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Fugitive killer caught NATIONAL POLICE officers have arrested a 71-year-old Danish man in Calpe in connection with the death of his ex-wife in Belgium almost 10 years ago. Officers arrested Leonardus Lei Beumount on a European Arrest Warrant over the death. A court in Limburg has tried him in abstenia, found him guilty of murdering Josee Widdershoven in Maasmechelen and sentenced him to life in prison, revisable after 20 years. The court heard Lei Beumount appeared at Widdershoven’s home on December 13, 2009 armed with a 22-caliber rifle. The two were locked in a long-running dispute over the financial implications of their divorce. The defendant waited in Widdershoven’s garage and shot her
DETAINED: Lei Beumount was arrested in Calpe. several times at point-blank range after she walked out of her house, the court heard. The Limburg court issued the European Arrest Warrant after Lei Beumount absconded from a hearing in May. Officers detained the suspect while at a luxury yacht regatta in
Calpe. His extradition is now being weighed as the case continues. It comes as the Costa Blanca overtook the Costa del Sol in terms of violent crime, new police figures show.
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Fly against cancer AECC, the Spanish cancer charity has benefited from a unique running race where 300 competitors ‘flew’ against cancer. The race, organised by the airport operat o r A E N A , c o v e re d a ro u t e w i t h i n t h e a i r port grounds, including runways. The event, which was part of the ‘Runcancer’ series of races raised €2,770. This series has raised an incredible €93,579 so far this y e a r. A E C C w i l l u s e the money to fund valuable research into cancer, its causes and possible cures.
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RESCUE: Yacht began taking on water.
Mayday, Mayday TWO men were rescued from their catamaran in a dramatic rescue last Sunday evening as their yacht began taking on water. The vessel, which was off of the coast of the north shore of Trabaca Island, which is
approximately 11 nautical miles (20 kilometres) off the coast of Alicante, got into difficulty when water started coming into one of the hulls filling the engine compartment. With their boat listing heav-
ily, the sailors, two Austrian nationals in their 60’s, realised that their craft was in danger of sinking, so used the emergency maritime radio channel to issue a ‘Mayday’ call. This call was picked up by
a patrol vessel of the maritime section Guardia Civil, the ‘Río Ladra’ and they managed to locate the vessel, stabilise the water and tow the stricken yacht back into Alicante marina. Nobody was injured.
THE wild west came to Valencia, last Saturday night with a huge bar room brawl, during which tables, stools and bottles were thrown and fists flew. The brawl happened in a bar in the transits area of the city after a group of women reportedly ignored a group of men. The fight allegedly kicked off after one of the men hit one of the women in the back. During the incident numerous participants and two innocent bystanders were injured with a number of men and women requiring stitches to repair their wounds. The bar was extensively damaged. Officers from the National Police attended and after separating the warring faction, nine menwere arrested and have appeared in court.
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A MAN was sentenced to 12 months in prison by a court in Alicante for falsely making himself out to be a doctor. Apparently the man had even resuscitated someone, whilst ‘acting’ his part with the Civil Protection Volunteers.
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A R M A S Tr a s m e d i t e r r á n e a Group, the ferry operator has announced that the Gandia-Ibiza-Palma line will now be served by the ultramodern high speed Catamaran, ‘Milenium Dos’ is capable of 35 knots which will reduce the journey time. The new vessel can accommodate 866 passengers and 220 cars
Smoking rise IN the Valencian Community region, the number of smokers has increased by 3 per cent in the last year and stands at 28 per cent of the total population. This is four points above the Spanish average, and ‘the alarming rise’ comes after a steady decline over the past years.
Out of work MAY’S unemployment figures for the region show a marked drop. Some of this fall can be explained by seasonal hiring, but is encouraging, when comparing the year on year statistics. There were 8,744 fewer people out of work than in April and 17,819 less than in May 2018.
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I N E l d a , a 4 5 - y e a r- o l d m a n spent 10 days in hospital after he was bitten by the highly venomous Violin Spider. This small spider’s venom is highly toxic and if bitten by it you should seek emergency medical assistance.
NEIGHBOURS of an El Campello woman, alerted police to the cruel conditions her dog was being kept in. Apparently when the officers arrived the dog was starving and sadly died whilst being seen at the veterinary hospital. The woman was arrested.
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Health & Beauty HOLIDAY: Murcia City and the surrounding region celebrate their annual day on Monday.
Region celebrates THIS picture of the Santa Maria Cathedral in Murcia comes as the city’s region celebrates is annual holiday this Monday (June 10). The Murcia Region covers an area of about 11,313 square kilometres, about 2.2 per cent of the Spanish landmass. It is home to almost 1.5 million people, roughly a third of which live in its capital, Murcia City. The region has a warm, arid climate and water transfers from nearby rivers have supported its farming industry. It is home to the Mar Menor lagoon, a 170-square-kilometre body of
water known for its diverse marine life. Ancestors of modern-day humans have inhabited what is now the Murcia Region for around one million years. Phoenician settlers from North Africa arrived in the 3rd century BC and founded a city which the Romans named Cartago Nova after their conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. The modern-day city of Cartagena stands on its site. The area was later ruled by the Visigoths and then the Islamic Moors
Police op success A LARGE number of supporters arrived from England f o r l a s t S a t u r d a y ’s m a t c h i n Madrid, via Alicante airport and then travelled on to Madrid by train. Police and security guards were extra vigilant and s e iz e d at le a s t 300 bottle s of beer and other alcohol from fans. There were approximately 5,000 police on duty in Madrid on the day and additional police were deployed in Benidorm.
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Although the event passed o ff r e l a t i v e l y q u i e t l y, v i d e o s have gone viral appearing to show the ‘strong arm of the l a w, ’ w i t h o f f i c e r s , s o m e o f whom were mounted, seen to be using batons on fans considered as disruptive. After the football celebrations, some fans were left counting the costs, with one particular bar charging fans €30 for two small beers. The receipt for this hiked price has also gone viral on social media.
during the Middle Ages, before becoming the independent Kingdom of Murcia in the 11th century. The region fell to the Kingdom of Castile in 1243. The region grew economically in following years and enjoyed a mining boom in the 19th century. Cartagena was a key Spanish naval base from the 16th century onwards. Work on the Santa Maria Cathedral (pictured) finished in 1465 after beginning in 1394. The 90-metre-tall bell tower was built between 1521 and 1791.
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Date-rape drug airport arrests POLICE stationed at Alicante airport detained a 47-year-old British citizen, who is resident in Torrevieja, when he tried to pass through security to board a flight to Britain with 9,150 pills of the drug Zopiclone in his hand luggage. This drug has hypnotic and sedative effects and is often used in order to commit sexual offences, as it leaves the victim without the mental ability or will to repulse the attacker. It is a dangerous drug and can only be obtained on prescription. Last January, in a similar situation, a woman also from Torrevieja was stopped in possession of 5,640 tablets of the same drug, when she was trying to board a flight to Ireland. Apparently police have not yet been able to link the two crimes. Both suspects were released on bail to appear in court.
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Holiday hold up IMSERSO, a Spanish government backed scheme, whereby pensioners of all nationalities who are resident in the country, can get reduced priced holidays in hotels across Spain during the off-season has run into contractual problems. There is reportedly an issue between the Spanish government, which partly funds the holidays, and representatives of the hoteliers. To obtain a holiday, pensioners must register and then book the holidays when they are released in September. The negotiations therefore have to be concluded at this time of year in time for their release. The matter has gone before the Contractual Court and the negotiations continue. Ximo Puig, the recently reelected President of the Valencian regional government has written to the Central Government urging them to conclude the negotiations, as quickly as possible, because this scheme is financially important to the holiday resorts along the coast.
Masonic donation LAS SALINAS Masonic Lodge recently donated €2,000 to DEBRA, the ‘butterfly’ children’s charity At a recent luncheon of the Lodge, Worshipful Master Norman Barrall and his wife Carol presented the director of DEBRA with a cheque for €2,000, which enabled the charity to buy two, much-needed computers. Evanina Makow expressed her deep gratitude for the award explaining how the computers would facilitate their activities considerably. DEBRA is an organisation devoted to providing support for families with children suffering from a rare and complex skin disease called Epidermolysis Bullosa. They are often called butterfly children because of the
DONATION: Norman and Carol Barrall with DEBRA director Evanina Makow (centre). delicacy with which they must be cared for. They have a team consisting of a psychologist, four specialist nurses, and three social workers who provide sup-
port and training to the family and hospital staff. If you would like to help the charity they would be very grateful for any donations.
Animal poisoning in city IN Alicante, police are investigating who is responsible for putting down poison, baited so that it is attracted to by animals in the streets of the city. To date, the death of a dog, several pigeons
as well as sparrows and a Turkish turtledove are attributed to the poison. In addition, another dog is reportedly extremely ill with internal bleeding after it ingested the substance.
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Cocaine in system A TAXI DRIVER who allegedly ran over three female students in Valencia tested positive for having cocaine in his system. According to reports the students were on foot, on a traffic island in the road, when the taxi collided with them. In the course of the accident one of the students suffered a broken clavicle and the others multiple bruises. They were taken to hospital but were discharged after treatment. Inquiries are now underway to determine whether the man was actually under the influence of the narcotic drug, in which case he could be guilty of a criminal offence, or if it was in his system from an earlier use of cocaine.
Club arrests SEVEN people have been arrested in Alicante on suspicion of conspiracy and drug trafficking. The group were reportedly distributing and selling different drugs, mainly hashish and marihuana. According to sources, they allegedly set up a members’ organisation under the pretence of it being a youth association, to facilitate the sale of the drugs. The association reportedly had 600 members. The organisers even produced a permit, which informed their customers that they could legally transport the drugs through the streets. Of course, this permit had no legal validity. The drugs were reportedly transported in fake cans of cat food. In the course of a police raid, officers seized four kilos of marihuana, 300 grams of pollen of hashish, about €1,000 cash, six precision scales and a van. An investigation is ongoing.
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Equality service MONICA OLTRA, the vice-president of the Valencia Region, with special responsibility for Equality and Inclusive Policies, has announced the startup of a counselling and support service for LGTBI people, which will have offices in Valencia, Castellón and Alicante. The newly elected Regional Government has allocated a total of €1,006,809 for the year 2019 and 2020 for this purpose. The new service, which includes care services, will provide information and guidance in person, by phone, via
Technology competition FOUR young Valencian girls have won through to an International Technological and Entrepreneurial Competition, ‘Technovation Challenge 2019’ and their work will now be judged in America. The girls, all aged 11 years, won through with their ‘Hosly App’ which aims to help chronically sick children in hospital.
social networks or by email, and will also offer an individualised social care policy. In addition, it will provide legal support, work and educational guidance and advice to LGTBI migrants and assistance to victims of discrimination and hate crimes for LGTBI phobia, as well as to victims of partner violence. There will also be provision for assistance to LGTBI children and adolescents and includes the creation of an LGBI Mutual Aid Group and a Mutual Aid Group for transgender people.
Secret recordings NATIONAL POLICE officers in Alicante arrested a man who allegedly left a camera, which was disguised as a pen, in a family bathroom to make intimate recordings of his partner, his two daughters, who were underage at the time of the offences and various friends and family, who visited the house over a four-year period. The crimes came to light when a memory card was found by one of their daughters who made the complaint to the police. The authorities have reportedly identified 20 other people who were recorded by the man.
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Richest and poorest THE Spanish National Institute for Statistics has published a list ranking the municipalities in order of income. The municipality with the highest income was Madrid, but in the Valencian Community, the town with the highest income, ranked 50th overall, is Betera, just to the north of Valencia with an average income of €13,043. Among the 50 ‘poorest’ of Spain there are six Valencian municipalities, all of them from the province of Alicante. Almoradí, Torrevieja, Calpe, Crevillent, Aspe and Alfaz del Pi.
OFFICERS from the Guardia Civil have arrested 40 people said to be involved in the organisation of marriages of convenience between Spanish and Romanian women to Indian men. Historically these scam marriages are undertaken to circumvent immigration
Fake weddings rules. The women involved in the ‘weddings’ were generally from poor social backgrounds, often involved in prostitution, and were paid
€1,000 to take part in the wedding. The Indian men involved reportedly paid the organisation up to €17,000. Apart from the main perpetrators, it is reported that people involved in the preparation of false documents were also arrested. The suspects will appear in court.
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Illegal massages IN an effort to stop illegal and unqualified masseurs operating on the beaches of Benidorm, officers from National Police and other units carried out a series of checks on the Levante and Poniente Beaches last week. As a result 15 people were identified as offering the services illegally, and of them seven people of Chinese origin (five women and two men) were detained for suspected breaches of immigration law. The officers explained the operation was carried out to control and eradicate the practice of massages being offered by people without proper accreditation and preparation, which could cause very serious health problems.
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Match fixing scandal VALENCIA’S final day victory which secured a place in the Champions League has been tarnished by allegations of match fixing. A judge investigating a criminal betting ring says that up to seven players of Real Valladolid were paid to ensure their team lost, although there is no suggestion Valencia CF was in any way involved in the match fixing. But now a pressure group opposing the owners of the club - which also won the Copa del Rey - has called for action to avoid its reputation being tarnished. Miguel Zorío, former vice-president of Valencia, said: “It is intolerable that the oil stain of dirty money marks the classification of the club for the Champions League. El Mundo newspaper alleges that former Real Madrid and Leeds United defender Raúl Bravo, met the Valladolid captain Borja Fernández in a bar. He then set up a meeting with a number of players.
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A 48-YEAR-OLD British man has died after plunging from a hotel balcony in Benidorm. Emergency services sources said Colin McG a r r y, from North Belfast, fell some time
BORJA FERNÁNDEZ: The captain of Valladolid football team. In a recording former player Carlos Aranda allegedly said: “Look brother, Valencia have to win the first half and in the second, OK?” Valencia duly scored in each half.
Costa del Cleanup THE efforts of Alicante Province police to trace and detain foreign fugitives are bearing fruit after figures showed arrests on international warrants are second only to Spain’s capital. Latest figures show that only Madrid topped Alicante Province for the number of suspected criminals detained under European and international arrest warrants. The province saw 88 people picked up by police on international arrest warrants in 2018, compared to Madrid’s 164. Figures also showed the number of fugitives arrested in Alicante Province rose from 76 in 2017. Malaga Province, which was dubbed the Costa del Crime by the British tabloid press due to its reputation as a haven for wanted criminals, saw 77 warrants executed. It comes as Leonardus Lei Beumount, a Danish national aged 71, was arrested in the north of Alicante Province. He had been sentenced to life in abstentia for shooting his exwife in 2009. Nationally there were 915 arrests on international warrants, up from 750 seen in 2017.
between Saturday night and Sunday morning. Local Police officers in Benidorm said they had been informed of the fall. They were due to release further details this week.
Details of his funeral are yet to be announced but the Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust, which works with bereaved Irish families, said it would help bring his body back home.
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Bullfighter in ‘revenge porn’ row COMMENTS from a Spanish bullfighter about a woman who featured in a widely-shared sex video’s suicide have been criticised after he suggested men cannot watch such footage with-
out sharing it. Fran Rivera said it was not ‘manly’ to let videos of that kind go viral and added the woman was not to blame. “But men, and I say this because I’m a man, we’re unable to have such a video and not share it,” Rivera said. It comes after Veronica Rubio, 32, took her own life days after an intimate video of her was shared by work colleagues. The mother-of-two hung herself a day after her husband saw the video which was made about five years
UNDER FIRE: Rivera’s (right) comments on men sharing revenge porn were criticised. earlier when she was unmarried.
It is believed to be a case of ‘revenge porn,’ sex videos
Psychosis conference PSYCHIATRIC patients, their families and doctors met in Barcelona yesterday (Wednesday June 5) for a conference on addressing mental illnesses. The first Psychosis Hackathon saw attendees discuss ways of using technology to deal with mental illness.
Early intervention, eliminating the stigma around psychosis and making treatment more personal were all discussed. There are around 400,000 people in Spain currently diagnosed with schizophrenia, according to official figures.
of someone shared by expartners without their permission. Rivera’s comments drew fire from social media users. Irene Montero, a senior member of the leftist Podemos, said: “We women have to be coy and careful how we behave, because a man can’t see a video ‘like this’ and not share it. That’s not naive idiocy, it’s the kind of logic that blames women in order to hide sexism.”
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Thrown from building A BARCELONA man was left in critical condition after allegedly been thrown from the sixth floor of a building on Friday. Cataluña’s Mossos d’Esquadra police force said it was alerted to the incident, which took place on Calle
Roger de Lluria, at about 9am. Police claimed the incident happened following an argument between the man and his partner. The partner has since been placed under investigation for attempted murder and the case continues.
SEIZED: More than 3,000 kilos of hashish recovered in Marbella drugs bust.
Huge marihuana haul TWO vans containing more than 3,000kg of marihuana has been intercepted as it entered the port of La Bajadilla, Marbella. The load was seized as it tried to join the N340 and was stopped as part o f a l a rg e r o p e r a t i o n b e t w e e n t h e Guardia Civil, Local and National Police to crack down on the importing of drugs to the country. During the operation the Guardia Civil made more than a dozen arrests
in connection with the load, which has a potential black market street value of several million euros. A veteran off-duty Local Policeman was also involved in the arrests after hearing intimidating gun shots being fired from the Guardia Civil vehicles. He was on his way home from work in uniform but in his own car last Thursday night when without hesitation he joined to assist in the operation.
According to sources, the traffickers took advantage of the change of shift of port security and Guardia patrol to gain entrance through the fishing port, however, once on land they were quickly surprised by the officers making their way onto the N340. When the policemen stopped them, they ran until they were intercepted close by. The criminals were thought to be an organised group from Cueta.
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MOTIVATIONAL: The Euesdens, Michel (left) and Steven (right) spoke and celebrated with staff.
CELEBRATING SUCCESS: Staff gathered to discuss how best to take themselves and the company forward.
EWN National Day EU RO W E E KLY NEWS held it s Na t i o n a l Day in M arbel l a t h i s we e k w ith staff, clients and friends of the company gathering to celebrate its success in its 20th anniversary year. Those at the event met at the Posidonia Restaurant in Puerto Banus. They heard s peech e s f r o m c o m p an y CEO Michel Euesden who spoke about how her beliefs and principles have helped
h er o v e rc o me c h alle n g e s throughout her life. M ich el’s h u s b a n d and EWN co-owner Steven Euesden also led a sales meetin g w h ere s trate g ies and techniques were shared. Michel told those attending she believed in the ability of them all to realise their full potential and achieve their dreams. “You always feel better w h e n y o u mo v e a n d ta ke
action. The more you give the more you re c e ive ,” Michel said. Sta ff ha d lunc h a t the restaurant before an afternoon of motivational talks. It w a s follow e d by a n evening of live music and a chance for staff to talk with clients and other friends of the company. A full re port on this week’s event will appear in next week’s EWN.
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Court halts Franco exhumation JUDGES at S p a i n ’s Supreme Court have temporarily suspended the planned exhumation of the country’s former dictator following a request from his surviving descendants. Five judges with the Fourth Section of the Court unanimously agreed on Tuesday to suspend the exhumation of Francisco Franco from the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum near Madrid. They ruled it would be ‘extraordinarily harmful’ to F r a n c o ’s f a m i l y a n d t h e public interest to let the exhumation go ahead before legal issues surrounding the plan are settled. The former dictator’s seven surviving grandchildren ha ve be e n a tte mpting to
SUSPENDED: Franco (inset) is currently buried in the Valley of the Fallen. stop the exhumation since the government announced the plans shortly after taking office last June. G o v e r n m e n t o ff i c i a l s said it would postpone carrying out the exhumation until the case is resolved within the next few months. It had originally
been set to go ahead on Monday June 17. Acting Deputy Prime Minister Carmen Calvo said: “Reaching the ultimate goal matters more than the road we have to travel.” They have recently disputed the government’s decision to reinter Franco in
Sex assault trial M U R C I A’ S P r o v i n c i a l C o u r t h a s j a i l e d a man found guilty of sexually assaulting a friend and recording it on video to eight years in prison. The court heard the defendant stayed at a mutual friend of himself and the victim following a dinner when the assault took place in July 2013. Video footage recorded secretly by the defendant showed the woman saying: ‘I do not want to’ and showing signs of pain while he forcibly had sex with her. The defendant could also be seen restraining the woman who continued to say ‘no’ as he penetrated her genitalia with his. She also showed pain during the assault. The court heard the defendant had hidden his mobile phone which was recording the assault without the woman’s knowledge. Police officers discovered the footage during a search of the defendant’s home in April 2016 as part of a separate investigation. The discovery led to his arrest and recent trial. The court fined the defendant €3,240 for criminal disclosure. He has also been ordered not to go within 300 metres of the victim.
M a d r i d ’s E l P r a d o c e m e tery where is wife is buried. Their alternative suggest i o n o f b u r y i n g M a d r i d ’s Almundena Cathedral led to government worries that it would become a fascist a n d f a r- r i g h t p i l g r i m a g e site.
Barcelona YouTuber ban CHINESE born YouTuber ReSet, real name Kenghua R, has been punished for being at the centre of a video controversy this week after posting a video of feeding a homeless man a rancid cookie filled with toothpaste on the streets of his home town of Barcelona. The Guardia Urbana de Barcelona had denounced the youngster to the Public Prosecutor’s Office for infringing degrading treatment, belittling the dignity and moral integrity of a person at risk of social exclusion. The local authorities located the homeless man after the video gained mass criticism on his YouTube page and found the youngster had tricked him and paid him €20 to eat the cookies. ReSet was sentenced to a five-year ban on social media, which means his YouTube channel will be shut down and he will be forbidden to reopen another. He has also been ordered to pay compensation of €20,00 for ‘moral damage’ and causing ‘physical suffering’ to the homeless man.
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THE WEEK IN POLITICS
Striking pacts EFFORTS to reach deals in town and city councils and in regional assemblies continue this week following local and regional elections at the end of this month. In Madrid, mayor Manuela Carmena, a former leftist judge with the Mas Madrid party, had the most council seats but could be ousted by an alliance between rightwing parties. Ciudadanos will likely be the kingmaker and will have to choose between working with the left or the conservative Partido Popular (PP) and far-right Vox. Barcelona’s Acting Mayor Ada Colau, of the cityfocused En Comu, faces having to strike a deal with the insurgent pro-independence Esquerra Republicana de Cataluya (ERC). PSOE faces a more straightforward path to power in Andalucia where it has taken six of eight of its diputacions.
Poll tracker: Partido Socialista (PSOE): 32.8 per cent, 152 seats Partido Popular (PP): 20.1 per cent, 82 seats Ciudadanos: 12.2 per cent, 32 seats Unidos Podemos: 13.3 per cent, 25 seats Result: PSOE largest party, no overall control
By Joe Gerrard SPAIN marked one year since the left-leaning Partido Socialista (PSOE) took power following a successful motion of no confidence, with the party again reaching out to build a majority. PSOE’s Meritxell Batet, the new President of the Congress of Deputies, met with King Felipe on Monday to open talks on reaching a settlement among lawmakers. The two will also seek a path for acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to stay on in the post as per Constitutional arrangements for choosing governments following elections. In echoes of manoeuvres which brought Sanchez and the PSOE to power a year ago, the support of some smaller, regionalist parties will be needed for an absolute majority. PSOE is in a stronger position following the recent rounds of elections which left it the largest party in the Cortes by some margin. The party may be able to rid itself from a dependence on pro-
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DEALS: PSOE is seeking a working majority in Congress. Catalan independence groups which effectively brought down his minority government earlier this year. The party’s claim to power is also strengthened by positive EU election results and a broadly successful showing in local and regional elections. Some of the regional groups who helped Sanchez oust his conservative Partido Popular (PP)
predecessor Mariano Rajoy have signalled they will work with him again. The Basque Partido Nacionalista Vasco (PNV) has said it would be willing to support PSOE. But its condition is thought to be that PSOE rules out working with the centrist Ciudadanos, who they see as a threat to their demands for greater self-rule.
This shows that Sanchez and PSOE will have to navigate their way through a tangled web of demands, animosities and rivalries in order to build a working majority. The path looked smoother prior to the May elections when it looked likely that PSOE would strike a deal with the leftist Podemos. But that party’s poor showing in those elections robbed them of their leverage, freeing up PSOE to consider more options. The most straightforward option for Sanchez remains working with Ciudadanos. The two parties have a combined total of 180 seats in Congress, four more than is needed for a majority. But there is little appetite for the pact amongst PSOE members and, as the case of PNV shows, Sanchez would risk alienating other parties.
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POLIC E h a v e a r r e st ed a couple wh o a l l e g e d l y a ttacked each other following an argument. Local Police in Valladolid, northeast Spain, arrested both parties after a fight allegedly broke out at their home in the neighbourhood of La Rondilla. The incident reportedly
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took pla c e la s t Frida y a t around 2.30pm when police re c e ive d a c a ll from the w oma n w ho told offic e rs she wanted her partner to leave the house. After police arrived at the prope rty, the y a lle ge dly found the man in the street and suffering from a cut to his cheekbone. According to officers, he was wearing a backpack and c a rrying his pe rs ona l be longings, and told them his partner had thrown him out of the house.
Man extradited from Gibraltar A MAN has been extradited from Gibraltar by members of police who escorted him to the Spanish border before handing him over to Spanish officers. The 53-year-old suspect, identified as RB, was brought to justice by members of the Royal Gibraltar Police under a European Arrest Warrant after allegedly planning a kidnapping. According to Spanish media, the man was wanted in Valencia for conspiracy to carry out a kidnapping, as well as conspiracy to commit robbery. The suspect is due to appear at the Valencia Provincial Court on June 12.
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Olive oil prices slide AN estimated 5,000 olive growers took to the streets of Jaen to protest at the drop in the price of olive oil which has wiped up to €1 billion from national income this year alone. Whilst the demonstration was peaceful organisers insist that this is the start of a major campaign aimed at encouraging both the government and the European Union to put in-
to place safeguards so that the producers of the oil will receive a reasonable return for the amount of work that they undertake. There is no obvious reason for a drop of up to 30 per cent in the price producers receive and cries of ‘robbery’ and ‘thieves’ were heard during the demonstration which took place outside of the Government Sub-Delegation building. Credit: @AsajaNacional Twitter
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Violent workmate brawl ends in arrest A FIGHT between two female workmates in an El Ejido pub left one woman with serious cuts to her body. The bar owner called the police when a violent argument between the two got out of hand. When a patrol arrived they found one of the women with a broken glass in her hand and the other employee covered in blood and with gashes on her hands, back, chest and side. She was taken to the Poniente hospital for emergency treatment. Officers arrested 64-year-old ECR for inflicting bodily harm.
Skirting round the rules TAXI drivers in Vigo have taken to wearing skirts to get round a ban on shorts as summer approaches. Pictures have surfaced online of the drivers in Vigo, Pontevedra Province defying the ban by wearing women’s clothes. The local Taxi Co-operative driver’s union said there was nothing prohibiting the men from wearing the clothing, but added flouting the ban did not benefit the worker’s image. Vigo taxi drivers are at the centre of a controversy regarding work clothing limitations. Several Spanish people took to social media to voice their support of the drivers.
FUGITIVE: The suspected killer managed to evade arrest and fled to Lithuania.
Pastry chef murder suspect behind bars A LITHUANIAN woman suspected of murdering a pastry chef in El Ejido in 2014 and skipping the country is now behind bars in Almeria. When police officers found the victim’s body there were clear signs of extreme violence, her face and head covered in cuts and bruises. Investigations pointed to money as the motive for the crime: the murdered woman was €700 in debt to the
Lithuanian and her boyfriend. The suspected killer managed to evade arrest and fled to Lithuania, taking refuge in the homes of friends and family. However police and an El Ejido court pushed to have the case reopened. The court requested a European Arrest Warrant for the fugitive and the Lithuanian Authorities tracked her down, handing her over to El Ejido police at the end of May.
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BREXIT BRIEF Litmus test A NEW pro-leave party is hoping to win its first parliamentary seat as voters go to the polls in the Peterborough by-election today (Thursday June 6). The Brexit Party, led by former UKIP leader Nigel Farage, hopes to capitalise on a strong showing at recent European Parliament elections. Labour is hoping to take the seat again after winning it by a slim majority from the Conservatives in 2017. Today’s by-election was called after sitting Labour MP Fiona Onasanya was removed by recall petition. Parties and pundits will be watching the vote closely. It is likely to be taken as a litmus test for whether The Brexit Party can make inroads into national politics. Results from the European Parliament election show about 38 per cent of voters in Peterborough backed Farage’s party. They also backed leave in the 2016 referendum by 61 per cent to 39 per cent. Previous attempts to create a united remain front for the election after talks between the Liberal Democrats, the Green party, Renew and Change UK were inconclusive. That means the remain vote is likely to be split, further benefiting the Brexit Parity in what is likely to become a de facto mini second referendum.
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Glimpsing the future By Joe Gerrard PARLIAMENTARY wrangling over Brexit has been temporarily put on the back-burner while the ruling Conservatives select their new leader, but proposals from contenders indicate how things could progress. There is currently a crowded field of candidates hoping to bag the party’s top job and the keys to 10 Downing Street. A total of 13 candidates are standing, with all having held some previous ministerial experience. The debate surrounding the race has already been moved in a hard Brexit direction. T h is is la rge ly dow n to the mood among Conservative memb e rs w ho a re by a nd la rge in fav o u r of B rita in le a ving the EU. About 59 per cent of members voted for Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party in recent European Parliament elections, according to a YouGov poll.
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Conservative MPs. The di scussi on has qui ckl y turned to what is likely to be a red line for many members, the attitude of each candidate towards a no-deal Brexit. Cur r ent f r ont r unner Bor i s Johnson, former Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab, ex-Leader of the House of Com m ons Andr ea Leadsom and others have said they would be prepared to leave without a deal. I nt er nat i onal Devel opm ent Secretary Rory Stewart was the only candidate to rule that eventuality out, while former Universities Minister Sam Gyimah said he would hold a second referendum. Virtually all the candidates have sai d t hey woul d seek t o renegotiate the draft Withdrawal Deal struck by outgoing leader Theresa May. That means regardless of who wins the outcome of Brexit will be different to that envisioned by May.
US eyes up NHS access THE US’ ambassador to Britain Woody Johnson has said Washington would seek to open Britain’s NHS up to American companies as part of any post-Brexit trade deal leading to opposition figures claiming the health services as effectively up for sale.
No deal call IT would be ‘economic lunacy’ to leave the EU without a deal and Brexit is already leading to EU-based firms abandoning British supply chains, head of the Make UK industry association Stephen Phipson said.
Seeking help A PSYCHOTHERAPY professor who launched a free therapy service for EU nationals living in Britain has reported a rise in the number of those seeking help for stress and anxiety.
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WARNING: Police said some youngsters are playing the potentially lethal game.
‘Game of death’ SPANISH police are warning parents to watch out for a potentially lethal ‘game of death’ spotted in schools. Youngsters are taping scenes where one child is pounced on from behind and strangled until they apparently lose consciousness. The video is then posted and shared on social media. Now Granada Local Police have sent one offending video to the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Minors. In it a group of children from a school in the Andalucian city practis-
es the game. Police sources say they are investigating to identify and take statements from the children involved to determine whether they took part in it voluntarily. Sources from the National Police say this game involves a high level of risk and want to raise awareness of the ‘serious consequences’ it can cause, including death. Granada Local Police on Tuesday posted on its Twitter account a video of two young people playing the game and asked parents to check their children’s mobile phones.
T W E LV E a r r e s t s - s i x i n Spain - have been made in a massive international operation against the illegal trade in reptiles. Operation Blizzard, coordinated by Europol and INTERPOL, involved agencies from 22 countries and led to seizures ranging from live animals to highend fashion products. The operational activities targeted aircraft passengers, commercial cargo, pet shops and those legally allowed to keep reptiles. Almost 1,500 live snakes, lizards and geckos were seized from right across Europe. The inspections led to the arrests, with the other six held in Italy. G l o b a l l y, operation Blizzard resulted in the seizure of 4,419 live animals including 2,703 turtles and tortoises, 1,059 snakes, 512 lizards and geckos and 20 crocodiles and alligators. Investigators also seized 152 handbags, wallets, watchstraps, medicines and taxidermies derived from reptiles. Pedro Felício, head of E u r o p o l ’s E c o n o m i c a n d Property Crime Unit, said: “Wildlife trafficking has increased significantly in recent years to the point where we have now thousands of reptiles, worth millions of euros, being seized every year by EU law enforcement agencies with the support of Europol.”
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TWO BODIES: Found in an apartment in Calle Rio Retortillo, Las Lagunas.
Police find two bodies in apartment POLICE officers found two bodies in an apartment in Mijas on the Costa del Sol after receiving alerts of a strong smell. Guardia Civil officers are investigating the death of the two people whose bodies were found decomposing. According to investigators, they could have been dead for
at least three or four days. The remains are thought to be of a 26-year-old woman and a 34-year-old man, both of whom were Finnish. They were found last Thursday at 1.15pm in an apartment in Calle Rio Retortillo in Las Lagunas. It was initially thought the bodies were of a
couple, but the neighbours confirmed the woman had a boyfriend with whom she rented the apartment. This man has not yet been located but a neighbour claimed that she saw him entering the building on Wednesday, after the death of the pair. The investigation rests on the post-mortem.
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‘Go away’ tourists TOURISTS in Granada City have been greeted with messages scrawled on the walls of one neighbourhood, including ‘go away.’ Pictures show several messages which appeared on the walls of the Albaicin area of the city. They include: ‘tourist: go away!,’ ‘Granada is not a postcard,’ both written in English, and: ‘Flamenco is not a show!’ written in Spanish. Messages written in English and aimed at tourists have sprung up across the Albaicin area in recent weeks, according to the Bajo Albaicin association.
Police said they are investigating the graffiti but no arrests have been made. Granada City is a popular hotspot for tourists who travel there to visit the Alhambra fortress and other sites. The news comes as a backlash against tourists has grown in parts of Spain including Mallorca and Barcelona in recent years. Anti-tourism campaigners claim the industry damages areas socially and environmentally and pushes up costs for residents. Industry figures and others argue it brings jobs and investment to areas popular with tourists.
Camera ‘hidden in bathroom’ POLICE have arrested a man on suspicion of placing a hidden camera in a portable work toilet to film his colleagues using it. Officers from the Guardia Civil claim the man hid the device in the toilet paper roll at a bathroom for an agricultural company in the Vinalopo
Medio region of Alicante. Police are now investigating how much footage could have been captured and what it was used for. Officers intervened after receiving a complaint from the manager of the company who alleged he had found a small video camera, and claimed an
employee must have placed it there. He handed over the camera to investigators who analysed its recordings, stored on a memory card, and found footage of five different women. In one video, a man is allegedly shown installing the camera using a can of glue.
RACIAL SLURS: The team have emblazoned the insults on their jerseys.
Football racism A FOOTBALL team made up of immigrants are wearing tops emblazoned with the racial slurs they receive in a bid to highlight the issue. The amateur team from Jerez de la Frontera said the insults are often shouted at them from side lines or from rival athletes. The team wore the jerseys for the final Tercera Andaluza division game for the 20182019 season. One player told media: “We are in the 21st century and I don’t understand how
they can still say these insults.” Slurs include the Spanish words for ‘gorilla,’ ‘slave,’ and ‘illegal.’ Midfielder Eric Josue Amang, who left Cameroon for Spain in 2013, told one publication: “We did it to tell everyone that we are not criminals.” He added: “We are people and we are not bothering anybody.” Alma de Africa’s players are from 12 different countries, including Nigeria, Bolivia, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritania, Ivory Coast and Morocco.
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BRITAIN’S Royal Navy did not warn Spanish maritime authorities about an exercise conducted off Gibraltar using live fire, according to Spain’s military. Spanish military sources said there was no risk of damage or injury when its Audaz vessel approached HMS Sabre about five kilometres out to sea from the British enclave. The same sources said they felt uncomfortable about Britain not informing them of the live fire exercise. Britain’s Ministry of Defence said the ship was asserting its right to conduct training exercises in international waters. The manoeuvres were routine and undertaken at a safe distance and security protocols were followed at all
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SHIP CLAIM: Spanish maritime authorities said they were not warned about HMS Sabre’s exercise (file photo). times, the Ministry of Defence added. Spanish military sources also dispute the claim the exercise was undertaken in international waters, claiming HMS Sabre was in Spanish waters at the time. HMS Sabre is currently
serving with the Royal Navy’s Gibraltar squadron. It has a crew of five and is armed with two general purpose machine guns. The SPS Audaz has 50 crew members and is armed with artillery, cannons and machine guns.
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AFTER TRIALS: Announcing the availability of the drug.
New cancer drug AN announcement has been made by the Spanish arm of drug company Eli Lilly that it is now able to offer an oral drug in Spain which helps extend the life expectancy of patients suffering from metastatic breast cancer. This is a relatively uncommon form of cancer as it is estimated that of the 30,000 diagnosed with breast cancer each year, just 8 per
cent (2,400) suffer from the metastatic type. In announcing the introduction of this drug abemaciclib (marketed under the trade name Verzenios) a team of oncology specialists from the Gregorio Marañón General Hospital as well as a representative of the pharmaceutical company explained its benefits following trials which
have lasted more than 15 years. For this type of cancer, patients who had relapsed were previously given hormone treatment which tended to be effective for about a year but then lost potency. This new drug however has been seen to work for an average of 28.2 months before resistance occurs and there are very few adverse side effects.
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Tourism growth A TOTAL of 21.4 million holidaymakers visited Spain during the first four months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 4.4 per cent according to the National Institute of Statistics (INE). INE figures showed the year-on-year increase for March and April was 5.3 per cent. Spending from tourists grew by 6.4 per cent during those two months compared to the same time in 2018, according to the INE. Data showed the average tourist spent €990 throughout their trip, 1.3 per cent more than in January to April 2018. The year-on-year average of daily
spending increased by 6.3 per cent to €153. British holidaymakers were the single largest group of foreign tourists during the first four months of this year at around 4.3 million. They spent a total of around €4 million during that time, 3.5 per cent more than during the same four months in 2018. Cataluña was the most popular destination for holidaymakers during April with more than 1.6 million visitors. Andalucia came second with more than 1.13 million followed by the Canary Islands with 1.1 million.
Murder arrest A LAWYER and businessman Evaristo González has been arrested in Tenerife as the alleged instigator of the murder of Carlos Machín in April 2018. Both men were initially suspected of being involved in corrupt practices which involved a local politician and revolved around nightclubs in the Canary Islands. In the event, Machin was never charged and it is suggested locally that he may have been assassinated due to the information that he had about the case although there is no indication that he intended to use it against those charged. He was shot in the car park of a language school in La Laguna where he was studying and the National Police who arrested González are reportedly still searching for others who they believe were involved in the murder.
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Driving licences Vox homophobia row in Spain FURY: The Vox member was accused of offending Spain’s LGBTQ community.
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. If you are planning on living in Spain on a permanent basis, it’s a good idea to have a Spanish driving licence - in fact it is mandatory after a while. Here are some guidelines for current and new drivers on how to do this quickly and easily. If you already have a valid EU (European Union) Community or an EEA (European Economic Area) driving licence and meet the minimum driving age in Spain, you can use it for the first two years of residence in Spain, although you must register your details with the traffic authorities after six months.
A FAR-RIGHT member of the Madrid Region assembly’s comments that she would prefer her son not to adopt if he were gay have been branded as homophobic. Vox’s health spokesperson in the assembly Gador Joya’s comments have been slammed by social media users and have revived a debate on whether her party is institutionally antiLGBTQ. Joya said: “I would prefer
not to have grandchildren from a homosexual relationship. I would prefer that if my son is homosexual he would not adopt.” Sarrion Pablo Lopez, a highprofile supporter of Ciudadanos, said on Twitter: ‘I imagine that in her years of being a practising paediatrician she never ran into children with parents of the same sex. A real pity! Both these children and their parents would have shown
him that love can help with anything (even her homophobia).’” ‘This is called homophobia. It is clear you prefer to defend your party rather than standing up against homophobia,’ another user Reyes Taranto said. Vox has yet to comment on Joya’s remarks, but party leader Santiago Abascal previously said there was no homophobia in the party and added it has several LGBTQ members.
You can register at your Central Register of Drivers and Minor Offenders of the Provincial Traffic Headquarters. If you don’t obtain a Spanish driver’s licence after two years of residence in Spain and are caught driving, you can face a fine of around €200. Visit: www.dgt.es to find out more. Once the process is under way, you will have to adhere to the same conditions as Spanish licence holders: Have reached minimum age in Spain for the specific category of vehicle you want to drive, Relevant medical checks, Renew or exchange the licence after the first two years’ residence in Spain. If an EU licence is renewed in Spain it effectively converts it into a Spanish EU licence, which then needs to be renewed every 10 years up to the age of 65, and every five years after 65. The new regulation which requires new residents to exchange their licences for a Spanish one, was enforced three years ago. As such, Spain has agreements with more than 20 countries, allowing drivers to exchange a foreign driver’s licence for its equivalent. To find out more, check with your home country’s consulate in Spain or the Spanish Traffic Authority at www.sede.dgt.gob.es. To exchange your licence, you will need to fill out an application form that is issued by the Provincial Traffic Headquarters. (See the above website). The following documents will be required: Proof of identity (original passport and a copy), Proof of your residence for six months (Certificate of Registration in the Central Aliens Register - the NIE number), Application form (in Spanish), Current valid driving licence to be exchanged (original and a copy), Written declaration stating that you don’t have another driving licence of the same class in another country, Written declaration stating that you have not been suspended or banned, Two recent passport size photographs (32 by 25 mm), Medical fitness report (visit the DGT website for information). For new drivers, check the legal driving ages and permit types before you register. You can get details depending on what type of vehicle you want to drive by visiting: English-driving-school.com. The best option (for new drivers) is to go to a driving school as they take care of the registration process with the Jefatura (Jefatura Provincial de Trafico) on your behalf. Once you have registered, get your medical and vision test done, too. Theory tests can be done in a classroom or be computer based. The written test is normally taken in Spanish, but some places offer it in English. For more information, visit http://www.autoescuelacorsa.com. This information is for guidance only, and should not be taken as legal advice. If in any doubt, seek professional help.
BAN VIEWS: Eight out of 10 Spaniards are in favour of banning smoking in cars with children.
Smoking attitudes THE results of a recent study carried out by the Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII) as part of World No Tobacco Day, May 31, show that one in five pregnant women in Spain smoke. The study showed that in 2016, 20.4 per cent of pregnant women smoked, compared to 14.3 per cent in 1980. Also, the percentage was higher in pregnant women under the age of 30 and in those with a lower education level. According to ISCIII, one in four Spanish people smoke and 20 per cent of the population considers that tobacco is not harmful to their health.
It comes as a survey carried out by the Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine (semFYC) found eight out of 10 Spanish people are in favour of banning smoking in cars with children. Of those surveyed, 16 per cent are daily smokers, 33 per cent former smokers and 43 per cent non smokers. SemFYC claimed that in recent years, even though people are not worrying as much about the effects smoking can have on their health, the public acceptance of new rules to stop tobacco consumption has increased.
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IT is well known that when one becomes the beneficiary of an inheritance in Spain, inheritance tax must be paid. The deadline to submit and pay
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Inheritance Tax in Spain and consequences of inheritance renunciation this tax to ensure that there are no surcharges or penalties is six months from the death of the person leaving the inheritance. However, the statute of limita-
tions for the tax, which is the period during which the Tax Administration has the right to ask for the tax to be paid, with the corresponding surcharges and penalties, is four years from the day following to the end of the period allowed to submit the tax without attracting penalties which means four years and six months from the death. Unfortunately, there are many people who cannot afford to pay the inheritance tax, because the assets to be inherited are properties and there is no cash in the estate, so the beneficiaries do not have sufficient money of their own to pay the taxes due. This case is especially true when the heir is a brother, a nephew, or a friend, since under normal circumstances they cannot enjoy the tax benefits that in Spain are normally allowed for the ascendants, descendants and spous-
es. It is also possible that the beneficiary of the inheritance for some other reason does not wish to be the heir and decides not to accept the inheritance. In such cases, it is possible that the heir may consider the possibility of formally renouncing the inheritance. In the event that a person renounces the inheritance and refuses to be considered an heir then the right to accept the inheritance goes to the next beneficiary who has been appointed as a substitute in the Will, or if there is no Will or it does not mention a substitute, the next person in the line of succession as established by the competent law. But what happens to the tax in these cases? The law establishes that when a person renounces the inheritance, the new beneficiary is the one then obliged to pay the tax.
The beneficiary, the person who acquires the inheritance, will pay the tax on the basis of the share that he acquires, applying a factor according to the patrimony (male succession) that they had previously. But for the purposes of amelioration and reduction, the degree of kinship between the renouncer and the deceased will be taken into account if it is higher than that of the eventual beneficiary. In some cases, if the inheritance is accepted after the statute of limitation has passed (four and a half years following the death) and the Administration has not claimed the tax to be due, it is possible that the beneficiary could inherit without paying any tax. What happens if the renunciation takes place once the statute of limitation period has ended? According to the recent consultation V0229-19 granted by
the Directorate of Taxes in Spain, which has interpreted article 28.3 of the Inheritance and Gift Tax Law, the person who turns out to be the beneficiary of the inheritance after the renunciation, must pay Gift Tax, as the Administration will count this as a gift. The reason for this interpretation by the Spanish Tax Office is that in this case the acquisition is the consequence of the act to renounce made by the initial heir and not a consequence of the death. If you are considering renouncing an inheritance or you want to renounce an inheritance in favour of a relative, contact us and we will help you with the fiscal and legal issues. The information provided in this article is not intended to be legal advice, but merely conveys general information related to legal issues.
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A TRADE UNION has called on Catalan prosecutors to launch an investigation into the death of a worker for a delivery start-up in Barcelona. UGT said Glovo should be investigated for failing to protect workers’ rights. It comes after one of its riders, a 22-yearold originally from Nepal, was killed following a traffic accident in Barcelona while making deliveries for the company. “UGT believed that the company, Glo-
vo, imposes on its workers, through deception and abuse of their vulnerable status, labour conditions and social security conditions which violate the protections afforded to them by law,” the union said. Glovo said the rider may have been using another’s account which it said was illegal. “Glovo has always, and especially this week, collaborated with law enforcement agencies and has great respect for justice,” the company said.
Police suicide conference MURCIA is set to hold a conference on preventing suicides amongst police officers for the first time in the region. The conference, organised by the Unified Police Syndicate (SUP) and the Unified Association of Guardia Civil (AUGC), is aimed at National and Local Police as well as Guardia Civil officers. It will take place at the UNED (National Distance Education University) in Cartagena on Tuesday, June 11 from 9am. Psychologists will give presentations on the causes and psychological management of suicidal thoughts, violence from a psychological and emotional point of view and resources available for emotional self-protection. The annual rate of deaths by suicide in Spain is of 8.7 per 100,000 inhabitants. Police officers claim they do not have enough resources to prevent suicides in the Security Forces.
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WEALTH GAP: Residents of Pozuelo de Alarcon had the highest average incomes.
Haves and have-nots by Joe Gerrard THE Madrid Region is home to some of Spain’s wealthiest towns while nine out of the 10 poorest are in Andalucia, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE). The INE’s Urban Indicators 2019 report showed the Madrid Region’s Pozuelo de Alarcon is the town with the highest average income per resident at €25,957 a year. Two Madrid towns, Boadilla
del Monte and Las Rozas, came second and third respectively with €19,702 and €19,340. Andalucia’s Nijar, in Almeria Province, had the lowest per capita income at €6,253. Sevilla Province’s Los Palacios and Villafranca, both with €6,550 were second and third respectively. Alhaurin el Grande, in Malaga Province near the Costa del Sol, was fourth with €6,629 while Almeria Province’s Vicar came fifth with €6,634.
The INE looked at towns with more than 20,000 inhabitants and used figures from 2016, the latest available data on income. The body’s data also showed Cataluña’s Cugat del Valles and Pozuelo de Alarcon had the lowest unemployment rates in 2018 at 6.2 per cent and 6.4 per cent respectively. Jaen Province’s Linares and La Linea de la Concepcion in Cadiz Province had the highest with 32.8 per cent and 29.9 per cent respectively.
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Ambassador ‘executed’ NORTH KOREA’S former ambassador to Spain has been executed after a failed summit with Donald Trump, according to reports. South Korea’s Chonsu newspaper reported that the alleged execution of Kim Hyokchol took place one month after the summit held at the end of February in Vietnam. He had been head of negotiations for the second summit between his country and the United States. The same newspaper says unidentified sources claim another key figure in the dialogue between North Korea and the US, Kim Yong-chol, has been by sent to a forced labour camp for ideological re-education, as has a translator. The South Korean media, and in particular Chosun, has previously reported on other apparent executions of senior North Korean officials which were later shown to be false after reappearing in public. Kim Hyok-chol led North Korea's first legation in Spain from the time it opened its
EXECUTED: Reports say Kim Hyokchol was shot. doors in Madrid in January 2014 until 2017, when the Spanish government expelled him in response to Pionyang's nuclear and missile tests.
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Gave baby a cigarette A W O M A N w ho c a us e d outrage in Spain by posting a video of her 11-month-old baby smoking a cigarette has apologised. B ut a nothe r vide o ha s now emerged of her slapping the child and making it c ry, a c c ompa nie d by the words ‘Peddler, scoundrel, do you want to smoke oh?’ The first video she posted on her Instagram account went viral. It showed the baby’s father put a cigarette to her mouth amongst laughter. A ppa re ntly, the ba by ‘asked’ for a cigarette and was angry at an initial refusal, so the father eventually agreed. The video provoked nationw ide fury a nd hit the Spanish media headlines.
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BAD DAD: Father gave baby a cigarette. The mother, from Madrid, t ook down t he vi deo and posted: ‘Hi, I’m XXXXX’s mum. First of all, I want to apologise for uploading a vi deo of m y baby wi t h a cigarette in his mouth. It’s not f unny at al l and I ’ m
very sorry. ‘I thought that putting it in his mouth would make him sick. ‘I was wrong, and I’m super-repentant and frightened by everything that’s going on.’
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Nationwide clean up Grieving father arrested THOUSANDS of volunteers are set to clear rubbish from natural areas across Spain on Saturday June 15. The One Metre Squared by Nature clean-up is taking place for the third time this year. It first began in 2017 and is supported by the Spanish Ornithological Society (SEO) bird charity and the Ecoembes
environmental group. Sara Guemes, of Ecoembes, said the organisation would only consider itself successful when people were able to visit natural areas without coming across rubbish. “The amount of rubbish is not only a wake-up call, it is a call to action. This is a global problem, we need to
reduce consumption and reuse and recycle,” Guemes said. Organisers said they hope to surpass the 11,000 volunteers who took part in last year’s clean-up. The first collection in 2017 saw around 5,000 volunteers clear more than 30 tons of rubbish in 48 provinces, organisers said.
Spain tops low pay rank SPAIN has been named as the OECD country with the worst income rates for those aged under 30. According to a recent report, 49 per cent those in employment between the ages of 15 and 29 are on ‘low wages,’ classed as pay less than two-thirds the country’s medium salary. The new figures show a decline in wage quality for young people, with Spain going
from number 16 in the OECD chart to first place for youth low wages this year. Experts also warned Spain has a high percentage of qualified young people who are underpaid, leading to a ‘talent drain’ with workers choosing to move abroad for work. The numbers of qualified, underpaid young workers has risen by 20.8 per cent since 2006.
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POLICE arrested the grieving father of a child cancer victim for threatening a doctor and criminal damage. The paediatric oncologist had been treating the man’s daughter at the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Torrecardenas hospital in Almería. Sadly the child died. When the doctor informed the immediate family of the tragic news the father reacted by punching the wall and hitting the furniture and nearby flowerpots. At the same time the man verbally attacked the doctor, repeatedly threatening to kill him and blaming him for his daughter’s death. The doctor reported the incident to police. Officers arrested the father a few days later, reporting they had waited until after the
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AGGRESSION: The man repeatedly threatened to kill his daughter’s doctor. child’s funeral and to “as much as possible” allow the family some time to come to terms with their loss. This was the ninth arrest
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RESCUE COURSE: Organised by trained mariner mammal medics.
Marine mammal rescue THE Department of the Environment, Heritage and Climate Change (DEHCC) at the HM Government of Gibraltar undertook a marine mammal rescue course, organised and accredited by the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR). BDMLR is an organisation dedicated to the rescue and well-being of all marine animals in distress around the UK. It is a voluntary network of trained marine mammal medics who respond to call
outs from the general public, HM Coastguard, police, RSPCA and SSPCA. BDMLR is the only marine animal rescue organisation operating across England, Wales and Scotland. In addition to acting as a first point of call by the other emergency services, the organisation also trains t h e i r s t a ff . D E H C C e n gaged with this highest qualified and reputable organisation to train its staff ‘to the very highest of standards.’
Beach tragedy A FIVE-YEAR-OLD girl drowned on Spain’s Costa Dorada after she was blown out to sea on an inflatable. She was on a family holiday from Georgia when tragedy struck on the beach of La Pineda, in the municipality of Vilaseca (Tarragona). According to the emergency services the little girl was swept out 200 metres from the shore by stong winds and waves. Local Police, Maritime Rescue and Red Cross were involved in an attempted rescue, but by the time they reached her she had slipped off the inflatable and was already unconscious. A Red Cross boat took her out of the water and brought her to the port, where medics attempted to resuscitate her for an hour, but to no avail.
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TRAGIC: Day to the beach ended in death. TWO young men and a woman aged between 17 and 18 were killed in a car smash as they returned from a day on the beach. The three - at a school in Pontevedra (Galicia) - were backseat passengers in a Peugeot 207 when the car left the road on the AP-9 motorway.
Road tragedy It hit the guard rail, then a post and came to rest in the central reservation. Medics, firefighters from Vigo and Miño, the Guardia Civil and
Local Police attended, but could not save the victims. The car driver and front seat passenger were taken to hospital with serious, but not life threatening, injuries. All five were classmates who had recently graduated. The mayor of their hometown of Redondela decreed two days of mourning, with the town hall flying flags at halfmast. Councillor for Traffic Arturo Gonzalez described the victims as “good people, good students, some sportsmen.”
TRAPPED: Firefighters had to rescue the children from the monorail. PALMA (Mallorca) firemen had to rescue 48 children from a monorail train that broke down on an elevated section. The youngsters from the IES Jafuda Cresques secondary school were stuck for an hour and a half at a height of about eight metres in Son Reus when their school trip went wrong. Bombers de Palma firefighters used an
Child’s life saving transplant
elevated platform to bring the students and three adults to safety. The children had been visiting the Centre d’Educació Ambiental of TIRME (Environmental Education Centre). The visit was supposed to be concluded with a short train ride around the campus. Instead the youngsters ended up with a ride in a fire engine.
EGYPTIAN Naila Avilés Coveña is expected to be heading to Spain to undergo a lifesaving bone marrow transplant. Naila was diagnosed with the cancer of the blood leukaemia and after a long battle with chemotherapy is now in the process of organising a final attempt to cure the disease. Fundraising attempts have been successful in covering the costs of the transplant through organisations such as FELL and FANO. Telethons and online fundraising have allowed the family to also purchase the tickets to travel.
They now await visa applications and the final documents allowing them to travel. Naila’s uncle Edwin Coveña is eager for his niece to attempt the surgery. He said “she recovers (sometimes), but the chemotherapy is killing her because it damages her good cells and they told us that she needs a bone marrow transplant.” Now, their families need the economic resources to cover the expenses of the stay between one and two years in Spain for the child and her mother Cecibel Coveña.
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Sustainability study RESEARCHERS have completed a study into the sustainability and well-being of thousands of protected areas throughout Spain. David Rodriquez and Javier Martinez’s Sustainability and Protected Areas in Spain book is being published as part of a wider project
from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). The book covers natural habitats, species and human factors in the 3,823 protected areas that make up more than 27 per cent of the Spanish landmass.
Football club stripper row A FOOTBALL club in Cataluña has sparked a feminist outcry after hiring strippers to celebrate their promotion. Footage of team members from Club Esportiu Llanca partying with the scantilydressed women in their changing room surfaced in Spanish media last week. The club from Girona Province were celebrating their promotion to the Second Catalan Division. Club Secretary Franscesc Romero has apologised to Llanca mayor Pere Vila but said his mistake lay in not asking the town council for
permission to hire the strippers. He said strippers were an ‘original’ way of celebrating the club’s promotion. Pictures and footage showed the women dancing while players cheer them on. On social media, the club has since apologised for the ‘error’ and said it supported tolerance, respect and equality. Cataluña’s Women’s Institute has complained to the club and to the region’s football league. Institute President Nuria Balada said she condemned the use of the women to celebrate.
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Renaissance coins S PA I N ’ S R o y a l M i n t has released designs for commemorative coins marking the c o u n t r y ’s Renaissance era. The Mint released the coins, a silver €10 piece and a gold €200 piece, as part of its Ages of Europe series. The ages of the series match the seven stages of European cultural development depicted on euro banknotes. The design features an engraving of the Alhambra in Granada C i t y. I t a l s o i n c l u d e s a p o rtrait of Juan de la Cosa and a picture of Don Quixote, the main character of Miguel de Cervantes’ 17th century novel. Juan de la Cosa was a Spanish navigator who owned and captained
the Santa Maria, the ship Christopher Columbus used to reach the Americas in 1492. He is also known for designing the earliest European map of the world which featured the Americas. The other side of the coin features a portrait o f S p a i n ’s K i n g F e l i p e in profile.
NEWLY MINTED: The coins are part of the Ages of Europe series.
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Triumphing in Third World War SPAIN has so far conquered much of Europe and most of Africa in a computer software program to simulate a fantasy future conflict. WorldWarBot 2020 has been simulating a hypothetical Third World War since Monday April 20 and posting developments to social media. Algorithms for the software were created by Italian computer scientists who previously created simulations for civil wars in the US and their home country. The program began in 2020 and was in the year 2098 as of last week. Spain held much of Western,
CREDIT: WorldWarBot 2020, via Twitter
CONQUEST: Spain has control of much of Europe and Africa in the simulator. Central and Southern Europe including Britain, France, Germany and Italy at that point.
It is currently locked in a battle with Zimbabwe for East Africa after previously capturing the north and west of the continent. Elsewhere, El Salvador has conquered the whole of North and Central America and is currently fighting against Chile for control of the South. Cambodia controls most of southern and eastern Asia east of India, while the Pitcairn Islands, of Munity on the Bounty fame, rule Australia and New Zealand. The team said the simulator would end once one country has conquered the rest.
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ACCESS DENIED: Puigdemont was refused entry to the European Parliament (file photo).
Access denied By Joe Gerrard THE European Parliament has refused to give a provisional pass to the former president of Cataluña after being elected as an MEP. Carles Puidgemont, of the pro-independence Junts per Cataluyna, arrived at the parliament in Brussels to collect his pass last week. He was reportedly refused
entry after three Spanish parties asked the European Parliament not to issue passes for MEPs until they had formally taken office in Spain. Puigdemont said he and pro-independence figures would not allow themselves and their supports to be ignored. “We won the elections in Cataluña but the ‘democratic’ general secretary of the Euro-
pean Parliament considers that our voters are less respectable than the rest,” he said. An arrest warrant for sedition and rebellion remains active in Spain for Puigdemont over the 2017 independence push, meaning he would be detained if he returned. The former Catalan president fled Spain shortly after the warrant was issued in October last year.
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Benidorm NEWS Making the most of rubbish BENIDORM’S plant for selecting and classifying light plastic containers which was destroyed by fire in 2009, reopens later this month. Elena Cebrian, who heads the Generalitat’s Environment Department, recently visited the €5 million installation whose cost was met by Valencia’s regional government. The plant, which can grade seven tons of plastic an hour, will process 20,000 tons of plastic a year, a third of the Valencian Community’s dis-
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REOPENING: Elena Cebrian visits Benidorm’s sorting plant. carded containers and Cebrian stressed the importance of improving the separation of
rubbish at source and reducing the amount sent to landfills. In line with European
Union directives, the Benidorm installation will enable 80 per cent of the plastic that reaches the plant from all over the province to be recovered for later conversion into a usable resource. Following the 2009 fire, plants in Alzira and Picassent (Valencia) and Castellon had to process Alicante Province’s plastic containers and the reopened Benidorm sorting plant means fewer road journeys, fewer emissions and less pollution, Cebrian pointed out.
Romans arrived first WORK has started on two projects which will reveal more about Benidorm’s distant past. Archaeologists are excavating the Tossal de la Cala at the end of the Poniente beach where earlier digs have found evidence of a Roman fort dating from the the First Century BC. This was of strategic importance during the Sertorian wars when a coalition of Romans and Iberians led by Quintus Sertorius fought against the regime in Rome. Exploring the Tossal site, the most important in Benidorm,
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EL TOSSAL: Evidence found of a Roman fort. has a €500,000 budget of which €250,000 has been financed from Brussels. The EU allocated a further €500,000 towards the €1.2 million cost of excavating the Castillo
which separates the Levante and Poniente beaches, where 1993 and 2014 soundings found evidence of the castle mentioned in the Benidorm’s 1325 town charter.
Something to be proud of BENIDORM PRIDE will be present in New York for the World Pride event later this month. World Pride is held each year in a different city and New York was chosen to coincide with the Stonewall Riots, a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid on the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village on June 28, 1969. Spain’s Tourist Office in New York is organising the Benidorm Pride expedition, im-
pressed by the growing international interest in the Costa Blanca event. The publicity material used to promote Benidorm Pride at tourism trade fairs and other events will be displayed at Spain’s stand installed for the New York event, Turespaña explained. “They told us that they’d heard about our Pride celebrations and were interested in promoting it in New York,” said Leire Bilbao, manager of Visit Benidorm who said this recognition was a reward for all their hard work.
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TWENTY-FIVE young people from 20 countries will attend the Costa Blanca Camp in Benidorm, organised by the Lions Club. The camp, a cultural exchange initiative for young people between July 14 and 28, is being held in Benidorm for the second consecutive year and will again have input from the town hall’s Social Welcome department. This year for the first time the Lions Club has invited two young local people with functional diversity to take part in a similar event in Italy, revealed Benidorm’s Social Welfare councillor Angela Llorca. Leti and Juan Manuel both
Massagers get the message SEVEN Chinese nationals were arrested for offering massages to tourists on Benidorm’s beaches. The five women and two men with ages ranging between 38 and 56 were spotted during a combined Local Police and National Police operation t o d i sc o u r a g e theft a s we l l a s i l l i c i t vending or offers of services. Within hours at least 15 people had been detained and charged with carryin g o u t i l l e g a l commercial activities on the Levante and Poniente beaches. The se v e n C h i n e se , who did not have residence or work permits, also fa c e a d d i t i o n a l charges of infringing immigration regulations.
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SUMMER CAMP: Angela Llorca with Lions Club and Asmibe representatives. belong to the Asociación de Minusválidos de Benidorm (Asmibe) and attend Benidorm’s Workshop for Pre-Employment Social Insertion (TAPIS), announced Llorca who was accompanied by Pilar Ribagorda, president
of Benidorm’s Lions Club and Asmibe president, Maria Agripina Fernandez. Thanks the Lions Club, Leti and Juan Manuel and their mothers will have a “unique experience,” Fernandez said.
Cool reception for marine protection THE Institute of Coastal Ecology (IEL) recommended that anglers be barred from fishing off Benidorm. The IEL has proposed creating three completelyprotected reserves, two in Benidorm and another in Altea where the regional government installed artificial reefs in 1988 and which would affect a total area of 4,351 hectares. Swimming and snorkelling are still permitted in a completely protected reserve but professional fishing, fishing from a private boat, underwater fishing or fishing from the shore with a rod are banned. Fishing with rods throughout the remainder of the reserve would be allowed in Benidorm in the 2,157-square metre section between Punta Pinet and the edge of the reserve.
The proposals had a hostile reception from anglers and divers who have formed an association, Amantes del Mar (Asamar) to promote ‘a rational use of the sea while defending collectives that enjoy the sea and marine activities.’ The association criticised the IEL’s proposals as ‘unfair vetoes and restrictions’ while stressing that it was in favour of ‘all initiatives aimed at conserving our sea and promoting harmonious co-existence.’ Asamar also called for all activities to be allowed. “These could be granted their own areas, privileges and restrictions always bearing in mind common sense, conservation of the marine environment and all the species living there,” the association suggested.
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AN 85-year-old German woman was located by the Guardia Civil two days after she was reported missing. The elderly woman, who has dementia, failed to return home after going for a walk in Jalon’s Solana neighbourhood. Once alerted, Guardia Civil officers from Calpe, Benissa and El Verger as well as Jalon immediately organised a search. They were assisted from the air by a Guardia Civil helicopter and on the ground by a dog trained to trace missing persons as the searchers were racing against time, since the woman was unwell and needed regular medication. She was finally spotted almost two days later by a Guardia Civil helicopter, lying in an irrigation channel
JALON RESCUE: Guardia Civil located lost woman. near to her home. Although in good physical condition she showed signs of hypothermia and disorientation after wandering through the countryside for 40 hours, during
which time it had rained and temperatures dropped. She was evacuated by helicopter to a waiting ambulance which transferred her to Denia Hospital.
Long trek for doctors THE SATSE union criticised the Generalitat’s decision to withdraw the SAMU emergency ambulance service for difficult-to-access municipalities. The SAMU ambulances will no longer be sent out automatically to medical emergencies in several Vall de Pop municipalities as well as others in the inland El Comtat area. In Orba, Benigembla, Castell de Castells, Murla, Parcent and Tormos doctors at the local primary health centres will instead attend to emergencies, a move
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MURLA: Medical emergencies could mean longer callouts for doctors. that not only SATSE, which represents health professionals, but also the official Work Inspectorate, claimed would be unworkable. On some occasions this could entail long waits for patients with appointments or even other emergencies while doctors go out on foot or drive, using their own transport, to emergencies. Once there, they will assess the situation and decide whether or not an ambulance is needed. Although SAMU callouts have often turned out to be false alarms, the primary care doctors must now negotiate rural roads, often in mountain areas. This will inevitably add to response times ‘which are vital to survival rates,’ SATSE warned.
Going it alone NEITHER Jalon nor Orba will need to make pacts when swearing-in their new councils on June 15. The Valencian nationalist party Compromis obtained an overall majority in the recent local elections in both towns, returning eight council seats in Jalon and seven in Orba. The Partido Popular were runners-up with two councillors in both towns, while the PSOE socialists won one seat in Jalon and two in Orba.
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ELECTION DAY: Radio Altea outside the town hall. COMPROMIS was Altea’s most-voted party in the recent
elections, scooping 2,780 votes and eight councillors,
ALTEA COMPROMIS: Jubilation on hearing election results. two more than in 2015. The Partido Popular again
has seven councillors as it did following the 2015 elections and was the next most-voted. It was followed by the PSOE socialists, whose four council seats remain unchanged while Ciudadanos, formerly without representation at the town hall, now has one councillor. The Altea amb Trellat party has only one councillor compared with two during the former legislative term, while neither CIPAL, Unidas Podem-EU nor UCIN obtained the 5 per cent of the total votes cast that is necessary to obtain a councillor. Once the results were in, Jaume Llinares who will repeat as mayor, announced with satisfaction that Compromis had, for the first time, won Altea’s municipal elections. “I’m very happy that the town has acknowledged our hard work,” Llinares declared. “We were excited and felt we had done a good job, but we’ve achieved something very difficult even though we were confident that the voting public would recognise all we have done,” he said. “Over the next four years we shall be able to carry out all of the projects that we have planned,” Llinares added.
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NEWS READY for the high season, Alfaz Town Hall has levelled Albir beach. “We have stepped up maintenance and cleaning now that good weather has arrived to ensure that the beach and seafront are in optimum condition,” said Beaches councillor Rocio Guijarro. As in previous years, Alfaz Town Hall has painted the seafront’s street furniture and children’s play areas as well as the lifesavers’ hut and the Biblioplaya library area. Pavements also received attention, but the most important task in the pre-summer preparations was levelling the beach, particularly at the shoreline, for the benefit of swim-
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ALBIR BEACH: Levelled after the winter storms. mers and paddlers. More sand was added to the children’s play areas and the section of the beach reserved for volleyball. Guijarro explained that not only her own Beaches department were in-
volved but also the Environment, Technical Services, Public Safety and Commerce departments, together with the Local Police. A concessionary has been engaged for beach cleaning and deckchair hire, together with a lifesaving service which has been operating since June 1 and will continue until October 31. During the first fortnight of this month, two lifesavers will be on duty from 10am until 6pm and until 7pm at weekends. In July and August there will be three lifesavers as well as the maritime patrol carried out jointly by the Generalitat together with Alfaz, Altea and Benidorm town halls.
ALFAZ’S mayor Vicente Arques recently met the Mujeres con Voz (Women with a Voice) committee. Alfaz Groups’ councillor Marisa Cortes and Equality expert Dolores Alvarez attended the meeting with Mujeres con Voz president Margarita Lujan and other committee members. Together they have agreed to explore new ways of collaboration between the town hall and the association, whose members have all been victims of gender violence. Their principal objective is to use their personal, firsthand knowledge to help other women who find themselves in abusive situations but do not know how to break free. The association offers psychological assistance and free legal advice for both women and children suffering abuse as well as group therapy sessions.
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Breaking free from abuse COLLABORATION: Some members with Alfaz’s mayor.
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Rates rebates announced CALPE Town Hall is helping pensioners and the long-term unemployed with deductions on their IBI rates. Depending on circumstances, up to €400 and 75 per cent of the total could be deducted from their rates with an additional 10 per cent
in cases of disability, the town hall announced. There could also be discounts for one-parent families and victims of gender violence. Householders have until July 15 to apply to the Oficina de Atencion al Ciudadano (OAC) at the town hall.
Bridging the gap THE new bridge over the Pou Roig stream has modified Calpe traffic by easing the flow on Avenida Ejercitos Españoles. Connecting the sports complex and schools with Avenida Rumania will also prevent the bottlenecks which routinely held up traffic in the past, particularly during the high season. The bridge is composed of two parallel precast concrete conduits capable of channelling the Pou Roig
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POU ROIG: No detour required. stream even during torrential rain. The bridge, pavements, street lighting, flower planters and a handrail over
the bridge have cost a total of €394,703 of which €344,993 were provided by the Diputacion provincial council.
Wife-killer tracked down LEONARDUS LEI BEAUMONT, wanted in Belgium for his former wife’s murder, has been arrested in Calpe. Beaumont, aged 71 and of Danish nationality, was tried in his absence and received a 20year sentence for killing Josee Widdershoven in Maasmechelen (Belgium) in 2009. Beaumont was found guilty of shooting his ex-wife at close range with a 22.bore shotgun following ongoing conflict over money, “A crime like that is closer to an execution,” police said at the time. During the investigation, the couple’s two daughters told police
that only their father could have killed their mother. “She led a very quiet life and had no enemies,” they said. Beaumont was due to stand trial in Limburg on May 6 but when he failed to appear, the Belgian authorities suspected that he was hiding in Spain and contacted their Spanish counterparts who traced him to Calpe. He has now been transferred to Madrid where the National High Court is processing his extradition to Belgium. On his return, he is likely to appeal against the sentence in a bid to obtain a retrial, sources close to the investigation revealed.
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is brought to you by THE new Gargasindi Special Needs school will stay at its present site. After months of deliberation and examining different possibilities the town council voted to modify its original decision to ask the regional government for a new school at a different site. Instead councillors agreed to put in a request to demolish the existing building and construct on the same, extended plot of
New school, same site land. The existing Gargasindi installation is insufficient for the school’s 80 pupils and in 2017 the town hall offered the regional government’s Education depart-
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LIFESAVERS: Now present on Calpe beaches.
Prepared for action THE lifesaving service has returned to Calpe’s beaches where it will remain until October 15. The 35 lifeguards are keeping watch on the beaches and from the sea, where their two boats inspect Calpe’s 13 kilometres of coastline and two canoes patrol swimming zones. They are on duty between 11am and 7pm until June 15, after which they will be on the beaches from 10.30am to 8pm throughout July and August until September 15. After this, they will be present between 11am and 7pm. The lifeguards are qualified to give first aid when necessary and their posts on the Fossa and Arenal-Bol beaches, invariably the most-visited, are equipped with defibrillators, Calpe Town Hall announced. All lifesaving posts on the beaches are provided with first aid equipment and each lifeguard has an emergency kit for dealing with basic situations and an ambulance is on hand to transfer patients to the health centre if necessary. The lifeguards are also attending Calpe’s accessible bathing zones on the Fossa and Arenal-Bol beaches for those with disabilities.
ment a choice of two sites. One 3,600-square metre plot was next to the Silene d’Ifac infants’ school and the other was the 2,610-metre site of the old Virgen de las Nieves infants’ school adjoining the existing Gargasindi centre. The directors and governors of the Gargasindi centre have now decided it would be preferable to take over the Virgen de Nieves plot, demolishing both buildings.
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Moors and Christians come to town MORAIRA’S Moors and Christians fiestas start tomorrow, Friday, June 7 with the opening of the Mediaeval Market at 7.30pm. Saturday sees a concentration of Moors and Christians in the Bosque Urbano at 12 noon although the traditional battles begin on Friday, June 14. Before that there is a Jazz, Folk, Rock and Country Festival live at the Castillo this Sunday, June 9 and on Monday the English Choir give a recital in Moraira’s parish church.
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TRADITIONAL BATTLE: Moors take Moraira.
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JUCAR HAUL: Frank Wills with a beautiful carp from Section B2.
Cramped but productive TEULADA-MORAIRA FISHING CLUB held Match 11 of their summer season on Section E3 of the River Jucar. Attendance was limited as E sections can be cramped and difficult to access, so several members opted to fish for pleasure on Section B2 instead. Five members eventually competed on Section E3 on a bright sunny day with excel-
lent conditions on the river. Water temperature had reached 21 degrees and as it often does, especially in the warmer months, the E section produced large fish. The method-feeder proved to be the best option on the day as up-in-the-water tactics produced no results at all. Twenty-three fish, averaging 2.3 kilos each, were caught in all but two members bagged fish of over four
kilos while the day’s winner, Lawrie Drain, enjoyed a catch of eight fish totalling 18.8 kilos. The next match will be held on the Rio Jucar on June 13. The club is always happy to welcome new members and for further information contact Frank Povey (966 490 338 and email frank.povey@ btopenworld.com) or call Ray Craig on 966 492 083.
THE subject of the Arts Society Marina Alta’s presentation today (June 6) was Imperial Easter Eggs by Carl Faberge. Doors opened at Salones Canor in Teulada at 10am for registration with Toby Faber’s talk starting at 11am. Toby was born in Cambridge in 1965 and although he read Natural Sciences there he has been through investment banking and management consultancy. This was followed by five years as managing director of Faber and Faber, the publishing company founded by his grandfather where he remains on the board. He is a lecturer, businessman and author of Faberge’s Eggs and Stradivari’s Genius: Five violins, one cello and three centuries of enduring perfection. The Faberge presentation traces the history of Easter gifts that Russia’s last two tsars bestowed upon their wives, from their creation to their post-revolutionary afterlife. Intimately linked to the final years of tsarist rule, the 50 Imperial eggs are mostly viewed as relics of a lost age, their dazzling ostentation outshone by the knowledge that they were once handled by the doomed Romanovs. They might be aesthetically unfashionable but Toby showed how these confec-
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FABERGE EGG: Once the presents of Tsars. tions of enamel, clockwork animals and golden scrolls display an oddly flexible symbolic worth, representing tsarist decadence, the Cold War battle between communism and capitalism and the rise of the super-rich oligarch. For details of the society, venue and 2019-2020 programme see the www.mari naaltaarts.com website or member ship@marinaaltaarts.com for membership. The sponsor for this presentation was Blevins Franks.
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Dialogue on the horizon FOLLOWING the municipal elections, the Partido Popular’s candidate Raul Llobell declared that the results were positive for the party. “Once again the Partido Popular has had quite a comfortable win over the next most-voted party both in votes - nearly 400 more - and in councillors, with seven compared to their four.” Llobell was referring to the Compromis party who will now have seven councillors at the town hall, but failed to mention that the PSOE obtained three councillors, giving the two left-leaning parties the same number of votes. Ciudadanos have two councillors, entering TeuladaMoraira Town Hall for the first time and RED-Teulada has one. The RED-Teulada candi-
RESULTS: Were positive for the party. date Jordi Martinez announced before the elections that, if elected, he would not form an alliance with the Partido Popular. Consequently, Llobell’s future as Teulada-Moraira mayor depends on the Ciudadanos party. “Of course the intention
was always to repeat the overall majority,” Llobell told the local Spanish media. “But the results are telling us that the town wants dialogue, it wants pacts and it wants its politicians to come to an understanding. And that’s the direction that we are going to work in.”
Some hot stuff MORE than 40 members of U3A Moraira-Teulada’s Spicy Dining Group recently met in a Javea restaurant for a tremendous evening. The Spicy Dining Group meets once a month from September to June but not in December. Anyone wishing to join U3A Moraira-Teulada Spicy Dining Group should send their details to u3atmsdg@gmail.com although it is necessary to be member of the U3A Moraira-Teulada.
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Not a family affair A CANDIDATE with the highest marks in the sel ect i on pr ocess f or a Teulada-Moraira Town Hall post insists she was not ‘helped.’ I n t he r unni ng f or a job as an Environment Inspector, she obtained a nine in the second round. Thi s pr om pt ed t he town hall’s Human Resources inspector Andres Lluch, who presided the examination board and marked the exam papers, to describe her mark as ‘disproportionate.’ She is related to a municipal employee who already works at the town hall and Lluch said that he feared that the ‘chain of custody’ was not observed. Carlos Linares, Teulada-Moraira’s acting mayor is opening an investigation, he announced. “I t ’s ver y ser i ous t o accuse me of something so i m por t ant and t o quest i on m y abi l i t i es simply because I’m related to a town hall employee,” the candidate declared. “It would be ridiculous t o st op som eone f r om taking an exam or going after a job just because they are a relative,” she said. “The suspi ci ons ar e unfounded, mere suppositions on the part of the president of the board,” the candidate continued. “They are questioning hours of study and effort and, what’s worse, my honesty,” she lamented.
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An ageing population THE Marina Alta is getting older. In 1991 the average age of Marina Alta residents was 39, but is now 45 although in coastal areas this is slightly lower at 44.5 years. Demographic experts now calculate that by 2030 the average for the entire area will have risen to 47. Ageing is more noticeable in the interior of the Marina Alta interior where there are 11 munici-
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LOCAL boat Alzira-Moraira came second in the 31st edition of the PeĂąon de Ifach trophy. The race was held in two stages from Calpe to Formentera and back to the Marina Alta, with the Alzira-Moraira from Club Nautico Moraira first in at 7pm on the first leg. At that stage, Santa Pola boat Despelote was provisional leader in the overall classification on a day when the weather conditions intervened more than halfway through the first stage. They were expected to arrive at around 10pm as there was little wind, but favourable currents meant the last few miles
Photo credit: Pep Portas
Plain sailing
FORMENTERA CROSSING: Boats set out on PeĂąon de Ifach race. were so rapid that the AlziraMoraira covered the 64-nautical miles (118.5 kilometres) in around nine hours. The return journey from For-
mentera was considerably slower and the first boat back in Calpe, Ciudad de Melilla, arrived at 2.40am after more than 16-and-a-half hours.
Figuring out the elections MARINA ALTA voters elected 345 councillors in the municipal elections, four fewer than in 2015, owing to inland depopulation. Although the Partido Popular returned 104 councillors - more than any other party - it now has 13 fewer than in 2015 local elections accord-
ing to the Marina Alta Observatory, the official source for local statistics. The number of PSOE socialist councillors remained unchanged at 88 but Compromis with 80 has 13 more than in 2015 while overall, the local independent parties lost one councillor.
palities, many of them villages, where the average age tops 52. Only one coastal town, Els Poblets, has a similarly high average age, although analysts attribute to the significant number of elderly foreign retirees living there. Depopulation in Spain’s rural interior is now a national concern with young people leaving for the big towns and cities and the Marina Alta follows this same pattern.
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CONCORDE REVEALED: Pete Carrigan with U3A’s Ian Rogerson.
High-flyer tells all FORMER Concorde flight engineer Pete Carrigan recently explained to Javea U3A members what made Concorde so special. Pete flew for 28 years for British Airways and accu-
mulated more than 10,000 hours on 747s and more than 3,500 hours over the next 12 years on Concorde. This included the amazing supersonic passenger aircraft’s very last flight. Pete told the inside story of life in the cockpit, describing the Concorde as the “most beautiful aircraft you will see in our lifetime” and detailed how it flew at twice the speed of sound at 1,350 miles per hour (2,172 kilometres per hour) at 60,000 feet during its 27 supersonic years. “We could take off in London at 10.30am and
land in New York at 9.30am, an hour earlier. That’s faster than the average bullet!” Pete said. “Designers and engineers who built such a unique aircraft without the aid of computers can be very proud of what they achieved in the 60s,” he added. During its heyday, the rich and famous would pay £10,000 (€11,339) to fly on Concorde, including royalty, celebrities and business top brass. Many of them were anxious to sit with Pete in the cockpit to have their photos taken after the flight, he told U3A members.
Photo credit: Denia Health Department
Photo credit: Ian Rogerson
NEWS
TEACHING AWARD: Health chiefs and tutors.
Health centre’s teaching award JAVEA has the best Teaching Health Centre in Alicante Province. Since 1993 the town’s health centre has provided the Internal Residents (MIR) training necessary for newly-qualified doctors planning to specialise in primary healthcare. It was singled out by the regional Health department’s Family and Community Medicine Teaching Unit for the quality of the teaching provided by the centre’s seven tutors who are supported by paediatricians, nurses, mental health professionals and social workers. Dr Maria Jose Mulet, director of the Javea zone, together with Dr Isabel H errera, who heads the centre’s Teaching Section, Mari Carmen Estruch, Denia Health Department’s Head of Studies and the tutors recently travelled to Alicante City where they were presented with the award at the College of Physicians.
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Photo credit: Generalitat Valenciana
NEWS
FISHING FLEET: More cash to carry out projects.
Good catch for the local fishing fleet JAVEA is in line for a share of €7.9 million which the Generalitat has allocated to the Valencia region’s fishing ports. Seventy-five per cent of the investment comes from the European Union’s Maritime and Fisheries Fund (FEMP) and will help to increase the quality of catches while stepping up control and traceabil-
ity of the fish that is landed locally. As well as Javea, Calpe, Campello and Torrevieja in Alicante Province, funds will also go to Cullera (Valencia) and Vinaroz, Peñiscola and Burriana (Castellon). These towns’ fishing fleets, their fishing guilds and bodies linked to the sector will now be able to carry out pro-
jects that they could not otherwise carry out owing to lack of funds, explained Roger Llanes, the region’s director general for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries. “This is the first investment of this kind and is a clear indication of the Generalitat’s commitment to the Valencian Community’s fishing industry,” he added.
Ambolo beach now out of bounds JAVEA Town Hall is determined to seal off the Cala Ambolo beach on safety grounds. Notorious for rockfalls it was officially closed in 2006 when the municipality put up notices warning of the danger. These were largely ignored, but last summer the road down to the cove was closed in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent beachgoers from parking and blocking access in the event of an emergency. Signposts were also removed and
the cove was removed years ago from the Tourism department’s leaflets. Following last winter’s storms the cliffs above the cove are crumbling dangerously and the town hall has now put up a metal fence with a padlocked gate to ensure that the beach is inaccessible. A barrier has also been installed further up the road, allowing access only to the residents of nearby villas.
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Clearing up the adults’ rubbish A HUNDRED pupils from the Arenal and Port de Xabia schools cleared 124 kilos of rubbish from the port area. There was an early start for the children, said Javea’s Club Nautico yacht club which, together with the Fundacion Ecomar and Coca Cola, organised the event. Their day began with a workshop where Theresa Zabel - Olympic yachtswoman and president of the Fundacion Ecomar - explained how and why rubbish reaches the beaches. The pupils then split into four groups and, accompanied by teachers as well as Club Nautico and Ecomar personnel, cleared litter from the Gorgos rivermouth, the La Grava beach and the port’s Poniente and Levante breakwaters. Their 124-kilo haul included hundreds of cigarette ends, 48 kilos of cans, six kilos of paper and cardboard and 6.5 kilos of glass and 6.55 kilos of plastic bottles and containers.
Protection for Cova Tallada THIS is the first summer that the Cova Tallada will not be endangered by overcrowding. Antoni Marzo, the region’s Environmental director general recently approved the measures to protect the natural and cultural resources of the cave which is part accident of nature and part manmade, as it was once a quarry. Although the cave is located inside the Javea boundaries, the most-used route is via Les Rotes in Denia and although it is tricky to negotiate, crowds flock there each summer.
As decided last year, between June 15 and September 30 visits to the cave will be restricted to 370 people reaching it on foot via the clifftop path and 112 entering from the sea in canoes. Ninety-minute visits for a maximum of 71 people at any one time are to be staggered between 9am and 8.30pm. Reservations must be made beforehand and will be valid only for a specified time and date. The region’s Environment department said Local Police from both towns and Denia’s National Police would also be on hand.
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Mayor asked for answers
Bike fire AN electric motorcycle caught fire on the slopes of Montgo, affecting 600sqm of pines and bushes. The fire, which began at 2.40pm in Denia’s Corrat de Calafat neighbourhood, also approached the side walls of two villas whose occupants were warned to stay inside by the Emergency Services. This area belongs to what is officially classed as the ‘urban-wildland interface’ where residential and woodland overlap and where serious fires have caused damage in the past. A fire engine and members of the Denia fire brigade with backup from their Benissa counterparts had the blaze under control within 30 minutes.
Photo credit: Denia town hall
BLAY BEACH: Susceptible to storm damage and erosion. town hall for not halting projects that could harm the Blay Beach front line and for losing ‘a great opportunity’ to protect the Denia coastline from undesired development. ‘Is this really what you understand by a policy of sustainable development?’ the letter asked the mayor, urging him to give a clear reply.
The Plataforma also asked Grimalt how he intended to avoid similar conflict in future, especially as independent scientists and Denia’s Environment councillor agreed that architectural barriers like the new apartments hindered the beach’s natural regeneration and increased the risk of storm damage.
A memorable day out MEMBERS of U3A Denia enjoyed a wonderful summer picnic, held in a private garden at the top of Montgo. Bringing and sharing their own food and drink, they had a sumptuous feast with plenty of good wine. “Gone are the days when a picnic meant a ham sandwich, an apple and a bottle of pop!” said U3A Denia’s Norma Robertson. There was live music from Neil Diamond tribute singer J J Jones and members were soon up and dancing. Then the U3A’s very own Linda Mills got up, totally impromptu, and gave a rendi-
Photo credit: Denia U3A
WORRIED residents want to know if further building is planned for Blay Beach. The Plataforma Protejamos la Playa (Protect the beach) wrote to Denia’s mayor, Vicent Grimalt, asking if it was true that developers have bought land adjoining apartments currently going up in Les Marines. The association asked Grimalt to clarify plans for this stretch of coast where, the letter maintained ‘the beach has been seriously harmed by building and erosion.’ Residents’ worries were prompted by rumours that the developer who is currently constructing luxury apartments practically on the seafront, has acquired land beside the first building. The letter reproached the
Rape trial
U3A PICNIC: A sumptuous feast. tion of golden oldies to more dancing. It was a memorable day, everyone agreed.
A MAN who allegedly attempted to rape a young woman in a Denia discotheque is standing trial at the Alicante High Court. In September 2016 he followed his victim to the Ladies intending to sexually abuse her, the court heard. He punched her when she tried to resist but was prevented from going further when he was interrupted by a cleaner who alerted the discotheque’s security guards. If found guilty he faces a five-and-a-half-year sentence for attempted rape and three years for causing bodily harm.
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NETHERLANDS
Biker ban A COURT in Utrecht has banned the Hells Angels biker club after ruling they posed a threat to social order due to their culture of violence, making the Netherlands the first country to have a ban on the entire group.
Trump invite KING of the Netherlands WillemAlexander has formally invited US President Donald Trump to visit the country to attend a ceremony commemorating the Second World War
FIRST: The group has never been prohibited. Battle of the Scheldt in August, Prime Minister Mark Rutte has confirmed.
NORWAY
Sex adverts
Wife death
AUTHORITIES in Bodo has ordered a local sex toys company to take down advertisements put up in bus shelters which used the town’s coat of arms, with the use of such insignia for commercial gain prohibited under national law.
PROSECUTORS are seeking a murder conviction for a man charged in connection with the death of his 24-yearold pregnant wife in their Egersund apartment which he denies, with the woman found with extensive head injuries following a fire there in September.
DENMARK
BELGIUM
Youngest MEP
King meeting
KIRA PETER-HANSEN, a 21-year-old Danish economics student at Copenhagen University, has become the youngest Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in history after winning as a Socialistisk Folkeparti (Socialist People’s Party) candidate in the bloc-wide vote last month.
BELGIUM’S King Philippe has become the first monarch since 1936 to meet with a far-right leader after speaking with Vlaams Belang, head at the royal palace, to discuss possible coalition deals following recent elections.
Appeal fails DENMARK rejected an appeal from the family of a 72-year-old Afghan woman with dementia to allow her to stay in the country after authorities said they would deport her because she has not been officially diagnosed by a Danish doctor.
Inmate claim THE European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has condemned Belgium for the ‘degrading treatment’ of an inmate at Ittre Prison, in Walloon Brabant, during a wardens’ strike in 2016 which saw detainees unable to shower, have breaks or take part in family visits.
SWEDEN
Crime findings
Drink ‘smuggling’
A RISE in the number of sexual assaults from 2005 to 2017 in Sweden is largely because the legal definition of rape has expanded and is not linked with recent influxes of migrants and refugees, the National Council on Criminal Prevention (Bra) has suggested.
SIX suspects are being prosecuted in Sweden over the alleged smuggling of the equivalent of about 27,000 cans of beer into the country from Germany which they claimed was for their own personal use.
FRANCE
GERMANY
Bomber confesses
Action delay
A 24-YEAR-OLD IT student detained in connection with a bombing in Lyon earlier this month has admitted to planning the attack weeks before it took place, according to police who questioned the suspect for 48 hours.
GERMANY’S Climate Cabinet has delayed unveiling measures to tackle pollution until September while a government spokesperson said the country remains committed to meeting EU targets to become carbon neutral by 2050 after critics claimed it was putting off changes.
Death sentences
Jobless rise
SEVEN French citizens who travelled to Iraq to join Daesh have been sentenced to death by hanging at a Baghdad court after Paris agreed to hand them over, which led to concerns over human rights and the lack of a fair trial.
UNEMPLOYMENT in Germany has risen for the first time in five years, increasing to 5 per cent in May from 4.9 per cent in April according to figures from the Federal Employment Agency which came as economic growth slows down.
FINANCE Investing in renewables
THE head of the Acciona infrastructure and energy company has said it will continue to invest in clean power and hopes to expand its output. Jose Manuel Entrecanales told a meeting of company shareholders that Acciona plans to go from a total renewable output of 1,600 megawatts to 2,000 megawatts in the next 18 months. “Acciona will contribute to efforts to invest in renewables in Spain,” said Entrecanales. The president of the company said changes to regulations and positive results from reviews of asset remuneration made the investments possible.
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The year-on-year increase in inflation in Spain according to the consumer price index (CPI) measure, down from the interannual rate of 1.5 per cent recorded in April.
Union on bank wage attitude
‘Not ready’ for next crisis A FORMER senior economic analyst at Spain’s central bank has said the country is ill-equipped to face another crisis like the one which struck the world in 2008. Former Bank of Spain Studies Director Jose Luis Malo de Molina said imbalances and risks were not addressed following the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession. “We are not prepared to absorb shocks like those seen in 2008. What happened during the crisis can happen again,” Malo de Molina said. The economist was speaking at the launch of his book ‘A Macroeconomic
By Joe Gerrard Vision of the 50 years of the Spanish Constitution.’ He said Spain’s productivity gap and the instability of its public finances were among factors which could make it difficult for the country to handle another economic crisis. Labour market problems including job precariousness and workers being underemployed was the ‘most worrying aspect’ of the current economic situation, Malo de Molina added. Acting Economy Minister Nadia Calviño also attended the launch of the book. She said economic reforms were
needed now while outlook remains positive. “You have to repair the roof while the sun is shining,” Calviño said. Calviño also commented on recent remarks from the Bank of Spain about the lack of savings among Spanish families. “If they cannot survive on their pay until the end of the month then they cannot save,” the minister said. It comes as central bank governor Pablo Hernandez de Cos said whichever parties take power following recent elections needed to face economic challenges promptly and decisively.
A TRADE UNION has accused Spain’s central bank of having an ‘unhealthy obession’ with the economic consequences of a planned minimum wage hike. The UGT said the Bank of Spain’s belief that an increase in the rate to €900 per month would negatively impact on job creation was harming its collective bargaining efforts. It comes as the central bank said in a report that it could not rule out job losses in the event the increase goes ahead. The wage rise was first floated in government budget plans.
BUSINESS EXTRA
CEC slam ‘threatening’ tax tone AN association of small and medium sized companies has accused the Spanish Treasury of sending letters about tax with a ‘threatening’ tone to some firms. The Spanish Confederation of Commerce (CEC) said small businesses with low turnover had received the letters warning them about inconsistencies in tax returns. It comes as retail sales have risen by 2 per cent but
small and medium sized firms have seen a drop of 0.5 per cent. CEC General Secretary Jose Guerrero said: “Owners are struggling to move their businesses forward. The last thing we need is a sword of Damocles over our heads.” The CEC is working ‘intensely’ to ensure small and medium sized companies can adapt to new consumer habits which have driven a rise in online sales.
Huawei 5G rollout CHINESE technology company Huawei is still set to put Spain’s new 5G network into place despite a ban on the company doing so in the US, according to the CEO of its Spanish division Tony Jin Yong.
New CEO IGOR GARZESI has been appointed the new CEO of Banco Mediolanum and has pledged to put the bank in an ‘unbeatable’ position after replacing Vittorio Colussi following a unanimous decision from the company’s board.
Scooter use MORE than one million trips have been made by around 300,000 unique users on Lime scooters since the company began operating in the cities of Pamplona, Madrid, Malaga, Valencia and Zaragoza, leading to reduction in emissions of 210,000 kilograms of CO2, according to company estimates.
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0,14
3,96
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0,43
17,21
184.721
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21,35
264.113
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0,04
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33,385
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19,45
563.333
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0,36
18,22
40.274
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8,793
0,27
-20,43
516.684
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10,880
0,03
0,60
280.668
23,790
-0,22
24,88
247.130
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19,770
-0,06
8,90
54.126
22,300
0,09
7,11
51.876
7,884
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288.548
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3,11
968.906
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6,980
0,00
18,59
324.689
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2,622
0,06
-9,99
4.936.377
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16,510
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12,77
330.701
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5,10
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14,545
0,09
6,63
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0,06
-16,45
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10,050
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6,46
801.469
21,110
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14,17
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6,800
0,05
11,60
1.189.203
6,466
0,00
-0,05
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0,08
4,93
1.764.228
19,268
0,59
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19,65
5.601.119
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2,263
0,02
19,07
2.552.280 334.566
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0,04
22,69
237.813
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50,010
-0,25
18,03
77.940
TUI
INTERTEK GROUP
52,800
-0,18
10,00
37.804
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0,07
-26,12
1.372.435
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1,082
0,03
-13,30
2.543.781
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0,13
-36,69
48,305
-0,24
17,57
291.446
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7,934
-0,03
7,77
233.994
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1,315
0,02
-14,02
11.895.014
31,650
0,94
13,08
42.737
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46,370
0,00
1,27
47.495
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0,01
3,61
832.443
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0,08
14,13
490.922
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0,06
4,00
169.030
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0,03
34,60
245.984
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Euro EUR/GBP: Up from £0.84 to £0.87 EUR/USD: Down from $1.12 to $1.11 The euro has spent the last month edging higher against a struggling pound but failing to exert itself against the US dollar. The news that the European Commission had slashed its growth forecasts for two of the largest economies in the Eurozone (Germany and Italy) applied some pressure to EUR/USD, as did the expectation that the European Central Bank (ECB) is likely to keep monetary policy accommodative for the foreseeable future. However, EUR rates were then boosted by the news that the White House would delay tariffs on all car imports by at least six months. The outcome of the EU elec-
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EXCHANGE RATES: The outcome of the EU elections could have an impact. tions could have an impact on EUR exchange rates as the month draws to a close. Pound GBP/EUR: Down from €1.15 to €1.13 GBP/USD: Down from $1.29 to $1.27 The last couple of weeks haven’t been kind to the pound,
with the British currency sliding against peers like the euro and US dollar in response to the collapse of cross-party Brexit talks. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn indicated that talks had gone as far as they could and that striking a deal is impossible amid the ‘increasing weakness and instability’ of the government.
All the ongoing Brexit uncertainty meant the pound was unable to benefit from Bank of England (BoE) Governor Mark Carney asserting that interest rates are likely to rise faster than investors expect. MPs are currently set to vote on the withdrawal bill in early June, and it was reported that if Mrs
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May’s plan is defeated again, the UK will either be set for a no-deal or for Article 50 to be revoked. May has also implied that she will set out a timetable for her resignation next month. Such upheaval could send the pound lower in the weeks ahead. With so much Brexit news on the horizon, UK data releases are unlikely to have much impact on the pound. US Dollar USD/GBP: Up from £0.76 to £0.78 USD/EUR: Up from €0.88 to €0.89 Concerns that the US/China trade war is escalating has reduced demand for higher-risk assets in the last few weeks - boosting the US dollar in the process. An article from Chinese media stated: ‘If there is no real concrete action by the United States, it will be meaningless for you to come and talk. It is better to suspend the consultation completely and return to the normal working track.’ Trade concerns may continue driving USD movement in the near-term.
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FEATURE
Not English any more?
LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT WHY is it that when anyone in the public eye decides to comment on issues of immigration and the effect it is having on Europe and its culture, they are immediately vilified by the politicians, media and a small number of snowflakes, but praised to the roof by the majority of the concerned local populace? Last week John Cleese was the latest shining example. Don’t get me wrong, I have not been too impressed with this man and his antics over the last few years, (although I adored Fawlty Towers!) But when he stated publicly that London was ‘not English any more,’ the ‘likes’ and concurring comments posted on social media were numbered in their thousands. However, with their usual monotonous regularity, the ‘Good Morning’ and other media discussion outlets, (with their, oh so carefully selected panelists!) went out of their way to argue a case to the contrary. He was accused of racism (Natch) being unpatriotic, disliking black people, Islamophobia and just about anything else designed to stifle the free speech of anyone who dares to speak out against what actually is, so obviously, manifesting across the whole of Europe. Well, I’m sure it comes as no surprise to most of you, that I am one of the untold thousands of beleaguered and vilified ‘ordinary’ public that is in wholehearted agreement with his remarks.
LONDON: Has it changed beyond recognition over the years? London isn’t English any more. It is a simple statement of fact. Frankly anyone who thinks otherwise, has either not been there, or walks around with a sack over their head. Over the last 30 years, this great city has
changed almost beyond all recognition. Large areas do truly resemble the Middle East. Often, when taking public transport, you can travel the whole journey without hearing the English language spoken once. When I was a young man
growing up in London, the only Burkas on show were worn by the wives of visiting Saudi Sheiks and Royalty escaping from Ramadan by travelling to the UK (where no one had even heard of it!) and wandering around Harrods and Hatton Garden, handbags stuffed with untold thousands, while their husbands wagered fortunes in the gambling clubs of the West End. These days, in many areas, you’d be hard pressed to find a female whose apparel didn’t cover her from head to foot. The point I am trying to make here is that it is glaringly obvious that London, and many other European cities, are not so culturally indigenous any more. Whether this is a good, or a bad thing is irrelevant. When the usual predictable lot emerge from the shadows, raising any objection they can think of to stifle one iota of reasonable discussion on the subject, methinks that many do protest far too much. Let them remember, that although many would prefer to turn our great societies into one of the suppressed countries of the Middle or Far East, freedom of speech is still at the very heart of our English heritage. It’s what our ancestors fought and died for. Woe betides those who seek to either erode or change this basic British right of existence. It will not sit well! Keep the faith, Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com
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Cassandra Nash A weekly look - and not entirely impartial reaction to the Spanish political scene
PABLO CASADO believes the Partido Popular has won Madrid. Err, no, Pablo. He saved his skin by taking the two jewels in the Sp a n i sh c r o w n b y fo u l means, not fair. M a n u e l a C a r m en a an d M as Madrid were the most-voted in the municipal elections but the PP wi l l h a v e n o c o mp u n ctio n abo u t t e a m i n g u p w ith Ciu dadanos to get into city hall, despite the bile on both sides during both elections. A n d t h e PP wi l l h a v e e v en fewer qualms about getting into bed with Vox which is so far to the Right that it’s out of sight this side of democracy. The Madrid Community should have gone to the Left, too, where Mas Madrid and Iñigo Errejon were the most-voted b u t t h e y w o n ’t h a v e a c h a n c e thanks to the Andalucia threesome. Neither result is PP victory, they were Mas Madrid defeats.
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Victory by default Leading by example PEDRO SANCHEZ and François Macron intend to attempt what, in the best of all possible worlds, should happen in Spain. Although Sanchez is a socialist and Macron a liberal, they hope to join forces to prevent the European People’s Party - the Partido
Popular to you and me - from taking over the European Commission. With 20 seats, the Spanish PSOE has more than any other socialist party in the European Parliament and the same goes for Macron’s 21 Renaissance seats. After 15 years of conservative domination, they want socialists and liberals to introduce a more progressive U agenda.
And all the while, Sanchez will be looking over his shoulder at Albert Rivera and Ciudadanos as if to say, ‘See, this is the way to do it.’
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tions was the Podemos supremo Pablo Iglesias. Podemos lost seats everywhere and instead of tipping the balance to the Left on councils and regional governments, in many cases it is handing that privilege to Vox. Predictably, Iglesias continues to believe that he could, and should, occupy a seat in a future PSOE government in return for his 42 parliamentary seats. His reasons are nebulous, but his motives are as obvious as his sense of entitlement.
Time to go SAD to say, although it’s no surprise, Juan Carlos I’s time is up. He will no longer take part in public life, he announced. And quite right too. He was what Spain needed in 1975 after Franco died when he, Fernando Alvarez de Miranda, Adolfo Suarez and a few others piloted Spain into the safe haven of democracy. He was what Spain needed when he pulled rank on military plotters and defused the attempted coup of February 23, 1981. But his usefulness is at an end and at 81 the Bourbon king can lead a peaceful life hunting - elephants (possibly) included - with afternoons at the bullring and, who knows, the company of someone not his wife. But Juan Carlos’s time is up and, always aware of what is needed, he knows he has nothing left to contribute and it’s time to go.
STEPPING DOWN: Juan Carlos retired from public life this week.
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Advertising Feature THE family owners of Muebles Martinez SL are proud. Proud of their craftsmen and their workforce, proud of their association with the town of Benissa, proud of their showroom and the products they supply and proud of the fact that this firm, which has been in the same family for four generations, is now celebrating 100 years, since it was founded. The firm was actually started in May 1919 by Seňor Cayetano Martínez Sala, a local man, who actually registered the business in his own name, because his two sons, who were actually running the business, were underage. The two brothers later took over the firm and renamed it Martinez Hermanos. There have been changes over the course of the century, new premises built and various extensions made, but the firm has remained loyal to the original principle of providing high quality products, built by craftsmen. Over the years a large number of workers have worked for this company, almost all of them being residents of Benissa, among which there have been some great, great craftsmen. Some of these craftsmen worked for their entire working life in the company, from the ages of 12 or 14 (the age that people started working at in those days) to the age of 65 when they retired. The firm are again proud to have been able to count on all of them. The company successfully exports the Benissa name all over the country, sending furniture to Andalucia, Cataluña, Madrid, Basque Country, Extremadura… and abroad, to countries such as the UK, France, Germany, Russia, Saudi Arabia and even Barbados, in the Caribbean region of North America. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary on Saturday, May 18, the company inaugurated a Museum Hall where visitors can see the old machines, documents and photographs as reminders of the work, effort and dedication of the brothers, the family and the more than 170 employees who have contributed towards this achievement. The Museum is open to
Muebles Martinez celebrates 100 years TODAY: The whole team of Muebles Martinez nowadays.
FIRST VEHICLE: Bought in 1923. The current directors (above). anyone and the company would like to share and enjoy this short history. They invite you to visit them and travel to the past. Apart from a well designed website, this company has a large store with 5,000 m2 dedicated to the exhibition of furniture of all styles. The range, though, is incredible with furniture from a range of renowned Spanish and International designers, like Fama, Hukla, Flex and Catellan Italia and many, many more.
THE MUSEUM: You are invited to share their history. The furniture is invariably stylish, innovative and well made.
A world away from the flat-pack mass produced stuff on the market in some stores.
The staff are knowledgeable and friendly and will assist you to choose and to integrate their products into your designs. The firm can assist you to furnish every room of your property (excluding the bathroom). There are ideas for kitchens, lounges, dining rooms, bedrooms and others. There are even ideas for your garden or terrace. We were particularly drawn to one particular item on their website, a three-piece studded leather Chesterfield suite, which was placed in an ultra modern library room and a
Muebles Martinez SL can be found at Avda Pais Valenciano 7, 03720 Benissa. Their website is https://www.martinezmuebles.com Telephone: 965 730 050 They are open Monday to Friday 9.30 am to 1.30 pm and then 4pm to 8pm Saturdays they are open 10 am to 1.30 pm
table, which is glass topped, but then has pebbles in a compartment directly below. Words cannot do the pictures justice, have a look at their website or better still visit their store. Incredibly, the firm also has on hand an interior designer to assist you at every stage of modelling your property and assist you to furnish it with style and elan. The firm works with the designer Eva Bernal, who has close links with Muebles Martinez. The designer works in their design studio to bring your dreams to reality. The team also point out they can even assist you with commercial properties and hotels. The firm also employ their own project team, who can help you design, remodel, decorate and furnish any given room. Again the people they employ in this field are skilled craftsmen, ensuring a really top-end finish. With kitchen projects Muebles Martinez are really proud to install their own custom-made furniture, which is designed for both its style and practicality. Muebles Martinez are members of the Valencian Furniture Association, who have joined together some of the best furniture stores in the community with one common aim. To dress your home.
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THE quiet dignity shown by Larry the cat on the doorstep of No 10 prior to Theresa May’s resignation speech is what I would wish for in the next prime minister. Before Theresa May could make the farewell speech, the stage first had to be made catfree. For 30 minutes, Larry the Downing Street mouser had sat on the doorstep, his back turned scornfully against the media as if to say: ‘What purrpuss do you serve? Are you fur real?’ before the door swung open and he was ushered inside. Theresa May led the Conservative party to a precipice; now that party is in danger of toppling over the edge. Its next leader has an unenviable task ahead. Bringing the party together will be as difficult as the Brexit negotiations, and the outcome just as unpredictable. Currently, everyone’s running in a selfindulgent leadership beauty parade. It’d be far easier if we had a list of MPs who AREN’T standing as candidates, it’d save time and space. And we can’t rule out the possibility Theresa May misreads the mood (again) and throws her hat into the ring. And heaven help us if Failing
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LARRY THE CAT: He’s been through a lot in Downing Street. Grayling - Theresa May’s former campaign manager, overseeing a project that descended into chaos, delays, and ended in tears - should join the leadership scrum and win, it’d finish off the Tories
(and the country) for good. The old saying goes: ‘We get the police force we deserve.’ Well, we seem to be getting the prime ministers we deserve: spineless, two-faced, hypocritical, philanderers (Boris, not Theresa), misguided, targetless, frightened of their shadows (Theresa May again proving the point it’s possible to do an impossible job badly. And she did). It’s really hard to decide who exactly is the worst candidate: it’s such a crowded field. A deeply shallow pool full of the ruthless toothless. We’re simply spoilt for choice! In conclusion, I propose a knighthood for Larry the cat! He’s had to put up with so much, the poor thing must be so confused by the ever-changing personnel in his home... 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.norajohnson.net) available from Amazon in paperback/eBook (€0.99;£0.99) and iBookstore. All profits to Costa del Sol Cudeca cancer charity.
Just one of my grumps Mike Senker In my opinion Views of a Grumpy Old Man HERE’S one for you - I recently went to a function and during the evening I was offered the chance to buy some raffle tickets. There were three prizes. A week’s holiday was the first prize; the second was a meal at a posh restaurant and the third a case of nice wine. The tickets were not particularly cheap but then the prizes were OK and it was a good cause. But I had to ask my normal question which is what prize comes out first? She popped off for a second and then said, “its the normal way - third, second, first.” I then told her that’s the wrong way of doing it because everybody enters the raffle to have a chance of winning the first prize and if you draw the third prize first that cannot happen. She said, “But that’s the way we always do it.” It may well be and it’s always wrong. She then told me this is done to make it more exciting and to keep the suspense up. Look, it’s OK if you are buying a ticket for a euro I guess and there are
loads of prizes and whoever wins just chooses what they fancy. But, if you think about it, even that way is better because the first winner out has a choice of everything on offer don’t they? Therefore getting the first prize first. This is just one of my grumps which is about a point of principle. What’s right is right isn’t it? One way to accommodate my type of complaint, yet keep the suspense factor, is to draw the tickets first, then announce them in reverse order. If you do this, be sure that the tickets cannot be switched or you will likely receive complaints. I still bought a couple of tickets, they still did it their way and I won sweet fanny adams as usual. Felon turned doomsday prophet, Jim Bakker, is selling ‘Donald Trump’ coins which he promises have special spiritual power. This guy is an ex-convict, accused rapist and TV evangelist. What he is claiming is that when believers hold the coin with Trump’s face, they are somehow magically united in prayer with everyone else and that creates a greater ‘point of contact’ with God. Idolatry, anybody? For the low, low price of $45 all this shameless superstition is all yours! God bless America!!
mikesenker@gmail.com.
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LEGALLY SPEAKING Can they change their deed? Three years ago we bought a semi-detached villa in a community. The property is in fact bigger than our title deed says. We had a survey done and it shows that our property is 80 square metres bigger than the registered size. We would like to legalise this difference. It seems that we need a certificate from the community to show that no members oppose the change. When we asked the community administrator about this, he said it would be better if we do not do anything, just let it be. Or we have to wait 25 years. This does not make sense. M C (Costa del Sol)
To m a k e a David Searl change in a You and the Law property registration is in Spain a serious legal matter. Yo u w a n t t o o b t a i n a declaration of exceso de cabida, to ‘legalise’ your extra metres. It works like this: you go to the Notary with your survey and the Notary will then notify your neighbours, the co-lindantes, to appear and declare they are not opposed to the change. After 25 years no one can object in any case. You will need a lawyer for this and there will be expenses.
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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TO the Editor My friend was booked on to a low cost flight from Corvera to Leed’s Bradford on Friday, May 31 in the evening. After boarding, a technical fault meant the flight would be delayed, so they were disembarked and the baggage offloaded. They were informed that because the airport closed early on Fridays and Saturdays there would not be sufficient time to do the repair to meet the the closure time, and because of this the replacement aircraft would have to fly into Alicante. This meant they would not get to Leeds until the early hours of Saturday morning. I think I have my facts correct, and if so what a cowboy, village airstrip this herd of white elephants, this whole ill thought out, ego boosting money gobbling disaster has turned out to be. Derek Fearon
How’s it Leapy I APPLAUD your article on South Africa (Issue 1769). My wife and I were fortunate to have left SA two years ago and with me being UK born were welcomed into this lovely country we now live in. When I tell people about the life conditions in SA they look at me as if I’m talking gobbledy gook. The amount of farm murders, the couple who ran out of petrol last week who were shot dead for a mobile phone, SA has more road deaths over Christmas than the UK has for a whole year, the amount of unlicensed firearms, it’s worse than a war zone and nobody cares. Apartheid was started by a very short sighted man but what there is now, is Apartheid in reverse in a far worse state where you are forced to employ indigenous people, forced to have them in managerial positions, to have them as majority partners in your business and to have them in all sporting teams regardless of the consequences and or qualifications, you cannot employ the best qualified person, your business is allocated points for employment of black people, employment of coloured, Indian or whites gets you no points, not enough points no government or municipal work at all. I salute you for bringing some of the plight of all South Africans and Zimbabwians regardless of race or creed to light, it is the greedy ministers to blame. I loved the countries of my upbringing and do not condone racism in any form. Tony Potts
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Little sticks SUMMER ALERT DEAR Ed In my youth it was the first cuckoo of summer that announced the season had arrived and this memorable event was even announced in The Times newspaper! But here in Spain, things are different so I have been looking for a different sign to announce when summer arrives. Perhaps it would be the first French Air Traffic Controllers strike, but then I realised that they go on strike all year round. Then I thought it could be the sound of the first tourists arriving, but in certain places, they are
CUCKOO: For some the cuckoo calls signalled the start of summer. not limited by the season. Perhaps it could be the first beach chiringuito of summer, but here, the local council have not even signed the contracts yet, so it might be autumn
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NEWS that anti-tourist graffiti appeared on the walls of Granada City last week has reignited the debate over the effects of an economically vital industry on Spanish locals. Spain’s tourism sector is the third largest contributor to the overall economy, accounting for about 10 per cent of total output (Gross Domestic Product, GDP) according to government figures. The industry is responsible for developing large swathes of the country’s Mediterranean coastline which expatriates now call home, as pictures of Benidorm from the 1950s and 1960s illustrate. Cities such as Granada also draw a hefty dividend from tourists who spend their money in local shops, bars and restaurants, benefiting the wider economy. The traffic of travellers into Spain has also helped to build bonds across borders and break down misconceptions held by tourists and locals about each other and their countries. But as with all aspects of the economy, the gains are seldom shared equally and the price of success for some is suffering for others. The Canary and Balearic islands are both home to anti-tourism movements who argue the industry has led to overdevelopment, harming their homes and the environment. In Barcelona the rise of holiday rentals has seen residents priced or even turfed out of neighbourhoods where they grew up because of the lure of profits from tourism. If tensions are to be eased then the benefits from the industry must be more widely shared and the impact on locals reduced.
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Anti-tourist graffiti appears in Granada I live in a simple flat in a tourist hotspot on Mallorca. The residents pay their rents and feed their families because of doing business with the people visiting their small city. Only very few residents are against tourists. Typically those who hate foreigners in general. But, as I said, they are very few in number. Property prices in certain Spanish areas are not surging because of tourism, but because of big companies and rich individuals who are buying up property for investment purposes. This property buyout happens all over Europe at the moment. Alexander R
Environmental groups planning nationwide cleanup with thousands of volunteers in June Please somebody work out a way to reuse the plastic we have now. Also governments should bring in laws informing manufacturers which plastics they can use for their
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Spanish bullfighter says men cannot see sex videos without sharing them after ‘revenge porn’ suicide No not all men, even some who are wicked ain’t that wicked, but your livelihood is one that is hated more. For
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Poisoned baits found in urban areas of Alicante What is it about this beautiful country that makes so many people barbarians when it comes to animals? Annie
Video found of Spanish woman slapping baby after she posted her baby smoking Disgusting behaviour of a mother who is there to care for her child. What else happens when the video isn’t on pure nasty mother? Jacquie W
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YOUR STARS FOR NEXT 7 DAYS AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) In your heart of hearts you know what you want out of life. It is a little timidity of spirit that is now stopping you. I know that recent experiences have sapped your confidence, but I have a message for you. Now is the time that you are most likely to make progress in your chosen field.
PISCES (February 20 - March 20) Let others whinge if they will. Being determined to get your own way, they will stand little chance. Recent disagreements have left a sour taste. In the best of worlds, things will not always go your way. Life would be boring if that were the case.
ARIES (March 21 - April 20) Awkward situations usually bring out the best in you and this week proves that. In the longer term, you will be grateful to those making things difficult now.
TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) Be determined not to be intimidated by someone who thinks that they are superior. Decide who you will take advice (or orders) from and stick to it. You are not the person that you were in the past and others need to realise it.
GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) Outside influences and pressures make it hard to concentrate. However, finances in particular need attention, so do not be distracted by others trying to put a finger into your 'pie'. Do not be concerned about making changes in your social life because this, in turn, will sort out some of your more immediate practical problems.
CANCER (June 22 - July 23) Being unusually uncertain of yourself this week could throw confusion into your ordered life. There is a partnership problem to be sorted out. Links with personal matters, however, make this tricky. Let some time pass so that someone close can get the message without feeling pressured.
LEO (July 24 - August 23) Some loss of control over a
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VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) You are holding a good hand. Deal with the right people and the rewards are high. There is potential for being cheated out of something that is morally yours, so it may be necessary to be 'difficult' or 'awkward' to get what you deserve. Some things you only get one shot at.
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Being a brave and forthright soul, it is easy this week to dispel the negative thoughts of others. A relationship that makes you hesitate could be of great benefit to you. There is little to lose by 'going for it'. The outcome could be beyond your dreams, something that you have not had many of lately.
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Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.” Kevin Hart
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When you’re rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I’ve talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realise now that it is simply the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do.” Stevie Nicks
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TIME
Across 1 Others take it easy (4) 3 Stupid group, heavily built (8) 9 Singer got nothing, being in the wrong corner (7) 10 A fool returned, distant (5) 11 Initially, scent of roses reminds you to be sad (5) 12 Bar rebel priest (6) 14 Shore bird at cove flying around (6) 16 Actors playing for Cuban leader (6) 19 Heathens keeping silver in cooking pots (6) 21 Cobbler initially records footwear (5) 24 African city's exceptional goals (5) 25 Strive to equal bird that's not on time (7) 26 Twisted cables to form barrier (8) 27 Many coming back from Bristol finally (4) Down 1 Piles of hay and fruit in foreign conveyance (8) 2 Search thoroughly to find first bit of custard in tart (5) 4 In this place, extremely silly unorthodox belief (6) 5 Church with song and pew (5) 6 Try place for field event (4,3) 7 Minor quarrel, though it turns very noisy (4) 8 In frenzy, metabolise protein (6)
13 Kitchen accessories distributed at stores (8) 15 Fruit, old cookers (7) 17 Build up a ship's company in speech (6) 18 A dandy too (2,4)
Code Breaker
20 Some cats easily perplexed (2,3) 22 Protagonist hiding somewhere in New Zealand (5) 23 To the Spanish, to the singer (4)
Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 5 represents P and 7 represents Z, so fill in P every time the figure 5 appears and Z every time the figure 7 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 Make a mess of (5) 4 Not easily bent (5) 7 Not serious in content, attitude or behaviour (9) 8 Be without (4) 10 Hold back to a later time (5) 13 More than enough (5) 14 Unemployed (4) 17 Exactly alike (9) 19 Expect to be true (5) 20 Earlier in time (5)
English - Spanish
Across 1 Solitario (6) 4 Together (6) 9 Sincero (7) 10 Espiga (5) 11 To pray (5) 12 Stable (unchanging) (7) 13 Saltamontes (11) 18 Peregrino (7) 20 Stem (of a plant) (5) 22 Sheep (5) 23 Clocks (7) 24 Liso (6) 25 Sword (6)
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION FACING PAGE
Down 1 Totally bewilder or perplex (6) 2/18 Chinese system of exercise (3,3) 3 Head and neck covering (4) 4 Verbal (6) 5 Alternatively (7) 6 Fraudulent (4) 9 Put or add together (7) 11 Gripping implement (6) 12 Underground room (6) 15 Show off (4) 16 Come to a halt (4) 18 See 2
The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English.
Down 1 Shine (6) 2 Childhood (5) 3 Hares (7) 5 Alterado (5) 6 Dedal (7) 7 Jumper (sweater) (6) 8 To be hungry (5,6) 14 Filling (culinary) (7) 15 Petals (7) 16 Cucharas (para comer) (6) 17 Poetry (6) 19 Asado (5) 21 Bleach (5)
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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 (TONSIL) and one letter in four other cells are given as clues.
ASTUTE CANCEL CHEMIC CUTOUT GHETTO GRITTY INDIGO JIGSAW JOCOSE JOVIAL MANTIC MICRON MINNOW PLEASE REGION SELDOM TOILET TONSIL (10) TRIUNE
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 Yogurt 2 Adsorb 3 Uplift 4 Campus 5 Floury 6 Inlaid 7 Ambush 8 Merlin 9 Pastel 10 Sorrow 11 Salami 12 Whoosh 13 Allure 14 Photon 15 Though 16 Pollen 17 Knotty 18 Glossy 19 Earthy
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: 23 • Good: 32
• Very good: 46 • Excellent: 60
SCORING: 4 letters: 1 point 7 letters: 5 points 5 letters: 2 points 8 or more letters: 6 letters: 3 points 11 points
Average: 15 Good: 20 Very good: 29
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION
Excellent: 38
niff nimbi orpin owning prom prow prowl brow brown brownie browning bowl morph mown worm womb miff vixen vigil vine vile venin vein veil nine feeing gimp give given genii genie gene evil engine enliven neem live liven line linen lien liege ling levin
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION alec alee call cell clan cleg elan gale gall glee glen hale hall heal heel hell lace lane leal lean anele angel angle chela clang clean eagle glean lance leach leech legal allege enlace glance nacelle CHALLENGE
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QUICK Across:
1 Cross, 4 Scald, 7 Terminate, 8 Ripe, 10 Hounds, 12 Cookie, 13 Stir, 16 Pointless, 18 Dread, 19 Tatty.
CODE BREAKER
Down:
1 Cheer, 3 Sure, 4 Sailor, 5 Against, 6 Dregs, 9 Promise, 11 Gifted, 12 Cupid, 14 Ready, 15 Neat, 17/2 Sit out.
CRYPTIC
ENGLISH-SPANISH
Across:
Across:
1 Eyeball, 5 Elope, 8 Interns, 9 Alice, 10 Tales, 11 Entitle, 12 Circle, 14 Dorset, 17 Accused, 19 Sisal, 22 Entry, 23 Needier, 24 Snare, 25 Sceptre.
7 Hormiga, 9 Eagle, 10 Suspect, 11 Heart, 12 Stare, 14 Conocer, 16 Sponges, 18 Crisp, 20 Yacht, 22 Postman, 24 Since, 25 Sagrada.
Down:
Down:
1 Edict, 2 Extol, 3 Aerosol, 4 Listen, 5 Exact, 6 Opiates, 7 Everest, 12 Craters, 13 Ricotta, 15 Obscene, 16 Adonis, 18 Style, 20 Shift, 21 Large.
1 Ghosts, 2 Préstamo, 3 Mice, 4 Mechanic, 5 Agua, 6 Mentir, 8 Attic, 13 Eighteen, 15 Chismear, 16 Shyest, 17 Sapos, 19 Pinzas, 21 Cena, 23 Soga.
QUIZ: ANCIENT AND MODERN 1. Famous for its association with the biblical stories of Jonah, Solomon and Saint Peter and later for its oranges, Jaffa is an ancient city and port in which country? 2. First published in 1798, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was the longest major work by which English poet? 3. In July 1975 excavations at the tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi, near the ancient Chinese capital of Xi’an, uncovered 8,000 what, dating from about 206 BC? 4. Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is the only one to remain largely intact? 5. Which US country singer teamed up with the KLF for their 1991 UK hit single Justified and Ancient? 6. Name any one of the four original members of the Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ)? 7. The modern pentathlon is an Olympic sport that comprises of which five different events?
8. Which American singer/songwriter was backed by the Modern Lovers? 9. Which famous art gallery is based in the former Bankside Power Station, in the Bankside area of the London Borough of Southwark? 10. Who wrote and directed the 1936 American comedy film Modern Times? Not a lot of people know that… the early 17th century literary and artistic debate that was known as the ‘quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns’ was an essential feature of the European Renaissance to praise recent discoveries and achievements as a means to assert the independence of modern culture from the institutions and wisdom inherited from Classical (Greek and Roman) authorities
App of the week Selfie Photo Collage AS the summer holidays approach and with it the arrival of visiting relatives, one app may provide entertainment for any selfie-loving teenagers on holiday. Offering a beauty make-up function to add lipstick and other colours to photos, as well as a photo layout editor, the Selfie Photo Collage offers the chance to make a collage of those summer snaps.
Answers: 1. ISRAEL, 2. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, 3. AN ARMY OF LIFESIZE TERRACOTTA WARRIORS, 4. THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZA (also known as the PYRAMID OF KHUFU or the PYRAMID OF CHEOPS), 5. TAMMY WYNETTE, 6. JOHN LEWIS (piano), MILT JACKSON (vibraphone), PERCY HEATH (double bass) and CONNIE KAY (drums), 7. FENCING (one-touch épée), FREESTYLE SWIMMING (200m), EQUESTRIAN SHOW JUMPING (15 jumps) and a final combined event of PISTOL SHOOTING and CROSS COUNTRY RUNNING (3200m), 8. JONATHAN RICHMAN, 9. TATE MODERN, 10. CHARLIE CHAPLIN
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Sudoku LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION
Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3X3 box contains the digits 1-9. There’s no maths involved. You solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic.
audiences since his break-out role in Edward Scissorhands. Also starring in Ed Wood, Donnie Brasco, Blow, and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Depp will probably always be best known for his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise. • Kate Upton, Model; June 10, 27 Upton found fame after being named Rookie of the Year when she graced the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2011. She went on to appear on its cover again in 2012, 2013 and 2017, and was the cover model of Vanity Fair’s 100th anniversary issue. Since finding fame as a model, Upton has also established a successful acting career, with roles in The Three Stooges and The Other Woman.
Word Ladder YOUR
DART BACK
Move from the start word (YOUR) to the end word (DART) in the same number of steps as there are rungs on the Word Ladder. You must only change one letter at a time.
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• Jason Isaacs, Actor; June 6, 56 roles in multiple Hollywood films have earned Everyone’s favourite Harry Potter villain, Jason the actor a place as an A-lister both at home and Isaacs shot to fame playing the long-locked Lucius in America. Malfoy in the long-running franchise. The British • Kanye West, Rapper; June 8, 42 One of the best-selling and most awarded artists actor is also known for playing Michael Britten in the sci-fi television series Awake, as well as Netflix Kate Upton. of all time, Kanye West has received 21 series The OA. Before finding fame, Isaacs trained Grammy Awards over the course of his music as a lawyer and played a supporting role in 2002 Mel career, and was ranked the third top producer of the decade Gibson movie, The Patriot. in 2010. The famously controversial rapper is also wellknown for his outspoken political views, on-off support for • Liam Neeson, Actor; June 7, 67 Northern Irish Neeson has starred in some of the world’s Donald Trump, and celebrity feuds. most famous films, including Schindler’s List, The Grey, • Johnny Depp, Actor; June 9, 56 and Taken, Star Wars, Kingdom of Heaven, Love Actually, One of Hollywood’s longest-serving actors, with a raft of classic films behind him, Depp has been entertaining Batman Begins, and The Chronicles of Narnia series. His
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Warning signals THE latest novel from number one bestselling author Karin Slaughter is a gripping crime thriller featuring characters Will Trent and Sara Linton. Beginning with an abduction which shatters the lives of one family, this novel charts how the seemingly mundane can sometimes disguise terrible truths. When Michelle Spivey is snatched as she leaves a shopping centre with her young daughter, police search high and low but can find no trace of her. One month later, medical examiner Sara Linton is at lunch with her boyfriend Will Trent, an agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, when they hear sirens signalling that something terrible has happened. Within hours, Sara has been taken prisoner and Will must go undercover to save her, leading the pair to the Appalachian mountains, the truth about what happened to Michelle, and a radical group.
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• 1692 - Earthquake A large earthquake devastates the town of Port Royal in Jamaica, killing thousands, after strong tremors, soil erosion and a tsunami destroy the area. • 1893 - Civil disobedience Mohandas K Gandhi, a young Indian lawyer working in South Africa, refuses to comply with racial segregation rules on a South African train and is forcibly ejected. • 1944 - D Day The Allied powers cross the English Channel and land on the beaches of Normandy, beginning the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control during the Second World War. • 1949 - Witch hunt An FBI report names Hollywood figures as communists, including Frederic March, John Garfield, Paul Muni, and Edward G Robinson, fuelling anti-communist hysteria in the United States. • 1962 - Easy banking Switzerland welcomes first drive-through bank, operated by Credit Suisse - Schweizerische Kreditanstalt (SKA) near Paradeplatz in Zurich. • 1968 - Assassin arrested James Earl Ray, an escaped American convict, is arrested in London and charged with the assassination of African American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. • 1984 - Golden Temple After two years of fighting between the Indian government and Sikh separatists, the Indian army fights their way into the besieged Golden Temple compound in Amritsar and kills at least 500 Sikh rebels.
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ONE new film charts the political drama behind the two terms served by American president, George W Bush. Starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Sam Rockwell and Steve Carell, Vice uncovers the untold and fascinating true story of how the man closest to Bush, Dick Cheney, secretly became the most powerful man in the world, pulling the strings on the president’s entire time in office. From Adam McKay, the Oscar-winning co-writer and director of The Big Short, Vice is funny, informative, and appropriate for the political times we live in. The details of a 20-year-old history still resonate today as we watch Cheney, a bureaucratic Washington insider, quietly reshape the country and world in ways still seen today.
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Everything in life is temporary Joris Plu THERE is a nice quote which says ‘everything is temporary, emotions, thoughts, people and scenery. Do not become too attached. Just flow with it.’ I strongly believe that when you in your life can master this saying, you will be a very happy person. And of course the people around you will benefit from this state of mind. Yes we all know that everything is temporary, but still we find it very hard to live by this. The most common thing that keeps people away from acting towards this belief is not fully understanding that we are in control of our emotions. We do not fully understand that emotions are not controlling us -
ENJOY: If things are going bad, do not worry.
even though it appears that way for many of us most of the time. Our thoughts which are led by
our emotions are temporary and controllable. If we can separate the emotion from our thinking, from
our brain and literally just look at the emotion from a distance - in a way examine it rationally - then we have a wonderful opportunity to see and feel that those emotions are not here to stay. It is not as easy done as said, but it can be done. And for those who know how to handle this there is a more peaceful life ahead. An example of how to do this is the next time you feel an emotion, use your brain, look at the emotion and ask yourself what kind it is. Look at the emotion from a distance. If it is fear for example, ask yourself where this fear is coming from. Because fear on its own does not really exist. With our brain we make something fearful, it comes from our past. What we have learned or experienced. Look at little children they have no fear. We as adults bring fear into their minds because we want to protect the children, maybe overprotect
them. Our parents brought fear into our minds. We can handle fear if we want to. Look differently towards it and experience it differently - even learn how not to accept it and let it go. We can control fear and make it something temporary. Another quote says: ‘Everything in life is temporary. So if things are going good, enjoy it because it won’t last forever. And if things are going bad, do not worry. It cannot last forever either.’ So dear friend, love life, now at this present moment. This is the moment that really exists. Enjoy it with a big smile on your face. Joris Plu - Marbella / Malaga Life, Relationship & Move Forward Coach www.jorisplu.com info@jorisplu.com 24/7 Help Phone & WhatsApp +32 472 401 611 www.instagram.com/jorisplu/
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EVERYONE loves a pampering session but often time and money sadly get in the way of taking time for ourselves. So why not try an at-home pampering session, cutting down on expense and which can be fitted in to a spare moment? Begin with a relaxing bath or shower, using a handful of salt or sugar mixed with a little oil as a gentle all-body exfoliator. This will get the circulation going- great for skin tone - as well as sloughing off dead cells to reveal glowing skin; just take care not to slip during this step. If running a bath, you can also add some gentle exfoliating and hydrating properties by adding dry or powdered milk, Cleopatra-style. The lactic acid in dairy products
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DIY pampering
AND RELAX: Take time for a pampering session at home. can gently exfoliate skin at the same time as nourishing it.
After drying off, treat yourself to a DIY facial by first thoroughly cleansing and then exfoliating the skin using a gentle facial scrub. If you have an at-home steamer, use this for 10 minutes to help clear pores, or alternatively use a towel over a bowl of hot water, taking care not to burn yourself. Next, as pores are less clogged, you can cleanse a second time to clear away any dirt, followed by applying a
mask. For skin that is dry, use a hydrating or soothing mask if you already have one, or use a home-made honey and oatmeal mask with ingredients from the kitchen. For radiance, substitute the oatmeal for yoghurt and allow the lactic acid to brighten skin. As the masks get to work for 10 to 15 minutes, soak nails in a bowl of warm water before gently removing any rough skin using small clippers or an orange stick. Next, shape nails using an emery board and filing only in one direction. Finish with two coats of a favourite varnish, or for a natural shine massage a small amount of olive oil into the nail beds. Finally, remove any remaining face mask and treat your skin to a soothing massage as you apply a moisturiser. Using gentle sweeping motions, work from the middle of the face outwards to drain puffiness and help boost circulation for a healthy glow.
Improve under eye wrinkles WHEN you meet a person, the first thing you see are the eyes, and in many ways the eyes are what is representing you. Because the skin under and around your eyes is very thin, signs of fine lines and wrinkles are especially common. This can make you look and feel older than you really are. As you age, your body loses the ability to rapidly produce collagen and elastin proteins that give you that oh-so-desirable smooth skin. Over time, facial movements and hereditary factors may cause puffy eyes, age spots, dark circles and wrinkles surrounding the mouth and eye areas. For these reasons, your anti-ageing skin care regimen should always include treatment options that encourage the production of collagen and strengthen the skin. According to dermatologist Dr Vieru, a combination of various treatments is the best solution. “The three main ways to treat these wrinkles are strengthening the skin foundation itself, relaxing the muscles folding the skin, and filling volume losses,” says Dr Vieru. “We can strengthen the skin through the use of topical creams that contain ingredients like retinol, which stimulates collagen. “In addition, laser improves the quality of the skin while helping to fight wrinkles. When we smile, muscles around the eyes fold the skin above it. Botox relaxes
OPTIONS: Ways to achieve natural beautiful eyes. these muscles. So the best approach when treating these lines is to incorporate different components.” Filler with hyaluronoc acid can improve the dark colour under the eyes, and also make an improvement on heavy eyes. Botox will make the muscle where the crow’s feet are, to relax, and the lines will disappear. Many people also go for an operation on the eyelids, and this is a small and effective operation with local anaesthetic. The extra skin over the eye is removed just like removing a mole. This can be done both by laser, and a small surgery. The treatments we recommend for lines and wrinkles depend on your age, the condition of your skin and your lifestyle. It’s best to start with a free consultation, and our specialist doctor can identify any existing wrinkles, and make an individual plan together with you. For more information about Derma Clinic Spain and our monthly offers, follow us on Facebook or Instagram.
Call for an appointment on: 674 255 579 Avda. del Albir 161, local 1 674 255 579 www.dermaclinicspain.com Alternatively see our Facebook page facebook.com/DermaClinicSpain
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Back pain? Joint or muscular discomfort? You need an Osteopath / Physiotherapist at Medcare! IT is estimated that around four out of five of us will suffer back pain at some point in our lives and nine per cent more Britons experience back pain than five years ago. This is a significant increase and ironically, the majority of back problems now are due to a sedentary lifestyle, through work and / or leisure. However, there is light at the end of the tunnel for residents of the Costa Blanca who suffer from back, joint or muscular pain. As part of its holistic approach to managing health and well-being, Medcare provides a number of complementary medical services, including osteopathy and physiotherapy. What is the difference between an osteopath and a physiotherapist? Whereas osteopathy and physiotherapy have plenty of similarities they both work with people to im-
BACK PAIN: More Britons experience back pain than five years ago. prove mobility, reduce pain and improve your quality of life; there are also subtle differences between the two. Osteopathy generally works across the whole body, regarding it as a single, functional unit. It concentrates more on soft and deep tissue massage, joint manipulation, stretching. It is highly likely that
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much a remedial therapy. Fortunately, the clinicians at Medcare are trained in both so can help with a broad spectrum of issues. Mrs D had slipped a disc many years ago and has since had to be careful and use support when gardening. One day, she twisted to get a glass out of the cupboard and her back went out again. She said: “I have now seen the osteopath at Medcare a few times and my back is gradually returning to normal. He has been particularly gentle, explained everything in detail before starting treatment. I have great confidence in his ability. Needless to say, I can fully recommend Medcare.” Mrs H had niggling pains in her back which interfered with her sleep. She said: “It turns out that I have a stress whiplash, which I have probably had for many years. I
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Ingrown nails SANDAL season is officially here, meaning many of us may be bearing our toes to the world for the first time in months. Nails that have not been on show for a while can often become neglected, however, leading to problems such as fungal nail infections or even ingrown toenails.
BLUEBERRIES: Scientists believe they may be key to improving heart health.
Superfoods A NEW study has shown that a cup of blueberries a day could reduce the risk of heart disease by around 15 per cent. Research at the University of East Anglia found that 150 grams of the fruit could improve blood flow and re-
duce stiffness of arteries. The study looked at 138 overweight and obese adults aged between 50 and 75, and with a combination of diabetes and high blood pressure. Scientists found the blueberries reduced their risk of heart disease
by between 12 and 15 per cent over six months. Dr Peter Curtis, the study’s co-author, said: “We found eating one cup of blueberries per day resulted in sustained improvements in vascular function and arterial stiffness.”
Ingrown nails- a painful condition where the toenail begins to grow into the surrounding skin- can be both inconvenient, and also lead to possible infection. To treat at home, soak feet in warm water for 15 minutes three or four times a day, before gently pushing cotton wool under the nail and applying antibiotic cream.
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Royal Aesthetic Clinic - Your body and beauty in safe hands THE Royal Aesthetic Clinic, located in the northern part of the Costa Blanca in El Albir, is renowned for its excellent results. It is synonymous with professionalism, innovation and avantgarde techniques, particularly in the fields of medical aesthetics, cosmetic and plastic surgery and its pioneering methods used to treat obesity. Royal Aesthetic Clinic is dedicated to aesthetic medicine and anti-ageing therapies, including cosmetic surgery. Established more than 20 years ago by Dr Francisco Javier Martín, the clinic boasts state-of-the-art technology and highly qualified and committed medical staff, who provide a comprehensive and professional service, backed by years of experience in its medical team. The clinic’s main objective is to give their patients a better quality of life, prolonged over time and, attenu-
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Clinic will help you get your ‘Aesthetica.’ Zone liposuction It is natural for the body to accumulate fat and for some people, this fat is very difficult to eliminate. Zone liposuction is a fantastic way of removing accumulated fat that has been stored in a certain area of the body. It can be carried out over small or large areas or even over several
A NUTRITIONIST has named a surprising food supposedly responsible for causing stomach fat. Sydney-based Lee Holmes told the MailOnline some healthy foods could actually be bad for those of us trying to avoid visceral fat. She explained: “Excess belly fat or visceral fat can be a risk factor for type two diabetes and heart disease…The best method for de-
different zones. This type of surgery is predominantly carried out on the abdomen, flanks, hips or legs, but it can also be done in the jowl area and on the arms, wrists and ankles. The extracted fat does not grow back naturally, but the patient should subsequently follow a balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle, to prevent the regeneration of new fat cells and con-
termining your belly fat culprits is to experiment with trial and error.” The expert explains that some ‘healthy’ snacks, such as muesli bars can include excess sugar, as well as the ‘protein isolate, which is derived from soybeans, a common culprit to excess belly fat and bloat.’ She added: “Observational studies have shown that there is a link
sequent weight gain. Liposuction is not recommended for patients who want to lose weight, but for those who want to lose volume. The clinic also offers Blepharoplasty, this is a type of surgery that repairs droopy eyelids. For more information on zone liposuction, Blepharoplasty and the many other services offered, please visit the Clinic’s website If any reader takes a copy of this article along with them, they will receive a 10 per discount discount on any surgery. Royal Aesthetic Clinic Calle Joaquín Rodrigo 5, Local 3, 03581, El Albir, l’Alfàs del Pi, Alicante Web: www.royalaesthetic.com Tel: 966 864 934 Email: info@royalaesthetic.com
between high sugar intake (largely due to the fructose content) and excess belly fat.” Instead, she advices swapping the bars for avocados, which ‘contain healthy monosaturated fats, and when consumed can help you to avoid blood sugar spikes that communicate with your body sending the message to store fat around your midsection.’
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GEORDIE REUNION: The reality stars partied in Ibiza.
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MTV personality Charlotte Crosby, 29, reunited with her Geordie Shore pals Holly Hagan and Chloe Ferry for a wild holiday in Ibiza last week. Holly, 26, joked about sharing a plastic surgeon with her pals as they partied by the pool at Ocean Beach club. The girls showed off their surgically enhanced curves, flowing hair extensions and plump pouts in a snap posted to Instagram with the caption: ‘When you all have the same surgeon’ followed by a winking emoji and a crying with laughter face. This comes after Charlotte revealed recently she is finally happy after removing her ‘painful’ breast implants. All of the Geordie Shore stars have been open about having cosmetic procedures in the past.
HEAVYWEIGHT boxer Tyson Fury’s younger brother Tommy has been revealed in the line-up for Love Island 2019. The boxer, from Manchester, will be packing his bags and jetting off to Mallorca and entering the villa to meet the girl of his dreams this summer. Tommy Fury described himself as an ‘honest, charismatic and charming’ guy that will go ‘to the moon and back’ to get the girl of his dreams. Looks-wise, Tommy has said he is looking for a gym-goer with blonde hair, blue eyes and a good tan. The cast for the fifth series of the hit show was confirmed last week ahead of its return to ITV2 on June 3.
NEW ORDER: Headlining Benidorm Low Festival.
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Moving on LAST year ’s Love Island winner Jack Fincham partied with bikini babes on a night out in Ibiza last week. Jack appeared to be moving on from his recent split from fellow Love Islander Dani Dyer by going wild on a boys trip to the Spanish island. Newly single Jack was seen cuddling up to model Megan Bennett on a daydrinking session at Ocean Beach club. Also at the bash was fellow Love Island star Kaz Crossley and Towie’s Dan Edgar. Jack’s ex Dani has also moved on from the split by returning with her pre-Love Island boyfriend Sammy Kimmence. “I ain’t living a life to prove to people or to fake to people I am something I am not,” she said.
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OVER IT: Jack jetted to Ibiza for boozy boys holiday.
Upcoming in Benidorm THE first in a line-up of events in Benidorm takes place on July 13. The Regaetón Beach Festival, an urban music festival, features a line-up of International acts during the day through until midnight. There will also be activities and workshops such as
Zumba and bachata classes, promoting ‘cultural diversity’ and is advertised as seeking to attract spectators from all ages. Over the weekend of July 26 to 28, the ‘Benidorm Low’ Festival will be held. This international music festival has an incredi-
ble line-up of artists, with even more to be announced shortly. Top of the bill is the classic British Indie band New Order, but other acts will include Bastille, Foals, electronic trio Cut Copy, American Garage band White Fang as well as nu-
merous International DJs. Then over the Halloween weekend, starting October 31, the city hosts the ‘Funtastic’ Dracula Carnival. This event bills itself as being three nights of insane garage, Punk and R’N’R Dementia.
Hogueras festival IN addition to the bonfires held on the beach along the coast on June 23, on the eve of St John’s Day, in Alicante the Hogueras festival begins on June 20 until June 29. It is a festival dedicated to fire, including events such as the proclamation (The Pregon), setting up of the bonfires (the Planta), the procession of the effigies (Cabalgata del Ninot), parades and processions in different districts of the city with the main event taking place on June 24, when large satirical statues made of cardboard and wood are set alight.
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RASPALL is a sport that used to be played in the streets of many towns in the past. In Oliva this sport is still played and has an increasing number of followers. You can view this tremendous sport,
every Tuesday and enjoy matches played by fans and professionals at Nou Trinquet d’Oliva (Pg Francisco Brines, s/n). Visit Facebook Club Pilota Oliva to find out more.
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GRANADA BAND: Eskorzo promoting their latest album.
Pirate Rocks Festival THERE will be three days and nights of musical mayhem in Gandia this July when the Pirate Rocks Festival welcomes more than 40 acts over a three-day period. Running on July 18, 19 and 20 the event has a whole host of different acts ranging from singer Rozalen to former Ojos de Brujo founder Macaco with every type of music in between well represented. The bulk of the acts are Spanish and one which is not one of the headliners but is likely to be well received are the legendary Granada band Eskorzo band who were formed in 1995 and laid the foundations of the ‘Mestizo’
movement, fusing styles as diverse as Latin music, rock, ska, funk and African rhythms. Now the seven-piece group is coming to promote their eighth album Alerta Caníbal whose lyrics embrace controversial social issues such as racism and war. Bands come on stage in the late afternoon and are due to play until 6am on the first two nights, although there will be an earlier finish on the last night to allow for the breakdown. Tickets for the event including camping if required can be found at https://www.pi ratarock.com alongside a list of all of the bands taking part.
Bustamante is back
BENIDORM PALACE: Bustamante is on tour. HEARTTHROB singer David Bustamante who first came to public attention in 2001 will be appearing at the iconic Benidorm Palace on Sunday July 21 and even if you don’t speak Spanish it could be a great night out.
He is currently taking his Heroes tour around Spain and with 19 platinum albums and having played more than 900 concerts, this is bound to be a spectacular night out in the comfort of one of the city’s premier venues.
Tickets range from €34 to €44 with VIP seats only costing €49, so if you have never seen this Latino pop phenomenon who has recorded with stars such as Pablo López or Luis Fonsi then 9.30pm at the Palace is the place to be.
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Bowlers’ private dining THIS week’s recipe is a classic which has become trendy on food menus all over the UK in the last few years. Pulled pork is an American culinary dish that originated in the southern US states which uses shredded barbecued pork shoulder as the main ingredient. The methods of cooking employed to make pulled pork are primarily slow cooking using a slow cooker or in an oven cooked on a low heat for four hours. The meat is then shredded by hand and mixed with a selection of sauces. In this case I have used BBQ sauce as it’s everyone’s favourite and you can’t go wrong, especially with the younger generation! It serves well on bread, with potatoes or even a summer salad. So turn on the music, crack open a bottle and let’s get cooking!
Pulled pork !!Dani’s weekly food tip!! Did you know? After working with garlic, rub your hands vigorously on your stainless steel sink for 30 seconds before washing them. It will remove the odour.
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Pulled BBQ pork AMERICAN DISH: Originated in the southern US states Ingredients 1 kg boneless shoulder of pork wrapped in netting 2 onions, peeled, sliced 4 garlic cloves, diced Drizzle olive oil 1 tablespoon brown sugar 1 teaspoon mustard powder 1 teaspoon chilli flakes 1 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons ground cumin 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 2 cups BBQ sauce BBQ sauce Ingredients 120g ketchup 2 tablespoons brown sugar 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce 2 tablespoons HP sauce 1 tablespoon cider vinegar 1 dash Tabasco 1 tablespoon honey 1 clove garlic, minced 1/4 teaspoon mustard powder 1/4 teaspoon salt
BBQ SAUCE: Perfect accompaniment for pulled pork
Method Preheat the oven on 160°. Wash the shoulder of pork and pat dry. Combine the sugar, chilli powder, salt, garlic, cumin, mustard powder, chilli flakes and cinnamon in a bowl. Rub the spice mixture all over the pork and place the meat on top of the onions in a baking tray and drizzle with oil. Cover with foil and cook until the pork is fork tender, about four-five hours. Remove from the oven and set aside. Using two forks,
shred the meat into bitesized pieces, discarding any large pieces of fat. Add the shredded meat to the bowl and combine with my next recipe, BBQ sauce. Taste and season with salt if needed. Method - BBQ sauce In a saucepan over medium heat, add the ketchup, sugar, Worcestershire sauce, vinegar, Tabasco, HP sauce, honey, garlic, mustard powder and salt. Bring to a boil and leave to simmer for one minute to reduce a little. Then remove from heat and allow to cool.
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Going gaga on gigas Terence Kennedy recalls when men were men and computers saved kilobytes
ON eBay I recently found a book I once wrote priced at €20. They also had another copy in the same condition, but this time with an added cachet: it was signed by the author. And cost €5 less. This humbling discovery set me to remembering the extent of that book’s original text. It was written on a simple DOS-based word-processor, and the entire text occupied a minuscule 532 KB - half a megabyte! Megabytes? Remember those before we all went gaga on gigas, teras and petas? When storage was so precious (and of course men were men and we all lived in cardboard boxes), a Sinclair ZX chess game didn’t even need 1KB to run (487 bytes is still apparently the world record). These days my toothbrush needs a thousand times that just to log its bedtime routine. Once the floppy disk and then the writeable CD bit the digital dust we became hugely cavalier w ith t h e sh e e r v o lu mes o f th e
stuff we now create and save. Wh ere it u se d to be said a floppy disk could hold a couple of hundred bibles, now we casually rac k u p a hundre d megabytes for a turgid report with a few piecharts, several gigabytes for Microsoft’s monster O ffice s u ite , a nd don’t ev en me n tio n jus t how man y s q u illi ons of megabytes today’s gargantuan games gobble up. Just how should we be backing up our precious information now there’s s o d a rn ed mu ch of it? (And you do of course backup, don’t you?). Of course there’s the famous ‘cloud,’ but good luck sucking all th o s e g ig s o f da ta ba c k dow n again come the day you have to rebuild your digital life after a disaster.
Safest of all is still the trusty old external drive, and the good news is that prices keep plummeting just slightly faster than our personal data sprouts like Jack’s beanstalk. You can of course keep using
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OUR love for comfortable and contemporary soft furnishing dates back to Egyptian times when horsehair-stuffed cushions were scattered on day beds and luxury fabrics were draped over thrones. When the Dark Ages were over people stopped worrying if their houses would burn down and began to focus on what was inside them. And as standards of living improved thoughts turned towards comfort. Egypt was famous for its cotton because the fibres are still considered by many to be the best for length, strength, and softness. Italy began making the finest silk which then quickly spread to Britain. Spring forward a few centuries and we now have an endless range of fabrics, textures and colours to choose from to add comfort and elegance to our homes
and rentals. The possibilities are endless and there’s something out there to suit all budgets when you shop at Yorkshire Linen. You can get ideas beforehand at www.spanishlinen.com but nothing beats being surrounded by the inspiring choices in our shops and the knowledgeable staff to help you. Centro Com. Montgó Mon to Fri 10.00 - 19.00 Avda del Pla 68, Jávea Saturday 10.00 - 18.00 Tel. 966 462 275 Partida planet 177 Altea Mon to Fri 10.00 - 19.00 Tel. 965 841 399 Sat 10.00 - 14.00
flash drives and SD cards to back up, but despite ever-decreasing prices and ever-increasing capacities, the best bang f or your backup buck is still an external (USB) harddrive. What ever m edi um you choose ( and t he accompanying panel m i ght hel p) , don’t make the fundamental error I committed those many years ago: keeping your backup wi t h your com put er. Store it somewhere ‘off-site,’ even with a neighbour for safety. I didn’t - until a fire consumed both my computer and its backup on the same desk. So now if I want to see what I actually wrote back then it’s going to cost me that €20. Or €5 less for the signed copy.
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HDD or SSD is the question WHAT should it be: a cheaper, heavier HDD, or the newer, more expensive but far faster SSD? Megabyte for megabyte the clunky old mechanical beasts are still the best bargain, but the gap is narrowing fast. And as a general rule of thumb, the bigger (ie higher capacity) drive you buy, the cheaper it gets per megabyte of storage. One thing you can safely ignore is the hoary old warning that solid-state storage wears out fast. Yes it can survive fewer read and write cycles than its mechanical predecessor, but these days that’s almost irrelevant. Some SSDs now have a 10-year warranty, and experts reckoned that one new model just out will last the average Joe 114 years. I’m not counting on outliving mine.
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CONSULAR MATTERS JENS, my friend Peter’s brother, wants to come to live in Spain because after many years of hard work in a well-known supermarket in Copenhagen, he wants to have a warm retirement on our Costa Del Sol. Many of the foreigners who come to live in Spain decide to rent a house to establish their permanent residence, either because they prefer to rent and save their money or they want to spend some time and get to know the area before buying a property. Peter has instructed me to draft the rental contract because he has heard that during the last year the law relating to housing rental contract law has undergone what can only be described as roller coaster changes involving three new regulations in about four months. Since March 6, 2019 we have had a new regulation whose most important changes are also the least known, well at least by the tenants. The new law gives rights in favour of tenants who sign a lease after that date for their permanent residence.
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RENTAL CONTRACT: The law has undergone roller coaster changes. The first of this new regulation is that the law itself imposes on the landlord a minimum contract term of five years if the tenant so wishes. It is a right for tenants and an obligation for owners. Once the five-year contract has been completed, the
lease can be renewed for another three years if the tenant so wishes and notifies the landlord within the legally established time frame and in the event that the landlord has not reported the said contract extension. It also establishes the new word-
ing of the law that the annual increase in rent being paid can only be increased according to the official index standard of living (IPC) published by the INE (Spanish National Institute of Statistics). This index will operate as a maxi-
mum limit; therefore the rent being paid cannot be raised beyond the increase of said IPC. The intention of this law is to give some stability to tenants so that they can settle in a house with certain guarantees of permanence, but it is also true that this extension of the mandatory term of the lease and the limit that the law has put on raising the rent could cause landlords to think twice before renting their home and this could lead to a decrease in the number of houses available for permanent rental in our area where holiday rentals can be very attractive. We will have to wait a bit to see how this new regulation affects a seasonal market. These measures do not apply to leases of holiday homes, rural homes for farms or luxury homes, among others that are governed by other rules, but it is not Jens’ intention to rent one of these homes. Marisa Moreno Castillo Consul of Denmark Founder of www.justlaw.es info@justlaw.es Tel. 952 666 045
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Creating a no fly zone to be present provided there is agreed access to the outside of the property. Although much of the work is undertaken on behalf of individuals, Fog Off will be more than happy to supply quotes to commercial premises which may have outside areas and pools or to urbanisations who want to protect all of their residents. Malaria has been a terrible killer all over the world for so long and as different strains of mosquito arrive in Spain, it is important that we are all alert to the dangers and of course there is nothing worse for children than to be covered in bites.
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By David Worboys IF you were given the choice of the best era for your lifespan (80 years) which would you go for? It surely depends on whether you value material and technological advancement over moral and spiritual decline. I was born in 1939 just before the second outbreak of hostilities in Europe. The 40’s were years of war and sacrifice followed by years of deprivation and recovery. We spent the summer holidays on my grandparents’ farm in rural Bedfordshire. The house was lit by candles and heated by a fire in a grate with coke and newspapers. Our water came from the single village pump up the street where there was a solitary phone box, and the ‘bog’ was outside in the farmyard. We had a tin bath for personal hygiene and a mangle for rinsing the washing. We would return to Buckinghamshire after the holidays where there was electricity, running water, a flushing loo, a bath with taps - and, eventually, a washing machine. The next 70 years saw changes beyond our imagination. Many inventions and discoveries had already been
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The best time to live?
BEST ERA: Which would you choose? made before the war, but were not were not yet available for the benefit of the general public. In the 50’s, computers and air conditioning were the preserve of only the major companies while only the more affluent could afford televisions, washing machines, refrigerators and heaters in their cars.
By the 80’s there were also numerous facilities which now seem indispensable. Personal computers, colour television, automatic transmission, remote control, automatic check-outs and credit cards. Today we benefit from inventions and technological breakthroughs
which were simply inconceivable in the 40’s. The use of DNA for tracking criminals, genetics and genealogy, the worldwide web, keyhole surgery, the smartphone, non-stop flights across the world, factory and domestic robots, and camera surveillance. There are driverless cars, artificial
intelligence, facial and voice recognition, sensors and remote control. However, our planet has gradually become a less stable place. The 50’s were an age of continuing innocence and tolerance followed by the swinging 60’s of free sex and the emergence of drugs. In subsequent decades traditions and standards began to disappear. Discipline, humour and common courtesies declined and the family unit began to break up. Confusion over sex began in the 90’s. Thanks to climate change, illegal hunting and factory farming, thousands of species of animal are endangered - as is the very existence of Earth and its inhabitants. We have seen a rise in terrorism increasing the risks to everyday life from Norway to New Zealand. Prior to 1939 there were too few home comforts and human rights. After 2019, there is confusion about so many aspects of the world we live in and its continued existence. My conclusion is that our generation got it right.
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Barry Duke I HAVE been following with intense interest and a great deal of concern the protests outside schools in Birmingham about the teaching of relationship lessons. At the centre of the escalating row, which has seen at least two schools coming under siege from mainly Muslim extremists, is the assertion that children are ‘being taught to be gay’ ridiculous since sexual orientation is an innate characteristic, rather than one that is learned. My sympathies lay squarely with the staff at Parkfield Community and Anderson Park schools who have received abuse and death threats for simply abiding with the provisions of the Equality Act of 2010. But now, thanks to Britain’s antiextremist campaigner Maajid Nawaz my sympathies extend to what he called the ‘true’ victims of the controversy: gay Muslims. On his LBC radio slot on May 25, he pointed out that the outpouring of homophobia in Birmingham needs to be halted immediately as it was sending a message to the thousands of homosexuals in Muslim communities that they are
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NO OUTSIDERS: Lessons were started by gay teacher Andrew Moffat. loathed with a passion. In a recent UK survey, he revealed, 52 per cent of Muslims said they wanted homosexuality made illegal. ‘Not just gay marriage, but incredibly homosexuality itself,’ he said in disbelief. Describing this as shocking, Nawaz strongly defended lessons that advised children that it was OK to be gay, saying that such lessons may well bring about a fundamental change in
attitude among Muslims towards homosexuality. He hammered home the point that schools were not mosques nor were they churches. And he went as far as to encourage Muslims who disapprove of the protests to show their solidarity with the schools by joining the city’s Pride parade which took place on the day of his broadcast. The parade was led by gay teacher
Andrew Moffat who started the ‘No Outsiders’ lessons at Parkfield. He was joined by Khakan Qureshi, founder of Birmingham South Asians LGBT and Saima Razzaq, from Supporting Education of Equality and Diversity in Schools (SEEDS). In the phone-in that followed, Nawaz expressed further incredulity over the baloney being spouted by mainly religious callers siding with the
protesters. One numpty, calling from Texas, even suggested that teaching inclusivity would lead to children being told that it was OK to beat one’s wife! Nawaz is seldom at a loss for words but this stunned him to such an extent that he abruptly terminated the call. The Texan’s opinion was as stupid as the one by one Birmingham protester who said that being gay was ‘not acceptable in Islam. God created man, then he created women for man’s pleasure and companionship - not another man.’ But one of Nawaz’s callers was highly supportive of the ‘No Outsiders’ programme, saying that she reluctantly intends returning from Madrid to the UK because of the lack of relationship teaching in the Spanish school her kids attend. Not only was there an absence of such lessons, but her children were being exposed to racism. An example she cited was a teacher calling a Japanese child Chinese. When the error was pointed out to her, she retorted ‘what’s the difference?’ All of this tells me that ignorance, fuelled by religious intolerance, is the main reason we’re experiencing these troubling culture clashes.
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ROAD TEST by Nick Fletcher SUZUKI’S tiny four-wheeldrive Jimny has been around for many years in virtually unchanged form, but now there is an all-new version which looks less cute and more formidable. The new Jimny is still very small but has more purposeful styling and even looks quite cool, an important element in an image-conscious market. It still has selectable 4WD with low-ratio transfer box which means it is amazingly capable off-road, often able to venture into terrain that larger 4WD models cannot cope with. Powered by a 1.5 litre 100 hp petrol engine and fivespeed manual gearbox (there is a four-speed auto option), the Jimny has a 0-100 kph time of 12 seconds and top speed of 150 kph (90 mph). Average fuel economy is 14.7 kpl (41.5 mpg) and emissions are 154 g/km. Prices start at €17,583 (£15,499), though my topspec SZ5 Allgrip test version cost €20,420 (£17,999) and
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Facts at a glance Model: Suzuki Jimny SZ5 Allgrip Engine: 1.5 litre petrol Transmission: 4-speed automatic Performance: 0-100 kph 12 seconds, top speed 150 kph (90 mph) Economy: 14.7 kpl (41.5 mpg) Emissions: 154 g/km
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pressure monitoring. The cabin is narrow but functional, with good dashboard layout and comfortable seating.The two rear seats will accommodate adults, but luggage space is then very limited at just 85 litres. But with the rear seats down flat, the load space is 377 litres litres, larger than in the pre-
vious Jimny. There is very little cabin stowage space - a tiny glove-box, very slim door pockets and a couple of cup holders is about all you get. The Jimny can double as a neat, versatile rural vehicle with strong off-road and towing ability, or as a practical and nimble city car with eye-catching cachet. On tarmac, ride quality is firm but quite acceptable and the handling is agile thanks to revised steering which gives much-improved feedback and a greater sense of control. I found the four-speed auto transmission rather over-busy but most buyers will go for the slick manual gearbox. The previous Jimny had a lot of friends, selling almost three million worldwide, and this updated and enhanced version will attract many more to the Suzuki brand. The Jimny looks good, drives well, and there is nothing truly comparable or as capable at the price.
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A concept reinvented... By Dilip Kuner AS concept cars go, it is not exactly futuristic. But it is drop dead gorgeous. The BMW Group is taking the occasion of this year’s Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este to unveil the recreation of the BMW Garmisch, a classic concept car that was designed by Marcello Gandini for Bertone and vanished after its debut at the Geneva Motor Show in 1970. “Marcello Gandini to me is one of the grandmasters of car design and his cars always have been an important source of inspiration for my work,” says Adrian van Hooydonk, Senior Vice President of BMW Group Design, who has been intrigued by the BMW Garmisch since he first discovered a faded period picture of the car some years ago. “Building the BMW Garmisch for a second time gave us the opportunity to
pay tribute to Mr Gandini, recall one of his lesser-known cars and highlight Bertone’s stylistic influence on the evolution of BMW design. For me, that alone was reason enough to do this project - filling in the gaps and completing BMW’s history.” The original BMW Garmisch was developed by Bertone as an independent design proposal intended to demonstrate the studio’s creativity. “The original idea came from Nuccio Bertone himself who wanted to consolidate our existing relationship with BMW by designing a surprise show car for the Geneva Motor Show,” remembers Marcello Gandini, who was in charge of Bertone’s design department at the time. “We wanted to create a modern midsized coupe that was faithful to BMW’s design language, but that was also more dynamic and even a bit
provocative.” While the side profile of the car was very sleek and clean, the most distinctive design feature of the BMW Garmisch was its bold, vertical and almost angular variation of BMW’s kidney-shaped radiator grill, which was flanked by square glass-covered headlights. Other unusual details included sports car-like louvres on the C-pillars and the honeycomb-patterned mesh cover for the rear window - a trademark element of Marcello Gandini’s style. Being faithful to the original car, the new BMW Garmisch is also a showcase of BMW’s expertise in design research and prototype building. As original documents of the BMW Garmisch were sparse, the design team had to retrace every detail of the car’s exterior and interior from a small selection of
ITALIAN STYLE: The BMW Garmisch will turn heads.
INTERIOR: BMW design. period images, most of them only available in black and white. Marcello Gandini himself contributed to the research process with memories from the creation of the car, allowing the design team to refabricate key details such as the exterior colour a light champagne metallic in line with Italian fashion trends of the time - and the interior materials and trim. And while the BMW Design team used the latest 3D modelling technolo-
gies to revive and specify the original structures and shapes, the BMW Garmisch was coachbuilt by skilled craftsmen in Turin - just like the original car almost 50 years ago. “When I first heard that BMW wanted to recreate the BMW Garmisch, I was a bit surprised,” Marcello Gandini recalls of his first meeting with Adrian van Hooydonk, who visited him in Turin in the summer of 2018 to ask for his approval. “Now I am very pleased that I was able to be part of this project and happy that BMW chose to recall this enjoyable past. Having seen the final car, it is hard for me to even distinguish it from the original.”
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Masterful van Dijk IN what was a disappointing game in terms of the quality of football played, the light shone brightly on one player in the Champions League final, according to the Spanish press. This was Liverpool’s Dutch centre half Virgil van Dijk, many of whom have tipped him to buck the Messi/ Ronaldo trend and tipped him for the coveted Ballon d’Or. Marca called the Dutchman ‘His Majesty’ and praised him as a ‘force of nature,’ not just in his side’s 2-0 win over Tottenham in Madrid’s Wanda Metropolitano stadium, but also for the entire Champions League campaign. They also praised Mo Salah for his grit in bouncing back
from his final heartbreak in 2018 when a bad tackle from Real Madrid’s Sergio Ramos not only forced him out of the match after 20 minutes, but severely affected his World Cup campaign with Egypt. Diario AS asked: “Is it crazy to suggest the next Ballon d’Or winner could be a defender? “All bets will be on Messi, but Salah, Mane and Van Dijk should all be candidates and the defender has been the best player in the Premier League, won the Champions League and still has the Nations League final four to come.” Marca referred to van Dijk as
Movistar’s Carapaz claims Italy win ECUADOR’S Richard Carapaz has won the 102nd Giro d’Italia for Spain’s Movistar team. He kept a cool head to defend his lead on Sunday’s final stage to maintain an advantage of 1’05” over Italian Vincenzo Nibali while Slovakian Primoz Roglic regained his spot on the podium at the expense of Spaniard Mikel Landa. American rider Chad Haga won the closing time trial in Verona ahead of Belgians Victor Campenaerts and Thomas De Gendt. Carapaz, his nation’s first winner of the race, later said: “I’m very proud of what I achieved. I’m delighted to make my dream of winning a Grand Tour come true. We must never forget our childhood dreams. They can always become reality with hard work and determination. “In my four years in European cycling, I realised that opportunities have to be caught. The 30 seconds I gained on stage 15 were fundamental. I profited from [Vincenzo] Nibali and [Primoz] Roglic watching each other. That’s where the Giro was decided. For me, it’s
only the beginning, I think. We always dream for more.” Second placed Vincenzo Nibali said: “This morning, I knew it would be extremely difficult to win the Giro d’Italia. But I thought I could do a good time trial. So I gave it all until the end. Second at the Giro is still a good result, especially thinking
that six months ago, I was down with a big back pain after the crash at the Tour de France. To be back fighting for the overall victory in a Grand Tour is something positive.” The stage winner Chad Haga said in the press conference: “It’ll take a bit longer to realise but it’ll come.”
JURGEN KLOPP: Promised to bring back a major trophy.
HIS MAJESTY: Virgil van Dijk with the CL trophy. ‘His majesty,’ saying: “He got to everything, via land, air or sea. A force of nature. “The Dutchman’s game was worth framing and putting in the Anfield tunnel. He read danger well, was majestic in the air and good on the ball. Totten-
ham found themselves up against a giant.” On the match itself Liverpool had the perfect start when Salah slotted home a second minute penalty after Moussa Sissoko’s controversial handball. The Reds’ fans had to wait until the 87th minute for their side’s second goal, when the ball fell to substitute Divock Origi who smashed home a fine left-footed finish. In between, Tottenham had the best of the match, but looked toothless with barely a chance until the final few minutes of the game. It was Liverpool’s sixth Champions League/European Cup triumph and was the fulfilment of manager Jurgen Klopp’s promise to bring back to Anfield a major trophy within four years.
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SPANISH football is in mourning after former Arsenal, Sevilla, Atletico Madrid and Espanyol winger Jose Antonio Reyes died in a car accident at the age of 35.
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Alonso to Ferrari rumour
By Dilip Kuner FERNANDO ALONSO could find himself back in F1 next year back in a Ferrari seat. That is if you believe the latest rumours from the gossipy world of the F1 paddock. According to Spanish paper MARCA ,the Asturian two-time world champion, who retired from F1 last year, is being considered for a drive by the Italian giants. But this depends on whether or not Sebastian Vettel decides
to retire or not - far from a foregone conclusion. Vettel has looked vulnerable on the track this year, with young teammate Charles Leclerc impressing. This has led to rumours that Vettel, who now has a young family, may decide his time is up. Meanwhile Alonso, who failed to qualify his McLaren for the Indy 500, is now gearing up for the 24 hours of le Mans. He is aiming for his second win in the event, which is also his final drive in the World Endurance Championship (WEC) with Toyota and his objective will be to become WEC champion. Back in Spain, the Royal Automobile Club of Catalonia (RACC) has put out a plea asking that this year’s Barcelona GP does not turn out to be the last one held in the city.
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FERRARI COMEBACK: Rumour that Alonso could rejoin his old team. The future of the event held at the Circuit de Catalunya is in doubt as F1 owner Liberty Media tries to find space in the calendar for new races at Zandvoort and in Vietnam for 2020. As the uncertainty continues, the RACC has issued a statement saying: “The RACC asks all administrations and the business world to make a unity of
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action to achieve the renewal of the Formula 1 race. “We want to keep in our country one of the most important sporting events held every year in the world.” The club said the Spanish GP contributes €163 million to the economy and 2,700 jobs, and also gives the region and Spain ‘maximum visibility’ in the media.
DANILO PETRUCCI - so often the nearly man - has finally won and he couldn’t have chosen a better venue than his home Italian MotoGP. Now in his eighth season of GP racing, the Italian rode his Ducati to victory, fending off Spaniard Marc Marquez in a thrilling final lap to take the chequered flag by 0.043 of a second. Andrea Dovizioso on the second Ducati came in third just behind the Honda rider, with Alex Rins fourth on a Suzuki. In an exciting start several riders made big improvements on their grid positions. Britain’s Cal Crutchlow stormed off the line and into second from sixth while Andrea Dovizioso went from ninth to third. Alex Rins also had a phenomenal start and climbed seven positions by the end of the opening lap. There was plenty of action in the early stages - a bit too much for home favourite Valentino
Rossi. He had made a good start after disasterous qualifying, but on turn four he tangled with Joan Mir and rejoined in last position after running across the gravel. There was no coming back on lap eight when he crashed at high speed to finish what he himself described as his worst ever Italian MotoGP. At the front there was plenty of action as Rins and Dovizioso took the front, with Marquez dropping down the order before fighting back. Crutchlow also found himself being overtaken, to finish an eventual eighth. Going into the last lap Dovizioso got ahead of Marquez at turn one but ran wide, leaving the door open for Danilo Petrucci to roar through into the lead. Into the final corner Marquez closed rapidly, but Petrucci held on for his first ever win. The teams now head to Barcelona for the next round of the championship.