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ISSUE NO. 1731
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Plaque attack by Joe Gerrard VANDALS have ripped the plaque from a monument which commemorates victims of the Holocaust in Murcia City and scrawled farright graffiti on it. Images of the memorial, on Calle Derechos Humanos, posted on social media showed the plaque gone last Friday. The picture, posted by the Cambiemos Murcia group, also showed the words ‘El Valle no se toca’ (The Valley is not touched) written between two crosses. The slogan is one used by supporters of former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco who oppose the removal of his remains from the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum. Plans to do so are currently being drawn up by the government in Madrid. The identity of the vandals remained unknown this week
VANDALISED: The monument was attacked last week and they remained at large. Carlos Egio, a Cambiemos Murcia spokesperson, said the vandalism was a ‘serious’ hate crime and fascist and Nazi gesture. “We find it regrettable that the plaque has been torn from the monument in homage to Murcians deported to Nazi extermination camps.
Whale body found MEMBERS of the Red Cross and coastguards in Murcia have towed the carcass of a whale out of the sea near Cartagena. Personnel from the NGO found the bound floating around 3.7 kilometres off Escombreras Island. The Salvamar Mimosa, of the Salvamento Maritimo maritime rescue service, was also on hand at
the scene last Thursday. Coastguards said on social media the body of the whale was towed to the south west of Escombreras Island. Biologists from Murcia’s regional authorities took samples from the corpse, the Red Cross said. The NGO did not give details as to the results of the tests.
“We are convinced this act of vandalism has been possible because of the precariousness of the monument which is made of very poor quality material,” Egio said. The Murcia City monument was erected in memory of people in the city who were deported to concentration camps in Nazi Germany
during the Second World War. Franco agreed to round up Spanish Jews and others Third Reich leader Adolf Hitler wished to exterminate as part of his ‘Final Solution.’ Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has continued to push for the exhumation of Franco’s remains from the Valley of the Fallen in the face of a rightist backlash. The former dictator’s family have also voiced opposition to the plans. Sanchez, of the left-leaning Partido Socialista (PSOE), said the move was necessary because no democracy should honour a dictator. Pablo Casado, the leader of the opposition conservative Partido Popular (PP), said the plans were a ‘smoke screen’ designed to mask economic, immigration and security problems.
CORPSE TOWED: The whale’s body was found off Cartagena.
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NEWS EXTRA Proposal off the table THE future use of the Valley of the Fallen remains a mystery after Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez backed down from proposals to turn it into a museum once former dictator Francisco’s Franco remains have been exhumed.
Fatalities up A TOTAL of 259 people have died on Spanish roads in 236 fatal accidents during July and August of this year, 34 more deaths than in the same period of 2017, representing an increase of 15 per cent.
Scared off OWNERS of beach-based attractions and tourism organisations are calling on the authorities to do something about jellyfish swarms amid claims they have scared off bathers and customers this summer, and a request for nets was turned down by the Environment Department.
Worked out EMPLOYMENT in August this year hit a 10-year low with 300,000 jobs wiped out in one day on August 31, a historical daily maximum, while the month closed with an increase in unemployment of 47,000 people, totalling 3,182,000.
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Migrant deaths ‘almost triple’ By Joe Gerrard THE number of people who died trying to reach Spain numbered 318 during the first half of 2018, almost three times the amount killed during the same period last year. About 27,600 migrants and refugees arrived in Spain between January and July. Around 23,800 of those came by sea and about 3,800 crossed the country’s borders by land, according to the latest United Nations (UN) figures. The UN said: “Crossing the Mediterranean has become even more lethal.” The total number of arrivals was almost 130 per cent higher than it was at the end of July 2017. About 12,100 people arrived in Spain during that time. A total of 113 of those died. The total number of arrivals in Spain between January and July was 700 off the total number of migrants who came to the country for the year in 2017. Around 28,300 people arrived in the country during 2017. The most common origin country of those coming to Spain was Guinea. About 3,100 people came from the west African country. Around 2,600 came from Morocco, 2,200 from Mali, 1,200 from the Ivory Coast and around 1,000 from Syria.
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TOLL UP: A total of 318 died from January to June. The UN’s High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said in its latest Dangerous Journeys report that the western Mediterranean route via Spain was now the main point of entry into Europe. Around 26,000 people were registered in Greece and 18,500 arrived in Italy from January to July. A total of 1,512 people died while trying to reach Europe across all three routes. A total of 1,095 died while try-
ing to reach Italy and 99 died while attempting to cross to Greece. The UNHCR said there was no conclusive evidence that the rise in those travelling through Morocco to Spain was caused by it being harder to travel to Italy via Libya. Arrival numbers in Italy have declined by some 81 per cent, according to data. The body added the total number of arrivals in Europe
was lower than it had been in the previous two years. European states had taken measures to reduce irregular migration but they had not made it easier for migrants to enter through legal pathways, the UNHCR said. The body’s report said migrants came to Europe for a variety of reasons including to flee war or persecution, to be with family members or for work and education.
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Man held in abuse probe
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LOCAL POLICE in Murcia City have arrested a 37-year-old man at his home in the Puente Tocinos area in connection with sexual abuse allegations made by a 17-year-old girl. Investigators from the National Police have taken statements from the girl and from witnesses as part of the ongoing probe.
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NATIONAL POLICE officers have seized more than 1,000 kilos of hashish as part of an operation targeting drugs trafficking in the Cartagena area. Several of those detained in connection with alleged drugs running between Spain and Morocco were from the Murcia Region and two were from the Galicia Region.
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OIL BE: Cascamorras takes place in Granada Province today (Thursday).
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Oily moly THESE people have covered themselves in black paint for a religious festival which takes place in two Granada Province villages today (Thursday). Jesus Maria Fontecha’s picture shows attendees at the 2016 edition of Cascamorras, a fiesta which takes place annually in the towns of Baza and Guadix. It is held prior to the Mass of Our Lady of Mercy on Saturday. The fiesta began at midnight last night when ‘cascamorras’ festival goers leave Guadix to take an icon of the Virgin Mary from Baza. They are accompanied by a drummer and flag bearer. Those taking part are covered in black paint on their
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arrival in reference to a punishment meted out against a worker who supposedly gave the fiesta its name. Le ge nd ha s it tha t Cascam or r as, a wor ker from Guardix, discovering a sacred image of the Virgin Mary while working in Baza in the 15th century. Cascamorras attempted to carry the icon to Baza but it was stolen from him before he arrived. When he arrived in the town the locals were furious and covered him in black paint as a punishment. Church authorities decided to settle the dispute by allowing Baza to keep the icon, but letting Guadix celebrate in honour of it every year.
Crime stats THE number of violent robberies committed in Lorca fell by 18 per cent between May and August in comparison to the same time last year, according to official statistics. Car theft fell by 43 per cent and burglaries by 21 per cent, with around 400 police reinforcements due in the Murcia Region this month.
Mass brawl TWO people were wounded by knives and one had to be taken to hospital after a fight broke out on an estate in Elda. The brawl, which began at around 2.30pm last Monday in the Almafra area, was believed to have followed an argument over a relationship between members of two families police said.
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GUARDIA CIVIL and National Police officers have arrested four suspects from Alicante City aged between 40 and 53 years old in connection with thefts in Castellon, Valladolid and Albacete. The detainees are also suspected of committing fraud as part of alleged break ins in several homes in the province.
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A TOTAL of 104,668 people were seeking work in Murcia at the end of last month, up by 2.77 per cent (2,825) on July’s figure according to government data. Employment Ministry figures showed the Murcia Region’s rate of increase was more than 1.2 per cent higher than the 1.5 per cent recorded nationally.
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Pension rally MORE than 150 protestors resumed their weekly protests on pension rates outside Alicante City Hall last Monday to demand that payouts match inflation increases. Rally organisers said plans to increase pensions by 1.6 per cent only covered this year and 2019. Protestors claimed the rise would not cover inflation which reached 2.2 per cent last month. Pere Llinares, a spokesperson for the Platform of Alicante group which called the demonstration,
said: “A reform in 2013 meant pensions were raised by 0.25 per cent annually unless politicians decided otherwise. “We will return to that rate of increase in 2020 and since 2013 it has led to a loss of purchasing power for pensions.” Organisers had also appealed to young people to join the rally and future events, Llinares added. Some protestors said the rally was about defending future as well as current pensioners.
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Up in court A COURT in Granada Province has begun hearing the cases of two defendants who stand accused of duping a high-profile Lorca resident with mental issues to steal millions. Prosecutors requested in their initial submissions to the Second Section of the Provincial Court that the defendants be jailed for six years each if found guilty. The two standing trial are accused of unfair administration, false accounting and withholding information in order to steal a total of
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€9.7 million from the man. Prosecutors claimed the defendants convinced the Lorca man, who did not have control over his expenses due to his mental state, to pay cash into a property company. The man was made a minority shareholder in the company and the defendants siphoned his investments off into their own business ventures, prosecutors added. The defendants face fines of €12,000 each if convicted. The trial continues.
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JUMPING BACK: Borrell (inset) said Spain could possibly return to GMT.
Back in time SPAIN’S Foreign Minister and the European Union have both proposed altering the clocks of the country and the continent. Josep Borrell, the government’s top diplomat, said last week the country’s time could jump back one hour to be more in line with its geographic location. Former dictator Francisco Franco moved Spain into the Greenwich Mean Time plus one (GMT+1) zone in 1940. “Perhaps Spain should be in another time zone. Frankly I don’t know. Let’s give the European Parliament an opportunity to see if it is able to find a common denominator between countries that are in such different geographical situations,” Borrell said. The Foreign Minister’s comments come as the European Commission (EC), the European Union’s (EU) executive branch, said last week it was mulling ending daylight savings time. It follows a public poll which EC officials said showed there was overwhelming support for ending the practice of putting clocks forward in spring and turning them back in autumn. Around 4.6 million people from the EU’s 28 member
states took part in the online survey. Borrell said the proposals would have to be debated by Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) before being signed off by the EC. “All countries would have to explain their point of view and to what extent this would favour or otherwise affect work-family balance, the adaptation of timetables to the hours of daylight and energy consumption,” the Foreign Minister said. Borrell said he suspected member states would differ on the proposals. He added he was indifferent because his schedules were “continuous” in winter and in summer. “MEPs will have to make a decision about a problem that affects the people’s lives, the economy and energy consumption,” the Foreign Minister said. Franco pulled Spain out of GMT+0, the time zone of Britain, Ireland and Portugal, as a gesture of goodwill to Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler in 1940. The move was taken in a bid to bring Europe’s fascist dictatorships more in line with one another. It meant Spain saw less light in the morning and more in the evening.
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NATIONAL POLICE officers have prevented the suicide of a child who was being sexually harassed through the Internet. An international operation between Spanish officers, US Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) and Guatemalan police has led to the arrest of two people who cyber-stalked dozens of young people around the world. The two arrested contacted the children via the Internet from Guatemala and, after gaining their trust, requested pornographic material about themselves. As time went by, the young people had to send more explicit images. HSI intercepted communications between a minor and a dangerous sexual harasser in which the victim from Cataluña told of his intention to commit suicide because of the pressure he was under. The US agents found that the alleged harasser lived in Guatemala and informed the Guatemalan authorities. Subsequently, National Police officers specialising in cybercrime received an urgent communication from the Prosecutor’s Office investigating crimes against minors in Guatemala. The victim who wanted to end his life resided in Spain and needed to be located urgently. A rapid investigation led to the victim’s identity being established in just
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Cyber-stalked child suicide prevented
SAVED: Police patrols traced suicide risk child. a few hours. Police in the victim’s hometown launched a search for the child and quickly found him wandering the streets and thus prevented his suicide. The mother of the child told the officers that she had noticed abnormal behaviour in her son but did not know that the problem was so serious. Guatemalan police then raided the harasser’s home, but he and an ac-
complice escaped. A search revealed the duo had been harassing dozens of children around the world. Months later, the Catalan child was again sexually harassed through the Internet. Family vigilance prompted them to report the matter to police who forwarded the information to the Guatemalan police as the harassers were the same individuals who had earlier escaped.
This time they were found, arrested and have since been jailed. Spanish National Police is teaching the Cyberexpert programme in schools, which aims to train children in the safe use of social networks and to raise their awareness of the risks they may encounter in the daily use of new technologies and the Internet. For more information, visit www.ciberexperto.org.
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Climate claims DATA collected on the atmosphere, weather and waters of the Mediterranean Sea and coast areas has shown ‘clear’ signs that climate change is taking place, an Alicante academic has claimed. Jorge Olcina, head of the University of Alicante’s Climatology Laboratory and President of the Association of Spanish Geographers, told Spanish media warming on Spain’s Mediterranean coast had accelerated since 1980. Temperatures had risen by 0.8 degrees in the last 100 years in the area, he added. “This data backs up existing figures. They have stopped being assumptions and now show clear manifestations of climate warming,” Olcina said. The academic added increased rainfall during autumn and spring suggested temperatures in the area and globally were warming. A rise in the amount of nights where temperatures did not drop below 20 degrees and a warming of the Mediterranean all pointed to climate change, Olcina said.
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ONLY 24 hours after the confirmation of her split with personal trainer Kris Boyson, 29, Katie Price showed she had swiftly moved on with an even younger man during a beach party at BH Mallorca in Magaluf. The glamour model looked as though she had forgotten all about her former flame as she smooched and groped businessman Alex Adderson 25, for all to see. The mother-of-five flaunted her surgically enhanced figure in a lilac and grey snakeskin
print bikini which featured a caged front and tie-side briefs. Katie did not hide her attraction to her new beau, hitching her tattooed leg up onto a chair and grinding on him, before puckering up for a kiss. Even though she was posing flirtatiously for photos with the hunk, she went for a relatively toned-down makeup look. Alex is said to be staying with Katie in his own plush villa, and wining and dining her.
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FORMER Queen of the Jungle and staunch advocate of body confidence, Vicky Pattinson slipped her phenomenal figure into a plunging bikini top as she hosted a pool party in Magaluf. The reality star was fresh from her recent juicing retreat in Portugal and encouraged fans to embrace their bodies.
DEMI ROSE sent pulses racing again for her fans with a sizzling photo shoot in Ibiza. The star, 23, paraded her hourglass curves in a bright blue bikini, with her peachy derriere taking centre stage in high-rise thong briefs. The Birmingham-based model looked incredible as
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GETTING CLOSE: Katie Price.
ALTHOUGH the new series of TOWIE kicked off on Sunday night, Shelby Tribble has been enjoying a break from the Essex drama, soaking up the Spanish sunshine. The stunning model turned heads in a striking crochet bikini with a bold colour pallet of red, yellow and blue as she posed up a storm on the sand. The skimpy design highlighted Shelby’s tanned and toned curves perfectly and her pert derriere was out in force as she frolicked in the water. She added a glam full face of make-up to highlight her
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plump pout and gorgeous features. A pair of retro round shades and a bright pink manicure completed her beach look. Shelby recently admitted that having a boob job boosted her confidence and made her feel better about herself. On Sunday’s opening episode, TOWIE’s Tommy Mallet received wide praise from fans after he bravely discussed his struggles with mental health issues.
Chan’s man DEMI ROSE: Sizzling. she posed against an idyllic private pool backdrop, and is rumoured to be mulling a move to LA.
DOMINIC COOPER and Gemma Chan have confirmed their romance during a beach day on the Spanish island of Formentera. The Mamma Mia actor, 40, and the Crazy Rich A s i a n s s t a r, 3 5 , l o o k e d happy and relaxed as they cuddled on the shoreline
while enjoying their first holiday as an item. The pair sparked romance rumours when they were spotted getting ‘cosy’ during a night out in Spain last month.
NEW ROMANCE: Dominic and Gemma.
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OUR VIEW A very British coup THE weekend in the UK is a good time for politicians of all colours to speak out on matters that they see as important. The Andrew Marr show is a perfect example of how politicians can use the media to promote their own causes and this past Sunday, former Minister for Brexit David Davis confirmed that having resigned over the Chequers Brexit proposal, he will vote against it when it reaches parliament. This seems to be one factor that unites many pro and anti Brexiteer MPs as well as the European Union with all sides becoming increasingly more committed to fight it. Boris Johnson in the meantime has been using his regular article in the Daily Telegraph to criticise the Prime Minister in what many in both media and politics see as his first real move in a campaign to see Mrs May deposed and replaced by himself. With a majority of just seven in the House of Commons it would not be beyond the realms of possibility for dissidents to vote against the Chequers proposals which would most likely ensure that Theresa May resigned. If Labour was not itself looking as if it is about to implode over the accusations of Anti-Semitism, it would be almost impossible to consider a Conservative ‘coup’ at this time, but in fact it may be that the Brexiteers would be happy to fight an election before March 2019 hoping that Johnson and his supporters would be elected. The words of President Kennedy come to mind (although perhaps not to some politicians) - ‘ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.’
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Flood action ONLY five of the 36 municipalities in the province of Alicante at risk of cold drop have a plan to prevent and act in the wake of floods, according to the Valencian Agency of Security.
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Party office attack
VANDALISED: The Podemos Alicante HQ was plastered with crude posters.
by Tom Thirkwell THE Alicante City offices of a leftist party were plastered with stickers featuring Spain’s Prime Minister next to comments which branded him a ‘defiler of tombs,’ the group said. Pode mos c la ime d the building w a s va nda lis e d w ith ‘fa s c is t la mpoons .’ They added they would assist police in tracking down the vandals that ‘plagued’ the building with ‘fascist
lampoons.’ The offices were covered in the stickers which featured the face of Pedro Sanchez, of the governing left-leaning Partido Socialista. Each poster contained the slogan ‘PSOE, defiler of tombs.’ The comments appear to be in reference to government plans to exhume the remains of former dictator Francisco Franco from the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum. Franco sympathisers
and members of far right organisations have opposed the move. Podemos representatives said they considered the vandalism an ‘attack.’ They claimed if it was not treated as such it could encourage the far right to continue their ‘uncivilised actions.’ The party added they refused to be intimidated by the actions and have pledged to continue their work to defend democratic values.
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NEWS EXTRA Locals reach semi finals TWO students from Alicante Province, one from Santa Pola, have made it to the Levante regional semi finals of the Spain-wide GMChef cookery contest which more than 600 pupils from 82 schools have participated in.
Jobs scheme A ROADSHOW which delivers talks to young people with disabilities and provides them with advice on getting work has stopped off in Cartagena this week as the ‘Do Not Give Up Ever’ tour travels through Spain.
Office move WORKS have begun to make a building next to Alicante City’s Palace of Justice fit for use by staff with the Province’s Prosecutor’s Office who moved out of their previous offices due to ‘absolutely unhealthy’ working conditions.
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A surge in sickness By Tara Rippin HEALTH experts have recorded a 200 per cent rise in food poisoning cases in the Alicante region. Last year there were 312 cases and 30 outbreaks, compared to 96 and 30 respectively in 2014, across the province. The main causes are said to be the lack of training of many food handlers who can buy ‘certificates’ for €30 on the internet, poor hygiene in the kitchens of homes and restaurants and limited knowledge of some consumers when it comes to cooking certain dishes. So far, more than 250 different food poisoning agents have been described. Most are infections caused by bacteria, viruses and food parasites, while others are poisonings produced by toxins or chemical compounds. Eggs, fish, seafood, vegetables and
FOOD HYGIENE: One way to reduce the risk of food poisoning. chicken are the most frequently implicated foods. However, in 20 per cent of the cases it is not possible to find out the causative food. According to data from the
Organisation of Consumers and Users OCU, more than 50 per cent of poisonings have their origin in food prepared at home. Eating undercooked meats and fish increases the
prevalence. Summer months are a particularly critical time because high temperatures favour the development of microorganisms. The Alicante Ministry of
Health confirmed that while food toxicities experience annual fluctuations, the upturn observed in recent years can also be attributed to the introduction in 2015 of RedMIVA (an information system that collects daily the analytical results from all the laboratories of the hospitals of the Valencian community). This has allowed the identification and notification of small outbreaks that previously went unnoticed. The most common infections are salmonella, botulism, listeriosis or E-coli bacteria. Most can cause gastrointestinal disorders, such as abdominal pain, diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting, sometimes accompanied by fever and in certain cases can trigger serious illness. The effects depend to a large extent on the type of toxin and how it was absorbed, as well as the sensitivity of the victim.
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Drowning figures decline SIXTY-FIVE people drowned in Spain during August - with a body pulled from the sea off Velez-Malaga being the latest victim to be reported. It is unknown if the body was a bather, diver or had fallen overboard from a ship, but Maritime Rescue (Salvamento Maritimo) say the corpse was found at 6.50pm on Friday, August 31 about 600 metres from the shore.
The man may have been in the sea for several days. According to the National Drowning Report which was first published in 2015, drownings in August fell from 70 in 2015 to 60 in 2016, but in the first eight months of the year there has been a big decrease. The Report says that since January 1, 2018, 251 people have died in Spain from drown-
ing in water, 126 fewer than in the same period last year, when 377 people died from drowning, 33.4 per cent less. Andalucia is the Autonomous Community with the most deaths with 36 or 14.3 per cent of the total, ahead of Galicia (34 deaths, 13.5 per cent), the Canary Islands (32, 12.7 per cent), CataluĂąa (31, 12.4 per cent), the Valencian Community (25, 10
LIFE SAVERS: Eighty-two per cent of drownings happened where there was no lifeguard service.
per cent) and the Balearic Islands (22, 8.8 per cent). La Rioja and the Autonomous City of Ceuta (1.4 per cent each) had fewest, while Melilla re-
mains the only territory where no such deadly event has been reported. Of those who drowned, 42.2 per cent were over 65 and 77.3
per cent older than 35. In total, 82 per cent of drownings happened where there was no surveillance or lifeguard service.
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Huge profits in prospect for VTC licences
PROTESTS: Taxi drivers have been up in arms over VTCs. POTENTIALLY huge gains are in store for companies that manage to gain VTC licences. These are the licences required for a chauffeur driven car rental service such as Uber. At the moment the Valencian Community - including Alicante Province - has handed out just 236 VTC licences this summer compared to 4,581 taxi licences. But this could be about to
change following a Supreme Court ruling. This obliges a large number of regional administrations to issue licences requested before the entry into force of regulations approved by the government of Mariano Rajoy in 2015. More than half of the VTCs to be allocated will be under the control of two business groups. The first of them, Ares Capital, has already won its legal battle and is waiting for its ruling to be
executed and the Ministry of Housing and Transport to assign 220 new VTCs. The group founded by the OrtigĂźela brothers, now in the hands of the American fund King Street, will then have nearly 4,000 authorisations in Spain when it has all the permits in place. In the Valencian Community, it will be the king of the VTC if it chooses to exploit them all and not resell them, something that cannot be ruled out. VTCs are already being sold for â‚Ź50,000 and more in large cities such as Madrid or Barcelona. Ares paid less than â‚Ź30 for each of those that the Generalitat is now obliged to give them. In the Valencian community this will result in 641 new vehicles with authorisation to collect passengers, as long as they do not look for customers on the street, as taxis can do. Two dozen companies have so far appealed against the blocking of authorisations and are awaiting court rulings on their appeals. When these permits are active, the ratio of VTC licences to taxi licences will be one to five, which will significantly increase competition between the two services.
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By Tara Rippin A CRACKDOWN on a socalled ‘pea men’ scam which has conned hundreds of tourists out of their cash over the years is already reaping rewards. The seemingly innocent guessing game is operated by gangs of thieves, also known as ‘trileros,’ who place a pea under one of three cups on a makeshift table. Holidaymakers are encouraged to try to guess where the pea rests after much shuffling of the cups, egged on by crowds who have gathered the majority of whom are part of the gang - at a cost of €20 and above. While members of the ‘audience’ are distracting the unsuspecting player, putting them off with pushing and shoving, female accomplices
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Getting pead off
CONMEN: Clampdown on street gangs scamming tourists is paying off. pick the pockets and bags of other innocent tourists looking on. The police have been slammed in the past for not
SAN BLAS residents have criticised the lack of cleanliness on a plot near train tracks They say they have been demanding action from the council to clean the area near Auso and Monzo for
being hard on the conmen. Though sources say taking action is difficult as most of them are squatters with no discernible means of income and
the victims have entered into the game willingly. But Benidorm police are now using a ‘disobedience of authority penalty code’ against
Rubbish complaints two months now. A c c o r d i n g t o r e s i d e n t s : “ We have already submitted multiple
complaints, and even went in person to Atencion al Ciudadano (Citizen Support), but two months af-
serial offenders, which has also proved successful on ‘mojiteros,’ illegal beach vendors, selling home-made drinks on the beach. And since launching an operation at the beginning of August, they have arrested 33 ‘pea men’ gang members, with 22 of those resulting in court proceedings. Offciers have also seized more than €1,200 from the street robbers, all believed to be proceeds from the scam. Speaking to a Spanish newspaper, Benidorm City councillor Lorenzo Martinez, said authorities are ‘putting all the means we have to try to end this practice in the streets of Benidorm,’ adding that they ‘will continue with this line of work in September and October to try to finish them or at least reduce their activity.’
ter the first complaint the plot is getting filthier by the minute”. Now they are saying the accumulated rubbish is turning the plot into a dumping site.
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NEWS EXTRA Train route proposal A PARLIAMENTARY representative for Alicante Province has tabled a proposal to make the Madrid to Alicante train direct to compensate for new requirements to slow locomotives down which would make the journey 13 minutes longer.
Pupils return STUDENTS at a school in the Murcia town of Cehegin returned to school last Tuesday, one week ahead of most Spanish schools due to regional rules which allow centres to call pupils back from September 4 onwards.
Toll plans DEVELOPMENT officials are reportedly mulling taking the Alicante by-pass, between the AP-7 and A-70 motorways, into public ownership and abolishing its toll as bidding for new contracts to run the road was postponed until 2019.
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VIDEO APPEARANCE: Barcala posted the warning to YouTube.
Mayor city warning THE mayor of Alicante City ha s ta ke n to YouTube to warn that authorities there w ill not a llow a c ity of ‘tourism and drunkenness.’ Luis Barcala said he and the city council believed in “quality leisure tourism” and added officials wanted residents to peacefully coexist there. “ B ut w e w ill not a llow Alicante to end up becoming a c ity of drunke n tourism and of the bottle,”
he said in the video. Bar cal a’s YouTube appear ance on t he websi t e comes as police in Alicante City launched a crackdown on young people drinking on public roads there. Local Pol i ce st at i st i cs showed officers spent a total of 259 minutes dealing with alcohol related incidents last weekend. Sever al dozen m i nut es were also racked up in connection with drugs and anti-
social behaviour. The mayor ’s video also formed part of a wider effort on the part of the counci l t o use m oder n di gi t al technology to communicate with residents. Israel Cortes, the authority’s environment and infrastructure spokesperson, has also taken to the internet to gather information from locals about public works progr am m es whi ch have not being carried out.
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Ball theft probe GUARDIA CIVIL officers from the Murcia Region have arrested four people aged between 16 and 53 from Malaga Province in connection with the alleged theft of around a thousand gold balls. Police have recovered the balls as well as two handmade metal cages which they claimed had been taken in the raids. The golf club on the La Manga urbanisation near Cartagena which claimed to be the victim of the
theft alleged it had suffered some €44,000 in earnings losses as a result. The Guardia Civil began probing the allegations after the security company hired by the club told them a group of people had been spotted on its courses in the early hours. Police began monitoring the area in an effort to track the suspects down. Four of them, including one youth, were pulled over in a van w ith 1 3 b ag s fu ll o f golf balls two days later.
Investigations alleged that the group specialised in the theft of sports gear throughout the Murcia Region. The suspects threw metal cages in the course’s artificial lakes and then trawled the balls up, causi n g d a m a g e t o t h e w a t e rproof covering on the waterbed in the process. The four then took the balls to other provinces and sold them at below the market price. Officers claimed the
metal cover of a high-voltage tower on the course had been damaged after the suspects used it as a place to stash the stolen balls. Loss on earnings on the part of the club was due to them not being able to collect the balls themselves, clean them and sell them to help cover business expenses. Proceedings for the suspects have been sent to C a r t a g e n a ’s C o u r t o f I n struction.
FOUR HELD: Police have since recovered the items.
Man held
A 23-YEAROLD man has been arrested in Murcia City in connection with an alleged assault on his father. The attack took place in the Carmen neighbourhood last Friday, according to police reports.
Officers claimed the young man took his father by the neck and attempted to drown him. Sources suggest that the father was able to contact his exwife, the man’s mother, during
the incident. She called police and told them the 23-year-old had beaten his father the day before. The detained man is set to be charged with domestic violence if police decide to take the case to court.
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PLAY areas in Murcia City are set to undergo changes to make them easier to use for children with autism by placing pictures on signs to help them to find their way around the spaces.
Water waste ENVIRONMENT authorities in Alicante Province said the amount of CO2 emissions produced by its water infrastructure fell by more than 20 per cent last year while the number of consumers increased by 22 per cent.
Drone use NATIONAL POLICE throughout Alicante Province and the Valencia region are set to begin using drones to monitor archaeological sites in an effort to curb vandalism and thefts which saw about 1,400 pieces recovered from an unspecified total last year.
SETTING SAIL: The Audaz has arrived in Cartagena. THE Spanish Navy’s new Audaz P-45 patrol boat has arrived in Cartagena’s naval base for training and evaluation. Personnel were on hand in the harbour to watch as the ship came in, including Vic Admiral Manuel de la Puente Mora-Figueroa. It is the fifth vessel in the navy’s Meteoro class of ships, a new series of vessels designed for a variety of missions including offshore patrols. The Audaz was delivered last July 27 after its construction finished at the state-owned Navatia’s shipyard in Sean Fernando in Cadiz. The vessel is almost 94 metres in length in total and has a top speed of 37 kilome-
tres per hour. Its range is about 6,500 kilometres and it has room on board for 46 crew and 30 marine soldiers. It is armed with one 76 millimetre cannon, two 25 millimetre automatic mountings and two 12.7 millimetre machine guns. It cost more €166.7 million to build and was ordered by the then conservative Partido Popular (PP) government in 2014. The Audaz is due to undertake a series of evaluation missions before being deployed next year. The navy said the ship would be capable of being deployed in the event of a sudden conflict or emergency.
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Murder charge teen extradited A TEENAGER wanted for the murder of an actor man in Islington has been extradited from Spain and appeared in a British court. Jack Stevens, aged 19, was arrested on a European Arrest Warrant in Estepona, Andalucia. He is accused of the murder of Nashon Esbrand, 27, of Upper Holloway, who was stabbed in Islington on August 24, 2017. He died from his injuries in hospital the next day. A warrant for Stevens’ arrest was issued, and the UK’s National Crime Agency, Metropolitan Police and Spanish authorities traced him. He was arrested in July and on August 30 he was extradited to the UK. Stevens appeared be-
VICTIM: Nashon Esbrand was killed in 2017. fore Westminster Magistrates Court yesterday charged with murder and was remanded in custody before an appearance at the Old Bailey. Two men - one 18 the other 20 - have previously been jailed for life for Nashon’s murder. A 16-year-old boy was also jailed after admitting murder.
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SLOWING DOWN: Passenger trends on the way down at Alicante-Elche Airport.
Not flying so high PASSENGER numbers for the last weekend of August have been released and show a slight drop comp a r e d t o l a s t y e a r ’s f i g ures. Between Friday and Monday, a total of 224,533 used the Alicante-Elche Airport and a decrease of 0.7 per cent (around 2,000 passengers less) and confirmed the slowing down of air traffic for the area. One of the reasons is be-
lieved to be due to the recovery of the Mediterranean’s competitors such a s Tu r k e y, Tu n i s i a a n d Egypt, as well as special o ff e r s c o m i n g o u t o f t h e Balearic Islands. The data for the accepted end of the high summer tourist season confirm the downward trend across the tourism sector after a spectacular five years of growth. Alicante-Elche Airport closed in 2017
with 13.7 million passengers and a year-on-year increase of 11 per cent... figures that will be almost impossible to achieve in the remaining months of this year. For July, the airport registered a decrease of 2.1 per cent compared to the same period in 2017, but still managed to reach 1.6 million and kept its spot as Nº5 in Spain in terms of passenger traffic.
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Rape sentence MURCIA’S Provincial Court has sentenced a defendant who pleaded guilty to raping and mistreating his partner to four and a half years in prison. The court has also ruled the man must go on probation for five years, serve two 60-day community work sentences and not approach the woman for 10 years. He has also been ordered to pay €60,160 in damages and in compensation for injuries inflicted on her. The court heard the man came to the home of his partner following an argument in March 2016. He then began beating her while her son attempted to stop him. The defendant then hit her when they were both in his car parked near her Murcia home. He then took her back into her house where he raped her.
Kidnapped and beaten POLICE have rescued a young man who was kidnapped and severely beaten during an eight-hour ordeal. The 26-year-old was allegedly snatched in Ronda (Andalucia) then driven to an isolated farmhouse in Cartama (Malaga) where he endured beatings that left him with a severe eye injury. National Police officers arrested seven members of a family clan in Malaga for their alleged involvement in the kidnapping. According to the investigation, the victim was held for more than eight hours on a farm and subjected to beatings and threats. It is thought the victim may have been targeted for the alleged theft of some jewels. The victim’s mother went to police after she received a call from the alleged kidnappers demanding a €1,500 ransom for the release of her son. After taking him from Ronda the kidnappers took the victim to a pawn shop in
ARMS: Guns were found at the scene. Malaga to recover some jewels that he had supposedly pawned. Subsequently, those investigated allegedly took the victim to a farm in Cartama. There they threatened him and beat him.
Police succeeded in freeing the victim, arresting all those thought to be responsible and seized several weapons including a shotgun, a detonating pistol and various cartridges. The alleged perpetrators be-
long to a family clan and are three men and four women, aged between 21 and 39, of Spanish nationality. They have been arrested for alleged kidnapping, assault and battery and illegal possession of weapons.
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Food poisoning cases up in Alicante IN the last three years the number of food poisoning cases in Alicante have risen by more than 200 per cent. In 2014 there were 96 cases, compared to last year’s 312 cases. Now Sanidad (Spanish Heath Care) has launched a guide for measures to avoid contamination. Experts believe that the rise is due to inadequate training for food handlers, with some allegedly buying their certificates online for €30. Poor hygiene in some restaurants and households and insufficient knowledge of consumers when it comes to cooking certain foods are also blamed. Salmonella and Botulism are the cause of gastrointestinal issues like abdominal pain, diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting and sometimes high fevers.
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NEWS EXTRA Police stop packed car LOCAL POLICE officers patrolling on motorbikes in Murcia City pulled a five-seat car over with seven passengers inside on Calle General Yague and found one of them stowed away in the boot.
School rally SUBSTITUTE teachers demonstrated in Alicante City and have called on education authorities to do more to fill posts vacated by dismissed teachers in protests organised by a school staff trade union last Monday.
Numbers fall THE population of Cartagena has fallen for the fourth year in a row and the number of those who live there is now around 6,000 less than the amount recorded in 2015 according to data from the city’s council.
Home search NATIONAL POLICE officers have raided the motor home of a 45-year-old woman who was arrested in connection with the death of her 69-year-old husband who she had married 15 days before the alleged killing in Alicante City on August 20.
Quake call A MEMBER of the leftist Izquierda Unida (IU) in Lorca has called on the town’s conservative Partido Popular (PP) run council to push on with buying out homes to repair after they were struck by earthquakes in 2011.
THE Spanish government has cancelled the shipment of bombs to Saudi Arabia over concerns they could be used by the latter country in the ongoing Yemen Civil War. The sale of the 400 laser-guided bombs to the Saudi regime was signed in 2015 under the previous conservative Partido Popular (PP) government. The governing left-leaning Partido Socialista (PSOE) is now set to hand back the €9.2 million Riyadh spent on the weapons. Reports of the sale being cancelled have been confirmed by an unnamed Ministry of Defence source who declined to comment further. Spain and other countries including Britain who have sold weapons to the Saudis have been criticised by NGOs including
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WEAPONS CONCERNS: The Yemen Civil War began in 2015.
Suspect held over partner’s murder by Tara Rippin A 60-YEAR-OLD woman is believed to have been strangled to death by her partner in Orihuela. The suspect, a 57-year-old Bulgarian, called emergency services and allegedly confessed to the crime at 7.45pm on Tuesday of last week. It has been reported that a forensic examination suggests she may have been dead for at least eight hours. The suspected murder took place in a two-storey detached house located in the
village of La Buena Vida in the hamlet of Orihuela de Desamparados. When officers and the ambulance crew arrived, it was only possible to confirm the woman’s death. Sources believe the deceased had said she was considering a separation from the man, with whom she had been living for 20 years. But that she had not been in a position to do so, due to an illness and lack of work or financial resources. The alleged perpetrator has been detained in custody prior to his court appearance.
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Amnesty International for doing business with Riyadh. Those groups have claimed the Saudi-led coalition, who backs the Ye m e n P r e s i d e n t A b d R a b b u h Mansur Al-Hadi, have bomb targets which resulted in civilian casualties. The Hadi government is fighting against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels. United Nations (UN) officials said recently all sides may have committed war crimes. The UN estimates anywhere between 8,670 and 13,600 people, including 5,200 civilians, died between 2015 and the end of 2017 due to the war. More than 50,000 are believed to have been killed as a result of a famine in Yemen provoked by the conflict. The war started in 2015 and remains ongoing.
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MAGALUF’S mayor has called for stronger action to be taken to stop the craze of balconing that has seen several people killed or seriously hurt. Alfonso Rodriguez Badal, the head of Calvia Council which is in charge of the resort town and Palma Nova, said he is shocked how there seems no end to tragedies as young holi-
Balconing law call daymakers suffer falls every year. This summer seems to have been particularly bad, he said, adding the council must act to stop young peo-
ple ‘coming here to die.’ Balconing is a craze where people jump from balconies into swimming pools or from one balcony to another.
Now Badal wants new legislation to try and stop young visitors taking dangerous risks in the name of fun. Not every fall from balconies is due to balconing.
MAGALUF: Scene of many tragedies.
One apartment block which has seen several deaths this year has had temporary barriers put up on a low wall on the sixth floor. But a significant number of
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deaths and injuries are due to the craze, with Badal saying drugs and alcohol are at the heart of the problem. He said: “We must not allow those who come to have fun with us to find death in this absurd way.” Badal called for a curb to be put on ‘aggressive offers of alcohol’ and for Guardia Civil numbers to be increased in a bid to lower the number of cases of unruly drunkeness. He added: “These are basic actions to avoid excesses that, although reduced year after year, continue to appear in our municipality, which this year has also been shaken by an increase in young people who have died as a result of falling into voids.” Calvia already has bylaws which make balconing an offence with fines payable by those who indulge in the practice - even if they have been hurt in the process. An Irish woman was recently fined when she fell while trying to jump from one balcony to another. She lost balance and toppled one floor, injuring herself in the process.
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Foreign buyers up
SALES RISE: Almost one fifth of Murcia homes were sold to foreigners. MURCIA has found itself amongst the list of Spanish regions with the highest figures fo r f o r e i g n p r o p e rty buyers. According to Real Estate Statistics from the College of Reg i st r a r s, d u r i n g th e second quarter of this year 19.2 per cent of home purchases in the region were made with foreign money. The quarter, which covers April to June, saw 134,196
property sales in Spain, regis te rin g a 4 p e r ce n t increase upon the first quarter of the year. Statistics show that foreign buyers were responsib le fo r 1 7 , 1 0 0 h o me purchases in Spain during that time. M u rc ia ra n k s fo u rth in Spain for foreign home purchases in a list topped by the Canary Islands where 31.4 per cent of houses sold
were bought by foreigners. The Balearic Islands and the Valencian community are the only other provinces with higher second quarter foreign property purchases than Murcia. A range of nationalities make up these foreign investors. The largest proportion were British at 14.9 per cent, followed closely by Germans and French buyers.
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Free cancer tests A HOSPITAL in Torrevieja has said it will put on free tests for men over the age of 40 in efforts to detect prostate cancer early. The Hospital Quironsalud has launched the initiative to mark World Prostate Cancer Day on Saturday September 15. The tests are available to men over 45 and those aged 40 and above if they have a history of the disease in their family. Dr Sven Petry, head of the hospital’s Urology Unit, said studying cells would help doctors to decide if someone who took the test needed treatment and if so what type. “We want to inform and raise awareness in society about prostate cancer, since there is a low perception of the risk of suffering from it. Curing prostate cancer is possible if it is detected early,” Dr Petry said. Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in the world in men and the most common among European males.
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Holiday renting down By Tom Thirkwell
EARLY DETECTION: Prostate cancer is the second most common type of the illness in men. About 25,000 people are diagnosed with the illness each year and between 20 and 30 per cent of cases were patients who had relapsed, according to data from the hospital. Dr Petry said prostate cancer could be cured in 90 per cent of cases if detected early enough. Anyone interested can re-
quest information from the hospital on 966 909 506, or by emailing prevencion.trv@ quironsalud.es from tomorrow (Friday). Information is also available on www.quironsalud. es/torrevieja/es. The tests are due to take place from Monday to Friday September 15.
THE Costa Blanca has seen its lowest recorded level of holiday apartment occupancy for the month of July, according to figures. Data from Spain’s National Institute of Statistics (INE) showed rentals across the province had about a 34 per cent rate of occupancy. That is the lowest rate since records began in 2005. Industry experts said the rise in Internet booking sites was one cause. Small local landlords and businesses were being forced to raise their prices to compete against bigger rivals such as Airbnb, analysts added. Holiday lets have registered a rise in prices for 54 consecutive months. July has historically signalled the start of the peak tourism season in Spain. Figures from employer association Abectur forecast a slump in visitors on the Costa Blanca this summer.
An occupancy survey conducted by the INE showed regional tourist rental occupancy rates stood at record lows during July. A total of 34.81 per cent of the 93,000 holiday apartments on offer in Alicante Province’s coast were rented out each week on average. An estimated 61,300 apartments were, on average, vacant during July, data also showed. Figures suggested that overnight stays were down on last year, falling by 11.8 per cent. Torrevieja, bucked the Alicante Province trend an occupancy rate of 58.4 per cent, up from 40.4 per cent in July 2017. Analysts claimed the recovery of Turkey and North African resorts which offer foreign tourists a cheaper contributed to the slump. Online platforms such as Airbnb, Homeaway and Wimdu which offer lets for less were also a factor in the decline.
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School start preparation ALICANTE’S city council has begun adapting and modernising schools in time for the start of the school year for infant centres tomorrow (Friday). Eusebio Sempere, Virgen del Remedio, San Nicolas de Bari, Bacarot, Monte Benacantil, Nou d’ Octubre, Almadraba and Gloria Fuertes are among those renovated, council officials said.
Education authorities in the city said the schools had had new sports equipment put in, yards tarmaced and have been made more energy efficient. “Thousands of students from different public centres will benefit from these improvements,” officials said. Alicante City Council has spent almost €338,000 on the works.
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By Joe Gerrard THE number of foreign tourists holidaying in Spain in July stood at almost 10 million, a fall of 4.9 per cent on the same time the previous year. The data, the latest on the industry from the country’s National Institute of Statistics (INE), showed the number of British holidaymakers fell by 5.6 per cent. Tourists from Britain typically make up a fifth of all visitors to Spain. Figures for French and German tourists, the leading nationalities in terms of visitors to Spain along with the British, fell by 11.4 per cent and 6.2 per cent respectively. The drop was the biggest monthly fall since April 2010 when a volcano eruption in Iceland grounded flights across Europe and contributed to a 13 per cent decrease. The biggest fall for July took place in 2009 following the onset of the financial crisis which plunged much of Europe and the United States in recession. Several months
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SPAIN’S Prime Minister has floated the possibility of a new referendum on Cataluña’s constitutional settlement, but added independence would not be on the table. Pedro Sanchez, of the governing left-leaning Partido Socialista (PSOE), said in an interview with Spanish me-
PM Catalan vote call Sanchez: Madrid could back new poll but not on secession dia a future vote could poll Catalan residents on greater regional autonomy. It could see voters asked if they would be in favour of
the region’s Generalitat having a greater say on its political arrangements, remit and finances, Sanchez added. “The final event must be a vote but it cannot be for independence or self-determination. It will be for the strengthening of the Catalan government,” the Prime Minister said. A vote on full independence would be illegal under Spain’s Constitution. Sanchez added he would be prepared to activate Article 155 of Spanish Constitution if the regional authority tried to make further moves towards independence. Article 155 is the measure the previous Partido Popular (PP) government used to impose direct rule on Cataluña following last year ’s independence referendum and declaration. “We are not there right now, but if that happens then the government will take ac-
POLL MULLED: Sanchez (inset) said he would back a vote on expanding Cataluña’s powers. tion,” Sanchez said. Quim Torra, the President of Cataluña’s Generalitat, said he had spoken with Sanchez last month about a number of issues. He did not specify what had been said about the possibility of a new referendum. Pablo Casado, leader of the conservative PP opposi-
tion, said granting the region more autonomy would be ‘difficult’ due to there being no powers left to devolve. He added during a speech in Spain’s Parliament that he wanted Sanchez to clarify ‘immediately’ if he had made an agreement to hold a new independence referendum. “Any question over Cata-
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lan self-government could not take place without rupturing the rest of Spain,” Casado said. Talk of a second referendum comes as the former President of Cataluña Carles Puigdemont filed a lawsuit against a Supreme Court judge last month. Puigdemont claimed he and other pro-independence politicians had suffered political persecution at the hands of Pablo Llarena and that the judge had not been impartial. Llarena was instrumental in issuing arrest warrants for Puigdemont and several other secessionist politicians over last year’s referendum. The Spanish state has since hired a Belgian lawyer to defend him. Puigdemont brought a suit to a court in the country where he has lived since leaving Spain after last year’s independence push. Sanchez said he had ruled out a suggestion of pressuring Spain’s courts to drop all charges against pro-Catalan independence politicians. It was a matter for the courts.
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Would you give a mobile phone to a child under 10 years old, or do you think that’s unhealthy? Name: Adrian and Sorina Age: Both 43 On holiday: Yes Where from: Romania YES but not a smartphone. It is not good for them to have access to the internet. These days kids are very smart and can find anything! It’s too much of a risk with social media too and who they might be speaking to. Smart-
Adriana and Sorina.
phones are so addictive with all that they offer that kids waste too much time on them. When they get to 16, that is probably the right time to have one. Name: Mr Cooke Age: 61 On holiday: Yes Where from: England No. There are a lot
Steve and Gemma.
of predators on Facebook and the other sites. It’s just an unnecessary risk. These days you see three-year-olds on iPads and it’s ridiculous. I haven’t got a mobile phone and I’m 61! The best time is probably senior school. It’s actually a safety measure because many kids get picked up from school or want to make plans and they need to be able to communicate with their parents. In Spain they’re not allowed to take them into senior school and I disagree with that. If the teachers don’t want them getting distracted they could just lock the phones in a cupboard. Name: Phyliss Age: -On holiday: Yes
Where from: Isle of Wight No it’s not healthy, there’s too much illegal content on the internet that is easy to access. At that age mobile phones are too consuming and kids can’t put them down. It becomes an obsessive disorder which is dangerous. They should be outside enjoying nature, not glued to a screen. There are so many apps, my grandchildren are never off them! I know it’s the way it’s going, but parents should monitor it carefully, with only certain intervals during the day allowed. They certainly should not take them to bed. Name: Steve and Gemma Age: 27 and 25 On holiday: Yes Where from: Kildare, Ireland
No, there’s too much access to everything online. When they’re older, say 12, it’s ok but before that their brains are still developing. They don’t know how to play in real life and it’s sad. You can see it in Fuengirola, the kids are all on their phones! It’s not good for social skills either. There is also the problem of bullying online, and it’s such a competitive environment that young people’s long-term self-esteem can really be affected.
track of time. One of them gets angry if it is taken away. Senior school is ok it’s a good way of keeping in contact with parents when they are at school or going to after school clubs. We should go back to the phones that only do calls and texts, like those old Nokias!
Name: Anne and Ian Buchanan Age: 62 and 57 On holiday: Yes Where from: Corby, England No, we can see the problems with our grandchildren! They are on their phones all the time with games, and lose
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by Joe Gerrard THE ‘vulnerable’ young Polish man who hit the international headlines when he was paid €100 to have a man’s name tattooed on his face has decided to end his drink problem treatment and return to Benidorm. Tomek has decided to walk out of the alcohol rehab treatment centre that was organised for him by Benidorm’s British Businesses Association, who also raised funds for the removal of the tattoo from his face. The association said, “It is with great disappointment that we have to announce that Tomek has decided to end his treatment and return to Benidorm. “When he returns we will arrange for tattoo removal and, of course, use the funds only for the purpose of his health. “We would like to thank everyone, especially Alcoholicos Anonimos 24 horas who have offered Tomek the opportunity to rehabilitate his life offering not a week but up to two or three years of assistance and help without asking for anything in return. “They are also disappointed but understand that it’s not an easy road to give up after spending so much time on the streets and alcohol abuse. “They have also left the door open if Tomek wishes at any point to return.” They added: “We would also like to
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NEWS EXTRA Party leader council claim SEVERAL opposition groups on the conservative Partido Popular (PP) controlled Alicante City Council are without leaders prepared to stand again as candidates in local elections scheduled for nine months time, according to reports.
Patient plan CARTAGENA’S Santa Lucia hospital has launched a trial scheme which is set to see doctors from the Epilepsy Unit able to hold consultations with 30 patients over the ‘Epic’ mobile app.
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RETURN: Tomek (inset) has made his way back to Benidorm. thank all of those who with kind words and donations have supported Tomek.” Karen Maling Cowles, president of the Benidorm British Business Association, on her own Facebook said: ‘You can lead a horse to water... springs to mind.’ Also writing on social media
Karen Hanson said: ‘What a shame, these opportunities don’t always arise when needed... even so I wish Tomek well.’ And Lorraine Moore added: ‘That’s so very sad but maybe in the future he will decide to try again. I wish him all the best and hope one day he can beat
the demons.’ Tomek denied claims it was a stag do group who persuaded him to have the name Jamie Blake tattooed on his forehead. He said he was with a solitary Englishman when he decided to accept the cash because it felt like a ‘lottery win’ at the time.
OFFICIALS in Murcia City including Mayor Jose Ballesta have received a delegation from the Indian city of Solapur who have come to study the council’s use of new ‘smart’ technologies for urban and water management.
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Quake overshadowed A MINOR earthquake of 2.1 on the Richter scale with its epicentre north of Torrevieja in La Mata lagoon was recorded Monday morning. But, according to police sources, it probably went unnoticed as it coincided with an electrical storm. The National Geographic Institute (Instituto Geografico Nacional) the earthquake, of maximum intensity II, took place at 3.38am on Monday morning, at a depth of 10km. Police in Torrevieja and Guardamar del Segura, say
they were not aware of any personal or material damage as a result of the quake. And they didn’t receive alert calls from residents, possibly because most did not feel the earthquake which was overshadowed by the thunder and lightning of an electrical storm at the same time over the Vega Baja. The last earthquake recorded in Torrevieja was of magnitude 3.2 with the epicentre in Pilar de la Horadada. Tremors were apparently felt across the entire province.
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by Joe Gerrard SENIOR members of Spain’s government, including the Prime Minister, have said they will strip a sex worker’s trade union of the official recognition authorities granted it last month. A government spokesperson said its legal counsel had begun reviewing how to revoke the registration with the country’s Labour Ministry of Spain’s Sex Workers Organisation (OTRAS). M a gda le na Va le rio, the gove rnment’s Labour Minister, claimed she had been deceived and did not know her department had signed off the registration. The status was approved by officials and published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) on August 4. Va le rio s a id: “ A s a minis te r a nd member of a feminist government, I would never have given the OK for this to published in the BOE.” Pedro Sanchez, Spain’s Prime Minister, said the Labour Ministry had begun the process of challenging the union’s new status. “Prostitution is not legal in Spain and this government will not give support to any organisation connected with this illicit activity. “The registration was a mere administration act which did not contain technical errors, but errors of substance. This is a feminist government and it supports the abolition of prostitution,” Sanchez said. Spain’s Labour Ministry said in a statement it would not allow prostitution to become validated by granting the status to the union. Sanchez has voiced a number of pro
STATUS STORM: Valerio (inset) said she never would have approved the status. feminist positions since taking power last June, including pledging to fight against the exploitation of women. Concha Borrell, the secretary general of OTRAS, said her members wante d jus tic e w hich i s why t hey had sought official recognition. “The government has been hiding behind the curtain of white, heterosexual and bourgeois feminism to say that seeking labour rights for an impover-
i shed and st i gm at i sed gr oup i s an atrocity,” Borrell said. Marisa Soleto, president of the feminist Women’s Foundation advocacy group, said that sex work cemented inequalities between man and women. “Prostitution is not a job, it’s a submission of women into slavery,” Soleto said. Sex work is neither strictly illegal nor tolerated in Spain.
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POSTPONED: The figures are due to arrive in 2020.
Exhibit delay THE exhibition of 11 of the original Chinese Terracotta Warriors in Alicante’s Provincial Archaeology Museum (MARQ) planned for 2019 has been delayed for a year after tensions over damage. The figures, including sculptor of a horse, are now due to come to the Alicante City museum in 2020, according to Alicante Diputacion President Cesar Sanchez. Tensions emerged between the Chinese and United States government over the artefacts after a visitor accidently broke a finger off one statue while they were on display in Philadelphia.
Legal wrangling between the countries followed and are due to be finished by the end of the year. This caused the delay, Sanchez said. MARQ is set to display 194 artefacts loaned from Iran’s National Museum in Tehran later this year to fill the gap left by the delay. The Terracotta Army was built for the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, in the late third century BCE. The figures include more than 8,000 soldiers, 130 chariots and 150 cavalry horses, the majority of which are in the museum of Xi’an in China’s Shaanxi Province.
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BABY BURGLARY: There are calls for other perpetrators to be rounded up.
‘Stolen babies’ trial resumes SPAIN’S first trial involving thousands of suspected cases of babies stolen from their mothers during the Franco era resumed earlier this week, decades after the scandal broke. Former gynaecologist at the San Ramon clinic, Eduardo Vela, 85, is accused of having in 1969 taken Ines Madrigal, now 49, from her biological mother and given her to another woman who raised the baby as her own.
During questioning in the opening session of the trial on June 26, Vela said he could not recall incidents of baby trafficking at the clinic which he ran for 20 years. Vela was due to return to the witness stand the following day but instead went to hospital after falling ill. He is expected to take the witness stand again when the high-profile trial resumes for a final session, though no date
for a verdict has been specified. Prosecutors are seeking an 11-year prison sentence for falsifying official documents, illegal adoption, unlawful detention and certifying a non-existent birth. Activists say hundreds of similar cases have failed to make it to court in Spain because of a lack of evidence or because the time limit to file charges has passed.
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CAGED: To highlight the abandonment of dogs.
Treated like a dog NO POINTS: Pique shouldn’t have been driving. BARCELONA footballer player Gerard Pique could face up to six months in jail after he was caught driving without a valid licence. According to reports from radio station Cadena Ser he was pulled over for a routine check and asked to show his documents. Police officers found he had zero points left on his licence so he should not
have been driving. In Spain drivers start with 12 points and then lose them for various offences. Once they have lost all their points they can’t drive until points are reinstated, normally after a ban and a written test following a road safety training session. Taking to the roads before having points reinstated is an
offence punishable by up to six months in prison or a fine of €6,000. This is not the first time he has been in trouble with the police. Last year he was fined for speeding and in 2014 he had to pay €10,500 for disobedience after an argument with a traffic officer. His brother was fined for a road infringement in the same incident.
AN animal rights activist has locked himself in a cage in a bid to highlight the abandonment and mistreatment of dogs. Alfredo Díaz is a Cantabrian animal lover who has arrived in the province of Alicante and shut himself in one of the cages of a dog hotel, where he will remain indefinitely and in the same conditions as the rest of its guests. During his stay he will talk about his experience through social networks and try to get as many dogs as
possible adopted. His idea is to put himself in the shoes of an abandoned dog in order to put an end to a scourge that affects ‘135,000 dogs throughout Spain’ every year. Alfredo Díaz says that ‘about half of the cases occur in summer’ and that ‘it is a scourge that must be ended.’ To do his bit, Diaz locked himself up yesterday in one of the cages of the Can-Cun kennel in Tibi, which also has a shelter that collects and cares for the abandoned animals of Onil.
“I will be in quarantine for the first week, like any dog that arrives for the first time at a shelter, and on Friday I will receive the first visit at 7pm from the mayor of Tibi, Juan José Ballester.” During this time he will narrate his experience through social networks and try to introduce different dogs to encourage adoption. The caretakers at the residence will provide the food and “I will sleep, clean up as much as I can and do my business inside this small space.”
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Power of the pooch THE best canine noses from the Valencian police community sniffed it out in Orihuela to become top dog. A dozen police hounds, together with their handlers, took part in the first championship of dog detectors of narcotic substances. But the aim was also to show the public how the animals search for and find different kinds of drugs, such as marihuana, heroin and cocaine. The dogs had to find hidden substances, not real narcotics but alternatives used for training purposes which had been hidden in vehicles, rooms and outside.
Francisco Perez, from La Villajoyosa, and his dog Inga, took first prize completing the tasks in the best time. The event was organised by the Local Police Association Virgen de Monserrate, with the support of the town hall. Local councillor for the police Mariola Rocamora said that the council is considering setting up a Local Police dog unit next year with funding that will be assigned in a municipal budget. Handlers and their canines represented Cullera, Paterna, Alberic, La Villajoyosa, Alcoy, Elda, L’Alfas del Pi, Cocentaina, Rojales and Orihuela police units.
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Migrant rally
New ministers
AN estimated 20,000 people took to the streets of Berlin and Hamburg to call on the German government to offer asylum to more migrants rescued in the Mediterranean, with the protest following clashes between rival demonstrators in Chemnitz last week.
PRIME MINISTER Erna Solberg has appointed Kjell-Boerge Feirberg as Norway’s new Oil Minister and Jon Georg Dale as the government’s transport chief after both their predecessors resigned to spend more time with their families.
Cruising in
Salute probe TWO police officers have been suspended in Bavaria amidst allegations they performed Nazi salutes which are illegal in Germany under laws banning symbols, political parties and insignia associated with the Third Reich.
PROTEST: The rally followed clashes between demonstrators.
Swarm attack A TOTAL of 13 people in Weingarten were taken to hospital after hornets struck a late summer wine festival in the town and stung 18 people altogether, but left none of them with life-threatening injuries.
Race remarks GERMANY’S Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has called on citizens to fight racism and fascism and to defend the country’s democracy following far-right marches.
B ELGIUM
Letter fury THE families of the victims of Marc Dutroux, a man jailed in 1996 after
A NORWEGIAN team of Nobelwinning scientists have claimed to have found a network of brain cells which orders sequences of events and explains why time can seem to be flying at one moment and dragging the next.
Man held POLICE have arrested a man in a raid on his home in Porsgrunn after he was allegedly spotted armed near a playground in the town causing a local school to be evacuated.
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Pundit probe POLICE officers in Belgium have charged football commentator Stephane Pauwels with armed robbery following an investigation into burglaries, gang crimes and drug dealing and a court has since granted the pundit conditional bail.
A CROWD of tourists who arrived in the northern town of Honningsvag have been accused of gatecrashing a funeral, wandering around the graveyard while the ceremony took place and filming and taking pictures of mourners.
Timely find
being convicted of abducting, raping and murdering several girls, have dismissed letters written from his lawyer offering them answers as a means of gaining him parole.
Firm first WORKERS at Lidl in Belgium will become the first in the country to have the company-sanctioned right not to answer internal emails be-
tween the hours of 6pm and 7am and on the weekend to curb staff burnout.
Money case A WOMAN who allegedly sent around €65,000 in total to her son who was killed in Raqqa in Syria after leaving Belgium to fight for the Islamic State in Syria has been charged with financing a terrorist organisation.
THE Met Office of Denmark has forecast sun and warm temperatures for the country during the first days of this month, with predictions ranging from 18-23 degrees during the day and 10-15 at night.
Toy ban REGULATORS have imposed a nationwide ban on ‘squishes,’ a popular children’s toy, after environmental officials’ tests on 12 of them found they contained c he mi cal s whi ch coul d cause cancer, Denmark’s Health Minister said.
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Budget deal
Party demo
THE Dutch cabinet has struck a deal on the country’s budget following talks between the four political parties that make up the country’s ruling coalition after wrangling over dividend taxes and bank levies which made reaching an agreement difficult.
A SCUFFLE broke out at the far-right Swedish Democrats’ election campaign stop in Falkenberg after two protesters tried to pelt party leader Jimmie Akesson with eggs and tomatoes but were stopped by police officers.
F RANCE
Exam trouble
Return denial
Migrants land
PUPILS at a school in Maastricht have gained their diplomas after spending their summer in classes, revising and redoing tests after the national Education Inspectorate ruled their centre’s original exams did not meet requirements.
THE former head of the Swedish Academy, which awards Nobel Prizes, has denied she will be making a comeback to the body despite media reports Sara Danius was due to resume her post after resigning amidst sexual assault allegations.
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Man free gig
A POLICE officer in Noord Holland has been dismissed after leaking information about a crash at Amsterdam’s Central Train Station, which took place in June last year, to a blog, according to official sources.
A FESTIVAL which claimed to be the world’s first male free one launched in Gothenburg last week on the back of plans from a comedian who came up with the idea following reports of rape and sexual assaults at events.
Troop claims
Anthem video
A GROUP of soldiers under investigation for alleged humiliation, assault, abuse and threatening behaviour towards three of their comrades have accused those who made the claims of defaming them and making false reports, their lawyer said.
A GROUP of filmmakers has released their own version of Sweden’s national anthem on YouTube, with lyrics that seek to counter the narrative of the country being ‘in crisis’ by highlighting its countryside, sports, culture and identity.
A TOTAL of 59 migrants who were picked up by the Aquarius rescue boat have touched down at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport following a deal brokered between European Union member states to settle those on board.
Defence call PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron has proposed that the European Union adopt a collective defence policy as part of a wider push for deeper integration among the bloc’s members amidst concerns over the United States’ commitment to the continent.
Royal outing PRINCE FREDERIK and Princess Mary of Denmark are reportedly set to spend time with Britain’s Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, during a visit to Sydney in the Crown Princess’ native Australia.
Holy boat A PRIVATE religious organisation has said it is set to spend more than €1 million on building a ‘boat church’ in Copenhagen harbour which would become the country’s first floating house of worship if it is built.
Union strikes TWO trade unions and two student unions have called for walkouts on October 9 in protest against President Emmanuel Macron’s ongoing push to reform France’s labour laws and welfare system.
Fish wars FRANCE’S Agriculture Minister has told British fishermen to keep out of scallop-filled waters off the country’s coast after rival boats clashed there, with French fishermen claiming a current agreement covering the waters unfairly disadvantages them.
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Air director moves on A GOVERNMENT minister has resigned from his post as a director at Spain’s state-backed Aena airport management company after taking up a new brief. Rodrigo Madrazo Garcia de Lomana, formerly the Ministry of Economy and Business’ Econ o m i c P o l i c y d i r e c t o r, s t o o d down from his board post and from its Audit Committee, bosses said. Government officials sit on the board of Aena and the state has a 51 per cent stake in the company.
6 - 12 September 2018 THE total profit companies on Spain’s IBEX stock exchange made in the first half of this year, 30.7 per cent of which they have paid in corporate tax on average according to accounts.
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business & legal
Growth for producers
Firm rate hike talks THE governing Partido Socialista (PSOE) has held talks with allies from a leftist party in Parliament over plans to increase a range of business taxes, a senior member said. The proposals were floated during talks between PSOE officials and members of the Unidos Podemos group over next year’s budget plans. Pablo Echenique, Podemos’ Organisation Secretary, said members of the government had told his party they were willing to look into proposals to hike rates on business savings. Making multinationals pay more to
by Joe Gerrard the Spanish Treasury and taxing transactions was also discussed, Echenique added. “Both parties were curious as to why many business taxes were not progressive and we considered studying it in future meetings,” Echenique said. “Taxation not only serves to pay for the Welfare State. It also serves to create economic justice in the country so that people and companies contribute in a progressive manner depending on their wealth,” the Podemos official added.
Progressive taxation refers to a system where payers hand over larger proportions of their earnings if those rise above set levels. Rates including those on banks, multinationals and digital firms were discussed at the meeting. There was also talk of simplifying the corporate tax regime which Echenique claimed left smaller companies paying proportionately higher levels of tax than large firms. Nothing was agreed at the meeting and both Podemos and PSOE are set to look into the proposals before committing to the plans.
SPAIN’S manufacturing sector grew slightly more than in July, by three points in August compared to 2.9 according to an industry index. Markit’s Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) recorded a figure of 53 points last month compared to 5.29 in July. Anything below 50 points would represent a shrinkage in the sector. A n d r e w H a r k e r, o f M a r k i t , said the figures showed a ‘steady’ but not ‘spectacular ’ level of growth following strong gains at the start of 2018.
Consumers’ fall in confidence
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House price forecasts THE price of houses in Spain is expected to rise by 5.6 per cent this year before increases slow to 3 per cent by 2021 according to predictions from the Standard & Poor’s rating agency.
New bosses
MONEY WORRIES: The index figure fell this month. CONSUMER confidence fell last month in Spain compared to July due to a pessimistic assessment of the current economic situation and doubts over the future, according to research. The Consumer Confidence Indicator (ICC), published by the Centre from Sociological Research (CIS), posted a figure of 102.4 for August, down 3.7 points on the previous month’s figure.
A number below 100 points indicates a negative outlook. The CIS phoned 2,000 Spanish households to gather the data. It said 66.5 per cent of respondents believed their economic situation was the same as it was six months ago. Respondents rated the current situation at 99.3 points owing to job, finance and economy factors, 2.4 less than July. Expectations stood at 105.6 points.
FIVE new general managers have been appointed to run the Strategic Planning and Projects, Conservation and Maintenance, Construction, Circulation and Capacity Management and Security, Processes and Corporate Systems departments of Spain’s railway infrastructure authority ADIF.
Profits up VERTICE 360, the audiovis u a l s e r v i c e s c o m p a n y, turned over €3.62 million between January and June t h i s y e a r, 6 4 . 2 p e r c e n t more than the same time last year and making for a net profit of €1.24 million according to regulators.
Tax ‘not announced’ THE Spanish government’s Commerce Minister has said the government had not announced new diesel tax plans after the Prime Minister said the levy may feature in next year’s budget. Reyes Maroto added the government was working with the industry and that any decision on such a tax would be taken with the
economy and consumers in mind. “There has been a lot of talk about the diesel tax but the government has not even announced it yet, let’s wait and see,” the minister said. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said government officials were mulling the levy as part of wider plans to curb pollution and save energy.
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PRICE(P) CHANGE(P) COMPANY Anglo American 1,565.70 24.10 Associated British Foods 2,286.00 -3.00 Admiral Group 2,109.00 29.00 Ashtead Group 2,392.50 30.50 Antofagasta 812.00 6.40 Aviva 491.15 6.15 AstraZeneca 5,865.50 70.50 BAE Systems 610.40 4.40 Barclays 176.44 0.74 British American Tobacco 3,696.50 -25.00 Barratt Developments 542.00 0.00 Berkeley Group Holdings (The)3,666.00 23.00 British Land Co 638.60 3.00 BHP Billiton 1,667.40 23.60 Bunzl 2,410.00 12.00 BP 553.75 6.45 Burberry Group 2,241.50 5.50 BT Group 220.33 2.98 Coca-Cola HBC 2,658.50 20.50 Carnival 4,677.00 46.00 Centrica 143.55 0.25 Compass Group 1,671.50 13.00 Croda International 5,146.00 46.00 CRH 2,572.50 19.50 DCC 7,052.50 97.50 Diageo 2,704.50 10.00 Direct Line Insurance Group 333.90 3.00 Evraz 500.90 3.40 Experian 1,934.25 14.25 easyJet 1,549.00 24.00 Ferguson 6,271.00 90.00 Fresnillo 905.80 8.60 Glencore 317.70 4.15 GlaxoSmithKline 1,576.80 16.40 GVC Holdings 1,102.50 0.50 Hargreaves Lansdown 2,235.50 35.50 Halma 1,446.50 14.50 HSBC Holdings 674.45 5.55 International Consoldtd Air Grp 702.10 11.30 InterContinental Hotels Grp 4,754.00 -1.00 3i Group 906.60 10.20 Imperial Brands 2,729.00 -15.00 Informa 771.40 9.00 Intertek Group 5,170.00 36.00 ITV 161.58 0.93 Just Eat 774.30 7.70 Johnson Matthey 3,505.00 9.00 Kingfisher 275.30 1.80 Land Securities Group 922.50 6.00 Legal & General Group 256.85 2.55
% CHG. NET VOL 1.56 22,141.70 -0.13 18,295.59 1.39 6,010.91 1.29 11,597.34 0.79 8,119.52 1.27 19,224.22 1.22 74,866.48 0.73 19,545.32 0.42 30,510.08 -0.67 86,668.75 0.00 5,524.82 0.63 4,824.25 0.47 6,205.07 1.44 35,190.11 0.50 8,034.49 1.18 111,202.66 0.25 9,552.88 1.37 21,639.67 0.78 9,691.37 0.99 9,227.94 0.17 8,105.32 0.78 26,496.47 0.90 6,832.27 0.76 21,664.95 1.40 6,262.43 0.37 66,788.14 0.91 4,569.13 0.68 7,306.34 0.74 17,693.66 1.57 6,071.33 1.46 14,421.82 0.96 6,677.73 1.32 46,055.21 1.05 78,903.73 0.05 6,419.57 1.61 10,416.04 1.01 5,455.50 0.83 134,369.13 1.64 13,931.73 -0.02 9,152.16 1.14 8,855.69 -0.55 26,242.07 1.18 9,599.78 0.70 8,418.27 0.58 6,523.18 1.00 5,316.37 0.26 6,893.66 0.66 5,850.38 0.65 6,847.38 1.00 15,293.30
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Lloyds Banking Group ORD 59.31 London Stock Exchange Grp 4,669.50 Micro Focus International 1,317.00 Marks & Spencer Group 304.90 Mondi 2,176.50 Melrose 223.95 Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets 266.50 National Grid 811.60 NMC Health 3,934.00 Next 5,575.00 Ocado Group 1,084.75 Paddy Power Betfair 7,077.50 Prudential 1,753.50 Persimmon 2,425.50 Pearson 932.60 Reckitt Benckiser Group 6,595.50 Royal Bank of Scotland Group 242.60 Royal Dutch Shell 2,535.25 Royal Dutch Shell 2,577.75 RELX 1,713.75 Rio Tinto 3,664.00 Royal Mail 449.90 Rightmove 500.80 Rolls-Royce Group 1,011.00 Randgold Resources 5,035.00 RSA Insurance Group 636.00 Rentokil Initial 326.25 Sainsbury (J) 327.05 Schroders 3,084.00 Sage Group (The) 597.60 Segro 663.30 Shire 4,500.00 Smurfit Kappa Group 3,196.00 Sky 1,547.75 Standard Life Aberdeen 321.50 Smith (DS) 495.10 Smiths Group 1,627.00 Scottish Mortgage Invstmnt Trst 564.40 Smith & Nephew 1,370.25 SSE 1,255.75 Standard Chartered 635.25 St James's Place 1,141.50 Severn Trent 1,981.00 Tesco 246.55 TUI AG 1,436.00 Taylor Wimpey 166.90 Unilever 4,421.00 United Utilities Group 732.10 Vodafone Group 165.39 WPP Group 1,277.25 Whitbread 4,572.00
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US dollar falters after dovish Fed comments Ask the expert Peter Loveday Contact me at euroweekly@currenciesdirect.com
STAYING on top of the latest currency news can help you time your transfers more effectively, so find out what you should be looking out for over the next couple of weeks… Latest currency news So-called ‘no-deal’ Brexit fears have continued to weigh heavily on the pound in recent days, even after officials announced that the deadline for the conclusion of talks has been pushed back from October to November. This helped to drive the pound to euro exchange rate to a fresh 11-month low this week in spite of mounting tensions over the Italian budget. Across the pond, the GBP/USD exchange rate was able to recover some ground, thanks to unexpectedly dovish commentary from the American Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. What’s been happening? As the UK Treasury released technical notes relating to the impact of a no-deal Brexit investors were prompted to pile out of the pound once again.
GBP/USD: The exchange rate was able to recover some ground across the pond. With talks on key outstanding issues such as the Irish border still showing no signs of meaningful progress, hopes of a positive conclusion to negotiations remain limited. Even though the CBI reported the retail sales index for August showed a surprise uptick from 20 to 29, this proved not to be enough to give GBP exchange rates any significant boost. As the increase in sales was largely attributed to the British summer heatwave, rather than positive underlying trends, the impact of the data proved short-lived.
Signs of optimism in the latest European Central Bank (ECB) meeting minutes offered a boost to the euro, meanwhile. Although the ECB looks to be shifting towards a more positive outlook, the single currency still came under pressure thanks to worries over the Italian government. With the populist government on a collision course with EU budget rules, thus raising the threat of a fresh Eurozone crisis, confidence in the euro took a nosedive. The US dollar saw some fluctuations as mar-
kets reassessed the odds of the Fed raising interest rates twice more before the end of the year. However, as global trade tensions persisted this helped to limit the vulnerability of the dollar. What do you need to look out for? German and Eurozone inflation data for August could see the euro rally sharply across the board, with price pressures forecast to remain above the ECB’s 2 per cent target. As long as inflation continues to run higher than the ECB target, the chances of the central bank tightening monetary policy sooner rather than later are set to increase, likely weakening the pound. US trade data could provoke some volatility for the US dollar, with any widening of the deficit likely to encourage further action from the Trump administration to level the playing field. In terms of UK data, if August’s PMIs prove positive this may encourage the pound to return to a stronger footing against its rivals. At Currencies Direct we’re here to talk currency whenever you need us, so get in touch if you want to know more about the latest news or how it could impact your currency transfers. Since 1996 we’ve helped more than 210,000 customers with their currency transfers, just pop into your local Currencies Direct branch or give us a call to find out more.
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It’s all part of the magician’s illusion LEAPY LEE SAYS IT THE problem with politicians and their respective governments, is that in order to survive, they have to be, (among other things), appeasers, hypocrites, backside kissers, downright liars and media illusionists. Irrespective of their policies, their very survival relies on their skill to deliver each of these ‘attributes’ whenever deemed necessary. May and her party of disarray, are very good at most - if not all of them! Blatantly revealing her departments’ total disregard for the local British populace, she revealed a disgraceful appeasement of the Muslims who were slaughtering animals in their suburban back gardens, by declaring the practice was quite acceptable, if the meat was for their own use! No doubt her department also happily condoned the checkout person, who was allowed an unprecedented alcohol-free aisle because his religion didn’t allow it. This latest decision to grandly descend on South Africa, bearing gifts of foreign aid, and seeking future business ties to a country knee deep in diamonds, gold and other natural resources, actually manages to fill all the aforementioned criteria in one fell swoop. South Africa is run by a party steeped in bloodshed, corruption and terrorism. White inhabitants
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FOREIGN AID: Theresa May recently visited South Africa. are being murdered in the streets and have become victims of (largely unreported) genocide in a country run by a gang of despots, who retain much of their popularity by showing their black citizens they are willing to continually condone and support revenge on the white races who ‘stole’ their country. Following the same disastrous policies of Zim-
babwe, they are repossessing farms from white owners, who have run them successfully for generations, at an alarming rate. From 1994 to 2013 there were 1,544 murders on SA farms of which a mere 208 were black. A simpering May chooses to ignore all these racist atrocities and corrupt practices from this murderous bunch and dance among them (very
badly I may add!) offering ‘a wonderful future of trade and closer alliance between our great countries!’ And why has she chosen Africa as her initial venture into the forging of possible new postBrexit trade opportunities with the Commonwealth? Because she is totally aware that in these insecure, war torn and despot run countries, she will get the most favourable reception. She knows full well that these governments are desperate to be seen doing business with the ‘Mother country.’ It does untold good to their credibility and appearance of legitimacy among their own downtrodden citizens and indeed the rest of the world. In return, back in the UK, slippery May can boast of going forth into the world and fulfilling her promises to expand our global trade after leaving the EEC. All this is part of the illusion. While the British audience is busy looking at magician May, her ‘backstage assistants’ are busy negotiating the rest of the Brexit ‘compromises’ that will betray British democracy and keep us still tied to this unelected, overpaid bunch of utterly nasty self-serving Brussel zealots forever. Have a great week. Thanks for all your mail. Only 110 days till Christmas! Keep the faith Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com
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I’m sorry, Becky just isn’t sharp
by Adam Whalley-Lewis I’M not sure what William Makepeace Thackeray would have made of ITV’s adaptation of Vanity Fair, ITV Sundays. I’m not a fan, but as you will have guessed by now, I will give any TV and any Rioja a chance, even a period drama based on a novel I studied for A Level and haven’t touched since. Becky is complex, I remember that from sixth form, but she is no hero, a fact confirmed by the book’s subtitle, ‘A Novel without a Hero’ (another throwback to the Common Room). This latest offering is from the makers of Victoria and Poldark, so I should be recommending it to you, crowns, muscled torsos and the like. I’m not recommending it and not due to the lack of torsos and general regality. I just can’t get behind Becky. If she was on Facebook she would get a slightly awkward following, you know like Jacob R-M, but I don’t think this production works. Olivia Cooke plays the ‘Miranda Hart, look down the lens of the camera, knowingly,’ Becky who initially seeks to exploit the Sedley family, bring on Claudia Jessie as Amelia and then David Fynn as her wealthy but wet brother, Jos and well, nothing really happens. Monday night’s offering had Frances de La
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SERIES 13: The Jonathan Ross Show started on Saturday night. Tour playing Aunt Matilda Crawley (no relation to the Downton Crawleys) and she was rather brilliant. Unfortunately, she is not going to save this adaptation and I doubt very much Dame Maggie could either. If you are a fan of the book, you will at least recognise the story, otherwise I would stay clear. My A Level result, oh a grade B, but I also had Animal Farm and something
written in ancient Greek to get my teeth into. If you weren’t watching the second offering from Vanity (drop the Fair, like actors do - I simply couldn’t imagine anyone but Julie doing Rita, darling) you might have caught Mother’s Day on BBC2, Monday. This thought provoking drama was set against the backdrop of an IRA bomb blast in Warrington in 1993. Twelve-year-
old Tim Parry was one of the victims and the programme followed his parents, Colin and Wendy along with campaigner for peace, Susan McHugh in the months after his death. Daniel Mays played Dad, Vicky McClure played Susan, but Anna Maxwell Martin steals the show with her performance as Mum. I won’t say any more, you might want to find this one on iPlayer, but have the tissues ready, Hello Sweetheart, Mummy’s Here will melt you. Going back to last weekend, The Jonathan Ross Show started series 13 on Saturday night, ITV. Such a pity that 13 clearly isn’t Jonathan’s lucky number. Mr Ross managed to begin the new series with nobody I had heard of. Now, I don’t pretend to be any better read or TV viewer than I am, but I didn’t recognise a single name. Meanwhile, Mr Norton is being blasted across social media by the BBC having fun with A-List names. Let’s hope that ITV find some decent funds or an A-Lister who has something to promote before Jonathan continues this Saturday. Looking forward, Hello Caroline, the BBC has Last Night of the Proms on Saturday with contributions from sing-along-events across the UK. Maybe we should try and get them to a Costa next year? Happy Viewing. HappyViewing1@outlook.com
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EVER felt that September is the real start of the New Year - and not January? The time when, after the long summer break, kids are back at school and adults at work. So much so that, when I still lived and worked in the UK, I used to think of the day after the August Bank Holiday weekend as ‘back to school for adults.’ September always felt like a new beginning because of the change in routine (at least if you were in school or had kids in school). A time of fresh starts, self-evaluation and, for travel operators, the inevitable post-holiday complaints. Like some of the following that do nothing to dispel the stereotype that we Brits are a nation of whingers! Some past complaints from British tourists (all genuine - honest!) are particularly telling. One angry tourist who took a summer cruise around Alaska complained the weather wasn’t as warm as expected - ‘I wish I stayed at home!’ For another, ‘topless sunbathing should be banned!’ because her ‘holiday was ruined - my husband spent all day ogling women.’ Others moaned their holidays were
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September’s the perfect time for all your ‘New Year’ resolutions!
TOO TOURISTY: Strange complaint about Disney World. spoiled because ‘the local women were too beautiful; it made me feel bad about myself.’ ‘There was no sign telling you that you shouldn’t get on the hot air balloon ride if you’re afraid of heights.’ ‘I spent a whole week on safari, and didn’t see any decent animals. Just some old antelopes.’ A man even sent a complaint to Disneyworld claiming it was ‘too touristy.’ Other
complaints included: ‘You said the town was next to a volcano, but we went and there was no lava. I’m pretty sure it was just a mountain.’ ‘We booked an excursion to a water park but nobody told us we had to bring our swimming costumes and towels.’ Good grief! What’s up with these guys? I’d be more than happy to go out and buy a spare cossie and towel for that water park. Because it would mean I WAS having a holiday! (Handsome hunks, an extra bonus!) Nora Johnson’s psychological crime thrillers ‘The Girl in the Woods,’ ‘The Girl in the Red Dress,’ ‘No Way Back,’ ‘Landscape of Lies,’ ‘Retribution,’ ‘Soul Stealer,’ ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.norajohnson.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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Will they get rollover credit? In your piece on capital gains you say that sellers over 65 who are tax resident in Spain and have lived in their home for three years can be exempt from Spanish capital gains tax. You then say that, if you use all the proceeds from your sale to purchase a new main residence in Spain, you can also be exempt from capital gains tax. We have just sold our cortijo near Almeria but have only lived there for two years. We are both Spanish tax resident, but under 65 years old. All the proceeds from the sale of our house of €125,000 were used to buy our new main residence also for €125,000, so we used all the money from the sale to buy the new house. Will we be exempt from paying the Spanish capital gains tax when declaring this on my tax return next year? N D B (Costa del Sol) Yes, you wi l l be David Searl exem pt f rom You and the Law Spani sh capi t al gai ns in Spain tax. This rollover credit is a separate regulation from the over-65 exemption and has nothing to do with age. Please check with a Spanish tax consultant.
Send your questions for David Searl through lawyers Ubeda-Retana and Associates in Fuengirola at Ask@lawtaxspain.com, or call 952 667 090.
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A day in the life of a debt collector AFTER 40 years in the debt collection industry I never cease to be surprised by the excuses given by some of the people we have to deal with. Of c o u r se m o st a re p o lite , helpful and eager to sort out any queries on the account. They are happy to confirm addresses and emails so that payment can be made and are delighted to arrange a payment plan mutually acceptable to client and customer. But some are so outlandish in their excuses that if it were not so serious one could say ‘you couldn’t write this stuff’… The most appalling excuses are when the debtor uses health or accident issues with family members , wh i c h a f t e r ch ec k in g o f course, are completely untrue. We have the fashion shop owner who has attended his mother’s fune r a l f i v e t i m e s s o fa r th is year … t h e c o n v e nien ce s to re mother who is only running the shop because the son (owner) has
OUTLANDISH: Some of the excuses given for non-payment. been in a horrific road crash in Germany only last week - he answered the telephone two days later and was shocked when we told him we thought he was in an accident… the very nice email from a concerned debtor because we had wished him a speedy recovery from his desperate illness, he was in fact enjoying a skiing holiday in Switzerland and could not understand why his manager
had given us such information. Then we have the more mundane, but more obvious excuses such as the old favourite ‘cheque is in the post,’ now superseded by ‘I definitely transferred the money last week through my computer,’ same excuse different century. The change of ownership exc us e is ofte n a c a us e for c oncern…. Business was sold sim-
ply on a handshake or ‘I am simply running the business because the owner has disappeared.’ Of course these excuses are not given every day but it is depressing that some people seem to lose any ethical morals when it comes to paying bills. Is it a sign of the times or the fact that creditors have allowed a credit situation to get out of control. I have always thought that it is not the debtor always at fault for taking extended credit, but the supplier’s fault for allowing it to happen. Inaction by any supplier, creditor, business or community, in any credit situation is often the root cause of late payment. The lesson to be learnt is often ‘The Quicker We Act The Sooner We Get Paid.’ U nfort unat el y t her e wi l l al ways be those that consider it a game to delay, frustrate and tease the supplier, but with professionalism, speed and determination such excuses can be overcome.
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TECH FOR THE TIMID REMEMBER the famous Big Mac Index, invented by (peckish?) Economist journalists in 1986? It was intended as a more ‘realistic’ measure of a country’s wealth than the infinitely more boring Gross National Product. So today Ukrainians can buy three Big Macs for the price of one in Spain - which in turn is 30 per cent cheaper than in Switzerland. The index does of course come unstuck in those parts of the world McDonald’s hasn’t yet colonised. With relatively few golden-arch franchises, Africa has its own equivalent: the KFC Index. Also problematic is that you apparently get 8 per cent less burger in your Mexican Big Mac than you do in Australia. But now the techno age has spawned a new index. This one highlights the huge gap, nay gulf, between what it actually takes for consumers to buy the very same electronics around the world - devices almost all made in the same place (China), but with very dif-
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Burgernomics vs the iPhone Which index shows how rich we really are: iPhones or Big Macs, wonders Terence Kennedy
BIG MAC: The techno age has spawned a new index. ferent degrees of affordability. Take the recent iPhone X. At a wallet-bruising €1,150 or so in much of Europe, it’s today’s most expensive mainstream phone (alongside its new rival, the Samsung Galaxy Note 9). The X has spawned an adaptation of the Big Mac Index: how long you would actually have to work to buy one.
The Swiss (yes, them again) can trouser a new iPhone X after working just 38 hours. Spaniards must toil nearly four times as much, 140 hours. Spare a free ringtone for the Ukrainians (708 hours), Indians (900 hours) and the poor old Egyptians (1,066 hours). The good news is that although
technology doubles in power roughly every two years according to Moore’s Law, fortunately it doesn’t double in price. In fact it’s getting cheaper. Back in 1982, you might recall from a previous column, a basic word-processor cost an eye-watering €7,500 in today’s money. Last night I spotted a mini computer on Amazon for €90, and a Raspberry Pi for barely a third of that. The original 2001 iPod was around €350, which would be about €500 today. But it isn’t: the current iPod costs less than €150 in most of Europe. And some lesser music players are now so cheap they’ll soon be giving them away with your cornflakes. So despite not living in Zurich there’s at least some hope for the rest of us. Burgernomics apart, by all the statistics technology is indeed becoming steadily more affordable for all of us every day we wait. It’s the waiting that’s so hard.
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Loss leader WHILE the iPhone has virtually the highest profit margin of any mainstream techno product today (it sells for a bruising three times what it actually costs to make, still want to buy one?), some tech products actually sell below cost. Perhaps the most famous bargain is still Amazon’s Kindle e-reader. Not only does poor Mr Bezos make zero profit on every one he sells, but he’s actually selling it at a loss in many cases. Until you factor in all the ebooks he dearly hopes to flog you. Printers have long been sold with a similar rationale. They’re often highly-subsidised devices which you will finance many times over by buying their ink at a costper-drop infinitely higher than the finest Champagne. A pity there isn’t an indelible Cava.
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Discover how to make the most of the month ahead with your September Astrology, Numerology and Tarot forecast... Sally Trotman www.sallytrotman.com Sally Trotman is a qualified Counsellor who works with Astrology, Numerology and the Tarot. Each month she will deliver the forecast as an intuitive tool to aid increased self awareness.
ASTROLOGY: How can you be of service? Sun in Virgo : The influence o f Vi rg o t h i s m o n t h b r i n g s t h e perfect opportunity to be of service to others. Where can you be helpful and useful? Get involved with your local community and take time to help friends and family where you can. This earthy and practical sign is helping you to organise your l i f e i n s o m e w a y. W h a t d o y o u need to let go of as we approach the autumn months? As the trees begin to shed their leaves, take time to consider what you need to release. Get in tune with the moon : T h i s m o n t h t h e n e w m o o n i n Virgo on the ninth of the month, is helping you to ground your
ideas. Around the time of the new moon you have the opportunity to plant new seeds for the month ahead. Maintain personal integrity and keep intentions pure. Check that your intention behind your g o a l s l i n e u p with your highest values and ideals. The full moon in Aries on September 25 brings a more extrovert feel. As the first sign of the zodiac, Aries is about initiating projects, moving forward and letting go of the past. Watch out for feeling a little more angry than usual. The fiery influence of this sign can bring feelings of frustration and impatience. Numerology : let go and look
VIRGO: Take time to help family and friends. which are important to you. Give yourself the freedom to do something you have always wanted to, releasing restrictions so that you can open yourself up to new opportunities. Use your natural skills and talents to help others and reconnect to old gifts which have long laid dormant.
forward Number 9 : The influence of this number brings a time of completion and endings. It is also a good time to deepen your studies and knowledge around topics
Tax talks OFFICIALS from Britain’s tax collecting agency held sessions in Alicante Province last Tuesday to discuss a deadline at the end of this month to declare overseas asset earnings. Representatives from HMRC put on the meetings at the Capitol Theatre in Rojales and the Edificio Espai la Senieta in Teulada-Moraira ahead of the on September 30 deadline. New rules require taxpayers to declare all foreign income and assets before the end of the month or face penalties. Sofia Alvarez, Orihuela Council’s international residents spokesperson, said the meetings took place in order to ease the minds of British expatriates on the Costa Blanca. HMCR officials said the new rules cover earnings made on overseas assets taxable under income, inheritance or capital gains levies. Those wishing to declare could do so through the
TAX MEETINGS: New deadline announced. agency’s digital disclosure service or via any other agreed method. Anyone who had questions
about whether they might be required to make a declaration should contact a professional tax advisor.
T h e Ta ro t : t r u s t y o u r vibes The ninth card in the Major Arcana Tarot deck is the card of the Hermit. This card is depicted as an old man carrying a staff in one hand and a lit lantern in the other, containing a six pointed star. This card reminds us of the im-
portance of taking time to look within. Take time out this month away from the current demands of your life to reflect, rejuvinate and re-evaluate. As we are heading towards the cooler months, when our energy levels dip a litt l e , c o n s i d e r l e t t i n g g o o f p r o jects which are perhaps taking too much time and energy, and focus on your highest priorities. Affirmation: I am present, focused and aware of my innermost needs. Your Personalised Forecast Astrology, Numerology and the Tarot are ancient tools of divination which aid self awareness. By looking at the unique numbers, planets and corresponding Tarot Cards linked to your date of birth, I will intuitively guide you t o b e c o m e c l e a r e r, c a l m e r a n d more confident about your current and future direction. I offer sessions via Skype, Facetime and WhatsApp video. Forecasts start from £25.
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A serious one this week Mike Senker In my opinion Views of a Grumpy Old Man I’VE been grumpy about this before, but this week my plight was brought to the notice of the world because it happened to someone in the public eye. Anne Wafula Strike, a Paralympian, had to wait nearly an hour to be helped from her flight. She had booked her assistance weeks before, as I have on many occasions. This is not an unusual occurrence. It happens at every airport and with every airline - people needing assistance can wait for ages to be helped from the aircraft. If you travel with your own wheelchair it can be a bigger problem because sometimes your chair is not brought to the aircraft and finishes up in the baggage hall. The other problem is that if there is more than one person needing assistance, everyone has to wait to be herded together and go off in a convoy. If it’s when you are boarding a lot of the time you are moved from one holding area to another. To be honest, the people that help you are all very good; it’s the actual system that’s the problem. Firstly, there are not enough helpers at most airports. Secondly, they need some disabled
peoples’ input. All we want is to be able to have almost the same choices as able bodied folks do at airports, train stations and even ports. I was going on a cruise; I got there in plenty of time and had booked assistance in advance. As everybody boarded they were greeted by members of staff with champers and music and a party atmosphere. I, in my wheelchair, was taken to another entrance in the area where they loaded the supplies and was loaded from there. That can’t be right, can it? Here’s something else that affects me. Not everyone in a wheelchair has a disability that means they cannot walk or stand or get out of their wheelchair. I suffer from Primary Orthostatic Tremor - Google it - I can walk but I cannot stand still for more than two or three seconds. The tremor in my legs is three to four times faster than someone with Parkinson’s. Tremors are measured in Hz. Parkinson’s tremors are between 4-6Hz. My tremor is 1517Hz. The point I’m making is, when you see someone get out of their wheelchair and walk, don’t do, as some people do, which is to either mutter ‘it’s a miracle’ or tut or whatever. Take a moment and accept they may be like me and have something rare that you have never heard of. Don’t group all wheelchair users as being the same. Sorry, a serious one this week, but hey ho. mikesenker@gmail.com
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YOUR STARS FOR NEXT 7 DAYS AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) The need to be popular midweek could see you veer off track on a business matter. You have been warned and will be able to avoid it if you wish. Do not underestimate how much hassle a wrong move could cause you. On the domestic front, you are able to fully relax and enjoy good company.
SCRAMBLED: Some electronics can make it harder for birds to find their way around.
Trivia from around the world *** Around 16.5 million tourists visit Greece every year, more than the entire country’s population. Tourism makes up about 16 per cent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). *** The city of Kawasaki in Japan is home to the world’s smallest escalator. It has five steps and it’s 83.3
centimetres high. *** Mexico has the most bullfighting rings in the world and also boasts the world’s largest, the Plaza Mexico. *** The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt is made up of more than two million blocks of limestone and is 149 metres high. It houses the tomb of the pharaoh
PISCES (February 20 - March 20)
Khufu and took more than 20 years to complete. *** Zablon Simintov is believed to be the only Jew living in Afghanistan. *** Most people in the Solomon Islands can trace their ancestry back at least 10 generations due to their close-knit community.
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DID YOU KNOW? Research has shown some electronic appliances can interfere with birds’ ability to navigate. A University of Oldenburg study found the animal’s built in direction systems, which work with magnetic forces like a compass, can be scrambled by AM radios and other devices. The exact impact of devices on birds is unknown but, scientists fear it could contribute to a fall in some species’ populations.
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If you see a whole thing it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets and lives and such. But up close a world’s all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life’s a hard job. You get tired, you lose the pattern.” Ursula Le Guin, writer
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces. But true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.” Richard Burton, actor
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As someone is not showing the required amount of interest in your activities, you need a plan. Telephoning them and pointing out what you have achieved is one way, but it's not cool. Getting a few people together and using someone else to blow your trumpet for you is better.
Having been dashing about like a mad thing, you find this week a refreshing change. Only when you slow down do you realise how much you have been doing and just how tired you have become. There are some social engagements that you would not miss for the world, however.
TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) By using your intuition midweek, you will be able to solve a small problem at the weekend. Thinking ahead sometimes seems a waste of time to you because circumstances have a way of changing, but it makes sense to put in a bit of extra effort if you are able to avoid aggravation.
GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) A mistake seems a small thing until someone notices it. Although you feel that they are making a mountain out of a molehill, it still leaves a nasty feeling. Get out and do something completely different at the weekend. Not only will it blow the cobwebs away, but it will also put in perspective any negative thoughts.
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A business colleague may be less than honest with you. When it is a small matter you are used to them bending the truth. This is not, however, something that you will want to let go by, so stay on your toes.
On the home front, you tend to be snappy with loved ones because you are feeling stressed.
LEO (July 24 - August 23) Looking for answers? They are there if only you go to the right source. There is no 'quick fix' this week and you need to delve deeper to get the information you need. It will be tempting to take a short cut but,believe me, it will not be worth the hassle in the longer term. Once you have the right facts you are truly in charge of what happens next.
VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) You are very much in two minds about how to deal with a personal situation. Ask yourself which approach will help and which will do nothing to help at all. Although you want to shout at someone and feel negative at times, hold fire.
LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) Getting a romantic situation wrong could cause a humourous moment this weekend. I am not telling you this so you can avoid it. You could do with a good laugh right now. Planning ahead is your preferred method but sometimes it is the last-minute decision that brings the best results.
SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) The thing that you have to tackle this week is uppermost in your mind, but don't dwell on it. Write it down and what you intend doing about it, then put it away. Relax and get on with other things. When you do come to take it out again and face the situation it will be so much easier.
SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) Imposing restrictions on someone else also imposes restrictions on you. Why? Well, you have to hang around and see that your wishes are followed and take further action if they are not.
CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Avoid getting involved in other people's arguments. There is no way that you can come out a winner if you do. Taking a step backwards is sometimes the best thing. You have been down this path before, and did your intervention do any good?
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Cryptic Across 1 Coffee with an old bird outside the church (5) 4 Goes for less etc by accident (7) 8 Arrange trout so differently (4,3) 9 Black market transaction interrupted by bishop (5) 10 Cargo ships ordered by Socrates (8) 11 Section contains a lure (4) 13 French city girl into Christian Science (6) 14 Virginia rents out the servants (6) 17 Further extract from a choral song (4) 19 Food-suppliers spoilt terraces (8) 22 Go after, as in revolutionary (5) 23 Milo O'Shea, the Irish actor, reveals cover (7) 24 Rushes the small photographs (7) 25 Instrument for weighing undone laces (5) Down 1 Greek characters in charge of score (5) 2 Could be a cretin, for sure (7) 3 Biblical messengers converted lots among the primates (8) 4 Tries a new type of comedy (6) 5 Missing lieutenant takes in old soldiers initially (4) 6 Snake caught by wild boar (5) 7 More than one detective hustles all over the place (7)
12 Anonymous travelling salesmen (8) 13 Opportunities laundering NEC cash (7) 15 Choose a god, Greek lady! (7) 16 Prepared sauces for the campaigns (6) 18 Heavenly body, one seen in flight (5)
Code Breaker
20 Screen out Spanish approval for the First Lady (5) 21 Caribbean language contains a seed (4)
Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 17 represents R and 23 represents M, so fill in R every time the figure 17 appears and M every time the figure 23 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.
Across 1 Ursus maritimus (5,4) 5 Youthful (5) 7 Alcoholic drink made from apples (5) 9 Forepart of the leg below the knee (4) 10 Feel sorry for (6) 12 Hooded waterproof outer jacket (6) 13 Fibber (4) 15 Extremely stupid (5) 16 Reasoned and reasonable judgment (5) 18 Outgoing, socially confident person (9)
English - Spanish
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION FACING PAGE
Across 1 Águilas (6) 4 Ártico (6) 9 Sparks (from fire, electricity) (7) 10 Boat (vessel) (5) 11 Cuchara (para comer) (5) 12 Islandia (7) 13 Computers (11) 18 Chestnut (7) 20 Hit (blow) (5) 22 Plough (5) 23 Por lo menos (2,5) 24 Dill (6) 25 Gobernar (6)
Down 1/17 Reduction in wages (3,3) 2 State of extreme anger (4) 3 Surpass (6) 4 Keeper or custodian of a museum or other collection (7) 6 Mythical horned creature (7) 8 Special loved one (7) 9 Words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another (7) 11 Most recent (6) 14 High falsetto male voice (4) 17 See 1
The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English.
Down 1 At home (2,4) 2 Tap (sink) (5) 3 Gasto (7) 5 Oak (tree) (5) 6 Terraza (7) 7 Nublado (6) 8 Vacuum cleaners (11) 14 Rescue (7) 15 Pride (satisfaction) (7) 16 Raspar (6) 17 Pedestrian (6) 19 En voz alta (5) 21 Irse de (5)
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The purpose of the Hexagram puzzle is to place the 19 six-letter words into the 19 cells. The letters at the edges of interlocking cells MUST BE THE SAME. The letters in the words must be written CLOCKWISE. The word in cell 10 (TARPON) and one letter in four other cells are given as clues.
ALMOND BAFFLE BEWAIL BLURRY DEBTOR DIALOG IMPALE IMPUTE LAGOON PENMEN PUFFIN RAMROD STRIPE TARPON (10) TELLER TRAUMA TWENTY TWISTY WAFFLE
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 Treaty 2 Strait 3 Uptake 4 Visual 5 Poetry 6 Tappet 7 Ersatz 8 Troupe 9 Surety 10 Zeroes 11 Palate 12 Freest 13 Rotten 14 Trashy 15 Neater 16 Queasy 17 Farina 18 Annuli 19 Spread.
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Boggled How many English words can you find in the Boggled grid, according to the following rules? • The letters must be adjoining in a ‘chain’. They can be adjacent horizontally, vertically or diagonally. • Words must contain at least four letters and may include singular and plural or other derived forms. • No letter may be used more than once within a single word, unless it appears twice. • No vulgarities or proper nouns are permitted.
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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 L) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.
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.
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION
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TARGET: • Average: 17 • Good: 24
• Very good: 35 • Excellent: 45
SCORING: 4 letters: 1 point 7 letters: 5 points 5 letters: 2 points 8 or more letters: 6 letters: 3 points 11 points
Average: 10 Good: 14 Very good: 21
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION
Excellent: 27
enol eons clone organ lens lone sloe sigh tiglon tiglons taxi taxis taiga sons sole surah sags sahib says sand role rosa rags rays rand glen glens gray grays gran grand gist gars gaur gays isle ibid axis aisle adit arson agist hist hags hays hand disc digs dais bitt bitts batt bait bind yuan nags nays ibis
amen ante anti elan etna lain lane lean lent lien limn line lint main mane mean mien mine mini mint nail name neat neem teen tine alien aline ament amine anele anile anime eaten enate enema inlet leant leman limen matin meant tinea enamel entail inmate lament lateen mantel mantle meanie menial mental ailment aliment intimae intimal matinee ilmenite timeline ELIMINATE
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS
QUICK Across: 1 Bonus, 4 Cross, 7 Persevere, 8 Stay, 10 Reason, 12 Burgle, 13 Less, 16 Innocuous, 18 Steed, 19 Kitty.
CODE BREAKER
Down: 1 Brass, 2 Nap, 3 Spry, 4 Clever, 5 Oversee, 6 Stern, 9 Arrange, 11 Placid, 12 Bliss, 14 Study, 15 Lock, 17 Set.
CRYPTIC
ENGLISH-SPANISH
Across:
Across:
1 Giant, 4 Coffers, 8 Attract, 9 Snipe, 10 Perverse, 11 Lost, 13 Egrets, 15 Lament, 18 Limp, 19 Democrat, 22 Stake, 23 Thimble, 24 Swear by, 25 Sings.
1 Policía, 5 Pecho, 8 Stool, 9 Airline, 10 Llegada, 12 Coins, 13 Orphan, 15 Juzgar, 18 Gente, 19 Pleased, 21 Ahijado, 22 Pearl, 23 Ansia, 24 Setenta.
Down:
Down:
1 Grapple, 2 Actor, 3 Travesty, 4 Cutest, 5 Fast, 6 Epitome, 7 Spent, 12 Parodies, 14 Rampage, 16 Totters, 17 Sentry, 18 Lasts, 20 Robin, 21 Bear.
1 Pasillo, 2 Loose, 3 Col, 4 Alabar, 5 Parachute, 6 Ceiling, 7 Ovens, 11 Ama de casa, 14 Pencils, 16 Rodilla, 17 Aprons, 18 Guapa, 20 Stain, 22 Pet.
App of the week 1lyrics An app which draws on several platforms including Spotify and Google Play Music to give users a one stop shop for all their lyrical needs. It allows those using the app to download song lyrics and modify its look and several other details and features. Users can also add lyrics manually and access those already downloaded offline.
QUIZ: TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE The last few letters of the answer to first questions will be the first few letters of the answer to the second question 1. Au is the chemical symbol for which precious metal? By what other, more common name is the Central Criminal Court in London, better known? 2. By what name is the clavicle better known? Daddy Cool, Sunny, Ma Baker and Rasputin were all UK hit singles for which Euro-Caribbean vocal group? 3. Clara and Daniel Peggotty, Betsey Trotwood and Edward Murdstone are all characters from which Charles Dickens’ novel? Which is the highest rank of officer in the British army? 4. Noted for its strong currents and storms, what is the name of the arm of the Atlantic Ocean in western Europe that is bordered by the west coast of France and the north coast of Spain? George Town is the capital of which group of three islands in the Caribbean Sea, south of Cuba? 5. The Valley in south-east London in the home ground of which League One football club? In the UK, what is the name of the manual semaphore used by racecourse bookmakers to exchange information? 6. What is the name of the syrupy blackcurrant liqueur produced mainly in Burgundy? Built in 1473, what is the name of the private chapel of
the popes in Rome? 7. What was the name of the sixth century BC Greek storyteller who was best known for his moral animal fables? Which Italian actress starred in the 1960 comedy film The Millionairess and the 1961 wartime drama La Ciociara, for which she won an Oscar? 8. Which 18th/19th century English mathematician and inventor was a pioneer of machine computing? Which dense bread roll in the shape of a ring is characteristic of Jewish baking? 9. Which is the largest planet in the solar system, a gas giant that is the fifth in order from the sun? Which English author of fantasy novels is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels? 10. Who was the 44th president of the United States? Which city is the capital of Mali? Not a lot of people know that… the concept of BOGOF (buy one get one free) was first imported from the USA during the 1970’s recession, when food prices were very high. It came back into fashion in the late 1990s, led by big supermarket chains trying to gain a competitive advantage over each other.
Answers: 1. GOLD, OLD BAILEY, 2. COLLARBONE, BONEY M, 3. DAVID COPPERFIELD, FIELD MARSHAL, 4. BAY OF BISCAY, CAYMAN ISLANDS, 5. CHARLTON ATHLETIC, TIC-TAC, 6. CASSIS, SISTINE CHAPEL, 7. AESOP, SOPHIA LOREN, 8.CHARLES BABBAGE, BAGEL, 9. JUPITER, TERRY PRATCHETT, 10. BARACK OBAMA, BAMAKO
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• Roger Waters, Musician; September 6, 75 Olympic athlete before pursuing music. She The bass player and songwriter for the prog rock released her first solo single There You Go in band Pink Floyd was born in Great Bookham in 2000 and later landed hits with songs including England. He headed up the Cambridge branch of the Grammy award-winning Lady Marmalade. the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament aged 15 • Michelle Williams, Actor; September 9, 38 before scoring successes with the albums Dark The actor played Jennifer Lindley in the TV series Side of the Moon, The Wall and others. Dawson’s Creek and has featured in films Roger Waters. • Toby Jones, Actor; September 7, 52 including Blue Valentine, My Week with Marilyn Jones studied acting in Manchester and in Paris and Manchester by the Sea. Born in Rockford, and has featured in films including Infamous, Frost/Nixon Montana in the United States, she began her career in and voiced Dobby in Harry Potter. Born in London in sitcoms including Step by Step and Home Improvement. England, he has since acted in a film with his father. • Joe Perry, Musician; September 10, 68 • Pink, Singer; September 8, 39 Aerosmith’s lead guitarist played on hits including Crazy, Love in an Elevator and I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing after Born Alecia Beth Moore in Dylestown, Pennsylvania in the starting out with The Jam Band group. He was inducted into United States, the singer originally aspired to be an
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.
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001 and came 48th in Rolling Stone Magazine’s 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time ranking. • Elizabeth Henstridge, Actor; September 11, 31 Henstridge was born in Sheffield in England and went to the East 15 Acting School before studying at the University of Birmingham. She featured in the film The Thompsons and in the TV series Hollyoaks and Marvel Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. • Hans Zimmer, Composer; September 12, 61 Zimmer has composed the soundtracks for more than 150 films including The Lion King, Gladiator and Inception. Born in Frankfurt in Germany, he was in the The Buggles in the late 1970’s and played on their hit Video Killed the Radio Star.
Word Ladder DEAR
COLT BACK
Move from the start word (DEAR) to the end word (COLT) in the same number of steps as there are rungs on the Word Ladder. You must only change one letter at a time.
Solution DEAR BEAR BEAT BELT BOLT COLT
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This week in history
The past returns THE year is 1940. Juliet Armstrong, aged 18, has found herself embroiled in the shady world of espionage during the Seco n d Wo r l d Wa r a t M I 5 monitoring Nazi sympathisers. Armstrong finds her work in the obscure government department terrifying but also tedious. She is happy to consign her work to the past once the war is over and goes on to work as a producer at the BBC 10 years later. It is while working for the broadcaster in the 1 9 5 0 ’s t h a t h e r p a s t makes its strange and unwelcome return. Ti m e s h a v e c h a n g e d a n d t h e Wo r l d Wa r h a s given way to the Cold War, with new fronts and enemies to face down. Armstrong thought the past had gone forever. She now has to face up to the consequences of her wartime actions in Kate Atkinson’s Transcription.
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490 BCE - Decisive win Athens and its Greek allies defeat Persian invaders at the Battle of Marathon. The victory marked a turning point in the conflict that would lead to Darius I’s forces being driven out of Greece. 533 - Army arrives Byzantine general Belisarius lands at Caput Vada in modern day Tunisia and marches to Carthage. It comes as part of efforts to reclaim the provinces of the former Western Roman Empire. 1309 - Rock siege The forces of the Kingdom of Castile place Gibraltar under siege during the Reconquista. Castile would go on to defeat the Emirate of Granada and take The Rock. 1504 - Statue unveiled Michelangelo’s David is seen in public for the first time in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence. It would go on to be regarded as one of the great Renaissance masterpieces. 1776 - Naval first Ezra Lee makes the world’s first attack on a ship with a submarine while attempting to attach a time bomb to the British vessel HMS Eagle in New York Harbour. There are no British records of the attack. 1901 - President shot William McKinley, the President of the United States, is shot dead by the anarchist Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo, New York. 1949 - Occupiers leave Allied military authorities formally end their governing of Germany which becomes West Germany and East Germany. 2000 - Soldiers freed The British army succeeds in freeing five of its troops held captive in Sierra Leone for two weeks during the country’s Civil War.
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PUNK rock fan Enn (Alex Sharp) lives in 1970’s London and tonight he is attempting to gatecrash a party. His plan goes awry when he stumbles into the wrong house where he finds an alien worshipping cult. Among those there is Zan (Elle Fanning) and the two hit it off until he discovers she’s secretly an alien who has come to complete a death ritual for the group. Enn looks for help to rescue Zan in How to Talk to Girls at Parties.
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V I S I T O U R W E B S I T E W W W. E U R O W E E K LY N E W S . C O M IT’S a well-known fact that rooibos is better for you than normal tea, but just how much better is surprising. And once you’ve heard about these ‘extra’ health and beauty benefits, chances are you’ll be sipping rooibus in favour of your regular cuppa. An added bonus is that you can get all the beautifying effects without the herb, which originates from South Africa, even touching your lips. Acne sufferers will be interested to hear that rooibos is rich in alpha hydroxy and zinc – both vital nutrients for healthy skin. Alpha hydroxy reduces the signs of ageing and revitalises skin, while zinc heals wounds, protects against UV rays and has anti-inflammatory properties, which can help with acne, random monthly pimples and sunburn. Sip on a cup, or even apply the tea straight to your skin! Rooibus, also known as bush or redbush tea, is also said to help with hair loss. A cup a day not only keeps your locks healthy and strong, but may also help prevent hair
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The rewards of rooibus
BENEFITS: The positive effects of a cup of rooibos are far reaching. loss. Apparently, its active ingredients actually help remove dead skin cells that block hair follicles and prevent hair from growing. It’s also packed with zinc, calcium, copper and potassium (essential for hair
growth), and polyphenols (antioxidants), which promote shiny, soft tresses. It’s easy to prepare your own tea rinse at home. Steep for 30 minutes in boiled water. Once cooled, pour over fresh-
ly washed or conditioned hair, or simply spray it on. Allow to sit for 20 minutes before rinsing. As mentioned, the antioxidants in rooibos have anti-inflammatory properties, which
assist in preventing cardiovascular disease, while its antiviral properties boost your immune system. It also has a hypoglycaemic effect on the body, helping to balance blood sugar and improve insulin re-
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sistance, which may help prevent the development of type 2 diabetes. The tea has also been proven to remedy irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). The antispasmodic agents in rooibos help ease stomach aches and pains, and aid digestion. It is reported that this is because it smooths out the muscles in the gut. Sufferers should try drinking a cup about half an hour before a meal to get the most out of this effect. Apparently, rooibos can also help with asthma. It’s a bronchodilator (a substance that dilates the bronchi and bronchioles in lungs to increase airflow) and many researchers believe the tea can alleviate the symptoms of asthma. And finally, although there are bound to be even more health and beauty benefits, rooibos can help lower your cholesterol. Chrysoeriols, a flavonoid in rooibos, aids in blood circulation and has also been linked to reducing cholesterol.
HEALTH & BEAUTY ON average we lose 50 to 100 scalp hairs each day, but this is normal and new hairs grow in their place. The hair’s programmed life cycle consists of three phases: the growth phase, the shedding phase and the resting phase. When this cycle has been disrupted or when the hair follicle has been destroyed, excessive hair loss or thinning of the scalp can begin to happen, and receding hairlines, bald patches and complete baldness can occur. Hair loss mainly affects men, but women are still susceptible, and there are normally certain triggers. According to dermatologists, experiencing a highly stressful event such as a physical injury or severe anxiety can cause shock to the hair cycle, pushing more hair into the shedding phase. Also, fewer hair follicles are available to grow new hair during the growing phase. This can trigger telogen effluvium, a type of hair loss that sees as many as 70 per cent of the scalp hairs being shed, usually in handfuls. It becomes no-
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More than a bad hair day ticeable about two to six months after the shock occurs. The body begins to go back to normal once the stress is over, which will then kick start your hair’s growth cycle. Hair loss can run in the family. Androgenetic alopecia, or female-pattern hair loss (FPHL), causes thinning on all areas of the scalp. This leads to increased diffuse hair shedding or a reduction in hair volume, or both. It’s the most common form of hair loss, affecting 40 per cent of women by age 50. Factors tied to hormones also play a major role, so FPHL can also occur after menopause or pregnancy. Minoxidil is the preferred medication to use to treat FPHL, as you can easily apply it to your dry scalp. Hair thrives on a diet rich in vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. A lack of vitamin C
can make your hair dry and brittle. Protein powers growth in hair cells, but an absence of it results in less new hair growth. Iron helps red blood cells to carry oxygen, once your iron levels are low you become anaemic and your cells struggle to function, causing you to lose your hair. Zinc is important for tissue growth and repair, plus it keeps oil glands around the hair follicles in good working order. But if your zinc intake is low, you’ll experience slow hair growth and dandruff in addition to the hair loss. Start eating foods that contain these vital nutrients. Oranges, mangoes, cauliflower and tomatoes contain Vitamin C, whilst protein can be found in meats, eggs, fish, yoghurt and beans. Whole grain cereals and dark green leafy vegetables are great for providing you with iron, plus you will
HAIR LOSS: Diet, hormones and stress are all common causes. need zinc-rich foods like nuts, chickpeas and sweet potatoes. A sudden or excessive loss of weight can result in the thinning and loss of hair. It can be a shock to the system, which can trigger telogen effluvium. Stress from dieting can cause more hairs than usual to fall out during the shedding phase. And vitamin or mineral deficiencies are also major factors. As we age, our bodies begin to lose the ability to renew and regenerate cells quickly.
This results in thinning hair, hair loss and greying. Research also points to menopause as a cause. A decrease in hormones like oestrogen and progesterone, which help to grow and retain hair, leads to slow hair growth and thinning. This prompts the increased production of androgens, a group of male hormones. Androgens shrink hair follicles, resulting in hair loss on the head. Childbirth is another cause. During the pregnancy itself,
oestrogen levels increase, meaning hairs remain in the growing phase. But hair loss can occur approximately three months after the delivery when hormones are returning to their normal levels, causing the hair cycle to resume. It will recover within six to 12 months as the follicles start to rejuvenate themselves. Supplement your diet with fruits and vegetables rich in Vitamins B, C and E, and zinc to promote hair growth.
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Well groomed men A GOOD skin care regime is not exclusive to women, men need one too. Only cleansing and moisturising is not enough to keep male skin healthy and clean. To avoid dry, dull and brittle skin, it’s important to follow a skin care plan. Men tend to have oilier and thicker skin, so it’s advisable to choose a good facial cleanser that works on all kinds of skin. Cleansing sanitises and eliminates dead skin cells without drying. It also helps to avoid whiteheads, blackheads and acne. Toning balances and tightens. Moisturising prevents cracks and dry and dull skin, as well as offering protection and healing benefits. Sunscreen is a must, with a minimum SPF of 30, making sure it’s applied 15 minutes before heading out so that it is well absorbed. Exfoliation is crucial to eliminate dead skin cells from accumulating and causing bacterial infection. Used once a week, a gentle but granulated face scrub will smoothen the skin, eradicate dullness and soften hair follicles for a smoother shave with minimal irritation. The skin around the eyes lacks in sweat and oil glands, making it highly susceptible to under-eye dehydration. This shows itself as fine lines and wrin-
SKINCARE: A simple daily routine is vital for men as well as women. kles. Dabbing a little hydrating eye cream each morning and before bed can help prevent this. A good lip balm with a high SPF is a must to help keep them soft, supple and protected from the sun. Clean beards are more likely to be soft beards. Beauty experts advise using face
wash or shampoo when cleansing facial hair, taking care not to over shampoo as this can strip the hair of natural oils. Try applying beard oil with fragrance after washing.
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THE town of Cartagena is proud of its military past and once again it will be celebrating (its unique to Spain) annual festival remembering the Carthaginian and Roman influences. For 10 days from September 21 to 30, more than 4,000 local residents participate in this Festival that began in 1990 to relive the events of the Second Punic War which took place more than 2,200 years ago. During these Fiesta days, all the heroic events that occurred in the period that began around the year 227BC with the foundation of Qart Hadasht by Asdrúbal Janto El Hermoso and ending in the year 209 BC with the battle and the later conquest of the city by the Roman legions commanded by General Publius Cornelius Scipio are remembered and celebrated. The Festival creates a magical environment enjoyed by residents of Cartagena and tourists and the programme includes different daily theatrical performances that allow visitors to relive history within different majestic parts of the ancient town Re-enactments include the foundation of Qart Hadasht, the destruction of Sagunto, the session of the Roman Senate, the Weddings of Hannibal and Imilce, the Oracle of Tanit, Hannibal’s march to Rome, the disembarkation of the Roman army, the parades of troops and le-
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PROUD CARTAGENA: Just one of the many historical parades. gions and the Battle for the conquest of QartHadast. During the events, visitors and locals are invited to travel throughout the town participating in the various recreational activities organised by the Carthaginians and the Romans and to accompany the Carthaginian troops and the Roman legions that disembark in the port and
parade towards the town. Every night in the vicinity of the Carthagonova football stadium, there will be the chance to enjoy the regular parties, visit the craft market and enjoy the wide variety of specialties of the Cartagena cuisine which are offered in their bars and restaurants around the town.
In the camp, there will be the chance to participate in more than 100 free activities which includes fun and educational options for children organised by the Carthaginian Council and the Feriae Latino. There will be exhibitions of local history and archaeology which help visitors to understand the history of Cartagena.
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FOR those who love ballet and recognise that Russia produces some of the best corps de ballet in the world, there are three special dates to put in your diary. The Auditorio Torrevieja has booked one performance a month of some of the greatest ballets running from November to January 2019, each staged by a different company. The first presentation will be The Nu t c r a c k e r wi t h mu s ic b y Tchaikovsky which is based on a short story, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King and is perhaps the best known of his ballets thanks to The Da n c e o f t h e Su g a r P lu m Fairy and The Waltz of the Flowers. This v e r si o n c o m e s fro m th e s table o f t h e R u ssi a n N atio n a l Ballet of Serguey Radchendko, which was the first private company which emerged in that country after the collapse of the former Soviet Union. Tick e t s f o r T h e N u tcra c k er which will be presented on Thursday N o v e m b e r 8 c o st b e tw ee n €18 and €30. Next due at the Auditorium is
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Three nights of exceptional ballet
CLASSIC BALLET: A scene from the Nutcracker. Swan Lake, another of the great Tchaikovsky compositions which tells the story of good and evil with the battle between the White
Swan and the Black Swan which signifies the two major opposites in life. On the one hand is sweetness
and fragility whilst on the other is power and provocation and sadly, in this ballet, the heroine and her love both die.
Interestingly, some of the music in Swan Lake was first written for a lesser known piece The Lake of t he Swans whi ch was m ai nl y per f or m ed f or t he com poser ’s family. One of the best known and most per f or m ed of al l of t he Tchaikovsky ballets, this recital will be presented by the Imperial Russian Ballet on Friday December 21 with tickets costing from €20 to €35. The last of the trio of ballets is something quite different as although it is based on the famed story Beauty and the Beast, for this performance on Saturday January 12, the entire ballet will be performed by the Ballet of the Ice Pal ace of Moscow wi t h t i cket s costing from €20 to €35. Thi s t r oupe was f ounded i n 1990 and has a cast of 14 skaters, including four former figure skati ng cham pi ons as wel l as t wo si nger s and t hi s show f or t he whole family is bound to appeal to lovers of classical dance and ice skating. All seats may be reserved via the Auditorio Torrevieja website.
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THE last of the free concerts in Orihuela will be held at the Plaza de Togores at 9.30pm tomorrow (Friday). Headliners will be popular four piece Indie band from Murcia, Viva Suecia who were formed in 2013 and have released two albums so far in their career. The event will take place on the night before the celebrations of the patron saint of Orihuela, the Virgin of Monserrate and is intended to be a pre-cursor to the festivities which will take place the following day. A f t e r t h e p e r f o r m a n c e b y Vi v a Suecia, popular DJ Ley’DJ will keep the party mood going with his unparalleled show of rhythm, music, colours and dance. On a much quieter and calmer note, the Orihuela Council is sponsoring the last of the summer routes which takes those interested
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Frantic and calm in Costa Blanca town
INDIE BAND: Viva Suecia. in a visit to one of the corners of the area, the quaint hamlet of Barbarroja. The tour, which starts at 9am from the tourist information office in Ori-
huela Centro has a limited number of places and reservations for the tour which costs â‚Ź5 to include refreshments may be made by calling 965 304 645 or 965 302 747.
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ON TOUR: The band on stage at an earlier concert.
Love of Lesbian touring Spain THE somewhat bizarrely named Spanish Indie band, Love of Lesbian is undertaking a tour of Spain and then Mexico which will see them performing at the Teatro Rio in Alicante City. Formed in 1997, they have released 11 albums, one of which hit the top spot in the Spanish music charts and they have been nominated for a number of MTV Awards. Their current tour sees them updating their Mirrors and Mirages show which they say is neither a play nor a musical but is a theatrical concert based on the band’s songbook and questions whether music is a reflection of reality or a creator
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to Live Well by Andrew Harding LAST week I completed my discussion about vitamins, this week I want to discuss essential minerals. Essential minerals can be divided into two categories; macro and micro-minerals. Macro-minerals are defined as minerals present in the average human body of five grams or more, they are: Calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium and potassium. Micro-minerals, (which I will discuss next week) are present in quantities a lot smaller than five grams. Calcium: The most abundant mineral in the body, is needed for bone and tooth formation and for a healthy nervous system. The average adult has 1kg of calcium in their body. Dairy products are a good source, as are non boned fish such as sardines and whitebait. Phosphorous: Is also required for bone and tooth formation and keeping the body’s cell walls intact. It has the same dietary sources as calcium. Magnesium: Is required to activate enzyme function and necessary for nerve function and bone formation. Any greenleaved vegetable is a good source. Sodium: This regulates the water con-
of mirages in which to escape reality. Supposedly their name came about because singer Santo Calmes mistakenly taped a pornographic video over a film of his own baptism and as the film was called Love of Lesbian, he felt impelled to persuade his band members to accept the name when they got together. This is a very popular band and tickets for the performance on Saturday November 17 which cost €25 and €30 are selling quickly.
Roast Chateaubriand with a Bernaise Sauce
STEAK: Cooked in the oven. tent of the body, it is found in all foods and of course, table salt. Spain is a hot country and salt is lost during perspiration, the resultant deficiency can result in muscle cramps. Potassium: Necessary for the normal functioning of cells, deficiency is rare because potassium is found in most foods; bananas are a particularly good source. This week’s recipe: (Chateaubriand: ‘A large steak cut from the thickest part of a fillet of beef.’) Roast Chateaubriand with a Bearnaise Sauce Serves 4 1kg piece Chateaubriand Steak 1 tablespoon olive oil Pour the olive oil into a frying pan on a
medium heat. Sear it on all sides to seal in the juices. Place in an oven tin and then into an oven pre-heated to 200 Celsius (conventional) or 180 Celsius (fan). Cook for 25 minutes per pound plus 25 minutes for medium to well done, 20 minutes per pound for rare to medium. When it is cooked, take it out of the oven, cover and let it rest for 10 minutes. While it is cooking make the Bearnaise Sauce. 140ml white wine vinegar 2 whole shallots, chopped 1 bunch tarragon, coarsely chopped Salt and freshly ground black or green pepper, to taste 170g butter 4 egg yolks Place the wine vinegar, salt, pepper, tarragon into a heat resistant bowl and then place in a pan containing water, heated to boiling. Boil until the volume has been reduced in volume by half. Strain and discard onion and tarragon. Pour back into the bowl and reduce heat to a very gentle simmer. Add the butter and stir until melted. Add egg yolks and continually stir.
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FREE EVENT: A scene from last year’s busy festival.
Urban Festival still going strong NOW in its eighth year, the Almoradi Urban Festival returns to the town on Saturday September 22, with an eclectic mix of different activities aimed at the young and not so young. Admission is free and the event which starts at 5pm in the Parque de Bejar (El Bañet) runs until 3am with a selection of live music and DJs. Due to perform are hip hop artists Machete
en Boca from Valencia, Eterno Invierno from Murcia with support from El Chico Erre and Neim as well as Martin & Psyco plus more. Still on a musical note there will be a rap contest as well as the first Vega Baja Scratch open table. That’s not all as there will be exhibitions of Skateboarding, BMX, Breakdance, Street Workout and much more.
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Nick Horne The Rich Pick Freelance correspondent, London, England BENTLEY MOTORS LTD will be marking its 1919-2019 Centenary with some style and no doubt noisily has announced that July 10, 2019 will be ‘Centenary Day.’ Bentley Motors confirmed some of the special Centenary Specifications that will be applied across all its models. Inspired by an illustrious past the Centenary Specification will feature on all of the Bentleys built at the Crewe works, England between January and De-
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‘A fast car, a good car, the best in its class’ cember 2019. Unique tread plates, Centenary Badges, seat embroidery and special details that are still to be revealed are aimed at making the 2019 production yet more desirable and collectable. Bentley Motors was established in 1919, in September 1921 the first production model was delivered. The car presented had the radiator grille that
was to become its hallmark together with the Flying ‘B’ insignia. The very first Bentley owner Mr Noel van Raalte paid the princely sum of £1,050 for this soon to be iconic automobile. The price tag attached to a 2019 Bentley will be considerably more! In most cases more than 100 times as much at least. The 1920’s saw Bentley Motors produce some of the most distinctive cars of the era. WO Bentley the founder of the marque was also an enthusiastic racer developing engines to power his cars that went on to win famous victories at endurance and speed races at Brooklands, Indianapolis and the Isle of Man. The legendary achievements of the ‘Bentley Boys’ saw success after success at Le Mans with five heroic wins. WO Bentley the founder of Bentley Motors is said to have
been guided by a principle summed up as ‘a fast car, a good car, the best in its class’ through decades of innovation Bentley has built desirable Grand Tourers with a unique combination of luxury and performance. The four luxurious Bentley Motors model lines; Continental, Flying Spur, Bentayga and the Mulsanne will be yet further enhanced with Centenary detailing. Centenary Gold will be a particular feature of this enrichment. A metallic gold that has been specially created to shine and reflect light like precious jewellery. Centenary Gold will make its presence felt across the 2019 production year from gear shifts to headrest emblems and key fobs reflecting the marque’s heritage and racing triumphs. Centenary Gold, a contemporary interpretation with an elegant warm tone, inspired by the metal work found on vintage Bentleys such as the EXP 2 of 1919 and the ‘Birkin’ Blower of 1929. Now is a good time to be dreaming about which car you will be driving in 2019.
BENTLEY: The Centenary will be marked with some style.
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Cassandra Nash A weekly look - and not entirely impartial reaction to the Spanish political scene
CARLES PUIGDEMONT, former regional president of Cataluña, proclaimed the republic on October 27 but having talked the talk, immediately walked the walk to self-exile in Belgium. It was like playing the opening bars of Beethoven’s Fifth before switching to Benny Hill’s theme tune and Spain has been trying unsuccessfully to retrieve him ever since. Accused of rebellion, sedition and misappropriation of public funds, he was temporarily held in Germany when returning from a conference in Denmark. Pablo Llarena, the Spanish judge handling the case, was piqued when his German colleagues failed to recognise rebellion and sedition and said he could have Puigdemont back, but only for misappropriation. Llarena turned down the offer and the expresident is now ensconced in his Waterloo home. To make things really kosher he is suing Llarena, accusing him of bias, partisanship and violating his basic rights. The judge is known to have right-wing leanings and links to FAES, Jose Maria Aznar’s think-tank, Puigdemont’s writ points out. After some hesitation, Pedro Sanchez’s government, which was initially prepared to
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A date at Waterloo A decent burial THE Valle de Los Caidos was ostensibly a war memorial containing the remains of 40,000 combatants from both sides who lost their lives in the Civil War. In reality it was a paean to the man who started it all, the dictator Francisco Franco who was buried there on November 23, 1975. “A dictator should not have a State tomb in a democracy. It’s incompatible,” said the vicepresident of the Spanish government, Carmen Calvo. It has been agreed that Franco’s body will be moved and re-interred with dignity wherever his family see fit. Which is more than can be said for the thousands of the dictator’s adversaries whose bodies were tossed into mass graves.
SUING: Puigdemont is suing a Spanish judge. arrange for the defence of the general but not personal accusations, was pushed by Spain’s judges and public prosecutors, to go the whole hog. The expensive waste of time is now underway and it remains to be seen who, if anyone, will meet their Waterloo.
Tie a yellow ribbon YELLOW ribbons in Spain have come to signify solidarity with members of Cataluña’s previous regional government who are now in prison. The ribbons are seen principally in Cataluña, but universal Catalans like Pepe Guardiola, former Barça trainer and now at Manchester City, ostentatiously displayed one until he was
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Balls up MATAELPINO (Madrid) has substituted bull-running with ball-running where the idea is to outrun a giant white Styrofoam ball. Unfortunately, like Rover in The Prisoner, the ball was less than innocuous and this year a male participant suffered serious head injuries when he was crushed between the ball and the fence. To the satisfaction of smug taurinos the Mataelpino ball-running claims casualties each year. But at least they have chosen to face a 250-kilo ball and not a terrified animal.
fined £20,000 by the FA for making a political statement on a football pitch. Guardiola said it was worth every penny, but back in Cataluña the 50 per cent of the population who do not want independence have begun removing the ribbons. It’s supposed to be a free country but in some towns in southern Cataluña the regional police, the Mossos d’Esquadra, have been identifying the people who are taking them away. It’s Animal Farm again where Napoleon the pig - back to Waterloo - declared that all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. You could just as easily say that all democracies are equal but some - like Cataluña - are less equal than others.
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Unsold housing stock dwindling THE number of unsold new homes has now dropped to prehousing crash figures, according to the Spanish Ministry of Development. Across the country there were 476,938 new units unsold at the end of 2017. This was 3 per cent fewer than in 2016 and 26.6 per cent down on the levels seen in 2009. You have to go back to the height of the property boom to see lower figures - in 2007 the unsold stock was 413,642. The provinces with the largest stock on the total national stock are located on the Mediterranean coast, as well as Madrid and Toledo. The accumulated stock decreased in all the Autonomous Communities, except the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla. The communities of the Basque Country and the Balearic Islands stand out with falls of more than 10 per cent as did the provinces of the Balearic Islands, Vizcaya and Guipuzco.
SELLING WELL: New property is becoming more popular.
Three Autonomous Communities accounted for 49.98 per cent of the total national stock in 2017: Valencia, CataluĂąa and Andalucia. Ceuta and Melilla, Navarra, Cantabria and Extremadura are the Autonomous Communities and cities with the lowest percentage of accumulated stock on the national total. The above figures are based on total numbers, but if we look at the figures as a proportion of total stock the picture changes. In Madrid, which is one of the provinces with the highest number of unsold new buildings, stock only accounts for 1.39 per cent of the total housing stock, a relatively low percentage. On the other hand, Castellon, with 6.05 per cent of the total, Toledo, with 4.97 per cent, and Almeria, with 4.74 per cent, are the provinces with the biggest proportion of their housing stock accounted for by unsold new property.
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Homes prices on the up THE price of used housing in Spain has increased by 1.6 per cent in July, reaching an average of €1,690/m2, according to the latest price index from Idealista. By region the price has only fallen in Galicia, (-0.3 per cent). In all other markets, prices have risen. The largest increases were in Castilla-La Mancha (2.7 per cent), Canarias (2.5 per cent) and Comunidad Valenciana (2.2 per cent). La Rioja saw a rise of 1.8 per cent, while Madrid (1.7 per cent), Andalucia (1.2 per cent) and Cataluña (1.1 per cent) all saw increases too. Madrid (€2,917/m2) is the most expensive autonomous region. It is followed by the Balearic Islands (€2,667/m2) and the Basque Country (€2,535/m2). The cheapest are
GROWING: Positive trend for home sellers. Extremadura (€926/m2), Castilla-La Mancha (€930/m2) and Murcia (€1,036/m2). In terms of provinces, a total of 40 have higher prices than a month ago. The largest increases were seen in Toledo (4.1 per cent), followed by Las Palmas (3.3 per cent), Castellon (2.5 per cent) and Valencia (2.4 per cent). The biggest drop, however, has occurred in Ourense where owners are asking 2.3 per cent less for their homes. They were followed by falls in A Coruña (-1 per cent) and
Lleida (-0.9 per cent). The ranking of the most expensive provinces is led by Madrid with €2,917/m2. In second place is Barcelona (€2,820/m2) and then Guipuzcoa (€2,780/m2). Avila, on the other hand, is the cheapest province with a price of €799 per m2. It is followed by Toledo (€821/m2) and Ciudad Real (€862/m2). During July the number of provincial capitals that saw increased prices was 35. The most pronounced increase is
that experienced by Huesca, where prices grew 6.1 per cent. In Girona the increase was 5.3 per cent, while in Avila it was 4.2 per cent. Madrid saw prices rise by 1.1 per cent and in Barcelona they fell by 0.3 per cent. Ourense saw the biggest fall (-1.8 per cent), followed by A Coruña (-1.3 per cent) and Salamanca (-1.2 per cent) Despite the fall, Barcelona is still the most expensive city in Spain, at an average of €4,386/ m2, followed by San Sebastian
(€4,277/m2) and Madrid (€3,799/m2). Avila is the cheapest at 946
euros/m2, followed by Lleida (979 euros/m2) and Castellon (1,052 euros/m2).
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“Building a calm, energised setting with colours and texture, and neutrals can set the mood for a relaxing space. “Taupe, ivory and trendy sage, lend a sophisticated look that’ll work beautifully for a calm interior,” Rebecca advises. “These hues are a great foundation to work with, matching easily with other colours, and can be kept pared back or dressed up depending on your preferences. “Neutral tones are also perfect as a background for more dramatic accent colours, and sunny shades like yellow provide a cheerful burst of creativity, while giving your space charm and personality. “And when it comes to dialling up the comfort, layer in different textures, using elements like a plush sofa, soft throws and even a fluffy faux fur rug for a boost in cosiness.”
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THE barbecue is lit, drinks are chilled, the garden table is laid, and the guests have been invited. But there is one thing that is difficult to organise and is sure to put a blight on a wonderful summer evening with family and friends… the pesky mosquito! From the annoying buzz and the fearsome attack to the itchy hell after the bite, the unwanted guests are irritating and health-threatening. And unfortunately, they’re drawn to gatherings of people. But there are ways to keep that horde of bloodthirsty mosquitoes at bay by trying a few tips for a bite-free outdoor party. Fans strategically placed on your patio or deck can blow the bugs away as mosquitoes are apparently pretty weak
fliers. This tip has the added advantage of keeping guests cooler, too, but be sure to adjust the fan speed to a rate that shoos off mosquitoes without tablecloths and hair being blown all over the place. Citronella is a tried and tested mosquito repellent and by making your own, you can save money and add a couple of extra scents if the uncut citronella smell is too overpowering. There are lots of websites explaining how to create your own at home. Apparently the fragrance of basil also wards off mosquitoes. To get the benefit all season long, consider planting containers or even a whole patch of basil near your outdoor entertaining area.
It’s an idea to keep water features far from the fun. The gurgling water fountain or designer bird bath might set the tone for a summer get-together, but could also be responsible for attracting mosquitoes. They also breed in standing water and don’t like to travel too far for food, so avoid entertaining near ponds or bird baths. It’s worth checking your garden for pockets of rainwater too, which could be a culprit, and flush water regularly to outsmart them. Finally, try burning ground coffee beans. Light a small plate of used grounds so they smoulder. The scent is pleasant enough and will hopefully keep bugs, including mosquitoes, out of range of party guests.
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OVER the past 12 months I have been watching, reading, studying, documentaries on TV and noting animal behaviour patterns prior to mating, this is fighting for high status ‘Winner takes all.’ This can be related to our domestic pets like cats and dogs and more so if you have two or more males or a male or female cat! Cats and dogs are able to mark their strong hormone odour by marking where male animals will pick up the odour and can cause inhouse fighting where many owners cannot understand what is wrong with their pets. Hormones are responsible for a lot of important things inside the body, like regulating digestion, sleep patterns, and mood. They also are at the root of a lot of behaviour problems like running off while out for a walk. As I said earlier, finding a mate is what drives a great deal of animal behaviour. Hormones prepare an animal for sex and for nurturing offspring, and they also make you drool over Taylor Swift, Ryan Gosling, or
HORMONES: Reponsible for a lot of things in the body. whomever you might find attractive. Hormones dictate pretty much every part of a teenager’s life - as soon as puberty hits, those hormones say, ‘go find a mate, go find a mate!’ Whether you realise it or not, those hormones are telling you to look your best, impress the other sex, show off their muscles/beauty, and drive recklessly. Hormones also affect other animals’ lives. Have you ever slept in
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CHARITIES/CHURCHES LA SIESTA EVANGELICAL CHURCH on Urbanisation La Siesta, Torrevieja is a friendly, English speaking church. We hold services each Sunday and everyone is welcome. Our 11.15am Services are held every 2nd and 4th Sunday in the month (and 11.15 am on the 5th Sunday, if this applies.) On the 1st and 3rd Sunday’s our Services are at 9.30am. Our choir sings at our 11.15am Services and there is also a Sunday school, called Stepping Stones, on these Sundays. We welcome residents, visitors and children. For more information see our website www.lasiestaevangelicalchurch.org or telephone Pastor Keith on 666 180 108. THE ANGLICAN CHURCH, La Fustera. For more info: contact Frank Bentley on 966 495 188. (95461) ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS IS ALCOHOL COSTING YOU MORE THAN MONEY? Drinking to excess not only affects your health it can spill over into every other aspect of your life – damaging everything that is important to you. English-speaking AA meetings are held throughout the Costa Blanca from Valencia City to Murcia. Anyone wishing to attend a meeting or discuss a possible drinking problem contact Costa Blanca North: *648 169 045* or Costa Blanca South: *625 912 078* or Costa Calida *679 385 105*. All calls are treated in the strictest confidence. AA in German: 645 456
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E-type to go electric THE good news for lovers of the Jaguar E-type who want to have a minimal impact on the environment is that they will soon be able to buy an all-electric version. The company’s Jaguar Classic division has announced it will restore and convert E-types ‘following an overwhelmingly positive reaction to the original concept for ‘the most beautiful electric car in the world’.’ A concept version of the EV version of the car was unveiled at Jaguar Land Rover Tech Fest in September 2017, and it certainly drew attention. Combining its restoration expertise with cutting-edge technology from the Jaguar I-PACE, the award-winning zero-emissions performance SUV, Jaguar Classic will offer tailor-made E-types restored and converted to electric power at the same Classic Works facility as its outstanding E-type Reborn restorations in Coventry, UK. An EV conversion service for existing E-type owners will also be offered. To preserve the authenticity of the base vehicle, the EV conversion will be fully reversible.
Tim Hannig, Jaguar Land Rover Classic Director, said: “We’ve been overwhelmed by the positive reaction to the Jaguar Etype Zero concept. Future-proofing the enjoyment of classic car ownership is a major stepping stone for Jaguar Classic. “E-type Zero showcases the incredible heritage of the E-type, and the expertise and craftsmanship at Classic Works, while demonstrating Jaguar Land Rover’s dedication to creating zero emission vehicles across every part of the business, including Jaguar Classic.” Technical specifications and pricing details will follow, but Jaguar Classic is now taking expressions of interest from potential E-type Zero clients. Deliveries of the first electric E-type vehicles are expected to start from summer 2020. The company says that its Jaguar E-type Zero concept not only drives and looks like an Etype, it also offers outstanding performance, with quicker acceleration than the original Series 1 E-type. Jaguar Classic is targeting a range in excess of 170 miles for all-electric E-types, helped by the
car’s low kerb weight and sleek aerodynamics. The concept is powered by a 40kWh battery, which can be recharged in six to seven hours, depending on power source. Apart from its state-of-the-art powertrain, modified instrumentation and fascia showcasing the latest touchscreen infotainment (which will be available as an option), the E-type Zero concept is largely original. An electric powertrain with single-speed reduction gear has been specially designed for the E-type, utilising many Jaguar I-PACE components. Its lithium-ion battery pack has the same dimensions, and similar weight, to the standard E-type’s six-cylinder petrol XK engine and is in the same location. Using an electric powertrain with similar weight and dimensions to the outgoing petrol engine and transmission means the car’s structure, including suspension and brakes, has not changed, simplifying the conversion and keeping the driving experience in line with the original vehicle. It drives, handles, rides and brakes like an original E-type.
BEAUTY: The classic Jaguar will be converted to all electric.
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Suzuki Swift SZ5
ROAD TEST by Nick Fletcher
SWIFT: A fresh new look.
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SALES of the Suzuki Swift have topped six million across 158 countries, making it one of the most successful models ever for the famous Japanese manufacturer. This popular hatchback was revised last year, giving it a fresh new look, more cabin space and improved performance and economy. Swift is priced from €13,256 (£11,999) and while available only as a fivee-door, clever styling gives it a coupe appearance by disguising the rear door handles. With cutaway headlights and larger front grille the latest version is 10 per cent lighter, 19 per cent more powerful and 8 per cent more economical than its predecessor. There a choice of 1.0 litre three-cylinder Boosterjet turbo petrol engine or 1.2 litre four-cylinder Dualjet engine, and there is a good level of standard kit - all models get features which include DAB radio, Bluetooth, LED run-
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Model: Suzuki Swift SZ5 Engine:1.0 litre petrol Transmission: 5-speed manual Performance: 0-100 kph 10 seconds, top speed 190 kph (118 mph) Economy: 22.2 kpl (62.7 mpg) Emissions: 97 g/km
Model tested was UK-specification and equipment levels and prices may vary in other markets.
ning lights and privacy glass. Other versions - including the new Swift Sport model add features such as alloy wheels, smartphone links, auto air-con, auto transmission and even all-wheel-drive so to some extent you can tailor models to your specific needs. My test model was a flagship SZ5 with a 1.0 litre 110 hp Boosterjet engine and five-speed manual gearbox, priced at €17,122 (£15,499). This perky yet economical engine has a top speed of 190 kph (118 mph), the 0-100 kph time is a nippy 10 seconds and fuel economy is 22.2 kpl (62.7 mpg). SZ5 specification includes sat-nav, adaptive cruise control, lane departure warning, rear parking camera, keyless entry and push-button start. This model also features Suzuki’s SVHS ‘mild hybrid’ system which gives sub-100 g/km emissions.
The system utilises a beltdriven combined generator and starter motor which assists acceleration and stores energy to help save fuel. The Swift has a larger interior thanks to slightly lowered seats boosting headroom and a longer wheelbase creates more rear passenger space. Seating is very comfortable and there is a good driving position with excellent visibility. Boot space is 265 litres (54 litres more than the previous model) and expandable to 579 litres by dropping the rear seats. On the road, Swift has smooth driving dynamics with a supple, comfortable ride, and is agile in traffic or when parking. It also has outstanding grip and handling thanks to well-balanced suspension and its lower wider road-stance. The Swift has a chic and charismatic look which helps it really stand out in the very competitive small-hatchback sector.
Opel’s latest hot hatch is launched OPEL has launched the new Corsa GSi, it’s latest iteration of a hot hatch. Insurance costs put them out of fashion for a while, but in recent years the market has seen resurgence for small, nimble cars that boast impressive performance. After the Insignia, the Corsa is the second GSi model now on offer. Opel says it has an “ultra- precise OPC chassis – for exemplary handling and short braking distances,” which have always been the virtues of the beast hot hatches. The new model is powered by Opel’s lively 1.4-litre turbo engine which produces 110 kW/150 hp and 220 Nm of torque. Fuel consumption isn’t too bad either, ranging between 5.1 l/100km on the open road and 8
CORSA GSI: Impressive performance for a little car.
l/100km around town. The four-cylinder power unit features a special GSi-calibration for increased responsiveness. It is paired with a short-ratio, six-speed gearbox, for extra ng punch in second and third gears. This makes it quick off the mark, reaching 100 km/h from rest in 8.9 seconds and has a top speed of a penalty points inducing 207 km/h. We are not sure of the price in Spain yet, but it can be ordered in Germany for €19,960 (RRP including VAT).
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MANCHESTER CITY maintained their unbeaten start to the season with a hard fought 2-1 victory over strugglers Newcastle. Guardiola’s side deservedly took the lead within the opening 10 minutes, through Raheem Sterling’s curling effort. But the home side missed clear-cut chances and were punished when striker Salomon Rondon set up DeAndre Yedlin to stroke home the equaliser before half-time. England full-back Kyle Walker came to City’s rescue with his first goal for the club, picking the ball up 30 yards out and drilling a low finish into the far corner of the net. City will host Fulham after the international break on September 15, while Newcastle will entertain Arsenal. Liverpool looked on course for a comfortable win over Leicester when, after Mohamed Salah had surprisingly
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City back to winning ways
WALKING ON AIR: Kyle Walker celebrates his winner for Man City.
missed a sitter, Sadio Mane poked home from close range. The Reds’ lead was doubled when Roberto Firmino timed his run on to James Milner’s corner perfectly, and headed powerfully past Foxes keeper Kasper Schmeichel. However, Liverpool’s €74 million keeper Alisson, who has already shown flashes of flair this season, tried to turn past Kelechi Iheanacho but was tackled and Rachid Ghezzal stroked home the ensuing cross. But Jurgen Klopp’s side closed out the win to stay top of the league and will travel to Tottenham on September 15, and Leicester face Bournemouth. Alexandre Lacazette’s powerful late winner proved the difference in Arsenal’s thrilling 3-2 win over Cardiff. Arsenal will be hosted by winless Newcastle United on September 15, while Cardiff will make their way to Chelsea.
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Cavendish Barca overridden by virus hit top gear
MARK CAVENDISH will miss the Tour of Britain and will take an indefinite break from racing due to the presence of the Epstein-Barr virus in his system. Cavendish’s team Dimension Data added in a statement that the former world champion had unknowingly been racing and training with the virus over the last few months. It was something that the 33 year-old Max rider was ‘glad’ to hear as it helped to explain why he had been struggling for form. Cavendish had an extremely difficult Tour de France last month, finishing well outside the time cut on stage 11, having struggled to compete at the business end of any of the sprint stages. That was on the back of a series of crashes and injuries that derailed the first half of his year.
WHEEL BLOW: Cavendish will take time out to completely recover.
The 30-year-old Tour stage winner was also forced to miss a chunk of last season after being diagnosed with infectious mononucleosis - glandular fever - caused by the Epstein-Barr virus, and it has returned with cruel effects. Cavendish said: “This season I’ve not felt physically myself and despite showing good numbers on the bike I have felt that there’s something not right. “Given this and on the back of these medical results, I’m glad to now finally have some clarity as to why I haven’t been able to perform at my optimum level during this time. “I’m now looking forward to taking the time necessary in order to get back to 100 per cent fitness before then returning to racing again at peak physical condition.”
LIONEL MESSI and Luis Suarez both scored twice as Barcelona hit eight goals past La Liga newcomers Huesca. The minnows took the lead through Watford loanee Cucho Hernandez, before the floodgates opened against them and they discovered how ruthless top flight football can be. Other scorers for the Catalan side were Pulido (og) Dembele, Rakitic and Alba as the champions moved level with Real Madrid at the top of La Liga with nine points from three games. Huesca will hope to salvage some pride against Rayo Vallecano on September 14, while Barca will travel to Real Sociedad on September 15. Karim Benzema and Gareth Bale continued their good goalscoring form since Cristiano Ronaldo’s exit as Real Madrid beat Leganes 4-1 in
BRILLIANT BARCA: The Catalan side celebrate another imperious display. La Liga. Bale’s powerful effort got Los Blancos on the board before Guido Carrillo equalised with a penalty. Benzema was in the mood though and his first was a header that was awarded by the video assistant referee, and he then blasted in his fifth goal in four games. A Ramos penalty completed the rout for Real, and they will head to Athletic Bilbao on September 15, while Leganes will entertain Villarreal on September 16. Maxi Gomez and Iago Aspas scored to give Celta Vigo a deserved 2-0 win over Atletico Madrid, with a third ruled out by the video assistant referee. Atletico, who are being tipped by many for a strong title challenge, had Sefan Savic sent off on 70 minutes for a
second yellow card. The runners-up last season have four points from three games, going into the international break. Atletico will host Eibar on September 15, while Celta Vigo will travel to Girona on September 17. Other fixtures will see Valencia host Real Betis, Espanyol entertain Levante, and Alaves travel to Real Valladolid.
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6 - 12 September 2018 ENGLAND’S highest Test run-scorer Alastair Cook will retire from international cricket after this week’s final Test against India. The opener, 33, has scored 12,254 runs and made 32 centuries in 160 Tests - all England records.
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Ronaldo scored 62 times for Brazil, including both goals when they beat German y in th e 2 0 0 2 Wo rld Cup final. Speaking at a news conference he said: “I h a v e g o n e th ro u gh many stages in my training in football to prepare.
“This new management w ill be de fine d by four words: competitiveness, transparency, revolution and social.” R ona ldo’s footba lling brilliance was such that he won the Ballon d’Or award for the be s t pla ye r in the world in 1997 and 2002. Credit: @realvalladolid/Twitter
BRAZIL World Cup winner Ronald o h a s b e c o m e th e majority shareholder of Real Valladolid after purchasing a 51 per cent controlling stake in the Spanish club. The 42-year-old played for Real Madrid, Inter Milan, AC Mi l a n a n d Barcel o n a i n a n 1 8 - y ea r playing career. Valladolid are 16th in La Liga and yet to win a game this season. “The arrival of Ronaldo puts Real Valladolid on the map and will allow the club to take a leap in quality,” said president Carlos Suarez.
TAKING OVER: Ronaldo is presented with a team shirt at the press conference.
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Ronaldo takes over Hamilton
wins thriller LEWIS HAMILTON claimed a dramatic and controversial victory in the Italian Grand Prix, following a first-lap collision with Sebastian Vettel. The Mercedes driver fought an intense battle with Vettel’s team-mate Kimi Raikkonen throughout the race, and eventually passed him around the outside of the first corner with nine laps to go. Hamilton and Mercedes not only dashed Ferrari’s hopes of a home win after their first front-row lock-out at Monza for 18 years, but also extended the Briton’s championship lead over Vettel, who finished fourth, to 30 points. With Mercedes’ bogey track, Singapore, next on the schedule, it came at a perfect time for Hamilton, especially as Ferrari is expected to have faster cars for the rest of the season. Ferrari’s race began to unravel within four
DRIVEN MAN: Hamilton celebrates another key win in Monza. corners of the start, as Vettel spun trying to defend against an overtaking move by Hamilton at the second chicane on the first lap. Vettel’s car slid into Hamilton’s in the middle of the chicane and broke his front wing. The German was forced to recover lost ground and eventually fought back to finish fourth. Hamilton said: “I want to give it up to Ferrari, who put up a great challenge this weekend. “I could see so many British flags out there and they inspired me so much.”