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Mojacar PP triumphs THE Popular Party emerged the clear winner in Mojacar in Sunday’s municipal election. The party led by Rosa Maria Cano increased its absolute majority. PP won 57.67 per cent of the vote, up from 45.9 per cent in 2015. This gives the party an additional seat on the town council, taking the number of PP councillors to eight out of a total 13. This compares with the Socialist PSOE-Somos coalition’s 39.03 per cent share of the vote, translating into five seats, also up one on four years ago. The United Left was pushed into a distant third, polling just 3.31 per cent. Voter turnout in the Mojacar election was high, at 71.26 per cent, up from 65.3 per cent in 2015.
VICTORY: Rosa Maria Cano votes in Sunday’s election for Mojacar council, which saw her PP party increase its absolute majority.
Conservative PP holds on to Almeria By Cathy Elelman THE conservative Popular Party won the most votes in Sunday’s municipal elections in Almeria and remains the governing force on the provincial council. The PP retains its absolute majority despite the Socialist PSOE gaining more councillors than any other party in the province. The PP won 41.26 per cent of the provincial vote, translating into 413 councillors. The party came first in big municipalities, including Almeria City, Roquetas de Mar and HuercalOvera. PP also got the highest number of votes in Mojacar, Macael, Olula del Rio, Oria,
Pulpi, Vera, Vélez-Rubio, Turre and Adra. PSOE polled 36.53 per cent, which gives it 439 councillors. It was the most voted for party in Arboleas, Antas, Bedar, Cantoria, Chirivel, Cuevas del Almanzora, Garrucha, Nijar and Zurgena. The ultra-right Vox party will have representation on the provincial government for the first time, with two deputies, after gaining 7.27 per cent of the
vote. This put the party in fourth position overall, but Vox managed second place in El Ejido, behind PP, and came third in Almeria. The centre to centre-right Cuidadanos just pipped Vox to third position at provincial level, with 7.29 per cent. It came first in Los Gallardos. In Albox, the UCIN ((Union of Independent Citizens) won an absolute majority. In all, 62.62 per cent of the
electorate in the province’s 103 municipalities voted this time around, up from 60.59 per cent in 2015.
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NEWS EXTRA Pester case POLICE detained a 42year-old man for harassing a shop assistant in an Almeria City centre shop. The man ran away when the victim shouted for help, but a patrol tracked down the suspect the following morning.
Crash report FOUR women were injured when their car collided with a lorry in Roquetas de Mar at midday on Monday. The four, aged 20, 23, 24 and 58, were taken by ambulance to the Aguadulce Sur medical centre.
Earth moves THE National Geographic Institute registered a low intensity earth tremor measuring 3.1 on the Richter scale, five kilometres down, and with its epicentre just four kilometres from Antas, at 11.26pm on Monday night.
Boat rescue GUARDIA CIVIL rescued 26 men of North African origin from an inflatable dinghy intercepted 10 nautical miles south of Almeria on Monday, the Rio Almanzora patrol boat taking the would-be immigrants to Almeria port.
Proposed solutions to irregular properties THE Andalucia government is working on two possible solutions to irregular properties. Regional Development and Territorial Planning Minister Marifran Carazo revealed details of the proposals at a working meeting with the AUAN housing association and representatives of property owners in Zurgena, Arboleas and Albanchez. Discussions last week at the Junta de Andalucia’s Government Delegation office in Almeria City covered solutions in towns which, according to AUAN President Maura Hillen “are immersed in a torturous planning labyrinth,” and what she described as “imminent legal reforms that could give a faster way out for irregular houses.” Carazo said one way to address the unregulated property problem would be through an AFO certificate. This is an alternative form of documentation for houses built in contravention of planning law, which would permit owners to connect to available services like water and electricity and to register their homes. “To recognise an AFO is to recognise a situation of illegality, only that, but allows access to basic services and to resolve or minimise environmental problems,” the Development minister clarified. An additional measure would be the approval of special plans, independent from general town plans. This would, Carazo said, allow a coordinated solu-
WILLING: AUAN is confident the Andalucia regional government is making resolving the issue of irregular properties a priority. tion for groups of properties and the adoption of measures to improve the environmental quality of the communities, at the expense of owners, not the administration. Hillen said the association was “grateful for the great reception given by the Junta” at the meeting, which was also attended by regional Agriculture and Sustainable Development Minister Carmen Crespo and Junta de Andalucia Almeria delegate Maribel Sanchez. The AUAN president pointed out that most homeowners taking part in the meeting were over 75. She said they explained to the Junta representa-
tives “they had never expected to spend the golden years of their lives in a situation that has lasted more than a decade.” Hillen maintained “the willingness of the Junta to resolve the planning issues that afflict almost a million homeowners in Andalucia is evident,” and she is confident “the government is working on the issue and giving it priority.” AUAN has, Hillen said, “offered its cooperation to develop effective and realistic planning solutions on behalf of those trapped in irregular houses, so that the issues can be resolved in a practical way as soon as possible.”
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PSOE prevails in European elections THE Socialist PSOE was the most voted for party in the province in Sunday’s European Parliament election, pushing PP into second positon. PSOE took 35.31 per cent of the vote, up from 32.88 per cent in 2014. PP gained a 30.41 per cent share, down from 35.09 per cent last time. Ciudadanos came third, with 12.14 per cent of the vote, and Vox came fourth, with 11.17 per cent. The far left Podemos-IU was left trailing in fifth place, securing just 6.63 per cent. Provincial voter turnout for the European election was 61.38 per cent.
Coca catch A STANDARD check on passengers coming off a Madrid flight led to the seizure of more than three kilos of coca leaves. Guardia Civil found the leaves wrapped in plastic and hidden in the suitcase of a passenger who told officers they had nothing to declare. The passenger confirmed they were coca leaves. Officers said the leaves contain alkaloids which can be used as a powerful stimulant.
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A WOMAN suffered minor injuries when her car came off the road at the La Simona crossroads on the A-370 connecting Los Gallardos and Garrucha. The incident occurred 10 days after a 65-year old motorcyclist los t his l i f e i n t h e sa m e s p o t following a collision with a car.
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GUARDIA CIVIL arrested a 36-year-old man for growing marihuana in an indoor plantation in an isolated farmhouse in Nijar and seized seven kilos of the drug prepared for sale. The search of the house was prompted by the excessive electricity consumption registered for the property.
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POLICE arrested a man and a woman on charges of tying up and beating a man, causing his death. The victim died in the Torrecardenas hospital the day after emergency services found him bound up and unconscious in his h o m e i n E l Pu ch e in Almeria City.
THE health authorities reported the rel a t i v e o f a p a tien t a t Almeria City’s Torrecardenas hospital to police for physically and ve r b a l l y a t t a c k i n g th re e nurses. On Thursday morning the A n d a l u c i a g o v ern men t health delegate joined hospital staff gathered at the hospital entrance to condemn attacks on health professionals.
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VOLCANIC: The Canary Islands’ Tenerife is home to Mount Teide.
Islands day THIS picture of one of the Canary Islands’ best-known volcanoes comes as the Spanish archipelago celebrates its regional holiday today (Thursday), May 30. Tenerife’s Mount Teide is almost 3,720 metres high when measured from sea level. If measured from the ocean floor it is about 7,500 metres tall, making it the highest volcano in the world from base to peak outside of Hawaii. Teide National Park which surrounds the volcano was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2007.
The islands take their name from the Latin Canariae Insulae, which means Islands of the Dogs. The Canary Islands’ flag bears two dogs on its crest. The Canary Islands is made up of Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro. There are also six smaller islands including La Graciosa which is home to 658 people. The islands’ geography is diverse but is famously volcanic. The archipelago was settled by Berbers from North Africa who became known as Guanches. Spain be-
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gan making inroads into the islands from 1402 and achieved complete control when the then Kingdom of Castile subdued Tenerife and La Palma. Cash crops including sugar cane and tobacco were introduced to the islands, boosting their wealth. The Canary Islands were granted their Statute of Autonomy in 1982. The archipelago is the only one of Spain’s autonomous communities to have two capitals, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
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Old hand THE 9 3 - y e a r- o l d m a y o r o f Chercos was re-elected in Sunday’s municipal elections, his Popular Party winning 131 of the municipality’s 234 votes. This is Jose Antonio Torres’ seventh term of office, making him one of the longest standing mayors in Spain, and probably the oldest.
Same names ANTONIO and Maria are the most common names in Almeria. National Institute of Statistics findings for 2018 show there are nearly 15,000 Antonios and almost 12,000 Marias. Francisco and Jose are second and third most typical for men, and Maria Carmen followed by plain Carmen for women.
Heritage investment ALMERIA City’s Alcazaba citadel will receive a €1.6m investment from the Andalucia regional government. Junta de Andalucia Culture regional minister Paticia del Pozo announced a five-point renovation plan for the monument. Works will focus on the Saliente tower, the Justice gate walls and the north front. There will also be complete upgrades of the electrics, lighting, alarms and security systems. The regional minister revealed plans to change how the fortified complex is
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managed. She said a board would be created which would be made up of other public administrations and would be open to public participation. The Alcazaba’s electrical and security systems updates are already being carried out. Also underway is the installation of more than 700 new, more energy efficient lights, a measure financed by the European Regional Development Fund. Over 300,000 people visited the citadel last year.
Runaway robber cuffed GUARDIA CIVIL cuffed a runaway robber following a breakin at a warehouse in El Ejido. Officers were alerted to a possible robbery after the property’s alarm went off, finding thieves had evidently entered and got away with stolen items. When a patrol came across a car reversing down a nearby lane it made off. The driver unsuccessfully tried to cause the officers’ vehicle to crash by breaking rapidly, then sped off, recklessly
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zigzagging down the road. The driver eventually lost control of the car after making a sudden turn onto waste ground and colliding with a mound of stones. The three occupants of the vehicle ran off in different directions, officers managing to catch up with and detain the 22year-old driver. A search of the surrounding area the following day led to the discovery of stolen sacks of pesticides in an irrigation canal.
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Muggers prey on expats by Cathy Elelman A MOJACAR businessman claims organised gangs of muggers are preying on expat men after he was targeted four times. Charles Alman told the Euro Weekly News the first incident was outside his Sundance Spas business in Mojacar Playa last October. A young woman approached him on the pretext of asking if he knew someone. To Charles’ astonishment she wrapped herself around him, making suggestions of a sexual nature. He pushed her away, and she took off in a waiting car. Minutes later Charles realised his €2,000 gold chain was missing. “I didn’t tell anyone because I was so embarrassed about falling for it,” he admitted. “They put their hands on you and you don’t realise what they’re doing because they catch you so off guard.” Two months ago the muggers set their sights on Charles in another Mojacar street.
VICTIM: Charles Alman says he has been targeted by muggers four times. “Different girl, but same thing,” he said. “I told her I was going to call the Guardia Civil and she ran off with another girl.” Incredibly, muggers went for Charles again later that day in Puerto Rey. A woman tried to get him to open his car window, he thinks as a ploy to get his watch. Last week the muggers had another go with the same tactic outside his shop. “I thought this is ridiculous,” a clearly angry Charles told EWN.
“I got out the car. I told her I knew what she was doing and was taking her photo and calling the Guardia. She ran into a car in which there were two guys and another girl. One of the guys got out. Luckily one of my employees, a big burly fellow, came out and off they went.” Gibraltarian Charles has lived in Mojacar for 31 years. He believes criminal gangs using young females to pick on men of a certain age is ‘rife.’ This time Charles reported
the incidents at Garrucha Guardia station. While there a British man in his late 70’s came in to report a young woman had just snatched his gold Rolex watch. Charles acted as translator for the pensioner, who he said was ‘very shaken up.’ The man told officers he had been sitting in his car at Garrucha port with the door open. A woman suddenly got in and in fluent English made out she knew him. When he realised she had his watch he struggled with her, but she bit his hand. “All his fingers were swollen and there were real bite marks,” Charles told EWN. Just like when Charles was targeted, a car pulled up, the assailant got in, and it took off. Guardia Civil confirmed to EWN they were investigating the theft of the British pensioner’s Rolex. They said the gang had probably identified him as an ‘easy victim.”‘ Nevertheless, they made it clear they do not regard this kind of crime as a particular local problem.
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ILLEGAL: Guardia Civil discovered 279 marihuana plants.
Narco flats unplugged FOUR people are under arrest after Guardia Civil uncovered five so-called ‘narco flats’ in Roquetas de Mar. The Guar di a di scovered some 200 illegal connections to the electricity supply, which were being used to power equipment for indoor marihuana plantations in the apartments located in various parts of the municipality. Officers also seized 279 marihuana plants. The four detainees, al l f r om Roquet as, face charges of cultivating and producing drugs and defrauding the power supply.
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Radar up and running A RADAR with the latest technology covering flights over south-east Spain and North Africa is now in operation in Turrillas in the Sierra de Alhamilla. The new radar services the Sevilla and Barcelona air control centres. It also covers aircraft taking off and landing at Almeria airport and contributes surveillance information to airports in G ranada, Mal aga, Murcia, Melilla and Alicante.
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Fire service THE new €2.1 million Roquetas de Mar fire station is now operating, providing a firefighting service for La Mojonera, Vicar, Enix and Felix, as well as Roquetas, and helping to cover in 23 Alpujarra municipalities.
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Rail woes GOVERNMENT Subdelegate in Almeria Manuel de la Fuente described the ‘incidents and delays’ over the last month on the rail service connecting the provincial capital and Madrid as ‘intolerable,’ following another breakdown on Friday.
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A 73-YEAR-OLD man died after he was run down around 10pm on Saturday night on the old A-1204 highway connecting Albox and Arboleas. Emergency services confirmed his death at the scene.
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INSPIRED: Students from the Ria Pita school will perform a dance influenced by the Mexican icon of death.
Down Mexico way HUERCAL-OVERA is going down Mexico way on June 7. The local council has organised an extensive programme of Mexican culture-inspired entertainment for the ‘Noche en Blanco’ (Wh ite N ig h t) s h o p p in g discounts initiative. “There will be fun, mu-
sic and colour throughout the town with the aim of encouraging shopping in local businesses,” Culture councillor Monica Navarro promised. Stude nts from the R ia Pita dance school joined the c ounc illor w he n s he unveiled the programme de ta ils la s t w e e k. The
youngsters are set to perform a dance spectacular w ith c hore ogra phy inspired by the La Catrina Mexican icon of death. The entertainment will get going at 6pm. The programme includes concerts, street entertainment, maria c hi mus ic a nd proc e s sions, as well as dancing.
PREPARATIONS are underway for beginning the dig on the site of the medieval town of Bayra in Vera in late summer. University of Granada archaeologists will carry out the excavations and students will work on the dig. The project will further the investigation, preservation and promotion of the site of the town, which was levelled by an earthquake in November 1518. “It is our obligation to preserve and highlight the value of our heritage as a source of the historical knowledge of Vera
municipality,” stressed former Mayor Feliz Lopez at a meeting with the archaeologists. He continued, “The need to safeguard this rich historicarcheological heritage is not only testament of a common identity, but also as a means of enjoying free time and quality cultural tourism in our municipality.” The dig will start once the Andalucia regional government finishes processing the necessary permission for working on what is a Cultural Interest site.
Works underway WORKS to improve the road surface and update basic infrastructure on Calle Murillo in Adra are underway. Water and sewage pipes are being checked and replaced with ones made from more modern, durable materials, and drains with gutters are being installed every 30 metres on both sides of the street. The works also include improvements to the pavements to make them more even and more attractive. The nearly €100,000 cost of the project is joint financed by the Almeria provincial council and by Adra local authority.
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Teens arrested for break-ins GUARDIA CIVIL arrested two teenagers for breaking into homes in Palomares. The Guardia believe the 17 and the 18-year-old forced open the door of one property and got in from the terrace to another, making off with TVs, a Tablet, jewellery and
cash. In both cases the young thieves were surprised by neighbours and had to run off. Investigations into the crimes suggested the pair, both from Palomares, could be responsible for a further eight house break-ins in the same area, the Guardia said.
Free Wi-Fi thanks to EU funding SEVERAL municipalities in Almeria are set to get free Wi-Fi in public places thanks to European Union funding. The municipalities benefiting from the WiFi4EU initiative include Antas, Arboleas and Huercal-Overa. The European Commission’s Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) selected 510 municipalities in Spain and 82 in Andalucia to receive vouchers for €15,000 to install free public Wi-Fi connectivity in locations like town halls, libraries, museums, parks and plazas.
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NEWS EXTRA Young phone thieves LOCAL POLICE in Almeria City reported the detentions of three youngsters suspected of stealing mobile phones from a city centre shop. Offficers caught up with the three shortly after the robbery, finding stolen mobiles in their vehicle.
Bridge work WORKS on doing up the bridge over the River Adra in the Puente del Rio part of Adra town have got going. The council said the works would make the bridge safer for pedestrians and traffic.
First art THE future Spanish Realism Museum in Almeria City’s historic centre now has the first sculptures for its collection. Artists Antonio Lopez and Andres Garcia Ibañez have donated four torsos from the ‘Juventud’ (youth) collection.
LEARNING about Vera’s history is child’s play thanks to a brand new game. The local council has devised the Leda board game featuring a spiral design with 63 boxes with illustrations relating to the most important points in the municipality’s history. “Knowing about the historic heritage of Vera is now simpler and more fun,” commented outgoing Mayor Felix Lopez at a presentation of the game last week. Lopez described it as “a teaching to o l w h ic h allo w s c hildre n, teenagers and the not so young to learn facts about the rich history of our municipality, and to discover
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the people, events, and stories of our cultural and historic heritage from prehistory to current times in an easy way, revealing the most important events our town has experienced.” The Leda game is the result of i nvest i gat i ons by Muni ci pal Archive Director Manuel Caparros and Ver a wr i t er and r esear cher Gabriel Flores, and illustrations by designer Jose Ramon Paris.
CHILD’S PLAY: The game is designed to make it fun and easy for youngsters to learn more about Vera’s past.
Tour tourism promotion THE landscapes of the Costa Almeria will be promoted in 64 countries through commercials broadcast during Eurosport’s coverage of the Tour de France. The provincial council said the aim was to make the most of the enormous popularity of the prestigious event and raise the profile of Almeria as an attractive year-round destination among the channels’ viewers. “The Tour de France is a great showcase for
showing the whole world the beauty of our province,” commented Provincial Tourism deputy Fernando Gimenez. “Our landscapes will travel throughout the world once again, hand in hand with a top level cycling competition as it did thanks to the Vuelta Ciclista and the Clasica Ciclista, which were also broadcast on Eurosport.” The Tourism deputy underlined the number of cycling events held in the province throughout the
year and the number of teams which come to Almeria to train, remarking, “hence we couldn’t miss this opportunity, and continue positioning the Costa Almeria as a top level sports destination.” The Costa Almeria ads will appear from July 6 until the end of the month, coinciding with the 21 Tour stages. Eurosport will broadcast an average of four hours’ coverage of the event a day in Europe and Asia.
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PEOPLE with an intellectual disability will have work opportunities in Vera thanks to an agreement between the council and the Asprodalba association.
The local authority awarded Asprodalba, or the Levante Almeria Association for the Promotion of People with an Intellectual Disability, 75-year con-
cessions to run the botanical garden, the Mediterranean aquarium, the Rural Habitat Museum, a bar kiosk and a plot for staging workshops and other projects. The move will provide jobs for around 10 people, in positions including waiters, receptionists and activity monitors. The local authority said the facilities are currently underused due to its difficulties in managing and exploiting them, and the concessions had gone to Asprodalba as it meets all the legal requirements: a non-profit entity, declared of public use, which promotes people with an intellectual disability. Asprodalba President, Francisco Alonso Martínez, said he was “immensely grateful to the government team for its confidence in this project, which means a great challenge, and one we take on with responsibility, excitement and enthusiasm. “For the first time we are going to sign an agreement which gives direct employment to people with an intellectual disability, a circumstance which means a substantial leap for us and which demonstrates our path towards full inclusion and integration in society for people with different abilities.” Outgoing Vera mayor Felix Lopez described the initiative as “one of the most important agreements of my career as a councillor.”
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ORIGINAL: Local people were invited to have a hand in giving each floral indalo an original design.
Blooming lovely! INDALOS of flowers filled Mojacar village with the sweet scent of blooms this weekend, along with music and fine wine. Organised by Mojacar village’s local business association to mark the start of the summer season, this
was the fifth year of the initiative. Baskets of some 4,000 flowers in all were given out to village businesses and residents to create their own versions of the twometre high floral indalo symbols which brought the
village’s squares to life. Popular band Efecto Sur gave an open-air concert on Friday evening in Plaza del Fronton, local residents donned traditional costumes, and individual establishments laid on different activities and entertainment.
Wacky Races record THIS year’s Wacky Races Villaricos raised a record €1,518 for worthy causes after all expenses were paid. The money will be used to fund the travel costs of a local girl who needs to go to Barcelona for an operation. There will be a significant donation to the Villaricos school for either playground or classroom equipment. Money also goes to the three dance groups which performed at the April event. There are four unclaimed raffle prizes, in-
cluding a one-week stay in a two-bedroom apartment in Villaricos. A full list of winners is available at Bar La Plaza in Villaricos. The prizes will be available up to June 30. If they are not claimed they will be sold at a silent auction in early July at Bar La Plaza. The organisers are already turning their minds to next year’s Wacky Races. Anyone interested in joining the organising and delivery team should contact Ian Watson on 634 368 243.
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THE WEEK IN POLITICS Depopulation impact THE number of councillors standing for election in Spain has fallen by 1,220 since 2011 due to the effects of depopulation. Figures from the Territories Ministry showed 67,010 council seats were contested in last Sunday’s (May 26) local elections. The number is down from 68,230 in 2011. The drop in councillor numbers highlights the ongoing impact of depopulation on parts of Spain. The issue has not just affected the number of politicians able to stand in certain areas, it has also emerged as central to many parties’ pitch to voters. Parties including the conservative Partido Popular (PP), the centrist Ciudadanos, the leftist Podemos and the far-right Vox have all vied for votes in ‘Empty Spain.’ Each has promised measures to tackle the effects of depopulation. The exodus of younger workers from small villages and towns has placed a strain on council finances, with fewer taxpayers able to support local infrastructure. The number of urban areas home to less than 100 people rose by 290 from 2011 to 2019. The problems arising from this is likely to influence politics at all levels for the foreseeable future.
By Joe Gerrard SPANISH political parties have been taking stock of their results in local, regional and EU elections held on Sunday (May 26). A swing towards the leftleaning Partido Socialista (PSOE) in all three elections mirrors the results of April’s snap general election. But the vote continued to be fragmented between several parties, further undermining Spain’s traditionally two-party system. Acting prime minister Pedro Sanchez said he was proud of his party’s showing in the EU ballot. He called on other parties not to strike deals with the far-right Vox at a local and re-
Taking stock gional level. Locally PSOE’s results were broadly positive with the party picking up seats in councils, including ones traditionally dom-
inated by the conservative Partido Popular (PP). But the party and others on the left were dealt a blow in the Spanish capital and elsewhere.
RESULTS: Sanchez said he was proud of his party’s performance.
Poll tracker (EU elections): Partido Socialista (PSOE): 32.1 per cent, 20 seats Partido Popular (PP): 20.1 per cent, 12 seats Ciudadanos: 12.2 per cent, seven seats Unidos Podemos: 10.1 per cent, three seats Vox: 6.2 per cent, five seats
The left-leaning city-focused Mas Madrid, which held the position of mayor with Manuela Carmena, lost one seat leaving it with 19 while the centrist Ciudadanos and far-right Vox made gains. This leaves the city open to being governed by a triple alliance of the right similar to that which took power in Andalucia following elections there in December. Regionally PSOE was the largest party in 10 of the 12 autonomous communities which held votes on Sunday. But the party only won an absolute majority in Castilla-La Mancha and Extremadura. It will have to strike deals with others unless parties on the right can cobble together enough seats to take control of administrations. Commentators have interpreted PSOE’s bagging of 20 seats in the European Parliament as a sign that Spain bucked the EU-wide trend towards more eurosceptic and far-right parties being elected. Vox, previously tipped to make a big breakthrough in both Sunday’s elections and the general ballot held in April, won three seats. The PP appeared to have recovered some ground compared to the heavy blow voters dealt the party in the general elections. The PP won 12 seats in the European Parliament, five seats ahead of the centrist Ciudadanos. Coalition talks at all levels of Spanish politics have since begun. Meetings between Sanchez and other party leads will be back on after the prime minister decided hold off from discussions until after last Sunday’s vote.
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SPANISH health authorities have announced plans to crack down on prescription opioid abuse. The Health Ministry and regional governments will create a group ‘to evaluate and improve the use of opioids, particularly when deliv-
Opioid crackdown ered in forms that pose a greater risk of addiction.’ An increase in use to potent opioids, including fentanyl - a drug 100 times more
powerful than morphine- has caused Spain’s health authorities to question how readily these prescriptions should be given out. According to the Spanish Medicine Agency (Aemps), use of the drug increased by 79 per cent between 2010 and 2017.
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Spain’s most popular names by Sally Underwood
POPULAR NAMES: The National Institute of Statistics revealed Spain’s most common names.
ANTONIO and Maria Carmen still top Spain’s list of common popular names, according to latest figures. The National Institute of Statistics revealed the news after analysing its 2017 and 2018 data. For 2017, Lucas and Luca wer e t he m ost popul ar names for babies, while the name Antonio was still the most common male name, with a total of 678,425 Antonios registered as living in Spain. Thi s was f ol l owed by Jose at 594,144, Manuel at 590,965, Fr anci sco at 498,934, and Davi d at 365,196. For women, Maria Carmen was the most common name, at 656,276, followed by Maria at 291,563, Carm en at 276,68, Josef a at 273,319, and Ana Maria at 266,967. The average age of those nam ed Ant oni o i s 55.9years-old, while for Maria Carmens the average age is 57- year s- ol d. For young men aged an average of 27years-old, the most popular name is Daniel, while for women aged 28.4-years-old the name is Laura.
Online book ranking A RECENT study showed many readers are switching to online books. According to the 2019 Digital Report, the number of internet users in Spain has grown by four million during the last year. Around 93 per cent of the population are now online, and spending an average of five hours and 18 minutes a day on the Internet through a device.
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Landfill fire risk THE Environmental Prosecutor’s Office has warned more than a hundred landfills pose a serious fire risk in Spain. Officials are urging politicians to act after it emerged the high number of landfill sites pose a risk of forest fires this summer. So far this year, forest blazes have destroyed 32,155 hectares of land, while a total of 4,483 fires have been registered, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. The fiscal co-ordinator of Environment and Urbanism, Antonio Vercher, has sent all provincial prosecutors a list of landfills, power lines and recreational areas with high risk of catching fire. He also called on officials to warn all ‘local authorities, owners, and companies carrying out the activity’ landfills pose a risk so they ‘adopt the appropriate measures.’ The study into landfills, carried out each year by the Security Forces and Corps each year, showed 118 landfills in 2018.
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Drones do the dirty work THE Guardia Civil are concerned that a drone could be used in a prison escape. The Ministry of the Interior ordered an enquiry after an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) dropped drugs and a mobile phone into Alhaurin de la Torre (Malaga) prison last September. Some drones can carry up to 100 kilos and sources revealed that the authorities believe a prisoner could be a irlifte d to fre e dom this way, Air traffic regulations ban drones from entering protected airspace, including prisons, and Alhaurin staff told inve s tiga tors tha t a drone flew over the com-
plex the previous day, but they did not recall seeing it drop a package. That day Guardia Civil offic e rs found a c ra s he d drone in an avocado plantation adjoining the prison although the Ministry stressed there was no evidence linking the drone to the drugs or mobile. The Alhaurin de la Torre incident was not isolated. Prison staff reported in January 2017 that a drone had flow n ove r Te ixie ro (La Coruña) prison without incident. Another drone was spotted in January when a drone fle w ove r La M ora le ja prison in Dueñas (Palencia)
while prisoners were out in the patios. An immediate search confirmed that nothi ng was dr opped, but al -
t hough t he Guar di a Ci vi l combed the area outside the prison, they failed to locate the drone’s pilot.
Festival death THE 23-year-old son of a Benidorm bar owner has died after he became separated from his family at a British music festival. I s a a c P o w n e r ’s b o d y was found at around 9.30pm on a road near the Middlesbrough suburb of M a r t o n w h e r e R a d i o 1 ’s B i g We e k e n d w a s b e i n g held on Saturday. The 23year-old is suspected of taking his own life, but an inquest is set to be held to confirm the reason for his
‘HEARTBROKEN’: Powner died after being separated from his family. death. P o w n e r ’s f a t h e r a n d Benidorm bar owner Paul has since flown back to Britain to identify his son’s body. Gemma Braithwaite, the 23-year-old’s step-sister, told British media he had everything to live for. “ We a r e a l l c o m p l e t e l y heartbroken by this and it shows you just never know what’s going on behind those smiles,” Braithwaite said. P o w n e r ’s f a m i l y h a v e set up a GoFundMe page to raise about €2,830 to pay for his funeral. To donate go to: https://www.justgiving.co m / c ro w d f u n d i n g / j a m i e braithwaite.
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BREXIT BRIEF Election results THE dominance of Brexit in British politics has made itself felt in European elections which saw the Conservatives and Labour haemorrhage votes to pro-leave and remain parties. Results released from Sunday night to Monday showed the pro-leave Brexit Party, led by former UKIP leader Nigel Farage, took 29 seats in the European Parliament. They won 31.6 per cent of the vote. The Liberal Democrats, who campaigned on a staunchly pro-remain platform, came second with 20.3 per cent of the vote. The party now has 16 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), up from one before the vote. The Green Party increased its share of MEPs from three to seven, overtaking the Conservatives and pushing them into fifth place. Brexit cost Labour 10 MEPs. The party’s total number of seats fell by half after the vote which saw them finish third. The Conservatives, who previously had 19 seats in the parliament, were left with four MEPs after the vote. Winners of the 2014 European election UKIP lost all 24 of their MEPs. Conservative leader Theresa May and Labour head Jeremy Corbyn both blamed their parties’ poor performance on Brexit. May said: “It shows the importance of finding a Brexit deal.”
Bowing out By Joe Gerrard BRITAIN’S prime minister has announced she will quit as leader of the Conservatives, paving the way for her successor to resolve Brexit which remains at an impasse. Theresa May addressed Britain from outside Downing Street on Friday. She said her failure to take Britain out of the EU was a matter of ‘deep regret’ for her. “I will shortly leave the job it has been the honour of my life to hold,” May said. The prime minister, who formerly stands down from the Conservative leadership on Friday June 7, said Brexit was the ‘biggest challenge’ that any British government has faced during peacetime. She called for all sides to compromise as she prepares to pass on her office, and the Brexit mantle she has carried since 2016, to her successor.
LEAVING: May quits as Tory leader in June. Brexit brought Theresa May to power and has now being her undoing. Her premiership, which began optimistically with a
promise to make a ‘success’ of EU withdrawal, was dogged by Britain’s looming EU exit until she announced her own exit on Friday. The spectre of uncertainty now haunts Brexit. The issue, which has remained deadlocked in parliament throughout the year, will define the contest to succeed May. About 10 Conservatives have since entered the race, including former Foreign Secretary and archBrexiteer Boris Johnson and exBrexit Secretary Dominic Raab. Whoever succeeds May will have to decide whether to work with Parliament as it stands, or to gamble on a general election to shore up the Conservative’s position. They could also choose to hold a second referendum, but will have until the scheduled leave date of Thursday October 31 to decide.
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BREXIT EXTRA Call to hold referendum BRITAIN should hold a second Brexit referendum so the country can ‘reconsider’ its position, says Spanish Confederation of Hotels and Tourist Accommodation’s president Joan Molas, amidst concerns over the impact on tourism industry revenues.
Clarity plea FRENCH president Emmanuel Macron called for Britain to give ‘swift clarification’ on the Brexit situation while praising Prime Minister Theresa May’s courage following her announcement she would step down in June.
Firm move ONLINE gambling company Bet365 has announced plans to build a presence in Malta and scale back current operations in Gibraltar, authorities in the British enclave saying Brexit led to the decision.
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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. This information is for guidance only, and should not be taken as legal advice. If in any doubt, seek professional help.
NATURAL PARK: Cabo de Gata in Almeria topped TripAdvisor’s Spain list.
Best in Spain TRAVEL comparison website TripAdvisor has announced 52 of the most popular parts of Spain for travellers. The country, which is the second most visited in the world, boasts several natural and cultural heritage sites which made it onto the list. In first place, and in Andalucia, is the Cabo de Gata Natural Park in Almeria, which is the largest protected area on the Mediterranean coast. The area provides a large variety of flora and fauna, as well as beaches, hidden coves and volcanic cliffs.
Secondly was Playa Victoria in Cadiz, offering three kilometres of beach, while in third place was the Cathedral Mosque of Cordoba. This World Heritage Site boasts 1,300 columns supporting 365 coloured arches, and is considered one of the most important monuments in Spain. Also featured on the list were the Alhambra, one of Spain’s most visited sites and a Cultural Heritage of Humanity site, as well as the Doñana National Park in Huelva, and the Jaen Arab Baths.
‘Mistaken identity’ claim MOROCCO has accused the Spanish television channel, La Cuatro, of airing a documentary it described as a setup. A Punto de Mira programme broadcast earlier this month featured a Moroccan portrayed as the ‘Pablo Escobar of Morocco,’ earning €180,000 a year selling a drug manufactured with tranquillisers obtained from the Spanish health system. According to the Moroccan authorities, the so-called drug dealer was a car-parking valet who leads a modest and blameless existence in Tangiers where he lives with his mother. Al Yaoum lied because he was told to do so in return for 2,000 dirhams, the Tangiers police concluded after questioning him.
A Moroccan newspaper claimed afterwards that the Spanish documentary makers worked from a pre-written script and did not apply for reporting authorisation, entering Morocco as tourists, not journalists. Production company Unicorn refuted the claims and declared that at no moment was the reporting faked. “We know that we told the uncomfortable truth, but we didn’t pay anybody and it wasn’t a setup,” the company said. “It’s possible to traffic medication and be a valet parker.” Mediaset, who owns La Cuatro, has since analysed the images of the so-called ‘Escobar ’ and Akhbar Al Yaoum, and found that the person who was arrested is not the same person who appeared in the documentary.
Accused of dishonesty A FORMER Spanish Ambassador to Venezuela has appeared in court with four others accused of laundering €4.5 million taken from PDVSA, a state petroleum company headquartered in Caracas. According to the prosecution, Raul Morodo, his son Alejo and his wife along with a Venezuelan couple entered into an improper agreement, supposedly with PDVSA, to give advice which was never forthcoming. It is also alleged payment only started after Morodo had left office and the money was channelled back to him via a complex route including a number of Latin American countries and Panama. The defendants have been released, but had to surrender their passports.
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Spanish ‘outnumbered’ By Sally Underwood EXPATRIATES are beginning t o o u t n u m b e r th e amount of Spanish living in some areas of Spain. The two most popular areas for Britons to retire to, Andalu c i a a n d Va l e n c ia , have seen a combined total of 780,000 expatriates set up home. The three provinces with the hi g h e st n u m b e r o f Britons are Alicante, Mala-
ga and Almeria, with around 130,000 UK expatriates living between them. In s o me o f th e s e a re a s th e n u mb er o f Britis h is higher than the number of S p an is h , fo r e x amp le in Poble Nou de Benitachell, Alicante. This coastal town has a British international school which caters to 60 per cent of the foreign population there, while the number of expatriates is half the over-
all number of residents. In inland Andalucia, the hillside town of Benahavis, between Marbella and Estepona, sees 64 per cent of re s ide nts c oming from a broa d; the ma jority of those from the UK. Similarly, Daya Vieja in A lic a nte hous e s 430 fore igne rs , 60 pe r c e nt of whom are British, while in Lliber, Alicante, 70 per cent of the roughly 1,000 residents are expatriates.
Huge blaze consumes ‘ghetto’ A LARGE fire has devastated one of the largest and most populated camps in Spain. Lepe, in Huelva, houses around 600 people, mostly immigrant day labourers hired for strawberry picking. The dense community of shacks and temporary houses was mostly destroyed by a four-hour blaze which broke out at around 2.35am. According to Spanish media, the fire was caused b y a st o v e w h ich h ad n o t b e e n
turned off, leaving the residents to find new homes after properties and possessions were destroyed. The huts, which were built using plastics, cardboard and wood found on the street, had formed a community, where immigrants had lived and worked together. Fire sources said the lack of garbage disposal facilities in the shanty town had made rubbish accumulate, which added to the quick spreading of the fire.
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Desperate act POLICE allegedly found migra nts hidde n ins ide glove boxes and boots of cars trying to cross into Europe. O ffic e rs from th e Guardia Civil shared photographs of the migrants after reportedly finding thre e me n w ithin three hours on Saturday at the border with Morocco and Spanish enclave Melilla. O ne ma n in his 20’s was found smuggled into a s ma ll s pa c e be hind a car ’s dashboard at BeniEnzar, Morocco. Another migra nt was foun d w e dge d into a n e ngine c ompa rtme nt, w hile a third w a s s muggle d behind a car’s rear seats. The three, including a 15-year-old girl and two men aged 20 and 21, were taken for medical treatment after being released
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TERRIBLE CONDITIONS: Police took the migrants for medical attention. from their surroundings. Officers said the migrants showed signs of disorientation, suffocation, and joint pain after travelling
in ‘terrible conditions.’ Thr ee Mor occan m en aged 19, 30 and 31 have been arrested on suspicion of people smuggling.
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PROBE: FMC was found to have bribed Spanish doctors.
Medical bribery A GERMAN dialysis company has admitted to paying millions in bribes to secure business deals with doctors in Spain and across the world. The US’ Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) found corruption was visible in Fresenius Medical Care (FMC) from the early 2000s, but nothing was done to address it. The SEC was tasked with probing the claims made about FMC. FMC said it had co-operated fully with the investigation. The investigation found the company had bribed doctors in Spain, Turkey, China, Serbia, Bosnia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and in several West African countries.
“Employees made improper payments through a variety of schemes including through the use of false consulting contracts, the forgery of documents and channelling bribes through external intermediaries,” the SEC said. “Senior management actively thwarted enforcement efforts. The improper conduct continued for years,” the regulator added. The SEC’s probe found FMC paid for Spanish doctors to go to international medical conferences and on holidays, funded their projects and bought them gifts to secure deals. The company spent almost €2.7 million in Spain alone, the SEC found.
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Spain slammed for torture THE UN Human Rights Committee has found that suspected ETA terrorist Gorka Lupiañez was tortured by Guardia Civil following his arrest in 2007. Now the committee is urging Spain to ‘guarantee justice,’ and pay Lupiañez compensation. He is currently in jail having been sentenced to 50 years last April for kidnapping a family and other crimes. It is also calling on Spain to put an end to incommunicado detention, ‘which creates a context more conducive to torture.’ Lupiañez - who in 2009 was sentenced to 11 years in prison for belonging to an armed gang, illegal possession of weapons and the continued crime of falsifying an official document - denounced the Spanish State to the United Nations Committee in June 2015. According to his testimony, officers of the Guardia Civil arrested him in Berriz (Basque Country) when they found that
MISTREATMENT: UN says Spain allowed torture of suspect. he was armed with a revolver. In his account, the ETA member said he was subjected to ill treatment and torture for eight days, both in the barracks in La Salve (Bilbao) and in the General Directorate of the Guardia Civil in Madrid. In his testimony, Lupiañez said he was beaten, had plastic bags put over his head, was deprived of sleep and subjected to death threats and other abuse. The
Guardia Civil denied the allegations. The ETA member initially took his case to the European Court of Human Rights, which decided ‘not to admit’ his claim. The committee said that it expects Spain to inform it within 180 days of the measures it will take in response to its Views, in accordance with the International Covenant on Civil Rights.
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Fraught diplomatic relations VENEZUELA urged Spain to withdraw recognition of Juan Guaido and admit that it had acted rashly. Juan Guaido, president of Venezuela’s National Assembly was recognised as the country’s president by the US, Canada and most of Western Europe, including Spain earlier this year. Speaking from Venezuela’s embassy in Madrid, ambassador Mario Isea condemned the absence of any ‘official
indication’ of modification by Pedro Sanchez’s government. “The decision was based on incorrect information,” maintained Isea, who lamented that countries like Spain could issue an ultimatum ordering ‘a democratic government’ to hold elections. The ambassador then suggested future changes in diplomatic relations arising from the composition of Spain’s new parliament.
Earthquake study A NEW catalogue describes the geological effects of the 50 largest earthquakes to have happened in Spain since 4000 BC to the present day. The work of the Spanish Geological Association (AEQUA) highlights the first earthquake recorded in the country, in the Cueva del Toro de Antequera in Malaga, between 4200 and 3700 BC. Among the other earthquakes included is the one which happened in 1829 in Torrevieja, Alicante and caused 900 deaths. The catalogue offers photographs and diagrams of the effects of each earthquake.
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Garden plan PARIS mayor Anne Hidalgo has unveiled plans worth €72 million to convert the Pont d’Iena bridge between the Eiffel Tower and Trocadero Square into a ‘green corridor’ as part of a wider push to pedestrianise parts of the French capital.
Rape claims SEVERAL former workers of the French NGO Elise Care have accused the organisation’s founder of covering up allegations of rape and sexual assault levelled against its head of mission in Iraq where it was working with
GREEN: The bridge may change. religious minorities persecuted and abused by Daesh.
NORWAY
Salmon deaths
School survey
ALGAE has killed at least eight million salmon by attaching itself to their gills and suffocating them across Norwegian fish farms in recent weeks meaning about half the country’s expected sales growth has been wiped out, according to its Seafood Council.
ONE in every five Norwegian schools provide pupils with a poor learning environment and produce poor results, according to a new Ministry of Education survey which showed centres in Finnmark, Troms, Nordland and Oslo were performing below average.
DENMARK
BELGIUM
Female soldiers
Prostitute fines
DANISH Defence Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen proposed creating a special department to prepare women who want to enter the country’s special forces and said he wanted the proportion of females employed in his department to increase from the current 7 per cent.
FOUR out five fines handed down to prostitutes for soliciting passers-by by tapping on brothel windows, making sexual gestures or calling out to them are dismissed in Ghent, Mayor Mathias De Clercq confirmed while calling the findings ‘frustrating.’
Pay inequality
Car ‘theft’ probe
THE wealthiest people in Denmark now earn 11 per cent of all income, according to figures from the think tank Kraka and the Deloitte consultancy which showed their share of earnings had risen from 7 per cent in the early 1990s.
BELGIAN prosecutors investigating a gang allegedly involved in large-scale vehicle trafficking claimed a worker at the Federal Bureau for Mobility and Transport may have helped to launder those stolen as the case continues.
SWEDEN
Wait of years
Abortion fall
FOREIGN workers who have applications for permanent residency rejected could face years of waiting before they are allowed to return to Sweden to re-apply, according to new guidelines from the country’s Migration Agency.
THE number of Swedish women who have terminated their pregnancies has fallen by around half, according to figures from the National Board of Health and Welfare which showed the rate of abortions for women aged between 15 and 19 was 11 per 1,000 girls.
NETHERLANDS
GERMANY
Debate claim
Dispute aid
A TELEVISED debate between the Netherlands’ centre-right Prime Minister Mark Rutte and farright Forum for Democracy (FvD) leader Thierry Baudet amounted to ‘horse trading’ on rightwing issues rather than addressing climate change and other concerns, the DeGoedeZaak group said.
GERMANY is set to send a high-level envoy to Iran in an effort to diffuse tensions between Tehran and Washington after Berlin’s Foreign Ministry said there was a ‘high chance’ the situation in the Persian Gulf could escalate.
Drugs bust A DUTCH boat seized more than 1,600kgs of cocaine in the Caribbean in a joint operation between the Royal Netherlands Navy and the US Coast Guard, with the Netherlands’ Ministry of Defence saying operations remain ongoing.
Fuel penalty APPLIANCE company Bosch has been fined €90 million as part of the wider ‘Dieselgate’ scandal which has engulfed the German car industry since it emerged Volkswagen had made software to alter the results of emissions tests in its vehicles.
FINANCE
Most respected Spanish firms
FASHION company Inditex and the Mercadona supermarket are the two most respected companies in Spain, according to a new ranking. Merco Empresas y Lideres’ table placed oil company Repsol third and the Santander bank fourth. Inditex founders Amancio Ortega and Juan Riog and manager Pablo Isla joined Santander president Ana Botin as the most respected business leaders, according to the same ranking. The table was created by analysing more than 47,550 responses to a survey, 25 company evaluations and about 200 factors.
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STAT OF 0.7 per cent WEEK
The fall of Spanish industrial turnover in March compared to the previous month, according to the latest sector index which found year-on-year growth of 1.4 per cent.
ECB eurozone growth concerns THE slowdown in eurozone growth is worse than expected, the European Central Bank has said, while Spanish output remains stable. Members of the central bank’s Governing Council said during their last monetary policy meeting in April that a ‘persistence of uncertainties’ continued to threaten growth prospects. Brexit, vulnerabilities in emerging markets and the ongoing trade war between the US, China and the EU were among the uncertainties, bank officials said. The bank decided to revise down economic output (Gross Domestic
By Joe Gerrard Product, GDP) growth forecasts from the 1.7 per cent predicted in December to 1.1 per cent. The bank’s warning comes as Spain’s central bank said in March that it expected GDP to have grown by 0.6 per cent during the first quarter of 2019. The Bank of Spain found the country’s GDP growth was being boosted by improved household and business investment. Spending increases planned by the left-leaning Partido Socialista (PSOE) if it can form a coalition and
pass its draft budget would also boost growth, the bank said. A fall in house sales and ongoing political uncertainty proved to be drags on growth in the first quarter. The fact that Holy Week fell in April this year is also believed to have had an impact on growth figures. Consumers spent 24 per cent more during the holiday this year compared to the last two, according to the Cetelem Seasonal Obersvatory. The value of Spanish GDP stood at around €1.2 trillion at the end of 2018, according to figures from the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
Santander plans job relocations SPANISH bank Santander is planning to offer relocations to more than 3,700 workers affected by branch cuts. The bank struck a deal with unions which would also see some workers offered early retirement or redundancies. Relocations were offered after Santander announced plans to close up to 1,150 branches, 26 per cent of those in Spain. The move comes as Santander continues to restructure its business after taking over the Popular bank. Santander bought the bank after Popular’s depositors withdrew money en masse in 2017.
BUSINESS EXTRA
Region plans first rent controls CATALUÑA is set to become the first Spanish region to cap rent increases after two of its governing parties agreed to adopt the measure. New regulations stop landlords from increasing rents by more than 10 per cent of the average in areas of high demand for property. Some homes will be eligible for increases of a further 5 per cent. The Junts per Cataluyna (JxCat) and Esquerra Re-
publicana de Cataluyna (ERC), who govern the region as part of a wider pro-independence coalition, agreed to implement the controls. The measures are designed to stop rent rates being pushed higher by rising demand, particularly for holiday rentals. Industry figures including Barcelona’s Chamber of Urban Property claimed it could drive away investment, limiting new property building.
Record profit SPANISH airline Volotea made a total of €13.6 million in pre-tax profits during 2018, 63 per cent more than the previous year and the best in the firm’s history according to its own figures.
Fashion sales OVERSEAS sales for the Spanish fashion industry fell during the first quarter of this year compared to the same period in 2018, according to sector data which showed they dropped by 21 per cent in Britain.
Job losses MORE than 5,470 workers in the Spanish banking industry were dismissed in 2018, according to the Bank of Spain which found there were 181,999 employees in banks at the start of this year compared to 187,472 12 months previously.
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0,75
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0,26
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VOLUME(M) 587.130 6.741.589 727.265 1.240.657 1.240.503 4.365.749 1.730.041 2.288.974 354.768 732.770 647.971 7.097.351 1.575.381 2.272.934 461.883 1.866.852 5.198.458 1.857.728 3.457.172 1.441.183 213.877 693.847 823.945 2.240.208 1.107.492 1.414.725 1.021.159 1.407.175 455.440
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Most Declined Alpine Immune Sciences, Inc. InflaRx N.V. Lifeway Foods, Inc. eXp World Holdings, Inc. CyberOptics Corporation Splunk Inc. Neuronetics, Inc. BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc. Melinta Therapeutics, Inc. Omeros Corporation
FINANCE, BUSINESS & LEGAL
OECD on jobs automation THE amount of jobs at risk from the rise of automation in Spain is the third highest of all members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The international body said some 30 per cent of low-income jobs and 15 per cent of high earning posts could be automated out of existence in the near future. The rise of machines doing human labour is set to affect different industries unequally, according to the OECD. “Certain jobs will disappear, but above all the nature of many jobs will change,” the OECD said. It said skilled workers stood to benefit as their jobs would become easier while low-skilled workers could see their roles automated and themselves out of work. Spain should encourage firms to re-train workers to make the automation process as profitable and inclusive as possible, the body said. The OECD added Spanish productivity continued to be low compared to other countries. Productivity refers to the amount of wealth generated per hour worked on average.
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Dia set for change A PRIVATE equity company has completed its takeover of the struggling Spanish supermarket chain Dia, with its new owners already making changes. LetterOne, owned by Russian tycoon Mikhail Fridman, took over almost 70 per cent of the company with Santander backing it as its main creditor. Karl-Heinz Holland has been appointed the new CEO of Dia and Stephan DuCharme has been made its president. The former replaces previous chief executive Borja de la Cierva. The changes at the top of Dia have all been communicated to Spain’s National Securities and Markets Commission (CNMV) regulator. Karl-Heinz Holland takes up the post of CEO after previously serving in the same post at Lidl from 2008 to 2014. “I believe in this company and I am committed to carry-
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Spanish bank reputation ALMOST 70 per cent of Spanish people view banks as ‘lousy or bad,’ making the industry the one with the worst reputation, with the LLYC’s Reputational Relevance report finding consumers see firms as lacking ‘social sensitivity.’
Share sale SPANISH pharmaceutical firm Pharma Mar has sold all of its shares in cleaning products maker Zelnova Zeltia to Allentia Invest and Safoles for €33.4 million because it wants to concentrate on its core medicinal operation, according to company sources.
LOOKING AHEAD: Dia is under new ownership. ing out the important measures which the future holds for us and I ask our employees, franchisees, suppliers and clients to place their support in us,” he said. Holland’s appointment has been interpreted as LetterOne signalling that it wants Dia to begin growing again. Lidl went from a 4.3
per cent market share to 4.9 per cent in 2018. Dia is now set to examine its corporate strategy and find a way to compete with Spanish supermarket stalwarts including Mercadona. It will also be seeking to boost earnings after losing €352 million in 2018 and €144 million in the first
quarter of this year. Plans are reportedly afoot to revamp Dia’s store format and to make the company more efficient to claw back some of its losses. Dia currently has 6,087 stores, 45 per cent of which it directly owns while the remaining 55 per cent are franchises.
Tech stock TECHNOLOGICAL solutions company Amper Group has bought 100 per cent of the stock of Formecal, who makes precision machine parts for the manufacturing and aeronautics sector, for €7.5 million.
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LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT FOR reasons I find difficult to understand, I have to date, shied away from the issues which beleaguer South Africa. I really don’t know why. Possibly it’s because I have my hands (and heart) preoccupied with enough of the vitriol and differences of opinion which surround the Immigrant and Islamist problems, and subsequently felt yet another can of worms emerging into the daylight and landing on the ol’ boy’s page may just be a bit much to handle! Well, I’m afraid the shocking and despicable event which occurred last week has finally made me reach for the tin opener. What’s he ranting on about now? I hear you say. Oh, you hadn’t heard? Well there’s a surprise. Not like the UK media to keep such a despicable act of this nature under wraps. Ha! Well I’ll tell you. Last week a young South African municipal councillor Annette Kennealy was brutally murdered on the smallholding she owned in Louis Trichard, SA. Annette was an outspoken and tireless advocator of white farmer’s rights. Always aware of the danger she evoked she found it necessary to constantly carry a gun! (Nice!). Unfortunately, the firearm was not protection enough and she was discovered in her home, brutally bludgeoned to death with a pipe and a hammer. Before the usual suspects begin wingeing on about my knowledge on the subject, I can tell you
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that I have always loved Africa. Visiting this
that ‘it was much better under Mr Smith’!
STRIFE: South Africa continues to struggle with its colonial legacy. beautiful continent many times I have experienced both Rhodesia and later, Zimbabwe. I also stayed in South Africa during and after apartheid and twice toured the country with two number one records in the late 60’s. I have witnessed the empty shelves in the supermarkets of Victoria after the inauguration of Mugabe and experienced black locals slide up to me whispering
Well, before the snowflakes begin muttering empty antiquated sentiments and quoting 200year-old events, I can tell you that the white inequality which prevailed in those dark days was NOTHING compared with what is happening there now. In what can only be described as genocide, the white populace, especially the farmers, are slowly
but surely being wiped out. Throughout SA antiwhite propaganda is being broadcast far and wide every day. Those who manage to hold on to their properties, including friends of mine, live surrounded by walls and barbed wire with dogs roaming and guns permanently at hand. Those less lucky are begging in the streets (where they are often kicked to death) while others with families are moved into ‘white squatter camps’ where they live in filth and squalor, with up to 100 to a bedroom and shared kitchen. Helpless white parents wander the streets unable to find work and watch their children go hungry, begging for bread and dying. And the West watches this despicable regime sink into an abyss of evil rapacity and bloodlust - even against their own - and does precisely nothing. Shame on us all. Especially those in the West who continue to support its vile leaders. A bunch of tyrannical murderers who continue to wipe out those who simply happen to be of a different colour. Oops, sorry. Doesn’t it count the other way around!? Keep the faith, Love, Leapy leapylee2002@hotmail.com.
Leapy Lee’s opinions are his own and are not necessarily representative of those of the publishers, advertisers or sponsors.
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by Robert Shallis I DECIDED to write an article on worrying after having a discussion with a family member who has become so accustomed to worrying, he even worries that he has nothing to worry about. We often hear people say ‘stop worrying, it won’t make any difference.’ This is a very misleading statement because worry ‘does’ make a difference. It makes a difference in our ability to cope with the very thing we are worrying about. The word ‘worry’ is derived from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning ‘to choke or strangle.’ This is exactly what we do to ourselves when we worry, we choke the very joy out of being and living the way we should. Our rational thinking is diminished and our fears take over and dominate. It is a subtle yet destructive way of destroying our hopes and dreams, paralysing us and preventing us from progressing in life. Worry is a negative use of our imagination and over 90 per cent of what we worry about is irrelevant. Many of our worries are based on past events which cannot be changed, or future events which will never happen. The remain-
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Worry, does it make any difference? A LITTLE WORRY: Isn’t a bad thing as it pushes some people to take assertive action, but chronic, persistent worry can be dangerous.
ing worries are therefore usually manageable if they are not blown out of proportion. Worry can stem from a lack of confidence due to a lack of knowledge and understanding; insight is important. We also often hear people say ‘I’m a born worrier.’ Again, this statement is unfounded. We were not born worriers. We have simply acquired a habit of worrying. Excessive worrying can fur-
ther lead to anxiety, this is worry spiralled out of control. The phrase ‘worrying yourself sick,’ is a statement certainly worth noting. A little worry isn’t a bad thing as it pushes some people to take assertive action, but it’s chronic persistent worry which can be dangerous, and as mentioned, can actually lead to sickness. Our imagination is a wonderful gift, but if we use it in the wrong way and
let negative thoughts dominate our minds we are allowing it to create our daily reality. The more we feed the worry habit, the more it grows and eventually becomes part of our personality with most of our thoughts going straight into that worry channel which we have created, reinforcing it each time. So how do we break the worry habit? Firstly, believe that the habit can
be broken. Remember, it’s just a habit like any other formed habit. Worry is irrational thinking, so whenever you start to worry, take that worry and think rationally, break it down, understand exactly what that worry entails and what you can actually do about it. Discard the habitual negative thought for just a moment and replace it with a positive outcome. Just imagine the opposite! You’ll find the reality of the problem is so much smaller than you initially thought, and it can be easily handled. To reconfirm that worry is a state of mind; I invite you to partake in an exercise. Write down a list of your current worries on a piece of paper then place that paper into a sealed envelope. After a month, open the envelope and look at your list of worries. You will find that most of them will have solved themselves and no longer need to be worried about. It takes as much energy to think of a positive outcome as it does for a negative one; make the decision now, and change your habit to one which serves you, rather than depletes you. Your mind is like a garden, tend it well and it will show its true beauty.
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Pause to consider this day THERE really are some dates we just shouldn’t ever forget aren’t there? I mean, if I were to forget our wedding anniversary or my wife’s birthday, I’d be in big trouble! Other dates too, like Christmas Day, or for some, St George’s Day, or even for our American cousins, July 4 may have very special significance. So why should I suggest that Thursday, May 30 should be a date right up there with all the others, to be celebrated by those of us who consider ourselves Christian? What’s so special about that date then, other than the fact it’s the day this edition of the Euro Weekly News was published? Well this year, May 30, being just 40 days after Easter, is Ascension Day, and as such is actually one of the most important dates in the Christian calendar. For the Bible tells us that just 40 days after rising from the grave, Jesus was taken into heaven, in full view of his followers, whose lives as a result were changed beyond all recognition. And to be honest, if I as a Christian actu-
ally believe this, then, as suggested in my last item, it should have a pretty dramatic effect on me too. For Ascension Day reminds me that not only did Christ overcome death by returning to life that Easter Day after having been crucified and buried, but he also returned to his Father, as he himself said, to prepare a place for us. And in due time, he also stated our bodies too will be recreated like his own to join him in a new Heaven and new Earth. Through his ascension Jesus confirms that death isn’t the end; there is eternal purpose to our lives here on Earth, and when this period of our existence comes to an end, we can look forward to an eternity far more fantastic than anything we could ever dream of. It was this conviction, having watched him ascend, that made the followers of Jesus utterly resolute, able to withstand any persecution. No wonder then that I earlier suggested this day is one of the most important dates in the Christian calendar!
Duncan Burr is Licensed Lay Reader for the Anglican Chaplaincy of Costa Almeria and Costa Calida (further detail available at www.mojacarchurch.org) and may be contacted at d.burr@albox-online.net
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7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Britain's Secret Charity Cheats 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pmA1: Britain's Longest Road 12:45pmThe Housing Enforcers 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One 2:30pm BBC London News 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm Impossible 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Garden Rescue 5:30pm The Repair Shop 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six; Weather 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm EastEnders 9:00pm Eat Well for Less 10:00pmAmbulance 11:00pmBBC News at Ten 11:25pmRegional News and Weather 11:30pmWeather 11:35pmQuestion Time 12:35am Dying for a Degree
7:30am A1: Britain's Longest Road 8:15am Garden Rescue 9:00am This Farming Life 10:00am BBC News at 9 11:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pmBBC Newsroom Live 2:00pm The Boss 2:45pm Street Auction 3:30pm The TV That Made Me 4:15pm The Sweet Makers 5:15pm Nature's Miracle Orphans 6:15pm Flog It! 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm The Farmers' Country Showdown 8:00pm Saving Lives at Sea 8:30pm Springwatch 10:00pmBig Animal Surgery 11:00pmMock the Week 11:30pmNewsnight Analysis of the day's events, presented by Kirsty Wark. 12:10am Weather The latest weather information. 12:15am The Ranganation 1:00am What We Do in the Shadows
8:00pm Beyond 100 Days BBC News teams in Washington DC and London report on the events that are shaping the world. 8:30pm Top of the Pops 9:00pm Neanderthals: Meet Your Ancestors 10:00pm Eat to Live Forever with Giles Coren 11:00pm Operation Cloud Lab: Secrets of the Skies 12:00am Botany: A Blooming History 1:00am Top of the Pops 1:30am Storm Troupers: The Fight to Forecast the Weather 2:30am Time Shift 3:30am Secret Knowledge 4:00am Neanderthals: Meet Your Ancestors Part two of two.
9:30am Lorraine 10:25am Dickinson's Real Deal 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:55pm ITV News London 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Tenable 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London The latest news and weather from London and the South East. 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Britain's Got Talent Live Show 10:00pm Coronation Street 10:30pmBritain's Got Talent 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:35pm ITV News London 11:45pmGreat Art 12:50am Tenable 1:35am Jackpot247
8:10am You've Been Framed! Gold 9:00am Emmerdale 9:25am Coronation Street 9:55am You've Been Framed! Gold 10:25am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 11:15am BGT: Stephen's Top 10 Crown Jewels 12:15pm You've Been Framed! Gold 1:15pm Emmerdale 1:45pm Coronation Street 2:15pm You've Been Framed! Gold 2:45pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3:45pm Celebrity Catchphrase 4:50pm Judge Rinder 6:00pm Britain's Got Talent Live Show 7:30pm Britain's Got Talent 8:00pm You've Been Framed! Gold 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm Family Guy 11:00pm Britain's Got More Talent Live 12:05am Family Guy
7:00am Classic Coronation Street 7:30am Classic Coronation Street 7:55am Heartbeat 9:00am Murder, She Wrote 9:55am On the Buses 10:30am On the Buses 11:05am Rising Damp 11:35am Lewis 1:40pm Heartbeat 2:45pm Classic Emmerdale 3:15pm Classic Emmerdale 3:50pm Classic Coronation Street 4:20pm Classic Coronation Street 4:55pm Lewis 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Endeavour 11:00pm Bancroft 12:00am Law and Order: UK Crime drama series. 1:05am Inspector Morse Drama series featuring Colin Dexter's enigmatic Chief Inspector.
7:25am Cheers 7:55am Cheers 8:20am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:40am Frasier 11:10am Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 12:05pmUndercover Boss USA 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Couples Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Posh Pawn 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Fifteen to One 5:00pm A Place in the Sun 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Beat the Chef 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm The Secret Life of the Zoo 10:00pmThe Final Mission: Foxy's War 11:00pmUEFA Champions League 12:00am ICC Cricket World Cup: England v South Africa 1:05am A Very British Sex Shop
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7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Britain's Secret 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm A1: Britain's Longest Road 12:45pm The Housing Enforcers 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One 2:30pm BBC London News 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm Impossible 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Garden Rescue 5:30pm The Repair Shop 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm Garden Rescue 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm A Question of Sport 10:00pm Have I Got News for You 10:30pm Would I Lie to You? 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 1:25pm Regional News and Weather
7:30am A1: Britain's Longest Road 8:15am Garden Rescue 9:00am Gardeners' World 10:00am BBC News at 9 11:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 2:00pm The Boss 2:45pm Street Auction 3:30pm The TV That Made Me 4:15pm The Sweet Makers 5:15pm Nature's Miracle Orphans 6:15pm Flog It! 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm The Farmers' Country Showdown 8:00pm Nile: Earth's Great Rivers 9:00pm Mastermind 9:30pm Gardeners' World 10:30pm The Looming Tower 11:15pm The Mini Mash Report 11:30pm Newsnight 12:00am Weather 12:05am For a Few Dollars More
8:00pm World News Today The day's leading stories. 8:30pm Top of the Pops 9:00pm Elton John at the BBC 10:00pm Meat Loaf: In and Out of Hell 11:00pm Queen: Rock the World 12:00am People's History of Pop 1:00am Top of the Pops 1:30am Metal at the BBC 2:00am Guitar Heroes at the BBC Archive footage of guitarists on BBC music shows of the 1970s. 3:00am Elton John at the BBC 3:55am Meat Loaf: In and Out of Hell
7:25am Cheers 8:20am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:40am Frasier 11:10am Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 12:05pm Undercover Boss USA 1:00pm Channel 4 News Channel 4's midday news summary. 1:05pm Couples Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Posh Pawn 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Fifteen to One 5:00pm A Place in the Sun 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Beat the Chef 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Puppy School 10:00pm Gogglebox 11:00pm The Last Leg 12:05am First Dates 1:05am ICC Cricket World Cup
9:20am Little Princess 9:40am Shimmer and Shine 9:55am Floogals 10:10am Sunny Bunnies 10:15am Jeremy Vine 12:15pm Police Interceptors 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords 2:10pm Access 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm A Sister's Nightmare 5:00pm Friends 6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm The Gadget Show 9:00pm The Yorkshire Steam Railway: All Aboard 10:00pm The Pompeii Prophecy: Countdown to Devastation 11:00pmMamma Mia! 12:00am Access 12:05amMamma Mia!
7:00am Good Morning Sports Fans Bitesize 8:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 8:30am Cricket World Cup Centre 9:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 10:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 10:30am Cricket 8:00pm Cricket A bite-sized recap of the ICC Cricket World Cup opener between England and South Africa 8:15pm Cricket 9:00pm Live PGA Tour Golf Day one of the Memorial Tournament from Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio. 12:30am Info not available 1:30am Sky Sports News 2:00am Sky Sports News 3:00am Sky Sports News
10:25am Dickinson's Real Deal 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:00pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:20pm ITV News London 2:30pm ITV Racing Live 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Britain's Got Talent Live Show 10:00pm Coronation Street 10:30pmBritain's Got Talent 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:35pm ITV News London 11:45pm The Keith and Paddy Picture Show 12:20am When English Football Ruled Europe
9:00am Emmerdale 9:25am Coronation Street 9:55am You've Been Framed! Gold 10:25am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 11:15am BGT: Top 10 Standout Stars 12:15pm You've Been Framed! 1:15pm Emmerdale 1:45pm Coronation Street 2:15pm You've Been Framed! Gold 2:45pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3:45pm Celebrity Catchphrase 4:50pm Judge Rinder 6:00pm Britain's Got Talent Live Show 7:30pm Britain's Got Talent 8:00pm You've Been Framed! Gold 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm Family Guy 11:00pm Britain's Got More Talent Live 12:05am Family Guy
7:00am Classic Coronation Street 7:30am Classic Coronation Street 7:55am Heartbeat 9:00am Murder, She Wrote 9:55am On the Buses 10:30am On the Buses 11:05am Rising Damp 11:40am Lewis 1:40pm Heartbeat 2:45pm Classic Emmerdale 3:15pm Classic Emmerdale 3:50pm Classic Coronation Street 4:20pm Classic Coronation Street 4:55pm Lewis 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Doc Martin 10:00pm Doc Martin 11:00pm The Good Karma Hospital 12:00am The Good Karma Hospital 1:05am Elizabeth: The Golden Age
7:00am 8:00am 8:55am 10:00am 11:00am
The Chase The Chase Kojak Isle of Man TT French Open Tennis 9:30pm River Monsters 10:00pm Isle of Man TT 11:00pmGoodfellas 12:05am FYI Daily 12:10amGoodfellas 1:55am TT Blues Documentary series about the Isle of Man Constabulary during the world famous TT races. 2:55am Better Late Than Never The guys head to Africa
7:00am Good Morning Sports Fans Bitesize 7:30am Good Morning Sports Fans Bitesize 8:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 8:30am Cricket World Cup Centre 9:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 10:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 11:00am Cricket 8:00pm Live PGA Tour Featured Groups 8:30pm Live PGA Tour Golf 12:30am Info not available 1:30am Sky Sports News 2:00am Sky Sports News 3:00am Sky Sports News All the news from the Premier League and beyond. 4:00am Live Wnba: Las Vegas @ Phoenix
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SATURDAY - 1 JUNE
7:00am Breakfast 11:00am Saturday Kitchen Live 12:30pm Athletics 1:30pm BBC News 1:40pm Weather 1:45pm Women's Football: England v New Zealand 4:00pm Rugby League Challenge Cup 6:20pm The BFG 8:10pm BBC News 8:20pm Regional News 8:25pm Weather 8:30pm The Hit List 9:15pm Pointless 10:05pm Casualty 10:50pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather. 11:05pm Weather 11:10pm Mrs. Brown's Boys 11:40pmThe Thomas Crown Affair 1:30am Weather for the Week Ahead
8:05am Mr. Bean: The Animated Series 8:30am Marvel's Avengers: Ultron Revolution 9:00amThunderbirds are Go 9:25am ITV News 9:30am The Sara Cox Show 10:25amSaturday Morning with James Martin 12:35pmJohn and Lisa's Weekend Kitchen 1:35pm Catchphrase 2:20pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:30pm ITV Racing Live 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV Evening News 7:15pm ITV News London 7:30pmNinja Warrior UK 8:30pm In for a Penny 9:00pm The British Soap Awards 2019 11:00pmPiers Morgan's Life Stories 11:55pmITV News 12:15am When English Football Ruled Europe
7:45am All Over the Place: UK 8:15am Wild and Weird 8:30am The Dengineers 9:00am Mustangs FC 9:30am The Dog Ate My Homework 10:00am Deadly Top 10 10:30am Astronauts: Do You Have What it Takes? 11:30am The World According to Kids 12:30pm Nadiya's British Food Adventure 1:00pm Kew on a Plate 2:00pm Back in Time for the Weekend 3:00pm The Cruel Sea 5:00pm The Red Arrows 6:00pm The Millionaires' Holiday Club 7:00pm Equator From the Air 8:00pm The Yorkshire Dales 8:30pm The Planets 9:30pm Dad's Army 10:00pm Holst: The Planets with Professor Brian Cox 11:30pm Effie Gray 1:10am Romeo and Juliet
8:00pm Natural World 9:00pm Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands Michelle Dockery narrates a documentary examining the wildlife of the east Asian country. 10:00pmInspector Montalbano 11:45pmGuitar Heroes at the BBC 12:45am Gregory Porter's Popular Voices 1:45am Popular Voices at the BBC 2:45am Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands Michelle Dockery narrates a documentary examining the wildlife of the east Asian country. 3:45am Natural World
7:00am Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 7:25am You've Been Framed! 7:50am Emmerdale Omnibus 9:55am Coronation Street Omnibus 12:20pm Britain's Got Talent Live Show 2:00pm Britain's Got Talent 2:30pm In for a Penny 3:00pm Ninja Warrior UK 4:00pm Japandemonium 4:30pm The Flintstones 5:30pm FYI Daily 5:35pm The Flintstones 6:20pm Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens 7:20pm FYI Daily 7:25pm Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens 9:00pm Godzilla 10:00pm FYI Daily 10:05pmGodzilla 11:25pm Family Guy 12:25am American Dad!
7:00am Love Your Garden 7:50am On the Buses 9:25am Inspector Morse 11:45am Hidden Treasure 1:50pm Agatha Christie's Poirot 3:50pm Agatha Christie's Poirot 5:50pm Agatha Christie's Marple 7:55pm A Touch of Frost Frost has to try and put an end to a series of brutal attacks on senior citizens on his patch. 10:00pm Vera 12:00am Agatha Christie's Poirot 1:05am Classic Emmerdale Kathy is shocked by news of her 'engagement' while Nick plans a surprise holiday for Elsa. 1:35am Classic Emmerdale
7:10am 7:35am 8:00am 8:25am 8:50am 10:10am 10:35am 11:00am 11:25am 11:55am 12:25pm 12:55pm 3:25pm 4:25pm 5:30pm 6:30pm 7:30pm 8:00pm
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King of Queens King of Queens Frasier Frasier Everybody Loves Raymond The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons Four in a Bed A Place in the Sun Sun, Sea and Brides to be Big House, Little House The Supervet Channel 4 News D-Day: The King Who Fooled Hitler Britain's Most Historic Towns Kingsman: The Secret Service 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown ICC Cricket World Cup
7:00am World Cup Rivalries: England v Argentina 7:25am British Superbike 8:55am Isle of Man TT 10:00am ITV Racing: The Opening Show 11:00am French Open Tennis 9:30pm River Monsters 10:00pm Isle of Man TT 11:00pmCrimson Tide Undersea suspense drama following the power struggle between a commander and his executive officer 12:05am FYI Daily Latest news from the world of entertainment. 12:10amCrimson Tide 1:20am Car Crash Global 2:15am Quincy, M.E. 3:20am Football Genius 4:00am Teleshopping
TV LISTING
SUNDAY - 2 JUNE
7:00am Milkshake! 11:00am Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:30am Access 11:35am Police Interceptors 12:30pm Police Interceptors 1:30pm Friends 2:00pm Friends 2:30pm Friends 3:00pm Friends 3:30pm Friends 4:00pm The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 6:00pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away! 7:00pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away! 8:00pm Inside the Tower of London 8:55pm 5 News 9:00pm When Talent Shows Go Horribly Wrong 12:00am Info not available 2:00am Super Casino
7:00am Breakfast 10:00am BBC News 11:00am The Andrew Marr Show 12:00pmHomes Under the Hammer 1:00pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:10pm Weather for the Week Ahead 2:15pm Songs of Praise 2:55pm Points of View 3:10pm Eat Well for Less 4:10pm Money for Nothing 5:10pm Escape to the Country 5:55pm The Repair Shop 6:40pm Pointless 7:30pm BBC News 7:50pm Regional News 7:55pm Weather 8:00pm Countryfile 9:00pm Antiques Roadshow 10:00pmGentleman Jack 11:00pmBBC News 11:20pmRegional News 11:25pmWeather 11:30pmBeing a Lioness 12:30am Battle of the Bands - Our Lives
7:05am A to Z of TV Gardening 7:50am Glorious Gardens From Above 8:35am Gardeners' World 9:35am Countryfile 10:30am Beechgrove 11:00am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 12:30pm Nadiya's British Food Adventure 1:00pm Rowing 3:15pm Rugby League Challenge Cup 6:00pm Natural World 7:00pm Big Animal Surgery 8:00pm Dragons' Den 9:00pm Equator From the Air 10:00pm The Ranganation 10:45pm What We Do in the Shadows 11:10pm What We Do in the Shadows 11:30pm Stacey Dooley Investigates 12:30am Rugby Union 1:30am The Borderlands 2:55am Question Time 3:55am Holby City 4:55am This is BBC Two
8:00pm Horizon 9:00pm Battle of Jutland: The Navy's Bloodiest Day 10:00pm Storyville 11:40pm Storyville 12:55am Treasures of Ancient Greece Alastair Sooke explores the riches and unique legacy of Greek art. 1:55am Info not available 2:55am Battle of Jutland: The Navy's Bloodiest Day 3:55am Victorian Bakers
8:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:25am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:50am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:15am The Big Bang Theory 9:40am The Big Bang Theory 10:05am The Big Bang Theory 10:30am Sunday Brunch 1:30pm Bake Off: The Professionals 2:30pm The Simpsons 3:00pm The Simpsons 3:30pm The Simpsons 4:00pm The Simpsons 4:30pm 27 Dresses 6:35pm Coast v Country 7:30pm Channel 4 News 8:00pm Escape to the Chateau 9:00pm Guy Martin's DDay Landing 11:00pm X-Men: Days of Future Past 1:20am ICC Cricket World Cup: South Africa v Bangladesh 2:20am Fruitvale Station 3:45am Undercover Boss Canada
6:10am The Great Artists 6:35am Wildlife SOS 7:00am Milkshake! 11:00am Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:15am Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 12:00pm Friends 12:30pm Friends 1:00pm Friends 1:30pm Friends 2:00pm My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 4:00pm I'm 40 Stone and Too Fat to Move 5:00pm First Class v Economy: Is it Worth it? 6:00pm When Rich Kids Go Skint 7:00pm Blind Date 7:55pm 5 News 8:00pm The Bridge on the River Kwaii 11:00pm Freddie Mercury: A Bohemian Rhapsody 1:05am Info not available
7:00am Rugby Gold 7:10am Live Super Rugby Sunwolves meet Brumbies at Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium in Super Rugby. 9:00am Live Rugby 7s: Paris Day one of the final stage on the 201819 HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 11:00am Cricket 8:00pm Live Us Women's Open Golf Day three of the US Women's Open from the Country Club of Charleston in South Carolina. 11:00pm Boxing 12:30am Sky Sports News All the news from the Premier League and beyond.
7:35am Thunderbirds are Go 8:00am Mission Employable 8:05am Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures 8:30am Marvel's Avengers: Secret Wars 8:55am The Haunted Hathaways 9:25am ITV News 9:30am The Sara Cox Show 10:25am James Martin's Sunday Selection 11:25am This Morning On Sunday 12:25pmJohn and Lisa's Weekend Kitchen 1:25pm ITV Lunchtime News 1:35pm Licence to Kill 4:05pm Tenable 5:10pm Info not available 8:00pm ITV Evening News 8:15pm Regional News and Weather 8:30pm Info not available 11:00pmITV News
10:30am Coronation Street Omnibus 1:00pm Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed 2:05pm FYI Daily 2:10pm Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed 2:50pm Yogi Bear 3:50pm FYI Daily 3:55pm Yogi Bear 4:25pm Looney Tunes: Back in Action 5:35pm FYI Daily 5:40pm Looney Tunes: Back in Action 6:15pm Step Up 7:15pm FYI Daily 7:20pm Step Up 8:20pm The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 9:20pm FYI Daily 9:25pm The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 11:05pm Britain's Got More Talent Live Final 12:10am Family Guy 12:35am Family Guy
7:00am Rising Damp 7:25am The Royal 8:20am Heartbeat 9:25am Heartbeat 10:30am Long Lost Family 11:30amSparkling Cyanide 1:30pm Agatha Christie's Marple 3:30pm Inspector Morse 5:50pm Victoria 6:55pm Victoria 7:55pm Agatha Christie's Poirot 9:00pm Maigret 11:00pm Grantchester 12:00am The Mafia with Trevor McDonald Trevor McDonald takes viewers on a journey into the machinations of the American mafia. 1:00am Wire in the Blood 2:00am Wire in the Blood 2:50am Elizabeth: The Golden Age
7:00am Motorsport UK 8:00am Cycling: Tour Series Highlights 9:00am Isle of Man TT 10:00am The Motorbike Show Motorcycle guru Henry Cole is in the Yorkshire Dales taking in the delights of some of the UK's best motorcycling roads. 11:00am French Open Tennis 9:30pm River Monsters 10:00pm Isle of Man TT 11:00pmThe Enforcer Crime thriller sequel. 12:00am FYI Daily Latest news from the world of entertainment. 12:05amThe Enforcer Crime thriller sequel. 1:05am Minder 2:10am Quincy, M.E.
7:00am Live ANZ Netball Final 7:45am My Icon 8:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 8:30am Cricket World Cup Centre A round-up of all the latest news from the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup in England and Wales 9:00am Live Rugby 7s: Paris Day two of the final stage of the 201819 HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 11:00am Cricket 8:00pm Live Us Women's Open Golf 1:00am Sky Sports News All the news from the Premier League and beyond. 2:00am Live NBA Finals 4:30am NBA
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MONDAY - 3 JUNE 4:45pm 5:30pm 6:15pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 8:30pm
9:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 11:25pm 11:30pm 11:35pm 12:00am
Garden Rescue Flog It! Pointless BBC News Regional News The One Show Real Life Superheroes - Our Lives EastEnders Panorama Death in Paradise BBC News Regional News Weather Famalam Have I Got a Bit More News for You
7:00pm Regional News and Weather 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Love Your Garden 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pmInfo not available 11:00pmITV News
TV LISTING
3:15pm The TV That Made Me 3:50pm Talking Pictures 4:20pmIn Which We Serve 6:15pm Antiques Road Trip 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm The Farmers' Country Showdown 8:00pm Nigel Slater's Middle East: Lebanon 9:00pm Springwatch 10:00pmThatcher: A Very British Revolution 11:00pmI Love 1983 11:30pmNewsnight 12:10am Weather
8:00pm Beyond 100 Days 8:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 9:00pm Victorian Bakers 10:00pmThe Lake District: A Wild Year 11:00pmThe Alan Clark Diaries Dramatisation of the colourful memoirs of the late Conservative MP. 11:30pmThe Alan Clark Diaries 12:00am Clydebuilt: The Ships 1:00am Pacific Abyss 2:00am Time Shift
3:10pm 4:00pm 5:00pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 9:00pm 9:30pm
Countdown Fifteen to One A Place in the Sun Four in a Bed Beat the Chef The Simpsons Hollyoaks Channel 4 News Dispatches Tricks of the Restaurant Trade 10:00pm999: What's Your Emergency? 11:00pmGogglebox 12:05am ICC Cricket World Cup
5:00pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm
Friends 5 News Neighbours Home and Away 5 News Gallagher Premiership Rugby Highlights 9:00pmPolice Interceptors Documentary series profiling the work of a highspeed police interception unit in Essex. 10:00pmExtreme Rental Wars 11:00pmCriminals Caught on Camera 12:05am The Tuxedo
3:15pm Impossible 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Garden Rescue 5:30pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm EastEnders 9:00pm Holby City 10:00pm Years and Years 11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News 11:30pm Weather 11:35pm Hot Property 12:05am Young, Welsh and Pretty Religious
3:15pm Sweets Made Simple 3:50pm Street Auction 4:35pm I Was Monty's Double 6:15pm Antiques Road Trip 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm The Farmers' Country Showdown 8:00pm Nigel Slater's Middle East: Turkey 9:00pm Springwatch 10:00pmThe Planets 11:00pmLive at the Apollo 11:30pmNewsnight 12:10am Weather
8:00pm Beyond 100 Days 8:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 9:00pm India's Frontier Railways 10:00pmRhythms of India 11:00pmReal Kashmir FC 12:00am I Was There 1:00am Treasures of the Indus 2:00am Fair Cop: A Century of British Policewomen Documentary examining the history of women in the British police force 4:00am India's Frontier Railways
12:05pmUndercover Boss USA 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Couples Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Posh Pawn 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Fifteen to One 5:00pm A Place in the Sun 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Beat the Chef 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Bake Off: The Professionals 10:00pm24 Hours in A&E 11:00pmFirst Dates 12:05am Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back
3:15pm Sex, Lies and Deception 5:00pm Friends 5:30pm Friends 6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News The latest news coverage. 8:00pm The Dog Rescuers: Best in Show 9:00pm Tony Robinson's Walking the Thames 10:00pmGreat British Gardens 11:00pmWhat Happened Next
3:40pm Dress to Impress 4:45pm Judge Rinder 5:50pm Take Me Out: 10th Anniversary Special 6:50pm You've Been Framed! 7:25pm Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 8:25pm FYI Daily 8:30pm Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 10:00pmLove Island 11:35pmFamily Guy 12:05am Family Guy
1:40pm Heartbeat 2:45pm Classic Emmerdale 3:15pm Classic Emmerdale 3:50pm Classic Coronation Street 4:20pm Classic Coronation Street 4:55pm A Touch of Frost 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Doc Martin 10:00pmDoc Martin 11:00pmFoyle's War 1:05am A Touch of Frost
7:00am The Chase 8:55am Kojak 10:00am Isle of Man TT 11:00am French Open Tennis 9:30pm River Monsters 10:00pmIsle of Man TT More nail-biting action from the first Supersport race, with amazing displays of courage 11:00pmThe Motorbike Show 12:00amStarsky and Hutch
8:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 8:30am Cricket World Cup Centre 9:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 10:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 11:00am Cricket 8:00pm Cricket 8:15pm Cricket 9:00pm Sky Sports Tonight 10:00pmSky Sports Tonight 11:00pmSky Sports News at Ten 12:00am Sky Sports News 1:00am Sky Sports News
6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Save Money 9:00pm Emmerdale 9:30pm Her Majesty's Cavalry 10:00pm 63 Up 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:30pm ITV News London 11:45pmOn Assignment 12:15am Piers Morgan's Life Stories
1:45pm Coronation Street 2:15pm Coronation Street 2:45pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3:40pm Dress to Impress 4:45pm Judge Rinder 5:50pm Take Me Out 7:00pm You've Been Framed: Gold 7:30pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 9:30pm Superstore 10:00pmLove Island 11:05pmCelebrity Juice 12:05amFamily Guy
2:45pm Classic Emmerdale 3:15pm Classic Emmerdale 3:50pm Classic Coronation Street 4:20pm Classic Coronation Street 4:55pm A Touch of Frost 7:00pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Midsomer Murders 11:00pmFoyle's War 1:05am Agatha Christie's Poirot
7:00am World of Sport 7:15am The Chase 8:15am The Chase 9:15am Kojak 10:20am Quincy, M.E. 11:25am Minder 12:30pmIsle of Man TT 1:30pm French Open Tennis 9:00pm River Monsters 10:00pmIsle of Man TT 11:00pmThe Motorbike Show 12:00am World Rugby U20 1:00amDemolition Man 2:00am FYI Daily 2:05am Demolition Man
8:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 8:30am Cricket World Cup Centre 9:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 10:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 11:00am Cricket 8:00pm Sky Sports Tonight 9:00pm Sky Sports Tonight 10:00pmSky Sports Tonight 11:00pmSky Sports News at Ten 12:00am Sky Sports News 1:00am Sky Sports News
9:00am Emmerdale 9:55am You've Been Framed! 10:25am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 11:20am Superstore 12:15pmYou've Been Framed and Famous! Gold 1:15pm Emmerdale 2:15pm You've Been Framed! 2:45pmThe Ellen DeGeneres Show 3:40pm Dress to Impress 4:45pm Judge Rinder 5:50pm Take Me Out 7:00pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 9:30pm Superstore 10:00pmLove Island 11:00pmIain Stirling's Celebability 11:50pmFamily Guy 12:20am Family Guy
7:00am Classic Coronation Street 7:55am Heartbeat 8:55am Murder, She Wrote 9:50am On the Buses 10:25am On the Buses 10:55am Rising Damp 11:25am A Touch of Frost 1:40pm Heartbeat 2:45pm Classic Emmerdale 3:15pm Classic Emmerdale 3:50pm Classic Coronation Street 4:20pm Classic Coronation Street 4:55pm A Touch of Frost 7:00pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Agatha Christie's Poirot 11:00pmFoyle's War 1:05am Law and Order: UK Crime drama series. 2:05am Agatha Christie's Poirot
7:00am Football's Greatest: George Best 7:15am The Chase 8:15am The Chase Quiz show hosted by Bradley Walsh. 9:15am Kojak A fashion model is driven to the brink of insanity as people around her are murdered. 10:20am Quincy, M.E. Another investigation for the California coroner. 11:20am Minder 12:30pmIsle of Man TT 1:30pm French Open Tennis 9:00pm Isle of Man TT 10:00pmIsle of Man TT 11:00pmRonin 12:00am FYI Daily Latest news from the world of entertainment.
7:00am Good Morning Sports Fans Bitesize 7:30am Good Morning Sports Fans Bitesize 8:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 8:30am Cricket World Cup Centre 9:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 10:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 11:00am Cricket 8:00pm Football Portugal take on Switzerland at the Estadio Dragao in Porto in the first semi-final at the UEFA 11:30pm Sky Sports News at Ten Round up of all the day's sports news. 12:00am Sky Sports News
WEDNESDAY - 5 JUNE 7:00am Breakfast The latest news stories and events. 10:15am D-Day 75: A Tribute to Heroes 2:00pm BBC News 2:30pm Regional News All the latest local news. 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm Impossible 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Garden Rescue 5:30pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 9:00pm Watchdog Live 10:00pm Crisis in Care 11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News 11:30pm Weather 11:35pm 21 Again 12:25am Valley Cops 1:00am Weather for the Week Ahead
9:00am See Hear 9:30am Defenders UK 10:00am BBC News at 9 10:15am Britain's Secret Charity Cheats 11:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pmBBC Newsroom Live 12:15pmPolitics Live 2:00pm The Boss 2:45pm Sweets Made Simple 3:15pm Street Auction 4:00pm The TV That Made Me 4:45pm Desert Fox 6:15pm Antiques Road Trip 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm The Farmers' Country Showdown 8:00pm Nigel Slater's Middle East: Iran 9:00pm Springwatch 10:00pmSummer of Rockets 11:00pmMum 11:30pmNewsnight 12:10am Weather
8:00pm Beyond 100 Days 8:30pm The Science of DDay 9:00pm Queen Victoria's Children 10:00pmVictorian Sensations Philippa Perry time-travels back to the 1890s to explore how the late Victorian passion for science co-exists with a deeply-held belief in the paranormal. 11:00pmA Victorian Scandal: The Rudest Book in Britain 11:30pmMechanical Monsters 12:30am Andrew Marr's Great Scots: The Writers Who Shaped a Nation 1:30am Horizon
8:20am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:45am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:40am Frasier 10:10am Frasier 10:40am Frasier 11:10am Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 12:05pmUndercover Boss USA 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Couples Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Posh Pawn 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Fifteen to One 5:00pm A Place in the Sun 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Beat the Chef 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Location, Location, Location 10:00pmThe Virtues 11:35pm24 Hours in A&E 12:35am Naked Attraction
7:00am Milkshake! 10:15am Jeremy Vine 12:15pmPolice Interceptors 1:10pm 5 News 1:15pm Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords 2:10pm Access 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm The Obsession 5:00pm Friends 5:30pm Friends 6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News 8:00pm The Dog Rescuers: Best in Show 9:00pm GPs Behind Closed Doors 10:00pmCasualty 24/7 11:00pmAge Gap Love: 5 Years on Did it Last? 12:05am Gypsy Kids: Our Secret World 1:05am Police Interceptors
7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am Dickinson's Real Deal 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:55pm ITV News London 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Tenable 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pmBritain's Busiest Airport - Heathrow 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm63 Up 11:00pmITV News at Ten and Weather 11:30pmITV News London 11:45pmPeston 12:40am Tenable 1:35am Jackpot247
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James Bond’s Aston Martin Nick Horne’s Morning Read Freelance correspondent, London, England ASTON MARTIN are once again creating a special and strictly limited edition car. This time, to mark the 50 years which have passed since the Aston Martin DBS 1969 was James Bond’s car which once again saved the world from the dastardly Blofeld. “Aston Martin is synonymous with James Bond and the DBS from On her Majesty’s Secret Service has provided great inspiration to the team tasked with creating this very special edition. This new DBS Superleggera will be an extremely distinguished ‘brute in a suit’ designed to capture the essence of the iconic DBS from the 1969 film, but with a 5.2litre twin turbo V12, 715bhp engine!” said Andy Palmer, Aston martin Lagonda president and CEO. Painted Olive Green to match the original 1969 Aston Martin driven by James Bond in the movie, the new car is said to have a menacing road presence and a brutish elegance. The select 50 owners of this James Bond Special edition will have the option to add a bespoke designed drinks case to the package. The case is designed to fit perfectly into the boot space.
Nora Johnson
Breaking Views Nora is the author of popular psychological suspense and crime thrillers and a freelance journalist. To comment on any of the issues raised in her column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/3.0.15/nora-johnson
AS a writer, I’m often asked where do characters in novels spring from? Well, like people who make sausages, writers who create characters would sometimes rather their readers didn’t know exactly what’s involved in the production process. Sometimes it is not quite as edifying as you’d think! Most writers I know keep a kind of ‘filing cabinet’ in the back of their heads of people they’ve met that they dip into for ideas. Sometimes it’ll be the way someone talks breathlessly, lisping, repeating themselves (for instance, ‘I am clear that...’ As in: I am clear that Brexit means Brexit.’ Remind you of anyone? Maybe best not to go down that path). Or a physical tic - jaw clenching, chin scratching, nail biting (Oops! That you, too?). Writers are quite leech-like. Virtually everyone I’ve met (who’ll all remain nameless to protect the guilty) has ended up in my novels somewhere. Nobody’s safe! As for plot, it may be something totally inconsequential like a funny story or anecdote overheard on a bus, train, in the park. Or personal experience. Soul Stealer, for instance, not only delves into the secretive, shadowy world of identity theft, betrayal and revenge
OHMSS DBS SUPERLEGGERA: A muscular and menacing road presence. The black drinks case opens via metal clasp to reveal the matching red felt interior with space for two bottles of Champagne and four champagne flutes. Not a telescopic rifle, but rather a couple of bottles of bubbles to share with friends. Aston Martin vice president and Chief Creative Officer Marek Reichman said: “Creating a James Bond Special edition is always an exciting challenge as we work to create a car which embodies the legend of James Bond and the original movie car.
The DBS Superleggera is a muscular car which commands attention, but the Olive Green gives it a subtlety which belies the beast beneath.” The special edition of the DBS Superleggera boasts carbon fibre, splitter, aero blade and unique diamond
Fancy a starring role in a novel? WRITER’S BLOCK: The scourge of all novelists.
turned and forged wheels. A bespoke metal grille featuring six bright horizontal vanes adorns the front of the limited edition car to replicate the distinctive feature of the DBS featured in On her Majesty’s Secret Service. Meanwhile the exterior paint surface is enhanced with body coloured cantrails and roof. Commemorative side strakes and unique touches throughout. The interior of the DBS Superleggera is trimmed in pure black leather accented with grey blend Alcantara, as was the original 1969 DBS, with the cockpit accented in red inspired by the red trimmed glovebox in the original car. To p l a c e y o u r o r d e r f o r your DBS Superleggera OHMSS, hurry; you have little time as deliveries start in the autumn of this year 2019. The cost? Just £300,007 each! Astonmartin.com. Nick Horne, London, England
LEGALLY SPEAKING Who pays the water bill? I am about to rent an apartment which has a community pool and in my contract it says that I have to pay the water bills. My friend who rents an apartment with a pool in another block doesn’t pay any water bills, so I wonder what the legal position is please? P W (Costa del Sol)
but also mirrors real-life events. Years ago, I worked for David Elias, an internationally successful businessman, and attended lavish parties on his private yacht (pap shot and ending up on the pages of Tatler!). I later learned he’d died in the Far East. I felt sad but, that was that. Or, so I thought. Next I read the Serious Fraud Office was investigating after reports of his Reggie-Perrin-style ‘death’ might be ‘premature’ following ‘inconsistencies’ in the death certificate. It’s also claimed by creditors (he allegedly owed £100m+) he’d undergone cosmetic surgery to re-invent himself: a new identity in a new life somewhere. (And no, Crime Stop-
pers, I’ve no idea where he is either!) Which brings me on to that old chestnut and scourge of all novelists: writer’s block. I’m reminded of (Raymond) Chandler’s Law: ‘When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand.’ Good grief! Nora Johnson’s crime thrillers ‘Betrayal,’ ‘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.
S t a n d a r d l y, rental conDavid Searl tracts state that the tenYou and the Law in Spain ant pays the electric and water bills, whether it is a house or an apartment. Sometimes the contract says the tenant pays the community fees as well. Most apartments have individual water meters but some buildings have one communal meter and charge the owners a calculated fee. Perhaps this is your friend’s situation. Or perhaps the owner has factored the water bill into his rental charge. One way or another, you can be sure that your friend is paying for his water. The communal pool has a separate meter paid out of community fees.
Send your questions for David Searl through lawyers Ubeda-Retana and Associates in Fuengirola at Ask@lawtaxspain.com, or call 952 667 090.
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within 100ml liquid regulations. Carry anything else you can’t live without, like favourite make-up (you may not find your preferred brand locally, or it could cost you five times more!). 6) Spare clothes Trust me, this saves serious hassle if your luggage vanishes. Choose light, compact items. It’s amazing how small you can fold/roll shorts/ trousers and a top. Ladies - include a shawl and tie it to your bag handle to double-up as a blanket on the flight, or while travelling. 7) Snacks It pays to take food in case of unexpected delays (which may happen once boarded) and saves shelling-out airport prices. Critical if travelling with old or young travellers with special requirements. Carry chewing gum to help with ear popping and as an instant breath freshener. 8) Water Opt for a refillable water bottle. Silicone is reinforced and folds up to save space. Most airports have water fountains past security.
9) Mobile phone/tablet Stay connected and occupied during the journey. Remember earbuds/ earphones. 10) Portable charger/adaptor Choose light, compact, powerful chargers to avoid stress of battery failure on the move. 11) Pen and paper Yes it’s old-style, but always useful and takes up no room! 12) Travel insurance We would say that wouldn’t we? It’s a must and comes into its own if your luggage is delayed. Most comprehensive policies cover Baggage Delay, and Globelink is no exception. Baggage is usually considered ‘delayed’ if you don’t have it after 12 hours. Baggage Delay covers purchase of essential items until your luggage arrives, like clothing, medication and toiletries. Get confirmation of delays from your carrier and keep receipts to claim. Email me any other top tips to add to our Guide and we will share them next time!
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WHILE like most people I was not certain that Theresa May had shown she was the person to unite her party and country on a Brexit deal, I was still moved by her emotional resignation speech. I cannot imagine the pressures of being prime minister, both from her own backbenchers, the opposition, press, and even some of her Cabinet. At least Mrs May seemed like she genuinely believed she was trying to do the best thing for the country, even if no one else shared her views on what sort of Brexit we should have. I only hope the next prime minister will have the same commitment to their country. Laurence Hill
Saving a species DEAR editor, I read your article about the project to save the Iberian Lynx from extinction in last week’s paper (Issue 1768) and it made me very happy to read that something is being done to try and save this precious animal belonging to the Iberian Peninsula. As we are currently experiencing the worst spate of species becoming extinct in a very long time, it is so important that we all realise how important it is to take action to try to stop it. I know extinction is a natural phenomenon, but unlike in the past, when extinctions were caused by natural events, the current crisis is almost entirely caused by us humans. Though this project may be a drop in the ocean with regards to tackling the problem, it is a step in the right direction. Chloe Johnson
Three conversations DEAR Editor I am learning Spanish and if I say so myself, not doing too bad. I can chat happily with my Spanish neighbours, converse with my doctor in Spanish and generally, apart from my English accent have little problems, apart from one. The problem I have is how you can listen to three conversations at once, in any language, let alone Spanish. And yet the Spanish, particularly the ladies manage to have this ability. I was in a café the other day and there were four Spanish ladies at the next table, I saw and heard all four of them speaking at the same time. I had to have a small operation, the two nurses were wheeling me into the theatre with the doctor and all three of them were questioning me, at the same time, about whether I had eaten anything that morning. Help! Alex Mansell
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A genuine belief We need fireworks DEAR Ed I have decided that in my next life, I want to come back as a firework manufacturer in Spain. The Spanish must let off more fireworks per person than anywhere else in the World. ‘There’s a wedding, we need fireworks’; ‘A fiesta, oh we’ve got to have fireworks and we won’t just let them off at night, no, that’s too easy, I know, let’s wake everyone up in the morning with more fireworks, big, loud bangers’; ‘I know let’s celebrate the end of winter and not only will we let off tons off fireworks on the main night, but we can let off
FIREWORKS: A display for every occasion. bangers at two o’clock in the afternoon every day for a month before as well’; ‘New Year’s Eve? I know let’s let off some fireworks.’ And so it goes on, prob-
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ably the only time that they do not let off fireworks is November 5! I wonder how much the Spanish spend on fireworks each year?
BRITAIN’S prime minister has become Brexit’s latest casualty. Theresa May’s resignation announcement on Friday comes almost three years after the result of the 2016 referendum dealt a lethal blow to her predecessor David Cameron’s premiership. May, who sided with Remain during the referendum, entered Number 10 Downing Street on a wave of pro-Brexit sentiment in her Conservative party. ‘Brexit means Brexit’ she vowed at the time, and she was going to make a success of it. Almost three years later the country watched as May said her failure to do so was a matter of ‘deep regret.’ Theresa May will, for better or worse, go down in history as Britain’s Brexit prime minister. The issue will, more than any other success of scandal, come to define her time in power. The deadlock which brought May low proved her government, parliament and Britain remains deeply divided over the biggest constitutional change made since it entered the then Common Market in 1973. Vote after vote showed there was no majority in the House of Commons for her deal, or for the options laid out buffetstyle after its failure. Cross-party talks between the Conservatives and Labour opposition also proved fruitless. May’s successor faces having to cobble a majority from a fragmented parliament together to pass either the current deal or a new version. For the sake of Britain and the fate of expatriates living here, May’s successor has to achieve what she could not.
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PSOE makes gains in Spain and Europe AS most people know, this election did not use the UK’s almost unique ‘First Past the Post’ system. That’s what’s used in a General Election. The BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg has calculated if it had been a General Election using that system, there would be NO Conservative MPs in the UK Parliament at all! WOW! But before all the Brexit Party members get too excited about forming the next government, the arithmetic shows the Pro-Brexit parties got only 34.9 per cent of the vote when added together. The Pro-Remain parties added together got 40.4 per cent. The hopelessly split Tories and Labour would count as ‘Don’t Knows’ under current circumstances of course - and they got demolished. Roll on the next General Election! Brian E
British Prime Minister Theresa May announces resignation from
COMMENTS FROM EWN ONLINE Conservative leadership in June It’s a matter of ‘deep regret’ that she didn’t resign sooner. She’s gone down but unfortunately due to her poor leadership, she has dragged the country down with her. Maybe now the UK can start to become a world leader again. Ian
Vast RBL support for British exservice personnel in Spain We have the RBL here in France too, they were very good to me after my husband (ex RN) passed away... I am sure many people are not aware of the help they can
receive, glad to see this article.
Sian
Migrants found in ‘terrible conditions’ trying to reach Spain As privileged immigrants, we are very lucky we’ve never had to do anything like that. Julie
Left-leaning PSOE make history in Balearics election after becoming largest party in regional assembly Stability is needed and hopefully this election will keep the country on course for the next few years. Geoffrey
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YOUR STARS FOR NEXT 7 DAYS AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) You are looking to having everything your own way, which may not be entirely out of the question. The only sticking point could be that you are not even willing to be sharp with someone who has been far from straight with you. Be prepared to trip over a loose end later if you do not tie it up now.
PISCES (February 20 - March 20) So far as your work or business life is concerned, those in authority may seek to see things done their way. Where they seem to pay lip service to your needs, that is all it is… talk. Be clear that you want action and that you will not give in easily. Humour will not help.
ARIES (March 21 - April 20) Putting yourself first is necessary at the moment. There is so much happening this week that you may be tempted to run yourself ragged trying to do it all yourself. It is possible to persuade others to give a hand and, although it may seem too much trouble at the time, you will reap the benefits in the longer term.
TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) You should bear in mind that you are the best one to decide what you want, when you want it and how you will go about getting it. Others may offer you short cuts, but is that really going to deliver the goods? I think not.
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LEO (July 24 - August 23) What you truly want in life is now becoming clear to you. Not for you the fuzzy ideas of the past. Now, you realise that, if you do not give a strong lead, then others will lead you. To avoid going backwards now you must be determined and clear.
VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) With your self-confidence on a high note, you are ready to sing the song of your future. There will be highs and lows but that is what makes life interesting and exciting. Do not now avoid changes for the sake of peace. What is exciting and balanced this week is where your future lies.
LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) Where you see things failing to go your way, it may seem that others are being unfair. It is unlikely to be that simple. Perhaps, by being too easygoing and friendly, you have given the impression of not being particularly caring. State your case and change the tune.
SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Judgement may be impaired this week and it would be advisable to get second and even third opinions. In much the same way that you sometimes have an instinctive feel for things and situations, you now have this sensation about a certain person. An unbiased and imaginative opinion scatters your stress.
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When I finish dressing before a night out and have put on all the accessories, I usually look at myself in the mirror long and hard and then end up removing something. Whether it’s a belt, bracelet or a bauble, less is always more.” Joan Collins
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.” Oscar Wilde
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TIME
Across 1 Look at the sphere in the socket (7) 5 Run away from antelopes (5) 8 Hospital doctors bury bridge partners (7) 9 Woman bites end off eclair and chews it (5) 10 Drinks supplied after end of short stories (5) 11 Allow entry in parliament, it legislates (7) 12 Shape made by tipsy cleric (6) 14 Reds to revolt in this county? (6) 17 Charged article? Carbon copy, not new (7) 19 Fibre used in ropes is all-purpose (5) 22 Guard ignoring Southern door (5) 23 To want that is right, though comparatively broke? (7) 24 Catch some veterans retreating (5) 25 A symbol of authority must involve respect (7) Down 1 Order somewhat unpredictable (5) 2 Let ox out with praise (5) 3 A looser mix for spray can (7) 4 Fifty is 10? Pay attention! (6) 5 Was once on the stage to be precise (5) 6 Old buccaneers ignoring right drugs (7) 7 First lady taking break on mountain (7)
12 Features of the moon rock at first put in boxes (7) 13 Cheese used in apricot tart (7) 15 Offensive outside broadcast location (7) 16 Handsome young man said no,
Code Breaker
unfortunately (6) 18 Pigpen the French way (5) 20 Move the work period (5) 21 Big lager spilt (5)
Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 11 represents F and 19 represents Q, so fill in F every time the figure 11 appears and Q every time the figure 19 appears. Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.
Across 1 Meet at a point (5) 4 Subject to harsh criticism (5) 7 Bring to an end (9) 8 Ready for harvest (4) 10 Hunting dogs (6) 12 US sweet biscuit (6) 13 Move around (4) 16 Serving no useful purpose (9) 18 Be afraid of (5) 19 Showing signs of wear and tear (5)
English - Spanish
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION FACING PAGE
Down 1 Cry or shout of approval (5) 2 See 17 3 Certain (4) 4 Member of a ship's crew (6) 5 Opposed to (7) 6 Sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid (5) 9 Commit to undertake or give (7) 11 Endowed with talent or talents (6) 12 Roman god of love (5) 14 Prepared (5) 15 Clean or organised (4) 17/2 Not participate in (3,3)
The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English.
Down Across 7 Ant (7) 1 Fantasmas (6) 9 Águila (5) 2 Loan (8) 10 Sospechoso (comportamiento) (7) 3 Ratones (4) 11 Corazón (5) 4 Mecánico (8) 5 Water (4) 12 Mirar fijamente (5) 14 To know (someone) (7) 6 To lie (6) 16 Esponjas (7) 8 Desván (5) 13 Dieciocho (8) 18 Patata frita (de bolsa) (5) 20 Yate (5) 15 To gossip (8) 16 El más tímido (6) 22 Cartero (7) 24 Desde (5) 17 Toads (5) 25 Sacred (7) 19 Tweezers (6) 21 Dinner (4) 23 Rope (4)
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Hexagram
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 (BECOME) and one letter in four other cells are given as clues.
ADSORB ALLURE AMBUSH CAMPUS EARTHY FLOURY GLOSSY INLAID KNOTTY MERLIN PASTEL PHOTON POLLEN SALAMI SORROW (10) THOUGH UPLIFT WHOOSH YOGURT
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 Cheesy 2 Tussle 3 Toilet 4 Famine 5 Teasel 6 Tycoon 7 Flabby 8 Hectic 9 Layman 10 Become 11 Earthy 12 Lumber 13 Tiptoe 14 Faulty 15 Warmth 16 Impair 17 Cellar 18 Pariah 19 Airway.
Nonagram
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.
Kakuro
How many English words of four letters or more can you make from the nine letters in our Nonagram puzzle? Each letter may be used only once (unless the letter appears twice). Each word MUST CONTAIN THE CENTRE LETTER (in this case L) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.
Fill all the empty squares using the numbers 1 to 9, so that the sum of each horizontal block equals the ‘clue’ on its left, and the sum of each vertical block equals the clue on its top. No number may be used in the same block more than once.
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION
TARGET:
TARGET: • Average: 19 • Good: 26
• Very good: 37 • Excellent: 48
SCORING: 4 letters: 1 point 7 letters: 5 points 5 letters: 2 points 8 or more letters: 6 letters: 3 points 11 points
Average: 8 Good: 11 Very good: 16
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION
Excellent: 21
gape gean angel acne page pang pane panel pace pean pecan nape neap elks cage cape cane cleg clean tomb tint tints quit quits quirt quirts quin quint quints began bean bits brit brits leap lean stir stint stints squib squirt squirts squint squints sits tribe nits frit
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION aide amid dale dame damn deal dean deli dell demo dial dill dime dine dole doll dome done idea idem idle idol lade laid land lead lend lido lied load lode made maid mead meld mend mild mind mode mold node admen admin ailed aimed amend amide anode demon denim eland ideal laden ladle lamed limed lined loden maned medal media mined modal model monad named nodal nomad oiled olden oldie alined allied almond daemon daimon denial dolman dolmen domain limned loaned maiden mailed medial median medina milled moaned moiled monied nailed nilled MEDALLION
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QUICK Across: 1 Bogus, 3 Flats, 8 Excited, 9 Bored, 10 Omit, 13 Apex, 14 Elite, 17 Tequila, 18/6 Dog tag, 19 Steal, 20 Shine.
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Down: 1 Byte, 2 Shekel, 3 Fact, 4 Attempted, 5 Sedate, 7 Grotesque, 11 Cactus, 12 Always, 15 Bill, 16 Ogre.
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ENGLISH-SPANISH
Across:
Across:
1 Taut, 3 Hebrides, 9 Rackets, 10 Grace, 11 Clear, 12 Estate, 14 Azores, 16 Velcro, 19 Menace, 21 Cramp, 24 Broth, 25 Nervous, 26 Discreet, 27 Maid.
1/4 Ramo de flores, 9 Sendero, 10 Bache, 11 Drop, 12 Remember, 14 Estar, 16 Fiero, 20 Enfadado, 21 Bake, 24 Freno, 25 Usuario, 26 Nutmeg, 27 Frasco.
Down:
Down:
1 Turncoat, 2 Uncle, 4 Easier, 5 Right, 6 Drastic, 7 Seem, 8 George, 13 Composed, 15 Onerous, 17 Encore, 18 Seance, 20 Abhor, 22 Aroma, 23 Abed.
1 Rosada, 2 Mundo, 3 Deer, 5 Librería, 6 Recibir, 7 Suegra, 8 Power, 13 Handsome, 15 Softest, 17 Delfin, 18 Add up, 19 Remojo, 22 Atras, 23 Huir.
QUIZ: WORD FOR WORD Determine the meanings of the following 10 ‘unusual’ words from the two options given: 1. Oniochalasia: buying as a means of mental relaxation or gazing lovingly into another’s eyes 2. Haboob: a frequent visitor or a violent desert sandstorm of North Africa or India 3. Fashious: commonplace or troublesome 4. Semese: resolute or half eaten 5. Thaltan: a dilapitated cottage or a type of blue cheese
6. Verecund: fresh tasting or bashful and modest 7. Wuntee: a heavy blow or a loan old buffalo bull 8. Nimious: extravagant or safety conscious 9. Dysania: having a hard time waking up in the morning or a secret languge 10. Ansate: having a handle or goose-like Not a lot of people know that… ‘oenology’ is the study of wine and ‘oenomancy’ is fortune-telling with wine.
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Answers: 1. Oniochalasia: buying as a means of mental relaxation, 2. Haboob: a violent desert sandstorm of North Africa or India, 3. Fashious: troublesome, 4. Semese: half eaten, 5. Thaltan: a dilapitated cottage, 6, Verecund: bashful and modest, 7. Wuntee: a loan old buffalo bull, 8. Nimious: extravagant, 9. Dysania: having a hard time waking up in the morning, 10. Ansate: having a handle
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• Steven Gerrard, Footballer; May 30, 39 Torino and American Sniper. This former midfielder and Liverpool and England • Morgan Freeman, Actor; June 1, 82 player led his team to multiple FA Cups, as well as Perhaps best-known for his work in The League Cups. He went on to manage Liverpool’s Shawshank Redemption, Freeman has been delighting viewers playing some of cinema’s Under-18’s during the 2017 season, before becoming manager of Rangers FC in 2018. He has Angelina Jolie. best-loved roles, including in Glory, been one of the UK’s star footballers since being Unforgiven, Bruce Almighty, The Dark Knight, signed for the Whiston Juniors at nine-years-old. The Sum of All Fears and Dolphin Tale. • Clint Eastwood, Director; May 31, 89 • Andy Cohen, TV host; June 2, 51 This former television producer who went on to to host Since first gaining fame in classic Western films A Fistful of Dollars, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and the Dirty Watch What Happens Live, became the first openly gay Harry series, Eastwood has gone on to become an Oscarlate night talk-show host. winning director. The actor has won awards for his works • Rafael Nadal, Tennis player; June 3, 33 One of Spain’s best-loved sportsmen, Rafael Nadal has Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, Gran
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• 1431 - Martyred Joan of Arc is martyred at Rouen in British-controlled Normandy, after being burned at the stake for heresy; becoming a symbol of French resistance. • 1593 - Marlow killed Playwright Christopher Marlowe is killed in a bar fight over a tab aged just 29, leaving William Shakespeare to go on to become England’s most famous playwright. • 1859 - Big Ben Big Ben goes into operation in London at the top of the 320-foot-high St Stephen’s Tower, overlooking the Houses of Parliament in Westminster. • 1902 - War over The Boer War ends after representatives of Great Britain and the Boer meet in Pretoria to sign Treaty of Vereeniging, ending the threeand-a-half-year South African Boer War. • 1962 - Hanged Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi SS officer who organised Adolf Hitler’s ‘final solution of the Jewish question’ was executed near Tel Aviv, Israel, for crimes against humanity. • 1967 - Republic proclaimed After years of suppression under Nigeria’s military government, the breakaway state of Biafra proclaims its independence from Nigeria, just seven years after Nigeria gained independence from Britain. • 1977 - Banned The BBC bans the Sex Pistols’ song God Save the Queen sparking an outcry amongst England’s youth and making the record more popular than ever.
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A nostalgic look at England THE follow-up book to author Nicola May’s first best-seller, The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay, is out. The gang popularised in the first book, including Rosa, Josh, Mary, Jacob, Sheila, new mum Titch and Hot, the dachshund, have returned for more adverntures. Set in England, the fiction sees newlywed Rosa Smith successfully running an inherited corner shop. Life seems to be going well until Rose begins to suspect her new husband of having an affair, with her quest for the truth ending in dire consequences. Reaching devastating lows, Rosa face her fears, addiction and jealousy in the face before she can climb back on top form. While locals continue to meddle in her life, and a mystery fire shocks the village, mother Titch must also search for her ill baby’s real father. Dealing with self-discovery, mortality and small town life, Meet me in Cockleberry Bay promises laughter, tears, and a nostalgic look at England.
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STARRING Oscar-winner Dame Judi Dench, Red Joan is based on the best-selling novel by Jennie Rooney. Charting the life of Joan Stanley, a pensioner living happily in retirement in the year 2000. Her world is shattered, however, when she is arrested by MI5 on suspicion of providing intelligence to Communist Russia. As the film takes the audience back in time to 1938, we meet Joan as a Cambridge physics student who falls for young communist Leo Galich and through him, begins to questions her world views. Working at a top-secret nuclear research facility during the First World War, Joan realises the world is on the edge of destruction. Confronted with an impossible question. Left with a moral dilemma she must choose between betraying her country or helping to save the world.
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Live your dream in 3 steps - the beginning Joris Plu MOST of us use spring time to start cleaning the house and clearing it out. For many it is a yearly returning ritual. Some of us are really looking forward to it. And when you ask people why they are so happy with this, they give you the following answer - it brings more light into the house and ourselves. Cleaning and clearing out makes life brighter, lighter, happier. It feels like a brand new start. Leaving some of the old behind, starting a new life. By taking material things away from yourself you will automatically clear your head in a positive way. In this season alone and it happens worldwide, there is the highest rate of women and men starting to create a new dream. Or making a start from an older dream. As our well known friend Walt Disney once said: ‘All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.’
THREE STEPS: Live your dream. In my belief this is it. If you really believe in your dream and you really want it to happen, it will happen. You can use many steps to fulfil your dreams. As long as you ‘want’ it badly. There is no golden rule or guideline. But to help you on your way, you can use these three simple steps. Just go for it, go for your dream. Make it happen. I am sure you can do this.
Step 1 Clear your head by writing things down. You have so much stuff going on in your head and it keeps on adding up day after day. You have to clear your thoughts by taking a pen and paper and writing them down. Think about those things that make you happy, that make ‘you’ feel good. Things that instantly put a big smile on your face. No censorship. Let it flow. At this stage everything is possible. If you can buy a little note book and take it everywhere you go, from time to time write everything down concerning your dream project. Step 2 Say no to all the negativity in your life at this stage. Keep your thinking positive. This is your train and no one elses. You are at the steering wheel. Look into a mirror every day and smile at yourself. Even try to say a few positive words to yourself. Ask questions and give answers. Because this person in the mirror is going to make your dream come true. Don’t you just love that person? Step 3 Review a few times what you have been
writing. Make it more clear, rewrite it if you want to. Put all your feelings into it. Feel your dream, see it, smell it, hear it, see yourself touching your dream if you can. Make it completely yours with the end result already in place. As if you have it now. You are now living your dream, the beginning of it… with the end in mind already. In this way you tell your mind to act accordingly… it will act as if your dream is here and now. From now on you start working on a plan. Do not lose direction. Just go for it. Go for what your soul at this moment is longing for. I believe very much you can and will succeed.
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Measles fear PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND is urging everyone to get vaccinated after it was revealed measles cases are twice as high as they were at the end of 2018. Health bosses said there were 231 confirmed cases of the disease in the first quarter of 2019, making it the third worst period for the illness in five years. Experts at Public Health England warned that measles, which can kill children, has spread rapidly, from just 97 cases in the last quarter of 2018, and 143 in the quarter before that. The PHE’s head of immunisation, Dr Mary Ramsay said: “Measles can kill and it is incredibly easy to catch, especially if you are not vaccinated. “Even one child missing their vaccine is one too many - if you are in any doubt about your child’s vaccination status, ask your GP as it’s
MEASLES: The potentially life-threatening illness is becoming more prevalent. never too late to get protected.” Dr Doug Brown, chief executive of the British Society for Immunology, said it is ‘incredibly important we stop
this transmission in its tracks.’ He explained that the best way to prevent epidemics was to ensure as many people as possible were inoculated. The World Health Organi-
zation warned that falling vaccination rates are partly to blame, and that Ukraine, Brazil and the Philippines have experienced large increases in Measles.
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Vaping ‘more effective’ for quitting E-CIGARETTES are three times more effective at helping smokers quit than nicotine substitutes. According to a new study at University College London, vapers are 95 per cent more likely to give up smoking than those not using the devices. Meanwhile, those who use nicotine substitutes, such as patches or gum, were 34 per cent more likely to succeed than using nothing at all. The study of almost 20,000 smokers found those who were given medication to help their nicotine addiction were also 82 per cent more successful. Based on the new evidence, charities are calling on the NHS to fund vaping devices for free. Scientists have warned there is not yet enough data to rule vaping as completely safe, however. EFFECTIVE: Vapers are three times more likely to quit smoking.
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How to ‘get along’with anxiety
Ready, set, glow SUMMER is upon us and this means time at the beach, by the pool, and the possibility of a tan. While the safest way is always to use fake tan, is you do like to get a little natural colour there are some things you can do to give yourself a head start. Firstly, for skin that is smooth, glowing, and ready for sun, try gently exfoliating before hitting the beach. If you do like to sunbathe, this will ensure that any colour you do get is as even as possible and lasts longer. In addition, sloughing off old dead skin cells before any sun exposure means any moisturisers or after sun applied later will also penetrate more deeply. For a hydrating and gentle body exfoliant, try mixing sea salt from the kitchen cupboard with a little olive oil and a few drops of essential oil. Apply to damp skin in large, circular motions before showering off, taking care not to slip. For the face, gently exfoliate using a cotton wash cloth to remove cleanser or makeup in the evenings. Alternatively, use a gentle chemical toner to get rid of dead skin cells and ensure a smooth surface for tanning. After exfoliating and catching any rays, make sure to moisturise thoroughly using a natural after sun such as aloe vera, or alternatively use your favourite body lotion or oil. Finally, for skin which is in need of some
extra attention after sun exposure, try a hydrating and soothing mask by mixing honey with a few drops of essential oil before leaving for 10 minutes to get to work. After removing, make sure to apply moisturiser, paying particular attention to any dry or sensitive areas.
ANYONE can have anxiety, but learning to live with it is possible. Anxiety is a broad condition, where fear and worries do not go away. This can affect school, work and relationships. For some, anxiety means feeling nervous before attending a meeting. For others it is a feeling of constant worries or panic, not allowing to feel safe anywhere. It is normal to get nervous before an upcoming event, going to the dentist, buying a house - most people worry about major events. However someone who will not leave their home for a long period of time because they are afraid of being out there, that is not a normal feeling. Anxiety is caused by a variety of factors. Some may include: a received threat, previous trauma, losing of a loved one unexpectedly, a car or violent accident. Meditation and mindset helps with anxiety. Yoga releases stored emotions, relaxes both body and mind and enables us to see things for what they are.
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Kate Broadhead Health and Lifestyle coach NEW years’ resolutions are almost six months old. It’s now time to start thinking about daring to bare on the beach scared? To lose weight we first need to know what our body needs as an individual. This depends on weight, height, age and fitness level. Then, we can start to look at a longterm way of eating which is enjoyable and sustainable. This can even also depend on your body shape! Endomorphs are the most common body type to gain weight and struggle to get it off. It’s also the most effective shape to carb cycle with as they are the most sensitive to carbs! Endomorphs have a larger bone structure with higher amounts of total body mass and fat mass, and this extra fat seems to resist most efforts to get rid of it. The endomorph body type is solid and generally soft, and gains fat very easily. Endo’s are usually a shorter build with thick arms and legs. Carb cycling is a concept which has been around for some time. It means you can still eat carbs, as long as you eat them on certain days. You have low carb days
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BIKINI: Anything is possible. (max 50g) for five days a week and moderate/high for two. A spike of carbs triggers metabolism whereas other diets don’t keep your body guessing, so your body settles comfortably into its new routine. For breakfast, try:
Eggs, spinach and tomatoes; a fantastic combination for the first meal of the day. The protein from eggs keeps you fuller for longer and spinach provides tons of vitamins, more so if cooked rather than raw. add tomatoes for a further vitamin boost with antioxidant powers. You can also have this as an omelette, adding your favourite cheese! Lunch: Try and include meat or fish to keep those protein levels high. Most people are aiming for over 100g of protein a day so you need to spread it out through the day. After a couple of weeks you will be feeling much braver and ready for the beach - I guarantee it! Visit Kate’s successful Facebook group on www.facebook.com/groups/carbcy clingforbeginners or follow on Instagram @carbcyclingqueen. For personal coaching you can also email her at ccforbegin ners@hotmail.com, or visit the website www.carbcyclingforbeginners.com.
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Brothers on board ADAM THOMAS, 30, was spotted partying with brothers Ryan and Scott on a yacht in Ibiza last Wednesday. The Thomas brothers soaked up the Spanish sunshine as they partied with pals on board the luxury liner. Among the trio’s friends group was Chris Fountain, who used to star alongside Ryan on Coronation Street. This holiday comes after Adam was rushed to hospital earlier this month when he dropped a weight on his face while training in the gym. Adam left his role in Emmerdale in 2018 after eight years of playing Adam Burton on the show. Corrie star Ryan has also had a stressful time, after being wrongfully accused of punching Roxanne Pallett with intent on Celebrity Big Brother last year.
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Host on holiday CAROLINE FLACK showed off her toned figure in Ibiza as she sat cross-legged in a multicoloured bikini in a snap recently posted to her Instagram. In the snap, appropriately captioned ‘Cloudy,’ the Love Island host sat on top of a wall with some clouds scatted across the blue sky in the background. Caroline appeared to be enjoying the Spanish sun in a white sun dress as she was also spotted strolling around Ibiza Town with a friend. The presenter, 39, is set to kick off the fifth season of Love Island on June 3 on ITV2. CREDITS: Caroline Flack / Instagram
Reunited in Ibiza TOWIE’S Chloe Sims has sparked reunion rumours with co-star Dan Edgar after recently jetting to Ibiza following their bitter split. After their brief fling, things ended badly as Chloe discovered Dan was also seeing his ex Amber Turner at the same time. Dan then met up with both his love interests in order to admit to his wrongdoings. Despite these events, Chloe looked happy to be united with Dan last week as they joined a group of pals for drinks in the Spanish sun. This holiday came at the same time as his ex Amber appeared to have moved on as she was spotted last Thursday with her new boyfriend on a yacht in Ibiza.
BACK TOGETHER?: Chloe and Dan jet off together to Ibiza.
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Fresh pesto sauce WE have always grown a selection of herbs here at Olive Tree Farm. We tried starting from seed without huge success, a number of times. This year we resorted to buying the young plantlets that you see for sale on the markets
and in the farm stores, and the results have been much better. This year our top growers have been Rosemary, Thyme, Sage, Coriander and Parsley. The Rosemary, Thyme and Sage are small bushes, so I just pick as I go. The
Coriander and Parsley however grew like mad but as the weather warms, you find they go past their best, flower, and go tough. However, you can freeze them. You can add them to ice cube trays along with some olive oil, freeze and then once frozen pop them out and add to a freezer bag to use as and when you require them. Even easier, you can just add chopped leaves to a freezer bag, flatten the bag a little, seal and then when you need them snap some off. They are perfect for stews and casseroles. The other herb which I have on the grow is large leafed Basil which comes into its own and I can’t wait to make jars of tomato sauce ready for pasta dishes. You can also use Basil to make a fantastic pesto sauce. Here is how I make mine. Ingredients 1 cup fresh basil leaves. 3 cloves garlic, peeled. 3 tablespoons pine nuts. 1/3 cup freshly grated Parmesan. Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste. 1/3 cup olive oil. Method Add the basil leaves, garlic, pine nuts and parmesan to a food processor, season with a little salt and pepper and as you whizz it, slowly drizzle in the oil until you get the consistency you require. Store in an airtight container in the fridge, it lasts for a week. For a really fast supper, try cooking some pasta, slather over your pesto, give it a stir and then sprinkle with some parmesan cheese! Easy and delicious, and vegetarian.
OLIVE TREE FARM was set up about four years ago with the intention of achieving a level of self sufficiency. We have poultry for meat and eggs, goats for milk, rabbits and small pigs for meat and harvest our 70 olive trees each year for oil. We also grow a variety of fruits and vegetables.
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SPAIN’S newly-constituted parliament has not yet invested a president but it does have four MPs on remand. The fate of the Catalan politicians involved in the Proces intended to lead to an independent republic will not be known until their Lordships announce their verdict until next September. So unless there is a change of official heart Oriol Junqueras, Jordi Turull, Josep Rull and Jordi Sánchez who were elected last month to the national parliament for pro-independence parties will remain remanded on charges of sedition, rebellion and misappropriation of public funds. The Catalan separatists have been peddling their sob story outside Spain to anybody willing to listen to, with mutterings not long ago in the German Bundestag. There is immense irritation inside Spain amongst all but separatists when Junqueras and Co are referred to as political prisoners. Soto del Real where the four are banged up is no gulag but whichever way you look at it, those four are imprisoned because of their politics. Misappropriation of public funds has been around for quite some time, but archaic accusations of sedition and rebellion assures them of unmerited sympathy and has the undesired effect of making them look like political prisoners.
THE lifespan of new technologies is often shorter than a fruit-fly’s. So which country would you think is the most stubborn at letting go of the old stuff? Here’s a clue: if you thought electronic pagers, or beepers, died a decade ago, you obviously haven’t had any recent dealings with Britain’s embattled National Health Service, the NHS. They’re still using 130,000 of the things, around 10 per cent of all those running worldwide, at a cost of some €7 million a year. And they’re feeding 8,000 fax machines (remember them?). So entrenched is Britain’s healthcare Luddism that ‘axe the fax, purge the pager’ was actually introduced into law a while back. Not that the NHS is alone in its ‘obsophilia.’ A technophobic friend who was steadily shedding contacts as all around moved from letters to email, devised the worst of all worlds: his correspondents have to e-mail his business partner, who
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Doing favours THE separatist parties in the Catalan parliament did a favour to Miquel Iceta, the leader of the PSC-PSOE socialists in Cataluña, by vetoing him as Speaker of the Senate. They did Pedro Sanchez a favour, too. Their refusal was parliamentary bad manners, but not to worry. Had they backed the nomination, Sanchez would never have heard the end of it
amid accusations from the PP, Ciudadanos and naturally - Vox, of being in thrall to the separatists and an enemy of Spain.
Dialogue v Negotiation CAYETANA ALVAREZ DE TOLEDO’S full name is much longer than that as she is a marchioness, although it would be unfair to link this to her far-right doctrines.
Predictably she was scathing about the outpourings of affection and praise for the late Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba. She particularly scorned his role in disbanding ETA, which she dismissed as negotiation. Naturally, when her mentor Jose Maria Aznar’s government had contact with the Basque terrorists, that was dialogue, wasn’t it, Cayetana.
Distraction technique AMANCIO ORTEGA is one of the world’s richest men, thanks to Zara and the Inditex empire. He is also a philanthropist who has provided €320 million for state hospitals so they may acquire cancer-treatment equipment. A nice gesture, earning applause and plaudits but Pablo Iglesias declared that “a democracy does not accept handouts from multimillionaires.” Iglesias should have said multi-billionaires, but he isn’t far far wrong when he says that if the wealthy paid their taxes in Spain, donations would not be needed for the country’s hospitals. Ortega was accused in the past of implementing ‘aggressive’ tax avoidance strategies, raising the question of whether Inditex pays taxes where its real economic activity takes place. Once Ortega began distributing his largesse it was unworthy, but possibly accurate, to suspect this was either conscience money or a philanthropic version of the pickpocket’s ‘distraction’ technique.
MULTIBILLIONAIRE: Amancio Ortega owns the Inditex empire.
Purge the pager It’s not a sin to love cassettes, suggests Terence Kennedy
prints the e-mail to paper and faxes it to him. He types and faxes his reply to the partner, who must run it through OCR (optical character recognition) in order to e-mail it onwards. Oh dear. Make no mistake, I love old tech, and the computer museum in Britain’s Bletchley Park is still high on my bucket list, definitely ahead of the barbed wire museum in
Kansas. I reach raptures of reminiscence when I hear that painful scrape and screech of a 90’s modem. But I have two VHS video machines in the attic, alongside an overflowing of audio cassettes, a uselessness of shortwave radios, two film cameras even the charity shop doesn’t want, and and and… Radio shows I presented in an
ancient life are lost forever. In practice. In principle they’re all on a stack of reel-to-reel tapes, irretrievable. And let’s not even mention all that data so many of us still have (or in reality don’t have) on floppy disks. Drafted the novel of the century on WordStar back in the day, perchance? Tough tittles, gone forever. A credit to Microsoft Word that it does at least still read WordPerfect files from long, long ago. Equally lucky are fans of those early Nintendo GameBoy devices - astonishingly, nostalgia for the 90’s original has now spurred a retro version able to play all the old games. Yes I miss my trusty Sony Walkman, but I absolutely wouldn’t swap its wow and flutter, muffle and hiss and a tendency to chew up cassettes for lunch, for the crystal clarity of a modern MP3 player. Fax me if you agree; my pager’s on the blink.
Back to the future SURPRISINGLY, some tech really was better in The Good Old Days. There’s a huge resale market for vintage valve amplifiers, still said to offer rounder, fuller audio than their transistorised successors. Serious photographers swear by the richness of film over digital. I was one of the first to ditch my typewriter for a Brother electronic machine which printed its output on thermal paper - until I lost months of work when the print faded fast. Word processing on an early Amstrad, I quickly met my match trying to print an envelope. Frustration mounted as the wasted envelopes piled up. My distinctly low-tech partner had finally had enough of the technotantrums: ‘For pity’s sake just write the damn thing by hand!’ Now why didn’t I think of that?
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Major shake-up in Albox Council ALBOX mayor-elect Francisco Torrecillas saw his UCIN Union of Independent Citizens party gain an absolute majority in Sunday’s municipal elections. Torrecillas had been the only UCIN councillor in the previous legislature, but now the party occupies 10 out of 17 council seats after winning 2,958 votes, or 55 per cent. The number of centre-right Popular Party councillors in the municipality drops from seven to five. The Socialist PSOE party now has two. Spanish press reported there was further election day drama in the town. Albox PSOE general secretary Francisco Carrillo made a complaint against the father of the PP candidate Juan Pedro Perez for an alleged act of aggression against him.
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Summer party invite ANIMAL charity APSA will be staging its annual Big Summer Party at Kubatins in Arboleas on Saturday June 22. This enjoyable evening is always a sellout event, and this year will feature a BBQ, live music, dancing, raffle and lots of lovely food. Tickets are €10 from the APSA shop or Harrisons Store, both in Avenida Lepanto in Albox, and from the APSA stall at the Saturday Los Llanos market. All the party proceeds will go to help abandoned dogs like Bubble and Squeak. The party fun will get going at 7.30pm.
PROCEEDS: All the money raised from the party will go to help abandoned dogs like Bubble and Squeak.
Choral fundraiser THE Incognito choir will be helping to raise money for the AUAN housing association. The choir is giving a concert on Saturday June 15 at 8pm at La Parrilla in Albox. Tickets priced €5 are available from Total Entertainment (Albox and Arboleas), One Stop Pools (near Longo’s) and the Corner Shop in Albox. AUAN said it requires funding to cover professional advice, and is very grateful to the choir for its offer to hold the concert on the association’s behalf.
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Almanzora highway step forward THE Almanzora highway project looks to be moving forward a step. The Andalucia regional government’s Development Department has proposed allocating the contract for constructing the stretch from El Cucador to the intersection with the A-1706 in Huercal-Overa, to the Construcciones Tejera-Martin Casillas UTE (temporary union of companies) for nearly €21 million plus VAT. The company’s project bid received the most points from the department’s Contracting Board out of the 21 received, along with one other, whose offer was slightly more expensive. Speaking during a visit to Almeria City last week, Junta de Andalucia Development Minister Marifran Carazo pledged the works contract for what is the penultimate section of the highway, would be awarded within weeks. The regional minister also said the intention was to award
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PLEDGE: Andalucia Development Minister Marifran Carazo said the works contract for the penultimate section of the road would be awarded within weeks. the contract for the final section before the end of the year. Carazo insisted the Junta is committed to seeing completed what she described as ‘such an important infrastructure for communication.’ The regional minister said her department is doing everything it can to ‘rescue’ the project and speed up procedures to get the
works started as soon as possible. The El Cucador to HuercalOvera section will see the construction of a new 3.5-kilometre road with two lanes in each direction. There will be two connections, one for traffic coming from Zurgena and from El Cucador and Alfoquia, and one for access to La Concepcion and
Palaces de Huercal-Overa. Once completed, the highway, or A-334, will stretch for 29 kilometres from Fines to the A-7 Mediterranean highway. Average traffic volume on this route is more than 10,000 vehicles a day, including lorries going back and forth from the main marble producing municipalities of Olula del Rio and Macael.
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www.euroweeklynews.com MOTORING FACT By Dilip Kuner RENAULT’S F1 team drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Niko Hülkenberg took the wheel to officially launch Renault’s latest hot hatch; the Megane RS Trophy-R at the Monaco GP. And they will be hoping that their race engineers will be able to transfer the form shown by the new car in testing on the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring to their own slightly underpowered (by F1 standards) cars. It took the record for a frontwheel drive ‘compact’ car by almost three seconds, beating the best previous lap set by the Honda Civic Type R. The car, officially unveiled last Friday, will not be available as a mainstream model, but rather as a limited edition of a few hundred units (Renault has not said exactly how many). They will be available from next year with a ‘yet to be an-
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nounced’ price tag. They are not expected to be cheap, with predictions being made they will top €50,000 each. It was developed as a racing car in a very short time, by a small dedicated team who focused on three aspects: maximum weight reduction (up to 130kg compared to the Megane RS Trophy excluding options), reworked aerodynamics and a more radical development of its drive axles. Together with its 300bhp engine it is truly quick - it has set the new officially approved record and reference time for the compact car segment of production cars of the Nürburgring, now a world-renowned race track and proving ground for cars and sports performance. It covered the 20.600km in 07’40’’100, and the official whole lap length of the Nordschleife 20.832km in 07’45’’389.
Speedy Renault launched FAST: The special edition Megane RS Trophy-R.
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ROAD TEST by Nick Fletcher FORD’S EcoSport is a small SUV with neat styling which projects a robust image and most models are wellequipped and keenly-priced so you see a lot of them on the road, underlining Ford’s strong presence in a crowded SUV market. The EcoSport is priced from €20,383 (£17,850) and offers petrol and diesel engines and several trim levels, with my Titanium test model with 1.5-litre diesel engine, manual gearbox and allwheel-drive near the top of the range and priced at €27,012 (£23,655). You get a lot of standard kit including large alloy wheels, roof rails, partleather upholstery, automatic air conditioning, cruise control, sat-nav with touchscreen and connectivity features including smartphone mirroring, auto headlights and wipers, rear-view camera and rear parking sensors, keyless entry and push-button start, four powered windows and safety kit including
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stability control, tyre-pressure monitoring and hill-start assist. Based on the best-selling Fiesta model, the EcoSport is a contender in a very competitive sector which includes the SEAT Arona, Renault Captur, Peugeot 2008 and Mazda CX-3, but the Ford scores well for generous
Facts at a glance Model: Ford EcoSport Titanium Engine: 1.5 diesel Transmission: 6-speed manual Performance: 0-100kph 11.3 seconds, top speed 180kph (112mph) Economy: 15.4kpl (43.5mpg) Emissions: 140g/km
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equipment levels and keen pricing. The cabin looks smart, with soft-touch materials, good dashboard layout and comfortable seating. It’s roomy for four adults and while the boot space is not the largest in the class at 356 litres, it does expand to 1,238 litres with rear seats
folded. However, a major drawback is that the Ecosport has a side-opening tailgate which makes loading more awkward. On the road, EcoSport drives well, and while the steering feel is rather heavier than most rivals, it does enhance the sense of composure and driver control. The suspension is on the firm side, but perfectly comfortable on all but the roughest surfaces. The 123hp 1.5-litre diesel unit has a 0-100kph time of 11.3 seconds and the top speed is 180kph (112mph), with emissions of 140g/km. Average fuel economy is 15.4kpl (43.5mpg). While the Ford Ecosport is not best in class in every category, it does come across as the stand-out all-rounder which is reflected in its sales figures - over 100,000 sold across Europe in 2018 and more than 30,000 sold in Europe in the first three months of 2019.
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NISSAN’S plant in Barcelona’s Zona Franca has had its future guaranteed, but it comes at the cost of 600 jobs. Nissan’s management and unions reached an agreement to maintain the viability of the factory, but it involves cutting the workforce. The departures will be made through early retirements with the rest in voluntary redundancies. Those taking early retirement will get 85 per cent of net salary until official retirement at age 63. Those applying for voluntary redundancy will be paid €50,000 net on top of their legally entitled compensation. Workers will also receive a pay rise of 4 per cent over the next three years. This agreement unblocked Nissan’s plan to invest €70 million over the next two years in a new paint plant, as current facilities were on the verge of failing stricter environmental regulations. This will enable the company to allocate another model for assembly at the factory within the next two years.
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A clean future A NEW development could make the production of hydrogen much more economically and environmentally viable for use as a fuel for cars. At the moment most hydrogen is produced by splitting methane. Unfortunately, this produces not just hydrogen, but also lots of carbon dioxide - the very greenhouse gas hydrogen fuel cell motors are designed to eliminate. While the exhaust waste of hydrogenpowered vehicles is harmless water vapour, the whole exercise is rendered pointless from a climate change point of view if the CO2 emissions are merely transferred to factories producing the fuel instead. One of the main problems is that the major alternative source of hydrogen has been the electrolysis of water. With fresh water in relatively short supply the obvious source is the sea. But up until now this has not been a tenable solution for mass-producing hydrogen because of the salt in seawater. It quickly corrodes the electrolyser’s anode, making it too difficult and costly to be worth using. Desalinising the water first is possible, but the costs in terms of price and power makes it untenable for mass production. Now scientists at the USA’s Stanford University say that they may have come up with
the solution that could be a game changer. The researchers discovered that if they coated the anode with layers which were rich in negative charges, the layers repelled chloride and slowed down the decay of the underlying metal. They layered nickel-iron hydroxide on top of nickel sulfide, which covers a nickel foam core. The nickel foam acts as a conductor transporting electricity from the power source - and the nickel-iron hydroxide sparks the electrolysis, separating water into oxygen and hydrogen. During electrolysis, the nickel sulfide evolves into a negativelycharged layer which protects the anode. Without the negatively charged coating, the anode only works for around 12 hours in seawater, according to Michael Kenney, colead author on the paper. “The whole electrode falls apart into a crumble,” Kenney said, “But with this layer, it is able to go more than a thousand hours.” They have produced hydrogen from seawater using solar power as efficiently as electrolysing pure water. Together with other new developments the case for hydrogen fuel cell cars is getting stronger as costs come down. For the motorist the main advantage is range - as today you simply fill up at a pumping station rather than wait for a battery to charge.
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Redemption for Valencia IN the end there was redemption for Valencia. Halfway through their centenary season, most of the club’s fans could see little reason to celebrate. They were just four points off the relegation places and the days of head coach Marcelino Garcia Toral looked numbered. But the club hierarchy held their nerve. They decided that the team had not being playing badly and just needed a change of fortune. Garcia Toral kept his job and now they are the holders of the Copa del Rey. They had to do it the hard way too, beating holders Barcelona 2-1. For the latter it was the end of an era. For the first time in 1,456 days they were not the cup holders. In terms of European competition, winning the showdown in Sevilla was irrelevant. Valencia’s road to redemption had already taken in Champions League qualifi-
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CHAMPIONS: Valencia took the Copa del Rey. cation when they sealed fourth spot in La Liga the previous weekend with a 2-0 win against Valladolid. A season which threatened to be a disaster had been rescued then, but the Copa del Rey has turned it into a triumph. They can now look forward to the next campaign with huge optimism. Not so
for Barcelona. They may have won La Liga at a canter, finishing 11 points ahead of Atletico Madrid and 19 points in front of arch-rivals Real Madrid, but that is not good enough for the Catalans. They crave Champions League glory, but the team is starting to look over-reliant on one man - Lionel Messi.
Indeed, it was Messi who scored for Barcelona in the 21 defeat, but, certainly in the first half, even he had looked a little lost and ineffective. Valencia could have gone one up after just five minutes when Rodrigo ran through and rounded keeper Jasper Cillessen, only for a last moment slide from Gerard Pique to deny him on the line. But Valencia did not have to wait long to take the lead. Jose Luis Gaya controlled a long diagonal ball from
Gabriel Paulista and pulled it back across for Gameiro to step in and convert the chance. Messi found himself isolated - the most forward player with no one around him to help out. Barcelona were going nowhere, while Valencia were swift and incisive. They took advantage when Francis Coquelin found Carlos Soler sprinting up the right wing, past Alba. Rodrigo converted the ensuing cross to make it 2-0. Barcelona now awoke from their lethargy and started to play. With their substitutions Barca finally gave Messi some support in the form of Arturo Vidal and Malcom. The result was several opportunities, with Messi finally scoring from close range after Clement Lenglet’s header hit the post. But despite their renewed vigour Barcelona couldn’t find a way through, and it is now Valencia who are the Copa del Rey champions.
Ideal conditions for high scores Aguilon Golf Members Club WITH the weather now ideal for golf and the course getting back to its pristine condition, the expectations are the scoring improves accordingly. Wednesday May - Individual Stableford With the wind still fresh enough to cause some problems care has to be taken when plotting a course on each hole, and an under par round is needed to get on the leader board. 1st Peter Ayres 39 points
CHAMPS: Competition winners Peter Ayres (main) and Norman Whibley (inset).
2nd Dave Wilson 38 points 3rd Roy Bishop 37 points Two’s: Norman Ridgway 12th, Ann Holder, John Holder 14th, Eric Laing, Keith Leonard 17th. Wednesday May 15 - Individual Stableford A lovely day for golf and more good scoring, with handicaps tumbling. The club is seeing a good cross-section of members on the leader board each week, and the winner is in a rich vein of form at the moment. 1st Norman Whibley 40 points 2nd Rich Hull 38 points 3rd Jim Laing 37 points Two’s: Rich Hull x2 12th and 14th, Keith Leonard, Phil Miles 12th, Jim Laing 17th. For further information see the club website aguilon membersclub.com.
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Cabrera LBC hosts open pairs CABRERA Lawn Bowling Club hosted the Turre Open Pairs on Saturday and Sunday May 18 and 19. As the name suggests the competition was open to any club. The majority of clubs in the area were represented, with 16 teams entering overall. The competition is played on a rinks round robin format over eight ends. The teams split into two groups, the winners of group A playing the winners of group B in the final, and the runners-up in each group played for third and fourth place. Group A winners were Nigel and Karen Rushton from Almeria BC against Group B winners Trevor Moore and Barbara Reardon from Cabrera LBC. Nigel and Karen won the final 8-3. Cabrera LBC issued many congratulations to Nigel and Karen and commiserations to Trevor and Barbara. John Henworth and Barbara Ruscoe from Indalo BC finished third and Malcolm and Jean Smallwood from Cabrera LBC finished fourth The finals were followed by a free BBQ, a nice end to a weekend of great bowling.