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ISSUE NO. 1752
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Killer stream tamed
Raging stream that killed two Britons finally controlled. THE killer stream that caused three deaths in La Cala de Finestrat since 2011 will take no more lives. The dry watercourse - the Barranco de La Cala - becomes a river during torrential rain, but an ambitious
subterranean channelling project will now carry the water safely down to the La Cala beach. Two elderly Britons were killed in October 2011 when
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NEWS EXTRA Seeing red BENIDORM added another 2,000 metres to its cycle lane network, principally in Avenida de Beniarda where the central red-painted track was deliberately designed to make cyclists safer and more visible, the town hall told critics.
Pool fail CAMPELLO is no nearer to opening its covered and heated municipal pool after the town hall asked the Contracts Tribunal to annul the tender after none of the offers received met the legal requirements.
Mill plan ONDARA Town Hall int e n d s t o a c q u i re f o r €21,000 the Moli Covi water mill, a listed Asset of Local Relevance fed b y t h e R i v e r G i ro n a w h i c h w i l l b e re s t o re d and later opened to the public.
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BURNING ISSUE: Protestors hoped to influence the vote.
Brexit vote BRITISH MPs gathered in parliament on Tuesday to debate a range of options for Brexit the Prime Minister could present to the country and to the EU going forward. Theresa May opened the debate in the House of Commons which took place ahead of the second crunch vote on her proposed Withdrawal Agreement. Speaker John Bercow put seven amendments to the agreement forward for a vote. The Labour opposition’s amendment was among those
accepted. It would commit the government to rule out a no deal by seeking a permanent customs union with the EU or holding a second referendum on withdrawal if passed. Amendments put forward by Conservative MP Dominic Grieve and Labour MP Yvette Cooper would lead to further votes on the deal and to a possible extension of Article 50 respectively. Conservative Graham Brady’s amendment calling for changes to the Northern Irish
backstop was also selected. May signalled the government would be prepared to back it. MPs voted on each amendment in turn on Tuesday. The results of the vote were not known at the time of this newspaper’s publication. Any that passed would commit the government to following through on their provisions if the overall deal also passed. For the full results of Tuesday’s vote visit: www.euroweeklynews.com.
No more floods, no more deaths a cloudburst swept them away as they visited the openair market installed illegally on the streambed. More recently a Spanish man was drowned in December 2016 while trying to reach his parked car. Work on channelling and taming the Barranco is drawing to a close and as the project enters its final phase, a crane has lowered huge12-ton concrete boxculverts into place. A total of 120 form the 200-metre subterranean section of the channel that will carry most of the rainwater out to sea while the remainder flows into the main drainage system. The €2.063 million project, co-financed by Finestrat Town Hall and Hidraqua, which is responsible for the municipality’s water supply and main drainage, should be finished by Easter. Opponents have criticised the project as ‘pharaonic,’ a claim challenged by Finestrat’s mayor Juan Francisco Perez. “La Cala is one of the Costa Blanca’s most-visited tourist destinations,” he said. “Channelling the stream is essential to public safety.”
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THOUSANDS visit Finestrat’s La Marina shopping centre although anyone unfamiliar with the area would pass it by on the AP-7 motorway. It is not i n d i c a t e d a t t h e Vi l l a j o y o s a turnoff and Alicante senator Agustin Almodobar has now asked the government to add Finestrat’s name to Exit 65A.
School pledge THIRTEEN Alicante Province state schools could disappearing as young families shun El Comtat, the Marina Baja, Mar i n a A l t a a n d Ve g a B a j a v i l lages. In a bid to keep them open, the Education authorities pledge to maintain a school even in cases where there is only one pupil.
Poison case BENISSA Council approved Isidor Molla’s motion recommending that the town hall should foot the cost of analyses carried out on local dogs that were poisoned. The same motion agreed to ask the Guardia Civil’s Seprona unit to submit evidence collected while the case was under investigation.
Natural gem THE regional government is preparing to classify Muchamiel’s Bec de l’Aguila (Eagle’s beak) as an officially protected Municipal Natural Site. Ecologically and environmentally rich, the location which includes a disused ochre mine was also catalogued in 2008 as a Special Protection Area (ZEPA) for birds.
WILD: Doñana National Park is home to more than 100 bird species.
Natural beauty THIS picture of a flamingo taking flight was shot in southwest Spain’s Doñana National Park which will be in the spotlight on Saturday when the world marks World Wetlands Day. The National Park lies in the Andalucian province of Huelva and also crosses into Cadiz and Sevilla. It covers an area of 543 square kilometres, 135 of which are protected. Doñana is in the Guadalquivir River delta which flows into the Atlantic Ocean, creating its many marshes
and wetlands. Its level of biodiversity is one of a kind in Europe. The National Park is home to a myriad of animal species including fallow deer, Spanish red deer, wild boars, European badgers and the endangered Iberian lynx. There are also several bird species that live or migrate there from Africa, including flamingos, mallards, Egyptian vultures and the endangered Spanish imperial eagle. Doñana was established as a nature
Go figure VILLAJOYOSA’S average Social Services outlay of €168 per head in 2017 was Alicante Province’s highest, according t o o ff i c i a l f i g u r e s f o r t o w n s with a population of more than 20,000. Torrevieja spent less t h a n a n y l a rg e t o w n i n t h e province with an average of €24 per person.
Foreign aid EACH year Pedreguer makes an annual cash allocation to a developing country and in 2019 will contribute towards the cost of an ambulance for Martir Cherif. The health centre of this Western Sahara municipality attends to Saharawi refugees who have been injured by antipersonnel mines.
Off-duty shooting incident A SAN VICENTE Local Police officer accidentally shot himself in the thigh while off-duty. He was in a physiotherapy clinic when, for reasons now under investigation, the gun went off. He immediately contacted the Emergency Services and was taken to hospital in an ambulance. The officer, who is also a firearms training instructor, was described by the San Vicente police commissioner as ‘very experienced and meticulous.’
According to Local Police sources, he still had his gun with him as he would have been late for his physiotherapy appointment if he had stopped to leave it at home. He was also unable to explain how the gun was fired, the same sources revealed, but said afterwards that as he was close to the wall, no-one else was at risk. The gun is now in the keeping of the Guardia Civil who are investigating the incident.
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reserve in 1969 when the Spanish government and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) bought parts of its marshland. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994. The National Park attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors every year. But it has also come under threat from farming and irrigation. A holding dam at the Los Frailes mine burst and released acidic water into the Guadalquivir in 1998. It cost an estimated €240 million to clean up.
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Search continues for missing woman LAST October San Juan resident, 52-year-old Nuria Ester Escalante, went to Ibiza looking for work. When she failed to contact him, her son alerted the Guardia Civil who searched unsuccessfully for her in Sant Antoni where she had worked in the past. Despite a reporting blackout, sources revealed that Escalante stayed for two days at a Sant Antoni squat where blood and her
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luggage were found. Five of the four men arrested in connection with her disappearance remain on remand after the Guardia Civil found CCTV footage showing the principal suspect pushing a supermarket trolley with a large plastic-covered object. The body has not been located and the search continues, the Guardia Civil confirmed.
The total number of news and features which appeared in Issue 1751 of the Euro Weekly News Costa Blanca North edition, including 178 local stories.
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Full rights for Brits BENITACHELL mayor Miguel Angel Garcia welcomed the agreement allowing British residents to vote or run in next May’s municipal elections. “This is good news,” Benitachell’s mayor said. “It guarantees a fundamental right, the right to political participation.” Referring to his meetings with Benitachell’s important community of British residents and the British consul Sarah-Jane Morris, the mayor stressed that the local government had always maintained expatriates should be able to enjoy full rights. Garcia urged British residents to make sure they had registered their intention of voting in the forthcoming elections. “With Brexit or without it, this local government does not be-
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VOTING RIGHTS: Miguel Angel Garcia and Sarah-Jane Morris discuss rights of British residents (inset). lieve there are second class citizens in Benitachell and it was great news to hear that British
FIFTY unauthorised wells were drilled over the last three years in the Valencian Community. The Confederacion Hidrografica del Jucar (CHJ), which controls the Jucar basin waterways and the Public Hydraulic Domain, fined the offender €3,000 in each case. Illegal prospections are invariably carried out by professionals, revealed CHJ sources, who admitted it would be ‘difficult’ to estimate how many existed in the Valencian Community. Detection and inspection by the Public Hydraulic Domain is routinely followed by an investigation and owners are called on to legalise the well where possible or otherwise pay the €3,000. Once an illegal prospection is detected
residents will be able to vote on May 26,” Garcia declared. “They are a committed, deter-
mined community and have contributed decisively to the multicultural richness of this town. “This local government promotes policies of integration and participation,” the mayor continued. “Naturally it was very bad news to learn that a collective as important and active, could have been deprived of a fundamental freedom such as voting,” Garcia said.
Region’s wells under scrutiny it is immediately sealed off, the same sources said, precisely to prevent accidents like the Totalan tragedy where twoyear-old Julen died after falling down an unauthorised and incorrectly-sealed well. Registrations are carried out by the different administrations in each province, which in the CHJ’s case entails 24,500 wells in Alicante, Valencia, Albacete, Cuenca and Teruel.
In principle they pose no danger to the public as the majority are housed in specially-constructed outbuildings or are fenced-off. Nevertheless, Alicante Province’s Consortium of Fire Brigades said theywere called out 10 times in 2018 to rescue eight animals and two people from wells, without specifying if these were authorised or not.
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Back to the public sector THE preliminary agreement to deprivatise Denia Hospital should be signed in late February or early March. A Health Department communique confirmed the Generalitat will acquire Marina Salud’s shares in Denia Hospital. Until now, these were in the hands of DKV, which owns 65 per cent of the shares and Ribera Salud which holds the remainder. According to the Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) union which attended the meeting between the regional government and Marina Salud, high-ranking government officials confirmed negotiations are going ahead with goodwill on all sides. “The intention is to reach an agreement soon, before the regional elections,” they said. Hospital staff sources, however, claim Health Department representatives admitted the process would require six or even nine months to complete. At the conclusion of the meeting, the unions representing the hospital employees expressed ‘moderate optimism,’ although much remains to be discussed. It has not yet been revealed how much the Generalitat will pay for Marina Salud’s shares nor is the status of the hospital’s employees entirely clear.
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NEWS EXTRA Bitter taste OLIVA has lost approximately 740 hectares of agricultural land in the last 10 years, owing to the very slim profits to be made from cultivating and selling the area’s principal crop, citrus fruit.
Garden city SHOE-MANUFACTURING Elda’s green areas exceed the minimum recommended by the World Health organisation with 11.8 square metres for every inhabitant. Most are located in the south of town and upkeep costs an annual €756,910.
CUP tie THE anti-system CUP party, which backs Valencian as well as Catalan independence, announced its intention of running in next May’s municipal elections in Pedreguer and invited all those who are interested to ‘join their project.’
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Bad weather ‘no excuse’ for power cuts F I N E S T R AT w a n t s e n e rg y f i r m Iberdrola to improve its electrical installation and remedy power cuts in the Old Town. Recently there were numerous cuts on the same night, some lasting seconds but others leaving residents without electricity for up to an hour. These could have been due to the gale blowing that night, but that was no excuse, maintained acting mayor Victor Dario Llinares the next day. “Bad weather is no reason for not having electricity in central Finestrat every time it rains or the wind blows,” he said. O v e r a y e a r ag o th e tow n ha ll
ceded a transformer to Iberdrola to improve the electricity supply in the Old Town and prevent power cuts, Llinares continued. Last October the energy company began work on joining the branch connection that provides the Old Town’s electricity to Iberdrola’s principal network. “Straight away - just like last night with the wind or the other day with the rain - we had a power cut,” he said. “The present situation is unsustainable and that’s why we are asking Iberdrola for solutions and commitment to providing a first class service for Finestrat,” Llinares continued.
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LIGHTS ON: Finestrat wants guaranteed electricity when night falls.
Security forces not keeping abreast SPOKESPEOPLE from Alicante Province’s National Police and Guardia Civil warned that both forces needed bulletproof jackets, especially women officers. This was a security problem that had been neglected for some time and was affecting the service the forces were providing in a province where crimes were committed daily, the representatives continued.
Officers were having to buy their own jackets, which cost between €500 and €600 each, said Manuel Martinez from the Guardia Civil’s Anucop association. The problem was especially worrying for women, Martinez added: “They supply waistcoats, but don’t take into account the need for different sizes or physical characteristics.”
Monica de Blas, the SUP police union’s provincial secretary, said that there were enough jackets to go round in the Public Safety unit. “But in other brigades, like the Policia Judicial there was a real deficit,” she maintained. Women were also obliged to wear men’s jackets which were inflexible ‘and as stiff as boards,’ De Blas complained.
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Too personal a trainer A PERSONAL trainer from Busot received a 30-month sentence for sexually abusing six young women. Three were under 16 and after the trainer met the girls at Busto’s municipal gym, he invited them to his home, offering per-
sponding to three of the cases and must pay compensation to the other three young women. He will be on probation after leaving prison, cannot approach his victims and must attend sex-education programmes.
sonalised training plans. Once there he used the excuse of giving massages to ‘crack their backs’ to touch them inappropriately, the court heard. The trainer received two prison terms of one year and another for six months corre-
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REPRIMANDED: Monica Oltra in hot water at Fitur.
In a manner of speaking A SECURITY guard at the Fitur tourism fair in Madrid told Generalitat vice-president Monica Oltra not to speak Valenciano. Oltra and her party were entering the Ifema building where Spain’s king, Felipe VI, was expected to arrive at any moment when the incident occurred. “Stop speaking Valenciano,” said the guard, an employee of OMBUDS, the firm providing security at Fitur. ‘Talking amongst ourselves as we waited, at no moment did we address the guard in Valenciano,’ Xavi Aguilar, a member of the vice-president’s party, Tweeted later.
Valenciano is an official language of the Valencian Community as set out in the region’s Statute of Autonomy and therefore protected by the Constitution, Aguilar pointed. “This can’t happen at an international fair like Fitur,” said the Generalitat vice-president who afterwards referred the incident to the Royal Household. “The conversation was private and respect for the Constitution and Spain’s linguistic diversity should always prevail,” said Oltra, who added that the Royal Household made a note of the complaint and promised it would not happen again.
Suspected delays on Line 9 MARIA JOSE SALVADOR, who heads the Generalitat’s Public Works Department recently travelled on a new Line 9 train. The regional government is spending €43.32 million on six trains for the Benidorm-Denia line once the €120 million modernisation scheme is finished, and the first dual diesel-electric train recently came off the assembly line at the Stadler Valencia works in Albuixech. Regional rail operator Ferrocarriles de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV) closed the CalpeDenia section in summer 2016 on safety grounds, announcing that the Calpe-Teulada section would reopen late 2018. Towns between Calpe and Denia served by the Line 9 trenet who have to use a substitute bus service, are now asking when they can expect to see the new trains in action. Notifications in the Generalitat’s Diari Oficial bulletin gave details of contracts to supply sleepers for the Teulada-Gata and Gata-Denia sections of track. According to the official announcement, the sleepers must be manufactured by June 2019 and stocked and stored by December 31, 2019 although this period ‘was extendable by 12 months.’ Since work began on Line 9’s Calpe-Denia section in 2016, the regional government’s Public Works Department has insisted work is progressing on schedule. Salvador conceded last month that completion ‘could be delayed a little,’ but with the sleepers not arriving until the end of this year, that sounds optimistic, the affected town halls claimed.
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CYCLISTS: Regularly use the quiet inland roads to train for races.
Anonymous heroes save a life FOUR cyclists saved the life of Juan Carlos, a 50year-old Sagra man, after fire broke out in his home. Juan Carlos, who has mobility problems and uses a wheelchair, was in bed at 11.30 in the morning when a spark from the fire in the sitting-room grate set the sofa alight. His bedroom adjoins the sitting room and his desperate mother ran to the street outside where she and a neighbour asked a group of cyclists to help them, explaining that Juan Carlos
was trapped inside the house. “It was all so quick that I’m not sure how many of them there were. I think there were four,” Juan Carlos said afterwards. “You could say they saved my life because the house was filled with smoke by then.” Between them they picked him up from the bed, put him in the wheelchair, took him outside, and also called the Emergency Services. Firemen from the Denia brigade extinguished the fire and aired the house, af-
ter which relatives and neighbours helped to remove the charred furniture and clear up. “They were young and they were Spanish and it’s such a pity that we don’t know who the cyclists were. We are so grateful,” said Juan Carlos’s aunt who lives with him and his mother. The family’s house is on Carrer Major, which is also Sagra’s main road and used each day by the cyclists who use the quiet inland Marina Alta roads to train for next season’s big races.
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The bad old days A VALENCIAN Community teacher wrote on a 1982 school report that a 13-year-old ‘deserved to have his face smashed in.’ The teacher complained that the recalcitrant pupil ‘does nothing because he does not want to work’ and ‘makes fools of us all.’ What would now be an unthinkable ap-
praisal and lead to legal proceedings was not undeserved, the pupil said 36 years later. “It was the fourth evaluation and the teacher’s displeasure increased each time in the three previous reports,” he added. “How right he was, I was really bad!” he admitted.
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Civil War fighters to be identified BENISSA is one of five Va l e n c i a n C o m m u n i t y towns taking steps to identify victims of S p a i n ’s 1 9 3 6 - 3 9 C i v i l War. Work on locating mass graves in the old Bellita cemetery is due to start in
March, the town hall has revealed. Some months ago, the r e g i o n a l g o v e r n m e n t ’s Justice Department asked municipalities to provide any information they had regarding the graves of Civil War victims and Republicans executed during the years which followed Franco’s victory. The town hall has consulted the local Casa Cultural, an association already attempting to recover information regarding the members of the International Brigade who fought with the Republican side and are
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INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE: Five volunteers buried in Bellita cemetery. buried in Benissa. As a result, the remains of five of the International Brigade fighters still interred in Benissa’s old cemetery will be ex-
humed, and if possible, identified together with those of another five volunteers whose remains were transferred to the new cemetery in 2001.
As well as Benissa and M o n o v a r, o n l y P a t e r n a a n d G o d e l l a ( Va l e n c i a ) and Castellon have responded to the Justice Department’s request.
VILLAJOYOSA Town Hall is reducing taxes on improvements to Marina Baja’s access road and car park. The regional government’s Health Department requested a 95 per cent reduction of the ICIO construction tax on the work intended to make access easier and safer until planned extensions to the hospital building are completed. These include an extra 800 parking places at the hospital, where at present, cars line the narrow approach road, given the difficulty in parking near the building itself. “Owing to the serious parking situation experienced by patients, visitors and hospital staff, this project is vital,” said La Vila’s mayor Andreu Verdu. “The town hall is working closely with the Health Department to improve services for all those using the hospital, as we did earlier by providing the land for the extensions,” Verdu continued.
Eliminating all the old bangers LAST year San Juan Town Hall located and removed 72 abandoned cars from local streets. In a bid to reduce the number
of abandoned vehicles, the Street Cleaning Department and the Local Police’s Investigation group have established
procedures enabling residents to dispose of unwanted vehicles. Local residents can cede an old vehicle to the town hall where it will be treated, free of charge, as scrap. Alternatively, they can hand over their vehicle to an authorised treatment centre (CAT) where, without any extra cost, the owners will receive a certificate making them eligible for economic aid for decontaminating a vehicle once it has been destroyed. The town hall announced that owners who continue to abandon vehicles on the streets risk fines of between €600 and €30,000. “With abandoned vehicles becoming an environmental problem we decided to launch this service so that there would be no a repetition of last year’s situation,” said San Juan’s Environment and Street Cleaning councillor Eva Delgado.
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Stole from granddad for holiday in Ibiza A TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD man from Liverpool has been jailed for stealing £4,500 from his granddad to pay for a holiday in Ibiza. Brett Bridgen reportedly used online banking to send money into his personal account the day before travelling to the Spanish island. The offender appeared at Liverpool Crown Court last week and received a 17-month jail sentence. Prosecutor, Jamie Baxter, said that the accused had visited his granddad, 73, at his home in Cheshire, on April 24, 2016 claiming he was owed a birthday present and was planning to fly to Ibiza the next day. Two days later the victim received a call from the fraud action department reporting that thousands of pounds had been transferred between a savings account and a current account before being sent to Bridgen’s bank account, without authorisation. According to British press reports, the offender has been jailed in the past for stealing from his grandfather. Liverpool Crown Court was told that
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Child kidnapping probe begins FIVE members of a gang accused of kidnapping migrant children from shelter homes in Spain and demanding ransoms from their families in Morocco have been arrested. The Guardia Civil believes the Spanish and Moroccan men, aged between 27 and 36, have kidnapped at least 20 children. During raids on two properties in Puerto Real, in Cadiz, officers found a young person who had been reported missing
from a nearby migrant centre. According to reports, the gang allegedly approached the youngsters offering to help them gain residency permits. But instead, they kept them prisoner in squalid conditions before transporting them across the country, according to a boy taken from a facility for unaccompanied migrant children in La Linea de La Concepcion. The organisation contacted relatives in Morocco demanding ransoms of up to €500.
Awards galore IBIZA: Brett Bridgen (inset) stole money to fund his holiday abroad. Bridgen’s grandfather has since found it difficult to sleep at night and to trust people as his relationships within the family had been strained. Judge Brian Cummings reportedly said the offence was the ‘most personal kind of fraud’ and that it has caused a ‘serious detrimental impact
on the victim.’ Paul Wood, defending, described Bridgen as being at a low point in his life when he committed the fraud. He was given a 13-month sentence for fraud and a four-month sentence for committing an offence while on bail.
MADRID-based company Exclusivas Latinoamericanas ELA, SL introduced its Excelencias Awards in 2005 and these recognise excellence in different areas related to tourism, gastronomy and culture in Iberian-America. This year, at the FITUR exhibition, no less than 36 awards were made to organisations based in Spain, United States, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Colombia, Paraguay, Chile, El Salvador, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba and Mexico. The company produces a number of publications on behalf of various tourist offices throughout Latin America.
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MISSING: An albino peacock has disappeared from the city zoo.
Fears for feathered friend ZOO bosses in Barcelona suspect a rare albino peacock has been stolen and are appealing for its return. Nobody is sure exactly when it disappeared from the attraction, but are confident after searching the area, it has not died on site.
There are approximately 45 peacocks which roam freely around the zoo, but there have been no sightings of the missing bird in a number of weeks. They are not clear what sex the bird is, but guess that it is female as it has
never shown its plume since its birth in September 2015. The peacocks are not actually part of the zoo’s collection, they are ‘the true wildlife of the park, like the hedgehogs and herons,’ explained bosses.
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Fake marriages POLICE in Cuenca, central Spain, have brought down a gang allegedly arranging 30 fake marriages between Asian nationals and EU citizens to acquire residency. National Police arrested seven people thought to be responsible for bringing in women from the EU who would pretend to be married to Asian citizens and help them live in Europe legally. The reported head of the group, an Indian citizen living in Cuenca, also expanded his criminal ring into Motilla del Palancar, where he recruited another man to help. The group are suspected of charging between €12,500 and €15,000 for their crimes.
A problem THE European Commission has announced it will take Spain to court over environmental concerns about the Doñana National Park in Andalucia. The body claims Spain is not adequately protecting this wetland, named a World Heritage Site. A letter states: ‘The diversion of large amounts of water both for agriculture and for the needs of local tourists is depleting the water table.’ The EC claims the water used from Doñana to grow strawberries and other fruits is causing an environmental problem.
Diamond theft A PRISONER in Valencia has been convicted for his part in the ‘biggest theft in history.’ One member of a gang accused of stealing €63 million of diamonds was sentenced to up to seven years in prison by a court in the Netherlands after being arrested in Valencia Province two years ago. He is one of six sentenced involved in the robbery in 2005. The main suspect, Errol HV, was handed a seven-year sentence, while a getaway driver, Marlon D, received six years.
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Bank boss trial THE trial into Rodrigo Rato, the former head of a major Spanish bank accused of fraud, will resume on Monday following a three-week break after the prosecutor fell ill. Rodrigo Rato, currently serving a four-and-a-half
year sentence for misusing funds when he was boss of both Caja Madrid and Bankia between 2010 and 2012, led the financial giant Bankia when it was floated on the stock market in 2011.
He joins 34 other individuals and clients accused of misleading investors, many of whom lost money. Rato, 69, faces five years in prison if found guilty of falsifying financial reports.
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CRIMINAL CHARGES: Officials are investigating why the borehole (pictured) was uncovered.
‘Negligent manslaughter’ investigation into Julen by Sally Underwood A C O U RT in M a la ga ha s ope ne d a ne glige nt manslaughter investigation into the death of two-yearold J ule n w ho w a s kille d when he fell down a well. According to Spanish media, officials will examine two leads; whether the owner of the land Julen died on, or the man who bored the hole , A ntonio Sa nc he z , w e re ne glige nt, a nd how Julen came to be buried under large quantities of soil after his fall.
The negligent manslaughter charge carries a sentence of one to four ye a rs in prison for serious cases, or a fine in more minor instances. Anyone found to be at fault could also be liable for compensation to Julen’s parents, as well as for the costs of the rescue operation, thought to be millions of Euros. After the Guardia Civil’s Nature Protection Service (SEPRONA) confirmed the hole J ule n fe ll dow n ha d been bored without the necessary permissions, police
say they will focus their investigation on whether Antonio Sanchez attempted to seal the well as he claims, and whether the land’s owner removed any covering. The second arm of the investigation will use witness accounts from those present when Julen fell, including hi s par ent s, hi s f at her ’s cousi n, t he owner of t he land, and two walkers who came to the family’s aid. Officials say these statements could uncover how Julen came to be buried under around 70 centimetres
of soil and rocks after his fall, leading rescuers to incorrectly believe the boy was trapped two-thirds of the way down the borehole. After finding a build-up of soil, workers initially believed Julen was trapped at a blockage around 72-met r es down t he wel l t hey thought measured 110-metres. Fears any attempts to rescue the child from above could lead to more harm to hi m pr om pt ed exper t s t o bui l d a second hol e and connecting tunnel, taking almost two weeks.
Well body GUARDIA CIVIL officers have found the body of a 45-year-old man in a well in Andaluc i a d a y s a f t e r t h e r e m a i n s o f t w o - y e a r- o l d Julen were found. Emergency services were alerted to the corpse after police were told the man had take n h i s d o g f o r a w a l k a n d h a d n o t re t u r n e d home at around noon on Sunday. Officers were then despatched to Villanueva de Trabuco, in Malaga Province, after being called out at about 11.10pm. Guardia Civil underwater specialists found the corpse inside the well at around 2.50am on Monday. An investigation has since been launched into the find.
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Violent robbery A KNIFE-WIELDING robber who managed to flee a petrol station in Mallorca having grabbed the cash register, after a struggle with the cashier, was run over by a wellmeaning member of the public. The suspect, who is being sought by police, reportedly got up and escaped, empty handed on a bicycle.
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Circus animal ban for Madrid TRAVELLING circuses featuring wild animals look set to be banned in Madrid City. The city council has approved an amendment to animal welfare by-laws acknowledging that circus facilities do not meet the ‘physiological, mental and social condition needs of animals’ or respect animal welfare. The decision is based on a recommendation by the European Veterinary Federation (FVE), adopted in June 2016, which warns the needs of animals ‘cannot be met in a travelling circus, especially with regard to accommodation and the possibility of expressing natural behaviours.’ It adds the use of ‘wild animals is unjustified’ and has ‘little or no educational, con-
UNJUSTIFIED: The use of wild animals (inset) in circuses. servationist or economic value’ while at the same time ‘violating’ the universal declaration of animal rights in 1987. This states that every wild animal has the right to live free in its own natural environment. Prior to approving the
amendment, the city council carried out an online public consultation and met with representatives from several animal protection associations. The move must now be ratified by the Plenary in March or April. The use of wild ani-
mals in circuses is already prohibited in the provinces of Valencia, Murcia, Galicia, Cataluña, Cueta, La Rioja and the Balearic Islands. The majority of Madrid municipalities have also outlawed the practice.
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Baby’s life saved by ‘heroic’ police officers by Tara Rippin TWO police officers are being hailed heroes after saving the life of a 14-month-old baby who was unconscious and had stopped breathing in Cordoba. The Lucena-Cabra National Police officers carried out the Heimlich manoeuvre on the child, before she was transferred to a nearby hospi-
tal. According to a police statement, they were patrolling Lucena when the occupants of a car asked for their help. Several people got out of the vehicle carrying ‘an unconscious baby in their arms’ and officers confirmed the girl’s eyes were closed and she wasn’t reacting to stimuli. After ‘verifying the absence of pulse and breathing’ they
began the Heimlich manoeuvre realising she had obstructed airways. The officers managed to get the child breathing and kept her stable until emergency services arrived. A National Police source praised the performance, pointing out it was ‘fast and effective, managing to save the baby’s life,’ who after several hours in hospital was discharged in ‘perfect condition.’
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Writer prison remarks AN association representing writers in Spain has accused an international literature group of ‘distorting reality’ after the latter said Spain had imprisoned authors for their work. The Association of Spanish Writers (ACE) said no one was imprisoned in the country over their writing and that it protected freedom of expression, as required to under EU law. It came after PEN International called on Spanish authorities to drop charges against
Jordi Sanchez and Jordi Cuixart. Both are currently in detention ahead of trials on Catalan independence in February. “Time and again, PEN has defended writers regardless of the position they have taken. We believe this case is no different,” the organisation said. Sanchez was a member of the Catalan regional assembly and a pro-independence activist. Cuixart was a businessman and activist.
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Iconic Spanish designer dies CREDIT: Elio Berhanyer Perfumes Facebook
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ONE of the greatest names in Spanish fashion, designer Elio Berhanyer, has died at his home aged 89. The Cordoba fashion icon created more than 100 collections and more than 22,000 costumes throughout his career spanning more than half a century, and his designs dressed the likes of Ava Gardner, Cyd Charisse and Queen Sofia. In fact, Iberia Airlines commissioned Berhanyer to design its official air steward uniforms in 1972. As well as clothing, his empire included perfumes and cosmetics. In 2002, the designer was decorated for his work and his contribution to the world of fashion with the Gold Medal for Merit of Fine Arts. And Berhanyer was also awarded the National Fashion Design Award in 2011, granted by the Ministry of Culture, for being a ‘self-made designer, tireless and self-taught worker whose passion and dedication stand out.’ His ‘capacity for innovation and footprint as a reference of Spanish fashion in the international arena’ was also praised.
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Little girl, 3, canc treatment in B by Tara Rippin A TODDLER is reportedly free from a rare and aggressive form of cancer after her parents sold their home and sought celebrity help to fund pioneering treatment in Barcelona. Ka’iulani Forbes, three, was diagnosed with ganglio-neuroblastoma two years ago, and after exhausting all treatment options in her home country, New Zealand, parents Moana and Manihera, began looking overseas for hope. They believed Ka’iulani’s
only chance of survival was to travel across the world and take part in a clinical trial in Barcelona, at a cost of €265,000. The only obstacle was raising the cash, so the Forbes’ sold their home in Hamilton, and launched an appeal to help save their daughter’s life. A DJ, Dom Harvey, from The Edge radio station in New Zealand, immediately got on board, running five marathons in five days and giving the family’s plight continual airtime.
The combined efforts paid off and the target was reached, allowing the family to travel to Barcelona, aware that there was only a 20 per cent chance the trial would get Ka’iulani into remission. They stayed in Spain for four months, and on returning to New Zealand, appeared on The Edge last week to share their great news with listeners, revealing that ‘basically, she’s out of the woods.’ Dad, Manihera, said doctors in Barcelona explained the tumours would stay in her body,
Top jobs for women deal SPAIN and Morocco have signed a pact which commits both countries to get more women into leading civil service roles.
Meritxell Batet, Spain’s Territories Minister, signed the deal with her Moroccan opposite number Mohamed Benabdelkader.
The deal states that both Spain and Morocco will work to get women into higher roles of responsibility in public services over the next five years.
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but they expect them to ‘stay dead’ while Ka’iulani grows. As she gets older, the rest of her body should grow around the tumours. The family continue to raise
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THE wholesale price for electricity in Spain stood at €61.04 last Thursday, the lowest of leading European countries including Britain, France and Germany due to record wind energy generation.
Food funds SPAIN has contributed some €4.1m to the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) over the past year, with the money to be spent on providing humanitarian help to vulnerable people worldwide.
Study leader STUDENTS taking part in the EU’s Erasmus Plus study abroad programme opt for Spain more than any other in the scheme according to data, with the universities of Granada, Valancia and Madrid Complutense the most popular.
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HomeEspaña and Currencies Direct raise €1,000 for Make a Smile in Calpe A N E W p a r t n e r sh i p b etw ee n HomeEspaña and Currencies Direct has helped raise €1,000 for Calpe charity Make a Smile in January. Founded by Tony Grande, who moved to Spain in 1982, and run with his wife Lucy Rowat Grande and other generous volunteers, Make a Smile ensures food and shelter for local children in need. Passionate about fighting inequality, Tony and Lucy donate much o f t h e i r t i m e to ra is in g funds, with the aim of improving the lives of underprivileged and vulnerable adults and children. HomeEspaña and Currencies Direct work together to ensure buye r s a n d se l l e r s o f S p a n is h property receive a first-class ser-
v ic e , b o th w ith the ir prope rty purchase and also when sending funds out of Spain after a property sale. Chris Solomon, Managing Director of the HomeEspaña offices in Calpe, Denia and Benidoleig, said “When joining forces with Currencies Direct in 2018, we made a promise to support good ca u s es lo ca lly, a nd w e a re de lighted to be giving this money to a very worthy charity in Make a Smile, who do an amazing job of looking after disadvantaged children.” PARTNERSHIP: Presentation of the €1,000 cheque for Make a Smile, Calpe.
More about Make a Smile: https://www.makeasmile.es/ Let me know. Thanks. Kind regards, Kerry Byrne | Marketing Executive Tel: (0034) 960 590 050 www.homeespana.co.uk
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Ghost plane in Madrid IF you have ever wanted your very own jet airliner yo u m a y so o n h av e your chance. Bosse s a t Ma d r i d ’s Barajas Airport have put into motion the process to auction off a McDonnell Do u g l a s MD 8 7 medium-range commercial j e t t h a t h a s st o o d abandoned at the airport since 2010. Tho u g h t t o b e wo rth around €1.1 million no one actually knows who owns it, with staff calling it the ‘ghost plane.’ A public notice has been placed in the official st a t e g a z e t t e o f Spain, the Boletín Oficial del Estado, asking for anyone with information t o c o m e f o r wa rd within three months before it is sold.
Used rather than new WHEN the British originally bought in to the Spanish lifestyle, they tended to purchase new properties but latest results show they now prefer to buy secondhand. There was a minor drop in British spending following the Brexit decision but 2018 figures suggest that the ‘Brits’ are back and buying, more so than the French and Germans. In fairness the numbers are far fewer than in the heyday of 2007 at the time of the crash but with more than 10,000 properties purchased in 2018 this is actually more than 2006. What may be worrying for the Spanish developers is that so few people are purchasing new properties as opposed to those that have been previously occupied. The reasons are many but the most obvious are that following the crash, new
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SEAFRONT APARTMENTS: Still popular with Brits. building almost ceased immediately and some people did lose significant sums of money if developers ceased to trade whilst prices of pre-owned property dropped meaning that there appeared to be some major bargains on offer.
Prices are now on the rise and developers of new builds are ensuring that their potential clients are protected against future problems and this is reinforced by new banking and property laws. As property prices rise, so do rentals,
which give decent returns for investment and encourage people to return to purchase in Spain. There is no question that the property market is recovering and the British continue to be part of that recovery.
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Goya Awards SPANISH stars from the world of cinema are set to gather in Sevilla City this Saturday for the 33rd edition of the Goya Awards. Political thriller El Reino (The Kingdom) has racked up 13 nominations, including for Best Film. Lead actors Antonio de la Torre and Monico Lopez have been nominated in the Best Actor and Best Actress category while Rodrigo Sorogoyen has been put forward for Best Director. Todos Lo Saben (Everybody Knows), featuring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem has also been nominated for best film. Romance Carmen y Lola (Carmen and Lola) and documentary Entres Dos Aguas (Between Two Waters) have also been nominated.
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Rajoy witness in Catalan trial By Joe Gerrard SPAIN’S Supreme Court has summoned the country’s former Prime Minister to appear as a witness in the upcoming trial of Catalan politicians over the 2017 independence push. The court’s Criminal Chamber called on Mariano Rajoy to give his testimony after he was included in several documents submitted by prosecutors and defence lawyers. The trial for the 12 Catalan defendants is set to open on Tuesday. Former Secretary of State Jose Antonio Nieto, Guardia Civil colonel Diego Perez de los Cobos Orihuel, and ex-delegate of the government in Cataluña Enric Millo have also been called. Former Catalan president Artur Mas is also due to appear as a witness, alongside two of exregional head Carles Puigdemont’s former advisors. Defence lawyers asked the court to take a testimony from Puigdemont via videolink but
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CALLED: Rajoy (inset) oversaw the imposing of direct rule on Cataluña. that request was turned down due to him remaining wanted in connection with the case. The court has also said the defendants may speak in Catalan if they wish, with their testimonies translated afterwards by official interpreters. Mariano was Prime Minister when Cataluña held its independence referendum in October 2017 and when the region declared independence from Spain. He oversaw the activating of Article 155, the constitutional mechanism used to suspend Cataluña’s regional government and impose direct rule from Madrid.
FOR the second year running, Spanish factories saw a drop in the production of motor vehicles to 2,819,565 according to ANFAC, the Spanish Association of Vehicle Manufacturers. This is 1 per cent less than the 2017 total which itself was 1.5 per cent down on 2016 and the main fall is in
the production of passenger cars. The decision to phase out diesel products saw the most dramatic drop to 32 per cent of all new vehicles as compared to 40 per cent the previous year and there is little doubt that this fall in diesel figures will continue with hybrids and electric cars be-
Compo order A COURT in San Sebastian has ordered budget airline Ryanair to pay a total of €1,869 plus interest in compensation to two passengers affected by cabin crew strikes in July. The plaintiffs were returning to the UK after a summer holiday in Spain, and were delayed three days.
coming more popular. The one area of good news for the Spanish manufacturers is that production of SUVs and light commercial vehicles increased, but there is some fear that poor trading patterns in the latter part of 2018 may see a further slow-down this year. Exports are also down slightly, but the best European markets are holding their own and sales to parts of North and South Africa are encouraging. Overall, sales to North and South America as well as Asia have also fallen quite significantly, so the fact that overall production is down by just 1 per cent is considered a reasonably good result.
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THE Foreign Ministers of Spain and Portugal have said the countries will jointly commemorate 500 years since the first round the world voyage. Josep Borrell, of Spain, and Portugal’s Augusto Santos Silva said anniversary celebrations for the voyage would take place over three years. Spain’s Juan Sebastian Elcano and Portuguese sailor Fernando de Magallanes undertook their voyage in 1519. Only Elcando, who captained the Victoria, made it back to Europe alive.
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500 years since historic voyage Borrell and Silva said they would call on UNESCO to make the route of the voyage a World Heritage Site. The ministers also called on their opposite numbers in countries along the route to join their efforts.
Spanish and Portuguese embassies in those countries, which include the Phillippines, Argentina and Chile, are set to be instructed on plans for local events to mark the anniversary. Juan Sebastian Elcano and
EXPEDITION ANNIVERSARY: Events are being planned to mark the Victoria and four other ships’ voyage.
Fernando de Magallanes set sail from southern Spain in 1519 for an expedition to the Philippines via South America’s Cape Horn. A total of 241 men on five ships took part in the voyage. Magallanes died during a battle with Filipino natives when the expedition reached the island in 1521. They reached San Lucar, now in the Andalucian province of Cadiz, in 1522.
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Legal advice and useful tips concerning inheritance and probate Carlos Baos We can help you.
QUESTION: My father died some time ago and recently my mother has also passed away. They had several properties in Spain and we would like to be advised and informed about how we should proceed with the Spanish inheritance tax and if it is appropriate to appoint a Spanish lawyer to assist us. Thank you. Dear reader, First of all, we are sorry for your loss. Secondly and in relation to
your question, we would like to inform you that; Services of a Spanish lawyer - We believe (and we do not say this because we are lawyers) that it is very important to have advice from an expert lawyer, because good legal advice can often save you a significant amount in expenses and taxes, not only at the time of receiving the inheritance, but also in the future. Documentation necessary for inheritances in Spain - A Spanish lawyer can help you to obtain the necessary documents for the probate process in Spain in an easier way than if you try to attempt this yourself. The main document and the first one that must be obtained, is the death certificate and then a certificate from the registry of Wills should be obtained, confirming details of the last valid Will registered (if any). The Will is an essential docu-
ment and if the Will or testament that governs the inheritance in Spain has been created for a foreigner and is not in Spanish then you must obtain a sworn translation and the apostille (in accordance with the Hague Convention). In addition, it is more than likely that you will also have to obtain confirmation from the appropriate authorities in the country of residence/birth of the deceased, confirming it as being the last valid testament (eg Probate in the UK or Ireland, etc). Likewise, documents showing the assets and properties which are part of the inheritance will be necessary. Advice and tips regarding inheritance tax in Spain. A fundamental aspect on which you should obtain advice on an inheritance in Spain is the fiscal or tax aspect. Such advice should only be given by a spe-
cialist lawyer, as strategies may be different depending on each specific case. Sometimes sensible management of an inheritance can also help to minimise the income tax for a future sale. If, for example, your parents bought the property in Spain a long time ago at a very low price, if they were to sell it now, they would have to pay a significant sum as Capital Gains Tax. If however, you as children inherit, there are important tax benefits in the tax rules and you may only have to pay a small amount of Inheritance Tax. In addition, you could update the registered value of the property, which will make the Capital Gains Tax to be paid by you in any future sale after the inheritance and this would be considerably less than what your parents would have had to pay if they had sold whilst still alive.
It is important to obtain adequate legal advice on the value of the properties which form part of the estate, as sometimes depending on whether or not they will be sold after the inheritance, the tax residence or the heir, the strategy could be different and with good advice, the heirs could save a significant amount in taxes. Registration and property registry update. Similarly it may be possible even now to update the value of the property for a possible subsequent sale. If you need advice or legal advice about probate or succession and inheritance tax in Spain, or want to prepare your affairs in an effective way, contact us and we will help you. The information provided in this article is not intended to be legal advice but merely conveys general information related to legal issues.
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Four dead in flash Chemical reaction flooding in Asturias FOUR people died in landslides and river overflows caused by the heavy rains which struck Asturias last week. A 70-year-old was killed when his car dropped 50 metres after a road collapsed in Mieres, just after 1pm last Thursday. Hours earlier, at 11.20am, the dead body of a 41-year-old man was recovered in the Porciles River in Tineo, during a search operation launched after he was reported missing the day before. The resident of Pena had told his family he was going to check on land nearby at 2pm, which meant crossing the river. It is believed he made his journey at the same time river levels rose due to the intense rains. And a 62-year-old man died when his vehicle was struck by a landslide in Llero, Laviana. The car overturned, and
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CASUALTY: Man, 70, died after car dropped 50 metres. dropped four metres. Meanwhile, co-workers of a 42-year-old found him dead in his car after the vehicle reportedly fell 500 metres from a forest track in the Salas area at around 1.40am the same day. They had gone looking for him when he didn’t return home. In some stations, the
Cantabrian Hydrographic Confederation registered up to 126 litres per sqm last Thursday. Around 20 roads were closed in Asturias, 15 schools were shut down and Arriondas Hospital and a nearby nursing home were evacuated as a precaution.
MORE than 40 slaughterhouse workers suffered itchy throat and eyes after having a reaction to a ‘toxic chemical mixture.’ Firefighters ventilated the abattoir in Osona in central Cataluña, while a dozen ambulances dealt with those affected by the fumes given off when sodium hypochlorite and iron chloride were combined.
Military history SPAIN’S King Felipe has met with military historians for a presentation of a new collection of books on the country’s armed forces. King Felipe met with representatives from the Spanish Military History Commission for the presentation of the nine-volume Military History of Spain. A total of 170 people worked on the books, including 51 military officers, 26 academics and other armed forces personnel. The work covers military history from prehistory to the present.
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DISPUTE: Spain has long claimed sovereignty over Gibraltar.
Decolonisation call S PA I N h a s c a l l e d o n t h e E U t o i n c l u d e references to the ‘decolonisation’ of Gibraltar in future EU laws in the event of a no-deal Brexit, according to British media reports. A D a i l y Te l e g r a p h r e p o r t b a s e d o n leaked documents claimed Spanish officials had attempted to put a footnote into draft EU legislation on visa-free travel in a no-deal scenario. The text of the footnote would commit the EU to recognising that a dispute exists between Spain and Britain on sovereignty over Gibraltar if adopted. The footnote would also state that the British enclave is registered on the UN’s
Non Self-Governing Territories list. Territories on the list are those that have not yet gained full independence, according to the UN. The draft EU document listed all of Britain’s overseas territories with Gibraltar marked and a reference to the footnote. Gibraltar officials said the Spanish push for the footnote in the document would have no practical effect. EU sources said Spain was attempting to demonstrate its power and leverage on Gibraltar as Britain’s withdrawal from the EU on Friday March 29 draws closer, according to The Telegraph.
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Migration plan and disunity BRITAIN’S Home Secretary has unveiled the government’s back-up plans for EU citizens living in and coming to the country in a no-deal scenario. Sajid Javid said EU migrants coming into Britain after Friday, March 29 would be allowed to stay for up to three years in the event of a nodeal. That arrangement covers an interim period, with EU citizens then having to apply under a European Temporary Leave to Remain scheme once free movement ends. Britain’s immigration system is then set to transition to a ‘skills-based’ model in 2021, which EU citizens will have to go through to remain in the country. The announcement comes as separate research showed Britain has become a more divided country politically since the 2016 referendum. A total of 69 per cent of respondents to the Edelman Trust poll said they were ‘angrier’ about the state of British politics and society since the referendum. Around 65 per cent said they thought Britain was on the wrong track, with the pollsters saying it showed Britain was becoming a ‘disunited Kingdom.’
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Beyond leave day By Joe Gerrard HEALTHCARE for British citizens in Spain and a possible exodus of expatriates from the country have emerged as issues this week as the March leave date looms. Uncertainty continues to grow over how - and even if - Britain will leave the EU with a deal on Friday, March 29. The NHS has released information on what it expects to happen to healthcare for British travellers in Spain in the event of a no-deal. The Health Service said the access to healthcare was likely to change and European Health Insurance Cards (EHICs) would be valid until March 29. Government officials are attempting to strike deals on no-deal health arrangements, the NHS said. Health officials have called on expatriates to register with Spanish authorities to guarantee their access to doctors and cover themselves for a no-deal scenario.
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Medicine over food MATT HANCOCK, Britain’s Health Secretary, has told a parliamentary committee that securing the supply of medicines should be prioritised over food shipments in a nodeal Brexit.
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BE PREPARED: Uncertainty over Brexit continues. The Convenio Especial ‘pay in’ health insurance scheme is set to be available to expatriates who have been registered with their town halls for more than a year. Separately, a leaked government memo has forecast that anything up to 250,000 British expatriates could return from the continent within two years of Britain leaving the EU without a deal. BuzzFeed News reported that officials are concerned their ar-
rival could strain Britain’s health and welfare system. Whitehall officials are currently preparing contingency plans to ensure returning expatriates could access welfare, the report added. The official message continues to remain the same. Regardless of what happens on Friday, March 29 expatriates should make sure they are legal in Spain to protect themselves against a possible no-deal outcome.
A BRITISH Ministry of Defence agency has told staff they may be redeployed in the event of a no-deal Brexit to help the government cope, according to a memo seen by British media.
‘Plan C’ CONSERVATIVE MPs on opposite sides of the Brexit debate have thrashed out a ‘Plan C’ which would extend the transition period for another year while redrafting the backstop, with EU officials dismissing it as unworkable.
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EXPERTS believe a 10-tonne common fin whale, which died on Mallorca’s Cala Millor beach at around 4am on Sunday, may have been weakened by an infection before being struck by a boat. The 15-metre long mammal showed signs of severe weight loss and severe external wounds. Luis Parpal, leading the team of professionals carrying out a post mortem, told Spanish press that early indications suggest an infection, ‘toxicological or biological, it’s still unknown, had weakened the specimen, leaving it adrift’ and that ‘a boat later hit the whale causing the wounds.’ Parpal, manager of the Official Association of Pharmacists of the Balearic Islands (COFIB), explained the team wants to find out if there is an infection that affects cetaceans in general that could rule out toxicology caused by plastic or microbiology interference. While a technician from the Palma Aquarium pointed out that lately there are ‘more cases of death than normal,’ particularly in the northern part of Spain. As such, the findings of the
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POST MORTEM: The beached whale may have had an infection and been hit by a boat. post-mortem will be shared with centres across the country to try to determine the cause of the rise in strandings of this marine species.
An emergency tent was installed on the beach and a large plastic canvas placed around the dead whale while the examination was carried
out, and security forces were on site to protect the scene. It is hoped scientists will be able to complete their investigation this week.
Hunter dies saving dogs A MAN has drowned after trying to save his dogs from drowning in a pond in Huesca, northeast Spain. Police found the 64-year-old’s body and those of several dead dogs floating in the water in rural Ripoll after the alarm was raised when the hunter did not return home. Officers believe the man either fell into the pond while trying to help his animals - who are believed to have accessed the site through a hole in the fence - or gone into the water voluntarily to try to help them to shore.
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Body found on beach is missing British man DNA testing has confirmed a body found in Costa del Sol in October is that of British man, Roger Hanks, 73, who disappeared two weeks earlier after Malaga’s flash floods. Concerned locals reported Roger missing after the heavy rains that struck the province between October 9 and 10, and a search mission was launched. Guardia Civil officers, Local Police, Civil Protection teams and volunteers were joined by specialist search dogs and volunteers, but failed to find any trace of the pensioner. However, on October 23, the corpse of a man in an ‘advanced state of decomposition’ was found on a beach in Casares during a patrol by the Guardia Civil of Manilva. After carrying out DNA
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CONFIRMED: Body found is missing Roger Hanks. profiling with relatives, it has been confirmed the body belongs to Robert, who was carried away during the flooding of the Pereila River. He is believed to have lived in a shelter on the riverbank. Roger’s family have been notified and are making plans for his cremation.
Couple arrested POLICE found a young woman locked inside a cupboard, allegedly by her boyfriend, 19, after responding to reports of violence at the property in Pontevedra. The 20-year-old told officers she was locked up regularly as a form of ‘punishment.’ When Local Police tried to arrest the male, his girlfriend allegedly punched the officer, and they were both detained. The woman was later charged and released, while her partner was remanded in custody for imprisonment and an additional charge of possession of hashish.
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Bill scam NATIONAL POLICE have warned people in Spain that scammers are sending out fake electricity bill emails in a bid to steal bank details. Officers said the scam has seen emails made to look like those from Endesa sent to internet users telling them they have paid bills twice. The email claims there has been an incorrect accounting estimate and invites the receiver to claim a refund of €636.30. Police have told anyone who receives the email not to follow its instructions as it is a ‘phishing scam.’
Cultural jewel SPAIN’S national museum, the Prado, celebrates its 200th anniversary this year, and boasts three million visitors annually. Hailed as the country’s ‘cultural jewel,’ the building was commissioned by King Charles III in the 1780’s and is now home to one of Europe’s finest painting collections.
Women’s strike call A S PA N I S H t r a d e u n i o n has approved a motion at its conference, calling on female workers to stage walk outs on March 8 to mark International Women’s Day. The General Confederation of Labour (CGT) union passed the motion at a conference in Merida in Extremadura. It comes almost one year after women across Spain went on strike to mark International Women’s Day. This year ’s strike is set to see participants call for an end to gender inequality in the workplace and in w i d e r s o c i e t y, t h e u n i o n said in a statement. It is set to be held for 24 hours across all sectors of the Spanish economy, CGT added. ‘CGT makes an appeal to the whole of society to support the General Strike next March 8,’ the union said. Other unions including the General Union of
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Tackling fake medicines PHARMACIES across Spain are set to adopt a new system which helps to verify medicines against a national list of prescriptions next Saturday. The new system was brought in after the EU passed new rules aimed to tackle counterfeit medicine. It has been trialled successfully in Logroño in La Rioja. Maria Angeles Figuerola, director of the new SEVeM system, said: “The new system will create even more guarantees of safety for patients.”
Property prices strong
STRIKE CALL: Millions are estimated to have taken part in demonstrations last year. Workers (UGT) and Worker ’s Commission (CCOO) have also called on their members to stage two-hour strikes throughout March 8. Union leaders are re-
portedly looking into calling for a full general strike. T h e Wo m e n ’s S t r i k e o f 2018 saw around 5.3 million protesters take part in
cities across Spain, according to union estimates. Their demands included an end to workplace inequality and to gender-violence.
ACCORDING to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Spanish Statistical Office (INE) house prices in Spain continued to rise during 2018. Main areas of rises are Madrid, Mallorca and Barcelona with cheap properties still available in old and neglected blocks. Rental income is rising and investment companies believe Spain offers a good opportunity for buyers.
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A vocation to take Pride in BENIDORM promoted its gay-friendly offer at Fitur in Madrid. Speaking at the trade fair ’s Fitur Gay (LGBT+) section, Benidorm’s mayor Toni Perez described the town’s offer as “excellent, top-quality” and a combination of entertainment with relaxation. “Benidorm knew years ago how to open its windows and doors to multiplurality,” he maintained. “It’s hard to find a municipality that from the outside knew that its vocation was providing happiness for everyone.” Benidorm has establishments and leisure areas offering endless activities throughout the day, continued Perez, referring to the resort’s 50 or so bars and pubs that cater for the LGBT public. “Most are centred in the Old Town and they feel at home in all of them, thanks
FITUR: Benidorm gay-friendly. to the quality, friendliness and attention they receive there,” the mayor said. Perez finished with an invitation to Benidorm Pride which is held between September 2 and 8 and rounds off the European Pride events.
Benidorm Pride is a ‘unique’ weeklong fiesta, Perez claimed, and has the only parade held on the seafront during the weeklong fiesta. ‘It is a powerful shop window in defence of equality,’ the mayor declared.
No escaping Escape Room BENIDORM’S Domingo Devesa Tourism Training Centre (CdT) is instructing hotel enter t a i n m e n t s o rg a n is ers in E s ca p e Room. The Domingo Devesa CdT, which depends on the regional government, explained that it is organising two workshops so that local hotels’ Entertainment chief s c a n o ff e r E sc a p e Ro o m g a me s which are increasingly popular with all types of public. Esc a p e R o o m i s a n ad v e n tu re g a me where a group of players must solve puzzles and riddles within a time limit to unveil th e se c r e t p l o t h id d e n w ith in th e
room. The games, which first became popular in the US, are set in fictional locations ranging from prison cells to space stations. T h e D omingo D e ve s a C dT ba s e s its training courses on the demands of the public that are passed on by the tourist associations and other advisory bodies and found that as a growing number of businesses are directly linked to Escape Room, hotels now wish to include this in their offer. At present this is provided by only one Valencia City establishment, the local CdT revealed.
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Bike race road closures PERE BARBER, the councillor for Sport at the town hall of Altea, has announced that Altea will be hosting one of the stages of the Costa Blanca Bike Race, which will be held over the course of Friday, Saturday and Sunday throughout the region. The Department of Sports would like to inform all citizens, especially residents living close by who would be most affected by the race taking place, that for security reasons some streets will be closed from 9am on Friday, until the end of the race, about 2pm on the same day.
The race is set to depart from the Plaza de la Iglesia and will continue through the following streets: Major, Salamanca, Carrer Fondo, Empedrat, Cami Vell d’Alacant, Costera dels Nassos and Avinguda del Port, although Local Police, race organisers and the town hall have agreed to close Calle del Sol, Plaza de la Iglesia and access through Sant Josep and Sant Miquel. Local Police will be on hand to help direct traffic around the area during this period.
TOURISM PROMOTION: Anna Alvado, Altea’s councillor for Tourism was busy promoting the town’s many attractions at the FITUR tourism fair.
Altea at FITUR THE Altea delegation was busy last week promoting the town at the FITUR International Tourism Fair held in Madrid throughout the whole of last week. The mayor of Altea, Jaume Llinares, together with the councillor for Tourism, Anna Alvado, spent time greeting and exchanging views with a num-
ber of the highest regional authorities; President Ximo Puig; Vice-President, Monica Oltra and Francesc Colomer, Regional Secretary of Tourism, who all congratulated the delegation on the designation of Altea as Valencian Cultural Capital 20192020. Using the slogan, ‘Sea of Cultures,’ the town’s representa-
tives were proud to promote Altea’s tourism and cultural offer, which focuses on nautical tourism, gastronomy, festivals and culture. Alvado gave details about the richness of Altea’s natural and marine environment, highlighting the fact the nautical sector ‘is key for the town’s economy.’ “We are a privileged destination for lovers of water sports,” said Alvado. “The bay of Altea is considered part of the Sierra Gelada Natural Park due to its high environmental value. “Therefore, we have decided on a nautical offer which respects the environment and can promote activities such as diving and snorkelling, kayak and paddle surfing, sailing, windsurfing and kitesurfing among others to our visitors.” The councillor also spoke highly of the town’s gastronomy, mentioning several gastronomic tasting events have been planned for this year, where visitors can enjoy traditional dishes prepared with locally-grown and sourced produce. FITUR participants were given a sample of some of Altea’s tasty culinary delights in a show-cooking demonstration, including a generous helping of
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Still missing CREDIT: Sos.desaparecidos
THE whereabouts of Francisca Josephine Magda l e n a v a n Ge l d o rp , a 7 3 -y ea r-o ld Dutch lady, who has been missing since December 23, from the Costa Blanca North area, are still unknown. Friends and relatives are extremely concerned, not to mention frantic with worry, particu l a r l y a s Fr a n c is c a s u ffers fro m Alzheimer’s. Francisca, better-known as Saskia, disappeared from her home in l’Alfas del Pi just over a month ago, and while the police have desperately been searching for her, their efforts have not proved fruitful. Saskia is a well-known person within the Alfas and Albir communities and has been for around 40 years. S he u se d t o wo r k i n a trav el o ffice in Benidorm many years ago and ran several bars in Alfas. Saskia is 1.70 metres tall, has brown eyes and grey-specked wavy brown hair. If anyone has any information regarding Saskia’s disappearance, please contact the
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STILL MISSING: The police are still searching for this missing person from l’Alfas del Pi. Guardia Civil, police authorities, or sos desaparecidos (details on the poster).
Hotel awards HOTELS in Altea, Calpe, Guadalest and Benidorm have been recognised as amongst the best in the country at the TripAdvisor Travellers’ Choice awards. TripAdvisor, the largest travel website in the world, has recognised 7,812 establishments in 94 countries in the categories o f To p H o t e l s , L u x u r y, B u d g e t H o t e l s , Small Hotels, Best Service, Hostels and Pensions, Romantic, Family and All Inclusive. Spain has 163 unique winners in total, with 236 prizes distributed among the dif-
ferent categories. In the Valencia region, there have been 10 outstanding lodgings, one of them also at European level. The Hotel Abaco Altea has been recognised in the Best Service category and sits in position 22, Cases Noves in Guadalest is at number four for best Small Hotel and number 14 for best Romantic Hotel, with Hotel Villa Venecia Boutique Gourmet in Benidorm and Gran Hotel Sol y Mar in Calpe in positions 19 and 21 for the same category.
THE food distribution c ompa ny G M Food Iberica has acquired four c a s h a nd c a rry centres, 10 franchised establishments and a commercial network with 200 distribution clients in the province of Alicante. This will mean the four c a s h a nd c a rry centres of Alcoy, Altea, Denia and Villajoyosa will be incorporated into its GM cash brand early this year.
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Budget approved
COUNCIL VOTE: Calpe’s council has approved the budget for this year. THE municipal council of Calpe, after a majority vote in favour, has definitively approved the €39,206,725 budget for 2019. Mayor of the municipality, Cesar Sanchez, has labelled this year’s budget as ‘realistic, responsible and not electoral,’ pointing out that the town hall will be able to continue with projects already started in previous years as well as the implementation of new ones. Among the novelties, the bonus in the real-estate tax for retired people, pensioners under the age of 65 and people in long-term unemployment who are at risk of social exclusion, stands out. These groups can obtain a bonus of up to €400 and up to 75 per cent of the tax amount. For this, these budgets pro-
vide an initial start of €100,000. Elsewhere, a total of €220,000 will be allocated for the creation of the Espai Parc sports space in the area behind the Domingo Crespo Pavilion. It will include a skating and roller hockey rink, an area for the practice of ‘parkour,’ a skateboarding park and an outdoor exercise circuit. Money has also been put aside for the creation of a toy library, which will be undertaken in 2019-2020 and aims to facilitate the reconciliation of family life. This will cost approximately €70,000. A further €280,000 has been allocated for the construction of a car park in the Pla de la Senieta. The car park will have more than 500 spaces and will be linked to the future Vial J road.
Regarding projects which will have continuity in 2019, these include the revitalisation of the Manzanera, the plan to improve lighting and asphalt the urbanisations, the fourth and fifth phases of the music band building, the fifth phase of the cemetery extension and a new section of the Vial J. The adaptation of parking in the old town to allow 100 new spaces to be created will continue this year, as will the landscaping of the access roundabouts to the municipality and the lighting project of the north roundabout. Likewise, all subsidies to local associations and aid to transport and/or school material are maintained. The motion to reduce IBI tax by 5 per cent was refused, as was a reduction of the refuse collection tax.
Native nurses GABRIELA ORTEGA and Melissa Font, two nursing students from Calpe, have been carrying out their internships in the impoverished native community of Chirikyacu (Peru). As well as providing healthcare services at the local clinic, their role is to also educate the local women and children in basic health issues.
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ACCESSIBILITY PROBLEMS: Calpe’s elderly residents complain about the town’s lack of accessibility and mobility. THE lack of accessibility and mobility is one of the main problems that exists in Calpe, according to the elderly residents of the municipality. This has been revealed by a study carried out by Calpe’s city council within the ‘Calpe, Friendly Cities to the Elderly’ project, an initiative promoted by the World Health Organisation so that cities can become spaces that meet the needs of the elderly and consequently improve their quality of life. The participants of this study consider that Calpe is a very inaccessible town not only due to the topograp h y o f t h e m u n i c i p a l i t y, which is characterised by slopes, but also because of the existence of architectural barriers. Special emphasis has been placed on the need to connect the urban centre with the urbanisations, where a large number of elderly people reside. Therefore, they consider that im-
proving the public transport system in Calpe is paramount, in particular the bus that connects the town with Denia hospital. The participants were also disgruntled by the lack of information received from the town hall about w h a t ’s g o i n g o n l o c a l l y, saying that local news never reaches the urbanisations, leaving a large part of the population uninformed. They have also complained about the exorbitant house prices in Calpe and want more public parks, toilets and public day centres. On a positive note, Calpe’s elderly inhabitants think that the town is an ideal place to live because of its good climate, beaches and natural spaces as well as being a quiet municipality. Likewise, there is a general feeling of good treatment and respect towards the elders of the municipality and they feel part of the social and political life of the city.
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Loss of revered local figure JUAN GINER, who promoted the Wine Museum and recovered the area’s riuraus, has died at the age of 97. A pharmacist by profession, Giner had been the town’s official chronicler and played an important part in maintaining the Vall de Pop’s wine-centred culture. This included the Marina Alta’s riuraus, where grapes were once dried and processed, and the Riuraus Vius association named Giner an honorary member in 2017 in recognition of his labours. “Everybody who knew him enjoyed his countless anecdotes and knowledge of our culture,” Riuraus Vius said on his death. “Always good-natured and entertaining, he won the sympathy of all those who, like him, love and defend our cultural heritage.”
This year’s Budget settled J A LO N Tow n H a ll a pprove d its 2019 B udge t without problems and two abstentions from the Partido Popular and the Partido Independiente. The council is spending €2.306 million this year, almost €96,000 more than in 2018, a nnounc e d J a lon’s mayor Joan Miquel Garces.
Having solved water supply problems, which conditioned previous Budgets, this year can centre on other issues. The emblematic 13th century mill is to be restored and will house the new library, a multi-use function room and exterior auditorium. The tow n ha ll w ill pa y €120,000 towards the cost of the restoration over the ne xt tw o ye a rs , w ith the D iputa c ion Provinc ia l Council providing the remainder. Another €100,000 will be used to acquire green zones, as the town hall redefines its strategies to ensure that development surrounding the town is sustainable and
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THIS year’s Xalonia festival will be held on May 4 and 5, when Jalon celebrates ‘everything which makes it a town’ and turns into the cultural epicentre of the Marina Alta. As in previous years, there will be 48 hours of concerts, cultural events, commerce, sport, gastronomy and children’s activities.
EMBLEMATIC: Jalon’s 13th century water mill to be restored. unhurried, Garces said. Part of the Budget is to be
spent on upkeep and i m provements, the mayor continued. This includes remodelling t he m uni ci pal swi m m i ng pool’s changing rooms, renovating pedestrian areas adjoining the main road, upkeep of spor t s ar eas and water infrastructure. The remainder of Jalon’s 2019 Budget will be used to f i ni sh wor k at t he new school and the local high school. “I ’ d l i ke t o t hank t he Opposition for backing municipal spending,” Garces said. “At a time of great tension in general politics, here in Jalon we are focused on specifics and 2019 will be key i n r ehabi l i t at i ng our m i l l and wor ki ng on t he new school and the institute amongst other things,” the mayor declared.
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Stamp hopes for local saint THIS year is the 600th anniversary of the death of San Vicente Ferrer, TeuladaMoraira’s patron saint. The Valencian Federation of Philatelic Associations, headed by Calpe resident Jose Ivars Ivars, has asked the Correos postal service to issue a stamp honouring
the saint who had strong links with Teulada. Correos has already programmed its series of 2019 commemorative stamps, explained the vice-president of the State Philatelic Committee in a reply to the Valencia’s Federation. Despite this, the Committee was pre-
pared to consider the request when planning next year’s stamps, the vice-president added. Should this be successful, it would not be the first time a Correos commemorative stamp has been issued after the event, a hopeful Ivars pointed out.
TEULADA-MORAIRA Town Hall renewed its agreement with Iberia for another year. Carlos Linares, TeuladaMoraira’s mayor and Tourism councillor renewed the Iberia contract while attending the recent Fitur 2019 International Tourism Fair in Madrid. For the third consecutive year, the town will appear in Ronda Iberia, one of the most important tourist publications in Spain, which reaches more than two million people in 50 countries each month.
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Doing the rounds with Ronda Iberia
AGREEMENT RENEWED: Carlos Linares at the Iberia stand in Fitur.
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FIRE PREVENTION: Proteccion Civil volunteers in the Montgo fire.
JAVEA’S Proteccion Civil branch spent 4,923 hours on fire watch, providing
security at public events and training volunteers. Between June and mid-
October as well as Easter We e k , t h e g r o u p ’s 3 0 members spent 3,020
hours watching over the wooded countryside surrounding Javea. Spain’s version of Civil Defence were called out on 16 occasions during this period. The volunteers played an important part in controlling the fire that broke out in the Montgo National Park on July 8 and assisted in extinguishing minor fires in rubbish containers, kitchens and wasteland. They were present for another 1,080 hours during the fiestas, sporting and cultural events as well as fireworks displays, revealed Public Safety and Emergencies councillor Pepa Gisbert who thanked Proteccion Civil’s president Jose Vicente Serra for their involvement in local life. “These are people who care about others and our town and who don’t hesitate to come forward when any type of problem occurs. They make us feel much safer,” Gisbert said, as she stressed the t o w n h a l l ’s c o m m i t m e n t to improving Proteccion C i v i l ’s e q u i p m e n t a n d contributing to training members.
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All planned out THE preliminary version of Javea’s General Structural Plan (VPPGE) is on display until February 21. This includes modifications following appeals from affected sectors during the public participation phase, explained Javea’s Urban Development councillor Isabel Bolufer. Protected woodland in Rebaldi and Capsades has been reclassified for agriculture while 202,220 square metres of land on Montgo and Cansalades are now protected, together with Creu Armella where there is a flood risk during periods of heavy rain.
Memories kept alive COINCIDING with International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Javea is participating in the regional Construint Memoria (Building Memories) project. This is a regional government initiative to keep alive the memory of the 627 men and women from the Valencia region who were victims of Nazi concentration and extermination camps. The Generalitat produced plaques with the name of each victim, birthplace, the camp they were held in and the date they entered. Two plaques presented by Gabriela Bravo, head of the regional government’s Justice Department, honoured Batiste Blas Soler and Bertomeu Cardona Espasa who died in Mauthausen in 1941.
High winds spread fire THREE cars were destroyed in a fire in Duanes de la Mar. The blaze broke out in the early hours of the morning for reasons still unknown, in a car parked in Calle Fray Jaime Ibañez. Due to high winds flames spread to two nearby cars, but police used a street-cleaning lorry’s hose to prevent the fire spreading.
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Warm hearted DENIA Adventist Women’s Association presented 20 heartshaped cushions to women who have suffered a mastectomy owing to breast cancer. The cushions, which were made by the association’s members who attend the weekly workshops, are designed to avoid chafing after surgery by preventing direct contact between the patient’s arm and body.
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FOR the third year running, Denia attended Asia’s most important Gastronomic Forum in Macao (China). Twenty-one of UNESCO’s 26 Cities of Gastronomy were present at the Forum where the Marina Alta’s cuisine was represented by Chef Bruno Ruiz whose demonstration was one of the most-praised of the day. Together with his assistant Claudia Sancho, Ruiz prepared Cod Carpaccio with Artichokes, a dish that combined accessible products, tradition, technique and creativity. Ruiz and Sancho worked at a stand installed on one of Macao’s busiest promenades although their demonstration was also transmitted live on various television channels. They were watched with enormous interest by dozens of members of the public who later congratulated them on tasting the dish.
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Macao cookout for local chef
GASTRONOMIC FORUM: Bruno Ruiz and the Denia party in Macao (inset).
Beach swallowed again by storms Photo credit: Denia town hall
HEAVY seas and high winds have once more obliterated Blay Beach. Waves beating against the walls of seafront properties again stripped the beach of its sand in a scenario repeated each winter despite repeated regeneration attempts. Marine experts and environmentalists are now advising against replenishing the sand, maintaining that it is expensive and has a limited effect. The Ministry of the Environment believes otherwise and following a similar episode practically a year ago, attributed the constant loss of sand from this part of the coast to over-development. The Ministry recommended erecting barriers and breakwaters to protect the beach
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BLAY BEACH: One of countless attempts at regeneration. and although no move has been made to act on this advice, the issue has arisen once again following the latest storm. The Institute of Oceanographic Reseach (IROX) has
also warned that the pressure of development in beach areas intensifies the effects of storms and bad weather, both at Blay Beach and other sections of the coast including Les Deveses.
DENIA firemen finally brought down a cat trapped for three days on a 50-metre cliff ledge at Denia castle. As the cat was obviously stressed, frightened and liable to panic and react unpredictably on being approached, firefighters left a cat trap cage on the ledge on the first day and then waited. Two days later the cat finally entered the trap, which was specially-designed to close automatically once it ventured inside, after which it was taken down without problems and taken to the Aldea Canina animal shelter.
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Asylum applications break records THE number of people who applied for asylum status in Spain stood at around 55,600 last year, the highest amount since records began according to UN data. Figures from the UN’s High Commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) showed Venezuelan applicants made up around 40 per cent of the total, with about 20,000 applications made. That is almost double the amount made in 2017. Colombian applications came second with 8,700, about 20 per cent of the total. Syrians came third, making up around 5 per cent of the total with around 2,500 applications. The number of applications from Syrians fell compared to 2017 when it stood at around 4,200. The UNHCR estimated that there would be around 78,500 applications placed this year, according to current trends.
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Spain attracts hotel investment INVESTMENT in Spanish Hotels reached €4.86 billion in 2018, second only to the UK in the whole of Europe according to a report by Christie & Co which was previewed at FITUR in Madrid. The FITUR show which ran for five days is the largest and most important annual travel exhibition in Spain and attracts representatives of all of the major Spanish holiday destinations as well as exhibitors from around the world. The report was delivered by Inmaculada Ranera, general director of the company’s Spanish and Portuguese office and detailed the fact that the bulk of investment came from US-based companies, followed closely by Spanish organisations and
THE Spanish Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism publishes regular details of the cost of fuel on its Geoportal Gasolineras website. The latest information shows that there is a vast disparity between prices in different regions with the cheapest petrol costing
STRONG INVESTMENT: Inmaculada Ranera reveals the report.
comprised mainly of investment companies and hotel groups. The bulk of investment was fo-
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cused on holiday destinations such as the Canary Islands, Balearics and to a lesser extent Costa del Sol, al-
€1.06 per litre (compared to up to €1.308 in some parts of the country) and diesel at €1.019 (compared to €1.25). The cheapest fuel is generally found in service stations in Cataluña although there are also good prices in parts of Huesca and Tarragona.
though Madrid, Sevilla and Barcelona also saw good volumes of money spent.
Fire at hostess club A WOMAN died after a blaze at a hostess club in Salamanca. The victim was initially found unconscious in a room on the ground floor at Club Messalina at 7.30am last Thursday, but died shortly afterwards of suspected smoke inhalation. There were no other injuries. The Guardia Civil has launched an investigation into the cause of the fire at the venue in Miranda de Azan.
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Donating blood in Spain LIVING in Spain can bring with it an array of issues which may not have been encountered when living in the UK. There are lots of things to consider, and we are here to help try to make the transition and life in Spain a little easier by compiling a series of helpful facts and figures relating to a variety of topics.
In Spain, Blood Components and Services are provided by 17 Regional Blood Transfusion Services. Despite their autonomous operations management, every regional service is fully incorporated into a unique and common Public National Health System, supplying a cohesive blood transfusion care to all citizens, residents, and visitors in Spain based on 100 per cent voluntary and non-remunerated blood donation. For more general information, visit www.msps.es. Anyone who has lived continuously in the UK between 1980 and 1996 (a minimum of one year) will not be able to donate blood in Spain due to the risk of transmitting mad cow disease. Similarly, there are restrictions if you have received a blood transfer in the UK. However, each region may have different rules about donation. Call the donation helpline on 935 573 500. Alternatively, visit www.donorsang.gencat.cat to find out if you are eligible. If you are eligible, you can give blood at your local hospital, or via the Spanish Red Cross (Cruz Roja) at one of their clinics, or in one of their mobile units. You can check dates and locations by visiting www.donarsangre.org. A donor card is not necessary to give blood. On the first visit you will have to provide DNI, NIE, passport or a driving licence. If you are already registered in the Blood Bank, you only need a donor card or a document with your name and surname. The process of blood donation takes just 10 minutes in which 450 ml are collected (equating to 10 per cent of the total blood circulation of an adult person). Despite huge technological advances, the only way for hospitals to obtain blood is through the generosity of the public. The blood is carefully screened for disease to make sure it is safe. After a tattoo, you must wait four months to be eligible to donate. After surgery, the exclusion period will depend on the type of intervention. After minor surgical procedures, you cannot donate blood for seven days or until you are fully recovered. After undergoing major surgery, you will not be able to donate blood for four months. The rarest blood type is AB, present in 1 per cent of Caucasians, according to research by the America Red Cross. Blood transfusions are carried out daily in Spanish hospitals with more than 6,200 patients being given them, of whom almost a quarter are fighting cancer and a similar figure receiving transfusions during or after surgery. Spain has around two million donors in total, but needs closer to four million.
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Health tourism PEOPLE who travelled to Spain for medical treatment and other services brought around €500 million into the country last year, according to the head of an industry group. Spaincare’s president David Medina said he expected the amount brought in by so-called health tourism to double in the coming years. He was speaking as the group, which represents health tourism providers across Spain, exhibited its services at the International Tourism Festival (FITUR) in Madrid last week. Health tourism includes medical treatment and services as well as spas and other experiences. The sector has grown by an average of 20 per cent globally in the last few years.
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Number of Brits in Spain falls RECOVERED: The reliefs date from the Visigothic era.
Artefacts return TWO artefacts dating from Spain’s Visigothic period have been returned to the Spanish Embassy in London almost 15 years after they were stolen in Castilla y Leon. Spanish diplomats, Guardia Civil officers, experts from the Museum of Burgos and London Metropolitan Police were on hand when a Dutch researcher returned the two stone carvings last week. They were stolen
from Quintanilla de las Viñas in Burgos Province in July 2004. The reliefs, which depict two religious figures were found in the hands of a buyer in Britain who purchased them in good faith without knowing they had been stolen. The carvings were found with the help of the Dutch researcher. Spanish police officers, officials and archaeologists were sent over to Britain hours
after they were found. The reliefs were due to arrive back in Spain this week. Researchers are now due to check the artefacts to see if they need restoration work. The carvings measure 35x54x30 centimetres and weigh around 35 kilograms each. They once decorated the nave church hermitage of Our Lady of the Vineyards which dates back to the seventh century.
THERE are almost 241,000 British citizens living in Spain, down from a peak of almost 400,000 in 2011 according to new National Institute of Statistics (INE) data from 2018. INE figures showed there has been a gradual decline in the number of British nationals living in Spain since 2012. The figures are based on towns’ municipal registers, the Padron. The decline became more rapid in 2013 and has continued since in a trend which is reflected in data for citizens from other EU countries. The British remain the fourth-largest group of foreign nationals in Spain. Moroccans are the largest group with about 825,000, followed by Romanians with almost 600,000 and Ecuadorians with more than 400,000. The amount of Venezuelan nationals increased by 22 per cent in 2018 compared the previous year, the largest rise of any foreign group. Foreign nationals are estimated to make up between 13 and 14 per cent of Spain’s total population. They accounted for about 3 per cent about 20 years ago.
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Energy costs EVERY two years the European Commission publishes a report on the cost of energy needs across the Union, and Spain is listed as the fifth most expensive country for electricity consumers and sixth for gas. Interestingly, those same figures also show that the cost to industry for electricity is much lower than in many other countries and Spain sits in just 14th place, as tax is a much lower percentage than that charged to households. Although prices fell by 3 per cent in 2017, latest news suggests it has reached record levels in January 2019 here in Spain due to colder weather, less winds, export of power to France and higher raw fuel costs, so it is now likely the government will have to take action to try to change the rules concerning calculation of price and possibly even reduce the tax.
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Venezuela crisis Spain and EU call for votes and talks CREDIT: Shutterstock (main), Juan Guaido, via Twitter (inset)
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By Joe Gerrard SPAIN, the EU and the US have called for Venezuela’s leader to hold elections after an opposition figure declared himself acting president while the country’s political and economic crisis deepens. Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez joined figures including British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt in calling for Nicolas Maduro to call a national vote. Opposition leader Juan Guaido would be recognised as the country’s legitimate president if elections did not go ahead, Sanchez and others added. “We do not seek to install or remove governments, we want democracy and free elections in Venezuela,” Sanchez said. It comes as Maduro has faced allegations of electoral fraud and is increasingly seen as a dictator. Critics claim the regime’s economic policies have impoverished the country, with
POWER STRUGGLE: Spain’s PM spoke to Maduro’s opponent Guaido (inset). around 3.3 million Venezuelans having fled since 2015.
Pablo Casado, leader of Spain’s conservative Partido Popular, and
head of the centrist Ciudadanos Albert Rivera, have both called on Madrid to recognise Guaido. The news come as the US, Canada and a host of Latin American countries recognised Guaido as the legitimate leader of Venezuela. The EU has called for a peaceful resolution to the crisis, while Bolivia, China, Russia and Turkey continue to back Maduro. Maduro and his supporters claim the US and other countries are attempting to engineer a coup. Nicolas Maduro took over as Venezuela’s president following the death of revolutionary leader Hugo Chavez in 2013. Falling oil prices and US sanctions have plunged the country’s already fragile economy deeper into crisis and Maduro has tightened his grip on power since. Some opposition groups are banned, activists have been arrested and police have cracked down on anti-government demonstrations.
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PM addresses Davos forum SPAIN’S Prime Minister has told attendees at the World Economic Forum that the level of global inequality is ‘unacceptable’ and that it is fuelling the rise in populism. Pedro Sanchez told those gathered in Davos, Switzerland economics was not an end in itself and it had to meet people’s needs. World leaders and businesspeople needed to remember the ‘mistakes’ that were made during the last financial crisis which had cost the global economy 10 years, the Prime Minister added. “Inequality is destroying our
societies. Populism is already the main challenge for democracy and if we had not forgotten that the economy should serve the people, maybe it would not have grown to its current level,” Sanchez said. “The neoliberal economic model offers a hostile world for those who do not belong to the elite,” the Prime Minister added. The World Economic Forum takes place in Davos every year. It sees politicians, businesspeople and academics gather for talks and meetings on economic, business and financial policy.
Activist arrest row A PRO-WESTERN Sahara group has criticised Spain for deporting an activist from the Canary Islands who is now in prison in Morocco for ‘illegal political activities.’ The Polisario Front, which supports the liberation of the Western Sahara from Moroccan rule, claimed Spanish police arrested Husein Bachir Brahim after he arrived in Lanzarote earlier this month. He was fleeing persecution in Morocco, the group added. Spanish police failed to bring Bramin before the courts after his arrest, the Polisario Front claimed. Officers have yet to comment.
GROWING OLD: Asturias is the oldest region on average in Spain.
Oldest regions THE average age of people in Asturias is about 48 years old, making it the oldest region by that measure in Spain according to new National Institute for Statistics (INE) data. INE figures from 2018 show the average age overall for Spain was 43. The youngest part of Spain is the African enclave of Melilla with an average age of 35. Asturias was followed by Castilla y Leon
with an average age of 47.3, Galicia 47.1, the Basque Country 45, and Aragon, 44. The youngest regions after Melilla were the African enclave of Ceuta with an average age of 37, Murcia with 40, the Balearic Islands with 41 and the Canary Islands, 41.9. The average age in Andalucia was almost 41.6, while in Valencia it stood at 42. INE data showed the overall average age
for Spain has been rising since the 1990’s. The average age stood at 39.2 in 1998 before rising to 40 in 2001, 31 in 2010 and 42 in 2014. It comes as official figures showed that 179,794 babies were born in Spain during the first half of 2018, the lowest since records began in 1941. A decline in the number of births and people living longer has contributed to a rise in the average age.
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Touching nerves THE two largest parties in Spain’s parliament spent Monday hurling accusations against each other on Catalan independence and the far-right. Dolors Montserrat, of the conservative Partido Popular (PP), accused the prime minister of ‘betrayal’ over his overtures to Cataluña’s pro-independence regional government. Meanwhile, the left-leaning Partido Socialista’s (PSOE) Jose Zaragoza said the PP was feeding the ‘monster’ of the far-right. The exchanges touched raw nerves for both the left and the right of Spanish politics. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s decision to attempt to negotiate with Catalan leader Quim Torra since taking power in June has provided ample ammunition for the PP. The party has been able to spin Sanchez’s talks as a sign
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TRADING BLOWS: Congress witnessed bitter exchanges this week. that he is neglecting the integrity of the Spanish nation. The prime minister has long argued his approach is designed to diffuse tensions which have been high in the region since the 2017 independence push. Sanchez has had to lean on small regionalist parties in Congress, including those from Cataluña, in order to pass key legislation since PSOE took power in June.
The prime minister cannot afford therefore to alienate those parties. His government would be paralysed in parliament if they refused to back PSOE, as recent wrangling over the 2019 budget shows. The PP’s accusations of Sanchez secretly supporting the breakup of Spain may be a cheap shot. But it is true current circumstances have presented a golden opportunity for pro-
Catalan groups to extract further concessions from Madrid on self-rule. The reference to the ‘monster’ of the far-right comes as the PP and centrist Ciudadanos secured the support of Vox to help form their new coalition in Andalucia. The PP and Ciudadanos claimed their actions were necessary but many on the left feel they have shown their true colours. The decision to support Vox poses problems for both. Ciudadanos will now have to square its progressive circle with its willingness to work with reactionary political forces in order to gain power. Vox’s aid may have helped the PP topple PSOE in what has typically been a key stronghold. But working with them legitimises them as an electoral option, with the two in direct competition for the right-wing vote.
Obstacle course THE leader of the centrist Ciudadanos has said his party could work with the ruling left-leaning Partido Socialista but added Spain’s prime minister was an ‘obstacle.’ Albert Rivera said Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez had ‘muddled’national politics with his strategy of dialogue with pro-independence groups in Cataluña. The leader of Ciudadanos also accused Sanchez of working for his own interests and not for the good of Spain. “Sanchez has become an impediment that has muddled national politics which has become polarised and has encouraged separatist groups,” Rivera said. Ciudadanos and PSOE have a chequered history but there seems to be a basis for an alliance on paper. Ciudadanos pitches itself as a progressive pro-market alternative to the conservative Partido Popular (PP) while PSOE has championed liberal social causes and is socialist in name only. But Ciudadanos’ recent history does not bear this out. The party has often aligned itself with the PP on a national level, helping to return former prime minister Mariano Rajoy to power in 2016. Rivera’s comments will also raise eyebrows in Andalucia where Ciudadanos recently entered into a coalition with the PP with the help of the far-right Vox. Poll tracker: Partido Socialista (PSOE): 22.3 per cent, 98 seats Partido Popular (PP): 21.5 per cent, 89 seats Ciudadanos: 19.8 per cent, 67 seats Unidos Podemos: 14.8 per cent, 51 seats Result: PSOE largest party, no overall control.
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FRANCE FRENCH president Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel signed the Treaty of Aachen last week designed to deepen ties between France and Germany on security, the economy and digital policy 56 years after the historic Elysee Accord.
New treaty
Tax gains THE richest 1 per cent of people in France are set to see their incomes rise by 2.3 per cent due to tax cuts which come into effect this year, according to findings from the country’s Institute of Public Policy (IPP).
PACT: The deal deepens Franco-German ties.
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BELGIUM has signed a pact with Luxembourg committing both to work together on the exploitation and use of resources extracted in space in a bid to be in the race to the stars ‘from the start,’ Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders said.
AROUND 100 people gathered in Dendermonde last week for a ceremony to mark 10 years since Kim De Gelder carried out a mass killing at a nursery in the region, killing two babies and 54-year-old nurse Marita Blindeman and injuring 13 others.
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AROUND 3,500 people sought asylum in Denmark last year, according to figures from the country’s Immigration and Integration Ministry which showed the amount was similar to 2017 and that most came from Eritrea, Syria and Georgia.
GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on attendees gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to defend multilateral institutions while calling for reform to prevent them from breaking apart.
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DENMARK is set to have its first national e-football team which will compete internationally, with the first games set to be against Norway, Sweden and Finland on Saturday, Danish football association head Kenneth Reeh has said.
HEIKO MAAS, Germany’s Foreign Minister, said he would seek ‘new co-operation’ with the US before leaving for a visit to the country last week as German officials attempt to strengthen trans-Atlantic ties.
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Visa call
EMISSIONS in the Netherlands look set to fall by about 21 per cent from 1990 levels, less than official targets of 25 per cent according to government research commissioned after an appeal court ruled it had a legal duty to meet pollution goals.
THE European Commission (EC) has called on the Netherlands and 22 other countries to halt ‘golden visa’ schemes which see papers granted to wealthy foreigners in exchange for payments over concerns they could be linked to criminal funds.
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Port strike
A LACK of collaboration between doctors led to the death of a woman in her 60’s after she became infected with flesh-eating bacteria at Flekkefjord’s Sorlandet hospital, an investigation from Norway’s Board of Health has concluded.
A TOTAL of 15 ports in Sweden were affected by the walkout of around 1,000 workers called after the Swedish Dockworkers’ Union failed to reach a deal with harbour bosses over collective bargaining.
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Train crash
NORWAY’S Coastal Administration has opened bidding for companies to help map the wreck of a Second World War German U-boat which lies 150 metres below the sea off the island of Fedje.
A MAN in his 30’s has died after being taken to hospital last week when a train crashed into his car in the Kalmar region of Sweden, according to local officials.
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A ROQUETAS de Mar man is under arrest after Guardia Civil spotted him dumping three bags of marihuana after he got held up in a traffic jam following an accident. Guardia patrols had been called out to the incident involving several vehicles and leaving a number of people requiring medical attention on the A-7 dual-carriageway in El Ejido. While officers were alerting drivers to the situation and trying to keep traffic moving, they saw a man get out of a car about 200 metres away, open the boot, drop three large bags on the hard shoulder, then get back into his vehicle and start up the engine. Suspicious, when the vehicle got level with officers they pulled it over and identified the driver, while other Guardia picked up the bags. They turned out to contain 10 kilos of the drug.
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Paint store blaze FIREMEN in Almuñecar spent more than an hour battling flames which gutted a painting workshop in Torrecuevas. The incident occurred after a fire broke out in the basement of a house in the neighbourhood. Emergency services received calls from residents who spotted smoke coming from the building. Three members of the Al-
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With six editions on the Spanish Costas and Mallorca we cover the main expat areas of Spain - take a look at what is happening around our regions. contacted the National Association of Teaching Professionals (ANPE) trade union. The boy’s parents have also been called in and the case has been passed onto education inspectors. ANPE said authorities were alerted to a total of 33 cases of student assaults on teachers in Malaga Province last year. Four of those cases have come before the courts.
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Land for sale THE town hall of Orihuela has announced that it is planning to auction a number of plots of land within the municipality in order to raise approximately €12 million, which is set to be spent on various projects. In a press conference, Mayor Emilio Bascuñana said that around 40 new projects, at a cost of €5.5 million, are in the pipeline, and will be paid from the sale of municipal land assets - or in other words, from the sale of plots located on the Orihuela Costa. NEW PLOTS: Orihuela Town Hall is looking for plots of land The task of finding suitable to auction. plots to sell has been given to the councillor for Heritage, Rafael Almagro, with the plots municipal land through auction. Three of the of land due to be auctioned in a plots are located in Los Almendricos (PAU-26), matter of just a few weeks. while the other two are in Sector E-2 El Last year, the town hall managed to raise a Barranco. total of €14.3 million after selling five plots of
muñecar fire brigade worked to extinguish the blaze while flammable chemicals in the workshop hindered their efforts. A spokesman for the service said: “The task was not easy because in the basement… there was a lot of flammable: material, paint, wood, etc that made the task more difficult. We also had the support of a couple of Local Police and Almuñecar Guardia Civil.” Police are yet to announce if anyone was injured in the inci-
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Head teacher assault A SCHOOL in Malaga City has suspended an 11-year-old pupil who allegedly kicked his head teacher in the groin while waiting for his mother.
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The Hans Christian Andersen school pupil, was waiting at the centre, in the La Union area of Malaga City, at the end of the day when the assault took place. The 11-year-old kicked, punched and scratched the head teacher who then tried to restrain him to stop him from leaving. The boy then kicked the staff member in the groin, according to a complaint filed after the incident. The head teacher has since
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FIERCE winds which hit Palma from Sunday night and Monday morning left a trail of damage and kept firefighters busy around the clock. At least 10 incidents were recorded with the majority involving fallen trees. Fortunately there were no injuries, though a motorist had a lucky escape when a branch fell on his car in the Real de Secar area on Sunday night. Firefighters were earlier despatched to Calle Can Estada after huge gusts had blown a tree into nearby telephone cables, where it was being supported precariously. The emergency team evacuated and made the area safe. And around 6am on Monday morning, several members of the public reported large tiles were falling from a building in Calle Sant Vicenc Ferrer into the road below. According to the State Agency of Meteorology, Aemet, wind speeds reached 80 km/h and up to 110 in mountainous areas.
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France-Spain pipe setback SPAIN’S market regulator has rejected the first phase of a planned gas pipeline between the two countries saying it does not serve market needs. The National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC) and France both rejected part-one of the Midcat project. Midcat is set to cost €3 billion in total and it would span from Spain to France through Cataluña if built. The CNMC said Spain should continue to work towards greater integration into the European energy network.
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31 January - 6 February 2019 The total number of Spanish firms which made it into Brand Finance’s latest annual list of the 500 most valuable global companies which were CaixaBank, Zara, Santander, BBVA, Movistar, El Corte Ingles, Repsol and Iberdrola.
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Company policy concerns THREE of the largest companies in Spain have said they are concerned over what they said was a lack of legal certainty, surrounding economic policies the government has proposed. Electricity provider Iberdrola, the BBVA bank and telecommunications firm Telefonica said planned tax hikes on investments and the increase of the minimum wage to €900 were causes for concern. It comes after government ministers announced a range of policies which also include new levies on digital companies and currency exchanges. Begoña Garcia-Rodriguez, head of
By Joe Gerrard Iberdrola’s fiscal department, said analysts and investors were already asking about the impact of the plans. Plans to tax earnings from dividends which came from companies abroad were ‘bad news,’ Garcia-Rodriguez said. Jose Maria Vallejo, the head of global tax at BBVA, said new levies and tax hikes would cause Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to fall and financing costs to rise. The planned rates would also hit company balance sheets, Vallejo added. Iñigo Fernandez de Mesa, head of the economic committee of the Spanish Con-
federation of Business Organisations (CEOE), said: “Right now, companies and individuals do not know what they have to pay and they are not investing.” Silvia Ropas Ribas, deputy head of the government’s Directorate General of Taxes (DGT), said ministers would continue looking at how new rates would be applied before they are enforced. The government’s tax plans come as part of its 2019 budget which Finance Minister Maria Jesus Montero formally presented to parliament earlier this month. Taxes have been raised to help fund planned increases in government spending.
SPANISH bank Santander has said it is going to close 140 of its British branches and cut 1,270 jobs due to the rise in online banking. The bank is set to talk with unions over the closures.The bank’s British arm said branch transactions had fallen by 23 per cent during the last three years as the use of its online service has grown. Susan Allen, head of retail banking at Santander UK, said: “The way clients relate to the bank has changed dramatically in recent years.”
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HQs move regions A TOTAL of 2,359 companies moved their headquarters out of Cataluña to other Spanish regions last year amidst ongoing uncertainty resulting from the 2017 independence referendum and declaration, according to Registrar data.
Stays fall FUND: Cabify offered to fund the sector. C A B I F Y m a d e a n o ff e r t o Spain’s Development Ministry to create a taxi fund in response to protests from drivers, but the offer was not accepted. The ride-hailing platform wanted to make the offer to ‘reassure’ the sector, according to company founder Juan de Antonio. It was designed to help taxi drivers integrate into the ride-hailing sector. The fund would have seen
Cabify pay five cents in the Euro for every kilometre that one of its cars travelled. The company estimated it could have raised some €400 million in one year. It could have raised an estimated €1 billion if applied to other ride-hailing applications, the firm added. De Antonio said the company had already introduced a similar fund in eight LatinAmerican countries.
OVERNIGHT stays in Spanish hotels fell by 0.1 per cent in 2018, the first since 2012, with declines of 0.6 per cent among Spanish holidaymakers and 0.4 per cent from foreigners according to data from the National Institute of Statistics.
New director THE Michelin factory in Va l l a d o l i d i s s e t t o s e e Bruno Arias Perez, formerly of the firm’s plant in Vitoria, take over from Mariano Arconada Calvo tomorrow (Friday), the company has announced.
Minister levy assurance SPAIN’S finance minister has said companies will theoretically be able to deduct their contributions for the new digital tax announced as part of the 2019 budget, from future corporate levy payments. Maria Jesus Montero said during a visit to the Spanish Confederation of Business Organisations (CEOE) that deductions could be made ‘in principle.’ She added the government was looking into
how the new levy could be combined with existing corporate taxes. Montero said the government wanted to be sure there were no misunderstandings on the part of business if and when the new tax comes into force. The new levy, dubbed the ‘Google Tax,’ taxes companies 3 per cent on online advertising, brokerage and the sale of data and metadata.
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A ghostly visitation LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT WELL, I’ve just appeared in a haunted hotel. No not as an apparition (yeah, yeah!) Just as this old, boring pop-singing mortal I’m afraid. The hotel in question is situated in the depths of the beautiful, but somewhat foreboding New Forest. It’s called the Foxlease. Parts of this imposing edifice date back to the 16th century and it abounds with stories of unexplained noises and apparitions, which over the years have manifested both to its staff and residents alike. All right, all right, I can hear the snorts of derision from here. No, this is not some establishment trying to sell rooms on the backs of paranormal spirits created by some dubious PR exercise. On the contrary, because the main core of their business is centred on Guides, Scouts, and schools whose students take camping holidays and ‘outward bound’ courses in the summer, they are trying to keep the whole thing as quiet as possible. As a spiritualist and staunch believer in such things, I was more than a little interested to find out as much as I could about their numerous supernatural experiences.
SCARY: Would you have the courage to stay the night? Subsequently, on further investigation of the hotel I found that a number of the restricted areas (purposely not used as guest accommodation!), were extremely spooky indeed. In fact, while I was there, the landlord took a small party on a guided tour of these areas. Within a few minutes, one young lady rushed back into the lounge, and shaking noticeably, told me she was frightened to even walk down one of the corridors! The staff and landlord were actually extremely ‘matter of fact’ and quite nonchalant
about the whole situation. An acceptance I had not actually experienced before, and did indeed lend a whole new authenticity to their ghostly claims and stories. Apparently none of them lock their bedroom doors at night, they explained this was a precaution enabling them to escape in a hurry should they feel the need! All had heard the noise of footsteps and children talking and crying. The landlord told me last summer he was having a drink with a friend in the garden, when the friend sud-
denly froze and went deathly white. When he asked him what the matter was, he said he’d just seen a woman walk out through the wall of the hotel! Apparently, a few years ago, without them naming the hotel, Channel Five’s TV paranormal ‘Ghostbusters’ spent a few nights filming there. They later reported, in their opinion, there were eight ghostly ‘guests’ residing on the premises. Sometime later the landlord invited the Royal Navy paranormal squad (yep they really do exist, mainly to investigate reports of ship haunting) to look in to their claims. This team had no connection or links with the TV series, but lo and behold, after their overnight stay, they too reported they had detected eight spirits in the hotel! Whoooooo! Well be that as it may, and having actually seen a (never forgotten) manifestation at the age of four, I am not a sceptic and my mind is always totally open to all things both spiritual and mortal. I have to confess however, despite their kind invitation, we declined their offer to stay the night! Have a good week and try to take strength from the inspiring words of the great Rumi, who told us. ‘You are not a drop in the ocean; you are an ocean in the drop.’ Keep the faith, Love, Leapy. Leapylee2002@gmail.com.
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The damp squib Cassandra Nash A weekly look - and not entirely impartial reaction to the Spanish political scene
REMEMBER Harold Wilson and George Brown, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, or even further back, K and B? Political duos rarely last, as it happened in Spain too, with Felipe Gonzalez and Alfonso Guerra, so Pablo Iglesias and Iñigo Errejon were an estrangement waiting to happen. Errejon was one of Podemos’ founders, but the rot had set long before 2017 when Iglesias’ partner Irene Montero eclipsed Errejon by taking over as party spokesman and the party’s second in command. The split is likely to be less helpful than the Podemos hierarchy might hope, because the considerable number of voters who did not take to party supremo Pablo Iglesias were rather taken with Errejon. Podemos came out of nowhere, arriving with flash and a bang and a wallop by winning five seats in the European parliament in the May 2015 elections. That’s the trouble with arriving in a blaze of glory as fireworks so often turn out to be damp squibs. Are you listening Santiago Abascal?
Out-of-joint nose MADRID mayor Manuela Carmena is an independent backed by Mas Madrid while Iñigo Errejon has left his parliamentary seat but insists that he still belongs to Podemos. Meanwhile, he has nailed his colours to Carmena’s mast to campaign with Mas Madrid for the Madrid Community presidency, instead of Podemos as originally planned. Errejon for community president? A lot of people would like to see him put Iglesias’ nose out of joint and he might manage both.
An ill-wind THE PSOE has the jitters, fearing that Podemos’s imminent shipwreck won’t do it any favours come May and the municipal and regional elections. At present, Podemos shores up PSOE town and city halls all over Spain and Pedro Sanchez expected more of the same this time round. What’s the problem? Hardcore supporters will still vote Podemos while outside Madrid they’ll only have the PSOE to turn to, just as pre-Vox right-wingers only had the PP to vote for. The Iglesias-Errejon split could be just what Sanchez needs.
FORMER PRIME MINISTER: Harold Wilson.
The anointed one AT the Partido Popular’s recent Madrid conference the former president Mariano Rajoy made only a fleeting appearance. He also demonstrated his opinion of Pablo Casado by not staying around long enough for a family photo with Jose Maria Aznar which would formally anoint the present PP as a worthy successor. On leaving politics after losing the vote of no confidence at the end of May, Rajoy said, “I will be loyal” ; a pointed but elegant dig at Aznar who had named him as his successor in 2003. Aznar was not loyal to Rajoy, criticising him for being insufficiently forceful and ditching his honorary presidency of the Partido Popular in 2016. Much of that was pique because Rajoy did his own thing, not Aznar’s, so it will be interesting to see how Casado rubs along with Aznar although since the former is further to the Right than Rajoy ever was, everything should be fine and dandy. Until Casado spreads his wings, that is.
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Doctor Who kicks off series 12 filming in South Africa Gill are filming thanks to the c a s t o f Wa l s h ’s o t h e r s h o w, The Chase. His chasers revealed while a c c e p t i n g a N a t i o n a l Te l e v i s i o n Aw a r d o n J a n u a r y 2 2 , that Bradley couldn’t be with them because he was busy working on Doctor Who in South Africa! Doctor Who previously used South Africa to double for the American Deep South in the 13th Doctor adventure ‘Rosa,’ which saw the TARDIS family trying to preserve a historic moment in the American civil rights movement from a time meddler.
Richard Shanley THAT faint sound you’re hearing might just be the TARDIS rematerialising because Doctor Who has officially started filming series 12! Fresh off her encounter with one very p****d off Dalek on N e w Ye a r ’s D a y, J o d i e W h i t taker is all smiles in a firstlook photo of the cast which confirms they’re officially back in production on new episodes. The background location might not be giving off any strong hints, but we actually do know where Jodie, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip
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Telly making me grumpy Mike Senker In my opinion Views of a Grumpy Old Man AS my readers know by now, Mrs S and I like a bit of telly. Currently there are two shows making me grumpy: The Voice and The Greatest Dancer. It’s not the content, but the judges, and not actually the judges themselves, but their clothes. The shows have been on for three weeks now and in every episode they are wearing the same clobber. Now, either they stink, or all the episodes are filmed on the same day. If so, at least give them a few changes of clothing because it’s really getting on my nerves. How hard can it be to have a few shirts around for the blokes and some frocks for the ladies? I mean, for goodness sake, make an effort to make me believe it’s just not churned out on one day. Here’s another one the PC brigade have come up with. In movies where the storyline features a disabled person they say the part should only be played by a genuinely disabled person. I am registered 66 per cent disabled so I am allowed an opinion on this. Here it is.
Don’t talk nonsense - if there is a disabled actor who fits the role then fine, and if not, then use any actor who can do the part justice and make the movie as realistic as possible. Eddie Redmayne, Al Pacino, Daniel DayLewis, Tom Hanks and Leo DiCaprio - to name just a few - have all done it, done it well and in a sympathetic way. Who are we to say that Sean Penn has no right to portray someone with a disability? That’s his job - to portray people who he is not - and he’s pretty good at it too. That’s what actors do! It’s getting ridiculous. Let’s take advertising. Does every painkiller ad have to be played by someone with a headache? What about the Maltesers ad where two secretaries are chatting - here’s an exclusive - they are really actors! Oh and here’s something I’m sure is going to shock you: the meerkat compare insurance ads don’t actually feature real meerkats! Of course, there are some brilliant actors with disabilities or learning difficulties who play great parts like Liz Carr in Silent Witness, RJ Mitte from Breaking Bad and Liam Bairstow from Coronation Street. On that subject, I’m trying to get hold of David Walliams as I am the real Andy Pipkin from Little Britain, because although I use a wheelchair, I can get up and walk and I want them to use me in the show in future.
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More questions than answers Reader John Hare in Almeria Province has taken issue with the EWN over its coverage of the PGOU master plan that helps to make homes legal in Zurgena. HAVING attended the PGOU meeting, it was good to think that quite a high number of Zurgena residents may eventually, in time, get legal status for their property. However, having sat through the whole meeting, seen the article in the Euro Weekly News, I must take issue over some of what I heard and have read. The main reason for my suspicion is the status of some of the land as on the plan shown at the meeting, seems to be clearly wrong and contravenes one of the strictest parts of the LOUA planning laws. That is: Article 46. Non Urbanisable Land (Suelo No Urbanizable) Section i. “It presents real risks of erosion, slippage, landslide, flood or other natural risks.” Many properties have already been affected by flooding and some have lost land into the ramblas (gulley). There are even cases where the villas are very close to crumbling edges and look dodgy to say the least. Such examples, I would have thought, must be non-urbanisable yet shown on the provided plan as Non Consolidated Urban. I therefore think it is misleading to the community to make quotes such as ‘approval of the PGOU in its entirety’ and ‘all properties shown as urban consolidated, urban not consolidated and urbanisable will become urban consolidated, in other words fully legal.’ If the council intends to issue more building licences on such land in the future, surely, this could be very misleading and costly to unsuspecting buyers. Ultimately we need honesty and transparency from the council. John Hare
Tyre help wanted I SEE that Spain wants to use tyres for future roads. We have lots of tyres, we are looking for a company that wants to purchase them for recycling. Can any of your readers help? Rob (full name supplied)
Doggy query I WOULD like to know if you could please tell me the location of the Dog Rescue Centre run by Jo and Jan which is featured in the Bargain Brits Channel 4 programme. I would like to give them some support if possible. Thank you. John Corry Editor’s note: Jo and Jan of Animals in Distress (AID) in Coin (Malaga) can
PROBLEMS: Land may not be suitable for being built on. be contacted at animalsindistress2007@ya hoo.co.uk / www.animals-in-distress.eu.
Marxist oppressor Cassandra Nash’s statement that VOX politicians should remember that half of voters are women (Issue 1751) when they complain
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about anti-gender violence laws drew this response… YOU should remember 50 per cent of the population is male, 50 per cent of the population is against the law of gender violence, and what you are trying is the Marxist practice of oppressed oppressor. What an unjust woman! Name supplied
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Rest in peace WE were sad to learn that the remains of Julen, the twoyear-old boy who fell down a well in Andalucia’s Malaga Province, were found on Saturday. Post-mortem tests have now begun on his body, with the results due in about two weeks. Coroners and forensic experts said the two-year-old probably free fell 71 metres down the bore hole in Totalan. Sunday saw hundreds of mourners gather at Malaga City’s San Juan Cemetery for Julen’s funeral. Parents Jose Rosello and Victoria Garcia were joined by government officials and those who took part in rescue efforts for the ceremony. The death of Julen is tragic, made all the more so by the fact the two-year-old’s parents lost another son in 2017. The search for Julen saw the local community rally round to lend its efforts in hope of reaching him alive. Their efforts were in vain but in the tragedy we saw how the desire to put aside daily concerns to help those in jeopardy can push people to heroic lengths. Those efforts captured the imagination of our readers, Spain and large parts of the world. The death has also cast light on the wider issue of illegal wells in Spain. The Ministry of Agriculture estimates there could be as many as 510,000 throughout the country. But for now we join our readers who commented in the hundreds on our coverage to say: ‘Rest in peace’ to Julen.
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Two-year-old had ‘clean fall’ down 71m hole From what the autopsy has revealed ‘Julen’ had a ‘clean fall’ 71 metres - not 110 as originally mentioned. He landed on earth that filled up the lower part of the well and there was no water. He wouldn’t have drowned, but most definitely that fall would have killed him instantly. You may wonder why a stranger in the UK is writing this? I’ve no one to talk to - and Julen has been on my mind since the accident. It helps me - as i hope it does you too - to know he didn’t suffer. I send my love to all. God bless. Mary Hey Mary, Writing to you from IL, USA. I’ve been heartbroken since first hearing about the boy who fell down the borehole. I checked his update every few minutes on Google, hoping for a success. I think about Julen every day since I have a three-yearold daughter. It is definitely a sad discovery and hope to get closure from his autopsy, as I hope he did not suffer. If you want to talk I’m here. Sending love from the USA. Danijela It has been on my mind too Mary. It does help to think he didn’t suffer, I hope it will bring some comfort to his parents and family, if not now, perhaps in the future. May he rest in peace. Fiona
COMMENTS FROM EWN ONLINE ful that he is out of that place, and thanks to those wonderful people that were willing to risk there lives for little Julen, safe with Jesus, will always remember him, and may God bless you all, and comfort you at this most painful time. Ann I prayed and cried out for the family, I thought about him every day, I am so sorry for your loss, may he dwell in the house of the lord, he is now an angel along with his brother. Lord bless all the workers who continually to fight day and night to bring precious Julen home. May God bless his family and heal them in this time of loss. Lynda Thank goodness to have found Julen and brought him out! Terrible tragedy, but the people working on this did wonderfully and were very brave. Just hope Julen didn’t suffer bless his little heart. My condolences and love to his parents. XXXXX Mary
Dead body of two-year-old Julen found in Totalan well
EU’s ‘Golden visa’ offered to wealthy foreigners could encourage criminal applicants
My heart goes out to his parents and family, so sad, so grate-
Given the number and type of rich people who’ve taken ad-
vantage of these visas where I live, I think the EU has a valid point. Annie Suprise, suprise! Are politicians mad or stupid? Of course it will attract the dubious, but it’s money in the bank. Saya
Here’s the proof… Court document backs EWN owner Always good to see truth and honesty triumphing over lies and deceit. My heartiest congratulations to the Euesdens on their significant victory. Brian
How to check if your passport is valid after Brexit If you find it is not valid, just jump into the back of a lorry, or a small inflatable boat. The ferry service will ensure you get there safely. PM
British bar owner ordered to remove Union Jack flags or face heavy fine in Benidorm Can you imagine the cries of racism that would fill social media if British authorities ordered a Spanish flag to be taken down? Angus
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7:45am Great British Garden Revival 8:45am Life in a Cottage Garden with Carol Klein 9:15am The Instant Gardener 10:05am Countryfile 11:00am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 12:30pm Mary Berry Cooks 1:00pm The Hairy Bikers' Northern Exposure 2:00pm Talking Pictures 2:50pm A Matter of Life and Death 4:35pm Galapagos 5:35pm Flog It! 6:15pm Six Nations Rugby Special 7:15pm Ski Sunday 8:00pm The Five Billion Pound Super Sewer 9:00pm Dragons' Den 10:00pm Africa with Ade Adepitan 11:00pm Match of the Day 2 12:00am Rugby Union 12:30am Insert Name Here 1:00am Valhalla Rising 2:25am Question Time 3:25am Holby City
8:00pm Masters of the Pacific Coast: The Tribes of the American Northwest 9:00pm A Slow Odyssey: The Great Wall of China 10:30pm The Greatest Tomb on Earth: Secrets of Ancient China Documentary exploring the true origins of China. 11:30pm Ovid: The Poet and the Emperor 12:30am Gods and Monsters 1:30am This Green and Pleasant Land: The Story of British Landscape Painting 3:00am Our Classical Century 4:00am Masters of the Pacific Coast: The Tribes of the American Northwest
8:20am Mr. Bean: The Animated Series 8:30am Scrambled! 8:35am The Tom and Jerry Show 8:50am Ben 10 9:10am Mr. Bean: The Animated Series 9:30am Spy School 10:05am Mighty Magiswords 10:25am ITV News 10:30am Parveen's Indian Kitchen 11:30am This Morning - On Sunday 12:30pm Ainsley's Caribbean Kitchen 1:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 1:45pm To be Announced 3:15pm Goldfinger 5:30pm ITV Evening News 5:45pm Regional News and Weather 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Dancing on Ice 9:00pm Vera 11:00pm ITV News 11:15pm Britain's Top 100 Dogs Live 2019 1:35am Cold Feet
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TECH FOR THE TIMID IMAGINE the distress message from a friend last month, stranded on a Greek island without her passport, her money and her phone. Could I, would I, head for the nearest Western Union to help? Except I had been having coffee with her that very morning. Half a world away from the Greek Islands. Hacking is what happens to other people. As the Mafia tried to teach Hugh Grant to say in ‘Mickey Blue Eyes’: ‘Fuhgeddabahtid!’ Stealing our friend’s previous phone had unleashed the bad dudes on her data, hence the spurious message to everyone in her contacts list. Nobody responded, which either says a lot about how scam-savvy we all are, or perhaps she needs better friends. Being hacked can change your life, as the 2013 movie ‘Identity Thief’ portrayed so graphically. The hero is ruined financially, loses his job, is falsely identified as a drug dealer, and is arrested for missing a court date for a crime he didn’t commit, all from online identity theft. Hollywood hyperbole? Again: ‘fuhgeddabahtid.’ Better still, mosey
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Have you been hacked? Terence Kennedy discovers how the bad guys will find you
BE AWARE: Have you been ‘pwned?’ over to the instructions alongside to check safely and easily whether your own e-mail accounts are secure, just for starters. I just did and alarmingly, two of the three e-mail accounts I use have been compromised, one of them by three different sets of hackers. How does that happen? Let me not
name the ways, there are simply far too many and increasing by the day. One of the most recent, if you’ve ever stayed at a Marriott hotel anywhere in the world, in November they admitted ‘losing’ 500 million customer records to hackers. Oops. Yahoo had a breathtaking one billion accounts compromised in 2016.
LinkedIn released 165 million account-holders’ data into the wild. Sony, Tumblr and Evernote have all been breached and the list goes on. And on. ‘Sextortion’ is the newest twist in this never-ending story. Hackers with stolen passwords ambush their victims, showing the passwords as ‘proof’ they have records of porn site visits, which they will release to family and friends if ransoms are not paid. According to the ‘Have I been pwned’ website (see alongside), my own far less salacious data went public thanks to breaches of Dropbox, an online ‘spambot’ in Holland, and a South African cinema club I joined in another life. As the site specifies, the stolen data includes my birth date, my e-mail address, my gender, my name, my passwords, my phone numbers, my physical address and my spoken languages. All that seems missing is my underwear size. At least until M&S gets hacked.
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How secure is your e-mail? IS your e-mail still secure, and with it, your registrations on sites which have recorded that e-mail address? One simple check may help. Being ‘pwned’ (pronounced ‘poned’ but your mileage may differ) is a streetwise corruption of being perfectly ‘owned.’ Hence the name of the definitive site, ‘Have I been pwned’ (https://haveibeen pwned.com). Enter your address, press search, and brace for dismay. Of my three current addresses, only one is still sacrosanct, the other has starred in no fewer than three infamous dumps, and the third in ‘just’ one. Ouch. Obviously the service only searches among known data dumps from breaches; there’s no guarantee your info isn’t also lurking out there somewhere else, quietly ticking like the proverbial time bomb. Have a nice day!
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Barry Duke IN the space of a week, first as a passenger in a taxi and then on a bus, I heard the respective drivers swearing like fishwives after they’d come within inches of what could have been two serious prangs. In both instances - in the same week that Prince Philip, 97, crashed his Land Rover - the cars which had caused the near-collisions had UK licence plates and elderly drivers. Most of what the bus driver yelled was incomprehensible to me. But I got the gist of what he shouted: ‘Foreign drivers are s*&t!’ The taxi driver ’s tirade, on the other hand, was in English and he told me foreign drivers were the bane of his life. ‘The problem is they are far too old and have no idea what they’re doing.’ Then, suddenly realising he may have offended me, he asked whether I drove. I replied that I gave up because I suffer glaucoma, a condition which has robbed me of my peripheral vision. So I decided the responsible thing to do was to pack in motorcycles and cars. But I agreed that far too many
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Time to surrender the wheels? have reached an age which makes them a danger to themselves and others. For decades, I tore around the streets of London on a variety of motorbikes without getting turned into flying mince by incompetent drivers, but when I moved to Brighton, all that changed. Very soon I learned the roads of Sussex were full of pensioners mainly driving Volvos, and they only ever looked into their rear view mirrors to check whether they were wearing their cloth caps and spectacles. On one occasion, a Volvo ahead of me stopped without warning. The driver then threw the car into reverse, and crashed into me. Amazingly he angrily accused me of rear-ending him! The old geezer quickly backed down when a witness confirmed not only was I stationary when I was hit, but that I was sounding my horn. Turned out
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the driver was practically stone deaf. But British drivers in Spain are often heard loudly complaining that Spanish drivers are the ones who are rubbish. This from freelance writer Sandra Piddock: ‘Your average Spaniard is very laid back and never in a hurry; unless he’s behind the wheel. ‘He’ll overtake anyone who isn’t going fast enough for him, which means just about everybody else on the road. What’s really annoying is the way the Spanish signal their intentions. They don’t, and you have to play Mystic Meg and guess where they’re heading. ‘The average Spaniard is so full of his own importance behind the wheel he expects everyone to know what he’s doing and where he’s going. If you don’t guess right, it’s your fault, not his.’ I’m fine not owning a vehicle in Spain because bus and train fares are dirt cheap, and taxis charge fair prices, so my annual outlay on transport is minimal. But not everyone thinks public transport is a good thing. A moronic Tory politician once told me in all seriousness that if London were to ban buses, car drivers would get around the city far faster than they do.
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SPAIN is brimming with spectacular spots for a sojourn, but you knew that anyway didn’t you? You probably also know that wine culture is very close to Spaniards’ hearts, and in fact anyone living in Spain. There’s good reason for it as Spain has the largest area of cultivated vineyards in the entire world. So what better than to give a reverential nod to Spanish wine produce and combine your next staycation trip with a tipple? Here are some of our favourite choices. Let us know yours and we’ll publish the best in the next issue. If you like a bit of sparkle, you’ve probably long enjoyed Spain’s splendid, home-grown, Catalan Cava. Why not take in 500 years of history and the architectural and natural splendour of the oldest Cava producer, Codorniu. Visit the labyrinth of underground cellars and the Cathedral of Cava. It is recognised as a National Monument and has a variety of tour op-
Catalan Cava or robust Rioja? Spain’s spectacular sojourns PANORAMIC VIEW: Montserrat Monastery.
tions to suit everyone. Or opt for the mountains and enjoy the vista at artisan, organic Cava producers Llopart. Close to the rocky outcrop of Montserrat which
dominates the cava towns, why not explore the remarkable 1,000-yearold Benedictine monastery of Santa Maria de Montserrat, panoramic views and scenic walks accompa-
nied by Catalan fare for lunch and an afternoon tasting some of the best Cava the Penedes region has to offer. How about must-see Bodegas in lush La Rioja? Bodegas Ysios is architecturally one of the most stunning winery buildings to visit. Designed by celebrated architect Santiago Calatrava, it mirrors the rolling Sierra de Cantabria Mountains which serve as its backdrop. Or try the family-owned winery Eguren Ugarte, located near the old town of Laguardia. Opt for a tasting tour, or a full underground cellar experience where winery patrons store their personal collections of precious wines. For a truly unique location, head for Marques De Riscal, at the world famous Tajo de Ronda. The winery building is originally a convent dat-
ing back to the 16th century. The former chapel is home to barrels, where you can admire the ancient frescoes. Its gardens and terraces offer unmatched views of the Serrania de Ronda, so take in nature and fine wine all in one perfect location. If you’re planning on travelling outside of your country of residence this year, stay safe and remember to buy Travel Insurance. Like it or not, we’re less resilient when travelling away from home. Minor ailments may easily turn into health headaches when travelling. Decent travel insurance shields you from holiday disasters and Globelink Travel Insurance is a small price to pay for peace of mind. Globelink Travel Insurance: for people living in the EU. Visit www.globelink.co.uk, or call (UK) +44 1353 699 082 or our Spanish link line 966 265 000.
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You realise this week how liberating it is to share your thoughts and feelings with someone close. It is not always easy to do this, until you realise everyone has them. Some hopes and dreams are more attainable than others, of course, and someone has to find out which are which.
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TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) With a mind as sharp as a needle, you spin through the week, weaving your own charming spell. A bit of extra confidence works wonders for your mood. Something that you read sets you thinking about doing some writing or creating something artistic, perhaps even a musical.
GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) Although energy is not high, there is the need to have some kind of challenge. With the brain active, it is an ideal time to plot and plan your next moves. Maybe something that has been delayed might now be advanced. You find it hard to choose between opportunities. The road ahead is open. Keeping things simple is best.
CANCER (June 22 - July 23) The imagination stirs and the heart races at a suggestion this week. Your strong intuition tells you it is the right thing to do. You are a constant friend, but such an adventure may mean an absence from someone close.
LEO (July 24 - August 23) Reading the small print or being sure what is offered in a personal encounter is most important this week. Leave nothing to chance or you could be out of pocket. When discussing the future with someone close, you are expected to take the lead.
VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) Being over-generous with cash midweek could see you making a poor move. Perhaps someone needs to be more hardworking or perhaps less of a spendthrift. Propping up a bad habit would be doing them no favours. There are doubts in your mind about a family holiday.
LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) A suggestion made by you recently did not seem to be taken seriously. This week, however, negotiations could be opened. Circumstances change and it may seem someone gave up too early. Bide your time and even hold your tongue when someone in a strong position spouts rubbish.
SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Confidence in a close relationship should be maintained. Possibly someone who envies your position would like to see discord. A matter of spiritual or religious faith is questioned, but the answer comes more clearly and sharply than you would have thought. In discussions with yourself (sometimes the best kind) answers come easily.
SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) An emotional cut-off from the past is not as bad as anticipated. Indeed, it confirms in your mind who you are and what your place in the world is. Inherited traits knit easily with your present life and bring contentment. All that you want to change at the moment are certain things round you that have been outgrown.
CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) An investment made recently is built upon and brings peace of mind. Finances do need consideration but more in the long than the short-term. Much is happening in the background that does not require your attention but, all the same, be aware. Life may be like a game of chess, but this week if you turn your back an opponent may cheat.
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Cryptic Across 1 Gloomy elk crossing river (6) 4 Austrian composer of Harlem Shuffle (6) 9 Curse a small company in a surge (7) 10 Frank is not attractive (5) 11 Harvest in Lancashire, apparently (4) 12 Not a positive denial (8) 14 Complete western part of golf course (5) 16 Left on the side of a shelf (5) 20 Various butcher stores feature in ad (8) 21 Pastry dish left in cooler (4) 24 Easterner is back among articles (5) 25 Italian city designed for romance? (7) 26 Revolver for an artist? (6) 27 Master of Italy gets a scare, perhaps (6) Down 1 Unhappiness of skinflint with ponytail (6) 2 South American city, and yes, German red wine (5) 3 Tender god of love turns up (4) 5 A paper edited before editor turned up (8) 6 Badly aligned in front (7) 7 Untidy diners should be washed with water (6) 8 Characters in a magazine were more up-to-date (5)
13 Enforce changes around Lithuanian capital, European city (8) 15 Has a row, being more rash (7) 17 Empty tin placed in barrel (6) 18 Juicy fruit, penny apiece (5)
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Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 1 represents T and 10 represents G, so fill in T every time the figure 1 appears and G every time the figure 10 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 Refund of some fraction of the amount paid (6) 4 Bypass (4) 8 Savagely violent man or animal (5) 9 Another time (5) 10 Writing desk (10) 13 Ardent follower (10) 17 Abnormally fat (5) 18 Snow leopard (5) 19 Piece of music for one person (4) 20 Act upon (6)
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Across 1 To empty (out) (6) 5 Cadenas (6) 8 Respuestas (a preguntas, en examen, test) (7) 9 Wave (4) 10 Capaz (4) 11 Sunrise (8) 12 Enviar (4) 13 Quién (3) 14 Carbón (4) 16 Arriba (8) 20 Lion (4) 21 Turnip (4) 22 Regalo (7) 23 To lie (6)
Down 1 Loose flowing garment (4) 2 Melancholic music (5) 3/18 Commence a game of golf (3,3) 5 Yellowish brown colour (5) 6 Weigh in the mind (6) 7 Cause to be firmly attached (6) 11 Destroyed physically or morally (6) 12 Widely known and esteemed (6) 14 Perfection (5) 15 Thick, closely-spaced, compact (5) 16 Amount owed by one person to another (4) 18 See 3
The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English.
24 Fever (6) Down 2 Wire (metal) (7) 3 En cambio (7) 4 Wheel (5) 5 Chestnut (7) 6 Encima de (5) 7 Nobody (5) 13 Susurrar (7) 14 Colegio (7) 15 To bet (gamble) (7) 17 Toll (on road, bridge) (5) 18 Trucha (5) 19 Estante (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 (ICEBOX) and one letter in four other cells are given as clues.
BEYOND GLOOMY HUNGRY ICEBOX (10) INTONE LARYNX MOMENT OBLIGE PATROL POPLIN PRIORY PRISSY SENIOR SHAGGY SLEUTH SNIVEL SPRUCE VOYAGE YOGURT
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 Campus 2 Lignum 3 Hymnal 4 Thirty 5 Swampy 6 Waylay 7 Latter 8 Fleshy 9 Grater 10 Twelve 11 Famine 12 Teller 13 Fallen 14 Oxygen 15 Vandal 16 Tanned 17 Inland 18 Infant 19 Syndic.
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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.
TARGET: • Average: 28 • Good: 39
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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: 20
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Excellent: 26
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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION beer bore born bred burn deer doer dour drub erne euro nerd redo reed rend robe rode rube rudd rude rued rune bored borne bourn brede breed drone enure erode odder orbed reded robed round udder under bedder bender bonder bourne burden burned droned endure enrobe enured eroded nodder redbud redden redone undoer bounder endured enrobed rebound redound rounded underdo burdened REBOUNDED
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QUICK Across: 1 Brass, 3 Sharp, 6/18 Tai chi, 8 Regatta, 9 Steal, 10 Fees, 13 Avid, 14 Latte, 17 Evasive, 19 Sleet, 20 Twice.
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Down: 1 Bets, 2 Stream, 3 Saga, 4 Authentic, 5 Praise, 7 Intricate, 11 Cadets, 12 Latest, 15 Mist, 16 Dire.
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1 Lack, 3 Contests, 9 Terrain, 10 Gorge, 11 Liszt, 12 Titled, 14 Strand, 16 Grange, 19 Glared, 21 Truce, 24 Spill, 25 Service, 26 Enduring, 27 Bent.
1 Pack, 3 Campaign, 9 Afilado, 10 Bison, 11 Flour, 12 Clever, 14 Riddle, 16 Abades, 19 Biblia, 21 Sobre, 24 Erizo, 25 Emerald, 26 Ansiedad, 27 Deer.
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1 Littlest, 2 Cords, 4 Ornate, 5 Tight, 6 Surgeon, 7 Seek, 8 Wanton, 13 Vehement, 15 Rallied, 17 Retort, 18 Odds-on, 20 Ruler, 22 Unite, 23 Isle.
1 Platform, 2 Chico, 4 At once, 5 Pobre, 6 Instead, 7 None, 8 Barrel, 13 Ascender, 15 Daisies, 17 Basket, 18 Bañera, 20 Loose, 22 Brave, 23 Cena.
App of the week Swipe of finger TENKYU is a new app which requires users to roll a ball through a 3D world to reach the goal while collecting gems and moving up the levels. Carefully manoeuvre through stages, or meet your doom. At the swipe of a finger you can tilt the stage and roll the ball. But you have to be careful not to tilt too much, it’s game over if the ball falls.
QUIZ: HEART TO HEART 1. Because of his reputation as a great military leader and warrior, which king of England was known as Cœur de Lion or the Lionheart? 2. In L Frank Baum’s children’s novel The Wizard of Oz, first published in 1900, which of the characters was searching for a heart? 3. In which year did cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard perform the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa? 4. Octopuses have how many hearts? 5. The professional football club Heart of Midlothian, more commonly known as Hearts, is based which city? 6. What is the name of the United States military decoration awarded in the name of the president to those
wounded or killed while serving, on or after April 5, 1917, with the US military? 7. What name is given to the branch of medicine that deals with diseases and abnormalities of the heart? 8. Which 1949 British black comedy film, featured Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson and Alec Guinness, who played nine characters? 9. Which American undergarment manufacturer first produced its famous Cross Your Heart bra in 1954? 10. Which duo wrote Cilla Black’s first UK number one hit single Anyone Who Had a Heart (1964)? Not a lot of people know that... the average adult heart beats 72 times a minute; 100,000 times a day; 3,600,000 times a year and 2.5 billion times during a lifetime
Answers: 1, RICHARD I, 2. TIN WOODMAN (accept TIN MAN), 3. 1967, 4. THREE (a systemic heart that circulates blood round the body and two branchial hearts that pump it through each of the two gills), 5. EDINBURGH (Gorgie), 6. PURPLE HEART, 7. CARDIOLOGY, 8. KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS, 9. PLAYTEX, 10. BURT BACHARACH AND HAL DAVID
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• Justin Timberlake, Pop singer; January 31, 37 famous British sitcoms, Only Fools and Horses Pop star and actor who first gained notoriety as a and played Detective Inspector Jack Frost on member of the boy band NSYNC. After the band ITV’s A Touch of Frost. He spent six years broke up, he launched a solo career that has training as an electrician before pursuing acting. • Amal Clooney, Lawyer; February 3, 40 included the #1 singles Sexy Back and My Love. As an actor, he has played prominent roles in such David Jason. Wife of Hollywood star, George Clooney, she is films as The Social Network and Bad Teacher. a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers and her • Michael C Hall, TV actor; February 1, 47 notable clients include Julian Assange, founder of Hall became a phenomenon as Dexter Morgan on the WikiLeaks, and former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Clooney is also an activist and author. Showtime series Dexter. The role earned him a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He first • Alice Cooper, Rock singer; February 4, 70 gained recognition on the hit HBO series Six Feet Under. The rock singer released the hits School’s Out and • David Jason, TV actor; February 2, 78 Eighteen, and gained fame for album Billion Dollar Babies in 1973. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of A national treasure, Jason starred in one of the most
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Fame in 2011. Cooper was nominated for a Grammy Award for Hands of Death (Burn Baby Burn) in 1997. • Cristiano Ronaldo, Footballer; February 5 One of the world’s best footballers, he rose to fame as a forward for Real Madrid after being bought from Manchester United in 2009. He became captain of the Portuguese national team in 2008 and received the Ballon d’Or as the European Footballer of the Year in 2008, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017. In 2018, he signed with Juventus. • Ashleigh Butler, Reality star; February 6 Best known for winning the reality series Britain’s Got Talent following a dance performance with her mixedbreed dog, Pudsey, the television phenomenon later hosted a reality series called Who Let the Dogs Out?
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WHEN Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr Shields, she thinks all she’ll have to do is answer a few questions, collect her money, and leave. But as the questions grow more and more intense and invasive and the sessions become outings where Jess is told what to wear and how to act, she begins to feel as though Dr Shields may know what she’s thinking… and what she’s hiding. As Jess’s paranoia grows, it becomes clear that she can no longer trust what in her life is real, and what is one of Dr Shields’ manipulative experiments. Caught in a web of deceit and jealousy, Jess quickly learns that some obsessions can be deadly. From the authors of the blockbuster bestseller The Wife Between Us this new novel is about doubt, passion, and how much you can trust someone.
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60 - First day The earliest date for which the day of the week is known. A graffito in Pompeii identifies a day in this week as a ‘dies Solis’ (Sunday), but in modern reckoning, it would have been a Wednesday. 211 - Emperor dies Roman Emperor, Septimius Severus, dies at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against Caledonians. 1141 - Battle of Lincoln King Stephen is captured by forces loyal to Empress Matilda and commanded by Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester. 1349 - Black death By this week, at least 200 people a day are being buried in London from the Black Death. 1587 - Execution Queen Elizabeth I of England signs death warrant for her cousin, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots. 1870 - Equal rights The 15th Amendment to the US Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing the right of citizens to vote, regardless of race or colour. 1943 - Big defeat German troops surrender at Stalingrad, marking the first big defeat of Hitler’s armies in the Second World War. During the Battle of Stalingrad, 160,000 Germans were killed. 2003 - Space shuttle Sixteen minutes before it is scheduled to land, the Space Shuttle Columbia breaks apart in flight over west Texas, killing all seven of its crew.
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WHEN 90-year-old Earl Stone loses everything he loves, can he use ill-gotten gains to win it back before the DEA, or the cartel, takes him down? Written by Nick Schenk and directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, The Mule (2018) was inspired by a New York Times article ‘The Sinaloa Cartel’s 90-Year Old Drug Mule’ by Sam Dolnick. The Mule uses true events to frame a much more compelling story. Bucking the current trend of emotionally monochrome dramas, this film is a rich tapestry of triumph and tragedy, humour and sadness, and guilt and forgiveness.
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It all adds THE prospect of doing a large amount of exercise can sometimes be off-putting, and the more we avoid it, the guiltier we feel, creating a cycle where exercise can seem like a chore rather than something to be enjoyed. But one scientist says that instead of focusing on creating large goals and then feeling bad if we don’t achieve them, we should actually just take small steps towards fitting a little more activity into things we naturally do every day. Michelle Segar, a psychologist and director of the University of Michigan Sport, Health and Activity Research and Policy Centre, told American radio station NPR, that we place too much importance on thinking of exercise as an organised activity which must involve the gym, running, Spandex, or sweating. Segar explains that literally every time we move our bodies we are benefiting our health, whether that movement constitutes traditional forms of exercise or not. She says: “The research does now show that basically all movement counts, and anything is better than nothing,” adding, “I’ve been astounded that even up until today, very educated people don't know - don’t believe - that walking actually ‘counts’ as valid exercise.” Loretta DiPietro, exercise research scientist at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health, told the same station that scientists measure how an activity affects our
up body using the value MET (metabolic equivalent). She explains this means that any and all activity has a rating, and some routine tasks we perform on a near daily basis without considering them exercise have a higher MET value than some workouts. DiPietro says exercise that is moderate to intense will have a value of between three and six METs, both of which are covered by mopping (3.5 METs), or slowly climbing the stairs (four METs). Climbing the stairs fast uses nine METs, more than line dancing at eight. And given that we are told to take in 150 minutes of moderately intense exercise a week, it is easy to see how normal activities could easily add up. DiPietro says this means instead of focusing on increasing levels of organised exercise, if you are unlikely to actually stick to this it may be better to just slightly increase the level of activities we already perform. This could mean taking the stairs instead of the lift or parking further away when shopping.
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What are the benefits of a facial? THESE questions are extremely common if you’ve never had a facial before. With any pro facial, you’ll receive a professional consultation where you can voice your concerns to your aesthetician and what you want out of your facial. Almost all facials consist of four basic steps: cleansing, exfoliating, massaging the face and neck, and applying a mask for your specific skin type. However, at Derma Clinic Spain the facials are more advanced and you’ll find even more differences depending on the spa, aesthetician, skincare line and your specific skin type and concerns. After the consultation, our therapist will help you onto the bed, wrap you up comfortably and make sure you feel completely relaxed. We start with a pre-cleanse and a skin reading to analyse your skin, identify your concerns and maximise the results of your facial. In some cases a cleanse under steam would be necessary. Depending on your level of sensitivity we choose the appropriate method of exfoliation using enzyme exfoliation, a light chemical peel, or a scrub to reveal fresh new skin cells, and smooth out the texture of your skin. If extractions and comedone removal is necessary, we will gently remove impurities. Do not try to do this at home. Your aesthetician has softened the skin and has the right tools to do this without damaging the skin. We work in a completely sterile environment, ensuring no dirt or bacteria is pushed back into the skin, as it often is at home. Depending on your skin type, we choose a massage product and custom blend it to target your concerns. We use a serum containing vitamins, minerals, amino acids or hyaluronic acid customised for your skin type. This is where your aesthetician can zero in on the biggest concern you have, whether it’s excess oil, visible capillaries, lines and wrinkles or anything in between. With signature techniques we do a massage to help increase circulation, control excess oil production and soften fine lines. Not only is this step beneficial, but it’s extremely relaxing. It’s ok to fall asleep during this part of your facial! Next, the appropriate power mask will be placed directly on top of the power treatment. The mask drives active ingredients deep into your skin, helping you get the most out of your treatment. As your skin absorbs the customised ingredients, you can enjoy a relaxing shoulder and neck massage, with 100 per cent natural aromatic oils. If you didn’t fall asleep before, you will now! Your therapist will find the pressure points, and after a 15-minute massage, you will for sure, feel relaxed. The finishing step in the facial: your soft skin will be protected with a targeted serum and either sunscreen or moisturiser, depending on the time of day. The benefits of a facial depend on what type you choose, but you can expect these steps in all of our treatments at Derma Clinic Spain. Follow us on Facebook to see our monthly offer. In February, save 15 per cent on our popular anti-wrinkle treatment.
Call for an appointment on: 674 255 579 Avda. del Albir 161, local 1 674 255 579 www.dermaclinicspain.com Alternatively see our Facebook page facebook.com/DermaClinicSpain
NOW I agree that carbs aren’t great, generally speaking, when trying to lose weight. However, they still have a vital role to play in exercise. When we exercise, especially intensively such as performing cardio, High Intensity interval training (HIIT) or a full-on weights session, our body requires fuel and energy to sustain this. This fuel comes from protein which helps to repair muscle, and carbs which our body draws on for energy. To exercise and not supply our body with this, will lead to storing fat we have eaten, for energy. The result? Fatigue, injury, and certainly not weight loss. That doesn’t mean go to the gym and binge on toast when you get home! It means, eating complex carbs. Green vegetables, wholegrain rice, lentils, quinoa, pasta, sweet potatoes, all with a healthy supply of meat or fish for the protein. The most effective exercise to make part of your weekly routine, is
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CARBS: Still have their place. simply 15 minutes of HIIT on a moderate or high-carb day. The interval nature of this keeps your metabolic rate higher for longer,
even more than if you went for a longer run at a steady, even pace. Even better, everyone can fit this in, even in your living room! YouTube have some great and easy to follow videos, simply type into the search, ‘HIIT at home.’ Tomorrow (Friday) I fly to the UK to embark on a 15-mile/24 kilometre hill run for charity, titled ‘It’s grim up North’ and I will certainly be carb-loading for the event as otherwise I will not have enough fuel to keep me going! Come back next week to find out if I survive the monstrous trek! Visit Kate’s successful facebook group www.facebook.com/groups/carb cyclingforbeginners or follow on Instagram @carbcyclingqueen.
Surprisingly good for you WE all know some foods are better for us than others, and most of us try to stick mainly to a diet of products which support our health, spurning some of our favourites in the quest to look after ourselves. But did you know that some of the foods we might think of as being traditionally ‘bad,’ may in fact contain surprising health benefits? There is in fact a whole host of food and drinks we may be unnecessarily depriving ourselves of when in fact - eaten in moderation - they can actually be good for us. On the other hand, there are also supposedly ‘good’ products which may be harmful. The humble potato, a staple part of many meals, has been much criticised in recent years for its high carbohydrate - and sometimes fat content. And while this may be warranted in the case of potatoes served in the form of French fries, crisps or mash, prepared healthily potatoes can form part of a nutritious, balanced diet.
NOT BAD: Experts say some ‘bad’ foods could actually be healthy. Baked, boiled, or even roasted, they can leave us feeling fuller for longer, cutting down on the amount of other foods we consume. Potatoes also contain good levels of antioxidants, fibre, vitamin C, vitamin B6, potassium, and manganese. Whole milk is another
product we tend to avoid out of concerns over its fat content. In fact, some experts believe whole milk contains more vitamin D and Omega 3 oils than skimmed and semiskimmed varieties. Similarly, cheese often receives a bad reputation, but also contains large quantities of calcium, as
well as some amount of almost every vitamin and mineral your body needs to function well.Even chocolate can hold surprising health benefits. Dark chocolate is thought to contain high levels of antioxidants - the chemicals which help to fight off cancer-causing ones - higher levels than found in even super foods like blueberries. The same benefits do not apply to milk or white chocolate, however, so these are best avoided.And finally, a look at a supposedly healthy product which can actually cause more harm than good: fruit juice. While we have been for years told that orange juice and other ‘health’ drinks can improve immunity or health, scientists say fruitbased drinks in fact contain high levels of sugar and very few nutritional benefits. So if you do feel like a juice, it is important to make sure it is 100 per cent natural with no added ingredients, and even then only consume in moderation.
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Cervical cancer; ignorance is NOT bliss IT is now 10 years on from the publicised illness and death of Jade Goody, the young mother who was diagnosed with cervical cancer and died shortly after at age 27. In her final months, she was seen to be actively promoting cervical screening for young women and thanks to her tenacity, Public Health England saw a rise of nearly half a million women going for their screening. However, sadly all Jade’s hard work seems to be in the past as women are missing their cervical smear appointments, putting them off and putting their lives at risk. Screening attendance rates have dropped to the lowest for at least 21 years, which is dramatic given the large upsurge 10 years ago. Around 3,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer per year in the UK, of which around 28 per cent (approx 1,000) die. The highest incidence is in women aged 25-29, although around 10 per cent of cases are in women over 75. One in four women are missing their appointment due to embarrassment about body shape. Other women say they are more reluctant to give up an appointment at the gym or hairdresser than their cervical smear appointment.
ANTIBIOTICS - once prescribed freely for even minor infections - are increasingly being given out less frequently due to concerns we are becoming resistant to them. Even so, a recent study found that in 2016 one in six patients was still given antibiotics they did not need. Researchers at the University of Michigan looked at antibiot-
MISSED APPOINTMENTS: Don’t put off this life-saving screening. More than a quarter of those who do not attend their screening say they didn’t go because they were healthy, and more than a third believe that screening actually reduces your cancer risk. In fact, smear tests prevent 75 per cent of
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ity is obviously troublesome. Fortunately at Medcare, you will not have this problem as appointments are usually available the same week for a smear. If further exploration or treatment is required, Medcare offers hospital referrals and appointments are given within just a few days. Cervical screening is slightly uncomfortable, however it is not painful. The procedure is carried out by Medcare’s female nurse Susie who is highly experienced and puts patients at ease. As cells in the body are constantly changing, it is recommended to have a smear test at least every two years. At Medcare, a mammogram can also be arranged. Don’t live in ignorance, make your appointment as soon as you are due. Medcare offers cervical screening as part of the Well Woman check (General Health Check which is currently discounted to €220) and emails are sent out during the year when there are health promotions. Join the mailing list so you can save money with Medcare! Call Medcare Monday to Friday 09.00 - 17.00 on 966 860 258 or email doctors@medcarespain.com.
“Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest threats to public health in the world, and the large number of antibiotics that providers prescribe for patients are a major driver of resistance.” The expert added: “Providers urgently need to eliminate prescribing that is not needed, both for the sake of their patients and society.”
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SHAKIRA has announced ‘the break is over’ as she hits the gym after spending Christmas with Barcelona football star partner, Gerard Pique, and their two children. The stunning singer, 41, boasts an incredible figure, but has vowed to put everything into looking nothing short of spectacular in her upcoming tour, dates of which have yet to be released.
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Celeb packed coach tours Spain and Tattoo Fixers’ Paisley Billings with controversial Celebrity Big Brother contestant and former Emmerdale star Roxanne Pallett The show has so far seen the celebrities stop off at Barcelona, paddleboard on the famous gay resort of Sitges and sea kayak in Tarragona. While in Tortosa they tried their hands at a survival master class, wakeboarding, before reaching the festival town of Benicassim, where it was another adrenaline fuelled competitive day with go-karting followed by sky gliding. The coach parked up in Valencia for two days to give the VIP passengers time to enjoy the sights and give paella making a go, before it was time to drive on to Denia for a bit of wine tasting, and on to Altea this week for a spot of fly boarding.
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VIEWERS are lapping up the rows and the laughs dished out by E4’s Celebrity Coach Trip as the bus makes its way across Spain, seeing famous faces voted off and getting on each episode. It’s been six years since the celeb version was screened. The non-celeb show has been running since 2005, but the VIP spin-off only ran from 2010 to 2012, until now. Everyone’s favourite coach driver Brendan Sheerin is back at the wheel of the starriest bus on the continent, but who has he been driving/chauffeuring around? The line-up of pairs include; Strictly Come Dancing pros James and Ola Jordan, singers Mutya Buena and Lisa Maffia, reality star Charlotte Crosby and boyfriend Joshua Ritche, and Made In Chelsea’s Sam Thompson and James Dunmore. Also boarding the bus are TOWIE’s Bobby Norris with Celebs Go Dating love expert Nadia Essex, rapper Big Narstie, X Factor duo Jedward, Union J stars Jaymi and JJ,
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This week Celebrity Chef from Ready Steady Cook & Fellow Master Chef Steven Saunders, proprietor of The Little Geranium in La Cala talks about a beautiful winter dish of slow cooked oxtail with truffled potato.
The perfect dish to fall asleep over!
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www.thelittlegeranium.com IN Spain this fantastic dish is called Rabo de toro (tail of the bull, or cow nowadays). Over the years it has become one of the most popular cuts of meat, very much on trend with chefs like me that like using the souvide machine or slow cooking unusual cuts of meat. It is one of those dishes that is widely appreciated all over the world, but it hailed from Cordoba on our doorstep! Its tradition began around the 16th century when most women had to reinvent their cooking skills in order to cook for large numbers of people. Since they were allowed to take the tails from the bulls killed in the bull fights, this type of food became extremely popular. Soon rabo de toro turned from the poor food into an elegant and
TRADITIONAL SPANISH: Oxtail stew with potatoes. aristocratic dish, like most poor food! Although found all over the world especially in places like South America, the Spanish have the dish perfect in my opinion. The rich gravy flavoured from the tender meat cooking on the bone, creates the most amazing flavours. Oxtail is a gelatin rich meat which helps it keep moist whilst it slow cooks and adds all that rich thickness and sticky texture.
I remember cooking Rabo de toro a few years ago for a group of friends for a dinner party at home. I got started before lunchtime to prepare in advance. I opened at least three bottles of good red wine to cook it in and obviously sampled them first! The first wine was an amazing Barolo from Italy and after a few glasses I reluctantly gave the
rest up for the stew. The second bottle was a French burgundy and that too was great and so I took a couple of glasses. The third bottle was a Spanish Rioja reserva and after a large glass of this beautiful smooth red I started to feel a bit dizzy and very tired and so I put the stew in the oven on a low heat and sat down on the sofa. I fell asleep and when my friends turned up for dinner at 8pm I had been asleep for almost eighthours! Oh my god the stew!! I rushed to the oven with my friends laughing out loud and looked in the pan. To my surprise the oxtail had cooked to the most tender delicious meat absorbing all the red wine and the stock, the flavours were amazing. I served it up with truffled mash and everyone said it was the best oxtail they had ever eaten. Falling asleep had done me a favour albeit the recipe I was looking at had only called for four hours cooking. From that day on I have always made it the same way. I drink some of the wine, put the rest in the stew, put the stew in the oven and then fall asleep. It’s such a treat to wake up to this delicious meal as long as you set the alarm! I served this dish up in my Geranium in La Cala this week and regulars Mike and Mary (foodies) were so delighted that they left me a great TripAdvisor review and begged me to cook it more often.
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DANCING FUN: The U3A Line Dancing group don’t do things by half.
U3A update JANUARY has been a busy month for the Oliva U3A, seeing the start-up of seven new groups, including Salsa/Bachata lessons, Padel (beginners and players), P h o t o g r a p h y, Wa l k i n g Football, Yoga (beginners and intermediate), Knit and Natter (crochet and chat) and Guitar (acoustic). A Philosophy group is also in the pipeline and set to begin in February, while IT Skills sessions are also being arranged, to help sort out all those little niggling problems that the members get so frustrated with. In the area of sport, the first Walking Football session was held last week at the Oliva Sports Centre. Twelve players turned up for a thoroughly good work
out and displayed amazing skills, akin to those of Messi and Ronaldo (when asleep). The skills may have blunted over the years, but the competitive spirit remains intense. In fact, at one point the yellow card almost made an appearance, but since a Yo r k s h i r e m a n w a s i n volved, the group decided to make some kind of allowance. Enthusiasm remains high and everyone is looking forward to the next session tomorrow (Friday), at the same venue. Anyone, both male or female and at any level of ability, is more than welcome to join the group, if this activity tickles your fancy.
The Line-Dancing group held a very well-attended ‘Taster ’ session and have now got 10 new members. They are busy practising so t h e y c a n s h o w o ff t h e i r skills at a charity event planned for May 25, to be held at El Cid, Benidoleig. Ti c k e t s , p r i c e d a t € 1 6 per person, are available from Betty on 962 808 471, and include a meal and drink. There is no better time to join the Oliva U3A to get the body and mind active, so contact us now. For more details of all the U3A groups, please visit www.u3a-oliva.org. The U3A welcomes new members over the age of 55 who are no longer in full-time employment.
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Singing success MONTGÓ CHORALE were delighted to present their traditional Christmas concert to a very appreciative audience at the Loreto church in Javea last month. A full house joined in enthusiastically with some of the best-known carols and contributed extremely generous donations totalling €1,500 to the Retiring Collection for the Loreto Church’s Cáritas, helping the Charity’s work to provide financial and practical help and comfort to local families in need. On behalf of Montgó Chorale and those who attended the performance, the Choir Director, Jan Dewland, together with other steering group members, was very pleased this week to present the donation to Elly van der Wel of Cáritas (see photo). The choir is currently rehearsing for its next concert, which will take place in Pedreguer on May 26, and would be delighted to welcome new singers - prime requirements are an ability to
CHEQUE HANDOVER: Mike Dewland, Montgó Chorale; Jan Dewland, Director of Montgó Chorale; Elly van der Wel, Cáritas; Peter Lobb, Montgó Chorale, Treasurer. read music and an enthusiasm for the choir’s classical choral repertoire! Among the programme items are Vivaldi’s Gloria and the beautiful Cantique de Jean Racine by Gabriel
Fauré. This last piece has a very prominent tenor part and Montgó Chorale would particularly welcome male voices to increase the numbers in this section of the choir!
For any further information, and directions to the rehearsal venue in Teulada (Monday evenings), please contact Jan Dewland by email on dewland jan@hotmail.com.
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Take a trip to the Salinas CALPE commemorates Wetlands Day on Saturday with a programme that centres on the town’s Las Salinas salt beds. The day starts with activities for the children and from 9.30am onwards the tourist train will be setting out from Plaza Colon for conducted tours of Las Salinas’ plants and wildlife. Those wishing to participate should first register with an email to ifac_cma@gva. es. The local population is also being asked to help to collect glass from Las Salinas. Despite successive campaigns, it is still possible to find bottles and glass that have been there since the 70’s and 80’s. This will be carried out between 10am and 2pm and anybody wishing to join in can register at the medioambient@ajcalp. es email address. The Environment department is also organising children’s workshops as well as tree-planting activities which will include transplanting holm oaks.
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EXPERTS say they hope Spain’s central government may make changes to urban planning laws, allowing for easier development. At the Europa Press Foro Inmobiliario (real estate forum) in Madrid, specialists claimed they want to work with the government to improve urban planning and reduce regulatory barriers in an effort to create more office buildings, warehouses, urbanisations, and public buildings. At one conference, ‘The real estate sector facing the challenge of planning large cities,’ according to ideal ista.com, experts discussed the General Urban Plan (PGOU), the current legislation governing planning law. Many of the attending specialists spoke of a need to standardise planning laws, making it easier for developers to work across the country. Among those advocates was Marcos Sanchez, managing director of Valdebebas, a new urban development outside of Madrid.
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CHANGE SOUGHT: Marcos Sanchez is responsible for a development in Valdebebas.
He said, “More and more it is necessary to standardise urban management to avoid the current regulatory jungle,” adding, “the challenges of the new type of urban planning gives places responsibility on administrations to homogenise laws.” Mr Sanchez said the issue of transport was also a growing concern for developers,
explaining, “It is necessary for the different municipal and autonomous governments to work on the area of transportation and day-today improvements in order to evolve at the same time as the cities themselves.” Fernando Ferrero, director of Merlin Properties, agreed, adding, “in 20 or 25 years the types of demands on mu-
nicipalities have changed. I think public-private collaboration is positive for the sector, because it can pick up the experience of the private sector to improve execution times.” Gabriel Sanchez, general business director of Neinor Homes, added, “a state pact is required which grants viability and visibility to promotion. You have to establish how you want cities to be in the coming years. The regulatory disparity in Spain affects the costs and financing of the sector.” He added space was at a premium in Spain, saying, “The soil cannot serve as a currency or be linked to the cycles of the sector, and demand should be stable.” At the end of the conference, Consuelo Villanueva, director of Institutions and Large Accounts at the Valuation Society, spoke about the need to make urban planning laws more flexible in order to prepare for the many changes coming to cities over the next few years.
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OF all the self-improvement obsessions which have gripped the UK this month - like ‘Veganuary,’ ‘dry January’ and ‘clothes sobriety’ (a respite from retail therapy) - none seems to have gripped more than the first one, the worship of the plant-based diet, veganism. But please can we stop talking about it so much? Yes, it’s on the rise, however, and in the past four years the number of vegans in the UK has quadrupled to 600,000, with many more signing up to ‘Veganuary.’ But let’s get to the meat (sorry, couldn’t resist) of the issue. The problem with veganism (and vegetarianism, for that matter) is it seems to turn what simply amounts to a food choice, into basically, a religion. One which apparently requires its adherents to try to make converts of the rest of us in a humour-free, hectoring fashion with about as much warmth and brio as a dinner party jointly hosted by Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May. My other ‘beef’ is why do vegans try to imitate meat, fish or dairy products? An imitation burger will always compare unfavourably with a decent meat one. They should be developing their own cuisine, with
The unstoppable rise of veganism VEGANISM: Are we obsessed with becoming vegans? the vegetarian cuisines of India, China and south-east Asia a good place to start. As veganism grows and McDonald’s offers vegan Happy Meals, even naysayers like Gordon Ramsay, who once said if his children ever went vegetarian he’d electrocute them, offered a Veganuary menu. (Well, business is business.) However, another big trend is, apparently, flexitarian; people who eat meat, fish and dairy but want to cut back or try vegan/veggie food. A bit like the chap who decided he was trans-vegan so he could virtue signal all day but still have a nice bit of steak in the evening. But each to their own.
Take my dog, for instance, who is lactose and gluten-intolerant but loves chips. Only kidding! As for me, I’m off to have my eggs, bacon, black pudding, sausages and fried bread (all cooked in delicious duck fat) breakfast. What more could anyone want? 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.nora-johnson.net) available from Amazon in paperback/eBook (€0.99;£0.99) and iBookstore. All profits to Costa del Sol Cudeca cancer charity.
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How to cancel insurance? I would like to cancel my medical insurance at the end of 2019. When exactly do I have to cancel it? Can I do it now, or must I wait until December 2019? Attached is a text from the insurance company which I do not understand very well. HK (Costa del Sol)
The i nsurance company’s t ext David Searl says just what you think You and the Law in Spain it does. You must cancel your policy in writing at least a month in advance. If your insurance office is near you, my advice is to deliver your written notice personally and discuss it with your agent or broker. In addition, inform your bank in writing not to pay the insurance bill. Just in case. It is surprising how often the insurance company sends the bill and the bank pays it, even when they are properly informed. Do this in November.
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“ Porsche anniversaries GERMAN car maker Porsche is celebrating the birthdays of three of its classic models: the 917, 914 and the younger Panamera. Both the 917 and 914 are celebrating 50 years of being on the road this y e a r, while the Panamera has reached its 10th birthday. Porsche said it was committed to making the history of its company tangible. Events have been planned at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany and others are set to take place across the world. Technicians at the Porsche Museum have been working to restore the first 917 ever built, to mark the occasion.
AROUND 35 per cent of the world’s population drives on the left-hand side of the road, with countries including Britain, Australia and Mozambique among those opting for left-hand roads.
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BIRTHDAY: The first 917 is being restored for its 50th anniversary. They have been working for years to return it to the condition the car was in when it made its world debut in 1969. The 917 premiered at the Geneva Motor Show in 1969 and it won the first of 19 gold medals
at the Le Mans 24 Hours race a year later. The 914 was first presented at the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt, Germany in 1 9 6 9 . I t w a s G e r m a n y ’s f i r s t mid-engine sports car and came
in two types, one with a fourcylinder engine and another with six cylinders. The Porsche Panamera was the company’s first four-door saloon car and it was premiered in Shanghai in 2009.
It featured a number of technical innovations never included in a luxury series Porsche car. A special exhibition has been organised at the Porsche Museum to mark 10 years since it made its debut.
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ROAD TEST by Nick Fletcher DACIA sent a shock wave through the car industry back in 2012 when it launched its Duster, an attractively styled SUV priced at €11,322 (£9,995), and undercutting rivals by huge amounts. Seven years on, the Duster is well established and the entry model still costs €11,322 (£9,995). Dacia, part of the giant Renault Group, uses well-proven petrol and diesel engines and Duster models also come with a choice of two or four-wheel drive and depending on model, with manual or automatic gearboxes. Entry-level versions are very sparsely equipped, though air-conditioning and powered front windows are standard. Most buyers will opt for mid-range models which offer more standard equipment yet are still comparatively low in price. My featured model, the
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Dacia Duster Comfort SHOCK WAVE: The Duster undercuts its rivals by huge amounts.
mid-range Duster Comfort with two-wheel drive and a 1.5-litre diesel engine, costs €17,438 (£15,395). Standard features include alloy wheels, air conditioning, cruise control with speed limiter, touch-screen infotainment with Bluetooth and connectivity features, sat-nav, rear view camera and parking sensors. An outstanding specification
STATS PANEL Model: Dacia Duster Comfort Engine: 1.5-litre diesel Transmission: 5-speed manual Performance: 0-100kph 10.2 seconds, top speed 178kph (111mph) Economy: 22.6kpl (64mpg) Emissions: 115g/km
Model tested is UK-specification and equipment levels and prices may vary in other markets.
for the price. The Duster has cool and classy styling with a distinctive front grille and the cabin has been revised and upgraded to give it a smarter look. The seats have also been improved to provide more comfort. The car seats four with adequate room for front and rear occupants and you can squeeze in a fifth if neces-
sary. Boot space is good at 445 litres, boosted to a substantial 1,623 litres by folding the rear seats, giving the Duster top marks for practicality. The 1.5-litre 113hp diesel unit is smooth and relatively quiet and delivers a 0-100kph time of 10.2 seconds and a top speed of 178kph (111mph), fairly typical of class standards. Emissions are low at 115g/km and average fuel economy excellent at 22.6kpl (64mpg). The firm ride quality is not quite as comfortable as some SUVs but the overall handling is assured, with composed cornering and good steering feedback. It is hard to significantly fault the Duster; it offers tremendous value for money right across the range, and second-hand values are very strong too, emphasising the impact this model has made in the flourishing SUV sector.
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BMW’s newest 7-Series GERMAN car maker BMW has unveiled the newest model in its 7-Series which the company said would take its luxury car offering to ‘unprecedented’ levels. The BMW 7-Series is now set to hit showrooms after it was unveiled in Shanghai. It features a new exterior design giving it greater presence and precision as well as new interior elements, the company said. Uwe Dreher, head of brand communications at BMW, said the car was ‘self-assured.’ “The new BMW 7-Series em-
UNPRECENTED: The new 7-Series takes luxury to the next level.
bodies the way of life of a target group who follows its aims and ideas in a self-determined and independent manner regardless of any external obstacles,” Dreher said. The car comes equipped with a new BMW kidney grille and a 50-millimetre taller front end, giving it a striking look. The rear end has also been extensively redesigned. The company said the design included integral exhaust tailpipes with larger chrome surrounds and rear apron contours which
adopted the design of the front intake trim. Buyers of the 7-Series have a range of engines to choose from, and all meet the Euro 6d-TEMP exhaust standard. These include V8 and V12 engines and there are also hybrid versions of the car available. BMW has taken steps to include more automated driving features including steering, lane control, parking and reversing assistants. The company said the 7-Series also featured its Intelligent Personal Assistant which acts a digital co-pilot and onboard car expert.
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Messi on target for record wins
MESSI: On the road to breaking another Spanish football record. ALREADY the holder of a number of Spanish football records, Barcelona’s win over Girona on Sunday edged superstar Lionel Messi even closer to yet another milestone. Taking into account the 0-2 victory, the Argentine, 31, has now won 328 matches in 437 appearances in La Liga, overtaking Raul Gonzales, who notched up 327 out of 550. Just six more victories will see Messi match the all-time record, held by Real Madrid legend Casillas with 334 wins. The Barca favourite holds the record for the most goals scored (50) in a single league campaign in 2011/2012, and is the highest scorer in the history of La Liga. While Nelson Semedo opened the score sheet on Sunday, banging home his first goal of the season, Messi himself guaranteed the points with a second inside the last 20 minutes. Atletico also celebrated a 20 victory when they took on Getafe on Saturday, keeping them hot on the heels of leaders Barcelona. Antoine Griezmann and Saul Niguez scored for Diego Simeone’s side, while Getafe had Djene Dakonam and Leandro Cabrera sent off, both for two bookable offences. Atletico have lost just once
in the 20 league games this season. Meanwhile Real Madrid won convincingly, 2-4, against Espanyol adding weight to their claim that their recovery is fact, not fluke. Los Blancos kicked off the goal scoring with Benzema finding the net after four minutes for his first of two goals, followed quickly with another from Ramos. Baptistao put one in for Espanyol, before Welshman Bale scored within two minutes of coming on after 24 days injured. Espany-
ol’s second was provided by Rosales. Valencia took a comfortable three points, beating Villarreal 3-0, scoring goals four minutes either side of the game and one just into the second half. In the second division, RCD Mallorca drew 1-1 when they took on Cadiz on Saturday, as did Elche when they met CD Numancia. Neither Malaga nor opponents Tenerife could hit the back of the net, and Almeria suffered a 01 defeat at the hands of CA Osasuna.
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Morata’s return EIGHTEEN months after le a ving R e a l M a drid for Chelsea, striker Alvaro Morata looks set to return to La Liga on loan to Atletico Madrid. The 26-ye a r-old told press at the weekend that he had passed a medical and is ‘looking forward’ to returning to Spain, adding ‘I’ve spent days waiting for this.’ In 2017, Morata signed a five-year contract when he
MORATA: On loan for 18 months. joined Chelsea, and has made 47 Premier League appearances, scoring 16 goals. He began his career at Atletico, second in the division, before signing for city rivals Real.