be co-operating with the Guardia Civil in ensuring safety for cyclists on the three Alicante routes, the DGT said.

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CLUB NAUTICO: Founded in 1980.

Yacht club choking, not drowning ALTEA’S Club Nautico maintains that the regional government is threatening its survival. The annual fee of €350,467 that it must now pay the regional government for its concession - a 700 per cent increase – is “choking” the yacht club, maintained its president Jose Roman Zurutuza. Following a new inspection, the club awaits a revised evaluation although this will be calculated by the same assessors who recommended the seven-fold increase. Meanwhile, the club obtained its original concession in July 1980 but since 2000 has had to renew on a three-monthly basis.

There was uncertainty whether this system could even continue after the temporary concession deadline was reached last June. The regional government announced that the quarterly renewals could continue for a maximum of three years, by which time the regional government expects to have set out new conditions for concessions. This system is “senseless” and prevents investment in improvements to the installation as well as plans for sporting events. The club’s lawyers are now appealing to the regional government on the grounds that renewing in this manner is causing “insurmountable” harm to the club.

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The right or wrong medicine ALICANTE Province pharmacies will continue selling

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Social Security services. Hospitals and health centres as well as medical and nursing staff were recently instructed not to “promote, publicise, develop or allow

homeopathic treatment” in a circular from Health chief, Carmen Monton. She a ls o ba nne d s ta te health centres from promoting “pseudosciences” that included acupuncture, yoga, naturopathy, hypnotherapy, chiro-massage, traditional C hine s e me dic ine , phytotherapy and reflexology. “ N ot only A lic a nte Province’s College of Pharmacists but Spain’s 54 colleges respect the legality of homeopathic medication as an institution,” said the Fe Ballestero, the provincial

HOMEOPATHY: Recognised by EU directives. body’s president. Hom eopat hi c r em edi es are recognised by the 2015

Rational Use of Medication and Heal t h Pr oduct s l aw, she m ai nt ai ned. Thi s i ncludes European parliament and Council of Europe directives on medication for human use which include homeopathic medicines. “They are included in EU legislation and, therefore, Spain’s,” Ballestero said. “As pharmacists we cannot refuse to dispense a prescription for homeopathic medicine.” Appr oxi m at el y 10,000 doctors prescribe homeopathy in Spain, she continued, and 3,000 are themselves homeopaths. The Alicante president also quest i oned t he ban on phytotherapy. “All medicines originally originated with plants, like aspirin which comes from willow bark,” she pointed out.

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Town hall holds its breath IKEA and Campello Town Hall admitted maintaining ‘initial contacts’ regarding the multinational’s plans for an Alicante Province store. Now that negotiations with Alicante City have stalled, the Swedish furniture and household accessories group could occupy land originally earmarked for the abandoned Mare Nostrum University project. Campello mayor Benjami Soler confirmed that Ikea had shown ‘certain interest’ in Campello and said he would be meeting company officials after the summer.

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IKEA: Coming soon to a town near you? Ikea sources confirmed these contacts to the Spanish provincial daily Informacion. “We

have made clear on several occasions that we are still interested in Alicante Province and will be studying possible locations including the site proposed by Campello Town Hall,” these sources were quoted as saying. The suggested location is situated at the north of the town, near the FGV train sheds, the Aigues road and the old N-332.

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The TRAM station is a few metres away and the zone has direct access to the new N-332, the AP-7 motorway, and the A70 Alicante City ring road. “Negotiations will be lengthy,” Benjami Soler predicted. “Ikea won’t be installed from one day to the next but the interest is there and after the summer we shall sit down and study the project calmly.”

Hectares of Spanish glaciers in 1894, reduced to 290 by 2001.

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ALCOY Council plans to spend €3 million on modernising the city’s five industrial areas before the end of the year. Work has already started on the Santiago Paya estate with improvements to roads and pavements as well as additional lanes on the access road now in progress. The cash is coming from the regional government’s Sustainable Economy department on condition that work is finished before the New Year, explained councillor Manolo Gomicia. “Plans for upgrading the industrial estates were well advanced before the Generalitat subsidy arrived, so we made a rapid start,” he said. “We now have five months to carry out a series of important projects to bring these areas into the 21st century.” Santiago Paya will be con-

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Industrial upgrades for inland city

IMPROVEMENTS: Better facilities for Alcoy industries. nected via webcam to the police, infrastructure with new main drainage and storm drains is to be renewed and LED lighting connected. Additional features include green areas and a bicycle lane.

The Santiago Paya estate is receiving €973,636 of the €3 million with the remainder split between Cotes Baixes (€1.09 million) Beniata (€770,518), Cotes Altes (€243,054) and Castellar (€112,452).

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Furry fun THREE dog exercise parks will be built in Oliva before the end of the year - the result of the municipality’s latest community campaign Decideix quina Oliva vols translated to ‘Decide what Oliva you want.’

80k in Beni A RECORD 80,000 festival-goers attended the ninth edition of Low Festival in Benidorm last weekend, with performances across the three-day event from Franz Ferdinand, The Hives, and Lori Meyers.

ALTEA now has a First Cycle Infants state school for babies and children from birth up to three years. The go-ahead recently came through from the Generalitat and the Mini-Mon Escoleta with eight nursery teachers and six units for 82 children opens its doors this September. “This is magnificent news that demonstrates the effort and hard work that the town hall has put into establishing a First Cycle infants school,” said Education councillor Vicenta Perez.

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Busting out MUSEU ETNOLOGIC in Denia recently received a donation from the grandson of the Baroness of Casa Soler - Carlos Soler d’Hyver donated two busts that were sculpted by Antonio Cortis in the 20th century.

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LA ESCOLETA: Altea’s newest school opens in September. LLUIS FERRANDO, the regional government’s director general for Territory, Development and Countryside, recently visited Altea. He attended a working meeting with the councillors for Urban Development, Infrastructure, Environment and Finance to discuss the town’s General Development Plan (PGOU) that will soon be put on public display. What most concerned the

town hall and her own Urban Development department was the need for sufficient space at outlying Montahud so that Altea businesses could relocate there, Inma Orozco explained to Ferrando. The town hall was also keen to attract IT and New Technology firms, the councillor said: “They do not produce pollution and they bring diversity to the local

economy, which we regard as fundamental.” The councillors also raised the question of the future of the AP-7 toll road. “The Ministry of Public Works puts off making any decision which limits us when trying to reorganise our roads,” Orozco added. “This is a handicap in our search for real solutions to the municipality’s needs at present and in the future.”

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If only it were spilt milk! Photo credit AVMP

DAMAGE IS DONE: The visible remnants of the spill are disgusting. ABOUT a year ago, the Asociacion de Vec i n o s d e l a M o n t a n a d e P e g o ( AV M P ) , Monte Pego’s Official Residents Association noticed that the Monte Pego sewage treatment plant was spilling what appeared to be insufficiently treated sewage. The spill went directly into the the Barranc de Batlle and floated toward the River Riu Riaxo beyond the CV-700. There it would potentially contaminate the waterways of the adjacent rice fields and the Marjal nature reserve. After being passed from pillar to post in trying to stop the spill, the AVMP held a conference with the local press at the Casa de Cultura in Pego some two weeks ago. The conference attracted much attention and the AVMP vowed it would not stop in its pursuit of resolving the sewage spill: “We will continue to bring this problem

to the attention of the public at large and its political representatives, hoping that the value of living in a healthy environment prevails.” Within 24 hours of the conference, the spill was stopped by a service company and the developer of Monte Pego’s lawyer was quick to notify the AVMP and the local press that the responsibility for the spill does, in fact, fall within Pego Town Hall’s remit. Pego Town Hall is responsible for the maintenance of the plant as well as damages it has caused to the adjacent environment. The AVMP have now requested the legal v i e w p o i n t o f P e g o To w n H a l l a n d w i l l bring it to the attention of residents on Monte Pego and the public at large in due course.

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Not a drop to drink… ALL parties on San Vicente Council voted in favour of using treated water for the Lo Torrent park. Until now the town hall has been irrigating this municipal green space with water from the domestic supply, but sustainable recycled water from the Helados Alacant ice cream factory could be used instead. The idea was suggested by Partido Popular opposition councillor Antonio Carbonell and it only remains to obtain authorisation from the Confederacion Hidrografica del Jucar (CHJ) to use the water that is surplus to the cream factory’s needs. As Helados Alacant have already received CHJ permission to use this on its own gardens this is likely to be forthcoming, Carbonell said. The Helados Alacant water comes at a price, however, as it will cost the town hall €200,000 to instal infrastructure that will connect with the point where the factory disposes of the treated water. Meanwhile, the town hall will have another source of treated water after recently reaching an agreement with Aguas de Alicante and Alicante Council to share recycled water that the CHJ has made available to city hall.

Town hall’s first joint initiative SAN JUAN has granted a licence for the town’s first Cannabis Social Club. The non-profitmaking association will supply and distribute cannabis for members to consume ‘in a private setting.’ As this is a first for San Juan, it will be necessary to introduce bylaws, explained the town’s Urban Development councillor Sergio Agueitos. The town hall did not intend to enter into the legality or otherwise of Cannabis Social Clubs or to control the drug’s cultivation, sale or consumption, Agueitos emphasised. His department was concerned with “exclusively urbanistic aspects” he continued, but he also believed it was important to guarantee the rights of all residents. The town hall was aware that the Cannabis Social Club could create problems of social harmony

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LA NUCIA has launched an Instagram photo competition as it celebrates its fiestas between July 29 and August 31 - to participate, just follow @LaNuciaES on Instagram, upload a photo with the hashtag #LaNuciaEnFestes and indicate its location.

Works begin THE €3m works to improve the sanitation network and better channel rainwater have begun in Finestrat - starting on carrer Fondo in the town’s historical centre. CANNABIS CLUB: Opening soon in San Juan. with neighbours and would emulate Alicante City by-laws introduced in March. These require clubs in buildings with residents to be located on the ground floor or a ground floor and mezzanine accessible from the exterior. “That way we can avoid constant comings and goings of peo-

ple going up and down,” the councillor said. Neither can a club be located near schools, children’s playgrounds or sports grounds frequented by minors. The town hall will also impose a minimum distance between future clubs and carry out inspections.

Don’t miss DON’T miss the 5th Beach Volleyball Championship at Finestrat Creek on Sunday August 13 - 30 couples among the best players in the Valencian Community will go head to head.

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‘Utmost urgency’ in channelling THE first phase of €3 million improvements to drainage infrastructure has begun in Finestrat. Hidraqua, the company responsible for Finestrat’s domestic water supply and sewage

system, started work in Calle Fondo on the section between Calle Sala and Calle Hostal. The main drainage system installed many years ago needs replacing and improvements are also being

made to storm drains inside the town. This first phase should be completed within four weeks, after which attention will turn to La Cala de Finestrat where Hidraqua intends to channel the asphalted but notorious Barranco de La Cala. The usually dry streambed turns into a fast-flowing watercourse during heavy rain when streams from surround-

ing areas on high ground pour into it. Flash floods are common and the treacherous Barranco took the lives of two British pensioners in October 2011 when they were swept away at the open-air market that was allowed there at the time. The most recent victim was a Spanish resident who ignored police warnings and was drowned as he tried to

reach his parked car during last December’s storms. “Work will begin after the summer with a subterranean channel following the the Barranco’s course,” announced Finestrat’s mayor Juan Francisco Perez. “This is a matter of utmost urgency for us because we do not want more lives lost each time there is heavy rain.”

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Digging done THE archaeological study of Calpe’s Banos de la Reina came to an end last week - 22 young people aged 18-24 from all over Spain, Armenia, France and Italy have participated in the two-week study.

Over 400 die A TENT was put up in Benitachell’s cala del Moraig last week to host presentations on the prevention of drowning over 400 people die by drowning in Spain each year.

Book funds BENITACHELL’S Department of Education donated €2,000 to AMPA to purchase school textbooks for 2017/ 2018 for the first and second year primary students - Myra van ‘t Hoff presented the cheque to AMPA’s Treasurer. WATCHFUL EYE: Road becomes a river during heavy rain

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KNOW-HOW: Sharing work in the kitchen.

Equality in the kitchen ALTEA Town Hall is organising a simple cooking course for students. Organised by the Equality and Education departments Cuinem Basics de Convivencia will help pupils who have finished compulsory education and beginning further studies. “Our priority is an education system that encourages

equality in all areas,” said Education councillor Vicenta Perez. “This will give young people basic knowledge that they might currently lack, owing to the limited time that modern life leaves for cooking.” The free course will show how to prepare and cook five different meals and is open to all those born in 1998, 1999

or 2000 who are registered on Altea’s municipal padron. Places are limited and as far as possible the organisers will ensure that there are equal numbers of both sexes. Applications should be made to the Education department at Altea Town Hall. The four days of classes will be held from August 7 to 11 from 10am until 12.30pm.

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THE 2017 Fira l’Alfas fair will be held on September 8, 9 and 10. As usual, it will be located at the Casa de Cultura plaza and the town hall’s commerce and local development department is now making preparations with local business associations, Coempa, Memba and Jovempa. The fair aims to energise local businesses, stimulate trade and encourage consumers, explained Alfaz’s mayor, Vicente Arques. Accompanied by Commerce and Local Development Councillor Dolores Al-

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Getting ready for the fair

SEPTEMBER FAIR: Vicente Arques, Dolores Albero and Maria Jose Tent. bero and Maria Jose Tent, manager of the company putting together the market,

the mayor recently visited the plaza where the stalls will be set up.

“The fair combines leisure and business, it is totally open, it has many

parallel activities and will be an attractive showcase for local businesses and shopkeepers,” Albero said. Many of the participants are from Alfaz and most of them attend year after year, she added. The fair will include a shopping night when local shops, especially on the Friday and Saturday will be open from 5.30pm until 2am. A commercial area is also planned for the Casa de Cultura esplanade with areas for spectacles, gast r o n o m y, c h i l d r e n a n d a hippy market.

Renew AS ALFAZ Town Hall has renewed i t s cooper at i on agr eem ent wi t h t he ASPANI ON Associ at i on of Par ent s of Chi l dr en wi t h Cancer. Mayor Vicente Arques, who confirmed a town hall gr ant of €3,000, pr ai sed the important ASPANION’s work at his recent meeting with the association’s president, Jose Bernardo Garcia. For more than 30 years

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t he assoc i a t i o n h a s c o n tributed to the life expectancy of the children, providi ng emoti o n a l , e c o n o m ic and social support for them and their families, helping them through the different stages following diagnosis. From it s Al i c a n t e C i ty and Vale n c i a b a se s, AS PANION deals with an average of between 130 and 140 new cancer cases each year. The patients, whose

ages range from newborn to 1 8 , w ill h a v e b e e n d iag nosed and treated at one of the Valencian Community’s Paediatric Oncology units. ASPANION, which curren tly h a s aro u n d 6 , 0 0 0 members and collaborators, belongs to the FEPNC, the Spanish Federation of Paren ts w ith Ch ild re n w ith Cancer, which in turn belongs to the International Confederation.

Seabed excavations too EIGHTEEN young people assisting excavations at Albir’s Villa Romana site also helped to clear the seabed in their spare time. Collaborating with the Cuidemos el Albir collective, they removed 36 bags of rubbish, most of it polystyrene and plastic, Alfaz’s youth councillor Isabel Muñoz revealed. Aged between 19 and 23, the group from Spain, France, Armenia and Serbia have been participating in the 10th Villa Romana summer camp organised by IVAJ, the Valencian Community’s Youth Institute and Alfaz Town Hall. Although the dig at the Villa Romana site – now an open-air museum – was at the centre of their visit, the party have practised all kinds of sport and visited places of interest including the Albir lighthouse and the Sierra Helada national park.

NORWEGIAN sociologist and mathematician and Alfaz resident Johan Galtung will hold open classes for young people in the Peace Park. Alfaz’s Technical Services department has installed four tables with benches with capacity for 32 pupils. Galtung admitted to feeling excited by the open-air location for Alfaz pupils that has been designed for study, reflection and dialogue. This is especially appropriate for a municipality where so many nationalities live side by side in harmony, he said. The town’s young people are its future, Gultung declared, and the initiative is full of symbolism. It encourages young people to contemplate actions designed to promote peaceful co-existence and in general focus on a new branch of knowledge which Galtung has entitled Studies for Peace. It will be a place where the students can “work towards convincing with the force of good ideas” using the words that are one of his favourite

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Good ideas in the open air

PEACE STUDIES: Johan Galtung inspects the open air study centre. weapons, he said. Famed worldwide as a conflict mediator and now 86, Johan Galtung has published

more than 160 books and written more than 1,600 articles published in both mainstream and specialised media.

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SUMMER CAMP: The volunteers and their haul.

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LAST week saw the celebration of yet another Golden Wedding Anniversary from the ever-expanding membership of U3A Moraira-Teulada. This t i m e , t h e g o l d e n co u p le w ere th e Vi c e Pr e si d e n t an d h is wife, David and Eileen Haxon. David and Eileen started dating w hen t h e y we r e b o t h ag ed 2 1 . Though they had lived in the same street in Blyth, Northumberland, their paths had never crossed. David wo r k e d i n h i s fa mily ’s business and Eileen had just qualified as a Home Economics teacher. They married on July 19, 1967 and went on to have two children. Both were involved with the local operatic society and the local dramatic group, playing leading roles and David even producing some of the plays himself. During the 1980s the recession

LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY: David and Eileen married in July 1967.

hit the local mining and shipyard community, forcing David’s family to shut up shop. David then became an agent selling Spanish properties and was involved with agencies in the north of Engl and, vi si t i ng Spai n wi t h clients. Eventually, this resulted in David and Eileen moving to a villa south of A l i cant e i n June 1989 bef or e moving north to Moraira in 1994 and joining the Moraira-Teulada U3A some 15 years later in 2009, soon joining the committee. Currently, Eileen is Speakers Liaison and David is Vice President. They are also involved as Group Le a der s, havi ng t aken over t he Green Bowls Group and the popular Dining Out Group, which now boasts some 200 members. C ongr at ul at i ons, Davi d and Eileen!

Get your b REMEMBER that the Healthy Teulada-Moraira campaign is offering free exercise classes on the beach until September 15. Schedule: Monday - l’Ampolla 07.45am – 08.45am – Pilates 08.00am – 09.00am – Tai Chi 09.00am – 10.00am – Swimming 10.00am – 11.00am – Aqua aerobics 7.30pm – 8.30pm – Circuit training Tuesday – el Portet 08.00am – 09.00am – Tai Chi 09.00am – 10.00am – Swimming 10.00am – 11.00am – Aqua aerobics

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Wednesday – l’Ampolla 08.00am – 09.00am – Tai Chi 09.00am – 10.00am – Swimming 10.00am – 11.00am – Aqua aerobics

Thursday – l’Ampolla 7.00pm – 8.00pm – Running

Wednesday – el Portet 7.30pm – 8.30pm – Circuit training Thursday – el Portet 07.45am – 08.45am – Pilates 09.00am – 10.00am – Swimming 10.00am – 11.00am – Aqua aer-

Friday – Platgetes 09.00am – 10.00am – Swimming 10.00am – 11.00am – Aqua aerobics 7.30pm – 8.30pm – Circuit training Saturday – l’Ampolla 08.00am – 09.00am – Tai Chi

All classes are free of charge.

MasterChef star at Teulada-Moraira THE seventh edition of the Dolia-Essencia Wine and Gastronomy Show will be held at the Auditori Teulada-Moraira on Saturday September 2. Hosts will include chefs Alberto Ferruz of BonAmb in Javea and Kiko Moya of of l’Escaleta in Concentaina, both of whom boast four Michelin stars and Ivan Talens - ‘the best bartender of the Valencian Community.’ Interior design company Empaperat will recreate Valencian products with a focus on citrus and a workshop will be led by MasterChef Junior Maria Querol. Thirteen-year-old Maria won MasterChef’s Japanese cuisine

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beach body ready

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LIVE ON AIR: Since MasterChef Junior, Maria has amassed over 100,000 followers on social media. test and has since led several workshops in Castellon, Murcia and Valencia. She was nominated as the ‘Favourite Spanish Influencer

of 2017’ at the Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Awards for her positive social media presence and her work in fashion and gastronomy.

The show will also centre around sustainability and aims to educate attendees on the importance of the underwater ecosystem and how to respect it.

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NEWS JAVEAâ€™S Local Police rescued a cormorant that had become entangled in fishing line with a hook in its mouth off the playa del Tango rocks. Officers were carrying out surveillance work when they spotted the struggling bird. Together with staff from Minina Canina vets, they released the cormorant from the fishing line and removed the hook from its mouth before setting it free. Cormorants nest in colonies around the shore, on trees, islets or cliffs. They are coastal rather than oceanic birds and some have colonised inland waters. They range around the world, except for the central Pacific islands. Cormorants are excellent divers and under water they propel themselves with their feet with help from their wings; some cormorant species have been found to dive as deep as 45 metres.Â Fishermen are encouraged to be careful with their fishing gear to protect wildlife from serious injury.

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A HAPPY ENDING: The cormorant was released back into Javea waters in no time at all.

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Javea U3A members wine and dine MEMBERS of Javea U3A certainly know how to enjoy themselves. Only a day after members of the Wine Appreciation Group met at La Cocina restaurant in the Port, more than 70 members of the Dine and Dance Group danced the night away at Javea Golf Club. The wine tasting group - affectionately known as WAGs run by leader Trevor Rush, enjoyed a presentation by Steve Sanchis, from Bodegas Leopoldo in Ondara. Steve, who supplies La Cocina with most of their wines, brought along four wines for members to taste: one white, one rose and three reds. Steve gave an interesting and

MEMBERS: Enjoyed a wine tasting session. informative description of how each wine was produced - and then left it to members to judge for themselves just how good it tasted! The overall verdict was extremely favourable and members were more than happy to

wash down their meal with another glass of red. So popular is the wine tasting group that the following day, Trevor ran a second lunch for members of WAGs Too. Thanks to the warm summer

weather, the Dine and Dance Group, run by Pat and Eric Johnson, were able to enjoy a three-course meal and dancing to the duo Timewarp on the outside terrace at the golf club. The only sad moment came when it was announced that group leaders Pat and Eric had decided to retire from their duties after 10 years. Fellow member David Main thanked them for their wonderful contribution, saying that they would be a hard act to follow. But he added that there was already a short-list of possible successors and he hoped that there would be somebody willing and able to continue running the group

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Big Cats visit La Cova in El Campello MEMBERS of The Jaguar Enthusiasts Club in Spain have had another great day out. Wonderful cars, nice people, good food and great service were the perfect recipe for a dream day out (as well as a great excuse to get the beloved Big Cat out on the road). The weather - as is usual for this time of year in Spain - was hot with clear, blue skies This time the members were off to a little restaurant in El Campello.

Restaurant La Cova is located on the cliff top overlooking the harbour with wonderful views along the beach. A stunning setting to show off 17 perfect examples of Jaguar engineering, as well as a Panther and a beautifully restored MG. Restaurant La Cova is a well-known and very popular restaurant, especially with expatriates and it is hard to find a more stunning location while you partake in a leisurely lunch.

LA COVA: Is located on the cliff top overlooking the harbour with wonderful views along the beach. La Cova’s menu is typically English fare with a slight Spanish twist. Lunch started around 1:45pm and some of them were there till 5pm, soaking up the evening sun on the terrace and chatting with friends. Parking is a little tight in the small car park and The Big Cats pretty well filled the spaces available. The range of cars spread across the years,

from a stunning 60’s E type to the latest XF saloon. S and X Types, XK8s and XKRs, XJs and two beautiful examples of the model XJS. A total of 17 cars and 47 people attended and the club would like to thank them all - especially all the new members – along with Ian and Uschi McMenemy who organised the event Later in the year, they are planning a very special event

called Jaguars Score a Goal; a run into the mountains to dine on some of the finest food in a stunning location and the chance of meeting a celebrity from the world of sport. They hope to announce more information in the coming weeks. The Jaguar Enthusiasts Club is the largest of the world’s Jaguar Clubs. If you live in Spain and own a Jaguar, become a member of The Jaguar

Enthusiasts Club. The JEC in Spain is organised by Eric Arnold, Club President and Ian McMenemy, Events Director. Eric can be contacted by email at jaguar spain@outlook.com or by phone on 609 931 647 or alternatively visit their website www.jec-spain.com. Events director, Ian McMenemy, can be contacted at McMenemy@JEC-events.com.

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Expat cancer survivor writes “I’VE been a professional writer/researcher for 30 years and have lived in Spain for 20,” explains Iain McLean, “So it makes sense that when I was diagnosed with the highest grade prostate cancer in April 2015 and having beaten it by the following April, I would write a book about it.” ‘April to April’ is Iain’s own quest for a cure. It is for all men who suffer from this cancer (or wish to prevent it), and for their families and friends who want to understand what their loved-one is going through. “Although all the information is scattered around the internet, there is not one single book that covers all the bases. This book does.” In this entertaining and informative five-star read, Iain’s main argument, with respect to conventional treatment, is that doctors do not tell a patient all they need to know about the process that lies ahead. Having talked to a number of medical specialists, Iain explains how to choose the right hospital and specialist. Of central importance are the

APRIL TO APRIL: Getting the message across.

chapters covering nutrition and 10 alternative therapies that will halt tumour growth and alleviate side-effects which Iain used alongside his own treatment. Iain’s approach is that beating cancer is a war and each patient needs all the tools at their disposal, not only to win, but to adapt strategies for each stage in what will be a long campaign. There are also a few more colourful passages about Spain, where Iain’s treatment took place. With 90,000 words of information, anecdotes and hope, ‘April to April - Beating Prostate Cancer with Conventional Medicine, Alternative Therapies, Mind Games and Emotions, Diet, Exercise and Love,’ is available on all Amazon websites for all electronic devices. The first 20 pages are free to read and the book has its own Facebook page. An audio version has been produced and will be online soon. “It is extremely important to get the message and knowledge across to as many people as possible,” says Iain.

U3A Marina Baixa General Meeting

FAMILY HISTORY: Lost relative worked for Royal Household. RECENTLY, the U3A Marina Baixa held their monthly general meeting at the Casa de Cultura, Alfaz del Pi. There were 135 members in attendance, including four new members. Following this month’s meeting, David Larkin gave a very interesting talk, regarding tracing a long, lost relative of his family, who went missing for over 50 years. During the period that she was missing, she had worked for the Royal Household. The members then enjoyed a meal at a new venue, The

Pizza Rusticain, Albir. U3A Marina Baixa holds its general meetings on the fourth Monday of each month, excluding August, in the auditorium at the Casa de Cultura, Alfaz del Pi. The next meeting will be Monday September 25 at 11.00am. Please go early to sign in and get your seat. If you would like to join this association, please visit www.u3amarinabaixa.com or their Facebook page. Or contact the secretary, Joan Flint 965 861 226 or mobile 663 637 167.

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U3A Marina Baixa donate to local charity FOR over 40 years, Doble Amor have been dedicated to the care and training of people with intellectual disabilities in Benidorm. There are currently over 50 people working in their

workshops, where the residents are helped to make dolls, curtains and restore furniture. Many of the activities are designed to help the young people take care of themselves. Some

of their products are then sold, to help finance the centre. Their latest project is making candles and soap! They had the expertise but needed basic materials and a refrigerator, to keep the ingredients cool. U3A Marina Baixa and HELP stepped in to collaborate, and as a result a refrigerator was donated by HELP International Benidorm and the materials to produce candles and soap were donated by the U3A Marina Baixa enabling them to start production. Hopefully they will have a variety of hand-made finished products ready for sale at Christmas. U3A Marina Baixa holds its general meetings on the fourth Monday of each month in the auditorium at the Casa de Cultura, Alfaz del Pi. H o w e v e r, t h e r e i s n o meeting during August, so

PROUD DISPLAY: Hand-made candles and soap, an ideal special gift for Christmas.

the next meeting is on Monday September 25. The doors open at 10am and the desks close at 10.50am for a prompt 11am start, so

please come early to sign in and secure a seat! For further information or to join this association, visit www.u3amarinabaixa.com

or check their Facebook page. For those without internet access, please contact the secretary, Joan Flint on 965 861 226 or mobile 663 637 167.

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DENMARK

NETHERLANDS

Popular list No gangs

DANISH actor Pilou Asbaek has been named the ‘10th most popular in the world’ on IMDB’s Star Meter. He has stared in major films such as ‘Lucy’ and ‘Ghost in the Shell.’

COPENHAGEN is continuing its clampdown on gangs. Six gang members have been arrested in two separate raids as anti-gang police continue patrols.

Tattoo closure?

PILOU ASBAEK: Popular actor.

EUROPEAN PRESS

Murdering veteran

‘TATTOO OLE’ believed to be the world’s oldest tattoo studio, having first started in 1901 in Copenhagen, is at risk of closure after the building’s owners have decided not to renew the studio’s lease.

A WAR veteran has been formally charged with the murder of his parents. The 43-year-old former soldier is charged with killing his parents and then storing their bodies in his car.

Farm fire Email hackers

A FIRE at a factory farm near Erichem has killed almost 20,000 pigs. It comes just weeks following another major farm fire which killed nearly 80,000 chickens.

POLICE have set up a database allowing people to check if their email addresses have been hacked following investigations by cybercrime in-

Rides stopped

vestigators.

DUTCH company KMG International BV has suspended the use of all of its rides similar to one which killed a man in the USA. An 18year-old was killed on the ‘Fireball’ ride at a state fair in Ohio after the seats snapped off.

In work LAST year saw long-term unemployment in the Netherlands fall for the first time since 2009 according to a report from Statistics Netherlands.

GERMANY

SWEDEN

Special case

Safety concerns

A TEENAGER who was born in Germany to Nepalese parents and was de p o r t e d t o Ne p a l w ith h er parents has been allowed to return on a study visa following a campaign to allow her to stay.

Teenager found A GERMAN teenager arrested in

Mosul, alleged to have been fighting for Islamic State, is reportedly Linda Wenzel, a 16-year-old who went missing from her home last summer.

Brexit move US investment bank Morgan Stanley has announced plans to expand in Frankfurt, creating a post-Brexit

hub that could see 200 London jobs be relocated to Germany.

School abuse MORE than 500 boys have reportedly been abused at a top Roman Catholic choir school. An independent report said the physical or sexual abuse went on for years between 1945-2015.

Historic memory

PRIME MINISTER Stefan Lofven, said his minority government will not resign following the security crisis relating to sensitive public data being mishandled.

THE family of a Swedish diplomat who disappeared after saving thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Second World War, are suing Russia’s security service to force them to give access to their original files and archives to restore his memory.

Mountain rescue RESCUE crews attended to an emergency call out to a mountain climber to find that a couple had called for help simply because they were tired. They ended up paying for the helicopter to take them down the mountain.

Set free

FRANCE

BELGIUM

Tourists evacuated

Port tax

OVER12,000 people were forced to flee campsites and homes as wildfires broke out along the French Riviera. The island of Corsica has also been affected.

BELGIUM has been ordered to stop port tax breaks. The European Commission said the tax exemptions in both French and Belgium was not fair competition amongst countries in the EU.

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Visitors return

Storm protection

Cycle Norway

IT seems tourists are shunning previous terror threats and are returning to Paris. The capital saw a record 2.6 million foreign arrivals in the first four months of this year, 19 per cent more than the same period last year.

IN a bid to offer protection from storms, an artificial reef made up of algae, mussels and worms will be placed off the coast of La Panne. They will not be visible from the beach.

Pool pollution THREE new floating pools on a Paris canal were closed to the public over pollution concerns and ‘unsatisfactory’ water quality. They were closed just a week after opening helping city residents to stay cool.

Police criticised THE Human Rights Watch (HRW) has criticised police for ‘abuse’ of migrants in Calais. The group’s report claims police regularly abused them in the hope of them leaving the town.

Tax break A TAX measure that benefited Belgian football clubs and other sports clubs, enabling them to save some €400 million during the last nine years, may be illegal as the authorities did not inform the EU of these tax privileges.

Unfriendly neighbours? IT seems Belgians are perhaps not the friendliest of nations as a survey showed that just 8 per cent of Belgians said they invited people into their own homes on a daily or weekly basis. Mexico was found to be the most welcoming with 42 per cent opening their doors regularly to friends or neighbours.

THE Tour de France could be headed to Norway as Norwegian oil company Statoil is looking to bring the Grand Tour to the western coast to mark the company’s 50th anniversary.

Too many tourists NORWAY could implement a tourist tax to help deal with the influx of visitors. The country has seen an increase in tourists thanks to the 2013 release of Disney film Frozen which was developed with the help of Norway’s tourism agency.

AFTER almost six years in captivity in Mali, Swedish man Johan Gustafsson, has been released. He was kidnapped by Islamist militants whilst on a motorcycle tour through Africa.

Shop stabbing A TEENAGE girl has died following a stabbing incident at a shopping centre in Kristiansand. Another victim, aged 23, is in critical condition. A 15 year-old girl has been arrested in relation to the attacks.

Swan song A SWAN which was due to be put down after it attacked a group of children and dragged a girl into the water, has been given a second chance as the authorities have said it will be moved to a new location.

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BANNED: Russian pride will be forbidden at 2017 Championships.

Neutered flag RUSSIAN athletes competing under a neutral flag at the World Championships this month are banned from wearing any national symbols. Tattoos will be covered up and national anthem phone rings silenced. The small contingent cannot compete under the Russian flag as punishment for the country’s doping scandal.

Vodka porkies RUSSIAN jokers pranked the US Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry, on the telephone. Vladimir Krasnov and Alexei Stolyarov convinced the Texas politician he was talking with Ukraine’s prime minister and his interpreter about coal exports and a new hybrid fuel combining vodka and pig manure.

Smashed statue A CRUMBLING statue of Russian writer Nikolai Gogol fell from the House of Writers building in Moscow, smashing into smithereens. Pieces were gathered by locals and preserved by a non-profit organisation devoted to preserving cultural relics. Archnadzor have accused the government of neglecting statues of Pushkin and Tolstoy.

Rainbow magic RARE footage of a full-circle rainbow was posted online by construction workers on a crane at St Petersburg’s Lakhta Centre. Sight of a full rainbow is usually only captured from a plane. The Lakhta Centre will be Europe’s tallest building when complete.

Flight furore A MAN wearing a t-shirt with the word ‘Russia’ on the flag was escorted from a domestic flight in America. Andrei Yeryomin, a dual Russian-American citizen, said other passengers complained about Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Delta Airlines said he was late and barged through security.

Deal expires AN agreement giving the Tatarstan Republic special status within Russia’s federal system has expired. The ethnically diverse region was the only remaining Russian republic to enjoy tax and legislative privileges. The Kremlin has shown little desire to renew the deal, meaning Tatarstan will have far less autonomy.

Mozart man PRESIDENT Putin entertained a live audience from schoolchildren fielding unusual questions. Highlights from the session included Putin claiming rarely to use the internet, being able to perform 17 pull ups, being nicknamed Platov in spy school and only listening to classical music.

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DUE to the continued droughts in certain parts of Spain, it has been agreed that grants will be paid to farmers earlier than usual this year. The money will be made available to farmers who have suffered losses by the middle of October rather than the end of December which is the norm. In addition, farmers will not have to dedicate 30 per cent of the grant to environmental improvements but may use it to help defray losses.

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TOPPING UP: With biofuel.

Biofuel import may hurt farmers THERE is disquiet in Spain over a forthcoming free trade agreement with a number of South American bio-fuel producing countries. The European Union is close to signing a pact with Mercosur (which incorporates Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) which will allow biofuels from those countries into the European market according to a statement made by EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström in Madrid. New agreements may allow

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Money for such purchases appears to be readily available as it has just extended a €300 million loan and also has significant amounts of cash on hand. Eroski has been repositioning its business significantly over the last 12 months and has sold many of its larger stores to Carrefour allowing the French company to expand, particularly on the Costa del Sol, whilst Eroski is increasingly opening smaller ‘convenience’ stores in busy urban areas.

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cheaper yet more environmentally damaging fuels made from palm oil and soybean oil - allegedly more damaging than fossil diesel to be imported into Spain, damaging both the environment and Spanish business. Some experts say that sustainable sugar cane cultivation can provide food and ethanol for fuel without damaging the environment whilst others disagree fearing that the planned trade agreements contradict the spirit of the Renewable Energy Directive.

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Popular appeal THOSE investors who lost their money following the sale of Banco Popular to Santander have been told by the EU that they have until August 7 to appeal. The only route available to them said the EU is via the European Court of Justice.

Cleaner water THE EU is helping to fund the building of a desalination plant in Djibouti with most of the €46m cost going to Tedagua in Madrid. This will increase the supply of clean water to 200,000 people.

Going up RESEARCH by Spanish bank BBVA suggests that the economy is on target to grow 3.3 per cent during 2017 which is over original forecasts. This upgrade is in accordance with adjusted government expectation and if correct will please the EU.

Britain and Holland help tax havens A REPORT states that Britain and Holland are the two members of the EU who channel up to €170 billion into tax havens around the world. The Spanish authorities increasingly try to identify tax avoidance schemes and often blame Gibraltar for allowing hidden money to cross the border.

is the amount that Telefonica earned in the second quarter of 2017, despite a downturn in its Spanish market.

Early Sweet smell of success grants SPANISH supermarket Eroski is selling 103 perfume outlets and its online business to German perfume retailer Douglas outlets for an undisclosed sum. This is the company’s second recent purchase in Spain following their takeover of Grupo Bodybell and Douglas is owned by American equity group CVC Capital which invested some €3 billion in the business in 2015. Douglas now owns more than 2,400 perfumeries in 19 countries and has also recently purchased two other chains, this time based in Italy.

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This report however - produced by researchers at the University of Amsterdam - suggests that Holland accounts for 23 per cent of corporate investments sent to tax havens whilst Britain handles 14 per cent. Estimates of amounts involved are exceptionally wide and range from €50 billion to €170 billion.

The perfume market continues to be buoyant from the cheaper end, where supermarkets obtain exclusive rights to sell specially branded ‘smells’ often manufactured by wellknown brands to the ‘named brands’ marketed through department stores such as El Corte Ingles and through online sales. Canny shoppers and those with time to spare are however often able to obtain substantial reductions by visiting online discount stores which will ship to other EU member states at minimal delivery cost and charge in euros.

Profits up THANKS in part to discoveries of new gas and oil deposits Repsol has seen a massive jump in profit to €1.05 billion for the first half of 2017. With an overall increase amounting to 65.3 per cent compared to the same time last year, the energy giant has seen a significant increase in sales as well as a reduction in costs. Also assisting profitability was the renewal of production within Libya.

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PRICE(P) CHANGE(P) COMPANY Anglo American 1,256.50 24.50 Associated British Foods 2,932.50 -29.50 Admiral Group 1,998.00 -44.00 Ashtead Group 1,623.00 -9.00 Antofagasta 899.25 -39.25 Aviva 544.75 10.75 AstraZeneca 4,481.50 84.72 BAE Systems 587.50 -17.50 Babcock International Group 861.50 17.00 Barclays 203.40 -1.70 British American Tobacco 4,960.00 -102.56 Barratt Developments 637.50 24.50 British Land Co 616.00 9.00 BHP Billiton 1,328.75 -35.25 Bunzl 2,260.50 -11.50 BP 454.75 11.10 Burberry Group 1,741.50 25.50 BT Group 302.08 -8.32 Coca-Cola HBC 2,209.50 -75.50 Carnival 5,012.00 -63.00 Centrica 196.35 -5.05 Compass Group 1,619.50 15.50 Croda International 3,688.00 -3.00 CRH 2,693.50 26.50 ConvaTec Group 305.45 -5.25 DCC 6,685.00 -0.60 Diageo 2,478.75 36.75 Direct Line Insurance Group 378.60 7.40 Experian 1,489.50 -17.50 easyJet 1,300.50 25.50 Fresnillo 1,516.00 -6.83 G4S 313.95 -11.75 GKN 319.40 -2.80 Glencore 331.25 -0.03 GlaxoSmithKline 1,548.75 30.25 Hargreaves Lansdown 1,349.00 7.00 Hammerson 566.25 -7.25 HSBC Holdings 743.60 -0.15 International Consolidtd Air 595.00 1.50 InterContinental Hotels Grp 4,104.50 -189.50 3i Group 943.50 18.50 Imperial Brands 3,333.00 17.50 Informa 707.50 10.50 Intertek Group 4,246.00 -58.00 ITV 171.65 -2.05 Johnson Matthey 2,655.00 -142.00 Kingfisher 290.50 -8.40 Land Securities Group 1,028.00 13.00 Legal & General Group 263.75 -1.35 Lloyds Banking Group ORD 66.50 0.73

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13,263.39 5,245.95 5,614.11 4,775.32 5,282.00 9,919.86 5,706.16 32,410.29 5,774.91 9,710.91 3,097.79 6,436.26 47,424.55 7,703.27 5,400.28 52,450.07 29,917.61 94,587.65 79,067.23 17,779.26 48,156.93 3,980.00 17,144.99 6,589.90 6,688.15 5,342.96 5,454.69 7,852.02 7,398.65 5,302.11 39,506.75 5,551.44 16,640.09 8,597.01 6,153.58 5,683.65 11,760.68 13,823.80 27,621.78 6,486.08 5,168.00 14,387.05 7,079.68 6,085.89 55,214.73 6,024.48 59,401.39 11,448.58 7,548.00 19,715.15 7,160.12

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BoE and ECB in the spotlight Ask the expert Peter Loveday Contact me at euroweekly@currenciesdirect.com

PART-WAY through July the pound tumbled to an eight-month low against the euro, with GBP/EUR sliding from €1.1432 to €1.1123. While the pound has briefly pushed above €1.12 a couple of times in recent weeks, GBP has failed to sustain any momentum. EUR/GBP, on the other hand, has been moving between £0.8830 and £0.8990, while EUR/USD surged all the way to a 2 ½ year high of $1.1767 in the wake of the last Federal Reserve interest rate decision. What’s been happening? Sliding UK inflation led many to bet that the Bank of England (BoE) will keep interest rates on hold for the foreseeable future, and those expectations have left the pound pressured over the last couple of weeks. Other UK data has also failed to offer GBP any encouragement, with the UK economy

GBP/EUR: Suffering from eight-month lows. growing by just 0.3 per cent in the second quarter and retail spending slumping. Rumours of infighting in the Tory government and conflicting commentary on the subject of a transitory deal for the UK once it Brexits are another reason the pound has so far been unable to move away from its recent eight-month low against the euro. The euro, meanwhile, was bolstered by the European Central Bank’s (ECB) intention to discuss winding down quantitative easing in

the autumn. EUR gains were also the result of the US dollar tumbling in the face of falling Federal Reserve interest rate hike bets. The Fed adopted a cautious stance on the subject of domestic inflation at July’s gathering, an attitude which left the odds of a third rate adjustment taking place in 2017 in doubt. Additionally, questions about President Donald Trump’s ability to successfully introduce his planned spending and tax adjustments have fur-

ther limited USD exchange rates, helping the euro strengthen in the process. What do you need to look out for? Over the next couple of weeks developments in Brexit negotiations will remain a driver of the GBP/EUR exchange rate. Indications that negotiations are progressing well would be poundsupportive, while further signs of discord could send GBP/EUR to new lows. This week the biggest cause of pound movement is likely to be the Bank of England’s (BoE) interest rate announcement. If the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is more split than previously on the subject of when interest rates should rise it could give the pound a serious shot in the arm. However, if the number of members of the MPC voting for an immediate interest rate adjustment has fallen in light of the decline in UK inflation, GBP exchange rates are liable to slide. At Currencies Direct we’re here to talk currency whenever you need us, so get in touch if you want to know more about the latest news or how it could impact your currency transfers. Since 1996 we’ve helped more than 150,000 customers with their currency transfers, just pop into your local Currencies Direct branch or give us a call to find out more.

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BARCELONA TAKES TO THE STREETS

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THERE has been an ongoing battle between the Barcelona Council and internet giants such as Airbnb and Home Away with fines of €630,000 raised already. There are stringent rules in Spain requiring that short term rental property including bed and breakfast has to be registered with local councils and properties need to meet certain standards with owners paying tax on the income. According to the Barcelona Council, Airbnb in particular allows unlicensed property to be offered on its site and this has caused a massive upsurge in illegal holiday rentals, taking long term property off the market. The council estimates that nearly 50 per cent of Barcelona’s holiday properties are being rented out illegally and it has fined Airbnb in particular on more than one occasion, with the threat of more fines to come if the company doesn’t remove another 1,000 properties from its site. Indeed it was only a few weeks ago that a person in Barcelona dis-

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covered that the property she was renting out on a long term basis had been ‘hi-jacked’ by the tenant who had changed the locks and was offering the flat for short term high cost rental. The only way that she could regain possession of her property was to rent it through Airbnb for the night and change the locks again! This lack of affordable property and the massive rise in the number of tourists making bookings via the internet has irritated hoteliers and

genuine letting agents as well as those who are paying the correct taxes to the council and national government. So irritated is the council that it has set up a website www.fair tourism.barcelona which gives details of the proper way for tourists to rent properties and also the possibility of reporting unlicensed properties. To add to this, it has placed beds in various popular tourist spots around the city behind imitation computer screens which state ‘Just because this bed is available on the internet doesn’t mean it is legal’ in a number of languages. Tourism is recognised as being an important revenue earner for the city but it could be higher if managed properly and those renting properties actually complied with the law. In response Airbnb has confirmed that it would consider its position but has argued in the past that European laws do not require such sites to monitor for illegal activity but the onus to do this is on the council.

Jobless numbers reduce THE number of unemployed in Spain fell to 3.9 million at the end of June, compared to the previous quarter figure of 4.25 million. Most of these jobs are seasonal and thanks to an e v e r- g r o w i n g n u m b e r o f holiday visitors so many of the positions will be on temporary rather than full time contracts. The good news is that the current unemployment situation shows that 17.2 per cent of potential workers are unemployed, down from a historical peak of 26.9 per cent but this is still almost double the eurozone average. A large number of those without work are young and the government has recently announced new measures to try to persuade employers to assist those youngsters with training and employment.

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Best and worst JAEN in Andalucia has been revealed as the most indebted council in Spain owing more than €435 million, whilst Marbella owes less than €1 million. A review of the finances of municipalities with populations in excess of 100,000 showed that there was a massive difference in the amounts of money owed by councils across the country. To put this into perspective, Jaen owes slightly less than €4,000 per resident whilst the equivalent debt for Marbella is actually less than €1 per person. As both of these examples are

based in Andalucia, it shows the widely differing situation between different municipalities and it may be coincidence, but out of the top five towns or cities with highest debt, three of them are controlled by the Partido Popular. This report was compiled using evidence from various government sources and is up to date to the end of 2016. It would appear from official statements that the national government is not overly concerned with the state of municipal debts and has approved deficit targets up to 2020.

Big Brother is doing its best to help you ALTHOUGH first proposed by the EU in 2012, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which comes into force in May 2018 has caught many by surprise. The purpose of the regulations are to set out a new set of rules in order to allow citizens of the European Union to regain control of their personal data and supposedly make things easier for business to understand its obligations. With the ever increasing importance of the digital market place, it is considered imperative that data protection reform is introduced in order to protect the rights of individuals and to ensure that out of date information is not kept on company files. Whenever an individual opens any form of bank account, enrols for social media,

books a flight or even applies for a new job, certain information has to be supplied which will often include age, address and even credit card numbers. Under EU law, personal data can only be gathered legally under strict conditions, for a legitimate purpose. Furthermore, persons or organisations which collect and manage your personal information must protect it from misuse and must respect certain rights of the data owners which are guaranteed by EU law. The problem is however that many businesses have not really come to grips with the procedures needed to be introduced to handle the new protection of data and problems are now envisaged next May.

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We shouldn’t be dictated to LEAPY LEE SAYS IT

OTHERS THINK IT I TRULY am becoming utterly fed up with all the doom, gloom and negativity surrounding the Brexit negotiations. In fact, I am pretty certain that if the referendum were to be held again the remainers would romp home. Frankly I find the ‘expertise’ of many of our politicians, including Ms May, so filled with non-constructive rhetoric and indecision, I’m seriously concerned there is not some clandestine plot to scupper the negotiations altogether! Where are all the ‘leave’ champions? Why are we not hearing enthusiastic and excited discussions about the wonderful new role and limitless chances of wealth and prosperity the UK could enjoy with new world trade deals and business opportunities? Why are we not sending highly publicised British trade delegations to Australia, the USA, Canada, China,

GLOOMY OUTLOOK: Where have all the leavers gone? Saudi Arabia and the countless other outlets that are soon to become accessible? Why are we not organising trade fairs in all our major cities and inviting the world in to do business with our entrepreneurs and business people? Don’t our esteemed leaders realise how much stronger our negotiating position would be at the Brexit table

if we had a number of juicy deals pending, or already under our belts? At the moment, it’s akin to playing poker with no chips. In fact, to date it seems that the rest of the EU are calling all the shots; arrogantly laying down everything we have to comply with before they ‘allow’ us to break away with any concessions at all. Well to hell with that.

We now have the opportunity to do business on our own terms with the entire world. We need to be conducting these leave negotiations holding a royal flush, not hedging our bets with a pair of deuces. We should be dictating these concessions, not allowing ourselves to be dictated to. They really do need us more than we need them. Stop the dithering.

Stop the bickering and start playing the UK’s hand like winners; not simpering ‘also rans’ looking for a handout for the cab fare home. I dunno; sometimes I really do despair with all of ‘em. Now for something completely different (hurrah!) Couldn’t quite believe my eyes when I saw a couple of reports this week that a man had nearly died from chewing a couple of cherry stones! After checking the month and confirming it was nowhere near April the first, I ventured into Google. Lo and behold, to my horror I found that it is actually true. Not only do two cherry stones contain enough cyanide to kill a human being, but so do apples! Apparently both of these sources are ‘relatively’ safe if they are not chewed, and you would actualy need the pips from at least 18 apples to cause problems, but two cherry pips would do it. Touch disconcerting don’t you think? Mind you Agatha would have loved it! Keep the faith Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com

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doesn’t have a seat in the national parliament, can only offer promises and good intentions at present. And both come a poor second to hard cash, especially in politics.

- and not entirely impartial reaction to the Spanish political scene

PEDRO SANCHEZ is making eyes at the PNV Basque Nationalist party in hopes that its MPs in the national government in the next General Election would help the PSOE form a majority government. It’s not a far-fetched hope as the PSOE and the PNV have supported each other in the past in Madrid and the regional parliament in Vitoria. But Mariano Rajoy was able to put through his 2017 Budget thanks to the votes of PNV MPs, support that came at the price of an annual €1.3 billion that the Basque Region will receive until 2021. But Pedro Sanchez, who still

IN DENIAL: Mariano Rajoy.

Get out of jail free MARIANO RAJOY denied during his court appearance - as a witness it must be stressed all knowledge of illegal Partido Popular funding and the Gurtel graft scandal. While those on both sides of the Gurtel fence were allegedly raking in money for themselves and the party through kickbacks and commissions, he was occupied only with political issues and knew nothing of party finances. Rajoy stated that on taking over as party leader in 2004, he distanced the PP from Correa “for misusing the party’s name.” Yet he didn’t stop the PP in the Valencian Community from using Correa’s services long afterwards. So explain that one, Mariano.

Turkeys vote for Christmas THE Catalan parliament, at the behest of regional president Carles Puigdemont, approved a law that will allow him to implement - without debate - both the October 1 referendum and secession

should Cataluña vote to leave Spain. There is a word to describe legislation of this kind - and it certainly isn’t ‘democracy.’

No clothes on dry land THE PSOE and Podemos are in a cleft stick over Cataluña. Both parties and their leaders can shelter behind the Spanish Constitution which makes no provision for the kind of referendum that Carles Puigdemont and his hench people are preparing. Podemos in its Catalan version was the most-voted party in the December 2015 and June 2016 General Elections and its supporters are at heart pro-independence. The PSOE in the past counted on Cataluña

for many of its seats in the national parliament in Madrid, but no longer. Too many PSOE voters are pro-referendum if not pro-secession. So you get Pedro Sanchez trying to win back PSOE votes with plurinacionalismo which is too little for Cataluña and too much for everyone else. Pablo Iglesias as usual minces his words while sounding hard-hitting by defining the independence referendum as “legitimate mobilisation” while adding that it can’t be binding. Both men are resorting to the Spanish practice of trying to swim while keeping their clothes safe at the same time. Put another way, they want to please everyone which as usual results in no-one being happy and no clothes on dry land.

The Catalan One-step POLITICIANS in Cataluña are increasingly ‘stepping aside’ as the regional president Carles Puigdemont purges his Cabinet of possible waverers from the straightjacket of secession. One of the latest was the Education department’s second-in-charge and the same department’s Education Policy director. Seems there could soon be a dance called the Catalan One-step although in best Palais de Danse tradition (millennials: your elders will explain) perhaps it should be called the Elimination Waltz.

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Summer warnings AS part of a new series, we answer some common driving questions, kindly provided by members of the Guardia Civil based in Torrevieja, Costa Blanca, who set up the N332 website and Facebook page to help break down barriers.

CHECK FIRST: For animals sheltering.

Email scam warning THE N-332 Guardia Civil Traffico team are warning readers of a new email scam that is starting to resurface notifying the victim of a supposed traffic fine. The emails usually say the victim has been caught speeding by the DGT and must pay a fine, as well as losing points from their driving licence. As a way of proving the case, the email informs the recipient there is a photo attached taken by a traffic camera which the person is encouraged to click and open. However this file is malware and infects the users system once clicked. So the Guardia Civil warns anyone if they receive an email notification along these lines, not to open it and delete it immediately. Remember, the DGT, or any other offi-

cial traffic authority in Spain, never issues notifications by email, unless the recipient has expressly requested them to do so, so any random email alleging to be from the DGT is likely to be fake. Sheltered from the sun The second warning this week from the N-332 team is to be aware of animals potentially sheltering from the hot summer sun under parked cars. Occasionally they may find their way into the engine compartment or wheel arches so always check your vehicle before starting the engine and before driving off. If you do find an animal and are unable to move it, call for assistance. This was the case in Elche this week when Local Police had to rescue a cat which had found its way into the engine compartment.

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Is there cause for complaint? Recently we were ‘ambushed’ by a couple of local plumbers along with our Community President, declaring that a water leak from our bathroom was entering apartments below us. They proceeded to tear out our toilet and only then informed us, in a threatening manner, that it would cost €700 to fix. When we said that we wanted a formal In theory, yes. The plumbers attempted to extort from you more money than the job was w o rt h a n d th en threatened to leave the job

‘factura’ with all their details on it, they suddenly dropped the price by half. Then they said that they would not continue the work until they were paid, and we said we would call the police. The next day they finished and replaced the toilet. Do we have grounds for a complaint? P W (Costa del Sol)

David Searl You and the Law in Spain

undone unless you paid.

Finally, they committed a tax fraud by getting paid in blac k . H ow e v e r, y ou s tood up to the m . G ood for y ou. The proble m is then how to prove this.

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It’s just all too confusing Mike Senker

In my opinion Views of a Grumpy Old Man IN the news this week we have been informed, once again, something we had all obediently adhered to for years may not be true. Case 1 is antibiotics. We have always been told to finish the course. Now we are told don’t finish the course. Well, maybe finish the course, we aren’t too sure. Maybe don’t if you think you are feeling better. So it’s now down to me how I feel. As I’m not a doctor I don’t know if I’m better or not do I? Or do I? Too confusing for me. I’ll just finish them to be safe. Case 2 - drinking. I don’t drink any more. I used to drink ... a lot, so I stopped and over the years of over indulging I developed type 2 diabetes. Now this week I read that if I start drinking again it might help my diabetes. But everything I’ve been told by my doctors is different. The point I’m trying to make is that so many things we are told or sold as being correct finish up being bad. Eat eggs, don’t eat eggs. Take statins, don’t take statins. What about the whole pregnancy thing? Babies have been born every minute of every day worldwide for thousands of years. Now there are pages and pages of things you can’t eat or do. How did

the world exist before? Of course, science and research tells us things like smoking are bad for everyone but for years it was cool to do. Which brings me on to driving. First we were all sold petrol cars. Then, after a few years, we were told to dump our petrol cars and get diesel cars and then surprise, surprise we were told diesel is actually killing us all so get rid of them and go back to petrol. And now we have to get rid of them both and go electric. Oh and by the way after 2040 you won’t even be able to buy a non-electric car. Just how are they going to make this work? Isn’t too clear to me because there are very few electric cars that can do over a hundred miles without needing to be recharged. Now, I’m sure over the next 20 odd years they will sort that problem. But what about the 10 extra power stations that will need to be built? How are you going to charge your car at home? I mean, in Spain, if you turn the hairdryer on whilst the dishwasher is on your whole fuse box shuts down! According to a National Grid report, peak demand for electricity could add around 30 gigawatts to the current peak of 61GW - an increase of 50 per cent. What will happen to all the giant oil companies? I’m going to look at this more later but I don’t think they will be able to do it in the time allotted. But I won’t be around so someone else can be grumpy about it then. Email mikesenker@gmail.com.

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7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Animal Park Summer Special 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Matron, Medicine and Me: 70 Years of the NHS 12:45pm Rip Off Britain 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:30pm Regional News 2:45pm Red Rock 3:30pm The Code 4:15pm Escape to the Country 5:15pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm EastEnders 9:00pm Holby City 10:00pm Trust Me 11:00pm BBC News 11:30pm Regional News 11:40pm Weather 11:45pm New Tricks 12:45am The Bug Grub Couple

7:00am The TV That Made Me 7:30am Animal Park Summer Special 8:15am Heir Hunters 9:00am The Farmers' Country Showdown 9:30am Great British Menu 10:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 2:00pm Coast 2:15pm Two Tribes 2:45pm Super League Show 3:30pm A Taste of Britain 4:15pm Patagonia: Earth's Secret Paradise 5:15pm The Life of Mammals 6:15pm Antiques Road Trip 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm World Athletics Championships 2017 11:30pm Newsnight 12:10am Weather 12:15am The Mash Report 12:45am Jimmy Carr and the Science of Laughter A Horizon Special 1:45am 10 Puppies and Us

7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Tenable 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm Cash Trapped 7:00pm Local News and Weather 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale Popular long-running soap opera, set in a Yorkshire village. 9:00pm Midsomer Murders 11:00pm ITV News 11:40pm UEFA Super Cup Highlights 12:40am Play to the Whistle 1:20am Jackpot247 Join the presenters live and play roulette on your telly. 4:00am Loose Women

7:35am Vanderpump Rules 8:20am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 9:00am Emmerdale 9:30am Coronation Street 10:35am You've Been Framed! 11:00am The Great Indoors 11:30am Guidance 12:00pm L.A. Story 12:25pm Vanderpump Rules 1:20pm Emmerdale 1:55pm Coronation Street 2:30pm Coronation Street 3:00pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3:50pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 6:00pm Judge Rinder 7:00pm You've Been Framed! 7:30pm You've Been Framed! 8:00pm You've Been Framed! 8:30pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 9:30pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm The Keith and Paddy Picture Show 10:30pm The Keith and Paddy Picture Show 11:00pm Family Guy 12:00am Family Guy

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Judge Judy Judge Judy The Royal Heartbeat Where the Heart is Judge Judy Judge Judy Judge Judy Rising Damp You're Only Young Twice The Darling Buds of May Heartbeat The Royal The Darling Buds of May You're Only Young Twice On the Buses Rising Damp Heartbeat Murder, She Wrote Britain's Busiest Airport - Heathrow Paul O'Grady's Animal Orphans Law and Order: UK Lewis

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Salt and Fire Storks Adult Beginners Racing Hearts The Infiltrator Blood Father Storks Racing Hearts The Infiltrator Crime drama about a chameleonic US agent who infiltrates the intricate criminal network of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. Blood Father Salt and Fire Scientists investigating rare geological formations in Bolivia are abducted by a rogue businessman. Alley Cats Adult Beginners

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7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Animal Park Summer Special 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Matron, Medicine and Me: 70 Years of the NHS 12:45pm Rip Off Britain 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:30pm Regional News 2:45pm Red Rock 3:30pm The Code 4:15pm Escape to the Country 5:15pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm Fake Britain 9:00pm Super Small Animals 10:00pm My Family, Partition and Me: India 1947 11:00pm BBC News 11:30pm Regional News 11:40pm Weather 11:45pm My Big Gay Jewish Conversion 12:35am I'm Coming Out 1:00am Weather for the Week Ahead

7:00am The TV That Made Me 7:30am Animal Park Summer Special 8:15am Heir Hunters 9:00am My Friend Jane 9:30am Great British Menu 10:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 2:00pm Two Tribes 2:30pm A Taste of Britain 3:15pm Natural World Award winning nature documentary series. 4:15pm Patagonia: Earth's Secret Paradise 5:15pm The Life of Mammals 6:15pm Antiques Road Trip 7:00pm World Athletics Championships 2017 11:30pm Newsnight Comprehensive coverage of the day's important national and international news stories. 12:10am Weather 12:15am Secrets of Silicon Valley 1:15am Who Do You Think You Are?

8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm The Boats That Built Britain Sailor and writer Tom Cunliffe takes a voyage through the history of British seafaring. The Reaper is the biggest sailing lugger ever to fish the seas. 9:00pm Fair Isle Two-part documentary revealing life on Fair Isle, Britain's most remote inhabited island. 10:00pm In Search of Arcadia 11:00pm Citizen Jane 12:20am James Clerk Maxwell: The Man Who Changed the Modern World 1:20am The Secret Life of Waves 2:20am Fair Isle 3:20am In Search of Arcadia

7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Tenable 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm Cash Trapped 7:00pm Local News and Weather 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street More drama and turmoil from the residents of Coronation Street in the longest running TV Soap. 9:00pm Love Your Garden 10:00pm Long Lost Family 11:00pm ITV News 11:40pm Car Crash Britain Caught on Camera 12:40am British Touring Car Championship Highlights 4:00am May the Best House Win

7:00am The Hot Desk 7:10am Planet's Funniest Animals 7:35am Vanderpump Rules 8:20am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 9:00am Emmerdale 10:00am You've Been Framed! 11:00am The Great Indoors 11:30am Guidance 12:00pm L.A. Story 12:15pm L.A. Story 12:25pm Vanderpump Rules 1:20pm Emmerdale 2:30pm You've Been Framed! 3:00pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3:50pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 6:00pm Judge Rinder 7:00pm You've Been Framed! 7:30pm You've Been Framed! 8:00pm You've Been Framed! 8:30pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 9:30pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm Fast and Furious Five 11:00pm FYI Daily 11:05pm Fast and Furious Five 12:40am Family Guy 1:10am Family Guy

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7:00am World Cup Rivalries: Brazil v Italy 7:20am The Chase 8:15am Storage Wars Texas 8:45am Storage Wars Texas 9:10am The Saint 10:15am Ironside 11:20am Quincy, M.E. 12:25pm Minder 1:25pm The Professionals 2:30pm Women's Rugby World Cup 2017 Live 5:15pm Minder Modern-day reimagineering on the classic comedydrama. 6:20pm The Professionals 7:20pm Snooker v Darts 7:30pm Women's Rugby World Cup 2017 Live 10:15pm British Superbike Highlights 11:15pm Terminator 2: Judgment Day Sci-fi sequel unfolding a life-anddeath battle to avert a nuclear holocaust. 12:20am FYI Daily 12:25am Terminator 2: Judgment Day

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Salt and Fire Alley Cats Storks Adult Beginners Blood Father The Infiltrator Racing Hearts A big-shot banker is jumping through hoops to pull off a huge deal, but things get even more complicated when he falls in love. Storks Blood Father What We Become A Danish family must fight to survive when a zombie virus sweeps through their idyllic town. The Infiltrator Salt and Fire Scientists investigating rare geological formations in Bolivia are abducted by a rogue businessman. Alley Cats

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No muzzle? It’s the pits SIR, Apparently there are no laws in Spain against vicious dog attacks. My husband and I with two visiting friends went to Cantera de los Arenales, Mijas with our two small dogs for a leisurely walk. Suddenly around a corner appeared a pair of vicious American pit bulls without leads or muzzles. As soon as they saw our dogs they went into attack with the Spanish owner shouting ‘pick up your dogs’ but it was too late. One of the dogs grabbed one of ours and was shaking it trying to kill it, I raced forward to try and save him but fell badly on the rocky surface just in front of the dog. This was enough thankfully to startle the pit bull and it released its bite on my dog. This was a terrifying incident caused by a totally irresponsible owner who had no control over his dogs and who lets killer dogs run freely and without muzzles where many people walk with their children and dogs. I managed to take photos of

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the’American Pitt Bulls, the owner’s car and the number plate. We went to the Guardia Civil to denounce the incident only to be told nothing could be done about the dogs or the irresponsible owner, we could only take out a civil case in court before a judge asking for compensation and would involve us in costs as we would need a lawyer. Elizabeth Simner, Mijas

Be fair to all DEAR Sir, Spain - a nation so dependent on hard earned coffers from tourism - will do well to equally understand the importance of fairness. Recently a report in the EWN revealed increased toll road fees for motorists, with many from abroad presumably totally unaware that they have higher charges than other motorists using the same roads out of the main summer season. This to my thinking is totally unfair and unjustified. And it does not stop there, for in La Cala de Mijas, and I suspect many other places, from July 1 the price of sunbeds has been increased 10 per cent. OK, a parasol and two beds even

Talking shop SUNBEDS: Why increase the price in summer? since the increase still costs only €10, a snip compared to the €100 plus charged at some more fashionable Marbella beach clubs. But even so, why increase the price

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in summer... and this is not just one beach bar, but all local ones, and price cartels to me stink! I Moss, Alhaurin El Grande

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Open letter to UK expats from British Ambassador THANKS for that, Sir. Now we know what you want. Let us know how it pans out. That is, for us, the only thing that matters PM We ‘No one,’ can’t know what is going to happen, the UK’s exit has to be negotiated, decisions will be taken on both the UK and EU sides. The final situation will depend on many things and how each side decides to go forward on discussion! I despair at the number of people who seem unable to grasp nor understand this! Mike in ESP The word ‘hope’ is used three times. I would rather have read ‘we will ensure.’ As I said in here a long time ago, we could have at the outset have said we will ensure EU citizens in the UK maintain their rights after Brexit but this will be enacted at the same time as the EU enacts a reciprocal agreement for UK citizens in the EU. The above may placate some but will not give confidence to many others. John Price

Rowdy hen party kicked off Ryanair flight to Alicante GOOD grief, no! We don’t want those silly cows over here. Send ‘em back to Liverpool! But hopefully they

Comments from EWN online won’t be allowed on any airline for a while as a punishment. What with them and the tourists beating up the film crew in Mallorca and all these fake sickness claims, Brits are getting an even worse name over here than ever. BTW, why do airlines and airside bars even serve alcohol? They should stop doing that. Olivia

Why not offer ‘family only flights’ and a ‘singles only’ on another, similar as in the supermarkets for the few items queue and another for those with a full trolley! Felipe

Spain says ‘hola’ to Android Pay THIS is not smart technology - it’s bloody dangerous technology. Someone can still nick your phone. Besides all of that all this smart tech is designed to enslave us into a cashless society where we all wear rfid chips. food for thought. Rolf Petersen

Travellers taking advanBull runs ‘without blood, tage of baggage rules, says Ryanair without suffering’ in IT’S Neil Sorahan who is taking the piss, does €443 milBalearics lion profit in the last three months.not sound enough. I bet O’Leary will start charging kids who bring on Kiddie cases. Why don’t you get a life Neil. Steve Kane True about the selfish who take advantage of their children taking (or as-if) more oversized baggage that makes boarding and disembarking very tedious… passengers should get used to the idea they don’t need half the things they lug with them anyway!

UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Torturing animals... a culture in our modern western world?? Well then let’s go back to the older cultures of ‘damnatio ad bestiae’ where imposters and thieves were thrown in the arenas with wild animals... have Xavier Pericay run the first trial, and the bulls as an audience… Felipe

SHOPS being closed on Sundays is normal, and just because Brits expect everything yesterday it does not mean other countries should follow. Shops here open at around 9am-2pm and again from 5-8pm; these times are five days a week with supermarkets being open longer and if you can’t get your shopping in these times then you need to organise your life better. To say this is good for the tourist is rubbish, as if tourists have nothing better to do on Sundays but go shopping then why are they on holiday? I am tired of people wanting things to change, we all left the UK for different reasons but part of that was a better quality of life and having all shops closed on Sunday is part of that quality life which you can never get in the UK. Ron Chivers, Busot, Alicante

Dear Leapy IN the last paragraph of your recent article is sounds as if you don’t understand how the British political system works and you therefore risk misleading your readers. Britain does not have a presidential system and individuals don’t ‘run for office,’ they stand for parliament as part of parties. Nigel Farage doesn’t seem to have a party at the moment let alone one capable of winning a majority in the House of Commons that would enable him to become prime minister. He has never had to take responsibilty for any real world consequences of his proposals, but as prime minister he would be forced into the messy business of actually delivering policy, when he has shown none of the skills necessary for political leadership. It doesn’t surprise me that you misunderstand Jeremy Corbyn if you are not clear how the system works. Nick Inman No address supplied

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Having fancy footwork and being quick on the uptake is for the birds IN a twist on the famous psychological experiment of selfcontrol - would you like one Breaking Views marshmallow now, or could Nora is the author of popular psychological susyou wait just 15 minutes for pense and crime thrillers and a freelance journalist. To comment on any of the issues raised in her coltwo instead? - scientists found umn, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/3.0.15/nora-johnson ravens outdid chimpanzees and even four-year-olds when challenged to defer gratification and plan ahead. According to the Swedish researchers, ravens chose and held on to tools they’d need to extract chunks of tasty dog food the following day. They also learnt to gather up tokens they could trade for tidbits 15 minutes later. Their most striking accomplishment, though, was selecting a tube-winkling stick over a meal with a view to using the tool to get a bigger and more tasty snack up to two days later. One female raven was so canny she bypassed the experiRAVENS: Outdid the chimps. ment by discovering a way to

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ransack a food container without the use of an implement. But corvids (the family to which they belong) aren’t alone in this. Octopuses can unscrew jars and use coconut shells as portable houses. Monkeys in Bali were recently found to be stealing tourists’ valuables and ‘bartering’ them back to them in exchange for tasty treats. And orangutans? Apparently, they can bear lasting grudges against humans. One called Santino used to plan for attacks on visitors to his enclosure. He’d stash away a heap of rocks, saunter casually around when he saw tourists approaching, and then scarper off to his munitions dump and start hurling the rocks the moment they were turning away for the next enclosure. Right! So, bird brain no longer an insult then? It may well be that certain animals have aspects of intelligence far

beyond our own, but based on our general behaviour that’s not a high bar, is it? And, yes, well this is most probably the pinnacle of these particular corvids’ intellectual potential whereas the fouryear old referred to by the scientists likely has the potential (when grown, with her brain fully wired up) to become a doctor, a scientist... or even a US president. And a final thought: can ravens outsmart their parents? Most four-years-olds have been doing that for half their lives. Nora Johnson’s psychological/suspense crime thrillers ‘No Way Back,’ ‘Landscape of Lies,’ ‘Retribution,’ ‘Soul Stealer,’ ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.nora-john son.net) available from Amazon in paperback/eBook (€0.99;£0.99) and iBookstore. All profits to Costa del Sol Cudeca cancer charity.

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Explain that one! IN the early 70’s, the CIA tested Uri Geller, the well-known psychic, to see if he could be co-opted into their organisation. Apparently, the tests were quite successful, but whether he became an agent has never been revealed. Strangely enough, around the same time, Granada Television ran a similar experiment, this time with John Toshack and Kevin Keegan, two Liverpool footballers, who supposedly had a telepathic relationship on the pitch. Unfortunately, neither of them would have been anywhere near becoming CIA agents as the tests were, to be kind, inconclusive. I clearly fail in the psychic ability stakes because I should have been seeing images of big purple dinosaurs. Not because of too much make you see things juice, but because my bit of research revealed that the man who played that rather odd purple dinosaur Barney in the childrens’ programme, claims he is psychic. He said, before he landed the role, he had a premonition, which came to him in a dream, that he would definitely be the next Barney. If I dreamt my next job involved dancing whilst wearing a purple dinosaur suit, I’d wake in a cold sweat, give that audition a miss and head for the hills. However, outdoing Uri, Barney and co is a Korean politician who wins the prize for lack of foresight - despite believing he has psychic powers, an IQ of nearly 500 and the power to levitate. This man confidently claimed he could drive his car using only psychic power. Guess what! He crashed his psychic driven Rolls Royce into the back of another car. Explain that to your insurers! Which just goes to show, as the General Election proved, politicians are likely to be seen as more psycho than psychic! Readers interested in submitting articles for this guest column should send articles of around 300 words on topics felt to be of interest to the cosmopolitan EWN readership to editorial@euroweeklynews.com.

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packing crates (5) 6 Sir Ian’s ingredients are dried fruits (7) 7 Tense in marine mammals' lifts (6) 13 Organise a run to the mountains (7) 15 The French kept a watch on an English cleric (7)

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AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) Feel sympathy for those who lack the gift of insight. Their lack of understanding upsets you, but their horizons are narrow. This is a time of giving to yourself. Look forward to some time away or indulging in something that really relaxes you. Should you be searching for someone special, they may be closer than you know.

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ARIES (March 21 - April 20) Someone who appears to be putting themselves in the way of your progress could simply be trying to help. They may have a valid point to make but just not be good at expressing themselves. Be aware of this because there could be a link to your health and love life.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) With your mind sharp and energy high, you want to make fast progress and, indeed, you can. You are only too aware of the time that has been wasted waiting for others. Now, most of that may be dealt with. See how others react when you do not. Leaving others to their own devices works better than nagging. Your lack of interest could worry them.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) When you meet opposition try to use persuasion and logic to win the day. Failing that, you may decide that ‘enough is enough’ and forge ahead, anyway. In this positive mood you find yourself attractive to the opposite sex. That does not mean you have a right to be pushy. Just use your charm. Combining business with pleasure could lead to trouble, so try to keep these two areas separate.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) There is a strong feeling of 'self' this week, and you realise that you have many things to be thankful for. These thoughts come after a period of uncertainty that saw a lack of progress. With this feeling of renewed inner strength, it is now possible to tackle a pet project.

LEO (July 24 - August 23) You know in your heart that you should take control of your future. This is a time to talk with others and consider their thoughts. At the end of the day, however, you are the one who has the final say. Socially, it is sometimes confusing to have more attention than you are used to.

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) At times this week you will feel that a certain relationship is not developing along the right lines. Although it seems that your efforts are often in vain, this is a situation that requires thought and patience on your part. It is perhaps a good time to look to your business matters for a change of scene and to set your mind on a more constructive course.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) You should not feel responsible for the failings of others. Although you may think you could have done more in a certain situation, it is unlikely that any significant difference would have resulted. This is a busy time but also one in which a small persistent voice will be heard: the voice of logic and practicality. Listen to it.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) A long-term relationship has its wobbly moments this week, but all is not lost. Listen to your heart as it speaks louder than any other voice. You know what you need but that may conflict with what you feel you should want. In an ideal world, these two areas would be in harmony. Give a little happiness to others and your own heart will be lighter.

SAGITARIUS (November 23 - December 21) Making firm decisions in your love life may prove difficult. Do not be rushed. This is far from a straightforward week and you need to remember how to relax. You are able to deal with what comes your way but it is upsetting to find that someone has been less than honest.

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Your sense of balance in the universe could be upset, but do not let this sour either your thoughts or your character. You are in the eye of the storm so take this time to think. A bit of care and attention is what you need and you know where to find it.

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Sunbathing this summer? Do it safely AS much as we know we shouldnâ€™t, many of us still want that perfect summer glow. But if you are not faking it from a bottle, is there ever really a safe way to sunbathe and get a tan? Dermatologists say yes, there are ways to still enjoy the summer sun. The Spanish Academy of Dermatology and Venerology (AEDV), explains that there are four or five types of skin, from skin phototype one which always burns and never tans, to skin type four or five, for black skin, which has more melanin in the skin. It is this melanin that reacts to the sun and causes the skin to darken or tan as it protects your skin from being damaged even more by the sun. Even for skin which is naturally dark or never burns and always tans, this tan is still a sign that there is some sort of

skin damage from the sun. Therefore, dermatologists always advise you wear a sun cream with an SPF of 50, the highest protection factor according to European regulations. This does not block the sun totally, so the skin will still gradually tan over time, but it is best to have the highest protection and not to reduce the level of the filter, since the objective of the cream is to avoid sunburn. Cream should be applied as per the productâ€™s instructions and re-applied every few hours and after swimming. Always gradually expose the skin to the sun. Many visitors to Spain make the mistake of thinking they are only on a two-week holiday so want that instant burn and will spend hours in the sun the first day of their holiday, making the skin react even more harshly. Exfoliation of the skin is also recommended as removing dead skin cells and making it more hydrated will naturally make it healthier. The AEDV reminds that some exposure time is necessary for the production of vitamin D, but just 15 minutes a day is adequate. For those wanting to enjoy an active and outdoor lifestyle in the summer,

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How to protect your throat this summer A SORE throat can be annoying and frustrating but are particularly common in the summer. During the warmer months, many of us neglect the throat which is affected by changes in routine and habits, but the Speech Unit of the Hospital Quironsalud San JosĂŠ said there are things you can do to help protect it: Avoid cold things. Ice cold drinks for example can irritate the area of the throat responsible for the resonance and the transmission of sound. All these systems in the throat and at the back of the mouth work to produce sounds and speech including the respiratory muscles and respiratory system with its mucous membranes, but these delicate areas can easily suffer. In and out of air conditioned areas can also take a toll of the throat, so it is always advised to carry a light scarf, to protect the neck area in air conditioned

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Hypochondriacs could live longer IT is often said that those who worry and stress will put themselves into an early grave, but scientists now claim that those who worry about their health could actually have a lower risk of dying. It is thought that hypochondriacs could be classed as ‘healthy neuroticists’ and whilst worrying, they actually take better care of their health seeking medical advice more often. The personality trait is normally linked to negative health effects, but researchers from the

UK said that their findings suggested that this type of neuroticism can sometimes have a protective effect, as those people were perhaps more vigilant about their health. The findings were concluded after a study using UK Biobank data collected from more than 500,000 people aged from 37 to 73 in the UK. Participants had to complete a personality questionnaire and answered whether they thought their health was excellent, good, fair, or poor.

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At risk of extinction ARE humans at risk of extinction? A worrying drop in sperm counts is causing alarm as a study warns an urgent ‘wake up call’ is needed to investigate the drop. A study published by the Human Reproduction Update said sperm counts were rapidly falling and had dropped almost 60 per cent since 1970 in Western countries. Sperm counts are the best measure of male fertility as the lead author of the study called for further investigations to look at lifestyle factors, chemicals and the environment which are believed to be causing the drop, as it could have public health implications showing more and more men are infertile. The study analysed data collected from between 1973 and 2011 from men in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and North America.

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Flower Power FINCA LES PALMERES in Benidorm will play host to the third edition of JOVEMPA Marina Baixa’s ‘Flower Power Solidarity Party’ on Friday August 4. Tickets cost €25 and include a sit-down dinner, free bar and an array of performances. Tickets are available from JOVEMPA Mari-

na Baixa - 619 385 317 / marinabaixa@jovem pa.org or at the kiosk on Plaza Triangular in Benidorm. Funds raised at the event will be split between four local charities - AECC La Nucia, Anemone, Centro Doble Amor and Medicos sin fronteras. Photo credit La Nucia Ayuntamiento

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ALL SHOOK UP: Ben is sure to ruffle fan’s feathers.

Thank you, thank you very much BEN PORTSMOUTH - the world’s number one Elvis tribute artist will perform in an expected sell-out concert at the Benidorm Palace on Sunday September 3. Ben, a multi-talented musician, singer and songwriter had Elvis’s DNA in his blood from an early age. His father was an avid Elvis fan and Ben grew up on a diet of Elvis songs. Having honed his musical talent Ben started his journey as an Elvis tribute artist in 2005 when he formed the Taking care of Elvis band. Audiences quickly realised that this was someone with a

special talent. He looked like Elvis, sang like Elvis and had an onstage charisma that had audiences believing at times they were watching the King himself. This talent saw Ben rapidly rise through the ranks of Elvis tribute artists. In August 2012, Ben made history when he won the Elvis Presley Enterprises Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest which took place in Memphis, crowning Ben as the ‘Worldwide Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist,’ the only artist from outside the USA to ever win this prestigious title.

Fans from all over the world declare Ben Portsmouth as the closest they have ever seen to Elvis Presley. Social media forums are overwhelmed with fans demanding his return to their country. On the first Sunday in September, the audience at the Benidorm Palace will enjoy the live performance that left David Letterman at a loss for words exclaiming, “Oh my God, oh my God!” when Ben headlined his show in February 2013. Tickets are available via benidormpalace.com.

More music in the Javea summer fair THE summer fair organised by the craft association Amata at the sea front promenade in the Port of Javea, becomes livelier every day. Almost every night there is live music to accompany a stroll along the 20 or so craft stalls that are assembled at the end of the Avenida Jaime I. On Mondays Happy Freuds plays Classic Rock, on Tuesdays there is classic jazz and Soul by Montgo Music, Marco

will play classic guitar on Wednesdays, on Thursday it varies and every Sunday there is guitar music with percussion by Guty. On Saturdays a potter will bring his wheel so everybody can have a go at throwing their own little bowl. The fair opens every day till September 6 from 7pm. More information in English on 639 979 678.

CELEBRATING SOLIDARITY: JOVEMPA Marina Baxia representatives and La Nucia councillors

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#SOYHUMANA: Chenoa’s current tour name translates to ‘I am human.’

Chenoa in Xatvia ARGENTINE-SPANISH pop music artist Chenoa will perform at the Campo de Futbol La Murta in Xatvia, Valencia on Tuesday August 15. Chenoa became successful after appearing on the TV contest Operacion Triunfo. She sings primarily in Spanish but has also released hits in English.

Chenoa grew up in a musical family; both parents were musicians who used to sing in hotels at live music shows. At the age of 16, Chenoa began to sing professionally, taking part in her parents’ show. When her mother fell ill, Chenoa had to stand in for her. More information along with tickets available via songkick.com.

David Guetta takes on Benidorm TICKETS are still available to watch Grammy award-winning French DJ, songwriter, record producer and remixer David Guetta take on Benidorm this Saturday, August 12. Guetta achieved mainstream success with his 2009 album One Love which included the hit singles When Love Takes Over, Gettin’ Over You, Sexy Bitch, and Memories, the first three of which reached number one in the UK. The 2011 follow-up album, Nothing but the Beat, continued this success, containing the hit singles Where Them Girls At, Little Bad Girl, Without You, Titanium and Turn Me On. He is among the first DJs to get into the EDM scene and is known as the ‘Grandfather of EDM.’ Guetta has sold over nine million albums and 30 million singles worldwide. In 2011, he was voted as the number one DJ in the

‘DJ Mag Top 100 DJ’s fan poll. In 2013, Billboard crowned When Love Takes Over as the

number one dance-pop collaboration of all time Tickets are available via ticketmaster.es starting at €53.90.

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TREASURE: Roundshot that helped win a battle.

Bulletproof evidence of 16th century battle A SINGLE piece of round shot now takes pride of place at the Guardianos de piedra exhibition at Villajoyosa’s Vilamuseu. The Stone guardians exhibition features the province’s 230 castles, fortresses, coastal fortifications and towers that have defended Alicante Province for 1,000 years. Seven of those towers protected Villajoyosa, five of them

on the coast, were ready to give the alarm whenever Barbary pirates appeared on the horizon. La Vila’s Moors and Christians celebrations, which have just finished, recall the day on July 29, 1538 when Moors tried to take the town but were repelled by the local population. Owing to the site and the level of excavations where the 6.5centimetre piece of ammunition

weighing 427 grammes was found, archaeologists are confident that it was used by Vileros while defending the town. Metal was more usual but stone was cheaper and nearer to hand, explained Vilamuseu’s director Antonio Espinosa. The itinerant exhibition remains at the museum until October 20, the piece of shot will remain in La Vila.

Fiestas photos comp LA NUCIA Town Hall announced its fourth Instagram competition, #LaNuciaEnFestes. All members of the public with the Instagram app on their smartphone are eligible and photos may be submitted until August 31. Participants need to be followers of La Nucia on Instagram @LaNuciaES and include the #LaNuciaEnFestes hashtag in the title of their entries. The photos, which should be geolocatable, can cover any aspect of La Nucia’s fiestas, including those on urbanisations, although all entries must be unpublished and taken this year. There will be a first prize of €150 with €100 for the runner-up and a third prize of €50. The jury will judge the photos on their aesthetic and graphic values as well as their fidelity to the fiestas theme. An exhibition of the three

prizewinners’ photos as well as those with most ‘likes’ opens at the Auditorium on September 14 when the prizes

are presented. More information is available on the municipal website www.lanucia.es.

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YSTERS, those mythical oft maligned, love or hate, concha. With their reputation for foodpoisoning outbreaks, sometimes fatal, and their promise of increasing sexual prowess - do oysters really deserve their bad press? I love oysters, technically you don’t chew them you break them on the back of your tongue and suck allowing the freshness of the sea to tickle your tonsils. Some lemon juice, a touch of Tobasco and a little black pepper with half-a-dozen oysters, and a glass of Champagne, is undoubtedly one of the best ways to start a leisurely lunch or an evening’s dining and entertainment. As I reported in last week’s column on food poisoning, Oysters can be a cause well the bug that can be found in shellfish can be, as Heston Blumenthal’s 500 customers found out to their dismay having eaten at his famous Fat Duck restaurant. It’s worth bearing in mind says Tom Pickerell, director of the Shellfish Association, that last year, more people got ill from eating unpasteurised cheese than oysters. “It is just one of these things that the public have concerns about,” he says. “Our regulations are some of the strictest in the world.” Britain produces almost 14,000 tonnes of oysters - Pacific and native o per year. In the past 12 months, there were only four incidents of food poisoning outbreaks related to shellfish, one of which was at the Fat Duck. A fraction of the illness caused by, say, barbecues. Legislation insists that all oysters are screened for E coli and salmonella, and producers also regularly check for norovirus. Oysters are also then purified, where they are held in tanks of seawater that is continuously pumped through an ultraviolet chamber; a process that works very well at destroying bacteria, which are flushed from the mollusc’s gut into the chamber to be killed. The chances, after all of this, of the oyster harbouring noxious contaminants

ELECTRIC RAY, the TV production company behind Class of ’92 and Carjackers, is looking for talented, would-be restaurateurs to pitch their ideas, meals and b r a n d s t o s o m e o f t h e U K ’s biggest food and beverage in-

FOR reprinting the following reply from a restaurateur in York who replied to a customer who complained about paying £2 for a hot water and lemon as a “rip off.”

Love ‘em or hate ‘em only one works! are, according to some experts, very slim indeed. The NHS states on its website that, according to the Food Standards Agency (FSA), there are about 850,000 cases of food poisoning each year in the UK and about 500 deaths from it. However, over the past 12 to 18 months, the only two single-case food poisoning deaths reported in the national press were the death of a forager last autumn from mushroom-poisoning and the alleged oyster incident in London’s Quaglino’s restaurant in May where a diner who passed away shortly after visiting the restaurant had eaten oysters for the first time there. As it happens, both Quaglino’s and its oysters were cleared of any involvement in the woman’s death, a fact not widely reported, which goes to strengthen the argument, that ‘people will always look to blame an oyster.’ I know a Chef, specialising in seafood and is a passionate consumer of oysters. After consuming his usual dozen, he felt very ill and went into anaphylactic shock. He was rushed to hospital where the specialist informed him he had developed an allergy to his favourite seafood and perhaps shellfish in general. This was akin to being told that a passion and desire he had nurtured for years was being taken away from him. Keen to ensure this diagnosis was 100 per cent correct, a short time after, he

I’m out vestors for a new business series for the BBC on the same lines as Dragon’s Den!

On that note! I will bid you farewell until next week and should aspiring restaurateurs need some help or advice, please do not hesitate to contact me. A toast to Good Food, Good Wine and Good Friends.

picked up half a dozen and with his wife, drove to the local hospital where he sat in the car park and shot back all six. Banking on the theory that if he was going to go into shock again, he wouldn’t have far to go to get help. He sat and waited, but after an hour or so symptom-free, the couple drove home, and he has continued to enjoy oysters almost daily. On a trip to Mont St Michel with a group of like minded foodies one of our crowd developed nausea as we got on the ferry. This turned into full blown food poisoning. Based on the fact that we had all consumed much the same thing, the blame had to fall on an oyster. We plied him with water for a while and after some time, just before reaching Blighty, he came out of it. He went back on the gin and by the time we got into port where a doctor was waiting, he was as right as rain. The doctor reckoned the amount of gin he drank could have helped him recover. The Romans popularised oysters in Britain, with large numbers of shells having been found at Roman sites. Through to Victorian times, oysters occurred naturally in such large numbers that they were seen as a food for the poor. In Charles Dickens’s The Pickwick Papers, Sam Weller remarks: “Oysters and poverty always seem to go together.” How times have changed! I like them andthink they are ‘seductive’ and am sure they can be an aphrodisiac. But in my experience if you eat a dozen oysters - only one of them works!

If successful, the restaurateurs would get the opportunity to trialrun their concept in a pop-up restaurant and have the chance to impress ‘some of the best names in the business.’ Applicants could receive ‘life-changing’ investment.

*Garry Waite is a foodie and restaurateur and Hospitality Management Consultant. If contemplating setting up an operation, or having problems with an existing project contact him on garryphwaite@gmail.com.

Bennets Bistro York, Manager, responded to that report: I’m sorry that you feel you were “ripped off” and I will try and explain to you why you weren’t. You entered the café and the waiter showed you to your seat and gave you a menu, waited for a time and then took your order. He entered it into the till, collected a cup, saucer and spoon and then took them into the kitchen. There he selected a knife, chopping board, got a lemon from the fridge, cut off a slice and put it in the cup. Then he returned to the dining room, drew off the necessary hot water and carried the cup to your table. When you were leaving, he printed off your bill, took it to you, processed your credit card payment and cashed off the till. After you left, he cleared away your cup, saucer and spoon, took them to the kitchen, washed and dried them, along with the chopping board and knife and put away the lemon. Then returning to the dining room, he restacked the cup, saucer and spoon, wiped down your table and replaced the menu awaiting the next customer. That’s at least two to three minutes work for the waiter. The costs of overheads for the business ie rent, business rates, electricity costs, bank charges etc works out at £27.50 per hour of trading. I pay my colleagues a decent living wage and after taking into account holiday pay, national insurance and non-productive time prior to opening and after closing the waiter who served you costs me £12.50 an hour. Therefore together the cost is £40 per hour, or 67p per minute, meaning that the cost of providing you with two to three minutes of service was £1.34 - £2.00. Then the government add on VAT at 20 per cent which takes the cost of that cup of fruit infusion to between £1.60 and £2.40 irrespective of whether you had a tea bag costing one and a half pence or slice of lemon costing five pence. I have to pay my suppliers otherwise the facilities won’t be available to other people who use them in the future. I accept that it makes the price of a cuppa in a city centre café look expensive compared to the one you make at home but unfortunately that’s the cruel reality of life. It’s actually the facilities that cost the money, far more so than the ingredients. Perhaps the rudeness you perceived in me was triggered by the disrespect that I perceived in you by your presumption that you could use our facilites and be waited on for free. I can hear Basil Fawlty saying this can’t you? It might be over the top, but he has a point. In fact go to his TripAdvisor site he has similar equally outrageous comments.

£30m

a year. The UK’s oyster industry worth, an increase of £5m from two years ago.

13,000

tonnes of Pacific oysters and 600 tonnes of native oysters annually the amount produced in the UK, second only to China.

124 designated shellfish waters to production. 130,000 France produces tonnes annually. 50

oysters the amount per year eaten by the average Frenchman.

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By Matthew Elliott PERHAPS the most ambitious real estate deal in Spanish history has been put on the backburner after Madrid rejected new plans to build a mega-hotel and leisure complex. Powerful American outfit the Cordish Group said it was “completely shocked” by the decision, which came after months of torturous negotiations over a proposed new ‘Integrated Development Centre.’ Cordish claim to have already secured €2.2 billion worth of funding for the project, which would create an estimated 56,000 jobs. Executives say they have met every single one of Madrid’s demands. The megacomplex was to be built on a huge 134-hectare space, flush with casinos, ho-

tels, shops, ski slope, cinemas, and even an artificial beach the size of five football pitches. Negotiations were wrought with tension over taxes, development permits, casino regulations, environmental concerns and financing. Cordish CEO Joseph Weinberg says he is still unclear why the deal was suddenly rejected.” The main hiccup appears to have been over the casinos. The city government insisted that gambling not be the primary attraction, apprehensive about creating a mini Las Vegas. Cordish drew up a blueprint whereby casinos would only account for 10 per cent of the total space. But a government analysis of the business plan found that casinos would account for more than 60 per cent of the complex’s total income.

Billionaire bunker for sale at €130m SPANISH superstar Julio Iglesias has put four empty lots next to his luxurious Miami villa for sale, with a cool €130 million asking price. The legendary singer owns a 3.25 hectare plot of land on an island near the Miami coast known as the ‘billionaire bunker.’ Other islanders include top businessmen, film producers and tycoons from the sporting world. The island has its own private police force, 24-hour marine patrol and golf course. Jay Z and Beyonce once owned a property there. The total wealth of the residents is believed to surpass €35 billion. Iglesias’ land is the only one with completely unimpeded views out onto the Bay of Biscayne, making it the most natural area on the island. The 73-year-old isn’t selling everything, but four of the five lots he owns. Combined they offer 800 feet of pristine shoreline. Iglesias plans to keep the fifth, which contains his home, for himself, having finally given up on his original dream of

having his children live on the other lots. “My children are older and want to live in different parts of the world” he told the Miami Herald, more than 20 years after son Enrique released his debut album.

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LEISURE COMPLEX: Was to include casinos, hotels, shops, ski slope and a cinema.

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Jaded prosperity or money tree GRAEME TYRRELL MANY plants have myths, legends and other attributes to make them of interest and ensure their popularity. One of the more well- known plants in all the world largely due to its association with the Chinese art of Feng Shui allocating the plant as a promoter of wealth is the Jade plant, Crassula ovata, also known as the Friendship tree, Lucky plant and Money tree. The Jade plant is a very hardy, long lived and attractive succulent with shiny circular leaves and very fine white to pink star shaped flowers in clusters that form in the right conditions in early spring. It needs minimal maintenance as it rarely needs pruning except as a bonsai, requires watering only when the soil mix is touch dry (rather than a regular watering regime) and can live happily in the same quality soil mix for many years. It is slow growing, so if you obtain one it should be about the size that

The Jade plant or Money Tree. you want. It can live for 100 years when in the right condition, but may only grow just over a metre in a smaller container and up to four metres in open soil. To obtain new plants the easy way, the less conspicuous branches of a well-established plant can be cut off just above a node. Remove the leaves above the cut

to about a third of the cuttings length. Before planting, it’s a good idea to leave the cutting a day or two in a shaded place to allow the wound to heal. Plant the cutting in a good soil mix with the lowest set of leaves just above the soil. This gives a readymade plant if the soil is kept moist but not wet.

In Asia, the Jade plant is often gifted as a symbol of good fortune and it is placed in the eastern zone of the entrance of homes and buildings to attract positive energy to enter for the family or business. This concept has proliferated with the distribution of the plant around the world. The Jade plant has been popular in the Mediterranean and large ones in

containers can often be found gracing interior courtyards of historic buildings and well-established gardens. It is considered an old fashioned plant by some as a reaction to its previous popularity, but its attributes have made it a highly suitable plant for interior and shaded exterior (out of summer ’s direct midday sun), Mediterranean gardens, patios, balconies and terraces. This is testified by its popularity in ancient times when water was drawn from wells and ornamental plants were a luxury. Few such hardy, compact, longlived plants exist that require so little maintenance but will look good all year with the bonus of prolific flowers in spring when supplied with its simple needs. It gives prosperity as it doesn’t cost much to grow from cuttings, maintain with minimal water requirements or to replace every 100 years. To me, it is not something to be jaded by.

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ARE you struggling to hear yourself think? If you had to think about that question then chances are cicadas have made it to a tree near you. The red-eyed critters that many would describe as cute make an almighty nuisance of themselves as the heat increases at this time of year in Spain, scaring away birds and emitting a silence-shattering racket. Spain is home to at least 20 species of the noisy insect and they usually remain in an area for between four and six weeks. It is only males that produce the distinctive sound which can reach up to 120 decibels (dbs), among the loudest of insect-produced sounds. It has the capacity to cause permanent hearing loss should one sing just outside a human ear and is almost a third louder than the EU limit on personal audio device volume. The song is used to attract females but there is another more erratic version which

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The only way this car (the BMW X5 M) could be more annoying to eco-mentalists is if its engine ran on sliced dolphin.” Some might say...

BMW takes Brexit gamble by Matthew Elliott BMW confirmed that an electric version of its popular

Hatch model will be built at its Oxford plant. The news assuages fears that the German manufacturing giant was

set to shift production to the continent as a consequence of the Brexit vote. The firm itself had warned that the referendum result would force it to reconsider production priorities, but the all-electric Hatch is officially scheduled for British production in 2019.

The decision was welcomed by British union leader Len McCluskey, and presumably by the Oxford plant’s almost 5,000 workers. “Around the world and for generations the Mini means made in Britain,” said McCluskey “with the electric Mini being built in Cowley the tradition continues, but with the added bonus that this is one of the important innovations of tomorrow.” Almost all of the 360,000 Minis produced each year are built in the plant, which has enjoyed investment worth €500 million from BMW since 2011. MINI: Iconic model enters electric future in the UK.

2019 is when the all-electric Hatch is scheduled for official production in Britain.

As such BMW’s decision to build the Mini E there is likely more due to investment and cost considerations than a ‘vote of confidence’ in Britain, as the government was keen to suggest. Fears that exiting the single market will see the import costs of manufacturing materials shoot up, and export tariffs imposed by Europe, will persist until the details of a Brexit deal are made clear. There are roughly 1.7 million cars built in the UK each year, with 80 per cent being exported to the continent.

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Elderly regiment THERE are now more than 100,000 British drivers aged 90 or over. The latest figures from the DVLA show there are 100,281 fully licensed drivers in the country. There are 248 centenarian drivers and more than 1.2 million aged over 80. The oldest licence holder in the UK is a 103-year-old woman. There is no maximum age for drivers, but those aged over 70 are obliged to renew their licence every three years and answer medical questions. A substantial portion of the 100,000 nonagenarians will be effectively retired from the roads. There is little data on driving safety among such senior citizens, but generally those aged over 70 are far less likely to be involved in crashes than teenage drivers.

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BENTLEY: British brand has an electric deadline in the UK. SALE of new petrol and diesel cars will be banned from 2040 in the UK as the country grapples with dangerous levels of pollution. The pledge is akin to others made in France and Scandinavia, perhaps signalling the beginning of the end for the combustion engine. Poor air quality was cited as the ‘biggest environmental hazard to public health’ by a government spokesman. Car fumes contribute to the premature deaths of tens of thousands of people each year and an estimated €3 billion in lost productivity due to sickness. The clean air plan will also have a more immediate impact. Clean Air Zones will be established in areas which exceed EU pollution standards. In London a £10 (€11.2) charge is being imposed daily on the most polluting vehicles when they enter the city limits. Tens of millions of pounds will be spent on

improving Britain’s electric infrastructure, with new plug in points and innovative city schemes. Cycle lanes and green public buses will be encouraged. The announcement comes weeks after Volvo announced that it will only produce electric or hybrid vehicles from 2019. New French president Emmanuel Macron promised France will follow suit. Though welcomed in environmental quarters, motoring industry experts believe imposing the ban in just over 20 years may be a tall order. It would require electric cars, currently very expensive and accounting for a fraction of the market share, to become the dominant mode of transport. There are also concerns that a patchwork of local laws banning, or fining, petrol or diesel cars in some areas but not others could lead to confusion and an avalanche of court cases.

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ROAD TEST by Nick Fletcher

Mazda CX-5 SE-L Nav MAZDA’S new CX-5 builds on a model which was already outstanding in its class and even though the sector now has more rivals, the Mazda still holds most of the ace cards. The CX-5 is a mid-size SUV priced from €26,476 (£23,695). There are petrol and diesel engines, though most buyers will opt for the smooth responsive diesels, available in 148 hp and 163 hp form. My test model had the 148 hp unit offering a 0-100 kph time of 9.4 seconds and top speed of 204 kph (127 mph). Fuel economy is 20 kpl (56.5 mpg). This version, with sixspeed manual gearbox and in SE-L Nav 2WD form, costs €28,712 (£25,695). The new CX-5 has a dominant exterior look, with narrow headlights,

deep grille and wide bonnet giving it real presence - and image is very important in the SUV sector. The cabin impresses too with a smart clear dashboard, quality trim materials, and a wealth of standard equipment which includes dual-zone aircon, auto lights and wipers, front and rear parking sensors, cruise control, engine stopstart, multi-media touchscreen, Bluetooth, sat-nav, four USB imputs, privacy glass and alloy wheels. The CX-5 is a five seater and even taller adults get plenty of leg and headroom in the rear. Seating is very comfortable - with the rear seats reclining - and the driver gets good all-round visibility - the front pillars are slimmer than most and the large rear screen

helps too. Boot space is roomy at 506 litres, expandable to 1,620 litres. And the seats drop to form a completely flat floor - no ledges to make loading awkward. Mazda designers have also taken care of oddmentstowage, providing a large glovebox, roomy doorbins and other cubby holes, and of course cup/bottle holders. And with USB ports in the rear, children can plug in their gadgets with trailing wires from the front. So far, a totally positive report, but what it is like to drive? Well, the praise keeps coming! The diesel engine is

smooth, quiet and eager, the gearbox precise and the suspension, though a tad firm, is still compliant enough for a comfortable ride. The steering gives plenty of feedback so you feel fully in control and the grip is reassuringly composed even on tight cornering. I tried hard to fault the new CX-5 but failed on any significant issues. Certainly one or two rivals can score points for being slightly greener or maybe a little more fun to drive, but in my view the overall strength and depth of the CX5 package overwhelms these aspects.

Stats panel: Model: Mazda CX-5 SE-L Nav Engine: 2.2 litre diesel Transmission: 6-speed manual Performance: 0-100 kph 9.4 seconds, top speed 204 kph (127 mph) Economy: 20 kpl (56.5 mpg) Emissions: 132 g/km

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Cricketers Toby, Ben, Moeen and goal scorer Jodie all star for England Tony Matthews International Sports A former player, Tony is now the world’s most prolific author of football books with 150 published since 1975. He has also been a PE teacher and a policeman, and is now a quiz-organiser, fund–raiser, for various charities, and sports correspondent for Spectrum Radio. Costa de Almeria

THE 2017-18 FL Championship season starts tomorrow with Nottingham Forest-Millwall and S u n d e r l a n d - D e r b y. A l s o t h e r e ’s t h e a l l - L o n d o n

USAIN BOLT: Will run his final race.

Charity Shield clash between the Gunners and C h e l s e a a t We m b l e y o n Sunday. A l s o t o m o r r o w, t h e f o u r t h a n d f i n a l Te s t b e tween England and South Africa starts at Old Traf-

f o r d ( 1 2 n o o n ) ; c r i c k e t ’s T20 bash continues and the Wo r l d Athletics Championships begin in London (6pm) where the w o r l d ’s f a s t e s t man, Usain Bolt, will run his final race. On Saturday, it’s the next stage of the Triathlon World Cup in Canada (GB’s Jonny Brownlee was f o u r t h b e h i n d S p a i n ’s winner Mario Mola, in l a s t w e e k ’s r a c e ) ; h o r s e racing is underway at ‘Glorious’ Goodwood; we have the Multi-sports World Police & Fire Service games (August 5 - 18); the Ladies Major in Scotland and four WGC and PGA Golf tournaments in the USA (August 3 6) and the Women’s Rugby World Cup in Ireland (August 9 16); first up: England v Spain in Dublin. Round-Up England (353 & 313 -8 declared) beat South Africa (175 & 252) by 239 runs in the 100th Test at The Oval to go 2-1 up in the series. M i d d l e s e x b o w l e r To b y Roland-Jones had a ‘ M i c h e l l e P f e i ff e r ’ ( 5 57) – making him the first doublebarrelled named Englishm a n s i n c e G e o rg e S i m p son-Hayward (6-43 v South Africa in 1910) to take five wickets on his Te s t d e b u t . B e n S t o k e s smacked 112 in England’s first innings before Moeen Ali won the match with a hat trick. In the first Test in Galle, I n d i a ( 6 0 0 , w i t h Vi r a t Kohli’s 103, and 240-3 declared) beat Sri Lanka (291 and 245) by 304 runs. Jodie Taylor’s goal gave E n g l a n d ’s w o m e n a 1 - 0 win over France in their European Championship quarter-final tie. Tonight’s semi-finals are England v hosts Holland and Denmark v Austria. The final is on Sunday. South Korean Lee MiH y a n g w o n t h e Wo m e n ’s Scottish Golf Champi-

onship at Dundonald; GB’s G e o rg i n a H a l l f i n i s h e d ninth. GB’s Adam Peaty (50m & 100m breaststroke), Ben Proud (50m butterfly) and t h e 4 x 2 0 0 m m e n ’s r e l a y team won gold medals at the World Aquatics/Swimming championships. Everton defeated MFK

TOBY ROLANDJONES: His test debut.

Don’t miss this! On Wednesday, August 30, you can watch four-time Tour of France winner Chris Froome ‘live’ and perhaps local rider Alberto Contador and the ‘Manx Machine’ Mark Cavendish as well competing in the Vuelta a España (tour of Spain cycle race). Stage 11 will see the riders cover the 187.5km from Lorca to Cala Alto via Aguilas, San Juan, Villaricos, Vera, Garrucha, Mojacar, Turre, Los Gallardos and Sorbas. Pay Dispute Australia’s cricketers have been told it’s “time to get the show back on the road” and end a long-running dispute that has left 230 players unemployed. An ‘A’ tour of South Africa has already been cancelled following a row between players and their governing body over the scrapping of a revenuesharing model. Australia’s cricket’s Chief Executive said: “There’s increasing urgency ahead of this winter’s Ashes series.” Did you know? On August 20, 1920, Jack Darson took five wickets playing cricket for Surrey against Middlesex at Lords in the afternoon and in the evening kept goal for Brentford against Millwall in a Football League game.

Ruzomberok 1-0 in the first leg of their Europa League qualifier thanks to Leighton Baines’ 65th minute deflected goal. The return leg is in Slovakia tonight. Aberdeen beat A-Limasol 2-1 their 1st leg qualifier; the Dons are in Cyprus for this evening’s second leg. British Horse Racing's governing body is investigating an incident whereby the ‘wrong horse’ - a 50-1 shot - won last Thursday’s 13.40 race at Great Ya r m o u t h . T h e C h a r l i e McBride-trained two-yearold Mandarin Princess beat 6-4 favourite Fyre Cay but a scan afterwards identified t h e h o r s e a s t h e w i n n e r ’s stable-mate Millie’s Kiss who was to run in a later r a c e t h a t s a m e d a y. S a i d McBride: “It was an honest error and no-one stood to gain anything by it; the head lad simply put the saddle on the wrong horse.” It is Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Raikkonen and Valtteri Bottas, 1-2-3 in last Sund a y ’s H u n g a r i a n G r a n d Prix. Lewis Hamilton came fourth and trails Vettel by 1 4 p o i n t s i n t h e d r i v e r ’s championship. L a s t S a t u r d a y ’s C a r l Frampton-Andres Gutierr e z Wo r l d f e a t h e r w e i g h t bout was postponed after the Mexican injured himself, falling over in the shower! Holders Hull (after thrashing Leeds 43-24) will face Wigan in this seas o n ’s R u g b y L e a g u e ’s Challenge Cup final. Congratulations to Eddie J a y Wa d e ( 1 7 ) f r o m L o s Gallardos - the 2017 85cc motor-cross world champion. Gary Megson has returned to WBA 13 years after leaving The Hawthorns. The ex-Baggies’ manager is now assistant to current boss Tony Pulis. This year ’s BBC Sports P e r s o n a l i t y o f t h e Ye a r awards will take place at Liverpool’s Echo Arena on Sunday, December 17. Anthony Joshua and Chris Froome are fancied to win.

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Pego Golf Society play a Combined Pairs Stableford at Oliva Nova on July 25 ON a beautiful morning for golf, Pego Golf Society had a total of 28 players to play their latest competition, namely the Pairs Combined Stableford. The course was in majestic condition, with lovely fairways and smooth greens. Pego were delighted to welcome Richard Lindley as their guest and along with his partner, he finished a very creditable fourth in the main event. The winners, by a long way, were Roger Brown and Keith Price, with a very creditable 71 points. Roger had a great front nine, but fell away on the back nine. He played for 18 holes to great effect and must be delighted with his win. His partner Keith Price also played very well. In second place was one of their new members, Steve Jones and a big welcome back, after a very painful back injury to Patricia Chapman. This pairing finished with a terrific score of 66 points which was worthy of second place. In third place, with 61 points, were Danny Herron and Peter Brown, so congratulations to them also. Nearest the pin at Hole No 5, with his second shot, was Steve Jones with 0.39 of a metre and again at Hole 16, the winner of the closest tee shot was yet again Steve Patton with 3.57 metres. Well played to both. There was only one two recorded and that was by Celia Cronin, who scooped the pool and in ‘Balls in the Water’ there were 65 balls in the wa-

PEGO GOLF: A beautiful morning for golf. ter, which was not won, so is carried forward to next week. In the match play, in the battle of the Johns, John Guest defeated John Evans by 2/1 and so moves forward. Next week, they are back at Oliva Nova, where they will be playing a Medal Competition and should you wish to be included in the field, please contact their secretary by e-mail: Penny Barden at pegohandicapsec@gmail.com or enter through their website www.pegogolfsociety.com. A warm welcome awaits you.

Alenda welcomes TMGS

MEMBERS: Played an individual stableford competition. WITH their lowest turnout this year, just 26 members played an individual Stableford competition in temperatures in excess of 33 degrees, but thankfully the light breeze did give the feeling of it being a little cooler! The course was in good condition with the greens being a little difficult to read, they looked slow, but in fact were quite fast, and this resulted in a

few comments about taking a number of three putts. Results: NTP’s Hole 3 John Eyre, Hole 5 Carsten Landaas, Hole 13 Lasse Jorung, Hole 16 John Hillier. Photo: Silver category winners. Silver category: Third: C Bellman 33 pts. Second: A Goslan 35 pts. First: M Mhyrvold 40 pts. Gold category: Third: J Eyre

34 pts. Second: K Aasebo 37 pts. First: C Landaas 39 pts. Forthcoming event: Anniversary Trophy at La Marquesa Wednesday August 9. Members eat free of charge after the competition. For a game with a truly international membership contact them via; www.tmgs.org or www.facebook.com/TMGSGOLF @TMGSGOLF or call 661 524 101.

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