Euro Weekly News - Costa Blanca North 15 - 21 March 2018 Issue 1706

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ISSUE NO. 1706

15 - 21 March 2018

COSTA BLANCA NORTH

Newspaper in Spain 2018

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Expat ‘rapist’ held SPANISH police have arrested a wanted British man in Alicante City, convicted of five rapes in the UK, who was found living in a van and using a fake identity. The unnamed wanted man was convicted of five rape charges on two victims in the 1980’s, including one on a 15year-old girl and he faces a life sentence.

The British authorities issued a European Arrest Warrant in 2016 and last July officers in Spain were tipped off that he was living somewhere on the country’s eastern coast. Spanish police said the man was arrested in Alicante City on the Costa Blanca after he had used a fake identity to contact his relatives in the UK on social media.

They said, “That enabled investigators to follow his digital trail until they tracked down where he was hiding. “Investigators found that he was a person who moved about in a van he lived in, which made finding him more difficult as he didn’t leave any physical trace of

his movements. “But, after nine months of investigations, the van he used as a home was tracked down and the rapist arrested after a watch was put on the vehicle.” The man will now appear before an extradition hearing in Madrid.

HIDING OUT: The man fled to Alicante.

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NEWS EXTRA Firefighting helicopter A FOREST fire in an inaccessible ravine in L’Alcudia de Cocentaina required a firefighting helicopter as well as four fire engines to extinguish the blaze.

Tall order VILLAJOYOSA Town Hall appealed against a Valencia Upper Court (TSJ) ruling that ordered the demolition of a section of the Atrium Hotel in La Cala and annulled 2006 and 2007 licences legalising the construction.

That’s rich THE three Valencians on this year’s Forbes Rich List are Mercadona president Juan Roig (€3.91 billion), his wife Hortensia Herrero (€1.95 billion) and his brother Fernando Roig (€1.14 billion).

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Human traffic 155 held as migrant smugglers busted

MORE than 150 people have been held as police swooped on a Chinese human trafficking gang that smuggled people into the UK. The gang reportedly charged a flat fee of €20,000 in exchange for fake passports plus transport from China via Spain. Most of the arrests took place in Barcelona, where migrants were hidden in rented flats before being flown to Britain and Ireland. While in the Catalan capital their passports were confiscated and replaced with bogus documents printed in China. They were also taught key English phrases used at border control to improve their chances of getting through. Other suspects were held in Alicante, Malaga, La Linea de la Concepcion (Cadiz), Madrid, Ibiza, Aviles (Asturias), Bilbao and Castellon. The majority are Chinese, among them four figureheads who have been charged with

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MUCHAVISA: Alleged incident at TRAM stop did not happen.

Kidnap attempt was false news by Linda Hall

FLAT RATE: Individuals were each charged €20,000 for travel to the UK using false passports handed to them in Spain. membership of a criminal gang, forgery and violation of human rights, plus 151 others connected to the racket. Flight tickets to the UK were bought on the day of travel to avoid suspicion, and the migrants were accompanied by gang members as far as Barcelona’s El Prat airport.

A MAN of 33 was detained after his WhatsApp voice message describing an attempted kidnap in Campello went viral. A boy of 13 whom he claimed was one of his pupils was accosted by an older man at the TRAM stop, he said. The reality was noticeably different, a statement from the Guardia Civil in Campello announced soon afterwards. A man in his 50’s did approach a boy of 13, offering him a lift in his car. He did not touch the boy at any time and nor did he display any type of aggressiveness despite the WhatsApp’s claims that he embraced the boy and grabbed him by the neck.

The boy, described as ‘unperturbed,’ refused the lift but witnesses reported the incident and a married couple accompanied him to the Guardia Civil to make a statement while officers contacted his mother. Attempts to find the driver have been unsuccessful but investigators tracked down the person who sent the WhatsApp, who said that the message had been intended for his family only. The Guardia Civil statement reminded the public that spurious reports prompting the mobilisation of the police or emergency services are a breach of public order under Spain’s Penal Code.

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Fantastic fox escape A PASSERBY in Aspe alerted the fire brigade after spotting a fox trapped at the bottom of an empty irrigation pond. Firemen attached a ladder to the steep sloping sides of the deposit which, after they retreated, the fox managed to scale at the second attempt.

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Finance 41

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A RIBARROJA (Valencia) resident won the weekly extra Million in the EuroMillions, the fourth time in two months the prize has remained in the region after going to the Valencia province towns of Alcasser and L’Olleria in January and to Alfaz in February.

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Fatal error

AS construction picks up and people are spending more money on renovations, San Juan Town Hall noticed an increase in fly tipping and unauthorised rubbish dumps with builders’ rubble. This will be combated by increased vigilance from the new Urban Discipline brigade, coupled to hefty fines.

Smoke signal THE Guardia Civil arrested a 27-yearold Ukrainian at Alicante Airport after receiving a tip-off that someone aboard a Warsaw flight was smuggling tobacco. Searching the luggage of a passenger whose profile matched that of known smugglers, they found and impounded 2,350 packs of cigarettes worth €11,000.

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GIRL POWER: More than 5 million women downed tools before joining peaceful protests across Spain. WOMEN in Spain are looking to the future after millions took to the streets to mark International Women’s Day. Historic marches took place in more than 200 Spanish towns and cities in a united stand against a range of issues including domestic violence and the gender pay gap. And estimates suggest that more than five million people took part in the two-hour ‘feminist’ strikes that preceded the rally, which was

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A WOMAN of 52 was run down and killed by her car in Cheste (Valencia) after getting out to throw away rubbish without first putting on the handbrake. She tried unsuccessfully to stop it rolling downhill towards her but instead fell under the vehicle.

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backed by 10 unions and some of Spain’s most important female politicians and cultural figures. Public transport was ravaged and some of the marches brought traffic to a standstill as protesters congregated under the slogan ‘If we stop, the world stops.’ The event places Spain at the cutting edge of feminist movements worldwide. The mayor of Madrid, Manuela Carmena, tweeted “This isn’t only

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about calling for true equality, but also about facing the need to change how the world treats women,” while her Barcelona counterpart Ada Colau said that she joined the strike “to show that without women the world really does stop.” But the Spanish government did not agree, after the ruling Popular Party said that the strike was “for feminist elites and not real women with everyday problems.”

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Services 83 - 86

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The total number of news and features which appeared in Issue 1705 of the Euro Weekly News Costa Blanca North edition, including 74 local stories.

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POLL OF THE WEEK Following recent parliamentary debates, should Spain decriminalise insulting the crown? Photo credit; Facebook

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LAST WEEK’S POLL: Following recent controversy in Spain, should bars and restaurants be allowed to ban children?

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TOP SET ABLAZE: Valencia’s famous Las Fallas statues. THIS weekend the city of Valencia welcomes spring in style during the annual Las Fallas festival - a loud, boisterous fiesta where the city is literally set alight. The festival started as a celebration of St Joseph, the patron saint of carpenters, but has since evolved into a five-day fire extravaganza. The quiet city’s population of around one million more than trebles in size during the celebrations as people flock from across the globe to witness the festivities. The festival is all about the creation of ‘ninots’ - huge lifelike statues made from wood, cardboard, paper-machè and plaster which are paraded through the city streets, then destroyed in a giant firework display at midnight on the dot. The ninots tend to depict lewd, satirical scenes relating to current events and will often make fun of Spanish politicians or Spanish celebrities. These bawdy giants can cost up to €60,000 to create and are crafted by local neighbourhood or-

ganisations. The labour process is intensive and can take up to 12 months to complete so as soon as that year’s festival is over, work already begins for the next event. During the early evening on the final day of the festival, a group of people with axes chop carefully placed holes in the ninots and fill them with fireworks. On the run up to midnight, the streetlights are all switched off, the crowds start to chant and the fireworks are lit as the clock strikes 12. In recent years, the local firemen have come up with methods to protect the town’s buildings from being accidentally set alight by the fireworks, including covering them with fireproof material. Every year, one of the ninots is saved from obliteration by a popular vote. The pardoned statue - called the ninot indultat - is then displayed in the local Museum of the Ninots along with the other lucky escapees from previous years.

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TRAGIC DISCOVERY: The body of Gabriel Cruz Ramirez has been found.

Police find body of missing eight-year-old boy in Spain,‘girlfriend of father arrested’ Explosive ‘weather bomb’ heads to Spain with heavy rain, strong winds and big waves

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NEWS EXTRA Youth hit hard by flu ALTHOUGH the flu season peaked in mid-January with 300 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, there are still 80 cases per 100,000 in the Valencian community.

Here again GUN CRIME: The incident occurred on the Montesol urbanisation. Inset: SHOT DEAD: The cat (file photo) was only 12 months old at the time.

Cat shot dead with firearm THE Guardia Civil in Aspe are investigating the death of a cat that was shot while inside fenced land. The cat named Bella lived in a registered colony of 12 cats on the Montesol urbanisation. She was 12 months old and had been sterilised at the beginning of this year. Once the Guardia Civil have identified and located the wrongdoer, animal protection associations, Bigote de Gato and Proyecto Ces Aspe intend to take legal action independently of any

official prosecution. Bella was found badly wounded by the volunteers who feed and look after the ferals. Originally suspecting that the cat had been run over, after taking her to an Alicante City vet, they learnt that she had been shot. The .22-calibre bullet had entered her spine and her injuries were so severe that eventually she had to be put to sleep. “In order to obtain a firearms licence an applicant

has to be in full possession of their mental faculties,” said Adriana Aznar, Proyecto Ces Aspe’s president. “But we feel it’s very serious matter when a person kills an animal in a colony that is controlled by a town hall.” Montesol residents were also fearful for the safety of their children, knowing that the cat had been killed with a dangerous firearm on an urbanisation where children habitually played in the street.

OTTERS are known to have returned to the River Serpis for the first time in 70 years after the regional government’s Environment department confirmed that droppings have been found.

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THE ONLY WAY IS ESSEX cast have been filming in Barcelona. But seven regular cast members have been axed by ITVBe bosses over their ‘boring storylines,’ according to rumours. Stalwarts Lauren Pope, Courtney Green, Chloe Meadows and Amber Turner are still on board, though, and the quartet certainly turned heads as they flashed the flesh after slipping into some revealing outfits. Lauren, 35, rocked a skimpy white crop top and high-wasted jeans in the winter sun as she strolled alongside co-stars Bobby Norris, Chloe Lewis and Georgia Kousoulou. Elsewhere in the city, Courtney, 22, was snapped in a lacy bodysuit and miniscule denim hotpants as she braved the chilly conditions. Chloe, 25, opted for an all-green ensemble featuring a revealing green blouse with matching trousers as she flaunted her ample curves, while blonde beauty Amber, 24, kept her surgically-enhanced assets under wraps in a thigh-skimming minidress.

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TRENDING: Sara Carbonero.

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THE ONLY WAY IS BARCA: Lauren Pope (second from right) and co-stars in Spain.

SHE’S the sports reporter who stole the heart of a world champion goalkeeper. And Sara Carbonero, 34, has another reason to celebrate after an internet firm revealed that she was the most searched-for Spanish woman over the past year. She married former Real Madrid star Iker Casillas in 2016, after the pair shared a famous kiss live on TV in the wake of Spain’s 2010 World Cup win.

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A PILGRIM’S TALE: The group at the start of their mammoth trek.

IT’S the 790-kilometre trek across northern Spain that attracts hundreds of thousands of walkers each year. And now seven British celebrities have spoken of their experiences on the Camino de Santiago religious pilgrimage after they traipsed from Jean-Piedde-Port in the French Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela, Galicia. The group included Gogglebox star

Kate Bottley, comedian Ed Byrne, Line of Duty actor Neil Morrissey, M People singer Heather Small, Strictly Come Dancing finalist Debbie McGee, journalist Raphael Rowe and TV presenter JJ Chalmers. Also known as the Way of St James, the hikers’ exploits will be screened in a new three-part BBC Two show entitled Pilgrimage: The Road to Santiago.

Celeb focus Date night WEDD

ED BLISS: THEY’RE the Pen elop e and Javier. Spanish Oscar winners who have been in love for a decade. And Penelope Cruz, 43, and husband Javier Bardem, 49, were all smiles as they attended the Spanish Actors and Actresses Union Awards Gala in Madrid. The couple married in 2010 and recently starred together in the drama flick Loving Pablo, for which they were nominated for best actress and actor, respectively.

Royal welcome QUEEN LETIZIA OF SPAIN completed a busy week of appointments with a charity appearance. The stylish royal, 44, attend an event for Rare Diseases Day at the Goya Theatre in Madrid. And she took to the stage to present an award after chatting to members of the organisation plus victims of the diseases.

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LIFE SIZE: Registered population affects services.

Padron push targets foreign residents ALTEA Town Hall launched a campaign to persuade and remind residents to register on the Padron. Although this also affects the Spanish population, it is especially aimed at the town’s foreign-born residents, explained Mari Lavios, councillor responsible for Participation and Foreign Residents. Those from countries within the European Union who have previously registered on the Padron nevertheless still need to confirm that they are still resident every five

years. Those from other countries should do so at two-yearly intervals, Lavios said. “It is very important that the local population realises the importance of registering,” the councillor stressed. “Our subsidies and allocations from the central government depend on the municipal Padron. The number of registered residents directly affects street cleaning, citizens’ services and social services amongst other things, all of which need to be proportionate to the real size of the town’s population.”

Council on top of complaints BENIDORM’S City Council registered a total of more than 3,380 incidents and complaints from residents last year and resolved more than 2,270, or 87 per cent. The figures, which come from the ruling Partido Popular’s urban spokesperson Jose Ramon Gonzalez de Zarate, showed an increase of 22 per cent compared to the previous year. Data also suggested people in Benidorm were making greater use of new technology such as social media to alert the council

to issues in the city. Reports made by Facebook increased by 26 per cent on 2016 levels, those made through the Linea Verde application by 47 per cent and by email 39 per cent. Requests made for the council to address issues by phone fell by 20 per cent, while those made in person dropped by 14 per cent. More than 500 of the incidents reported were related to companies providing services for the council and were dealt with by them.

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BLANCA BROCHURES: The video and other material reflect the region’s attractions.

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Wave of publicity for province A NEW promotional video from the Costa Blanca Board of Trustees has been produced entitled ‘authentically ours.’ It is designed to show the world that the province of Alicante is an exciting and unique destination, and will be screened at a variety of promotional events and fairs. The iconic Cinema Aana of Alicante is the venue for the premiere of the video, which gathers the experiences of people from different nationalities who explain what the province means for them. Cesar Sanchez, president of the provincial council of Alicante, said: “On the Costa

Blanca we do not have to invent anything, we just have to look around and enjoy everything we have, which is a lot and wonderful. “The best way to project who we are is to do it from the heart, and that is how the video was made.” Screenwriter and Emmy nominated director Adan Aliaga who has created the film, said that he wanted to “give voice to the anonymous people who are emotionally linked to the Costa Blanca, with its light, its sea, its cuisine.” Versions of the video have been made in Spanish, Valencian, English, French, German, and Russian.

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OUR VIEW ‘Let the kind acts be what remains’ OUR thoughts are with the family of Gabriel Cruz Ramirez. The tragic eight-year-old’s body was found in the boot of his father’s girlfriend’s car 12 days after he went missing in Nijar, Almeria. More than 3,000 people flocked to Almeria’s Cathedral to pay their respects at his funeral on Tuesday, with several high ranking Spanish politicians in attendance. And while much ire has been directed towards the prime suspect in the case, it is the words and advice of the child’s mother, Patricia Ramirez, that should resonate the most. Carrying herself with great dignity throughout the horrific ordeal, she appealed “for rage not to spread any further, for nobody to retweet rage-fuelled things, because that is not who my son was, and it is not who I am.” Her words came after a vengeful social media storm erupted in the wake of Gabriel’s body being discovered, with the suspect even being physically attacked while surrounded by police. And yet the woman who could have been forgiven for feeling the most hatred instead chose to vilify those who reacted with anger to the death of her son. In doing so, she captured the hearts of a nation, and in a world that feels less-tolerant than at any time since the middle of the last century, her unflinching dignity should serve as a valuable lesson to us all.

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Hotel booms despite Brits

SINKING FEELING: The number of British visitors dropped last month. HOTEL stays in Benidorm increased by 4 per cent in February, according to the platform BigDataHosbec. This comes despite the collapse of Monarch Airlines and BigDataHosbec President Tony Mayor highlighted the loyalty that people have for the destination.

Overnight stays of domestic tourists in February have exceeded 400,000 for the month of February, representing a growth of 15 per cent. However, there was a slight decline in the British market last month, with the number of their hotel bookings dropping by 5 per cent.

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NEWS EXTRA Marriages on the rocks THERE were 13,819 marriage break-ups in the Valencia community last year compared with 14,392 in 2016. Alicante Province accounted for 4,796 of the total, an average of 13 a day.

Book deal TO THE RESCUE: The Teulada Moraira ambulance service.

Coming to the rescue THE Teulada Moraira ambulance service has revealed they attended more than 600 emergencies last year. The service received two to three calls daily and had an average response time of 4.6 minutes. A spokesman for the council said Teulada Moraira is the only town in the area offering this level of quality ambulance service, which is available free of charge to all citizens in the

event of an emergency. This particular emergency services team mostly consists of volunteers, who revealed that most of the emergencies they attend are the result of traffic accidents. August was reportedly the busiest month - with more than 60 incidents - while the month with the lowest number of incidents was November with just slightly over 20. The mayor of Teulada

Moraira, Carlos Linares, and the councillor Nacim Benatsou mentioned how necessary the service is to the local community and how important the volunteers are. There are currently 40 volunteers on the Teulada Moraira health care team and 10 on the security team. The councillors thanked the whole squad, remarking how much their work and the time they invest is valued.

REHABILITATING Casa Rovira in Jijona will cost approximately â‚Ź1.3m and take 12 months to complete. Once finished the 17th century building will house the municipal library that is currently located in El Cuarnero.

Job seekers UNEMPLOYMENT fell by 111 people to 11,388 last month in l’Alcoia, El Comtat and Foia de Castalla, although 63 per cent of the registered jobless in these areas are women.

Drug ring leader captured A MAN has been captured in Alicante who allegedly led a gang dedicated to the sale and distribution of cocaine and speed in Alicante City. He has also been report-

edly arrested on suspicion of be a ting a nd torturing another person for an issue related to drug trafficking; which the provincial court of Alicante has asked for

an 11-year sentence. The alleged leader managed to evade being captured by police for several months by reportedly moving from place to place. He was even-

tually located after an operation carried out by Judicial Police of the District Commissariat as officers managed to dismantle the important criminal network.

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NEWS EXTRA Town coffers cough up BENISSA Town Hall finished 2017 with a surplus of €1.557 million during the first year in power of the present team, which hopes to invest the cash in the town and stimulate the local economy.

No-brainer VILLENA, which has banned spectacles involving animals, must choose whether to rent out the bullring to the Peña Cultural Taurina for bullfights in early September or animal protection association Ryta for an animal welfare event.

Take heart CALLOSA Town Hall acquired two defibrillators costing €3,262, one of which will be assigned to a Local Police patrol car while the other will be kept at the Fonts d’Algar first aid post.

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€53m budget in the works out of the plan because rules COUNCILLORS from Deon budgetary stability, spendnia’s authorities have preing and debt have been met. sented plans for the town’s The plan was introduced in 2018 budget, set to be debat2012 when the council took a ed at a meeting today (Thurs€12 million loan to settle day). debts with suppliers. Paco Rosello, the Partido This year’s gross savings Socialista and Compromis of €7.5 million has come run council’s economy from the council paying €3.9 spokesperson and Deputy million on its debts which Mayor Rafa Carrio unveiled has in turn made €3.8 milthe €53 million budget last lion for investment. The Monday. council was around €15 milCllr Rosello said there was lion in debt as of last Deceman extra €1 million in this ber, according to reports. year’s budget due mainly to Deputy Mayor increased grants Carrio said the from the Generalicouncil would tat Valenciana and spend the money the Diputacion de on cultural and Alicante. historical heritage, “This budget is Latest news as well as the rethe result of the and furbishment of economic policy more as it public spaces. that we started in happens Money would 2015. It will allow also be spent on projects put us to get out of the economic forward by residents in paradjustment plan,” he said. ticipatory budgets, which alCllr Rosello added the low local people to make council had been able to get www.euroweeklynews.com

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suggestions about projects the council should undertake, Carrio added. A connection between the Calle Pintor Llorens and Avenida Joan Fuster costing

€225,000 has been included in the budget. Restoration work to the Verger Alt and Denia castle costing more than €316,460 will also be undertaken with

money set aside for 2018. The council has also earmarked more than €1,438,500 of the investment budget for the payment of compensation.

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Digital info scribe to the newsletter which will complement the town’s free magazine Al Corrent and notices on social media. “Let’s not forget that communication is also integration. I think that if the neighbours are informed they will be much more participatory and will play a much more active role in the community,” she said. The council said in a statement that all its communication channels were tailored to the different groups in the town so that no one felt isolated. Credit: Benitatxell council

BENITACHELL’S communications and technology department has launched its first digital newsletter available in Spanish, Valencian and English. The notice, which is set to be published every 15 days, can be viewed on the town’s website (www.elpoblenoudebenitatxell.com) which features an option to subscribe to it. The newsletter comes as part of plans to ensure that authorities in the town cater for all residents. Myra van ‘t Hoff, the council’s communication spokesperson, said citizens should sub-

NEWSLETTER: Myra van ‘t Hoff’s (centre, right) communication department has introduced the multilanguage notice so no resident feels isolated.

TERRACOTTA ARMY: Warriors could visit Alicante.

Preparing to welcome Chinese warriors ALICANTE’S archaeological museum, MARQ, is progressing with arrangements to bring Xi’an Warriors from the Terracotta Army to the city. A cultural delegation from the museum has visited China where they met representatives from the Shaanxi Cultural Heritage Promotion Centre and the Shaanxi National History Museum. Both bodies were enthusiastic about the prospect of an exchange programme with MARQ.

“This is the first cultural interchange between Chinese institution and a Spanish museum,” said Cesar Augusto Asencio who heads the provincial council’s Culture department. “This is a significant reward for the Diputacion’s efforts,” he continued. “We have taken an important step but much remains still to be done. We are ready to carry on and realise our dream of bringing Warriors to MARQ.” The delegation headed by

Asencio included MARQ’S technical director Manuel Olcina, its managing director Jose Alberto Cortes and Jorge Soler, Exhibitions director. They visited the mausoleum of Qin Shihuaang, China’s first emperor, to see the 8,000 terracotta warriors which were created between 246 and 210 BC and discovered in 1974. Slightly larger than life-size, all have different faces and were intended to protect the emperor in the afterlife.

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FONTS D’ALGAR: Bridge suffered storm damage.

Bridge over Algar waters THE deteriorated bridge at the Fonts d’Algar waterfall is being replaced in time for the start of the high season. The wooden structure was badly affected during the storms and torrential rains of November and December 2016, explained the town hall’s Technical Services department. Other infrastructure

was also damaged then and again the following month and repairs are being financed by the Generalitat Valenciana, which has provided a total grant of €33,517. Of this, €10,800 is going towards replacing the bridge and railings along the Font d’Algar’s natural pools and springs. The pools saw even more tourists last year announced

Tourism councillor Alfonso Puigcerver recently, as 344,862 people visited the pools in 2017, an increase of 29,355 and 9.3 per cent more than in 2016. Owing to the growing number of visitors, the town hall has acquired a 9,000-square metre plot of land adjoining the Fonts. This will be used as an alternative emergency exit as well as a picnic

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Promoting religious tourism er with 44 pilgrims, he visited the home of the Valenc ia Sa int to honour the 600th a nnive rs a ry of his death in Vannes. The bishop said he was impressed and moved by the warm welcome he received in Teulada Moraira, and together with local councillors he visited the ‘Centre d’estudis Vicentins’ (San Vicente Ferrer study centre) which will be inaugurated on April 5. The centre will include a library which will have the MAKING A PILGRIMAGE: The bishop of Vannes, Saint’s bibliography and an Raymond Céntene with Teulada Moraira exhibition hall with a colcouncillors. lection of approxivi si t or s not onl y t o t he The centre is lomately 300 sculpproperty but also to the vilcated at the house ture s of Sa nt lage centre. where Constança Vicent Ferrer. The April 5 is also the day on Ferrer, the Saint’s s c ulpture s w e re which the anniversary celesister, lived. dona te d by the Tweet us your brations start and the town The c ounc il president of the asopinions will celebrate the 225th anowns the property, s oc ia tion c omniversary of the construcw hic h ha s be e n me mora ting the tion of the Ermita in honour declared a cultural 600th anniversary of t he Sai nt on t he sam e heritage site, and of his de a th, Viday. hope the centre will attract cente Ramón Vallés Oller.

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T h e b is h o p o f Va n n e s , Raymond Céntene, visited the village while following the San Vicente Ferrer trail during his pilgrimage which started on March 3. Togeth-

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TEU LADA MOR AIRA Council has announced they will open a San Vicente Ferrer study centre to attract friars, investigators and pilgrims.

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NEWS EXTRA Lending a helping hand THE Juan Peran-Pikolinos charitable foundation, which recently renewed its agreement with the drug addiction support group APRALAD, assisted 813 people last year and is one of the association’s largest private donors.

Step aside ALCOY mayor Antonio Frances announced that he will not seek re-election as the local PSOE secretary general and revealed that he has not yet decided whether to run in next year’s municipal elections.

Transpontine FOLLOWING complaints from residents in central Gandia there will only be one late-night music event during the Fallas fiestas to be held on Saturday on the far side of the River Serpis.

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HORRIFIED expatriates have warned of a dog poi-

soning threat on the Costa Blanca.

I t c o m e s a f t e r a E u ro Weekly News reader, who does not wish to be named, said that her two dogs became ill overnight and that one is now in a critical condition. “The vet said it looks like rat poison was used,” she said. “My neighbour ’s dog is ill as well. “ We k n o w i t ’s a t o x i n but we are waiting to confirm if it was deliberate.” The shocking episode follows a recent spate of poisoning incidents in Benissa, with at least 22 dogs falling ill since midFebruary. Dog owners are urged to exercise caution when walking their pets, and to prevent them from eating food items found on the street.

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Expats warn of dog poisonings BLANCA BROCHURES: The video and other material reflect the region’s attractions.

Wave of publicity A NEW promotional video from the Costa Blanca Board of Trustees has been produced entitled ‘authentically ours.’ It is designed to show the world that the province of Alicante is an exciting and unique destination, and will be screened at a variety of promotional events and fairs. The iconic Cinema Aana of Alicante is the venue for the premiere of the video, which gathers the experiences of

people from different nationalities who explain what the province means for them. Cesar Sanchez, president of the provincial council of Alicante, said: “On the Costa Blanca we do not have to invent anything, we just have to look around and enjoy everything we have, which is a lot and wonderful. “The best way to project who we are is to do it from the heart, and that is how the

video was made.” Screenwriter and Emmy nominated director Adan Aliaga who has created the film, said that he wanted to “give voice to the anonymous people who are emotionally linked to the Costa Blanca, with its light, its sea, its cuisine.” Versions of the video have been made in Spanish, Valencian, English, French, German, and Russian.

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Sports ground starts a turf war A SAN VICENTE resident threatened to take the town hall to court over a new sports ground in Villamontes. In response to residents’ requests for a sports area, €45,800 was spent on clearing land and installing artificial turf removed from elsewhere in the town although a dissenting resident now argues that the land was classed for educational use. Meanwhile the Villamontes residents themselves are unhappy with the result. This was not what they wanted, and the recycled artificial turf was not in good

condition, they said. Pachi Pascual, an Opposition councillor, maintained that residents’ opinions had not been taken into account and wanted to know what action would be taken over the threatened legal proceedings. Town Planning councillor Marilo Jorda denied that residents were excluded from the project and said they had been shown the plans at the town hall. She also stated that the present installation was provisional, as the land was earmarked for educational use but the sports area did not infringe planning regulations.

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Bridging the gaps ANOTHER of the bridges on Alicante Province’s FGV railway network is undergoing renovation, this time on Line 9. Dismantling the bridge over the N-332 in Gata took two days, and although all work was carried out at night, traffic was obliged to make a detour via the AP-7 motorway. The bridge’s old deck was removed and another put into place using a heavy-duty crane that had to be located on the N-332 owing to lack of sufficient space adjoining the bridge. The old deck, which was built in 1914, is 16 metres long and FGV has agreed to cede this to Gata Town Hall, which will decide its future location. The work in Gata is part of FGV’s nearly €1.8 million programme of inspecting and repairing Line 1 and Line 9 bridges, which include the bridge that crosses the CV-759 in Villajoyosa and another in Teulada over the N-332.

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Paradise deal for town hall

PARADIS BEACH: Seafront plot finally sold. VILLAJOYOSA Town Hall finally divested itself of land it unsuccessfully tried to sell in October 2016. The 7,922-square metre seafront plot on Paradis beach went to the Team 7 Real Estate Management Group for €2.8 million, plus €588,000 IVA. This was 6.4 per cent more than the €2.632 million plus €552,904 IVA starting price, although 15 per cent lower than the 2016 price. The town hall received three proposals, finally accepting the Team 7 Real Estate’s offer. All that remains is for the firm to provide the necessary paperwork to clinch the deal. The municipality acquired the Paradis land in

2013 during Jaime Lloret’s time as mayor, following an agreement with the Taylor Wimpey construction company. The municipality received €1.85 million in cash and a promenade for the Paradis beach. In exchange, the town hall authorised Taylor Wimpey to exceed the construction limit when building apartments on the site of the former BBVA bank residence. He was very satisfied, said Villajoyosa’s current mayor Andreu Verdu, as the land had fetched €200,000 more than expected and that money could be used to benefit residents. “Besides, when they build a hotel on the land, that will create jobs and improve our tourist offer,” Verdu added.

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Deputy mayor set to take over EVA MONTESINOS, the deputy mayor of Alicante, has received the backing of current mayor Gabriel Echavarri after he announced he is preparing to leave office. Montesinos has yet to respond to the comments made by Echavarri, who said he would resign as mayor if the former secures the 15 votes necessary. The deputy mayor told a press conference that their Partido Socialista (PSOE) colleagues on the

council fully agreed with the mayor’s decision. “We remain united and have a lot of work to do,” she said. The announcement follows ongoing investigations into the PSOE mayor’s involvement in what has become known as the Commerce case. Echavarri has been under investigation for alleged irregular contracts worth €190,000 since October last year.

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Prominent politician dies MIGUEL BARCELO, a prominent Partido Popular (PP) figure and a former councillor for Alicante Province, has died at the age of 94, according to the PP. Barcelo reportedly passed away at his home in Benidorm. His remains have been transferred to undertakers in the Marina Baixa and his funeral took place on Tuesday. Benidorm’s council have sent their condolences to

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“Miguel Barcelo had a history of dedication to public service that speaks for itself. He was especially dedicated to Benidorm, where he served as a councillor, and also to Spain,” the mayor said. Barcelo was born in Benidorm and spent some of his childhood in Barcelona before he and his family left the city during the Spanish Civil War. He studied in Madrid after the conflict and returned to Benidorm to work in the farming and tourism business. His brother Jaime served as the city’s mayor from 1969 to 1971. Barcelo served as a senator for Alicante Province from 1986 to 2008. He previously stood in Spain’s first democratic elections since the death of Dictator Francisco Franco but failed to win a seat.

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Much ado about a uniform AN official communique has spelt out why Benissa mayor Abel Cardona is currently under investigation by the courts. He is accused of perverting the course of justice by failing to take disciplinary measures against a municipal employee who lent a disused Local Police uniform to someone who wanted to dress up as a policeman during Benissa’s Moors and Christians. The CSIF civil servants’ union lodged a formal complaint of continued prevarication arising from this episode, the town hall explained. Instead Cardona verbally reprimanded the municipal employee involved. “Such is the magnitude of the case,” the communique said. ABEL CARDONA: Under investigation for failing to take disciplinary measures against an employee.

Until the communique was issued it was only known that Abel Cardona had failed to penalise a police inspector, with no other details. Since then other unions representing municipal employees have been quick to defend the mayor. The town hall document also lamented the use of litigation in local politics, which it attributed to ‘necessary changes’ introduced to improve the efficacy of some town hall departments. ‘This is a toxic use of politics favouring interests that do not benefit the local population,’ the communique stated.

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Valenciano law goes to Spain’s highest court

JUSTICE SERVED: The Valencia Upper Court of Justice is bringing plurilingual teaching to the Constitutional Tribunal. PRESIDENT of the Alicante Provincial Council, Cesar Sanchez, pledged to continue defending the language rights of parents, children and teachers. He was ‘very satisfied’ that the Valencia Community’s Upper Court of Justice (TSJ) was referring regional legislation on plurilingual teaching in state schools to the Constitutional Tribunal, he said. A decree that clearly favoured Valenciano was suspended last year as a precautionary measure following an appeal by the Diputacion, which claimed it discriminated against Spanish speakers. The region’s Education chief Vicent Marza later announced that he was scrapping the pro-

gramme that planned to teach all classes in Valenciano, Spanish or English. A watered-down version was nonetheless introduced for first-year infants last September and a new plurilingual law has now been passed by the regional parliament. This was due to be introduced next September although the TSJ considered that the new norms ‘merely maintained’ Marza’s suspended plurilingual programme. Not only does the TSJ believes this is anti-constitutional but it also understands that the Education department failed to comply with the suspension order by passing another decree.

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Award for seminal thinker THE Norwegian sociologist and mathematician Professor Johan Galtung received Rotary International’s highest distinction, the Paul Harris Insignia. The award recognised the professor’s outstanding work in the field of international mediation, and with 60 years of experience his contributions to peace studies and his conflict theory are considered seminal.

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Different venue for fair THE Eucalyptus park in Albir hosts hosting the next edition of the Fira L’Alfas fair at Easter. This is the 11th edition of the leisure and trade fair, organised by Maria Jose Tent and backed by the Coempa,

Memba and Jovempa Marina Baixa business associations. Formerly the fair has occupied the Casa de Cultura esplanade and its date has been brought forward to March 30 to coincide with Easter.

As well as the fair itself, the many parallel activities will create an attractive showcase for local companies, said Alfaz’s Commerce councillor Dolores Albero who recently visited the park with Coempa president Silvio Monroy, Maria Jose Tent and several business owners. Attractions for children include fun workshops plus an Easter Egg. There will also be a talent contest, Canta-T, with the semi-final gala at 6pm on March 30 and the final at 5pm on April 1. Hopefuls have until March 19 to register. The fair opens from 12 noon until 12 midnight between March 30 and April 1.

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Helping out TEULADA MORAIRA Council is once again ready to receive applications for subsidies from non-profit entities and organisations to offer them better work conditions and help them grow while they strive to create a better community. Applications can be handed in at the ‘Servicio de Informacion y Tramitacion del Ayuntamiento’ until April 7.

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The Sistine Chapel LAILA: Easygoing.

Laila LAILA has been with us for some time now. She is quiet and well behaved and therefore she doesn’t stand out. She is spayed, micro chipped, vaccinated and treated for fleas, ticks and worms. To meet Laila, call 657 689 567 or email: aki rashelter@aol.com.

FOLLOWING on from their trip through the art, power and passion of Islamic art and architecture of Andalucia with Anne Haworth, the Arts Society Marina Alta are pleased to announce the details of the next presentation. Daniel Evans will present ‘The Sistine Chapel Cracked!’ on April 5 at Salones Canor Teulada. Doors open 10am for registration. You must be seated by 10.55am for an 11am start. Daniel Evans is an educationalist with a passion for all things Italian. Formerly Head of History of Art at Wycombe Abbey School, Dan is now Deputy Head of sixth form at

STUNNING: The Sistine Chapel ceiling. Cheltenham College. He has been lecturing since 2001, spent nine years working as a senior lecturer and tour

guide for Art History Abroad and was voted the British winner of the World Guide of the Year Awards in 2008. An announcement will be made at the end of the presentation with regards to the forthcoming Society Arts Fair to be held at Salones Canor at the end of September. Coffee is available prior to the presentation and a glass of wine or soft drink afterwards for a socialising period. Entry is €12 per presentation. For more details and how to join vis it the w e bs ite : www.marinaaltaarts.com or email: membership@marinaal taarts.com.

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Drugs raid NEWS XABIA’S Nautical Fair is set to begin at the town’s Canal de la Fontana from Saturday March 24, with several public events planned. The fair, which opens at 10am in the new Rampa building, will feature excursions, fly board, talks and childrens’ workshops among other events. There will also be a conference on maritime jobs in the Valencia area at the event organised by the Nautical Academy Pailabot. The opening of the fair is set to take place at the oceanographic stand where there will be an exhibition called ‘Knowing how to preserve our environment.’ The Marina Nou Fontana group will present the first Marina Mou Fontata-Club Nautical Crossing at 12pm, for the event set for May 1. There will then be activities on the beach from 1pm as well as half-hour

POLICE in Javea held a 60-year-old man on suspicion of drug trafficking after raiding a flat on Juan Ramon Jimenez Street. After busting down the door, officers reportedly searched the entire premises, located opposite the Reina Sofia playground, which led them to arrest the man and also confiscate several electronic devices.

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FAIR: The weekend-long programme is based around Xabia’s port and maritime industry.

trips to the Cabo la Nao caves organised by Mardays. This will be followed later by a Segway exhibition and test circuit at 5.00pm, followed by a debate on threats to maritime tourism at 5.30pm. There is then set to be an exhibition of salsa and bachata Latin dance at the Marina Nou Fontana stand at 6pm. Three talks are scheduled for Sunday. One at the nautical market at 11am, a book presentation for Life in the Mediterranean at 11.30am and another discussion on Valencian tourism at 12.15pm. More trips to the Cabo la Nao are planned for Sunday from 1pm. This will be followed by a live presentation of table sup-foil at 1.30pm. Prizes for a Facebook draw will be made at 5.30pm before the fair closes with a party at the Kandhala leisure centre.

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What a dump THE Javea branch of the Podemos Political Party has criticised the illegal dumping of organic waste in local fields. Faced with this dilemma, the political party urged the council to contact the owners of the fields where the illegal waste is being deposited and request they put an end to it.

Getting ready for Easter JAVEA will mark this year’s Easter celebrations with its 35th annual craft market. The market will open on Good Friday with dozens of stands and a fully booked entertainment programme. Dozens of stalls will fill the Plaza de Baix, Calle Mayor and Placeta del Convent from Good Friday onwards. This year the council have received more than 130 applications from people who want to put up a stand in the market, which are still under review. All kinds of products are

guaranteed to be on sale: clothes, jewellery, ceramics, leather or food, among others, and all this is livened up with a range of entertainment. The participants will be able to enjoy music performances from groups such as Xirimitabs, the Romantica del Saladar, Rascanya or the Danses Portitxol dance group. There will also be puppet shows for children, free workshops and, on the last afternoon, a chance to dance the lindy hop. On the morning of Easter

KEEPING TRADITION: Passover will arrive in the historic centre in the form of a craft market. Sunday, the local clubs and associations will set up their stands packed with typical produce and snacks in the Plaza de la Iglesia. To add to the event, the Soler Blasco Museum will be open on Friday, Saturday and

Sunday from 10am to 1pm and from 6pm to 9pm during this time. The indoor market will also have a special schedule and will open throughout Easter. The fair will be open until Monday April 2.

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Local Police vacancy NEWS

XABIA’s council has tendered free spaces at the town’s Municipal Market. The bidding for the four vacant spots, which includes three spaces together in one lot, will be available for private and public use for 10 years. The vacant spots advertised are numbers four, 12 and 14, as well as 30, 31 and 34 together in one lot. The market currently has 15 active stalls which offer a range of food and drink products, as well as a bakery and bar service, amongst others. The bidding fee for stall numbers four, 12 and 14 is set to start at €1,855.96. The fee for stalls 30, 31 and 34 is €5,567.88. The economic development department has been taking business proposals from those interested since last Friday. Authorities will judge the proposals on a points-based system. This includes the economic offer, at 45 points, unemployment factors at 15, diversification, 25, investment exceeding €3,000, five, other improvements, 10.

Jazz, theatre and stories in Xabia XABIA Council’s culture department has organised a series of music and drama shows for this weekend. The programme is set to begin tomorrow (Friday), with a children’s story planned for the Duanes Library. Y yo, ¿Que sere? (And I, What I will be?) is set to start in the library at 5.30pm. The town’s Casa de la Cultura will host a jazz night featuring the Spanish dulzaina instrument. The show is to be put on by the Dolc Tab Jazz group, led by Josep Alemany, who will be presenting their new revisited project.

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TESTS are set to begin to select a new officer for Xabia’s Local Police on March 27. Seventy-five candidates will take their first tests for the vacancy at the Public Adult Training Centre (EPA), including a psychotechnical recognition exam. Successful candidates will take further physical and theory tests if they pass.

TINA GORINA: Will star in Vittoria at the Casa de la Cultura. The entrance fee for the concert is €5, with tickets available from the centre’s

box office from 6pm. The Casa de la Cultura will then host a theatrical

performance on the Saturday. The Spanish play Vittoria has been scheduled for the night and features the Shakespearean characters Ophelia and Lady Macbeth in a musical show directed by Rafa Cruz. The play, written by Marc Rosich, has already gained positive reviews and stars Stanislav Angelov (piano), Tina Gorina (soprano) and Gretel Stuyck (actor). The play will be followed by a debate in the spectator’s workshop in the centre. Tickets for the show are priced at €5 and are available at the box office from 6pm.

What a waste! XABIA’S sewage plant treats and then puts some 2.17 billion litres of water in the sea, according to data. The plant, which was built in 2000, has the capacity to treat around 8.4 million litres of water a day. Its performance rate stands at between 77 and 96 per cent, putting that figure closer to almost six million litres. That amount then ends up in the sea, according to official data from the local Sanitation and Water body reported in Spanish media. The plant is currentl y bei ng r un by t he companies Sociedad Agricultores de la Vega and Purification of Mediterranean Waters, who charge authorities more than €865,000 for their services.

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Thousands attend funeral of Gabriel

FINAL JOURNEY: Gabriel Cruz’s funeral was held this Tuesday with leading Spanish politicians in attendance.

by Joe Gerrard THOUSANDS of people are estimated to have turned out for the funeral of Gabriel Cruz, the eight-year-old boy whose body was found after a 12-day search. Angel Cruz and Patricia Ramirez, Gabriel’s father and mother, were joined by mourners including Spain’s Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister. The funeral took place on Tuesday at Almeria’s Cathedral de la Encarnation and was led by the Bishop of Almeria Monsignor Adolfo Gonzalaz Montes. Police have arrested Ana Julia Quezada, the girlfriend of Angel Cruz, after officers reportedly found the body of the eight-year-old in the boot of her car. Spanish media have reported that she has since confessed to killing Gabriel. Mourners gathered outside the cathedral shouted “You are not alone” and “We are all Gabriel.” Patricia Ramirez thanked everyone for their support and messages of affection when speaking to the media at the service.

“I have no words of thanks for all the good deeds from people involved, although this has not had a happy ending,” she said. She added she did not wish for people to talk about Quezada. “This woman does not deserve to be covered, let us not talk about her,” she said. “The little fish is swimming to heaven and I would like all the people to send a fish with a nice word wherever they want,” she added. Fishes were the eight-yearold’s favourite animal and became a symbol of the search efforts while they were ongoing. Hundreds of people paid their respects to Gabriel when his coffin arrived at a chapel dedicated to his memory on Monday. Around 12,000 people in Almeria City held a fiveminute’s silence for the eight-year-old following the discovery of his body on Sunday. King Felipe, the Junta de Andalucia President Susana Diaz, Sevilla mayor Juan Espadas and Malaga mayor Francisco de la Torre observed a minute’s silence at a

Sevilla conference on Monday. Towns across Almeria also held minute’s silences and authorities in Nijar declared three days of mourning following the news that Gabriel’s body had been found. Quezada was placed under surveillance shortly after she allegedly found a t shirt at the bottom of the Las Aguilas ravine. It was said to belong to Gabriel and confirmation came later that it had traces of his DNA on it. She was arrested in the early hours of Sunday morning after officers saw her remove something from a well on the Cañada de la Soledad farm, in Rodalquilar. Guardia Civil officers who watched her do this then asked to search her car and found Gabriel’s body in the boot, according to police. It has since been reported that Quezada confessed to killing the eight-year-old. She allegedly told police she acted in self defence after he attempted to assault her. Results from a postmortem examination found Gabriel had died from asphyxiation.

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More than 800 illegal animals seized

DEBATE: Bad-mouthing the Spanish royal family is currently illegal.

Battle royal OFF THE SCALE: Some of the animals seized were bought legally and frozen. POLICE are quizzing 17 people in Spain after wild reptiles worth more than €150,000 were seized in the Netherlands. Three Spanish men were held at Amsterdam’s Schipol Airport as they waited to board a flight to Madrid with 200 Mexican snakes, lizards, and turtles, including many protected species, in their luggage. A probe revealed the trio to be members of a dedicated wildlife trafficking ring, leading police to swoop on homes and warehouses in Madrid and Castellon, unearthing a further 600 animals. Many of them were legal species that had been frozen alive, with licences issued to keep them used to sell on.

Nine suspects have been remanded in custody and eight others questioned in connection with the plot, which reportedly saw wildlife from America, Asia, Africa and Oceania illegally smuggled to Spain for the black market pet trade. Most of the species involved were endangered in the wild and highly desired by private collectors, with some fetching as much as €50,000 for a single individual. The gang had a network of contacts around the world and used drug-trafficking-style mules to bring the animals to Europe, although some were traded ‘legally’ using forged documentation.

Spain to debate monarchy insult laws THE Congress of Deputies in Madrid is set to consider a proposal to decriminalise insulting the crown at a meeting tomorrow. The proposal has been tabled by the Catalan leftist Partido Esquerra Republicana de Cataluña (ERC) on the grounds that the laws violate the right to free speech. The ERC said democracies such as Spain had to ensure that citizens had full rights to freedom of expression. “In recent years there have been several examples in which people, artists or satirical magazines have been persecuted for making use of their freedom of expression in respect to the royal family,” the party said. The news comes after Mallorca

rapper Valtonyc recently lost an appeal against a three year jail sentence handed to him over song lyrics that authorities said insulted the royal family. The ERC said this was one such example of free expression being violated by the laws. “These actions, beyond the ethical, moral or political considerations that each on has, should not appear in the Spanish Penal Code. “Speech like this should be considered as free expression which is a fundamental right in the Spanish Constitution,” the party said. Laws covering insults made to the country’s monarch come under Section Three of Article 490, as well as in Articles 491 and 543 of the Criminal Code.

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Mortgage loans expenses. Is it worthwhile to claim these following a new ruling by the Spanish Supreme Court? Carlos Baos We can help you.

DEAR lawyers, We had planned to claim against the bank for the expenses we paid for the mortgage deed that we signed before a no-

tary in Spain. We have since learned that the Spanish Supreme Court has issued a ruling saying that the costs have to be paid by the client and not the bank, therefore is it worth claiming? Thank you for your inquiry. Our office has actually helped many consumers to recover a significant proportion of the money they paid for these expenses. Despite all of the publicity, the fact is that this new ruling by the Supreme Court has not changed to any great extent what the local courts had ruled on, since many of them were not ruling in line with the Supreme Court decision of 12/23/2015, where it was indicated that the taxes should be paid by the bank. First of all we must state, that we cannot comment formally on the new decision, because up to the time of

writing (March 5, 2018) it has not actually been published. There is only a press release from the General Council of the Courts, saying that the Supreme court has decided that the AJD tax on mortgage should be paid by the client and not by the bank; and the part of the tax (which is minimal) relating to notary expenses by half but these two new decisions have not yet been published. Secondly, as I pointed out at the beginning, the truth is that the judges of first instance (*ie the local ones), at least the ones of the courts of Denia and those who know the province of Alicante, have agreed the negation of the clause by which the bank imposed the payment of all expenses to the client. They agreed that the bank should return the costs of notary, registration and management and registration of the deed, but not the tax AJD, therefore, in the ruling of the

Supreme Court, is it sensible or worth claiming? In accordance with our professional experience, it is still appropriate to claim, because even though it is true that the AJD tax was a big part of the claim, the balance can still involve a significant amount, which on an average loan can exceed â‚Ź1,500. In addition, our experience tells us that in the case where you are a consumer and you have not negotiated this clause, your chances of success are extremely high. Finally, please note that there is, in my view, an obvious intention to discourage consumers affected by this clause, because this ruling has been announced by the media as signifying the end of the claims from consumers, which is not true. In addition, it has been decided that only one court for each province will deal with all these claims, with the delay that this

implies. The truth is that you can claim for your rights and we encourage you to do so, without risk, and that it is possible that this ruling by the Supreme Court may be reviewed by the Court of Justice of the European Union. This is because according to the dissuasive principle of consumers and users rules, it would be appropriate, from our point of view, to ask the banks to repay all of the mortgage expenses. This could dissuade them from including these abusive clauses, because if they do not do so, and the Courts only make them pay back part of it, they will continue to include them in their contracts. If you want legal and court claims advice in Spain, contact us and we will help you. The information provided in this article is not intended to be legal advice, but merely conveys general information related

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Get moving LOCAL teachers, Tessa Harrington-Smith (ReallyFly Yoga Experiences), and Lorraine Young (UK Pilates Academy Spain) are raising awareness of Parkinson’s disease organising a ‘Get Moving Initiative’ in Costa Blanca. The ‘Get Moving Initiative’ is collaborating with ‘HELP - The Parkinson’s Support Group’ to provide healthy activities for Parkinson’s disease. All activities offered by the ‘Get Moving Initiative’ are free for people living with PD, their care partners and families. A small event fee will apply to other guests, with all funds going to Denia Parkinson’s support group. The first ‘Get Moving Day’ event will start at 11am on Wednesday March 28. This coastal guided Yoga Walk from Cala Blanca, will have three grades, EasyModerate-Challenging. They will regroup to finish

YOGA WALK: Get in touch with your body and with nature. with some gentle yoga (using specifically helpful movements for PD) and meditation. The monthly ‘Get Moving Day’ incorporates various free activities, such as walking, Parkinson’s specific strength and stretch classes, yoga and group dis-

counts to ad-hoc fundraising events. To find out more visit www.helpofdenia.com/pages /denia/index.php or call 634 301 677. Email tessa@reallyflyex periencs.com for registration or for more information.

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AMAZING ACOUSTICS: Last year’s Concert at the Cave in Benidoleig.

Concert at the Cave FOLLOWING last year’s very popular Concert at the Cave in Benidoleig, which sold out three weeks in advance, the Costa Blanca Male Voice Choir has booked two successive evenings at the Cueva de las Calaveras this year on June 15 and 16. The two concerts will be held in the acoustic entrance to the cave, starting at 8:30pm. The choir’s Marketing and Publicity Officer, Vernon Pearce, who lives in nearby Orba said, “We are responding to the huge demand for tickets last year and hope that this time we will be able to accommodate everyone who was dis-

appointed. We are very excited about experiencing the acoustics of the cave again and looking forward to bringing a programme of songs, old and new, to an equally appreciative audience from the Orba valley and surrounding area.” Tickets for the concert, which starts at 8:30pm, are €10 and part of the proceeds will donated to the Proteccion Civil Benidoleig. For reservations, please call 965 744 577 or email cbmalevoicechoir@gmail.com. Early booking is recommended (in fact bookings are already being received) as seating space, which will be in the open air, is limited.

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New princess

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S WEDEN SWEDEN’S Princess Madeleine gave birth to her third child with husband Chris O’Neill and the baby’s grandfather, King Carl XVI Gustaf, announced she will be called Adrienne Josephine Alice during a meeting at the Royal Palace in Stockholm.

Making history SWEDISH Prime Minister Stefan Löfven revealed that Sweden is willing to host a meeting between North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump after the country was named as a possible venue by US media sources.

BABY JOY: Sweden’s new princess, Adrienne Josephine Alice.

Crazy chase A MAN in Sweden reportedly threw a chainsaw and fire extinguisher at a police car during a high speed chase which started after he stole a patrol car from a local police station.

Sticky fingers TWO men in Alingsas, Sweden were sentenced to two months in prison for stealing nearly €1,200 worth of chocolate, chewing gum and disposable razors.

TWO politicians from Germany’s Social Democrats have been given key

A THIRD of Dutch children now get their pocket money paid directly into their bank account, according to research by Wijzer in Geldzaken, a government-backed organisation which helps people organise their finances.

THE Netherland’s Green Left party leader Jesse Klaver called on MPs to back a proposal that will stop ING Bank increasing its chief executive’s salary by more than 50 per cent.

Metro delays THE opening of a new metro line in Amsterdam could be further delayed after a report revealed there was not enough time to train new staff and it had suffered glitches during the test runs.

Price not right

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On the rise

Youth banking

Pay plot

N ORWAY

G ERMANY RESIDENTS in German cities such as Mainz, Chemnitz and Berlin have some of the hardest drug habits in Europe according to a new EU drugs agency study which tested the wastewater of people for drugs.

AMSTERDAM will have a new freight train connection linking the country to China, which will travel 11,000km in 16 days and carry clothing, car parts, alcoholic drinks and luxury textiles.

positions in the new coalition government as Olaf Scholz became the new finance minister and Heiko Maas the new foreign minister.

Making drama A NEW TV drama depicting the Gladbeck bank raid and hostage-grab that happened 30 years ago has been released as the ringleader, Degowski was

released from prison, prompting anger from survivors.

Trading time GERMAN trade unions representing metal workers have pushed for a 28hour week for a total of two years with a limited loss of salary, allowing employees to take some time out to look after their children.

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B ELGIUM

Men pay more

Taken to court

OLEMIC THOMMESSEN, the President of the Norwegian parliament, has resigned over controversy relating to building work at the assembly, after the costs increased from an estimated €110 million to €230 million due to mismanagement.

Revenge halted THE Norwegian Parliament has voted against an anti-revenge porn proposal, claiming they need to hear more suggestions about whether the current punishments are good enough as the decision has received criticism for being ‘passive and disappointing.’

Killing whales

Bus bother

NORWAY has announced it will increase its annual whaling quota by 28 per cent, amounting to more than 1,200 whales a year, in an effort to revive the hunt which has been declining in recent years.

A NORWEGIAN politician compared a public transport project in the Nord-Jæren area to an online ‘Nigerian scam’ after its costs increased by a whopping €510 million within the space of three months.

THE French daily newspaper Liberation asked men to pay 50 cents more on International Women’s Day to highlight the 25 per cent gender pay gap that still exists.

MALE lawyers in Belgium earn twice as much on average as their female peers according to a study by the Perelman Centre of the Faculty of Law and Criminology at ULB.

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Water works

School danger

Outbreak scare

A FRENCH family who was forced to live for 12 years without water after they failed to pay a €300 bill, and the water company cut their supply, have won the court case to get their water restored.

MORE than 20 per cent of Flemish schools have an urgent asbestos problem according to Flemish environment minister Joke Schauvliege after an asbestos inventory was carried out in 300 schools last year.

Wage shame

Wolf strikes

FRENCH businesses that pay their female employees less than men for the same work will have to cough up, said French President Emmanuel Macron, or will face being named and shamed on a public list.

IT is believed two ewes which were found dead in Limburg were killed by a wolf, which was later found dead on the side of the road in the same area.

Twinkle tower THE Eiffel Tower is reportedly about to undergo a threeyear makeover starting from October 2018 that will include being given a brighter coat of paint.

Peeping Tom POLICE in Ghent received several complaints after images of women which were secretly filmed in the dressing room at the HoGent sports centre appeared on a Dutch internet forum.

AT least four new-born babies have reportedly contracted MRSA at Aalborg University Hospital, and the hospital is now testing other patients to try to track down the source of the disease.

Tighten up DENMARK has revealed it wants to continue the tightened border control arrangements currently in place by at least six months, after Immigration Minister Inger Støjberg said there was no justification to make the restrictions more lax.

Priest punished A COURT has sentenced a former priest to three and a half years in prison for sexual assault and harassment against several people, some of whom were under the age of 18.

Sea tragedy A FIRE on board a ship - belonging to Danish shipping giant Maersk while en route from Singapore to Suez has left several members of the crew unaccounted for, confirmed the company in a press statement.

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BLOCKED: Alexei Navalny has been active in organising anti-corruption demonstrations in Moscow in the past.

Election day rally blocked A REQUEST to hold a rally in Moscow on the day of Russia’s presidential election has been turned down by the capital’s officials. Alexei Navalny, the recently-arrested opposition figure, submitted the request for Voter’s Strike protests which authorities in the city said would be illegal.

‘Excessive’ proposals THE head of the Russian legislature’s committee on family, women and children has said legislation against sexual harassment would be “absolutely excessive.” Tamara Pletneva’s comments come as at least five female journalists have accused the committee chair’s fellow Duma member Leonid Slutsky of such harassment.

Helicopter down STRONG winds were responsible for a fatal helicopter crash in the North Caucasus region of Chechnya, the head of the republic has said. Ramzan Kadyrov added nine border patrol officers were on board and

Blossoming sales AROUND 50 million flowers were delivered to Moscow to be bought on International Women’s Day, the city’s mayor has said. Flowers are traditionally given by men to the women in their lives on the day in Russia, which became a public holiday in 1965.

IN BLOOM: Flower sales were forecast to grow by 40 to 50 per cent ahead of the day.

that two of the passengers managed to jump out before the helicopter was blown off a cliff.

Twitter diplomacy RUSSIAN diplomats in the United States have discussed using the social media platform Twitter as a means of communication between the two countries following a breakdown in dialogue. The remarks come after efforts to set up a meeting between Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the US’s Secretary of State Rex Tillerson proved unsuccessful.

‘Psychic’ held A WANTED man who is also reportedly a psychic has been arrested after allegedly going on the run from police, according to local media reports. Arseniy Karazhdeav, who has claimed to have superpowers, was detained for skipping bail after being arrested on drugs and theft charges in St Petersburg last year.

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STAT OF WEEK

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Quote of the Week

A THINK TANK funded by Spain claims that Brexit offers the ideal opportunity to negotiate a ‘new status’ for Gibraltar. Published by the Elcano Royal Institute, of which the largest donor is the Spanish government, the policy paper says that it is the first time that Gibraltar has been pressurised to urgently resolve doubts over its status in relation to the European Union (EU). The report added that while the rock may not be one of Spain’s top priorities, the country is keen to

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Catalan firms opt for LGBTQ+ focus And they will present their initial proposals at the Barcelona Global Summit later this month. Juan Julia, president of the Catalan Association of Gay and Lesbian Companies and Axel Hotels chain, said change is needed. “We need to alter our model,” he told Spanish media. “Based on case studies from other cities, we should focus on ways to raise the profile of tourists and promote new products to attract gay and lesbian people all year round.”

» BUSINESS EXTRA

Overdue overtime ALMOST 60 per cent of employees in Spain receive no overtime pay, a new study by recruitment agency Adecco has shown, with 46.4 per cent receiving no form of compensation whatsoever and 13 per cent getting only ‘extra breaks.’

On track THE Spanish government is to pump €660 million into doubling the capacity of capital Madrid’s Atocha railway station, which will be able to handle 40 million passengers per year once the revamp is complete, according to development minister Iñigo de la Serna.

Lidl bit less GERMAN discount supermarket chain Lidl has revealed that it reduced prices in Spain by 0.06 per cent last year, while the remaining brands in the sector raised them by an average of 2.1 per cent.

Bogus cash con scotched THREE people have been held in a fake moneyprinting sting. Investigators from Spain’s National Police swooped on five properties in Portugal, seizing €70,000-worth of bogus €20, €50 and €500 bank notes. Most of the forged cash was sent to Spain, but some was recovered as far afield as Austria,

Italy and Estonia. Detectives also seized a heat-stamping machine, coloured dyes, a guillotine, four inkjet printers, a scanner, a computer, rolls of metal tape used to make holograms and several ink cartridges during the raids. It comes in the wake of an 18-month probe after a spike in counterfeit notes was reported in Badajoz, Extremadura during summer 2016.

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By Matt Ford maintain its strong economic ties with the UK. “Brexit opens the possibility of renegotiating the actual situation of Gibraltar,” the researchers said, adding that the current situation “opens the door to a new status for Gibraltar that is favourable to all involved parties and acceptable to the legitimate interests and aspirations of Spain.” Gibraltar has been a British Overseas Territory since 1713 despite Spain’s repeated claims to sovereign-

I want to put Spain and the UK on the spot… both sides knew there was no evidence.” Moroccan citizen Farid Hilali, 49, who was in 2004 wrongfully jailed over 9/11 reveals that he is seeking €1.8m in compensation.

PRIDE OF CATALUÑA: But Barcelona has fallen down the pecking order.

BUSINESS owners in Barcelona are aiming to transform the Catalan city into a top destination for LGBTQ+ holidaymakers. A number of entrepreneurs have joined forces to create ‘gayfriendly companies,’ with the goal of hosting the Europride festival in 2022. The move comes amid fears that cities including London, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv have moved ahead of Barcelona, traditionally a popular destination in the sector.

€5.6 billion

Rocking good time to talk

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WORK on a €530 million international rail freight corridor connecting Spain and Portugal is underway. The project will link Caia, near the Spanish border town of Badajoz, to Portuguese ports at Lisbon, Sines and Setubal. Combining new and existing rail lines, the corridor will be capable of running 51 trains per day once complete, with an 11 kilometre section already in the process of an upgrade. Bids for the remaining four contracts are currently being invited.

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ty, and its 33,000 inhabitants voted overwhelmingly in favour of remaining in the EU in the 2016 Brexit referendum. Around 8,000 Spaniards also commute to the peninsula each day for work. The Elcano report goes on to say that it is in the mutual interest of both countries to examine how Gibraltar might retain links with the EU after the UK formally cuts ties in 2019, although the authors point out that their view does not necessarily reflect that of the Spanish government.

Car firm sets sales record SEAT is aiming to set a new record in the wake of record returns. The Spanish carmaker generated operating profits of €191 million last year, an increase of 24.8 per cent on 2016. Parent group Volkswagen said that spiralling costs were offset by a leap in sales, after the company turned over almost €9.9 billion in 2017. The company sold 468,400 vehicles worldwide, and this year offloaded 78,800 in January and February for a year-on-year increase of 23.1 per cent.

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PRICE(P) CHANGE(P) COMPANY Anglo American 1,705.10 -47.10 Associated British Foods 2,402.50 -204.50 Admiral Group 1,961.25 47.25 Ashtead Group 2,048.00 38.00 Antofagasta 899.90 5.50 Aviva 534.90 15.50 AstraZeneca 4,898.00 112.50 BAE Systems 598.90 -2.90 Barclays 225.51 14.76 British American Tobacco 3,910.25 -363.25 Barratt Developments 510.15 -38.45 Berkeley Group Holdings 3,869.00 13.00 British Land Co 653.80 16.20 BHP Billiton 1,437.90 2.10 Bunzl 2,054.75 14.75 BP 478.18 -0.02 Burberry Group 1,718.75 51.25 BT Group 241.20 1.80 Coca-Cola HBC 2,267.50 -250.50 Carnival 5,243.00 505.00 Centrica 156.58 14.78 Compass Group 1,574.25 22.75 Croda International 4,637.50 5.50 CRH 2,449.50 4.50 DCC 6,940.00 105.00 Diageo 2,380.25 -66.25 Direct Line Insurance Group 376.40 -14.00 Evraz 462.75 25.75 Experian 1,528.75 -51.75 easyJet 1,577.25 14.25 Ferguson 5,362.00 44.00 Fresnillo 1,219.50 -19.00 G4S 258.95 -3.25 GKN 446.30 11.20 Glencore 369.80 -2.27 GlaxoSmithKline 1,336.00 0.00 Hargreaves Lansdown 1,773.75 53.25 Halma 1,231.50 19.50 Hammerson 458.75 3.35 HSBC Holdings 712.45 6.65 International Consldtd Airs Grp 634.50 10.50 InterContinental Hotels Grp 4,674.50 84.50 3i Group 922.90 0.50 Imperial Brands 2,773.25 181.25 Informa 707.80 0.48 Intertek Group 5,112.00 60.00 ITV 154.58 1.38 Just Eat 754.80 -33.60 Johnson Matthey 3,201.50 -48.50 Kingfisher 377.05 26.35

% CHG. NET VOL -2.69 23,979.60 -7.84 20,599.36 2.47 5,428.35 1.89 9,612.74 0.61 8,576.95 2.98 20,411.34 2.35 60,979.51 -0.48 18,770.29 7.00 36,231.96 -8.50 97,743.70 -7.01 5,492.02 0.34 5,154.89 2.54 6,314.02 0.15 29,649.26 0.72 6,785.87 -0.18 94,652.58 3.07 6,876.09 0.75 23,867.14 -9.95 9,242.05 10.66 9,858.10 10.42 7,933.80 1.47 24,457.53 0.12 6,070.06 0.18 20,503.20 1.54 6,058.17 -2.71 60,052.53 -3.59 5,275.88 5.89 6,293.87 -3.27 14,354.22 0.91 6,267.94 0.83 13,271.71 -1.53 8,909.04 -1.24 4,007.77 2.57 7,238.00 -0.61 52,405.08 0.00 66,776.97 3.10 8,127.45 1.61 4,559.49 0.74 3,628.03 0.94 140,637.95 1.68 12,944.75 1.84 8,688.25 0.05 9,045.95 6.99 24,754.24 0.07 5,861.97 1.19 8,150.22 0.90 6,193.09 -4.26 5,232.26 -1.49 6,193.07 7.51 7,612.35

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Land Securities Group 981.25 Legal & General Group 271.60 Lloyds Banking Group ORD 67.03 London Stock Exchange Grp 3,995.00 Micro Focus International 2,094.50 Mediclinic International 608.20 Marks & Spencer Group 272.15 Mondi 1,991.00 Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets 223.20 National Grid 790.90 NMC Health 3,682.00 Next 4,556.00 Old Mutual Group 253.80 Paddy Power Betfair 7,925.00 Prudential 1,837.25 Persimmon 2,737.50 Pearson 758.50 Reckitt Benckiser Group 6,004.00 Royal Bank of Scotland Grp 266.30 Royal Dutch Shell 2,318.00 Royal Dutch Shell 2,350.00 RELX 1,681.75 Rio Tinto 3,652.00 Rolls-Royce Group 939.70 Randgold Resources 5,933.00 RSA Insurance Group 567.00 Rentokil Initial 283.90 Sainsbury (J) 245.25 Schroders 3,476.00 Sage Group (The) 708.30 Segro 661.90 Shire 3,106.75 Smurfit Kappa Group 3,179.00 Sky 1,341.25 Standard Life Aberdeen 374.50 Smith (DS) 514.40 Smiths Group 1,620.75 Scottish Mortgage Invstmnt Trst 484.10 Smith & Nephew 1,339.00 SSE 1,234.75 Standard Chartered 799.85 St James's Place 1,177.25 Severn Trent 1,772.75 Tesco 215.90 TUI AG 1,524.50 Taylor Wimpey 188.58 Unilever 3,758.25 United Utilities Group 702.60 Vodafone Group 221.49 WPP Group 1,228.50 Whitbread 3,803.50

CHANGE(P) 64.15 9.10 -0.26 59.00 71.50 -9.20 -5.55 6.50 -4.70 7.20 168.00 -216.00 -2.70 40.00 -9.25 140.50 7.10 194.00 4.50 56.50 62.50 169.25 -74.50 13.90 -101.00 -68.20 11.50 2.25 72.00 12.50 62.90 -85.75 -41.00 3.25 4.10 4.20 10.75 10.50 8.00 -22.25 20.95 24.25 -53.25 3.20 -7.50 0.48 -136.25 0.00 14.49 24.00 -128.50

% CHG. 6.99 3.47 -0.39 1.50 3.53 -1.49 -2.00 0.33 -2.06 0.92 4.78 -4.53 -1.05 0.51 -0.50 5.41 0.94 3.34 1.72 2.50 2.73 11.19 -2.00 1.50 -1.67 -10.74 4.22 0.93 2.12 1.80 10.50 -2.69 -1.27 0.24 1.11 0.82 0.67 2.22 0.60 -1.77 2.69 2.10 -2.92 1.50 -0.49 0.26 -3.50 0.00 7.00 1.99 -3.27

NET VOL 6,868.12 15,742.54 48,658.34 13,595.55 8,728.50 4,475.07 4,526.54 7,297.08 5,305.30 26,669.41 6,991.54 6,773.64 12,529.25 6,767.52 47,540.60 7,870.71 5,882.99 40,483.00 31,470.19 104,125.13 85,790.37 15,946.73 49,669.15 17,055.27 5,623.90 6,486.99 4,856.07 5,296.11 7,628.26 7,542.57 6,055.67 29,380.64 7,560.50 23,034.83 11,064.25 5,471.96 6,278.56 6,608.67 11,593.25 12,655.82 25,655.56 6,110.88 4,232.78 17,194.38 9,060.44 6,146.05 47,792.56 4,766.40 55,376.71 15,621.60 7,207.73

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PRICE 241,350 99,0500 179,980 354,520 158,250 117,22 45,370 44,82 72,23 74,56 14,9400 270,77 182,1600 159,31 52,1900 118,0400 133,8000 157,2400 55,14 96,540 66,30 36,7700 80,290 142,30 134,07 225,43 49,01 124,51 88,7200 104,7300

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Most Advanced Spark Energy, Inc. Coherus BioSciences, Inc. Tintri, Inc. LexinFintech Holdings Ltd. Yangtze River Port and Logistics Limited Willdan Group, Inc. Hurco Companies, Inc. PDL BioPharma, Inc. Proteostasis Therapeutics, Inc. Protagonist Therapeutics, Inc. NCS Multistage Holdings, Inc.

$ 11.20 $ 11.85 $ 6.55 $ 19.09 $ 4.65 $ 26.54 $ 47.90 $ 3.04 $ 4.12 $ 23.08 $ 17.69

2.60 ▲ 30.23% 2.75 ▲ 30.22% 1.40 ▲ 27.18% 3.09 ▲ 19.31% 0.71 ▲ 18.02% 3.85 ▲ 16.97% 6.15 ▲ 14.73% 0.39 ▲ 14.72% 0.51 ▲ 14.13% 2.85 ▲ 14.09% 2.10 ▲ 13.47%

$ 6.60 $ 2.58 $ 5.25 $ 8.10 $ 2.55 $ 10.76 $ 26.80 $ 90.60 $ 16.16 $ 7.69 $ 5.025

1.06 ▼ 13.84% 0.32 ▼ 11.03% 0.64 ▼ 10.87% 0.85 ▼ 9.50% 0.26 ▼ 9.25% 1.09 ▼ 9.20% 2.41 ▼ 8.25% 8.13 ▼ 8.23% 1.42 ▼ 8.08% 0.67 ▼ 8.01% 0.425 ▼ 7.80%

Most Declined Credit Suisse AG Pernix Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. UTStarcom Holdings Corp Calithera Biosciences, Inc. Approach Resources Inc. Credit Suisse AG Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. National Beverage Corp. Credit Suisse AG Rimini Street, Inc. Otonomy, Inc.

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€6m solar storm erupts SPAIN’S biggest research and development centre for renewable energy is unable to spend money. The Solar Platform in Almeria (PSA) has reportedly been handed millions of Euros in European Union grants, but restrictions imposed by the Spanish government have left bosses unable to splash out. Set up in the Tabernas Desert during the 1970’s, the centre is the most important for solar thermal energy in Europe. Ex-PSA director Sixto Malato said: “Spain has installed the equivalent of two nuclear power stations in solar thermal energy plants… if it occupied 1.5 per cent of the world’s deserts, we could generate enough electricity for the entire planet.” The PSA has designed technology used by major power plants in the United States, China and North Africa, and is a popular proving ground for new solar energy systems. Around €6 million-worth of funding cannot be spent after the Spanish Treasury, in 2016, began to roll out measures designed to limit outlay. The latest ruling was approved in January. It blocks public research agencies from spending more than half of their funds until the 2018 National Budget is approved, with Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s embattled Popular Party thus far unable to get its plans approved by Spanish Congress. The standoff has seen 14 researchers - 35 per cent of the team - laid off from the PSA, leading to Malato handing in his notice. One of them, a woman who has several children and had worked there for 15 years told Spanish media: “Our problem is due to the state of science in Spain and the scarcity of work opportunities for highly trained people, I used to get the best grades in my class, and now my employ-

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‘LIKE GOING TO WAR WITHOUT WEAPONS’

OFF GRID: Almeria’s Solar Platform.

ment prospects are the most unstable.” The constraints have also impacted on research, with several projects months behind schedule. Waterspoutt has a €3.5 million budget to develop water purification technology for Uganda in southern Africa, but there is no-one in charge of it after the lead researcher was, in February, made redundant. Researcher Eduardo Zarza said how an experimental steam generation system, which is among the platform’s ‘most emblematic’ has been out of action for four months as he is unable to buy spare parts. Malato confirmed that a number of requests for the Treasury to exempt 15 EU science contracts from the spending restrictions have not been answered to date.

NOT GRAPE NEWS AFTER HARVEST SLUMP

Wine prices to increase WINE lovers are facing a price hike in the wake of last year’s catastrophic grape harvest. Global wine production last year fell to its lowest level in half a century after vineyards in Spain, as well as the world’s two other top producers France and Italy, with the weather to blame. Extreme and unseasonal hot and cold temperatures ravaged all three countries, with the areas producing Spanish Rioja and Italian Prosecco coming off worst. Dan Jago, chief executive of posh wine merchant Berry Bros and Rudd, told UK media: “We’ll start to see those [2017] wines coming to the market now and I think for higher volume, lower price wine you will see cost increases. “Prices for things like Pinot Grigio or generic Spanish reds will rise by between 10 per cent and 30 per cent and it’s how much of that retailers will pass on,” said the former Tesco wine business chief. “Prosecco was very hard hit by frost, so there will be less

PRICEY PLONK: The price of Spanish wine could rise by 30 per cent. of it and the price will go up.” According to The International Organisation of Vine and Wine, global wine production plummeted by 8 per cent in 2017 after the worst grape harvest since 1961. The fall is set to see 2.9 billion fewer bottles hit the market this year.

A senior figure in the wine industry said that the sector had endured a ‘perfect storm’ in 2017, with issues affecting wine-growing regions across the planet. “There is price pressure in two places, right at the top end, in premium claret, and in entry level wine,” he

explained. “In a £5 bottle only 50p is for the wine so you are looking at a small increase of say 12.5p… on a £100 bottle of wine you’ve got a material price change. “In a good year producers will try and profit and in a bad year they will try and eat some of the losses, it’s in their interests to do so. At some point prices will have to reflect the cost of production but supermarkets will work hard to keep wine affordable because like eggs, milk and a loaf of white bread, people know the price of a bottle of Pinot Gigio.”

Planemaker to axe 3,700 jobs as jet projects fail to take off AIRBUS has warned that up to 3,700 jobs - including 800 in Spain - could be lost as it downscales assembly of its A380 and A400M planes. The European manufacturer said that the cuts would also affect the UK, France and Germany as issues continue to plague Europe’s priciest civil and military aerospace projects. Production of the A380 super j um bo, t he wor l d’s biggest passenger jet, will be slashed from six to eight per year from 2020. The underperforming project was almost axed until Dubai’s Emirates airline ordered 16 of the planes for €12.85 billion. And j ust ei ght A400M troop transporters will be built, down from a forecast 15 this year and 11 in 2019, after losses soared beyond €8 billion.

Shot in the arm for civil service SPANISH civil servants are to receive their first pay rise since 2009. It comes after unions thrashed out a deal with the government which will see employees receive between 6.1-8.8 per cent boost in wages over the next three years. Civil servants lost 11-23 per cent of their buying power in the wake of the economic crisis. Tens of thousands of jobs axed as Spain imposed austerity measures on the cent r a l a d m i n i s t r a t i o n , a r m y, justice and public health sectors. The CC OO union confirmed the agreement in a statement after it earlier rej e c t e d t h e g o v e r n m e n t ’s proposed 1 per cent pay hike. “ We ’ r e m o v i n g t o w a r d s an increase that will recover their lost purchasing powe r, ” s a i d C C O O o f f i c i a l Antonio Cabrera.

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Green tax reforms looming THE Spanish government is aiming to increase taxes on diesel fuel. A raft of other environmental levies will also be reformed as Finance Minister Cristobal Montoro, revealed that the bulk of such taxation will be managed by the country’s 17 regional governments. And chief among the proposed changes is a move to scrap current tax breaks for drivers of diesel and other highly polluting vehicles. The announcement comes after European Commission (EC) lawmakers in Belgian capital Brussels again slammed Spain over its low income from environmental taxes. In a report on the Spanish economy, the EC officials pointed out that green taxes in Spain last year generated incoming funds equivalent to 1.9 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), compared to

DIRTY DIESEL: A digital sign warns of dangerous air pollution and (inset) summer smog clouds the air in Madrid. the European Union (EU) average of 2.4 per cent. The document points out “the low level of taxes on unleaded gasoline and diesel,” in particular “the case of diesel, on which Spain applies the minimum excise duty, despite the fact that diesel has a higher carbon and energy content

than unleaded petrol.” It continues: “Taxes on transport only generate half the income in Spain than in the rest of the EU (0.2 per cent compared to 0.5 per cent of GDP).” The EC has issued a number of scathing reports on the situation in Spain since 2012, with

the International Monetary Fund and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development following suit. But while most developed countries have raised tax or applied restrictions on diesel, Spain has done nothing notable to date, according to the report.

The Spanish government is in danger of being hauled before the EU Court of Justice for consistently breaching recommended limits of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in Madrid and Barcelona since 2010. NO2 is a by-product emitted by both petrol and diesel motor engines that can trigger breathing and other respiratory problems in otherwise healthy people. In December 2016 Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy pledged to raise an additional €500 million annually through green taxes, but the scheme was shelved shortly afterwards. The government’s latest batch of proposed reforms aims to transfer responsibility to the regional governments, while suggesting that road taxes on the most polluting vehicles could also be raised if local councils become involved.

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New minister choice sparks fear and fury ROMAN ESCOLANO is Spain’s new Economy Minister. The 53-year-old from Zaragoza replaces Luis de Guindos, 58, who recently left to become Vice-President of the European Central Bank. Escolano has resigned from his position as Vice-President of the European Investment Bank (EIB), to accept the role. The first major appointment of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s second term in office, the move was condemned by opposition parties and unions. Albert Rivera, leader of the Cuidadanos party said: “The balance is not positive for Spain, because in the end what we gain with de Guindos leaving we lose with Escolano’s march back to Spain.” Secretary General of the CC OO union, Unai Sordo, added that he believes Escolano will continue de Guindos’ approach, “increasing social inequality.”

Losing mental capacity whilst living abroad by Stone King Charlotte Macdonald Contact me at international@stoneking.co.uk

MANY UK expatriates living in Spain own properties in the UK and have pensions and investments in the UK. They rely on their UK assets to maintain their lifestyles (and those of their families) in Spain. If they can no longer manage their affairs in the UK due to a loss of mental capacity, it can cause many difficulties.

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You can choose a person or people, who you trust, to act for you when you are no longer able.

The best way to avoid the legal and practical difficulties that can occur with the loss of mental capacity is to plan for it in advance by drawing up a document called a ‘Lasting Power of Attorney’ (‘LPA’).

An LPA must be made while you have full mental capacity.

What is an LPA? An LPA is a legal document that enables you to appoint one or more attor-

neys to act for you when you are no longer able to act for yourself. Your attorney can be a professional,

such as a solicitor or a family member or friend. There are two types of LPA: ‘Health and Welfare’ or ‘Property and Financial Affairs’ An LPA must be made while you have full mental capacity. It is therefore important to make one while you are in good health. Why should you get an LPA? You can choose a person or people, who you trust, to act for you when you are no longer able. If you lose your mental capacity and do not have an LPA, then your family (or the authorities) will have no choice but to make an application to the Court of Protection to appoint a ‘deputy’ to look after your affairs, which can be time consuming and costly. Will my LPA be recognised in Spain? Unfortunately there is no international type of LPA which is guaranteed to work in both the UK and Spain. The advice we give to our clients at Stone King, is that if you have assets in both Spain and the UK, your only safe option is to appoint attorneys in both jurisdictions.

If you would like to discuss LPAs contact Charlotte Macdonald or Dan Harris at Stone King LLP by email international@stoneking.co.uk or by telephone on +44 (0)1225 337599.

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Money keeps the world going round LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT IRRESPECTIVE of those who would label me a racist. Or the luvvy ostrich brigade, who seem to be in permanent denial, after my recent trips to the UK I can, without fear of contradiction, assure you that the country, particularly the large cities, are positively awash with immigrants. London in particular has an enormous immigrant population. The majority work in the thousands of retail outlets, including shops, petrol stations, restaurants and most taxi companies. They are also firmly entrenched in many infrastructure operations, from councils to postmen, and even gas meter readers. It’s somewhat strange to see my prophecies of some 30-odd years ago, actually come to fruition. To be quite honest I don’t even really care any more. I no longer live there, never will again, and am quite happy now residing in a country that seems to have escaped (so far) the overwhelming influx of these cultures from other lands. Well good luck I say. Perhaps these new 21st century UK residents will make a better job of it. Shouldn’t be too difficult. What did strike me however was the age of

MEET AND GREET: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia with Theresa May last week. the new populace. The majority of immigrants are young Asian men. Consequently a large number of those who now reside in the UK fall into the 30 to 45 age groups. Which means they will all become old around the same time! Wow that’ll be fun! And what happens when the untold millions

of illegals reach their three score and 10? Who on earth will look after them all? Ah well, good luck. One thing is fer sure, it won’t be bothering me. It’s not love. It’s not sex and it’s certainly not charity that makes the world go around. The thing that keeps this old planet spinning happily

through the universe is money, pure and simple. Always has been, always will be. That’s why ultimately, apart from a few diplomatic noises, the usual ‘ongoing investigation’ and a bit of political window dressing, even this latest poisoning atrocity will be kicked around ‘til it finally disappears up its own proverbial. Russia has billions invested in the UK. Imports and exports amount to billions more. You don’t think that in the long run any government is going to risk all that going up the Swannee do you? For the same reason Saudi Arabian hierarchy will always be wined, dined and fawned over by British royalty and politicians. If the Saudis withdrew all their money and dropped out of present and future trade deals, the UK economy would probably collapse altogether. A few thousand deaths and atrocities committed in some far off (extremely poor!) Arab country, will definitely not be allowed to interfere with any of that. And you can happily take that to any bank you like. Many congrats to the EWN for picking up yet another prestigious (AEEPP) award in Madrid last week. Congrats all. Proud to be a part of it. Onward and upward. columnists@euroweeklynews.com

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SEMANA SANTA SPECIAL: What to expect from the upcoming

Semana Santa is coming to town With Easter almost upon us for another year, David Noon recounts the weird, wacky and wonderful traditions that make the Semana Santa period so spectacular in Spain TOOD with the Catedral de Santa María de la Sede to my left and the entrance to the Alcázar of Sevilla on my right, my first taste of Semana Santa is one I will never forget. I watched on in awe as spectators lined the streets three or four people deep, scrambling in order to see the cofradias (brotherhoods) clad in all manner of coloured, hooded gowns. Some were carrying candles, others silver staffs, while many more were tucked away, huddled bare-footed beneath the floats that carry religious effigies on board. It was at the sight of the costaleros making their way with the image of the Virgin Mary atop that sent the crowds into raptures. Coupled with the bright colours of the brotherhoods as well as the long, loud blasts on the horns, the beating of the drums and the smell of incense, it is fair to say that my first experience of Spain’s Easter holiday was a sensory awakening like no other. If truth be told, it was one of the more surreal moments of my life and I wasn’t entirely ready for it. And I wasn’t the only one to be overwhelmed by the situation. Next to me, a group of older ladies dressed head-to-toe in black lace wailed in the streets as tears streamed down their faces. It was a kind of emotion that I had never seen before. As Daniel Gil, a

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5 tonnes, the average weight of the Pasos (floats)

25-year-old teacher English teacher from Sevilla, tells me ‘Semana Santa in Sevilla is like nowhere on earth.’ “In Sevilla, the emotion during Semana Santa is like nowhere else,” he says. “My father used to carry the floats and now I take my turn. It is a duty and an honour to be a part of the celebrations.

“In all of Spain, Semana Santa is an important week, but in Sevilla hundreds if not thousands of people come out onto the street every day until late at night to be together and to take part.” He adds: “If you are a kid growing up in Sevilla, you always want to be a part of the Semana Santa processions when you are older.” While Semana Santa is celebrated in

58 religious brotherhoods in Sevilla

South America and Easter is a staple of most Western calendars, nowhere on earth quite marks the resurrection of Christ with as much vigour and enthusiasm as Spain. A week of celebrations, traditions and most importantly processions is enjoyed by all as traffic grinds to a halt to allow the ceremonies to take place. In Sevilla, 50,000 robe-wearers take part in the most iconic procession on the planet which sees thousands descend on the country from across the globe every year.

Skeletons, pub crawls and other (lesser-known) traditions

THE National Sculpture Museum donates over 100 images for use during the processions in Valladolid, making it one of Spain’s most artistic parades. • One of Spain’s most unusual (and most politically incorrect) Easter celebrations is held in the town of El Bierzo in León. While knocking back glasses of special wine-lemonade, the locals replace the usual ‘saludos’ with ‘salir a matar Judíos’ (let’s go kill the Jews). The tradition stems from a 14th century dispute between a nobleman named Suero de Quiñones and a Jewish lender, which resulted in a grizzly end for the Jewish lender after he mocked the death of Jesus. • If the sight of hundreds of hooded men wasn’t frightening enough, the Catalan town of Verges in Girona has stepped up the fear-factor a notch. On Maundy Thursday five of its residents, including three children, dress up in skeleton costumes, carry Death’s sickle and dance around the streets to the sound of drums. STRANGE TRADITIONS: Skeletons in Girona. • If you thought get out of jail free cards were reserved for Monopoly, K i n g then think again. Each year, the government choosCharles III in 1759, after a riot broke out in a Malaes a handful of Catholic inmates to be freed from ga prison when inmates found out Easter procestheir prison term. The tradition was brought in by

In total 58 different brotherhoods all take their turn to parade through the street, with some cofradias containing as

sions would be cancelled due to a plague outbreak. They forced their way out, carried Jesus’s image through the streets and then returned to their cells. • In León thousands of thirsty Easter revellers recreate the pub crawl that led to one of the city’s well-known character’s death. In 1929, Genaro Blanco was relieving his bowls against a wall after a day on the cervezas when he was struck by a rubbish truck. Year after year, more followers have joined the bar-hopping procession, the record being 15,000 in 2005. • Much of Semana Santa’s traditions relate to the idea of Christian penance. That is no more prevalent than in the town of Cuenca where participants in the ‘Road to Calvary’ procession mock Jesus on his way to the cross. For 12 hours, members of the public jostle the nazarenos, or penitents, and prevent them from carrying Jesus’s image through the streets. • Although not as gruesome as the ones seen in parts of South America, the Via Crucis in Valverde de las Veras is not for the faint hearted. Participants, known as empalaos, have their bodies strapped to a wooden cross and then walk barefoot through the streets.

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SPECTACLE: Thousands of people flock to streets in Malaga.

g Holy Week COFRADIOS: Nazarenos parade through the street.

many as 3,000 nazarenos (the hooded figures). The hooded nazarenos, are dressed in colourcoded medieval robes to match their cofradia. And their faces are covered to repent en masse and in anonymity. Yet spare a thought for the men crammed beneath the pasos (floats). Weighing up to five tonnes, the pasos can require up to 100 men to carry. As the procession moves forward, there is few more moving sights than the shuffling of bare feet beneath the floats as each man grips the shoulder of the next man in front of him. In the breaks in the procession, you can see the sweat pouring off those carrying the floats, especially during the heat of the day time celebrations. This year, things get underway on March 25 and run through until March 31. While I have never quite experi-

40-50 men are usually needed to carry each float, however the number can be as many as 100

What’s behind the hoods? IT must have been said a thousand times, but the nazarenos worn by the brotherhoods strike an uncanny similarity to the outfits donned by white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan. Of course, there is no political similarity but from a purely visual perspective the site of nazarenos does take some getting used to. While some brotherhoods do don white hoods, they come in all sorts of colours - with purple seemingly the most favoured. But where does the outfit come from? Well, the use of this hat goes back to the time of the Spanish Inquisition. In enacting punishments the members of the Inquisition placed a cap on the head of the condemned.

FAMOUS FACES: Antonio Banderas in Malaga.

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enced anything like my maiden (and only) Semana Santa in Sevilla, each procession I have witnessed in the years, cities and towns since has in one way or another been special. For while the rituals can all be traced back to the 16th century and each celebration includes hooded-figures, processions, horns (sometimes at ungodly hours) and effigies of religious figures, every town or city has its own unique take on the Holy Week.

Andalucia is largely considered to play host to some of the most emblematic (and somber) celebrations. Along with Sevilla, Malaga and Granada are also famous for their Easter celebrations. Malagueno-cum-Hollywoodmegastar Antonio Banderas usually makes an appearance at his hometown’s processions and has even joined the ranks in carrying floats in the past. Even in the smaller Costa del Sol town of Estepona, the procession takes an emotional twist as it stops on Calle

Potted dictionary La saeta - Gypsy song Nazarenos - hooded members of the brotherhood Capirote - Pointed hat Costaleros - Men who carry the Pasos Pasos - Floats Cofradias - Brotherhoods/ religious association Mantilla - Lace outfit worn by women Tronos - Golden thrown carrying the Virgin Mary Torrijas - A traditional Semana Santa sweet snack of bread soaked in milk and egg before being fried and served with sugar or honey, and are available all over the country during Holy Week.

NAZARENOS: Hooded figures.

Terraza to allow for (a rather uncomfortable) five minutes of gypsy singing which takes place from a balcony overlooking the effigy of the Virgin Mary. Meanwhile in Madrid around 20 processions take place, in the build up to Easter Sunday. The main event, the Tamborada del Domingo de Resurección, takes place on Easter Sunday at mid-day in the Plaza Mayor. Whichever Brotherhood has been chosen for the year assembles dozens of drummers who beat out a constant

1179 AD is the oldest recorded Semana Santa procession rhythm which echoes around the capital. This represents the earth tremors that were supposed to have occurred when Christ died on the cross. Arguably the most authentic - and sombre - celebrations take place in the region of Castilla La Mancha. While Zamora, close to the Portuguese border lays claim to the oldest Semana Santa celebrations in Spain, dating back to 1179. The city’s population increasing five times during Holy Week, as up to 300,000 people flock to watch the ancient traditions. Salamanca is also steeped in a rich Easter history, with festivities recorded as far back as 1240. Meanwhile, Valladolid’s processions see some of the oldest pasos carried through the streets, with some religious statues dating back to the 16th century. No matter where you are in Spain this Easter, and regardless of your religious inclination, do not complain about the horns blaring throughout the night, or the drums banging during your weekend lie-in. Instead embrace Spain’s take on the Holy Week and let your senses be overcome with the spectacle that is Semana Santa.

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7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Holding Back the Years 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm The Sheriffs are Coming 12:45pm Caught Red Handed 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One 2:30pm BBC London News 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm A Place to Call Home 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Coast and Country Auctions 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 MasterChef 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Room 101 10:00pm Requiem 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News 11:35pm The Young Offenders 12:05am Shanghai Knights

7:30am Holding Back the Years 8:15am The Sheriffs are Coming 9:00am Back in Time for Tea 10:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 1:00pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm Two Tribes 2:30pm Yes Chef 3:15pm Your Home in Their Hands 4:15pm Planet Earth 5:15pm Into the Wild with Gordon Buchanan 6:15pm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm The Repair Shop 8:00pm Saving Lives at Sea 9:00pm Mastermind 9:30pm Gardeners' World 10:00pm Pilgrimage: The Road to Santiago 11:00pm QI 11:30pm Newsnight 12:05am The Assassination of Gianni Versace American Crime Story

8:00pm World News Today The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective. 8:30pm Top of the Pops 9:00pm Songs of Ireland 10:00pm The Irish Rock Story: A Tale of Two Cities Film telling the story of how rock music helped to change Ireland. 11:00pm Here Comes the Summer: The Undertones Story 12:00am Van Morrison Live at Eden 12:55am Top of the Pops 1:25am The Irish Rock Story: A Tale of Two Cities 2:25am Here Comes the Summer: The Undertones Story 3:25am Songs of Ireland 4:25am The Beauty of Anatomy 4:55am This is BBC Four

7:00am Winter Paralympics Live 9:00am Winter Paralympics Breakfast 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 Posh Pawnbrokers 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm A Place in the Sun 5:00pm A New Life in the Sun 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Extreme Cake Makers 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 8:30pm Winter Paralympics Today 9:00pm Scruffts: Britain's Favourite Dog 10:00pm Gogglebox 11:00pm The Last Leg 12:05am Winter Paralympics Highlights

9:20am Digby Dragon 9:35am Rusty Rivets 9:55am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 10:05am Mofy 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:15pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away! 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm GPs: Behind Closed Doors 2:10pm Access 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:20pm NCIS 4:15pm Locked Away 6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm The Gadget Show 9:00pm The Yorkshire Steam Railway: All Aboard 10:00pm Jane Mcdonald and Friends 11:00pm Will and Grace 11:30pm Lip Sync Battle UK 12:00am Greatest Celebrity Wind-Ups Ever! 1:00am Cruising with Jane McDonald

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7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 1:55pm ITV News London 2:00pm Cheltenham Festival 5:30pm Best Walks with a View with Julia Bradbury 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Love Your Garden 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Lethal Weapon 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:30pm ITV News London 11:45pm The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 1:45am Jackpot247 4:00am Take on the Twisters 4:50am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service.

7:00am The Planet's Funniest Animals 7:20am Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 8:10am Who's Doing the Dishes? 8:55am Emmerdale 9:55am You've Been Framed! 10:25am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 11:15am The Bachelor 1:05pm Emmerdale 2:05pm You've Been Framed! 2:35pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:50pm Judge Rinder 6:50pm Take Me Out 8:00pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 9:30pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm Paul 11:05pm FYI Daily 11:10pm Paul 12:10am Family Guy 12:35am Family Guy 1:05am American Dad!

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Coronation Street Coronation Street Heartbeat The Royal Judge Judy Judge Judy Judge Judy Inspector Morse The Royal Heartbeat Coronation Street Coronation Street On the Buses On the Buses You're Only Young Twice Rising Damp Heartbeat Murder, She Wrote Vera The Good Karma Hospital Killer Women with Piers Morgan A Touch of Frost Million Dollar Princesses On the Buses On the Buses Rising Damp

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The Chase The Chase Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Ironside ITV Racing: The Opening Show The Protectors The Saint The Avengers Ironside Quincy, M.E. Minder The Saint The Avengers Storage Wars Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Hornblower Firefox FYI Daily Firefox Minder The Saint ITV4 Nightscreen Teleshopping Teleshopping

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Who's Harry Crumb? Brewster's Millions Couples Retreat Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story 3:20pm Fist Fight 5:00pm Miss Congeniality 7:00pm Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous 9:00pm Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story 10:40pm Fist Fight 12:20am Superbad 2:20am Knocked Up

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Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother New Girl New Girl Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks My Hotter Half I, Robot Five Star Hotel The Big Bang Theory

Good Morning Sports Fans Bitesize 7:30am Rugby League 9:45am Rugby League Brisbane Broncos meet North Queensland Cowboys at Suncorp Stadium in the second week of the NRL. 11:45am Live ICC Wc Qualifier 4:30pm Football Centre 5:00pm Football Centre 6:00pm Rugby Union 8:45pm Football Tottenham Hotspur meet Newcastle United at Wembley Stadium in the Premier League. 11:30pm Sky Sports News at Ten 12:00am Sky Sports News 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

Wheeler Monster Family: Special 9:30am Wonder Woman 12:00pm Top Ten Show, the 2018 12:15pm Transformers: The Last Knight 3:00pm Snatched Fish-out-of-water comedy about a hapless motherdaughter duo kidnapped while holidaying in Ecuador. 4:35pm City of Tiny Lights 6:30pm Wonder Woman 9:00pm Transformers: The Last Knight Blockbuster sci-fi action about an inventor tasked with saving humanity f rom impending doom. 11:40pm Snatched 1:15am Cult of Chucky 3:00am Numb 4:45am Scribe

12:15pm One2eleven 12:30pm SPFL Greatest Games 12:45pm SPFL Greatest Games 1:00pm La Liga Show 1:30pm EFL Matters 2:00pm La Liga Icons 2:45pm La Liga Icons: Falcao 3:00pm La Liga Show 3:30pm EFL Matters 4:00pm Football's Greatest 4:30pm Football's Greatest Teams 5:00pm Scottish Cup Greatest Games 5:30pm La Liga Greatest Games 5:45pm La Liga Greatest Games 6:00pm La Liga Preview 7:00pm SPFL Matters 7:30pm EFL Matters 8:00pm Magical Messi 8:55pm Football 11:00pm 20 Years of El Clasico 11:45pm La Liga Icons: Falcao

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LEGALLY SPEAKING Mobile phones may improve road safety 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. A TEAM of researchers at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid have been working on a project suggesting that rather than leading to potentially deadly distractions, a mobile phone can help road safety by advising drivers of safer speeds. The technology behind intelligent speed adaptation systems (ISA) has been around since the 90’s, mostly aimed at warning drivers who exceed the speed limit. In theory, the technology can also be used to block the functions of the mobile and even prevent use when driving, although this part of the system has seemingly not been welcomed by many, despite the obvious safety benefits. Through this latest development of the system, the researchers in Madrid have been developing ways that the technology can identify other hazards which may need speed adjustment such as bends, the camber of the road, the elevation etc. It can even take into account the meteorological conditions, which may affect the adhesion to the road or visibility, for example, and the amount of traffic in each section. The technology can also identify the type of vehicle in which it is travelling, adjusting its reports accordingly. The system obtains the information in real time and establishes the safest speed for the next section of the road contemplating and calculating the conditions re-

MOBILE PHONES: Could be used to advise drivers how fast to drive. ported, the stopping distance and the lateral acceleration of the vehicle as objective criteria. To the user, the mobile indicates the level of deceleration necessary. For the definition of the interface, the analysis of the impact on the level of attention required to receive the information of the system is carried out. Although there are no plans to release the system any time soon, the prototype has been tested in a vehicle, with different drivers, analysing their response to warnings and their degree of satisfaction and compliance with the limits set.

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Can they force him to sell? Can you advise on our situation? We have a holiday home i n S p a i n , o w n e d b y t h re e b ro t h e r s , with shares of A 50 per cent, B 25 per cent and C 25 per cent. Brothers A and

In principle, no, you cannot. The only legal way to force a sale of a shared property is to go to court. Even a minority owner can bring this action. The judge will usually try to mediate among the parties but if they cannot

B are resident in Spain. Brother C is resident in the UK. A and B want to s e l l , C d o e s n o t . C a n A a n d B , w i t h their 75 per cent ownership, override C?

David Searl You and the Law in Spain

agree, the judge can order the property sold at public auction and the proceeds divided among

the owners according to t h e i r s h a re s . T h i s a u c tion generally ends badly for all parties. One way to handle this might be to offer the holdout brother a larger s h a re o f t h e s a l e p r i c e than he is legally entitled to.

Send your questions for David Searl through lawyers Ubeda-Retana & Associates in Fuengirola at Ask@lawtaxspain.com, or call 952 667 090.

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May’s road to Brexit: a road to nowhere BREMAIN IN SPAIN - a group campaigning for the rights of British citizens in Spain and the EU - points out that public reactions to Theresa May’s recent speech have been as mixed as the PM’s own messages. While some have praised May for adding clarity and detail to her Brexit ‘plan,’ others criticised her obvious continuation of delusional thinking and unrealistic expectations. Sue Wilson, Chair of Bremain in Spain, says: “While May publicly acknowledged that the UK cannot obtain everything it wants from any deal, she’s still under the delusion that the EU needs us as much as we need it. May stated that we need to face hard facts and that ‘life is going to be different.’ It was noticeable that she chose the word ‘different’ rather than ‘better,’ so she is no longer pretending that leaving the EU will be beneficial to the UK.” May listed five tests for Brexit: that it respects the referendum result; is a lasting solution; protect jobs; maintains an outward-looking, tolerant democracy and protects the unity of the UK. Wilson continued “Brexit itself, or at least May’s hard version of it, would damage every one of her own tests. May’s insistence in respecting the ‘will of the people’ as of June 23, 2016 is no respecter of democracy or the people if she only considers how they felt at that particular

snapshot in time. So many voters have reconsidered their feelings about leaving the EU, now that the true facts and ramifications are known. The ‘will of the people’ today is demonstrably different to how it was on referendum day and should not be ignored.” The most scathing attack came from Guy Verhofstadt, who said: “Theresa May needed to move beyond vague aspirations. We can only hope that serious proposals have been put in the post. While I welcome the call for a deep and special partnership, this cannot be achieved by putting a few extra cherries on the Brexit cake.” Wilson commented that “May’s red lines are turning pinker by the minute - she needs to wake up and to accept that the EU has rules in place to protect the integrity of the single market and its members, and that the UK is not a special case. “May’s latest catchphrase, ‘ambitious but practical,’ is just another meaningless sound bite. I have written to Number 10 with my own suggestion on a replacement, when they have run out of ideas. I think in relation to Brexit,’pointless and cancelled’ just about covers it,” she concluded. Bremain in Spain is a group campaigning for the UK to remain in the European Union and to protect the rights of British migrants living and working in Spain. www.bremaininspain.com

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7:00am Breakfast 11:00am Saturday Kitchen Live 12:30pm Classic Mary Berry 1:00pm Football Focus 2:00pm BBC News 2:10pm Weather 2:15pm MasterChef 3:15pm MasterChef 4:15pm MasterChef 4:45pm Wanted Down Under Revisited 5:30pm Six Nations Rugby Union 8:00pm BBC News 8:10pm Regional News 8:15pm Weather 8:20pm Pointless 9:10pm Casualty 10:00pm Troy: Fall of a City 11:00pm BBC News 11:15pm Weather 11:20pm Match of the Day 12:20am Match of the Day: FA Cup Highlights 12:50am Gambit 2:10am Weather for the Week Ahead 2:15am BBC News

8:10am The Pets Factor 8:30am Dengineers 9:00am Absolute Genius: Monster Builds 9:30am Beyond Bionic 10:00am Robot Wars 11:00am Gorilla Family and Me 12:00pm Homes Under the Hammer 12:35pm Cats v Dogs: Which is Best? 1:35pm Orson Welles Talking Pictures 2:20pm Waterloo 4:30pm Me and My Dog 5:30pm Final Score 6:30pm The Repair Shop 7:00pm Hugh's Wild West 8:00pm Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby 9:00pm David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities 9:30pm Dad's Army 10:00pm Suite Francaise 11:40pm Peformance Live: Winged Bull in the Elephant Case 12:10am Defiance 2:15am Civilisations

8:00pm Lost Kingdoms of Central America 9:00pm The Silk Road 10:00pm Below the Surface 10:45pm Below the Surface 11:30pm TOTP2 St Patrick's Day Special 12:15am Irish Rock at the BBC 1:15am Top of the Pops Mike Read and Steve Wright present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 23 May 1985. 1:45am Top of the Pops 2:15am Lost Kingdoms of Central America 3:15am The Silk Road 4:15am TOTP2 St Patrick's Day Special

7:00am CITV 10:25am Saturday Morning with James Martin 12:20pm Britain's Brightest Family 12:50pm ITV News and Weather 1:00pm Six Nations Live Italy v Scotland. 3:25pm Six Nations Live England v Ireland. 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News and Weather 7:15pm Local News and Weather 7:30pm You've Been Framed! 8:00pm Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway 9:30pm The Voice UK 11:30pm ITV News and Weather 11:45pm Fast and Furious 1:45am Play to the Whistle 2:30am Jackpot247 4:00am Babushka 4:50am ITV Nightscreen

7:00am Emmerdale Omnibus 9:55am Coronation Street Omnibus 12:45pm Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway 2:20pm License to Wed 3:25pm FYI Daily 3:30pm License to Wed 4:05pm Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights 5:10pm FYI Daily 5:15pm Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights 5:55pm Evan Almighty 6:55pm FYI Daily 7:00pm Evan Almighty 7:50pm Gravity 8:55pm FYI Daily 9:00pm Gravity 9:30pm Pacific Rim 10:30pm FYI Daily 10:35pm Pacific Rim 12:10am Family Guy 12:35am Family Guy 1:10am American Dad! 1:35am American Dad! 2:05am Action Team 2:35am Ibiza Weekender

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7:00am Winter Paralympics Live 9:00am Winter Paralympics Breakfast 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Frasier 11:30am The Big Bang Theory 11:55am The Big Bang Theory 12:25pm The Big Bang Theory 12:55pm The Simpsons 1:25pm The Simpsons 1:55pm The Simpsons 2:25pm Casper 4:20pm A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 5:25pm The Secret Life of the Zoo 6:30pm Winter Paralympics Today 7:30pm Channel 4 News 8:00pm Penelope Keith's Coastal Villages 9:00pm Britain at Low Tide 10:00pm Fantastic Four 11:55pm 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 12:55am The Inbetweeners 1:30am Winter Paralympics Live

7:00am Milkshake! 11:05am Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:35am The Gadget Show 12:35pm Police Interceptors 1:35pm Police Interceptors 2:30pm Police Interceptors 3:30pm The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 4:30pm The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 5:30pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away! 6:25pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away! 7:25pm 5 News 7:30pm FIA Formula E Live Uruguay. 9:10pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away! 10:00pm Football on 5 The Championship. 11:00pm Football on 5 Goal Rush. 11:30pm Haymaker Fight Night: Joe Joyce v Donnie Palmer 1:00am Super Casino 4:10am Cowboy Builders

9:20am Made in Chelsea Does Come Dine with Me 10:25am Made in Chelsea 11:30am Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World 1:15pm Rude(Ish) Tube Shorts 1:30pm The Goldbergs 2:00pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 2:30pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 3:00pm Young Sheldon 3:30pm The Big Bang Theory 4:00pm The Big Bang Theory 4:30pm The Big Bang Theory 5:00pm The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer 6:15pm Extreme Cake Makers 6:45pm Extreme Cake Makers 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm The Big Bang Theory 8:30pm The Big Bang Theory 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm The World's End 12:10am Gogglebox 1:15am Five Star Hotel

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Football's Greatest The Avengers The Avengers The Avengers ITV Racing: The Opening Show Snooker v Darts Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Pawn Stars ITV Racing : Live From Uttoxeter How the West Was Won FYI Daily How the West Was Won Storage Wars Storage Wars Jaws 4: The Revenge FYI Daily Jaws 4: The Revenge Wanted FYI Daily Wanted The Dictator FYI Daily

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Moana: Special Custody Snatched Wonder Woman Transformers: The Last Knight Blockbuster sci-fi action about an inventor tasked with saving humanity from impending doom. It Comes at Night Snatched Fish-out-of-water comedy about a hapless motherdaughter duo kidnapped while holidaying in Ecuador. Wonder Woman Transformers: The Last Knight It Comes at Night Numb Cult of Chucky City of Tiny Lights

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Sky Sports News Barclays Premier League Preview Rugby Union Highlanders take on Crusaders at Forsyth Barr Stadium in Super Rugby. Rugby Archive Rugby Union Soccer Saturday PreMatch Soccer Saturday PreMatch Football Rugby Shorts Rugby Union My Icon Football Live La Liga 2017/18 La Liga Greatest Games Live LPGA : Founders Cup Sky Sports News Sky Sports News Sky Sports News Sky Sports News

EFL Greatest Games EFL Greatest Games SPFL Greatest Games SPFL Greatest Games Football Years Football SPFL Matters Soccer A.M. SPFL Matters Football Gillette Soccer Saturday Gillette Soccer Saturday Football Football EFL Goals: Championship Ronaldo: A Sensational Seaon 20 Years of El Clasico MLS Greatest Games Football EFL Greatest Games EFL Goals: Championship Ronaldo: A Sensational Seaon Football Years

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7:00am Breakfast 8:25am Match of the Day 9:30am Match of the Day: FA Cup Highlights 10:00am The Andrew Marr Show 11:00am The Big Questions 12:00pm Sunday Politics 1:15pm Lifeline 1:25pm Songs of Praise 2:00pm BBC News 2:10pm Weather for the Week Ahead 2:15pm Match of the Day Live 4:35pm A Question of Sport 5:05pm Match of the Day Live 7:35pm BBC News 7:50pm Regional News 7:55pm Weather 8:00pm Countryfile 9:00pm Hold the Sunset 9:30pm Brooklyn 11:10pm BBC News 11:30pm Regional News 11:35pm Weather 11:40pm Paddy Mcguinness' Sport Relief Warm Up 12:40am The Sentinel

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CITV ITV News Love Your Garden Peston on Sunday The Voice UK ITV News and Weather Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway What Would Your Kid Do? The Harbour Tipping Point The Chase Paul O'grady: For the Love of Dogs ITV News and Weather Local News and Weather Celebrity Catchphrase The Durrells The Good Karma Hospital ITV News and Weather Peston on Sunday Six Nations Highlights

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Coast The Instant Gardener Gardeners' World Countryfile Saturday Kitchen Best Bites Spring Kitchen with Tom Kerridge Lorraine Pascale: How to be a Better Cook Escape to the Country The Ladykillers: Pest Detectives Pilgrimage: The Road to Santiago Money for Nothing World's Most Extraordinary Homes Back in Time for Tea Catch Me If You Can Top Gear Famously Unfit for Sports Relief The Mash Report Top Gear Extra Gear Women's Six Nations Highlights Being Blacker Question Time

7:00am Planet's Funniest Animals 7:20am Emmerdale Omnibus 10:25am Coronation Street Omnibus 1:25pm You've Been Framed! 1:55pm The Voice UK 3:55pm Happy Feet 4:55pm FYI Daily 5:00pm Happy Feet 6:05pm Hotel Transylvania Preview 7:05pm FYI Daily 7:10pm Hotel Transylvania Preview 8:00pm The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 9:00pm FYI Daily 9:05pm The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 10:00pm Ibiza Weekender 11:00pm Family Guy 11:30pm Family Guy 12:00am Family Guy 12:30am American Dad! 12:55am American Dad! 1:25am Keith Lemon: The Film

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8:00pm Only Connect Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the series where knowledge will only take you so far. 8:30pm University Challenge 9:00pm Ancient Greece: The Greatest Show on Earth 10:00pm Andrew Marr on Churchill 11:00pm 13 Minutes: The Plot to Assassinate Adolf Hitler 12:45am The Riviera: A History in Pictures 1:45am The Riviera: A History in Pictures 2:45am Ancient Greece: The Greatest Show on Earth Classicist Dr Michael Scott journeys to Athens to explore how drama first began. 3:45am Andrew Marr on Churchill 4:45am Sounds of the Seventies

7:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:25am Mobil 1 9:00am Winter Paralympics Breakfast 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Sunday Brunch 1:30pm Winter Paralympics Today 3:00pm Winter Paralympics Closing Ceremony 4:15pm Epic 6:15pm The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer 7:30pm Channel 4 News 8:00pm Britain's Polar Bear Cub 9:00pm Escape to the Chateau 10:00pm Homeland 11:05pm 13 Commandments 12:00am Solace 1:55am The Last Leg 2:50am The Job Interview 3:45am KOTV Boxing Weekly 4:25am Gillette World Sport 4:55am Dispatches 5:25am Location, Location, Location

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4:30am City of Tiny Lights 6:30am Monster Family: Special 7:00am Wheeler 8:50am Custody 10:40am Snatched Fish-out-of-water comedy about a hapless motherdaughter duo kidnapped while holidaying in Ecuador. 12:15pm Transformers: The Last Knight 2:55pm Inconceivable 4:45pm It Comes at Night 6:25pm Snatched 8:00pm Transformers: The Last Knight Blockbuster sci-fi action about an inventor tasked with saving humanity from impending doom. 10:40pm Inconceivable 12:30am It Comes at Night 2:15am Numb 4:00am Custody

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Catalan secondary effects Cassandra Nash A weekly look - and not entirely impartial reaction to the Spanish political scene

SPAIN has 17 autonomous regions but Cataluña, Cataluña, Cataluña fills the horizon and the media. Even matters not directly related to Cataluña are influenced by it, for example the attraction of Ciudadanos (Cs)

for the voting public. Young, pretty and articulate Ines Arrimadas managed to make Cs the most voted party in the Catalan elections, but instead was outnumbered by the two pro-independence parties in the regional parliament. Had the PSOE and above all the Partido Popular not nosedived, Cataluña would have a Ciudadanos-led parliament by now, but while the two main parties emerged badly, Cs soars above them outside Cataluña. The PSOE is still sorting itself out following the October 2016 debacle but the PP are now running scared and planning strategies and tactics to win back the public. It could all be in vain. POPULAR CANDIDATE: Ines Arrimadas is boosting support for Ciudadanos in Cataluña.

The politically uncommitted, whose votes decide elections, resemble people who don’t understand art ‘but I know what I like.’ They don’t understand politics, but also know what they like and that, at present, appears to be Ciudadanos, Albert Rivera and Ines Arrimadas.

Accompaniment to a siren song THE theory has been around for some time that the independence Proces was a smokescreen erected by CiU politicians to conceal corruption. In a country where pots and kettles are equally black regarding corruption, this was a normal accusation. It was also a convenient theory for the PSOE with its ERE redundancy scandal in An-

With me or against me EURO MP Elena Valenciano would have been elected president of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats inside the European Parliament. Instead Pedro Sanchez vetoed the proposal with weasel words about ‘we want unity’ without specifying the identity of the ‘we.’ What he did not say, but everyone knew,

was that Valenciano backed Sanchez’s arch-rival Susana Diaz in last year’s primaries. In his bid to make himself invulnerable Sanchez considers that anyone not with him is against him. This policy is reinforcing his position inside the party but doing very little for the PSOE’s standing in the opinion polls and even less for his standing with women voters.

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dalucia and the Partido Popular with a list as long as your arm. Of course there was corruption in Cataluña: think the Pujol family, think Artur Mas, think the juicy 3 per cent commission picked up on government contracts. Of course the Proces towards independence deflected attention from corruption as endemic as Valencia’s or Madrid’s. But it is wishful thinking to hope that the independence cause is only a magician’s sleight of hand, prompting the public to look in one direction while deceiving them with the other. Separatism grew wings in 2012 during Mariano Rajoy’s first term in office when Madrid’s immobility, coupled with inflexibility and total lack of empathy, provided a perfect accompaniment to the siren song of independence.

Still on the sidelines IÑIGO ERREJON is one of the Podemos founders but the party supreme Pablo Iglesias sidelined him a year ago. Errejon, too much of a challenge and toeing the party line with insufficient humility, was replaced as party spokesman by Irene Montero. He is now visible again as he begins his campaign to dislodge the PP’s Cristina Cifuentes. columnists@euroweeklynews.com

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‘He really did do well, didn’t he’

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by Adam Whalley-Lewis LET’S start this week with a nod to the tribute to Sir Bruce Forsyth on BBC 1, last Sunday. An artist pal who knows a thing about ‘the business’ (‘hola’ from España, Ian) would have been thrilled that Sir Bruce was remembered at the London Palladium. Ian has given many performances at the Palladium and like Sir Bruce, loves this special venue. It was a lovely touch to have Tess Daly host the tribute, with just the right amount of respect and celebration. Stage and screen stars came out to pay homage and quite right too, but for me Lady Forsyth stole the evening. Bruce’s wife is grace personified, you did him proud Wilnelia. Thursday nights on BBC 1 look to be more interesting with the next instalments of two comedy shows which prove good writing can keep tried and tested formats fresh and current. Firstly, Lee Mack and Sally Bretton are back for series nine of Not Going Out. Episode one saw Lee mowing his parents-inlaw’s artificial lawn. When he asks Lucy (Sally Bretton) how it would look if they just said foxes did it, her reply ‘like a John Lewis Christmas advert’was a true gem. The supporting cast are on point too, so this is one to watch.

‘LOVELY TV’: Still Game. HOMAGE TO A LEGEND: Bruce Forsyth and (inset) wife Wilnelia speaks during his tribute show.

Immediately following Not Going Out, Still Game returns to lighten the Thursday night mood even further. Regular readers might remember that I know a thing or two about all things Scottish and yes, I might even have enjoyed a dram in The Clansman, but this is lovely TV in the best comedy traditions. There are some less than politically correct references and some of the humour is too honest for some viewers, but you’ve guessed, I love it. Ford Kiernan (Jack) and Greg Hemphill (Victor) are wonderful and supported by a great cast, including Jane Drennan as Isa. If you don’t know the show (you should get to know it,

quickly) think ‘Only Fools and Horses,’ but in Glasgow and you are some of the way there. Two shows to look back on are the ‘Winter Paralympic’ opening ceremony and the ‘Crufts Final.’ Channel 4 served up both and did a much better job than the ‘didn’t that used to be us’ BBC. I continue to be blown away by the Winter Olympians and although I was surprised by how small the Paralympic teams are, I thought the opening ceremony was wonderful. Now to the ‘Crufts Final.’ Channel 4 did a good job with their coverage. They mixed the usual search for doggie perfection with exceptional stories of how our canine friends act as

support dogs and demonstrate agility and intellect some human-kind folk would be proud of. The final was, very briefly, interrupted by demonstrators who take issue with the Kennel Club’s search for perfection in each Breed, Group and ultimately in the Champion. I’m not going over the arguments here, but I will say that I get a warm glow thinking of the difference some of the dogs made to their human friend’s lives and I thank them for it. Looking forward, Toby Anstis is searching for an Ibizan bolthole via A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun, Channel 4, Saturday. He has a healthy budget and Laura Hamilton to help him. Sunday sees Leicester City take on Chelsea in the last of the FA Cup games this weekend. Gary Lineker is hosting the BBC 1 coverage. I’m not saying where my vote goes on this one... Happy viewing.

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6:30am Monster Family: Special 7:00am Inconceivable 9:00am Jasper Jones 10:50am It Comes at Night In the aftermath of a deadly plague one desperate family agrees to shelter another, but can they be trusted? 12:30pm Transformers: The Last Knight 3:10pm Eat Locals 5:00pm Jasper Jones Australian comingof-age tale starring Levi Miller (Pan) as a bookish teen who finds himself investigating the death of a local girl. 7:00pm Inconceivable 9:00pm Transformers: The Last Knight 11:40pm Eat Locals 1:20am It Comes at Night 3:00am Custody 4:50am Numb

3:00pm SPFL Round Up 2017/18 3:15pm SPFL Greatest Games 3:30pm Soccer A.M. - The Best Bits 4:00pm Football's Greatest 4:30pm Football's Greatest Teams 5:00pm Scottish Cup Greatest Games 5:15pm Scottish Cup Greatest Games 5:30pm La Liga Greatest Games 6:00pm MLS Round Up Show 6:30pm Football Countdowns 7:00pm SPFL Round Up 2017/18 7:15pm SPFL Greatest Games 7:30pm Soccer A.M. - The Best Bits 8:00pm MLS Round Up Show 8:30pm Football Countdowns 9:00pm Eredivisie 10:00pm Playoff Final Highlights 11:00pm Revista de la Liga 11:30pm La Liga World 12:00am MLS Round Up Show 12:30am La Liga Icons

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If help is just a tantrum away

Forum fitting

When a call centre tells you how important your call is but acts as though it isn’t, there are other options, suggests Terence Kennedy

TECH FOR THE TIMID SUCH a nice man phoned from ‘Windows’ in India the other day, offering to fix a problem my computer didn’t have. Like growing numbers of scamresisters with a nasty streak, I strung him along happily for nearly half an hour before he finally slammed down the receiver with, I presume, a cheery wave of the fist. There are of course real support people out there doing sterling work for those who need help when tech goes wrong or ain’t quite right. Not that the firms that have taken our money for a product with the offer of support always make it easy to get it. An hour on hold while being Vivaldi’d into a coma by customer service is enough to unhinge the sanest of us. So what to do when your shiny new toy refuses to cooperate, your

SUPPORT: Press one if you’re rational. software turns hard or the gadget supposed to change your life won’t even let you change its batteries? Yes you could phone a friend, as the quiz show has it, or even an (expensive) independent technician. Or indeed customer support. But there’s another way. These days there’s pretty much an online forum for everything, peopled by kindred souls ready to give their

time and expertise freely to those using your very same products or services. Buy technology and if it goes wrong (or even if it doesn’t), why not sign up for the user forum that’s sure to exist for it? Simply Google the name of your product and add the word ‘forum’ after it, and you’ll be gob-stoppered at what pops up. The other day I struggled to

mount a memory chip in my computer. Within minutes YouTube had served me up a dozen useful videos, job done. Trust me, whatever has happened to you with your product has happened to dozens, even hundreds of others, so why would you tear your hair out trying to reinvent that wheel? And at least you will never suffer the indignity inflicted so famously on one hapless customer, unable to get her new computer up and running despite nearly an hour online with the call centre assistant. Finally he asked her if she still had the box the computer came in. She did. “Here’s what you do,” he instructed. “You pack it all back in the box, take it back to the store and tell them they should refund your money, because you are simply too stupid to own a computer.” He was of course fired.

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TYPE ‘Windows 10 forum’ into a search box and good luck with the 22 million results. Forums linked to product manufacturers are often a safe start. IBM, Dell, Firefox, Adobe and thousands of others all endorse forums linked to their products. Their own support staff may even visit these sites and sometimes help out. Their help is always free. As with my friend from ‘Windows India’, if money is mentioned a rodent should be smelled. Once you get a taste for being part of a dedicated online community, who knows what other heights you may reach? There are forums for geeks, forums for fans, forums for feminists, even forums for those who like joining forums. I did however draw the line at signing up for one I stumbled across last week: www.icechewing.com.

Clipping the wings, thrills and spills of no frills airlines 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

THE announcement that British Airways seats are to shrink in order to squeeze more passengers into economy rows on some aircraft is just the latest in a series of changes at the beleaguered airline, struggling to compete with budget rivals. In January 2017, BA stopped free food on short haul flights. The following March it announced it was reducing legroom from 30 inches to 29 inches on some aircraft. However, it was forced to reintroduce a second hot meal and free snacks on long haul flights after customer uproar when they were removed. Alex

Cruz, brought in from budget airline Vueling to cut costs, admitted ‘mistakes had been made’. In 2015, BA was voted number 20 on the Skytrax customer survey. By 2016, it had fallen to 25 and in 2017 fell to 40, worse than Garuda and Aeroflot. I mean, how much further does the former ‘world’s favourite airline’ have to fall? Three years ago easyJet celebrated 20 years as arguably everyone’s favourite no frills airline, with Norwegian hot on its heels. But it’s Ryanair - without CEO Michael O’Leary fronting it - that’s the more surprising. In the past I’ve avoided it,

RYANAIR: On the up?

only using it if no alternative in terms of timing or destination. However, having recently returned to Spain courtesy of Ryanair (again, no alternative), I was amazed at the change. Those of you familiar with Ryanair will recall the bad old days: the no frills flights but with all the usual trimmings. The non-stop hard sell from the moment

you boarded to the moment you disembarked: scratch cards, duty-free goods, snacks, rail tickets, babies from east European orphanages. I made the last bit up but you get the message. Finally, at this time of year with Easter just ahead, air travel’s doubtless in many people’s minds. But have you also given a thought to Easter trees? Apparently, retailers

don’t want the seasonal decorating craze to end at Christmas. One major retailer’s already reported a 22 per cent rise in sales of Easter baubles this year, featuring chicks, rabbits, sheep, butterflies... Whatever next? ‘Summer’ trees? 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.nora-johnson.net) available from Amazon in paperback/eBook (€0.99;£0.99) and iBookstore. All profits to Costa del Sol Cudeca cancer charity. columnists@euroweeklynews.com

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Across 1 Girl in difficulties, asks us and agrees (5) 4 Insensitive fool after credit (5) 8 Custodian’s organised car tour (7) 9 Inexperienced bowler's environment (5) 10 Burning coal in Nuremberg (5) 11 Reds ran about, running these? (7) 12 Leisurely walk with small Scandinavian goblin (6) 14 Sea creature from urban renewal rush hour (6) 18 Stew made from pet goat (7) 20 Black is black in retail event (5) 22 Money from writer before church (5) 23 Smoothing things out at the end of the day (7) 24 Good man gets beer, but it's flat (5) 25 Old Testament character, New Testament incident (5)

6 Characters in sinister nerve agent plot are more relentless (7) 7 Britain finishes diver's problem (5) 13 Grades given to sailors (7) 15 Simple saint before getting crown of gold (7) 16 Dexterity is an insult, so we hear

Code Breaker

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION FACING PAGE

(7) 17 Creed moved east in retreat (6) 18 Student one may see through (5) 19 Some mistake lawyer for pack leader (5) 21 Cheese containing initially banned sweetener (5)

Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 9 represents N and 19 represents Q, so fill in N every time the figure 9 appears and Q every time the figure 19 appears. Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.

CROSSWORD PAGE

Cryptic

Down 1 Bags naughty cheat on board (7) 2 Scour the bush country (5) 3 Unspoilt old city in South African region (7) 4 No care damaged part of eye (6) 5 Free range is a deadly sin (5)

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Across 1 Safe (6) 4 Counterfeit (4) 8 Make fit or suitable (5) 9 Red, green or yellow fruit (5) 10 Lawful (10) 13 Help (10) 17 State of extreme confusion and disorder (5) 18 Body excluding the head and neck and limbs (5) 19 Falsehoods (4) 20 Make up one's mind (6)

English - Spanish

Across 1 Back (of person) (7) 5 Cangrejos (de mar) (5) 8 Able (capable) (5) 9 Terrace (patio, verandah) (7) 10 To show (7) 11 Saint (5) 12 Margarita (flor) (5) 14 Décimo (5) 19 Nickname (5) 21 Clothes shop (7) 23 By plane (2,5) 24 To taste (5) 25 De nuevo (5) 26 Respuestas (a preguntas, en examen, test) (7)

Down 1 Adult male deer (4) 2 Desist from (5) 3 Long tailed rodent (3) 5 First letter of Greek alphabet (5) 6 Number of players in a cricket team (6) 7 Mexican foodstuff (6) 11 Beg persistently and urgently (6) 12 Annul or suppress (6) 14 Animal trap (5) 15 Welsh breed of dog (5) 16 Centre of 9 Across (4) 18 Bind (3) The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English.

Down 1 Above (6) 2 Tuberías (5) 3 Lagartos (7) 4 Height (6) 5 Faces (body parts) (5) 6 En contra de (7) 7 Estación (parte del año) (6) 13 Lawyer (f) (7) 15 Handcuffs (7) 16 Flowerpot (6) 17 Press (newspapers) (6) 18 Goats (6) 20 Cebolla (5) 22 Oak (tree) (5)

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‘ ANTONIO - THAT CROCODILE YOU FOUND AT LOW WATER BY THE LAKES A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO....WAS IT ALIVE? ’

Fill all the empty squares using the numbers 1 to 9, so that the sum of each horizontal block equals the ‘clue’ on its left, and the sum of each vertical block equals the clue on its top. No number may be used in the same block more than once.

How many English words of four letters or more can you make from the nine letters in our Nonagram puzzle? Each letter may be used only once (unless the letter appears twice). Each word MUST CONTAIN THE CENTRE LETTER (in this case N) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.

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1 Cesped, 4 Llorar, 9 Lilac, 10 Lentils, 11 Entonces, 12 Obey, 14 Ticket, 16 Earwig, 19 Bite, 20 Regresar, 23 Cartero, 24 Lucha, 25 Eneldo, 26 Nobody.

Down: 1 Coldest, 2 Split, 3 Encender, 5 Leña, 6 Rainbow, 7 Rusty, 8 Flies, 13 Ladrillo, 15 Catorce, 17 Germany, 18 Veloz, 19 Bache, 21 Sacro, 22 Bend.

1 Sack, 3 Las vegas, 8 Teacher, 9 Spoor, 10 Pilot, 11 Praised, 12 Poncho, 13 Plates, 16 Costume, 18 Orion, 20 Usage, 21 Coronet, 22 Elevates, 23 Grid.

Down: 1 Setup, 2 Chaplin, 4 Abrupt, 5 Gloss, 6 Strides, 7 White house, 9 Small hours, 12 Picture, 14 Thinner, 15 Rescue, 17 Spate, 19 Noted.

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KAKURO

Across: 1 Petticoat, 6 Lingo, 7 Tepid, 9 Ale, 10 Sincere, 11 Private, 14 Urn, 16 Ahead, 17 Twice, 18 Odourless.

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1 Polka, 2 Tangerine, 3 Irons, 4 Often, 5 Dodge, 8 Prejudice, 11 Piano, 12 Audio, 13 Enter, 15 Needs.

CODE BREAKER

An opportunity to do something socially arises. It is not earth shattering, but could have a great long-term impact. Others seem to have confidence in you and enjoy your company this week. Having been given the chance to show what you are really capable of, allow your talents to show through.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) A new start with someone, socially, shows great promise. Consider what you want to get rid of in your life and plan how to approach the task. A bit of military precision goes down well. Cast your net wide. It may be necessary to invest in a few theatre tickets or a weekend away.

LEO (July 24 - August 23) May we consider for a moment what you thought that you would be doing, right now, five years ago? Yes, do you see what I mean? Breaking away from an old habit could be the best thing that you have done for a long time. .

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) Taking a step back from the activity appeals right now. After an active time, energy needs building up. Basking in someone's glory shows you just how things could be. Give a new relationship more of a chance to grow. The avenues this person can open up to you will put a twinkle in your eye and a blush on your cheek.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) The strong urge to make physical contact with someone leads to a bit of bother. Not that there is anything wrong with a few hugs and kisses. It is the person or the timing that could be wrong. Love of something beautiful may lead to overspending.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) The past has been kind to you but also unkind. It is the same for most of us, so don't think that you have been singled out for a bumpy ride. Be aware that basing a decision made this week on what happened a long time ago could be a mistake. Take things one step at a time and ask lots of questions.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21)

BONUS BALL

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS Across:

A date on your calendar draws near. It seems less important than it did and you may be tempted to cancel. Think twice. The question of who to go on holiday with comes up and someone is keen to tie you down. Keep options open because things this week are changeable, indeed. An unexpected phone call brings surprise news.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20)

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Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3X3 box contains the digits 1-9. There’s no maths involved. You solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic.

More than one possibility presents itself in connection with a problem. A foreign visit or visitor figures highly in plans and solutions. A change in someone close is brought to your attention. Get people talking to make real progress. Some may be inclined to put their head in the sand but not you.

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19)

PISCES (February 20 - March 20)

TARGET: • Average: 9 • Good: 12

YOUR STARS

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GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) Should things go absolutely perfectly for you this week, then I would eat my hat. I don't usually wear one but would go to a charity shop immediately. Rolling round in your mind is the thought that, just as things start to go well, another problem crops up.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) Social life is squeezed because of business commitments. As you are a people person, there will be fun and times out aplenty this week. Burning the candle at both ends works for a while and there is the chance to meet someone that you admire.

At some time in the future you may look back on this week and ask yourself, 'Why didn't I do that?' Let me help you to see the possibilities. The emphasis is firmly on your social life and someone special is about to step into it. Is the answer in online dating?

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Feeling really balanced and calm? Being aware that you have full knowledge of a situation is good, isn't it? Absolutely anyone could snap at you this week and have no success at all in upsetting you. To say that the period is tranquil is an understatement.

QUIZ: WINE LOVERS 1. According to Genesis 9:20 which Hebrew patriarch ‘began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard’? 2. From which Italian island does marsala, the dark, sweet fortified dessert wine that resembles sherry, originally come? 3. In Roy Clarke’s long running TV sitcom Last of the Summer Wine, what was the nickname of the mischievous and impulsive character William Simmonite? 4. In which country is the wine growing region of Barossa Valley located? 5. What is the meaning of the Latin phrase ‘in vino veritas’? 6. What name is given to the science and study of wine and winemaking?

7. Which group topped the UK singles charts in 1983 with Neil Diamond’s Red Red Wine? 8. Which of these wine varieties is the odd one out: (a) Cabernet sauvignon, (b) Chablis, (c) Merlot or (d) Shiraz? 9. Which tall narrow wineglass shares its name with a high-pitched woodwind instrument? 10. Written by Jeremy Paul, Leslie Stewart and Keith Strachan for a musical called Scraps, what was the title of the 1988 Christmas number one hit single for Cliff Richard? Not a lot of people know that... according to the Wine Institute, more wine is drunk per person in the Vatican City than in any other country in the world.

Answers: 1. NOAH, 2. SICILY, 3. COMPO, 4. AUSTRALIA (South Australia), 5. TRUTH IN WINE - UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL, A PERSON TELLS THE TRUTH, 6. OENOLOGY, as distinct from VITICULTURE, which is the agricultural endeavours of vinegrowing and of grape-harvesting, 7. UB40, 8. CHABLIS, 9. FLUTE, 10. MISTLETOE AND WINE

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I AM writing in the hope that you can warn people about a new con which cost my partner and I money. We were on our way back from Caleta to Torre del Mar and were walking along the sea front when we stopped to look at a property that has fallen into disrepair Suddenly there was a splash and we had both been splattered by what we thought was seagull poo. Within a few seconds a man who was very well dressed appeared on the scene with a bottle of water in his hand and offered to help us clean up. He also had some tissues and helped to clean the disgusting mess off then leaving after about five minutes before we could thank him properly. We then went to a local supermarket where we paid by credit card, but when we got back to the apartment discovered that all €70 in cash had disappeared from Colin’s pocket and clearly the whole thing had been set up by this unscrupulous person, so be warned! Marie and Colin Cooper, Torre del Mar

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A warning about another scam to steal from visitors European Press you got it wrong WE read newspapers in four languages and enjoy yours for local news. But folks if you’re going to print it get it right! P38 European Press, Olympics the Netherlands ... incorrect! We won 20 medals and we were fifth on the medal ranking list! Little Holland ... 17 million inhabitants. Ninety countries took part. We won eight gold, six silver and six bronze medals (where was the UK?) However keep up the good work and we will keep on ‘reading you.’ PS. Correction please next week. PPS. In future I will also read your German and Belgium reports. Karin, Javea

Dutch Winter Olympics Medal Winners. Editor’s note: Karin thank you for your comments. There is a slight misunderstanding as the European Press page just gives snapshots of what was in different papers during the

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previous week. At that time, the Winter Olympics were still in progress and we simply reported that the Netherlands had just won two medals and of course the team went on to much greater things.

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Police find body of missing boy So very sad to read this - I had been hoping all this time that he would be found safe and well. So sorry for the parents and grandmother, rest in peace little one. Gillian Evans How can anyone be so evil as to harm an innocent child...This is heartbreaking... I was hoping for a safe return. Sweet Gabriel . Polly Anna

Comments from EWN online NOOOOO!!!!! Leave Benidorm alone. I still love it. I do miss the Garveys though. Catherine McGlone

Just so so sad. RIP baby. How anyone could hurt a baby/child is beyond me. Just heartbreaking. Wendy Dickeson

Men jailed over death of homeless Brit

Does Benidorm need a break?

This story makes me feel sick to my stomach. They actually murdered this poor helpless individual. A two/half year prison sentence is a joke. How can anyone do such an evil act? Jay Ellis

Very sad, but I think it’s come to its end now. The humour is desperate, the scripts more and more ridiculous. It’s a shame because it was really entertaining in the beginning and had a great cast. But the minute that guy started dressing as a woman I lost interest, it just wasn’t funny anymore. Jan Andersen-Page Hasn’t been the same since the Garveys left.Went downhill with the new characters!! Jade Hamilton

Not long enough jail time! Regardless of him having a drink problem, and his lifestyle, how can anyone be so cruel? Hopefully karma will catch them! Lesley Molloy Who has plastic ties big enough to do this on their person, sounds to me they were up to no good looking to humiliate someone and their victim wasn't in a fit state to fight them

off, three to one what a dam sin no one deserves this. Marie Ross Main Why did they only get such short sentences? They in fact killed this poor man, how low can you get? Gill Reynolds

TOWIE swaps Marbella for Barcelona Glad they are moving on I wish they would get rid - overrated thick people. Elaine Khodhir Thank the Lord... but Barcelona, really all the culture of the fabulous city will be wasted on these vacuous vile people. Can they just drop this rubbish? Julie Wilkinson

O’Leary threatens to ground planes The answer is obvious - do NOT book any flights with Ryanair, then he won’t have to bother cancelling flights, because there won’t be any passengers to transport, and nobody will be inconvenienced! See how long his business lasts. Phil Murphy

Changing lanes IT must be embarrassing to discover after 56 years that: ‘When you change lanes, the others have right of way.’ It does not matter if the road goes up or down or in circles, also called roundabouts because when you change lanes, the others have right of way. At least in Europe and other places where one drives on our side of the roads. It was probably easier when one had only one lane in and one out from the roundabouts as we did in the 50’s. Then we let the centripetal force rule. Guillermo Ryberg

Roundabout review GOOD DAY to you all. Like Barry J Clark, I too was a driving instructor for a time in Sydney, Australia and I refer back to Barry’s comments on the use of roundabouts here in Spain. My partner’s 19-year-old son recently enrolled in a driving school in Palma... I took a look at his highway code study book which is quite impressively detailed... except for one subject... there are NO, Nada pages describing the rules of a roundabout. Is it a wonder why there is confusion leading to near misses and accidents in this area? Chris Disney, Palma

Trust Leapy TRY as I might I can find nothing to be offended about in your article this week, but I’m betting you will get a deluge of complaints from those who can (and want to). Well done mate, someone has to say these things because it is all ‘emperor’s new clothes’ in the PC world that the UK is turning into at the moment. If someone wrote your column in the UK there would be questions in parliament and MPs calling for you to be sacked for proffering such appalling opinions. A bandwagon would be set rolling, everyone would feel obliged to jump on it, and in no time at all there would be another nail in the coffin of free speech. Angus Silvie

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Nick Horne The Rich Pick Freelance correspondent, London, England THERE are many astonishing hotels in the world, in an occasional series I will look at Rooms at the Top. Not necessarily the top as in height above sea level, indeed many are at sea level, but rather the spectacular offer to the guest. One such is the Corinthia London. Located south of Trafalgar Square on Whitehall Place on the fringe of Clubland and a short walk from royal parks and palaces, the processional route from Palace to St Paul’s Cathedral passes close by, as well as the vibrant theatre district. The Corinthia London is a relative newcomer to the capital first opening in 2011, then rapidly accumulating recognition and awards confirming its status as a Flagship hotel of Corinthia Hotels, a Malta domiciled international luxury hotel company. The Corinthia London offers 294 rooms including 36 suites and seven penthouses, as well as several world class restaurants and bars and a spectacular Spa to luxuriate in when not sampling all that the West End of London has to offer. The outfitting is elegant, even glorious, with furnishings of unsurpassed quality, attention to detail as well as a service culture that not only offers guests original artwork on the walls but chandeliers suspended from ceilings to achieve a level of glamour, even of grandeur. A truly luxurious aspect to the Corinthia London is the space to truly breathe that the hotel offers its guests. Not only in the public spaces

Room at the Top at the Corinthia London

ELEGANT: Writer’s Penthouse Double Height Lounge, Corinthia Hotel. which are generous yet with private dining rooms and meeting spaces that bring the opportunity for secluded conversations, but also the guest’s rooms. At the most accessible the Deluxe rooms offer an average of 32 to 39 square metres, rising in acreage with the Suites to an average of 46 to

OPULENT: A River Suite Bedroom at the Corinthia Hotel. 86 square metres. While the Penthouses, each of which is uniquely themed; each has its own private staircase and in some cases its own lift, offer from 100 square metres rising to the Royal Penthouse at 456 square metres. Many with double height ceilings, the rooms are quite probably the

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Elche: a city of variety ELCHE, and its predecessor La Alcudia, was settled by the Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Byzantines, Goths and Moors. So it is safe to say that the city has some history. But the city offers far more than museums, in fact, part of its appeal is its variety. The coastal location provides the obligatory beach attraction but there are cultural options aplenty for those looking for a more sophisticated experience. Perhaps the most notable is the Basilica of Santa Maria, an impressive, Arabic-looking structure well worth a visit. Another must for architecture is the Torre de la Calahorra. If greenery is your thing then the Palm Grove of Elche should be right up your garden path, having been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. Twinned with six towns - includi n g To u l o u s e i n F r a n c e - E l c h e i s within striking distance of Alicante,

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PALM GROVE: Elche boasts a Unesco World Heritage Site. for those who want the allure of one o f S p a i n ’s l a rg e s t c i t i e s . E l c h e should be easily big enough for all travel needs and boasts a number of top restaurants and hotels. The local football team, Elche CF,

were in the top tier of Spanish football until last year, but could make a return to La Liga in the coming seasons, giving football fans the chance to see giants like Real Madrid or Barcelona in quaint surroundings.

MAGNIFICENT: Victorian Belle Epoch exterior of the Corinthia Hotel London. most extravagant in terms of space in the whole of the capital. The Corinthia Hotel London offers afternoon teas in her lounges and garden courtyards but does not have iconic status in London, it soon will.

Alicante is an ideal tourist base TORREVIEJA is not the destination at the top of many travellers’ lists in Spain. However, the city makes for an ideal base from which to see a number of quaint, charming villages and popular beach spots. The waterfront promenade, lined with palm trees and Spaniards out for a stroll, comes alive in the evenings. Buskers and merchandise sellers add spirit to a number of endearing bench-based monuments, while the lively restaurant culture adds to the homely feel. The real draw, though, is the sea view - particularly at sunset - and the ice cream vendors who serve all manner of flavours, from the exotic to the traditional. Another tourist favourite is the go-karting just outside of town. Though the city is not particularly authentic, or much different to other tourist-filled seaside towns, what is impressive is the number of nearby locations that you can day trip to. With relatively cheap accommodation on offer, tourists can see the delights of countless local beaches. Try the quiet Lomas de Cabo-Roig or Punta Prima, wave-filled Guardamar, or popular sand and sunfilled La Zenia. Nearby Spanish towns are also worth a visit for travellers after a more authentic experience.

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Ringing the seeds Dance yourself fit of change PACKED full of protein, vitamins, healthy fats and minerals, protein seeds make the perfect healthy snack. They’re cheap to buy from the supermarket but it’s also easy to just scrape them from a pumpkin and roast them in an oven. The seeds are an excellent source of both magnesium and zinc, which the body needs for energy production, bone and cell formation, and to help heal wounds. Magnesium is also needed to help regulate sleep patterns so eating pumpkin seeds could help to improve sleep. Pumpkin seeds are a great source of antioxidants, which help to eliminate ‘free radicals’ in the body which damage cells, helping to prevent various illnesses. A 2011 study also showed that pumpkin

SEEDY BUSINESS: Pumpkin seeds are a great source of vitamins and minerals. seeds, together with linseed, may help to prevent complications resulting from diabetes, such as high blood sugar levels and cholesterol. They also have hypoglycaemic properties which could help people with diabetes to manage their blood sugar levels on a daily basis. Research has also suggested that consuming pumpkin seed oil could improve your bladder health and help to treat urinary disorders. So the next time you’re making a pumpkin soup or stew, remember to save the seeds.

ZUMBA: Combines dance with aerobics. ZUMBA has undergone an unprecedented increase in popularity in recent years, for good reason. Combining dance with aerobics, the workout is suitable for people of all ages and abilities and has a wide range of benefits. It aims to improve flexibility, posture, metabolism, endurance and strength through combining various dance moves with fundamental resistance training.

The variation of controlled movements with fast, intense aerobic exercise means you burn anything from 300 to 600 calories in an hour as it keeps your metabolism in high gear for the entire time. It also helps to improve your stamina as the classes allow your body to get used to enduring exercise, which can help to make working out easier. As Zumba is a combination of various different dance

styles, such as samba, salsa, merengue, and mambo, it works out diverse muscle groups and gets joints used to different stretches and movements. It also helps to improve coordination, which often gets worse as we get older, by keeping your body in tip top shape. Not only does it help you to keep in shape, it could also improve your mood, releasing endorphins and eliminating stress hormones.

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THERE has been a lot of dispute about how good drinking wine on a regular basis is for your health. Some studies have suggested wine helps to protect against heart disease, while others reveal that drinking alcohol regularly can damage the brain and cause a wide range of health issues, from liver disease to depression. Consuming small amounts of alcohol could help to protect some people from developing heart problems, according to research from the British Heart Foundation. Red wine especially contains several antioxidants, such as quercetin and resveratrol, which may play a part in helping to prevent heart disease and cancer. However, these antioxidants primarily benefit postmenopausal women and men over the age of 40, and when consumption is limited to two glasses of wine a week. Eating well and leading a healthy lifestyle will also produce the same results and

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BRAIN GAIN: Eating salmon could keep your mind healthy.

GREAT GRAPES: Wine contains antioxidants which could prevent heart disease. there is still little evidence that wine has the same effect on the health of young people, who are less at risk of heart disease.

Health experts advise you don’t drink more than 14 units a week and to make you have several alcohol free days a week to give your body rest.

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IT’S important to maintain a healthy diet to keep your body in good shape and functioning effectively but eating well is just as important for your mind. Paying attention to what you eat can really pay off, whether you need to stay on the ball for your next work meeting or working on a new project. While there aren’t any particular foods that can protect you against agerelated brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s or dementia, making sure you’re consuming all the nutrients

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your brain needs will help to promote cognitive health. Eating whole grain foods, such as brown bread, rice and pasta, could help you to improve your concentration and focus as they release a slow supply of energy to the brain in the form of glucose. Omega-3 fats which help the brain to function effectively are found in oily fish such as salmon or mackerel. Good plant sources of these fats include walnuts, flaxseed, soya beans and pumpkin seeds. Consuming omega-3 fats has been linked to decreasing the risk of dementia and memory loss, while also helping us to manage stress and produce the feel good chemical, serotonin, a natural mood booster. Blueberries could also help to improve short-term memory as they contain protective compounds called anthocyanins, which help to delay short term memory loss according to research from Tufts University, USA.

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Going green for St Patrick’s Day by Holly Lenny ON St Patrick’s Day, or Paddy’s Day, as the Irish like to call it, people all over the world claim his or her percentage of Irish blood. Celebrated in major cities across the globe, March 17 is the official celebration date that showcases Irish culture and traditions. The popular day commemorates the Irish patron saint of Ireland, Saint Patrick, who according to legend, is said to have banished all the snakes out of the country and brought Christianity to Ireland. For many the day represents an important reference to the Christian faith. However, for the younger generations the festivities revolve around the colourful parades, traditional Irish dancing, singing, street parties and a few pints of Guinness to ‘wet the shamrock.’ Irish business networks and social organisations around the country have planned numerous events to promote the Irish language, food and customs. With the large Irish

GOING GREEN: Revellers getting involved in the Paddy’s Day celebrations.

expatriate community across Spain, there is something for everyone to guarantee plenty of ‘craic agus ceol’! (fun and music) Each year Tourism Ireland take a proactive approach to ‘greening’ many popular and famous landmarks around the world and Spain is no exception. This St. Patrick’s Day the Athletic Club Bilbao’s San Mamés Stadium will be lit up in green on March 16. Other landmarks include Madrid’s Puerta de Álcala and Cibeles fountain, buildings around Murcia, Malaga, Tortosa and Zaragoza, the Tower of Hercules in A Coruña and the Marbella Arches. Celebrations in Alicante will commence with the annual parade in Cabo Roig from 2pm. The Six Nations final between Ireland and England will take place at 3.45pm (Spanish time) in the Twickenham Stadium, London. With a little luck of the Irish, Ireland will be the grand slam champions of the competition if they win. Let the shenanigans begin!

The summer festival season starts at FIB WHEN it was first launched in 1995, it was hardly anticipated that the Festival Internacional de Benicassim (FIB) would grow to become one of Europe’s biggest and best annual music festivals. With music starting in the late afternoon and running until the early hours, there’s ample opportunity to relax in the sun on the golden sands or take a dip in the enticing Mediterranean, making the festival a perfect mix between a music festival and a summer holiday. This year’s event takes place from July 19 to 22 and has a stellar line up with top musicians mainly from the UK and US as well as some Spanish bands. The main attraction announced so far are the Killers, Pet Shop Boys, Madness, Liam Gallagher, Bastille, the Vaccines, although there are already more than 30 acts signed up already with plenty more to be announced. A four-day ticket with camping in-

THE KILLERS: One of the acts announced. cluded costs €155 and a VIP ticket also including camping costs €300 and there are plenty of options to include motor homes, caravans and even hotel accommodation, but all prices will include a booking fee. Children under the age of 15 will only be admitted if accompanied by a parent or certified adult with parental

a p proval and those aged 16 and 17 will be unable to purchase alcohol from the booths on the site. Full details of the line up as well as details of how to obtain tickets may be viewed at the festival website https://fiberfib.com.

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GOOD FOOD: Announcing the special sandwich and exhibition offer.

Special event in l’Alfas del Pi TO coincide with the 16th Mostra de Teatre de l’Alfas del Pi, the local council is promoting Bocata and Mostra (sandwich and exhibition) event. From now until next Thursday (March 25) a number of premises in the centre of l’Alfas will offer their customers a menu consisting of half a sandwich, two tapas and a

drink for the price of €10. The idea behind this is to help local establishments to benefit from the number of visitors who come to the town to enjoy the Nostra and to promote local cuisine. In total, nine establishments will be participating, L’Alfassina Café Bar, Cañas & Coffee, Paladar Tapería, Séptimo Arte, Bar-Cafetería

Quinoa, Raspalló, Café Bar Albéniz, Everest Tapas Bar and Café La Tertulia. This year the Mostra will pay tribute to the actor Gabino Diego with the award of the Pi d’Honor 2018. The council hopes the combination of exciting theatre and good food at affordable prices will encourage everyone to enjoy all that is on offer.

Added cheers to Ronda SPAIN is an increasing popular choice among wine tourism travellers. With the nation boasting the by Lorenzo world’s largest land Barbareschi area dedicated to vineyard cultivation, the Serranía de Ronda is among the latest additions to the official wine tourism routes throughout Spain with wines from the area being increasing locally and internationally valued. The region’s historical ties to wine dates back to Roman times when wine was produced in the nearby city of Acinipo (Phoenician for ‘Land of wine,’) and exported back to Rome. Ronda’s proximity to the Mediterranean, its unique micro-climate and geological diversity support cultivation of a diverse range of grape varieties including Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Pinot Noir, Syrah, Tempranillo and Garnacha and gives wines very distinct aromas and flavours. Locally produced wines are bottled under the DOs, or Designations of Origin, of Málaga and Sierras de Málaga. A visit to the wineries in the surrounding countryside can be especially interesting in September as the harvest gets underway.

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RONDA: Wine tourism on the up. Among wineries to visit include: Bodegas Chinchilla: In the Ronda La Vieja area, close to Acinipo, a boutique winery with a façade displaying the name given to its wine. Bodegas Descalzos Viejos: Formerly a convent and one of the most visited bodegas due to its historic appeal. Bodegas Vetas: The smallest in Andalucia with just a couple of acres of land and with very low yields, Vetas crafts two treasures, the 100 per cent Petit Verdot and its very own, Vetas Selection. Bodegas F-Schatz: A small family-run winery close to the Roman city of Acinipo that produces several distinctive wines. Enjoy the visit and happy tasting.

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Mozart at the Palau de la Musica Valencia CONCERTS COSTA BLANCA will be presenting an evening of Mozart in Valencia of Saturday April 21 starting at 7.30pm. The performance will be directed by the much respected Daniel Abad Casanova and will feature soprano Jonaina Salvador and on oboe, Vicente Llimerá together with the Orquestra de Cámara de la Comunidad Valenciana. Entitled Tutto Mozart the concert will consist of the following works; Exultate

Jubilate for soprano and orchestra, K165, Concerto for oboe and orchestra in C, K314 and Symphony Nº 40 in G minor, K550. Tickets which include bus transport from Moraira, Javea and Mas y Mas cost €30 per person and must be booked no later than Tuesday March 27. For full details of how to make your reservation visit www.concerts costablanc.com, call 965 770 826 or email info@concertscostablanca.com.

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CAMELA: Will bring their brand of music to Benidorm.

Flamenco meets Pop in Con Mucho Arte AT least six acts will participate in an evening of music to be held in the flamencopop festival Con Mucho Arte. It will be held in the Julio Iglesias Auditorium of the Aiguera Park on Saturday March 31 with the doors opening at 7pm. Tickets cost €15 plus

booking fee and artists appearing will be Camela, Andy & Lucas, the Hungarian, David Barrull, Laury La Hungarilla and Son del Barrio. This is the second festival of its kind to be held and the previous event attracted visitors from Murcia, CastillaLa Mancha and Valencia but

as this event takes place during Semana Santa, it is anticipated that the audience will be greater especially from those Madrilleños who have travelled to Benidorm to enjoy Holy Week. All are now hoping that the weather will remain clement so that the evening is another success.

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RETIREMENT HOME: The ladies discovering a Silver Lining.

Experience to the rescue THE waters are rising around the Silver retirement home in Gravesend and likewise the anxiety of the residents stranded on the first floor, partly it must be said because of their dithering. The staff assured them they’d be back to rescue them, but that was some time ago and they’re still marooned. However, far from being useless old biddies, there’s life in them yet, with a war-time daring-do attitude (although this isn’t set in that era). There’s Gloria, who wears somewhat avant-garde outfits, June who’s supposedly only there until her daughter invites her to move in with her, May, a liberal lesbian, Maureen a former amateur actor and a new resident with dementia whose name nobody knows. She’s confined to a wheelchair. They’re nothing if not resourceful, and while planning their escape we learn about their backgrounds, interspersed with witty oneliners. This comedy is written by sharp-tongued radio and TV presenter, Sandi Toksvig, who’s appeared on BBC Radio 4’s I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, amongst others. Silver Lining will be performed at the Union Musical de Gata from April 16 to 20 at 8pm.

Tickets cost €12.50 and are available on w w w. j a v e a p l a y e r s . c o m where you can choose your own seats. If you have a problem please call 634 330

915 or alternatively you can email boxoffice@javeaplay ers.com. Groups of 10 booked together will receive a free pre-show drink.

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British buyers are still keen BRITISH and foreign interest in the Spanish housing market remains strong according to the latest figures from the Spanish Land Registrar’s Association for the last quarter of 2017. The amount of homes purchased by foreigners reportedly increased to 15,266 in this time period, the highest it’s been during these particular months for several years. It also marked a 20.4 per cent increase from 2016, while housing sales in general in Spain were up 19.8 per cent. The British led the international interest in Spanish homes at the end of 2017, making more than 2,300 purchases, followed by the French and Germans registering more than 1,200 and 1,100 purchases respectively. There was also a 0.9 per cent increase in British purchases from the previous quarter, meaning they now account for 16 per cent of the foreign housing market in Spain. From these figures it would

PRICE PLUMMET: Zapatero has cut his losses with the house.

EAGER BEAVERS: Foreign buyers are still snapping up property in Spain. seem that the Brits are undeterred by Brexit when it comes to buying property in Spain as they still maintain an eight point lead over the French,

who hold the second biggest share of the market. During this time Spain’s Foreign Minister Alfonso Dastis came out to say that the

country’s British expats would face “no disruption” after Brexit, which could have also had an impact on the interest of buyers.

Zapatero sells house after price cut THE former president of Spain, Jose Luis Zapatero, has revealed that he has finally found a buyer for his villa in Leon. He managed to sell his home in Eras de Reneuva for €390,000, but this is almost half the price of €670,000 he originally set. Zapatero began to build the house in 2011 with the intention of it being one of his main residences, and it is in one of the most exclusive areas of the city. However, he soon abandoned the idea of returning to the place where he grew up, and the house was left halfbuilt without any interior decoration for several years. It is perhaps not surprising that the house has robust security facilities including a range of surveillance cameras and a large exterior wall. It boasts a master bedroom, four en-suite bedrooms, a spacious living room, gym, home-cinema, cellar and swimming pool. No real estate agency was involved in the deal as it was carried out directly between Zapatero and the buyers. The new tenants are already remodelling the interior of the building, which had been on the market for since 2013. From the initial selling price of €670,000, it dropped to €542,000 and then €490,000, but the lack of interest resulted in the final selling price of €390,000.

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THE sparse but dramatic landscape of the Gorafe Desert in Granada, Spain, now features a glass pavilion for those who want to be as close to nature as possible. Called La Casa del Desierto, the project aims to demonstrate the beauty of the country throughout all seasons, allowing guests to lie back, relax and fall asleep under the stars. Standing on a wooden structure, the house is fully glazed with high performance, energyefficient glass designed to withstand the challenging desert conditions. It includes a bedroom, bathroom, living room covering 20 square metres, and sits on a wide open space overlooking the landscape. Located in the northern part of Guadix, in the province of Granada, Andalucia, the desert of Coloraos de Gorafe owes its name to the shades of its red

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DESERT DWELLING: The house is homage to the multi-purpose nature of glass. sandstone and to the diversity of rock formations in the area. While it is considered to be a particularly uncompromising natural environment, the specialised glass keeps the house w a r m i n t h e w i n t e r, w h i l e i t s

solar protection properties ensures the building doesn’t overheat in spring and summer. La Casa del Desierto is a beacon of state of the art design, boasting water filtration and energy generation systems.

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fruit on trees that you can keep to less than two metres tall and around a metre wide can allow you to find a space even in a container on a balcony or terrace. The secret to robust, large fruit is in the pruning and thinning. I recently visited a local orchardist who specialises in growing peach trees that he takes directly to sell in the markets. He showed me how over 20 years he had refined the best way to have the best quality fruit was to prune the trees hard, to allow plenty of open

space between branches in winter, and to remove over half the fruits forming in spring to have space between the immature developing fruit. This gives less quantity but greater quality, something that the home gardener usually prefers. His trees were less than two metres tall so he could hand pick them without damage to the fruit or himself and the tree was easily accessible with the wide spacing between branches to access all the fruit. In gardening circles this method is called forcing. Pruning and thinning forces the

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FLEAS are ugly, nasty parasites that are one of the most difficult critters to get rid of. Which is why, prevention, all year long, is necessary. Fleas are about ¼-inch long, are black/brown in colour, have no wings but do have long hind legs, which they use for jumping from one host to another. Fleas require a host - your cat or dog - in order to survive, as they live off their blood. Fleas can be found all around the world, no matter the climate, however, they particularly like living in grass, which is where your pet will most likely be exposed to them. Outdoor prevention Because fleas burrow deep into the grass, as well as under branches, leaves and soil, just waiting for a host to latch onto, one of the most effective ways to prevent fleas from hopping onto your pet is to keep your lawn well groomed. It is also important to always rake

ITCHY: Protect your pup from fleas. the leaves as flea larvae don’t like light. Watering your lawn on a regular basis may also help keep fleas from

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on photographs, found they perceived someone as being happier, more relaxed and more trustworthy if they had a dog. Meanwhile, experiments that sent men to ask for a woman’s phone number found they were more successful if they had a dog with them. A study on more than 1,200 Match.com users also found that nearly a third of people revealed they were ‘more attracted to someone’ because they had a pet, while more than half claimed they would not date someone who did not like pets. Meanwhile most of the people who responded said they thought someone’s choice in pets revealed a lot about their personality. More than two-thirds of people also said they would judge their date based on how well they got along with their own pet. Researchers in Canada have also allegedly found a correlation between higher relationship satisfaction and owning a pet.

spot, so focus on those areas,” reports Pet Supplies Review. Another line of defence is topical medications, the best of which are available through your veterinarian. There are many different prescriptions available so contact your vet to determine which one is most appropriate for your pet. Cleaning Regular house cleaning, such as vacuuming weekly and regularly washing your pet’s bedding, will go a long way toward preventing fleas. Infestation control If your dog is uncontrollably scratching itself: to determine if the cause is in fact fleas, do a couple of things. Look under your dog’s fur for dark specs. Those black bits are flea dirt, they are actually flea faeces. Pick them off the pet and place them onto a wet paper towel. If the specs morph into something that resembles a bloodstain, then your pet has fleas. Flea dirt is a lot easier to spot on

lighter coloured pets. On darker coloured pets, comb through their fur with a flea comb, its bristles are very close together and it will pull out any flea dirt. Now what? It is impossible to know how long the fleas have been living off your pet, so it is also impossible to locate all the areas within the house where the fleas may be living. Not only do you have to treat your pet, but you also have to treat your entire house. Before buying every flea-destroying product on the market, thoroughly vacuum your house. Remove the vacuum bag, seal it and destroy it immediately, fleas are hearty parasites and will continue to live in the vacuum bag if not destroyed. For dogs and cats (they can share fleas) a specially formulated flea bath product, available at your vet or pet store, will do the trick. Shampooing will have to be accompanied by extensive brushing with a flea comb.

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MOTORING FACT TWO classic cars from hit TV show Minder have been put up for sale. Minder is synonymous for 10 series between October 1979 and March 1994, featuring famous second-hand car salesman Arthur Daley and sidekick Terry McCann. And now Daley’s iconic 1981 Daimler Sovereign and McCann’s Ford Capri MK2, which featured heavily in the show, are set to be auctioned off, along with a host of other memorabilia from the hit 70’s show.

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Although both cars are more than 40 years old, the two cars have less than 135,000 miles on the clock; with the Ford Capri having just 88,780 miles and the Daimler Sovereign only 44,108. Speaking to British media, the seller said: “Since owning this collection, I have since met with Mr Dennis Waterman, Mrs Cole and the main writer Tony Hoare’s partner Linda. “During my meeting with Linda, I was privileged to be shown Tony’s office where he wrote many of the early Minder series and many others in-

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ICONIC: The two cars will go up for auction along with much more Minder memorabilia. cluding the Sweeney etc. “The office was also full of Minder memorabilia personal to the couple including photographs, signed posters and more importantly Tony’s own copies of the scripts he had

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higher than the same month in 2017. Sales figures for the year-todate rose by 23.1 per cent to reach a total of 78,800 cars. In January and February, Spain spearheaded the company’s sales with a total of 17,100

vehicles sold, representing an 18.1 per cent increase, closely followed by Germany, with 13,700 units sold. Other positive markets included Switzerland (2,100), France (4,300), Austria (3,500), the United Kingdom (6,500) and Italy (3,700). SEAT is also growing strongly outside Europe, with Algeria remaining the brand’s fourth biggest market at the beginning of the year after selling 4,700 cars, while sales in Israel also rose by 34.9 per cent with 2,100 cars. SEAT Vice-President for Sales and Marketing, Wayne Griffiths, said: “There has been an outstanding increase in sales in the first two months of the year. “We are one the fastest growing car brands in the industry and are gaining market share in strategic markets. “The SEAT Arona is widely popular in the market, as are the Leon, Ibiza and Ateca. In addition, the launch of the new CUPRA brand will have a positive effect in order to conquer new customers in the future.”

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DEPORTIVO host Las Palmas in a relegation six-pointer on Saturday as the fight to avoid relegation from La Liga heats up. A win for either side would come as a welcome boost with both only managing to pick up just three points each in their last 10 games. Both sides are without a win in six and now find themselves four and five points adrift of safety, with Las Palmas in 18th position and Deportivo 19th. Elsewhere, Barcelona’s march towards the title continues against 12th placed Athletic Bilbao on Sunday. The league leaders strolled to a 2-0 win over bottom side Malaga as they enjoyed more than 75 per cent of possession to give Malaga their seventh consecutive defeat. Malaga, who have not won in over three months, are now 11 points from safety and will need a result against Celta Vigo on Saturday if they are to have any chance of survival. Real Madrid will look to close the gap on Atletico Madrid as they host Girona on Saturday, but will need to be at their best to get past

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STRUGGLING: Deportivo are yet to win under Clarence Seedorf. their opposition. Girona continued their push for European football as they secured their third win in a row last time out thanks to a 2-0 win over Deportivo on Friday. They now sit just a point behind six placed Villarreal, who face a tough tie against second placed Atletico on Sunday.

Weekend’s fixtures in full Tomorrow (Friday) Levante vs Eibar Saturday Deportivo la Coruña vs Las Palmas Valencia vs Alaves Real Sociedad vs Getafe Real Betis vs Espanyol Sunday Leganes vs Sevilla Barcelona vs Athletic Bilbao Celta Vigo vs Malaga Villarreal vs Atletico Madrid Real Madrid vs Girona Atletico got back to winning ways after their disappointing defeat to Barcelona with a 3-0 win over Celta Vigo thanks to goals from Vitolo, Correa and Antoine Griezmann. That result leaves Diego Simeone’s side eight points behind Barcelona at the top but only seven ahead of Real. In the weekend’s other matches, Levante host Eibar, Valencia take on Alaves, Real Sociedad play Getafe, travel to Real Betis and Leganes are against Sevilla.

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Liverpool look to get back on track

BOUNCE BACK: Liverpool will look to get back on track after a 2-1 loss at Old Trafford.

JUST four games will take place in the Premier League this weekend as the FA Cup returns for the quarter-finals. Liverpool host Watford in the late kick off hoping to bounce back from their 2-1 Derby Day defeat to Manchester United at Old Trafford. Marcus Rashford scored a fantastic first half brace to hand Liverpool, who pulled one back through an Eric Bailly own goal, just their first defeat in their last six games. They host a Watford side that lost their first game in three following two successive 1-0 wins against West Brom and Everton as they lost 3-0 to Arsenal at the Emi-

rates. Elsewhere, struggling Stoke City host Everton with both sides desperate to get out of their poor run of form. Stoke were easily beaten by champions-elect Manchester City 2-0 on Monday and find themselves in the middle of a relegation battle. Bournemouth, fresh off their 4-1 defeat to Tottenham host a West Brom side who have lost their last six consecutive Premier League games. Boss Alan Pardew is expected to remain in charge for Saturday’s fixture, despite going down 4-1 to Leicester at the weekend In the weekend’s only other fixture, Huddersfield Town host Crystal Palace.

Weekend fixtures in full Bournemouth vs West Bromwich Albion Huddersfield Town vs Crystal Palace Stoke City vs Everton Liverpool vs Watford

SPANISH LA LIGA 2017/18 TABLE TEAM

Pl

W

D

L

F

A

1 • Barcelona

28

22

6

0

72

13

Pts 72

2 • Atlético

28

19

7

2

48

12

64

3 • Real Madrid

28

17

6

5

67

30

57

4 • Valencia

28

17

5

6

54

30

56

5 • Sevilla

28

14

3

11

36

42

45

6 • Villarreal

28

13

5

10

38

32

44

7 • Girona

28

12

7

9

40

36

43

8 • Betis

28

12

4

12

46

53

40

9 • Eibar

28

11

6

11

35

41

39

10 • Celta

28

11

5

12

45

42

38

11 • Getafe

28

9

9

10

33

26

36

12 • Athletic

28

8

11

9

29

31

35

13 • Espanyol

28

8

11

9

26

34

35

14 • R. Sociedad

28

9

6

13

50

50

33

15 • Leganés

28

9

6

13

23

34

33

16 • Alavés

28

10

1

17

25

42

31

17 • Levante

28

4

12

12

23

42

24

18 • Las Palmas

28

5

5

18

20

57

20

19 • Deportivo

28

4

7

17

25

59

19

20 • Málaga

28

3

4

21

16

45

13

Pts

Champions L.

Europa L.

Relegation

PREMIER LEAGUE 2017/18 TABLE TEAM

Pl

W

D

L

F

A

1 • M. City

30

26

3

1

85

20

81

2 • M. United

30

20

5

5

58

23

65

3 • Tottenham H.

30

18

7

5

59

25

61

4 • Liverpool

30

17

9

4

68

34

60

5 • Chelsea

30

17

5

8

52

27

56

6 • Arsenal

30

14

6

10

55

41

48

7 • Burnley

30

11

10

9

27

26

43

8 • Leicester City

30

10

10

10

45

43

40

9 • Everton

30

10

7

13

35

49

37

10 • Watford

30

10

6

14

39

50

36

11 • Brighton

30

8

10

12

28

40

34

12 • Bournemouth

30

8

9

13

35

48

33

13 • Newcastle United

30

8

8

14

30

40

32

14 • Swansea City

30

8

7

15

25

42

31

15 • Huddersfield Town

30

8

7

15

25

50

31

16 • West Ham Utd.

30

7

9

14

36

57

30

17 • Southampton

30

5

13

12

29

44

28

18 • Crystal Palace

30

6

9

15

28

48

27

19 • Stoke City

30

6

9

15

28

56

27

20 • West Bromwich

30

3

11

16

23

47

20

FA CUP: Quarter-finals THE FA Cup returns this weekend as the quarter-final stage kicks off with Swansea against Tottenham on Saturday. The Swans reached the quarter finals for the first time since 1964 thanks to Jordan Ayew’s and Nathan Dyer’s second half goals secured a 2-0 win over Sheffield Wednesday in a replay. Tottenham also needed a replay against League One Rochdale after a 2-2 draw in Rochdale, but former Swansea striker Fernando Llorente scored a hat-trick in the replay as Spurs breezed past their League One opposition 6-1. Spurs are also likely to have Harry Kane missing after the England striker suffered an ankle injury against

Bournemouth and was seen leaving Wembley stadium on crutches and in a protective boot. Elsewhere, 12-time winners Manchester United host Brighton as they look to retain the trophy they last won in 2016. The Red Devils are yet to concede a goal in this year’s tournament with wins over Derby, Yeovil and Huddersfield while Brighton reached the quarter-finals for the first time since 1986 with a 3-1 win over Coventry. On Sunday, League One side Wigan Athletic, who famously put out Manchester City in the last round, will host Southampton, who have gotten to this stage for the first time since 2005, while Leicester take on Chelsea in the weekend’s other fixture.

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ALL SMILES: Winners and runners up.

Javea Green Bowls dominate in Calpe Open Triples Competition ON a blustery grey Sunday, 48 players made their way to Calpe for the much anticipated and always oversubscribed Open Triples competition. This small friendly Bowls Club with enviable location right on the seafront attracts players from Javea, BBC, Bonalb a a n d E l C i d w h o relish the competitive bowling da y wh i c h i s a l w ay s played in good spirits. There were two groups consisting of eight teams of three, e a c h g r o u p p l a y ed

four one hour games. With five points for a win and one point per end won, the eventual scores between first, second and third could not have been closer, with to p an d s e c o n d s p o t o nly decided on the last game of the day. The winners with 41 points were David Gard in er, D e e H amilto n a nd Velia Wood. Second place with 39 points went to Jan and Paul Brown and Greg S p e rrin g (th e o n ly n on Javea member amongst the winners). Third position

was also a Javea team of Di M a ns e r, N ie l R oa ke a nd Jack Wardrop. Javea Green’s Winter League team put themselves back in contention for the league title with an excellent 11-1 win against neighbouring club Benitachell. The Javea Northern le a gue s a ls o ha d a good week with Onyx winning 82 a ga ins t B e nita c he ll Jaguars, Opals winning 6-4 against Bonalba and only the ir Q ua rtz te a m going down 6-4 to Finca Guila.

Spain on the brink of Rugby World Cup qualification SPAIN moved one step closer to World Cup qualification as they stormed past Germany 8410 in Madrid. Los Leones ran in 11 tries at a stadium full to the rafters and had King Felipe VI and the Web Ellis Cup in attendance Spain hit the ground running in the first half as full-back Methie Peluchon kicked two penalties in the first seven minutes before Pierre Barthere went over after 13 minutes following a great run by Mathieu Belie. And they didn’t have to wait much longer for the next few tries as Ignacio Contardi took an inside ball to go over before Spain were awarded a penalty try which saw Germany’s Falk Duwe sent to the sin bin. Spain managed another try before the

break thanks to centre Thibaut Alvarez and were able to withstand siege of late German pressure. Los Leones continued where they left off in the second half as straight from the restart Spain won possession and held the ball for 10 phases before Gautier Giboun crashed over. Further tries from Bonan, Thibault Visensang, Sebastien Ascarat, Brad Linklater and a Fernando Lopez double agave Los Leones their best score for over two decades. Spain now head to Belgium on Saturday knowing a win will be enough to secure a place in next Year’s World Cup pool A alongside Ireland, Scotland, Japan and a play-off winner. If they do manage to secure qualification, it will be their second appearance at a World Cup.

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MAN UNITED boss Jose Mourinho is set to earn a whopping €1.9m for just four days work at this summer’s World Cup. The Portuguese manager will appear as a TV pundit on Russia’s RT TV.

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GOLF is set to undergo radical changes - with amendments to the game’s rules set to be implemented from 2019. According to reports, golf’s two major governing bodies, the R&A and United States Golf Association (USGA) have confirmed that changes, aimed at making golf easier to understand and faster to play, will come into place next year. However, they have also announced that alterations have been made to the proposals released for public consultation released last year; the majority of suggested changes remaining. From January, rule changes including allowing the flag to remain in the hole unattended while putting as well as no penalty for removing loose items from bunkers will come

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Time for change! R&A and USGA confirm rule changes from 2019 into play. In another move, the time for searching for lost balls will be reduced from five minutes to three, but instead the plan to have penalty or free drops from an inch have been changed and will now be taken from knee height. David Rickman, the R&A’s executive director of governance, explained to British media: “Our previous proposal had a number of difficulties with it, particularly around how close certain players would get to the ground in certain circumstances. “Knee-height gave us that balance, gave us the ability to preserve the randomness of the drop. “But by being significantly lower than shoulder height and by allowing a player to get their eyes over the ball, they can be much more precise in terms of the dropping procedure.”

CHANGES: Players will now take penalty or free drops from knee height in one of many rule changes. Other changes see penalties for accidentally striking the ball twice in the course of a shot removed while regulations involv-

ing lost and out of bound balls will be relaxed. From next year, golf clubs can also use a ‘local rule’ which

will allow golfers the option to drop the ball where it is lost or out of bounds under a twostroke penalty.

This has been added in the hope that it will address concerns raised at club level about the pace of play when returning to the original spot. This rule is not intended for professional or elite level competitions, according to reports. “We debated it quite seriously,” Rickman continued. “While some divots are easy to identify and distinguish from other damaged areas, as a divot gets older that becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish from a bad lie. “So I think there are practical difficulties and philosophically one of the fundamental tenets of the game is that you play the ball as it lies. “Playing the ball as it lies and playing the course as you find it are fundamental aspects of the sport.”