Euro Weekly News - Costa Blanca South 23 – 29 November 2017 Issue 1690 by Euro Weekly News Media S.A.

ISSUE NO. 1690

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A WOMAN who set fire to the man who raped her daughter has returned home. Maria del Carmen Garcia, 65, has served three-and-a-half years of her five-and-a-half year sentence. She is now free for most of the day but must return to prison to sleep at night, having been jailed for killing Antonio Cosme, who in 1998 sexually abused her then 13-year-old daughter Veronica. While on a release day in 2005, he approached Maria at a Benejuzar bus stop, provoking what she described in court as a “mental explosion,” leading her to go to a nearby petrol station and fill a plastic bottle with fuel. She then confronted Cosme at a nearby bar, dousing him with the liquid before setting him alight with a match. He died from his injuries 10 days later.

€12 million water boost FARMERS in Alicante and Murcia are to see a €12 million bill waived. It comes as national agriculture minister, Isabel Garcia Tejerina, announced a move to suspend maintenance on the pipeline which transports water from the Tajo River to the two regions. No water has arrived via the so-called Tajo-Segura system since May after water levels in the Entrepeñas and Buendia reservoirs near Madrid descended to dangerously low levels.

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SENTENCED: The Elche court where the trial took place.

Feeling ruff Man jailed after dogs eat drugs By Matt Ford A drug-dealer has been handed a three-year jail sente n ce fo r p o is o n in g d o gs with hashish. The sentence comes after a police probe revealed that the accused had threatened a woman with a knife on the same day that the incident took place in Torrevieja. A c o u rt in E lch e h e a rd that after the man tried to reclaim a debt by intimidating the client, she called the Guardia Civil, who paid a visit to his home. W h en th e re w as n o a nswer at the door, investigato rs b ro k e in , s e iz in g 40 g ramme s o f co ca in e a nd

various packets of hashish w hic h w e re w e ighe d a nd ready for sale. The culprit was then loc a te d on the roof of the building, where he had had fled after spotting the police outside. He had broken a window to climb up, and before being held threw a bag conta ining 80 gra mme s of hashish onto a neighbouring

building, where it was eaten by “a number of dogs,” an official from the Valencian C ommunity’s Supe rior Court of Justice said. The animals required veterinary treatment for poisoning, with the convicted man required to reimburse €141 to their owner, plus €260 for the broken window in addition to his jail sentence.

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Born in the USA AMERICAN expatriates across Spain will today (Thursday) celebrate Thanksgiving, the traditional feast which started as a day of giving for harvest and typically includes roast turkey, sweet potato casserole and winter veg topped off with pumpkin pie.

It’s Xmas EL CORTE INGLES in Alicante have launched their Christmas season with the opening of ‘Jardin Cortylandia’ in front of a crowd of 3,000 people in Calle Pintor Aparicio.

Bad record THE construction sector in the Alicante Province has announced that there is an average of five work-related accidents per day. There were 1,435 recorded between January and September.

Cop shot A TOTAL of 24 members of the Local Police in Torrevieja have been receiving training in self-defence and the use of firearms at the Fontcalent shooting range.

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UK ambassador attends Brexit meeting

EXCLUSIVE By Darren James

MORE than 100 people attended the public meeting organised by Brexpats in Spain held at the Miguel Hernandez University in Elche on Tuesday, to catch up with some of the latest information on Brexit. HM British Ambassador to Spain Simon Manley was guest of honour, accompanied by British Consul Sarah-Jane Morris and members of Alicante Provincial Council. The top table was completed by members of Brexpats in Spain including their president Anne Fernandez and legal team Pellicer and Heredia. Simon Manley began his remarks by thanking everyone that had Latest news contributed to a and wealth of informore as it mation and opinhappens ions that had been

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gathered during around 70 meetings up and down Spain and on the islands that he and Sarah-Jane Morris had attended. “They have enriched our understanding of the individual circumstances of the people living in Spain and everything has been fed back to London,” said Simon. He believed that in the case of the subjects that were at the forefront of many minds - healthcare, pensions, residence rights - the British government were in “touching distance of an agreement” and

NO DEAL ‘NOT THE INTENTION’: Ambassador Simon Manley addressed more than 100 visitors.

that they were “more or less settled.” The Ambassador expressed his disappointment that agreements hadn’t yet been reached on future voting rights at local elections and the recognition of professional qualifications, explaining that the UK wanted to guarantee such rights for EU

citizens in the UK, but as yet it was something the EU weren’t prepared to reciprocate on. However, he said that Brexit Secretary David Davis has already stated that if agreement on these and a number of other issues cannot be negotiated with Brussels and the EU as a body, then bilateral negotiations will be entered into to maintain the status quo. “The Spanish politicians at all levels of government are very keen that there is no disruption to any Briton’s day-to-

day life here,” Simon assured to those assembled. “Healthcare, in particular, is not a controversial subject within the general negotiations as both sides want an agreement.” Questions from the floor covered a number of issues but no concrete answers could be given from any source. On the question of the status of British citizens in the case of the much muted ‘no deal,’ Simon said: “It is not the intention of the British government to leave without a deal.” What came through the gathering at every opportunity was the 100 per cent support from the mainly young Spanish attendees and from the Spanish politicians present. They are also just as concerned for the future of their nationals living and working in the UK with similar worries. Jim and Geraldine, attending the meeting from their home in Altea said after the meeting: “We both feel that we understand the UK position at the negotiations a great deal more than before, but equally felt that overall we didn’t learn anything new from the meeting, understanding that we can’t be told any facts if there aren’t any at this stage.”

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Tender savings EDUCATION authorities in Cartagena h a v e i n v e st e d € 2 9 1 , 0 0 0 to build four new classrooms in the Ben Arabi Instutute, and will allow future expansion of two more floors. This represents a saving of €110,000 on the original budget of €400,000 after going out to public tender.

Kitchen blaze FIREFIGHTERS from Orihuela and Almoradí had to extinguish a fire in a farmhouse in Formentera it is believed t o h a v e b e e n s tarte d b y sparks f r o m a k i t c h e n ch imn e y. There were no injuries reported although initially it was believed that there was an elderly couple inside the building.

Water rises THE increase in the use of desalinated water in the Alicante Province due to the closure of the Tajo-Segura transfer network will result in a price increase of 21 per cent across a number of municipalities; an average of 10 to 15 cents per cubic metre.

Baby ditched A YOUNG woman was arrested in Murcia after allegedly abandoning a 20-month-old baby. Two people were caught shoplifting in a supermarket by the manager and when challenged, one of them, a 17-yearold and the baby’s mother fled the scene leaving her child alone with

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SPANISH FACTS OF LIFE...38 Spain is home to some of Europe’s most endangered animals, such as the Iberian Lynx which is now on the brink of extinction.

for destroying habitats and putting the lives of many species at risk. The environmental group Ecologists in Action warned that Spain has the most fragile biodiversity in Europe and has urged the govern-

THERE are more than 150 animal species in danger of extinction in Spain, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment. Overdevelopment of rural areas and coastal zones are blamed

an underage girl.

Dear yellow A RESIDENT of the municipality of Bullas has been fined €3,000 by

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ON THE RISE: Spanish Imperial Eagle numbers are soaring once more.

Spanish Imperial Eagle ONCE in immediate danger of extinction, with only 30 breeding pairs recorded in Spain in the 1960s, the Spanish Imperial Eagle has grown in population size in recent years. The bird was threatened by the decline in rabbits, loss of habitat and a high number of collisions with pylons. However, there are now an estimated 500 breeding pairs on the Iberian Peninsula, with 15 chicks born in Cadiz’s Doñana region last year alone, due to several conservation projects.

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THE rare Cantabrian Brown bear was nearly extinct 40 years ago. The government estimates that only six were left in the wild by the 1980s but, thanks to a significant conservation effort, numbers are now back up to around 200. The bears were so despised by farmers for destroying crops in the 18th and 19th centuries that hunters were actually paid to kill them. Hunting was eventually banned in1968 and the bears became officially protected in 1973.

police for painting his own yellow line in front of his property on Calle Huertos. He did it to stop other vehicles from parking there but without official permission. He will only need to pay €200.

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COOL CAT: Iberian Lynxes are hard to spot in the wild these days due to their decreasing population.

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ment to tackle the destruction of habitats and protect the country’s creatures. Some endangered wild animals worth keeping an eye out for include:

Iberian Lynx REGARDED as the world’s most endangered wild cat, there are fears that the Iberian Lynx may soon disappear for good. Recognised by its heavily spotted coat, long legs and short tail, this species of lynx is under peril because of a number of different threats. The lynx was once regarded as a hunting trophy, and was valued for its fur and meat. Although it became illegal to hunt them in the early 1970s, the cats are still victims of traps and snares set for other animals. The Iberian Lynx’s diet was severely impacted when the rabbit population was struck by a series of epidemics. It has also been affected by the development of roads and motorways, which has caused an increasing number to be hit by cars each year.

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Hip breaker A 79-YEAR-OLD woman has been taken to the Vega Baja Hospital after breaking her hip while picking olives in Orihuela. She was helping out her son when she fell on a secluded farm about 50 metres from the road from where she was taken by stretcher.

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Sports 95 - 96

The total number of news and features which appeared in Issue 1689 of the Euro Weekly News Costa Blanca South edition, including 61 local stories.

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TRIVIA FROM AROUND THE WORLD FLIGHT CANCELLATIONS: More misery for travellers.

At the Hotel Charleroi Airport in Belgium you can rent a goldfish for €3.60 a night.

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1 Ryanair announce flight cancellations tomorrow due to air traffic control strike in France - 19,730 2 Flights between UK and Spain likely to be hit as French air traffic controllers strike again - 13,431 3 Ryanair launch new UK to Spain route with cheap flight offers - 6,567 4 Brit issues warning after being robbed in broad daylight in Costa Blanca - 4,981 5 easyJet offers Black Friday deals for thousands of flights from today - 3,774

Poll of the week Amid air pollution fears in Spain, should cars be banned from city centres?

LAST WEEK’S POLL: Should Spain follow Thailand’s example and ban smoking on its beaches?

Yes = 74% No = 26%

Top Social Media comments Southern Spain heading to driest November in decades - It’s bad and desparate for farmers. They are the ones who have water restrictions. Stupid stupid. All towns and cities should be... WE do not water 24hrs a day. Lydia Taylor When we arrived in 1986 water cuts and we had a restaurant to run. The area wasn’t as populated as it is now. Stan Butt Wish we could swap weather. Raining in the UK. Barbara Clements British Airways passengers to board aircraft by ticket price - Well when I was daft enough to use this airline, the idea was that first class and business class got on last and off first so you spent less time on the plane. However as they are such a rubbish airline anyway they will copy the likes of Ryanair. Christine Hanslip Wonder which idiot thought up this PR triumph? Rod Allcock Off-duty police officer tested positive for cocaine after death crash - I believe the policeman already had a few previous b4 this accident so I think jail will be right way. Juan Gomez Banderas Shocking and shameful... especially if the Guardia Civil knew about him - they are supposed to set a

good example!!!! What a joke. Moira Palmqvist Tourists warned of heightened risk of Christmas terror attacks in Europe - Won’t stop me going not worth worrying about... When it’s your time it’s your time. Until then I’m finding where they do those giant Yorkshire pudding wraps. Matt Silver They’re probably safer in Europe than in the good ol’ gun-totin’ US of A. Patrick Murphy Road to Spain’s ‘City of Dreams’ are a nightmare claim residents - Loved Ronda. Went there last month. Road wasn’t too bad. Debbie Tobin Drove it a couple times this summer. Drive wasn’t too bad... just those crazy motorcycles who pass on a corner and cause near collisions. Karen Ganzkow You should have seen it 30 years ago or more. That was scary! Sandra Russell Axarquia Council cat cull questioned - Spay them. They’ll keep the rodent population down and if they’re all spayed they’ll die out naturally etc. If others come into the area spay those as well. TracyAnn Kitching Get them spayed,some places do this and then take a nick out of their ears to show they have been done. Julie Clayton Spayed cat colonies benefit any area. Lisa Emeny.

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Ethiopia still follows the ancient Coptic Calendar that is seven years behind the rest of the world. Las Vegas casinos do not have clocks on display as the ploy is believed to make customers lose track of time and gamble for longer.

Did you know? An estimated 90 per cent of the world’s fresh water is in the Antarctic.

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“Peligro ¡No pasar!” “Danger ne pas arriver!” “I am in danger, not to happen!” “Ich bin in gefahr, nitch zu geschehen!”

CORRECTIONS At the EWN, we pride ourselves that reports are accurate and fair. If we do slip up, we promise to set the record straight in a clear, no-nonsense manner. To ask for an inaccuracy to be corrected. Email: editorial@euroweeklynews.com

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Back to black!

SHOPPING MANIA: Shoppers pour into stores for Black Friday discounts. SHOPPERS are expected to hit the high streets across Spain tomorrow as the annual Black Friday sales weekend kicks off. Like Halloween or Motherâ€™s Day, Black Friday is a commercial invention where stores mark the official start of the Christmas shopping spree with discounts and low prices. Held the day after Thanksgiving having started in the USA, it has now spread across the globe with many retailers

taking advantage of the opportunity to kick off their Christmas season with a bang. Cyber Monday on the other hand is a fairly new concept and was only introduced worldwide in 2005. Retailers noticed their online sales increased substantially on the Monday following Black Friday, so decided to make the most of the opportunity by extending the sales. Although the concept is still relatively new to Spain, retail-

ers have welcomed the event with open arms and most major stores offer discounts across a range of products. Black Friday only became legally possible in Spain in 2012 when the government scrapped regulations deciding when sales could be held. This year Black Friday falls on November 24 and Cyber Monday on November 27, but expect to find discounts in the days leading up to and following the main events as well.

TOTAL ANGEL: Blanca Padilla.

SHE was once voted the 63rd sexiest woman alive. And 33-year-old Spanish TV presenter Adriana Abenia caught the world’s attention once again after flashing one of her breasts on the red carpet. The wardrobe malfunction came as the stunner posed for photographers bePhoto by: Adriana Abenia/Instagram fore the GQ MagaWHOOPS! zine Man of the Year Adriana Abenia. Awards in Madrid. Rocking a dangerously plunging neckline, the presenter looked horrified as one of the loose-fitting straps fell aside, exposing her chest. Abenia later proved she has a sense of humour though, taking to Instagram to laugh at the incident. Posting a photo of the embarrassing moment, she captioned the before-and-after photo: “I had another photo ready, but since this one is going to accompany me all my life... here you have it!”

PECS FACTOR: David Bisbal.

Heavenly creature SHE’S the first Spanish model to appear in a Vic tor ia’s Secret Fashi on Show twice. And Blanca Padilla, 22, took to social media to express her delight in the wake of this year’s extravaganza in Shanghai, China. After sporting a giant pair of golden wings on the runway during the lingerie brand’s flagship event she wrote: “If you ask me what my dream outfit would look like I can assure you it’d look a lot like this!”

Sun’s out, guns out! HE’S the Spanish singer who rose to fame after finishing second on a reality TV show. But David Bisbal, 38, really brought his Agame after displaying his rock hard torso on social media. The platinum-selling artist received around 9,000 likes from swooning followers within hours of posting the raunchy snap. The shot, taken in his home province of Almeria, was captioned “from the coast of

Almeria to the coast of Acapulco,” with the singer currently on a tour of South America. Since finding fame on the Spanish talent contest Operacion Triunfo in 2002, the crooner has gone on to sell more than five million records worldwide with hits including Esclavo de sus Besos and Oye el Bloom. His current round of live shows will take him to Santiago de Chile, Uruguay’s capital Montevideo, and Buenos Aires in Argentina.

Celeb focus Strictly pals SHE’S the former Emmerdale star WAITING GAME: wowing the StrictGemma Atkinson. ly Come Dancing audience with her sultry moves. And Gemma Atkinson, 33, has hinted romance with Spanish professional dancer Gorka Marquez, 27, might be on the cards “once the series is over.” The Iberian hunk is partnering singer Alexandra Burke, 29, and hit back at claims he and Gemma are dating.

Fine ale SPANISH pop legend Alejandro Sanz basked in the limelight after being honoured as Person of the Year at the Latin Grammy Awards. A series of stars from the world of Latin music lined up to perform some of the 48-year-old’s greatest hits at the glittering ceremony in Las Vegas.

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GUARDIA CIVIL officers have discovered a significant amount of fake goods in a warehouse in Crevillente. Up to 1,277 articles were found in the Boch industrial park in the town, mainly made up of handbags and handkerchiefs purporting to be from the autumnwinter collection of the wellknown fashion company Desigual. The original complaint to the police came from the legal department of Desigual that is responsible for the control and monitoring counterfeits of their products throughout Spain, and when the Guardia Civil turned up in the warehouse to investigate, accompanying them was an expert from the fashion company. According to the police report, the products seized attempted to

Fake handbags seized in cash and carry store replicate a number of the creations available from Desigual. Despite the fake goods being seized, the cash and carry establishment continues to remain open and in business as itâ€™s only a small part of the area that sold the fake products. The investigation is now focusing on working out the market value of the fake items of which many are known to be worth a considerable amount. So far, two people have been detained in connection with the sale of the counterfeit products. Although in this particular case the complaint came directly from

the company, there are many police operations that have been carried out in recent years against counterfeiting in Elche and Crevillente. Police say that itâ€™s usually fake footwear that has caught their attention previously but many other types of products - especially designer handbags imported from China - are gaining ground in popularity. The Guardia Civil continue to encourage members of the public to report any cases where they believe cheap and probably counterfeit goods are being offered for sale.

Homeless emergency appeal THE Red Cross emergency unit based in Lorca has called for a number of items for the homeless people in the city. An appeal has been made for the donation of blankets and warm clothes for not only those that find themselves sleeping on the streets but individuals and families that are currently enduring severe poverty and unable to pay their energy bills.

The situation has been highlighted over the past week or so when the overnight temperatures began to plunge as summer moved into winter with a vengeance. People wishing to make a donation of much needed items should leave them at the headquarters of the Cruz Roja in Calle Eugenio Ăšbeda in Lorca. Sleeping bags and winter shoes of all sizes will also be well received.

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Railway bypass A TOTAL of €466,000 has been set aside for a construction project of the Beniel bypass that will connect the Alicante-Murcia high-speed train with the Albacete-Cartagena line.

Biting bright THE tiger mosquito accounts for 60 per cent of complaints for bites in Murcia, according to a survey by Lokimic. The marsh and common mosquito are in second and third place.

Hooray for... FOSTER’S Hollywood has opened another outlet, this time in Orihuela in the Ociopía Shopping Centre. It is the second Foster’s restaurant in the area with one located in Zenia Boulevard.

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Arcade machine robbers caught OFFICERS from the Guardia Civil have arrested 17 men and a woman believed to be specialising in robberies from arcade machines. The detainees - aged between 20 and 30years-old - live in Murcia, Archena, Alguazas, Las Torres de Cotillas, Molina, Abarán, Torrevieja and Alicante and are so far linked to 32 robberies. They are accused of crimes of belonging to a criminal organisation and robbery with force in a number of places in Archena, Ojós, Molina de Segura and Alguazas, as well as in Alicante. ‘Operation Coin’ was set up to find those behind the theft of €28,000 from the machines and damage caused to machines totalling €18,000. The first reported robbery came from an owner of an arcade in Cieza when €650 had been stolen from a change machine. The Guardia Civil took a number of witness statements and studied recordings from CCTV installed in the establishment where three people were seen tampering

ARRESTED: Suspected gang leader taken away in Archena. with the change machine; one of them being an employee of the arcade. Investigators believed that this was not an isolated incident but part of an organised group and so the enquiry was expanded to include similar robberies that had taken place across the provinces of Alicante and Murcia. The suspects were eventually tailed by officers and this led them to identifying other members of the gang, some of whom had

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a history of similar offences. The principal suspect was based in Archena and when his home was raided an amount of computer equipment and tools for breaking into the arcade machines were found. This was a highly specialised group where each had their roles, ranging from scouring the towns to find the arcades to target, to getaway drivers and those who had specialist knowledge of handling certain tools.

OFFICERS from the Guardia Civil have raided an illegal migrant camp in Redován. They dismantled the group of around 30 people that had been sleeping illegally in cardboard boxes in a field in the Orihuela town for just over a week. A force made up of members of the Local Police, Guardia Civil and the immigration section of the National Police made their move on to the camp in the early hours of the morning. Over 30, believed to be from North Africa, were discovered sleeping rough of which seven had already been served with official papers to leave Spain, were arrested. Local Red Cross organisations, that were aware of the immigrants sleeping in the area, had supplied them with water, food and basic items.

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OFFICERS of the Torrevieja Port Authority and the Guardia Civil have intervened to close a popular car park. The large parking area located behind the usual site of the fairground used by hundreds of people a day and is always full during the peak of summer has been forcibly shut down. The company operating it were

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Popular car park forcibly closed down evicted as they had been illegally on the site since December 2016 when they lost the official

concession to run the car park. They had been there for more than 30 years before

losing the public tender to run the site last year and so have technically been there illegal-

Man on trial for sexual abuse with a minor A TORREVIEJA local faces up to four years in prison for taking photographs of young girls. He is also charged with sexually abusing one of them. The events go back as far as 2010 when the accused man ran a kiosk on the seafront of Torrevieja and over a period of time got to know the girls as they passed through the area. He began to gain their trust and confidence and on a number of occasions allegedly suggested they came back to his home for a photo session in exchange for money... which they did. During one of the visits, according to the prosecuting authorities, the man took advantage of one of the girls and sexually abused her. Prosecutors are asking for a custodial sentence of four years for one offence of using underage people for the purpose to taking photographs and a further offence of sexual abuse.

ly since then. Regular users of the car park were both shocked and sur-

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prised when they were able to enter the area without at first collecting a ticket - as the barriers remained open - and then not having to pay when they leave. The new operators that were given the concession last year, already experienced in the sector, must pay €179,000 for the privilege per year.

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Very many congratulations IN today’s modern world where marriage vows seem to mean so little and divorce is easy, the celebration of a Platinum Jubilee is exceptional. In November 1947, the then Princess Elizabeth brought a bit of excitement into the lives of the general public in an austere post war Britain by marrying Philip Mountbatten, a member of the Greek and Danish royal families. Following their marriage which was broadcast over the radio to an estimated 200 million people worldwide, he continued to serve as a naval officer and was accompanied to postings by his new bride. Much was made of the fact that the then Princess had to save ration coupons in order to purchase the cloth needed for her wedding dress which was designed by Norman Hartnell. Now with the Queen aged 91 and Prince Philip 96 they have become the longest wed couple in the history of the British royal family. From time to time, Prince Philip has been known to make the odd gaffe and admits that he knows that he is regarded by many as ‘a cantankerous old sod.’ Regardless of his sometimes erratic behaviour, he is regarded as having been a tower of strength in his support of the Queen and we at Euro Weekly News congratulate them on the longevity of their union.

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Arrests at hash association COLLABORATION between a specialist group of Torreviejaâ€™s Local Police force and GRUMA - an environment organisation - has resulted in the arrest of four people linked to a local cannabis association. Officers made the arrests and seized an amount of cash and the illegal substances after an inspection was carried out at the association and the managers were not able to prove where the cannabis came from. It was following a number of complaints from local residents about the smell coming from the premises and a continual stream of people that hastened the start of police investigations. Officers gained access to the inside of the building so they could check on the efficiency of the extractors and

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HASH STASH: Drugs found in Torrevieja premises. also on the day to day running of the association in accordance with Spanish law. However, they were not satisfied with what they found and carried out the arrests accordingly. During their inspection, police also confiscated a large amount of computer equipment, video recorders, a large quantity of illegal substances and a significant

stash of money. Monitoring of cannabis associations in Torrevieja has increased following a rise in the amount of young people believed to be using the drug in public places that have resulted in 42 violations. Parents have also been asked to keep watch on the habits of their children if theyâ€™re known to be taking the drug.

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Stinging comeback WARM seas have resulted in a number of jellyfish appearing on beaches in Torrevieja. Even though many may be dead, this is the species that keep their stinging power.

DOUBLE CHECK: Murcia driver caught over the limit in two cases (File image).

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driving under the influence of alcohol with rates GUARDIA CIVIL officers in Murcia have arresthigher than 0.60 milligrams can be punished with ed a man for speeding and drink driving. a prison sentence between three to six months or He was stopped when driving along the RM-19 31 to 90 community service days. In any case, (Puerto de la Cadena-San Javier) at 142kph when the offender will lose their licence for any time the limit is 100kph. At the time, officers from the between one to four years. Cartagena traffic police were using speed guns. The Guardia Civil continue to enforce their When the driver was pulled over by police, the message to drivers that continually drive reckless38-year-old Spanish man was informed of his ly and to abuse drink and speeding violation, but they then nodrugs laws, despite a series of ticed signs that heâ€™d been drinking warnings and campaigns and administered the appropriate tests over time. accordingly. He returned results of They remind drivers that 0.98 and 1.02mg which is four times they are intensifying their over the permitted limit of 0.25mg. Latest news controls day and night and The man faces a fine of â‚Ź300 and and could pop up on any road the loss of two points from his drimore as it major or minor - at any time ving licence. happens and without warning. Under Spanish law, found to be

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Violence up POLICE forces in Elche have announced that they are receiving an average of two to three complaints per day for sexist violence, and that the number is slowly increasing.

Lorca shake RESIDENTS of Lorca were awakened from their beds in the early morning when a small 1.6 magnitude earthquake struck, with the epicentre in the northwest of the city.

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important in the region, El Cenajo, is levels and will look at new measures only at 6 per cent capacity with 27 cuto solve the situation. bic hectometres. It’s capaCurrently, the Segura reserble of holding 437 cubic voir is at 13 per cent of its hectometres. capacity with 151 hectomeDuring the meeting, it tres in storage. This is 64 was announced that the avcubic hectometres less than erage rainfall over the past it will need for the year, but Latest news 10 years for the same perithe hopes are that it will rain and od was 45 litres per square at some point in the near fumore as it metre; this year it’s seven. ture. This time last year, cahappens Among the decisions takpacity was at 23 per cent. en by the governing board Some 40 per cent of the wawas to approve extraordinary meater stored today is in the reservoir at sures that will see water being transLa Pedrera in the ferred in the face of urgent demands Vega Baja - with The estimated average amount each Spaniard will spend on Black Friday from farmers to prevent a wipeout of 60 hectometres according to market research company GfK. crops. while the most

ALTHOUGH the reservoirs of the Segura have only seen a total of seven litres per square metre in the past month, water authorities are confident of reaching their targets of water supply... but only until September 2018. In a statement the governing body (CHS) said that since September this year, rainfall is as much as 83 per cent lower than would usually be expected and is the seventh worst level recorded since records began. The CHS agreed to meet again within a month in the face of such worrying drought

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DROPPING: Capacity of the La Pedrera reservoir (pictured) dangerously low.

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THE Murcia region is due to receive €18 million for a reindustrialisation plan that will support the relaunch of a total of 14 projects. Minister of Employment Juan Hernandez explained af-

ter the announcement that this investment has generated 271 jobs and allowed a further 1,300 to be kept. He stressed that industry already employs 60,000 people in the region and represents more than 10

per cent of those in work. “This is a very important sector that has experienced a significant period of growth in the last two years,” he said. He went on: “The objective of this programme is to achieve an increasingly solid and more competitive production model that will have the ability to create more quality jobs and thus improve the day-to-day lives of the region’s citizens.” During the first nine months of this year, industrial output in the region of Murcia recorded a growth of 6.8 per cent which was the second highest of the autonomous communities - only just behind Cantabria - and almost four times higher than the national average of 1.8 per cent. However, despite the encouraging figures from the industrial sector this has been accompanied by a decline in

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Teacher’s appeal SCHOOLTEACHERS in Alicante are asking the Consell to stop the number of verbal and physical attacks they are experiencing from both pupils and parents, that have increased to over 600.

Take off EXPERTS in applied physics from the University of Alicante have participated in the international consortium of Europe, the United States and Japan to build the next generation of space telescopes. INVESTMENT: Lorca and (inset) Minister Juan Hernandez. agriculture and construction. The service industry remains at the top of the list. One of the specific aims of this investment is to promote

Spaniards are subscribed to the online streaming platform Netflix, more than double last year’s number.

the industrial sector in Lorca which is still recovering from the effects of the 2011 earthquake, with four of the 14 projects located in the city. The rest will be located in Molina de Segura, Yecla, Murcia, Abanilla, Albudeite and Alguazas.

Stay public THE Civil Registry in Elche has refused to become independent and also demands that the current number of employees remain the same. There is currently a major backlog of cases.

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queue for the assistance will CENTRAL Government in be those that have a contract Madrid has given â‚Ź1 million for electricity, gas or water in aid to the Murcia region and who have an outstanding for those people in the most debt that they cannot afford to need and unable to pay their pay; people who need to regenergy bills. ister or reconnect The purpose of any of those basic the decree is to supplies that have help with water, had them cut off; gas and electricity and anybody that costs so that peocannot afford to ple can live in deLatest news buy gas bottles as cent conditions and the winter takes and that nobody more as it hold. can be deprived of happens Payments will basic energy utilibe made in adties. vance and the project will end The autonomous communion March 31, 2018 although ty has drawn up a set of there are provisions for the guidelines in association with decree to be extended if there all the municipalities in Muris a greater need for the assiscia to agree criteria for the tance. distribution of the aid, howDistribution of the aid beever, it is aimed at those who tween the municipalities and do not have the economic rethe regional social service assources to pay their weekly sociations has been made takand monthly bills. ing into account the populaThose at the front of the

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VISITOR: MV Ventura flying the P & O flag.

Busy cruising weekend MORE than 5,000 cruise passengers visited Alicante over the weekend. A ship from the Pullmantour shipping company docked on Saturday morning while on the following day, P & O made their way into port with their visitors and crew. The Horizon was the first in dock with its 1,800 passengers. It docked in Alicante en route from Livorno to Malaga but will be the last time it will be visiting in the city as the company made the decision to leave Alicante as a base port for not fulfilling its expectations. P & O’s visitor was the Ventura on Sunday, and made its first entrance into Alicante

since May 2017. On this occasion, 3,500 cruise passengers - all from Britain - spent some hours in the city. P & O is the classic British cruise operator, offering some of the best selections of destinations in the world. Originally, Alicante was not a part of its itinerary. However, in their case they have had a positive experience at this stop and added it to the route from their cruises that come from Valencia or Gibraltar. Alicante’s tourism and beaches councillor, Eva Montesinos, said: “Alicante will end the year 2017 with a total estimated number of cruise passengers of more than 105,000.”

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PROUD: Torrevieja represented at Motorcycle Grand Prix.

Civil Protection Unit on Grand Prix duty PERSONNEL belonging to Torrevieja’s Civil Protection Unit were on special duty at the recent Motorcycling Grand Prix in Valencia. They were providing support under the leadership of Estela Prieto at the Ricardo Tormo racing circuit on Cheste. Councillor Javier Manzanares was more than proud at what the members of the local force had achieved. “This is the first time ever that Torrevieja has been asked to provide support at such a prestigious event. They all did a sensational job and were able to gain some important experience in a real situation that will help them

with their future roles.” Deputy Chief Prieto said that it was an experience that he and his team would never forget. “The camaraderie was excellent and because they all worked so hard on the day they were very tired when the event finished. However, it was all worthwhile and some very useful knowledge was gained to help when we all return to our normal and routine duties.” The Civil Protection force was made up of 140 chosen from across the country to support and assist the Local Police, Guardia Civil and other security forces on duty at the event.

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By Benjamin Park SIX stretches of roads in the Costa Blanca South region have been named among the most dangerous road sections in Spain, according to a report released by the European Automobile Association (AEA). Five ‘black spots’ were found in Alicante, including the A-77 and the A-77A, kilometre 17 of the N-325, kilometre 153 of the N-332 and kilometre 686 of the N340 were named among Spain’s 190 most dangerous road stretches. The list also includes kilometre 356 of the N-301 in Murcia, which featured at 83 on the list. T h e m o st d a n g e ro u s o n e k ilo me tre stretch in the Costa Blanca North region, of the N-301 in Murcia, has an average of 1,000 cars pass through daily, with a hazard index of 166.1 and has also seen four traffic accident victims in the past year, reports the AEA. Since the year 2000, the DGT has defined a black spot as a ‘road site with a maximum separation between one and 100 metres, in which during a natural year, three or more accidents have taken place.’ The AEA’s study analysed a total of 26,329 kilometres of State controlled roads across Spain and revealed that black spots have reportedly increased from 140 to 190 across the entirety of Spain in the past year.

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DANGER ZONE: Kilometre 356 of Murcia’s N-301 was named among Spain’s 190 traffic ‘black spots’. The hazard index is calculated by taking the number of accidents with victims (minor, serious or fatal injuries) in a one kilometre stretch over a period of five years, as well as the average daily vehicle intensity. The average of Spanish roads is 9.6.

In the case of conventional roads, the most dangerous stretch of road is located at kilometre 358 of the N-122 at the entrance to Valladolid, which has an incredibly high hazard index, standing at 423 times more than the national average.

DANGER: Black spots.

The 10 most dangerous black spots ....Km 358 of the N-122, Valladolid 1. 42 accident victims in the past year. 2. Km 57 of the N-632, Asturias 21 accident victims in the past year. 3. Km 439 of the N-330, Zaragoza three accident victims in the past year. 4. Km 467 of the N-330, Zaragoza six accident victims in the past year. 5. Km 37 of the N-632, Asturias two accident victims in the past year. 6. Km 359 of the N-122, Valladolid 10 accident victims in the past year. 7. Km 16 of the N 204, Guadalajara six accident victims in the past year. 8. Km 476 of the N-330, Zaragoza eight accident victims in the past year. 9. Km 54 of the N-632, Asturias 21 accident victims in the past year. 10. Km 59 of the N-632, Asturias seven accident victims in the past year.

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Lost and found Presumed fake is real thing A PORTRAIT hanging in a Welsh castle, long thought to be a copy, has been declared the real thing by a Spanish art expert. Benito Navarrete Prieto, a distinguished art scholar made the journey from Sevilla to north Wales on a hunch. And now he has established that the artwork hanging in Penrhyn Castle was indeed a lost masterpiece by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, one of Spain’s greatest painters. Benito said, “It is an absolute masterpiece. Magnetic.” The 17th-century portrait depicts Don Diego Ortiz de Zúñiga, who wrote a history of Sevilla. It had hung in the castle for almost 150 years and was assumed by the National Trust, which owns the castle, to

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MASTERPIECE: The painting was thought to be a copy for 150 years. be of no great value. The Murillo was attributed to the artist when it was acquired in the 1870s, but by 1901 it had been downgraded to a copy. There are only around a dozen known portraits by the artist and those few that do exist are worth millions

People died in work-related accidents in Spain from January to September this year according to the Ministry of Employment.

of pounds. The portrait is the centrepiece of a major exhibition on the artist at the Frick Collection in New York until February 4, 2018, before it transfers to the National Gallery in London. Murillo worked primarily in Sevilla until his death in 1682 at the age of 64. Such was his prestige that, at one point, the king of Spain banned his paintings from being exported.

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Cheapest last! BA flyers to board by ticket price BRITISH AIRWAYS: To roll out group boarding.

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travelling with young children will still be able to board ahead of everyone else. British Airways said, “This method has been used all around the world by many airlines and aligns BA with partners American Airlines and Iberia. “Group boarding simplifies the process, making it easier for customers to understand the boarding sequence at the gate. “This method has been used by airlines around the world for a number of years, including by our partners American Airlines, Iberia

is Spain’s current national debt according to the Bank of Spain, with €2.8 billion added in September this year alone.

flights and short-haul travand Qatar.” ellers on BA’s business class, A spokesman said, “We Club Europe, as well as Gold are always looking at ways members of the BA Executo improve the airport expetive Club rience for our customers. Group Two “Earlier this Business class year we were the Club World pasfirst UK airline sengers on longto introduce autohaul flights, and mated biometric Silver members technology, with Join the conversation of the Executive the launch of on our Club. self-service Facebook page Group Three boarding gates, Passengers in and we also inWorld Traveller stalled self-serPlus (BA’s premium econovice bag drop points at my) as well as Bronze memHeathrow and Gatwick givbers of the Executive Club. ing our customers an even Group Four - Economy quicker check-in experipassengers. ence.” Group Five - Passengers The five groups will be: travelling on the cheapest, Group One - First Class hand-baggage only fares. passengers on long-haul www.facebook.com/euroweeklynews

BRITISH AIRWAYS, the UK flag carrier, that flies several routes between the UK and Spain, is set to introduce a new boarding system based upon how much you have paid for your flight. Those who have paid the lowest fares will be the last to board, a method used by their Spanish partner Iberia. Passengers will be assigned group numbers between one and five on their boarding pass as of December 12. The lower the number, the earlier the passenger is allowed to board. Although passengers with mobility issues or who are

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SPANISH police have reportedly shot an unarmed man at a toll booth near the French border. The man, from France, was allegedly shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ (God is the greatest) and officers at the Spanish border town of La Jonquera mistakenly believed he had a weapon. Police said that the man was behaving strangely and seemed to be hiding something inside the vehicle. The man was allegedly asked to exit the vehicle and he finally got out with something in

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Police shoot unarmed man his hands, and moved towards the officers. It is reported that officers repeatedly asked him to stop and fired several shots in the air. When he continued to move forward they shot him in the hip. The man then reportedly began undressing and is believed to suffer from mental health problems. He was taken to a nearby hospital to receive treatment, and his life is not thought to be in danger. Police said they have opened an investigation, but do not believe the case is linked to terrorism. BUSTED: The investigation was led by Europol. SPANISH police have arrested 40 people belonging to a criminal gang accused of drug trafficking and money laundering. During the Europol-led operation, police seized more than four tons of cocaine, 105 kilograms of hashish, 18 high-end vehicles and more than €13 million in cash. Two interlinked groups were dismantled, one in the Spanish

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On the high seas enclave Melilla in Northern Africa and one in the Basque Country. Arrests were also made in Girona, Pontevedra, Madrid and Morocco. The suspects included 34 men

and six women of Spanish, British and Moroccan nationalities. Police also confiscated a caravan and three boats that were used by the gang to traffic drugs.

It has been estimated the drug ring trafficked more than €103 million worth of drugs into Spain. The operation began in Denia, Alicante when police learned that a group of people had been shifting drugs using recreational sailboats. Officers intercepted one of these boats heading from Venezuela to Cadiz, and discovered 400 kilos of cocaine stashed in a hidden compartment in the bow of the boat. It was then discovered the gang had connections in the Basque Country - who were responsible for trafficking the drugs by sea - and Melilla, where the money laundering aspect of the business was handled. The group allegedly covered their operations under a fake wooden furniture shipping business and transported the money and drugs by sea hidden in furniture containers. In just one bust, police seized more than €8million in cash in Valencia’s port. The gang allegedly also used people with limited means to traffic money through airports by hiding the cash among their belongings. Officers reported that more than €4 million had been intercepted in flights bound for Venezuela from Malaga or Melilla. Police also seized 870 kilos of cocaine in Pontevedra and 120 kilos in Lloret de Mar that was reportedly destined for the UK. Due to the international nature of the crimes, the Spanish police also had help from US, German, Italian and Moroccan drug enforcement agencies.

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That’s priceless POLICE officers in Spain who raided the home of a married couple have discovered a hoard of several thousands of archaeological pieces. At the property in San Fernando, Cadiz, Guardia Civil officers found coins from the Roman to the Medieval period, buttons, keys, beads, thimbles, rings, bullets and numerous pottery vessels. The house had an exhibition area for the artefacts, a warehouse, a workshop and another building with computers from where they conducted their sales operation. The couple were allegedly selling the stolen items via auction portals on the internet and it is estimated they n e t t e d m o r e th an

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ON THE URN: Some of the items seized. € 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 in tw o y ea rs , mainly from foreign buyers. P o lice h av e h an d e d t he ite ms to th e M u s eu m of Cadiz, who will make an inventory and catalogue the items. Investigators are also trying to locate the lots that

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had already sold, most of them abroad, although they re c ognis e tha t it w ill be ‘quite c omplic a te d’ for these items to be returned to Spain. The investigation origina te d in the w a ke of the Dupondio operation in Murc ia w he n 3,000 a nc ie nt coins and 20,000 archaeological pieces were recovered.

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SICKENING: The video sparked outrage on social media. POLICE are investigating a video that appeared on social media showing a group of hikers pushing a wild boar off a mountain pa th in the north o f Spain. The s ic ke ning video showed a group of seven hike rs s urrounding th e frightened, wild animal a nd prodding it w ith a stick while an eighth person records the footage on a mobile phone. The jabali tumbles down

Boar war the mountainside onto rocks below from the Ruta del Cares in the Picos de Europa National Park. It is not known if the animal survived the horrifying fall. Guardia Civil officers have opened an investigation to discover the identities of the walkers and

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RESCUED: Some of the migrants in Murcia.

when the video was shot. The animal rights and wel f ar e pol i t i cal par t y PACMA (Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Ani m al s) sai d t hat al though they would like to denounce the hikers for ani m al abuse t he l aw does not protect wild animals.

Migrant crisis goes on MORE t han 600 Af r i can migrants were rescued off t he coast of Spai n l ast weekend. Mar i t i m e Rescue f i r st posted on Twitter that 431 people had been rescued in the south eastern region of Murcia in the early hours of Saturday morning. This was followed by a number of posts about other rescue missions across the weekend, with the Navy and Guardia Civil also involved. Spai n i s r epor t edl y t he third busiest gateway for migrants arriving in Europe, with the number of people arriving by sea tripling over the last year. According to the International Organisation for Migr at i on ( I OM) , al m ost 160,000 peopl e have at t em pt ed t he danger ous crossing to Europe this year.

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Festive appeal TASHA’S treatment appeal Christmas craft fayre will be held on Calle Pablo Picasso in Orihuela Costa (by the town hall). Bring the family for a fun afternoon on Sunday from 2pm to 6pm. There will be a raffle, Christmas hamper orders, handmade crafts, cakes, gifts, jewellery, Christmas cards, mulled wine and tapas.

Tasha’s story IT all started with Viral Meningitis then Tasha contracted Mitochondrial disease, Myasthenia Gravis, Hemiplegic Migraines and Myelopathy. Tasha has been offered treatment in the USA which will cost approx. £250,000, £32,000 has been raised to date. Please help raise the balance of £218,000, her treatment is needed urgently to help improve her quality of life.

Winter wonderland THE Winter Wonderland Charity Gala Ball is coming to La Vuelta Finca in Rojales, where the 2017 Summer Ball was held. Winter Wonderland III will be held on Friday December 1 and will start with a cava reception from 7pm. Tickets for this event are €35 and there will be a four-course Christmas menu with wine and vegetarian alternatives. The fundraising at this event is for Elche Children’s Care Home. There are just 26 tickets left so to reserve your tickets please email: sueinthesun@hotmail.co.uk.

Age Concern events FRIDAY December 1 and Friday December 15: Table Top, Camposol ‘B’ (Outside Mercers Office) 9.30am to 1pm. Coffee and Mince Pie Morning: Wednesday December 13 between 11am and 1pm. Coffee mornings: Every third Wednesday of the month starting in January 2018 between 11am and 1pm. New Year’s Day 2018 swim: Bahia Beach, Puerto de Mazarron, next to the Bahia Hotel, at 1pm. Come and support or swim. Sponsorship forms available from Gerry on 634 306 927. The Age Concern Costa Calida ‘Drop-In’ centre on Calle Valencia, 12 (Camposol ‘A’) is open Monday to Friday between 10am and 1pm for advice and enquiries. Age Concern Costa Calida contact numbers: Enquiries telephone: 634 344 589 (10am - 4pm, Mon - Fri). Events telephone: 634 336 484 (10am - 4pm, Mon - Fri). Equipment loan: 634 306 927 (10am - 4pm, Mon - Fri).

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HELP: Get into the Christmas spirit with Help Vega Baja and help someone in need.

HELP Vega Baja Christmas appeal IN addition to the remarkable donations that the charity makes throughout the year to support people in need, this year the committee of HELP Vega Baja decided to take it one step further and launched a Christmas Appeal. The charity is appealing for people to join them, to make Christmas a little better for those who do not have the resources to buy fresh food or any ‘treats’ for Christmas, by helping to fill the charity shopping trolley with food to be distributed for the holiday season. Not stopping there, they are also looking to collect gifts for the elderly who

may be alone throughout the festivities. President of the charity, Michele Masson said “by working closely with social services we are aware that there are many families in the area who struggle, particularly this time of the year and with the support of the community we would like to do something to show that they are not forgotten. If everyone, for example, bought just one item for the trolley it could make such a huge difference and a small gift included on your list for an elderly person would help them see that people are thinking of them.” In the brief time since they have

launched this appeal they have already received tremendous support from local businesses who have agreed to act as drop off points for the appeal. These are in addition to the offices in San Miguel, Torrevieja, La Marina, Friendship Centres. They hope that more businesses will join in and support the Christmas Appeal. If anyone would like to help, or is looking for their nearest drop off point, simply call the San Miguel Centre on 966 723 733. More information can be found on the HELP Vega Baja Facebook page and website at www.helpvegabaja.com.

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EXTRA SPECIAL: This year’s Christmas concert will feature music from the Messiah. THE annual Christmas concert, ‘Christmas starts here,’ will be held in La Zenia church. It will feature the Costa’s leading chorus, ‘In Harmony’ conducted by Nigel Hopkins. This year ’s concert will be extra special as included in the programme will be the Christmas music from Handel’s ‘Messiah.’ This work has thrilled audiences for more than two and a half centuries and will be a special feature of this concert on Sunday Decem-

In harmony ber 10 at 7.30pm. Included in this Christmas celebration will be many Christmas songs and carols heard in the best cathedrals around the world, and will include many favourite carols especially for audience participation. This year Nigel Hopkins’ choirs reached a charity fund-

raising total of €50,000, and a substantial donation from this concert will benefit La Zenia church. Tickets are €10 each, and are available only from La Ponderosa Gift Shop at La Zenia shopping centre (next to Consum). Places are limited so you are advised to book early to avoid disappointment.

Neighbourhood watch THE last meeting for the San Luis / La Siesta Neighbourhood Watch before Christmas will be held on Monday November 27 at Casa Ventura from 4.30pm to 5.30pm.

D o y o u w a n t to h elp ma k e y o u r co mmu n ity a s a fe r an d b e tte r p la c e to liv e? Co me alo n g , m e e t your new president Doug Allen, have a glass of wine,

and even a mince pie, and share your ideas, suggestions and comments to help make San Luis and La Siesta a safe and nice place to live.

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THE Crescendo International Choir has been busy since September rehearsing for their Christmas concerts. As always at Christmas, Crescendo will be singing for the residents and staff of Casa Verde Retirement Home in Almoradi. This year it will be on the morning of Friday December 8. Then Crescendo will sing a selection of carols and Christmas music at Benejofar church on Sunday December 10 at 7.30pm. Please join them there to help raise funds for the local town hall social services who distribute food parcels with a difference to local needy families. The choir members and congregation all bring chocolate and sweet treats for the basket of

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Christmas time is (almost) here!

MUSIC MAKERS: The Crescendo International Choir performing with the Military Wives Choir. â€˜goodiesâ€™ which will be handed out to underprivileged families in the area, giving a little extra festive cheer. There will also be a bucket collection at the door to help the appeal. Crescendo are very proud that all expenses incurred when giving a concert are

paid for by Crescendo Choir members and Friends of Crescendo enabling the choir to give free concerts raising money for charity, so if you know of a charity who would like to book them, please contact them through their website www.crescen do-choir.com.

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Soccer success DENMARK celebrated Football World Cup qualification after beating the Republic of Ireland by five goals to one by soaking player Lars Jacobsen in a giant shower of beer.

Student set-back DANISH universities have cut students on English-language programmes as a large number of international students allegedly leave the country without paying their student loans after completing their degrees.

ECSTATIC: Denmark has made it through to the 2018 World Cup after a strong win over the Republic of Ireland. with buildings dating as far back as 300 AD.

Town unearthed THE remains of a medieval farming village have been uncovered near the Danish town of Jelling, in central Jutland,

Panda around THE Danish Prime Minister Lars

Lokke Rasmussen inaugurated the new panda enclosure to be built at Copenhagen Zoo, which will house two new pandas from China to mark the good relationship between the two countries.

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Irish error TWO men from Ireland were arrest-

Prison problem THE Netherlands are reportedly importing prisoners from abroad to prevent prisons from c l o s i n g s i n c e t h e c o u n t r y ’s crime rate has plummeted and staff found their jobs to be at risk.

Gold scold RUSSIA has threatened to stop museum exchanges with the Netherlands if it gives Ukraine ancient gold artefacts which were borrowed from Crimea before Russia annexed the region.

Crash cuts AN Apache helicopter caused a power shortage after crashing into an electricity transmission tower near Zoelmond, which left 24,000 people without power in the region.

Striking out A VIDEO has emerged showing a plane get hit by lightning at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport shortly after takeoff, but luckily no damage was caused and the plane continued on its journey.

NORWAY

Smog suers THE EU is planning to sue Germany over the poor quality of air in its cities, according to media sources in the country, with capital Berlin facing a heavy fine if the case goes to court.

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Eco-war ed in Hannover for kicking in the door of a 95-year-old woman’s apartment and causing her injuries, after mistaking it for their own.

Meat mystery LOCALS in Berghausen, near Karlsruhe, have been left baffled after portions of raw minced meat kept ap-

pearing behind a fence outside the railway station at regular intervals.

What a boar HUNDREDS of passengers had to abandon a high-speed train between Munich and Berlin after it collided with some wild boars and became unfit to drive.

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BELGIUM

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ARCHAEOLOGISTS have discovered more than 2,000 medieval coins and gold objects during routine excavations in the Cluny abbey in France, but said it remains a mystery why the hoard was hidden there.

A FRIENDLY football match in Bruges between Belgium and Japan was almost called off because of a terrorist threat, but police stepped up security measures instead.

Beefed up THE French public has voted Boeuf Bourguignon as the country’s favourite ‘national dish,’ which comes as no surprise given the Burgundy meat stew was even given UNESCO heritage status in 2010.

Rugby win FRANCE will host the 2023 Rugby World Cup, even though they finished behind rival bidders South Africa in an evaluation report, 16 years after they last hosted the event in 2007.

House rules HOMESHARING app AirBnb has put rental limits on apartments in central Paris, to bring the site’s flats in line with the French capital’s legal limit of 120 nights a year.

Music mayhem YOUTHS clashed with police during riots in Brussels, shutting down a major metro station and damaging a vehicle, after a rapper was stopped from shooting a music video illegally.

Coughing up VIDEO communications company Skype lost its appeal with a Belgian court over a €30,000 fine for not handing over user messages during a police investigation into a criminal organisation that used the service to communicate.

False alarm PASSENGERS and staff present in Brussels’ North station all had to be evacuated from the premises for 15 minutes after the fire alarm was accidently set off.

CLIMATE activists are suing the Norwegian government over their decision to hunt for oil in areas of the Arctic Ocean, which they say may endanger the lives of future generations.

Party renters TEENAGERS in Norway are allegedly renting out properties on AirBnb to use for parties, after it was revealed more than 80 people between the ages of 13-18 attended a rave held in a rented house in Kristiansand.

High voltage THE European electricity company E.ON has unveiled its plans to build a new ‘electric highway’ which will have ‘ultra-fast charging stations’ for electric cars and will run from Norway to Italy.

Strange flash SEVERAL people reported seeing a strong flash of light lasting for three or four seconds, believed to have been caused by a small meteor, in the night sky over Norway’s Finnmark county.

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Sore losers I TA L I A N f o o t b a l l f a n s h a v e called for a boycott of IKEA after Sweden knocked them out o f t h e Wo r l d C u p q u a l i f i e r s , making it the first time the t e a m w o n ’t c o m p e t e i n 5 9 years.

Helping elk MORE than 50,000 people signed a petition to save a white elk spotted in Sweden’s Varmland region after authorities considered putting it down when it charged at a woman out walking her dogs.

Pricey pad THE most expensive house in Sweden was sold in Stockholm for 125 million kronor, which is about €12.5 million, to Katarina Martinson, a close friend of Sweden’s Princess Madeleine.

Happy workers SWEDEN’S unemployment levels reportedly sank to a record-low during October according to the Swedish Public Employment Service, and now stand at just 7.4 per cent.

FINANCE Damages awarded

A MERGER could see Spain’s biggest hotel group created. It comes as Madrid-based NH Hotel Group confirmed a possible multi-billion Euro takeover bid by rival company Grupo Barcelo. NH, which operates nearly 400 hotels in 31 nations, has an estimated value of €1.75 billion. Privately owned Barcelo - headquartered in Mallorca and with over 230 hotels in 21 countries on its portfolio would own a 60 per cent stake and assume a board majority in the merged group, NH said in a statement to the

By Matt Ford Spanish stock exchange. And with predicted annual revenues of around €3.7 billion, the new alliance is forecast to become Spain’s largest hotel group ahead of Melia Hotels, which at the end of 2016 controlled 375 hotels with 96,369 rooms. But NH has reportedly received the offer with a degree of scepticism after confirming receipt of ‘an unsolicited, preliminary and non-binding interest’ from Barcelo. The firm also said that its board of

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Neither the business nor the education sector in Spain have collaborated sufficiently,” Gas Natural board member Francisco Belil discusses the need for educational reform amid concerns over high youth unemployment.

UP FOR GRABS: Football rights and (inset) Javier Tebas.

Online giants to stream football? The rights are expected to be sold in early 2018 and Tebas added that the league is looking to ramp up the price compared to the last three year deal which covers 2016-2019 and generates €1.6 billion per season. “I think we’re going to reach €2.3 billion… that’s the goal I’m proposing. “There will be TV operators who tell me that I’m like a goat, well they told me that four years ago and I wasn’t wrong then,” the official added.

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Air we go IRISH budget airline, Ryanair has opened a state of the art digital and IT innovation hub in Madrid. It is the carrier ’s third such centre after Dublin and Wroclaw (Poland) and is expected to create around 250 jobs, with 50 positions already filled.

On the tiles SCOTTISH industrial group, Victoria Carpets has acquired Keraben, a tiles manufacturer based in Castellon. The deal is worth €274 million and comes three years after the Spanish company was bought by US investment fund, Tensile Capital Management.

Out of gas SPANISH utilities firm Gas Natural Fenosa has sold a 59.1 per cent stake it held in Colombian retail distribution company Gas Natural SA ESP. The shares have been snapped up by Canadian asset management specialist Brookfield Infrastructure for €482 million.

Shoe fits for US brand’s expansion US footwear firm, Deckers has big plans for the Spanish market. The news comes as the company, which also owns UGG, Teva and Sanuk, struck a distribution deal with Dr Martens’ Spanish partner Comercial Udra.

The agreement will see its Hoka One One running shoes, which retail at around €150 per pair, sold in 400 stores across the country and effectively doubling the brand’s reach. Deckers closed the 2016 financial year with a turnover of €1.6 billion.

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A JUDGE has awarded €1.6 billion in damages to the Spanish state after a probe into the 2002 Prestige oil spill. The regional court in A Coruña, Galicia, also handed €1.8 million to Galician authorities and €61 million to France, with the captain of the ship and a British insurance firm among those fined. The disaster saw 63,000 tonnes of oil leak into the sea, causing huge environmental damage across almost 3,000 kilometres of coastline in Spain, Portugal and France affected.

AMAZON and Facebook are likely to enter the bidding for Spanish football streaming rights. The tech giants have both expressed an interest in attending the next round of talks for deals, set to be awarded for the 20192022 seasons and expected to be worth an eye-watering €2.3 billion per season. Spanish league president, Javier Tebas confirmed the pair have been in contact at a press conference in which he said: “We will listen to everybody.”

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directors has recently approved a threeyear strategic plan “with an independent, fast-growth project that remains valid today.” The statement added that should this position change, an announcement to the stock market would follow. NH last year voted to remove a cochairman and three board members appointed by its largest shareholder, Chinese conglomerate HNA. The sackings came amid allegations of a conflict of interest after HNA took over the Carlston-Rezidor Hotel Group.

Bank to pay former chief SPANISH banking group Santander has agreed to pay a former chief executive more than €590 million. It comes as Santander Consumer USA (Scusa), the company’s sub-prime auto-lending subsidiary, moves to forget its underperforming history. Thomas Dundon, 46, was a cofounder of Drive Financial, a motoring finance company that Santander acquired in 2006 and later rebranded. He stepped down as CEO in 2015, with the exit package for severance and his near 10 per cent stake in the firm, stating that he will not compete with or hire anyone from Scusa until 2019.

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PRICE(P) CHANGE(P) COMPANY Anglo American 1,453.00 19.00 Associated British Foods 3,096.50 10.50 Admiral Group 1,885.50 6.50 Ashtead Group 1,935.50 24.50 Antofagasta 962.25 11.25 Aviva 501.25 0.75 AstraZeneca 4,965.50 -9.50 BAE Systems 544.75 9.25 Babcock International Group 757.75 -1.25 Barclays 188.58 3.58 British American Tobacco 5,001.50 18.00 Barratt Developments 632.25 5.25 Berkeley Group Holdings 3,750.50 -3.50 British Land Co 619.75 -4.25 BHP Billiton 1,360.75 -2.75 Bunzl 2,198.00 39.00 BP 492.98 -0.12 Burberry Group 1,753.50 4.50 BT Group 246.18 0.78 Coca-Cola HBC 2,448.50 -1.50 Carnival 4,958.50 21.50 Centrica 161.35 -1.85 Compass Group 1,596.50 -1.50 Croda International 4,307.00 37.00 CRH 2,733.50 33.50 ConvaTec Group 200.85 -4.55 DCC 7,187.50 67.50 Diageo 2,592.00 17.00 Direct Line Insurance Group 355.20 -0.40 Experian 1,559.50 1.50 easyJet 1,277.50 -3.50 Ferguson 5,327.50 62.50 Fresnillo 1,285.50 -10.50 G4S 258.85 1.45 GKN 302.15 -0.35 Glencore 358.90 5.45 GlaxoSmithKline 1,313.50 5.50 Hargreaves Lansdown 1,595.50 18.50 Hammerson 526.75 -6.75 HSBC Holdings 728.95 -2.65 Inter. Consolidated Airlines G. 599.75 1.75 Inter Continental Hotels G. 4,314.50 48.50 3i Group 915.25 -8.25 Imperial Brands 3,023.25 -25.75 Informa 733.75 0.75 Intertek Group 5,407.50 92.50 ITV 148.55 -1.95 Johnson Matthey 3,275.00 14.00 Kingfisher 304.45 -2.85 Land Securities Group 930.25 -2.25

% CHG. NET VOL 1.32 20,142.09 0.34 24,431.07 0.35 5,396.76 1.28 9,540.20 1.18 9,375.50 0.15 20,076.08 -0.19 62,980.95 1.73 17,059.09 -0.16 3,837.48 1.94 31,532.23 0.36 114,302.03 0.84 6,347.55 -0.09 5,083.49 -0.68 6,268.46 -0.20 28,798.10 1.81 7,252.35 -0.02 97,670.46 0.26 7,469.68 0.32 24,338.23 -0.06 8,955.50 0.44 10,438.45 -1.13 9,132.15 -0.09 25,272.91 0.87 5,610.47 1.24 22,644.02 -2.22 4,009.10 0.95 6,350.83 0.66 64,338.77 -0.11 4,889.50 0.10 14,416.27 -0.27 5,088.24 1.19 13,212.19 -0.81 9,550.14 0.56 3,993.80 -0.12 5,195.37 1.54 50,878.21 0.42 64,336.36 1.17 7,480.01 -1.27 4,231.86 -0.36 146,127.12 0.29 12,257.10 1.14 8,104.98 -0.89 8,984.41 -0.84 29,113.40 0.10 6,039.96 1.74 8,577.91 -1.30 6,058.24 0.43 6,311.13 -0.93 6,659.11 -0.24 6,913.90

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Legal & General Group 266.95 Lloyds Banking Group ORD 66.16 London Stock Exchange G. 3,808.50 Micro Focus International 2,700.50 Mediclinic International 542.25 Merlin Entertainments 373.65 Marks & Spencer Group 301.15 Mondi 1,752.50 Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets 210.05 National Grid 880.35 NMC Health 2,721.50 Next 4,384.50 Old Mutual Group 190.85 Paddy Power Betfair 8,692.50 Prudential 1,885.75 Persimmon 2,679.50 Pearson 694.75 Reckitt Benckiser Group 6,370.50 Royal Bank of Scotland G. 274.05 Royal Dutch Shell 2,338.75 Royal Dutch Shell 2,382.75 RELX 1,763.50 Rio Tinto 3,549.00 Rolls-Royce Group 898.75 Randgold Resources 7,070.00 RSA Insurance Group 606.75 Rentokil Initial 326.85 Sainsbury (J) 224.85 Schroders 3,500.50 Sage Group 768.75 Segro 557.25 Shire 3,575.50 Smurfit Kappa Group 2,291.00 Sky 954.25 Standard Life Aberdeen 423.45 Smiths Group 1,505.50 Scottish Mortgage Inves. Trust 458.05 Smith & Nephew 1,323.50 SSE 1,331.50 Standard Chartered 724.40 St James's Place 1,156.50 Severn Trent 2,083.50 Tesco 187.18 TUI AG 1,328.50 Taylor Wimpey 197.55 Unilever 4,208.75 United Utilities Group 787.25 Vodafone Group 229.75 Worldpay Group 409.00 WPP Group 1,265.50 Whitbread 3,552.50

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-0.73 0.26 -0.98 0.13 -2.39 -0.89 -0.08 0.55 0.31 -0.28 0.80 1.87 0.08 -1.00 -0.20 0.13 -0.39 -0.35 -0.13 0.05 0.41 1.06 0.08 1.10 -0.07 -0.37 1.25 -1.21 0.10 1.28 -0.13 -2.80 -0.35 1.52 0.22 0.70 0.34 -0.26 -1.08 -0.23 0.13 -0.41 1.34 0.42 0.48 1.42 -1.35 0.46 0.39 -0.12 -0.35

16,021.57 47,487.55 13,334.92 11,738.35 4,095.39 3,843.79 4,896.97 8,463.20 4,931.80 29,929.26 5,515.71 6,291.43 9,406.30 7,411.21 48,860.46 8,258.92 5,655.13 44,979.64 32,824.39 106,225.69 88,880.40 18,570.49 48,187.01 16,362.85 6,655.69 6,228.50 5,930.91 4,984.79 7,904.00 8,206.59 5,596.32 33,424.29 5,445.08 16,158.76 12,579.42 5,915.61 6,371.92 11,606.58 13,720.40 23,932.51 6,110.70 4,942.63 15,127.13 7,766.52 6,432.72 51,343.10 5,441.47 61,002.99 8,148.00 16,009.91 6,539.15

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PRICE 231,49 93,95 169,98 264,63 136,91 114,72 36,5 45,46 70,85 80,55 17,98 238,13 170,45 150,51 44,62 99,01 137,93 166,93 54,1 82,53 59,25 35,35 88,27 129,77 116,38 210,25 46,2 109,95 97,48 102,75

CHANGE% CHANGE VOLUME(M) 0,93% 2,13 137.883,28 0,28% 0,26 81.582,97 -0,10% -0,17 872.987,07 0,90% 2,37 157.786,62 0,57% 0,78 81.517,80 0,01% 0,01 218.409,01 1,67% 0,6 182.351,97 -0,55% -0,25 194.158,61 0,16% 0,11 166.069,11 0,39% 0,31 341.426,01 -1,26% -0,23 156.270,97 0,05% 0,11 89.887,11 1,62% 2,71 200.988,40 1,03% 1,54 139.896,34 -0,02% -0,01 209.810,35 0,89% 0,87 343.641,62 -0,05% -0,07 370.793,50 0,13% 0,21 133.335,67 -1,99% -1,1 147.243,82 0,16% 0,13 634.934,48 0,10% 0,06 77.016,41 -0,06% -0,02 211.038,84 -0,18% -0,16 224.165,62 -0,12% -0,15 35.528,46 -0,13% -0,15 93.073,32 0,17% 0,35 203.208,60 1,72% 0,78 188.629,26 0,12% 0,13 199.916,37 0,01% 0,01 290.370,94 -0,67% -0,69 159.017,13 M - MILLION DOLLARS

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Most Advanced Diana Containerships Inc. $ 10.4454 Xunlei Limited $ 18.08 Northern Technologies International Corp. $ 20.28 XOMA Corporation $ 25.93 Tactile Systems Technology, Inc. $ 29.35 AXT Inc $ 10.45 UTStarcom Holdings Corp $ 3.67 Hibbett Sports, Inc. $ 18.95 Accuray Incorporated $ 5.2438 Avid Technology, Inc. $ 6.45 Ablynx NV $ 23

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Most Declined Bioverativ Inc. Enphase Energy, Inc. Century Aluminum Company Prothena Corporation plc CarGurus, Inc. TRACON Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Mitcham Industries, Inc. Spero Therapeutics, Inc. Chimerix, Inc. Surgery Partners, Inc. Forterra, Inc.

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People power success A CONTROVERSIAL campaign to promote the consumption of pork was suspended in Madrid ahead of schedule according to animal rights activists. With Jamon being such a staple of the Spanish diet and pork meat still being regularly eaten in different forms, organisers, Interporc thought that the Pork Lovers Tour would be an immediate success encouraging even greater consumption of the meat. What they had not expected was the fact that cities such as Barcelona and Bilbao refused permission for them to park their tour bus in the centres and Madrid only allowed them at one shopping centre. Where they did manage to stop, even for a few hours, animal rights activists turned up and picketed the bus, carrying placards decrying the intensive farms which often supply large amounts of meat to the market. The activists under the banner of AnimaNaturalis clearly caused a great deal of embarrassment to the organisers and whilst the concept of the tour was to promote the pork industry, protestors carrying images of allegedly ill-treated animals didn’t help. In addition, the protestors explained to potential visitors that according to their research, pork meat was potentially one of the most hazardous meats to eat due to the fact that not only were factory farmed pigs fed large amounts of antibiotics but contained parasites which are not always killed during the cooking process. “We do not know for sure if they have suspended the campaign but the truth is that not even their social networks announce their routes,” explained Lucio Kacic, coordinator of AnimaNaturalis in Madrid. “They give the impression of not being very proud of what they are do-

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ing and it is very controversial to promote the consumption of pork meat when all studies and organisations like the WHO recommend reducing or eliminating their consumption,” he added. The organisation intends to picket any further promotions within Spain although according to Interporc, the tour has ended with stops at 28 different spots in Spain and the United Kingdom, attracting a total of 7,200 visitors.

BANKIA PROBLEMS CONTINUE TO HAUNT THE ECONOMY

THE former head of Bankia, Rodrigo Rato who was previously found guilty for misuse of company credit cards is now to be tried for fraud. A massive case has been approved by the courts in Madrid which will see Rato together with 30 former Bankia executives alongside Bankia itself and its parent company as well as international accountants, Deloitte and one of its employees, all being charged. The case will hinge on alleged investor fraud as well as falsification of Bankia’s 2010 and 2011 accounts which was undertaken in order to ensure that the newly formed bank could obtain a stock market listing. Bankia was formed by the merger of seven regional savings banks and was headed by former government minister and head of the IMF, Rodrigo Rato but within one year of being launched on the stock exchange, the bank had to be rescued. So devastating was the impending failure of Bankia that the entire Spanish banking sector was in danger of crashing leading to the government

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having to raise €41 billion from foreign loans in order to support all of those banks caught up in what had become a major financial crisis. Bankia is today the fourth largest bank in Spain but is effectively owned by the Spanish government. It is in the process of repaying tens of thousands of small, private investors who were persuaded to buy shares when they were launched due to the fake accounts and reports of prosperity. The prosecutors in this case have

argued that as CEO of Bankia, Rato had to have known the true state of affairs of its finances and have called for a five year jail sentence if he is found guilty as charged. He has already been sentenced to four years and six months imprisonment for his improper use of credit cards and personal expenses during his roles at Caja Madrid and then Bankia. When he was questioned about the Bankia flotation during this first trial, he declared that all of the decisions concerning the placing of shares were made by the Spanish government which should accept all responsibility for the date of the launch and the subsequent need to support the bank. The former IMF chairman who was expelled from the ruling Partido Popular in 2014 was found guilty in February 2017, immediately put in an appeal and has spent very little time in prison although he had to lodge large amounts of his personal fortune with the courts.

Decision day over EMA base THE race to take over the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and its 700 jobs from London originally saw Barcelona the clear favourite but not any more. Recent events in Cataluña have meant that its capital was not awarded the prize of one of the current 38 European Union agencies scattered around Europe although Spain with five agencies, employing 1,400 is currently the EU leader. The other loss for Britain following Brexit will be the European Banking Agency, although no Spanish city entered a bid to take over that operation, which currently employs 160 members of staff.

Ministerial meeting to strengthen ties A VISIT to Spain by Saudi Foreign Minister, Adel Al-Jubeir led to a meeting with his Spanish counterpart, Alfonso Dastis. The pair confirmed that the visit was intended to deepen bilateral cooperative relations and they exchanged views on increasing bilateral cooperative relations in various areas. At the meeting, the two ministers agreed to strengthen political dialogue and economic and trade relations. Saudi Arabia is Spain’s leading trading partner in the Near East, the second leading Arab investor in Spain and the second leading destination for Spanish investments in the Arab world. Whilst there was agreement over financial matters, Spain was not happy with the Saudi backing of the civil war in Yemen. There was, however, accord over the fight against terrorism.

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THE production departments in film and TV companies have been promoting entertainment based on Zombies, however, less recognised but more important are eurozone zombie companies. There are a number of definitions of such companies but they have generally been established for 10 years or more and have large debts on which they can pay the interest but are unlikely to ever be able to clear their indebtedness. The number of such companies is growing thanks to low

interest rates and European Central Bank (ECB) financial support for countries such as Italy and Spain where it is estimated that as many as 10 per cent of all companies can be classified as Zombies. There is a major fear now that as the ECB cuts back on support and interest rates increase, those technically dead but still animate companies run the risk of finally failing which in turn could increase unemployment and restrict economic growth.

Plastic brick business sees profits breakdown WHILST Lego has enjoyed regular profit increases over the years, the first half of 2017 has seen a downturn to just €455 million, a drop of 3 per cent. Although not likely to make a major dent in the profit reduction, the Danish company has just opened its first dedicated store in Spain, in the La Vaguada Shopping Centre, Madrid. The word Lego itself came from the Danish words ‘leg godt’ which means ‘play well’ but in a perfect example of happy coincidence, it was later discovered that in Latin the word Lego comes from the words ‘to gather ’ and the owners had taken it to mean ‘put together’. Originally founded as a producer of

wooden duck toys, it wasn’t until 1949 that the company came up with the concept of producing plastic bricks and from this simple concept, a complex empire was created which has earned a fortune for the family which owns it. Some astute decisions including the creation of theme parks, purchases of licences for movies like Star Wars and Harry Potter and most recently the launch of Lego-based films has seen it become the most financially successful toy company in the world. Sales are down for the first time in a decade but time will tell whether this is a short term hiccup or if popularity of the plastic bricks is on the wane.

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If it ain’t broke, it don’t need fixing...OK? LEAPY LEE SAYS IT

OTHERS THINK IT THE problem with the female ‘libber’ brigade is that their aspirations and ‘causes’ are almost exclusively in the hands of women who are in the public eye. These women, by the very nature of their chosen paths and careers have more access to public pedestals and media outlets than the majority of the fair sex can ever, or often even want to become involved with. Consequently, we only ever hear the views of women who are, in the main, just as about as far removed from the normal female homemakers and domestic Mums as it is possible to be. This creates the misapprehension that the majority of women are not happy with their lot and are all lusting after rebellion and change. I believe this is quite simply not the case. In my opinion the vast silent majority of ladies are perfectly happy and indeed extremely proud in their homespun, often sexy wife roles, and indeed why shouldn’t they be? As a single parent, I am totally aware of the responsibilities and sheer hard work it takes to organise a household and keep a happy loving family life running as smoothly as possible.

WOMEN’S LIB: Not speaking for all. Ladies who choose this homelier and utterly commendable path are widely talented, needing to have the stamina of an athlete, the negotiating talents of a politician and be basically competent at everything from psychiatry to plumbing. Quite frankly I consider the career orientated female libber of the species, are actually taking

the easy way out! (And don’t tell me some do both. That precarious path NEVER works satisfactorily!) Many of the wives I have spoken to are a bit bewildered and often quite angry at the presumptuous few who take it on themselves to arrogantly give the impression that they speak for such large numbers of the fair sex.

The problem with libbers is that many simply want to take over the roles of men. Some of them would actually rather be men. Well, my message to them is that the creator of the human race made men and women physically and mentally different for a vast cross section of reasons. To encourage changing homo sapiens’ life roles to a point when we see women working building sites and wielding sledgehammers and men rushing home from the shops to get the dinner and feed the baby, is arrogant, presumptuous and brainwashing to a point of criminality. So, my message to the often insecure, indecisive minority, who seek to change the nature of men and women, do wherever you think fit, and the best of luck. But don’t presume the majority of ladies are of the same mind, because they are not. Leave those who prefer a more conventional way of life to simply be happy in their chosen existence. After all it has kept the human race ticking over since the stone ages. If it ain’t broke, it don’t need fixing. OK? So, with my reinforced jock strap firmly in place and my eyes firmly placed in the back of my head, I bid you all a fond farewell for another seven. Keep the faith columnists@euroweeklynews.com

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Let’s get on with life Mike Senker

In my opinion Views of a Grumpy Old Man I LIKE to keep my eye on what’s going on in the USA because, to be honest, at the moment, in my opinion, the place is currently coming across on TV like a bad soap opera. This week I’ve been following a couple of news items in particular. One was about an American comedian and politician called Al Franken who was on a tour to entertain the US troops overseas. There was a young lady in the show with him and during a rehearsal he kissed her and also a photo appeared of him looking at the camera laughing and appearing to touch her boobs through body armour whilst she was asleep. Now this is wrong and totally out of order - end of - no excuses. The other story was about a baseball player called Yulieski Gurriel who was born in Cuba and who made a gesture to a Japanese pitcher after hitting a home run off one of his pitches. As he ran round he looked at him and used his fingers to stretch his eyes toward his ears and appeared to say a word in Spanish usually used to mock Asian people.

Now here’s the thing. In both cases these gentlemen apologised unreservedly to the offended parties. The baseball player got a five game suspension and the comedian / politician may have a senate investigation. Both injured parties have said ‘apology accepted, now let’s get on with life’ and this is where things go a bit wonky. It has all become very political with groups calling for the baseball player to be sacked and banned. Here’s the deal folks - nobody is allowed to be more offended than the person that was the subject of the original offensive remark or action. If they say it’s sorted then let it go. They are adults and they have decided how to react to the comment or action directed at them. Donald Trump is tweeting and calling Al Franken Al Frankenstein demanding he be hung, drawn and quartered because he’s a Democrat. Meanwhile he’s not saying a word about the Republican preacher politician, Roy Moore, who has been accused by at least 10 women of sexual assault. But what would you expect from the man that has over 20 accusations of sexual assault against him and a recording from 2005 telling Billy Bush how he treats women. How this man is still POTUS is beyond me.

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LEGALLY SPEAKING Alcohol limits and penalties 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.

STAY SAFE: The best option is not to drink at all. IT is often not realised that the maximum permitted alcohol limit in Spain is considerably lower than many other European countries, including the UK. It is also worth noting that these limits are precisely that, a maximum that is permitted. Alcohol affects people differently and the only real safe limit is zero. That said, in Spain the maximum legally

permitted alcohol limit is in general 0.25 mg/l (or 0.15 mg/l if you are a learner driver / professional drivers). If the amount of alcohol exceeds this limit, the driver will be heavily fined and lose several points from their licence. In the event such amount of the breathalyzer exceeds 0.60 mg/l, the driver becomes subject to a criminal proceeding and will be arrested.

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The fines Professional / novice drivers - 0,15-0,30mg/l - €500 + 4 points, from 0,30mg/l - €1,000 + 6 points. Other drivers - 0,25-0,50mg/l - €500 + 4 points, from 0,50mg/l - €1,000 + 6 points. A blood test is only available when you have finished the alcohol test and you disagree with the result. Refusal to co-operate is also considered a criminal offence. For more news and articles visit www.n332.es or search N332 on Facebook.

Can only Agenda items be voted? Is it correct that Spanish community AGMs do not have an official section for Any Other Business, that they have instead a sort of Questions period at the end of the meeting? Is it correct that anything in this section is not an Agenda item, and so cannot be the subject of a proposal, resolution or vote? Items must be on the Agenda to be voted in the meeting? Can items not on the Agenda be put in the Minutes? R M (email) Article 19 of the Law of Horizontal Property regulates the official Book of Minutes. The minutes must give the time and place of the AGM. They should list the names of all in attendance or by proxy, with

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their cuotas, and it must contain the Agenda. The book must record the results of the

votes on Agenda items and it may need to list the names and cuotas of those who voted for or against a proposal. Any other matters can certainly be recorded in the Minutes, but it is not a legal requirement.

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Should TV reboots be given the boot? Nora Johnson

Breaking Views Nora is the author of popular psychological suspense and crime thrillers and a freelance journalist. To comment on any of the issues raised in her column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/3.0.15/nora-johnson

WE’RE living in an age of endless TV reboots with news that the comedy classic Four Weddings and a Funeral is being remade, as is the 1980’s series Magnum PI. But reboots are invariably disappointing because the original was part of its time that can’t be recreated second time round. Everyone’s moved on and the world’s a completely different place today. Alternatively, they weren’t brilliant shows even back then. In theory, I’ve nothing against remaking movies or TV shows. It’s not unlike a fresh restaging of a Shakespeare play - if there is a point, of course, and some-

IT’S BACK: Iconic TV show Dynasty was given the reboot treatment this year. thing new and different is added to the production. In practice, though, the major problem with reviving 80’s TV is that our tastes have fundamentally altered as have our TV viewing habits. In the 80’s, there were very few channels so shows like Dallas and Dynasty (likewise rebooted) became popular because there wasn’t much else - and provocative, challenging, cre-

ative TV’s moved on from the predictability of the hourly slot where the same thing happens every week. And in Magnum PI the same thing did happen every week. Most of these revivals are just the result of creative laziness, because either nobody can dream up any fresh ideas, or the bean counters in charge won’t take the plunge with new ones. They’d rather just rely on re-

writes and hope that enough people have been born who can’t remember the old series and will be presented with something ‘different.’ Basically, recycling old themes rarely works; shows that were popular by default not merit then, rarely ‘ignite’ now. There are plenty of new concepts to exploit, but everyone’s too frightened of ‘offending’ the easily offended, so nobody takes chances anymore. Which reminds me, the arctic blasts currently hitting the UK must be due to Global Warming, right? Or possibly Brexit? (Though my money’s on Putin!) But it’s not all bad - it should suit the snowflakes, provided they’ve some safe spaces where the temperature’s mild and nobody’s allowed a platform to talk about this, umm, ‘offensive’ weather. Nora Johnson’s psychological crime thrillers ‘The Girl in the Red Dress,’ ‘No Way Back,’ ‘Landscape of Lies,’ ‘Retribution,’ ‘Soul Stealer,’ ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.norajohnson.net) from Amazon. All profits to Costa del Sol Cudeca cancer charity. columnists@euroweeklynews.com

THURSDAY THOUGHTS By Graham Braben, Albox

No goodies at the top WE were in Ikea last week, just for a coffee and those cinnamon rolls. No shopping. No self-assembly nightmares. Or that’s what I thought. It turns out we were on a mission to find curtain rails. Now in my world, you go in and choose the first set you come to and that’s it! But according to my wife and daughter, I know nothing. The first thing we had to do was measure them, taking into account drop, width and some other things that I’d never heard of, so we picked up one of those paper tape things and that’s when I perked up! It’s funny the way our minds work. Apparently, the Nepalese government aren’t sure how tall Everest is now after recent earthquakes, so they’ve commissioned professional measurers to produce a definitive figure. It got me thinking, well the curtain rails did. We had to measure one of them and my job was to hold the measure at one end. Unfortunately, every time it was pulled tight, I let go. Okay I admit it, I’m not a fully qualified rail measurer and to make things worse, I wasn’t paying the slightest bit of attention either! All I got for my incompetence was a very hard stare and the threat of no cinnamon roll. Imagine what would happen if the same thing happened on Everest. Which brings me to the point of this. If you have to go to Ikea against your will this weekend, take comfort, you could be over 20,000 feet up in the freezing snow, measuring a mountain rather than curtain rails, and there are no drinks and goodies at the top! columnists@euroweeklynews.com Readers interested in submitting articles for this guest column should send articles of around 250 words on topics felt to be of interest to the cosmopolitan EWN readership to editorial@euroweeklynews.com.

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The 3–2–1 diet 3-2-1 is bulletproof: three backups of your data, on two different types of media, one of them off-site. Too much trouble? Then download a free backup program, from simple file duplicators like SyncFolders, to full hard-disk copiers like Easus ToDo, Macrium Reflect or the horribly-named Aomei Backupper. Or just use the backup program which came free with your system. Some are even ‘just set and forget’: tell it where to backup your data and when, click and hasta la vista baby: automatic backups daily, weekly, monthly into infinity and beyond. Or you can be thoroughly modern and backup to the ‘cloud’ - but beyond a certain volume of data you’ll pay, and you need seriously good broadband come the day you need it all back again.

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Every hard disk is guaranteed... to crash Blessed are those who backup, for their data will be safe on the day of failure, says intrepid backer-upper TERENCE KENNEDY. A MACHO colleague always insisted with a smirk that ‘Real men don’t backup.’ Then he got hacked. Oops. Sadder was the fate of two friends who lost their family photos forever, simply because their computer crashed. Whether through exhaustion, a virus or an unplanned act of gravity, devices fail. They even have an official ‘MTBF’ (Mean Time Before Failure) which used to be advertised but now isn’t because it might scare us. Human MTBF is about 600,000 hours. You’re doing well if your harddisk manages even a 10th of that. I’m constantly astonished at how many people never even think about

backing up their data. Probably because watching YouTube cat videos is more fun. But safe storage really is a doddle. Step 1: Choose it so you don’t lose it: ‘consolidate’ your documents, emails, photos, music and those priceless kitten videos somewhere you can easily locate them on your computer, eg a Documents folder (the default in most systems), E-mails, Photos, Music. Or Cats. Step 2: Find something to backup to - a physical device like a USB memory stick, an old SD card or an external hard-drive. Not just somewhere else on your existing hard-drive or computer. That’s like keeping your spare front-door key on your

BACKUPS: Practising safe storage. keyring with the existing one. These days you can pick up an external hard drive for €100 or so, or loads less for a USB flash drive if your needs are more modest. Step 3: Backup, then backup your backup. Well, okay, that’s only for the real pessimists, or the true professionals who insist that you can never have enough backups, with three as the absolute minimum. It’s the work of minutes, with any of the dozens of (free) back-up programs available online, or those built into your device’s operating system. Step 4: Store your backup somewhere safe. Not on or in your desk.

Not even, if you are truly anal, on the same premises. Bitter techno-trauma and tears have moulded my own backup regime: my laptop data gets copied to an SD card as I create it, to a USB stick at the end of every working day, to an external hard drive at the end of every week, and to a second hard-drive kept off-premises every month. Sadly, there’s more. I also clone my entire hard-drive to an identical copy of itself every week so when the wotsit hits the ventilator I can be up and running again in the flash of a screwdriver. But the rest of you probably have lives to live.

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Shake off those November blues! It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas Christina Sharp GLOBELINK INTERNATIONAL christina@globelink.co.uk.

THIS is a glorious time of year to take a break; kids are back at school, prices are lower; and if you are lucky, depending on where travel, you might still catch a spectacular autumnal riot of colour as you venture outdoors. If you’re hankering for a mini holiday to fortify yourself for the festive season, why not meet two needs with one deed and head for a Christmas Market? Europe has the best selection of Christmas Markets, where you can wrap up warm, indulge in steaming hot drinks (mulled wine, or hot chocolate anyone?), find original

gifts, whilst taking in the sights and sounds of some of the most beautiful places in Europe. Here are some of our favourites for you to combine festive fun with some unforgettable historic hotspots. Let us know if we’ve missed your favourite and we will tell readers about the most popular ones next month. Rothenburg ob de Tauber is our favourite of the spectacular German Christmas Markets, because whether it’s Christmas or not, this town is straight out of Hansel and Gretel. It’s the most impeccably preserved Bavarian medieval town in Europe and is picture-perfect for this Christmas Market, which dates back 500 years. Robust stone town walls that surround the town with their creaking wooden walkways offer uniquely outstanding roof top vistas of the town’s half-timbered houses and redtiled roofs.

GERMAN MARKET: The spectacular Rothenburg ob de Tauber. Runs from December 1 to 23. Strasbourg boasts the oldest Christmas Market in France, first held in 1570. With 300 stalls, across 12 locations, this is one of Europe’s most popular Christmas markets. Strasbourg’s spectacular Gothic Cathedral nestles at the heart of this fabulously festive location. Market runs from November 25

to December 31. Bath city centre with its Roman Baths and glorious Abbey becomes home to 170 Christmas stalls from the end of November. This year is bigger than ever with over 200 wooden chalets. The market offers ceramics, toys, gifts, decorations and food with over 80 per cent of produce sourced locally.

There’s an ice rink and glow-inthe-dark crazy golf course at nearby Royal Victoria Park. Market runs from November 23 to December 10. Winchester’s beautiful medieval centre offers a slightly more modest, but equally delightful Christmas Market with around 100 wooden chalets offering decorations, jewellery, artwork, gifts, and all the usual irresistible food fayre. Visit the open air ice-rink and Winchester Cathedral. There are lots more to choose from, including Vienna, Prague, Dresden, Verona, Leipzig, Budapest. Whichever you opt for, stay safe, be aware of your surroundings and remember your travel insurance in case of mishaps or emergencies. Over one million customers have trusted Globelink. Get an instant Travel Insurance quote and arrange cover with www.globelink.co.uk, or call (UK) +44 1353 699 082 or our Spanish link line 966 265 000.

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7:00am 12 Days of Giving 8:45am The Top Ten Show 2017 9:05am The Great Wall Epic action adventure about a mercenary pulled into a centuries-old battle between Chinese warriors and giant, lizard-like monsters. 11:05am Collateral Beauty 1:00pm Escobar: Paradise Lost 3:10pm Upside Down 5:10pm In a Valley of Violence 7:10pm The Great Wall 9:00pm Collateral Beauty 10:45pm Escobar: Paradise Lost 12:55am In a Valley of Violence 2:55am The Girl in the Book 4:40am The Hollow One

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7:00am 12 Days of Giving 8:45am The Top Ten Show 2017 9:00am Escobar: Paradise Lost 11:10am Collateral Beauty When a New York exec Will Smith tips into depression, his scheming partners plan to use his letters to Love, Time and Death against him. 1:00pm Burn Country 2:55pm In a Valley of Violence 4:55pm The Great Wall 6:50pm Escobar: Paradise Lost 9:00pm Collateral Beauty 10:45pm Burn Country 12:40am The Great Wall 2:40am The Hollow One 4:25am The Girl in the Book

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TV Couch Critic IT’S back! I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here (ITV 1) swept in from the Australian jungle last Sunday with an eclectic group of celebrities, in the widest possible interpretation of celebs. Living in the jungle and eating bugs, with Ant and Dec at the sharp end of watching over them all, if such an idea was pitched to a TV executive today, would it fly? I’m not sure, but the format clearly works given the viewing figures. If you are among the millions of fans, don’t forget to also catch Get Me Out of Here Extra Camp (ITV2) that follows each main Celebrity episode. In the Extra show, Scarlett Moffatt is the rose between two thorns in the guise of Joe Walsh and Joel Dommett. Tune in and expect lively debate and an opportunity to put questions direct to campmates via social media and the App. For me and one friend, the first note of Christmas used to be the beginning of Once in Royal David’s City via Carols from Kings (expected on BBC2, Christmas Eve).

Celebs (perhaps), real bugs plus start to festive season With that said, now the first festive note seems to be various retailers’ seasonal adverts. Keeping it brief, but that carrot again, seriously! Enough to say I’m disappointed by most, don’t really understand a certain bear in the snow but I love the interpretation of Cinderella (although why aren’t the key players wearing warm clothes in the snow?) The monster under the bed must also get a mention, despite for me having no bearing on the glass slipper story. Peaky Builders (BBC2, Wednesdays) is back for a fourth season, moving on from the earlier cliff-hang-

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er ending. If the start of the latest series is anything to go by, with the story back to Birmingham and more problems for the Shelby family to deal with, some good viewing ahead. Cilian Murphy continues to delight as Thomas Shelby and the return of Tom Hardy as Alfie Solomons can only be a good thing. And now to close, have you ever wondered what TV Must-See you might be missing simply because you do not think a show or series

will appeal? That was me with Formula One, with the final 2017 race in Abu Dhabi due this Sunday live on Sky Sports F1 and Channel 4. Friends on the coast regularly hold Grand Prix parties and a great hit, so I checked out ever-keen not to skip a good party due to TV ignorance! I cut my teeth on the Brazilian Grand Prix; to summarise, billed as a sporting event covering at least 305km not exceeding two hours in length. I was near exhausted just getting my head around the numbers. Imagining F1 cars roaring up the A7 from Malaga and screeching to a halt somewhere south of Cartagena, no such luck. The super cars circled around a track like an overpowered Scalextric set, I had a siesta and someone seemed to win (in fact Sebastian Vettel, just to show I watched the end). F1 has a massive following, and while this TV offering simply isn’t me, for those watching on Sunday, enjoy and don’t forget to check out the Teams’ Tyre Choices before viewing. But I am left wondering just how many F1 fans also tune in most nights to catch the latest in I’m a Celebrity? Critique: AWL, Casares, Costa del Sol.

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7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Claimed and Shamed 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm The Housing Enforcers 12:45pm The Sheriffs are Coming 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One 2:30pm BBC London News 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm Armchair Detectives 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Royal Recipes 5:30pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm Panorama 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Would I Lie to You? 10:00pm New Tricks 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:30pm BBC London News 11:45pm Have I Got a Bit More News for You 12:30am Michael Mcintyre's Big Show

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 2:55pm ITV News London 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm The Martin Lewis Money Show 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:30pm ITV News London 11:45pm Killer Women with Piers Morgan 12:45am Life Inside Jail: Hell on Earth

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An Island Parish Claimed and Shamed Armchair Detectives Women at War Victoria Derbyshire BBC Newsroom Live The Daily Politics The Link Terry and Mason's Great Food Trip Going Back Giving Back The Indian Doctor Oxford Street Revealed Wartime Farm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Eggheads Strictly - It Takes Two Celebrity Antiques Road Trip University Challenge Nigella: At My Table Employable Me Insert Name Here Newsnight Blitz Countryfile Blue Planet II This is BBC Two

7:00am Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 7:20am Planet's Got Talent 7:45am Dinner Date 8:35am Emmerdale 9:00am Coronation Street 10:00am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 10:50am Dinner Date 11:50am I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! 1:20pm Emmerdale 1:50pm Coronation Street 2:50pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3:45pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00pm I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! 8:30pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm Family Guy 10:30pm Ghosted 11:00pm I'm a Celebrity... Extra Camp 12:00am American Dad! 12:30am Family Guy 1:00am Family Guy 1:30am American Dad!

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8:00pm Beyond 100 Days 8:30pm Christmas University Challenge 2015 Jeremy Paxman asks the questions in the Christmas-themed quiz for distinguished university alumni. 9:00pm Building the Ancient City: Athens and Rome Documentary series exploring the ancient cities of Athens and Rome. 10:00pm The Other Pompeii: Life and Death in Herculaneum 11:00pm Last Men in Aleppo 12:30am From Scotland with Love 1:40am Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 2:40am The Other Pompeii: Life and Death in Herculaneum 3:40am Building the Ancient City: Athens and Rome 4:40am This is BBC Four

7:20am King of Queens 8:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00am Frasier 11:05am Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 12:00pm Undercover Boss USA 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Kirstie's Handmade Christmas 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Lost and Found Ep1 5:00pm A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Paul Hollywood 9:30pm Supershoppers 10:00pm 999: What's Your Emergency? 11:00pm First Dates 12:05am Don't Tell the Bride 1:10am One Born Every Minute

8:05am Paw Patrol 8:20am Noddy: Toyland Detective 8:35am Peppa Pig 8:50am Floogals 9:05am Digby Dragon 9:20am Rusty Rivets 9:35am Shimmer and Shine 9:55am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 10:05am Mofy 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:35pm GPs: Behind Closed Doors 1:30pm The Gadget Show 2:25pm 5 News Lunchtime 2:30pm Neighbours 3:00pm Christmas Mail 4:45pm A Perfect Christmas 6:30pm 5 News at 5 7:00pm Neighbours 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm Weather Terror 9:00pm Sinkholes 10:00pm Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railway Journeys 11:00pm Secrets of the Tube: Going Underground 12:05am Inside the Mega Twister

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10:55am Xxx: Return of Xander Cage 12:45pm The 5th Wave 2:45pm The Great Wall 4:40pm Twister 6:40pm Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 9:00pm The Great Wall 10:50pm Xxx: Return of Xander Cage 12:40am Lethal Weapon

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Coronation Street Coronation Street Heartbeat Wild at Heart Judge Judy Judge Judy Judge Judy The Emmy nominated reality courtroom series, presided over by outspoken family court judge. A Touch of Frost Wild at Heart Heartbeat Coronation Street Coronation Street A Touch of Frost Heartbeat Murder, She Wrote Doc Martin Midsomer Murders Blue Murder A Touch of Frost ITV3 Nightscreen Text-based information service. Teleshopping

Snooker v Darts The Chase The Chase Cash Cowboys Storage Wars Storage Wars Ironside Quincy, M.E. The Sweeney The Avengers Ironside Quincy, M.E. The Sweeney The Avengers Cash Cowboys Pawn Stars Pawn Stars River Monsters River Monsters Die Another Day FYI Daily Die Another Day The Road FYI Daily The Road Motorsport UK ITV4 Nightscreen Teleshopping

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Billy Madison Rush Hour 2 Almost Christmas Central Intelligence Big Daddy Two Weeks Notice Bridesmaids Central Intelligence Miss Congeniality Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous How to Lose Friends and Alienate People Hot Shots!

7:00am The Top Ten Show 2017 7:20am In a Valley of Violence 9:20am 12 Days of Giving 11:05am The Night is Young 12:50pm Collateral Beauty When a New York exec Will Smith tips into depression, his scheming partners plan to use his letters to Love, Time and Death against him. 2:45pm Escobar: Paradise Lost 5:00pm Upside Down 7:00pm Burn Country 9:00pm Collateral Beauty 10:45pm The Night is Young 12:25am Escobar: Paradise Lost 2:40am The Girl in the Book 4:25am Upside Down

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Cricket My Icon Sky Sports Daily SKY Sports News SKY Sports News SKY Sports News SKY Sports News SKY Sports News SKY Sports News SKY Sports News Sky Sports Tonight Football The Debate - Live SKY Sports News SKY Sports News NFL Masterclass Live NFL: Houston @ Baltimore Baltimore Ravens take on Houston Texans at M&T Bank Stadium in the NFL. 5:45am Cricket Day five of the second Test between India and Sri Lanka at the VCA Stadium in Nagpur.

9:30am Football's Greatest Teams 10:00am Scottish Cup Greatest Games 10:15am Scottish Cup Greatest Games 10:30am La Liga Greatest Games 10:45am La Liga Greatest Games 11:00am Info not available 5:15pm Scottish Cup Greatest Games 5:30pm La Liga Greatest Games 5:45pm La Liga Greatest Games 6:00pm Football Years 6:30pm Football Countdowns 7:00pm Info not available 7:30pm La Liga Icons 7:45pm La Liga Icons 8:00pm Soccer A.M. 8:30pm Football 11:00pm SPFL Round Up 2017/18 11:15pm SPFL Greatest Games 11:30pm Soccer A.M. 12:00am Football Years 12:30am Football Countdowns

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7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Claimed and Shamed 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm The Housing Enforcers 12:45pm The Sheriffs are Coming 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One 2:30pm BBC London News 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm Armchair Detectives 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Royal Recipes 5:30pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm EastEnders 9:00pm Holby City 10:00pm The A Word 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:30pm BBC London News 11:45pm Drugsland

7:00am An Island Parish: Falklands 7:30am Claimed and Shamed 8:15am Armchair Detectives 9:00am Great British Menu 10:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 1:00pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm The Link 2:45pm Terry and Mason's Great Food Trip 3:15pm Going Back Giving Back 4:00pm The Indian Doctor 4:45pm Oxford Street Revealed 5:15pm Wartime Farm 6:15pm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Strictly - It Takes Two 7:55pm Match of the Day Live 10:00pm MasterChef: The Professionals 11:00pm Motherland

8:00pm Beyond 100 Days 8:30pm Christmas University Challenge 2015 9:00pm Darcey Bussell's Looking for Audrey 10:00pm From Andy Pandy to Zebedee: The Golden Age of Children's Television 11:00pm Arena 12:00am A303: Highway to the Sun 1:00am The Maharajas' Car: The Story of RollsRoyce in India 1:55am Revolution and Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th Century Series in which Suzy Klein explores the transformation of music in the 19th century. 2:55am Darcey Bussell's Looking for Audrey 3:55am Arena 4:55am This is BBC Four

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Good Morning Britain Lorraine The Jeremy Kyle Show This Morning Loose Women ITV Lunchtime News ITV News London Judge Rinder Dickinson's Real Deal Tipping Point The Chase ITV News London ITV Evening News Emmerdale Save Money: Good Food How to Spend it Well at Christmas with Phillip Schofield I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! ITV News at Ten and Weather ITV News London On Assignment Lethal Weapon Action-packed police drama series based on the film franchise.

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Emmerdale Coronation Street Coronation Street The Ellen DeGeneres Show Dinner Date I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! Planet's Got Talent Emmerdale Coronation Street Coronation Street The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Jeremy Kyle Show The Jeremy Kyle Show The Jeremy Kyle Show I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! You've Been Framed! You've Been Framed! Two and a Half Men Two and a Half Men Family Guy Family Guy I'm a Celebrity... Extra Camp Family Guy

Judge Judy Coronation Street Coronation Street Heartbeat Wild at Heart Judge Judy Judge Judy Judge Judy A Touch of Frost Wild at Heart Heartbeat Coronation Street Coronation Street A Touch of Frost Heartbeat Murder, She Wrote Murder mystery series about a sleuthing writer. 9:00pm Doc Martin Comedy drama series about the famously curmudgeonly GP. 10:00pm Midsomer Murders 12:05am Blue Murder Caroline Quentin returns for a new series as DCI Janine Lewis. 1:35am A Touch of Frost 3:20am ITV3 Nightscreen

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Everybody Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond Frasier Frasier Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA Undercover Boss USA Channel 4 News Come Dine with Me Kirstie's Handmade Christmas Countdown Lost and Found A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun Four in a Bed Come Dine with Me The Simpsons Hollyoaks Channel 4 News The Secret Life of 5 Year Olds Grand Designs The Robot Will See You Now

7:00am British Touring Car Crashes and Smashes 7:10am The Chase 8:00am The Chase 8:45am Cash Cowboys 9:35am Pawn Stars Reality series. 10:00am Pawn Stars Reality series. 10:30am Ironside 11:35am Quincy, M.E. 12:35pm The Sweeney 1:45pm The Avengers 2:50pm Ironside 3:55pm Quincy, M.E. 5:00pm The Sweeney 6:00pm The Avengers 7:05pm Cash Cowboys 8:00pm Pawn Stars 8:30pm Pawn Stars 9:00pm The Chase: Celebrity Special 10:00pm FilmPassenger 57 11:05pm FYI Daily A round-up of the latest entertainment news. 11:10pm FilmPassenger 57 11:50pm FilmMars Attacks! 12:50am FYI Daily 12:55am FilmMars Attacks!

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11:00am Black-Ish 11:30am Black-Ish 12:00pm How I Met Your Mother 12:30pm How I Met Your Mother 1:00pm New Girl 1:30pm New Girl 2:00pm The Big Bang Theory 2:30pm The Big Bang Theory 3:00pm The Goldbergs 3:30pm The Goldbergs 4:00pm How I Met Your Mother 4:30pm How I Met Your Mother 5:00pm New Girl 5:30pm New Girl 6:00pm The Goldbergs 6:30pm The Goldbergs 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm First Dates Abroad 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm Tattoo Fixers 11:00pm Rude Tube

1:00pm SKY Sports News All the news from the Premier League and beyond. 2:00pm SKY Sports News All the news from the Premier League and beyond. 3:00pm SKY Sports News 4:00pm SKY Sports News 5:00pm SKY Sports News 6:00pm SKY Sports News 7:00pm SKY Sports News 8:00pm Soccer Special PreMatch 8:30pm Gillette Soccer Special 11:00pm Info not available 12:30am Revista de la Liga A round-up of all of the latest action and goals from Spain's La Liga. 1:00am SKY Sports News 2:00am SKY Sports News 3:00am SKY Sports News 4:00am SKY Sports News 5:00am SKY Sports News

10:55am 12 Rounds 12:55pm Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 3:15pm The Goonies 5:15pm In the Heart of the Sea 7:20pm Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer 9:00pm Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 11:20pm Hanna 1:15am Air Force One

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Peppa Pig Peppa Pig Floogals Digby Dragon Rusty Rivets Shimmer and Shine Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom Mofy The Wright Stuff 40 Below and 5 News Lunchtime Neighbours The Christmas Switch Snowmance 5 News at 5 Neighbours 5 News Tonight Yorkshire: A Year in the Wild Jo Brand's Cats and Kittens Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild The 90s: Most Shocking Celebrity Moments

Norbit Hitch Fred Claus Liar Liar Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie Keanu The Boss Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie Liar Liar Keanu Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

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The Night is Young Burn Country The Girl in the Book Winter Wedding Collateral Beauty Escobar: Paradise Lost Burn Country An aspiring Afghan journalist moves to small-town California and begins investigating the disappearance of a local. Mystery drama. Winter Wedding Collateral Beauty Escobar: Paradise Lost The Night is Young The Hollow One The Girl in the Book A junior editor must confront difficult memories when she crosses paths with the writer who took advantage of her as a teen.

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Spending income to the benefit of all NOW that we enter an AGM free period, Stephen Lewis, Managing Director of LPL Commercial Services takes a breath to look back on what it all means in his world of Community Management Fees Debt Collection. For most residential communities in Spain we have just come out of perhaps the busiest time for Management Committees and their appointed Administrators - the AGM. Dreaded by many, relished by some, stressful for most. For expats and holiday owners alike it is an opportunity to air grievances, discuss the poor quality of gardens, litter, decoration, should we pay for security gates and on and on it goes. But nearly everything discussed at any AGM always comes down to one question - How much money does the Community have to spend? Then the real discussion and arguments start. Who owes what, how much and for how long and more importantly: Why are those residents that pay their management fees subsidising those that do not? It is a sad fact that for years many communities suffer this problem, shout about it at the AGM and discuss the very same subject at the next AGM and often about the same debtors at the next AGM and the next and the next…

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ties in Spain or businesses elsewhere it’s the same story. Unfortunately we have seen in our lifetimes what can happen when we get too

complacent about monies owed on the balance sheet, as was proven through the European and almost world wide banking crisis of 2008 One of the biggest problems besetting communities is not the fact the money does not always come in on time, it’s the fact that many are actually too hesitant to do anything about it. By the time a decision is made the property owner, living outside of Spain, may have moved or incurred other circumstances making it far more difficult to contact them and collect. Worse still some debts are so old that they then become uncollectible because of the Statute of Limitations, which in Scotland is five years and England and Wales in particular six years, as an example. There is no good reason to delay strong collection action on debts of one year, or even sooner. After all why should the well intentioned prompt payers suffer for the misdeeds of those that really don’t care about their Community or worse still are deriving income from renting out their property and are still shirking their payment responsibilities. Wouldn’t it be great to discuss how we can spend Community income to the benefit of all as we have the money in the bank… or better still reduce next year’s charges for a change !

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7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Claimed and Shamed 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm The Housing Enforcers 12:45pm The Sheriffs are Coming 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One 2:30pm BBC London News 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm Armchair Detectives 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Royal Recipes 5:30pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 9:00pm Mary Berry's Country House Secrets 10:00pm The Apprentice 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:30pm BBC London News 11:45pm Match of the Day 1:25am Junior Doctors 1:55am Weather for the Week Ahead 2:00am BBC News

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 2:55pm ITV News London 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Gino's Italian Coastal Escape 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:30pm ITV News London 11:45pm Britain's Busiest Airport - Heathrow 12:45am Play to the Whistle 1:25am Jackpot247 4:00am May the Best House Win 4:50am ITV Nightscreen

7:00am An Island Parish: Falklands 7:30am Claimed and Shamed 8:15am Armchair Detectives 9:00am Nigella: At My Table 9:30am Caught Red Handed 10:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 12:30pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm The Link 2:45pm Terry and Mason's Great Food Trip 3:15pm Going Back Giving Back 4:00pm The Indian Doctor 4:45pm Oxford Street Revealed 5:15pm Wartime Farm 6:15pm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Strictly - It Takes Two 8:00pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 9:00pm MasterChef: The Professionals 10:00pm Peaky Blinders 11:00pm The Apprentice: You're Fired! 11:30pm Newsnight 12:15am Employable Me

7:00am Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 7:20am Planet's Got Talent 7:45am Dinner Date 8:35am Emmerdale 9:00am The Cube 10:00am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 10:50am Dinner Date 11:50am I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! 12:50pm Planet's Got Talent 1:20pm Emmerdale 1:50pm The Guide to You've Been Framed! 2:50pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3:45pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:50pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00pm I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! 8:00pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm Family Guy 10:30pm Family Guy 11:00pm I'm a Celebrity... Extra Camp 12:00am Family Guy

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8:00pm Beyond 100 Days The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective. 8:30pm Christmas University Challenge 2015 Jeremy Paxman asks the questions in the Christmas-themed quiz for distinguished university alumni. 9:00pm How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears 10:00pm Digging for Britain 11:00pm Detectorists Comedy series about two metal-detecting friends. 11:30pm The League of Gentlemen Black comedy series about small-town life. 12:00am Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet 12:55am Looking for Mr Bond: 007 at the BBC

7:20am King of Queens 8:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00am Frasier 10:35am Frasier 11:05am Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 12:00pm Undercover Boss USA 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Kirstie's Handmade Christmas 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Lost and Found 5:00pm A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm The Secret Life of the Zoo 10:00pm The Channel 11:00pm Man Down 11:35pm How to Build a Robot 12:40am 999: What's Your Emergency? 1:40am Pokerstars Championship

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The Chase The Chase Cash Cowboys Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Ironside Quincy, M.E. The Sweeney The Avengers Ironside Quincy, M.E. The Sweeney The Avengers Cash Cowboys Pawn Stars Pawn Stars River Monsters Britain's Busiest Motorway Inside London Fire Brigade Crank FYI Daily Crank Hot Tub Time Machine 2 FYI Daily Hot Tub Time Machine 2 Ax Men The Protectors Teleshopping

Bob the Builder Fireman Sam Thomas and Friends The Secret Life of Puppies Paw Patrol Noddy: Toyland Detective Peppa Pig Peppa Pig Floogals Digby Dragon Rusty Rivets Shimmer and Shine Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom Mofy The Wright Stuff A Bride for Christmas 5 News Lunchtime Neighbours Last Chance Holiday My Christmas Love 5 News at 5 Neighbours 5 News Tonight Traffic Cops Special GPs: Behind Closed Doors Wallis: The Queen That Never Was Mobo Awards 2017

8:45am 300 10:45am Lawrence of Arabia 2:20pm Underworld: Blood Wars 4:00pm True Lies 6:25pm Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 9:00pm 300 11:00pm Underworld: Blood Wars 12:35am Hitman

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Let’s not forget our Christmas past IN response to an article in UK media saying scripture union are taking out any reference to the Bible in this year’s nativity, I would like to say this. I have lived in Spain for 27 years and when I first came Father Christmas was unknown. Christmas was a celebration of the Bible story with the Three Kings bringing the presents. Since then I have seen Santa arrive and slowly take over. He now rides with the Three Kings, it is he that is promoted in shops where children visit him, and the Nativity story is slowly disappearing. In a few years’ time it will no doubt just be a secular, commercial holiday with no mention of Jesus. We have had Father Christmas in the UK for so long that we are not aware of the damage he has done to the truth of Jesus. If the church promotes fictional characters to children, when they find out we lied to them how will they believe in Jesus? This year, let’s be aware of who we are promoting in our Christmas celebrations. Rev Howard Coley, Iglesia Evangelical Elim Pentecostal

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Peck off, seagulls dens. Families walking down the Main Street eating an ice cream, pasty, or fish ‘n’ chips will be swooped upon and all food torn from their hands, sometimes causing nasty injuries, yet we cannot hurt them because they are protected even though it gets worse week after week. When householders put out their rubbish for collection the gulls arrive long before the binmen and rip open bags before scoffing everything in sight. Be warned Benidorm, if you do not stop and curb this now you will be sorry!

I WAS reading last week’s issue earlier today outside a bar in Javea, and your article about seagulls becoming more of a menace in Benidorm got me thinking. I would like to give the council some advice. I live in Newquay and can tell you that we have an epidemic of these flying rats. They cause trouble and damage and leave filth everywhere. People have even been attacked by these horrible birds when they are nesting or have young chicks on a roof, and it is documented that they have killed small dogs in private gar-

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Ryanair cancel flights due to French air traffic strike F... French. Always too few for them. Always on strike... ALWAYS. They have such high salaries. So much protection.. and it is always TOO FEW.. Kasia They cancel for the slightest reason - what’s next: someone sneezed and they took down half the timetable! Geoff Kerr Having been caught up in the chaos on October 10, I feel for people affected by this!! Mandy Cooke

Police investigate biker for reckless driving I recently saw a biker drive straight through a line of pedestrians on a zebra crossing, also been overtaken on zebra crossings many times by bikers. It’s as though the laws don’t apply to some bikers here! S D There should be more of this action taken especially when motor cyclists drive with their feet off the pedals and using them as a balancing act. The police could have a field day. Trisha Rodgers If you want to ride like that go to the Isle of Man during the TT on mad Sunday. Michael Hearne

Comments from EWN online French air traffic control strike likely to affect UK-Spain flights And this is the country that won the bid to host an Olympic Games - athletes and spectators could find themselves in a pickle because they’re sure to take advantage of this! Tina Sexton Never fail do they. Ought to make these dates national holidays. Richard Taylor

12-year-old girl pregnant by boy same age How sad as she is only a baby herself. Kath Dickman Babies having babies, not good. Carol Garrington

British Airways passengers to board by ticket price No point to booking early at the lesser fares then! I used BA last June from LHR to Murcia. Reserved seat wasn’t honoured (paid extra and didn’t get any form or priority in the queue). This new system has reinforced my view that they are no better than Ryanair. Are BA thinking it ok to provide punitive boarding priorities simply because a few others do it? A race to the bottom begins! That’s two airlines off my list now that may force me to put my carry on bag in the hold. Why risk laptop, cameras and lenses, and other dear personal effects down there? Dave Arnold BA has gone to pot! Try and get a drink when you sit at the back of the plane! Had four trips didn’t get a drink. easyJet is far better. Peter Urquhart Who’s the mug? The one that got on first. They paid more for their flight, last on got the cheapest deal, I’ll take that every time. Stephen Jordan

LEAPY LEE is right. There I’ve said it. His piece on the ludicrous situation of a Somali convicted criminal receiving almost 80 grand of public money after being put inside over a dozen times in 15 years only highlights that the world has gone absolutely stark staring mad. You have to think there is more to this surely. How can something be so obviously wrong!? Philip, San Fulgencio

No, Leapy SO Leapy Lee thinks a good reason for the UK leaving the EU is because they have ruled someone has to be given money for being wrongly imprisoned? This is only a drop in the ocean compared to the billions the Spanish tax man would have pocketed from inheritance tax had not the EU intervened and ruled it illegal! There are a lot more positive rulings from the European courts than the silly cherry picking oddments that Leapy seems to relish in. Ray Osborne, Los Alcazares

Puzzle plea NOT A complaint because I enjoy your paper, but if you want to make it even better please publish the answers to the puzzles the same week. We all try but if the puzzles are beyond us no one can retain an interest in the answers until the next issue. I know loads of people who can’t be bothered having a go because of this. Norman, address withheld Editor’s note: Many thanks for the feedback. Is this something others would like to see? Please write in with your views.

Just shocking THE recent hysteria over a series of small earthquakes and their potential to generate a mile-high tsunami in Tenerife beggars belief. People should spend less time reading nonsense ‘shock’ journalism and more time worrying about real issues like the drought here in Spain. Alan Smith, Canary Islands

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Dubbed the ‘gateway to Europe’ by drug cartels, is Spain doing

Cocaine nights and days With more than 20 tons of cocaine seized in Spain last year, it is time to talk about the white stuff. David Noon takes a deeper look into the nation’s coke habit to find out where it is coming from, where it is going and most importantly, what is being done to stop it. F in Spain and after cocaine, you shouldn’t find it too hard to come by. While the sea ports in the north and south see more than 20 tons seized each year, a whole lot more slips through the net and seeps into the country and on to the wider continent. Known as the drug trafficker’s gateway to Europe, Spain sees more coke shipped onto its shores than any other country in Europe. And while not all of it stays in Spain, locals have undoubtedly developed a taste for the drug. In fact, Spaniards are the second-highest consumers of the white stuff in Europe. With 9.1 per cent of Spaniards (aged 15 - 65) openly admitting to taking cocaine at one time or another they sit just behind the Brits (9.7 per cent) in terms of consumption, according to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) official 2017 European Drug Report.

In terms of world consumption, Spaniards are fifth, while the Brits are one place higher, with Albania topping the charts just ahead of the Scots, according to the latest information on the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime website. Surprisingly Colombians are down in 34th, as while they are the number one manufacturer of cocaine they ship most of what they make. While Spain ranks high, the country is (slowly) tackling the problem. Between 2005 and 2013, daily cocaine use in Spain dropped 37 per cent and demand fell for recovering addicts. Nowadays, only 1 per cent of the nation’s population are regular users, however a delegate for the government’s drug prevention unit (the GDNPD), Francisco Babín, believes more can still be done. “For a long time, we topped the tables for cocaine use and although we are now in second place [in Europe], we

Brits held in one of Spain’s largest ever cocaine busts NOVEMBER 2017 can’t be complacent,” he says. “For instance, the EMCDDA’s Statistical Bulletin shows Spain still has the highest score for the ‘prevalence [of use] in the last month category. It’s pretty worrying, although consumption has dropped in the last decade,” adds Babín. “Cocaine was in the spotlight for a long time because there was an epidemic,” he says. “However, its prevalence and the consequences of use of the drug have led the GDNPD to suggest we are on the brink of a second epidemic.” When you think of drugs and Spain, you automatically think of happy-go-lucky holidaymakers revelling in haunts renowned as party towns. The likes of Ibiza, Puerto Banus and Magaluf have a reputation - like it, or not - for being party zones where the good times flow and drugs are available on tap. And while a fair amount of the white stuff may be consumed in Spain’s touristfilled party resorts, that is just the tip of the iceberg. In reality, cocaine is consumed up and down the length and breadth of the country. And while it may be prevalent on the dancefloors it is at the country’s ports where the drug begins its journey across the Iberian peninsular. Every week, jaw-dropping seizures of amounts of coke are made at ports from Algeciras in the south to Vigo in the Galician heartland. Earlier this month, more than a ton of cocaine bound for Algeciras was intercepted in Germany on its way from Colombia. With a street value of €75 million, the interception was just the latest example of the Drug

Ramsay’s cocaine nightmares IT is hardly the natural follow-on from his successful ‘Kitchen Nightmares’ show. Swapping the kitchen for the jungle, foul-mouthed celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay launched into getting to the bottom of Europe’s drug problem. He was driven to take on a topic close to his heart after a ‘dear friend’ lost his life to cocaine addiction, paying particular attention to the cocaine culture which apparently is rife within the catering trade. Claiming that he has been offered coke by customers, seen chefs taking it on the job, Ramsay even claimed to have been asked to sprinkle cocaine on top of a soufflé by celebrity clients.

IN THE JUNGLE: Gordon Ramsay.

CORRUPTION: Galician leader with known drug lord

Ship loaded with €220 million cocaine haul halted on way to Spain OCTOBER 2017

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g enough to tackle its problem?

SAY what you will about drug smugglers, their creativity cannot be denied. The days of lining suitcases with cocaine are long gone as gangs come up with ingenious ways to transport their product. Here are some of the most surreal drug busts disguised on Spain’s shores.

9.1% of Spaniards between 15-65 have taken cocaine 1% of Spain’s population regularly use cocaine €70 million, the value of a ton of cocaine €40 the average cost of buying a gram of cocaine 87,000 cocaine seizures in Europe in 2015

Enforcement Agency (DEA), in the US, working with respective bodies around Europe to prevent the South American product from entering Europe. And yet, while seizing a ton of cocaine is not to be sniffed at (excuse the pun), far more is getting into the country than is being intercepted. In 2015 more than 60 per cent of all drug seizures in the European Union were reported by just three countries; Spain, France and the United Kingdom. Spain alone accounted for 70 per cent of all cannabis resin coming into Europe, the majority of seizures taking place in the ports along the south coast with the product shipping in from Morocco. And when it comes to cocaine, Spain again tops the charts when it comes to seizures. In total, around 87,000 seizures of cocaine were reported in the European Union in 2015. Together, Belgium, Spain, France, Italy and Portugal account for 78 per cent of the estimated 69.4 tons seized. The situation has remained relatively stable for the last 10 years, although both the number of seizures and the quantity held increased between 2014 and 2015 by around 3 per cent. While Spain continues to be the country seizing the most cocaine (22 tons), Belgium (17 tons) and France (11 tons) also held large amounts in 2015. So why is Spain such a popular destination for

LOCKED UP: Robert Dawes.

Colombian cocaine cartel smashed by Spanish police MARCH 2017

FRUIT CASES: Coke hidden in bananas.

Surreal smuggles GOING BANANAS In March the Guardia Civil intercepted 17 kilos of cocaine inside banana skins. Hidden inside cardboard boxes on their way to Malaga and Valencia, 57 simulated resin bananas containing cocaine were hidden among real bananas. It resulted in the arrest of two men; a Spaniard and an Italian. ORANGE ALERT Just last month, two containers of Brazilian oranges were seized at the port of Algeciras. Hidden among the fruit were 250

camouflaged packages of cocaine, died orange to avoid detection. Police recovered 290 kilograms of cocaine and were able to link it to a South American supplier. NUTS! They may be dubbed a ‘super food’ but one batch of almonds had a secret ingredient stashed inside its container. Delivered to a plant in Alicante in September, police seized around 200 kilos of cocaine hidden beneath the nuts. Shipped from California the Guardia Civil are hoping to

smugglers looking for a way into Europe? Up north in Galicia, the ports are renowned as the gateway to Europe in terms of drugs entering from South America. The Galician Mafia - a collective term for the numerous clans (mainly Galician, some British) that reside in the area - set up strong connections to the narco-traffickers in Colombia during the 1980s and ‘90s, as well as establishing strong ties to cannabis smugglers in Morocco. And like anywhere in Spain, where there is crime there is corruption. Allegations of political corruption arose when pictures were found of Galician leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo on holiday with convicted smuggler Marcial Dorado. The People’s Party of Galicia has also been accused of being financed with narco money. And some local politicians, including Alfredo Bea Gondar (mayor of O Grove 1983 - 1991) and José Ramón Barral Martínez ‘Nené’ (mayor of Ribadumia 1983 - 2001) have been sentenced for crimes relating to drug gangs in the past. Meanwhile, in the south, along the Costa del Sol, the Costa Blanca and Costa de la Luz as well as on Spain’s islands the expat gangs - be it Russians, Brits or Irish - have long set up camp. Barely a week goes by without a report of an expat

use the seizure as part of a wider investigation. MORE NUTS! It is not just Spain’s ports that receive hidden drug packages, the airports confiscate their fair share of suspect items too. In June, 48 kilos of liquid cocaine was found inside a coconut at Madrid airport, hidden among 65 boxes of coconuts from Colombia. The coconut had been drained and refilled, with the seizure leading to two Colombian men and a Venezuelan woman being arrested.

drug gang being split up. In December 2015 it was the turn of British drug lord Robert Dawes, whose multi-million euro cocaine-fuelled empire came crashing down when the Guardia Civil stormed his home in Benalmadena in dramatic fashion. Dubbed ‘Europe’s biggest drug lord’ Dawes, originally from Nottingham, was extradited to France where he faced charges of transporting a ton of cocaine. He is also wanted by the police in the Netherlands in connection to a number of murders. Earlier this year, a British drugs gang was again rumbled on Spanish soil. Accused of flooding the Balearic Islands with cocaine and supplying holidaymakers with their fix, 12 Brits from Manchester and Liverpool were arrested in a raid in Mallorca. The gang reportedly shipped their product around Spain’s islands using speedboats to capitalise on the summer surge in demand from young holidaymakers. No doubt there will be more tales of expat - and local gangs busted for dealing enormous amounts of cocaine. The unfortunate reality is, that while the demand remains high and the supplies keep coming, dealers will continue to operate. Where one drug lord falls, another steps into his shoes.

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The repayment of a favour should see you with extra money in your pocket. Holding on to it is your best bet. Trying to change someone close is so obviously not going to work that it is surprising you tried for so long.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) A social gathering turns up an old friend who makes an offer. Although you may feel unworthy, please be reminded of the times in the past when you have given them support. It will be through others that real progress will be made.

LEO (July 24 - August 23) Keep energy levels high by being at the hub of any social activities. Accept all invitations, however dull you feel that they may turn out and allow yourself to be surprised. Continue with any check-ups on your health, eating sensibly if you overindulged during the holiday. There is no better time to make that special effort.

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) As you have decided to rearrange both your business and home life, it is a busy time, indeed. You enjoy a challenge so it will not worry you that other people have different ideas. Although you are not inclined to listen to silly whims, some things crop up time and again and have to be dealt with at some point.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) Concentrating on hearth and home gives you great satisfaction. As a born home-maker, you relish the idea of making something beautiful. This week it may be possible to show more of your skills when someone seeks your advice. You could end up helping with appearances.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Making a new start is not always the exciting thing that people imagine. When there are still old matters to be resolved, it takes the edge off the pleasure. It may be worth cooling off a new relationship until your social life is more settled. An urge to move around could be caused by your not facing a problem straight on.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) Get both business and personal plans sorted out in the coming week. Thereafter, changes to your routine may be necessary, which is disruptive. The best-laid plans can need adjustment, so don't beat yourself up over that.

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Someone close has ideas about how things should be at home this Christmas. Although you wish to show an interest, and should, they may be more 'hands on' than you. Do whatever your talents allow to help because this will not be forgotten.

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TOE THE LINE: Soak your feet regularly to help prevent ingrown toenails.

AS the weather cools we increasingly tend to cover up our feet more with socks or closedtoe shoes. While this change helps keep us warmer it can also increase the risk of suffering an ingrown toenail. This painful condition can also be exacerbated by highheeled or tight shoes we wear at parties during the festive season. Other risk factors include improperly trimmed toenails which cause the nail to dig in to the surrounding skin, trauma to the nail or a fungal infection. Symptoms include a reddened, warm and painful toe end, extra skin growing around the corners of your nail or occasionally a white or yellow dis-

What a pain charge. In serious cases, the skin around the nail may become infected. So what can you do to avoid or treat an ingrown toenail? Luckily, there are plenty of things you can do to help prevent one developing in the first place. The most important one is to clip or trim toenails well in the first place ensuring they are cut in a straight line, not a curve. Also take care not to over file the corner of your nails as the curved shaped is more likely to dig into surrounding skin. It is also important to keep feet clean and dry and wear shoes with enough room for your toes.

If you are unlucky enough to suffer from one, there are several home remedies which might help. The Mayo Clinic advises soaking your feet in warm water for 15 to 20 minutes three or four times a day to reduce pain and swelling. It also recommends putting dental floss or clean cotton under the affected nail, after soaking, to separate it from the skin. Finally, apply an antibiotic cream to prevent infection. If all else fails, though, a doctor will be able to give you the best advice or treatment to have you on your feet again in no time.

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Varicose vein troubling you? AS well as being unsightly, varicose veins can be painful. Luckily, new techniques mean they can be treated in a less invasive way. Varicose veins are veins that have become enlarged and tortuous (twisted). The term commonly refers to the veins on the leg, although varicose veins can occur elsewhere. The problem is due to two things: genetic predisposition and environmental factors. Although both are necessary, the proportion of each one changes the type of varicose vein you may have and are most common in the superficial veins of the legs, which are subject to high pressure when standing. Severe long standing varicose veins can lead to leg swelling, venous eczema, skin thickening (lipodermatosclerosis) and ulceration. Life threatening complications are uncommon but varicose veins may be confused with deep vein thrombosis, which may be life threatening. Non surgical treatments include sclerotherapy, elastic stockings, elevating the legs and exercise. The traditional surgical treatment has, in the past, been vein stripping to remove the affected veins. Newer, less invasive treatments which seal the main leaking vein are available. Alternative techniques, such as ultrasound guided foam

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Pearly whites BEAUTY BATH: Are milk baths really the key to youthful skin? IT was good enough for Cleopatra and now Holly Willoughby has said she is also a fan of a milk bath. The presenter shared the beauty tip in an interview last month, swearing by the cheap and simple trick to give her soft, glowing skin. The craze also has some valid science behind it with skin specialist, Dr David Jack, telling one publication, “milk contains lactic acid, which is a member of the family of alpha-hydroxy acids (AHAs) that break down the bonds between dead skin cells, removing them from the skin’s surface, so there is a gentle exfoliating effect. The sugar chain molecules that milk contains are also a

Bathe like a queen humectant - attracting water to the skin to boost hydration.” Now the weather is colder, what better time could there be to enjoy a relaxing soak in the tub using your own home-made milk recipe? For skin that shines like an A lister, website, www.julieban ner.com recommends mixing one part powdered milk with a quarter part corn starch and a quarter part baking soda. The last two ingredients allow you to add an essential oil to the mixture while it maintains its powder form. Add a favourite essential oil to your preferred

quantity, bearing in mind it will become diluted once in the bath. Ginger essential oil is shown to reduce pain and anxiety while lifting the mood, whereas lavender oil - Holly’s choice - is a natural disinfectant and helps boost circulation while its scent is naturally relaxing. Both oils are good choices for masking the smell of the powdered milk, making your bath more spa time and less milkshake! For a final royal touch, add a handful of fresh or dried rose petals to your mixture. The result will be a skin boosting treat fit for a queen.

TOOTH damage happens to us all at one point, either through injury, natural wear and tear or occasionally tooth decay. While it is always best to see a dentist, if you are struggling to get an appointment or don’t have the time, there are some things you can do to treat a tooth before you see a professional. If the tooth just has a minor chip and no nerves are exposed, it may just be that you need to cover a jagged edge before you see a dentist. You can fill a chip temporarily yourself to avoid lacerating your tongue on the broken edge. According to Sarasota Dentistry, ask your pharmacist for temporary filling material to cover the gap for a short time or alternatively use wax. If your tooth is in a lot of pain, however, you may have a more serious chip and should see your dentist immediately

TOOTHY TRUTH: Always visit your dentist if you have pain in your tooth. to avoid damaging the dental pulp and potentially losing the tooth. If you have knocked your tooth and it is now loose, see a dentist as soon as possible. Your dentist may be able to put it back in its original position. According to Mamaroneck Oral Surgery, the longer you leave it, the higher your chance of needing root canal. If your tooth comes out completely, you may be able to save it if you respond

quickly. Make an immediate appointment at your dentist and pick up your tooth by the crown without touching the roots. Clean it with saliva or cold water and place it back in its socket, holding it in place with a clean cloth until you get to the dentist. If you are unable to place it back in position, put it in a glass of milk or saliva. If you get to a dentist within 30 minutes you have a good chance of saving the tooth.

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ma jority of the mois ture from your hair before you even begin drying it. Acc ording to Buz z fe e d, this surprisingly effective tip will reduce the amount of time you ne e d w ith your hairdryer. The website also advises cutting down on the number of s e c tions you dry your hair in, suggesting just four. Simply divide your hair into one section at the front, one at the back, one at each side a nd c lip it off. This w ill make hair easier to manage and take some of the hassle out of drying. The re a re a ls o s e ve ra l products available which w ill he lp re duc e drying time. Why not try a roller brush which incorporates small amounts of microfibre c loth w hic h dra w s w a te r away from the hair? Or how about investing in an Ionic dryer, which uses negative ions to break water molecules down, allowing them to evaporate faster? Finally, there are several blow dry accelerator sprays on the market which claim to w ic k w a te r a w a y from hair, reducing the time you dry your hair. So why not give some of these tips a go and reap the benefits of glossy, bouncy hair all winter?

SPECIALIST: Doctor Luis Perez Belmonte. WHAT is a hernia? A hernia is nothing more than a weakening of the muscles in an area in the body which allows an internal part to pass through. Most typically these occur in the groin and abdominal area. How do hernias occur? The weakening of muscle walls or physical strain can force internal parts to move from one place to another. For example, an inguinal hernia can occur when fatty tissue or a part of your bowel pokes through into your groin at the top of your inner thigh. What are its symptoms? The main symptom is the appearance of a lump in the groin or abdominal area. This lump tends to be soft and can sometimes be simply pushed back in. Sometimes they can be painful and in certain cases they can cut off the circulation to the intestine which will require surgery.

How do you treat them? In general hernias need to be operated on to avoid complications. If you decide not to undergo surgery, compressive straps and avoiding physical strains can prevent them from appearing, or growing larger. Should you seek medical help? You should always go see your doctor if a hernia appears so they can refer you to a surgeon. Do they tend to come back after the first time? After a hernia has been operated on it is difficult for it to appear in the same place, however they can appear elsewhere. Are there ways of preventing them? Avoiding heavy lifting and other strenuous activities, as well as core muscle exercises which can prevent them from appearing, however they can still form despite these measures.

If you have any questions for Dr Perez Belmonte, please send them to: jefemedico@helicopterossanitarios.com

HEALTH & BEAUTY OUR heart is arguably our most important organ, ensuring oxygen is pumped around our bodies, keeping everything functioning as it should. Increasingly though, a modern lifestyle means we don’t look after our hearts as much as we may want. Fast food, smoking, drinking and sedentary habits prevent this organ from working at its best. In turn this can lead to anything from reduced energy to heart diseases like angina or even a heart attack or stroke.

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Heart-healthy eating According to charity, LiveStrong, however, “the food choices you make can drastically affect your heart health, energy and appetite control.” So what are the best foods to look after your heart? One of Spain’s easiest fruits to grow is watermelon which provides an array of benefits

for your heart. Containing lycopene which has been shown to lower the risk of heart disease and cancer, as well as citrulline which is believed to improve blood vessels, the fruit also contains antioxidants which help fight cancer causing free radicals. Another of Spain’s best-

selling fruits is avocado which offers potassium, a mineral which regulates blood pressure, and carotenoids, which have been shown to reduce the risk of death from cardiovascular diseases, according to Bridget Swinney, an American dietician.

Berries also give us an abundance of heart improving benefits. These fruits lower blood pressure while increasing levels of good cholesterol and lowering levels of bad choles-

terol. They also contain an abundance of antioxidants and polyphenols, chemicals which help blood vessels to relax. And finally, several types of beans provide the fibre we need to bind to cholesterol, removing it from our bodies before it reaches our arteries. They also contain Omega 3 fatty acids which are essential for good heart health. Try lima, kidney, black or white beans for a dose of those important nutrients.

TASTY TREAT: Eating a portion of watermelon every day can keep your heart healthy.

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TORREVIEJA will be honouring its patron saint La Inmaculada Concepción from Sunday to December 10 with a series of events including parades, the running of the ‘inflatable’ bulls, concerts, a paella competition and of course fireworks! This week, we can bring you the programme in full detail. • Sunday November 26: 4.30pm - Grand Children’s Parades starting at CC Virgen Del Carmen, going along Calle Ramon Gallud and finishing at the Teatro Municipal. • Friday December 1: 5.45pm - First Parade of the Giants and Big Heads from the Plaza de la Constitución • Saturday December 2: 11.30am - Running of the inflatable bulls from Calle Maestro Vallejos to the Paseo Vista Alegre. 1pm - Second Parade of the Giants and Big Heads from the Plaza de la Constitución. 4.30pm - Band Parade and Floral Offerings from the Plaza Constitución

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TWO WEEK CELEBRATION: The Fiestas de la Inmaculada. along Calle Ramón Gallud, finishing at the Iglesia Sagrado Corazón de Jesús. 5pm - Flower Offering at the Iglesia del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús. 9.30pm - Third Parade of the Giants and Big Heads from the Plaza de la Constitución.

• Sunday December 3: 11am - Crazy Car Race from Calle Bazen, along Diego Ramirez Pastor finishing in the Plaza Constitucion. 1pm - Extraordinary Concert by the Union Musical Torrevejense in the Paseo Vista Alegre. 1pm - Fourth Parade of the Giants

and Big Heads from the Plaza de la Constitución. 5.45pm - Fifth Parade of the Giants and Big Heads from the Plaza de la Constitución. • Monday December 4: 5.45pm - Sixth Parade of the Giants and Big Heads from the Plaza de

la Constitución. • Tuesday December 5: 5.45pm - Seventh Parade of the Giants and Big Heads from the Plaza de la Constitución. • Wednesday December 6: 11am - Institutional act of the Day of the Spanish Constitution in the Plaza de la Constitución. Midday - Paella Competition at the Friday Market Site, Parque Antonio Soria. Midday - Eighth Parade of the Giants and Big Heads at the Parque Antonio Soria. • Thursday December 7: 12.30pm - Ninth Parade of the Giants and Big Heads from the Plaza de la Constitución. 5.45pm - Tenth Parade of the Giants and Big Heads from the Plaza de la Constitución. • Friday December 8: 7am - Early morning music parade through the streets of Torrevieja. 7pm - Solemn Procession with the statue of the Inmaculada Concepción.

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Get building that Christmas tree TORREVIEJA has launched its first ever Christmas Tree competition. With the combined aim of enhancing the Christmas spirit in the city centres of Torrevieja and La Mata as well as encouraging and boosting local business at this time of the year, the competition was announced by Councillor Manuel Osuna. It’s open to young people 16-years-old and over and the trees will be made up of 12 wooden exhibits in the form of a pyramid that will be installed across both municipalities. People can take part either as individuals or in groups made up of a maximum of three, and will receive a contribution of €70 from the council to be used on materials. The trees will be painted between December 15 and 17 and any kind of design will be allowed, provided it’s resistant to being displayed in the open air. Applications can be made between November 27 and 30 at the office in Calle Bazán 6 and it will be on a first come-first served basis for the first 12 applications received. The 12 will then be judged by a jury composed of members from schools and public offices and the prize money on offer is €600 (1st prize), €400 (2nd prize) and €150 (3rd prize).

TREE-MENDOUS: There are cash prizes up for grabs.

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BE CAREFUL: If you’re out and about in Bigastro at the weekend!

Beware of the zombies BIGASTRO will be the scene for a zombie adventure this weekend. Beginning tomorrow night (Friday) at 11pm and going right throughout the night and into the early hours of Saturday morning (due to finish at 5.30am) the event is collaboration between the town hall and specialist company LZD. They have a wealth of experience organising such events which sees a mix of live performers in amazing costumes with a number of competitions, challenges and surprises for everyone. Tickets are available at a range of prices

depending on whether those taking part want to play the roles of survivors of the apocalypse or be one of the zombies themselves. They’re available from the Auditorio Municipal Francisco Grau and also via the organising company’s website at www.eventoszom bies.com. A number of people from all over the Vega Baja have been invited to take part in this event so just be a little wary and careful if you’re out and about or driving in Bigastro overnight on Friday / Saturday... and don’t have nightmares!

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Social scene events round-up... in brief ASPE Aspe is offering a number of La Fiesta Route Guided Walks during the months of November and December. The walks will start at 12:00 from the Tourist Information Office and will incorporate all the most important aspects of their Fiestas as well as history, interesting facts and traditions. The routes are free, but booking in advance is necessary at the Tourist Office, by email aspe@touristinfo.net or by phone 966 919 900. The remaining dates for this year are: Tomorrow (Friday), Friday December 1 and December 15 and Thursday December 7. • Hondon de los Frailes Hondon de los Frailes will be hosting their sixth Gastronomic Fair on Sunday December 3. Stalls will be located in both the Plaza del Ayuntamiento and along Calle Juan Carlos I. There will be all types of local and international food and drink available as well as

a selection of handmade goods and an exhibition of horses. • Alicante The International Puppet Festival will once again be taking place in Alicante, this time from Friday December 1 to Sunday December 10. This will be the 30th edition of this popular event during which there is a packed programme of puppet shows, workshops, exhibitions and demonstrations for all ages. • Novelda The fifth Grape Fair will take place in Novelda on Sunday, when many of the local producers will be exhibiting in the Plaza Vieja from 10.30am until 9pm and there will be a packed programme of entertainment and activities. Novelda is famous for providing many of the grapes which are eaten one per second on the 10 seconds before midnight every New Year’s Eve. The local growers put the bunches in paper bags, conserving them so that they are picked just in time for the New Year’s celebra-

tions. • Totana Totana will be holding a Jurassic Market in Totana from tomorrow (Friday) until Sunday. During this unique weekend held in the Plaza de la Constitucion, there will be a number of live shows - including ‘living dinosaurs’ - fire eating, general entertainment, exhibitions and photo sessions, not forgetting a line up of stalls selling a variety of wares. • San Javier San Javier is proud to present the 10th holding of their Tapas and Cocktail Route that has already been underway for two weeks but continues until Monday December 6. A total of 36 cafes and restaurants are offering something for all tastes with a tapa and a drink for €2.50, a cocktail for €3 or a dessert for €3. The brochure containing all the events is available from the San Javier Tourist Office and all of the participating establishments.

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15th edition of To route gets offic COUNCILLOR for Tourism, Fanny Serrano, has presented the 15th edition of the Ruta de la Tapa that will be held from today (Thursday) to Sunday December 3 in Torrevieja. A truly gastronomic event that will see 45 venues participating and offering an amazing selection of 180 very varied tapas. Among a sample of the sumptuous offerings during the 11-day event are a number of interesting combinations turning popular foods - such as the humble hamburger or the kebab - into gourmet items. The presentation has been excellent and many of the restaurants taking part have prepared tapas suitable for celiac sufferers. The commitment to using meat as in integral part of the tapas continues, always combining with a myriad of sauces of different flavours and sensations to satisfy the taste buds. Seafood is also an important element that brings the city’s fishing culture to highlight their produce with some interesting tapas with grilled fish as the base.

MY recent comments on Tempranillo led to requests from readers for additional information which I am happy to provide. It is useful when buying Tempranillo to understand the four legal ageing terms listed on most Spanish wine bottles as they by Lorenzo affect quali- Barbareschi ty and flavour. • Vin Joven: rarely aged in oak, they are released young, intended for immediate consumption, and are not very common outside Spain. • Crianza: reds aged for two years with six months in oak, traditionally American which is stronger than other types (ie French). • Reserva: reds aged three years, with one year in oak, resulting in a higher quality with richer, round flavours. • Gran Reserva: exceptional vintage wines, aged a minimum of five years with 18 months of oak ageing.

PRESENTATION: Of a truly gastronomic Price is €2 for a ‘normal’ tapa and €2.50 for the ‘gourmet’ offerings, both including drinks. The hours of the trail are from 12 midday to 4.30pm and in the evening from 7.30pm to 11pm. Those who participate in this event will be able to vote for their favourite tapas

Tempranillo: What’s in a label…

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AGEING TERMS: Affect quality and flavour. Depending on the region, Tempranillo is known under various names: Tinta del País in Ribera del Duero, Tinta de Toro in Toro, Ull de Llebre in Catalonia, Cencibel in Valdepenas where it is the predominant red grape and Tinto Fino in other regions. Tempranillo is most commonly blended with Garnacha, Mazuela, Merlot, Monastrell and Cabernet Sauvignon; is the major component of the typical Ri-

oja blends and constitutes 90-100 per cent of Ribera del Duero wines. Reasonably-priced labels of Tempranillo ‘vin Joven’ include Rioja 2016 Pagos del Rey by Castillo de Albai; Crin Rioja; and Senorio de Los Llanos by Garcia de Carrion. Recommended to serve at 15ºC, this can be achieved by putting the open bottle into the fridge 15 minutes before pouring. Happy tasting.

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event. through t h e Ruta de la Tapa Torrevieja app, freely available for both iOS and Android.

OPEN DAY: All animal lovers are invited.

Animal shelter holds open day TORREVIEJA’S councillor for Animal Protection, Carmen Morate, has announced the date for the next open day at Albergue Municipal Animal Shelter. It will be on Sunday December 2, and is the third month in succession that people have the chance to visit the shelter to see the gorgeous pets, meet the people who work and volunteer there and see how they work on a day-to-day basis. There will be a dog show and parade of all the animals that are up for adoption. You can also visit the cats and, to

quote Carmen, “you can receive a purr in exchange for a caress and a cuddle!” There will be a market selling items to raise funds for the shelter, which includes a table for tasting vegan food and a craft workshop for children run by volunteers of the Asociación Animalistas of Torrevieja. All animals lovers are invited to attend between 11.30am and 1pm at the Torrevieja Animal Shelter, on Calle Nenúfares between and behind the Local Police station and fire station close to Habaneras shopping centre.

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IN addition to the normal Services, the Anglican Chaplaincy of St Peter and St Paul are holding special Services over the Christmas period: La Siesta December 5, 11.00am: Chaplaincy Advent Carol Service; December 11, 6.30pm: Joint Ecumenical Carol Service; December 24, 11.30pm: Midnight Mass - Holy Eucharist. Los Balcones December 12, 6.30pm: Carol Service with

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Special Xmas services ‘Phoenix Band’; December 17, 10.30pm: Christingle Service; December 25, 10.30am: Christmas Day - Holy Eucharist. Campoverde December 20, 6.00pm: Community Carol Service at the ‘Rusty Nail’; December 24, 11.30pm: Midnight Mass - Holy Eucharist; December 31,

6.00pm: Service of Nine Lessons and Carols; January 7, 6.00pm: Christingle Service. La Marina (San Fulgencio) December 17, 6.00pm: Carol Service; December 25, 10.00am: Xmas Day - Holy Eucharist. Lago Jardin December 18, 6.00pm: Carol Service in the

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church gardens; December 24, 6.00pm: Christmas Eve - Holy Eucharist; Cristo Resucitado (La Regia); December 21, 11.00am: Holy Eucharist. La Manga December 15, 6.00pm: Carol Service (Owners Club - La Manga); December 24, 6.00pm: Christmas Eve - Holy Eucharist (St Teresa’s, Las Lomas Village) Please view their website: www.c-of-e-torre vieja.com/wp.

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Best ways to heat your casa By Matthew Elliott HOMEOWNERS across Spain are turning to new techniques to help warm their houses in winter. Home reform platform, Habitissimo reports more and more Spaniards are seeking help in bringing down the bills and staving off the chilly weather. More than 15,000 homeowners requested information on heating their home last year, suggesting a huge appetite for sound advice. The average family in Spain spends €1,454 per year heating their home. Those using natural gas average between €760 and €928, while those using electricity stump up around €2,000. Most people can easily cut their expenses by 20 per cent by being smarter in their choice of heating system. Habitissimo offer advice on the smartest ways for homeowners to keep warm. Programmable thermostats can slash electric bills by 10 per cent. Paying an engineer to adjust the

TOASTY: Spaniards are sick and tired of cold casas. boiler is a sound investment, which can reduce costs by 15 per cent in the long run. The most in-demand heating system among Spaniards is gas. More than one in three prefer gas, compared to the 19 per cent who favour the simplicity of electric. A trend growing in popularity is for heated floors. These pro-

vide uniform heat throughout the house and don’t create a dry or stuffy environment. Heated floors offer long term savings of between 10 and 30 per cent. Installation costs around €6,500 on average, but can rise to as much as €15,000 if the floors have to be raised. One in five who ask for help from Habitissimo end up choosing heated pellets. This is a biofuel formed from compressed sawdust that offers a greener way of heating the home. It can be expensive though, with heating a big house possibly demanding a kilo of pellets be burned every hour.

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GRAEME TYRRELL THE onset of the colder weather brings a lot of changes to the garden. It is much easier to work in the glorious autumn sun to clean up the garden by pruning the summer flowering shrubs and preparing the soil for winter herbs, flowering annuals, new shrubs and trees. It is the perfect time to plant new additions to the garden and start off new plants in pots so they can be well established before the next summerâ€™s heat. If you are plagued by autumn leaves falling, it is useful to know that you can take advantage of this natural annual event to improve your garden with richer soil from the autumn leaves which are a free source of organic material. The simplest way to manage autumn leaves is to rake or blow them into natural soil garden beds to act as a mulch. It can look attractive and breaks down quickly over winter to add humus and other nutrients to the soil. I also gather the leaves to surround newly planted trees and shrubs to provide insulation from the cold in winter while they are getting established. It works well even though it has usually broken down by the next summer and I have to use additional mulch for summer water conservation and heat insulation of the roots. If you have stone mulches on your garden beds this method of mulching does not work as the stone mulches are better left without buildup of organic material as it will encourage weeds. Instead you can make a simple pen in a corner of the garden to pile the collected leaves and allow them to break down naturally over winter or add them to your compost as fresh layers with additional organic material between each collection of the leaves over autumn. The composted material can be added where it is needed later. If you are preparing new garden beds that require cultivation, the leaves can be added to the soil and dug in. Leaves decompose

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get, and the Peugeot 3008 won best SUV. The BMW 5 Series easily won best luxury car and the Honda Civic Type R scooped the performance award. There was also a special award for the best ‘Dream Machine’ for women. For the second year running McLaren won the dream car award. The 720 S edged out tight competition from the Maserati Levante and Aston Martin DB11. On the rear view mirror is etched a quote from McLaren founder Bruce McLaren and reads: “Life is measured in achievement, not in years alone.”

Cheap cruising RESEARCHERS have shown that cruising at 55mph is optimal for emissions and wallets. In a lifetime of driving, the average motorist could save more than 3,000 in fuel costs by doing 60mph rather than 80mph. The figures come from Click Mechanic. They show that drivers who typically cruise at 80mph emit more than five tonnes extra over 20 odd years than those who cruise at 60mph do. The average British driver travels 7,800 miles a year. Around 1,600 miles are notched up on motorways. Click Mechanic researchers took a Fiat 500 as their test model and found that, on the motorway, it cost 500 more over a lifetime to drive at 65mph compared to 60mph. The cheapest speed to drive on the motorway is 55mph, though other road users probably won’t appreciate the cost cutting.

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MERCEDES have released two teaser images of the 2019 CLS ahead of the car’s full reveal at the Los Angeles Auto Show next week. The images show the CLS-Class’

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Other managers cry I don’t cry - Jose MANCHESTER UNITED gaffer, Jose Mourinho, who host Brighton in the Premier League at Old Trafford on Saturday, says other managers ‘cry’ when hit by player injuries. “Other managers cry when players are injured - I don’t cry - ” said Mourinho, who has had a plethora of injuries this season. United suffered another injury scare when Phil Jones pulled out of the England squad to face Brazil after a thigh injury sustained in the international friendly against Germany. Mourinho could turn to summer signing, Victor Lindelof to replace Jones, should the defender suffer a recurrence that could keep him on the sidelines this weekend. Liverpool, who host champions Chelsea on Saturday, are in the hunt to sign Barcelona star, Javier Mascherano in the January transfer window. Argentine midfielder, Mascher-

UKSPORTSCENE with Andrew Atkinson ano, 33, who departed Anfield for the Nou Camp in 2010, sees his contract at Barcelona end in less than two years. Liverpool full back, Nathaniel Clyne will be sidelined for another three months after surgery in the wake of the England international where he picked up a back injury. Dominic Solanke’s England surprise call-up for the international friendly against Brazil could cost Liverpool £10 million: “It came as a surprise, really but anything can happen as a footballer,” said Liverpool striker, Solanke. Solanke, 20, who left Chelsea in a move to An-

field in the summer, will have his value decided by tribunal. Liverpool offered £3m, which was rejected. Liverpool star, Sadio Mane, dogged with a hamstring, is set to head to the 2018 World Cup following Senegal’s first qualification since 2002.

JOSE MOURINHO: Doesn’t cry.

THE first of five Ashes Tests between Australia and England gets underway today in Brisbane with England captain, Joe Root saying: Bring it on! “I’ve heard chat about targeting me, in particular. We’ll be targeting every single one of them. Bring it on,” said Root. Aussie spinner, Nathan Lyon has singled out Root after Australian opener David Warner labelled the series as ‘war’. “There's been a lot of talk - some of it is a load of rubbish - especially from some of the Aussie players. The more you say, the more it can backfire on you,” said Root. Alastair Cook, England’s all-time leading Test run scorer, vice-captain, James Anderson, England’s highest Test wickettaker and Stuart Broad are among key figures. “The great thing about Ashes cricket is that you have to get in a battle, so I tend to be a better bowler,”

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Cricket: Ashes Tests Bring it on! Joe rooting for Ashes said Broad. England all-rounder, Moeen Ali will be fit for the Ashes after a scare when he suffered a side strain. Fast bowler, Steven Finn, who misses the Ashes after sustaining a torn knee cartilage, is replaced by Tom Curran. Jake Ball is a doubt for the first Test, with strained ankle tendons. Ben Stokes is absent due to an ongoing police investigation after his alleged altercation in Bristol during the one-day series against West Indies in the summer. England haven’t won the opening Test of an Ashes series in Australia since 1986. Australia are 4-5 favourites to win the Ashes, with England 5-2, with odds of 9-2 for a draw. “It is a great part of the

Ashes series, a great part of the rivalry,” said Broad, in his third Test Series. “We’re not going to blast the Australians out. We have to do what we do, adjust our length a bit. If you bowl that slightly fuller length, you get belted,” said Broad. “I’ve done some good work leading into the first Test. I feel like my time is coming,” said Broad. Is the Ashes Tests series a war?: “It’s a game of cricket - not war - one I believe we can win,” said Broad. Ashes Tests: November 23-27, 1st Test, Brisbane; December 2-6, 2nd Test, Adelaide; December 14-18, 3rd Test, Perth (Waca); December 26-30, 4th Test, Melbourne; January 4-8, 5th Test, Sydney.

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My parents have always believed in me. I couldn’t ask for better role models Euro Weekly News sports correspondent, Andrew Atkinson talks in-depth in Part two of an Exclusive interview with British born teenage swimming sensation, twice-Junior World Oceanman Female World Champion, Club Natacion Elche star, Zoe Connolly. ZOE CONNOLLY’S quest is to meet Spanish Olympic, world and European champion swimmer, Mireia Belmonte - the first female Olympic champion in the history of Spanish swimming considered to be the greatest Spanish swimmer ever. “The person I would like to meet the most is Mireia Belmonte - she is an excellent swimmer who swims so many different races and very good at long-distance,” said Zoe. Dedicated teenage ace, Zoe has achieved successes in her fledgling career, that has lead her to becoming the Open Water Junior World Oceanman Female World Champion, in 2016 and 2017: “I am grateful to my parents who pay to stay in hotels,” said Zoe. “Competition swimming costumes are expensive - up to €400 a suit - wetsuits for open water run into hundreds of euros,” said Zoe. “It also costs money for entries into competi-

DREAM MEETING: Mireia Belmonte - Spain’s No.1. NERVOUS: Zoe at the start of the 2017 World Half Oceanman.

tions, along with training with the swimming club each month,” said Zoe, whose entrance fees for travesias - sea swims - were over €200 in 2017. “My parents have always supported me - given me everything I needed - to achieve what I have achieved. They have always believed in me and helped me through the hard times,” said Zoe. “No matter what happens they are always there for me - helping me through school - and swimming. I couldn’t ask for better role models,” said Zoe. Away from the water, Zoe is busy studying: “I am studying my first year of ‘Bachillerato’ in ‘Almoradi Antonio Sequeros’,” said Zoe.

CHAMPION: Zoe finishing the 2017 World Half Oceanman.

“I intend to continue studying by attending University to study physics and mathematics,” said Zoe, studying to take the entrance exam next November, for either Oxford or Cambridge Universities. Despite her huge success, Zoe has had disappointments: “My biggest disappointment was being one place short of achieving Elite Athlete Status in 2017 in the open water Spanish Cup,” said Zoe. Zoe, who has a coach, for both Fin Swimming and normal swimming, as part of her local swimming club, Club Natacion Elche, says swimming in open waters has its dangers and injury woes. “I have sustained various injuries throughout the years, due to my tendons that did not grow at the same rate as my bones,” said Zoe. “The biggest danger in sea swimming is the jellyfish. I have been lucky - only been stung a few times and it has never been serious,” said Zoe. Zoe, whose favourite meal is pasta with chicken, listens to music and reads books to relax: “I listen to the top hits, although I do like Shawn

Mendes, Ed Sheeran and Arianna Grande,” said Zoe. “I find swimming quite relaxing - it helps get rid of stress - especially throughout exam weeks. I also find reading quite relaxing too,” said Zoe, who dreams of an exotic holiday. “I would love to visit somewhere exotic Thailand or Tahiti - it would be nice to learn about different cultures,” said Zoe. “But, honestly, I would go anywhere with nice beaches. I love the sea and it would be great to swim and scuba dive, to see all the different wildlife,” said Zoe. “Swimming is amazing, such a big part of my life. It’s good for stress relief and very good for your health and it has helped my education, concentration and time management,” said Zoe. “Sometimes training sessions can be hard, but nothing beats the feeling of accomplishment when you’ve finished. Overall it improves your mood,” said Zoe. “In 2018, I am thinking about becoming a swimming coach/trainer, in which I will have to take another course, with more exams,” said Zoe, who worked as a lifeguard in the summer.

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MADRID rivals Real and Atletico played out the first 0-0 draw between the two sides in La Liga since 2005 at the weekend, leaving both sides 10 points behind Barcelona in the title race.

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THIRTY members and three guests took a trip to Altorreal, just north of the city of Murcia. Greens, whilst generally slick and true, varied in pace and were covered in lightly sanded patches. Many bunkers were very hard with compacted sand and some areas of the fairways and semi-rough were quite wet. Steve Higgins (34) posted the best return of the day, with only half a dozen members beating 30. The day’s competition results, by category and in reverse order, were the following: Bronze Category: 3rd Nor-

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WINNERS: Bob Eyland (left) and Mark Preston (centre). man Padmore (28 on CB), 2nd Marg Birtwistle (28 on CB), and 1st Paul Cobain with 31 points. Silver Category: 3rd Ken Flaherty (29 on CB), 2nd Scotty Phillips (32 on CB), and 1st Keith Wickham, also with 32. Gold Category: 3rd Ivan Hanak (31), 2nd Mike Iddles (32), and 1st Steve Higgins with 34 points. Nearest the pins on the par 3’s (open to all) went to Tony Smale (hole 5), Mark Preston

(8), Mick the Grip (10), and Keith Wickham (17). The Abacus, a decent bottle of red wine, was won by Bob Eyland. The Best Guest prize went to Mark Preston (32). Keep up to date with all SMGS matters by logging on to the website: www.smgs.org or simply give Captain, Tony Smale a call on 628 227 687 to find out more about the society and its weekly golf get-togethers.

Belspain cribbage league 2017/18 RESULTS FOR WEEK 10 13/11/2017 Florantilles Merlins Casa Ventura Falcons Rojales Tigers Concierto Jaguars The Archers Jays Catorce B Da Vinci’s Alpha Spanglish Voles TEAM NAME New York Magpies Concierto Jaguars Da Vinci’s Alpha Casa Ventura Falcons The Archers Jays Spanglish Robins Izzy’s Owls Da Vinci’s Ospreys Rojales Tigers Florantilles Merlins Spanglish Voles Catorce A Catorce B Lo Crispin Tavern Rojales Lions Reflections

P 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10

6v3 3v6 3v6 6v3 5v4 0v9 8v1 5v4 W 8 7 7 6 6 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 3 2

L 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 7 8

Spanglish Robins Izzy’s Owls Catorce A Lo Crispin Tavern Reflections New York Magpies Rojales Lions Da Vinci’s Ospreys F 53 51 51 49 47 51 47 46 42 41 45 43 41 36 38 41

A 37 39 39 41 43 39 43 44 48 49 45 47 49 54 52 49

TOTAL 16 14 14 12 12 10 10 10 10 10 8 8 8 8 6 4

All three pairs from Florantilles Merlins won two games each to win 6-3. Izzy’s Owls Pair, Dave and Suzzi won all their games for a 6-3 win. All three pairs for Catorce A won two games each to win 6-3. Concierto Jaguars pair, Vanessa and Margaret Grey won all three games to get 6-3. Kevin and Paul from The Archers won all three games for a win of 5-4. WELL DONE New York Magpies team. A good night by winning the game 9-0. Da Vinci’s Alpha pairs, Peter and Alan, Jim and Nigel won all their games to get a good win of 8-1. 2 pairs from Spanglish Voles won two games each for a 5-4 win.